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How Desperate Are You?
Can a mere "crumb" of faith truly move mountains? Join us as we uncover the incredible story of the Canaanite woman, whose undying belief in Jesus' power brought miraculous healing to her daughter. We'll unpack the profound themes of faith, persistence, and the Word of God, drawing from Matthew 11:12 to highlight the fervent zeal required to seek God's promises. Through this compelling biblical narrative, you'll see how a strong, vertically aligned foundation in faith is essential to withstand life's toughest storms.
You can pick your Bibles up and wave them around if you will Make Jesus glad, the devil mad. And let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, thank God for Sunday night, thank God for the Word of God and the Holy Ghost. I'm hungry for more. I want more of the Word, more of your Spirit, more of your presence, more of your glory, more of your spirit, more of your presence, more of your glory. I'm determined to be filled to overflowing with your spirit. And when people push on me, out comes the word of God. I'm bringing forth fruit in this season for your glory, in Jesus' name. Matthew, chapter 15, verse 21.
Speaker 1:Then Jesus went thence and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cried unto him saying have mercy on me, o Lord, thou son of David, my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him saying send her away, for she crieth after us. But he answered and said I'm not sent, but under the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshiped him, saying Lord, help me. And he answered and said it's not meat, it's not right to take the children's bread and cast it and cast it, throw it to the dogs. And she said you miserable excuse for a Messiah. I'm so offended. No, she said truth, lord, truth, lord. Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master's table. I just get delighted every time I read this testimony. What is she saying? She said I don't need a sermon, I don't need a verse, I just need a crumb falling out of the corner of your mouth. All I need is a minuscule little crumb to defeat the devil in my daughter. It's all it's going to take, just a little bitty crumb. She had a revelation of the power of the Word of God and she would not be offended. Truth, lord. Yet even the little puppies see the little dog. The little puppies is what the Greek is there. Even the little puppies called herself a little puppy. Even the little puppies eat the crumbs off the master's table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her oh woman, great is thy faith. Be it unto thee, even as you will. This is Burger King. Have it your way. Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce. Special orders, don't upset us. Have it your way at Burger King. Have it your way. Have it however you want, however you slice, have it your way at Burger King. Have it your way, have it however you want. However you slice, have it your way. And her daughter was made whole, not just delivered, her daughter was made whole. From that moment it says our in the King James. But from that moment that she said what she said, that crumb fell out of the corner of his mouth. That's all it took to get rid of the devil In the King James. But from that moment that she said what she said, that crumb fell out of the corner of his mouth. That's all it took to get rid of the devil.
Speaker 1:And then Matthew 11. Verse 12. And Jesus is talking about, john the Baptist Is in prison. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. But let me read it to you in the Amplified the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault and violent men seize it by force as a precious prize. A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion. A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion. So the title of this message is really a question how desperate are you? How desperate are you to have what God says you can have?
Speaker 1:So when I read this verse in Matthew 11 about violent faith, I see a plumb line. You know a plumb line. You know that's what builders use to establish vertical. You build a house and it's not vertical. Well, you've got a house that's going to fall at some point. You know If it's not square, level and vertical Three dimensions of a house, you've got to check up on your house. I've got a subdivision over here. I can take you right now I'm not going to mention it because you might live there and you might live in one of the houses I'm thinking about. But I mean it's so far out of square that you can sight from the street down the side of that house and it's two foot out of square. The back is two foot Instead of being square. It's like this, a parallelogram.
Speaker 1:I knew the doofus that built it. That's about what kind of builder he was. Didn't pay much attention. We call him my alligator shoe builder. I mean he'd drive by his Cadillac once a day. Hey, you need anything? All right, see you tomorrow. And they're just out there.
Speaker 1:The subs just built the house on their own, you know, and they didn't feel like squaring things up or dropping a plumb line to make sure the walls are plumb. As far as I can tell, it's plumb. At least it's not falling down, but it's out of square. That means it's not strong in a wind. I haven't driven by it since Harvey, so I don't know if it's still standing or not. Driven by it since Harvey, so I don't know if it's still standing or not.
