WEBVTT 00:00:16.910 --> 00:00:18.629 places. If you have your Bible, I'm going to 00:00:18.629 --> 00:00:21.750 give you a couple of verses that I really want 00:00:21.750 --> 00:00:25.149 to get to this morning. One of the first ones, 00:00:25.269 --> 00:00:28.250 not yet, but 1 Samuel chapter 10, if you would 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:33.130 turn there, and then also put your finger in 00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:40.090 1 Timothy 1 .18. 1 Timothy 1 .18, 1 Samuel chapter 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:44.630 10. We're in our series called Reach, and we're 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:47.890 talking about the reach of God getting toward 00:00:47.890 --> 00:00:51.369 us and our reach toward Him. And we've gone through 00:00:51.369 --> 00:00:54.670 each of the letters so far, R -E -A. We've stopped 00:00:54.670 --> 00:00:57.409 at that middle mountain, if you will, series 00:00:57.409 --> 00:01:01.549 of A called Expectation, Attitude. And from Attitude 00:01:01.549 --> 00:01:04.329 here, before we hit the C and the H of Community 00:01:04.329 --> 00:01:07.590 and Harvest, about Reach, we're talking about 00:01:07.590 --> 00:01:11.730 Vision. Because in order for us to run, and to 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:14.349 reach and to do what God has asked us to do, 00:01:14.469 --> 00:01:20.140 we've got to have a God. given perspective put 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:23.620 on our heart. It changes our expectation. It 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:26.879 changes our attitude. Can I get an amen? And 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.180 we've been using, obviously for those that are 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:32.579 visiting, we've been using Philippians 3 verses 00:01:32.579 --> 00:01:36.560 12 through 15 as the main context for reach, 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:39.659 for getting the past, reaching forward. But we've 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:43.599 also been using Habakkuk chapter 2 verses 1, 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:48.810 2, and 3 in regard to getting a vision, a God 00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:52.129 -given vision. I want to just by quick referring 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:55.689 deal with what we talked about last week, Habakkuk 00:01:55.689 --> 00:01:59.370 chapter 2, 2. Then the Lord said to me, write 00:01:59.370 --> 00:02:03.010 my answer. Everybody say God's answer. Write 00:02:03.010 --> 00:02:07.489 God's answer plainly on tablets so that the runner 00:02:07.489 --> 00:02:12.469 can carry the correct message to others. The 00:02:12.469 --> 00:02:17.840 vision is for a future time. It describes the 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.680 end. And it will be fulfilled. I want to just 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.000 lay this out this morning. We talked a little 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.919 bit last week about divine conferment and deputization. 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:35.539 Now, notice that the vision comes to the runner. 00:02:35.740 --> 00:02:40.039 It should be written plainly. Come on. And it 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:45.259 is for a future time. It is for now. And it is 00:02:45.259 --> 00:02:49.120 for then. It is a message that unfolds itself 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.060 and it grows with you. When you get a God vision 00:02:53.060 --> 00:02:56.479 inside of you, it's not just for your now season. 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.280 It's for your future season. And somebody say 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:04.539 tomorrow. Come on, tomorrow. Tomorrow, God. God 00:03:04.539 --> 00:03:07.319 is his loving kindness. I'm going to preach a 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:09.039 little bit this morning. If it gets a little 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.939 hot, you know, listen, I sat in many services. 00:03:11.979 --> 00:03:13.939 That's why there ain't no hair here. Hallelujah. 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:18.000 Just smoke, just burn up the fire of God. Hallelujah. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.979 If it gets a little hot this morning, know that 00:03:21.979 --> 00:03:25.979 I feel the press of the Spirit of God to work 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:29.300 this word into the atmosphere of this church 00:03:29.300 --> 00:03:31.599 and into our hearts this morning because we've 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.090 been... Just as the Lord has been talking to 00:03:35.090 --> 00:03:37.830 me and showing me in the scriptures, we're rototilling 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:41.370 this into the atmosphere and to the hearts of 00:03:41.370 --> 00:03:44.909 God's people so we get it. That process of allowing 00:03:44.909 --> 00:03:49.569 the vision to be written on tablets, Habakkuk 00:03:49.569 --> 00:03:52.629 2 .1. If we could go to Habakkuk 2 .1 just for 00:03:52.629 --> 00:03:56.710 a second. I stand there watching so I would know 00:03:56.710 --> 00:04:01.960 what God says to me. And then when he says to 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.680 me, verse 2, I'm having him write it on the tablets 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.879 of my heart so that I can carry the correct message, 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:13.219 his message, his divine message, the message 00:04:13.219 --> 00:04:16.279 that not only entails the fullness of salvation, 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.319 but what my part is in bringing that message 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.959 to others. I have a part. You have a part. It's 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:26.680 not just about a preacher on a stage. It's about 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.420 God's people all. doing the work of the ministry, 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.879 having the message, the vision of God written 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:39.899 on their hearts. So when that message comes, 00:04:40.019 --> 00:04:43.000 we talked a little bit about it last week. I'll 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.459 just move forward and move right into it. Confirmant 00:04:46.459 --> 00:04:50.800 means what? Conveyance, deputization, assignment. 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:56.860 It means power activated when the message comes. 00:04:58.589 --> 00:05:04.490 gives power to implement his vision on your heart 00:05:04.490 --> 00:05:08.050 and it comes from heaven. It's not power of man. 00:05:08.370 --> 00:05:11.089 It's not power of anything else. It's the power 00:05:11.089 --> 00:05:14.610 of God. Why? Because it's his spirit that's giving 00:05:14.610 --> 00:05:18.529 the message. Amen? And then there is We said 00:05:18.529 --> 00:05:20.689 with that, there's two things that happen. There 00:05:20.689 --> 00:05:23.589 is a reset and there is alignment. We have to 00:05:23.589 --> 00:05:26.449 get aligned with God's vision. The power of God 00:05:26.449 --> 00:05:29.569 flows through alignment from the will of the 00:05:29.569 --> 00:05:32.069 Father, the will of the Son, and the releasing 00:05:32.069 --> 00:05:34.750 of the Holy Spirit. When we're aligned with God's 00:05:34.750 --> 00:05:37.470 word, God's will, God's ways, the power of the 00:05:37.470 --> 00:05:40.089 Spirit of God moves on the vision of your heart 00:05:40.089 --> 00:05:43.550 and propels you not only to run, but to fulfill 00:05:43.550 --> 00:05:45.949 the purpose of which he's written on your heart. 00:05:46.029 --> 00:05:50.269 Are you there? Hallelujah. So when God's vision 00:05:50.269 --> 00:05:55.990 comes, it comes what we would call in the prophetic. 00:05:57.069 --> 00:06:05.589 It comes, doesn't just all of a sudden written. 00:06:06.329 --> 00:06:10.230 It's written in here, the vision, the full vision 00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:13.370 of what God wants us to know is written in this. 00:06:13.389 --> 00:06:18.029 This is called the Logos. The logos, or even 00:06:18.029 --> 00:06:21.149 the graphe, meaning the word that is written. 00:06:21.209 --> 00:06:24.470 It's the logos word of God. It's all that contains 00:06:24.470 --> 00:06:29.250 from Genesis to Revelation. This is the will 00:06:29.250 --> 00:06:32.529 of God for mankind. I'm going to say something 00:06:32.529 --> 00:06:34.449 here that might just pucker a couple of you. 00:06:36.449 --> 00:06:40.329 Is this the fullness of the will of God? No. 00:06:41.899 --> 00:06:45.279 But it is the revealed will of God in which we 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.500 live our lives. Means God has so much more than 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:51.319 what's written here. But he decided to give us 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.120 a revelation of what he wants to live our lives 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.220 within the boundaries of this. God is not contained. 