An Extreme Makeover // Name Dropping Part. 6 // Dr. Dharius Daniels

Summary

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Episode Overview

Episode Title: An Extreme Makeover // Name Dropping Part. 6
Host/Speaker: Dr. Dharius Daniels, Change Church
Date: February 16, 2026

This episode centers on the idea of spiritual transformation—an "extreme makeover"—drawing from the story of Israel in Exodus 15:22-27. Dr. Dharius Daniels explores how periods of adversity reveal hidden wounds and unaddressed issues in our spiritual life. He challenges listeners to recognize that true salvation is more than deliverance from danger: it is a journey into holistic healing and wholeness, not just outward holiness. Pastor Dharius unpacks the biblical names of God, emphasizing "Jehovah Rapha" (the Lord who heals) as God's revelation of himself in the midst of bitter, "salty" places—moments of disappointment, lingering pain, and unresolved trauma.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Pattern of Praise and Amnesia (00:02–09:50)

• Biblical Backdrop: The message begins with Exodus 15, referencing Israel's journey from the Red Sea into the desert, their crisis over bitter water at Marah, and God's provision.
• The First Praise Break: Dr. Daniels notes that Exodus 15 records the first “praise break” in scripture—corporate gratitude after deliverance:
  • “Praise break isn't just some church creation... It is an intentional interruption of previously held priorities for the purpose of expressing gratitude for God's goodness.” (03:37)
• Selective Memory: Only three days after their deliverance, the Israelites face another water crisis and forget God’s recent miracle at the Red Sea—a pattern he calls “anxiousness as a result of amnesia.”
  • “Their anxiousness is a result of amnesia...they forgot God just fixed an issue with some water.” (08:19)
• Cycle of Excitement and Disappointment:
  • The Israelites’ excitement at seeing water turns to disappointment when it is undrinkable, reflecting how we may mistake the appearance of provision for a divine answer.
  • Quote: “Now my degree of disappointment matches my degree of excitement…God, it feels like you're playing with me. Don't play God. Don't play with my emotions.” (11:33)

2. Marah as Mirror: Adversity Reveals Deep Issues (11:48–19:57)

• Salvation as a Type: The Exodus story is a foreshadowing of salvation (see 1 Corinthians 10), with the Red Sea likened to baptism.
• God’s Solution Already Exists: Moses isn’t given something new but shown an existing piece of wood, which, once thrown into the water, makes it sweet:
  • “He doesn't create anything…he shows him something that already exists...I'm gonna give you anointed innovation...” (14:10)
• Marah as Mirror: Marah reveals the internal “bitterness” that adversity brings to the surface—wounds, habits, and perspectives developed during times of bondage or pain.
  • “Did you hear what I just said? Mara was a mirror that revealed to them issues that don't come up until the bottom falls out.” (18:37)
• Lingering Egypt: Even after leaving Egypt, Israel still carries Egypt inside. This is a metaphor for the enduring effects of past wounds:
  • “I'm out of Egypt, but some of Egypt is still in me.” (19:02)
  • Metaphorical language: “Salty” and “bitter” represent unaddressed trauma, cynicism, and unhealthy responses stemming from past oppression.

3. The Wall: Adversity and the Limits of Zeal (19:58–22:17)

• New Believer Zeal: After immediate deliverance, people often exhibit zeal without wisdom, which can mask deeper, unhealed pain.
  • “When they first got out, they got new believer zeal. They have no knowledge, but zeal.” (16:40)
• Adversity Post-Salvation: Old coping strategies from “Egypt” no longer work outside of it, leading to confusion or “hitting the wall” in one’s spiritual journey.
• Golden Calf Incident: The episode connects Israel’s post-Exodus idolatry to unresolved abandonment issues from Egypt, revealing how woundedness can lead to wickedness.
  • “What if I told you that wickedness was an expression of woundedness?” (21:11)
  • Quote: “They have an attachment to who's present because they feel abandoned by whose absence. So their idolatry is a result of their anxiousness that is tied to their abandonment issues…” (22:56)

4. Spiritual Codependency & True Healing (24:09–25:45)

• Spiritual Codependency: Dr. Daniels warns against substituting spiritual leaders or institutions for the work God wants to do within us.
  • “Spiritual codependency is when Christians attempt to utilize an individual or an organization as a substitute for what God wants to equip and empower them to do for themselves.” (24:48)
  • “If you use Jesus name and your faith is strong...you can get your own oil and lay hands on your own child and pray for your fever to break.” (25:17)
• Emphasis on Personal Empowerment: God wants believers to grow beyond codependence.

