WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:07.679 How we doing church some of you, some of you know that DNA leads 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:16.039 our Destiny team, and our heart, our passion is that every new Horizon 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:24.079 member is able to prophesy. We've got some books out. This is a 4 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:30.199 Prophetic Sunday. So we've got some featured books out in the four year today 5 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.479 today and today only one of them, like some already sold out after for 6 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.359 service. So we've got this one here, Prophetic Evangelism. But there's some 7 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.240 other titles out there as well. But then I wanted to bring your attention 8 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:46.719 to these two. If you haven't grown up in an atmosphere where the prophetic 9 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:53.079 was a part of ministry and you're just you're not even sure about the prophetic 10 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:57.399 realm or being a part of church expression, then I've got a couple of 11 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.840 other titles out there for you, one by Tony Cook, Miracles and the 12 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:07.439 Supernatural, and then one that is it's edited by Robert Graves, but it's 13 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:15.079 got each chapter is a new author, so it's it's stuff you know, 14 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:23.120 Bill Johnson and Randy Clark and just a bunch of other authors. So anyway, 15 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.239 that stuffs out in the four year, and if you want to know 16 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:33.400 more about the prophetic team. If you want prophetic training, if you want 17 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.319 any insight on this, chase her down afterwards, right and ask her a 18 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:44.680 question. Find out more about how you can get involved or how you can 19 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.319 learn more and grow more. Her favorite book this morning is sold out. 20 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:53.359 That one's sold out already, so ask her about her favorite book. It 21 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.239 was today's favorite. Let's stand and prayer for the word. Father. We 22 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:06.799 thank you today that you raise us up, that you that you have called 23 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:14.080 us into the nu creation that we are. We are breathing in the hope 24 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:20.479 and the life that you see over the earth and over people. We bless 25 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.879 you for it today. Let the atmosphere just be flooded right now with hope 26 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:29.879 and life and faith and courage, all that is you and of you, 27 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.680 out of your atmosphere into ours. We thank you for it in Jesus name. 28 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:44.159 And everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen. We're on this. 29 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:51.759 We're on this theme entitled last week's message, give it back, and it's 30 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:59.439 an expression out of Isaiah forty two twenty two. And then let's just go 31 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:00.680 ahead and read it. Why don't we read it? It will jump over 32 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:06.479 there real quick. I want to say somewhat consistent with that theme today. 33 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.479 But I want to deal with excuses that keep us or excuses is maybe a 34 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:22.360 bad word, but reasoning, maybe reasoning that keeps us from having a restoration 35 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.360 mindset. So, but let's dive into this real quick Isaiah forty two, 36 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.479 twenty two. But this is the people plundered and pillaged. All of them 37 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:36.960 are trapped in caves or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder with 38 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:42.280 no one to save them and spoils, with no one to say give them 39 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.000 back. Everybody shout give them back. That was a pretty good shout. 40 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:53.120 Let's do it again, give them back. That was better. You know, 41 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.599 you can't you know, you can't actually say that without kind of an 42 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.840 attitude, right, I mean, you can't say it appropriately and properly. 43 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.840 You can say it in a highest church, but if you're really going to 44 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:10.400 say it, you can't say it with a little bit of grit, a 45 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:16.480 little bit of attitude, right. And this is this is the word become 46 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:23.439 flesh. This is the expression of Jesus. This is essentially the shout of 47 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:30.759 Yeshiva over the planet, the shout of God over the planet. And we 48 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.839 see it in the context here as it pertains to the nearest context Israel, 49 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:44.680 and God's observing Israel's been taken captive. God's observing that they're spoiled. God's 50 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.360 observing that they're hidden in caves. That's the observation. But the heart of 51 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:57.279 Father is broken over their situation, and Yeshiva comes as his expression, his 52 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.920 word of declaration to give them back. You know. Isaiah fifty five eleven 53 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:08.600 and twelve says that that God's ways are higher than ours, his thoughts are 54 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.839 higher than ours. It also talks about though his word, that his word 55 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.199 