WEBVTT 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:05.250 Welcome to the Life Bible Church podcast. We 00:00:05.250 --> 00:00:07.669 want to thank you for joining us today, and we 00:00:07.669 --> 00:00:10.169 hope you find today's sermon impacting as you 00:00:10.169 --> 00:00:12.689 listen to it wherever you are in your daily walk. 00:00:12.949 --> 00:00:15.929 To find service times and watch messages online, 00:00:16.210 --> 00:00:20.109 see our website at lifebiblechurch .org. Now, 00:00:20.129 --> 00:00:33.420 enjoy this week's message. When I found myself 00:00:33.420 --> 00:00:36.159 in heaven, one of the persons that the Father 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.740 arranged for me to meet was the Apostle Paul. 00:00:41.780 --> 00:00:48.679 Who said to me, read my gospel and put it into 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:54.420 practice. As if to say, you don't really understand 00:00:54.420 --> 00:01:06.680 my gospel. A couple years ago, I had a friend 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:13.019 of mine from South Africa come and speak at our 00:01:13.019 --> 00:01:16.859 In Supernatural conference. And so we're just 00:01:16.859 --> 00:01:20.980 sitting there talking, and he lets me know he 00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:24.200 had been in heaven, and the Apostle Paul asked 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.200 him, when are you going to actually start preaching 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.900 my gospel? I want to let you know I felt so much 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:49.409 better. So, do I have permission to challenge 00:01:49.409 --> 00:01:58.189 you some more? Okay. So, on one of those occasions 00:01:58.189 --> 00:02:00.909 where I found myself in heaven, I'm before God, 00:02:01.209 --> 00:02:04.329 and the Father isolates something for me, a spirit 00:02:04.329 --> 00:02:08.199 being. Comes out and the father begins to sing 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.680 into this being. He really does rejoice over 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.159 you with singing. But the father is singing into 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:23.699 this spirit being. Divine purpose. The father's 00:02:23.699 --> 00:02:33.039 will. Natural giftings. Spiritual giftings. And 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.889 the father blows. And the spirit being into the 00:02:37.889 --> 00:02:43.349 father, into the mother. And obviously the person 00:02:43.349 --> 00:02:47.490 is born. And when they get the revelation of 00:02:47.490 --> 00:02:53.469 God through Jesus. And they begin to learn the 00:02:53.469 --> 00:02:56.009 word of God after being born again by the word 00:02:56.009 --> 00:02:58.930 of truth. And being born again by the word of 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:01.030 God which lives and abides forever. And being 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:05.930 born of the spirit. John 3. As they received 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:09.789 the word of the Lord, what the father encrypted 00:03:09.789 --> 00:03:17.629 and encoded into that person's spirit through 00:03:17.629 --> 00:03:22.650 a series of God encounters, what was encrypted 00:03:22.650 --> 00:03:27.409 becomes decrypted and what was encoded becomes 00:03:27.409 --> 00:03:32.930 decoded. Is that biblical? Is that scriptural? 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:40.000 Well, I take you to the first chapter of Jeremiah, 00:03:40.300 --> 00:03:44.159 where Jeremiah has an encounter with the living 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:48.599 God. And in that encounter, something awakens 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:52.840 in the prophet Jeremiah. And God says, before 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:58.340 you were born, I knew you. Before you came out 00:03:58.340 --> 00:04:02.740 of your mother's womb, I appointed you, I anointed 00:04:02.740 --> 00:04:07.039 you. I sanctified you. I set you apart. I consecrated 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:10.099 you and I made you a prophet to the nations. 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.879 So what was encoded was decoded. What was encrypted 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.379 was decrypted through a God encounter. Look at 00:04:20.379 --> 00:04:22.040 your neighbor and say, you got a whole lot more 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:29.180 going on than you think. Now you've given me 00:04:29.180 --> 00:04:34.600 permission to challenge you. So if I had the 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:42.220 time, I would play a video of a master pianist. 00:04:47.459 --> 00:04:52.639 I could play a video of a great mathematician 00:04:52.639 --> 00:05:01.370 or physicist, scientist, or first class. world 00:05:01.370 --> 00:05:08.889 -class, gold -winning athlete. And what you would 00:05:08.889 --> 00:05:17.790 do is you would marvel at their dedication, their 00:05:17.790 --> 00:05:23.889 intelligence, their more than 10 ,000 hours of 00:05:23.889 --> 00:05:32.560 study to produce expertise. And then we come 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:40.680 to church and this is how we think. The gospel 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:53.720 is simple. The gospel is easy. And the gospel 00:05:53.720 --> 00:06:03.629 is painless. And we think. Spirit life is gonna 00:06:03.629 --> 00:06:09.029 be simple. It's gonna be easy. It's gonna be 00:06:09.029 --> 00:06:16.930 painless. And in a sense, the gospel is simple. 00:06:18.290 --> 00:06:21.129 God was manifested in the flesh through the person 00:06:21.129 --> 00:06:24.550 of Jesus. He did die on a cross for your sins. 00:06:25.290 --> 00:06:28.750 He was buried. Three days later, he came back 00:06:28.750 --> 00:06:32.350 to life. He proved himself alive with many infallible 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:34.910 proofs. He ascended into heaven and is seated 00:06:34.910 --> 00:06:38.009 at the right hand of God the Father. He set down 00:06:38.009 --> 00:06:42.470 the Holy Spirit. You're born again by the word 00:06:42.470 --> 00:06:44.730 of God. You get filled with the Spirit. You speak 00:06:44.730 --> 00:06:47.189 in tongues. You love God and you love people. 