I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
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… suffers severely, for he often falls into the fire, self-mutilation, and often into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him. Verse 17, then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you. Bring him here to me. And Jesus rebuked the demon. There you go. And it came out of him. And the child was cured from that very hour. So church family, listen, this is going to be very unpopular, but it's got to be said. Everything that's going on in the world cannot be written off as mental illness. Let's just stop that right now. Now, I know the world has got to talk that way because they don't know what else to say. Everything's mental illness. This and that, that's mental illness. The guy, again, we talked about him earlier in the week, but the guy that tried to crash that plane into Tel Aviv, thank God, the Lord, I think, intervened in that. But that crazy pilot that tried to, by the way, it turns out that that crazy pilot that was dedicated, Yala Allah Akbar, he's going to crash the plane, that fly Dubai airliner into Tel Aviv, he grabbed the cockpit axe. …
… Here's number six. Matthew 17, verses 14 through 21. Matthew 17, verses 14 through 21. Here's what it says. And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he came out of him and the child was cured from that very hour. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, why could we not cast it out? So Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief, for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to the mountain, move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. …
… He says, I took my son to your disciples. and they could not heal him. What a terrible indictment. Let that not be said of our churches, that we lose the generation of young people because we couldn't heal them or we didn't care or we wasn't willing to disrupt our program to meet their needs. I took my son to your disciples and they could not heal him. And then Jesus starts cussing. Now, it's in the book. Maybe you can't hear it because the 2,000 years of sanitizing the text. You may not be able to get it, but it's in the text. He says, I brought my son to your disciples and they could not heal him. And Jesus says, oh, you perverse generation, how long do I have to be with you for you understand what my ministry is all about? How long do I have to be here before you understand that people matter to me, that people are my priority? I'm not hung up on uniforms or colors of robes. …