00:06:58.579 --> 00:07:01.699 He's revealed in this, but he's not contained 00:07:01.699 --> 00:07:05.579 by this because he's only given us. what he wants 00:07:05.579 --> 00:07:07.600 us to operate in. In fact, his case and point 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.860 is, we don't see when we get to the millennium, 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:11.899 as you read in the book of Revelation, there's 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:14.879 very little about the thousand year reign of 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.100 Christ on the earth, just enough to let us know 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:19.709 it's going to happen. The bulk of it here, though, 00:07:19.769 --> 00:07:22.269 tells us about the covenant that we have with 00:07:22.269 --> 00:07:25.110 him, his love, his forgiveness, the fact that 00:07:25.110 --> 00:07:28.490 he's a redeeming God. He gives us and gives us 00:07:28.490 --> 00:07:31.189 everything we know how to navigate this Christian 00:07:31.189 --> 00:07:34.910 life and to walk in the spirit of God as a Christian 00:07:34.910 --> 00:07:38.310 to fulfill his will is written in here. This 00:07:38.310 --> 00:07:40.569 is the Logos word of God. Can I get an amen? 00:07:41.470 --> 00:07:44.430 Now, in the midst of the Logos, he does what? 00:07:44.490 --> 00:07:48.550 He gives what the Bible calls rhema. Rhema means 00:07:48.550 --> 00:07:56.449 a now, a God -breathed. All of the Logos is God 00:07:56.449 --> 00:07:59.189 -breathed. In fact, 2 Timothy 3 .16 says, all 00:07:59.189 --> 00:08:01.889 scripture is God -breathed, one translation says, 00:08:01.990 --> 00:08:06.149 or God -inspired. It's the breath of God. But 00:08:06.149 --> 00:08:09.790 a Rhema word has a now touch on it. The Logos 00:08:09.790 --> 00:08:14.930 doesn't necessarily have a now touch. It implies 00:08:14.930 --> 00:08:18.189 all of the revelation that God has given us or 00:08:18.189 --> 00:08:22.149 the scope. But a rhema word, the Holy Spirit, 00:08:22.230 --> 00:08:26.509 highlights something for your life at that very 00:08:26.509 --> 00:08:29.870 now season. It's how you're reading and all of 00:08:29.870 --> 00:08:31.689 a sudden people say, well, that scripture came 00:08:31.689 --> 00:08:35.230 alive to me today. That was a rhema. boost. It's 00:08:35.230 --> 00:08:39.090 like you got a, hallelujah, a little Holy Ghost 00:08:39.090 --> 00:08:42.590 jolt where God spoke to you. Or maybe somebody 00:08:42.590 --> 00:08:44.870 is praying for you, calls you and says, hey, 00:08:44.970 --> 00:08:47.409 the Lord really put you on my heart. I heard 00:08:47.409 --> 00:08:49.769 this verse for you today. Boom, a rhema, word 00:08:49.769 --> 00:08:52.210 of God, came right into the moment. Or somebody, 00:08:52.409 --> 00:08:55.629 you were at an altar call or a prayer time and 00:08:55.629 --> 00:08:58.870 somebody heard the voice of the Lord speak and 00:08:58.870 --> 00:09:01.190 said, man, I hear the Lord saying this. And man, 00:09:01.210 --> 00:09:03.309 it just met you right where it was. It was what 00:09:03.309 --> 00:09:06.870 the Proverbs talked about a timely word set in 00:09:06.870 --> 00:09:10.370 sockets of silver and gold was a precious godly 00:09:10.370 --> 00:09:12.870 word. All of a sudden, those things hit you. 00:09:12.909 --> 00:09:15.990 Well, how is it? Well, that is God's prophetic 00:09:15.990 --> 00:09:20.509 moving spirit, the wind of the spirit highlighting 00:09:20.509 --> 00:09:25.440 within his revealed revelation. Thumbing through 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.419 the word of God, making his voice known to you 00:09:29.419 --> 00:09:32.779 by his word and by his now will for your life. 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:36.320 It does not supersede scripture. It works within 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.940 the banks of scripture. Can I hear an amen? It's 00:09:39.940 --> 00:09:43.080 important that you understand that. Where the 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.620 prophetic and where prophecy goes wrong is when 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:48.059 people do not have an understanding of God's 00:09:48.059 --> 00:09:52.159 written word. But the Bible tells us all over 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.419 the place. In fact, as we're going to look at 00:09:54.419 --> 00:09:56.419 that, if I can ever get going here. Hallelujah. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.740 He tells us that we're all to prophesy. All of 00:10:01.740 --> 00:10:04.539 us. 1 Corinthians 14. I mean, it couldn't get 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:07.559 any clearer. It says, earnestly, and I'm just 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.480 quoting from the old King Jimmy because it's 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:12.340 in me. Hallelujah. Earnestly desire spiritual 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:18.389 gifts, but especially that you prophesy. That's 00:10:18.389 --> 00:10:20.590 1 Corinthians 1. For those of you that are frantically 00:10:20.590 --> 00:10:22.470 looking that up and are freaking out right now, 00:10:22.529 --> 00:10:27.070 hallelujah. 1 Corinthians 14, 1. Earnestly desire 00:10:27.070 --> 00:10:31.769 spiritual gifts, but especially that you prophesy. 00:10:32.669 --> 00:10:35.889 Now that word earnestly from the Greek is the 00:10:35.889 --> 00:10:43.809 strongest word that can be used without a tainting 00:10:43.809 --> 00:10:50.820 of the word, Earnestly desire is a word that 00:10:50.820 --> 00:10:54.500 could be used for wanting to be with somebody. 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.159 Without getting weird, Valentine's Day and then 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.559 February 15th was my wife's birthday. We got 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.440 engaged on Valentine's Day right before her birthday. 00:11:05.659 --> 00:11:09.100 And so 14, 15, I had to do that strategically 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:11.980 because I always forget things. And so having 00:11:11.980 --> 00:11:15.139 two days to ramp up to things helps me out. Hallelujah. 00:11:17.329 --> 00:11:20.110 I can just tag it on to Valentine's Day and go, 00:11:20.190 --> 00:11:23.950 oh, hallelujah. I always, Lisa, I always get 00:11:23.950 --> 00:11:26.389 that. She gives me a hard time about our actual 00:11:26.389 --> 00:11:30.049 day that we actually were married. And it's the 00:11:30.049 --> 00:11:37.070 24th of June. The 24th. Oh, it is the 26th. Oh. 00:11:38.889 --> 00:11:44.559 False prophet. Hallelujah. House. See, the Lord 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:51.919 vindicates his righteous. Hallelujah. I'll take 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.000 the heat, though. I've said the 24 for so many 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.720 years, you fell under the influence. All right. 00:11:55.740 --> 00:11:59.700 It is the 26th. It is the 26th of June. Now, 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:04.039 listen. In that Valentine's Day and birthday, 00:12:04.259 --> 00:12:07.799 there was an earnest desire to be with my wife. 00:12:08.779 --> 00:12:13.659 Right? It's that. That marital place, and I'm 00:12:13.659 --> 00:12:15.639 not going to go too deep into that. You get the 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:19.179 drift of that place of complete love and loving 00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:23.600 one another. Now God takes that word and he removes 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.700 any form of carnality and he says, now in the 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:32.620 spirit, I want all of you to earnestly desire 00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:37.600 spiritual gifts. There should be something inside 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.909 of you that longs to partner. With the Spirit 00:12:41.909 --> 00:12:47.129 of God. Correctly. To be in sync. To love Him. 00:12:47.330 --> 00:12:50.190 And to move with Him. Because there's nothing 00:12:50.190 --> 00:12:55.269 like dancing through life to the beat of His 00:12:55.269 --> 00:13:00.889 lead and His move. Those that don't understand 00:13:00.889 --> 00:13:08.809 that, He paid for you to know it. And for you 00:13:08.809 --> 00:13:12.750 to say no. Now this is where it might get a little 00:13:12.750 --> 00:13:17.570 hot here. For you to say no is the bride telling 00:13:17.570 --> 00:13:21.450 the groom, I don't want what you paid for. Get 00:13:21.450 --> 00:13:28.350 me something else. And the only reason we would 00:13:28.350 --> 00:13:31.289 say that is because we're operating in a spirit 00:13:31.289 --> 00:13:34.309 of religion and have not opened up our heart 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:36.870 really to the word of the Lord to be changed 00:13:36.870 --> 00:13:39.090 and transformed. That's a good word, preacher. 