Welcome to Burning Lab Podcast. The daily refresh
for your life. Jesus is the center of everything
we do. Burning Lab Church. I came here to ask
you guys a couple of questions. How many of you
want a greater level of intimacy with Jesus?
Good, good, good. How many of you want a greater
understanding of your identity in Jesus? I believe
that intimacy births identity. You will find
out who you are when you are intimate with the
Lord. One day we're gonna see him face to face,
guys. Are you preparing yourself for that moment?
We believe not because we see, but there is coming
a day where we will see him. The reward of every
sacrifice we made on the earth will be fulfilled
in a moment when my eyes are locked with his.
Does anybody get excited about that? Or is it
just me? Or is it just session four? Alright,
I'm just checking. Holy Spirit, wake me up. Let's
ask the Holy Spirit today to give us intimacy
and identity. 1 John chapter 3 verse 2 says this.
It says, beloved, we are God's children now,
and what we will be has not yet appeared. But
we know that when he appears We shall be like
him why because we shall see him as he is There
is a perfect version of you And it will be revealed
when you see Him face to face. So if you're struggling
in your identity, it's because you're looking
at yourself and not looking at Him. What can
I fix about me? What can I change about me? What
can I improve about me? See, your problem is
you cannot be your standard. Perfection is your
standard. Jesus is your standard. If I'm going
to have any identity, it's in Him, not in me.
Seeing Jesus allows my identity to be formed
in Him. Look at this. Hebrews chapter 1 verse
3 says this. He is the radiance of the glory
of God the exact imprint of his nature and he
upholds the universe by the word of his power
He is the radiance That's good, I need to know
He's the one that's going to light up all of
heaven for eternity You understand there's no
sun moon or stars in heaven The glory of the
Lord and the lamb will be its lamp Do you know
how bright he is? So what happens when I look
at him? What happens when I look at his radiance?
This is what the word says in Psalm 34 5 Those
who look to him are radiant And their faces shall
never be ashamed Do you see how looking at Jesus
changes everything? Some of us have been looking
at ourselves for far too long. We ain't getting
any prettier. I'm getting a little thicker. Thicker.
Guapo? I don't know. I'm just guessing here.
He is the radiance of the glory of God. Can you
imagine that? He is the mark of the glory of
God. And it comes out from him as radiance. And
when I look to him, I become like him. I believe
our greatest form of ministry is radiance. I
have no idea. Our greatest form of ministry is
radiance. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5 14. He
says you are the light of the world. He says
let your light shine before others so that they
may see your good works and give glory to your
father who is in heaven. In other words, others
will see my affection, my fire and have to attribute
it to God. They'll have to attribute it to their
creator. Even those who don't know him, they
will see him because I see him. Do you see how
our ministry is radiant? We always think it's
about what I can do. All of my good works. The
question really is are you on fire? How are you
keeping your fire going? Do you have intimacy
with Jesus? This must be the greatest question.
You see my greatest ministry to Jesus is looking
at Jesus. And my greatest ministry to people
is looking like Jesus. I don't know about you
guys, you ever think about your funeral day?
You care about the flowers that are going to
be there, right? You want to know who's going
to show up? Some of you have bouncers ready?
You want to make sure certain people don't get
to come to your funeral? I know you feel bad
that I'm dead now. So now you want to show up.
I'm gonna have bouncers. I don't really care
about any of that stuff. What I do care about
is what will be said about me at my funeral.
What will be said about you? He reached one million
souls for Jesus. He pastored the greatest church
in the world. It's called Burning Lamb Church.
He had the greatest and deepest revelations of
Jesus. None of these I long to hear. All good
things. I long to hear, Miles looked just like
Jesus. He looked just like him. I am convinced.
There is no greater accomplishment than to be
just like Jesus. Go find me a better one. You
will not find it. If my greatest accomplishment
is to be like Jesus, that must mean there's no
greater calling than to set my gaze upon Jesus'
face. I know this house is very familiar with
Psalm 27. This is the desperate cry of David.
One thing have I asked of the Lord. That will
I seek after. That I may dwell in the house of
the Lord all the days of my life. Why? To gaze
upon the beauty of the Lord. I get to just look
at Him. What is so great about golden streets
in heaven? The only thing great about them is
I walk on them to get to him. I can't even see
where I'm walking without his light anyway. I
don't want to wait till I get to heaven to gaze.
You see there's a difference we can glance or
we can gaze There's a big difference You see
before you're married I see y 'all glancing Looking
at some fine things walking by I know nobody
struggles with that in here That's the other
conference When you glance there is no intimacy
But if I get you in front of a candlelit dinner
Now we step into intimacy I want to be a gazer
not a glancer We can celebrate that if we want
to But the question really becomes for us. Do
we love seeing a move of God? Or do we love inviting
God to move in? We gotta get this people. Do
we desire pursuit? Or do we desire intimacy?
