What we're hoping for is that as we study the Word of God, that the Holy Spirit is just going to enlighten the eyes of our hearts so that we can grasp much more than we knew when we came about the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us.

We have chronic resistance to dependency on God.

We honestly, y'all, we want him to rescue us and then we want him to leave us alone.

Come in.

We want him to be, you know, the emergency broadcast system.

We want him to be the EMT. We want him to come, you know, the emergency broadcast system. We want him to be the EMT.

We want him to come in the ambulance and get us in an emergency, but we don't want him to mess

with us beyond that because we have a chronic resistance to dependency on God.

But here's the joke.

And I say this, listen, I'm not talking down to you.

I'm telling you, I have lived out every bit of this lie.

What I'm about to tell you, I know by heart in shocking ways, that the joke here is that there really is no such thing as human complete independence.

We're acting like I don't want to be dependent upon God because I want to be independence.

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. All we're doing is changing one dependency for another.

I can tell you right now, and you can take this to the bank,

that if you are underestimating God, you are overestimating something else, or you are overestimating

someone else. It happens every single time, because it will be one or the other. Oh, we are

dependent on something. We can either be dependent entirely upon God

and be free or we can be codependent and caught up in bondage. That's how this goes down.

Because I can either be dependent upon God or I can be dependent upon all my substance abuse.

Am I talking to anybody in the house today? Because we're talking about real things today. Or I'm going to be dependent upon all my substance abuse. Am I talking to anybody in the house today?

Because we're talking about real things today.

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