CCOG Sunday morning Service 9-7-25. When Band-Aids Aren't Enough: Jesus Heals the Root Cause

Through powerful biblical examples, we explore how genuine encounters with Jesus result in profound, lasting change that addresses the root causes of our pain rather than merely masking symptoms.

• No one comes to Jesus and walks away unchanged
• We are invited to come as we are with all our scars, wounds, and brokenness
• Band-aids cover wounds but don't heal the underlying cause
• The leper's story demonstrates faith, desperation, and Jesus's willingness to touch the untouchable
• Levi (Matthew) left everything behind when Jesus simply said "follow me"
• The sinful woman at Simon's house showed greater love than the religious host
• Religious pride is often harder to break free from than other sins because it masquerades as righteousness

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Chapters

• 0:14 Introduction and Ministry Information
• 2:16 Coming to Jesus Just As You Are
• 5:18 Band-Aids Cover But Don't Heal
• 9:48 The Leper Who Sought Healing
• 13:35 Levi the Tax Collector's Story
• 19:34 The Sinful Woman and the Pharisee
• 31:20 Forgiveness and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

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Speaker 2: 1:03

Thank you, lord. We've got to know what the Word of God says Praise God, praise God, praise God. Thank you, jesus. We've got to know the Word I'm going to preach to you. Monitors still aren't right. $20,000 system. Let's get this thing right. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We're not in a hurry, we're just going to let God be God, hallelujah. Thank you, jesus. We're just going to let God be God, hallelujah. Thank you, jesus. Still in a hole. One more try before I go without it. Praise God.

Speaker 2: 2:04

Turn in your Bibles with me to Hebrews, chapter 11. I've been on, I've been here for a minute and I've never been more sure about messages than I have been the last few weeks, because I want to remind you that no one everybody say, no one say, not even me came to Jesus and walked away unchanged. When you encounter Him and you come in contact with Him, you will never be the same again. The woman at the well I've told you for three weeks now was offered water before she was living right. We live in a society that makes me ill, that wants people to live right before they start living right. We live in a society that makes me ill, that wants people to live right before they start living right. You come to Jesus just as you are, with all the scars, all the cuts, all the bruises. You come to Jesus just as you are. There's people here today that God has all I don't know specifically names, but there are people here today. You have scars and you have wounds and you've even thought to yourself I can't come to Jesus in this condition. You need to come to Jesus in that condition, exactly the way you are. When you truly have an encounter, things change forever. Even when you walk away from him, you don't forget about him. Once you've tasted that the Lord is good, you will never be satisfied with anything that this world has to offer. There were many people in the Bible who came in contact with him and came to him and every single time you read it, they left changed. I've told you for two weeks and I'm going to tell you again A band-aid covers the cut, but it doesn't heal the cause.

Speaker 2: 4:43

There's some people today walking around with band-aids on and all you're doing is covering up the true cause of the hurt and the pain that you're going through. Can I stay right here just a minute? Amen. There's some hurting people in this room. There's some afflicted people in this room. There's some wounded people in this room. You try to hide it with a smile. You try to cover it up, amen. You try to make it up, you try to dress it up, amen, but you're covering it with the wrong thing. You're slaips that band-aid off and the wound is. I'm talking to hurting people today. I'm talking to hurting people today. That's tired of putting on the facade that everything's alright when it's not. I don't know why I'm here, but here I am. You've tried to cover it up. You've tried to self-care.

Speaker 2: 5:50

You see, ibuprofen masks the pain, but it doesn't solve the problem. Ibuprofen just tells your brain that the pain is no longer there. But underneath that medicine, the pain is still throbbing. Why? Because the root cause is still there. Ibuprofen doesn't have the ability to heal the cause. It only has the ability to mask the symptoms, has the ability to mask the symptoms. You go to the emergency room or you go to the doctor and they give you something to take the pain away. But there's times until you lay on the stretcher and the doctor comes in with the scalpel and sometimes has to cut you open and go in and find what the problem is and then address it. I don't know who you are today, but Dr Jesus is in the room with a scalpel and he's ready to cut you open and find out what it is that's causing you the pain. Money will soothe the moment, but it always leaves you wanting more.

Speaker 2: 7:15

Many Christians, we've mastered covering, masking and soothing, but we remain conniving, miserable and sinful. We talked about in Luke, chapter 5, verses 12 and 13, the leper who came to Jesus, who wasn't supposed to come near anybody, but he knew. This is my last ditch effort. Anybody been there. This is my last effort. I've tried everything. I need some honest people in the room. Effort, I've tried everything. I need some honest people in the room today. I've tried everything. I've been to doctors, I've been to specialists. I've been referred to this, I've been referred to that. I've gone to visit this one. I've gone to visit that one. Amen, it's your last ditch effort.

