 We want to talk about, again, I spent some time, I was invited to the wedding, but I decided to, my wife took me out to eat somewhere, and then afterwards spent some time to kind of pray and really feel, I didn't feel the message, I felt the heart of Jesus for this evening. And I felt that this heart imparted for some people that are in this room and the people that will be watching. It's not easy to preach three services, I preached twice on Sunday, three times is a little bit challenging. And so it takes me an hour to spend time in prayer just to kind of forget about the services that existed so that evening service can be almost like it's a first service, not another third service. We come in worn out and tired, even if you're worn out and tired. I know Jesus is not worn out and tired, and I don't want to be worn out and tired. Amen. I want this to be a fresh reminder today that will touch your heart. And I pray the Holy Spirit will help us to receive that. I'm going to finish this weekend on freedom. And if you are taking notes, note takers, or history makers, there's a passage in the Bible somewhere that says that if you take notes higher chances of going to heaven. I just came up with that. But a short pencil is better than a long memory. And so I want you to title this short, and anytime a preacher says short he's lying. So I just lied, Jesus forgive me, a long talk that will be called remove grave clothes. Remove grave clothes. Somebody say amen. Come on, somebody say amen. Remove grave clothes. If you have your Bible, let's go to John chapter 11 verse 44. And it says the following. When he who had died came out. Somebody say came out. Okay, now everybody say came out. Touch your neighbor's head. It's time for you to come out. Not leave, but just like come out. Came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes. And his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go. Loose him and let him go. This was his friend. It was Lazarus. He died. He was sick and then he died. And when he died, they didn't just put him in a grave. They bound him with grave clothes. They bound him in his face. They bound him in his feet. And they bound him in his hands. And they put him in a grave. They put him in a tomb. And Jesus got the news that your friend is sick. You have to come and heal him. Jesus waited for a few more days and his friend got dead. He went from being sick to being dead. And he comes. They removed the stone. He spoke out loud. He said Lazarus, come out. And Lazarus came out, bound. It took him some time to get out of the grave because he was bound. He couldn't walk properly. And when he came out, Jesus looked to the crowd and he says, Now you guys go and loose him. And that was his friend. Before Jesus spoke that into the tomb, he wept and groaned for his friend who was dead. Sin does three things. First thing, it makes us spiritually sick. Secondly, sin makes us spiritually dead. And thirdly, sin binds us. Number one, sin makes us sick. When you get diseased with sin, you begin to, you know, sick people that develop fevers. Sick people, they can't move. There's rashes. It hurts. It pains. And that's the first task of sin. When it comes in, it's not unto death. It just causes you to get sick. You start skipping church. You start skipping your Bible reading. You start skipping prayer. It makes you sick. But sin doesn't stop there. If that sickness is not treated, if that sickness is not cured, it leads to spiritual death. Death is separation. Death is not that you stop coming to church sometimes. In fact, you just spiritually die. And then when the sin sees that you're spiritually dead, it says, while you're dead, let's bind you because it's easy to bind a dead person. There's no resistance, correct? Dead people don't create resistance. It's only the living that create resistance. And so the devil wants to bind the dead people because, well, it's easy to do that. And the second reason he likes to bind the dead people is in case any time if Jesus happens to come by their zip code and raises them from the dead so they can stay still stuck even if they're alive. Sin binds. Sin kills. And sin makes us sick. And I will borrow you since you were so kind to me. Remind me of your name again? Mark. Mark, please come. I feel actually really bad for you already. But I'm going to illustrate that not because you guys are kindergarten, but it just makes it a little bit easier to remember one and it sends a deeper message than what you hear. And so what sin does, and for those of you watching me on live stream, just hold on for a second. Seeing it and experiencing that is way different. And trust me, it hurts. What sin does is this, is that when it sees that you're spiritual, sometimes it waits for you to die, other times what it does is it comes creeping on your life and sin binds. See, sin is not an act. It's a tape. It sticks to you. It doesn't let you go. And it has its own agenda. And the Bible says that Lazarus came out bound. He was alive, but he was bound. And the first place that he was bound in the Bible says was in his feet. Put your feet together. Was in his feet. One of the reasons why sin binds you at your feet is so that the sin binds you in your feet for this reason. So you don't walk after God. You don't have a lifestyle, but that you have leaps with God. I'm going to demonstrate it to you. Walk. Walk. Begin the jump. That's after the conference. I want you to notice something with him right now. I walk. He leaps. Anytime you're bound, anytime you're bound, you don't have a lifestyle of walking with God. You only live by leaps called conferences and camps. The Bible says that he who is bound to sin is a slave to sin and he doesn't dwell in the house forever, meaning there is no consistency. People many times who don't have a lifestyle with God, they live off of services instead of their devotional life, because something is not free there. And the purpose of sin is to make you live. At first, there's nothing seems like wrong with you. Well, I look forward to revival on the service. I look forward to a guest speaker to come. I look forward to a conference there and conference there. And conferences are good, but you have to understand is the devil wants you to live off of conferences because as long as you depend on somebody's walk with God, it means your own walk is limited. And it's not limited because God wants it limited. The limited is because the enemy wants it to be limited. He bound your feet. You're alive but bound. Talk to me. Are you with me? All right. And so, Mark, come back. Now he can manage, you see? And that's how a lot of people do. They manage with their bondage. They manage not living a lifestyle. They manage having certain restrictions in their spiritual walk. They still manage. Scripture