### Quotes for Outreach
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> "You've got to tell your story of freedom. See, stand fast in the freedom where Christ has set you free. And do not be entangled again by the yoke of bondage. How do I maintain the freedom that Jesus has given me? The book of Revelation tells you. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. And by what? The word of their testimony. And they love not their lives unto the death. When I declare the freedom that Jesus has given me, I'm establishing a spiritual reality that no bondage, no oppression, no chains are no longer allowed in the ground that he's given me. So once he's given you that ground, get out there and tell your story."
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> "He's come to proclaim freedom to the captives, and he's come to set the oppressed free. The message I want to declare over your life today is there is complete and total freedom in Jesus. There's a word in your Bible that we translate saved, and you pronounce it in the Greek, sozo. And it means to be completely whole, spirit, soul, and body. Some of you, you might be saved and born again, but yet there's brokenness in your soul. There's things in your emotions. And the deliverer has come to bring complete and total freedom in your life. Are you up for it today?"
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> "If Jesus can deliver this man, I want you to see this visual after he gets free. He's sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed. Maybe one of the disciples had a spare robe in the boat. And he's in his right mind. I see him smiling, conjecture, but I see him laughing with the joy of the Lord. And you know, in antiquity, they didn't travel far from their home. So if he was previously married, he went back home to his wife. If he had kids, he went back home to his kids. They don't remember dad other than being bound and tortured. His brothers and sisters, his mom and dad, his cousins, his relatives, all lived in this village. And here he is completely whole, a testimony of God's faithfulness and delivering power."
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> "If you're experiencing any level of bondage, any level of captivity, any level of oppression, or torment, or night terrors, or just unrealistic fears that are gripping your life, Jesus wants to set you free. And here's the application point. You've got to position your life for freedom. Position your life for freedom. As we opened up this chapter, and Jesus and his disciples are parking the boat, this demonized man, he runs up to Jesus. Now, I don't believe for a moment, but it was the demons wanting to get close to the Son of God. It was the humanity of this man. I believe there was something in a desperate heart that when Jesus hit that shore, the Holy Spirit pulled up. And he ran, he sprinted with urgency and intensity. He ran toward him. Oh, all those who come to him, he will by no means cast out. He will accept anybody who runs in his direction."
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> "Now, a reoccurring theme in the life and the ministry of Jesus is this. He cast out demons. He identified spirits of infirmity and broke those off in order to heal people. He dealt with the demonic with the caveat that Jesus never went looking for demons. Lean in, because this applies to you. Jesus didn't get into a village and go, okay, where are the demons at? Let's go talk to them. Find out all their names. Have a demon, you know, cookout. You know what he did? He just showed up in the power of the Spirit. See, light repels darkness. The anointing displaces evil spirits. God has not called you to be a demon hunter. He's just called you to walk in the power of the Holy Ghost and you will displace the powers of darkness."
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> "And as we consider the demonized man from Pigville, here's what I want you to see. This is truly a worst case scenario if you consider what his life was, how brutal. We don't know how he got that way. You see, in order to be demonized at this level, there's open doors. There's abuse. There's sexual sin. There's all kinds of things that happen that open up our spirits to the demonic. And obviously, it had happened to this man. But here's what I want you to pick up. If Jesus can deliver this man, I want you to see this visual after he gets free. He's sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed. Maybe one of the disciples had a spare robe in the boat. And he's in his right mind. I see him smiling, conjecture, but I see him laughing with the joy of the Lord. And you know, in antiquity, they didn't travel far from their home. So if he was previously married, he went back home to his wife. If he had kids, he went back home to his kids. They don't remember dad other than being bound and tortured. His brothers and sisters, his mom and dad, his cousins, his relatives, all lived in this village. And here he is completely whole, a testimony of God's faithfulness and delivering power. And what does that say to you? Listen, I don't care what you've been through in your past. And God knows, some of you've been through some tough stuff. I don't care what level of bondage, darkness, if you were in the occult, if you were a Satanist, if you've been abused in some way, what they did to you or against you in light of the delivering power of Jesus. There is no case too hard. There is no chain he cannot break. There is no bondage he cannot snap off your life. Because whom the Son sets free is free entirely and completely. Come on."