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:58.539 All right. You see, when God gives a vision, 00:13:58.659 --> 00:14:08.120 when God gives his word to you in this and through 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.980 the scriptures and highlights it and speaks his... 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.220 now voiced to you as well. That vision that's 00:14:15.220 --> 00:14:18.919 to be written on your heart in itself is not 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:26.940 Logos. It's Rhema. The Logos is what is the banks 00:14:26.940 --> 00:14:31.480 of the river. But the Rhema is the current of 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.440 the themes of heaven that move within the banks 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.919 of revealed revelation. to let you know he's 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.100 with you and that he's walking with you and that 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:45.840 he's talking with you and that he is actually 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.980 doing what you have been praying for. He's trying 00:14:50.980 --> 00:14:56.039 to open your ear to be your friend, your... counselor 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.899 through his thoughts that the Bible says in Jeremiah, 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.440 the thoughts of God are thousands toward you 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:06.700 daily. He's trying to give you a vein of his 00:15:06.700 --> 00:15:13.139 heart to beat in yours. Are you there? Now, that 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:17.379 means if it's prophetic, if it's rhema, it's 00:15:17.379 --> 00:15:21.519 alive and it's active. That's why the word of 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.820 God is sharper. Remember what it says in Hebrews? 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:28.620 Hebrews 4, 12. The word of God is sharper than 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:32.220 any two -edged sword dividing between the soul 00:15:32.220 --> 00:15:36.730 and the spirit, between joint and marrow. Do 00:15:36.730 --> 00:15:40.230 you know that word of God is active? It's not 00:15:40.230 --> 00:15:43.590 talking just about Logos. It's talking about 00:15:43.590 --> 00:15:47.830 Rhema. It's talking how God takes his word, this 00:15:47.830 --> 00:15:51.029 very sword. Even it says it's like a sword, so 00:15:51.029 --> 00:15:53.470 it's not even calling it a sword. He says it's 00:15:53.470 --> 00:15:58.460 sharper than a sword. But the actual sword used 00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:02.059 in the armor of the Lord in Ephesians 6 is not 00:16:02.059 --> 00:16:05.200 the big two -handed broadsword standing like 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:10.259 William Wallace. Hey! Okay? That isn't the picture. 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:14.379 The picture is the makiera. That's the word that's 00:16:14.379 --> 00:16:17.379 used. It's about a little 18 -inch sword that's 00:16:17.379 --> 00:16:21.659 meant to be used. In hand -to -hand combat that 00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:24.899 has a very sharpened blade to be able to stick 00:16:24.899 --> 00:16:28.379 and hook right in the very close quarter combat. 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:31.039 So when he says the word of God is sharper than 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:34.360 any two -edged sword, dividing between soul and 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:36.720 spirit, joint and marrow, he's talking about 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.000 the rhema word that comes through the prophetic 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.879 anointing that begins to bring God's logos to 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:46.740 your mind at that moment to be able to get into 00:16:46.740 --> 00:16:49.799 the center of where you're feeling. what you're 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.960 thinking, and what's happening in your life. 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.740 It divides between that which is the mind of 00:16:54.740 --> 00:16:59.019 man and the mind of God. The broadsword does 00:16:59.019 --> 00:17:05.259 not do that. The broadsword divides. of understanding 00:17:05.259 --> 00:17:09.259 of doctrine and truth, but the machiera gets 00:17:09.259 --> 00:17:13.059 in personal inside the details of the mind and 00:17:13.059 --> 00:17:15.740 the heart and gets in to where you're thinking 00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:18.799 because it knows where you're at and it gets 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:21.579 in to divide what is not of him and to breathe 00:17:21.579 --> 00:17:25.140 on what is. It's the prophetic word of the Lord. 00:17:25.779 --> 00:17:29.710 You doing okay this morning? I still haven't 00:17:29.710 --> 00:17:31.170 got to any of my main scriptures. Hallelujah. 00:17:31.250 --> 00:17:39.250 Let's take a look at Psalms 19, verse 7. We'll 00:17:39.250 --> 00:17:45.710 start with this. Psalms 19. I'm fired up already. 00:17:45.829 --> 00:17:48.809 I haven't even prayed. Can I get a little water, 00:17:48.869 --> 00:17:54.849 baby? Thank you. The 26th of June. Come on. Hallelujah. 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:12.819 Thank you, sweetheart. Beautiful bride. Psalms 00:18:12.819 --> 00:18:16.400 19 .7 says, out of the message, the revelation 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:25.700 of God is whole and pulls our life together. 00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:32.380 That's talking about The logos. The revelation 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:35.440 of God is whole. He's talking about the complete 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:40.640 word. It's whole. It's not fragmented. As you've 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:43.220 seen, the Bible has wove through from Genesis 00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:47.619 to Revelation. All doctrines are tied through 00:18:47.619 --> 00:18:50.440 the thread from Genesis to Revelation perfectly. 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:55.059 1 ,600 years of composing this. 40 different 00:18:55.059 --> 00:19:00.380 authors. The themes of the Lord are whole. And 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:04.259 it pulls our lives together. We can trust it. 00:19:04.740 --> 00:19:10.839 The signposts of God are clear and point out 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.480 the right road. What are the signposts? The signposts 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.539 are the rhema words of the Lord that come to 00:19:18.539 --> 00:19:22.759 tell you where you're at on the journey. The 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.240 wholeness of God's revelation, but then the signposts 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.420 come to say, Here you are and here I am with 00:19:30.420 --> 00:19:33.440 you. How many are glad for a few signposts when 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.960 you're traveling? Come on. That's exactly what 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.819 he's talking about here. They're clear. They're 00:19:39.819 --> 00:19:42.500 meant to be clear and point out the right road. 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.579 Then it says the life maps of God are right. 00:19:47.420 --> 00:19:51.319 How many have ever used an old map and found 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:57.829 that it's wrong? You know, before everybody had 00:19:57.829 --> 00:20:02.430 their little phone and you're all digitized, 00:20:02.529 --> 00:20:06.529 we used to, for younger generations, a thing 00:20:06.529 --> 00:20:22.490 called map. It was on paper. And you would see 00:20:22.490 --> 00:20:30.549 people unfolding. The windshield would be taken 00:20:30.549 --> 00:20:33.569 up with maps and people would be, you understand? 