Sermon #S023 - I'M
Out Of Options - Part 1)
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Pastor Snell: As you remain
standing, we're going to go to a
very familiar text today in Mark
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5. Mark 5, and we'll begin
together here in verse 21. Mark
5, and I'll begin reading and
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you're hearing verse number 21.
Mark 5:21, when you get there,
let me just hear you say,
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"Pastor, I'm ready." Mark 5.
That is the second book there in
the New Testament. Mark 5, and
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we're beginning together at
verse number 21. The Bible says,
"Now when Jesus had crossed over
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again by boat to the other side,
a great multitude gathered to
him and he was by the sea and,
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behold, one of the rulers of the
synagogue came, Jairus by name,
and when he saw him, he fell at
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his feet and begged him
earnestly saying, 'My daughter
lies at the point of...'" What?
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"'Death. Come and lay your hands
on her, that she may be healed,
and she will live.' So Jesus
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went to him and a great
multitude followed him and..."
what? Thronged him. There were a
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lot of folks trying to get next
to Jesus at this hour. Then the
Bible says, Now, a certain woman
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who had a flow of blood for
what? Twelve years and had
suffered many things from many
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physicians. She spent, what? All
that she had. And was no better,
but she rather grew what? "And
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when she heard about Jesus, she
came behind Him in the crowd and
touched His garment. For she
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said, 'If I may touch his
clothes, I shall be made well,'
and immediately, the fountain of
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her blood was dried up and she
felt in her body that she was
healed of that affliction, and
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Jesus, immediately knowing it
himself that power had gone out
of him, turned around in the
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crowd and said, 'Who touched my
clothes?' But his disciples said
unto him, you see the multitude
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thronging you and you say, who
touched me? And he looked around
to see her who had done this
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thing but the woman fearing and
trembling knowing what had
happened to her, came and fell
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down before him," and told the
what? The whole truth and said
unto her, "Daughter, your faith
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has made you well, go in peace
and be healed of your
affliction." But again, I'm
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going to emphasize verse 25. The
Bible says, "Now a certain woman
who had a flow of blood for
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twelve years and had suffered
many things from many
physicians, she spent all that
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she had and was not better, but
rather she grew worse." Today,
saints, I want to talk to you
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for a little while under the
subject, "I'm out of options."
I'm out of options. Let's pray
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together. Holy Spirit, in this
moment of stillness, would you
settle some things? Would you
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allow somebody's distractions to
be nullified? Would you cause
the worries of life to wash away
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that we might be able to hear
from you? So, Lord, grant us a
spiritual focus. Would you
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capture our attention? And Lord,
would you fill this place with
your spirit in such a way that
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it smothers all rivaling
principalities? So, Lord, in the
hearing of the word, may faith
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be multiplied exponentially,
hide me in the shadows of the
cross that Jesus alone might be
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seen, that Christ alone would be
heard, and at the end of our
time together made Jesus alone
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be praised. Let Christ be
lifted, and I pray that the
kingdom of darkness would be
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diminished we pray in the
wonderful name of Jesus. Let
them that believe say together
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Amen. [Congregation: Amen] And
Amen. You may be seated in the
house of the Lord today. Again,
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talking briefly under the
subject - I'm out of options.
I'm going to allow those to slip
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on in and be seated. Author Kyle
Idleman wrote a book entitled
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The End Of Me and the
fundamental assertion is that
human nature is so hardened that
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we will never find Jesus until
we come to the end of our own
human capacity. It is a scathing
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indictment on human
self-sufficiency and because of
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self-sufficiency, most of us
will only find Jesus under some
type of duress, our bend toward
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and the under-guiding idea is
that as long as a person can
think it through, figure it out,
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reason their way through, afford
it, borrow it, hold it together,
they will not choose God. The
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idea is that if a person has
grown up without an orientation
to faith, he will not choose God
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until he runs out of options.
And the truth is that even as
people of faith, think about it,
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some of us will not really get
serious about praying until
there is nothing else that we
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can do. And fundamentally, we
will not choose God from one of
many different options. Most of
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us will not choose God until he
is the only option. And, friends
of mine, when options dry up, I
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need you to know that it is not
a bad thing. Sometimes running
out of options just makes things
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a little bit more clear. In
fact, the reason it takes some
of us so long to get dressed in
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the morning is we've got too
many options in our closets. But
the truth is that if you only
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got two suits - a blue one and a
black one, choosing the right
thing is the easy thing to do
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because you wore the blue suit
last week and so you only got
one option left. Are y'all
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hearing what the preacher is
saying today? And, in fact, the
reason that your kids stand
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there with the refrigerator open
staring at it, that the reason
it takes so long to choose what
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they're going to eat is because
there are too many options. But
when you're down to that last
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frostbitten Eggo waffle and
you're single MorningStar link
it pretty much makes the choice
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for you. Are you hearing what
I'm saying? In other words,
there are some young people that
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don't know what person to choose
because they've got too many
options, and see sometimes God
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has to remove some of those
shiny options so that you'll
consider some character options.
