September 4, 2024 • 34 mins
Welcome back to Faith It Till You Make It!
Come along as we continue the inspiring series, Jesus, The Great Physician. In this episode, James dives deep into the profound power of scripture, revealing its life-changing impact and how it never returns void.
Join us as we explore the transformative stories of Jesus' miraculous healings, including the powerful resurrection of Lazarus, and the gratitude of the one leper who returned. James shares personal revelations from a life-changing men's retreat, offering a raw and emotional insight into his faith journey.
This episode is a heartfelt reminder of the eternal love and sacrifice of Jesus, encouraging us to embrace the word of God and integrate it into our daily lives. Strap in for a soul-stirring narrative that will leave you inspired, boost your faith, and get you ready to win the week.
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Hi, my name is Charlotte. I want to welcome you to Faith It Till You Make It
with my daddy, James Masse.
Me and my sister just want to thank you all for being here.
Hi, my name is Gracie Bell. We just want to remind you. Jesus loves you! Bye!
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to Faith It Till You Make It.
I am your host, James Masse. So before we get started, I just want to make
it a habit to start off the show with some good news. Amen.
So no matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done,
or where you're headed, Jesus loves you.
He knows you by name and he has amazing plans for your life.
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Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed himself for our salvation.
And then three days later, he rose again, conquering death, hell, and the grave.
All you have to do is believe in him, repent of your sins, invite him into your
heart, and follow his lead. I promise you, it will be the best and most important
decision of your entire life.
And if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it should be.
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But luckily for us, there's Jesus.
And that is why we call it the good news.
Your ticket to heaven is already paid in full. So just pick up your cross and let's go.
Music.
Welcome back, Faith and Family. Today's episode, episode 13,
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is titled Jesus the Great Physician, part 3.
So we just jump right into it, and I'm going a little into a scripture that
I don't name, because this is pre-recorded from a few weeks ago,
the raw episode I did where I just kept on going.
I ended up with enough for three episodes in one shot, plus I still have enough
written to probably do two more episodes in this Jesus the Great Physician series,
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which is pretty amazing.
So I'm going to give a little context before we jump in here.
I open up talking about Isaiah 55 11. I'm going to read you the NIV and then
I'm going to read the NLT because it's just such a powerful scripture and they're
a little different and I love them both.
So here's the NIV version of Isaiah 53 11.
So is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty,
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but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
And then the NLT version reads like this.
Is the same with my word, I send it out and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
Now, this scripture, oh, you know what?
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I open up talking about this, so we'll just jump right back into the show.
You guys strap in and enjoy.
That's scripture, man. It really is alive and it reads you.
And when you need it, I forget where it says this, but it says like all scripture,
scripture will never return like void.
Like it will accomplish what it says how to do
that's why like when you talk to somebody give them advice give them mindset
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exercises give them logical things they can do but always always give them a
scripture to go along with it because words come and go right advice,
comes and goes situations come and go opinions come and go motivation comes
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and goes and encouragement comes and goes.
But the word of God is forever. You give them one little scripture like,
you could have told me all you wanted.
Yeah, you know, when the timing lines up, it's going to be good,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like you just need to hang in there and be strong and whatever, whatever, whatever.
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That's a great, you know, it's motivating. It's good. Motivational speakers,
amazing. It's actually, that inspires me.
That's pretty much what I'm doing here, just like a Christian angle.
But when you open the Bible and you look in it and you tell me,
when the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen,
or don't get tired of doing what is right, for at the right time,
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you will reap a harvest if you don't give up,
or you tell me your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence
of important men, and you tell me these things are written in Scripture,
scripture, there is nothing any man on this earth can say to me that will be as impactful,
as what my God put in writing for me.
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I mean, it's just, it's in there, right?
It's a living word. It's Jesus.
So there's just something different about it.
It's alive. It seeks you out just like Isaiah 55 11, right? It never returns void.
It always accomplishes what it's set out to do.
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So yeah, motivational speakers are great.
Life coaches are great, but give me Bible-based principles. Give me words that
are written by the one who created me, you know?
He is our creator, our protector, our provider.
And the biggest provision he ever gave to us is so much bigger than clothes and food.
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The biggest provision he gave us is his word, right?
I'm not preaching at you again because I don't open this thing nearly enough.
I catch myself saying, I can't hear God. And I know if I need to hear him,
all I got to do is read him.
And it's easier said than done sometimes, you know?
But there's just so many scriptures that are so strategically placed for us
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to grab onto and continue our climb all throughout our lives in different times of our lives.
That really became so clear to me when I just went on this men's retreat.
I'm not going to jump into that too much, but wow, what an incredible experience.
I'm only not jumping into it because after this Jesus the Great Physician series,
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I'm going to do a show about the retreat because if you never went on one and
you're a Christian and you're chasing Jesus and you want to be a disciple of
Jesus or you want to be a man or woman of God or you want to really embrace
your Christianity, right?
I not be lukewarm and really grow, my God, there is nothing better than that.
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Crazy too, because not that I was skeptical or anything, but leading up to it,
the way that some of the elders and especially my pastor, the way they would
talk about this retreat,
like, oh, your life's never going to be the same after this weekend.
Like things are going to happen this weekend that you are never going to forget.
Yeah. And I'm just out here like, yo, I'm like in the woods in a hotel,
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like having a continental breakfast. Like, yeah, this is awesome.
And like, we're, you know, it's camaraderie and you're praying and it's, you're feeling good.
But the way they were talking about it, I'm like, it's almost like when someone
talks up how good a movie is going to be. And you're like, man,
this movie better be good. You know what I mean?
But they told no lies because I'm going to tell you right now,
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that retreat blew my mind.
It changed me and I will never ever be the same person or Christian that I was
before I went to that retreat.
I was talking about the scripture, the anointing breaks the yoke.
That scripture is so powerful. And like I said, these different scriptures come
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into your life to grab onto, to continue your climb, right?
In all different times throughout your life.
And I was in a place where I was growing.
I have a really good relationship with Jesus. I know all things are possible with God, right?
That's not a question that never...
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That never crosses my mind. I know that, right? I know I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me, you know?