00:06:48.050 --> 00:06:51.170 You come to the end of life and there is the 00:06:51.170 --> 00:06:56.850 resurrection of the dead and there's eternal 00:06:56.850 --> 00:07:06.459 judgment. But before the resurrection of the 00:07:06.459 --> 00:07:11.660 dead and eternal judgment, you have your lived 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:22.300 experience. And in your lived experience with 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:27.339 your spouse, you discover that that simple man 00:07:27.339 --> 00:07:35.459 is complicated. And that's why you spend so much 00:07:35.459 --> 00:08:00.660 time talking to your sisters. And you men. Women 00:08:00.660 --> 00:08:08.939 are a mystery. You need the help of heaven to 00:08:08.939 --> 00:08:20.199 decode women speak. Because what she said was 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:38.110 not what she meant. So you have to understand 00:08:38.110 --> 00:08:42.070 the code. You have to understand the language. 00:08:43.009 --> 00:08:46.730 You have to understand the meaning in the message. 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:55.370 Which means you got to really practice active 00:08:55.370 --> 00:09:02.730 listening. You have to look closer. You have 00:09:02.730 --> 00:09:07.990 to look deeper. You have to pay attention not 00:09:07.990 --> 00:09:13.129 just to the message and the meaning, but the 00:09:13.129 --> 00:09:19.250 feeling. Because a woman isn't just communicating 00:09:19.250 --> 00:09:23.149 to you a message. She's trying to get across 00:09:23.149 --> 00:09:38.129 to you the feeling. So, Although we men appear 00:09:38.129 --> 00:09:50.830 simple. We help your relationship with God because 00:09:50.830 --> 00:09:56.090 of our own personal mystery. In short, Jesus, 00:09:56.190 --> 00:09:59.590 what am you going to do about this man I married? 00:10:04.299 --> 00:10:06.019 Look at somebody say, you're more sanctified 00:10:06.019 --> 00:10:19.659 by the trouble you're in. So Paul says, hey, 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:25.100 let's look at the depths of the wisdom and the 00:10:25.100 --> 00:10:29.639 knowledge of God. Look at somebody say, maybe 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:35.429 it's not as simple as we want to believe. Maybe 00:10:35.429 --> 00:10:40.529 there's a greater dedication required to enter 00:10:40.529 --> 00:10:46.570 into destiny. Maybe there's a stronger consecration 00:10:46.570 --> 00:10:52.429 that I need by the grace of God to really comprehend 00:10:52.429 --> 00:10:59.549 the resurrected Christ. Maybe it's not so easy. 00:11:01.250 --> 00:11:06.350 Maybe when the people heard Jesus say, you must 00:11:06.350 --> 00:11:14.889 eat my flesh and drink my blood or you have no 00:11:14.889 --> 00:11:21.970 life in you. Somebody said, that's a hard saying. 00:11:30.800 --> 00:11:33.279 See, we say stuff like this. This is what we 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:38.019 do is we quote Luke 9, 23, where Jesus said, 00:11:38.100 --> 00:11:39.980 whoever will come after me, let him deny himself, 00:11:40.100 --> 00:11:43.940 take up his cross and follow me. And then we 00:11:43.940 --> 00:11:49.480 say stuff like this. I kiss the cross. Do you 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.720 realize that if you kiss the cross, you're going 00:11:51.720 --> 00:12:02.779 to get a mouthful of splinters? So are you going 00:12:02.779 --> 00:12:08.740 to tell Paul that things are simple? Are you 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:12.019 going to tell Paul things are easy? When Jesus 00:12:12.019 --> 00:12:17.279 speaks to the man of God in Damascus, that simple 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:19.639 disciple who later becomes a bishop in Damascus 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:21.940 and says, Jesus says, I'm going to show him how 00:12:21.940 --> 00:12:24.200 great things he's going to suffer for my namesake. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.320 Do you think that that was simple? Do you think 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.960 that that was easy? Do you think that that was? 00:12:34.939 --> 00:12:36.899 Painless? That same Paul who said, fight the 00:12:36.899 --> 00:12:39.620 good fight of faith? Greek. Agonize the good 00:12:39.620 --> 00:12:43.240 agony of faith. I have fought a good fight. I 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.399 have agonized a good agony. Wait a minute. Faith 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:56.620 and agony in the same sentence. Watch. I think 00:12:56.620 --> 00:13:02.259 I'll go on this side. So in Acts chapter nine, 00:13:02.379 --> 00:13:09.539 Jesus appears to Paul, knocks him to the ground. 00:13:12.700 --> 00:13:15.679 And up until that moment, listen to me carefully. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:25.879 Paul, who thought he knew the scriptures, says, 00:13:26.019 --> 00:13:34.919 who are you, sir? I am Jesus. Every, listen to 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:43.360 me, every religious thing that Paul knew in the 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:51.440 presence of the Christ collapsed. Look at your 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:56.700 neighbor and say, every bit of religion that 00:13:56.700 --> 00:14:03.730 you think you know can collapse. In the presence 00:14:03.730 --> 00:14:16.429 of the resurrected Christ. So, whenever you have 00:14:16.429 --> 00:14:32.899 a false framework. See, most of us. don't have 00:14:32.899 --> 00:14:41.419 what Paul had. He had a total collapse of his 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:53.279 religion. I can't take a total collapse. I'm 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:58.779 a wimp. I have to experience incremental collapses. 