says not only he had his feet bound, it says that he had his hands bound. If you noticed hands, what do hands speak of? We do a few things with hands. We lift them in worship and we lift them in prayer. Are you with me? What the enemy loves to do is not only to bind our walk, but also to bind our talk, to bind our relationship with the Lord. Many of you, you have a hard time lifting your hands at church. You have no problem giving a middle finger to somebody on the highway. No problem hitting somebody. No problem taking a piece of gum from a grocery store and taking it out. But when it comes to reaching your hand into your pocket during giving, your hand becomes withered like the guy in the Bible with the withered hand. It just doesn't move because it's bound. People say, well, I just go to a church where lifting hands during worship is prohibited. Well, I wish you wouldn't lift them anywhere else. You watch a football game and your hands go up. Didn't your church teach you not to lift them during football game? Didn't your church teach you not to watch the football game? Hypocrisy at its finest. The enemy wants to bind their hands so that we don't lift them like holy hands the Bible says in praise and in worship to God. But it doesn't stop. The scripture says that Lazarus was bound with his feet. Lazarus was bound with his hands. He was alive. The blood was flowing. They were capable. The only thing is they were restricted. And the most painful part is He was bound with cloth in his face. Let's come closer. Like Jesus says, so you're hearing, don't hear. So you come to church, preach your preach for 40 minutes. You know, it was good. They ask you, what was it about? I don't know. Yet when they ask you, what's the NFL's score of your favorite team? From the back of your head. You know, every single player, you know what they do. You know, the name of their cat. And if we ask you, you know, what's the first four or five books the Moses wrote? Who? Moses, which Moses? A lot of times this is the problem is that there's a problem with hearing. And many people have this problem in the church. A lot of times they come to church and I believe it's a spiritual problem where you can't pay attention in church. But you can watch Stranger Things season 2 in one setting. But you can watch Netflix TV show in one setting all 10 episodes. In one setting, barely blinking. And 30 minute message. Why is church so boring? The enemy binds us. And church becomes dull. The very things that other people, the same person in the same service sits there weeping, taking notes and said, God just changed my life. And you sit in there and you're like, man, I'm bored out of my life. Enemy loves to bind our hearing. It doesn't stop with hearing. It gets your ears. You don't see the war because our eyes are violent. And Samson didn't control his eyes and the scripture says that still it seems they took him out. He wants to bind your ears. He wants to bind your eyes. When he succeeds with that, he binds your mouth. So you don't speak. So you don't preach. So you don't praise. So you don't pray. So you don't worship. So you don't prophesy. You don't become a vessel that speaks to other people. And I will steer him from a dear death experience by not binding his nose. Write this down. When I am bound, I live by leaps of faith instead of lifestyle of faith. Write this down is that when I am bound, I live by conferences and services instead of my own walk with the Lord. I believe the church service is now supposed to be a place where you get fed. It's a place where you serve. The only people who come to their parents and said, I'm not being fed are toddlers. If you are grown up and you live with your parents, you come to your mama and your daddy and say, I'm hungry. There's nothing to eat. What is your mama going to say? There is a fridge. You go get it yourself. If you don't want it, well, be hungry. Anytime people come to our church or your church and they say, I left the church. Why I'm not being fed? That means that you don't have a relationship with God where you are fed every day. And you come to church. You don't have a place to serve. You're not serving at church. You are in church receiving only and sooner or later you become a couch potato. And when you become a couch potato, you no longer see the need of people. You see the problems and you see the mistakes and you see this and you see that. And God doesn't want us to live like that. This man, he had these ropes. I want to tell you the four main things that the enemy uses our generation to bind, especially the generation that is represented in front of me, in front of the live stream and in this room. The first one is rejection. Bless you. Rejection, offense, bitterness, or betrayal. It's when you get hurt by the people that you love the most. Rejection is when you, the trust that you place in somebody and they break it. Rejection is when your father, who was supposed to be there in your house to affirm you, but you grew up without him. Rejection is when you find out that when mama got pregnant with you, she never wanted you. You were a burden. And you carry that sense of why I don't belong anywhere. Rejection is when the person that you fell in love with, they dump you and your heart is broken. Rejection is many times when you get fired or you get kicked out. Rejection comes in different shapes and different forms. But rejection goes deep and it creates a root and it becomes a chain that Satan uses and that produces many times within us, bitterness. It produces within us. We rebel but in reality, we're hurting. We're just trying to punish parents. We're just trying to make a statement. We're just trying to catch somebody's attention because inside we're bleeding. There's many young people today who not only through abuse but through rejection, they see their life being bound and their life being destroyed because of rejection. And I want to tell you that in this room if you feel that there is some rejection that's been unresolved or some betrayal or some maybe bitterness that's already fostering in your heart the advantage of that because he wants to hold you back that even if you are breathing that you're not moving. Because people who have been rejected and live by that rejection, this is what happens, is their life continues but they are stuck in the event where they've been hurt. The clock is moving except them. They live, they are imprisoned in that very event which they have been hurt by. Sometimes you get rejected in ministry. You start serving in the people that you serve. They can throw a lawsuit at you. They can blackmail you. They can call you with things. If this sounds strange to you you haven't been ministering to the new people yet. If you want to be a bridge to a dying world you have to know one