Deliver Me

Keala Thompson

GYC Southwest

Deliver Me From Evil Expectations

Tonight's presentation is entitled, Deliver Me from Evil Expectations.

And so if you have any Bibles, you can turn me to opening text and that's found in 2nd Corinthians 3.17.

You know this theme this weekend is entitled Deliver Me, a Freedom Church Revival.

And you know this thought has been really in my mind about experiencing deliverance from many different things and what we're looking at tonight is being delivered and delivered me from actually having expectations of other people upon us and being delivered from those expectations.

And so tonight as we all go through God's word, we pray that God will help us to experience deliverance from evil expectations.

Contrary to popular belief, freedom is not free, but instead it has a cost.

And if you don't believe me, then just ask the parents who lost their only son fighting for our freedom.

Just ask the parents who lost their only son fighting for our freedom.

The little boy whose mom is not coming home from war, the price of freedom.

The young newlywed who got a military visit at a front door, the high cost of freedom and if you would I'm almost certain you see how expensive freedom really is.

And a freedom in a spiritual realm of the spiritual world is much more costly.

For to follow the beliefs of what you believe and the dictates of your own conscience, 1 must continually be fighting for one's freedom.

For the freedom we experience is really our picture of God and the freedom he gives to us.

Now, 1 of my, the churches I've visited in Hawaii, I spoke on healing and in eating healing from your past emotional wounds, I mean hurting your heart.

And I, after I gave my presentation, I made an altar call for people to come forward in this appeal.

And as I made the altar call, people came up and I remember this 1 couple, they came and they stayed till the end as I talked to people one-on-one.

And as they slowly went away, I finally got to talk to this couple, and they actually were visitors from the mainland, from Southern California.

And he was a head elder, and she was very involved in the church, and they were very active in the church.

And then they showed me that they were having physical problems.

She was having some serious problems, some health issues.

And they showed me the problems that she was having was very serious.

And they just said, I asked them, well, when did the symptoms really come upon you?

And do you remember when it really came bad?

And he said, well, you know, actually it started where every Friday night, it would come really bad upon me.

And it would be better the rest of the week, but every Friday night it would come really strong, these bad symptoms.

And I asked her, like, what do you do in church?

And then I asked her, how many positions do you have in church?

And she said she had 8 positions in the church.

And she felt somewhat anxious, and I think of the quotation of Ellen White that says, nine-tenths of illnesses has a foundation in the mind, right, so negative emotions kill not only the mind, but it kills the body also, right?

Depression, unforgiveness, bitterness, anger, all of these negative emotions, it kills you.

And so you hold on to these negative emotion and it kills not only the mind and your relationships with 1 another, but it kills the body.

And so I was sitting with her and we were talking about this and finally we came to the root cause of why she was so busy in church.

And she said, what it really is, is because I'm a people pleaser.

I like to live up to people's expectations.

So just dealing about quitting the positions in the church was not enough.

She needed to deal with the root cause of healing from being a people pleaser.

And tonight, many of us live, trying to live up to the expectations of people.

And that's what I want us to look at tonight.

So as we go through this, may God help us to experience the freedom that he wants to deliver us from.

And Lord, as we begin this weekend, may be your words, we thank you for your freedom in Jesus name.

The Bible says, now the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is what?

So wherever the God's spirit is, there is what?

And also wherever there is freedom, there is also what?

In other words, God is such a God that He wants to pour out His Spirit.

In fact, God is here and He pours out His Spirit.

But the problem is that many times, the reason why there is no Spirit, the reason why there is no revival in the churches, The reason why there is no reformation is because somehow, some way, there's people or there's institutions or there may be even church board decisions that's hindering the Holy Spirit from coming.

Somehow there's something going on or there's a person who's abusive in the home or in the church.

Something's going on where actually there's that system that's structured in place that God is not 1 who would say, okay, why is a revival going on in this church?

But why is it not a revival going on in that church?

God is not saying, okay, I'm gonna bless you, but I don't like you that church, so I'm not gonna bless you.

So the reason why it is not that special blessing is that Not because God does not come and pour out his blessing upon 1 church, but because something is going on.

