WEBVTT 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:05.269 Welcome to the Life Bible Church podcast. We 00:00:05.269 --> 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. 00:00:12.990 --> 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 --> 00:00:25.289 enjoy this week's message. Oh, there is so much 00:00:25.289 --> 00:00:29.309 that is just kind of swirling around this morning. 00:00:29.390 --> 00:00:32.000 I'm trying to make sure I step right. in what 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.640 the Lord wants to do. I sent several sets of 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:37.939 notes, one again this morning while I was in 00:00:37.939 --> 00:00:40.539 the prayer room of just something I felt like 00:00:40.539 --> 00:00:42.159 the Lord quickened, and then I got something 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.280 on the front row, and so I got about three cartridges 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:49.000 for a one -barrel gun here. I'm trying to figure 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.179 out what we do this morning. You know, as we're 00:00:53.179 --> 00:00:58.759 in the prayer room, the theme was on the anointing, 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.520 Pastor Jenny. got up and talked about the anointing. 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.120 She talked about the several aspects of the anointing. 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:11.099 And I really do think that this morning, God 00:01:11.099 --> 00:01:15.359 is trying to release a message to his people 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.140 that you've got to understand. That if you're 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:22.640 going to move in kingdom authority and move in 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.019 kingdom power, you're going to have to get used 00:01:26.019 --> 00:01:30.180 to operating in an anointing that's in the presence 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:38.519 of your enemies. I'm just talking to you now 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:40.980 just kind of out of what I feel like the Spirit 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:43.700 of God has been talking to me about just speaking. 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.439 You know, David prayed. The wonderful prayer 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.959 of Psalms 23, the Lord is my shepherd. You know, 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.079 he leads me beside still waters. He restores 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.280 my soul. All of those things God does. For his 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.200 name's sake, he causes me to dwell in green, 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.819 rich pastures, the feeding of the word, that 00:02:01.819 --> 00:02:07.019 shepherd nature. He restores my soul. He walks 00:02:07.019 --> 00:02:09.960 with me through the valley of the shadow of death 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.060 where I fear no evil. He knows how to, if I could 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:16.319 just take it off the word death for a second 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.539 and just say, yes, he does walk through times 00:02:19.539 --> 00:02:22.199 of where we go through deep grief and sorrow 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.900 of death is taken a loved one or taken at a time 00:02:25.900 --> 00:02:29.060 of departure. But it also, death also represents 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:34.360 times of loss of a vision or loss of something 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.740 that you didn't think should have. that God gave 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:39.740 you that all of a sudden now you're having to 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:42.560 mourn and put away. He walks through you with 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:48.159 those valleys. And he leads you to a place called 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:53.280 his table. Yes, it's the communion table. Yes, 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.979 it's part of that. But it's the table of the 00:02:55.979 --> 00:03:00.139 Lord. It's where all the things of God, his, 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.240 who he is. This is the important part because 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:09.409 if you don't, Eat at the table. You anoint my 00:03:09.409 --> 00:03:12.289 head with oil, my cup runneth over, but you prepare 00:03:12.289 --> 00:03:16.030 a table before me in the presence of my enemies. 00:03:16.969 --> 00:03:22.349 So the preparation of the table means that God 00:03:22.349 --> 00:03:27.289 sets down things or is willing to lay out things 00:03:27.289 --> 00:03:31.009 of his nature, of his character, of his word, 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:35.750 all that is available. It is done now. not in 00:03:35.750 --> 00:03:38.189 this wonderful, and sometimes this is how we 00:03:38.189 --> 00:03:43.310 think, in a wonderful kind of just pristine meadow 00:03:43.310 --> 00:03:49.150 where there's poppies and sunflowers and the 00:03:49.150 --> 00:03:52.629 trees are singing and the rocks are kind of just 00:03:52.629 --> 00:03:56.909 playing bass and just this place where everything 00:03:56.909 --> 00:04:01.830 moves wonderfully under the anointing. God sets 00:04:01.830 --> 00:04:07.599 this spread and kind of like, I can't even remember 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.340 her name, but like the sound of music in Bavaria. 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:18.839 I come to the table with the sound of Jesus. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.199 You know, sometimes we think that that's the 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.459 nature of how God will prepare a table before 00:04:27.459 --> 00:04:30.360 us. We forget the next part of the verse, in 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:36.410 the presence of mine enemies. Now, sometimes 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:41.649 it's not just the enemies that have decided to 00:04:41.649 --> 00:04:45.389 talk ill about you at work or backstab you to 00:04:45.389 --> 00:04:48.649 get a promotion or all of that other type of 00:04:48.649 --> 00:04:52.589 stuff. Sometimes it's the enemies of what we 00:04:52.589 --> 00:04:58.949 heard today in regard to your healing. He prepares 00:04:58.949 --> 00:05:01.350 a table. What does the table have? It has revelation. 00:05:03.339 --> 00:05:08.339 It has insight. Because the table always is connected 00:05:08.339 --> 00:05:13.240 to the word. The word, come on somebody, the 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:18.439 word sits at the table. When we say we're gonna 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:20.980 fellowship with Jesus, we're gonna commune with 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:25.399 Jesus, the word sits at his table. And at his 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.480 table are the things, that's why the Bible says, 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:33.600 oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. And 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.000 so there's a reality of eating at the table of 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.560 the Lord the things that speak directly to your 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:47.139 enemies. Who are your enemies that are sitting 00:05:47.139 --> 00:05:50.579 at the table? David didn't say God's enemies. 