Thank you for always listening to our podcast.
We hope they are a blessing to your life. Okay.
And as you're going there, let's just put your
Bible up in the air. Come on. Just put it up
in the air. Tonight, Holy Spirit, pierce us with
your word. Forgive us for not rightly honoring
your word. Pierce us until we become... In Jesus'
name. I want to encourage you. There's no greater
supernatural encounter. I'm probably a little
loud by the way. I'm gonna start screaming and
it's gonna get crazy. Okay, just wanted to warn
you. Sometimes I think we want to just come and
get zapped. We like falling over. And I love
that. We love the power. We love the anointing.
But I believe that the greatest purest and most
supernatural encounter is when the very words
of Christ pierce our hearts to such a degree
that we actually become like Him. God doesn't
want to just give us a one night touch. Listen,
he's not that cheap. He wants to form himself
inside of a people until we start shining. So
often times, we got the spirit over here, and
we got the word over here, and there's no such
thing as separation. In 1947, Smith Wigglesworth
prophesied that the next great awakening in the
world would come when the church rightly honors
the spirit And the word. Because they are one.
So we're not approaching the Bible tonight. We're
approaching the Lamb. He's the volume of the
book. We don't want to know the Bible. We want
to know Jesus. And He gave us 66 books to discover
who He is. So it shouldn't just sit on our shelf.
I open it when Pastor Daniel teaches me. We shouldn't
want falling over more than we want His Word.
We should say, Jesus, I want you to come into
me. And if I'm going to go down, I better come
up more like Jesus. Or we just had a show tonight.
And you know I love you, right? And just so you
know, if I say something that offends you, he
didn't say it. And he didn't say it. So you don't
have to leave their churches. Because I'm going
to get on a plane and I'm going to go back to
Florida. So if you don't like me, I'm not your
pastor. Your pastors are sweet. Okay, but I'm
not here to entertain you tonight. I'm not here
to please you tonight. Our job is not to entertain
you. Our job is to equip you. So even if it feels
like a sword going in, just know that this is
how the Spirit of God works. He's a sword that
pierces. It says the word separates bone from
marrow. It deals with your lies. Anyone ever
been reading the Bible? And you just went there
to read. But then all of a sudden you're crying.
And it's reading you. And you're like, I didn't
realize how many things I needed. to heal in
my heart. It's the only book in the world that's
alive. And I think that we've had an apostasy
that's taken away from the Word. And we've settled
for services. We don't need services. The world
would have been saved a long time ago if it was
up to services. Jesus would have come back in
a Catherine Coleman meeting, I promise. There's
more power. powerful services to go to. It's
not until a group of people begin to see who
they are that the cry of creation, the groan
of creation that's crying out for change, it's
going to come through the manifestation of the
sons of God. So we got to learn some stuff. Amen,
amen, amen. Thanks Noah. Alright, go to Isaiah
6. I'm not going to get there anytime soon. I
just want you to go there and stay there. Just
so you can have your Bible open. And then I'm
going to work my way there. And it will come
together in Isaiah 6. But I'm going to start
in Hebrews 6. I don't want anybody to turn to
it. I want you to pay attention. Just keep your
Bible open. open in Isaiah 6. The point of this
conference has been unveiled, right? In Isaiah
chapter, I'm sorry, Hebrews, Hebrews chapter
6, there's this profound revelation that the
writer of Hebrews brings us into When he's talking
about an oath that God made with Abraham, and
God comes to Abraham, and he says when he looked
at Abraham, he wanted to make a covenant with
this natural man. This natural man, Abraham,
wasn't strong enough to carry his side of the
covenant. Okay? As amazing as Abraham was, God
had it in his heart. I want to make him some
promises. I want to make him a covenant. But
if I'm going to be on this side, Abraham is not
strong enough to be on this side. So what he
does, according to Hebrews 6, is when he wanted
to make an oath with Abraham, it says that God
made an oath with himself. And he made this oath
with himself. Hebrews 6 tells us to show the
character of who He is. And this oath and covenant
God made with Himself about Abraham, it says
is the anchor of our soul in the Most Holy Place.