Speaker 1:But anyway, when I read this I see a plumb line between hot and lukewarm. You know, jesus said there in Revelation I would that you're hot or cold, but since you're lukewarm, what's so bad about lukewarm? Lukewarm, they were exposed to heat, but they chose not to get hot, they chose not to be hot. See, if you're cold, at least you can get saved. If you're hot, you don't need anything, but if you're lukewarm, it means you've been exposed to everything the hot person was exposed to and you chose not to get hot. He said then because you're lukewarm, I'm going to vomit you out of my mouth. That's what's going on right now. We're living in that. Right now Some people have been tried in the fire and found wanting because they just they don't want to be, they don't want to be violent.
Speaker 1:They're not desperate, they're casual. They don't want to look too much on fire, they don't want to be extreme. Well, brother, I just don't want to be that. I don't want to. Yeah right, you just want to be accepted by the unbelievers. You don't want to be that. I don't want to. Yeah right, you just want to be accepted by the unbelievers. You don't want to bear any reproach for Christ.
Speaker 1:I see a plumb line between confrontation and resignation and between desperate and disconnected. You know, disconnect, just kind of lackadaisical, kind of just yeah, well, whatever, you know, if the Lord wants to bless me you know, god knows what I need I'll just yeah, you know, listen, what we're talking about right now means that we need to turn up the heat and not settle for anything less than what Jesus' blood paid for. So I ask the question how desperate are you to have it? That's what this whole message is about. How desperate are you?
Speaker 1:I wake up every day with a burning and, yeah, things happen that try to distract me, many things happen to try to get me off. But at the bottom of all of it is the burning desire to do what God said to do, desperate, and every now and then I just have to communicate that to you because I want it more caught than taught the desire of faith. How desperate, how zealous, how intense, how ardent is your faith. You know. Mark 11, 24, jesus said what things soever you desire when you pray, believe you receive them and you shall have them. Believing you receive is one thing and shall have is another, and in between is seed time, and depending on what it is that you're believing you receive and what you have determines the seed time. The seed time varies for all kinds of things. Some things are pretty quick and some things take decades. If the difference between what you believe you receive and that you shall have, the longer it goes, the easier it is to get less desperate for it and then to pull back and relax and say, well, I guess God didn't really want me to have that.
Speaker 1:Well then, you don't have violent faith and you never were that desperate to begin with. You know how you do. I mean, you know a lot of times we pray for things and there's really not what things, wherever you desire. The point is, how do you really desire? Does mama desire or your spouse desire? Your kids desire or somebody else desire? No, it's what you desire. And where is your desire on the meter of violent? Is it violent or is it yeah? Yeah, it'd be nice to have that, but I can live without it. Okay, then you don't have violent faith for it. You're probably not going to get it because you really don't. You're not going to contend for it. What would you do with it anyway? You don't even appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Well, you know I can live with this. The doctor gave me this, this diagnosis, and you know I mean I can live with it. I mean it's not going to affect the longevity of my life. I can live with this little thing. It's no big deal. And so we don't contend to get rid of it. We live with it. We settle, somebody might need that.
Speaker 1:Well, when you do that, what are you telling Jesus? His blood is worth to you. Jesus, I know you took this, but I can live with it. I don't know, I don't want to send that message. I don't want to send that message to him. When he didn't reserve anything, he gave it all, amen. He didn't hold anything back. And we're going to say well, you know, I'm going to pick and choose, I'm just going to have my little Easter basket. Okay, well, I missed an egg over here. It's hiding in the bush, but I'll leave it over there. Somebody will pick it up. I've got all the Easter candy I need. Praise the Lord. No, I want to pick up everything he paid for. I want to pick up everything he paid for.
Speaker 1:In John 15, jesus said If you abide in me and my word abides in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit. So shall you be my disciples. So a disciple is one that asks. Well, the word ask there is not really prayer. It's talking about making a demand on the covenant. It's talking about exercising violent faith to not settle for what belongs you know, for less than what Jesus bought and paid for. I mean, you measure it, you measure it out. Jesus paid for healing. I've got less than healing. I'm not going to rest until I drive infirmity out of my body. Not going to rest until Gladys is walking around and talking and remembering everything that she needs to remember. Not going to stop. I'm considering, not what the doctor said, I'm considering, not how she is right now.