00:15:01.929 --> 00:15:10.669 In my wrong thinking. I have to experience gradual 00:15:10.669 --> 00:15:31.799 collapses. In my wrong theology. So. When Jesus 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:39.240 collapses false frameworks, he has to reframe 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:44.440 my thinking according to the intelligence of 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.820 the Spirit and give me the interpretations of 00:15:47.820 --> 00:16:00.120 God the Father. And I personally don't like change. 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:22.240 resist change so the father initiates outer change 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:27.820 to bring inner transition and I am not happy 00:16:27.820 --> 00:16:52.879 cause I have control issues Transition. Look 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:59.659 at Moses, 40 days. Noah, 40 days. Jesus, 40 days. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.240 40 days is the time of transition where something 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:06.700 has, the chapter has come to an end, your transition, 00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:10.819 but yet you have not yet come into the new beginning. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.000 So you experience uncertainty. There's ambiguity. 00:17:21.149 --> 00:17:23.609 There's a loss of self -confidence. I didn't 00:17:23.609 --> 00:17:35.869 say personal confidence. I mean, let's take a 00:17:35.869 --> 00:17:38.029 look for a moment. I'm still talking about capacity 00:17:38.029 --> 00:17:41.349 code. Let's take a look at the prophet Elijah, 00:17:41.529 --> 00:17:45.509 who was among the settlers in Gilead because 00:17:45.509 --> 00:17:51.099 there was a civil war. He was a self -made man 00:17:51.099 --> 00:17:54.880 who was used to being alone and didn't depend 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.220 upon anybody. And he really did have a revelation 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:03.380 when he told King Ahab, you know, it's not going 00:18:03.380 --> 00:18:05.619 to rain. I got the key. I'm putting it in my 00:18:05.619 --> 00:18:07.440 back pocket. The father's got to keep me alive 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.740 because nobody else on earth has the authority 00:18:09.740 --> 00:18:15.480 to unlock what I just locked. And I'm going to 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:18.799 wait three and a half years. I'm going to be 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.799 supernaturally sustained. By the way, God tells 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:25.079 him to go to the Brook Cherith. If he would have 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:26.460 went to the Jordan, he would have been hungry. 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.180 Because God meets you in the place where he told 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:40.619 you to be. The angel... Okay, I'm going to leave 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:43.559 that alone anyway. I'm going to leave that alone. 00:18:45.900 --> 00:18:50.660 Then God... Takes him through a series of experiences. 00:18:51.700 --> 00:18:54.740 Eventually, you know, the fire falls. The false 00:18:54.740 --> 00:18:58.359 prophets are killed. The rain comes. He's in 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:02.660 a state of depletion. Everybody say exhaustion. 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:09.220 Everybody say burnout. And after the great victory, 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:13.619 Jezebel curses herself. She doesn't realize she's 00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:16.180 cursing herself. But she's saying, just like 00:19:16.180 --> 00:19:19.519 you killed them prophets 24 hours from now, may 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:27.519 the gods do to me what you did to them. I'm going 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.640 to take your head off. This brother, listen to 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:37.420 this, runs from the northern kingdom toward the 00:19:37.420 --> 00:19:45.869 southern kingdom. He runs 300 miles. To go to 00:19:45.869 --> 00:19:48.970 Sinai, to go to Mount Horeb, which in the Hebrew 00:19:48.970 --> 00:19:56.109 means desolation. Joanne, they heard me, but 00:19:56.109 --> 00:20:01.849 they're not really hearing me. Because when she 00:20:01.849 --> 00:20:04.609 said, I'm going to take off your head, because 00:20:04.609 --> 00:20:09.950 he was mentally and emotionally depleted, he 00:20:09.950 --> 00:20:14.660 was no longer God's man of faith and power. Because 00:20:14.660 --> 00:20:19.240 after all of that spiritual exertion, he had 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:23.079 now reached a point of mental, emotional, and 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:28.619 physical collapse. Because he was trying to do 00:20:28.619 --> 00:20:33.619 it all by himself. You heard me, but you didn't 00:20:33.619 --> 00:20:40.960 hear me. And so when he runs, he gets under a 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:43.849 broom tree and the angel of the Lord says, arise 00:20:43.849 --> 00:20:50.630 and eat. The journey is too great for you. Okay? 00:20:50.789 --> 00:20:53.809 Water. He is so depressed, he falls back to sleep. 00:20:54.809 --> 00:20:58.690 He's in self -pity. I don't want to kill myself. 00:20:59.049 --> 00:21:01.589 So Lord, I'm no better than my fathers. Lord, 00:21:01.630 --> 00:21:04.150 you kill me. And the self -pity is hiding his 00:21:04.150 --> 00:21:10.390 pride. Look at somebody saying, it ain't so simple 00:21:10.390 --> 00:21:18.900 now. Things have got hard now. Things are so 00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:24.339 painful, he doesn't want to go on. He runs because 00:21:24.339 --> 00:21:31.960 of anxiety. He runs because of fear. Look at 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:33.539 your neighbor and say, he sounds a whole lot 00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:42.359 like you. He's having a panic attack. His brain 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:48.279 is shut down when she made the threat. You got 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:59.880 fight or flight or you got freeze. Here's the 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:07.960 point. God has grace for you just like he had 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:15.890 grace for Elijah. the father was not at all concerned. 