“I'm going to insert it in there, press as far as I can (until it stops) - and then I'm going to blow air! When I blow air, your intestines are going to straighten up – so I can shove it some more; then I'm going to blow air again, and shove it some more. When I get it as far up your behind as I can, I'm going to insert a camera in there – and then pull it out slowly, and look and see what I can see.
I thought: is that really necessary? I mean like: honestly? I said: look, I'm just hurting, give me some pills. He said: no, I've got to... I said: listen, you do what you got to do. I'm in pain, you just do what you've got to do - and he looked at my mum, and he said: “he ain't faking”! He's telling the truth! He said: man, we haven't done anything like that since the '50s! And then it hit me later - those poor people who grew up in the '50s. They actually did that to people!
If you're here tonight, and you've been Iron-Horsed, we need to pray for you for deliverance! I mean - my goodness! If you're here tonight, and they did that to you - I am so sorry! We'll be glad to pray for you tonight.
But think about it, think about medicine now. Do you realise that in 50 years, we're going to look at how we treated cancer, and we're going to go: what were we thinking? We're constantly learning new things.
God is infinitely big, but God is also infinitely small.
In 1911 they discovered atoms. Before that, they said: molecules were the smallest part of you. Then they said: wait a minute, no, no, no - atoms make up molecules. Later they discovered protons, neutrons and electrons. So they said: the protons, neutrons and electrons make up the atoms, so they're actually the smallest part of you. Then in the 1950s, they discovered baryons - which make up the electrons; so they said: wait a minute, no - baryons are now the smallest part of you. Then in the '60s they discovered mesons, which make up the baryons, which make up the electrons; they said: no, wait a minute, okay, mesons are the smallest part of you. Then in 1968 they discovered quarks, which make up the mesons, which make up the baryons, which make up the electrons, which make up the atoms, which make up the molecules, which make up you. Then in the '80s they discovered something called gluons, which make up the quarks, which make up the mesons, which make up the baryons, which make up the electrons, which make up the atoms, which make up the molecules which make up you.
How many of you know, that the longer we journey - and the bigger the microscopes get - the smaller the intricate details of your life are actually going to be? God is infinitely big; but to fully understand God, you have to understand: not only is God ‘infinitely big’, God is ‘infinitely small’ - concerned about every small detail in your very breath - because that is where He lives.
To truly ‘walk with God’ means embracing the idea that: I will never walk beyond God. I have to trust Him.
Are you a co-operator with God; or a manipulator of Him?
When we make God manageable, our concept of God becomes an idol; and here's the worst part of it: we always force ourselves to bow to our idols; but worse than that, we force everybody else to bow to our concepts of God.
Whatever idol about God we make - we make everybody else bow to what we think is right (and we're in, and everybody else is out).
So let me close this session out with a few application questions...
1) What are my concepts of God?
2) Are those concepts bringing me to light, or to darkness? Are they putting me in bondage, or leading me to freedom?
3) Where are my ‘concepts of God’ making my ‘addiction to be right’ and ‘to control’ even worse? Where is my concept of God making me an unloving person? Where do I believe that I'm right and everyone else is wrong - I'm in, everybody else is out?
4) Last question. Can I give up all that - to simply trust God - that He is the big Mighty One living in me?
Closing Prayer