Speaker 1:A lot of you asking how she's doing. Well, she's overcoming. She's overcoming. Does she like living apart from me at a home, an assisted living? She's in an assisted living home, very nice. But she hates it. And she doesn't all the time understand it. Most of the time she does, but sometimes she just she realizes where she is and she doesn't feel like she wants to be there. Well, I can't have her at home because I can't take care of her. She can't put weight on her hip yet, but she will, and when she does she'll be released and she'll come home and then we'll finish our work of faith. I'm going to take up the hedge between the violent faith.
Speaker 1:Until her mind is in such a condition, her soul, her soul, is affected by the water that they discovered on her brain and her soul is affected. But she still quotes the word she's still. She hasn't. You know she's not, you know so far gone that she doesn't understand. But I mean, sometimes she'll just get momentarily confused. So you know, I know that in those kinds of weakness, with her mind is not fully cooperating with her, I'm going to, I'm one with her. She still has to believe, but I can, I can get in there with her and believe it, and I'm not. I'm not willing for her to finish her course like this. She's coming back from where, from where you've all seen her go. You've seen her go in front of you. You've seen her go like this, but she's coming back, just so we're on the same page.
Speaker 1:So he said whatever you ask, if you abide in me and my word abides in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. The word ask really means to make a demand on the covenant. You're not demanding of God, you're not being rude to God. You're demanding the devil to take his hands off. You're demanding the devil to leave. You're demanding See, that's what happened at the gate. Beautiful Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ, I demand. He didn't say I demand, but he's. That's what he did. I demand you rise up and walk. And when he didn't move fast enough, he jerked him up by the hand.
Speaker 1:It was Peter and John's faith that healed him. Not in the name of Jesus, he said that. He said this man has been made. His perfect soundness has come from the name of Jesus and through faith in that name. Who had the faith in the name? It was Peter and John. It wasn't the lame man. See, sometimes our faith can get things happening. It's violent faith. That's violent faith, right there. They were unwilling to walk by that man one more time. Many Jews walked by that guy and they pitched him a quarter or a dollar or whatever. They pitched him their alms and walk on by. But that day he couldn't walk by him. He had to demand the devil take his hands off. He didn't even talk to the devil, he didn't say spirit of infirmity, he didn't do anything. He just said in the name of Jesus, everybody say violent faith. You demand on the basis of your covenant. That means you need to know you have the covenant.
Speaker 1:So this Canaanite woman, she's intense, she meets all the criteria of violent faith. But she's not Jewish. She has no right to ask him for hesed. She said have hesed on me Jesus? No, I can't do that. You're not Jewish. I was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. She said thou son of David. She knows he's the Messiah. So did the Roman centurion.
Speaker 1:So these examples here are precursors of what we have as Gentiles. I mean, thank God, we were grafted in but she wouldn't be denied. And when Jesus didn't answer her a word, then she said all right, I'll go to your disciples and man, they didn't want to put up with her, she wouldn't leave them alone. Jesus sent her away. She calls me, she texts me, she emails me. Jesus, she Facebooks with me on Facebook. She tried to FaceTime me the other day. Get rid of her. There's no quitting her. What is she desperate? For herself? No, for her daughter. We're going to see some miracles in our families. Yes, some miracles in our families. We're going to see the prodigals come home. We're going to see the wayward answer the call of God on our life. How desperate are you? See, great faith. He said oh woman, great is thy faith. See, great faith is violent faith. It's violent faith.
Speaker 1:Now, I said this Wednesday night but I've been thinking about Brother Hagin and his testimony because we all know it that he was essentially, when you see, his entire life. He was born dead. I mean, his mother had all kind of mental issues and he was mostly raised by his grandmother and the mother had difficulty giving birth and I don't remember all the details, but he was a blue baby. Back then I had a cousin that was a blue baby. He had a heart defect and he lived until he was 30, and he died finally. He was always weak, he always was susceptible to viruses and he died before I was born, I think. But I heard about him. Charles was his name, charles Greiner, but Brother Hagin.
