WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.240 Welcome to Burning Lab Podcast. The daily refresh 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.820 for your life. Jesus is the center of everything 00:00:09.820 --> 00:00:14.400 we do. Burning Lab Church. I came here to ask 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.760 you guys a couple of questions. How many of you 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.399 want a greater level of intimacy with Jesus? 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:27.059 Good, good, good. How many of you want a greater 00:00:27.059 --> 00:00:34.460 understanding of your identity in Jesus? I believe 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:42.250 that intimacy births identity. You will find 00:00:42.250 --> 00:00:47.929 out who you are when you are intimate with the 00:00:47.929 --> 00:00:50.009 Lord. One day we're gonna see him face to face, 00:00:50.289 --> 00:00:54.409 guys. Are you preparing yourself for that moment? 00:00:56.709 --> 00:01:01.509 We believe not because we see, but there is coming 00:01:01.509 --> 00:01:07.030 a day where we will see him. The reward of every 00:01:07.030 --> 00:01:11.569 sacrifice we made on the earth will be fulfilled 00:01:11.569 --> 00:01:15.230 in a moment when my eyes are locked with his. 00:01:17.750 --> 00:01:21.909 Does anybody get excited about that? Or is it 00:01:21.909 --> 00:01:26.980 just me? Or is it just session four? Alright, 00:01:27.019 --> 00:01:31.340 I'm just checking. Holy Spirit, wake me up. Let's 00:01:31.340 --> 00:01:33.680 ask the Holy Spirit today to give us intimacy 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:42.620 and identity. 1 John chapter 3 verse 2 says this. 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:48.319 It says, beloved, we are God's children now, 00:01:48.459 --> 00:01:52.799 and what we will be has not yet appeared. But 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.980 we know that when he appears We shall be like 00:01:56.980 --> 00:02:05.739 him why because we shall see him as he is There 00:02:05.739 --> 00:02:19.199 is a perfect version of you And it will be revealed 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:24.379 when you see Him face to face. So if you're struggling 00:02:24.379 --> 00:02:28.560 in your identity, it's because you're looking 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:33.159 at yourself and not looking at Him. What can 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:38.699 I fix about me? What can I change about me? What 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:42.599 can I improve about me? See, your problem is 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:48.069 you cannot be your standard. Perfection is your 00:02:48.069 --> 00:02:53.889 standard. Jesus is your standard. If I'm going 00:02:53.889 --> 00:02:59.069 to have any identity, it's in Him, not in me. 00:02:59.669 --> 00:03:03.810 Seeing Jesus allows my identity to be formed 00:03:03.810 --> 00:03:11.550 in Him. Look at this. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 00:03:11.550 --> 00:03:18.990 3 says this. He is the radiance of the glory 00:03:18.990 --> 00:03:24.629 of God the exact imprint of his nature and he 00:03:24.629 --> 00:03:29.210 upholds the universe by the word of his power 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:48.469 He is the radiance That's good, I need to know 00:03:48.469 --> 00:03:52.349 He's the one that's going to light up all of 00:03:52.349 --> 00:03:58.110 heaven for eternity You understand there's no 00:03:58.110 --> 00:04:04.210 sun moon or stars in heaven The glory of the 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:10.349 Lord and the lamb will be its lamp Do you know 00:04:10.349 --> 00:04:15.360 how bright he is? So what happens when I look 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.899 at him? What happens when I look at his radiance? 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:28.300 This is what the word says in Psalm 34 5 Those 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:35.779 who look to him are radiant And their faces shall 00:04:35.779 --> 00:04:41.459 never be ashamed Do you see how looking at Jesus 00:04:41.459 --> 00:04:46.480 changes everything? Some of us have been looking 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:52.220 at ourselves for far too long. We ain't getting 00:04:52.220 --> 00:05:02.240 any prettier. I'm getting a little thicker. Thicker. 00:05:09.450 --> 00:05:13.449 Guapo? I don't know. I'm just guessing here. 00:05:15.129 --> 00:05:21.310 He is the radiance of the glory of God. Can you 00:05:21.310 --> 00:05:23.949 imagine that? He is the mark of the glory of 00:05:23.949 --> 00:05:32.250 God. And it comes out from him as radiance. And 00:05:32.250 --> 00:05:38.259 when I look to him, I become like him. I believe 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:50.360 our greatest form of ministry is radiance. I 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:55.459 have no idea. Our greatest form of ministry is 00:05:55.459 --> 00:06:05.500 radiance. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5 14. He 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:09.879 says you are the light of the world. He says 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:16.699 let your light shine before others so that they 00:06:16.699 --> 00:06:21.839 may see your good works and give glory to your 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:27.959 father who is in heaven. In other words, others 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:34.060 will see my affection, my fire and have to attribute 00:06:34.060 --> 00:06:38.779 it to God. They'll have to attribute it to their 00:06:38.779 --> 00:06:45.500 creator. Even those who don't know him, they 00:06:45.500 --> 00:06:51.240 will see him because I see him. Do you see how 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:57.519 our ministry is radiant? We always think it's 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:04.230 about what I can do. All of my good works. The 00:07:04.230 --> 00:07:10.629 question really is are you on fire? How are you 00:07:10.629 --> 00:07:15.730 keeping your fire going? Do you have intimacy 00:07:15.730 --> 00:07:20.170 with Jesus? This must be the greatest question. 00:07:22.389 --> 00:07:25.730 You see my greatest ministry to Jesus is looking 00:07:25.730 --> 00:07:33.579 at Jesus. And my greatest ministry to people 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:41.139 is looking like Jesus. I don't know about you 00:07:41.139 --> 00:07:43.560 guys, you ever think about your funeral day? 00:07:47.980 --> 00:07:49.660 You care about the flowers that are going to 00:07:49.660 --> 00:07:54.740 be there, right? You want to know who's going 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:58.899 to show up? Some of you have bouncers ready? 00:08:02.930 --> 00:08:04.790 You want to make sure certain people don't get 00:08:04.790 --> 00:08:09.649 to come to your funeral? I know you feel bad 00:08:09.649 --> 00:08:14.069 that I'm dead now. So now you want to show up. 00:08:15.149 --> 00:08:19.790 I'm gonna have bouncers. I don't really care 00:08:19.790 --> 00:08:23.790 about any of that stuff. What I do care about 00:08:23.790 --> 00:08:26.370 is what will be said about me at my funeral. 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:36.279 What will be said about you? He reached one million 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:41.940 souls for Jesus. He pastored the greatest church 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:46.000 in the world. It's called Burning Lamb Church. 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:51.200 He had the greatest and deepest revelations of 00:08:51.200 --> 00:09:01.149 Jesus. None of these I long to hear. All good 00:09:01.149 --> 00:09:06.649 things. I long to hear, Miles looked just like 00:09:06.649 --> 00:09:15.429 Jesus. He looked just like him. I am convinced. 00:09:17.309 --> 00:09:22.970 There is no greater accomplishment than to be 00:09:22.970 --> 00:09:28.649 just like Jesus. Go find me a better one. You 00:09:28.649 --> 00:09:32.570 will not find it. If my greatest accomplishment 00:09:32.570 --> 00:09:38.730 is to be like Jesus, that must mean there's no 00:09:38.730 --> 00:09:44.029 greater calling than to set my gaze upon Jesus' 00:09:44.230 --> 00:09:49.750 face. I know this house is very familiar with 00:09:49.750 --> 00:09:56.309 Psalm 27. This is the desperate cry of David. 00:09:59.419 --> 00:10:04.820 One thing have I asked of the Lord. That will 00:10:04.820 --> 00:10:09.360 I seek after. That I may dwell in the house of 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:18.080 the Lord all the days of my life. Why? To gaze 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:25.159 upon the beauty of the Lord. I get to just look 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:29.820 at Him. What is so great about golden streets 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:34.759 in heaven? The only thing great about them is 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:41.220 I walk on them to get to him. I can't even see 00:10:41.220 --> 00:10:46.899 where I'm walking without his light anyway. I 00:10:46.899 --> 00:10:49.159 don't want to wait till I get to heaven to gaze. 00:10:52.090 --> 00:10:54.970 You see there's a difference we can glance or 00:10:54.970 --> 00:11:03.690 we can gaze There's a big difference You see 00:11:03.690 --> 00:11:10.629 before you're married I see y 'all glancing Looking 00:11:10.629 --> 00:11:15.870 at some fine things walking by I know nobody 00:11:15.870 --> 00:11:19.629 struggles with that in here That's the other 00:11:19.629 --> 00:11:25.629 conference When you glance there is no intimacy 00:11:25.629 --> 00:11:32.990 But if I get you in front of a candlelit dinner 00:11:32.990 --> 00:11:41.970 Now we step into intimacy I want to be a gazer 00:11:41.970 --> 00:11:47.970 not a glancer We can celebrate that if we want 00:11:47.970 --> 00:11:56.200 to But the question really becomes for us. Do 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.980 we love seeing a move of God? Or do we love inviting 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:10.919 God to move in? We gotta get this people. Do 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:15.600 we desire pursuit? Or do we desire intimacy? 