All right, guys, we are going to talk about why it is you feel so stuck, why it feels like you cannot change, because you can, and I'm going to tell you how.

Let's go. This is made for this podcast.

If there is one message I could give to the whole church, it is going to be what we are going to talk about today.

If there was one message, this is what I would say to them, specifically to the Western Church, to the American Church, this is what I would say, is you don't actually really believe in the supernatural power of God.

That is the message I would give them. Why? Because, you know, we have gotten very comfortable

in our sin. We have gotten very comfortable with our struggles. We name them, we talk about

them every day, some of us. We are comfortable in them so much so that we've stopped believing

that God can heal us and God can change us. And I think we've gotten comfortable with our

Christianity to where he's a God that you attend church for, not a God that you risk your life for.

He's not a God that you give up things for, right? He's a God that is an addendum to our Christian

safe lives. Therefore, we don't depend on him. We don't need him every single day for life and

breath and hope. We just kind of play along with the game of religion. And I would say,

oh, this is scary because that's not what the Bible calls even being saved, right?

It's surrender. It's lay down your life and follow me. Pick up your cross. Follow me.

Pick up difficulty and let's go. And don't care what it costs because you are single-minded

while you're on earth. To live is Christ. To die is gain. Now, why don't we live this way? Because for us,

our rights and our Christian rights, our religious freedom, has largely been protected. And therefore,

we depend on that. We think that's actually what makes us Christian. We think it's what's going to make

our grandkids and our great grandkids Christian is if we can protect our religious rights. But the,

the story is actually really

different than that. Persecution has always grown the church. So when you look back at the history

of the church, I remember being in church history class and seminary and learning this, that

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