Mario Murillo: The Cry of the Broken Heart (Psalms 34:17-18)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 05/01/2024

Mario Murillo: The Cry of the Broken Heart (Psalms 34:17-18)
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This poor man cried to the Lord and the Lord heard him.
You know the one, look at me - I mean this,
the one thing you've always wanted to say to God,
it's stuck in your throat.
I need to be somebody.
I need to belong to somebody.
I've got to know that this whole thing
is not some joke
and I'm not stuck in some prison
where no matter what I experience or where I am,
it hurts, it disappoints, and it leaves me empty
So, he grabbed God.
"I don't care if it kills me."
And God said,
"You got to let Me go because the sun is coming up."
And he said, "No, I won't." [Genesis 32:22]
Not until I am a valid person
I'm not going to let You go.
See, I'm going to tell you
you may think you want more money, but you really don't.
You just don't know you don't.
You may think you want
the most beautiful girlfriend, but you don't.
You just think you do.
What you really want
you can't even put into words.
It's stuck in your throat.
"I want to wake up and know that I am a valid, legitimate,
honest person with a valid life,
with a meaningful identity
and a plan that works and a rightness and a peace.
What I want, Mario, is that thing called - hope.
I want to get up in the morning
and know I'm not having to get through this day."
So God warned him, said, "You better let go of me."
"No I won't."
Then the most confusing thing I've ever read happened
God touched the joint,
the strongest joint in your body is your hip joint.
He touched it and dislocated his hip.
Ouch I mean 3 alarm - Ouch!
And Jacob wouldn't let go.
And I'm confused because I'm sitting, thinking to myself,
"I'm holding somebody that has the power to dislocate my hip
but can't break my grip on them.
Because he wasn't being held to God by his physical power."
He's being held by another power.
A power God can't resist,
a power that the man
in Psalm 36 understood.
God cannot resist the sincere cry of a broken heart.
I'm going to say it again.
God cannot resist the cry of a sincerely broken heart.
"It isn't your arms that are hanging Me here.
It isn't your physical strength that is holding Me here.
It's your heart's cry.
It's what you want."
In Proverbs chapter 18, verse 14
I'm sorry I threw a curve that didn't give this
to the folks that run the screens,
But it said "that a man's spirit will sustain them in their sick bed.
A positive attitude will help you through an illness...
but there's a comma there and it says
"but a broken spirit who can bear it?"
If you're sad, if your heart is broken, if your life is empty,
that can be worse than any illness.
It can be something that will have an effect
on you that is indescribable.
I know a man and with this, I'm going to close my sermon
at least the first
of this sermon,
because there's going to be another one.
I'm sorry, you people are too kind.
How do you sell your soul to the enemy?
You become a tax collector where you're collecting money
from the Jews and giving it to the Romans.
And he sat at that table and his name was Matthew.
There's a special kind
of hardness of heart, he's got to have.
Some of you have that too.
"I'm bitter, I'm broken, I'm angry, I'm disappointed
I'm devastated with life."
and you're not committing instant suicide
but progressive suicide
by allowing yourself dangerous actions
that you know will sabotage your health
and your friendships.
You're doing it on purpose.
And the Bible says that Jesus looked at Matthew
the tax collector, like I'm looking at you.
And there must have been a distance that He walked
because I want you to imagine, here's Matthew.
We don't know the levels of conscience he had to die to
in order to become a tax collector.
I mean, it's not like a woman cradles her baby and says
to her son, "I hope you'll grow up and be an IRS agent,
that's my aspiration for you."
But the Bible says that he headed toward Matthew.
Somebody's on the way to your seat.
Somebody is on their way to your circumstance.
Somebody is out in the back ready,
standing in front of you saying,
"Do you want this nightmare to end?
Are you ready to stop hurting and wondering what's real
and what isn't and what love is and what love is not?
And that low grade fear that's so indefinable that
paralyzes you every day, you want to get rid of that?"
Nobody knew the private hell of Matthew.
Nobody knew what was going on inside of his heart.
Nobody but Jesus.
And so when he started walking there
the 12 who are almost always befuddled.
Are wondering what's he going to say?
And you could really gauge where you are
with God by surmising
in your mind what you thought Jesus would say to