is powerful, that his word flows out of his ways and his thoughts, 56 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:23.959 and that his word, it doesn't leave his mouth but without accomplishing what it 57 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:30.439 was sent forth to do. God's word. Jesus was God's word. Jesus 58 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.439 was the fullness, the embodiment of God's word. And if we could just 59 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:41.480 picture that Jesus was the shout of God over not only Israel, but over 60 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:46.680 the gentile nations, over the planet, to give them back. Let's say 61 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:56.839 it again, say it with attitude. Imagine now this is this is just 62 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.959 part of this is part of the restoration theme. Part of the restoration theme 63 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:06.879 is that in Christ, who is the second Adam, the last atom in 64 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:14.160 Christ, God is reconciling the world to himself, and God has a restored 65 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.639 people in mind and a restored globe in mind. That God really wants the 66 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:24.000 whole planet back, and God could only get the whole planet back through a 67 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.000 man, because it's through a man that it was lost. So when the 68 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:36.120 planet was lost by Adam in the garden and turned over to who then became 69 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:41.879 the Prince of the power of the air, which we might conclude that Adam 70 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.319 was. Prince means first, first one, So we might conclude that if 71 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.040 Satan became the Prince of the power of the Air, that Adam was actually 72 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:57.199 ordained to be the prince and the power of the air, because Adam was 73 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.000 the first and that's what prince means, first one, the one in charge, 74 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:08.279 the one in dominion, that's the prince. And Adam was given the 75 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:15.839 earth, put in charge, given dominion over the earth, and so the 76 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:24.759 Earth couldn't be reclaimed or brought back or bought back or restored until another man 77 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:31.160 came. Another man came and essentially won a victory over Satan. A victory 78 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.839 had to be won over Satan by a human in his humanity. Jesus didn't 79 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:42.519 win the victory that he won in his divinity. He won the victory over 80 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:49.360 Satan in his humanity. He's fully God and he's fully man. But Philippians 81 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:55.240 too shows us very clearly that he set his god like divinity. He said 82 00:07:55.279 --> 00:08:03.680 his divinity, his godness a sigh, and took on humanity that he might 83 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:11.959 win the earth back on our behalf. And what he has in mind, 84 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.720 he has restoration in mind. This is you know, the end goal is 85 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:22.560 restoration. It's restoration of humanity, it's restoration of the earth. First humanity 86 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.199 is restored, then the earth is restored and its progressive right. So it 87 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.519 begins with the first advent. So when he comes in the very beginning, 88 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:37.200 he comes with the Kingdom of Heaven. Well, why would he come with 89 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.799 the Kingdom of heaven? Because Eden was a replica of Heaven. Eden was 90 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.679 Heaven on earth. Everything about Eden was a picture of heaven. So he 91 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:54.759 comes to bring again the Kingdom of Heaven that he might plant into the earth 92 00:08:54.879 --> 00:09:01.240 the Kingdom of Heaven, so that from that moment until his second the Kingdom 93 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.320 of Heaven is growing and advancing, and the Kingdom of Darkness the kingdom of 94 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.679 Satan, the one that he came to dispose of and to demolish. That 95 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:20.440 kingdom is confronted, overthrown, it's being reduced to stubble. So we were 96 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:26.600 using First Corinthian's fifteen as our text for that, and I want to go 97 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.879 there and read it again to you, and I want you to see it 98 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:37.799 again First Corinthians twenty four and twenty five. Then comes the end when he 99 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.919 delivers the kingdom to God the Father. He's delivering this is the Kingdom of 100 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.159 Heaven. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is growing 101 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.200 during this time, and we find ourselves in the middle of this time. 102 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:58.000 And Paul says, the end is not coming until he delivers the kingdom to 103 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.840 God the Father, when he puts an into all rule and authority in power, 104 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.120 for he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. 105 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:13.639 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. If you read the whole 106 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.320 chapter, and I invite you to that, that whole chapter, it shows 107 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.759 you that the last enemy, which is death, is being defeated on the 108 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:30.759 last day. And the last day is signified signified by the last trump. 