But there is a part of me that wonders if I, right, me, if I can be the weapon
formed, because I know no weapon formed against me shall prosper, right?
And I said this in a different episode, but you got to make sure that you're
not the weapon formed against yourself, right? Because then you run into a problem.
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And I guess, do my whole life, especially as I grew in my walk with Jesus,
I'm like, well, nothing can stop me except me, right?
So there was a part of me that thought maybe there is something that I can do
to get in the way of what God's trying to do in my life, right?
And I have had revelations where God's like, bro, you're not that powerful.
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Like, you're not going to get in my way, you know? But then also there's free will, right?
So like, it's a gray area in there. Like, can I change my destiny by not doing
the things he's asking me to do by not being obedient or by making a wrong decision
or by making a wrong turn.
But like, that's also a weapon of the enemy.
So you really got to be careful with that. But so it says, right,
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so if you prayed about it and you're thinking about it and you're feeling good
about it, right, and you're not really getting a definitive answer,
but you just have to kind of weigh it out sometimes.
And you say, well, what would the character of God think about this,
right, from what I understand about him as my father, right, and my God.
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And then you make the jump sometimes. Sometimes you just got to make the jump
and remember, and this was a really huge thing for me. I learned this from Zenja.
If you do make a wrong turn or you do misstep, right, God can make our crooked
places straight. So he can take.
Right? He can take what the enemy means for evil and turn it for good. We know this.
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So sometimes jumping out in faith is like throwing your caution to the wind, you know?
It's scary and it's not human. It's not normal human nature.
But I always say this too, like all the best things in life are just on the
other side of fear, right? And the devil knows that just as much as we know that.
Anyway, what I was getting at is the anointing breaks the yoke came to me at
such a good time because during the retreat, we were being baptized in the Holy
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Holy Spirit and pastor was pretty much speaking prophetic words over us in a
very, very intense prayer.
And that's when a lot of things that I was wondering if were real were actually real.
And I'm here to let you know they are real. People drop, people pray in tongues, people cry.
I mean, it's amazing, right?
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But there was a point where I'm not going to get crazy into it,
but but something was, the pastor spoke a prophetic word over me about shepherding,
you know, the sheep outside of the church,
you know, to the body of Christ, like David, and very, very, very intense.
It was so intense, it's hard to remember all of it, but I know bits and pieces of what he said.
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But there was a point where he touched me on my head, and he said,
like, receive the anointing. You've just received the anointing.
And literally, my mind went to, the, oh my God, the anointing breaks the yoke.
This yoke of me thinking I could be the weapon formed against myself and stand in the way.
Oh my God, this anointing breaks that yoke.
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Like this is what I came here for. This is what I came here to hear.
So the anointing breaks the yoke, talking about how God will,
this is why the word of God is so powerful, right?
And it will never return void because it's alive and it seeks you out and it
will accomplish what God means for it to accomplish.
So like I said, if you're going to give somebody advice or you're going to encourage
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somebody, tell them all the good things.
Tell them all the great things, right? Give them a Chuck Norris quote.
I don't know. Does he do that? Maybe.
But make sure you give them a scripture to go along with it because that scripture
will hold. It will hold like an anchor forever.
And even if you say it to them and they look at you like you're crazy,
six months from right now, that word will come back to them when they need it
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and they will remember because it's happened to me over and over and over.
The anointing breaks the yoke. Amazing. Man, this is, God is amazing.
Jesus, just thank him because all this is set up for us to win, you know?
It's not always easy, it's never easy really, but it's worth it, because man,
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if you just touch the fringe of his robe, if you just get a hold of him,
if you just get a glimpse, a glimpse of him, a glimpse of his presence,
right, you're never, I mean, you're never the same, you're never the same,
you know, I've said it a million times on here, but I mean, none of us are deserving,
right, but who I was when I cried out to him, I was beyond undeserving, beyond,
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and it only took one time. It only took one cry.
And he stormed in and changed everything.
And now that's it. I'm his, you know. I don't do nothing without him.
I don't go nowhere without him. I don't want nothing that doesn't have something to do with him.
That's it. And that sounds crazy to you if you've never experienced it or the
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Holy Spirit's never revealed anything like this to you. It sounds crazy.
I don't take offense of it anymore.
Because I understand. I used to be on the other side of the fence and see people
raising their hands in church and be like, man, that's kind of weird, you know?
Until one day I realized, why do we put our hands up when we worship?
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Because why does a baby put their hands up when they're walking up to their
father? Because they want to be lifted up.
Now I can't keep my hands down when I worship. It's levels, you know?
It's revelations of the Holy Spirit. God is good, man.
Jesus is good. once you get a hold of them you don't
you don't want to go nowhere without them no more i just
want to talk about them i just want to love them i just want to chase them
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i'm still a work in progress i fall down every
single day but i will not stay down i will
not allow the devil to drive a wedge between me and him if i if i if i sin i
run right back that's it that was a huge turning point in my faith too you just
got to get up dust yourself off repent of your sins get back on the horse because
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the longer you try to hide,
which is silly anyway, because there ain't nowhere you can hide from God.
But the longer that you let that wedge stand between you, the more susceptible you are.
And then the harder it is to get back. Right.
But it's gotten a lot easier for me to run back quick because I don't want nothing
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to do with anything that ain't got nothing to do with him.
I just need for Jesus to be the center of everything in my life.
I don't even realize when that shift took place.
Even sitting here now thinking about this, like anything to do with my children,
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my life, my future, my future marriage,
my calling, my destiny, like Jesus Jesus has to be the center of all of that for me now.
I don't know if I'm like, wow.
I have no interest in going anywhere without Jesus. That's it. That's my criteria now.
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I ain't going without him. I can't.
I can't. I can't do nothing without him.
There's a certain point in your walk with Jesus where you go to a level where
now you can't function properly without him.
And that's why he says, like, you got to pick up your cross every day,
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but you better count the cost because there's levels to this.
And that becomes very, very apparent as you start entering into them.
So I ain't going nowhere without Jesus.
I can't, even if I wanted to, which I would never even want to,
but it's just not even an option.
But let's jump back over to Isaiah 10, 27. seven.
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The anointing breaks the yoke from Isaiah.
