This is “Raise Your Voice: Part 1”. The enemy has no allies. He attacks his own just as he attacks those who are striving to live for God. The difference is that you and I, as children of God, have access to help! In these unprecedented times, we are all fighting battles. Some of you are facing fear and uncertainty that you’ve never known, and we cannot stay silent and pretend everything is OK. As you’ll learn in this message, silence is a sin in the “city.” When you’re in the “city of God” all you have to do is raise your voice and the Rescuer will come running. Before you run from God, run to Him!
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i want to go to the book of the old
testament book of deuteronomy for a few
moments this morning deuteronomy
chapter 22 and i want to kind of
set this verse up in these verses
because they’re some of the most
unusual verses and they can be easily
misunderstood you’re talking about
the world 2000 years ago
plus very much different from now
women were in no way
appreciated valued and had freedom like
women have now and a voice
a voice and
the scripture that i’m going to read is
a little bit uncomfortable to be honest
because i don’t want anybody to
misunderstand what i’m going to preach
today because
we know that if someone is a woman
is ever abused by a man it is evil wrong
and it
and and she is the victim always
there’s no woman that does anything that
gives a right to a man to ever
hurt or abuse them can i get a big amen
on that
but now this text is going to show you
and give you an
insight into what the world was like
before christ
and before the freedoms that women
now enjoy but there is a vital
lesson that i want to share that is so
relevant to all of us
that i believe you’ll understand when
you leave this place
look with me in deuteronomy 22 there are
laws of sexual morality
and there were things that god’s word
began to forbid
and it’s dealing with one of those
things in verse 23
if a young woman who is a virgin is a
betrothed that word betroth means
engaged if she is engaged to a husband
they’re not married yet but they’re
going to get married and a man
finds her in the city and lies with her
some translation says forces himself
upon her
then you shall bring them both out to
the gate of the city
and you shall stone them to death with
stones
listen the young woman because she did
not cry out in the city
which which implies that if she would
have just spoke up
it could have been stopped now again
remember what i just told you
but there’s a real lesson in this
spiritually you got to see this through
the
spiritual eyes to understand the insight
that i want you to get
and the young woman because she did not
cry out
in the city and the man because he
humbled his neighbor’s wife
so you shall put away this evil from
among you verse 25
but if a man finds a betrothed engaged
young woman
in the field and the man forces her to
lie with him he’s forcing her
then only the man who lies with her
shall die but you shall do
nothing to the young woman there is
in the young woman no sin deserving of
death
for justice when a man rises against his
neighbor and kills him
even so is this matter listen and he
found her
in the field and the engaged young woman
cried
out but there was no one to save her
i want to talk to you about the power of
raising
your voice silence
can be a sin in the times in which we
live
and in this text it deals with two young
women
one of them lived in the country and one
of them lived in the city
they both were engaged to a young man
they both were preparing for their
wedding
day but then the woman in the city
we don’t know if she took a back alley
or wherever it was
but somewhere in the city she was
assaulted by a man
a man overtook her a man abused her
a man forced himself on her
and she according to the text
her her silence
was worthy and this is hard for us to
understand but this is the word of god
and it’s there for a reason there’s a
lesson that i want you to see
her silence was a sin in this case
also in that when she did not cry
out in the city for her attack
for for her attacker that was attacking
her
i don’t know why she didn’t cry out
we’re not told maybe it was fear
maybe it was intimidation maybe it was
trauma
maybe she was so traumatized she could
not believe it was happening
she wasn’t guilty because she was
attacked
but she was guilty because of her
silence
according to the old testament law thank
god we’re not under the old testament
law
something happened to this woman in the
city
and when she was silent and the reason
that it was
considered grievous is because in the
city
there was help in the city all she had
to do was cry out and part of that
culture was
men would come running in the city i’m
sure
her fiance was there and he would never
allow
someone to abuse his to be bride if she
would have just
raised her voice and cried out and then
it draws
another picture it talks about if a
woman
is in a field she’s out in the country
she’s has nobody surrounding her she’s
working in the field all by herself
and some evil person with evil intent a
man
forces himself on her and attacks her
and abuses her in the field if she cries
out the scripture said that she is not
to be stoned she has done nothing the
man is to be stoned
it’s kind of confusing unless you
understand the spiritual implication and
here it is
you’re going to get it i promise
in matthew 13 and 38 jesus said in one
of his parables that the field
is the world and in hebrews chapter 12
and verse 22 it says but you have come
to mount
zion you’re in the city of the living
god so the point is simply this that
once you come into the city or the
kingdom of god
once you enter into christ we’re in the