109 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.360 So many of you are familiar with that text. So this shows you, 110 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:41.919 though that from the beginning of his coming until his coming again, that there 111 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.240 is a growing kingdom. And I think I want you to see two things 112 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:54.600 are happening. One thing that's happening is we're in the most massive macro deliverance 113 00:10:54.919 --> 00:11:01.559 of all time. That's One thing that's happening is that he is destroying he 114 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:07.919 says. He says he must reign until he puts an end to all rule, 115 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.879 all authority, in all power, and he's speaking of the demonic realm. 116 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.759 This is consistent with Hebrews Chapter one, is consistent with Psalm one ten, 117 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.639 is consistent with those other there's three passages where Father said to him, 118 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.080 set here at my right hand until I put all of your enemies under your 119 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:33.919 feet and make them as a footstool for your feet. By the way, 120 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:41.080 we know the footstool. Understanding, this is very powerfully metaphoric in that we 121 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:46.440 are the body of Christ. The feet are a part of the body. 122 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:52.879 He's the head to the body right, and so essentially those passengers are saying, 123 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.559 sit here at my right hand until I put all of your enemies under 124 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:07.960 your body. If it's progressive. Guess what it is progressive by the way 125 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.799 it's progressive according to our faith and the working of the Holy Spirit in the 126 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.279 body. If it's progressive, then that actually means that tomorrow could be better 127 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.039 than today. That actually means that we have tremendous hope for the future. 128 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.799 That actually means the next ten years could render more breakthroughs for the kingdom than 129 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:35.840 the last ten years. And actually, even as only three of you clapped 130 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.840 for that, this is part of what the Holy Spirit's trying to do. 131 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.440 Is the Holy Spirit's trying to gets you to see what he's up to so 132 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.759 you can come into agreement with it instead of yawn, because when we yawn 133 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.840 inward, really we're saying I don't know, I'll believe it when I see 134 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.840 it. But he wants you to see it and believe it so that you 135 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:07.600 see it because you believed it. This is what he's trying to do with 136 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.039 the Body. He tries he's trying to quicken us to come into agreement with 137 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:16.080 him. And one thing that we've been learning, you know, time and 138 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.799 time again, is that we are the ones who activate what he's up to 139 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:26.240 right now, We're the ones who we're the ones who activate what he's up 140 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:33.399 to. If Zach or Roman or Angela or anyone needed deliverance in any way 141 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.840 whatsoever, let's say, and oppressing of thought or a fear or any kind 142 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.240 of an issue, you know, you wouldn't grab them by the hands and 143 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.279 say, okay, well I'm going to believe with you right now and you're 144 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:56.039 going to be set free, and you know, say nothing, or maybe 145 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:05.279 you could break into you know, him like a BENI hidden him or something. 146 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:16.159 You know you follow in them. Why why is it that when you 147 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:22.320 grab them by the hands, you activate the presence of Jesus in the ministry 148 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:30.240 of Jesus by the expression of what you believe with the speech of your mouth. 149 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:37.480 Because the Holy Spirit is active and powerful and alive to make known through 150 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:45.399 us what he's up to as we use our words. And so what you 151 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:52.159 would say is fear. Roman doesn't want you, Angela doesn't want you, 152 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:56.960 Zach doesn't want you. Leave them alone. Right, you would use your 153 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.919 voice to dismiss the fear. Right, This is how we pray for one 154 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:07.399 another. This is how Jesus prayed as the instrument of God to destroy the 155 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:13.519 works of Satan and now as the kingdom is progressively growing and we're dismissing darkness 156 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.240 off of the planet. We activate that, we participate in that, we're 157 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.440 partners in all of that by activating our faith with our speech. This is 158 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.840 why Romans chapter ten, if we could go there, Michael, but Romans 159 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.679 chapter ten, eight through ten, if you type that in Romans ten eight 160 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:37.039 through ten, Michael, Michael, Michael, faster than known, not that 161 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:43.639 one. Romans, Romans ten, I don't have it, Type ten. 162 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.639 You'd have to type it in Romans ten eight through ten. He's fast, 163 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.840 he can get it. This is why when we think about the power of 164 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.840 your words, like this passage. We use this