I'll never forget that. Like that is forever.
That is eternal. That is going to come up all throughout my life in different times.
It just is because that's what the word of God does, right? It seeks you out.
It reads you. It's alive.
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It's Jesus, right?
Anyway, in the book of Luke, Jesus heals 10 lepers, right? Jesus Jesus heals 10 men with leprosy.
He heals 10 men with leprosy, right? Now, back in the day, like if you had leprosy, you were an outcast.
You were just sent out to the pasture to die. No one wanted you anywhere near them.
They could stone you to death and it would be fine. You got leprosy.
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They could be like, they were looking at, they didn't care. You were done. You were done.
Jesus heals 10 men with leprosy, right? Saves their lives. And then only one
returns to thank him, right?
This is what I was just talking about, about gratitude, right?
This story emphasizes gratitude and the broader scope of Jesus's healing ministry.
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But the 10 lepers story highlights collective suffering.
Collective, right? This was a whole group of men, right? You're not the only one.
Whatever you're going through, you're not the only one. The enemy likes to make us feel secluded.
No one else goes through this. No, they do, right?
They just ain't talking about it, right?
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There's other people going through this, especially for men.
How you doing? I'm all right.
That's what we say no matter what. You know how many times I wasn't all right?
You know how many times I said I'm all right? All the times.
Every single time, right? You're not the only one.
You're not the only one. Whatever you're going through, you're not the only
one, right? Collective suffering.
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So, the Ten Lepers story highlights collective suffering and the varying responses
to divine intervention, right? That's good.
With one Samaritan leper's return to give thanks, underscoring the universal
reach of Jesus's ministry and the value of gratitude.
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So only one person showed up to say thank you. Jesus was not happy about that.
One person showed up to say thank you, and it was a Samaritan.
It wasn't even a Jew. It wasn't even one of his people. Well,
we're all his people, but you know what I'm saying.
He said only one person showed back up, and it was a Samaritan because he was so grateful.
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That was more like Jesus showing acceptance, right? No matter what but love them where they're at.
No matter what, love them where they're at. I know it's hard with all the division
and especially the hate given to Christians.
And they try to say like Christians are hateful.
I mean, the world, you can't take it personally because the world is just,
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it's so broken, you know.
But you gotta love them where they're at. It's not an option.
It's not an option for us.
Right you gotta what's the most they asked
jesus what's the most important command love the your the lord your
god with all your mind body spirit soul heart whatever with everything i don't
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remember just love love god with everything and then number two is love your
neighbor like you love yourself and that is just as important as the first so
love your neighbor so that's love love everybody, right?
Because no matter what, whether they're a Muslim, whether they're a Satan worshiper,
whether they're trans, whether they're, they hate Christians,
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whether they hate Jesus, whether they have a pride flag, it does not matter.
Whether they're Hindus or Buddhists or atheists, it doesn't matter.
You might not like hearing it, but God loves them just the way he loves you
that's it gotta love them where they're at you just gotta love them where they're
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at you just gotta but you don't have to you know be abused.
But if you're preaching a hate gospel on the street corner, screaming hate,
and that's sad because that's why Jesus didn't say follow Christians or follow anybody.
He said follow him. You ever see him doing that?
No. So there's no excuse that you're not Christian anymore because of something
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you experienced at church or you're not Christian anymore because of the guy
on the street corner screaming hateful stuff to your friend who's gay.
None of that matters because Jesus did not say to follow any of them.
A lot of that is just the devil trying to give Christianity a bad name because
giving people an excuse to spread hate. That's it.
You think Jesus didn't know this stuff was going to happen? Why do you think
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Jesus didn't say, you know, follow Catholics, follow Protestants,
follow priests and pastors and ministers?
He didn't say none of that. He said, follow me. That's it.
That's it. So if you see behavior outside of the way Jesus behaved,
nobody's Jesus but Jesus.
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That's it. That's it. You make your mind up about your faith and your eternity
based on what the Bible says Jesus did, Jesus said, what Jesus still does today,
what Jesus did for you on the cross, what Jesus did for you on Calvary.
And before all of that, the sacrifice Jesus made by leaving a throne of grace
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to come be born in a manger, in the dirt with animals, right?
I mean, he has invested so much in you, regardless of what you believe.
In me, in my kids, in your family. And that's the facts.
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Anyways, let's jump into Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
I'm like, Like, phew, this is, ah.
Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead after four days in the tomb,
showing his power over life and death and foreshadowing his own resurrection.
That's good. In the raising of Lazarus, the deep emotional connections are evident
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as Jesus weeps with Mary and Martha, his close friends, before demonstrating
his divine authority, even over death,
ultimately deepening the disciples' understanding of his messianic mission.
This is so good. This is so good because when Jesus finds out Lazarus is dying,
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Lazarus is one of his best friends, right? Or maybe his best friend.
Definitely one of his best friends, they're like, Jesus, like,
get back here, Lazarus is sick, right, and Jesus, like, I forget exactly what
he did, but he, like, stopped off somewhere, went somewhere else,
did some other stuff, no sense of urgency,
the whole time, he knows what's going on, he knows what he's gonna do,
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but he gets there, and everyone's devastated,
I mean, over and over,
over and over almost i mean obviously everyone's
devastated in all i mean that's not the only person jesus
raised from the dead right there was a few other scenarios like
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this but man this one was pretty intense because he's wrapped it's been days
he's pretty much rotting i mean they didn't have formaldehyde and embalming
fluid formaldehyde i think that's what it's called embalming fluid they didn't
have refrigerators, you know,
like, this was a, you know, a hot dead body.
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You know what I mean, I mean, I can't imagine,
you know, I like to dig into these, like, I can't even go into that, because it's just,
but he just says, come out,
rise up, But when Jesus calls you, and I am proof of this, when Jesus calls you, it doesn't matter.
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Nothing matters. Even if you're dead, you get up and you come to him.
That's it. Because you've been purchased.
We have free will. You can choose not to.
Right? right? But it doesn't change the fact that he has paid for you with his blood, with his life.
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Man, when we went to this retreat, I'm going to do an episode about the retreat
because so many amazing things. It was a men's retreat.