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> "We want to welcome Napa East Bay, Roseville, Calgary, Prison Church Network, the ladies of Napa State, Chico Prison. This place is crazy. All right. You can be seated. Slap your neighbor on the way down. No, I'm just kidding. You're ready to do that. Well, welcome back to our series, the Gospel of Mark. Thank you, band. I hope you've been enjoying this study, the ministry years of Jesus. And if you missed last week, Pastor Jude preached an amazing word about Jesus. Come on, give it up for him. Jesus in the storm. And today we find ourselves in chapter five, which takes us to the other side of the lake. All right. The east side of the Sea of Galilee. And so they made it to the other side, but there's an interesting, even bizarre scene and an event that takes place as we get to the other side of the lake. And it has to do with some demons and some pigs. Now, every week. And if you haven't read this chapter, this is a head spinner for sure, but it is historic and it's truth and it's in the word of God. So we're going to unpack it together, shall we? And so you might know this, but every week I pray with all your pastors from all locations. We get together and we pray for you. We pray for the weekend services. We pray for your finances. We pray for one another. And so I was asking for prayer. I said, guys, I'm in the front end of chapter five, and it's all about the pigs and demons, demons and pigs as just a working title. Probably won't use it. And of course, our kids pastor. I said, you should call it Satan and bacon. Once a kid's pastor, always a kid's pastor, right? But I want to talk to you today around the idea of Jesus being the deliverer. Jesus, our deliverer. All right. A little more marketable. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it's Satan and bacon. Who knows? But if you rewind to the closer to the front end of Jesus ministry, he goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his custom. And he would read the Torah, the scriptures, the scrolls. And he would read the Torah, the scriptures, the scrolls. He would read them out loud in the synagogue. And on this particular day, at the entrance of his ministry, the attendant hands him a scroll from the prophet Isaiah. And think about this moment. Jesus opens up a prophecy, a 750-year-old prophecy about himself. And he begins to read about the coming Messiah. And here he stands. Look at this, Luke 4, 18. The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom. for the captives, recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come. Can I get an amen today? Then they rolled up the scroll, and he looks at the crowd, and he says, today, this prophecy has been fulfilled in your sight. And they were all stunned and amazed. So we could boil down the vision statement of Jesus' ministry to three things. He's come to seek and save the lost."
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> "He healed tormented people. And then as he left this planet, he delegated this authority to his church. He said, these signs now are going to follow you. I give you all authority. And so now he does his work of healing and his work of deliverance through his body. You see, the captives cannot free themselves. The sick cannot heal themselves. The bound cannot free themselves. That's why God gives us the body of Christ so that we can pray for one another. Are you with me? Now, we could spend hours talking about the laying on of hands, a lot of verses to study in that, but let me give you one. James 5, 16 says, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. This Greek word is important here. I am I. It means this, to be healed, set free, and made whole. Here's the deal, man. I got some brokenness in my life. You know some of my story. You have some brokenness in your life. You have some areas of bondage probably as we sit here today. Although they may be slight and you love God and you're growing in your faith, there's still some chains, some shackles. And God wants you to experience complete and total healing. Salvation is an event, but wholeness is a process. He wants us to go one level of freedom to the next. And the way that happens is, as we lay hands on one another, as we pray for each other, we experience sozo, the salvation that heals our spirit, soul, and body completely. And that's God's desire for you."
