May 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Drawing from Paul's powerful imagery in Philippians 3, we explore what it truly means to forget "those things which are behind" while "reaching forth unto those things which are before." This isn't about denying your past, but refusing to be defined by it. When Jesus proclaimed His mission to "set at liberty them that are bruised," He offered freedom that many believers have yet to fully experience.
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Pick your Bibles up, lift them up and wave them
around.
Let's get into the Wordtogether.
And then the Holy Ghost hasalways got the right to do
something after that, anythinghe wants During that.
Interrupt whatever he wants todo, he wouldn't be interrupting.
Let's wave them around, makeJesus glad, devil mad.
Let's say this together SayHeavenly Father, glad to be here
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on Sunday night.
I'm hungry and thirsty for more,more of your presence, more of
your glory, more of your word.
I want my faith to grow.
I want my spirit to develop.
I want to be in position, inthis year of milestones, to
receive all the good that youhave for me so that I can do
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good in Jesus' name.
Milestones to receive all thegood that you have for me so
that I can do good in Jesus'name.
We're blessed to be a blessing,aren't we All right?
Let's look at a couple ofplaces.
First, let's look atPhilippians, chapter 3.
And then you can find Luke,chapter 4.
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We'll start with Philippians,chapter 3.
Paul is speaking and we'll pickit up midway through the verse
12.
And he says but, but I followafter if that I may apprehend
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that, for which also I amapprehended of Christ, jesus,
brethren, I count, not myself,to have apprehended, but this
one thing I do forgetting thethings which are behind and
reaching forth under thosethings which are before.
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I press toward the mark of theprize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.
And that word, you know,reaching forth is like a runner
reaching for the finish line.
You know how they lean to breakthe tape.
That's the.
You know.
He's kind of using the games.
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Paul often used running and thegames the Greeks were big on
the precursor to the Olympics,and he often uses running, a
race.
And so he gives you thatimagery of the strain.
I mean you're strainingeverything you can to break the
tape.
And that's the image of whathe's saying.
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He's pressing, pressed towardthe mark of the prize of the
high calling of God in ChristJesus, forgetting the things
which are behind and reachingforth unto those things which
are before.
All right.
And then Luke 4.18, jesus isspeaking in his own hometown
synagogue and he's 30 years oldand he's now officially a rabbi
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and he quotes Isaiah 61.
He found the place where it waswritten.
One translation says he foundthe place where it was written.
One translation says he foundthe place where it was written
about himself.
You know, it's good to findwhat the Word says about you.
And he basically said this isme.
They didn't like it, but thisis what he said.
He said the Spirit of the Lordis upon me because he's anointed
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me to preach the Gospel to thepoor.
He hath sent me to preach thegospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal thebrokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives andrecovering of sight to the blind
, to set at liberty them thatare bruised, to set at liberty
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them that are bruised.
To set at liberty them that arebruised.
And so tonight I have a messageentitled Leaving Yesterday
Behind.
Leaving Yesterday Behind.
You know, jesus said in John 16,33, he didn't say it this way,
I'm saying it life is a fight.
He said it this way.
He said in the world, you shallhave tribulation, but be of
good courage.
I said it this way.
He said in the world, you shallhave tribulation, but be of
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good courage.
I have overcome the world.
The amplified says I.
I have deprived of his power toharm you.
I have conquered it for you,but nonetheless, we do have a
contest, we do have conflict.
He said you shall havetribulation.
The tribulation means pressure,anguish, disappointment.
You're going to have it.
It comes with the territory.
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It's not necessarily anythingyou did wrong, it's not anything
that you missed.
I mean, it just comes with lifeon earth because we're opposed.
Everything we do is opposed.
As believers, I like whatBrother Osteen used to say
there's no great faith withoutgreat tests, there's no great
victories without great battles.
And the fact, you know, theword testimony comes from tests.
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But God is not the one thattests us.
Oh, he's not.
He's not the tempter, he's notthe tester, but he won't waste
it.
He didn't send it but he won'twaste it.
Whatever you're going through,he'll never waste the trouble,
he'll never waste it.
And uh, you know, sometimes inlife there are battlefield.
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You know, we're seen as goodsoldiers of Christ.
That's kind of an imagery thatPaul talked about to the
Galatians, you know.
And soldiers suffer battlefieldwounds.
Sometimes you can get bruises,and it's unlike natural bruises.
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Spiritual bruises often worsenover time.
I mean, at my age now, it justseems like if I just hit the
door jamb you know I'm notpaying attention I walk through
my house and I hit the door jamb.
Well, I don't think anythingabout it.
But later, when I get ready totake a shower.
I'm looking at my arm and it's,you know, it's purple, it turns
green and yellow and I mean, myGod, what's wrong?
I mean I didn't even hurt, itdoesn't even hurt.
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But spiritual bruises aredifferent.
Spiritual bruises don't go away.
I mean it goes away eventually.
I mean it doesn't even feellike I'm hurt, but it goes away.
But spiritual bruises now,they're supernatural and they
tend, if they're not addressed,if they're not mollified, if the
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anointing is not applied tothem, they get worse.
They can putrefy, they canreally what Jesus said?
He said set at liberty themthat are bruised.
You actually, when you'rebruised and nothing happens to
correct that bruise, you go intobondage Like wearing shackles.
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You ever watched Cool Hand Luke,paul Newman?
You know, he's a prisoner, youknow, and he keeps breaking out.
He can't stay in prison.
He breaks out of prison.
So the warden shackles him,puts shackles on his ankles.
He's only got about 18 inchesof chain between these steel
things on his ankles.
He breaks out anyway and he'srunning along like this until he
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gets to this gas station out inthe country and these two
little black boys are therewatching the station and he gets
them to go in there and get anax.
And so he comes out and hechops that chain in two with an
ax between his feet, you knowand gets the.
Now he's still got the shacklein the chain, but then he ties
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the, gets a piece of string,takes the shoelaces off his
shoes and ties the chain up onhis calf and now he can run.
See, he can run.
It's hard to run when you'reshackled.
It's hard to move when you'rebound.
And Jesus said he was sent topreach deliverance to the
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captives, to set at liberty themthat are bruised.
Paul said that he had to forgethis yesterdays.
Paul said you know, I just Iforget about yesterday.
He had some victories yesterdayas well as defeats, but he
forgot about it and he justdidn't want to be distracted
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about his rearview mirror, hejust wanted what was ahead of
him.
He wasn't even satisfied withwhere he was right now.
In fact, really, where he wasright then was just the same as
yesterday.
What is he doing?
He's pressing to a new place.
Everybody say a new place, butwhat do you got to do to get to
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the new place?
Well, you got to leaveyesterday, which includes where
you are right now, behind.
This is the comfort zone.
This is easy to stay.
It's easy.
It's easy to stay a victim whenwe've been victimized.
It's easy to stay victimized.
It's easy to just say, well,that happened to me and I'm kind
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of a victim.
And have you noticed oursociety has turned into a
victimhood society.
Everybody's a victim.
Mothers against drunk drivingwhy are they against it?
But they could.
Probably because they've got achild that was a you know a
victim of, of drunk driver, andso they're mad, and they're
gonna.
They're mad.
M-a-d-d.
Parents of murdered childrenhow would you like to be part of
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that group?
What kind of a meeting mustthat be like?
We call them angel families now, where the families have
suffered a horrible and you hearthem all the time.
They are up testifying inCongress about what an illegal
alien did to their daughter.
It's heart-wrenching.
But boy, they're bound, they'redefined by this tragedy and I
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just want to scream at thetelevision hey, there's a better
life than what you're pursuingright now.