5. Jehovah Rapha—Healing for the Soul, Not Just the Body (25:46–29:45)

• Revelation at the Bitter Place: God reveals himself as Jehovah Rapha—the Lord who heals—specifically in the context of emotional and spiritual wounds, not just physical sickness.
  • “To relegate Rafa to physical healing only is to rob yourself of the richness of that revelation. Like he said, I can do more than break fevers...He can break a generational pattern. He can break a dysregulated nervous system. He can break your spot of cynicism and paranoia and negative thinking. He's Rafa.” (29:02)
• Breaking Generational Patterns: True healing includes nervous system regulation, breaking cycles of cynicism, paranoia, negative thinking, and emotional dysregulation.
• Quote: “Does he heal physically? Yes. But to relegate Rafa to physical healing only is to rob yourself of the richness of that revelation...” (28:39)

6. The Order of God’s Names—Healing Before Holiness (30:32–36:43)

• Whole Before Holy: The Lord reveals himself as “Healer” before “Sanctifier” (Yahweh Makadish in Leviticus), emphasizing healing comes before full holiness.
  • “Rafa is actually introduced before the commandments because there’s some of the commandments you can’t execute without being whole.” (34:10)
• Cycle of Shame and Stagnation: Many Christians were introduced to holiness before wholeness (Makadish before Rafa), causing cycles of spiritual repression and shame.
  • “You got Macadish before you got Rafa. And some holiness doesn't come into your whole. God wants to give us an extreme makeover.” (36:43)
• Quote: “You can't break it because you're broken. So Rafa has to make you whole so you can be holy.” (34:45)

7. Honest Self-Examination and Progressive Healing (37:51–39:10)

• Transparency from the Pulpit: Dr. Daniels models honest confession about areas he’s still growing in, such as loving those who hurt him, and encourages the congregation to do likewise.
  • “Yeah, I love them with the love of the Lord. Do you want to be with them? Nope...I don't want anything bad to happen to them. That's where I'm at right now though. That's where I'm at.” (38:00)
• Healing Is Progressive: Some walls in spiritual formation can only be overcome by healing, not just self-discipline.
  • “In some areas you won't be able to be holy until you get healed. You don't been in this altar 18 times. Because you've been coming here looking for Makadish and Rafa says if you'll meet me ... I'll introduce you to Makadish.” (39:10)

8. Closing Appeal: The Invitation to Deeper Healing (39:19–end)

• Real-life Example: Dr. Daniels shares how loss affected his emotional health, making certain family situations trigger disproportionate anxiety—an example of “Egypt” lingering after deliverance.
  • “That was loss. I'm not weak. [I'm] a human that he's making whole.” (39:51)
• Holistic Salvation: The message ends with prayer for freedom from cycles of shame, encouraging listeners to seek healing (“whole before holy”) and to allow God to reveal and heal deep-seated wounds.

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Notable Quotes

• On praise and gratitude:
  “A praise break is prioritization of appreciation. It is an intentional interruption of previously held priorities for the purpose of expressing gratitude for God's goodness.” (03:37)
• On the cycle of disappointment:
  “Now my degree of disappointment matches my degree of excitement...God, it feels like you're playing with me. Don't play God. Don't play with my emotions.” (11:33)
• On spiritual wounds:
  “You can be saved and salty because Marah was a mirror that revealed to them some issues that don't come up until the bottom falls out.” (18:37)
• On spiritual codependency:
  “Spiritual codependency is when Christians attempt to utilize an individual or an organization as a substitute for what God wants to equip and empower them to do for themselves.” (24:48)
• On Jehovah Rapha:
  “To relegate Rafa to physical healing only is to rob yourself of the richness of that revelation. He can do more than break a fever. He can break a generational pattern. He can break a dysregulated nervous system.” (29:02)
• On the order of healing and holiness:
  “Rafa has to make you whole so you can be holy. So instead of experiencing what we would call a reformation, you live your spiritual life with repression.” (34:45)

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Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• [03:37] — The first “praise break” in Scripture and its significance
• [11:33] — “God, it feels like you're playing with me. Don't play God. Don’t play with my emotions.”
• [18:37] — Marah as a mirror: “...some issues that don't come up until the bottom falls out.”
• [21:11] — “What if I told you that wickedness was an expression of woundedness?”
• [24:48] — “Spiritual codependency is... a substitute for what God wants to equip and empower them to do for themselves.”
• [28:39] — “To relegate Rafa to physical healing only is to rob yourself of the richness of that revelation.”
• [34:45] — “Rafa has to make you whole so you can be holy.”
• [38:00] — Honest confession: “Yeah, I love them with the love of the Lord. Do you want to be with them? Nope...I don't want anything bad to happen to them. That's where I’m at right now though.”