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And see, I need somebody to know
that the loss of options
commences the Genesis of
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conversion because the truth is,
we didn't have a lot of options,
we had a lot of illusions. In
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other words, all you had was
distractions that actually
confuse you about where your
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help actually comes from. And I
can say this, friends, only with
the clarity of hindsight that I
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actually thank God for the times
when life crumbled because it
was the duress of life that gave
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me clarity about where my help
actually comes from. Do I have a
witness today? That you will
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never know that Jesus can solve
a problem if you've never had a
problem. [Congregation: Amen]
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Sometimes it's the flakiness of
people that leads you to the
faithfulness of God. I would not
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have known that God can heal if
I'd never been sick, I would
have never known that God can
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provide if I've never had any
lack. It was in times of
darkness that I learned that he
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is the Rose of Sharon, the
bright, and morning star. It is
only when friends walked away
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that I came to know that he's
the friend that sticks closer
than a brother. And sometimes I
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will never choose the best
option until I realize he's the
only option. And, see, friends
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of mine, I need you to know that
maturity takes place when you
choose Jesus even when you got
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other options, but you're still
immature if you only choose God
when there's down to your last
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option. Let me say it this way.
See, I remember probably about
14 years ago, I discovered,
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Malcolm, the power of oatmeal.
Do I get to witness out here
that oatmeal will give you your
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help in the morning? Are y'all
hearing me today? But, see, I
need you to know that the only
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way I discovered the power of
oatmeal was one of those weeks
when my wife hadn't gotten a
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chance to go grocery shopping.
And so there was no sweet
cereal, there were no pastries,
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there were no doughnuts, there
were no sausage links, and the
only thing left was a box of
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oatmeal and this is crazy. So, I
get there, I remember my mom
putting a little cinnamon in it
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and I remember how she mixed the
milk in just right, and when I
put together the oatmeal and ate
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it, I realized, "This tastes
better than what I thought it
was," and after I ate the
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oatmeal I realized around 10:30,
I was still full. I had a little
more energy for the day and you
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didn't want to know this but I
found myself being more regular,
can I get a witness out here
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today? [Congregation: Applause]
And it's crazy, friends, that
that week I got hooked on the
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power of oatmeal. So that even
though I chose it because it was
the only option, even when my
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wife went shopping again, I look
past the cereal, I would bypass
the muffins, I would look past
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the MorningStar because I
realized that the only option
was actually my best option and
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is there anybody that can give
God a Quaker praise today? In
other words, God is like
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oatmeal. If you're tasting,
you'll see that the Lord is
good. If you're stuck with him
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in the morning, you won't be
hungry at 11:00. And if you get
some Jesus in your soul, you'll
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get regular. Are y'all hearing
the word today? We're so
consistent because we're on
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honeycombs in and crunch and
munch. But when you get some
Jesus in your soul and the thing
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I love about Jesus is he doesn't
get mad that you wait until he's
the last option. He's just glad
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that you decided to choose him
somewhere down the line. Are
y'all here in the world today?
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[Congregation: Applause] Pastor
Snell: And so, friends of mine,
as we go back here to Mark 5, I
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want us to look one last time
that here at verse number 26,
the Bible says, "And this woman
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had suffered many things from
many physicians, and she had
spent all that she had and was
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not better, but rather she grew
worse." And so, friends, I just
kind of take a few moments to
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unpack this today. I want to
just continue this idea that we
espouse because, see, one of the
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things I want somebody to know
is that God wants to save
somebody today. [Congregation:
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Amen] Pastor Snell: But in order
for God to save, our hearts must
ripen to a particular place that
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makes it conducive for salvation
to take place and, see, one of
the things that God is doing for
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somebody today, he's trying to
get you to a place where certain
things cannot be hidden anymore.
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I knew you were going to get
quiet on me but let me kind of
unpack it a little bit. The
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Bible says here that you have
this woman who has this issue or
flow of blood. In fact, scholars
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agree that this woman has a
severe and fatal case of what is
known as menorrhagia which is
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essentially continual womanly
bleeding. In other words, what
was supposed to happen once a
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month for this woman is now
happening all the time, and,
see, people with this condition
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would go to great lengths to
cover up the issue because the
thing about blood is, especially
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back then, that when it gathers
in large portions, it leaves a
stain, and when it gathers in
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large portion, it gives off a
smell. And so, if you walk by,
and you didn't see her issue, if
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you got close enough you might
smell the issue. And so what
these people do is they would
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wrap themselves in extra
garments and they would spray on
extra amounts of perfume but
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they didn't realize that often
the more they tried to cover the
issue, the more they actually
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disclose the issue. And so, I
need you to understand this
about the disease that it was a
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progressive disorder so that the
more the bleeding would occur,
the more expensive it would
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become for this woman to try and
cover it up. In fact, she
doesn't just pay money for
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treatment, she invests a whole
lot of money in making sure that
other folks don't find out. And
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so she gets to a place, friends,
where she's got to stop coming
to church to keep people from
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noticing the issue. She's got to
avoid some of her friends so
that they don't notice the
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issue. She stopped showing up at
girls' night because she doesn't
want them to notice the issue.