They're bound, they need to beset free.
So Hebrews, chapter 12, let'srun over there real quick.
Leaving yesterday behind Verse1, chapter 12, verse 1,
wherefore, seeing, we also areencompassed about with so great
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a cloud of witnesses.
That cloud of witnesses are thepeople he talked about in
Hebrews 11, I call it the hallof fame of faith.
These were the Old Testamentsaints, all the saints, whether
Old Testament or New Testament.
When they're up in heaven,they're called the mighty cloud
of witnesses.
Jesus is coming back.
He's going to come back in theclouds.
He's not talking about cumulusclouds, he's talking about the
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cloud of witnesses.
Yeah, cumulus clouds will be upthere.
Maybe I don't know what kind ofclouds, but the cloud that he's
talking about coming back in isa cloud of saints.
So we're compassed about withthese testimonies.
We're compassed about with arooting section.
They've been rooting us on,they've been cheering us on your
mama's in heaven.
She's cheering you on Seeing.
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We're also compassed about withso great a cloud of witnesses.
Let us lay aside the weight,every weight, and the sin that
does so easily beset us, lookingunto Jesus, and let us run with
patience the race that is setbefore us.
There's that imagery of running, again looking unto Jesus, the
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author and finisher of our faith.
So let's lay aside.
And again, that has asignificance.
In the Greek games they wouldrun in competition and they
normally wore robes that cameclose to the ground and they
obviously couldn't run.
And obviously couldn't run inthat I mean the Greeks ran naked
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in order not to have anythinghinder their race.
So that's the sense of themessage here is to lay aside,
take it off of you, take theweights.
Weights and sin are twodifferent things, but I mean to
me it's the same thing as let'sget rid of the shackles.
Let's get rid of, let's getsome anointing on the bruise
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that's holding you in yesterday,where you can't get.
I mean it really kind ofrelates to the word Claire had,
because maybe your calendar hasbeen kind of lean and maybe your
success has been a lean too.
Well, you know it's a new day.
I mean let's make sure there'snothing holding us back.
Let's lay it aside.
Can't run with shackles.
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You have to leave yesterdaybehind so you can achieve what
God has you on the earth to do.
God's got lots of things forthis church to do and every one
of you I mean I just look at thefuture of what we're going to
be doing and it's just.
You know, I mean in the naturalit could be intimidating, but
see, I've got to stir myself upto look at it in faith.
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I've got to know that if hegives us this to do, he also
gives us the ability to do it.
But we can't do it bound.
We can't do it like this.
We're going to have to be free.
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So what is hanging on you fromyesterday?
What's attached itself to you?
Bruises from a failed marriage,infidelity, bruises from a
failed marriage, infidelity,abuse lots of that it's in the
church.
It's nothing to be ashamed of,it's something to get delivered
from.
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You're never going to getbelittled in this church.
When you have bruises, you'regoing to get the anointing to
remove that bruise, thatvictimhood, when we remove it.
It's not denying what happened,it's not saying it was okay.
It just gets the devil out ofit.
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Wounds from childhood.
A lot of people they getwounded in childhood, especially
if their parents had a marriagethat fell apart because of
infidelity or abuse.
If there was, you know, a bunchof conflict in your home.
I used to watch a lot of Dr Phil.
You know he's a good oldBaptist.
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He used to think he was tooliberal, but you know he's come
out on the right side.
You know, living in Hollywoodand being around Oprah, he was
too liberal, but you know he'scome out on the right side.
You know, he's living inHollywood and being around Oprah
.
He was Oprah, really Oprah'sthe one that discovered him.
He was Oprah's lawyer whenTexas cattlemen sued her for
saying that ground beef willkill.
You See, that's what you know.
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These liberals, they're alwaysspeaking out of their nuts.
If ground beef was going tokill anybody, it would have
killed me a long time ago.
I've eaten a ton of it and Ikeep eating it.
I'm going to like it.
I'll eat it every day if I needit, whatever, I don't get tired
of it.
Hamburger hamburger steak,remember, you know, shrimp,
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barbecue shrimp, lemon shrimp.
Well, you can say the samething about hamburger meat
Hamburger helper, hamburgerhelper.
No, I draw the line.
No, I draw the line.
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Well, I used to listen to himand he would chastise parents.
He said you know, when youargue, this might be reserved
for the marriage family series.
I'm probably speaking out ofturn, but he said this.
He said, you know, and I heardit, he would do marriage
seminars on his program and I'dwatch him.
It was interesting.
He was really.
He come at it from apsychological standpoint.
We have minds that need to berenewed to God's word and it was
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amazing how much of what he wassaying was in the Bible,
because he is a Baptist, heknows the word and he had good
advice for married people.
But he said you know, when youargue in front of your children,
those children are changed.
It changes who they are.
And he said they have and thisis my experience exactly.
He said they have an uncannyability to blame themselves for
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trouble in the home.
You parents are arguing andthey start looking at themselves
.
What did I do to cause this?
Yeah, this tall, and they'reblaming themselves.
Is that what you want?
Does it really have anything todo with them?
99% of the time it doesn't, butyet they are thinking that and
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don't have the ability to speakit.
But you know what they cancarry that bruise.
For a long time, pastor, Ididn't know this was going to be
a psychobabble cycle.
No, it's not psychological.
This is demons.
This is spiritual.
Are you with me now?
Death of a loved one.
Sometimes people get mad at Godbecause they prayed for their
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loved one and the loved one diedanyway.
Well, you know you don't.
It's between them and God.
In many cases, I mean, a persondies for reasons that are
beyond your control and youdon't even know, you're not cut
in, you don't know all about it.
I mean, we're right to pray andagree with our loved one as
much as we can, but have theydone everything they could to
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have a long life?
Or did they smoke like a fiend14 packs a day?
Or did they drink like a fish?
Or did they just fill in theblanks?
We live in a society that's.
I mean, hey, you know, we'vegot all these chemicals.
You can't even eat breadanymore.
The bread is filled withjunkous.
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I bless my food.
I'm not worried about cancerbecause I bless my food, no
matter what, I bless it.
But if you, you know, you,you're, you're surrounded by
these kinds of things and, uh,god does hear and answer prayer.
But we, you know, we reallydon't have the right to blame
God when somebody goes to heavenand so we get bruised, we get
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offended and then we get bound.
Are you with me now?
Betrayal of a friend.
Somebody goes bad on you, agood friend, and they, you find
out they betrayed you.
Somehow, some people's churchbetrayed them.
Some people go into a churchfor years and years and all of a
sudden the pastor's up theretalking about woke, talking
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about well, we're all guilty ofwhite privilege.
They drank the Kool-Aid what abunch of baloney.
And a whole lot of people,millions of people across the
country have given themselvespermission because of their
offense at the pastor that theirchurch left them.
And now they say, well, I just,I'm just not even going to
bother going to church.
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Well, you know you, you need toget set free.
You're bound.
You probably know somebody likethat.
So this, this will be a goodmessage for you to put in your
arsenal to help people get free.
Amen.
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You're here on Sunday night, soobviously you're not in that
league.
Sometimes, you know, one of thedeceptions associated with these
bruises is the strong emotionalcomponent of victimization.
In other words, there's apayoff.
There's a payoff.
If I'm a victim, then thatgives me an excuse not to go to
church.
It gives me an excuse not totrust people, gives me an excuse
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to be superior.
I'm superior to everyone I knowand they don't.
And what are you doing?
Are you walking in love then?
No, you're not.