Something is going on within possibly people, members within the church.

Something is going on with mom or dad where the person is hindering the Holy Spirit from working freely among that home or church.

If you believe that, let me hear you say Amen.

And so where there is freedom, that's where the Holy spirit is.

In other words, God is a God of freedom, contrary to what we think.

And God allows us freedom to choose Him or not to choose Him.

And what happens is, is that when we play the place of God, and actually we decide whom God can work and who God cannot work through in the church or in the home or in the workplace or wherever it may be, on a youth group, then we are the ones that hinder the working of the Holy Spirit in the churches, not God.

And God gets to blame for why there's nothing going on in the churches, but that's not true.

Satan's spread lies about God's government being restricted to be a Christian.

But in reality, as you look at how God works in the Bible, God's way is actually the ways of freedom.

The Bible says, you shall know the truth about God's government of freedom.

So turn me to your Bible, see Revelation 13, verse 12 and 15.

Revelation 13, let me just, Revelation chapter 13, verse 12.

Peter Chung

Deliver Me From Institutional Oppression

So Father, in spite of my weakness, may your strength and your love and your grace be manifested from the sacred desk.

Father, I ask that you fill me with your Holy Spirit, that I be a blessing, not a curse to your people.

Father, these precious souls have made a decision to spend the Sabbath afternoon to gain a blessing.

They could have easily gone to the beach or have other social activities, but they have desired to come here expecting a blessing.

So in spite of myself, may they be blessed by the preaching of the Word.

And that our mind, heart, and deep be touched of the nearness of your son's soon return.

We ask that you do something special here today.

Yesterday, Pastor Kayla Thompson gave a powerful message on expectations and how churches and parents and society places expectations upon us that is not according to the Bible and is oftentimes oppressive and diverts us from the calling that God has for us.

That, those expectations give us bondage from doing what God calls us to do.

And these expectations often come in oppressive ways.

We give the enemy too much credit for being overt.

And in fact, the enemy uses something very interesting.

He uses the expectations of the media upon us.

If you don't watch Star Wars, you're looked as weird.

If you haven't watched Frozen, it's like, what are you, you're weird.

If you don't dress in skinny jeans, you're thought about as weird for guys.

Back in my days we had baggy jeans, go figure.

So we have all sorts of these expectations and if we don't conform to the expectations society has for us, we are seen as straight-laced, odd, or extremists.

You see, even though fashion, we like to be in style, and even though we want to fit in in society, it's natural.

As a school teacher, praise God for uniforms, amen?

But if they're not uniforms, and back in my day when we didn't wear uniforms, people got bullied for not wearing a certain thing, is that correct?

Back in my day it was starter jackets, you know, Starter Jackets, Raiders Caps, shows you my era, yes.

But if we don't conform to that, we're looked upon as being reviled or bullied.

You see, 1 of the most bullying agents right now is Hollywood and the media.

And what they're doing is they are portraying and promoting a new morality, and if you don't conform to that morality, you are looked upon as someone that is an enemy of society.

In fact, when Angus Jones, does anyone remember him?

Angus Jones was convicted about the Adventist message at a Bible study at an Adventist church in the valley, and he decided to leave.

He was the number 1 child actor and he left and renounced his show.

And this is what TMZ said about him, said that he was in a cult, that he had mental illness, that he should be evaluated for schizophrenia.

We see here that expectations is causing oppression.

You see, if we don't conform to a certain expectation of society, If we don't conform to a certain expectation of popular culture, soon and very soon we're going to be looked upon as very weird.

If we want to keep the biblical basis of our beliefs and our doctrines, soon and very soon, liberty of conscience will be threatened.

And that's why the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 12, verse 2, notice what the Bible says, and be not conformed to this what?

World, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

You see, we want to please people, isn't that correct?

We could be the most hated person on this planet, but my Bible tells me that 10, 000 by 10, 000 angels are there that are cheering for me.

My Bible tells me that the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are cheering for me.

My Bible tells me that the unfallen worlds are cheering for me.

So my Bible tells me that I am the majority when I do feel like the minority here on this earth.

Faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence is of things not seen.

And what God is trying to teach us at this time is to go beyond the expectations of society, go beyond the expectations of culture, go beyond the expectations of fashion, Go beyond the expectations of your parents and do what's good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

John 10, 10, God gives us life and life more abundantly.

See, when you please God, you're blessed.

When you please God, you have the prosperity and the security and the confidence that you cannot have from any other human being here on Earth And God is trying to teach us not to conform to society, not to conform to the media, but please that of God.

And we can only please God by asking God for that power, amen?

And we can only please God by knowing that he first loved us.

And God says in Romans chapter 5 verse 8, this is 1 of my favorite verses, and Pastor Kayla's favorite verses, Yet while we were sinners, Christ died for us.

Messed up and dirty as we were, Christ still embraced us.

He was in defiled pig's pen eating pig's food.

Now in the Jewish economy, the pig is the most dirtiest animal.

But when the father saw the son coming on the horizon, the father didn't care that he had pig's stench or pig's mud or pig's increment.

The father embraced the son, And Jesus does that for you and I.

But when we learn to go against the popular current, when we learn and see the unseen that we are the majority by following the Bible, by loving Jesus and keeping his commandments through his power, then there is a blessing even beyond the persecution that will come to us here today.

You see, we're in an age right now where in the city of Houston, the Houston mayor in 2014 tried to require all pastors to submit sermon notes that talked about homosexuality, violating our freedom of rights.

We're in an age right now where the United States Supreme Court, this is what the New York Times says, the United States Supreme Court may soon liberate the biblically conservative church from old prejudices that should have long ago been jettisoned, forcing it into rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity.

In the words of a recent writer in the New York Times.

In other words, what the New York Times is saying is that the church that follows the Bible need to bow down to modern expectations and modern morality.

That's the expectations of the government to you and I.

And in my parents' hometown in Gresham, Oregon, a Christian couple decided not to make a cake for a same-sex marriage couple.

You know, they just nicely said, we believe in the biblical marriage of man and woman, and we don't feel comfortable making a cake for you.

And they were fined recently $136, 927 for refusing to make a cake for following the Bible.

Religious persecution is very real here today, And it's connected to the expectations of the media, popular culture, and society.

But God wants us to go beyond society and be secure in His love.

And His love is life and life more abundantly.

You see, nowadays, our Seventh-day Adventist ministers are being persecuted.

Eric Walsh, he spoke for GYC Southwest and church revivals.

And in fact, it's interesting, the people that made light of his positions on the papacy and his position on same-sex marriages, they went on YouTube and watched GYC sermons that Dr.

We're living in an age where it's more and more unpopular, and it's expected of us to adhere to what the government tells us and what media tells us and what celebrities tells us for what is right.

And do you know Ellen White counsels us not to declare our candidacy or allegiance to a politician?

And I see in all social media people arguing about, let's vote for Ben Carson, or let's vote for this person, or that person.

Brothers and sisters, there is a reason why we should not vote for a politician.

Ellen White says, the gospel worker says that we should cast no faith in political parties.

Because right now the liberal left is right now seeking to oppress Christian values.

And what's gonna happen is society's gonna be more and more unstable.

There's gonna be more terrorism and more attacks and more natural disasters.

Then the ultra-right is gonna say, we need to get back to God.

John Diel

Deliver Me From the Slavery Within

And this morning's message is, Deliver me from the slavery within.

Last night, we learned that we needed deliverance from other people's expectations.

Last night we learned that there are many many pressures that come our way and many times those pressures tend to dictate our conscience and praise God that we can find freedom in Christ.

However, if you really think about it, many of these pressures, though we ask God from deliverance, we naturally tend to gravitate back and become people pleasers.

And so this morning we're gonna be dealing with the root cause of what makes us be people pleasers, what makes us fall into the trap of fulfilling others' expectations rather than God's expectations.

And there is a bondage that the Bible talks about that we need to be freed from.

And not just on a one-time basis, but on a moment by moment by moment basis.

So I ask that you please keep a prayerful heart that God will speak to each of our hearts this morning.