Speaker 1:When he came out, I think the grandmother was there. They weren't in a hospital, it was home birth, they had midwives or whatever. And so when he came out he looked dead. I mean he's blue. So they carried him out behind the garage and laid him on like a sawhorse or something, just laid him there out in the open behind the garage, and of course the mother was in bad shape, almost died in childbirth, and they spent all their time working on mom. And then, you know, grandma said, well, I've got to go attend to the baby, I better do something. I mean I can't leave it out there. And the baby was still alive, without having any care whatsoever, and brought him back in the house and nurtured him as best they could. But I mean he never was healthy, he never was normal, he never was able to, you know, really to participate with other kids. That that well.
Speaker 1:And finally, when he's like 14, he, you know, he had these. He had something like eight different blood diseases and a malformed heart. The blood diseases, you know, had to do with his white blood cells or something. And, uh, had to do with his white blood cells or something. And the doctor said, you know, there's nothing we can do for him. I mean, even if he had a perfect heart, these blood diseases would be enough to kill him. But he doesn't have a perfect heart. His heart's got leakage and all this. He was blue. I mean, he was just a mess. You've to to accept that. Well, you know, he's a teenager and even the baptist preacher, you know well, god god's can heal some people, but he's not going to heal you. He gave up on you.
Speaker 1:Miracles passed away, according to the Baptist preacher, but something in his spirit wouldn't give up His own spirit and he wound up dying one time. And he went to hell and he came to read his book. I went to hell, read the little mini book about him going to hell. He went to hell because he wasn't saved. Well, as a result of that, he got saved and then he knew he was going to heaven. But something in him when he got saved, something in him wouldn't leave healing alone and he just knew he should live. It didn't? He didn't want to die and he didn't want to accept death. And so he just kept on and kept on with the word and finally, you know he won't go into whole thing, but I mean he, finally, at 16, he, you know, he heard from God.
Speaker 1:When he read about the woman with the issue of blood, he said, you know, uh, did anybody ever tell her that faith had passed away? Well, no, no. Has anybody ever told you that faith? They're saying that healing passed away. Did they ever say that faith passed away? No, no, lord, they never did say faith has passed away. He said, well, it hadn't passed away, because if faith passed away, you couldn't get saved, and neither his healing. If her faith made her whole, your faith can make you whole. Glory to God, one thought. And so he started believing. He received Now, this is years before he was teaching anybody about faith and the word of faith when did it come from? His own spirit? Well, I mean, you talk about a man that paid a price. So he got up, healed, and he, you know. But if you'll read his whole life story, he had to contend for his healing over and over and over again.
Speaker 1:He writes about times when he was out on the field ministry, staying in a bedroom in the parsonage of the church. The pastor put him up in a spare bedroom while he's preaching in a church. So that's after 12 years of pastoring. So he's not a novice. He's been preaching for a long time. He's married with kids.
Speaker 1:And that night, you know, he had alarming symptoms and the devil said this time you're not going to get your healing. And, brother Hagan, you remember the story. He starts laughing Ha ha ha. Did he feel like laughing? No, ha ha ha. I laughed for 45 minutes. What are you laughing at? I'm laughing at you, mr Devil. Why are you laughing at me? He said because you said this time I'm not going to get my healing. Ha ha ha, I'm not going to get my healing. Jesus already got it for me. I'm not going to have to get it. He got it for me. You know the story.
Speaker 1:Every symptom left him. And then the time when he woke up on a Monday after preaching this was years earlier and he had stroke-like symptoms. I talked about this Wednesday night Half of his face was dead and the other half, he'd smile over here and this side wouldn't move. It was that way on a Monday morning and he goes, and Wednesday night the pastor prays over him and he believes he receives his healing and anything changed. Nothing changed. He still had the same symptoms for a couple more days and finally everything leveled off.
Speaker 1:And then another time he he had alarming symptoms. It didn't look like he was going to be able to live. He didn't talk about what they were and he had a dream one night. He said you know, I'm just going to stand against the devil. And in the dream him and another man were walking across a parade grounds and run. There's lions and two lions were chasing him. And in the dream he knew he couldn't outrun the lion, so he just turned around and faced him. And he the dream. He knew he couldn't outrun the lion, so he just turned around and faced him and he said I've got goosebumps all over my body. I'm facing these ferocious lions and they're running full speed and they come up right to me and they start sniffing around at my feet. And what he had been doing is I stand against this infirmity in the name of Jesus. And what he had been doing is I stand against this infirmity in the name of Jesus. And in the dream they sniffed at his feet and turned and trotted away. He woke up and every symptom left him. Well, that's at least four times, and that we know about that.