00:20:33.710 --> 00:20:36.269 And then you realize your map was out of date. 00:20:39.250 --> 00:20:42.630 But God's maps never go out of date. Why? Because 00:20:42.630 --> 00:20:44.970 he's the one that writes them. He sees the end 00:20:44.970 --> 00:20:47.809 from the beginning. It says the life maps of 00:20:47.809 --> 00:20:52.049 God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions 00:20:52.049 --> 00:20:58.420 of God are plain and easy on the eyes. So when 00:20:58.420 --> 00:21:00.380 the psalmist as David is talking about here, 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.500 if there's anybody that understood how the prophetic 00:21:03.500 --> 00:21:07.059 flowed, how David was able to receive from God 00:21:07.059 --> 00:21:11.640 in prophetic moments, playing his musical instrument 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.940 before the Lord, sitting even in the tabernacle 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:17.900 of David with the very sides open, welcoming 00:21:17.900 --> 00:21:19.980 the presence of God, sitting in front of the 00:21:19.980 --> 00:21:22.920 very essence of God's presence of the Ark of 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:27.000 the Covenant, he would wait for... What? The 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.480 rhema, word of the Lord, directions, signposts 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:34.960 in which God would meet him in order to be able 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:39.259 to navigate as God's leader but as God's servant. 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:45.839 He had the logos in that old covenant, had Genesis 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:50.630 to Malachi. But God weaved in between the banks 00:21:50.630 --> 00:21:55.130 of that covenant. He weaved his rhema word to 00:21:55.130 --> 00:21:59.069 David. And David in this translation is describing 00:21:59.069 --> 00:22:04.750 to us what that very thing is. What is the word 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:08.589 of the Lord? Or what is the prophetic? It is 00:22:08.589 --> 00:22:13.950 a gift that is used to help us walk in the fulfillment 00:22:13.950 --> 00:22:18.380 and plan. for our personal lives, and for the 00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:21.259 vision of a local church. God uses the prophetic 00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:25.259 to help you navigate your life and to help us 00:22:25.259 --> 00:22:28.740 as the people of God, the leaders, to navigate 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:32.740 his vision for the house. The prophetic is not 00:22:32.740 --> 00:22:36.619 just a here and there, a haphazard grace gift. 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.579 It's a gift that pulls from the whole counsel 00:22:40.579 --> 00:22:46.990 of God. The prophetic brings us near. For the 00:22:46.990 --> 00:22:50.990 purposes of God. God intersects your life with 00:22:50.990 --> 00:22:54.710 his word. With his living word. Not scripture. 00:22:55.349 --> 00:22:58.130 But his voice. His now voice to your life. What 00:22:58.130 --> 00:23:00.950 Jesus said the Holy Spirit would do. He said 00:23:00.950 --> 00:23:04.089 he would lead you in all truth. He would bring 00:23:04.089 --> 00:23:07.849 the voice of the Lord. For your now walk with 00:23:07.849 --> 00:23:10.670 him. And same for the church. It's not haphazard. 00:23:11.410 --> 00:23:13.529 Shame on us for thinking that the prophetic is 00:23:13.529 --> 00:23:18.789 haphazard. It's not. The prophetic reveals the 00:23:18.789 --> 00:23:23.710 Lord's heart and his nearness in our experiences 00:23:23.710 --> 00:23:28.490 and makes clear his irresistible love and persistent 00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:32.130 grace toward us as we journey with him through 00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:36.029 this life. God uses the prophetic to speak to 00:23:36.029 --> 00:23:39.619 us about our... past, what we've walked through, 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:43.099 about our now, what we're in, and he gives us 00:23:43.099 --> 00:23:47.960 navigation points for our future in him. He doesn't 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:50.940 reveal everything about our future. That's why 00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:55.839 this walk is a walk of faith. But he does give 00:23:55.839 --> 00:24:01.220 us some GPS points along the way of what he has 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:04.579 already written down for us and to help us walk 00:24:04.579 --> 00:24:08.819 in it. That's so important. If you're saying, 00:24:08.859 --> 00:24:11.000 well, I just wish he'd make it clear and tell 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.660 me everything I'm supposed to do. No, you don't. 00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:18.740 No, you don't. Because that's part of your treasure 00:24:18.740 --> 00:24:23.240 is your faith, trusting, leaning, hiding his 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:25.619 word in your heart and allowing him to reveal 00:24:25.619 --> 00:24:35.519 it along the way. The prophetic works like signposts. 00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:39.359 on the journey. They make the navigation for 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:42.079 our purpose and our course a little clearer. 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:44.720 They come through messages. They come through 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.039 words of encouragement. They come through fresh 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:50.519 insight of the illumination that the Lord highlights 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:53.180 in Scripture or that the Lord tells us about 00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:55.599 ourselves when we hear it personally in our prayer 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.000 time or somebody else the Lord reveals it to 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.279 to give us a message. The prophetic is all about 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:05.099 bringing clarity to the believer and their walk, 00:25:05.099 --> 00:25:07.519 not confusion. That's why the Bible, actually 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:12.460 that word, 1 Corinthians 14 verse 33, God is 00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:15.500 not the author of confusion but of peace. Guess 00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:18.819 what the context of that is? Over the prophetic. 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.359 It blows my mind how many times that scripture 00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:27.400 is misquoted by people taking it right out of 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.539 the context for which it was. It was placed right 00:25:30.539 --> 00:25:35.680 in the midst of how a person is to be in control 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:38.420 of their own life and the word that God gives 00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:42.160 them and in order be able to give that word. 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:46.859 But then God clearly says, do not despise prophecies, 00:25:46.859 --> 00:25:50.779 but understand God is not the author of confusion. 00:25:52.329 --> 00:25:56.230 It's in the prophetic. Turn to somebody and go, 00:25:56.289 --> 00:26:03.349 wow. Prophetic instructions of the Lord and his 00:26:03.349 --> 00:26:07.250 loving encouragement and edification are a complete 00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:11.750 and wonderful package. The life maps of God then 00:26:11.750 --> 00:26:16.809 become a witness and a guide for the life that 00:26:16.809 --> 00:26:20.769 God wants for you. The reason that he would bring 00:26:20.769 --> 00:26:24.390 his prophetic word in your life is that he actually 00:26:24.390 --> 00:26:28.109 has it written out for you. The Bible's filled 00:26:28.109 --> 00:26:31.490 with this. He says, David, fact is, let me just 00:26:31.490 --> 00:26:33.410 go back to that scripture because it's so important 00:26:33.410 --> 00:26:37.589 that you get this. David says in Psalms 139, 00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:41.450 16, you saw me before I was born. Every day of 00:26:41.450 --> 00:26:44.710 my life is recorded in your book. Every moment 00:26:44.710 --> 00:26:48.130 was laid out before a single day had even passed. 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:51.599 So when we say, what does the prophetic do? The 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:55.980 prophetic brings you into what? God has already 00:26:55.980 --> 00:27:00.339 determined is your best possible, most fruitful 00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:03.880 experience of life on planet earth with him. 00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:07.440 He lays that perfect will of the Lord out. And 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:10.599 then he's able through grace when you deviate 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:13.519 from that path to even turn the bad turns where 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:16.779 you missed his voice, missed his word, disobeyed, 00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:20.279 remained unfaithful, he can still weave you back 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:23.660 in because of his goodness. Come on somebody. 