thing. You will be walked upon. People will walk upon you. Ask Jesus, the very people he came to reach they crucified him and he still loved people. You will get wounded. Jesus has scars and he is perfect one. Everybody in this room is going to have to get scars and the only reason we don't have scars is not because we haven't been wounded. Most of us who just haven't been healed. Wounds that are neglected become wounds infected. Time doesn't heal, time helps but only Jesus heals. If time would have healed God wouldn't send his son, he would send the clock. Rejection that we experience from our parents. A lack of affection of the father's love. Sometimes special to those of you who grew up in the Slavic homes Ukrainian home or Russian home where the father is like a mini Hitler. And please forgive me, most of them are not here so I'm kind of fine right now. I'll just talk to you straight. Meaning this rough, rough man who says you know what, I brought you into this world you keep talking I'll take you out. I provide for you, I put a roof over your house and you know what, shut up. You know and we live in the world where we were created inside of us we crave for love, we crave for affection and some people experienced rejection because somebody actually heard them but some people experienced rejection because somebody didn't love them to the degree that they really needed to be loved. And remember when I have experienced them before I got married my dad is a genius in full sense of that word. He can quote you a poem that has 32 verses from his middle school in the Ukraine verse by verse 32 of them. He knows more of those poems that honestly fathoms me how his brain operates. He never went to college because he was Christian he was denied to do that. He can fix cars, he can fix ACs he has magic powers. If my AC in the house is broken or car is broken he steps into the room I am not exaggerating my wife is a witness and my relatives are a witness. He steps into the room everything starts working he leaves it stops working. I asked him one time he practices magic he was like dad you are not normal. My dad wished for me because he is such a genius he fixes things and he is very smart he was hoping that I will take after him that I will fix things that I will be in construction things that normal Ukrainian people do in America who don't have education and so he was expecting me to do that and so but for me I am just not like that I am just not wired like that I am more like my mom I am just very different and so because of that I felt that don't get me wrong I adore my dad my dad is like my biggest hero he is the godliest man I have known he is such a humble man but for a long time until the age of 24 I did not feel or hear from my dad he was happy with me in fact when at the age of 17 I told him that I am going to be in a full-time ministry him and my mom were crying not out of happiness but out of disappointment they did not want me to be in full-time ministry because they knew that financially I will not be able to provide for my family and I am a bad example for the siblings by going into full-time ministry for two months I prayed to God and I said God if you don't change my parents minds I can't go into full-time ministry I am not going to come to that decision and I am thinking my parents would be the first cheerleaders and there they are standing and saying son we didn't come to America so you can die broke what makes you want to go into ministry you don't even know what you are doing they don't pay them what you are going to do who is going to take care of your needs and seeing that I saw the seed of disappointment in the fact that I am trying to serve God and they were Christians my dad is a treasurer church our ministry started to grow at the age of 24 a lot of people in our city they know who I am because we used to be on television on social media etc and so my dad meets a lot of people now who recognizes last name and they ask him if he is my father so one time he went to Lowe's which is his favorite place he bought some tools and bought some material and the lady who was checking him out and giving him the receipt and everything she looked at his credit card and said you are Mr. Savchuk and he says well I am he says well what an honor I know your son and so she starts saying how great I am which is not uncommon so my dad comes back home and my dad says you guys are not going to believe what happened somebody looked at my last name and they recognized my last name and I know how the story goes so I am thinking my dad is going to finally realize that his son is not an idiot his son is someone to be proud of in the city they don't talk to him about like he is a drug dealer or something he sells hope, not dope he is a good man so I am opening my mouth expecting that there is going to be this part where dad will say you know what I am so glad people in our city they know our son for good things and my dad keeps bragging about how awesome his last name is and I am like a starving child 24, I am a youth pastor and I am starving to hear a word from my dad I am proud of you and that word never came I remember the family meeting was over everybody went to their tents into the rooms and I am there, I still see that picture right now in the living room lights are off I am sitting on the couch and I am crying and I said God what can I do to make my dad be happy with me I have people that are impressed and blessed from different parts of the world but my dad is not and so I said you know what I am going to try to help my dad with what he does its construction at the time he was building a house so he asked me could you come after your church work and come and help me to cut some tile in the bathroom and I am just going to be honest with you that is not my gifting he took some expensive tile that he bought close on discount, specific rare limited amount he told me to go cut little corners I broke every piece of tile that he gave me my dad was so disappointed he kicked me out of his house and he says get out of here before you destroy everything else and there I am thinking you know what I am good for nothing my own dad and I am beginning to build resentment toward my dad I am feeling rejected even though he is not doing anything back I feel like he is not I am not good enough for him I get married and I still carry that until one time me and my wife she loves sushi she takes me to sushi and I am not a big fan of sushi I like Olive Garden because appetizers are big one of the reasons I don't like sushi is because you go to a sushi restaurant and they bring you these appetizers where like it is a big plate and you see the plate coming your stomach gets excited and they are like oh my god we are going to have a good appetizer we will take the