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.079 Because that's sometimes where we go. Well, the 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.839 enemies are the enemies of God and me. No, no, 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:02.459 no, no, no. David said what? He said. You prepare 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:06.860 a table before me in the presence of my enemy. 00:06:06.980 --> 00:06:11.199 He made it personal. He understood that there 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.800 was things that were coming specifically against 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:21.620 him. He had enemies. Some of them, those enemies 00:06:21.620 --> 00:06:25.360 manifested in the flesh. Some of them, they were 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.079 in people. Some of them, what we recognize was 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.300 an enemy. inside of him or trying to get to him 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:37.759 to not eat the truth of God's word and trust 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:41.139 God's character, his word, or his spirit in that 00:06:41.139 --> 00:06:46.800 area. And it's in that place, and it's always 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.519 in that place when it says, he prepares a table 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.480 before me, and I'm in Psalms 23 for those that 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.620 are on the computer. You can put it on the screen 00:06:56.620 --> 00:07:01.079 here, and this isn't my note, so just FYI. In 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:07.560 the presence of my enemies, my cup, he anoints 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.139 my head with oil, my cup runneth over. And then, 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:19.480 surely and goodness follow me. Surely goodness 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.939 and mercy. The three. No, the two. Goodness and 00:07:23.939 --> 00:07:30.920 mercy. But I gotta get. Before I can quote goodness 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:36.439 and mercy, I've got to get my cup filled and 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:43.519 running over. A cup running over means there's 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:50.860 no room left in me for anything else but what 00:07:50.860 --> 00:07:56.899 comes from him. Can I just exhort you a little 00:07:56.899 --> 00:07:59.819 bit this morning? There's no, I mean, I think 00:07:59.819 --> 00:08:01.420 you heard it a little bit as we were trying to 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:03.800 highlight some of the healings that have taken 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:08.220 place in the last couple, well, not just the 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:10.259 conference. We've had healings before, healings 00:08:10.259 --> 00:08:12.699 after. Why? We're contending for healing. Why? 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:18.040 Because Jesus Christ paid for it. He paid for 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:24.399 it. And what David was dealing with here Is he 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.500 was dealing with the nature of the shepherd. 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:35.440 The Lord is my shepherd. He leads me beside the 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.879 still waters. He restores my soul through green 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.879 pastures for his name's sake. What was David 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.740 dealing with? First he was dealing with his identity 00:08:44.740 --> 00:08:50.419 and who God was to him. Right? He's my shepherd. 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:53.639 Everything in that psalm. is about me, me, me. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:55.899 Now normally, I don't like preaching about me, 00:08:55.919 --> 00:09:01.480 me, me, my, my, my. But in this case, it's biblical 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:07.240 that you have to have a me, my relationship with 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:13.259 the shepherd king. The Lord is my. That's the 00:09:13.259 --> 00:09:18.240 identity. He's mine. He's mine. He's not just 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.340 somebody else's. He's not just. Derek's. He's 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:24.000 not just David's. He's not Artie's. He's not 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.720 Julianna's, Anna's. He's not James's. He's not 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:33.120 Carrie's or Troy's or Chelsea's. He's my shepherd. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.899 Lord is my shepherd. Does he walk with me? Does 00:09:36.899 --> 00:09:40.559 he feed me? Does he counsel me? Do I trust the 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.059 shepherd? The sheep hear my voice. You connect 00:09:44.059 --> 00:09:47.159 David to every New Testament scripture about 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.399 Jesus being the good shepherd. Do you trust him? 00:09:51.460 --> 00:09:55.519 It starts with the trust of the me and the my. 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.279 And then it comes to the fact in that beginning 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:04.139 process, he restores your soul. He leads you 00:10:04.139 --> 00:10:07.399 to green pastures for his namesake. He leads 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.000 you beside still water. First thing he comes 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.519 as a shepherd is he doesn't put you in the white 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:18.539 water. He doesn't put you in the rapids. They 00:10:18.539 --> 00:10:23.110 come. But he starts the raft off. How many know, 00:10:23.210 --> 00:10:25.649 if you've ever been on a river rafting trip, 00:10:25.789 --> 00:10:30.889 they don't just put in at the rapids. Right? 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:35.870 They'd like to have some return business. So 00:10:35.870 --> 00:10:40.610 they put you in in the still water. They put 00:10:40.610 --> 00:10:42.730 you in where things are smooth, where there's 00:10:42.730 --> 00:10:46.429 a more placid effect. Jesus leads you beside 00:10:46.429 --> 00:10:49.929 still waters. He leads to green pastures. Why? 00:10:50.029 --> 00:10:53.529 What's he doing? He's getting you to trust that 00:10:53.529 --> 00:10:56.830 this is what it's like when you're with the shepherd. 00:10:58.409 --> 00:11:00.909 Because he knows that there's going to be rapids 00:11:00.909 --> 00:11:03.330 that come and he knows that you're going to take 00:11:03.330 --> 00:11:06.769 a walk through things that have darkness and 00:11:06.769 --> 00:11:10.429 valleys and have even death around it that you're 00:11:10.429 --> 00:11:13.429 going to have to trust him like you trusted him 00:11:13.429 --> 00:11:15.769 when you first met him and put your strength 00:11:15.769 --> 00:11:18.789 in the one who took you to pastures, strengthened 00:11:18.789 --> 00:11:22.549 you, resolved who your identity is is not what 00:11:22.549 --> 00:11:26.090 others have said but who he said. To get you 00:11:26.090 --> 00:11:29.990 to the place Where you could come to his table 00:11:29.990 --> 00:11:35.870 now in the maturity of your walk with him. Now 00:11:35.870 --> 00:11:38.070 this is what I believe the Lord is speaking to 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:40.870 this house. And this is my exhortation to you. 00:11:42.330 --> 00:11:45.629 The Lord is speaking. Not that there won't be 00:11:45.629 --> 00:11:47.809 green pastures because that's the nature of the 00:11:47.809 --> 00:11:53.330 shepherd. He always gives. He's the feeder. We 00:11:53.330 --> 00:11:55.629 talk about that in scripture when it says he's 00:11:55.629 --> 00:11:59.250 the shepherd. Jesus feeds the sheep. And there's 00:11:59.250 --> 00:12:03.809 a principle. Whoever becomes, whatever your title 00:12:03.809 --> 00:12:06.090 is, it doesn't matter. If you're a shepherd, 00:12:06.269 --> 00:12:11.789 you have to be a feeder. And so Jesus, as the 00:12:11.789 --> 00:12:17.129 chief shepherd, is the chief feeder. He feeds 00:12:17.129 --> 00:12:21.429 his word. He feeds understanding. illumination, 00:12:21.490 --> 00:12:26.990 knowledge. He feeds. And that's where we have 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:30.409 to come. If I was to say, where are we at in 00:12:30.409 --> 00:12:33.309 the journey? We talked a little bit last week 00:12:33.309 --> 00:12:37.929 about Israel coming out and learning to trust 00:12:37.929 --> 00:12:40.710 in the nature of their God. Here it is again. 