Speaker 1:He had to contend, he had to have violent faith. He could have given up, couldn't he Does? He know he's going to heaven. Sure, sometimes the easiest thing to do is just go to heaven and not fight and let the doctor talk you into accepting. But I'm telling you I wouldn't go to heaven right now. Now listen, I believe if we'll just hold our own right now and we just overcome every symptom right now, we refuse it, we put it to flight, we have that violent faith I believe we'll be hanging around when Jesus comes back. I want to be, I want to see him come, I want to hear the trumpets out, I want to see what if you're wrong? Or what if I'm right? Are you getting anything out of this?
Speaker 1:I remember one time he said you know, one time you have to do kind of silly things. It looks kind of silly to other people, but he said one time I just got my Bible out, put it down on the floor, took my shoes off and stood on my Bible and said Lord, I'm standing on your word. Your word is true, I'm standing on it. I've done that. So right now we're believing for the word of the Lord that came to this church about restoration, acceleration and speed. I remember him having a word about people being stuck, like you're stuck in something and like he's stuck in the elevator. Remember he was stuck in the elevator. God said why don't you use your authority to get out of this elevator? Command that door to open. Let me ask you something.
Speaker 1:I had a picture of an 18-wheeler. I like vehicles of all kinds, and so I was thinking about one of these big old 18-wheelers. Now, these 18-wheelers have automatic transmissions, you know nowadays, but I guess you can still buy them with these 24-speed. Why do they have so many speeds? Well, because they're so heavy and the engine is so big that they have to just go down the road a little at a time. Boom, boom, boom, boom. You've driven some of these big old. Uh, tobias, haven't you? You've driven some of those big ones, and they're. They're not automatic, right, they're. You've got to use the clutch, double clutch and uh, but it takes a lot to move one. So you're stopped at a light. You've got a truck. It weighs 50, 60,000 pounds. It's got 2000 horsepower under the hood.
Speaker 1:I mean, what is your momentum? You know momentum is mass times, velocity. When you're sitting at a red light you've got a lot of mass. It's 50,000, 60,000 pounds of truck and cargo. What's your momentum when you're stuck at a red light? Zero? What has to happen for you to get any momentum? Well, you've got to take off from the light and you've got to go through the gears. I mean you start off pretty slow. I mean you're going five miles an hour when you shift the first time, and 10 when you shift the second time, and 20 when you shift the third time, and 25 when you've got to go all the way. By the time you've shifted 25 times you might be at freeway speed. And now you've got some momentum, don't you? What did it take to get up to speed? It took acceleration. You got to have acceleration to get to the speed that God wants you to travel at. I was thinking about our new members today. Some of them are going to have to work to get up to speed to catch up with the momentum that we already have in this church. I think sometimes when we have new people, they don't know how to get up to speed. Sometimes we're at such a speed they can't quite keep up. We're going to have to help them Back in the days Brother Hagen grew up in, his brother Dub.
Speaker 1:During the depression you had a lot of guys that would hop freight trains. You had no money, so you'd go down to the train yard and you'd wait for the train. And you you know it wasn't wise to get on the train while it's in the yard because they've got officers to look at the train and they're going to hit you in the head if they find you on that train. So you wait till it gets started, till it's going down the tracks. Now, if you're going to stand there still while the train is going past you at 20 miles an hour and reach out and try to grab it, it's going to pull you under the train. What do you got to do? Well, you've got to come up and you've got to run alongside that train. You've got to run along and match the speed and then you can hop up on the freight train. Hopefully there's a door open or hopefully there's a ladder you can get up on top, but you know you hop a freight.
Speaker 1:Nobody does that anymore, but the illustration is the same. We're talking about acceleration. You've got to begin to get up to speed about where God wants your life to be. It takes what Violent faith. Are y'all with me now? How many of you determined to have total restoration of the years that the devil has stolen? Well, it's not going to just happen, drop on top of your head just because it's going to take some determination on your side. It's going to take some faith. It's going to take talking about it. It's going to talk. You're going to have to make some declarations. You're going to have to make some demands on the devil to take his hands off. Glory to God. So just two little things here.