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:31.220 But he has a perfect plan for your life. A perfect 00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:37.059 plan. Nobody else does, but God does. Now, in 00:27:37.059 --> 00:27:42.920 that, the prophetic then points to God's best 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:45.940 and perfect path. It's designed to release faith 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:52.940 and joy. Righteousness, peace. And what? Joy 00:27:52.940 --> 00:27:56.579 in the Holy Spirit. What happens when you walk 00:27:56.579 --> 00:28:00.859 the plan that God has for you? Righteousness, 00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:04.740 peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, isn't it? 00:28:05.819 --> 00:28:08.359 How many have walked contrary to the plan of 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.880 the Lord and found that there was not much joy 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.779 and not much righteousness? Anybody? Not much 00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:23.700 peace. Oh, some of you are lying in church. Now, 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:25.960 folks, I am not going to be able to teach the 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:28.119 fullness of this. And you understand this is 00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:31.619 a huge topic in the scriptures. Have there been 00:28:31.619 --> 00:28:34.519 abuses of the prophetic? Absolutely. Do people 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:36.819 abuse us? Yes, I've addressed that about two 00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:39.220 or three weeks ago. There are some fruit loops 00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:44.579 in the body of Christ, right? There are. But 00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:47.819 the bottom line is we don't throw out what God 00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:51.579 says he's establishing. Let's make sure we do 00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:54.420 what he says. He added it to us for a reason. 00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:58.259 It's meant to help us, strengthen us, build faith, 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:02.880 build courage, and bring joy. The word of the 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.160 Lord that comes through prophecy confirms his 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:08.880 thoughts and the words that the Lord has for 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:14.759 us. They bear witness of the Lord that he's been 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:17.519 putting in our hearts. Now, folks, I have had 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.230 some crazy... words spoken over me that were 00:29:21.230 --> 00:29:32.430 what I call the jacked up category. Now, I'm 00:29:32.430 --> 00:29:36.910 not going to name any names, but I'll never forget 00:29:36.910 --> 00:29:42.410 this. I've been undone by the prophetic, so undone 00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:44.230 that it altered the course of my life, and I'm 00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:47.289 going to talk about that in 1 Samuel 10. We are 00:29:47.289 --> 00:29:52.710 going to get there. It was so accurate, so laser, 00:29:52.950 --> 00:29:57.190 that I could not help but tremble on the inside. 00:29:57.509 --> 00:30:00.930 It was like the Lord laid me open internally, 00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:04.809 clear to my backbone, spread me open, walked 00:30:04.809 --> 00:30:07.809 through everything inside of me, rearranged things, 00:30:07.930 --> 00:30:10.490 put me back together, and when I got up out of 00:30:10.490 --> 00:30:12.809 that chair of the word of the Lord coming, I 00:30:12.809 --> 00:30:15.910 was a changed man. You say, I want to see that 00:30:15.910 --> 00:30:19.480 in Scripture. We're going to look at it. But 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:21.579 I've also had what I call jacked up prophecies 00:30:21.579 --> 00:30:28.299 where I'll never forget this. I had had two major 00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:30.180 words over the course of my life in the first 00:30:30.180 --> 00:30:34.339 five years where I was really introduced to understanding 00:30:34.339 --> 00:30:36.740 the Holy Spirit from the background that I came 00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:44.019 from. And both from seasoned men of God that 00:30:44.019 --> 00:30:47.200 were... long -time pastors, long -time prophetic, 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.940 I would even say prophets, that they operated 00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:52.660 in that gift. Both of them, without knowing each 00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:55.660 other, different times, two years apart, prophesied 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:58.640 over my life that I would be a pastor and that 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:00.359 there would come a day where the Lord would actually 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:02.920 call me to be a senior pastor and laid out so 00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:06.609 many things specifically that was a... 10, 15 00:31:06.609 --> 00:31:08.890 year word down the line that everything has come 00:31:08.890 --> 00:31:11.569 to pass. And then I had someone come to me in 00:31:11.569 --> 00:31:13.309 a service and say, you know, I'm hearing the 00:31:13.309 --> 00:31:17.730 Lord say, you're not supposed to be from the 00:31:17.730 --> 00:31:21.049 tribe of Aaron, which is like a pastor. The Lord 00:31:21.049 --> 00:31:24.950 just says, you stay in the tribe of Levi helping 00:31:24.950 --> 00:31:30.170 in the tabernacle. Now at that point, there was 00:31:30.170 --> 00:31:38.740 confusion. I had. strong witness of things that 00:31:38.740 --> 00:31:41.720 I didn't ask for. I didn't like dial a prophecy 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:43.619 and say, hey, can you speak this over my life? 00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:50.180 These guys didn't know me. They spoke the word 00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:52.180 of the Lord that confirmed something that I had 00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:54.220 been wrestling and fighting with my whole life. 00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:57.460 And as soon as they touched it, it was alive 00:31:57.460 --> 00:32:01.369 in me. But as soon as that other person brought 00:32:01.369 --> 00:32:03.809 that other word, I could feel the quench come 00:32:03.809 --> 00:32:06.849 immediately. And the Lord had to teach me something. 00:32:06.869 --> 00:32:10.089 He said, I'm not the author of confusion. Go 00:32:10.089 --> 00:32:14.109 back to what my peace, my authority, and my anointing 00:32:14.109 --> 00:32:17.130 was on. And I remember watching that person and 00:32:17.130 --> 00:32:20.519 said, nope, now I'm not going to. I'm not going 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.640 to just discount them as somehow a whack job 00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:25.579 in the kingdom. Okay, that's not what I'm saying. 00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:27.880 But I'm going to watch what they're hearing and 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:29.400 I'm going to watch what they're saying way more 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.259 clearly because I've already experienced the 00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:34.740 evidence of their touch on my life that was not 00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:39.240 accurate. Folks, if you're not walking in discernment 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.160 where the Bible says you test every spirit to 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:45.299 see whether it's from God, you are being foolish. 00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:49.720 The fact is, you should be searching the Scriptures 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.019 even as we're preaching, looking at these words, 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.099 going, absolutely, absolutely. I want to see 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:56.480 it in the Word of God. It doesn't mean that you 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.079 appraise things critically and you're like an 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.140 Ebenezer Scrooge in the midst of everything. 