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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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Understanding the Book of Mark 0:00 We're going through the book of Mark during this year. And so if you have your book of Mark journal, feel free to pull that out because you're gonna take some notes in it. If you didn't, that's okay. You may just wanna0:11 lean in. But what we've been doing on our Wednesday nights0:13 is we have,0:13 as best as possible chapter mark. And so you have the gospels which are formulated through 4 Matthew Mark0:26 Each 1 of those gospels tell the life and ministry of jis0:31 ending with the0:31 raisorruption of justice, ending with the raisorruption of justice. To recap everyone, it's special because the the Hollywood version of the gospels,0:43 Okay? If if if if if you were to say which is the 1 that's like the Sylvester Stallone movie? Which is the 1 that's like a Marvel movie? Like, it's just action packed. It jumps0:55 into all of the stories fast. There's not a lot of cultural context, there's not a lot of lead in, there's not a lot of behind the scenes I gotta know. That's the book of Mark. The book of Mark is the 1 that goes from1:06 action to action to action to action to statement to action, the Jewish audience. You know, it starts with a chapter of just people's names, you know. So it's1:18 just full it's just 1 chapter of just listing everybody's names. And we've done sermons in the past where we've shared about the significance of that. Your faith. So if you're new to your faith, reading1:30 the book of Mark is awesome, because you get to learn about without having to know too much behind this. But if you've also been in your faith a long time, you can also read the book of Mark.1:46 Other The book of Maury, the book of Maury, the book of Maury, In all my1:58 years of ministry, whenever I've done discipleship classes with Youngboy. I've always started them in the book of Mark. And so when I got into ministry, full time about 13 years ago, the first thing I did2:14 years, we studied the book of Mark, verse by verse in my home every Monday night. And, Chelsea, who's here on our staff, and she's 1 of our youth directors, she used to go to that when she was a teenager.2:26 Privilege. And then when I wasn't a youth pastor anymore and I became the young adult pastor, I took a group of people in their mid twos through the entire Book of Mark for about a year and a half. And so for me, the2:37 Book of Mark is special because it's always signified every time start. The Book of Mark is special because it's always signified every time I have an opportunity to gather believers, gather people who want are just2:45 hungry to learn about Jesus, but they don't know where to start. And then from there, you can go to Acts or Romans or whatever else.Tradition vs. God's Law 3:14 First. Okay? We're gonna do the whole chapter. But, trust me, you'll understand the whole thing very fast. So would you guys do me a favor? Just for the first 13 verses, could we stand for the honor of reading God's3:25 word? I'm not going to inundate us and do all 37 while standing. My back can barely take it. I'm sure your back could barely take it. And so here's what it3:34 says in Mark's, 1 to 13. It says now, when the Pharisees gathered3:34 to him, speaking of, jizzes, with some of the scribes who had come from jurors. They saw that some of his disciples3:46 ate with hands that were defiled. That is and all Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands. All those with a good3:58 grandmother say amen. You know, so holding to the tradition of the elders. There's grandma right there. And when they came come from the market,4:19 copper, and dishes. And the fairies, and the scribes asked them, why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders?4:31 But they eat with5:06 true For Moses said honor your father and your mother and whoever reviles the father or mother must surely die. Whatever you5:18 gained from me is Corbin that is given to God, then you no longer permit him to do. And for his father5:24 or mother, thus making void the word of God5:24 by your tradition and that you have and many such things. You do. You do. You do. You do. You do. You do. You do.5:36 You do. You do. You do. You do. You do.6:00 Pharisees and the scribes. You have mixed your traditions, and you have superseded those above God6:42 But the reality is, is it God's law? It's 1 thing to say, oh, this is smart. This is wisdom.6:58 Because if that's what God says, what do you do to the young child in a third world country who does not have running water? Who does not have So does he not have the right to have a relationship with7:09 God? Does she not have the right to have a relationship with God because she can't wash her hands? Because he can't wash his pots or his plate.7:25 Opinions equal to God's law. And you see, over the years, and I'm not knocking any things, like I said, many of these things are wisdom. Many of these things are smart,7:37 but the reality things, many things are also cultural. And a lot of times in church, and a lot of times in our faith, we take things that are just wisdom, that may just be smart,7:52 if this is what God says. I don't know if you've ever been raised in church before or been around church