Speaker 2: 8:01

He had leprosy and the next step was death and he said if I'm going to live, then I must get to Jesus. I came to tell somebody today if you're going to live, you've got to get to Jesus. You've got to get to Jesus. And he ran and fell at his feet. Oh, we can't do that because we've got an image to uphold. I'm preaching it the way God gives it. I've got an image to uphold. I can't let people see me get down on my knees and get down on my face. They'll think I'm weak. Oh, you're weak, all right. You're weak when you can't admit that you need help. He wasn't supposed to come near Jesus' bodyguards Kidding. We're supposed to keep people like this away, but this man was so determined to receive his healing he ran and he fell at the feet of Jesus.

Speaker 2: 9:27

How many of you know that Jesus could have said leprosy be gone, and it was gone. But because there was some churchy people in the room and there was some religious people in the room, jesus reached out and touched him. The only thing worse than touching a leper was touching a dead person, made him ceremonially unclean and he had to go through the rites and the rituals of being cleansed again. But Jesus didn't care what the church people said. Jesus reached out and he touched the leper. After the leper said I know you can, but will you Amen?

Speaker 2: 10:03

I believe everybody in this room by a showper said I know you can, but will you Amen? I believe everybody in this room by a show of hands. Who knows he can? Oh, we know he can. Even sinner people know he can. Even the babies know he can. Even people that don't know him, never had a relationship with him, they know he can. Amen.

Speaker 2: 10:20

But I'm afraid there's a lot of blood-bought, soul-saved, delivered people in this room that still struggles with will he? I know he can, but I need to know if he will. Well, you're in the right place, at the right time, on the right day, because the same one who can is the same one who will. And if he touched the leper, he'll touch you and make you whole. And not only did he touch him, he touched him and he said I will be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy left him. I said somebody needs to. You're here today and you're desperate, and if you'll come to him immediately, immediately, immediately, he will touch you and make you clean.

Speaker 2: 11:08

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on William, come on bub, get in the altar. He'll make you clean immediately. I don't care if they come 500 times, he will. Hallelujah, I don't want to step on your phone, sis. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. I don't want to step on your phone, sis. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, my God, my God, my God, my God. He will touch the untouchable, he will hug the unhuggable. But you got to come to him. Throw my text up on the screen. You gotta come to him. Believing that he is, believing that he is amen. Without faith, you can't please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is. Hey, boys, you can come to the altar all day, every day, but it ain't gonna to do you any good until you believe that he is. You got to believe that he is. You got to believe that he is and that he is a rewarder.

Speaker 2: 12:36

Amen. Hid alam asando bokotamaha. Hid alam oshatara bokotamaha. Pray, pray, pray. You ain't been desperate enough. You ain't needed him bad enough. Oh no, preacher, I've needed him pretty bad. You have a funny way of showing it. Then you had keep praying. I'm preaching. In the same chapter you had Jesus. That came to Levi, the tax collector, who was also Matthew, one of the disciples. Levi was Matthew, matthew was Levi Before he was a disciple he was a tax collector and I got news for you.

Speaker 2: 13:52

Jesus didn't wait for Levi to come to him. He went to Levi, brother Brock. He went to Levi at work. Levi worked for the IRS of Rome. He was a Roman tax collector, or the King James version called it. I forget the name. Now somebody look and see publican, there you go. A publican, not a Republican, a publican. He was a tax collector. And Jesus already had fishermen and Jesus already had people who left their line of work to follow him, simply by the call follow me. There's not a living, breathing human being in this room. Right now. You may be pregnant with a baby, that baby in your womb which, by the way, is a living soul. The call goes out follow me. Jesus is saying follow me To these babies in the room. Follow me. You may be here and you may be old and you think your time is over. Saying follow me To these babies in the room. Follow me. You may be here and you may be old and you think your time is over. Jesus still calls Follow me. The call is going out, follow me. So he went to the IRS office. He went to the IRS office and he found Levi sitting in his booth, sitting behind his desk, sitting in his chair, collecting, collecting taxes, and he walks in, brother Steve, and he looks at Levi and he says follow me. He didn't say quit doing this and quit doing this and quit doing this. Jesus simply said follow me, because when you follow him, I said, when you follow him, amen, he'll teach you the way you're to walk, he'll teach you the way you're to talk, he'll teach you the way you're to live. You don't need anybody to tell you those things, he'll teach you when you follow him. So Levi got up, pushed his chair under his desk and he quit his job and he followed Jesus.