We must recognize the only thing to pursue is
intimacy. Some of us have been living a life
of pursuit, completely lacking intimacy. I glance
every Sunday morning, Saturday night, I glance
at the cross and we're almost distant from him
because we don't know how to look at him. That's
what I've come today for. I've learned that people
struggle with their identity. It's not because
they have an identity problem. It's because they
have an intimacy problem. When you are distant
from your creator, you forget what you look like.
We have an intimacy problem. Remember the scripture
from the Psalms. Those who look to him are radiant.
Look at this part. And their faces shall never
be ashamed. You see, when we see Jesus rightly,
we will not walk in shame. Because when we see
Jesus We get to see how he sees us You ever think
about that? Oh, I desire to see the face of Jesus
What happens when he looks back? How does he
see me? We need to flood our minds with this
thought How does Jesus see me? This is where
we find the fullness of our identity. Let me
tell you something. One time I went and got alone
with the Lord. This will be a fun one. You know
what a caboose is of a train? What is it? I'm
so sorry, it's okay. I went and stayed in this
this Airbnb. And it was like this this caboose
of a train. Just in the middle of some land.
It was red and cute. And I just went and got
alone with the Lord. I don't know about you.
But pretty much any time I'm expecting something
from the Lord, it's always extreme. Guys, I'm
looking up at the ceiling tiles during worship,
and I'm just wondering, like, when's the fire
coming down? So I'm thinking I'm going to this
train caboose, and the Lord's just going to pick
it up and bring it to heaven, and I'm going to
see a vision or something. Hey, nothing wrong
with this vision, though, right? Or this desire.
I want it to be a little extreme. I don't want
to not ask for anything from the Lord, right?
But I just desired that he would speak to me
while I was there. And I just said, Lord, what
do you want to speak to me? And he said this
to me. Everything will change when you know how
I see you. Changed my life. Everything will change,
Myles, when you know how I see you. I started
to learn something new from this. As one of our
greatest struggles as children of God, is that
we attempt to see Jesus' face, based upon the
condition of my flesh. I see Jesus, I look to
Jesus, but there is a filter between us. Maybe
you could just call it a veil, I don't know.
But there's this filter and it's designed by
my sin. So when I look through a filter of sin,
I'm attempting to look to Jesus through my shame.
But the word says when I look to him, my face
should become radiant. And I should never be
ashamed. How is this even possible? We look at
Jesus through the lens of our failures, our sin,
our evil thoughts, our past mistakes, basically
everything Jesus already paid for. Doesn't he
worthy of a better perception? You see, what
I started to find out is that there are three
different realities, but only one of them is
truth. Are you ready for them? I believe that
you could be set free from some things in this
moment right now. Here are your three realities.
How you see you, how others see you, and how
Jesus sees you. Think about that for a moment.
Which of these three do you want to matter the
most? how you see you, how others see you, or
how Jesus sees you. Here's the problem. The one
that matters the most to you is the one that
floods your mind the most. I know we all want
it to be number three, right? But which one's
flooding your mind? Oh, I just always, I can't
stop thinking about how Jesus sees me. That would
be the greatest problem in your life. No, the
problem we face often. Is that I look at myself
in the mirror And I see all my problems And when
I don't have a mirror to look in I have my mind
And all I can think about is what others think
about me What do others say about me? These things
flood my mind more than how he sees me What if
right now in this room take a moment reject your
thoughts reject the thoughts that people have
about you Even if they're good, they're not his
thoughts. He says, my thoughts are higher than
your thoughts. You can't even measure how high
they are. As high as the heavens are above the
earth. So are my thoughts of you. That's great
that you can tell me something good about myself.
It still can't define me. I can't let it define
me. I can't let it shape me. There's only one
that matters. This one thing I'm after. If I
can just gaze upon his face. Jesus, what do you
see when you see me? Can we just get lost in
that? What if we only pursue, how do you see
me Jesus? I think we struggle with this though.
We're constantly working on ourselves. And when
we're not, somebody else is trying to work on
us too. Nobody likes that. But if I'm going to
be clay, and I have one potter, I want him to
mold me. Maybe some of us have been molded and
shaped. By other people's words And we wonder
why God allows us to be broken sometimes Everybody
hates suffering But maybe Paul was onto something.
He says we don't just rejoice in glory. There's
a suffering we can rejoice in. Because if there's
a suffering I'm walking through right now, maybe
it's my father shaping me into something new.
Somebody just shout, Father shape me.