00:12:40.850 --> 00:12:45.049 You have to be willing now to go to his table 00:12:45.049 --> 00:12:50.009 once he's moved you past. the wonderful places 00:12:50.009 --> 00:12:56.309 in Bavaria with the Julie Andrews, there it is, 00:12:56.370 --> 00:13:00.730 the name, of singing and frolicking in mountain 00:13:00.730 --> 00:13:03.710 pastures, you gotta be able to trust him now 00:13:03.710 --> 00:13:09.389 because as you move as an ambassador, that's 00:13:09.389 --> 00:13:12.250 a good word, keep going, an ambassador. What 00:13:12.250 --> 00:13:15.889 does an ambassador do? Ambassador brings a message 00:13:15.889 --> 00:13:23.340 from another place. As you move now as an ambassador, 00:13:23.620 --> 00:13:26.919 you're going to have to learn to get to the table. 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:34.179 Because ambassadors aren't sent to still water 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:41.940 places. Just ask the Goulds. Just ask them. How 00:13:41.940 --> 00:13:46.620 wonderful is that place? Well, there's wonderful 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:50.360 people there. But the regimes and the places, 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.659 I'm not gonna say the name, the regimes and the 00:13:52.659 --> 00:13:56.960 places are not still waters. They're hostile 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.840 waters. Ambassadors have to learn to get to the 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.340 table in the middle of hostile environments. 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.320 Ambassadors have to be able to walk through the 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:15.779 shadow of death. Shadow. Meaning. Not allowing 00:14:15.779 --> 00:14:21.700 the shadow to put any substance on them. It's 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:29.799 a shadow. It represents something. Yes, there's 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.820 something there. And yes, we understand that 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:37.580 Peter's shadow fell on people where they lined 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:39.580 them up on the sick and put them in the street. 00:14:40.490 --> 00:14:42.870 And Peter's shadow fell on them because Peter 00:14:42.870 --> 00:14:47.190 was walking with someone in the midst of contrary 00:14:47.190 --> 00:14:50.309 that his shadow wasn't him. It was the presence 00:14:50.309 --> 00:14:52.870 that was on him healed. But when you walk through 00:14:52.870 --> 00:14:54.950 the shadow of death, that's a different thing. 00:14:56.269 --> 00:14:59.330 Meaning I'm not gonna allow the spirit of darkness 00:14:59.330 --> 00:15:03.690 that comes with death. I'm not gonna allow intimidation. 00:15:04.070 --> 00:15:07.049 Come on, hear me. I'm not, because that's a shadow. 00:15:07.750 --> 00:15:13.879 Intimidation, chaos. is a shadow. I'm prophesying 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.059 and speaking to things in the atmosphere even 00:15:16.059 --> 00:15:22.200 now. Chaos, destruction, darkness, disunity, 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:27.879 every form of lying, maligning, deception, all 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.399 comes from a spirit of death, which is what? 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:40.600 The opposite of life. I'll walk through it. I'm 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:46.740 going to walk through it. I'm not going to allow 00:15:46.740 --> 00:15:51.059 that shadow and its substance to land on me. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.440 I'm going to move from Psalm 23 to a quick moment 00:15:55.440 --> 00:16:01.600 to Psalm 91. Though it stalks at noonday, it 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:07.320 shall not come upon me. and fall by my side, 00:16:07.460 --> 00:16:11.700 I will not fear. I will tread upon the lion and 00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:18.960 the cobra. Why? Because my trust is in the Lord. 00:16:19.500 --> 00:16:22.240 David understood something. There were a lot 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.120 of paths that led him on some dark tree lines 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:31.360 and some deep ravines. But the shadow of death, 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:37.799 I can trust Jesus. He leads me. He guides me. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:44.879 And even though I walk through the valley, the 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.679 valley, the place where it's low, the place where 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:55.980 it's not a mountaintop experience. You see, ambassadors 00:16:55.980 --> 00:17:02.620 are called to low places. In the natural, in 00:17:02.620 --> 00:17:05.339 the natural, Everybody wants an ambassadorship 00:17:05.339 --> 00:17:08.339 because they think it's a high place in the kingdom 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:12.079 of God. Ambassadorship means, no, you get to 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:16.640 take it to the low place. That's the nature of 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:18.960 the opposites of kingdoms. Come on, please hear 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.160 me. We talked about this before. Jesus' kingdom 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.339 is not a natural kingdom. Everybody wants an 00:17:26.339 --> 00:17:29.039 appointment. Oh, send me to this and send me 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.720 to that and let me have this attache. diplomatic 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:45.400 immunity. You're a dip. That's for sure. But 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:51.380 in the kingdom of God the only diplomatic immunity 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:55.319 that you have is carrying the presence of the 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.000 one that walks with you. And you're not going 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.559 to some high place to be seen and to be served 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.339 by others, you're going to the low places of 00:18:07.339 --> 00:18:10.740 the earth where the poor and the broken and the 00:18:10.740 --> 00:18:14.099 needy and those that need a touch of God can 00:18:14.099 --> 00:18:18.220 come by the anointing because an ambassador understands 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:21.779 that I've been strengthened by the still waters. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.920 I've learned the shepherd in the green pastures 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.279 and now I can come to the table in the midst 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:34.180 of an atmosphere and have... my cup full. And 00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:40.059 it will overflow. And it will overflow with the 00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:43.559 anointing. And then in the midst of it, goodness 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:52.119 and mercy strike out after me. And it follows 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:59.920 me all the days of my life. And then I will dwell. 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.200 In the house of the Lord. Why? Because I've been 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:09.079 dwelling there. When I step into eternity. It 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:13.599 will not be because I've never opened that door. 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:18.220 It's because the door was already open. And I've 00:19:18.220 --> 00:19:21.519 been dwelling in an atmosphere of heaven. And 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.880 I just step over. Come on. It's not because I 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.700 haven't seen it. Come on. Some of you need to 00:19:28.700 --> 00:19:33.099 get a revelation today. First Corinthians chapter 00:19:33.099 --> 00:19:36.900 two says, no eye has seen, no ear has heard what 00:19:36.900 --> 00:19:40.019 God has prepared for those who love him. That 00:19:40.019 --> 00:19:44.299 is not in the by and by and in the heaven up 00:19:44.299 --> 00:19:49.259 yonder. That is for the now and now for the ambassador. 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:53.220 Why? It says because you can now have the mind 00:19:53.220 --> 00:20:00.849 of Christ. It's now. Read the context. I'll be 00:20:00.849 --> 00:20:04.190 happy to hear, when the roll is called up yonder, 00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:07.549 I'll be there, but I better have heaven down 00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:15.650 here. And that is what Jesus came to do. Now 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:22.450 we're transitioning to the written message. Jesus 00:20:22.450 --> 00:20:29.390 came to bring what? He came to bring the reality 00:20:29.390 --> 00:20:34.470 of his kingdom on the earth. And we've talked 00:20:34.470 --> 00:20:38.490 about this. We'll just touch it. He lives to 00:20:38.490 --> 00:20:44.150 serve. How did he do that? He constantly ate 00:20:44.150 --> 00:20:48.390 at the table of the Lord. He fellowshiped with 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:52.349 his father. So much so, I say what I hear my 00:20:52.349 --> 00:20:57.410 father. Says, I do what I see my father do. Meaning 00:20:57.410 --> 00:21:02.990 what? There was an atmosphere of fellowship in 00:21:02.990 --> 00:21:06.529 the spirit of God. He had to what? His enemies 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:10.569 were all around him, folks. He had to constantly. 00:21:10.750 --> 00:21:14.309 That's why he said many times, did he not? When 00:21:14.309 --> 00:21:18.049 the disciples went in John Ford to get, I don't 00:21:18.049 --> 00:21:21.029 know, maybe some pita bread and some euros because 00:21:21.029 --> 00:21:24.799 they were hungry. When they came back, they said, 00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:29.200 Jesus, here, eat your sandwich. He goes, I have 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.119 food you know not of. And their immediate response 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:39.099 was, who brought him the pastrami gyro? He goes, 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:46.920 no, my food is to do the will of my father. See, 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:52.099 the disciples hadn't learned to eat at the table. 00:21:52.870 --> 00:21:56.109 yet. You say, wait a minute, what do you mean? 00:21:56.170 --> 00:21:59.430 It means Jesus knew how to get to the table. 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:04.319 wherever he was at, even when he was at Samaria, 00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:07.940 even when he was at a place where nobody wanted 00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:11.339 to touch the low of society. She'd been with 00:22:11.339 --> 00:22:14.740 five husbands and the man she was with, I mean, 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.079 man she was with, that in the Greek means the 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.680 man who she was living with. And let me just 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.099 break it down to you. Having sexual intercourse 00:22:23.099 --> 00:22:28.660 with in an unmarried relationship. Even the Samaritans 00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:31.819 didn't even want to be around this lady. And 00:22:31.819 --> 00:22:34.279 they couldn't figure out really who God was. 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:38.019 They had been filled with mixture from all the 00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:40.759 other nations that have tried to pollute who 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:45.079 they were originally to be in God. And even they 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:51.460 knew. Woo -hoo, witch and woman. They said, like, 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.900 hey, we're letting her alone. Let her go to the 00:22:54.900 --> 00:23:00.069 well. By herself. Because she is voodoo bad on 00:23:00.069 --> 00:23:03.170 anybody else because she's taken a bunch of husbands 00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:06.549 from wives. You understand? See, when you get 00:23:06.549 --> 00:23:09.470 into the text, you understand the reason she 00:23:09.470 --> 00:23:12.809 had to go alone is none of the other women wanted 00:23:12.809 --> 00:23:16.289 to walk with her. Why? Because she'd burn that 00:23:16.289 --> 00:23:26.180 bridge a time or two. Five. There was some enemies 00:23:26.180 --> 00:23:33.039 around. Hell hath no fury, but like a woman scorned. 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:42.140 First hesitations, two six. All right. Okay, 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:44.400 that's not in the Bible. I'm just, that's a joke 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:50.759 for some of you. All right. Now, what are we 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.319 talking about here? We're talking about the reality 00:23:54.319 --> 00:24:01.240 Jesus went to an environment that did not want 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:05.220 to deal with the lowest of their own low. They 00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:11.460 had already brandished her bad mamma jamma. If 00:24:11.460 --> 00:24:15.160 there would have been the Samaritan Instagram, 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:25.220 she would have been blocked. She would have had 00:24:25.220 --> 00:24:30.819 negative reviews. And Jesus sent the disciples 00:24:30.819 --> 00:24:33.539 away partly because I think he needed them to 00:24:33.539 --> 00:24:36.740 go away partly because he needed to show them 00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:40.019 that in a hostile area, number one, where they 00:24:40.019 --> 00:24:43.799 weren't welcome as Jewish men, number two, and 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:46.940 now dealing with something that even their own 00:24:46.940 --> 00:24:50.829 people wouldn't deal with, Jesus. whole purpose 00:24:50.829 --> 00:24:54.490 in John 4 was to get to the lowest of the low 00:24:54.490 --> 00:24:58.750 and to find and meet them with the prophetic 00:24:58.750 --> 00:25:03.930 word of the Lord, which is the anointing on the 00:25:03.930 --> 00:25:07.410 word. That's what it is, the anointing on the 00:25:07.410 --> 00:25:11.339 word. Jesus was filled with the spirit and the 00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:14.900 anointing on him. The Bible says without measure. 