Confronting Inner Demons: A Call to Action
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "When we love somebody, we want to give good gifts to the people that we love. You know, it wasn't hard for me yesterday when I had a day with my little girl, Emma, to say, you know what, Emma, we're going to, we're going to, I'm going to take you over to King's Dominion and we're going to go to Snoopy World. And I took her over and got a slushy and the smile on my three-year-old's face when she was holding that red slushy. It was like I had given her a million dollars. We know what it looks like to give good gifts to our children. Right. To give good gifts to our spouse because we love them." [13:01]
2. "I don't know if you've noticed, but over the last couple of months, we've had some fantastic opportunities to be able to get out in our community, to be able to show the love and share the good news of Jesus. And you're going to continue to see more opportunities to be able to do that. And we want to give you an opportunity to be a part of it. And so I want to challenge each of you as you think about your relationship with God and how kind of the rubber meets the road to really challenge yourself. Find opportunities to get involved, find opportunities to serve, find opportunities to be to give and be a part of this spiritual community that we call the church and be a part of making a difference for the kingdom of God." [13:47]
3. "There may be some of you who are here this morning if you had to be really honest with yourself, what you would say is that, you know what? My life is broken and I am shackled to the chains of my sin and more than anything else, what I need is to be set free through a relationship with Jesus Christ. And I'm here to tell you this morning, while it may seem more powerful than you, it is not more powerful than God. That he not only created the world and created you, but he left heaven so that as he came and died on the cross and rose from the dead, he could help you experience victory over sin and over your own sin nature." [58:22]
4. "I think that what it teaches us is that if we're going to be effective in being able to combat and effectively win against the forces of evil in our own life and in our own human spirit, we have to, to know what battle we are fighting and who we are fighting. It's not enough just to say, oh God, please forgive me for all of my sins. God, please make me like you. It's like going to the dentist and saying, it hurts somewhere up in there. For us to have victory in our life, we need to get real with God and I think more importantly, get real with ourselves." [44:03]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you were going to label one thing in your life, that is a quote unquote demon that you continually wrestle with, that this, like this part of your life that hurts, beloved people that hurts your witness, this part of your life, that is the ugly part of you. And, and if you thinking to yourself, well, I don't have one of those. Yes, you do. We all do. We have all, we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. None of us have arrived yet. All right. So you have something in your life. And my guess is you probably know what it is. You probably know what it is and you probably have known what it is for a really long time. So why is it still there? It's not because you don't know it's a problem. It's because you're not willing to take the extreme measures to deal with it." [53:10]
2. "The idea of exercising, whether that's a tooth or whether that's a demon, that's actually a Greek word. It's a combination of two actually called elk below. Which means to both cast out or throw and the preposition out of, or from when put together, the idea is to intentionally and forcibly remove or send something away. It's kind of like people aren't acting right at the club and the bouncer exorcises them by physically and intentionally removing something from the club. And the truth is is that every single one of us has some things in our life that need to be intentionally and forcefully removed because if we don't it's going to take over our life and kill our witness and for some of us it already is." [54:29]
3. "The things that we perceive as little things go from one to the next to the next to the next and we give Satan a little toehold and then he gets a foothold and then he ends up having a stronghold in our life. And the things that started off as what we think about as being no big deal end up completely taking over our life and ruining our life. Our witness. You know what the reality is? God says that all sin is a big deal. And if it's a big deal to God, it should be a big deal to us. So how we confront the demons in our lives? Well, first starts by recognizing the severity of our problems. Secondly, it continues by owning our problems by name." [39:47]
4. "And then finally, we need to take extreme action to cast them out. We need to take extreme action to cast them out. Let's look at the end of the story. And he begged him earnestly not to send him out of the region. A large herd of pigs was there feeding on the hillside. The demons begged him, send us into the, the pigs so that we may enter them. So he gave them permission and the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. The herd of about 2,000 rushed down the steep banks into the sea and drowned there." [48:07]
5. "We need a group of Christian men and women to come alongside of me to encourage me to hold me accountable so that I can grow in my faith and I can be an effective witness for him. There may be some of you who say, you know what I want to be a part of this church family and I want to come and officially be a member you of this body in Christ but however the holy spirit's speaking to you you respond as we stand and we sing together." [01:01:24]