00:12:17.450 --> 00:12:23.710 We must recognize the only thing to pursue is 00:12:23.710 --> 00:12:25.789 intimacy. Some of us have been living a life 00:12:25.789 --> 00:12:35.929 of pursuit, completely lacking intimacy. I glance 00:12:35.929 --> 00:12:41.799 every Sunday morning, Saturday night, I glance 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.379 at the cross and we're almost distant from him 00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:52.000 because we don't know how to look at him. That's 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:57.259 what I've come today for. I've learned that people 00:12:57.259 --> 00:13:02.980 struggle with their identity. It's not because 00:13:02.980 --> 00:13:07.360 they have an identity problem. It's because they 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:12.059 have an intimacy problem. When you are distant 00:13:12.059 --> 00:13:18.100 from your creator, you forget what you look like. 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:23.440 We have an intimacy problem. Remember the scripture 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:30.399 from the Psalms. Those who look to him are radiant. 00:13:30.940 --> 00:13:34.919 Look at this part. And their faces shall never 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:41.179 be ashamed. You see, when we see Jesus rightly, 00:13:44.659 --> 00:13:50.980 we will not walk in shame. Because when we see 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:58.259 Jesus We get to see how he sees us You ever think 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:02.419 about that? Oh, I desire to see the face of Jesus 00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:09.299 What happens when he looks back? How does he 00:14:09.299 --> 00:14:15.139 see me? We need to flood our minds with this 00:14:15.139 --> 00:14:22.220 thought How does Jesus see me? This is where 00:14:22.220 --> 00:14:27.539 we find the fullness of our identity. Let me 00:14:27.539 --> 00:14:31.659 tell you something. One time I went and got alone 00:14:31.659 --> 00:14:41.919 with the Lord. This will be a fun one. You know 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:48.799 what a caboose is of a train? What is it? I'm 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.100 so sorry, it's okay. I went and stayed in this 00:14:52.100 --> 00:14:57.100 this Airbnb. And it was like this this caboose 00:14:57.100 --> 00:15:01.620 of a train. Just in the middle of some land. 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:06.700 It was red and cute. And I just went and got 00:15:06.700 --> 00:15:10.480 alone with the Lord. I don't know about you. 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.139 But pretty much any time I'm expecting something 00:15:14.139 --> 00:15:21.370 from the Lord, it's always extreme. Guys, I'm 00:15:21.370 --> 00:15:25.149 looking up at the ceiling tiles during worship, 00:15:25.309 --> 00:15:27.970 and I'm just wondering, like, when's the fire 00:15:27.970 --> 00:15:32.250 coming down? So I'm thinking I'm going to this 00:15:32.250 --> 00:15:36.669 train caboose, and the Lord's just going to pick 00:15:36.669 --> 00:15:38.330 it up and bring it to heaven, and I'm going to 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:43.570 see a vision or something. Hey, nothing wrong 00:15:43.570 --> 00:15:45.350 with this vision, though, right? Or this desire. 00:15:47.419 --> 00:15:51.500 I want it to be a little extreme. I don't want 00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:53.320 to not ask for anything from the Lord, right? 00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:57.440 But I just desired that he would speak to me 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:01.720 while I was there. And I just said, Lord, what 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.639 do you want to speak to me? And he said this 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:10.320 to me. Everything will change when you know how 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:20.450 I see you. Changed my life. Everything will change, 00:16:20.649 --> 00:16:27.750 Myles, when you know how I see you. I started 00:16:27.750 --> 00:16:32.769 to learn something new from this. As one of our 00:16:32.769 --> 00:16:38.169 greatest struggles as children of God, is that 00:16:38.169 --> 00:16:44.080 we attempt to see Jesus' face, based upon the 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:51.639 condition of my flesh. I see Jesus, I look to 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:57.639 Jesus, but there is a filter between us. Maybe 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.120 you could just call it a veil, I don't know. 00:17:00.940 --> 00:17:03.279 But there's this filter and it's designed by 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:09.140 my sin. So when I look through a filter of sin, 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:14.160 I'm attempting to look to Jesus through my shame. 