“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.And 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 hither to me.
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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. …
… And they couldn't bring deliverance. And Jesus responds, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me. Then they brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, fell on the ground, and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. when the devil makes a scene, it's... when the devil is drawing attention to himself in something like this, it's not his best card. It's his last card. He's been forced into the open. But what happens for many of us is we see displays like that and become fearful. And that's what he holds. It's his last card. If I can make them fearful, then I get to remain. fear empowers so many torments in a person's life fear empowers the enemy to kill steal destroy it's an agreement fear is an agreement with the enemy so here the demons manifest and i'm sure that must have happened for the disciples it doesn't say i'm assuming it did but they couldn't get breakthrough Thank you. …
… 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. …