It was a life-changing experience, but there was a point where my pastor was
reading a poem, or I believe a poem about Jesus.
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Us and while he's reading this one of the elders at our church brother pete is smashing a nail,
i can't even make the noise but dude when i tell you like he's hammering the
nail into jesus's hands with a hammer and a huge railroad nail and he's smashing
it as the poem is being read bro.
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I mean, powerful, powerful. It's so easy for us to look at a crucifix,
clean Jesus, handsome cheekbones, beard, right?
Some of them got a six pack or like, you know, handsome Jesus up on that cross.
Thank you, Jesus, for doing that for me, right?
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But hearing the hammer hit that nail changes that. First of all,
real Christians, right?
We know when Jesus got put on that cross, that is not what he looked like.
I don't want to say real Christians, but what's, I don't know,
a better word, deeper, not lukewarm.
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I don't know. I don't want to say educated, but just, there's no word to use.
That's not offensive, I guess.
But if you've had a revelation of it,
if you've really, really meditate you guys know how i
like to explain you know moses part in
the red sea and just i've done it
with different scroll peter walking on water i like to dig in well when
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i walk through the crucifixion in my mind it's a place i don't even like to
go because it's really emotional i mean passion to christ if you've seen it
you can barely even look but that's that's that's even nothing compared to what
it really was like i mean you they show pictures like experts show
pictures of what they believe Jesus' back looked like.
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You could see literally his rib cages in the back, his spine.
I mean, saying his beard was ripped off his face, chunks of skin missing,
chunks of face missing, right?
He was tortured. He wasn't just whipped and nailed to a cross. He was tortured.
Tortured. Hearing the hammer hit those nails was eye-opening,
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chilling jarring but i
guess what makes it so bad what what
really bothered i mean i mean listen if you're
here i mean it's not guaranteed that you're
a christian but like we love jesus right this is why we do this this is why
we're you're listening this is why we're seeking him or you're curious you know
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the crazy thing to me is those men who are torturing him and and hammering those
his nails and laughing and spitting on him.
And he's, he's doing that for them.
He's doing that for them. It's like heart, it's heartbreaking.
Like these stories I'm reading through of people he's healed,
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miracles, healing, love, compassion, empathy.
He's perfect. He's literally perfect.
And the death was so brutal, so malicious and evil.
I can't say evil since it was planned with the purpose of our salvation in mind.
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You know, and that's why John 3.16 is just so beautiful because,
man, as bad as all that is and was for our Lord and Savior to go through.
You know, he went through it willingly. That's what he came here for.
I mean, he literally was sweating blood in the garden, knowing what he was facing.
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But instead of letting the fear of the cup he was about to endure,
instead of letting the fear, you know, scare him out of it.
Because he said, like, Peter, you know, when they arrested him,
I could call legions of angels down here right now to come rescue me.
Like, put your sword away.
I have to go do this. You know, that's just a reminder that that was an option for him.
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So that means there was a backup plan, right?
I mean, I don't know if this is biblical, but really think about this.
Why else would he tell Peter that? I mean, he said it with authority and, but humility, right?
He said, Peter, don't you know that I could have legions of angels come here right now, right?
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So if he's saying, I could have legions of angels come here right now,
when he was in the garden and he said, Father, if there's any other way that
I don't have to endure this cup of suffering.
But then he said, but your will be done.
And you know what this is a perfect example of?
This is a perfect example of Jesus did not feel fully ready,
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right, to go through this until he went and he prayed.
Like that never like crossed
my mind in the way that it just did right now right then
he went to the garden and he prayed and he got the
strength to go endure this and then he went and endured this and you know what's
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crazy the bible never says anything about him really screaming or crying or
complaining you know that's wild right so this is such a good example for us
like whatever we're facing.
Prayer gives us strength. Like prayer gave Jesus strength.
Like he spent, I mean, every other, every other page, he's going away to pray,
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going away to have time by himself, going away to, you know, connect to the father.
Like if Jesus had to pray three quarters of his life on earth as God,
how much should we be praying?
Right? Pray without seizing. It says as it, but do we realize how much we need
to be praying without ceasing?
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Wow, that's wild. So next time you read John 3.16,
let that really sink in because what we have to watch on Passion of the Christ
or whatever show or movie or even reading through scripture,
what we have to see in our mind is nothing, nothing, compared to what God the Father knew.
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His beloved son was going to have to go through.
And he loved us so much. Loves us so much that he went through with it. I mean, that's amazing.
You know what the Bible is? It's a love story about how God,
no matter how many times these humans keep on doing the wrong things.
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Keep on disobeying, keep on turning their back, keep on walking away,
he just continues to pursue us and give us chance after chance after chance,
so far as to send his own son here to live a perfect life, to die for us so
that we can still, even though we're so unworthy,
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we can still go be with him in heaven one day.
I mean, really let that sink in. It's a love story.
It's a love, it's the prodigal son.
It's the story of the prodigal son on a massive scale. You feel like you don't
even deserve to eat with these pigs.
Let me just come home, dad. And I'll work.
And I will work. And I can live like one of your slaves.
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And he says, whoa, whoa, whoa. Go get my nicest clothes. Go get a ring for his
finger. Go kill the fattest calf.
We're having a feast. We're having a party.
My son came home. He leaves the 99, right? He loves you.
And that's a love that our human brains cannot even fathom.
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Whether you know it or believe it, Ephesians tells us that we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against principalities and the rulers of the darkness
in this world. So, let's pray.
Father, I take up the full and complete armor of God over everybody under the sound of my voice.
I declare and decree the cross and the blood of Jesus to protect us,
our families, and our peoples.
Father, with the power of prayer and all of your promises in scripture,
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I take up the belt of truth. I take up the breastplate of righteousness.
I take up the boots of the gospel of peace. I take up the shield of faith,
I take up the helmet of salvation, and I take up the sword of the Spirit.
I take up the full and complete armor of God. I declare and decree that no weapon
formed against us shall ever prosper,
that God will never leave us nor forsake us, that God's plan is to bless us
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and not to harm us, and that greater is He who is in us than he who is in this world.
I bind and rebuke any plan or
scheme that the enemy tries to form against us. I claim the word of God.