meal to go so we can eat it at home tomorrow save some money and the plate arrives it is a big plate and it has six leaves that they picked up in the backyard and sprayed with some Chinese black sour cream or some kind of a thing you looked at that thing and I remember it was this vivid memory I am looking and I am mad I hate anything that has Japanese Chinese or anything that is Asian because they rip people off six bucks for six leaves next time I am bringing my old leaves and my wife said something that was very very deep she says well the appetizer wasn't supposed to replace the main meal she said it was supposed to wet your appetite for the main meal it wasn't supposed to be the main meal the gardener has a bigger appetizer so she places a very small one but the point is to get you ready for the main meal when she said that I am like this sounds deep I know there has to be a revelation behind this the next morning I am praying this revelation wrecked my life and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and he said Vlad your father is your appetizer I am your main meal he was never meant to love you so much that you don't need me he was only meant to wet your appetite so that you are ready for the main meal he said you are angry at your dad for not give you olive garden salad because he gave you six or seven leaves he was only meant to prepare you for my love he said you are expecting too much out of him and too little out of me man I had an encounter the day I wept like I've never wept before I cried before my heavenly father and I repented and I said God I am so sorry because I squeezed out of my dad everything honestly the reason why my dad loved me like that is the way my dad was loved by his father it's not my dad's fault and God freed me at that day from the chain of that rejection that I feel and I lost my dad I let my dad go in my heart and realizing that what he gave me was the best he had but he prepared me for the main meal which is the love of the Abba Father are you with me I feel like this is setting somebody free in this room right now and after that I made a decision I will never again expect my dad to give me something he doesn't have and instead of expecting him to love me I started to make sure I honor him in a way that he is the best father so I stopped focusing on when he is going to honor me bless me and appreciate me say something nice I am just watching make sure I always honor my dad coming alongside so that I know I can't fix style well I am pretty much going to do half of the things that you need me to do but hey can I clean your car can I tell you how many times I took my dad's car when he was working on the house and I cleaned that car I licked that car he couldn't wreck it what car is this he wasn't clean for like 4 or 5 years because it was a construction car so I couldn't help him with what he would need help with so I started to do that not so he can say thank you son well you are finally worth for something I said you know what dad you gave me 6 leaves I ate them thank you not enough but you know what it got me ready for my heavenly father and my heavenly father gave me so much that now I can give it back to you something started to take place I was in California preaching at the youth conference revival center preaching at the youth conference at the end I get a text from my dad and it was like one of the first times I heard my son my dad texting back that was a miracle number one my dad text me in Ukrainian I and your mom the willy seprime ifir and I'm like wait they had a live stream so he is saying me and your mother were watching the live stream and so it kind of shocked me that they had live stream I didn't even know they had live stream so my dad found the live stream he was watching and he said this he said son both of us were in tears and we want to let you know how proud we are that you're our son I'm standing there and like and people looking they thinking like my grandma died or something and they're like is everything okay I'm just gonna be with God right now oh my God but I don't need it anymore when I don't need it I got it when I needed it I couldn't get it you know what happened because my father was the appetizer heavenly father was the main meal and I started to treat my dad differently instead of expecting something I started honoring him it released the love he didn't even have for me because he didn't grow up like that loving like that he didn't grow up with that affection the crazy part my tile cutting skills improved the next house he was building I actually was cutting most of the tile my dad was calling me for advice he was like hey how should we do this I became like his buddy when it comes to construction my relationship improved with my dad it completely changed today he's one of my friends he's not just my father he's one of my friends and we talked like friends he asked me for advice I give him we pray for each other he grabbed my book when I released the Russian book he says the first one is mine that's my book he was walking around showing it to everybody that's my book my son wrote this book today I have a healthy relationship with my dad but it started with me getting healed from the rejection that I was feeling and how did I get healed when realizing my dad is not my main meal he's my appetizer maybe you never got the appetizer maybe your parents were never there to even give you the appetizer can I tell you something you can still get the main meal and when you get the main meal you can love your parents and honor them you may say but they don't deserve it nor do you but when you love them something happens it changes when you honor your parents it changes them like crazy are you with me the first chain I told you Mark you're gonna stand here for some time so we'll get to your part where you're gonna hurt a little bit more but a little bit later the second chain so the first one is rejecting the second thing that the enemy wants to bind us with is addiction the second rope that he likes to bind us with is with addiction to hold us back from God to hold us back from walking with God to hold us back from running after God and we can be alive breathing like he is you're alive right? we can be alive but be bound you can be alive but some of you you're struggling today because you haven't received the father's love and right now and today God wants to release that father's love on you in fact the young lady who was helping me in the morning who was helping me in the morning on the piano was it you? that was you? can you come up for a second sorry both of you both of you go you go it's your night I'm sorry I ask you right now that you will come for those of you in this room when I share this story I pretty much describe your situation that's exactly what