Your bruise is taking you andit's bound you to where you're
not doing what Jesus said to doand walk in love.
Forbear one another in love.
Give people the benefit of thedoubt.
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I've had people so messed up attheir previous church.
They come into my church andthey don't trust me, they don't
give me the benefit of the doubt, no matter what you know.
I say, well, it's their loss.
I mean, they're the ones thatare going to lose.
I'm not going to lose becauseI'm not going to change what I
say just because you don't likeit, or just because somebody
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else said it and different.
And now they're gone and yougot offended and see some people
, just church.
They hop from church to church,grasshoppers, and they're
offended all the time.
Hey, will you get off themerry-go-round?
Come on, let's get healed,let's get the anointing on that
mess and let's get set free sowe can go on with God.
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But it can be addictive.
Grief is addictive.
Jesus took grief.
He took our griefs and carriedour sorrows.
It's one thing for mama to dieand we cry and we miss mama, but
when you go into that terrible,have you ever known somebody
just grieve, you know, go out tothe graveyard and sit out there
.
I know, I know somebody thatgoes, takes a long chair out to
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their wife's grave and sits atthe graveyard and cries.
And they're they're Christians,but they hadn't been taught
anything.
That's wrong.
That's bondage.
It's addicting.
It means he doesn't have to dowhat he should be doing as a
grandpa.
He's not doing anything for God, he's just frozen in grief.
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It's addictive.
Often people who are bound intheir bruise become manipulative
and controlling because theywant to control the environment
around them so they're neverhurt again.
That's always a joy to meetpeople like that.
I've met quite a few and unlessyou're invited into their mess,
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they're not going to receive.
Most of the time They'll find away to blame you so they can
stay above and they can stay wayup here and everyone else.
It's all their fault.
Thank God y'all have never metanybody like that.
Y'all keep living right.
Maybe that'll be the way itgoes.
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There's lots of them out there.
So it reminds me of what IlkaPay was preaching when they were
here.
That was such a powerful messageabout bleeding.
You remember she cut her finger.
That was so powerful.
I kept waiting.
Okay, where's the altar call?
She didn't have an altar call,so I'm going to have one,
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Because this just goes rightwith what she was preaching that
night.
I mean, you know she used theillustration that she cut her
finger and she didn't want herlittle girl to see that blood,
you know, and she was trying to,you know, wrap it up but it
would kept bleeding and keptbleeding and just messed up all
the towels in the hotel room.
And she went out by the pooland there's a trail of blood all
the way around the swimmingpool and she's just bleeding,
bleeding, bleeding, and so thepastor's wife says, hey, you
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know, let's get that, let's goto the emergency.
Oh, no, I'm with the emergencyroom.
Oh, how about some liquidbandage?
She'd never heard a liquidbandage.
So we got some liquid bandagetonight.
We've got the liquid anointingtonight to get on that where
you're not bleeding all overeverybody that had nothing to do
with the wound.
Boy, that was powerful.
People bleed over everyone thathad nothing to do with cutting
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them.
Boy, that's a law.
I wanted to stand up and do thealtar call myself Already too
late.
For some people they're alreadygone.
I like what Paul said in one ofthe gospel I one of the
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epistles, I I didn't fail, Ididn't remember to look it up,
but he said who will deliver mefrom the bondage of this hurt?
I thank, uh, my god, the lord,my jesus christ.
Well, he's the one thatdelivers amen, he's the one who
whom Amen.
He's the one who, whom the sonsets free, is free, indeed, and
uh, so, uh, he can put an end tothe hurt.
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You know, in uh John, chapterfive, verse six, the pool of
Bethesda, jesus came upon thisman who was lame and he's laying
by the pool and God, justsovereignly, would send an angel
in a season we don't know howoften the season was, we don't
know if it's once a month, oncea year, what it doesn't say.
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But they're all huddled outthere waiting for the angel to
trouble the water and whoeverwas in the pool first got healed
and everybody else didn't gethealed.
I mean, that's pretty rough.
You've got all these people andit said they were withered and
infirm.
Boy, I've seen withered people,I've been to india and they
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were withered, waiting on themeeting to start there in new
delhi, in the, in the new delhistadium, the sports stadium, the
soccer stadium, 100,000 people,and it was two hours before the
service started and I was therefor a sound check.
Brother Osteen asked me to sing.
I was there for a sound checkand there we were, and there
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were already about 20,000 peoplejust sitting there waiting for
things to start, two hoursbefore the church started,
before the service, withered,curled up, lame, all kinds of
skin issues, you know, blindness.
It was a horrible scene,desperate, and some of them got
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healed that night, a lot of themgot saved that night.
And lot of them got saved thatnight.
And so here he was, and Jesuscame up to this one particular
man and said will you be madewhole?
Are you willing to be madewhole?
He said, sir, I don't have aman.
I'm waiting here.
I don't have a man that can getme down to lame.
I got to have a man to take medown to the water and every time
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, you know the angel, somebodyelse gets down there.
I don't have a man to take medown to the water and every time
, you know the angel, somebodyelse gets down there.
I don't have a man.
I'm looking for a man and see,he didn't know the man was there
.
He didn't know he didn't needanother man.
Jesus is there.
Will you be made whole?
And Jesus just bypassed allthat.
He said rise, take up your bedand walk.
And instantly, he'd neverwalked, instantly took up his
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bed and walked.
And so that's the question Willyou be made whole?
Will you be made whole?
Have you got something that'sholding you back?
And yesterday, keeping you fromgoing into the next place,
keeping you from pressing towardthe mark of the prize, of the
high calling of God, christJesus?
And so there's four things thatyou need to think about tonight
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.
Will you be made whole?
So recognize, you got torecognize when you're bruised,
recognize it, you know.
Number two repent.
And repent has nothing to dowith sorrow.
It has to do with changing yourmindset.
Repent just means turn around.
That's all it really means.
Repent doesn't mean oh, it justmeans hey, I'm through with
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this thinking of victimhood, Iam repenting, I'm turning around
right now.
So you recognize, repent,receive and then resume, resume,
see, that's that's basicallywhat jesus did to that man.
He said take up your bed andwalk.
And he walked.
And that led through a wholebunch of persecution and his
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parents got kicked out of thesynagogue, you know, and he was
confronted because he got healedon the Sabbath day and all of
that kind of thing.
But when Jesus found him in thetemple, he said go and sin no
more, lest a worse thing happento you.
So he had to make someadjustments.
I said he had to make someadjustments to keep what God
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gave him.
So, number one recognize.
Everybody say recognize, see,light reproves darkness.
There's light in here, there'sa morning in here, this word and
the spirit, the anointing, isshining.
Will you be made whole?
See, it's a decision, he had tomake a decision and Jesus made
it for him.
He didn't even answer thequestion.
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I love that Sometimes, jesus,he'll ask you the question and
he just went ahead and did itanyway.
Will you be made whole?
My experience in these things is, unless somebody invites me in,
I can't do much.
I can know it, I can even sayit to them.
I have, but then they don'twant to recognize it for
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themselves and so they don'twant to do the things they need
to do to get free.
And there's nothing I can do,nothing Jesus could ever do.
If this man had said, well,jesus, just leave me alone, I'm
still looking for that man.
Well, he'd have left him alone.
Thank God he didn't sayanything, didn't run him off.
Number two repent, change yourmindset.
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You have to say to yourself I'mnot continuing one more minute
as a victim.
I forgive those who wrong me, Iforgive myself.
Now I've met people that werein such a shape for so long and
they had gotten over into thiscontrolling spirit, this
manipulating, conniving, alwaystrying to make people feel
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guilty, always trying to usetheir victimhood against people.
