Stand brave the word. Thank you, Lauren, thank you that you've helped
us recover from our Turkey coma, and we shall go on to celebrate your
dominion over him. We thank you that we can buffet our bodies even though
we're supposed to buffet our bodies. And we just thank you for your presence
today, your ministry in the Word to us, and everybody said, amen,
you may be seated. Ah Lulujah. I want to talk to you
a little bit more about the glory within. So last week I introduced some
thoughts about the glory within, and just what I felt the Holy Spirit was
saying was how important it is that we recognize the importance of our spiritman,
and that we live out of our Spiritman, and that we we let our
Spiritman have place and we we give you know, this is I think it
has to be kind of a conscious effort, a little bit of a conscious
effort, because everything else is pressing on us all the time. And maybe
that's, you know, maybe that's part of why prayer is not only something
that we can, you know, engage in all the time, but maybe
one of the reasons why prayer is often a set time, like the time
of prayer is because we can tune everything else out for a little while,
you know what I'm saying. So there's there might be some value in that
that we can tune things out, because there's so much value in your spirit
man. And I think this is part of what Holy Spirit wants us to
realize, and I don't know that we're super conscious of it, is that
within your spirit, man, is the testimony of Heaven within your spirit,
man, like all faith that's ever come to you has come through your spirit,
man, because the end dwelling Holy Spirit in your spirit is the spirit
of faith, and it's the spirit of faith that gives you the grace and
the enablement to love. Faith proceeds love. That's why it even says the
fruit of the spirit, or the fruit of your spirit, or the fruit
of His Word in your spirit is love and joy and peace. So if
we're letting our spirit dominate, if we're paying attention to our spirit, man,
we'reing, if we're giving heed to our spirit, man, there's going
to be something happening, and that the fruit of that is going to be
love, joy, peace, patience. It's just the fruit of hanging out
with the right person, right do you know of anybody that you hang out
with that when you leave their presence you feel better than you did when you
came. So the fruit of that person is or the fruit of spending time
with that person is something, right? Why? Because it's the way they
paid attention to you. It's the way they related to you, It's the
way they loved you, it's the way they encouraged you. That's the Holy
Spirit ministering to your spirit. Like when you spend time with Holy Spirit,
by giving attention to your spirit, you're going to come away. The Bible
says Edified, it pertains to an edifice. It means built up, made
it stronger, and that's like super powerful, right, And it's not the
thing is I think that you know the everything that's set up in the fallen
world, because we're living still in the fallen world that hasn't come into restoration.
Everything is set up in the fallen world is to keep you out of
your spirit man, to keep you out of your spiritman. Because the fallen
world doesn't exist around a spirit driven, spirit led spirit man life. It
exists around a body led, soul led life. So everything in our third
dimensional world, whether intentional or unintentional. It's built to keep you out of
your spirit man. But life is in your spiritmen. That's where the testimony
of Jesus is. That's where the testimony of righteousness is, that's where the
testimony of victory is. But that's where the testimony of redemption is. That's
where the testimony of heaven is. The testimony of heaven is in your spirit
man. And it's all centered really, it's all centered around fellowships. What
it is, it's all centered around fellowship. But I want it's just I
want to I want to bring your attention again to just a few verses about
your inner man or your spirit man. So the Bible uses different terminology.
One of them is inner man, one of them is spirit. So we
know that we are three part beings, spirit, soul and body. And
like Romans seven twenty two says, for I delight in the Law of God
according to the inner man. If you if you look at the whole passage,
he's like, you know, he'll talk about how the law of God
actually arouses sin within his soul and his body, like when the law said
don't covet it awakened conveteousness. But he said, that's not the problem with
my inner man. That's not the problem with my spirit man. My spirit
man actually the lights in the law of God. So think about that.
When you pay attention to your spirit man, you're actually going to the light
in the Law of God, the commandments of God, the wisdom of God.
Right, It's like Matthew twenty six forty one. He goes to the
garden of Gassemone, which was his habit. He goes to the garden to
pray. They go with him. They don't know what's going on. They
go into the garden with him. He bids them to come. He takes
Peter, James and John a little bit in and he says, my hour
is near, right, He's gonna pray, comes back, finds them sleeping.