00:22:28.650 --> 00:22:39.950 He felt like a failure. Paul said in 2 Corinthians, 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:43.779 I don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, of 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:48.460 the trouble that found me in Asia. How I was 00:22:48.460 --> 00:22:54.680 pressed above measure. Above strength. I was 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:56.960 in despair. Wait a minute. Let me see if I got 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:01.319 this right. Jesus appears to you. You write all 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:06.339 these scriptures. You get caught up to heaven. 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:09.509 You hear words that either. There's no language 00:23:09.509 --> 00:23:15.250 for or you're forbidden to speak. You have visions 00:23:15.250 --> 00:23:18.829 and revelations from the Lord. You are the apostle 00:23:18.829 --> 00:23:22.750 to the Gentiles. And you said you are in despair. 00:23:24.029 --> 00:23:30.609 You're depressed. Look, somebody said, don't 00:23:30.609 --> 00:23:36.380 sound simple to me. Don't sound easy to me. Look, 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.299 somebody said, don't sound painless to me. See, 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.119 because here's the issue. You think because you're 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.200 in pain that there's something wrong with your 00:23:47.200 --> 00:24:00.799 faith. Oh, wow. Would you grab that for me? Yeah, 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:03.680 just throw it up there because eventually I'm 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:09.849 going to need that. See, I'm going to show you 00:24:09.849 --> 00:24:21.670 how it's not so simple. Proverbs 29, 18. Where 00:24:21.670 --> 00:24:23.730 there's no vision, you can put it up there if 00:24:23.730 --> 00:24:26.829 you want, if somebody cares to. Sometimes people 00:24:26.829 --> 00:24:30.910 need a visual. That's pretty good. Where there's 00:24:30.910 --> 00:24:33.569 no revelation, the people cast off restraint. 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:37.740 But whoever keeps the teaching, he shall be happy. 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:44.019 Huh? Wait a minute. Revelation. Wait a minute. 00:24:44.059 --> 00:24:46.660 Revelation. Revelation. Revelation. Everybody 00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:50.980 say supernatural perception. Everybody say supernatural 00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:55.539 discernment. Oh, wait a minute. Let me put it 00:24:55.539 --> 00:25:01.140 in a formal question. If you can't see it, you 00:25:01.140 --> 00:25:05.720 can't describe it. If you can't see it, are you 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.960 able to describe it? No. I have to see it to 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:11.720 describe it. Look at your neighbor and say, you 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:25.480 got to see it to describe it. Wait. Don't you 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.519 have to describe it in order to be able to define 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:34.700 it? I have to see it? Revelation, the revelation 00:25:34.700 --> 00:25:36.519 of the word, what's in the mind of the father, 00:25:36.539 --> 00:25:38.359 the intelligence of the spirit, the strategies 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:42.160 of Jesus to be an overcomer so I could know the 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:46.000 operations of the enemy and how to defeat the 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:48.920 enemy because through revelation, I'm no longer 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:58.940 ignorant of the enemy's devices. I have to see 00:25:58.940 --> 00:26:02.809 it to describe it. I have to describe it to define 00:26:02.809 --> 00:26:10.210 it. Wait a minute. If I can see it and define 00:26:10.210 --> 00:26:18.150 it and describe it, now I have to govern it. 00:26:21.990 --> 00:26:27.009 Huh. Under the lordship of Jesus and under the 00:26:27.009 --> 00:26:31.059 leadership of Jesus, I got to see it? I got to 00:26:31.059 --> 00:26:35.500 describe it. I got to define it. Now I can govern 00:26:35.500 --> 00:26:38.420 it. And because I govern it, now I can measure 00:26:38.420 --> 00:26:42.380 it. And since I can measure it, now I can grow 00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:48.079 it. And if I can't see it and describe it, if 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:51.900 I can't define it and govern it, and if I can't 00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:54.759 measure it and grow it, then I can't harvest 00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:58.759 it. And if I can't harvest it, why even do it? 00:26:59.849 --> 00:27:06.069 Since Jesus is the Lord of the harvest. So if 00:27:06.069 --> 00:27:08.789 I'm having problems with harvest, that means 00:27:08.789 --> 00:27:12.410 I'm having problems seeing something I was originally 00:27:12.410 --> 00:27:22.410 intended to see. There's something wrong with 00:27:22.410 --> 00:27:27.309 my definitions. Because I don't have the actual. 00:27:28.100 --> 00:27:32.559 Picture the description. So now I can't govern 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:36.579 it. Now I can't grow it. Now I can't harvest 00:27:36.579 --> 00:27:45.660 it. Wait a minute. Give me 1 Corinthians 3 .10. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:28:00.000 What does faith sound like when it thinks? When 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:07.460 it thinks. When it thinks. What does faith sound 00:28:07.460 --> 00:28:12.799 like when it thinks? 