Speaker 2: 16:34

The difference between Levi and Peter and the other fishermen they could easily go back to their jobs if things got rough. Matter of fact, there was one time you read where Peter said we go a fishing. That's King James Version. And hillbilly he said that. He said I go a fishing. It's in the King James Version, read it for yourself. He said I go a fishing. In other words, he was saying this following Jesus thing is getting too hard, man, I tell you.

Speaker 2: 17:10

I hope y'all went and listened to that YouTube message from RW Schambach. That was Jesus or Peter. I think it was Peter on fire, peter at the fire and Peter under fire. Amen. Oh, it's good. I dare you, double dog, dare you to go listen to it. Rw Schambach on YouTube. Go listen, amen. But Peter said I go fishing. He said I can't do this anymore. Amen.

Speaker 2: 17:32

I was making better money when I was practicing my trade. I was doing better when I was out on the sea. I was doing better when I was dropping my net. Amen, I was providing more, doing better, being better. Amen. I can't do this anymore. It's getting hard, it's getting tough, amen. But how many of you know? You can't just walk away like that and leave Jesus behind Without Jesus speaking to your heart and Jesus saying you can run, but you can't hide. You've already committed to following me.

Speaker 2: 18:05

So Levi left his job and he followed Jesus. The Bible even tells us that he hosted a dinner with all of the other tax collectors. He had a tax collector banquet and Jesus went and he had dinner with the tax collectors and the scribes and the Pharisees. There they are. There they are. What are you doing? Hanging out with sinners and tax collectors? And Jesus told them in my own words I'm the great physician, amen.

Speaker 2: 18:47

And I came. The well people doesn't need a physician, but the sick people do. I came to the sick people, amen. I came to the people who need a savior. I came for the people who needed deliverance. I came for the people who needed this and I came for the people who needed that, amen. If you shun the alcoholic, if you shun the drug addict, if you shun the prostitute, if you shun the people on the street corner, my God, what kind of Christian are you? Those are the very people Jesus came to seek and to save that which he didn't come for the church people in their three-piece suit, amen. Walking in with a silver tongue.

Speaker 1: 19:26

He came to seek and to save that which was lost.

Speaker 2: 19:34

Amen, amen. Luke 7. 36. And one of the Pharisees, simon by name, desired him that he would eat with him. Oh, okay. Desired him that he would eat with him. Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 2: 20:02

This Pharisee saw Jesus go home with the tax collectors and the sinners and have a meal. So he was going to invite him over to his house and he went. Jesus is like free meal, let's go. So he went and he sat down to meet and behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner. This is not the Mary Magdalene account. This is a totally different account. I don't know why we're shocked that this would happen twice, when it should be happening every day. Oh, you mean two women did this. Oh yeah, I'm trying to figure out why 200 of them didn't. This woman was a sinner.

Speaker 2: 21:10

She came to the door of a Pharisee. For her to barge into the home of a Pharisee took some guts and took some desperation. She knew Jesus was in that house having a meal and I don't believe she called him on the phone and I don't believe she sent him a text that said I hate to bother you, but it's kind of like my second year teaching. I called my principal. After hours. I called him on the phone, brother Steve, I said I hate to bother you, and his reply was then don't click, point taken, point taken. No, she didn't even give a courtesy call. She didn't give a courtesy text. She barged in the door because she knew her help was in that room and if I'm going to get the help I need, I've got to get in that room. I know this is somebody else's house and I know this is somebody else's dinner, but I've got a need that is eternal. I know this is somebody else's house and I know this is somebody else's dinner, but I've got a need that is eternal. I've got a need that if I don't get to him, if I don't get to where he's at, I may be lost for the rest of my life. Oh to God. Our sons and our daughters, our husbands and our wives, all of our people, would come to the knowledge if I don't get to Jesus, I'll be left out.

Speaker 2: 23:03

She was a sinner. She knew Jesus was in the house of the Pharisee. She brought an alabaster box full of expensive perfume and she stood at his feet behind him, weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them. Stop right there, that's a mouthful. She washed his feet with her tears, washed his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair. She kissed his feet with her lips and she anointed his feet with the perfume. Again, a lot of times. We're too proud that there's people in this room today. You are in desperate need now.

Speaker 2: 24:20

When Simon the Pharisee, which had bidden him, saw it, he spake within himself. Somebody say within himself. He didn't say it out loud, he thought it oh, have you not learned that you don't even have thoughts in front of Jesus? Jesus will read your thoughts. Some of you are scared right now.