you're battling with your dad or with your mom I want you to stand up if that was you just stand just stand thank you I was a youth pastor 24 and I had that and I preached about God's love until this revelation happened to me oh I know there's more people if you grew up in a Slavic home your heart is beating right now faster see some of you are going to be free you're going to have a bonus the Lord is going to break that chain right now and set you free and you're going to let your dad go release him from the prison let you put him in everybody else close your eyes and bow your head for just a moment if you need to stand up I want you to stand up if that's your case if you're bleeding because you've been deprived or maybe you've been rejected maybe you've been abused and today that's hurting you that's waiting you down I feel a tangible presence of the Holy Spirit in this room and I feel like Jesus is crying that's what I felt when I was praying in the room before the service I felt this groaning of Jesus and he wanted me to tell you how much he misses you how much he loves you he never meant your parents to replace you him in your life he only meant them to introduce you to him but those of you standing, some of your parents maybe unknowingly they did a poor job and the appetizer didn't come warm it didn't come right and some of you you left the restaurant disappointed and angry but I'm here today to tell you there's a main meal and if you just open your heart right there, right now you can just stretch your hands like this like you're receiving a gift just stretch your hands like this and say Holy Spirit bring out the love of the Father into my heart right now everybody else just pray in the Holy Spirit just for a few minutes it's fine if you said it just pray in the Holy Spirit for just few seconds Holy Spirit touch her right now touch her let your oil heal every wound every word that was spoken everything that was done the healer of the hearts Holy Spirit you are I predict she will expect out of you what only you can do nobody else can do what only you can do Holy Spirit let that healing come let that healing come let it come to that young man who waited all his life and has always been disappointment of his parents in Jesus mighty name let that healing come right now right now right now in the name of Jesus Christ in Jesus mighty name I break every rejection I break every spirit of bitterness I break every offense in Jesus mighty name I break every chain that the enemy has used to bind you in the name of Jesus Christ every nightmare that's connected to that every self-hate, every suicidal tendencies that are connected to that in the name of Jesus Christ every rebellion that's connected to that in Jesus mighty name let it be broken today out of your life come on every person praying oh Holy Spirit oh Holy Spirit right now I ask you that you will remove remove every grave close of bitterness every grave close of shame every grave close that the enemy has placed on us right now God in the name of Jesus Christ let the love of the Father let the love of the Father let the fellowship of the Holy Spirit wrap our life right now in Jesus mighty name in Jesus mighty name I want you to say this with me say oh Holy Spirit let the love of the Father be poured into my heart and heal every rejection heal every hurt I forgive those who are supposed to love me I forgive those who are supposed to love me I forgive those who are supposed to love me those who are supposed to love me I release those who have hurt me I bless them help me to love you to live in your love and to honor my Father and my mother in Jesus name you may be seated in the presence of the Lord the second thing that the enemy the second grave close the enemy likes to use is addiction addiction is when you taste some kind of a sin and it becomes a repeated cycle addictions can be to different things addictions to be pornography it can be to weed it could be to smoking it could be to lying, exaggerating it could be to stealing it could be to cursing it could be to gambling it could be to killers addiction specifically to pornography pain killers gambling it cripples your life it pretty much binds you but no addiction is stronger than Jesus I know it's a cliche we hear it all the time no addiction is stronger than the power of the blood no addiction is stronger than the power of Jesus it doesn't matter how many times you've tried it doesn't matter how many times you've pushed addiction is not stronger than Jesus when Lazarus came out of the tomb I want you to notice something he came out bound Mark if you could just kinda I'm gonna take you follow me I will not misguide you see when people are bound sometimes it's like come on but it's just I'm gonna share something about addiction that I want you to never forget Mark now nicely I want you to go back I want you to see this about addiction Lazarus was dead and he was bound and Jesus spoke a life a word into him and Jesus says Lazarus come alive his horse start beating but he was still bound now imagine that a dead person you're at the funeral and somebody's dead and they're bound just like this when they wake up would it offend you that they are wrapped in grave clothes or you would be so ecstatic the fact that they're alive do you think it's a big deal that they're alive I mean yeah do you think it's a big deal that they got rags but if you are the person in the rags you only feel that it's a big deal that you are in the rags but if you are the outsider it's not a big deal that they're in the rags the only thing that's a big deal is they're resurrected I want to send a message to somebody here today who are bound with certain things and you're trapped and you're inside and you feel like this man this is bad this is confusing this is wrong this is not right and this is such a big deal God help me I want to tell you something snap out because the big miracle that's already happened is the fact that you are alive and the only reason why you're bothered by that is because you're alive if you wouldn't be alive if you wouldn't be resurrected the very things you are confused about you would never be bothered by oh it's bad I know it's wrong I know you shouldn't do it but you know what excites me is the fact you're not comfortable in those things because it tells me you've been resurrected my God help me a little bit with that you've been resurrected and resurrection is a big deal your rags are not a big deal your resurrection is your salvation is a big deal your rags is not and maybe those rags right now are addictions and you might say but pastor you don't understand I fall into the same sin yes it's bad yes it's not good but the fact that there is a heart beat inside of you in fact that there is a guilt there is a conviction it tells