passage that I'm abou already 165 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.480 to talk about, we use it for salvation. But the power of your 166 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.440 words extend beyond the realm of salvation. The power of your words make you 167 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:11.399 a kingdom enforcer and a kingdom participant. So when we think about this passage, 168 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.759 which He's going to find for us in just a moment, it says 169 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:21.159 that if you believe in your heart, that when you believe under your heart 170 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:27.519 with regard to the superiority of Jesus his lordship, you believe unto righteousness, 171 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.279 you believe unto righteousness. All right, good, good, good good. 172 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:40.480 There's verse eight. Now what is the next verse? Are we verse nine? 173 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:45.559 What is verse nine? If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is 174 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.639 Lord, believe in your heart that God raised him from the days, you 175 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.120 shall be saved. To go on verse ten. For with the heart a 176 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:59.879 person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting 177 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.440 in salvation. So here's what I want you to see. I want you 178 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.640 to say that the word the word saved, is the word so zo. 179 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.839 Right. And we've heard this before. It means to be delivered out of 180 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.759 darkness or delivered out from under the influence of darkness. But it has an 181 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:22.559 equal picture of to be delivered into salvation or light or into promise. We 182 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:27.160 come out of darkness and we come into promise. Right, And so he 183 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:34.920 says, the way we activate this is we believe in our heart that Jesus 184 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:45.359 is Lord, Lord of what well, Lord is the superior term given to 185 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:56.119 him. Right, So like lord of everything, the lord of he's Lord 186 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:00.440 over sickness, he's Lord over disease, he's the Lord over decay, he's 187 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.039 Lord over trials. He's Lord over tribulation, he's Lord over losses, he's 188 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:10.640 Lord over Jesus as Lord, not just the Lord to get me to heaven, 189 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.960 but the Lord, the redemptive one. And the topic is the topic 190 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.880 is sozo. That's the word in the Greek. We see it as saved 191 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.519 or salvation, but the topic in the Greek what it is is soso. 192 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:30.680 That's the Greek word. So we believe upon the Lord, and we believe 193 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:36.720 in his lordship over whatever we're going through, right, and so we believe 194 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:41.680 that in our hearts. That's aligning ourselves with a right perspective of what God 195 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:48.480 has done in Jesus, not just Jesus the Savior, but Jesus the last 196 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:53.880 Adam, the restoring one, who's come to restore the earth, first the 197 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:00.559 people and then the earth too, what God intended and to what was lost? 198 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.559 Are you following me at all? Jesus is not like just the Lord 199 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:15.759 of you know, who solves things for us when we sin, and so 200 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.279 we can Okay, you're the Lord again, whom my word, I'm just 201 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:19.880 such a mess. Okay, your Lord, Your Lord, Jesus, your 202 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.079 Lord. You know, it's just a lot of times our thinking is woven 203 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:33.599 around kind of the sin consciousness message. And what God has done in Jesus 204 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:40.119 is to make him the lord of the Earth, that he might bring back 205 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:45.480 to you and to the earth the restoration that Father has in mind. And 206 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.960 this is the biggest picture. The big picture in the macro is not just 207 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:57.839 dismissing the enemy off the planet, but it's restoring you, restoring humanity, 208 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:04.799 and restore ring the earth. And we partner as we believe that way about 209 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.319 the last atom. We believe that way in our heart, and then we 210 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:15.519 come into agreement with our speech. That's why even we take on this shout 211 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:25.079 of give it back. That's why we take on this shout of give them 212 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:32.039 back, give them back those who are lost, give it back the earth 213 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:37.119 that is lost, give it back stuff that I've lost. And essentially, 214 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.000 in the Christ, in the Beloved, and I mean, I'm really going 215 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.920 to go out there now is going to stretch you, and you might you 216 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.519 might think I've gone nuts, but I believe that in the Christ, essentially 217 00:20:51.480 --> 00:21:00.799 God was setting us up to never ever be a victim of anything. The 218 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:07.119 believer in Jesus, though life is tough and the life is crazy, and 219 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.440 the things come like you got to deal with decay, and you got to 220 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.039 