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1. "When we love somebody, we want to give good gifts to the people that we love. You know, it wasn't hard for me yesterday when I had a day with my little girl, Emma, to say, you know what, Emma, we're going to, we're going to, I'm going to take you over to King's Dominion and we're going to go to Snoopy World. And I took her over and got a slushy and the smile on my three-year-old's face when she was holding that red slushy. It was like I had given her a million dollars. We know what it looks like to give good gifts to our children. Right. To give good gifts to our spouse because we love them." [13:01]
2. "I don't know if you've noticed, but over the last couple of months, we've had some fantastic opportunities to be able to get out in our community, to be able to show the love and share the good news of Jesus. And you're going to continue to see more opportunities to be able to do that. And we want to give you an opportunity to be a part of it. And so I want to challenge each of you as you think about your relationship with God and how kind of the rubber meets the road to really challenge yourself. Find opportunities to get involved, find opportunities to serve, find opportunities to be to give and be a part of this spiritual community that we call the church and be a part of making a difference for the kingdom of God." [13:47]
3. "There may be some of you who are here this morning if you had to be really honest with yourself, what you would say is that, you know what? My life is broken and I am shackled to the chains of my sin and more than anything else, what I need is to be set free through a relationship with Jesus Christ. And I'm here to tell you this morning, while it may seem more powerful than you, it is not more powerful than God. That he not only created the world and created you, but he left heaven so that as he came and died on the cross and rose from the dead, he could help you experience victory over sin and over your own sin nature." [58:22]
4. "I think that what it teaches us is that if we're going to be effective in being able to combat and effectively win against the forces of evil in our own life and in our own human spirit, we have to, to know what battle we are fighting and who we are fighting. It's not enough just to say, oh God, please forgive me for all of my sins. God, please make me like you. It's like going to the dentist and saying, it hurts somewhere up in there. For us to have victory in our life, we need to get real with God and I think more importantly, get real with ourselves." [44:03]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you were going to label one thing in your life, that is a quote unquote demon that you continually wrestle with, that this, like this part of your life that hurts, beloved people that hurts your witness, this part of your life, that is the ugly part of you. And, and if you thinking to yourself, well, I don't have one of those. Yes, you do. We all do. We have all, we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. None of us have arrived yet. All right. So you have something in your life. And my guess is you probably know what it is. You probably know what it is and you probably have known what it is for a really long time. So why is it still there? It's not because you don't know it's a problem. It's because you're not willing to take the extreme measures to deal with it." [53:10]
2. "The idea of exercising, whether that's a tooth or whether that's a demon, that's actually a Greek word. It's a combination of two actually called elk below. Which means to both cast out or throw and the preposition out of, or from when put together, the idea is to intentionally and forcibly remove or send something away. It's kind of like people aren't acting right at the club and the bouncer exorcises them by physically and intentionally removing something from the club. And the truth is is that every single one of us has some things in our life that need to be intentionally and forcefully removed because if we don't it's going to take over our life and kill our witness and for some of us it already is." [54:29]
3. "The things that we perceive as little things go from one to the next to the next to the next and we give Satan a little toehold and then he gets a foothold and then he ends up having a stronghold in our life. And the things that started off as what we think about as being no big deal end up completely taking over our life and ruining our life. Our witness. You know what the reality is? God says that all sin is a big deal. And if it's a big deal to God, it should be a big deal to us. So how we confront the demons in our lives? Well, first starts by recognizing the severity of our problems. Secondly, it continues by owning our problems by name." [39:47]
4. "And then finally, we need to take extreme action to cast them out. We need to take extreme action to cast them out. Let's look at the end of the story. And he begged him earnestly not to send him out of the region. A large herd of pigs was there feeding on the hillside. The demons begged him, send us into the, the pigs so that we may enter them. So he gave them permission and the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. The herd of about 2,000 rushed down the steep banks into the sea and drowned there." [48:07]
5. "We need a group of Christian men and women to come alongside of me to encourage me to hold me accountable so that I can grow in my faith and I can be an effective witness for him. There may be some of you who say, you know what I want to be a part of this church family and I want to come and officially be a member you of this body in Christ but however the holy spirit's speaking to you you respond as we stand and we sing together." [01:01:24]
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