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And as the issue gets worse and
worse, it becomes harder and
harder to cover it, and she's at
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a place where the concern is not
just being healed, she's got a
great fear of being outed. So
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that if you saw this sister, you
would look at her and say she's
standoffish. If you saw her in
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real-time, you would say she got
a stank attitude. If you saw
her, you would say, man, her
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personality is recluse. You
would look at this woman and
say, man, she's just a strong
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sister that don't take no mess
off of anybody, but that's not
really the truth. The reason she
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responds in this way is that for
her, it feels safer to remain at
a distance than to let people
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know the issue that she wrestles
with. And see, friends, I need
somebody to hear me today
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because as long as she could
cover the issue, she would never
have come to Jesus. But now
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she's at a place where she can't
afford to hide it no more. She's
run out of not just medical
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money, she's run out of perfume
money, she's run out of
additional garments. In fact, if
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she could keep it composed, if
she could hold it together, she
would have never ever come to
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Jesus. But now it's at a place
where it's so bad that she can't
manage the symptoms, she can't
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keep it a secret, and now, this
is what drives her back into the
community. Are y'all with me
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today, friends? And see the
funny thing I need you to know
is that sometimes people leave
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the church or they withdraw from
fellowship and sometimes they
blame it on the community. But
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sometimes, people leave the
community simply because they're
trying to hide some issues. In
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other words, we can kind of say
it is because of the people and
the hypocrites in the church.
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But I've literally seen that
folks have left the church
because they're trying to cover
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a pregnancy that happened before
the nuptials took place. I've
seen couples leave the church
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because they're trying to hide
the fact that the marriage is
beginning to fall apart and,
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see, what happens is when we
have issues, we become so
ashamed of the struggle that
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sometimes we hide and kind of
get away from the community. But
understand that, for the lady,
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the situation is so desperate
that she can't be a prisoner of
perception. In other words, it's
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so bad that she can't afford to
care what somebody thinks. This
thing is so great that she can't
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be a slave to anybody's opinion.
She's at a place where she's so
desperate for him that she can't
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worry about them. Are y'all with
me today, friends? And, see, let
me just say this, beloved, that
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sometimes we wrongly allow shame
about our issues to drive us
away from the church. We allow
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shame about the issues to drive
us away from Jesus. But how many
of us understand that when you
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look at the scene today, that
everybody in the crowd has
issues? Pastor Snell: Like real
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talk. Anybody ever had children
issues? Anybody ever had
marriage issues? Anybody ever
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had moral issues? Anybody ever
had financial issues? I need you
to know, we didn't come just
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because we love God. Our issues
drove us here. And, see, friends
of mine, I want to encourage
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somebody that's why you never
get intimidated by looking at
people from the outside, it's
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cause you can't tell by looking
at how we look today. Because
the truth is we don't look like
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what we've been through and,
see, never get confused by how
the preacher looks today because
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all you're seeing today is my
after picture. In other words,
don't say, "Oh, he got it all
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together." No, you're just
seeing the after picture. But is
there anybody that's in Christ
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that's got an after picture? But
you can shout, don't be fooled,
because if you had known me
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then, you would see what great
things the Lord can do. Are
y'all hearing me today, friends?
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[Congregation: Amen] Okay. This
is crazy. Literally, this week,
because my kids have kind of
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outgrown their little kid
furniture, we have gone through
the process of trying to update
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all the furniture in their
bedrooms. And so what happened,
friends is what happened is my
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daughter's little dresser, we
decided we're about to get rid
of it, we're going to get ready
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to throw it out because the
knobs have come off, there were
scratches all over it but then I
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have a sister, Meghan King, who
said, "Listen, Pastor and
Gianna, don't throw it away.
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Bring it to my house and let me
refinish it," and she took it
through a process of refinishing
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it and by the time she got done
with it, it looked as if it was
brand new. No, I need you to see
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that if you just saw it after it
was done, you would think that
it came that way. But it didn't
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come that way, it was only
looking like that after she had
finished her work with it. And
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what I'm saying to somebody is
don't get fooled by somebody in
church. They didn't come that
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way. We had knobs missing, we
had debts, we had scratches, we
have brokenness but we got in
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the hands of the master
refinisher and he didn't just
touch us up, he didn't just put
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some paint on but he made us
whole in Jesus. Are y'all
hearing the word today, friends?