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> "Weird. If you want to blame what you've opened your flesh up to on demons, it's a trap. If you drink too much, it's probably not a spirit of alcoholism. You just need to knock it off and go to Celebrate Recovery. Right? If you overeat and struggle with your weight, probably not a spirit of obesity. You just need to get in shape. Ooh, feels so personal. How about this one? What if you're playing four to six hours of Fortnite a day? You definitely have a demon in Fortnite. No, I'm just kidding. That's for my grandkids. You need to find some self-control. That's what I'm saying. So, really, most of what we deal with are strongholds in our mind. They are strongholds in our spirit, but they've been opened up because we have let our unrestrained flesh create a pattern that's created lanes of bondage in our lives. But you can switch that around. Why? Because you have the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, and you can get free of all that stuff in Jesus' name. Amen? So, let me give you a couple of application points before we close. If you are experiencing any level of bondage, any level of captivity, any level of oppression, or torment, or night terrors, or just unrealistic fears that are gripping your life, Jesus wants to set you free. And here's the application point. You've got to position your life for freedom. Position your life for freedom. As we opened up this chapter, and Jesus and his disciples are parking the boat, this demonized man, he runs up to Jesus. Now, I don't believe for a moment, but it was the demons wanting to get close to the Son of God. It was the humanity of this man. I believe there was something in a desperate heart that when Jesus hit that shore, the Holy Spirit pulled up. And he ran, he sprinted with urgency and intensity. He ran toward him. Oh, all those who come to him, he will by no means cast out. He will accept anybody who runs in his direction. And if you're here today, and you're suffering from any level of what I've described today, then run toward him. Run toward him. He is in fact the deliverer. Get in proximity of the presence of God. Get where the Holy Spirit is moving. And here's the other application at this point. You've got to get somebody to pray for you. You know, Jesus, as he walked this earth, he cast out the demons. He broke off spirits of infirmity."
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> "Now, there has been a question that has been a conundrum, a point of division now for, well, the four decades I've been in ministry, but hundreds of years before I showed up on the scene. And here's the question. You ready? Can a Christian have a demon? Can a Christian have a demon? And are you ready for the answer? Drum roll, please. If you really want one. Let me explain that. You can open your self up to anything you want to open your self up to. You can open up your soul. And let me share, I'm going to break down a word study in just a minute that will, this is a doctrinal portion of my message. Thirteen times in the ministry of Jesus, there's a word used that is translated in our English language, possessed, or demoniac. And so, with the help of Dr. Michael Brown, I want you to see what this word means, if you'd bring this up. We translate this, possessed. Greek scholars agree that the Greek verb, daimonizomai, should be translated to be demonized or affected by a demon, rather than to be demon-possessed. There's a broad range of demonic influence represented by this one word, from being affected or buffeted to being controlled by or overtaken. So, are we demonized? Yes. We're all affected by the demonic realm at some level. What we have to differentiate from is, who are those who are controlled by demonic force? And, but we're in this spiritual realm. And that's why, that's why we are highly encouraged and instructed to put on the armor of God, because you are in a fight. Don't forget that. Ephesians 6, 12, familiar verse to most of you. For we're not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against what? Against evil spirits. That's what we are fighting against, this spiritual, spiritual warfare is real. And this is why at the Father's house, we have a fasting army. We have a prayer army. We get together in community. We pray for each other. We declare the word of the Lord. We sing out our songs of praise. You know that even your heartfelt worship displaces the powers of darkness. The weapons of our warfare are not from around here. They're not carnal, but they're mighty through God to displace spiritual powers. So, can a Christian be demonized? Most definitely. You can be affected by the demonic, and you are at some level. But, can a true Christ follower be possessed, ruled, or overtaken by a demonic spirit? Absolutely not. Let me read this. As a Christ follower, you can be demonized, that is, affected by a demon. But, a true Christian who is carrying the indwelling Holy Spirit cannot be possessed or under the rule of demonic power. Number two, there is no biblical precedent, instruction, or example of Christians lean in. No example in the word of Christians casting demons out of Christians. There is not a ministry of deliverance mentioned in Scripture. Now, what I just said might cause some of you to be like, oh, wait a minute, you're destroying my doctrine, theology, or maybe your experience is different than what I've just stated. But, let me tell you where we land here at the Father's house. When it comes down to what the Bible teaches versus our experiences, we are always going to land on the side of the rightly divided, word of God. Amen? Because my experience is in contradiction to what I just told you. I've prayed for Christians that have had some pretty strong demonic or allegedly Christians confessing Christians. But, we're going to go with what the word of God says."
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