Here's the picture. You're the Christian in the
middle. That's weak. struggles, you cannot hold
up the other side of the covenant. So what God
did, and now let's just say I'm in the most holy
place, because that's where we are, by the way.
He's standing in the middle, humanity in the
middle, and God is standing on one side, and
God made a covenant with himself, and God standing
on the other side. And God's covenant with Himself
keeps you in proximity to Him. You have no power,
no strength within yourself. Listen, to keep
yourself close. Only by what God did with Himself.
You had nothing to do with it. We were full of
sin, full of shame, full of guilt. We were like
the woman in John 8. Caught in the act of adultery.
Jesus is preaching in the temple. And what did
the religious Pharisees do? They brought the
sinner to church to expose her. Religion doesn't
want you whole. It just wants to expose your
sin. Right? So they bring her to church. They
expose Those are in front of everybody. Check
this out, she wasn't even looking for repentance.
She wasn't even looking for forgiveness. She
was just caught. And this is who God is. He stoops
down into the dirt. And he begins to write in
the sand. I think people have this idea that
maybe he was writing their sins. I just don't
think that God would combat shame with shame.
My personal conviction is I think he was writing
things like Hosea 2 in the sand. That talks about
people who were once a bride. who prostituted
their bridal ship. And the kindness of God says,
we will allure her into the wilderness and win
her back. They caught a woman prostituting herself.
And I think the Lord was saying, this is why
I came. His kindness draws men to repent. Just
so you know, I don't care if you grew up in church.
Just so you know, we were all the women in John
8. And God stooped down for every single one
of us. But then you go to church long enough.
And there was nothing of your strength that brought
you to Him. The scriptures say, Jesus says, if
I be lifted up, I'm going to draw all men unto
myself. You know what the word draw means in
Greek? It means I'm going to drag you. Like you
think you made a good decision. You have drag
marks behind you. He came and He found you when
you smelled like pigs, when you were worthless,
and He kissed you. And he said, I want you. And
somehow you found your way to some altar somewhere,
or on the floor in your bedroom, while you were
still a drug addict, while you were still an
alcoholic, while you were still a hypocrite,
and he said, I want you. Okay, not one of us
believes for a second that we were worthy of
any of that. But at some point in church we start
thinking that we have to hold up the other side
of the covenant. Now listen, I know that this
is offensive because everybody thinks your behavior
is everything. I'll teach you tonight how to
fix your behavior. Because the gospel is not
behavior modification. The gospel is you were
crucified when he was crucified. You died when
he died. You were buried when he was buried.
This is all in the Bible by the way. You were
raised when he was raised. And you were seated
in heavenly places when he was seated in heavenly
places. And again, you did nothing to earn it.
It's unbelievable. Like absolutely zero. God
doesn't come and clean you. He kills you. And
then He raises you up again. And you relate to
the old person again. Okay, so is anybody married
in here? Okay, now listen. If I had to walk around.
I'm married, happily married. I have four beautiful
children. If I had to walk around with my wedding
vows in my back pocket, the legal certificate
document, the law. and I'd have it in my back
pocket, that every time I met a female, I had
to pull out the law, just tell her to keep a
safe distance, and read the law. So I don't commit
adultery. I would have a problem. I would need
pastoral counsel if I'm that tempted that I constantly
have to go back to the law. Right? Like if I
went to the grocery store and I needed my brother
to be there with me, when I walk down the checkout
counter and tell him, listen, now before we walk
down that counter, I need you to hold both my
arms back because I love stealing Snickers. I
know it's silly, but this is what we do in church.
This is how pathetic we are. So we want the law
because we are going to fight our arm to not
steal the Snickers. Or, you just aren't a thief.