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[Congregation: Applause] So the
first thing God has to do is
he's got to get us to a place
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where we can't cover that thing
no more. The second thing God
has to do, friends of mine, is
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he's got to get us to a place,
friends of mine, where you get
disappointed in the options you
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chose. Now, friends, it's
natural for this woman to go to
the doctors of her time, right?
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But the Bible says, friends of
mine, that she goes to many
different physicians. But the
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Bible says that things didn't
get better but things actually
got worse, that she suffered
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many things of many physicians.
Now, I need you to get that in
Greek, there is a better
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translation of it, whereas in
the King James, it says, she's
suffered many things of many
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physicians, but it actually is
translated, she suffered many
things of many different types
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of physicians. In other words, I
need you to get, friends, that
this lady is not one that just
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goes through conventional
medicine. She is a woman that
tries a whole bunch of stuff. In
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other words, he tries a
traditional doctor. And when
that doesn't work, she tries an
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herbalist. And when that doesn't
work, she tries a root doctor.
And when that doesn't work, she
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tries a witch doctor. And when
that doesn't work, she tries a
naturopathic doctor. And when
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that doesn't work, she literally
gets to a place where she is
physically exhausted. She is
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emotionally exhausted because
everything has held out the
promise that for a fee, I will
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make you whole. And the Bible
says she spent one-half of her
earnings on trying to hide it
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and she spent the rest of it
trying to be healed, and no
matter how many different things
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she tried, there was nothing
that could bring relief. She'll
get her hopes up, friends of
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mine, only to be disappointed
time and time ever again. So
this woman tried every doctor.
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She tried every pill. She tried
every ointment. She tried every
branch of medicine and not only
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is she financially exhausted,
she is emotionally exhausted
from getting her hopes up only
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to have them disappointed time
and time again. But I need you
to understand something about
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desperation. See what makes
desperation dangerous is it will
create an open-mindedness to
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things that can bring you no
relief. In other words, being
open-minded is not a bad thing
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but be careful about getting so
desperate that you begin to open
yourself up to options that can
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bring you no help. Are y'all
hearing me today, friends? And
see, like the woman in the
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story, we've gotten exhausted
because we've opened ourselves
up, not just to one particular
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thing, we've opened ourselves up
to all types of things. And see,
the reason some of us have
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broken or have so much
brokenness is because we've got
some sisters that have opened
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themselves up to all types of
men. There are some that have
opened themselves to all types
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of women. Some are trying all
types of surgeries, some are
trying all types of weeds, some
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are trying all types of alcohol,
some are trying all types of
therapy, some are trying all
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types of churches, some are
trying all types of marriages,
and what is happening is we're
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trying a type of this and a type
of that and life is a sample of
a whole gamut of things because
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we are trying to fill a
spiritual void with Earthly
things, and we get disappointed
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time and time again, and we will
never know peace until we
realize that we can only be made
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whole in the son of God.
[Congregation: Amen] Thank you
so much for joining us for the
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Breath of Life Television
Ministries broadcast with Pastor
Debleaire Snell! We hope and
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pray that you have been blessed
through today's message and that
you choose God as your number
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one option. Join us next week
for Part Two of “I'm Out of
Options” You don't want to miss
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it! In these current times,
especially around this time of
the year, we find ourselves in
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places where it's difficult to
be thankful. No matter how hard
you try or how hard you work,
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there's never enough money,
never enough grace, or maybe the
answers have stopped coming all
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together. In 1st. Thessalonians
5:18. The Bible says in
everything, give thanks for this
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is the will of God concerning
you. When you choose gratitude
you're able to detect God's
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goodness in every circumstance.
When you choose gratitude,
you're able to regain a lost
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perspective. When you choose
gratitude. It is an expression
of confidence in God. It's an
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act of faith. And when you
choose gratitude, it revives
your personal hope. I want to
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invite you to come and be a part
of the 2022 Gratitude Project.
It's going to be in 11 days.
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Celebration of the Goodness of
God. I want to invite you to
join me each morning at 6:30
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a.m. Central Standard Time at
our Breath of Life YouTube page.
Each morning there's going to be
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an online devotional series
where I'm going to give messages
on gratitude. You're going to
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hear testimonies that are going
to uplift you. And we're going
to call on the name of the Lord.
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And what we're going to do is
we're going to engage in a chain
reaction of gratitude, where
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we're going to be uplifted. And
what's going to happen is that's
going to culminate on
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Thanksgiving morning, November
the 24th, where you can join us
for our Thanksgiving special.
00:28:02.88\00:28:06.68
It's going to air at 10:30 a.m.
Central Standard Time on the
Breath of Life YouTube page or
00:28:06.72\00:28:30.01
on our app or through Apple TV
is going to be a rich blessing.
We're going to be treated with
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