I mean, it's just, it's demonic.
Some of you were even raised inhouses like that, when the
parents were like that One orboth parents.
Boy, it's devilish.
It can leave a lot of damage.
It can leave a lot of bruises.
Is it anything to be ashamed of?
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Not at all.
It's something that you getdelivered from.
Jesus was sent to deliver, toheal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to thecaptives, recovering our sight
to the blind, to set at libertythem that are bruised.
Then, number three receive,receive, receive.
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Got this verse here, revelation3, 7.
And the angel of the church inPhiladelphia write these things
saith he that is holy, he thatis true, he that hath the key of
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David.
What does keys represent?
Authority?
He has the key of David, hethat openeth and no man shutteth
, and shutteth and no manopeneth.
So tonight, part of receivingis for you to open the door to
your future.
Walk through it and close itbehind you.
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That door would lead back intoyesterday and you're going to
use the key of David.
You're going to use the name ofJesus to unlock that door.
It's been locked because ofyour bruise.
It's been locked because you'reshackled.
He, he, he captured you in thisplace where he can keep
afflicting you and he can keepstealing from you.
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Are you with me now?
I heard today's, at this churchI don't have any meetings.
I had with individuals withmarriage trouble, problems with
kids, problems with emotions,you name it.
I would have a one-on-onemeeting.
I go through everything we'regoing to go through tonight and
I found a better way to do it.
Let's just do it right here,right now, under the anointing.
I don't have time to meet witheverybody where I would be dead
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today if I'd have kept doingthat.
That's just not my job.
To sit there and meet withpeople and have a session and
every one of them take two,three hours.
No, I'm telling you, god'sanointing can snap all of that
off of you, break it off of you.
And I discovered, you know,after a while, that most of the
people I was spending all thattime on weren't coming to church
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all that regular anyway.
I mean, most of them weren'tWord of Faith background.
Most of them were charismaticor Baptist, and they just didn't
have the background I did andthey just kind of go into days.
You know, this is working.
Everybody say I believe Ireceived tonight.
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So we're going to use propheticacts.
We're going to use propheticacts.
We're going to get up andunlock that door and walk
through it and go back and shutit and lock it.
We ain't going back the otherway.
We're not going back tovictimhood.
We're not going back toyesterday.
We're leaving yesterday behindand then finally resume, take up
where you left off, continuewith your freedom.
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You'll find that God's going tostart speaking to you about some
specific things that you'vebeen missing out, on, things
that he wants you to do.
He might renew some things thatyou had in your heart years ago
and all of a sudden now theybecome fresh and all of a sudden
now they become possible to you.
You haven't really been able toconsider those things because
of where you were at.
You were in this dark room,this lousy room, this room of
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hopelessness, this room offailure, this room of
repetitious stuff going.
It's just like going around andaround in circles.
You're not really makingprogress.
Now you're busting out intoGod's territory.
This is a year of milestones.
It's the year of exceedingabundantly above.
It's the year of his grace upongrace, amen, favor upon favor,
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woo, hallelujah.
So you continue with yourfreedom and you harness your
thought life.
See, you'll have to disciplineyour thought life.
Your thought life will try tokeep picking up where it's been.
It's going to try to come back.
This thought pattern, thisinternal dialogue, I call it.
It's like an eight-track tape.
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I say this all the time.
But Gladys, when we were firstmarried, worked at an insurance
company in College Station.
We'd been married a few months.
We moved to College Station forme to finish my junior year.
She got got a job at thisinsurance company life insurance
company the only girl in a 10guy office and they were kind of
cheap and they had an eighttrack tape player and they
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played one tape.
They bought one tape.
Roger Miller, you can't rollerskate on a buffalo herd all day
long.
Dang me, dang me, take a ropeand hang me High, high as a tree
.
Here I heard Roger Miller, mostof you are too sanctified.
You've never heard of RogerMiller.
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Don't pursue it.
I mean you can do a YouTubevideo.
You can learn all you need.
Just think about her listeningto that all day long, every day.
It's an eight-track tape,endless loop.
I mean ten songs.
All ten songs are continuousMonday, Tuesday, wednesday.
It's amazing that she had herright mind after that was over.
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But see, I'm talking about aninternal dialogue.
Like an eight-track tape it'splaying over and over.
You have a habit pattern ofthinking a certain way.
You're going to have to capturethat thought and pull it down
in the name of Jesus and bringit in captivity to the obedience
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of Christ, the anointed one whohas delivered you resumes and
you don't wall yourself.
You know you've had a habit ofwallowing yourself off from
people, not really swearing withthem and don't say that much
about it, and when you do, youtalk victimhood.
Well, you're going to have tochange how you talk.
You're going to have to changehow you see yourself.
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You're going to have to change.
It's going to take a work.
It's going to take a littlework and discipline on your side
after this to keep what Goddoes.
But how many of you are readyfor it tonight?
Amen.
And you know I'm not trying toget you to confess bondage if
you don't have any, but I thinkit would be good for us to
practice how to do it so thatyou can help people.
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That's my main aid.
Of course, if there is anybody,I'm not going to ask you if
you're one that's bound, it'snone of my business.
But you can get free tonight.
How many of you want to be free?
How many of you want to setother people free?
Amen, I mean that night whenIlko was preaching that man I
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wanted an altar call.
But you know, she's sorespectful of her husband and
her husband had the other partof the service and that's only
the second time they've comehere and I know that they told
us they've never been in a placelike our place, because it's
just like an open heaven here.
When they step up here to startpreaching, it's just like and
all things are possible andsometimes it's hard to know
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where to land.
You know, and I know that, Iknow that that's the way it is
around here.
That's what happens when y'allget around, and especially on
Sunday nights, for some reason.
All right, you ready to getstarted?
All right, let's all stand up.
And I'm not trying to get you toconfess bondage on yourself.
If you're not.
No bondage, just basically, youcan consider it like just
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practicing the ministry.
This is like just a littleseminar how to minister
deliverance to people that havebeen bruised.
And if you have been bruised,this is a good place to get free
.
So everybody, face to your leftand just stay.
You know, stay in a straightline and you're going to be
taking a step forward.
So maybe two steps.
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You've got room to take twosteps.
The person in front of you hasgot to take two steps, otherwise
you're going to walk up theirback.
Not yet.
I'll tell you when to start.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
We've got to unlock the doorfirst.
You're in the room.
Everybody say I'm in the roomcalled yesterday.
I intend to leave this roomforever.
I am not going to be bound andI'm leaving behind yesterday.
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So, in the name of Jesus, Itake the key of David in my hand
and I place it in the lock inthe door ahead of me.
It in my hand and I place it inthe lock in the door ahead of
me and I turn that lock.
In the name of Jesus, now dooryou open.
Now open the door and take twosteps through it.
Two steps, okay, stop.
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Say.
In the name of Jesus, I thankyou for this new room.
This is the room of blessing,this is the room of freedom.
I'm never going back toyesterday.
Yesterday has nothing in commonwith me.
I leave it behind.
I've received my full, completedeliverance.
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No more shackles, no morechains.
I am free.
Now, in the name of Jesus, I'mgoing to turn around.
I'm going to close the door toyesterday.
Take two steps back, the otherdirection, so that you can shut
the door.
Shut the door in front of you,say I shut the door to yesterday
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and I lock it with the key ofDavid and now, in the name of
Jesus, face me.
Now, thank God, I'm free.
I believe I received mycomplete deliverance.
Amen, amen.
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See, I believe in propheticacts.
I believe it's real.