1 Corinthians 3 .10, according 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:16.019 to the grace of God, which was given to me, as 00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:26.049 a wise master builder, architectia. Which means 00:28:26.049 --> 00:28:32.430 before he begins, he has the end in mind. That 00:28:32.430 --> 00:28:35.809 means in order for you to build according to 00:28:35.809 --> 00:28:38.690 the pattern that's in the heavens, I have to 00:28:38.690 --> 00:28:43.230 see it, describe it. I have to get the definition 00:28:43.230 --> 00:28:48.690 of divine purpose and destiny. I have to govern 00:28:48.690 --> 00:28:52.690 it so I can grow it because I'm able now to measure 00:28:52.690 --> 00:28:56.849 it against the... plumb line of the truth. And 00:28:56.849 --> 00:28:59.750 now I can bring the harvest that's in the heart 00:28:59.750 --> 00:29:04.549 of the Father that Jesus paid for back up to 00:29:04.549 --> 00:29:09.829 the Father. So if I'm not getting the harvest, 00:29:10.109 --> 00:29:14.089 you ready? Things don't go wrong, they start 00:29:14.089 --> 00:29:21.710 wrong. Because the seeds of destruction are always 00:29:21.710 --> 00:29:27.670 in the foundation. Architechion. Everybody say 00:29:27.670 --> 00:29:32.769 architechion. Everybody say blueprint. Everybody 00:29:32.769 --> 00:29:39.009 say architecture. Things don't fail because of 00:29:39.009 --> 00:29:42.990 your desire. They fail because you don't have 00:29:42.990 --> 00:29:53.950 the design. People think if I just have godly 00:29:53.950 --> 00:29:56.869 desire. You're supposed to have godly desire. 00:29:59.150 --> 00:30:01.730 But your godly desire leads you to the design. 00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:09.589 Where you're frustrated is where you desire something 00:30:09.589 --> 00:30:15.990 that's outside of your God -given design. If 00:30:15.990 --> 00:30:18.049 you're a deacon and you try to pastor, you in 00:30:18.049 --> 00:30:27.259 trouble. Because you're going to have pastoral 00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:32.599 trials, but you're a deacon. Look at somebody 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:36.000 say, it ain't so simple now. Look at somebody 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.980 say, it ain't so easy now. You're going to have 00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:42.500 pain that you aren't equipped for. Because what 00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:49.640 determines your capacity is your calling. Your 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:54.650 calling determines. what kind of capacity God's 00:30:54.650 --> 00:30:58.410 going to build in you in terms of internal architecture. 00:31:03.170 --> 00:31:13.650 You ready? Talk to me. The Spirit moves through 00:31:13.650 --> 00:31:20.170 the Father's God -given structure. You have to 00:31:20.170 --> 00:31:26.789 be structured for success. The kind of success 00:31:26.789 --> 00:31:33.289 I'm talking about, Joshua 1 and 8, no other foundation 00:31:33.289 --> 00:31:40.109 can be laid other than that's already laid. Things 00:31:40.109 --> 00:31:42.869 don't go wrong, they start wrong. I don't know 00:31:42.869 --> 00:31:47.369 if that's true, Pastor Tony. Well, let me answer 00:31:47.369 --> 00:31:51.440 you this way here. So you read the Sermon on 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:55.400 the Mountain, and at the end of it, Jesus says, 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:59.640 whoever hears these sayings of mine and doesn't 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:03.740 do them, he's like a foolish man. Built his house 00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:08.539 on the sand. Built his house on the sand. He 00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:10.339 heard what I said, but he didn't do what I said, 00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:13.519 and there were three tests. Rains, floods, wind, 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:17.079 and the house fell. Great was the fall of it. 00:32:24.109 --> 00:32:26.250 Whoever hears these things of mine and puts them 00:32:26.250 --> 00:32:28.490 into practice, I'll show you what he's like. 00:32:28.549 --> 00:32:32.410 He's like a wise man who dig deep and laid the 00:32:32.410 --> 00:32:35.710 foundation of a house on a rock. Three tests, 00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:43.430 winds, floods, rain. And it stood. Things don't 00:32:43.430 --> 00:32:50.410 go wrong. They start wrong. That's why sometimes 00:32:50.410 --> 00:32:54.720 things have to be. reframed and you have to have 00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:00.200 a brand new foundation because the depth of the 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.200 foundation determines the height of the building. 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.460 Look at what somebody said. Everybody say, you 00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:12.099 have a simple foundation, you're going to have 00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:14.660 a simple building. You're going to have a little 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:16.480 foundation, you're going to have a little building. 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:19.180 You're going to have a great foundation, a deep 00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:21.359 foundation, a wide foundation. You're going to 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:26.859 have a big building. Look at what I say. It ain't 00:33:26.859 --> 00:33:31.680 that simple. It ain't that easy. See, we don't 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:34.200 want the digging because the reason we don't 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.940 want the digging is because your earth has got 00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:48.940 to be disturbed. There's areas of your mind and 00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:54.119 heart that's got to be excavated. Oh, I want 00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:56.740 the fullness of the spirit. Okay, eight ounce 00:33:56.740 --> 00:34:03.579 or gallon. I want the fullness of the spirit. 