before, there are some things in churches. Even some of the things in here we would see as maybe8:04 a faux pas, but there are things in churches that people reject all the time, and church people look sideways if someone come into the church. You see, if someone were to come into our church or I were to come on stage8:16 wearing sandals in church, people may look at me.8:35 Now, again, I would never wear sandals. And I know guys that have, churches, over in Santa Monica, and churches over in Huntington Beach, where their8:47 church meets on the sand. And everybody wears sandals to church on Sunday. Hey, listen. I'm not I'm I'm not saying it's right 1 way or another. What I'm saying though is I've been in places8:59 where people have scoffed at people who maybe look some. Whether it be sandals, sandals in your things, I know some churches and congregations where men can't have beards.9:11 Men cannot fellowship in church with beards. It's a very worldly thing. It seem it seem as you're unkept. It seem it seem but but I know other places in the Middle East9:23 that are Christian, where if a man doesn't have a beard and he's bald shaven, it's like he's trying to be a feminine, a woman. But they all go to church. So9:34 if I'm in a certain part of Tennessee, I can't have a beard. But if I'm in a certain part of Ethiopia as a Christian, I have to have a beard. Dang, this is getting confusing really fast as to how9:47 And this is where some young people sometimes or new people to fake. This is where they get caught up because they get caught up off of these some of these things. What else is there? Well, I know certain congregations,9:56 some of you guys may have come of those. Women can't wear pants in church. General. Skirts only. Skirts gotta be below the knees.10:09 Okay. I'm not, you know I've been to other churches where under no condition You can't watch sci fi movies, because sci fi is fiction in general. And since God doesn't lie, you can't watch10:21 things that are fictionist. And some of you guys might amen it. It's just weird. It's just weird. Are other church traditions in our10:32 Christian faith where you can't eat meat on Fridays. No meat on Fridays. Vegetarian only Fridays. And I'm not saying this is a suggestion. I'm saying like if you're gonna go to church with them, this is what you have10:43 to do on Friday. This is expected that that's the10:43 right thing to do. There's other ones, we know them, where you can't celebrate birthdays, because celebrating your birthday means that you're selfish. And you're10:55 making it about you. You guys are laughing, but I'm serious. There's a whole city down the street based off this whole premise right here. And the other 1, there's other ones where you11:07 can't work out. No working out. No working out. You can't go to the gym. Men can't get buff and muscular because it's vanity. And so like you could be somewhat fit. You can like go on a treadmill but you can't11:19 pursue fitness because it's vanity. So you try you try to get big butt. You try to get washboard abs. You try to get big muscles. They say that's vanity. You can't do that.11:32 And see, we laugh at that, but we build I could go deeper into stuff that would even dig upon us that if someone walked in, we'd go, right away. We'd start scoffing. This is what the Pharisees are doing. This is what the11:43 sadducees. They see the disciples eating with their hands, and they didn't wash their hands. They didn't say a special prayer. And Jesus says, this is something your grandma and granddad taught you, which is fine, but11:55 that's your home. That's your tradition. That's what your mama taught you. That's what your daddy taught you. I'm not These disciples is my sons. I'm not here to teach them with that much rigor.12:07 So that's what Jesus says. He says, those are fine ideals. Those are fine traditions. Those are nobody's knocking those, but do not look at someone else and make it God's command.12:19 Because it's not unless it is, if it is and it is written in God's word and it is written in command, you can point to a chapter and verse that says, thou shall not wear sandals, other than that.12:32 It's pretty fair game. Now, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, I don't know. You got, you got, you got, you got to go talk to God on that 1. You got to figure that 1 out. When I when I first started in youth ministry,12:44 I came in as a youth pastor into our youth ministry. It was during those days, kind of in our in the in the church in general, not just our church, where it was seen as with young kids, teenagers,12:57 extension of the parents discipline. And so I remember when I came in as the youth pastor, the the first thing I got told by the youth leaders was all the rules they have for the teenager.13:11 They had a bucket and all of them had to put their cell phones, in the bucket. And then and then and then what they had to do was then all the male volunteers for the other male students coming in had to do a pants13:22 check. So the boys had to kind of lift up their shirt real quick because they couldn't be sagging and show and show their boxer shorts. And so they had to make them they made them pick up their pants. None of the teenage13:34 boys were able to wear hats when they when they came into service. So the the rule was always and you remember