I believe when we do what theBible says to do, we can have
what the Bible says we can have,and we don't have to work.
We don't have to live defeated.
We don't have to livevictimhood.
Amen.
Pick your Bibles up, lift them up and wave them
around.
Let's get into the Wordtogether.
And then the Holy Ghost hasalways got the right to do
something after that, anythinghe wants During that.
Interrupt whatever he wants todo, he wouldn't be interrupting.
Let's wave them around, makeJesus glad, devil mad.
Let's say this together SayHeavenly Father, glad to be here
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on Sunday night.
I'm hungry and thirsty for more,more of your presence, more of
your glory, more of your word.
I want my faith to grow.
I want my spirit to develop.
I want to be in position, inthis year of milestones, to
receive all the good that youhave for me so that I can do
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good in Jesus' name.
Milestones to receive all thegood that you have for me so
that I can do good in Jesus'name.
We're blessed to be a blessing,aren't we All right?
Let's look at a couple ofplaces.
First, let's look atPhilippians, chapter 3.
And then you can find Luke,chapter 4.
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We'll start with Philippians,chapter 3.
Paul is speaking and we'll pickit up midway through the verse
12.
And he says but, but I followafter if that I may apprehend
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that, for which also I amapprehended of Christ, jesus,
brethren, I count, not myself,to have apprehended, but this
one thing I do forgetting thethings which are behind and
reaching forth under thosethings which are before.
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I press toward the mark of theprize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.
And that word, you know,reaching forth is like a runner
reaching for the finish line.
You know how they lean to breakthe tape.
That's the.
You know.
He's kind of using the games.
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Paul often used running and thegames the Greeks were big on
the precursor to the Olympics,and he often uses running, a
race.
And so he gives you thatimagery of the strain.
I mean you're strainingeverything you can to break the
tape.
And that's the image of whathe's saying.
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He's pressing, pressed towardthe mark of the prize of the
high calling of God in ChristJesus, forgetting the things
which are behind and reachingforth unto those things which
are before.
All right.
And then Luke 4.18, jesus isspeaking in his own hometown
synagogue and he's 30 years oldand he's now officially a rabbi
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and he quotes Isaiah 61.
He found the place where it waswritten.
One translation says he foundthe place where it was written.
One translation says he foundthe place where it was written
about himself.
You know, it's good to findwhat the Word says about you.
And he basically said this isme.
They didn't like it, but thisis what he said.
He said the Spirit of the Lordis upon me because he's anointed
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me to preach the Gospel to thepoor.
He hath sent me to preach thegospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal thebrokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives andrecovering of sight to the blind
, to set at liberty them thatare bruised, to set at liberty
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them that are bruised.
To set at liberty them that arebruised.
And so tonight I have a messageentitled Leaving Yesterday
Behind.
Leaving Yesterday Behind.
You know, jesus said in John 16,33, he didn't say it this way,
I'm saying it life is a fight.
He said it this way.
He said in the world, you shallhave tribulation, but be of
good courage.
I said it this way.
He said in the world, you shallhave tribulation, but be of
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good courage.
I have overcome the world.
The amplified says I.
I have deprived of his power toharm you.
I have conquered it for you,but nonetheless, we do have a
contest, we do have conflict.
He said you shall havetribulation.
The tribulation means pressure,anguish, disappointment.
You're going to have it.
It comes with the territory.
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It's not necessarily anythingyou did wrong, it's not anything
that you missed.
I mean, it just comes with lifeon earth because we're opposed.
Everything we do is opposed.
As believers, I like whatBrother Osteen used to say
there's no great faith withoutgreat tests, there's no great
victories without great battles.
And the fact, you know, theword testimony comes from tests.
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But God is not the one thattests us.
Oh, he's not.
He's not the tempter, he's notthe tester, but he won't waste
it.
He didn't send it but he won'twaste it.
Whatever you're going through,he'll never waste the trouble,
he'll never waste it.
And uh, you know, sometimes inlife there are battlefield.
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You know, we're seen as goodsoldiers of Christ.
That's kind of an imagery thatPaul talked about to the
Galatians, you know.
And soldiers suffer battlefieldwounds.
Sometimes you can get bruises,and it's unlike natural bruises.
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Spiritual bruises often worsenover time.
I mean, at my age now, it justseems like if I just hit the
door jamb you know I'm notpaying attention I walk through
my house and I hit the door jamb.
Well, I don't think anythingabout it.
But later, when I get ready totake a shower.
I'm looking at my arm and it's,you know, it's purple, it turns
green and yellow and I mean, myGod, what's wrong?
I mean I didn't even hurt, itdoesn't even hurt.
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But spiritual bruises aredifferent.
Spiritual bruises don't go away.
I mean it goes away eventually.
I mean it doesn't even feellike I'm hurt, but it goes away.
But spiritual bruises now,they're supernatural and they
tend, if they're not addressed,if they're not mollified, if the
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anointing is not applied tothem, they get worse.
They can putrefy, they canreally what Jesus said?
He said set at liberty themthat are bruised.
You actually, when you'rebruised and nothing happens to
correct that bruise, you go intobondage Like wearing shackles.
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You ever watched Cool Hand Luke,paul Newman?
You know, he's a prisoner, youknow, and he keeps breaking out.
He can't stay in prison.
He breaks out of prison.
So the warden shackles him,puts shackles on his ankles.
He's only got about 18 inchesof chain between these steel
things on his ankles.
He breaks out anyway and he'srunning along like this until he
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gets to this gas station out inthe country and these two
little black boys are therewatching the station and he gets
them to go in there and get anax.
And so he comes out and hechops that chain in two with an
ax between his feet, you knowand gets the.
Now he's still got the shacklein the chain, but then he ties
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the, gets a piece of string,takes the shoelaces off his
shoes and ties the chain up onhis calf and now he can run.
See, he can run.
It's hard to run when you'reshackled.
It's hard to move when you'rebound.
And Jesus said he was sent topreach deliverance to the
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captives, to set at liberty themthat are bruised.
Paul said that he had to forgethis yesterdays.
Paul said you know, I just Iforget about yesterday.
He had some victories yesterdayas well as defeats, but he
forgot about it and he justdidn't want to be distracted
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about his rearview mirror, hejust wanted what was ahead of
him.
He wasn't even satisfied withwhere he was right now.
In fact, really, where he wasright then was just the same as
yesterday.
What is he doing?
He's pressing to a new place.
Everybody say a new place, butwhat do you got to do to get to
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the new place?
Well, you got to leaveyesterday, which includes where
you are right now, behind.
This is the comfort zone.
This is easy to stay.
It's easy.
It's easy to stay a victim whenwe've been victimized.
It's easy to stay victimized.
It's easy to just say, well,that happened to me and I'm kind
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of a victim.
And have you noticed oursociety has turned into a
victimhood society.
Everybody's a victim.
Mothers against drunk drivingwhy are they against it?
But they could.
Probably because they've got achild that was a you know a
victim of, of drunk driver, andso they're mad, and they're
gonna.
They're mad.
M-a-d-d.
Parents of murdered childrenhow would you like to be part of
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that group?
What kind of a meeting mustthat be like?
We call them angel families now, where the families have
suffered a horrible and you hearthem all the time.
They are up testifying inCongress about what an illegal
alien did to their daughter.
It's heart-wrenching.
But boy, they're bound, they'redefined by this tragedy and I
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just want to scream at thetelevision hey, there's a better
life than what you're pursuingright now.
They're bound, they need to beset free.
So Hebrews, chapter 12, let'srun over there real quick.