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:08.400 Yeah, well, the size of the river is determined 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:25.719 by the size of the riverbed. me permission. Still 00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:31.480 with me? All right, let's go. The book of the 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:33.400 law shall not depart from your mouth. The teaching, 00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:36.019 the revelation. Wait a minute. I need the word 00:34:36.019 --> 00:34:39.179 of God in my mouth. You're going to meditate 00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:41.039 in a day and night. Oh, I need the word of God 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:44.719 in my mind. I really do. So I can observe to 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.219 do it. All that's written. Everybody say the 00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:52.219 word of God in your mouth. In your mind and in 00:34:52.219 --> 00:34:56.039 your obedience. For then you will make your way 00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:59.159 to prosper and you'll have everybody say good 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:03.019 success. So the word of God in my mind, the word 00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:06.840 of God in my mouth and the word of God in my 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:11.579 life through obedience creates an internal structure 00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:17.480 because now I'm a prepared vessel that can handle 00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:24.219 the weight. Of the kavod. The presence. And the 00:35:24.219 --> 00:35:30.320 glory. Wait a minute. You'll have good success. 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:32.119 Wait a minute. If you can have good success. 00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:36.300 Can you have bad success? Wait a minute. Structure 00:35:36.300 --> 00:35:39.239 comes before success. Success actually in the 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.320 Hebrew means. That you become and you do. What 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:48.389 the father originally had in mind. Everybody 00:35:48.389 --> 00:35:53.309 say, the Holy Spirit says, you become and you 00:35:53.309 --> 00:35:57.869 do what was originally in the heart and mind 00:35:57.869 --> 00:36:11.349 of the Father. So it's about structure. I'm going 00:36:11.349 --> 00:36:21.429 to let it set for a minute. Have I not commanded 00:36:21.429 --> 00:36:26.289 you? Wait a minute. I got to be strong and I 00:36:26.289 --> 00:36:30.090 got to have courage in some places in my life 00:36:30.090 --> 00:36:38.250 to be restructured. I got to stop being afraid. 00:36:41.289 --> 00:36:45.030 When I'm in the... Can I tell you something? 00:36:45.409 --> 00:36:52.119 Okay, let me tell you something. I need the word 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:58.679 of wisdom for the season I'm in. You have one 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.920 purpose, but you walk through many seasons. My 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:12.860 problem is my own rigidity. I'll say that again. 00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:16.360 Matter of fact, why don't you help me? Look at 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.059 your neighbor and say, your problem is your own 00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:22.619 rigidity. Look at somebody saying, when the father's 00:37:22.619 --> 00:37:27.239 giving you new revelation, he's trying to deliver 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:32.840 you from your personal rigidity into the flexibility 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:36.820 of the father. Look at somebody say, you got 00:37:36.820 --> 00:37:40.019 to know what to let go of and you got to know 00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:46.219 what to receive. So it's okay to be rigidly righteous. 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:57.389 It's not okay to be rigidly religious. I know 00:37:57.389 --> 00:38:04.170 you don't think you've got any religion. But 00:38:04.170 --> 00:38:06.630 when you are disobedient to the word of the Lord, 00:38:06.710 --> 00:38:13.610 ask your wife. I really want to know how a brother's 00:38:13.610 --> 00:38:28.900 doing. All I got to do is ask his wife. Are you 00:38:28.900 --> 00:38:31.619 guys all right? So anyway, I'll tell you a story. 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.559 I didn't even get to page one. I got issues. 00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:41.179 So I knew this brother. His name was Harold. 00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:45.820 Harold was a womanizer. And his wife, she was 00:38:45.820 --> 00:38:49.900 an alcoholic. Her name was Louise. And they lived 00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:51.820 across the alley from where I was growing up. 00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:56.239 Because we lived on a dead end street. They lived 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:59.710 on Hope. We lived on Lamb. There's a message 00:38:59.710 --> 00:39:05.610 in that. Anyway, so Harold, older brother, Jesus 00:39:05.610 --> 00:39:07.449 appears to him because he worked at the post 00:39:07.449 --> 00:39:10.150 office and he gets saved. So in his excitement, 00:39:10.170 --> 00:39:12.530 he comes home to Louise and says, Louise, I met 00:39:12.530 --> 00:39:18.750 Jesus. I am saved. Louise says, I'll tell you 00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:40.599 when you say. a pool stick and hit one of her 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.300 sons. You don't mess with Louise. She took a 00:39:43.300 --> 00:39:49.480 pool stick. Bam! You gotta be careful. She said 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:53.860 to Harold, I'll tell you when you say it. One 00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:57.760 year later, Louise said, Harold, you really saved. 