Let's bow our heads as we seek the Lord in prayer before we begin.

Our dear Father in heaven, we thank you Lord for religious liberty.

We can come together and worship you and learn from your word without being harassed.

We thank you that today also you've given us this wonderful holy day, the Sabbath day.

A day you have set so that we can have an intimate moment with you.

But Father, we understand that we are, just as the song says, sinners.

And so we ask that you please cleanse us from all unrighteousness may this day be a reminder to us that you can sanctify us and so that Lord there won't be any hindrance for your spirit to freely move into our hearts and minds.

We ask for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost to be upon here.

I pray, O Lord, claiming the promise that Christ received, Isaiah 50, verse 4, You have given him the tongue of the learned, that he should know how to speak a word in season to them that are sweary.

And I know that all the promises in Christ are amen, are yes.

So I claim that right now, that you please put your words in my mouth and that your words would be of effect.

And I pray that you would also grant us the ears of the learned to hear what you want us to hear in Jesus name we pray amen amen good morning for those of you who are just arriving come come have a seat I think I'm gonna I'm gonna try not to move a lot because the microphone tends to fall.

I tend to stay closer with people on Sabbath school.

Probably we'll try to see if we can do a little dialogue, but it's probably not going to happen a lot.

I was talking to my sister as well as 1 of our church member last night who was here and the messages that that are being preached are messages that they've never heard before and so messages that are somehow new to us we need to kind of dialogue about it and examine the Word of God together.

And so we have a Q&A section this afternoon and I ask that you write up questions down and then we're going to deal with them this afternoon.

But this morning we're going to be talking about deliverance from slavery within.

And if you have your Bibles with you, I ask that you please turn with me to Galatians chapter 5, Galatians chapter 5 and beginning in verse 1.

Galatians chapter 5 beginning from verse 1.

And the Bible says here, and this is the Apostle Paul talking to the people of Galatia, he says, Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

It's very interesting that in this verse we see many things, just as we see in many verses of the Bible.

Jesus Christ had made us free, which means the freedom that many people long has already been provided.

And another thing about this verse is it says that we actually need to stand fast.

We need to make sure that we're remaining in the liberty wherein Christ has made us free.

Freedom is something that we have to continue to struggle for to make sure I remain in freedom.

I don't know about you but have you seen the article that Adventist Review had just passed regarding the literature evangelist in Louisiana Arkansas conference, there are people out there right now that are not allowing freedom of speech and freedom to express religion in that area.

And somehow, our people found it a necessary thing to fight for liberty.

Actually, in Galatians chapter 5 verse 1, it says here, Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made it free.

I read it in my original language, in my original tongue, which is Tagalog, and it's translated in a very different way.

And I said, why is it translated that way?

Then I looked at it in the English Standard Version as well as Young Literal Translation and if we would look at it, it actually translates it the way it's translated in my native tongue.

And the Bible says there in English Standard Version, it says that, for freedom Christ has set us free.

In other words, the reason why Jesus set us free or made us free is for the purpose of having freedom.

The reason why Jesus Christ came down here is to give us liberty of conscience.

The reason why Christ made sure that He would die on the cross is to make sure that you and I can make our own conscious decision regardless of any pressure that comes from without.

Freedom is something that is very important to God And freedom is something for Christ is a more than good enough reason to die for To give you and I freedom for freedom Christ has set us free and it is this freedom that God wants us to hold fast to stand fast To make sure we're in it to make sure that we're making decisions not based on people's expectations, not based on what others are manipulating us to do, but rather stand because we've examined everything, we've examined all sides and I make the decision for myself.

In reality, we're all accountable to God individually.

My parents, though they can influence me, are not accountable for my decisions.

Each individual has their own accountability to God.

Now, it's another interesting point here that freedom is something that God emphasizes a lot.

Last night we learned that where the Spirit is, there is liberty.

In other words, if there is some sort of manipulation, if there is some sort of bondage, if there is some sort of captivity, the Spirit of God is not there.

If the way we function is to manipulate other people, we can make sure that the Spirit is not moving through us.

And why do you think freedom is so important to God?

Why do you think liberty of conscience is so important to God?

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