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Key Takeaways

• Periods of adversity often reveal wounds and habits formed in hardship, which can impede spiritual growth unless acknowledged and healed.
• True scriptural praise and gratitude are powerful tools, not empty rituals, and serve as reminders of God’s faithfulness.
• Deliverance (salvation) is more than leaving a place of bondage; it’s embarking on a process of becoming whole (“whole before holy”).
• God’s revelation of Himself as “Jehovah Rapha” is about healing every part of us—body, mind, and soul—especially wounds hidden by zeal or spiritual activity.
• The order matters: Healing (Rapha) comes before complete holiness (Makadish); trying to be holy without being made whole leads to cycles of shame, repression, and spiritual stagnation.
• Transparency and honesty about ongoing struggles are essential for true growth, both individually and communally.

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This episode offers an invitation to radical self-examination and openness to God’s ongoing healing—a true extreme makeover for the soul, not merely the surface.

Transcript

[Pastor]

All right, well, let's go to the.

[Assistant Pastor]

Bible, the book of Exodus, chapter number 15, beginning at verse number 22. Exodus, chapter 15, verse number 22 says, Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went to the desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. Then. Then they came to Marah. They could not drink its water because it was bitter. This is why the place is called Marah. So some of the people grumbled against Moses, saying, what are we to drink? Then Moses cried out to the Lord and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water and the water became fit to drink. There. The Lord issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. He said, if you will listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you will pay attention to his commands, all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of these diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you. I want to talk from this subject in our time together. Family, an extreme makeover. An extreme makeover Family I think this passage is encapsulates an interesting axiom that I want to articulate in our time together today. It is simply this. There are certain things that don't come up until the bottom falls out. I'm going to try it again. There are certain things that don't come up until the bottom falls out. In other words, there are some issues, some idiosyncrasies that are only expressed exposed in seasons of inconvenience and adversity. And God uses the exposure of these unexposed issues as an opportunity to introduce to us an aspect of his ministry that goes unnoticed and in some cases unappreciated until we get in situations where we need a revelation that the God of Scripture is not just the God who makes us right, he's the God who makes us well. I need a better amen than that. And this particular passage here in the book of Exodus exposes us to this truth I'm attempting to articulate. We started reading in the latter part of Exodus chapter 15, but contextually, Exodus chapter 15 is called a Song of Moses and Miriam. It is a song of Moses and Miriam. Pastor, what does that mean? It's a passage that captures Israel's response.

[Pastor]

After God rescues them from Egyptian captivity and oppression. The beginning of Exodus chapter number 15 exposes us to the activity of Moses and Miriam, primarily Miriam, who leads the congregation in corporate worship as an expression of appreciation for their divine deliverance. This Particular passage gives us the first biblical picture of what we call in our context, a praise break. Are y' all here today? Yes, indeed. It is the first picture of a praise break in Scripture. Praise break isn't just some church creation. It is not just some religious routine. It's not just some empty exercise. Although some traditions and some environments and some individuals trivialize this, they make it theater. They engage in extreme emotionalism. They are distracting, and they are seeking attention. Although that is the case in some settings, it does not undermine the biblical legitimacy of pausing for the cause to give Him a praise. A praise break is prioritization of appreciation. It is an intentional interruption of previously held priorities for the purpose of expressing gratitude for God's goodness. Did you hear what I just said? It is an individual recognizing I had something else prioritized. But I am going to intentionally interrupt what I previously prioritized for the purpose of intentionally expressing gratitude for the goodness of God. Okay, here's the way you may have heard it.

[Assistant Pastor]

Said. Said.

[Pastor]

When I think.

[Assistant Pastor]

Where'S my section of.

[Pastor]

The goodness of Jesus? I was thinking about one thing. My mind was occupied with another thing. I had a different set of intentions. But something happened that reminded me of God's goodness and reminded me of God's greatness and reminded me of his promises that he has made and kept to me. And in that instance, since I press pause on everything else that I'm doing and I give him intentional appreciation for his goodness, to me, somebody take about 18 seconds and think about his greatness, think about his goodness, think about his grander, and do what they did in Exodus 15.