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:17.799 You and I get measures, but with him, he had 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.059 it without measure. The full anointing was on 00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:23.640 the word and the first thing that the word did 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:27.579 was the word was anointed to activate, to do 00:25:27.579 --> 00:25:32.720 what? To cut right into the soul and spirit of 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:42.190 this gal. Where's your husband? Just, Jesus, 00:25:42.509 --> 00:25:48.390 I love it. Notice, he didn't think it was politically 00:25:48.390 --> 00:25:54.569 incorrect to get to the center of an issue. He 00:25:54.569 --> 00:25:59.809 hadn't been reading in the Samaritan Post. Oh, 00:25:59.849 --> 00:26:01.529 there's another divorce she just went through. 00:26:03.569 --> 00:26:07.970 He hadn't been reading yet. But when he stood 00:26:07.970 --> 00:26:14.970 in front of the woman, Give me a drink. Well, 00:26:14.970 --> 00:26:17.750 you're a little brash, aren't you? I'm just bringing 00:26:17.750 --> 00:26:24.710 it in a common vernacular. Why are you, a Jew, 00:26:24.869 --> 00:26:28.849 talking to me? Jesus, if you knew who it was 00:26:28.849 --> 00:26:32.250 that you were talking to, you'd ask me for living 00:26:32.250 --> 00:26:38.630 water. Now, that almost sounds, in today's culture, 00:26:38.809 --> 00:26:45.569 braggadocious. Can I dare say, and just stay 00:26:45.569 --> 00:26:50.069 with me here for a second, can I dare say that 00:26:50.069 --> 00:26:54.930 when you begin to walk in the anointing as an 00:26:54.930 --> 00:26:58.710 ambassador, there is a fine line between pride, 00:26:58.849 --> 00:27:03.150 which is evil, and the confidence of the king 00:27:03.150 --> 00:27:05.269 that you've been walking with and know in that 00:27:05.269 --> 00:27:13.170 area. Because sometimes the confidence, it's 00:27:13.170 --> 00:27:17.609 not an error. The pride, you'll know when pride 00:27:17.609 --> 00:27:21.750 is there when there's no humility to serve. This 00:27:21.750 --> 00:27:25.690 is what Christians miss all the time. When there's 00:27:25.690 --> 00:27:29.549 no humility to serve, it's evident they're walking 00:27:29.549 --> 00:27:32.809 in pride. There's no love. There's no humility. 00:27:32.890 --> 00:27:36.049 That is not what Jesus operated. He operated 00:27:36.049 --> 00:27:39.710 in complete. confidence to be able to say, if 00:27:39.710 --> 00:27:42.069 you knew who it was who you were talking to, 00:27:42.170 --> 00:27:46.009 you would ask me for something. Now, on the outside, 00:27:46.269 --> 00:27:50.250 it looked like it could have been, baby, you 00:27:50.250 --> 00:27:55.589 don't know what you're missing. I am the living 00:27:55.589 --> 00:28:04.630 water. Everybody wants a drink of what I'm serving. 00:28:05.729 --> 00:28:10.630 That is not, that was kind of like the hip hop 00:28:10.630 --> 00:28:14.210 translation. That was not, that is not what Jesus 00:28:14.210 --> 00:28:18.450 was saying. But he was saying in confidence what? 00:28:18.630 --> 00:28:24.210 He was saying, the one who I am, who I've been 00:28:24.210 --> 00:28:27.609 called to be, who what I constantly live in and 00:28:27.609 --> 00:28:32.650 function as, you have no idea who you're walking 00:28:32.650 --> 00:28:37.640 around. And he said it not from arrogance. He 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:42.240 said it because he understood who he was. And 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:46.019 in that prospect, when she then said, well, give 00:28:46.019 --> 00:28:48.680 me some of this living water so I don't have 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.680 to come to this well. Why? Because it's no fun. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:58.920 Everybody has left me. There's no social interaction. 00:28:59.869 --> 00:29:03.009 I've made a mess of my life and everybody that 00:29:03.009 --> 00:29:07.049 I was supposed to do life with has left me alone. 00:29:07.930 --> 00:29:12.069 And now I come to the well at the hottest, hottest 00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:18.390 part of the day. And you ask me for a drink. 00:29:20.690 --> 00:29:23.529 I'm looking to have something that will change 00:29:23.529 --> 00:29:28.210 my life. Just give me some of this living water 00:29:28.210 --> 00:29:30.609 so I don't have to keep coming back here at this 00:29:30.609 --> 00:29:33.809 hour where everybody looks out and says, let 00:29:33.809 --> 00:29:38.829 her go. Go out there by yourself. You deserve 00:29:38.829 --> 00:29:44.230 that. Then Jesus, in the midst of what's going 00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:49.069 on behind the scene, said, where's your husband? 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:54.819 She'd already, see if you don't get in the text, 00:29:55.019 --> 00:30:01.460 she'd already just said what the issue was. It 00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:04.440 wasn't that she didn't want to just drink, want 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.920 to put down her pitcher in the well and get water. 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.539 She didn't want to do it because she'd been isolated, 00:30:11.859 --> 00:30:16.380 ostracized. She'd been pushed out of every segment 00:30:16.380 --> 00:30:20.549 of society. And she didn't like going alone. 00:30:20.730 --> 00:30:25.250 It was just better to live in her house and to 00:30:25.250 --> 00:30:29.309 do what she did so that she didn't have to interact 00:30:29.309 --> 00:30:34.930 with people. And then Jesus brings it up. He 00:30:34.930 --> 00:30:39.430 goes right for her identity. Where's your husband? 00:30:41.950 --> 00:30:46.130 I don't have a husband. And then he gets a little 00:30:46.130 --> 00:30:50.599 more. Straight with the prophetic. You're right. 00:30:51.500 --> 00:30:55.019 You don't have a husband. You've had five husbands. 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:59.259 And the man you're married to now is not your 00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:08.980 own. Zing! I mean, she didn't offer that information. 00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:15.599 She didn't say, I've kind of tore through the 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:23.960 town. Yeah, I'm not very well liked. There's 00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:29.279 some catty Samaritan girls in this town. She 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:35.000 didn't do that. Jesus, by the, think of it, the 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.059 word of knowledge and the prophetic word brought 00:31:39.059 --> 00:31:42.240 her right down, why this is so important, brought 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:46.420 her right down to where the identity and her 00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:52.160 choices that she made brought her. If you don't 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:54.460 see that in John 4, you're missing the whole 00:31:54.460 --> 00:31:58.740 context. He brought her down where her choices 00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:07.099 kept looping. Not once, not twice, three times 00:32:07.099 --> 00:32:15.410 a week. No, four, five, five times. brought her 00:32:15.410 --> 00:32:18.730 to the place where the same mistake, same judgment, 00:32:18.849 --> 00:32:22.829 same lack of identity, same rejection, but same 00:32:22.829 --> 00:32:26.789 appetite of lust, same appetite of needing approval, 00:32:27.049 --> 00:32:30.769 same appetite, had wrecked, had wrecked, had 00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:33.690 wrecked, had wrecked, had wrecked, and the prophetic 00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:38.690 word gets right down into it. And then she was 00:32:38.690 --> 00:32:44.970 shocked. I perceive you're a prophet. You think? 