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:04.039 No, but you're looking at the Scriptures to make 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:06.259 sure that the Word of God is built on proper 00:33:06.259 --> 00:33:09.420 context and that His Word and His Spirit witness. 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:12.240 Now, folks, if you've got a wrong spirit, you 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:14.079 can't claim that it just didn't witness to me. 00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:20.460 You understand what I'm saying? There is a few 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:25.599 I before E except after C moments. If you're 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.819 walking around in a spirit of bitterness and 00:33:27.819 --> 00:33:29.539 judgmentalism, there ain't going to be a lot 00:33:29.539 --> 00:33:35.400 that witnesses to you. The Bereans were fair 00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:38.599 -minded, meaning they already hadn't had their 00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:42.960 opinion and their judgment shaped. already to 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.880 determine their little myopic understanding of 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:47.759 the Scriptures. They were open for the Spirit 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:50.819 of God to expand, and they looked for the Scriptures 00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:54.900 to confirm the openness. Hello. All right, moving 00:33:54.900 --> 00:34:00.420 on. That was for somebody. All right, now. The 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:04.640 role of prophecy is what? The role of prophecy, 00:34:04.819 --> 00:34:08.719 the work of God's prophets. Now, I want you to 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:13.110 get this. Please. The work of God's prophets 00:34:13.110 --> 00:34:15.710 and the work of the spirit of prophecy together. 00:34:16.250 --> 00:34:19.050 Because the spirit of prophecy says in Revelation 00:34:19.050 --> 00:34:24.710 19 verse 10. The spirit of prophecy is the testimony 00:34:24.710 --> 00:34:29.750 of Jesus. Prophetically, the whole scripture 00:34:29.750 --> 00:34:33.409 is the testimony of Jesus. Prophetically in your 00:34:33.409 --> 00:34:37.210 life, it's the testimony of Jesus. You'll never 00:34:37.210 --> 00:34:40.969 be able to get away if it's truly the prophetic 00:34:40.969 --> 00:34:45.230 presence of God from the testimony of Jesus in 00:34:45.230 --> 00:34:48.289 the scriptures and the testimony of Jesus over 00:34:48.289 --> 00:34:54.730 your life. That is the test. It comes from him. 00:34:55.659 --> 00:35:00.059 It's his words, not somebody's soul, not somebody's 00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:03.619 opinion, not somebody's judgment. It's the testimony 00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:07.159 of God's goodness over your life. And that's 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.900 why when the prophetic word comes, what does 00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:14.260 it do? It looks for the treasure that God has 00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:18.079 imparted on the inside of you to call forth that 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:21.440 treasure out so that you can know that it's his 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.539 voice, his hand, his touch that's bringing. that 00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:30.380 goodness into play. Can I get an amen? Now, there 00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:34.260 can come times where there needs to be a correction, 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:37.650 but that is... rarely the case in a prophetic 00:35:37.650 --> 00:35:41.469 flow and does not operate among the body of Christ, 00:35:41.550 --> 00:35:45.230 should not operate from anybody that's not actually 00:35:45.230 --> 00:35:48.849 operating in a five -fold prophet manner. Anybody 00:35:48.849 --> 00:35:51.210 that's operating in a spirit of prophecy or as 00:35:51.210 --> 00:35:54.869 a prophetic word is mandated, 1 Corinthians 14, 00:35:55.090 --> 00:35:59.010 to build up, to comfort, and to encourage, bottom 00:35:59.010 --> 00:36:03.329 line. And that's where the prophetic goes awry. 00:36:04.809 --> 00:36:07.909 If it's not building, if it's not encouraging, 00:36:08.010 --> 00:36:11.610 if it doesn't bring comfort and consolation to 00:36:11.610 --> 00:36:13.869 your soul about what you're walking through, 00:36:13.949 --> 00:36:15.369 what you've walked through, what you're going 00:36:15.369 --> 00:36:18.070 to walk into, then you need to set it on the 00:36:18.070 --> 00:36:25.750 shelf called jacked up. Because the prophetic 00:36:25.750 --> 00:36:30.389 comes to find the treasure in you. The treasure 00:36:30.389 --> 00:36:33.429 that God put in you from the beginning. The treasure 00:36:33.429 --> 00:36:37.340 that he put in earthen vessels, the treasure 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:41.199 of his giftings, his callings, his graces, and 00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:44.920 he begins to build you, shape you, and calls 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:48.400 those things out. Are you there? Is this all 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:51.960 right this morning? All right. What's the role 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.239 of the prophetic? To hear God's purpose and to 00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:00.719 reveal God's counsel and his secret over his 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:03.960 people. You know, the Bible says the Lord has 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:07.360 some secrets that he wants us to find out. It's 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:10.400 not that there's secrets that he's like, that 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:15.719 isn't God. It's his point to have a few hidden 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.400 things so that you get hungry to actually search 00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:21.059 those out and to hear the word of the Lord that 00:37:21.059 --> 00:37:24.860 are gems for your life. The prophetic or prophecy 00:37:24.860 --> 00:37:29.059 is about making God big, about making God known. 00:37:29.670 --> 00:37:33.309 The prophetic mandate then is to make God real 00:37:33.309 --> 00:37:36.849 in the lives of people and in the church. Prophecy 00:37:36.849 --> 00:37:41.329 is there to help those who need a word to stand 00:37:41.329 --> 00:37:45.309 and fight so that those words help them in the 00:37:45.309 --> 00:37:48.070 midst of the storm, in the midst of the battle 00:37:48.070 --> 00:37:52.809 of life. You don't believe that? Look at 1 Timothy 00:37:52.809 --> 00:37:56.670 1 .18. That was one of the scriptures. 1 Timothy 00:37:56.670 --> 00:38:01.420 1 .18. We're getting there. Hallelujah. This 00:38:01.420 --> 00:38:06.719 charge I entrust you, Timothy, my child, in accordance 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:17.000 with the prophecies. Everybody get Pentecostal. 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:30.369 Prophecies. Not one. Not one. Prophecies. In 00:38:30.369 --> 00:38:34.110 accordance. with the prophecies previously made 00:38:34.110 --> 00:38:38.269 about you that by them you may wage the good 00:38:38.269 --> 00:38:42.250 warfare holding faith and a good conscience. 00:38:42.389 --> 00:38:45.309 What's the prophetic to do? The prophetic comes 00:38:45.309 --> 00:38:49.809 alongside to strengthen the core of your faith 00:38:49.809 --> 00:38:52.929 and your conscience in God that when you're in 00:38:52.929 --> 00:38:55.610 the midst of it you remind yourself that God 00:38:55.610 --> 00:38:58.969 was standing by you knew exactly the moment that 00:38:58.969 --> 00:39:01.480 you were going to go through. And now you hold 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:04.659 on to it so that you do what? Having done all 00:39:04.659 --> 00:39:09.039 Ephesians 6, 18, stand. Don't be blown over. 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:12.880 Don't let go. Don't give up. Don't give in. But 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:15.159 Timothy, I'm telling you where I'm putting you. 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:19.559 Call to mind the things that multiple times that 00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:24.900 God spoke a personal word over your life. All 00:39:24.900 --> 00:39:27.119 right. Three of us are excited about that. Praise 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:34.519 God. Think about that. That's New Testament. 