There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-linked Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or a gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

There is no one like the Lord Jesus.

Early this morning, I was standing in a hospital,

and I was there to pray with someone that's having a really hard time.

And I was kneeling next to the man, talking with him. He had his Bible open in front of him, and that was good, and we were talking, and I was about to pray, and a woman walked up, and she tapped me on the shoulder, and she said, excuse me, are you a minister? I don't know if that's a compliment or not. The truth of the matter is, people think they know what preachers are supposed to look like, I guess. And I said, yes, I am. And she said, well, when you're finished here, I need your help. She worked in the hospital, and I said, how can I help you? She said, well, there's a man down the hall that thinks he's demon possessed and he'd like you to help him. and I said, all right, I'd be glad to talk with him and pray with him.

And she said, all right, I'd be glad to talk with him and pray with him. And she said, well, I just want you to know, we don't want any devil's jumping

out around here. And I said, well, I'm not into that either. And when I finished, she brought the man

down the hall and we went into a room.

And I don't know what I expected.

I guess I expected some maniac, you know, some guy to just go off.

And the man sat down across from me.

I saw the pain in his face and the hurt in his eyes.

He didn't have a devil, but the devil had a hold of him. I'll tell you that, because this man was so trapped over past sins, things he'd committed and the guilt of it. It was about to drive him

crazy. Can't rest, can't live, can't keep a keep a relationship see sin traps you Jesus never traps you

he trails you but it doesn't trap you sin traps you and when it traps you it drains all the

life out of you and I said to that man first words to him I said to him I want you to know

something he didn't know me and I didn to him, I want you to know something.

He didn't know me and I didn't know him.

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