this. You'd hear it. Almost be walking in. We were walking into cell block seat. I'd be walking in, to youth13:45 service, and I'd hear the youth volunteers, predominantly the men in there because they were kind of tasked with holding up the the rules, I'd hear them say, hey, take your hats off. It's like TSA. Take your hats off,13:56 pick up your pants, put your cell phones in the bucket. Hats off, pick up your pants, cell phones in the bucket. And these kids would come in and they'd look14:08 at their tennis shoes the whole time. They hated being there. So I'd be up there as a youth pastor the first month. I'm out here like preaching my guts out and man, y'all gonna14:20 be saved. And I can't get specifically none of the guys because none of the girls had to change anything. They because all all this in was secret. But for the guys, it was like you had hats. Girls had to throw in some at14:32 some phones. You know, other than that, the girls had little sweaters they put on their shirts or whatever. So it's the guys that were getting hit. And so we're sitting there and I'm preaching, I'm preaching. These14:40 dudes, these kids want nothing to do with me. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, man, something's gotta change. Youth meeting and I said, hey, from here on out,14:52 they could bring their cell phones in. I'd rather them looking at their cell phone texting than staring at their shoes. So if they're they're not paying attention to me regardless. So so so let them have15:04 their phone. Okay? So let them have their phone. I don't care. This isn't public school. I don't have I don't have, you know, grades that I got to turn into and stuff like that. If a parent comes and talks to me, I'll15:13 say, hey, you need to talk to your your child. You take their phone before they come in here. I'm not taking their phone before they come in here. So so you want them to let you you partner with me. Help me. You know? So15:23 it'd be that type of thing. And so I said, we're not taking their cell phones no more. They get to leave their hats on. Stop taking their hats. But this is the house of God. They can't they they can't And I get it. I get15:33 it. And stop telling them to pick up their pants. Let if they're mom and dad letting their pants come in this way, I'm not mommy and daddy. So if they letting her with spaghetti straps walk in, they're letting him15:45 with his pants sagged in, I'm not their parents. Okay? So I said, this whole thing, it it starts at home. I'm not coming in. I will partner with the parents. I will not15:57 be the parent. And so we set the rules and we say and then 1 day I go up in front of you students. I say, hey guys, new rule. No rules. I said, I only have 1 thing to ask,16:10 don't talk out loud when I'm talking on the stage because someone else may want to listen. Don't be a disturbance. If you're not a disturbance, you could bring headphones, I don't care. You you could whatever your16:20 parents will let you bring, you could bring a PS 5 for all I care. As long as you are not a distraction to the people around you, if people start gathering around you so I would literally have kids who had air pods16:32 in their ear. They weren't air pods back then. They were just the plug in ones, and they're watching YouTube in the middle of my sermon. They didn't mark it, and I'd say, I'm gonna start praying for that kid. I'm gonna16:43 leave I'm gonna lead that kid to the Lord. I'm I'm gonna preach to that kid. And so and so every once in a while, I would just throw out weird words. I'd say like, you know, I'd say words like sex or something like that,16:53 and they pop up. Something that get their attention. Right? They start they peep up. They look up, and they nudge their friend or something like that. From a place where the none of these17:04 kids, most of these young guys, because almost every 1 of them had to change something before they walked in. And I told our team, hey, if we just tell them that inside these 4 walls, they have to look 1 way, but when17:16 they leave these 4 walls, they can wear their hat again, they can lower their pants again, they could be back on their phone, then we are not teaching transformation. We're teaching assimilation. And that's not what God17:26 does, and that's not who Jesus is. Jesus doesn't teach assimilation. He teaches transformation. The Pharisees were teaching assimilation. This is how you wash your hands. This is what you do. This is what you do. And17:37 I'll tell you, over 12 months, that whole youth ministry come young men who had never lifted their hands in praise and worship were lifting their hands. Young men who were watching YouTube weren't watching17:49 YouTube anymore. Young girls who were coming in. 1 girl walked up to me and she said, Pastor Adam, can you pray for me? I don't have any clothes to wear. I need money. I need to get a job to wear clothes. I said I18:01 said, how do you not have any clothes to wear? It doesn't make any sense. She said, as you guys have been preaching, God's been convicting me. All I have in my closet is revealing stuff. And so I'm wearing the same18:13 hoodie and sweats every day because I threw away all my revealing clothes. And so and so I said, well, we gonna get we gonna we gonna get some sister volunteers up in here, and we gonna18:25 start getting you some clothes. And so I pulled up some of our female volunteers, and I was like, hey, y'all gotta get her size. Y'all gotta start getting her some clothes. And they they built a whole new wardrobe from18:33 her for her. That's what transformation is. That's what transformation looks like. So we saw such a change in these young people's lives and they started engaging. Not everyone.18:45 Not everyone. Oh, but my goodness, it was palpable and it's still to this day palpable. Pastor Herron and Chelsea still lead with that level of content. And we brought small groups into Sundays and these student we18:56 started asking these students, hey, what do you think? What are you going through? We started seeing so much transformation, but it was funny. 