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:22.960 But the word says when I look to him, my face 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:28.119 should become radiant. And I should never be 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:36.079 ashamed. How is this even possible? We look at 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:42.400 Jesus through the lens of our failures, our sin, 00:17:43.619 --> 00:17:49.799 our evil thoughts, our past mistakes, basically 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:54.599 everything Jesus already paid for. Doesn't he 00:17:54.599 --> 00:18:00.039 worthy of a better perception? You see, what 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.920 I started to find out is that there are three 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:08.339 different realities, but only one of them is 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:13.190 truth. Are you ready for them? I believe that 00:18:13.190 --> 00:18:14.789 you could be set free from some things in this 00:18:14.789 --> 00:18:19.549 moment right now. Here are your three realities. 00:18:21.690 --> 00:18:28.630 How you see you, how others see you, and how 00:18:28.630 --> 00:18:32.410 Jesus sees you. Think about that for a moment. 00:18:34.569 --> 00:18:36.849 Which of these three do you want to matter the 00:18:36.849 --> 00:18:45.750 most? how you see you, how others see you, or 00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:50.890 how Jesus sees you. Here's the problem. The one 00:18:50.890 --> 00:18:55.009 that matters the most to you is the one that 00:18:55.009 --> 00:18:58.910 floods your mind the most. I know we all want 00:18:58.910 --> 00:19:03.390 it to be number three, right? But which one's 00:19:03.390 --> 00:19:07.809 flooding your mind? Oh, I just always, I can't 00:19:07.809 --> 00:19:12.829 stop thinking about how Jesus sees me. That would 00:19:12.829 --> 00:19:16.809 be the greatest problem in your life. No, the 00:19:16.809 --> 00:19:22.940 problem we face often. Is that I look at myself 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:29.160 in the mirror And I see all my problems And when 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:34.059 I don't have a mirror to look in I have my mind 00:19:34.059 --> 00:19:36.440 And all I can think about is what others think 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:43.259 about me What do others say about me? These things 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:50.279 flood my mind more than how he sees me What if 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:57.170 right now in this room take a moment reject your 00:19:57.170 --> 00:20:02.130 thoughts reject the thoughts that people have 00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:07.660 about you Even if they're good, they're not his 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:12.539 thoughts. He says, my thoughts are higher than 00:20:12.539 --> 00:20:17.140 your thoughts. You can't even measure how high 00:20:17.140 --> 00:20:21.619 they are. As high as the heavens are above the 00:20:21.619 --> 00:20:29.019 earth. So are my thoughts of you. That's great 00:20:29.019 --> 00:20:31.339 that you can tell me something good about myself. 00:20:34.620 --> 00:20:39.539 It still can't define me. I can't let it define 00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:45.980 me. I can't let it shape me. There's only one 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:52.119 that matters. This one thing I'm after. If I 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:57.779 can just gaze upon his face. Jesus, what do you 00:20:57.779 --> 00:21:05.109 see when you see me? Can we just get lost in 00:21:05.109 --> 00:21:10.269 that? What if we only pursue, how do you see 00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:17.089 me Jesus? I think we struggle with this though. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:25.059 We're constantly working on ourselves. And when 00:21:25.059 --> 00:21:26.720 we're not, somebody else is trying to work on 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:35.460 us too. Nobody likes that. But if I'm going to 00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:41.980 be clay, and I have one potter, I want him to 00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:46.839 mold me. Maybe some of us have been molded and 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:54.700 shaped. By other people's words And we wonder 00:21:54.700 --> 00:22:00.380 why God allows us to be broken sometimes Everybody 00:22:00.380 --> 00:22:06.519 hates suffering But maybe Paul was onto something. 00:22:06.819 --> 00:22:11.599 He says we don't just rejoice in glory. There's 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:16.660 a suffering we can rejoice in. Because if there's 00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:21.319 a suffering I'm walking through right now, maybe 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:24.380 it's my father shaping me into something new. 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:31.059 Somebody just shout, Father shape me.