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:03.840 She got saved. Got delivered from alcohol. Her 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:09.059 kids started getting saved. That's why I say. 00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:11.440 If I really want to know how you're doing, I 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:20.380 just ask your spouse. You all right? You still 00:40:20.380 --> 00:40:23.880 all right? I'm just checking. Just checking. 00:40:24.699 --> 00:40:32.099 Just checking. So, now, I have to set Greg up 00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:39.320 now. I'll give it back to my notes later. So 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:50.599 book of Acts chapter two, verse 42. You know, 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:57.920 Elijah, you know, when his, when his self image 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.500 collapsed, he went to a cave, actually went to 00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:05.980 the very same cave that Moses was at after he 00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:09.500 travels 300 miles. And the Lord says, what you 00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:20.300 doing here? I'm the only one left. They done 00:41:20.300 --> 00:41:23.480 killed all the prophets. They done throw down 00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:30.139 your altars. They done want your word. They seeking 00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:38.219 my life to take it away. And then he experiences 00:41:38.219 --> 00:41:46.260 earth, wind, and fire, not the group. Stay with 00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:50.860 me? And then the Lord is not in the earthquake, 00:41:51.059 --> 00:41:54.059 the wind, or the fire, but he's in a still, small 00:41:54.059 --> 00:41:56.940 voice. And the Hebrew means the sheer silence. 00:42:01.380 --> 00:42:11.280 It took him running 300 miles. Watch this. In 00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:15.619 his fear, in his self -pity, in his anxiety, 00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:23.599 in his anger, he had lost purpose. I'm no better 00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:27.280 than my fathers. Let me just die. And when he 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:31.239 gets in the cave, the place of solitude and silence, 00:42:31.619 --> 00:42:43.590 he pauses long enough to hear. A silence that 00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:48.889 penetrates his own mental and emotional darkness. 00:42:50.210 --> 00:42:53.789 And he's delivered from that darkness and returns 00:42:53.789 --> 00:43:06.750 to destiny. And now the father has done something 00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:13.030 in his mind. that has changed how he's going 00:43:13.030 --> 00:43:17.809 to operate from here on out. And the father says, 00:43:18.030 --> 00:43:23.130 anoint Hazel, anoint Jehu, and anoint Elijah 00:43:23.130 --> 00:43:26.510 to be prophet in your place. Here's a man who 00:43:26.510 --> 00:43:29.230 lived in isolation because his whole life was, 00:43:29.289 --> 00:43:32.110 he was a settler in the inhabitants of Gilead. 00:43:32.269 --> 00:43:35.730 He knew how to make it on his own. Relationships 00:43:35.730 --> 00:43:48.800 were not his thing. And now he forms a relationship 00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:55.739 with a son. And let me mess with you. Elijah 00:43:55.739 --> 00:44:02.239 never did anoint Hazel. He never did anoint Jehu. 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.679 He sends a young prophet that he had a relationship 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:15.400 with to anoint Jehu. And Elijah prophesies to 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:24.050 Hazel. Elisha, not Elijah. I can't talk. I'm 00:44:24.050 --> 00:44:32.889 from Missouri. We have our own language. Now 00:44:32.889 --> 00:44:40.610 he's working with others. Okay. Somebody wrote 00:44:40.610 --> 00:44:42.670 a book and the title of the book was everything 00:44:42.670 --> 00:44:48.179 I learned in life. I learned how to live. I learned 00:44:48.179 --> 00:44:53.199 in kindergarten. Look, somebody said, the issue 00:44:53.199 --> 00:45:04.820 is, can you play well with others? Oh, should 00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:09.219 I do that scripture? They continued steadfastly 00:45:09.219 --> 00:45:11.860 in the apostles doctrine. Everybody said they 00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:15.760 did it. I have a message called the continue 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:21.250 code. It's a word from the Lord. My goodness. 00:45:22.050 --> 00:45:27.610 If I do say so for myself, I woke up one morning 00:45:27.610 --> 00:45:34.150 and there it was. Steadfastly. Ooh, steadfastly. 00:45:36.449 --> 00:45:40.730 They continued. They did it together in the word 00:45:40.730 --> 00:45:43.070 of the Lord in fellowship. They were fellows 00:45:43.070 --> 00:45:48.099 in the same ship. Everybody say, you need the 00:45:48.099 --> 00:45:51.519 word of the Lord. You need to continue in the 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:54.599 word of the Lord. And you need to continue in 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:59.380 the fellowship. Look at your neighbor and say, 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:03.719 I am here for your personal growth and perfection. 00:46:05.739 --> 00:46:10.940 I am here to rub you the wrong way and smooth 00:46:10.940 --> 00:46:16.920 you out by the power of the Holy Spirit. If you 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:21.400 could still love me after I have gotten on your 00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:27.639 reserve nerve, you really know Jesus and you're 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:32.119 obeying the gospel. Now look at him and smile 00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:39.219 and say, we walk by faith and not by sight. Somebody 00:46:39.219 --> 00:46:40.900 wrote a book and the title of the book was this, 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.039 as God is my witness, can we just kill them and 00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:53.909 tell God they died? There's a lot of homicidal 00:46:53.909 --> 00:47:03.170 saints running around. It connects you with that. 00:47:04.630 --> 00:47:08.329 Breaking the bread. Everybody say covenant with 00:47:08.329 --> 00:47:12.789 God and covenant with each other. By the way. 00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:20.559 The Bible talks about with one accord. With one 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:22.699 accord is homo thumadon. That means that we lock 00:47:22.699 --> 00:47:24.940 arms and we walk through fire together. We refuse 00:47:24.940 --> 00:47:27.679 to let go of each other. That's where it says 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.159 they were all with one accord in one place and 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.880 the Holy Spirit fell. And in prayers. Do you 00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:38.139 know, there's a brother, his name is Steve Sampson. 