deal with rott and you gotta deal with rotten people, and you got to 221 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.200 deal with circumstances you can't control. And you've got to deal with this, 222 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.960 that and the other thing. And there are all sorts of things that will 223 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:22.640 throw trouble at you. And you've got people stealing from you, and you've 224 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:25.359 got this and that and the other thing going on, and you've got corruption, 225 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:27.079 and you've got the curse, and you've got demons. You've got all 226 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:37.119 this stuff throwing stuff at you all of the time. We are never a 227 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:44.920 victim to any of it because the superior One who has called us to live 228 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:49.240 not out of our circumstances, but to live out of Heaven, has already 229 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:56.119 empowered us with the faith to believe that that is the source of our life. 230 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.519 The source of your life is heaven, and you live out of that 231 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:07.079 reality, and you bring that reality here because what he's about in the New 232 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:12.279 Creation person is restoring the human and then the earth to the model. The 233 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:22.559 model is heaven. Fact is, you know, you might even realize just 234 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:30.200 for a moment that anything, anything that falls short of Heaven, the kingdom 235 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.279 of heaven, the life of heaven, the understanding of heaven. Anything that 236 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:40.759 falls short of that. He actually set us up by making heaven the template 237 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:48.559 of life. He set us up to contend against that. That's why when 238 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.319 you get sick, you don't get happy. You're like, oh, I 239 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:57.000 should figure out a way to get rid of this. When you get sick, 240 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.640 you're not like, oh, what a blessing. Oh well, this 241 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.920 is good. I'm in a pot all day. This is so good. 242 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:07.359 I love this. I wanted to stay in the bathroom all the time. 243 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.480 Anyway, this is a joy, what a joy? Oh my goodness. 244 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.839 No, there's something in you that's like, no, this is not right. 245 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.000 The testimony of a better kingdom, the testimony of a superior life, 246 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.559 the testimony of what God's ordained for you, is actually speaking within you at 247 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:40.480 that very moment, pushing you to contend against the curse. We are wired 248 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.319 to yearn for heaven and to push against the curse. That's the way we're 249 00:23:45.319 --> 00:24:04.599 wired. I'm gonna pause for a moment and drink, and then we'll promise 250 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:15.319 to wind up soon. Our father, who art in heaven, how it 251 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:25.160 would be your name, your kingdom? Come your will be done on earth 252 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:33.039 as it is in heaven. What was Jesus doing right there? He was 253 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:41.559 making the template of life heaven. He was confirming to all who would follow 254 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:48.400 him that the template for life is heaven. This is why you want people 255 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.200 to be healed. This is why you want people living well. This is 256 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.240 why you want people blest. This is why you want your children blest. 257 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:02.799 This is why you want your friends overcoming. Because the template for life is 258 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:06.799 heaven. This is why you when you can't explain what they're going through and 259 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.799 when you can't figure out why it lingers, you still know that the template 260 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.480 for life is heaven. You still know that you're going to keep believing for 261 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:22.240 better, that you're going to keep pressing into answers, into God, into 262 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.359 friendship with him in the revelation and understanding. This is why you're not going 263 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:32.640 to abandon your faith when things don't seem to be going the way you thought 264 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:37.680 they should. Because the template woven within you is Heaven. That's the template. 265 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:45.480 That's the template, and it's not a wrong templates an it's not an 266 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.400 error that it's within you. It's it's not a problem with you that you're 267 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.519 desiring this and you just need to be at peace with all this crud. 268 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:02.240 However, I want to I want to entertain a few things with you quickly 269 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.799 as we close, we're gonna attempt to close. And I know the piano 270 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:11.480 player has gone to the to the bench. Yes, the benediction music has 271 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:22.160 begune, But quickly I want to deal with just I'll read these and we 272 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:27.920 won't linger along on them. Okay, she'll okay, I want to read 273 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.680 these. I won't linger along on them. But um, I feel like 274 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.680 what happens is is that we get twisted a little bit with some reasoning and 275 