city of the living god we’re not out in
the field
because jesus said the field represents
the world but the city
represents the city of the living god
once you’re in the church
notice that the same attack came
on the woman that was in the city that
came upon the same
attack happened to the woman that was in
the field or the world
just because you’re in church and just
because you’re serving god
does not mean that we don’t have an
enemy who hates us
and who attacks us and who wants to
destroy
us the same attack comes on you
in the church and it happens to people
in the field
which really is an important lesson just
because you’re attacked in the city
doesn’t mean if you leave the church and
give up on your faith
that the enemy’s going to let up on you
and you go out into the devil’s
territory and into his field
and you forget god and forget religion
don’t
think that the attacker is going to
leave you alone
he’s not going to leave you alone you’re
going to be attacked
either way the devil is not
good to his own it’s a matter of time
you may have fun
in the field you may have excitement in
the field fourth season
but there will come that moment when
satan will
attack you in the field and the bible
said the tragedy of the person in the
field
is when they are attacked and they cry
out there is no one there to hear them
but in the city if you cry out
if you’re not too embarrassed if you’re
not too ashamed
to say i need help if you’re not too
much of
of a person who refuses to acknowledge
you just want to pretend
like you’re okay but you’re really
hurting you’re really struggling
if you can ever get to the place that
once you’re in the city once you’re in
the church
once you’re in the kingdom you’re
willing to cry out
and say help i’m struggling
i’m losing ground i’m falling away help
all you got to do is cry out and the
rescuer will come running
so important to understand that
because when you begin to understand
that if you’re defeated in your mind
if you are attacked mentally physically
spiritually
nothing’s going on with you that’s not
going on out there in the world
this is so important what burdens me is
if i’m going through it and you’re going
through it
in the middle of this pandemic we’re all
fighting battles
we can pretend and we can wear outward
mass
but i’m afraid sometimes we’re wearing
spiritual masks
all the time playing like everything’s
beautiful in our life
and we can be silent when we’re dying
and if it’s like that in the church what
is it like out there
if you don’t know the lord what is it
like out there if you’re dying in an
addiction to alcoholism
or drug addiction or some other vice
that’s destroying your life
and you’re crying out but you don’t know
who to cry and there’s nobody to rescue
you
i want to say first of all i’m thankful
i’m in the city
i’m thankful i’m in the church i’m
thankful that i have jesus that i can
call on
you see john 10 10 said the thief comes
to steal
kill and to destroy and that’s not just
people in the church that’s people out
there
he’s coming i don’t care how much spun
you’re having in sin
he’s coming to kill steal and destroy
it’s a matter of time
and i hope you’re not so far out there
that nobody can hear your cry
when you go serve the devil in his field
he doesn’t give you a peace
that you didn’t have in church
you’re not going to solve your problems
by backsliding
by leaving the church you’re not going
to find
peace out there that you couldn’t find
in here
when you understand what i’m preaching
today you understand that the devil
cannot give you joy he cannot give you
hope for eternity
he cannot give you purpose for living he
cannot put your home back together
he cannot put your life back together he
cannot give you the dream
and the purpose for which you are here
understand that if you go serve the
devil
is he’s not going to stop tormenting you
as a matter of fact he will take his
hate out on you in ways you cannot
imagine
and the sad thing is you’re crying but
nothing nobody’s hearing you
i want to say to some of you who are
being tempted to leave the church and go
to the field
you know too much you felt too much
to ever be happy out there because you
know
what is in here and don’t think that if
you go out there
that you’re not going to be ambushed and
you’re not going to be attacked
in a moment when you feel like
everything is beautiful and wonderful
i promise you i’ve been doing this a
long time
and i’ve seen people who thought i can
play with it i can live in the devil’s
field
and do anything i want to do and get by
it’s a matter of time before that sorry
devil
who seduced you out is going to ambush
you
and attack you in a way you never saw
coming boy people don’t like this kind
of preaching but
here we go oh i got some for you today
the girl was attacked in the field just
like
the damsel was attacked in the city but
there
is a huge difference
if you’re in the city and you don’t
uplift your voice
if you don’t lift your voice in the city
then death
comes there’s hope for you in the city
there’s help for you in the city of the
living god
and we put our mask on and we come to
church spiritually
not just the physical mass that we’re
wearing
but the spiritual mask i’m afraid that
people come to church
and they put their best foot forward
they want everybody to think
that everything is beautiful and they
don’t want
anybody to know i’m struggling i’m being
tempted
i feel like quitting i don’t know how
much more of this i can take
at a time when when you’re supposed to
act like
everything is all right when you feel
the attack of the
adversary that is not the time
to pretend like it’s all okay
but when you’re being attacked and i
really sense this is a word in season
because all of us are under attacks