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:44.199 Notice this. By rejecting this, some have shipwrecked 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:49.519 their life. There's a lot I'd like to say about 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.780 that, but I'm not going to. Acts chapter 2, 17. 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:58.440 One more verse. And in the last days, quoting 00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.719 from Joel. And in the last days it shall be, 00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:04.500 God declares, I will pour out my spirit on all 00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:09.219 flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:12.960 Your young men shall see visions. Your old men 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:16.159 shall dream dreams. Even on male and female servants 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:19.219 in those days, I will pour out my spirit and 00:40:19.219 --> 00:40:22.380 they shall prophesy. Why do you think the apostle 00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:27.940 Paul was so directed in 1 Corinthians 14 to tie 00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:30.860 earnestly desired spiritual gifts, but especially 00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:34.219 that you prophesy because it was the now? Word 00:40:34.219 --> 00:40:36.559 of the Lord of something that had been prophesied 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.739 in the Logos. In Joel chapter 2, it was picked 00:40:39.739 --> 00:40:42.059 up by the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the 00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:45.219 church saying, this is the mandate for God's 00:40:45.219 --> 00:40:47.480 people. And he comes back to the Corinthian church. 00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:52.820 He says, don't you lose this. All are available 00:40:52.820 --> 00:40:56.900 to prophesy. Can you tell I'm just a little bit 00:40:56.900 --> 00:41:00.760 excited about this? Come on now, church. Now, 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:06.909 let's go back. I promised you. 1 Samuel chapter 00:41:06.909 --> 00:41:10.409 10. And there's so much to say on this. And Jenny, 00:41:10.449 --> 00:41:14.570 if you'd make your way. Sweetheart, the 26th. 00:41:14.610 --> 00:41:25.690 Hallelujah. Brother, when I get something right, 00:41:25.769 --> 00:41:27.630 I got to just keep on going. I'm telling you. 00:41:28.250 --> 00:41:30.489 I've been wrong so many times. Hallelujah. All 00:41:30.489 --> 00:41:37.650 right, now. Look at verse 10. Now, chapter 10 00:41:37.650 --> 00:41:40.389 in 1 Samuel. This is so key. And I don't have 00:41:40.389 --> 00:41:42.650 time to go into the depths of this today. But 00:41:42.650 --> 00:41:48.250 in Acts chapter 3, it says from Samuel. all the 00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:51.329 way through. Samuel is regarded, if you're studying 00:41:51.329 --> 00:41:55.309 the Bible at all, Samuel is regarded as the last 00:41:55.309 --> 00:41:58.809 judge and really the first prophets, all the 00:41:58.809 --> 00:42:02.230 way that Jesus even references it. Samuel represents 00:42:02.230 --> 00:42:05.489 the prophets, the school of the prophets. He 00:42:05.489 --> 00:42:08.170 represents that which the Holy Spirit would speak. 00:42:09.909 --> 00:42:12.829 Abraham prophesied. We know that. Adam prophesied 00:42:12.829 --> 00:42:15.250 even when he saw his wife. He was prophesying. 00:42:15.250 --> 00:42:18.369 The Bible tells us that in 1 Corinthians and 00:42:18.369 --> 00:42:24.269 in Ephesians that Paul references that. But Samuel 00:42:24.269 --> 00:42:27.570 represents that prophetic anointing. And the 00:42:27.570 --> 00:42:31.750 Bible says all of Samuel's words came to pass. 00:42:33.230 --> 00:42:37.590 So Samuel is regarded kind of as the post goes 00:42:37.590 --> 00:42:40.329 in the ground if we're looking at it. He represented 00:42:40.329 --> 00:42:43.409 what God would do with the prophetic. And from 00:42:43.409 --> 00:42:46.570 him, you have ministries of Elijah and Elisha 00:42:46.570 --> 00:42:49.670 and all of those that come in and even how the 00:42:49.670 --> 00:42:52.510 prophets are used today in the church. Samuel 00:42:52.510 --> 00:42:57.349 is a key, key person. Now, notice what happens 00:42:57.349 --> 00:43:02.760 here, and I can't give it, but Samuel... is right 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:06.179 in the middle of a generation that is throwing 00:43:06.179 --> 00:43:10.699 off the Lord's leading because they've seen how 00:43:10.699 --> 00:43:13.119 other nations do it and they want their own king. 00:43:14.860 --> 00:43:20.760 And up to this point, God was their king. You 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.260 move all through the process of God leading them 00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:26.179 out of Egypt, moving into the promised land, 00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:29.610 then you... Joshua dies and you see the error 00:43:29.610 --> 00:43:32.489 that begins to take place and seasons of going 00:43:32.489 --> 00:43:34.849 for God and then regressing, seasons of going 00:43:34.849 --> 00:43:38.550 for God and then regressing. Samuel is the last 00:43:38.550 --> 00:43:43.510 of the judges and he gets, after 10 judges, and 00:43:43.510 --> 00:43:48.789 that's significant in itself, he gets the hard 00:43:48.789 --> 00:43:52.369 responsibility. Of seeing the people's hearts 00:43:52.369 --> 00:43:56.010 give out of being a particular and a peculiar 00:43:56.010 --> 00:43:59.050 people for the Lord. Meaning a set apart people. 00:43:59.210 --> 00:44:03.230 They want mixture. They want a king like all 00:44:03.230 --> 00:44:05.110 the others instead of having God that speaks 00:44:05.110 --> 00:44:07.730 to them. And he wrestles with the Lord over this. 00:44:08.250 --> 00:44:10.590 And finally the Lord tells him, listen, they're 00:44:10.590 --> 00:44:15.010 not rejecting you. They're rejecting me. But 00:44:15.010 --> 00:44:19.630 I will give them a king and it will be my choice. 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:22.920 And as we go through that whole process and if 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.219 you study the life of Saul, something happens 00:44:26.219 --> 00:44:29.079 very significant here. It says, then Samuel, 00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:33.940 verse 1 of chapter 10, took a flask of oil and 00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:37.820 poured it on his head and kissed him and said, 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.179 has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over 00:44:40.179 --> 00:44:42.719 his people? And you shall reign over the people 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:44.320 of the Lord and you shall save them from the 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:47.420 hand of their enemies. And this shall be a sign 00:44:47.420 --> 00:44:50.840 to you. Now, there's a lot in there just talking 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:53.659 about the anointing. The anointing is something 00:44:53.659 --> 00:44:56.420 from the Lord that kisses your life. And the 00:44:56.420 --> 00:44:59.679 anointing oil itself represents the very presence 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:02.659 of Jesus Christ, the Christos, the anointing 00:45:02.659 --> 00:45:06.039 oil, the Holy Spirit. And as Samuel does this, 00:45:06.099 --> 00:45:09.670 and I'm moving quickly, he... He tells Saul there's 00:45:09.670 --> 00:45:12.650 going to be significant signposts that are now 00:45:12.650 --> 00:45:15.190 going to come into his life because of the anointing 00:45:15.190 --> 00:45:17.809 and because of the favor that was coming on his 00:45:17.809 --> 00:45:19.909 life. And he needed to look for some things. 