00:32:48.730 --> 00:32:52.170 And you know what she did then? She tried to 00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:56.829 divert the conversation. Well, you Jews worship 00:32:56.829 --> 00:32:59.009 on this mountain and our people say we worship 00:32:59.009 --> 00:33:03.650 on this mountain. You see, the ambassador had 00:33:03.650 --> 00:33:09.170 to be willing to bring and to open through the 00:33:09.170 --> 00:33:13.569 anointing. Because his cup was always full of 00:33:13.569 --> 00:33:17.589 the areas that she had broken in her mixture 00:33:17.589 --> 00:33:20.490 and in her brokenness and in her line of thinking, 00:33:20.630 --> 00:33:24.630 he had to be willing to stay there and straighten 00:33:24.630 --> 00:33:29.309 it out if she would listen. And then he told 00:33:29.309 --> 00:33:31.349 her the truth when she diverted and went to a 00:33:31.349 --> 00:33:36.450 religious spirit. He goes, salvation is of the 00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:42.259 Jews. That was a, I could take a whole message 00:33:42.259 --> 00:33:47.519 on that in regard to he absolutely just sliced 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:51.779 through the reality of thinking there was another 00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:57.019 way to God. That another mountain that mirrored 00:33:57.019 --> 00:34:02.700 it. Let me say that. See, there was two mountains. 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:08.400 Mount Gerizim, Mount Ebel. There was two places. 00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:12.119 There was one group that said this mountain is 00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:16.559 as good as this mountain. And Jesus sliced through 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:20.019 and said, what you guys do on that mountain has 00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:23.119 nothing to do with salvation. Only this mountain. 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.400 Why there's no other mountain but Mount Zion. 00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:32.960 He was talking about a place of what he would 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:36.980 now be the answer that why he was born in Jewish 00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:43.230 flesh to fulfill. Every bit of the law. Jesus 00:34:43.230 --> 00:34:47.329 was living to serve. He had answers. He was prepared 00:34:47.329 --> 00:34:52.050 always. Not because he studied always, but because 00:34:52.050 --> 00:34:55.829 he was allowing the word of God, which he was, 00:34:56.030 --> 00:34:58.289 but in his learning and his understanding and 00:34:58.289 --> 00:35:00.969 fellowship with the spirit, which is called what? 00:35:01.070 --> 00:35:03.409 What Pastor Jenny dealt with this morning, the 00:35:03.409 --> 00:35:09.250 anointing. His cup was full. Why? He was in the 00:35:09.250 --> 00:35:15.110 presence of his enemies. And that's what Jesus 00:35:15.110 --> 00:35:20.170 does. He lives to serve. And Jesus understood 00:35:20.170 --> 00:35:25.010 what true ministry, real ministry is. And I said 00:35:25.010 --> 00:35:29.250 it. It's to do the will of him who sent me and 00:35:29.250 --> 00:35:33.730 to finish his work. That's where I'm at. I'm 00:35:33.730 --> 00:35:36.179 on. If you want to know what message I'm in, 00:35:36.219 --> 00:35:37.780 you're probably asking for it. It's the something 00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:45.860 more church. John 434. There we go. I knew you 00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:51.000 had it back there. Thank you so much. Jesus understood 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.380 what real ministry is. What is real ministry? 00:35:54.860 --> 00:36:00.139 To do the will of him who sent me. Ambassadors. 00:36:04.940 --> 00:36:09.320 What is the food of heaven? To do the will of 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:16.199 who sent me. Ambassadors, what is our assignment? 00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:21.380 To bring his kingdom, his will, his word, his 00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:28.179 ways on the earth. See, when I say ambassadors, 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:30.579 there should be something inside of you that, 00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:40.119 huh! To legislate on the earth the will of heaven. 00:36:40.460 --> 00:36:46.460 To move into places where others have had no 00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:50.159 success. And by others, I mean worldly programs, 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.780 worldly philosophies, and where there's brokenness 00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:57.320 and we're coping with a Samaritan understanding 00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.420 of their mountain. It's time to bring people 00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:07.409 to the other mountain. That's why it says in 00:37:07.409 --> 00:37:10.730 two places, in two verses, in Isaiah and Micah, 00:37:10.769 --> 00:37:14.449 and in the last days they shall stream to the 00:37:14.449 --> 00:37:18.730 mountain of the Lord. Why? Because you've touched 00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:22.210 the mountain and brought it down and they're 00:37:22.210 --> 00:37:27.909 finding out where do I run like you've ran. That's 00:37:27.909 --> 00:37:31.230 the ambassador. Grace of the kingdom of God. 00:37:32.539 --> 00:37:35.780 First and primary heart of Jesus, who is the 00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:39.300 perfect servant of the Father, was to do his 00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:42.659 will. How did he do his will? He didn't do it 00:37:42.659 --> 00:37:51.579 by philosophy. He did it by anointing. Jesus 00:37:51.579 --> 00:37:55.960 has always been doing the will of the Father. 00:37:55.980 --> 00:38:00.440 Why? Because he's always... appreciated and stayed 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:04.480 in his presence, never breaking fellowship and 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:08.639 only one time. And that was on the cross when 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:11.820 he cried out, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken 00:38:11.820 --> 00:38:14.579 me? And it wasn't because he broke it. It's because 00:38:14.579 --> 00:38:17.860 the father put on Christ all of the things that 00:38:17.860 --> 00:38:20.599 were on us that broke fellowship with the son. 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:26.860 Jesus. If we could put this slide up here. Jesus 00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:29.599 never bypassed the little day -to -day things 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:35.519 for the big cross experience. If he'd have done 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:38.440 that, he'd have never met with the woman at the 00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:44.099 well. I can't go and be seen among these Samaritans. 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:50.539 I mean, where's my green room and where's my 00:38:50.539 --> 00:38:59.320 two people that guard me? If you want to go to 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:02.099 a spiritual influencer, you go right on ahead. 