[Assistant Pastor]

That's right. It is rooted in Scripture. It is a scriptural practice based on this pattern in Exodus 15, which is.

[Pastor]

Why at this church, we praise them.

[Assistant Pastor]

Before service, we praise them at the beginning of service, we praise them in.

[Pastor]

The middle of service. We praise them in praise and worship, and we even praise them in the middle of the preacher. Because once we get divine revelation, that's gonna cause a divine revolution in our. We don't wait for the manifestation of what's being preached to celebrate. We celebrate in the middle because we believe God's going to do just what he said. I'm going if y' all go with me today or not. It was raining outside, so I came ready. I came with my own fire. You might not feel like hearing it. I feel like saying it today.

[Assistant Pastor]

He.

[Pastor]

They engage.

[Assistant Pastor]

In a praise break. Did you hear what I just said? Yeah, they engage in a praise break. That's what the text says. All right. They praise. And the first portion of Exodus 15, you can read it. First portion of Exodus 15 captures this song. But then toward the latter part of the chapter, text says, we read it together three days later. Three days later. Come on. They are wandering. They have gone past the shores of the Red Sea.

[Pastor]

They are wandering in a desert called Shur. And for three days they go without water.

[Assistant Pastor]

And the place the text says the people that were just appreciative three days later get amnesia. They become anxious, then they attack their asset. It's in the text. Did you hear what I just said? Three days later.

[Pastor]

I mean, after the text even says read Exodus 15 is the first mention.

[Assistant Pastor]

Of a tambourine in scripture.

[Pastor]

And Miriam uses a tambourine. After. After they got through three days later, they run into unexpected adversity. And the unexpected adversity creates amnesia. Pastor, what do you mean? Because their issue was the absence of water. They're in the desert three days with no water. So they're anxious because they have a water problem. I'm arguing that their anxiousness is a result of amnesia. Because they're anxious ladoon because they have a water problem. They're anxious because they have a water problem. They're anxious because they had a water problem. But three days before, God had just fixed a water problem because the Red Sea was a water problem. So now they're anxious about water because they forgot God just fixed an issue with some water. And I want to tell you that the same God that fixed that water problem is the same God that can fix the this water problem. The same God that fixed that provision problem is the same God that can fix this provision problem. He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.

[Assistant Pastor]

So text says they trying to find water. And they get to this place called Mara. Everybody say Mara. So they get to this place tomorrow, it's this body of water. And watch this. They get excited and then disappointed. Three days, no water. Then all of a sudden they see water. Three days, no water. Then all of a sudden they see some water. Three days, no water. All of a sudden they see some water. They've been hoping for water, praying for water, confessing water, journaling about water, believing for water. And finally they see some water. So it looks like God has answered their prayer. And then they get to the water, and the Bible calls it bitter. That just means it's salty. It's seawater, so it can't quench their thirst. So I've been needing some water, believing for water, praying for water, journaling about water. Confessing water. Then I see some water and I.

[Pastor]

Start testifying that God has given me some water.

[Assistant Pastor]

I go on threads and I say.

[Pastor]

God has given me some.

[Assistant Pastor]

Some of you on this step.

[Pastor]

I go on threads and God has given me some water. I go to IG and say God has given me some water. And then I get to what I.

[Assistant Pastor]

Think is an answered prayer.

[Pastor]

And what looks like an answered prayer is a problem. Now my degree of disappointment matches my.

[Assistant Pastor]

Degree of excitement.

[Pastor]

Because I thought you.

[Assistant Pastor]

Were going to do it. And then when I got close to it, I saw you didn't. God, it feel like you're playing with me. Don't play God.

[Pastor]

Don't play with my emotions. Where is my honest church today is. Has anybody ever been through a season where you felt like God?

[Assistant Pastor]

Don't. Come on.

[Pastor]

You didn't even have to get my hopes up about this. He gets.

[Assistant Pastor]

Tomorrow. Mara is salty water.

[Pastor]

Haya.

[Assistant Pastor]

Marah is salty water. They get to a salty place. I'm going to tell you why this is important. Because the Bible claims that Israel's exodus out of Egypt or the Bible reveals that Israel's exodus out of Egypt is a type or a foreshadowing of salvation. Can I prove it to you? The Apostle Paul in the New Testament in First Corinthians 10, verse 1, says, For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they passed through the sea.

[Pastor]

When he says under the cloud, what does that mean?

