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You can own a house and never live in it. The deed is real. Your name is on it down at the county. And nobody's inside. Last week we said the lease was up. This week we find out an empty house doesn't stay empty.

There's a man in Luke 4 who walks into forty days of hunger already full — and comes out with more than He went in with. He doesn't argue. He doesn't explain. Three times He says the same three words, and three times the enemy backs up.

Remember: We don’t have a lying problem. We have a believing problem.

Week 6 Actualize: Believing What God Said.

There's a difference between a life that's working and a life that's whole. Week 5 goes after the lie

you stopped questioning — the one that's just how you are now.

A man spent thirty-eight years in the same spot. When Jesus asked if he wanted to be made whole,

he didn't say yes. He gave his reasons. And every one of them was true.

Normal is not the same as true.

We don't have a lying problem. We have a believing problem.

Some lies don't stay in your head. They go deep — into your gut, your sleep, your sense of who you are — until you're not thinking it anymore. You're feeling it. 

Week 4 of Spiritual Lies goes after the lie that's taken residence: the one that answers before you do. Something good comes, but something inside says "if they only knew" before you can receive it. An opportunity opens, and something inside already said no on your behalf. We walk into the story of a man who lived among the tombs, so bound by what had moved in that when Jesus asked him one simple question, he couldn't even get his own name out — something else answered for him. 

Here's what he found out, and what you need to hear: you were never built to house a lie. You are a temple, not a tomb. The Owner already crossed the sea to come get you — and you are His!

He doesn't lose the houses He owns. You don't have a lying problem. You have a believing problem.

Somebody named you before you could speak for yourself. A parent's word. A coach's word. A word from someone who was scared, or hurt, or just wrong — and somewhere along the way you started answering to it. Week 3 of Spiritual Lies confronts the personal lie: the one that stopped being something you heard and became something you wear. We walk into the story of a man whose name literally had shame written into it, whose wound came from someone trying to save him, and who called himself a dead dog in the presence of a king who had already set his place at the table. And Pastor tells his own story — the one word spoken over him from childhood that followed him into sports, into work, into marriage, even into the pulpit… and the two questions a mentor asked at thirty-one that took his name back. Here's what you need to hear: someone handed you a name, but God gave you a nature. He called you by name before the lie ever showed up. And you answer to what He gave you — not the name they did. We will evict another lie in this message.

You know what we are good at? Explaining! We have context, history, and very good reasons for what we believe and how we live. Week 2 of Spiritual Lies goes after the rational lie — the one that sounds the most reasonable and does the most damage. Your mind is not neutral. And your reasons are not always truth.

We don't just believe lies — we baptize them. We pray over them, we quote Scripture around them, and call them convictions. Week 1 of Spiritual Lies confronts the one thing that makes every other lie believable: our ability to make a lie feel holy. This is where it starts. This is also where we draw the line.

As we turn 250 as a country, the question isn't whether our country is great. It's whether we still know what it was built on. Two sacrifices. Two kinds of freedom. One for your soul. One for your soil. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Galatians 5:1.

This is who you are. This is where you are from. And the truth that founded a nation is still standing.

Restoration is not a return to who you were. It is the arrival of who you were always meant to be. In this episode we follow four people through the biblical story of restoration — the prodigal son who came to himself and got up, Elijah under the juniper tree who was fed before he was sent, Peter on the beach where Jesus walked straight into the wound and replaced every denial with a declaration, and Job whose losses were restored the moment he stopped praying for himself and started praying for others. God doesn't restore you to the old version. He restores you to the true one. Joel 2:25 says He will restore the years the locust has eaten. That is not just a promise. That is a direction.

You live in two worlds. One you can see. One you can't. And most people are making every major decision based entirely on the visible one. In this episode we dig into what Paul actually meant when he said walk by the Spirit — and why the real battle you're in right now has nothing to do with flesh and blood. We look at three biblical stories: Elijah under the juniper tree, Elisha and the invisible army, and Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok. All three men encountered the invisible realm — and it changed everything. The question for you today is simple: which world is leading you?

You may be saved. But are you free? Because those are not the same thing. In this episode, we dive into what it really means to lay down your way for God's will. We dig into John 8:36 and unpack the difference between being freed from sin and being freed from yourself. One Jesus did at the cross. The other requires your cooperation. If you're tired of being your own worst prison guard, this one's for you.