I claim the power of the Holy Spirit. I claim all of God's armies of angels in heaven.
And I claim the precious blood of my Lord and Savior over our protection.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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Music.
Amen amen amen this is faith until you make it and i am your host james masse
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i just want to thank everybody for being here with us i pray each and every
one of you leaves with a little little bit more than you came with.
If you did, then like I always say, I am just a lamppost. So praise God.
I love you all, but Jesus loves you more. Go win the week. We'll see you soon.
Hi, my name is Charlotte. I want to welcome you to Faith It Till You Make It
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Me and my sister just want to thank you all for being here.
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to Faith It Till You Make It.
I am your host, James Masse. So before we get started, I just want to make
it a habit to start off the show with some good news. Amen.
So no matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done,
or where you're headed, Jesus loves you.
He knows you by name and he has amazing plans for your life.
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Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed himself for our salvation.
And then three days later, he rose again, conquering death, hell, and the grave.
All you have to do is believe in him, repent of your sins, invite him into your
heart, and follow his lead. I promise you, it will be the best and most important
decision of your entire life.
And if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it should be.
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But luckily for us, there's Jesus.
And that is why we call it the good news.
Your ticket to heaven is already paid in full. So just pick up your cross and let's go.
Music.
Welcome back, Faith and Family. Today's episode, episode 13,
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is titled Jesus the Great Physician, part 3.
So we just jump right into it, and I'm going a little into a scripture that
I don't name, because this is pre-recorded from a few weeks ago,
the raw episode I did where I just kept on going.
I ended up with enough for three episodes in one shot, plus I still have enough
written to probably do two more episodes in this Jesus the Great Physician series,
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which is pretty amazing.
So I'm going to give a little context before we jump in here.
I open up talking about Isaiah 55 11. I'm going to read you the NIV and then
I'm going to read the NLT because it's just such a powerful scripture and they're
a little different and I love them both.
So here's the NIV version of Isaiah 53 11.
So is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty,
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but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
And then the NLT version reads like this.
Is the same with my word, I send it out and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
Now, this scripture, oh, you know what?
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I open up talking about this, so we'll just jump right back into the show.
You guys strap in and enjoy.
That's scripture, man. It really is alive and it reads you.
And when you need it, I forget where it says this, but it says like all scripture,
scripture will never return like void.
Like it will accomplish what it says how to do
that's why like when you talk to somebody give them advice give them mindset
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exercises give them logical things they can do but always always give them a
scripture to go along with it because words come and go right advice,
comes and goes situations come and go opinions come and go motivation comes
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and goes and encouragement comes and goes.
But the word of God is forever. You give them one little scripture like,
you could have told me all you wanted.
Yeah, you know, when the timing lines up, it's going to be good,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like you just need to hang in there and be strong and whatever, whatever, whatever.
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That's a great, you know, it's motivating. It's good. Motivational speakers,
amazing. It's actually, that inspires me.
That's pretty much what I'm doing here, just like a Christian angle.
But when you open the Bible and you look in it and you tell me,
when the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen,
or don't get tired of doing what is right, for at the right time,
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you will reap a harvest if you don't give up,
or you tell me your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence
of important men, and you tell me these things are written in Scripture,
scripture, there is nothing any man on this earth can say to me that will be as impactful,
as what my God put in writing for me.
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I mean, it's just, it's in there, right?
It's a living word. It's Jesus.
So there's just something different about it.
It's alive. It seeks you out just like Isaiah 55 11, right? It never returns void.
It always accomplishes what it's set out to do.
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So yeah, motivational speakers are great.
Life coaches are great, but give me Bible-based principles. Give me words that
are written by the one who created me, you know?
He is our creator, our protector, our provider.
And the biggest provision he ever gave to us is so much bigger than clothes and food.
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The biggest provision he gave us is his word, right?
I'm not preaching at you again because I don't open this thing nearly enough.
I catch myself saying, I can't hear God. And I know if I need to hear him,
all I got to do is read him.
And it's easier said than done sometimes, you know?
But there's just so many scriptures that are so strategically placed for us
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to grab onto and continue our climb all throughout our lives in different times of our lives.
That really became so clear to me when I just went on this men's retreat.
I'm not going to jump into that too much, but wow, what an incredible experience.
I'm only not jumping into it because after this Jesus the Great Physician series,
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I'm going to do a show about the retreat because if you never went on one and
you're a Christian and you're chasing Jesus and you want to be a disciple of
Jesus or you want to be a man or woman of God or you want to really embrace
your Christianity, right?
I not be lukewarm and really grow, my God, there is nothing better than that.
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Crazy too, because not that I was skeptical or anything, but leading up to it,
the way that some of the elders and especially my pastor, the way they would
talk about this retreat,
like, oh, your life's never going to be the same after this weekend.
Like things are going to happen this weekend that you are never going to forget.
Yeah. And I'm just out here like, yo, I'm like in the woods in a hotel,
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like having a continental breakfast. Like, yeah, this is awesome.
And like, we're, you know, it's camaraderie and you're praying and it's, you're feeling good.
But the way they were talking about it, I'm like, it's almost like when someone
talks up how good a movie is going to be. And you're like, man,
this movie better be good. You know what I mean?
But they told no lies because I'm going to tell you right now,
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that retreat blew my mind.
It changed me and I will never ever be the same person or Christian that I was
before I went to that retreat.
I was talking about the scripture, the anointing breaks the yoke.
That scripture is so powerful. And like I said, these different scriptures come
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into your life to grab onto, to continue your climb, right?
In all different times throughout your life.
And I was in a place where I was growing.
I have a really good relationship with Jesus. I know all things are possible with God, right?
That's not a question that never...
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That never crosses my mind. I know that, right? I know I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me, you know?
But there is a part of me that wonders if I, right, me, if I can be the weapon
formed, because I know no weapon formed against me shall prosper, right?
And I said this in a different episode, but you got to make sure that you're
not the weapon formed against yourself, right? Because then you run into a problem.
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And I guess, do my whole life, especially as I grew in my walk with Jesus,
I'm like, well, nothing can stop me except me, right?
So there was a part of me that thought maybe there is something that I can do
to get in the way of what God's trying to do in my life, right?