[Assistant Pastor]

When Israel was making their exodus, the Bible says God led them through signs and symbols. There was a cloud that led them by day. So they followed the cloud and there was a pillar of fire that led them by night. So that represents the presence of God. Now what Paul says here is, he says, remember, because they're in the Old.

[Pastor]

Testament, so they weren't baptized in Jesus name.

[Assistant Pastor]

Right.

[Pastor]

They didn't experience what we would call a New Testament baptism.

[Assistant Pastor]

What?

[Pastor]

Paul says that they were all under the cloud, the presence of God. And they passed through the sea. Which. What sea is that? That's the Red Sea. So the cloud represents the presence of God and the sea represents baptism.

[Assistant Pastor]

Why?

[Pastor]

Verse 2. They were all baptized into Moses.

[Assistant Pastor]

Y' all following me? Okay.

[Pastor]

And the text says once they get tomorrow, the water's bitter. They cry out against Moses. Moses doesn't cry out back to them. He cries up to God and God shows him a piece of wood. He doesn't create anything. He shows him something that already exists. So he doesn't have to create something new to fix a problem. He shows something. Shows him something that's already existing and says, I'm gonna give you anointed innovation and I'm gonna show you how to use something that already exists to solve a problem you can't solve on your own. So he says, I want you to take wood and throw the wood in the water.

[Assistant Pastor]

And when you throw the wood in the water, it's going to make bitter water, sweet water, undrinkable water, drinkable water. So you get saved from destruction because of what I did with the wood. Did you hear what I said? So it's a.

[Pastor]

It's a type of salvation because Egypt represents a type of the world coming out of Egypt represents coming out of the world, coming out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God, then being baptized through the Red Sea.

[Assistant Pastor]

Saved.

[Pastor]

Because of what somebody did with the wood.

[Assistant Pastor]

Y'.

[Pastor]

All. Did y' all catch that? Because the use of the wood in the Old Testament here is a foreshadowing of use of the wood in the New Testament, because God used wood to save their life in the Old Testament, but he used a cross to save our life in the New Testament. It's a picture of salvation. Are y' all okay? I promise you I'm going somewhere. Y' all okay? Here's why this is important.

[Assistant Pastor]

They're saved and in a salty place. Saved, but in a salty place.

[Pastor]

Saved, but in a bitter place. Place.

[Assistant Pastor]

But it took them three days to be exposed to their bitterness. Yes, indeed. When they first got out, they got new believer zeal. They have no knowledge, but zeal. Did y' all hear what I just said? Yeah.

[Pastor]

Remember, as soon as they get out.

[Assistant Pastor]

Of Egypt, remember, they get on the.

[Pastor]

Other side of Red Sea, It's a whole praise break. So they got that new believer zeal. Y' all experienced that, or you experience people who have that no knowledge, only zeal. But they think their zeal is knowledge. So they've been reading the Bible three weeks, and now you don't know what you're talking about. And you've been reading it 30 years. But when they run into adversity post Egypt.

[Assistant Pastor]

They don't know what to do because they're only experience with managing adversity when they in bondage. So I know what I do when I don't know what to do when I'm in Egypt, but I'm not in Egypt anymore. So how do I handle conflict now? How do I handle lack now? Because when I had lack in Egypt, I Knew how to run it up. It's quiet here. Did you hear what I just said? So they're saved, but they bitter saved, but salty. Because Mara was a mirror that revealed to them issues that don't come up until the bottom falls out.

[Pastor]

Did you hear what I just said? Mara was a mirror that revealed to them some issues that don't come up until the bottom falls out. Mara is when you get to the place where you realize and the three.

[Assistant Pastor]

Days represents a season, not three literal.

[Pastor]

Days, but it's a season in your spiritual journey where you realize, I'm out of Egypt, but some of Egypt is still in me. And sometimes it takes three days for.

[Assistant Pastor]

That to show up.

[Pastor]

Yes, you saved. Yes, you're going to heaven, but you're salty. And come on here. And when I say salty, I'm using it as a metaphor to expose or explain the unaddressed impact that Egypt had on you. Even though you out of it, sometimes it takes. Cuz when you got that new believer zeal, it's like I woke up and it's Jesus. And I ate lunch and it's Jesus and I went home and it's Jesus. And you need to pray like I pray and you need to read like I read and you need to be sound like I'm sound.

[Assistant Pastor]

And you need.

[Pastor]

But then three days.

[Assistant Pastor]

You hit a.