me you are alive you're alive that's a resurrection so what if you would have been freed but dead dead people are very well behaved on funerals but that doesn't make them alive sometimes I heard a young man came to me at our church and he says he got kicked out of school for sexual sins you really have to be messed up to be kicked out for sexual sins he was like that messed up he come to me in the lab in the church and he says pastor Vlad is it wrong for me to smoke weed I said for you no look to me I said really listen you're going to hell everybody knows what's the point if you go to hell smoking weed or not smoking weed since you're going there smoke it up he looked at me he was like he couldn't believe I just told him he's going to hell and I was like think about it whether you go to hell gay or straight you're still headed there I'm like if I would be you going there I would do whatever I want I was like honestly for you bro don't hold back so at least when you're there you know why you're there for I told him your problem is now weed your problem is you're dead in your sin you first need to be resurrected and then you will know that weed is the problem then that's not going to be comfortable no more that's not going to be right no more why because when you come alive something just feels uncomfortable but while you feel confused you gotta tell you the rest of us are looking at your life and saying you know what the fact that there is a pressing in the fact that there is a sense of conviction about it it indicates there is life I'm not condoning your sin I'm just looking at something that is real right now and that is the life of God that's beating inside of you but let me give you a practical step on how to get out of the addiction Jesus tells Lazarus come out Mark I want you to get up I want you to notice Jesus did not help Lazarus to get out come on give him a round of applause come on guys help me out help him out alright alright let's go let's go you were good why did you start jumping let's go up one two seven okay so now come close stop jumping start breaking chains man Lazarus was not lost until he got out of the grave on his own can you imagine the struggle he had to go through this is where the struggle is real hashtag started did you did you just see how much you struggled with that so I want you to imagine see most of us think that Lazarus like in a bathrobe he came out like pawn the guy was bound up like like a corpse he was bound up that means he wrestle trying to get in get up and Jesus says come out meaning Jesus says when you are still bound I'll make for me before get the clothes off when your clothes begin to make moves toward me struggling but you will struggle it will not happen first time it might happen first month second month it might happen two years but Jesus says come out it's about Lord I am bound he says I know make moves just some of us think we have this magical view of Christianity I just come everything is gone it's not always sometimes you gotta struggle and move toward God Mark let's come a little bit closer not only you have to struggle to move toward God if you wanna be free from your addiction but I want you to notice another thing is before you get rid of your grave clothes you gonna have to get out of your grave write it down before God removes grave clothes I have to get out of my grave grave is three things trigger points toxic people and toxic places grave is three things write this down it's trigger points toxic people and toxic places before Jesus remove the grave clothes excuse me disciples remove the grave clothes the man Lazarus had to get out of the grave and only then the grave clothes were removed see some of us what we want to do is we want God to get into our grave which is trigger points toxic people and toxic places we want God to come in our grave and there untie us but the Lord says if you really wanna be free few things what is the trigger point for pornography for you Instagram get out of Instagram I can't do that it's your grave if it's Snapchat get out of Snapchat it's your trigger point what is the trigger point for alcohol for you what is that trigger point you ask yourself your trigger point is your grave you gotta get out of it it doesn't mean you will be free but God can't bring freedom from this until you get out of that are you with me toxic places toxic places speak of the places you used to be in that was normal but because you're a Christian those places now tempt you to go back you have to no longer go to those places I know this idea well I wanna be a missionary there you're not a missionary there because you're tempted by those places but the greater is he there isn't me then the one who is in those places the devil is a liar yes he is greater but you are not greater than those places the reason why those places tempt you back and those people tempt you back is for this reason people in those places and those places are way deeper in their sin than you are in God and whoever is deeper moves the other not whoever is stronger but deeper I remember I shared the story a few years ago here at the teens I had a young man in our church his name was Mitchell he got saved he was this radical evangelist he comes from drugs his mom was a prostitute in Seattle area within six months of his salvation he was doing so good evangelizing pretty much every night he was evangelizing so much he was rebuking me and other pastors on the team and saying you guys a bunch of look warm look warm people I mean we fell the shame of how much we didn't love Jesus compared to this guy he was so on fire for God one holiday he says I'm going back to Seattle I'm gonna win my mom to Christ and I said no you don't I said we don't want you to go to Seattle he's like I break every spirit cover control I said Mitchell please understand your mama has been in prostitution for about 15 years all of her homies and cronies are drug dealers drugs you only six months off of it you're fresh you're not gonna win them to Christ they will win you back to your old lifestyle you will see you'll understand I pray in tongues two hours a day as you can pray in tongues until you lose your voice it doesn't change the fact you're still fresh in this stay away from your grave I said did you know why Joseph did not witness to Porifer's wife because you don't witness to people you're tempted by that's a tweetable quote right there I said you have to run from those places he said you don't guys understand you don't care about my mom who's gonna bring the gospel to my mom I'm like somebody will but not you not yet not right now maybe a little bit later so he rejects our consul he goes to Seattle first three days he evangelizes to all the prostitutes and all the drug dealers and everything on the third day they gave