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Perspective Shift
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| It's all a matter of perspective. | |
| It really is. | |
| It's all a matter of perspective. | |
| The man was paralyzed and he was paralyzed for 38 years. | |
| Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to get well? | |
| All it required was a yes or no response. | |
| The way he saw things was different. | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Do you want a latte? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Do you want caramel macchiato latte? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Yes or no, right? | |
| Jesus asked the man, do you want to get well? | |
| A yes or no response will do. | |
| His response is cognitively incoherent. | |
| He says, I can't. | |
| Jesus never asked him if he could. | |
| So parenthetically speaking, Jesus is looking at the man going, hey, sunshine. | |
| Obviously, you can't. | |
| If you could, you wouldn't be there in the first place. | |
| The problem is, not only was this man physically paralyzed, he was spiritually paralyzed, morally paralyzed. | |
| Every vestige of his life, his destiny was paralyzed. | |
| And then Jesus looks at him and does something powerful. | |
| Jesus could have easily walked away and said, you have zero faith. | |
| I can't work with you, but he didn't. | |
| Jesus looked at him and said, stand up. | |
| Now, I need you to get this here. | |
| That's where you go back to the Greek exegete of the passage. | |
| Jesus tells him to stand up. | |
| The man just said, I can't. | |
| Why didn't Jesus walk away? | |
| Jesus told him to stand up. | |
| If you do the Greek exegete, stand up was not a supposition. | |
| It wasn't a consideration or a recommendation. | |
| Jesus commanded him to stand up. | |
| In other words, Jesus bypassed the drama and spoke to his destiny. | |
| He bypassed the problem and spoke to the promise. | |
| So he spoke to his purpose inside of him and said, you're standing up whether you like it or not, sunshine. | |
| I'm not asking you. | |
| I'm telling you to stand up. | |
| That's the power of the word of God. | |
| I don't care how paralyzed you may be right now. | |
| There is a word from heaven. | |
| Your children may be paralyzed. | |
| Your faith, your finances, your health, your anointing, your joy, your peace. | |
| There's a word from heaven. | |
| And right now, the word from heaven is this. | |
| Stand up in the name of Jesus. | |