00:47:39.179 --> 00:47:41.579 He looks like Bob Newhart. No kidding, really. 00:47:42.780 --> 00:47:44.780 He wrote a book, and this is the title of the 00:47:44.780 --> 00:47:47.280 book. Don't talk to me now, Lord, I'm praying. 00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:08.579 for real. I've been there. Well, God has to interrupt 00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:23.059 me to get a word in. What are you saying, Tony? 00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:28.429 Here's what I'm saying. I'm saying Unless I let 00:48:28.429 --> 00:48:31.090 the grace of God take care of my own unfinished 00:48:31.090 --> 00:48:39.869 business, I will have personal distortions. I 00:48:39.869 --> 00:48:42.789 will not see myself through the eyes of the Father. 00:48:43.650 --> 00:48:49.230 And that will restrict and restrain and hold 00:48:49.230 --> 00:48:52.989 back and block my discernment and my perception. 00:48:53.949 --> 00:48:57.559 What Jesus is up to, where he wants to go. And 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:04.840 how I'm supposed to follow. Are you still with 00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:09.900 me? So let me tell you about my second experience 00:49:09.900 --> 00:49:14.820 with Paul. He's a little man. A lot of people 00:49:14.820 --> 00:49:20.059 are little in comparison to me. So we're talking 00:49:20.059 --> 00:49:23.280 and we're on what you would call grass. And he 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:26.309 steps off the grass on a golden street. And says, 00:49:26.349 --> 00:49:28.210 follow me. So I look to the Lord and the Lord 00:49:28.210 --> 00:49:33.969 says. And I start to follow him. And the Lord 00:49:33.969 --> 00:49:37.829 says, he quotes one Corinthians 11 and one where 00:49:37.829 --> 00:49:43.989 it says, follow me as I follow Christ. Look at 00:49:43.989 --> 00:49:48.429 somebody said the Holy Spirit says. Follow Christ. 00:49:50.190 --> 00:49:52.889 Now, reverence came upon every soul. And as a 00:49:52.889 --> 00:49:57.889 result of. The church, the prevailing church, 00:49:58.050 --> 00:50:03.670 each one of them walking in the apostle's doctrine, 00:50:03.769 --> 00:50:06.469 which is the teaching of Christ, fellows in the 00:50:06.469 --> 00:50:11.269 same ship, together going to the same place in 00:50:11.269 --> 00:50:14.789 covenant with God and with one another, and in 00:50:14.789 --> 00:50:17.610 prayer, praise, and worship. Now the reverence 00:50:17.610 --> 00:50:20.610 of the Lord is upon every soul, and now we see 00:50:20.610 --> 00:50:24.929 signs and wonders. Wait. All who believe were 00:50:24.929 --> 00:50:28.269 together. Everybody say they were together. They 00:50:28.269 --> 00:50:31.409 had all things common. Now you had a move of 00:50:31.409 --> 00:50:34.010 God among the rich for those who were less fortunate. 00:50:34.090 --> 00:50:37.829 They sold their possessions of goods and divided 00:50:37.829 --> 00:50:42.949 them among all as anyone had need. Watch. And 00:50:42.949 --> 00:50:47.809 continuing daily with homo thumadon. With one 00:50:47.809 --> 00:50:50.889 accord in the temple. Breaking bread from house 00:50:50.889 --> 00:50:53.869 to house. Everybody say they continued daily. 00:50:54.050 --> 00:50:58.190 Watch this. They ate their food with gladness 00:50:58.190 --> 00:51:00.570 and simplicity of heart, praising God, having 00:51:00.570 --> 00:51:02.989 favor with all the people, and the Lord added 00:51:02.989 --> 00:51:07.289 to the church what? Wait a minute. They continued 00:51:07.289 --> 00:51:10.989 daily, and the Lord added to the church daily. 00:51:15.489 --> 00:51:17.809 And because they loved God and loved each other, 00:51:17.849 --> 00:51:20.329 they had favor with the people. And the Lord 00:51:20.329 --> 00:51:23.050 added to the church daily those who were being 00:51:23.050 --> 00:51:37.130 saved. What's the point? The word of the Lord 00:51:37.130 --> 00:51:41.369 and the spirit of God increase my capacity. So 00:51:41.369 --> 00:51:43.550 I not only get a revelation of the resurrected 00:51:43.550 --> 00:51:47.659 Christ. I can bring manifestations of the resurrected 00:51:47.659 --> 00:51:51.420 Christ out of heaven into the earth. Why? Because 00:51:51.420 --> 00:51:56.079 Colossians 1 .27 says, Christ in you, the hope 00:51:56.079 --> 00:52:00.320 of glory. Galatians 2 .20, I'm crucified with 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.800 Christ, nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:08.079 lives in me. Look at your neighbor and say, Christ 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:12.920 in you, the hope of glory. Everybody say, Christ 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:17.340 in me. He lives in me. He's going to manifest 00:52:17.340 --> 00:52:21.619 himself through me. Stand to your feet, will 00:52:21.619 --> 00:52:26.760 you please? Thank you for taking the time to 00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:29.719 listen to this week's message. We are so grateful 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.320 for those who tune in each week and have given 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:35.559 generously to this ministry. If you would like 00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:38.099 to give, click the link in the episode description 00:52:38.099 --> 00:52:41.260 below. 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