we never dreamed or saw in this year
and only those who learn how to cry
out when they’re under attack are going
to make it
and when you feel the attack of the
adversary
it’s time to cry out it’s time to lift
up your voice
it’s time to say god help me god rescue
me there’s hope in the city of god
if you will cry out too many are
backsliding
silently drifting and their voice is
never heard in prayer
their voice is never heard in the midst
of their trouble
in intercessor in intercessory prayer
and in praise to god if you stay silent
when you’re under attack
you could lose it all but when you learn
to open up your mouth when i open
up my mouth and when i begin to proclaim
just
sometimes you’re so weak all you can say
is jesus
i don’t know how to fix it but jesus i
don’t know how to turn it around but
jesus
i can’t do this it’s a job for jesus
but lord have mercy and help us he says
i’ve been waiting
and i’ll rescue you i’m waiting on you
to call my name
i believe today that if you would get
your voice uplifted
you would be rescued if you would get
your voice
uplifted you could be healed if you
would get your voice
uplifted god could intervene into your
circumstances
because we are engaged to jesus christ
we are that woman in the story that is
engaged
in the city and our our fiancee
is bad to the bone he can fight like you
wouldn’t believe
and if some old sorry man touches us
he’s touching the apple of his eye he’s
touching
and that that lover gets furious
he gets angry he’s insanely jealous
and he will rip your head off touch not
my anointed
and do my pro and i’m telling you you’re
the anointed
and you are god’s property and you’re
engaged to jesus christ
and he takes it personal when someone
attacks you
when the enemy satan attacks you he says
that’s
my fight call on me i’ll fight your
battles
everybody take a praise break and lift
up your voice
and say jesus i need you
i need you
i think that when we understand that
we’re engaged to jesus christ
in the old testament if a woman was
engaged to a man and another man put his
hands on that woman that man had the
legal right
to take that guy out i kind of like that
forgive me as a daddy i like that
sometimes we need to say to satan get
your hands off my family
we need to raise our voice and say get
your filthy hands off my children
get your filthy hands off my wife or off
my husband
you foul devil get your hands off
the property this home this family this
marriage this these children they belong
to his majesty the lord jesus christ and
you
get your filthy hands on i will not
be silent i will not shut up the more
you
attack me the more i’ll cry out lord
have mercy and
heal my life and heal my need scream it
if you have to i’ll never forget
i preached many times at the great
lakewood church for
joel osteen and i love one of my
favorite things about going there is i
get to get to
go backstage with dodie osteen his
mother
and boy she is a godly woman she can
quote half the bible and she’s a prayer
warrior
little bitty thing but boy she’s full of
the word of
god and she told me one time she said
jensen when they told me i had cancer
and that i wouldn’t live she said the
lord told me
you talk back to that disease don’t let
it trash
trash talk you you trash talk it and she
said
that john her husband at that time well
he was dead and gone on to be with the
lord
but she said the children joel and all
of them they would hear her in the back
bedroom
and they they would say let’s get out of
the house mom’s going into one of her
fits
and she would close the door and she
would take out scriptures and she would
walk the floor
and say the word of god says that by his
stripes i am healed the word of god says
you can’t let the devil do all the
talking
you have to learn how to lift your voice
and cry out with the praise and
cry out with a prayer
instead of panic praise instead of worry
worship
because you’re in the city tell somebody
you’re in the city
there’s hope for you there’s help for
you you’re not out in the country where
nobody can hear you
you’re in the city
if you’re thinking crazy thoughts you’re
not alone
it’s not a time to be silent if you’ve
been saying i’m thinking about quitting
you’re not alone
but it’s time to talk to that quit
and say he who has begun a good work in
me will be faithful to complete it
and i don’t understand everything but
here i go i trust the lord
and i believe his word we need a revival
of the uplifted voice
we need the people of god to realize
that the power of death and life are in
their tongue
and we’ve got to start speaking life and
talking life
and speaking the power of god into our
homes and into our lives
there’s some moms and some dads and some
grandmas and some grandpas
who are listening to me at all of our
campuses and all over
on television and you are feeling the
attack
of the enemy like you have never
felt in your life i in this year
of this pandemic i have been
under more attacks in every way
than i have ever been in my 58 years
of living and now i’m almost getting
happy about it
i’m almost realizing that god even our
nation come on we’ve never
faced times like these and it’s not a
time
for us to be quiet in the cities when
there’s
rioting when they’re burning when we’re
seeing division and violence and hatred
if ever there was a time for the church
to lift up their voice and cry aloud and
spare not
to shout unto god with the voice of
triumph
the blood of jesus the name of jesus and
the cross
it’s in this hour i need somebody to say
i will not
be silent
many people were in the presence of
jesus the people who got the miracles
when they were in the presence of jesus
were people who cried out
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