him a little drink and he took a sip became a sipping saint and he got drunk and he fell back into drugs he came back two weeks later he relapsed oh did he recovered from drugs for ten years he had three children just so he can help to get out of drugs he had children to help him get out of drugs and couldn't do it until he did so much drug and messed with his brain and he went mental one time they locked him up in a local park not very far from a house where he ran naked at two o'clock in the morning saying Jesus loves everybody naked they locked him up in the hospital and the hospital transferred him into jail and the hospital made an error by not transferring to jail that he had a problem with his mental health and at night this young man hit his head toward the concrete and killed himself I performed this funeral I preached hell hard at that funeral because I didn't care because I warned him and we tried to bring him back and I've seen the damage it does to people when they don't leave their grave there are phone contacts on your phone it should be removed it's your grave it's the people you dealt with stuff it's the people that you took stuff from it's the people that gave you what stuff and you need to walk out from your grave before God removes your grave close you're saying God take away those feelings but God says take away those friends God takes away those desires but God says get those places out block them out you keep that as an open bridge in case this thing with God doesn't take over it doesn't take you long time to go back to your past burn the bridge to your past because you only have future in front of you it's with Jesus are you with me? that's how addictions get broken you walk out from the grave you have to a lot of times turn off the computer turn off and remove the internet from your phone sometimes you have to disconnect from social media completely and trust me you won't die Jesus didn't have instagram and he made it just fine you have to disconnect one of the girls who got delivered from lesbianism in her church for her trigger point was her twitter account she had a lot of followers and she had a lot of lesbian people that were constantly in contact with her and now she didn't want to even share her testimony she says that's not my time my time will come to share the testimony but right now I don't want to go back to that and therefore I have to walk out from my grave and that grave is twitter for me twitter is a place where I can minister but for her twitter was her grave what is your grave? because before God can remove this you got to walk out of this and no it's not easy you saw how he struggled it's not going to be easy to walk away and people will judge you and they say what you think you're better than me what you think you're holier than me what you don't want to hang out with us no more you think you're this and that and you say I'm sorry but I got to do this Porifer's wife did not understand why Joseph ran it's more important than what she says and he didn't flirt with that chica he didn't talk to her and he didn't say well well girl you know he's so fine let me just see if we can go up on the mountain and I can you know maybe lay hands on you just pray for the spirit of lust and adultery to be broken out of your life you know why he ran from there because he knew the girl is hot but so is hell too hot to handle he's like I can't stick around here and the moment I start doing my missionary dating thing on her you know like well flirt to convert kind of stuff then she's going to convert me back to her pagan kingdom and I'm going to lose my relationship with God and so he says you know what girl I'm running she grabbed his clothes and you can take that you can take this and that but I'm running because my purity is more important you cannot walk in freedom if you don't leave your grave period guys there's no ifs and buts there's no magical prayer there's a practical thing Jesus says this tempts you cut it off remove the grave before God can remove your grave clothes the scripture says to run from lust it doesn't say to fight it it says to fight the devil but run from lust you know what that tells me lust is more powerful than the devil because God gives you power to win over the devil he doesn't give you power to win over lust he says the only way you're going to win over lust is run run that means that if you see trigger points all you gentlemen walking in the mall and you see Victoria who lost all of her secrets alright that means you tilt your head look at some other gap where American are apostol are apostol whatever apostol that's over there you move your head alright because that Victoria she looks right at you and verse you see and then there's no father God clothes her with beauty and righteousness no no no leave Victoria alone let somebody else go save her you go save your soul sunshine are you with me if you want to be free from the grave close of addiction you got to leave the grave first mean you got to leave places trigger points and people if you want God to remove the spirit of lust to break the addiction of drugs maybe smoking maybe lying maybe some kind of a thing that you're currently battling with everyone by your head and close your eyes if you're addicted to any of the substances that I just mentioned whether it's painkillers pornography lying stealing gambling or something that and you're sick and tired of it and today you're saying God I want you to set me free and you're willing to walk out of your grave and as I was speaking you recognize oh my goodness he's saying the right thing I need to leave a grave I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand not to get up but to raise your hand keep your hand up I'm gonna pray with you right now keep your hand up for just few more seconds for those of you who have your hand up I want you to say this out loud say Lord Jesus everybody else let's help them say Lord Jesus I repent for opening the door for the spirit of bondage wash me with your blood in Jesus name I renounce every spirit every chain of addiction and bondage over my life and right now I choose to remove every grave that God points to me whether it's my trigger point whether it's some toxic people or some wrong places in Jesus name help me oh Holy Spirit Father God I ask you right now in the name of Jesus every person that has that hand raised I pray that you will pull them out of that grave right now that you will pull them out of that addiction that you will pull them out of that place that you will pull them out Lord God of those trigger points Father I pray that there will be a grace they did not have before to be released right now Lord God this is not just gonna be saying God I'm sorry and don't go and doing it again but something will happen during this