00:45:20.070 --> 00:45:22.449 And there were very specific things. Fact is, 00:45:22.469 --> 00:45:24.730 he said, you're going to meet these people and 00:45:24.730 --> 00:45:26.090 they're going to say this. And then they're going 00:45:26.090 --> 00:45:28.090 to give you some gifts. And you're going to take 00:45:28.090 --> 00:45:30.210 some bread from them. And then you're going to 00:45:30.210 --> 00:45:31.530 go to this place. And then you're going to go 00:45:31.530 --> 00:45:33.769 to that place. And then as he's moving through, 00:45:33.869 --> 00:45:40.949 I want to just move on verse... Verse 5, after 00:45:40.949 --> 00:45:47.670 you come to Gibbath Elohim, where there is a 00:45:47.670 --> 00:45:50.090 garrison of Philistines. Now that is such an 00:45:50.090 --> 00:45:51.949 important verse that we would just pass over. 00:45:52.530 --> 00:45:56.590 But he's saying, I'm going to take you in. I'm 00:45:56.590 --> 00:46:00.289 going to lead you and direct you where even your 00:46:00.289 --> 00:46:03.130 enemy is stationed. I'm going to bring the word 00:46:03.130 --> 00:46:05.769 of the Lord right where the Philistines are garrisoned 00:46:05.769 --> 00:46:09.030 in that city. And it's going to be a sign to 00:46:09.030 --> 00:46:11.929 your life that when the prophetic is fulfilled, 00:46:12.230 --> 00:46:16.070 I'm going to speak to you in the midst of you 00:46:16.070 --> 00:46:20.110 being in the atmosphere of your enemy, and I 00:46:20.110 --> 00:46:24.110 will be a voice to you there. Now, that's not 00:46:24.110 --> 00:46:27.869 the fullness of the verse. Keep going. And there, 00:46:28.090 --> 00:46:33.150 as soon as you come into the city, you will meet 00:46:33.150 --> 00:46:35.489 a group of prophets coming down from the high 00:46:35.489 --> 00:46:38.460 place with a harp. A tambourine, a flute, and 00:46:38.460 --> 00:46:42.400 a lyre. Before them, not actually a lyre, lyre, 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:46.880 pants on fire, but a guitar. A tambourine, a 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.500 flute, and a lyre. All right, no. A tambourine, 00:46:50.500 --> 00:46:54.599 a flute, and a guitar. Before them, as they're 00:46:54.599 --> 00:47:00.159 doing it, prophesying. Prophesying what? It's 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.619 not recorded in the Logos of what they were prophesying. 00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:06.929 But they were prophesying the testimony of the 00:47:06.929 --> 00:47:12.429 acts and the goodness of God. They were prophesying 00:47:12.429 --> 00:47:16.469 an atmosphere. They had been up worshiping. They 00:47:16.469 --> 00:47:19.030 were prophesying an atmosphere. Are you getting 00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:24.090 this? Then the Spirit of the Lord, the new King 00:47:24.090 --> 00:47:27.449 James says, will come upon you. The NLT says 00:47:27.449 --> 00:47:30.389 the Spirit of God will come on you powerfully. 00:47:30.670 --> 00:47:34.829 This translation, I love this. ESV says, and 00:47:34.829 --> 00:47:38.570 the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and 00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:44.130 you will prophesy with them. And you will be 00:47:44.130 --> 00:47:50.429 turned into another man. You say, what do you 00:47:50.429 --> 00:47:55.489 mean? It goes all the way back to Habakkuk. When 00:47:55.489 --> 00:47:58.590 the Spirit of the Lord comes on you in a prophetic 00:47:58.590 --> 00:48:02.230 message, it changes you into another person. 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:06.960 Because it begins to unlock things in your heart 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.760 that God had deposited in you from the day you 00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:13.659 were created and especially when you were saved. 00:48:13.659 --> 00:48:17.139 The deposit of the treasure of salvation that's 00:48:17.139 --> 00:48:21.340 in you, he unlocks. And when you get into the 00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:24.559 atmosphere where he is speaking and where he's 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.880 unlocking in an atmosphere, that's why we do 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:30.840 worship like we do here. It's prophetic. It's 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.960 alive. God drops thoughts into hearts. Why? Because 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.420 you're in the atmosphere of the prophets and 00:48:37.420 --> 00:48:41.280 the prophetic, and he's here working. But when 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:45.000 he begins now to prophesy to you, he does what? 00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:48.320 He changes you into another man. That doesn't 00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:51.900 mean you're fake. It means that he reorders things 00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:56.119 on the inside and you become changed. You cannot 00:48:56.119 --> 00:49:00.559 help but be changed when you intersect the finger 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:04.159 of God that reveals his heart and his purpose 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:08.019 to you. He changes you. That's what happened 00:49:08.019 --> 00:49:11.119 to me. How many out there have ever experienced 00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:13.840 that change of a Holy Ghost? Come on, all over. 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.039 I'm going to pull up stakes here because we've 00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:24.599 got to land this plane. Pastor David, come. In 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:27.940 the next couple of weeks, we're bringing men. 00:49:29.579 --> 00:49:32.400 We bring in some women too, but this time it's 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:34.840 just going to be three guys that are going to 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:40.199 come in. And they prophesy. They are seasoned 00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:43.420 ministers, bringing one from Brazil, bringing 00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:46.940 another from the San Jose, San Francisco area 00:49:46.940 --> 00:49:51.860 that I travel with around the world as a prophetic 00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:55.820 voice. And, of course, we're bringing Bob Isabel 00:49:55.820 --> 00:49:58.940 that's a trusted prophet over the world for 40 00:49:58.940 --> 00:50:04.320 years. These guys don't know your lives. And 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:06.340 I want to encourage you to come out Friday night. 00:50:07.029 --> 00:50:09.110 Saturday morning, Saturday night, Sunday night, 00:50:09.190 --> 00:50:12.389 is when they begin to minister over people in 00:50:12.389 --> 00:50:16.690 this house, you're going to see the treasure 00:50:16.690 --> 00:50:20.570 unearthed. You're going to see what God has been 00:50:20.570 --> 00:50:24.030 doing in them. God's going to be specific. He's 00:50:24.030 --> 00:50:27.449 going to put some things to let them know that 00:50:27.449 --> 00:50:29.210 he's walked with them in their past, what he's 00:50:29.210 --> 00:50:30.909 doing in their now, and he's going to give them 00:50:30.909 --> 00:50:33.389 an advanced seat. And what I mean by that, he's 00:50:33.389 --> 00:50:36.130 going to open The window that only God can do 00:50:36.130 --> 00:50:38.429 in their future and give them a few direction 00:50:38.429 --> 00:50:41.190 points along the way to walk in it. And what 00:50:41.190 --> 00:50:44.449 does it do? It's meant to strengthen them, encourage 00:50:44.449 --> 00:50:47.250 them, give them words of which they can fight 00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:49.429 now in faith for God's perfect will for their 00:50:49.429 --> 00:50:51.969 life. But it strengthens us as the body of Christ. 00:50:52.329 --> 00:50:55.170 That we know in our midst that God spoke and 00:50:55.170 --> 00:50:58.349 revealed. And just like Paul said to Timothy, 00:50:58.530 --> 00:51:02.130 Timothy, recall to mind the prophecies that were 00:51:02.130 --> 00:51:06.769 spoken of you by them. wage good warfare. I want 00:51:06.769 --> 00:51:10.530 us to come out in unity on this. Number one, 00:51:10.530 --> 00:51:14.289 when these guys come, they bring an atmosphere 00:51:14.289 --> 00:51:17.650 of their relationship with the Lord and the deposit 00:51:17.650 --> 00:51:20.090 of the grace gift in their lives. They bring 00:51:20.090 --> 00:51:22.929 it to the house. I want us to come ready to receive 00:51:22.929 --> 00:51:25.809 and I want us to celebrate with the people that 00:51:25.809 --> 00:51:28.469 get to go through that ministry and we also have 00:51:28.469 --> 00:51:31.010 time to see if the prophets just have words. 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:34.400 out there but we will be putting specific people 00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:36.719 through it's going to be a great time in god 00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:40.719 it's going to be march 2nd 3rd and 4th would 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.500 you uh would you just bow your heads with me 00:51:44.500 --> 00:51:47.340 as pastor david comes and let's just ask the 00:51:47.340 --> 00:51:51.079 lord to do something mighty as we hear the now 00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:54.300 voice of the lord operating within the theme 00:51:54.300 --> 00:51:57.000 of his word for this house david pray for us 00:52:04.940 --> 00:52:07.460 interested in hearing other podcasts or contacting 00:52:07.460 --> 00:52:11.239 Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch 00:52:11.239 --> 00:52:16.039 .org or call us at 541 -995 -8282.