Speaker 1:James, chapter 4. Very simple Praise God. I'm so excited about where we are. I'm excited about what God has in store. I agree with the prophet our best days are ahead. I'm planning on getting seven times out of the devil's hide, seven times what he stole. It's going to take at least that much money, as well as other things, health and everything else. It's going to take 7x. James, chapter 4, verse 7. Last part of verse 6, god resists the proud, but he gives grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Speaker 1:It takes true humility to receive all that Jesus bought and paid for. It's not pride. It's not pride to believe God for way in excess of what you need financially. Why? Because we're going into the time when it's going to take all of our money. I don't plan on leaving a bunch of money in the bank when we leave in the rapture. I want to spend it all on getting the harvest in. What in the world would we do with millions of dollars sitting in a bank drawing interest and we're raptured off the face? I wouldn't want to face Jesus with millions of dollars sitting in the bank for the devil to use after we're gone. No, that's true humility is to receive everything that Jesus bought and paid for and he he arranged for us to live in. The last of the last days, when this harvest is going to, our floors are going to be full of wheat, our vats are going to overflow with wine and oil. If you weren't here this morning, get the media for what? What I preached on this morning? The day of restoration.
Speaker 1:But it takes true humility to receive it. It's false humility to say, oh no, I don't need that. See, that's false humility. It's really pride, as if you're the only person on the planet. You're the only person on the planet no, you're going to impact huge amounts of others that are not in position the way you are. So two things. Number one submit yourself to God, obey Him.
Speaker 1:I mentioned Jesus didn't hold back anything. We shouldn't hold back anything. I'm reminded of Acts 20, verse 20, where Paul told the Ephesians' disciples. He said you know, I've held back nothing that was profitable unto you, but I've taught you. I've shared the whole counsel of the Word of God. I've taught you. Well, let's just turn back. I don't want to misquote it Acts 20, 20.
Speaker 1:He had that great meeting, you know, and he boy I mean Verse 20, how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have taught you publicly and from house to house. I mentioned this this morning. But you know, people want to go back and have house church. No, that was the beginning of the church. We've graduated from there. Why do you want to go back and do things the way they did it back then? That was babyhood Christianity. We should have a place to meet. It should be nice, it should be air conditioned, it should have all the niceties. It'd have all the technology. I want to have church in the house. I don't know any of those, those places that are successful. They're all flaky and weird. I kept back nothing that was profitable on you. But I've showed you and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and to the Greeks repentance toward God.
Speaker 1:There's that word again, repentance that we're missing a lot nowadays. We talked about that this morning too. It's one of my pet peeves. Well, jesus gets you. Well, where's the repentance? I mean, you can't get saved without repenting, that's just. There's no fire insurance. You've got to change your life.
Speaker 1:My life changed when I got saved. I changed my life. I quit drinking alcohol, I quit doing the things I used to do. Don't hold back anything. Be zealous to walk in love. That's the only commandment we've got walk in love.
Speaker 1:Faith works by love. Violent faith we have to have violent love. I said if you're going to have violent faith, you have to have violent love. You've got to love people, no matter how unlovable they are, because it has nothing to do with them. It has nothing to do with how they treat you. It has nothing to do. I mean, you know you've got to love them.
Speaker 1:We're going to have an influx of people come into the church and I mean they're going to. You know, we're going to look at them like whoo, I never knew you could pierce that part of the body. Whoa, let's cover that up, shall we? Thank you. Thank you, let's cover that up, shall we, thank you. Those ears, that's got the gigantic. You know big old. You know when they take them out, you know they've got these big flaps there. You know big old holes about the size of a silver dollar. Man, that's got to hurt. I saw a lady on television the other night. It just hurt to watch her. I mean it. Just how did that feel when they did that to your lip? I mean, what, what, how did they have that feel when they did that to your eyelash or your eye? Man, oh, thank God, you know they're going to come in the child house of God and we're going to love them with a love of God. We're going to accept them, we're going to teach them and then we're going to get out of here. Boom, they're going to get a new body that's not all pierced. Jesus has one that's pierced, but they're not going to have one that's pierced Like tonight when we praise God.