12 months into this process, we saw transformation. My father-in-law, who I19:05 was dating his daughter at the time, so we were just boyfriend and girlfriend, my father-in-law was 1 of the elders in the church, and he was 1 of the elders in youth ministry. And so he took about a year and a half off19:15 of youth ministry to focus on his So he came back into youth ministry. And we forgot to tell him how we do things now. And so you19:27 you ever met an angry black man. That was him that day. I mean, he was my father-in-law was fuming. So he's in there, and immediately, because he wasn't at the front, immediately we get we say, Hey, we do small groups19:38 now. So he gets 15 students. Immediately he pulls out his hat, and he's like, Phone's in your hat right now. All you boys get up right now, pick up your pants. Right now take off all your19:50 hats. And they're like looking at him like shell shocked. And so they do it. And so at the end of the service, Tom, who I was dating his daughter at the time, which you know, I want things to go good. I'm dating your20:01 daughter, but I'm I'm a have to check 1 of our oldest volunteers in youth ministry. Much. Like, like, these students don't talk no more. They20:13 used to talk to me. And I'm like, in what way? What are you talking about? He's like, well, I sat down and this is what I told him and this and this and that. And then and then I took your questions you told me to ask20:24 these kids. I said, what do you he said, I couldn't get 1 kid to talk the entire service. They wouldn't even speak to me. So I just started teaching them. I said, oh, Tom, We changed things and I saw20:36 you. You made them put their phones away and you made and it was my bad. I totally forgot to tell you. We yeah, we don't do that anymore. And he's like, well, that's stupid. You know?20:49 And I'm like, hey, just just trust me. Just just just just just just don't say just let them sit down and just start loving a and he comes back at the end of the service. He goes, oh my21:02 their parents are going through a divorce. And this kid told me that he's going through depression. And this kid I've never had so much fulfillment in youth ministry in my life to hear the stories of the student. I mean,21:12 he was so into it. And then I looked at him and I said, that's what happens when we chase transformation. That's what happens when we don't get caught up in what's going on. Now is it21:24 important that at some point those things may happen in their life? Yeah. Those things may happen. We're gonna need them to take their hat off, or we want them to pick up their pet, but that happens through discipleship.21:35 And that comes out of a place of wisdom, not to make them think that they're going to hell because of it. It's just that, hey, have you ever thought about blank? About blank21:47 would you go to a job interview like that? Would you you know, and so you just start to just bring some wisdom. But you're not making them think that God is in heaven waking his fear. Like, I won't answer that prayer21:56 till you take your hat off. You know? Next portion of scripture that we see. We see that through those things, now they lead us to the next thing. And Jesus now, he explains to us22:08 what I just shared even further about what does it mean to actually be defiled. Is it eating with your hands? Is it wearing a hat to church? Is it these exterior things that maybe we're talking, and particularly22:20 for the Jews, it always was surrounded around diet. That was majority of their right and wrong. There wasn't enough finances for everyone to dress unique or anything like that. But the diet, the22:32 process of, that was something that they can control. So here's what it says in verse 14. And, and, and, and, and, and22:48 defile But the thing that comes out of a person are what defile And when he entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And23:00 he said to them, then you are also without understanding. Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? Since it enters not his heart, but his stomach23:12 and expelled. He said they go poop. That's what he just said. This was a fancy version of him saying, do you not realize when they eat they go poop. How can it defile them?23:25 And he says, thus, he declared all foods clean. And he said, what comes out of a person is what defiles him. From within, out of the heart of man, comes23:37 evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things23:49 come from within. Within. It starts inside, not what you bring outside inside. He said it starts inside and it defiles a person. It can24:01 defile a person. Jesus begins to talk about how these things that are corruptible isn't by whether you washed your hands or not, isn't by you24:13 sagging your pants, isn't by wearing a hat, isn't by wearing sandals in church, isn't by celebrating your birthday. Jesus says what defiles you is what begins in your heart, can elevate24:25 to thinking, and then leads to your action. And so he's encouraging the disciples to understand. And so for many of the Pharisees, what24:37 they didn't understand was, is they were extremely concerned about what this looked like. This is what they cared about. They cared about24:49 the exterior. They cared about what you did do and what you didn't do. And a lot of us, we start wrecking in our faith because we just start we start wanting to fix this picture.25:03 Presentable. I just want them more cleaner. And then and then when you mess up, you just you start going hard on yourself. But it's not the matter of mess up of defilement. It's the mess up of of the little things like,25:13 oh, I forgot to read my Bible today. It's okay. You have tomorrow to read your bible. It's gonna be okay. You like you start sometimes will come to me and be like, pastor Adam, I've been doing so good. I went 90 days25:24 without cussing and today I just I said it. I said a cuss word. And then I'll tell them, hey, before you gave your life to Christ, how many days did you go without cussing? And they say, I25:36 never went a day without cussing. And I say, so you're telling me you went 90 days and on day 91. So that means before you met Jesus, you went 025:48 days. So that means you went from a 0 to a 91. There's guys that come to me sometimes that, Pastor Adam, I'm doing so good. I went 9 months without looking at pornography. And today,26:00 I looked at it. I was weak. And now I just feel like I'm back to square 1. And I'll ask them, before you came to Christ, how many days did you go without looking at with looking at pornography? Oh, I looked at porn every26:10 single day. You're telling me you went 9 months, 9 months exercising discipline and trusting in God. That is something you never did before you met Jesus. That is26:21 a win. Let's let's let Hey. You're not starting over today. You're not on day 1 again. We're on day 91 of chasing Jesus again. Let let's let's begin. You're not starting26:33 over because you went 90 days. You went 9 months with with receiving God's grace. So let's pick this back up again. Let's fight this fight again. You ain't gonna be perfect, but the Pharisees,26:46 didn't matter what happened in here. They were just like, I'll just wash my hands before I eat dinner.27:08 Then it doesn't matter. So this is all they cared about. But the reality is we know, like a hard boiled egg, we take this and it doesn't matter what hap how you're making the color27:20 because because the inside is still the inside. Don't matter what color you color your shell. If you don't focus on this yoke right here, what's on the inside, you27:32 you can you can have an Easter kit all day long on the outside and you could put crosses and bibles and smiley faces out. But when when you get cracked, what really comes out of you27:44 is what really is in you. And that's what Jesus says. He says, Pharisees, if I crack you open right now, your heart is ugly. And he says, and you're hypocrites27:56 like the scripture says. And so he says, I'm teaching my disciples, we work on the inside. Because if we work on the inside and we could begin to see God transform our hearts, then guess what?28:08 Our thinking will become transformed, and then we will actually be able to see God's fruit in our life rather than faking the funk. How many of you guys know there's a differenceThe Power of Faith and Intercession 28:20 between a hat and a mat? You guys know there's a difference. Right? A hat you wear, a mat you what? And a lot of times,28:32 we are putting our own selfish desires as our hat. It's what our we wear, and we're actually putting God as our mat. We think God is actually something just it's a step up.28:44 Something to step on. Oh, I just go to church. I just try to get my life right. I just And so it's just it's a mat. What do you do at mats? You clean your feet. But God isn't a mat. The bible says that Satan28:56 is meant to be stomped on. And so the enemy is the mat. God is the hat. The hat is what covers you. The hat is what controls you. Jesus says, it goes from your heart,29:07 what? To your mind, your thinking, and then it leads to who you really are. That's what exhibited. And a lot of times, we take our desires. This is what the Pharisees were being led by. Their29:19 hat. They're crossing their arms. God was something that got them ahead. He was their mat. But their mind was making sure everyone else was policed. Where Jesus is the opposite.29:31 He says the enemy, your own thoughts are the mat. He says you captivate every thought. So that means you got to control it. So he says, God isn't the mat that you step on, that you clean on. Your selfish29:43 desires are. Your thinking is. The enemy is. God is what you cover yourself with. So a lot of times, I have to ask We have to ask ourselves, who's the mat and the hat in this?29:55 Is God my hat in this or is God my mat in this? Because for the Pharisees, God was their mat, their own judgment, their