Leaving yesterday behind Verse1, chapter 12, verse 1,
wherefore, seeing, we also areencompassed about with so great
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a cloud of witnesses.
That cloud of witnesses are thepeople he talked about in
Hebrews 11, I call it the hallof fame of faith.
These were the Old Testamentsaints, all the saints, whether
Old Testament or New Testament.
When they're up in heaven,they're called the mighty cloud
of witnesses.
Jesus is coming back.
He's going to come back in theclouds.
He's not talking about cumulusclouds, he's talking about the
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cloud of witnesses.
Yeah, cumulus clouds will be upthere.
Maybe I don't know what kind ofclouds, but the cloud that he's
talking about coming back in isa cloud of saints.
So we're compassed about withthese testimonies.
We're compassed about with arooting section.
They've been rooting us on,they've been cheering us on your
mama's in heaven.
She's cheering you on Seeing.
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We're also compassed about withso great a cloud of witnesses.
Let us lay aside the weight,every weight, and the sin that
does so easily beset us, lookingunto Jesus, and let us run with
patience the race that is setbefore us.
There's that imagery of running, again looking unto Jesus, the
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author and finisher of our faith.
So let's lay aside.
And again, that has asignificance.
In the Greek games they wouldrun in competition and they
normally wore robes that cameclose to the ground and they
obviously couldn't run.
And obviously couldn't run inthat I mean the Greeks ran naked
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in order not to have anythinghinder their race.
So that's the sense of themessage here is to lay aside,
take it off of you, take theweights.
Weights and sin are twodifferent things, but I mean to
me it's the same thing as let'sget rid of the shackles.
Let's get rid of, let's getsome anointing on the bruise
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that's holding you in yesterday,where you can't get.
I mean it really kind ofrelates to the word Claire had,
because maybe your calendar hasbeen kind of lean and maybe your
success has been a lean too.
Well, you know it's a new day.
I mean let's make sure there'snothing holding us back.
Let's lay it aside.
Can't run with shackles.
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You have to leave yesterdaybehind so you can achieve what
God has you on the earth to do.
God's got lots of things forthis church to do and every one
of you I mean I just look at thefuture of what we're going to
be doing and it's just.
You know, I mean in the naturalit could be intimidating, but
see, I've got to stir myself upto look at it in faith.
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I've got to know that if hegives us this to do, he also
gives us the ability to do it.
But we can't do it bound.
We can't do it like this.
We're going to have to be free.
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So what is hanging on you fromyesterday?
What's attached itself to you?
Bruises from a failed marriage,infidelity, bruises from a
failed marriage, infidelity,abuse lots of that it's in the
church.
It's nothing to be ashamed of,it's something to get delivered
from.
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You're never going to getbelittled in this church.
When you have bruises, you'regoing to get the anointing to
remove that bruise, thatvictimhood, when we remove it.
It's not denying what happened,it's not saying it was okay.
It just gets the devil out ofit.
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Wounds from childhood.
A lot of people they getwounded in childhood, especially
if their parents had a marriagethat fell apart because of
infidelity or abuse.
If there was, you know, a bunchof conflict in your home.
I used to watch a lot of Dr Phil.
You know he's a good oldBaptist.
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He used to think he was tooliberal, but you know he's come
out on the right side.
You know, living in Hollywoodand being around Oprah, he was
too liberal, but you know he'scome out on the right side.
You know, he's living inHollywood and being around Oprah
.
He was Oprah, really Oprah'sthe one that discovered him.
He was Oprah's lawyer whenTexas cattlemen sued her for
saying that ground beef willkill.
You See, that's what you know.
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These liberals, they're alwaysspeaking out of their nuts.
If ground beef was going tokill anybody, it would have
killed me a long time ago.
I've eaten a ton of it and Ikeep eating it.
I'm going to like it.
I'll eat it every day if I needit, whatever, I don't get tired
of it.
Hamburger hamburger steak,remember, you know, shrimp,
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barbecue shrimp, lemon shrimp.
Well, you can say the samething about hamburger meat
Hamburger helper, hamburgerhelper.
No, I draw the line.
No, I draw the line.
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Well, I used to listen to himand he would chastise parents.
He said you know, when youargue, this might be reserved
for the marriage family series.
I'm probably speaking out ofturn, but he said this.
He said, you know, and I heardit, he would do marriage
seminars on his program and I'dwatch him.
It was interesting.
He was really.
He come at it from apsychological standpoint.
We have minds that need to berenewed to God's word and it was
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amazing how much of what he wassaying was in the Bible,
because he is a Baptist, heknows the word and he had good
advice for married people.
But he said you know, when youargue in front of your children,
those children are changed.
It changes who they are.
And he said they have and thisis my experience exactly.
He said they have an uncannyability to blame themselves for
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trouble in the home.
You parents are arguing andthey start looking at themselves
.
What did I do to cause this?
Yeah, this tall, and they'reblaming themselves.
Is that what you want?
Does it really have anything todo with them?
99% of the time it doesn't, butyet they are thinking that and
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don't have the ability to speakit.
But you know what they cancarry that bruise.
For a long time, pastor, Ididn't know this was going to be
a psychobabble cycle.
No, it's not psychological.
This is demons.
This is spiritual.
Are you with me now?
Death of a loved one.
Sometimes people get mad at Godbecause they prayed for their
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loved one and the loved one diedanyway.
Well, you know you don't.
It's between them and God.
In many cases, I mean, a persondies for reasons that are
beyond your control and youdon't even know, you're not cut
in, you don't know all about it.
I mean, we're right to pray andagree with our loved one as
much as we can, but have theydone everything they could to
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have a long life?
Or did they smoke like a fiend14 packs a day?
Or did they drink like a fish?
Or did they just fill in theblanks?
We live in a society that's.
I mean, hey, you know, we'vegot all these chemicals.
You can't even eat breadanymore.
The bread is filled withjunkous.
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I bless my food.
I'm not worried about cancerbecause I bless my food, no
matter what, I bless it.
But if you, you know, you,you're, you're surrounded by
these kinds of things and, uh,god does hear and answer prayer.
But we, you know, we reallydon't have the right to blame
God when somebody goes to heavenand so we get bruised, we get
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offended and then we get bound.
Are you with me now?
Betrayal of a friend.
Somebody goes bad on you, agood friend, and they, you find
out they betrayed you.
Somehow, some people's churchbetrayed them.
Some people go into a churchfor years and years and all of a
sudden the pastor's up theretalking about woke, talking
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about well, we're all guilty ofwhite privilege.
They drank the Kool-Aid what abunch of baloney.
And a whole lot of people,millions of people across the
country have given themselvespermission because of their
offense at the pastor that theirchurch left them.
And now they say, well, I just,I'm just not even going to
bother going to church.
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Well, you know you, you need toget set free.
You're bound.
You probably know somebody likethat.
So this, this will be a goodmessage for you to put in your
arsenal to help people get free.
Amen.
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You're here on Sunday night, soobviously you're not in that
league.
Sometimes, you know, one of thedeceptions associated with these
bruises is the strong emotionalcomponent of victimization.
In other words, there's apayoff.
There's a payoff.
If I'm a victim, then thatgives me an excuse not to go to
church.
It gives me an excuse not totrust people, gives me an excuse
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to be superior.
I'm superior to everyone I knowand they don't.
And what are you doing?
Are you walking in love then?
No, you're not.
Your bruise is taking you andit's bound you to where you're
not doing what Jesus said to doand walk in love.
Forbear one another in love.
Give people the benefit of thedoubt.
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I've had people so messed up attheir previous church.