And I have had revelations where God's like, bro, you're not that powerful.
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Like, you're not going to get in my way, you know? But then also there's free will, right?
So like, it's a gray area in there. Like, can I change my destiny by not doing
the things he's asking me to do by not being obedient or by making a wrong decision
or by making a wrong turn.
But like, that's also a weapon of the enemy.
So you really got to be careful with that. But so it says, right,
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so if you prayed about it and you're thinking about it and you're feeling good
about it, right, and you're not really getting a definitive answer,
but you just have to kind of weigh it out sometimes.
And you say, well, what would the character of God think about this,
right, from what I understand about him as my father, right, and my God.
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And then you make the jump sometimes. Sometimes you just got to make the jump
and remember, and this was a really huge thing for me. I learned this from Zenja.
If you do make a wrong turn or you do misstep, right, God can make our crooked
places straight. So he can take.
Right? He can take what the enemy means for evil and turn it for good. We know this.
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So sometimes jumping out in faith is like throwing your caution to the wind, you know?
It's scary and it's not human. It's not normal human nature.
But I always say this too, like all the best things in life are just on the
other side of fear, right? And the devil knows that just as much as we know that.
Anyway, what I was getting at is the anointing breaks the yoke came to me at
such a good time because during the retreat, we were being baptized in the Holy
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Holy Spirit and pastor was pretty much speaking prophetic words over us in a
very, very intense prayer.
And that's when a lot of things that I was wondering if were real were actually real.
And I'm here to let you know they are real. People drop, people pray in tongues, people cry.
I mean, it's amazing, right?
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But there was a point where I'm not going to get crazy into it,
but but something was, the pastor spoke a prophetic word over me about shepherding,
you know, the sheep outside of the church,
you know, to the body of Christ, like David, and very, very, very intense.
It was so intense, it's hard to remember all of it, but I know bits and pieces of what he said.
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But there was a point where he touched me on my head, and he said,
like, receive the anointing. You've just received the anointing.
And literally, my mind went to, the, oh my God, the anointing breaks the yoke.
This yoke of me thinking I could be the weapon formed against myself and stand in the way.
Oh my God, this anointing breaks that yoke.
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Like this is what I came here for. This is what I came here to hear.
So the anointing breaks the yoke, talking about how God will,
this is why the word of God is so powerful, right?
And it will never return void because it's alive and it seeks you out and it
will accomplish what God means for it to accomplish.
So like I said, if you're going to give somebody advice or you're going to encourage
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somebody, tell them all the good things.
Tell them all the great things, right? Give them a Chuck Norris quote.
I don't know. Does he do that? Maybe.
But make sure you give them a scripture to go along with it because that scripture
will hold. It will hold like an anchor forever.
And even if you say it to them and they look at you like you're crazy,
six months from right now, that word will come back to them when they need it
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and they will remember because it's happened to me over and over and over.
The anointing breaks the yoke. Amazing. Man, this is, God is amazing.
Jesus, just thank him because all this is set up for us to win, you know?
It's not always easy, it's never easy really, but it's worth it, because man,
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if you just touch the fringe of his robe, if you just get a hold of him,
if you just get a glimpse, a glimpse of him, a glimpse of his presence,
right, you're never, I mean, you're never the same, you're never the same,
you know, I've said it a million times on here, but I mean, none of us are deserving,
right, but who I was when I cried out to him, I was beyond undeserving, beyond,
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and it only took one time. It only took one cry.
And he stormed in and changed everything.
And now that's it. I'm his, you know. I don't do nothing without him.
I don't go nowhere without him. I don't want nothing that doesn't have something to do with him.
That's it. And that sounds crazy to you if you've never experienced it or the
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Holy Spirit's never revealed anything like this to you. It sounds crazy.
I don't take offense of it anymore.
Because I understand. I used to be on the other side of the fence and see people
raising their hands in church and be like, man, that's kind of weird, you know?
Until one day I realized, why do we put our hands up when we worship?
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Because why does a baby put their hands up when they're walking up to their
father? Because they want to be lifted up.
Now I can't keep my hands down when I worship. It's levels, you know?
It's revelations of the Holy Spirit. God is good, man.
Jesus is good. once you get a hold of them you don't
you don't want to go nowhere without them no more i just
want to talk about them i just want to love them i just want to chase them
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i'm still a work in progress i fall down every
single day but i will not stay down i will
not allow the devil to drive a wedge between me and him if i if i if i sin i
run right back that's it that was a huge turning point in my faith too you just
got to get up dust yourself off repent of your sins get back on the horse because
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the longer you try to hide,
which is silly anyway, because there ain't nowhere you can hide from God.
But the longer that you let that wedge stand between you, the more susceptible you are.
And then the harder it is to get back. Right.
But it's gotten a lot easier for me to run back quick because I don't want nothing
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to do with anything that ain't got nothing to do with him.
I just need for Jesus to be the center of everything in my life.
I don't even realize when that shift took place.
Even sitting here now thinking about this, like anything to do with my children,
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my life, my future, my future marriage,
my calling, my destiny, like Jesus Jesus has to be the center of all of that for me now.
I don't know if I'm like, wow.
I have no interest in going anywhere without Jesus. That's it. That's my criteria now.
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I ain't going without him. I can't.
I can't. I can't do nothing without him.
There's a certain point in your walk with Jesus where you go to a level where
now you can't function properly without him.
And that's why he says, like, you got to pick up your cross every day,
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but you better count the cost because there's levels to this.
And that becomes very, very apparent as you start entering into them.
So I ain't going nowhere without Jesus.
I can't, even if I wanted to, which I would never even want to,
but it's just not even an option.
But let's jump back over to Isaiah 10, 27. seven.
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The anointing breaks the yoke from Isaiah.
I'll never forget that. Like that is forever.
That is eternal. That is going to come up all throughout my life in different times.
It just is because that's what the word of God does, right? It seeks you out.
It reads you. It's alive.
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It's Jesus, right?
Anyway, in the book of Luke, Jesus heals 10 lepers, right? Jesus Jesus heals 10 men with leprosy.
He heals 10 men with leprosy, right? Now, back in the day, like if you had leprosy, you were an outcast.