00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:06.739 But I want to get to the one who actually is 00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:10.099 king and yet walks like a shepherd and allows 00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:14.159 anointing to flow from his garments and anyone 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:19.440 who touched him was made whole. You see, there's 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.239 a big difference. Ambassadors that want to be 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:26.300 influencers in the world. Ambassadors are actually 00:39:26.300 --> 00:39:29.079 people who carry the anointing that want to be 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:34.599 touched in the kingdom. Come on. It's a big deal. 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.139 Now, I'm not going to name names, but you get 00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:50.269 it. Jesus' perspective of being a servant embraced 00:39:50.269 --> 00:39:54.010 all ranges of sacrifice. Because Jesus embraced 00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:56.869 the will of the Father primarily, pleasing the 00:39:56.869 --> 00:40:01.829 Father was more important than individual sacrifices. 00:40:02.769 --> 00:40:07.070 Let me say that again. Pleasing the Father has 00:40:07.070 --> 00:40:10.429 to become more important than what it costs you. 00:40:11.570 --> 00:40:15.750 Because it will cost you. Because that's what 00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:19.369 keeps people from being ambassadors. What keeps 00:40:19.369 --> 00:40:26.429 people from being ambassadors is sacrifice. Sacrifice 00:40:26.429 --> 00:40:30.070 means I have to be willing to give something 00:40:30.070 --> 00:40:34.449 away that others seem to have no problem keeping. 00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:43.650 It's a big deal. I'm going to give time when 00:40:43.650 --> 00:40:48.610 others take it for themselves. I'm going to get 00:40:48.610 --> 00:40:51.429 in the trenches when other people walk on the 00:40:51.429 --> 00:40:55.989 side of the road. I'm going to give finances. 00:40:56.429 --> 00:40:59.969 Why? Because it's his kingdom on the earth and 00:40:59.969 --> 00:41:03.389 he loves his church. And this is how he perpetuates 00:41:03.389 --> 00:41:06.789 his kingdom through seed money and through seeding 00:41:06.789 --> 00:41:14.179 of people. And that costs me. And my desire is 00:41:14.179 --> 00:41:17.059 to be more pleasing to him than what I could 00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:22.059 do with some of the other stuff. That's why Jesus 00:41:22.059 --> 00:41:24.480 could say in Hebrews, thank you for coming up. 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:31.000 You're doing good. That's why Jesus could say 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.360 in 10, Hebrews 10, five and seven says this, 00:41:34.420 --> 00:41:37.699 sacrifices and offerings you did not desire. 00:41:38.489 --> 00:41:41.250 Now listen, before you think he's talking about 00:41:41.250 --> 00:41:43.929 something internal, no, he's talking about external. 00:41:45.949 --> 00:41:49.730 Because the sacrifice in the Old Testament was 00:41:49.730 --> 00:41:56.070 always external. You brought whatever it was, 00:41:56.170 --> 00:41:58.530 whether it was a grain offering, whether it was 00:41:58.530 --> 00:42:01.429 a drink offering, whether it was a bullock or 00:42:01.429 --> 00:42:08.940 a goat or a ram, you brought it. to someone else, 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.719 and they took it from there. In the New Testament, 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:21.559 sacrifice comes from here, the inside. The heart 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:24.480 is what has to sacrifice. See, in the Old Testament, 00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:27.679 you could do all of the external without giving 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:33.809 your heart. Why? Because it was an outward, now 00:42:33.809 --> 00:42:36.449 God didn't want it to be outward only. He wanted 00:42:36.449 --> 00:42:38.469 it to be mingled with faith and he wanted it 00:42:38.469 --> 00:42:40.949 to change their heart. But the issue was what? 00:42:41.030 --> 00:42:44.090 He promised of a day when he would take out the 00:42:44.090 --> 00:42:47.789 heart of stone, which is what? External stone 00:42:47.789 --> 00:42:51.139 hardness. And he would do what? He would write 00:42:51.139 --> 00:42:54.099 on the inside of your heart and now put it on 00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:56.960 the inside. That's why Jesus said in his own 00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:59.420 way to disciples, he said, when they asked him, 00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:02.099 I read it this morning in the gospel of Mark, 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.420 explain to us what you mean by nothing from the 00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:08.760 outside can defile. He said, the things from 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.199 the outside cannot defile you from the inside. 00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:14.900 It's what comes out of the heart, out of the 00:43:14.900 --> 00:43:19.690 mouth and the heart that defiles you. That's 00:43:19.690 --> 00:43:22.769 why Jesus was constantly chiding the religious 00:43:22.769 --> 00:43:27.309 and saying, you are whitewashed tombs. Why? You 00:43:27.309 --> 00:43:30.710 are ceremonially unclean on the inside. You're 00:43:30.710 --> 00:43:33.849 painting a white picture as though you're holy. 00:43:33.949 --> 00:43:38.789 On the inside, there is the crypt of death operating. 00:43:40.289 --> 00:43:46.010 Defilement and rottenness and decay. So as Jesus 00:43:46.010 --> 00:43:49.849 is serving, As he's speaking to you and I as 00:43:49.849 --> 00:43:52.610 ambassadors and what it means to really carry 00:43:52.610 --> 00:43:54.710 the anointing. You see, let me tell you something. 00:43:54.829 --> 00:43:58.090 This is the big deal. And we're getting close 00:43:58.090 --> 00:44:02.210 and I gotta land the plane here. You can be saved 00:44:02.210 --> 00:44:10.090 and not operate in the anointing. You can accept 00:44:10.090 --> 00:44:12.949 Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You can confess 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:17.150 him as Christ and generally you will. absolutely 00:44:17.150 --> 00:44:19.670 make it to heaven. The Bible says all who call 00:44:19.670 --> 00:44:23.030 on the name of the Lord will be saved. But your 00:44:23.030 --> 00:44:27.070 reward will be radically different than somebody 00:44:27.070 --> 00:44:29.210 who chooses to walk in the anointing because 00:44:29.210 --> 00:44:32.210 walking in the anointing means that you've been 00:44:32.210 --> 00:44:35.829 willing to yield every part of your life that 00:44:35.829 --> 00:44:38.409 the king puts a finger on, that you've surrendered 00:44:38.409 --> 00:44:42.469 to his lordship and now his will is more important 00:44:42.469 --> 00:44:46.769 to you than your own. And that's why Jesus had 00:44:46.769 --> 00:44:50.690 the disciples pray the prayer. Pray your kingdom 00:44:50.690 --> 00:44:55.010 come. Pray your will be done. The focus was in 00:44:55.010 --> 00:45:00.570 me as it is in heaven. That I would what? That 00:45:00.570 --> 00:45:02.230 I would embrace. That's why he was telling the 00:45:02.230 --> 00:45:05.789 disciples. So when they saw him pray, remember 00:45:05.789 --> 00:45:10.110 the context. When they saw him pray, it was different 00:45:10.110 --> 00:45:13.800 than other prayers. That they had seen. Why was 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.260 it different? Because other prayers were praying 00:45:17.260 --> 00:45:20.420 for things that they could do outside of their 00:45:20.420 --> 00:45:25.900 heart. Jesus was praying prayers that could only 00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:29.780 be done with a heart of complete dependence and 00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:35.519 surrender. That's why Paul picks this up when 00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.139 he's talking about his gospel in Romans. And 00:45:38.139 --> 00:45:39.980 I'm finishing here just quoting some more scriptures. 