Limitless
by Sam Hodum
March 6, 2022 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Jeremiah 5:22-23, Philippians 4:9, Philippians 4:13

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pastor thank you so much as you said just jump right to it in jeremiah 5 22 23 this is god's word translation it says do don't you fear me ask the lord don't you tremble on my presence i made the sand a boundary of the sea and a permanent barrier that it cannot cross although the waves toss continuously they cannot break through although they roar they can't cross it but these people are stubborn and rebellious they have turned aside and wandered away from me you see when the sea starts tossing and turning on the boundaries of your life this continuously looking and chaos and roar in studies that shows that an elephant is born the owner takes a chain or a rope to the elephant's leg it is when the elephant tries to break the chain or rope it starts to dig into its skin and the elephant brings pain has pain in his leg from the chain the elephant is constrained and eventually as the elephant is young it burns into the elephant's mind that no matter what it does it keeps trying to break the train the chain but it's going to hurt so eventually the elephant stops trying as the elephant grows and gets larger it won't even try to break free because it associates the bondage with pain even though we know and the seven ton elephant can walk right through the rope the elephant still knows its boundaries and limits you see when the owner takes place it doesn't matter if it's a steak it doesn't matter if it's a pole it doesn't matter if it's a tree stump the chain is still there consistently attached to the leg so when it walks it learns its boundary say if i go this way that brings pain i know my limits i can't go forth i know it still brings pain but even though the chain digs into the skin it has established a circumference around the leg to understand the pain is still there and still real so it does not try to walk through the boundaries that it has reached through but brings to pull they cannot bring the full potential as the elephant can really do as we know the elephant is one of the biggest animals in the world but yet the conditions that it has it is conditioned by the surrounding of the chain the chain and rope has to bound us from the condition that god still has limited for our life you see just like the elephant we can't reach our full potential in the church in our prayer life in our home because to ourselves we let go and god will bring us but we understand if we let go there's going to be some growing pains there's going gonna be some things that we gotta let go of and we go back to the limit and we minimize god you see even when they take the chains off of the elephant's leg you don't understand the elephant still walks its boundaries you let go of the chain that the devil has still put on you even though the chain is 30 years old it's still we can walk right out of it the elephant still walks that same boundaries he still looks over and said this is what i know this is where i've been i can live like this it's when you get comfortable and the surroundings in your condition is when the devil starts tempting you say hey hey can't go that far you can't go this way you can't do that because this chain is still on you but even though we understand the conditions we don't get too comfortable because when we do it's when the pounding of god starts to reach us don't you forget where you are if you comfortable it's because something is bound it's because something is about to reach its full potential it may hurt a little bit but when god gets to work it you let go of the things that are conditioned to you and you let the promises of god be glorified in the potential you can grow in you see it's not that the pain the addiction the pride the lust the hurt or the shamefulness is went through the growing praise but when you let go of the chain when you let go of the weight when you let go of the pain when you let go of the shamefulness when you let go of the stains of the chain when you let go of the pride and the pain that it takes you through to get to where you are the boundary is limitless we get to use to the boundary and the bondage that we don't even realize how much sin we really have in philippians 4 9 those things that which he had both learned and received and have heard and seen in me do and god peace shall be with you peace shall be with you limitless church we are limitless to the miraculous work of god no matter what chain or bondage has in your life in philippians 4 13 everybody knows this scripture for i can do all things through christ which strengthens me see church it does not matter about the pain you go through we all realize when you take that chain off is when you get into a prayer life is when you take that chain off the altar becomes your friend but let me tell you something is if you let the boundaries step forth in the footsteps of god is when your boundaries are limitless but though the boundaries are set forth through god as he did the seas and the land he can understand and control your work did you know a flea has a 36 inch vertical someone think about that no everybody knows michael jordan he had a 48 vertical everybody knows lebron james has a 42 vertical but a flea has a 36 vertical who in your ass pets oh come on everybody like those fleas don't they they get how do they get to the couch from the kitchen table i don't understand that how do you get from my socks to the baby's clothes i don't understand this but a flea has a 36 inch vertical if you capture a flea and you put them in a jar and you close the lid back the fleet knows one thing it has a 36 vertebrae after the flea starts jumping into the jar it keeps getting knocked down by hitting the lid after a while after getting hit so many times the flea starts making some adjustments as the flea starts jumping in the jar and keeps getting knocked down and hitting after hitting after hitting the flea only jumps barely to the top of the lid to where he knows he won't get knocked down to where he is comfortable since the lid is on his environment has him jumping nowhere near his potential even though he has a 36 vertical he's going to limit himself to where i'm going to jump just enough so i can barely get by to where i can barely survive but after a while the fleas have fleas they multiply the flea was born into a condition of the environment the flea is born into a 36 vertical but because he sees his mother his father jumping barely to the top of the lid it duplicates the behavior you see churches when you start not jumping and you don't start clapping is when you don't start running you don't start speaking in tongues your children and your children's children are gonna duplicate that behavior it is when you don't understand the behavior the fleeing never reaches his potential it is when you let the chains be broken of god and your boundaries be broken is when you understand the potential of god and your surroundings that can be set forth right now in your ministry right now in your home life if you need a healing you need to surround yourself with higher potential until you take off the lid you're going to duplicate your surroundings the potential has that god has so much for you if you let go of the bondage if you let go the things that you want to reach for no matter what happens you are going to understand your barriers you are going to stand the boundaries god set forth for you and not what the enemy has set forth for you right now i know there are some people in this church where you are just bound in that same chain you were born with and that same chain you have lived within your whole life it could be lust it could be pornography it could be addiction it could be not having a prayer life it can be your lack of life with jesus but i promise you that chain's still going to be there but it's going to be an altar to where you can look at it like this is where i came from this is my starting point my limitless boundary is there and i'm not waiting around here to see what i can do because if you limit yourself from god you're going straight to hell there are things that you don't understand that god can do for you and the surroundings that you're going to duplicate are going to hurt those around you your potential has a place your potential i have breakthroughs i see people each and every day their potential was so high but they limit their self because of statistics they said from your family there are chains wrapped around those families to where they understand the behavior is natural when you have a drug addict daddy you have a drug addict son when you have an alcoholic mother you have an alcoholic son it is limitless when you set forth the potential of god and when you set forth the place that you can look for even though you do have stains in your hands or the scars in your legs that the devil was pouring at you year to year you look back at you and you understand that god has made a difference in your life in the garden when peter took the sword and cut off the guard's ear the lord said here i made you whole was there a scar think about that the lord cut off the lord put back the ear even though peter had an anger problem he was in denial he looks back and he understands why does he have a scar i cut off that man's ear i know you didn't the lord looks at him and understands there could be healing in the place of your environment so just like the flea is the smallest and just like the elephant is the biggest they don't understand the potential as a seven ton animal walking around its boundaries it can be set forth from a little stake but then you have a flea that has a 36 inch vertical that can never reach its potential because it is bound by the duplicate surroundings that is captured by the enemy's camp so church don't let the enemy win don't let the enemy win your potential is enough the lord has the things for you that can be surrounded by you that god can reach forth the surroundings of the holy ghost if you let the holy ghost set forth in your life there keep your potential growing in the surroundings don't let the enemy or statistics keep you awake for the potential of greatness