Some people in your life do not want you healed. Not because they hate you, but because your brokenness pays them.
It funds their income, feeds their ego, entertains their boredom, or protects their control. And most of us have never stopped to ask the question this sermon forces: who around me profits from my pain?
In Acts 3, a man who could not walk spent over 40 years being carried to the temple gate to beg. Carried by the same people, to the same spot, every single day. And Pastor Jonathan Evans asks the question hiding in plain sight: if they were consistent enough to carry him to the gate every day, why did they never once carry him inside for healing? Maybe because his begging was their business.
In this message, you will learn:
- How to spot the people who need you broken: insecure bosses, misery-loves-company friends, emotional vampires, sympathy dealers, and toxic mentors and partners
- The Acts 16 story of masters who got rich off a girl’s bondage and jailed the man who set her free
- Why forgiveness is letting them go, but you cannot reconcile with everybody you forgive
- Why you can be consistently at church and consistently stuck, and how honesty starts the healing
- The difference between the people who profit from your pain and the two good men who stopped and gave
- How one healed life made God famous and led 5,000 people to Christ