[Pastor]

Season in your spiritual journey.

[Assistant Pastor]

The wall.

[Pastor]

You hit a season here.

[Assistant Pastor]

Spiritual journey. Well, all of a sudden, the impact of all of those years of abuse and all those years of abandonment and all of those years of identity issues and all those years of exploitation and.

[Pastor]

All those years of manipulation and all those years of subjugation and all those years of oppression and suppression and depression. You hit a place where you see the impact of all of those years.

[Assistant Pastor]

And you see some ways, some habits, some tendencies, some impulses, some perspectives, some.

[Pastor]

Practices that grew out of the wounded.

[Assistant Pastor]

Soil of their soul that was not.

[Pastor]

Automatically either evicted when they made an exit out of Egypt. My God. Did you hear what I just said? I said not automatically evicted when they're out of Egypt. I got Bible.

[Assistant Pastor]

I said I got Bible. You guys remember when Israel built that golden calf? What if I told you that wickedness was an expression of woundedness? I got Bible. I got this. Exodus 32. Watch what it says. Exodus 32. We're going to read it together. We're going to read it together. When the people saw that Moses was so long, and in coming down from the mountain, they gathered aon and said, come make us gods who will go before Us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him. We read.

[Pastor]

Put, put.

[Assistant Pastor]

Get my text back up.

[Pastor]

They watch.

[Assistant Pastor]

What? My text? Same one verse? Yeah. Verse one. The one we just had up. Please. Exodus 32. Right one. All right, no problem. I got it here.

[Pastor]

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain.

[Assistant Pastor]

Are y' all hearing this?

[Pastor]

When they saw he was so long. What is taking him so long? Then they gathered around the one who was there. They don't even know this man if it's not for Moses. So they have an attachment to who's.

[Assistant Pastor]

Present.

[Pastor]

Because they feel abandoned by whose absence. So their idolatry is a result of their anxiousness that is tied to their abandonment issues that was accumulated in Egypt. He about to leave. Me too.

[Assistant Pastor]

Okay. Okay.

[Pastor]

Are you all okay?

[Assistant Pastor]

Okay. Come. Let us make gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him. So watch this. They don't even ask for Aaron to be their leader. They ask for Aaron to help them make a God. Because they were treating Moses like. Like. Cuz spiritual infancy creates spiritual codependency. And many people become challenged when spiritual families like a change church, which is all about life change and spiritual maturity.

[Pastor]

And growth, won't accommodate spiritual codependency.

[Assistant Pastor]

Instead of Moses being treated like God's man.

[Pastor]

They were treating Moses like a God. When Moses was just the vessel that God used to get them out of Egypt. If Moses would have said no, he would have picked somebody else. Hallelujah. God's gonna get it done. Did you hear what I just said?

[Assistant Pastor]

Yeah.

[Pastor]

Spiritual codependency is when Christians attempt to utilize an individual or an organization as a substitute for what God wants to equip and empower them to do for themselves. Y' all aren't talking to me in here. Did you hear what I said?

[Assistant Pastor]

So.

[Pastor]

So. Do we need other people to help us pray? Yes. Is there a ministry for an intercessor?

[Assistant Pastor]

Yes.

[Pastor]

But if you use Jesus name and your faith is strong. When your baby got a fever and the Tylenol won't work and you can't get to a preacher, you can get your own oil. I. I need a church in here today. And lay hands on your own child. And pray for your fever to break.

[Assistant Pastor]

That fever to break.

[Pastor]

All right, Let me wrap up.

[Assistant Pastor]

They tired. All right. Pastor, what do you say? It's at this place that the Lord makes this Statement. It's at the bitter place. It's at the salty place that he makes this statement. If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of these diseases I have brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you. It is in this place, the bitter, salty place that he reveals himself in, as Yahweh or Jehovah. Rafa, the Lord who heals.

[Pastor]

Are y' all hearing this?

[Assistant Pastor]

It. It is in this bitter place, this salty place, that he reveals. I'm the Lord who heals. Now, here's what I want to do. I want to do a little preaching polemic here, okay? I want to do some loving correction here. I want to do it charitably and humbly. But very often, for those of us that are familiar with Jehovah, Rapha, we talk about the name, but not the context that the name was given. Because the context that the name was given in reveals to us what the name actually means. Because Rafa has been historically interpreted and relegated to physical healing. But no one in this text is physically sick.

[Pastor]

Mara did not reveal physical sickness. Mara did not reveal a sick body. Mara revealed a sick soul. How you come out of Egypt, but you are sick with cynicism, and you.