Speaker 2: 24:47

This man, if he were a prophet, like he says he is, come on, come on. If that church is who that church says they are, if that preacher is who that preacher says he is, come on, I got news for you. They say it about you too. If you do all this you you say you do If he were a prophet, he would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him. She is a sinner. So what he's saying is, if Jesus was who he said he was, he would know that this woman was a no good prostituting. That's what a lot of the commentators say that she was a prostitute, a no good prostituting, sinner. Let me go ahead and tell you something. Jesus did know who she was. Jesus did know who she was and he didn't stop her. And Jesus looked at Simon, the Pharisee, and said oh, I love it, I love it, I've got to hurry. I have somewhat to say to you. In other words, he said I've got something to say. And Simon said, master, trying to use flattery, you've got to discern flattery. Some people will say they love you and they're ready to stab you. Master, say on, or what is it? You've got to say 41. 41.

Speaker 2: 26:50

He said there was a certain creditor which had two debtors. One of them owed 500 pence and the other one of them 50. And when they had nothing to pay, pull your pockets out, because I know both of you Pull them out, just as I suspected, just as I suspected. So I should have been a prophet myself, shouldn't I? And when they had nothing to pay, you know what he did. These two guys owed him five pence and 50 pence. He didn't have it, and neither did he. Go back one verse, I'm sorry. Go back one verse, then we'll go back to 42. Go back to 41. I got to get this out right 500 pence and 50 pence.

Speaker 2: 28:09

He didn't have anything to pay his debt and he didn't have anything to pay his debt and he didn't have anything to pay his debt, but he forgave both of them. He said now tell me which of the two, the one with 500 or the one with 50, which of them will love him most? Simon the Pharisee said I suppose he said this reluctantly, I suppose to whom he forgave most? And he said unto him, thou hast rightly judged. In other words, you got that right. The one that owed him 500 and he forgave him loved him more than the one who owed him 50, but he forgave him too. Thank you, boys.

Speaker 2: 29:07

And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon, you see her, I entered into your house, ready for this. I'm about to close. Come on, tyler, get your game face on. He said you see her, I entered into your house, come on, come on. You didn't give me any water to wash my feet, but she washed them with her tears. You didn't give me a towel to wipe them off, but she wiped them with her hair. Come on, let's keep going. You didn't greet me with a kiss, but since the time I walked in this room until I talk to you now, I'm talking to you right now and this woman is still kissing my feet, my head. You were supposed to give me a courtesy anointing of oil, but this woman has not stopped anointing my feet with this expensive perfume. Help me, jesus.

Speaker 2: 30:22

I was going to save some of this for the leadership meeting at 5 o'clock tonight that I expect to see you at, especially if you are interested in being a leader. I would rather have five people here tonight that is going to be all in than a room full of this and that hit and miss whatever. I'm not going to purposely hurt your feelings, but we're going to do some things that might be offensive, but we're going to a new level in Jesus and there's going to be some things required of us. That's going to hurt, that's going to make us swallow pride. I'm not going to do it. Then you need to stay home or come to the altar, one or the other.

Speaker 2: 31:11

He said you see, this woman's sins were many, but they are forgiven. She loved much, but to whom little is forgiven? The same loveth little, and he said unto her your sins are forgiven. You see, simon, simon thought Jesus is going to teach this woman a lesson, but it wasn't the woman that Jesus was teaching the lesson to. It was the Pharisee. And I'm here to tell you a Pharisaical spirit and a religious mindset is harder to break loose of than alcohol, drugs and all that stuff, because it is an evil spirit that wants to get a hold of you and not let go of you under the guise of righteousness of you. Under the guise of righteousness, he said your sins are forgiven you. I'm not going to teach you a lesson, simon, through her wrongdoing. I'm going to teach you a lesson, simon, through your. God will always teach us through us. We like for Jesus to teach us through other people, but you need to go to the bathroom and look in the mirror, because Jesus will teach you through you. Has he ever taught you a lesson through your mishaps? Has he ever taught you a lifelong lesson through your shortcomings?

Speaker 2: 33:09

And they that sat at the table, all the other Pharisees began saying within themselves who is this that forgiveth sins? Also, they started realizing that he not only had the power to heal, he not only had the power to deliver. He not only had the power to resurrect, but he had the power to deliver. He not only had the power to resurrect, but he had the power to forgive. And he said to the woman Thy faith have saved thee. Go in peace, stand with me all over the house. I need every child of God praying right now, very pivotal time, very pivotal time, very pivotal time.

Speaker 1: 34:40

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