You were just sent out to the pasture to die. No one wanted you anywhere near them.
They could stone you to death and it would be fine. You got leprosy.
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They could be like, they were looking at, they didn't care. You were done. You were done.
Jesus heals 10 men with leprosy, right? Saves their lives. And then only one
returns to thank him, right?
This is what I was just talking about, about gratitude, right?
This story emphasizes gratitude and the broader scope of Jesus's healing ministry.
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But the 10 lepers story highlights collective suffering.
Collective, right? This was a whole group of men, right? You're not the only one.
Whatever you're going through, you're not the only one. The enemy likes to make us feel secluded.
No one else goes through this. No, they do, right?
They just ain't talking about it, right?
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There's other people going through this, especially for men.
How you doing? I'm all right.
That's what we say no matter what. You know how many times I wasn't all right?
You know how many times I said I'm all right? All the times.
Every single time, right? You're not the only one.
You're not the only one. Whatever you're going through, you're not the only
one, right? Collective suffering.
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So, the Ten Lepers story highlights collective suffering and the varying responses
to divine intervention, right? That's good.
With one Samaritan leper's return to give thanks, underscoring the universal
reach of Jesus's ministry and the value of gratitude.
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So only one person showed up to say thank you. Jesus was not happy about that.
One person showed up to say thank you, and it was a Samaritan.
It wasn't even a Jew. It wasn't even one of his people. Well,
we're all his people, but you know what I'm saying.
He said only one person showed back up, and it was a Samaritan because he was so grateful.
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That was more like Jesus showing acceptance, right? No matter what but love them where they're at.
No matter what, love them where they're at. I know it's hard with all the division
and especially the hate given to Christians.
And they try to say like Christians are hateful.
I mean, the world, you can't take it personally because the world is just,
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it's so broken, you know.
But you gotta love them where they're at. It's not an option.
It's not an option for us.
Right you gotta what's the most they asked
jesus what's the most important command love the your the lord your
god with all your mind body spirit soul heart whatever with everything i don't
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remember just love love god with everything and then number two is love your
neighbor like you love yourself and that is just as important as the first so
love your neighbor so that's love love everybody, right?
Because no matter what, whether they're a Muslim, whether they're a Satan worshiper,
whether they're trans, whether they're, they hate Christians,
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whether they hate Jesus, whether they have a pride flag, it does not matter.
Whether they're Hindus or Buddhists or atheists, it doesn't matter.
You might not like hearing it, but God loves them just the way he loves you
that's it gotta love them where they're at you just gotta love them where they're
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at you just gotta but you don't have to you know be abused.
But if you're preaching a hate gospel on the street corner, screaming hate,
and that's sad because that's why Jesus didn't say follow Christians or follow anybody.
He said follow him. You ever see him doing that?
No. So there's no excuse that you're not Christian anymore because of something
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you experienced at church or you're not Christian anymore because of the guy
on the street corner screaming hateful stuff to your friend who's gay.
None of that matters because Jesus did not say to follow any of them.
A lot of that is just the devil trying to give Christianity a bad name because
giving people an excuse to spread hate. That's it.
You think Jesus didn't know this stuff was going to happen? Why do you think
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Jesus didn't say, you know, follow Catholics, follow Protestants,
follow priests and pastors and ministers?
He didn't say none of that. He said, follow me. That's it.
That's it. So if you see behavior outside of the way Jesus behaved,
nobody's Jesus but Jesus.
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That's it. That's it. You make your mind up about your faith and your eternity
based on what the Bible says Jesus did, Jesus said, what Jesus still does today,
what Jesus did for you on the cross, what Jesus did for you on Calvary.
And before all of that, the sacrifice Jesus made by leaving a throne of grace
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to come be born in a manger, in the dirt with animals, right?
I mean, he has invested so much in you, regardless of what you believe.
In me, in my kids, in your family. And that's the facts.
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Anyways, let's jump into Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
I'm like, Like, phew, this is, ah.
Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead after four days in the tomb,
showing his power over life and death and foreshadowing his own resurrection.
That's good. In the raising of Lazarus, the deep emotional connections are evident
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as Jesus weeps with Mary and Martha, his close friends, before demonstrating
his divine authority, even over death,
ultimately deepening the disciples' understanding of his messianic mission.
This is so good. This is so good because when Jesus finds out Lazarus is dying,
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Lazarus is one of his best friends, right? Or maybe his best friend.
Definitely one of his best friends, they're like, Jesus, like,
get back here, Lazarus is sick, right, and Jesus, like, I forget exactly what
he did, but he, like, stopped off somewhere, went somewhere else,
did some other stuff, no sense of urgency,
the whole time, he knows what's going on, he knows what he's gonna do,
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but he gets there, and everyone's devastated,
I mean, over and over,
over and over almost i mean obviously everyone's
devastated in all i mean that's not the only person jesus
raised from the dead right there was a few other scenarios like
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this but man this one was pretty intense because he's wrapped it's been days
he's pretty much rotting i mean they didn't have formaldehyde and embalming
fluid formaldehyde i think that's what it's called embalming fluid they didn't
have refrigerators, you know,
like, this was a, you know, a hot dead body.
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You know what I mean, I mean, I can't imagine,
you know, I like to dig into these, like, I can't even go into that, because it's just,
but he just says, come out,
rise up, But when Jesus calls you, and I am proof of this, when Jesus calls you, it doesn't matter.
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Nothing matters. Even if you're dead, you get up and you come to him.
That's it. Because you've been purchased.
We have free will. You can choose not to.
Right? right? But it doesn't change the fact that he has paid for you with his blood, with his life.
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Man, when we went to this retreat, I'm going to do an episode about the retreat
because so many amazing things. It was a men's retreat.
It was a life-changing experience, but there was a point where my pastor was
reading a poem, or I believe a poem about Jesus.
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Us and while he's reading this one of the elders at our church brother pete is smashing a nail,
i can't even make the noise but dude when i tell you like he's hammering the
nail into jesus's hands with a hammer and a huge railroad nail and he's smashing
it as the poem is being read bro.
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I mean, powerful, powerful. It's so easy for us to look at a crucifix,
clean Jesus, handsome cheekbones, beard, right?