[Assistant Pastor]

Are sick with anxiousness.

[Pastor]

And your. The constant stress you are under has caused you to have a deregulated nervous system. And now anytime somebody says, I need to talk, your heart rate goes through the roof. Because your nervous system has been subjected to constant and consistent stress, you cannot enjoy seasons of God's bountiful blessings, because something in the inner recesses of your soul gets scared and paranoid when things start going well. So you brace yourself and you are waiting for the bottom to fall out. Because all that time in Egypt has you under so much emotional dysregulation that you cannot enjoy the goodness of God in the land of the living. S.

[Assistant Pastor]

And Rafa says, I want to heal that. Does he heal physically? Yes. But to relegate Rafa to physical healing only is to rob yourself of the richness of that revelation. Like he said, I can do more than break fevers. Glory to God.

[Pastor]

I feel Pentecostal hit me one time. I said, he can do more than break fifas. That's it right there. I need somebody to help me preach this. I said, he can do more than break a fever. He can break a generational pattern. He can break a dysregulated nervous system. He can break your spot in of cynicism and paranoia and negative thinking. He's a Rafa. I said he's a Ra. We gotta go.

[Assistant Pastor]

It's in this context that he reveals himself to be Rafa, Say you saved. I'm done. But you're almost paranoid. You waiting on the bottom to fall out. Because in Egypt that's all that did happen. So now that's all you think will happen. And he says, I want to heal that Moses. Go to the store. You think he never coming back. He just went to the store. Where you at? I just. I'm coming back. I just went to the store. Where you at? Wait a minute. That's aggressive.

[Pastor]

Where you at?

[Assistant Pastor]

Rafa says, I know you saved and I got you out of Egypt and you had that new Egyptian zeal. But then I took you through a season three days you ran into what's called the wall. And now you see I'm saved and I'm out of Egypt. But there's some stuff God's telling me to do that I was able to do immediately after Egypt. But now that I've been in this three days, it's some stuff I'm still struggling to do. And I'm going a second way. And they don't have answers. So they keep telling me to do what I did. So. So I keep going the second way because they don't have the answers cuz they not living it. They tell you to do more what you're already doing. Cuz they're not humble enough to admit they stuck at the same wall you are. They just got a mic, They just got a teaching gift, but they still stuck. Rafa is expanding our understanding of success, salvation to what we call sozo. We have a whole change track, six weeks on this. Because salvation has roots in this word, sozo. And it means holistic salvation, comprehensive restoration. It means to save from danger, destruction and eternal death, to heal from disease, to preserve and to keep safe, but to also to make whole and restore. And many of us have been operating with an incomplete understanding of salvation that accepts we can be rescued, but ignores that we can be repaired. So when we get to this wall and we realize, okay, I was able to stop some stuff, but I hadn't stopped all the stuff. And I'm able to love some people, but I ain't loving my enemies yet. And then Second Way creates such a culture of pretension that you feel judged by being honest. So you're more accepted. Accepted in Second Way as a hypocrite. Than you are as an imperfect person. So if you don't love your enemies, but act like you do in second way church, you accept it. But if you honestly say I don't love my enemies, then you judged. Because here's my point. There's another name of God. We're dropping two names today. There's another name of God that comes in the book of Leviticus. Leviticus, chapter number 20. He says, Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord that makes you holy. That's Jehovah or Yahweh, Maccabeesh. Now Exodus in the Bible is before Leviticus, right? Yes, Exodus. Exodus is before Leviticus, which means Rapha is introduced before Makadish, if you want to get technical. Rafa is introduced before Mount Sinai. So Rafa is actually introduced before the commandments because there's some of the commandments you can't execute without being whole. Here's some of your challenge. I gotta go. And we're over time. This is about to be a problem. But I'm sorry, but I needed like a Sunday evening so service for this, really. Here it is, here it is. Listen to me, listen to me. Now some of your challenge. Those of you who aren't churched, you may not have this issue because you don't have this, you don't have to detox from this. But some of you, here's your challenge because it was mine, you got introduced to Makadish first. So they preach to you Makadish and not Rafael. So it kept you in a cycle of spiritual stagnation, sin and shame. Because no matter how much you kept praying, it's some stuff you couldn't break. But you can't break it because you're broken. So Rafa has to make you whole so you can be holy. So instead of exposing, experiencing what we would call a reformation, you live your spiritual life with repression. And then there are some people who are Pharisees who live in a constant state of repression because they, they don't have a healthy theology of spiritual formation. So all they talk about is repression, repression, repression, repression. So they live live with a hyper religious zeal that creates a sense of superiority because you don't love Jesus like I do, because you're not doing what I do, when the fact is you have to keep doing that because every day you have to fight a dragon that you could make a snake. So you you dealing with a dragon when you could be dealing with a snake. If you let the Holy Spirit actually heal you so you bragging about your holiness, but you're not whole.