They come into my church andthey don't trust me, they don't
give me the benefit of the doubt, no matter what you know.
I say, well, it's their loss.
I mean, they're the ones thatare going to lose.
I'm not going to lose becauseI'm not going to change what I
say just because you don't likeit, or just because somebody
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else said it and different.
And now they're gone and yougot offended and see some people
, just church.
They hop from church to church,grasshoppers, and they're
offended all the time.
Hey, will you get off themerry-go-round?
Come on, let's get healed,let's get the anointing on that
mess and let's get set free sowe can go on with God.
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But it can be addictive.
Grief is addictive.
Jesus took grief.
He took our griefs and carriedour sorrows.
It's one thing for mama to dieand we cry and we miss mama, but
when you go into that terrible,have you ever known somebody
just grieve, you know, go out tothe graveyard and sit out there
.
I know, I know somebody thatgoes, takes a long chair out to
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their wife's grave and sits atthe graveyard and cries.
And they're they're Christians,but they hadn't been taught
anything.
That's wrong.
That's bondage.
It's addicting.
It means he doesn't have to dowhat he should be doing as a
grandpa.
He's not doing anything for God, he's just frozen in grief.
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It's addictive.
Often people who are bound intheir bruise become manipulative
and controlling because theywant to control the environment
around them so they're neverhurt again.
That's always a joy to meetpeople like that.
I've met quite a few and unlessyou're invited into their mess,
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they're not going to receive.
Most of the time They'll find away to blame you so they can
stay above and they can stay wayup here and everyone else.
It's all their fault.
Thank God y'all have never metanybody like that.
Y'all keep living right.
Maybe that'll be the way itgoes.
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There's lots of them out there.
So it reminds me of what IlkaPay was preaching when they were
here.
That was such a powerful messageabout bleeding.
You remember she cut her finger.
That was so powerful.
I kept waiting.
Okay, where's the altar call?
She didn't have an altar call,so I'm going to have one,
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Because this just goes rightwith what she was preaching that
night.
I mean, you know she used theillustration that she cut her
finger and she didn't want herlittle girl to see that blood,
you know, and she was trying to,you know, wrap it up but it
would kept bleeding and keptbleeding and just messed up all
the towels in the hotel room.
And she went out by the pooland there's a trail of blood all
the way around the swimmingpool and she's just bleeding,
bleeding, bleeding, and so thepastor's wife says, hey, you
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know, let's get that, let's goto the emergency.
Oh, no, I'm with the emergencyroom.
Oh, how about some liquidbandage?
She'd never heard a liquidbandage.
So we got some liquid bandagetonight.
We've got the liquid anointingtonight to get on that where
you're not bleeding all overeverybody that had nothing to do
with the wound.
Boy, that was powerful.
People bleed over everyone thathad nothing to do with cutting
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them.
Boy, that's a law.
I wanted to stand up and do thealtar call myself Already too
late.
For some people they're alreadygone.
I like what Paul said in one ofthe gospel I one of the
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epistles, I I didn't fail, Ididn't remember to look it up,
but he said who will deliver mefrom the bondage of this hurt?
I thank, uh, my god, the lord,my jesus christ.
Well, he's the one thatdelivers amen, he's the one who
whom Amen.
He's the one who, whom the sonsets free, is free, indeed, and
uh, so, uh, he can put an end tothe hurt.
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You know, in uh John, chapterfive, verse six, the pool of
Bethesda, jesus came upon thisman who was lame and he's laying
by the pool and God, justsovereignly, would send an angel
in a season we don't know howoften the season was, we don't
know if it's once a month, oncea year, what it doesn't say.
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But they're all huddled outthere waiting for the angel to
trouble the water and whoeverwas in the pool first got healed
and everybody else didn't gethealed.
I mean, that's pretty rough.
You've got all these people andit said they were withered and
infirm.
Boy, I've seen withered people,I've been to india and they
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were withered, waiting on themeeting to start there in new
delhi, in the, in the new delhistadium, the sports stadium, the
soccer stadium, 100,000 people,and it was two hours before the
service started and I was therefor a sound check.
Brother Osteen asked me to sing.
I was there for a sound checkand there we were, and there
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were already about 20,000 peoplejust sitting there waiting for
things to start, two hoursbefore the church started,
before the service, withered,curled up, lame, all kinds of
skin issues, you know, blindness.
It was a horrible scene,desperate, and some of them got
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healed that night, a lot of themgot saved that night.
And lot of them got saved thatnight.
And so here he was, and Jesuscame up to this one particular
man and said will you be madewhole?
Are you willing to be madewhole?
He said, sir, I don't have aman.
I'm waiting here.
I don't have a man that can getme down to lame.
I got to have a man to take medown to the water and every time
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, you know the angel, somebodyelse gets down there.
I don't have a man to take medown to the water and every time
, you know the angel, somebodyelse gets down there.
I don't have a man.
I'm looking for a man and see,he didn't know the man was there
.
He didn't know he didn't needanother man.
Jesus is there.
Will you be made whole?
And Jesus just bypassed allthat.
He said rise, take up your bedand walk.
And instantly, he'd neverwalked, instantly took up his
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bed and walked.
And so that's the question Willyou be made whole?
Will you be made whole?
Have you got something that'sholding you back?
And yesterday, keeping you fromgoing into the next place,
keeping you from pressing towardthe mark of the prize, of the
high calling of God, christJesus?
And so there's four things thatyou need to think about tonight
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.
Will you be made whole?
So recognize, you got torecognize when you're bruised,
recognize it, you know.
Number two repent.
And repent has nothing to dowith sorrow.
It has to do with changing yourmindset.
Repent just means turn around.
That's all it really means.
Repent doesn't mean oh, it justmeans hey, I'm through with
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this thinking of victimhood, Iam repenting, I'm turning around
right now.
So you recognize, repent,receive and then resume, resume,
see, that's that's basicallywhat jesus did to that man.
He said take up your bed andwalk.
And he walked.
And that led through a wholebunch of persecution and his
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parents got kicked out of thesynagogue, you know, and he was
confronted because he got healedon the Sabbath day and all of
that kind of thing.
But when Jesus found him in thetemple, he said go and sin no
more, lest a worse thing happento you.
So he had to make someadjustments.
I said he had to make someadjustments to keep what God
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gave him.
So, number one recognize.
Everybody say recognize, see,light reproves darkness.
There's light in here, there'sa morning in here, this word and
the spirit, the anointing, isshining.
Will you be made whole?
See, it's a decision, he had tomake a decision and Jesus made
it for him.
He didn't even answer thequestion.
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I love that Sometimes, jesus,he'll ask you the question and
he just went ahead and did itanyway.
Will you be made whole?
My experience in these things is, unless somebody invites me in,
I can't do much.
I can know it, I can even sayit to them.
I have, but then they don'twant to recognize it for
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themselves and so they don'twant to do the things they need
to do to get free.
And there's nothing I can do,nothing Jesus could ever do.
If this man had said, well,jesus, just leave me alone, I'm
still looking for that man.
Well, he'd have left him alone.
Thank God he didn't sayanything, didn't run him off.
Number two repent, change yourmindset.
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You have to say to yourself I'mnot continuing one more minute
as a victim.
I forgive those who wrong me, Iforgive myself.
Now I've met people that werein such a shape for so long and
they had gotten over into thiscontrolling spirit, this
manipulating, conniving, alwaystrying to make people feel
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guilty, always trying to usetheir victimhood against people.
I mean, it's just, it's demonic.
Some of you were even raised inhouses like that, when the
parents were like that One orboth parents.