fast where this is broken once and for all well we don't walk in loss but we walk in purity we walk in power we walk in the presence of God in Jesus mighty name Father I pray for those who have subscriptions that they know they need to be cancelled for those who have certain habits that they know they need to be cancelled that it will happen today not tomorrow and they will be able to walk out of their grave though for somebody else that is not a grave but for them it is in Jesus mighty name in the name of Jesus Christ Father I thank you for your grace in this room every high class close every head about even as I was praying and I was speaking some of you you just felt this from the Lord you gotta disconnect from this thing you gotta cut off the media or you gotta remove the movies you gotta remove the Instagram or you gotta remove the TV shows or you gotta remove this particular thing that the Lord just put it on your heart you gotta just go through your Instagram maybe unfollow half of those girls that you are learning how to work out from and you're a guy you can't have God remove your grave close if you don't walk out of the grave and you need to do that today not tomorrow today in Jesus name lift your eyes now I'm gonna bring this message up to an end sorry guys I don't have a clock over there so I'm just keep going put on the clock please because otherwise I don't have to I'm here till Friday so I'm just taking my precious time all right and so we are gonna leave the rest of the two robes alone you can just run down the close of insecurity and the last one is the close of condemnation insecurity is the things that the enemy uses to make us feel inferior and the condemnation is when the enemy uses what you've done against you to make you feel like you don't deserve God's love and he doesn't want you to forgive yourself but toward the end we mentioned one thing is that you're alive when you deal then the fact that you have rags number two we mentioned is that you have to get out of the grave before God can remove the grave close and lastly and we have to finish Mark you have to let people loose you don't surround yourself with people who throw stones at bound people some of you you go to churches that publicly humiliate bound people I will get in trouble for this church any church that kills sick people any hospital that attacks sick people need to be closed down hospitals accept sick people they treat sick people that don't stone sick people church is the only constitution the only environment in many churches where the sick people are publicly humiliated embarrassed instead of being helped they're being pushed and made fun of Jesus looked to people around Mark and he says loose him he didn't say embarrass him he didn't say bind him he didn't say make fun of him he didn't say you know just begin to kind of kick him out everybody go take a punch at him pick up a stone and tell him what you think about him you know I want you to loose him you know your church the reason why Saturday existed because pastor and the team don't want to hurting people to be hurting they provided a specific environment where it was a closed circle people like that can receive help where they can come clean our church is exactly the same but unfortunately there are churches where if you fall into sin pastors love to make a public think about it I know every church has a different policy and how they treat the sin that's up to them but if at the core of every policy is not to help Mark get his chains out but for us to pick up anything that you get and start throwing at Mark if at the core of that we miss the whole point of Christianity never attack hurting people remember how you were hurting and God helped you help somebody who's hurting it might mean that they need to be removed from the stage if they fell in sin and they were on the stage it might need to be they removed from the stage but it doesn't mean they need to be removed from your love it might need they need to be removed from a leadership but it doesn't mean they need to be removed from you because God will use people to lose us people Jesus didn't lose Lazarus people did it and I want you to notice one more thing about freedom it's very very deep and very profound it's painful I said it's painful sometimes you just don't know where to start so I want you to pause for a second with me Mark this is how typically it happens in our life the Lord removes the big things and leaves us alone because He wants us to do the rest with prayer fasting He wants us to after that not to simply say well praise God I don't have those things they embarrass me no more He wants us after that to begin to remove the things from our mouth go ahead Mark and you should have cut your hair be careful don't be so radical so you want to give a testimony how was your life before Jesus my life before Jesus was so bad how do you feel right now that the chains are gone out of your hands I feel free but not just yet not just yet huh there's a little bit more huh what are you going to do about it I'm going to take them off fast let's do it fast alright your freedom will be exactly the same it's not going to be easy it's going to hurt how did that feel great wow that hurt how you snapped it everybody just felt so bad for you because we all know how that feels in real life when you begin to apply some discipline it hurts it's all pretty but you get home and start doing it that hurts are you with me and a lot of times this is where we end we're like well praise God let's go Mark but I'm not looking at porn not smoking weed I'm not okay I don't have a prayer life I don't fast when the church fast I'm not doing the bad stuff I'm staying out of jail I don't have any more DUIs and this is how most of the Christians just continue to live we just thank God for the big stuff but see Mark is not going to go home like that will you Mark why not is your Christian life jogging or running anything that doesn't just keep you away from jail but from running needs to be removed not just from jail not just from being excommunicated in your church but from running from God needs to be removed and the Lord is not going to do that you're gonna have to do that with the help of brothers and sisters Mark show us how it's done gotta find it where it ended right break free throw it throw it out there what do you think feel better just run it back and forth just over there show us that it's possible to run come on come on you didn't get the tape out to run like that run like a real man well that's better yeah that's good let's give him a round of applause one more time Mark take your seat thank you for watching this content I know this was a blessing to you we would like to ask you to subscribe to our 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