And I don't know about you, but when I go to
the grocery store, I'm literally never thinking
about stealing. Anybody think about stealing?
Don't raise your hand. I mean, hopefully you're
not walking around so uncontrolled in your members.
Listen, do you know that I'm just, now just hear
me out. If the Lord came to me and it just became
okay to all of a sudden commit adultery, do you
know I still wouldn't? Someone asked me why.
Why? Because I love my wife. Love is stronger
than the law. So listen, rather than telling
a generation to come get right with God and behave,
we should teach them about love. And listen,
not your love for Him, because that's not good
enough. And it'll never be good enough. But what's
His love for you? Listen, I wasn't planning on
going into all this, but... We have a lot of
preachers that are yelling at people, love God
more. But we never tell them why they should
love God more. You see the gospel is not that
Jesus died for Jesus. We got to be careful with
this narrative that we're not really a part of
this in any way, that none of it's about us.
It sounds humble, but it's deceptive. Because
Jesus The whole storyline is that He wanted you.
The whole Gospel is that He died for you. So
if you never come into a revelation of the love
of God, you'll never love Him. I actually believe
the secret to zeal People are always like, oh
man, another message on the love of the Father.
When are we going to have a holiness movement?
Ever hear that stuff? I struggle with that stuff.
Because we don't even understand holiness. What
do you mean when you say a holiness movement?
A movement of really well -behaved people? Like,
do you realize holy means altogether separate?
It's like a whole new identity? Righteousness
bears fruit onto you're separate now? So hear
me out. We're doing a lot of stuff in church.
Trying to hold up our side of the bargain. Just
like the Galatians. Paul comes to them in Galatians
3. And he says, you foolish Galatians. Who has
bewitched you? That. Who has bewitched you? You're
doing incredible. You gotta say it in Spanish,
that you're doing incredible. Come on, don't
have false humility. Tell them. Let's go. I love
it. Says, who has bewitched you, you who started
in the spirit, have now gone to works. You came
weak, but you got too strong. And the gospel
is stay weak. I boldly proclaim, That I will
forever be a needy Christian. And I know that's
not popular. But I've got a need for God. And
without having a need for God, we're too strong.
So from the beginning, God's covenant with Himself,
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, had
a conversation. You're going to be made in the
image, the likeness and receive the righteousness
of God. And you weren't even invited to the meeting.
He didn't ask for your opinion. And God's covenant
with Himself anchors you in His proximity. Okay,
so then that takes it further. So then we don't
go in and out of God's presence anymore. Jesus
actually tells us to abide in His presence. We
don't worship to get in His presence. We don't
dance and shout to get into His presence. I know
we love quoting the verses. I'm sorry that I'm
gonna say this. But you realize entering his
courts with praise, I love that. But after the
blood of Christ. I'm in His courts. I live in
God. Not because of what I've done, but because
of what He's done. So now my praise changes.
I'm not praising my way to Him. I'm praising
because dirty me is with Him. You've got to see
this. I don't worship to get to Him. I worship
because I'm in Him. Like we have something to
be thankful for. Right? Intercession. We've made
intercession reaching for God. What are you reaching
for? God reached for you. Listen, intercession
is you're standing in a gap. Between what? What's
the gap? Like, could you be a bridge between
God and the world? Rather than intercession being
reaching? Right, we like the word travail, right?
Travail. Travail is the pain of giving birth.
Intercession is about giving birth. birth to
something that's in you. If we never find the
God within, we will live our whole life on a
wrong pilgrimage. We're on a journey that is
deceptive. We're looking, we quote Isaiah 64,
oh, that you would rend the heavens and come
down. It's great for preaching. It moves rooms,
but we never keep reading. Because as you keep
reading in Isaiah 64, He says, when I did rend
the heavens and come down, no one was paying
attention. And then you get to Isaiah 65, and
it says, like a father I've held out my hands,
come to me all you who are weary. We can't move
on just yet. You can't go in and out of a temple
when you are the temple.