Boy, it's devilish.
It can leave a lot of damage.
It can leave a lot of bruises.
Is it anything to be ashamed of?
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Not at all.
It's something that you getdelivered from.
Jesus was sent to deliver, toheal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to thecaptives, recovering our sight
to the blind, to set at libertythem that are bruised.
Then, number three receive,receive, receive.
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Got this verse here, revelation3, 7.
And the angel of the church inPhiladelphia write these things
saith he that is holy, he thatis true, he that hath the key of
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David.
What does keys represent?
Authority?
He has the key of David, hethat openeth and no man shutteth
, and shutteth and no manopeneth.
So tonight, part of receivingis for you to open the door to
your future.
Walk through it and close itbehind you.
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That door would lead back intoyesterday and you're going to
use the key of David.
You're going to use the name ofJesus to unlock that door.
It's been locked because ofyour bruise.
It's been locked because you'reshackled.
He, he, he captured you in thisplace where he can keep
afflicting you and he can keepstealing from you.
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Are you with me now?
I heard today's, at this churchI don't have any meetings.
I had with individuals withmarriage trouble, problems with
kids, problems with emotions,you name it.
I would have a one-on-onemeeting.
I go through everything we'regoing to go through tonight and
I found a better way to do it.
Let's just do it right here,right now, under the anointing.
I don't have time to meet witheverybody where I would be dead
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today if I'd have kept doingthat.
That's just not my job.
To sit there and meet withpeople and have a session and
every one of them take two,three hours.
No, I'm telling you, god'sanointing can snap all of that
off of you, break it off of you.
And I discovered, you know,after a while, that most of the
people I was spending all thattime on weren't coming to church
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all that regular anyway.
I mean, most of them weren'tWord of Faith background.
Most of them were charismaticor Baptist, and they just didn't
have the background I did andthey just kind of go into days.
You know, this is working.
Everybody say I believe Ireceived tonight.
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So we're going to use propheticacts.
We're going to use propheticacts.
We're going to get up andunlock that door and walk
through it and go back and shutit and lock it.
We ain't going back the otherway.
We're not going back tovictimhood.
We're not going back toyesterday.
We're leaving yesterday behindand then finally resume, take up
where you left off, continuewith your freedom.
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You'll find that God's going tostart speaking to you about some
specific things that you'vebeen missing out, on, things
that he wants you to do.
He might renew some things thatyou had in your heart years ago
and all of a sudden now theybecome fresh and all of a sudden
now they become possible to you.
You haven't really been able toconsider those things because
of where you were at.
You were in this dark room,this lousy room, this room of
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hopelessness, this room offailure, this room of
repetitious stuff going.
It's just like going around andaround in circles.
You're not really makingprogress.
Now you're busting out intoGod's territory.
This is a year of milestones.
It's the year of exceedingabundantly above.
It's the year of his grace upongrace, amen, favor upon favor,
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woo, hallelujah.
So you continue with yourfreedom and you harness your
thought life.
See, you'll have to disciplineyour thought life.
Your thought life will try tokeep picking up where it's been.
It's going to try to come back.
This thought pattern, thisinternal dialogue, I call it.
It's like an eight-track tape.
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I say this all the time.
But Gladys, when we were firstmarried, worked at an insurance
company in College Station.
We'd been married a few months.
We moved to College Station forme to finish my junior year.
She got got a job at thisinsurance company life insurance
company the only girl in a 10guy office and they were kind of
cheap and they had an eighttrack tape player and they
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played one tape.
They bought one tape.
Roger Miller, you can't rollerskate on a buffalo herd all day
long.
Dang me, dang me, take a ropeand hang me High, high as a tree
.
Here I heard Roger Miller, mostof you are too sanctified.
You've never heard of RogerMiller.
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Don't pursue it.
I mean you can do a YouTubevideo.
You can learn all you need.
Just think about her listeningto that all day long, every day.
It's an eight-track tape,endless loop.
I mean ten songs.
All ten songs are continuousMonday, Tuesday, wednesday.
It's amazing that she had herright mind after that was over.
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But see, I'm talking about aninternal dialogue.
Like an eight-track tape it'splaying over and over.
You have a habit pattern ofthinking a certain way.
You're going to have to capturethat thought and pull it down
in the name of Jesus and bringit in captivity to the obedience
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of Christ, the anointed one whohas delivered you resumes and
you don't wall yourself.
You know you've had a habit ofwallowing yourself off from
people, not really swearing withthem and don't say that much
about it, and when you do, youtalk victimhood.
Well, you're going to have tochange how you talk.
You're going to have to changehow you see yourself.
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You're going to have to change.
It's going to take a work.
It's going to take a littlework and discipline on your side
after this to keep what Goddoes.
But how many of you are readyfor it tonight?
Amen.
And you know I'm not trying toget you to confess bondage if
you don't have any, but I thinkit would be good for us to
practice how to do it so thatyou can help people.
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That's my main aid.
Of course, if there is anybody,I'm not going to ask you if
you're one that's bound, it'snone of my business.
But you can get free tonight.
How many of you want to be free?
How many of you want to setother people free?
Amen, I mean that night whenIlko was preaching that man I
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wanted an altar call.
But you know, she's sorespectful of her husband and
her husband had the other partof the service and that's only
the second time they've comehere and I know that they told
us they've never been in a placelike our place, because it's
just like an open heaven here.
When they step up here to startpreaching, it's just like and
all things are possible andsometimes it's hard to know
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where to land.
You know, and I know that, Iknow that that's the way it is
around here.
That's what happens when y'allget around, and especially on
Sunday nights, for some reason.
All right, you ready to getstarted?
All right, let's all stand up.
And I'm not trying to get you toconfess bondage on yourself.
If you're not.
No bondage, just basically, youcan consider it like just
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practicing the ministry.
This is like just a littleseminar how to minister
deliverance to people that havebeen bruised.
And if you have been bruised,this is a good place to get free
.
So everybody, face to your leftand just stay.
You know, stay in a straightline and you're going to be
taking a step forward.
So maybe two steps.
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You've got room to take twosteps.
The person in front of you hasgot to take two steps, otherwise
you're going to walk up theirback.
Not yet.
I'll tell you when to start.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
We've got to unlock the doorfirst.
You're in the room.
Everybody say I'm in the roomcalled yesterday.
I intend to leave this roomforever.
I am not going to be bound andI'm leaving behind yesterday.
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So, in the name of Jesus, Itake the key of David in my hand
and I place it in the lock inthe door ahead of me.
It in my hand and I place it inthe lock in the door ahead of
me and I turn that lock.
In the name of Jesus, now dooryou open.
Now open the door and take twosteps through it.
Two steps, okay, stop.
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Say.
In the name of Jesus, I thankyou for this new room.
This is the room of blessing,this is the room of freedom.
I'm never going back toyesterday.
Yesterday has nothing in commonwith me.
I leave it behind.
I've received my full, completedeliverance.
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No more shackles, no morechains.
I am free.
Now, in the name of Jesus, I'mgoing to turn around.
I'm going to close the door toyesterday.
Take two steps back, the otherdirection, so that you can shut
the door.
Shut the door in front of you,say I shut the door to yesterday
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and I lock it with the key ofDavid and now, in the name of
Jesus, face me.
Now, thank God, I'm free.
I believe I received mycomplete deliverance.
Amen, amen.
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See, I believe in propheticacts.
I believe it's real.
I believe when we do what theBible says to do, we can have
what the Bible says we can have,and we don't have to work.
We don't have to live defeated.
We don't have to livevictimhood.
Amen.
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