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:44.920 some lies and some influence, out of religion, out of friendship, out 276 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.599 of what we've seen and what we've witnessed, and out of others, and 277 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:56.000 so we don't we don't contend for the restoration that the Lord. We stopped 278 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:03.319 contending. That makes sense. Here's one of the here's one of the reasons 279 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:08.960 we can blame God thinking that he's punishing you. Now, I totally believe, 280 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:12.680 for Christians and those of you setting in the church today, that this 281 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.759 is a trick of the enemy. If the enemy can get you to believe 282 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:22.440 that God is punishing you, then you'll allow hurt, an injury, and 283 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:29.640 loss and darkness to prosper against you, and you won't fight it because you've 284 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:34.759 come to accept that this is God punishing you. But Isaiah fifty three four 285 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:41.599 says that he put all of the punishment that we deserve on Jesus. Now, 286 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.720 he didn't put all of the punishment that we deserved on Jesus up until 287 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:49.880 the day that we were born again, and then after that it's on you. 288 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.079 Oh, good job, good job. Okay, eighteen years old, 289 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.440 you came to the Lord good. All that punishment you deserve. Before that, 290 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.480 that's on Jesus. After that it's on you. So that the way 291 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:11.000 it works, the punishment continues to be on Jesus. And though we're imperfect, 292 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:18.200 we continue to bring ourselves back to Father, and Father continues to acknowledge 293 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:23.920 that all the punishment we ever deserved has been placed on Jesus. So don't 294 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:30.799 accept that line number two. Number two. We can accredit God. We 295 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:36.839 can accredit God not so much that he's punishing us, but just that he's 296 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:41.640 leading us, and he's directing us through the circumstances of loss and theft and 297 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.279 hardship, and we that's Okay, we do go through loss and theft and 298 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.759 hardship. But a lot of times we a lot of times we think, 299 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:51.720 well, I think that's just God's will. I think God is just teaching 300 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.000 me some things. God's just can lead me through this. I just trust 301 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:57.640 him. God's in charge of everything. You know, God's boss. You 302 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:03.039 know God's He's probably got reason for this. Hello, somebody, he's got 303 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:15.079 a reason for this. No, God didn't do this. It causes hopelessness, 304 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:22.720 and again it disables our contention in fight in the shout of restoration, 305 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:33.599 because we attach God's will to something that's happened to us. You can blame 306 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:36.599 yourself. This is the third area, thinking that you brought this on yourself 307 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:41.519 due to your sin or not sin, maybe failure or folly or foolishness or 308 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.119 shortsightedness. But again, most of the time, this is just another open 309 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:49.240 door to the enemy. If you feel like something has come your way, 310 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:56.079 or it is staying on you, or it's harassing you because of what you've 311 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.200 done, again you won't fight for restoration, and again you'll open the or 312 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:04.200 to the enemy to harass you and put more on you than he was putting 313 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:08.200 on you. Ever before, Because now you've come to think that it's your 314 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:12.559 foolishness or folly or stupidity or lack of knowledge or lack of training, or 315 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:18.400 your lack of discernment or some stupid thing you did that He is allowing that's 316 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:23.039 to happen. As long as you allow that thought to have even this much 317 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:30.240 space, you will not fight for your restoration. Number four almost one. 318 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.720 You can blame others and be angry with them. This is an open door 319 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:38.160 to the enemy because it makes you a victim of their injury or their failure 320 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:41.599 or their poor performance because they were on your team and that's why it's happened. 321 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.640 So I mean, who am I to believe for restoration for this? 322 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.480 I mean I'm the one that messed up, or they messed up, or 323 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.599 another person messed up. So I can't believe for a restoration over that. 324 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.279 And God wants you to believe for a restoration over everything. That's what I'm 325 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.240 trying to say, is it? Actually he doesn't want you to consider yourself 326 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:04.480 a victim to anything, not even a victim to my mistakes. No. 327 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.519 No. Romans A twenty eight says he knows how to bring good out of 328 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:14.920 the bad, even your bad. That God knows how to bring good out 329 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:21.519 of the bad, even out of your bad, which is crazy. That 330 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:25.559 means God doesn't need you to be good to bring you good. He just 331 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:27.359 needs you to love him, trust him. And if you love him, 332 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:33.079 trust him in partner with him with a restoration heart and mindset and confession, 333 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:38.440 then he can bring good out of your bad. He doesn't need your perfection. 