traditions, how they30:07 grew up, was their thinking. That was their hat. And Jesus says, I ain't concerned with any of that stuff. He says, those traditions, those are my and it's30:19 good wisdom and it's, hey, it's good to clean your feet when you walk in somewhere. But at the end of the day, that stays outside. The mat don't come inside with us. God comes inside with us. And so Jesus wants us to30:30 focus on not not building a if someone bring if God brings you into a discipleship process with someone, then, yeah, start working on them. Start start encouraging them in certain ways. Hey, I see the way you30:42 talk. I see the way you dress up. But that is after they've had a radical transformation that God is not concerned with the outside. He is more concerned with what's on the inside. If you can transform your heart and30:54 allow God to redeem your heart, then the outside will take fruit. It will take shape. So he shares that. And then he continues to say, we'll read these really fast, because we've done some healing in some31:06 previous passages. It says this in verse 24. And from there he arose and went away from the region of Tyre and Sidon and he entered a house and did not want anyone to know. Yet he could not be31:17 hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. And now the woman was a Gentile, a Seraphoenician by birth,31:29 who Jesus was called to the Jews at this point. It's Paul and Peter that expand the gospel to the Gentiles, through the spirit of God. And he says, and she begged to cast the31:41 demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, let the children be fed first. He's speaking of the, the people of Israel. For it is not right to take the children's bed and throw it to the dogs.31:55 Under the table eat the children's. And he said to her for this statement, you may go your way. The demon has left your door. And she went home and found the child laying in bed.32:06 And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone. And the demon had gone.32:06 And the demon see what happens is, is we have a woman who's a gentile, who Jesus is not there to do ministry towards a gentile.32:19 He's there to do ministry to the Jewish people. Statement because he is a Jewish rabbi,32:30 Messiah first to the Jewish people. And it's only through his resurrection and the Holy Spirit that gives you and I the ability to have that same promise. And so Jesus says, not until my resurrection,32:42 theologically, not until my victory over sin. And your kind of people have access to this relationship. Food right now is for the people of32:54 Israel. Your time will come later. And so he says, the food on the table is for the people of Israel. And the woman responds, I know. That's okay. But every time I've seen it, there are always some33:06 crumbs that fall off the table and no 1 complains when the dogs eat it. So she calls herself a dog. And she says, Jesus, all I'm33:18 looking for is a crumb. My daughter's sick. She has an unclean spirit. I'm not asking you to do anything else other than a crumb of healing for my33:29 daughter. Thinking. That not only are you fighting for your daughter's life, not only are you fighting for just a crumb, but33:41 your perspective is that at some point or another, you're gonna have a piece of me. You're gonna wait for me. And so I'll tell you this, when it comes to right thinking with a relationship with Jesus, it is33:53 better to have a crumb of Jesus than to have Satan's cake. It's better just to have a crumb of Jesus34:06 over Satan's cake. But a lot of times we want the cake. If God gonna do something, he need to do it all. If he's gonna fix my problems, he needs34:18 to fix them all. If I'm gonna do this church thing, then he need he got 12 months to do it all. And if he doesn't,34:43 intercessory. The daughter is not there on her own behalf. The mother is there on her child's behalf to intercede for her child's healing.34:55 Don't ever discount the fact that though your child may not be at a place where they can fight for their life or their faith themselves, that you as their mom or dad cannot go into prayer and35:07 the throne room of grace and intercede for your son and daughter and not see that God can't heal them. Some people say, Pastor Adam, my son or daughter just needs to figure it out. They need this, they need that.35:18 Sometimes I'll ask, how much time have you committed praying for them? They'll say, that's what I'm doing right now. I'm asking you for prayer. No. Not me. Now how much time am I committing to prayer? How much time is35:29 you? Mom, you're the 1 who knows your son. You're the 1 who knows your daughter. You're the 1 who How much time have you gone into prayer and sweated and cried and bled for a35:41 crumb? Not the cake. Leave the cake outside. Leave your bills outside. Leave the other things outside. Right now, your crumb is you're fighting for your child's life. You're fighting That could be your marriage. It's35:52 Whatever it is. Find the crumb. Stop going for the cake. Get the crumb. Jesus, this is my crumb, and I'm gonna commit this thing to you until I see you got thisShow more In this video 0:00 Understanding the Book of Mark2:53 Tradition vs. God's Law28:14 The Power of Faith and Intercession35:54 Healing and Transformation
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