00:45:41.650 --> 00:45:45.869 Romans 12, one and two. Brothers, I now beseech 00:45:45.869 --> 00:45:48.489 you. That word beseech is the strongest. It is 00:45:48.489 --> 00:45:52.449 an implorement. It actually means grabbing somebody 00:45:52.449 --> 00:45:55.489 by the shirt collar and say, I implore you to 00:45:55.489 --> 00:46:01.800 give yourself as a holy sacrifice unto God. That's 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:03.659 what he was saying. Brothers, I beseech you by 00:46:03.659 --> 00:46:06.099 the mercies of God that you give yourselves, 00:46:06.340 --> 00:46:10.840 your bodies, as a living sacrifice. Notice, took 00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.760 it from the outside of where most people want 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.699 to do their faith and now imploring every Christian, 00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:21.840 say, come, get this, your ambassadorship, your 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.599 kingdom of God's kingdom. I just want to keep 00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.199 hitting right here. The kingdom of God wants 00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:32.760 it to come through you. Now present yourselves 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:38.039 as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to 00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:43.440 God. This is your reasonable. In the spirit, 00:46:43.579 --> 00:46:47.659 as an ambassador, that's reasonable. In and over 00:46:47.659 --> 00:46:54.159 the top, that's the normal. That's the normal. 00:46:55.079 --> 00:47:00.360 This is your reasonable service of worship. Why? 00:47:00.969 --> 00:47:04.429 Because it isn't the outside. I'm putting me 00:47:04.429 --> 00:47:09.050 and all of me before him and saying, not my will, 00:47:09.210 --> 00:47:17.289 but your will. Can I pray for you this morning? 00:47:19.010 --> 00:47:22.170 In fact, if you're here this morning, would you 00:47:22.170 --> 00:47:24.610 maybe just bow your head out of respect for others? 00:47:24.969 --> 00:47:26.929 If you want to, close your eyes and let's just 00:47:26.929 --> 00:47:31.659 focus for a moment. Father, in Jesus' name. Lord, 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:35.019 right now, you know every heart that's in this 00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:40.980 place. And God, I'm asking that you are doing 00:47:40.980 --> 00:47:46.340 a work. Holy Spirit, you're bringing an anointing 00:47:46.340 --> 00:47:52.300 that destroys yokes. Yokes that come from our 00:47:52.300 --> 00:47:55.500 identity that's wrong. Yokes that come from the 00:47:55.500 --> 00:47:59.110 choices. That were wrong. Yokes that come from 00:47:59.110 --> 00:48:02.590 cycles of sin. That have kept us bound. Yokes 00:48:02.590 --> 00:48:05.949 that come from disease. And sickness. Yokes that 00:48:05.949 --> 00:48:08.809 come from things. That we partnered with wrong 00:48:08.809 --> 00:48:11.949 thinking. Standing on a wrong mountain. Offering 00:48:11.949 --> 00:48:14.789 up things that were outside of us. And today 00:48:14.789 --> 00:48:17.610 we're asking. That your anointing would come. 00:48:17.789 --> 00:48:20.730 And break the yoke that's been on us. Of slavery. 00:48:20.949 --> 00:48:24.769 To actually be who you've called us to be. Ambassadors. 00:48:25.659 --> 00:48:31.579 Of the kingdom of God. Caring. Love. Grace. And 00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:35.139 faith. Walking in humility. But walking in the 00:48:35.139 --> 00:48:39.739 full power. Of the Holy Spirit. And word. And 00:48:39.739 --> 00:48:43.179 everything that emanates. From that. From your 00:48:43.179 --> 00:48:47.099 Holy Word. And your spirit that's true. Being 00:48:47.099 --> 00:48:50.940 able to walk into any. circumstance, in any low 00:48:50.940 --> 00:48:54.860 spot or high spot and being able to release because 00:48:54.860 --> 00:48:59.780 the cup is full and overflowing. If you're here 00:48:59.780 --> 00:49:03.460 this morning, first of all, and you don't know 00:49:03.460 --> 00:49:08.519 this Jesus in whom I know and whom many in this 00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:12.380 room know who's not only forgiven us of sin but 00:49:12.380 --> 00:49:16.800 has come to walk with us, talk with us and Bring 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:20.730 us into fellowship. Lord. If they don't know 00:49:20.730 --> 00:49:24.670 you, I am asking now by the spirit of the living 00:49:24.670 --> 00:49:27.630 God, I'm asking for the Holy Spirit to begin 00:49:27.630 --> 00:49:31.130 to draw those now in this room. If you've never 00:49:31.130 --> 00:49:34.090 asked Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sin, 00:49:34.190 --> 00:49:37.369 to open the door to salvation and a relationship 00:49:37.369 --> 00:49:40.869 with God, he's the only way, he's the only truth 00:49:40.869 --> 00:49:43.469 because he's the only life. If that's you this 00:49:43.469 --> 00:49:45.789 morning, would you say, and right now before 00:49:45.789 --> 00:49:49.079 I'm not gonna have you. Think about it. I've 00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:51.260 got to have you respond to what the Spirit of 00:49:51.260 --> 00:49:53.340 God is saying. If that's you, would you just 00:49:53.340 --> 00:49:55.719 lift your hand and say, I need prayer. I need 00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:59.239 him. I want this Jesus in who you're talking 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.699 about. Just lift your hand high so I can see 00:50:01.699 --> 00:50:07.000 it. Thank you. Chris, thank you. Who else? Thank 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:12.980 you. Come on. He brought you here today to hear 00:50:12.980 --> 00:50:15.599 a message. If it's in the back, I'd like to have 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.449 my team just... Go and sit. Someone with Chris. 00:50:19.530 --> 00:50:22.329 Thank you, Chris. Someone there. Anyone else? 00:50:23.230 --> 00:50:29.230 Yeah, Nathan. Come on. To the rest of us in this 00:50:29.230 --> 00:50:31.429 room, I want you to pray. Pray with them, guys, 00:50:31.710 --> 00:50:34.469 if you would. The rest of us in this room as 00:50:34.469 --> 00:50:40.389 I'm finishing at the bell here. Father, we pray 00:50:40.389 --> 00:50:43.570 for that transforming grace to come now from 00:50:43.570 --> 00:50:47.000 heaven. That would turn us from being outside 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:53.019 Christians. To inside Christians. Lord. Recognizing 00:50:53.019 --> 00:50:55.940 that the sacrifices. Those that ascend to the 00:50:55.940 --> 00:50:58.380 hill of the Lord. Are those with clean hands 00:50:58.380 --> 00:51:00.539 and a pure heart. Those that have surrendered 00:51:00.539 --> 00:51:03.179 to the will of God. Those that want fellowship 00:51:03.179 --> 00:51:06.079 with the Lord. Those that are willing to die 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.300 to self. So that they can actually live in the 00:51:09.300 --> 00:51:12.420 will of their father. Lord let that anointing 00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:16.610 come on this house. Come on these people, breaking 00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:21.389 every other yoke that tries to bind them. And 00:51:21.389 --> 00:51:24.230 Lord, putting on your yoke that says, my yoke 00:51:24.230 --> 00:51:27.289 is easy and my burden is light. Why? Because 00:51:27.289 --> 00:51:31.710 it's life. It's full of the anointing. The burden 00:51:31.710 --> 00:51:35.889 of the Lord, the yoke of the Lord is his anointing. 00:51:36.010 --> 00:51:40.030 Let it come on our life. 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