334 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.559 Sometimes when we're angry with another person and you know we're alienated from them, 335 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:53.119 and you know what we say, as well, we learned a good 336 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.519 lesson, will never let that happen again. Well, I guess it's the 337 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.359 school of hard knocks. It's expensive, but I'm wiser. But we don't 338 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.240 again, We're just we're not standing for restoration. So we live with an 339 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:10.680 alienated relationship. We live a victim of their injury, and we don't believe 340 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:15.720 God to be restored. And it's restoration is not getting back what you lost. 341 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:19.480 It's getting you back to Eden. It's probably getting you back to a 342 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.559 place you've never been. But you allow a little thing like that to circumvent 343 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.960 your restoration, you'll never get back to Eden. If you keep letting people 344 00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:36.440 be the focus of the lack in your life. Lastly, you can blame 345 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.880 the curse on the earth because bad things happen, and things break, and 346 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:44.400 things fall apart, relationships have misunderstanding, would rots, people get sick. 347 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:49.079 It's just the way life is. You can blame accidental causes along with the 348 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.200 curse. Things happen in a fallen world. You know, surely I can't 349 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:57.240 get a restoration on those things. I guess you can stand with me this 350 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.720 morning. What the Word is trying to show you all the way through? 351 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:07.119 Like Romans five seventeen, those who receive the abundance of grace will reign in 352 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.680 life with Christ Jesus. What the Word is trying to show you all the 353 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:15.720 way through like Romans eight twenty eight, All things work together for the good 354 00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:20.640 for those who loved Him, and a called according to his purposes. What 355 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:23.480 the Word is trying to show you all the way through is that you never 356 00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:30.039 have to consider yourself a victim of anything. That God actually wants you to 357 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.880 believe that everything can be restored, That he's the God of restoration, He's 358 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.319 working restoration in your life, That you are his object of restoration. That 359 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.720 before he restores the Earth. He wants to restore you. Humanity's first in 360 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.400 line. The earth is second. He's trying to restore you. He's trying 361 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:51.000 to restore you. He's trying to restore you, and it's not getting back 362 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:53.400 a couple of little things that you lost. He wants to get you all 363 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.960 the way back to Eden. He wants you get all the way back to 364 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.839 the template, the heavenly template. The heavenly template is heaven on Earth. 365 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.960 He wants you to be living in, dwelling in, and an example of 366 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:19.719 Heaven on Earth ends up everywhere. Holy Spirit, we receive your word this 367 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:24.480 morning. We receive the supercharging power of your grace. This morning. We 368 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:31.519 receive your word over us and the inspiration of the spirit to contend, to 369 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:36.840 fight, to rise up, to partner with you, to be restored ones 370 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.679 and to see everything as that which can be restored, all that not only 371 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:46.000 the enemy does, but life does, crud does, decaye does, entropy 372 00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:52.119 does everything that's happening. Holy Spirit, You've ordained to release a grace on 373 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.599 us that overpowers, that overshadows, that makes up for every loss, And 374 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:01.320 we thank you for it today. Thank you that you take even the bad 375 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:05.840 and turn it to the good. We give you the praise for it in 376 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:10.280 Jesus name, and everybody said, Amen. I'm going to close and ask 377 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.360 the prayer team to come forward if by any chance this just bears witness with 378 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.079 you and there's something you're believing for, or something you need restored, or 379 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.360 there's things you've just set aside and you just there's all sorts of things that 380 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.559 you've not made room for the restoration of God in your life. Come and 381 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.719 be prayed for as we go this morning. We're gonna worship as we leave. 382 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:32.960 But God bless you for being in the house today.