Release The Cure
Pastor Erickson preaches from 2 Kings 7, where four starving lepers find the Syrian camp empty and full of food, then realize they do wrong to keep the good news to themselves. He calls the church to stop hiding the gospel, get past rejection and insecurity, and make disciples in their community, releasing the cure the world needs.
The message in 6 points
Three kinds of believers
He reads 2 Kings 7, where the lepers say they do not well to hold their peace. He describes believers who keep their faith private, those who celebrate it only with like-minded people, and those who share it by discipling others, and says the world needs the gospel distributed.
39:09Something greater than any high
He reads an article about people letting snakes bite them for a high and says people are trying to fill a void. The Holy Ghost is greater than any drug, renews the soul, and gives power to be a witness.
42:36Taught to accept and manage
Using mortgage interest and stretched out car payments, he says society teaches us to enjoy now and pay later and to simply accept things. People are told to manage their condition instead of looking for a cure.
46:44Four lepers at the gate
Samaria is starving under a Syrian siege when four lepers decide to walk into the enemy camp. God has made the army flee, so they eat and hide silver and gold, then realize it is not right to keep the good news from a starving city.
52:59Do not let rejection silence you
He says believers may feel mocked or rejected like the lepers, but it is a trick of the enemy to make them think the gospel is not worth sharing. Hurting people are crying out for the cure, and Jesus commands every disciple to go and make disciples.
1:04:27Success is making disciples
With about 133,000 people in Blount County, he says a beautiful building will not grow the church and success is how many are discipled. He calls everyone to take the next step, teach a Bible study, join a connect group, and release the cure.
1:20:52
In his words
“When we walk out of this building, we have a greater high than any serpent, than any snake, than any venom could give a person.”
“It's a trick of the enemy to make us feel like what we have is not worthy to be shared.”
“Programs and properties are not how you determine the success of the kingdom of God.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
2 Kings 7:8
8And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
King James Version.
Matthew 28:19-20
19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
King James Version.
John 4:35
35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
King James Version.
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