Speaker 1:We entered into the high praises of God. I mean that worship service tonight, it just fit the bill. I mean we took care of the devil, we took care of demon powers while we were praising God. We just you know, man, I like those songs. It set the tone for what we're doing right now, what we're preaching right now.
Speaker 1:It's going into you, submit yourself unto God, obey him, do things his way, be zealous to walk in love, have violent love for the saints. And then it says resist the devil. Violent faith resists everything the devil throws at you. You resist pain, you resist symptoms, you resist lack, you resist confusion, you resist the temptation to answer back and get revenge on people when they mistreat you. Listen, we're going to be spit on, we're going to be talked about. We're going to be talked about, we're going to be lied about. There's no point in wasting time trying to get revenge. Vengeance is mine. I will repay saith the Lord. Resist fear, resist discouragement.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I tell you that night, when I came home from the emergency room, heard that Gladys had broken her pelvis. I'm telling you, the devil got on me and he had to get right back off. I know how to get rid of him. I resist him. I'm not going to indulge in some kind of pity party. I'm not going to let him do my thinking for me. I heard Nancy Dufresne say that when Gladys was in the hospital I was walking by her bed and she had Nancy on the television watching little old television with the little speaker, you know, and the little thing by the hospital bed. And I mean she said don't let the devil do your thinking for you. I said I'm taking that and I'm not going to give her credit. Praise God, I'm not going to give her credit. Praise God, I'm not going to let the devil do my thinking for me. He's going to paint you the worst picture. Resist the devil. Be violent about resisting. See, let's tie the violence in there with the resistance.
Speaker 1:Talking about resistance, the Polish resistance in Warsaw, when the Nazis took over Warsaw and you know they divided, you know they divided all the town. They pulled all the Jews out of their houses and the Jews were the rich people. It's the way they almost any place back then. I mean the Jewish people were the rich people. I mean, they had lots of money, they had the nicest homes, and the Nazis pulled them out and shoved them into a little you know, the Warsaw ghettos is what they called them and they had multiple families in one little place, you know, just horrible. And then the Nazis moved in to their nice homes. But the Polish resistance formed and they were fighting and they got organized.
Speaker 1:And when the Russians had broken in and were just outside of Warsaw about to take over the city, the Polish resistance, which basically they're, all you know, leaning toward the communism side. So you had the fascism, you had the Nazis and the fascists, but then you had the other side of it was Russia and the Bolsheviks, and so really they were pretty. You know, the Polish resistance was more thinking that the Russians would help them take back the city, and so they put all of their resistance. They resisted with violence. I mean, they got weapons and they started cleaning up the Nazis, killing them. And Hitler saw what was going on and he had such pride he didn't want to let the Polish resistance take and kill all the Nazis that were there, and so he sent reinforcements. He had the Stuka dive bombers that came in and bombed their positions and the Russians didn't lift a finger to help the Polish resistance. Because why? They knew anyway they were going to take it and they're going to conquer it and they wanted to dictate what kind of government they had. And so they didn't lift a finger. And so the Polish resistance, they all died, a bunch of them, there was about 600 or 800 of them that died. They killed a bunch of Nazis but it didn't do them any good in the end because, you know, hitler sent reinforcements and sent more troops and they all died because they were all conquered by the Red Army. The Red Army killed every Nazi or took them prisoner, but then that was part of the USSR, that was the Eastern European Communist Bloc.
Speaker 1:But my point is that they violently resisted. Call the resistance. You know we've got supernatural weapons. We have no business putting up with the devil. We have no business letting him rule us, have no business letting him rule us. We can stand in our authority, in the name of Jesus, and resist sickness and infirmity and pain. Resist the devil, resist the symptoms, and they will. What Flee? They will flee, as in terror. Poverty will flee, as in terror. You know, we just have to. We have to have violent faith. How desperate are we to have what Jesus bought and paid for? Well, let's act like it. Come on, lift your hands and proceed. Praise God. Everybody say I am desperate, I've got desperate faith, I've got violent faith. Hallelujah. Come on, let's praise him a little while. Praise God, hallelujah. Thank you, lord.