[Pastor]

That's why you mean.

[Assistant Pastor]

And. And kindness is the fruit of the spirit. So if you're not kind, I don't.

[Pastor]

Care how much Bible you teach or preach, it says to me. There's an area of your soul that's not whole. And so now you gotta fight your.

[Assistant Pastor]

Demons and dragons every day.

[Pastor]

And now you assume everybody else has the same demons and dragons because you stuck on the side of a wall.

[Assistant Pastor]

So now you can have no balance because you have no strength. And when we have balance, you call us uncommitted. When you really underdeveloped.

[Pastor]

You that weak?

[Assistant Pastor]

You can't hear a song and not get into bed. I'm weak. You got Macadish before you got Rafa. And some holiness doesn't come into your whole. God wants to give us an extreme makeover. I'm sorry. We way over, but we got. We just. We just got to stop. I don't know, But this is a space where you need to be honest. There's some areas where you're stuck. And it might not be a sin cycle. It might be an obedience issue. You really can't love your enemies yet. Like I'm at the point. Well, I'm not gonna do nothing wrong to mine. That's where your bishop at. So. So let me.

[Pastor]

Let me model now.

[Assistant Pastor]

I didn't have to tell you that. Why'd I say that? I'm trying to model something for you that you need to do. Like.

[Pastor]

Yeah, I love them.

[Assistant Pastor]

With the love of the Lord. Do you want to be with them? Nope. Want to hang out with? Nope. Amen. I don't want anything bad to happen to them. That's where I'm at right now though. That's where I'm at. Amen. I'm not going to bother you back. That's it. Stay over there. Why? Because everybody's got an area where he's working you through the wall. So I gotta progressively heal you Gotta progressively heal you. Because in some areas you won't be able to be holy until you get healed. You don't been in this altar 18 times. Cuz you've been coming here looking for Madish and Rafa. Say if you'll meet me. I promise you if. If you meet me, I'll introduce you to Makadish.

[Pastor]

I'll make the introduction. Cuz Maish is the Lord that makes you holy by making you whole.

[Assistant Pastor]

Lord have mercy. So I'm getting ready to pray. Cuz why would you Believe he can heal cancer and can't heal resentment.

[Pastor]

You won't live.

[Assistant Pastor]

You'll fight the good fight of faith with cancer, but won't fight it with paranoia. And Rafa wants to regulate. Why do I keep hearing nervous systems? Rafa wants to regulate nervous systems. You're not bad, you broken, you're afraid. You want it you out of Egypt. But you can't go through what you went through in Egypt and Egypt not impact you. And the devil don't want you to have this revelation because he wants you. And he wants well meaning but unformed and uneducated preachers to keep you stuck in a sin cycle because they haven't met Rafa yet. You can't fix it. This is why you're in a cycle whole before holy. I'm going to pray you're here today. Jesus is Rapha, Jesus is Nisi, Jesus is Makadish, Jesus is God. See, the more the Lord sanctifies you, the more you see and even stuff you thought you were through and over, he shows you aspects of it. We're showing up in your life in different ways. I didn't know until literally the Holy Spirit just showed me this, this moment on this stage that when I lost my friend Ramal Harper in 2019, what it created in me is an unhealthy fellow when it comes to anybody I love deeply. So my wife's mammograms make me so nervous. My father. Phone ring. If it's early in the morning, I see dad on there. My heart rate spiked. That was loss. I'm not weak. A human that he's making whole. And right now I believe the holy. Why did I say that? I didn't have to say that to you. I'm modeling something. I'm not only called to give you theology, I'm called to be an example so that you can put it into practice. And I believe the Holy Spirit show us right now where some of our Egypt is showing up. And Rafa, would you heal, would you set free and would you deliver in Jesus name? You're free to go, but some of you are free to stay. We'll figure the rest of it out, but I think some of us just need a minute. And so some of you, if you need to go, you can go. Please go if you need to go. But you don't have to go just yet. Amen. Sa.