Some of them got a six pack or like, you know, handsome Jesus up on that cross.
Thank you, Jesus, for doing that for me, right?
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But hearing the hammer hit that nail changes that. First of all,
real Christians, right?
We know when Jesus got put on that cross, that is not what he looked like.
I don't want to say real Christians, but what's, I don't know,
a better word, deeper, not lukewarm.
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I don't know. I don't want to say educated, but just, there's no word to use.
That's not offensive, I guess.
But if you've had a revelation of it,
if you've really, really meditate you guys know how i
like to explain you know moses part in
the red sea and just i've done it
with different scroll peter walking on water i like to dig in well when
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i walk through the crucifixion in my mind it's a place i don't even like to
go because it's really emotional i mean passion to christ if you've seen it
you can barely even look but that's that's that's even nothing compared to what
it really was like i mean you they show pictures like experts show
pictures of what they believe Jesus' back looked like.
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You could see literally his rib cages in the back, his spine.
I mean, saying his beard was ripped off his face, chunks of skin missing,
chunks of face missing, right?
He was tortured. He wasn't just whipped and nailed to a cross. He was tortured.
Tortured. Hearing the hammer hit those nails was eye-opening,
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chilling jarring but i
guess what makes it so bad what what
really bothered i mean i mean listen if you're
here i mean it's not guaranteed that you're
a christian but like we love jesus right this is why we do this this is why
we're you're listening this is why we're seeking him or you're curious you know
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the crazy thing to me is those men who are torturing him and and hammering those
his nails and laughing and spitting on him.
And he's, he's doing that for them.
He's doing that for them. It's like heart, it's heartbreaking.
Like these stories I'm reading through of people he's healed,
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miracles, healing, love, compassion, empathy.
He's perfect. He's literally perfect.
And the death was so brutal, so malicious and evil.
I can't say evil since it was planned with the purpose of our salvation in mind.
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You know, and that's why John 3.16 is just so beautiful because,
man, as bad as all that is and was for our Lord and Savior to go through.
You know, he went through it willingly. That's what he came here for.
I mean, he literally was sweating blood in the garden, knowing what he was facing.
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But instead of letting the fear of the cup he was about to endure,
instead of letting the fear, you know, scare him out of it.
Because he said, like, Peter, you know, when they arrested him,
I could call legions of angels down here right now to come rescue me.
Like, put your sword away.
I have to go do this. You know, that's just a reminder that that was an option for him.
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So that means there was a backup plan, right?
I mean, I don't know if this is biblical, but really think about this.
Why else would he tell Peter that? I mean, he said it with authority and, but humility, right?
He said, Peter, don't you know that I could have legions of angels come here right now, right?
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So if he's saying, I could have legions of angels come here right now,
when he was in the garden and he said, Father, if there's any other way that
I don't have to endure this cup of suffering.
But then he said, but your will be done.
And you know what this is a perfect example of?
This is a perfect example of Jesus did not feel fully ready,
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right, to go through this until he went and he prayed.
Like that never like crossed
my mind in the way that it just did right now right then
he went to the garden and he prayed and he got the
strength to go endure this and then he went and endured this and you know what's
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crazy the bible never says anything about him really screaming or crying or
complaining you know that's wild right so this is such a good example for us
like whatever we're facing.
Prayer gives us strength. Like prayer gave Jesus strength.
Like he spent, I mean, every other, every other page, he's going away to pray,
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going away to have time by himself, going away to, you know, connect to the father.
Like if Jesus had to pray three quarters of his life on earth as God,
how much should we be praying?
Right? Pray without seizing. It says as it, but do we realize how much we need
to be praying without ceasing?
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Wow, that's wild. So next time you read John 3.16,
let that really sink in because what we have to watch on Passion of the Christ
or whatever show or movie or even reading through scripture,
what we have to see in our mind is nothing, nothing, compared to what God the Father knew.
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His beloved son was going to have to go through.
And he loved us so much. Loves us so much that he went through with it. I mean, that's amazing.
You know what the Bible is? It's a love story about how God,
no matter how many times these humans keep on doing the wrong things.
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Keep on disobeying, keep on turning their back, keep on walking away,
he just continues to pursue us and give us chance after chance after chance,
so far as to send his own son here to live a perfect life, to die for us so
that we can still, even though we're so unworthy,
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we can still go be with him in heaven one day.
I mean, really let that sink in. It's a love story.
It's a love, it's the prodigal son.
It's the story of the prodigal son on a massive scale. You feel like you don't
even deserve to eat with these pigs.
Let me just come home, dad. And I'll work.
And I will work. And I can live like one of your slaves.
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And he says, whoa, whoa, whoa. Go get my nicest clothes. Go get a ring for his
finger. Go kill the fattest calf.
We're having a feast. We're having a party.
My son came home. He leaves the 99, right? He loves you.
And that's a love that our human brains cannot even fathom.
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Whether you know it or believe it, Ephesians tells us that we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against principalities and the rulers of the darkness
in this world. So, let's pray.
Father, I take up the full and complete armor of God over everybody under the sound of my voice.
I declare and decree the cross and the blood of Jesus to protect us,
our families, and our peoples.
Father, with the power of prayer and all of your promises in scripture,
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I take up the belt of truth. I take up the breastplate of righteousness.
I take up the boots of the gospel of peace. I take up the shield of faith,
I take up the helmet of salvation, and I take up the sword of the Spirit.
I take up the full and complete armor of God. I declare and decree that no weapon
formed against us shall ever prosper,
that God will never leave us nor forsake us, that God's plan is to bless us
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and not to harm us, and that greater is He who is in us than he who is in this world.
I bind and rebuke any plan or
scheme that the enemy tries to form against us. I claim the word of God.
I claim the power of the Holy Spirit. I claim all of God's armies of angels in heaven.
And I claim the precious blood of my Lord and Savior over our protection.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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Music.
Amen amen amen this is faith until you make it and i am your host james masse
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i just want to thank everybody for being here with us i pray each and every
one of you leaves with a little little bit more than you came with.
If you did, then like I always say, I am just a lamppost. So praise God.
I love you all, but Jesus loves you more. Go win the week. We'll see you soon.
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