Then he says something. He says, pray that you end are not
into temptation because the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He
wasn't just talking to them. He wasn't just talking to them. Weak means
infirmed, it means vulnerable. It means lesser than it means as it pertains
to the activity of fellowship with God and activating our spirit man and leaning into
the spirit man and living according to the spirit man. The flesh doesn't understand
that stuff. That's why you can't really reform your flesh. You put it
to death. You can't counsel your flesh. You can't the great psychologists can't
get your flesh to do the right thing. There's one thing you do with
your flesh. You bring it to the cross and you co crucify it with
Jesus and you declare it dead. Because you can't counsel your flesh into fellowship
with the spirit. It doesn't get it. So that's why in one Corinthians
nine twenty seven, Paul says, I buffet my body and I make it
subject to the spirit. I bring it under, I put it under,
and I make it obey the spirit. Lest after preaching to others, I
myself become a disaster. So there's you know that we just have to realize
that we're in a battle, and you're going to be in this battle until
we all throw a dirt in your face. I don't know who's going to
win that race. But six feet under or in a nice vase somewhere on
a fireplace, or sprinkled over the Pacific, or I don't know what it's
going to be for you. But you're going to be in this battle to
where the flesh and the flesh man and the body and the urges of the
sinful nature in your soul are going to want to dominate your spirit man and
shut your spirit man down, and contend with your spirit man, and have
all sorts of things going on to keep your spirit man from actually being in
fellowship with God and the Enemy. Knowing all along that the center of you
bringing heaven into your earth, it comes out of your spiritman. You can't
think heaven into earth, you can't build heaven into earth. You have to
bring heaven into earth through your spirit man, your spiritman, and your spirit
man right now has all the capacity to do that. If you're born in
the spirit. If you were born in the spirit just this morning, but
if you're born of the spirit already, the Holy Spirit dwells in your spirit,
and your spirit has become one with the Holy Spirit. This is the
crazy mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the crazy mystery of what Jesus
or what Father has done for us in the sun, is that you now
are one with the Holy Spirit, and He dwells in you. And if
you came to him five minutes ago, he's already talking. You have the
capacity to hear from heaven. And I love this. I love that it's
called the Kingdom of Heaven. And he said, the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand. He said that he would give us the keys to the Kingdom
of Heaven. It's not the Kingdom of Holiness, and it is. But
don't get me wrong. We can get hung up on holiness and we can
get real religious and weird about holiness and shove it away, and it's not
the Kingdom of do better, but you will do better. But he intentionally
appeals to us that we cooperate with Holy Spirit in our spirit because it's the
only way to be in fellowship with the Kingdom of Heaven. And there isn't
a soul in this building that doesn't want more Heaven in their life. And
it all started in fellowship. It all started in fellowship, and it started
in a replica of Heaven. Right, it all started fellowship, and it
all started in a replica of heaven. Eden was a replica of Heaven,
and it was just a small portion of the Earth. And the assignment of
Adam and Eve was to extend heaven over the entire earth. Did you know
that that was the assignment. The assignment wasn't just to stay there. It
wasn't for we two and a cow that mood. It wasn't for we four
and just a few more. It was the assignment was to extend heaven over
the entire globe. That was the assignment. And the key to the assignment
was fellowship. And Adam had it in the beginning, all right. Adam
had this amazing fellowship with God with Holy Spirit first Adam before the fall.
And we don't even know how long that went on. We're not told how
long that went on. We don't know, but it went on a little
while because listen to this. He had to take the time to name all
the animals. Let's go spend a day at the zooon and see how manny
you can name. How long that takes you Genesis three nineteens or twenty.
Now, the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals
and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to the man
to see what he would named them. And whatever the man called each living
creature, that was its name. Now, this is that's that's Genesis two,
sorry, Genesis two nineteens or twenty Genesis three eight nine is interesting because
that's where we get to the passage where they hear God walking in the garden
of the cool of the day, and we're given the inferences is the common
thing, and so I mean, this wasn't hell on earth. This was
Heaven on earth. Because it was a manifestation of heaven. Then we understand
that there were a couple of things going on. Number One, Adam could
ascend just as surely as God could descend, like there was no disparity between
Heaven and earth. And Adam was walking in righteousness. And so this was
this common thing. This is first atom, first Adam before the fall.
Jesus be last atom, the two of them having a lot in common.
I don't know how much you've thought about that, but the first atom before
the fall and the last atom have a lot in common. And first Adam
was alive in his spirit. That's why he had fellowship with Holy Spirit.
We don't even know what appearance it was that, but we can assume theologically
that Jesus John one has always revealed the Father. So it was Jesus walking
in the garden. Theologically, that would be sound, because He the Begotten
has always revealed the Father, and no one has seen the Father, but
they've seen the Son, and so here he comes. But it's the righteousness
of First Adam before the fall that allows fellowship. It's out of the fellowship
that heaven continues. When fellowship is broken through unrighteousness, the gates are closed
and share ammer stationed at the eastern gate, and the fellowship changes. The
fellowship and the environment are so interrelated that they can't be separated. The enemy
knows that. That's why he works so hard to keep you out of fellowship.
He's working super hard to keep you out of fellowship because fellowship and heaven
are intricately connected to gather, intricately connected together. And so we see this
going on for a while. We don't know how long this went on,
but it it went on for a while, and there was there was this
kind of deep fellowship like what should we name this one? And there was
like the talk of creativity, and there was understanding, and there was there
was all this going on. It was like this was this was more than
just casual stuff. Right, how about you and your wife, you that
are married, try to name something. How long is that going to take
you to come into agreement on what the name is going to be. You
both need to hear from Holding Spirit on that one, don't you. So
I'm just talking about the kind of unity there was. There was a tremendous
unity. I don't know if we've thought about that. Like in Adam,
there wasn't. This is before the fall. In Adam. There wasn't arguments.
There wasn't like contention. There wasn't like, wow, I don't even
know why you did that, like that thing you should have five legs,
not four. I don't know what you were thinking. There wasn't this kind
of this contentious argumentative negativity or disparity going on. First Atom and Holy Spirit
in the person of Jesus, we're one and functioning as one and communicating,
and that this cool fellowship going on. It's the kind of fellowship that we
see Jesus walking with Father in and the kind of fellowship that we're called to.
And absence of that fellowship, heaven can't emerge. We want glory,
We want a greater glory. We sang about a greater glory. We're believing
for a greater glory. But all of us have things built in to our
soul and our body that are a framework of resistance to a greater glory.
And the greater glory wants to spring out of our spirit, wants to emerge
out of our spirit man, out of our inner man that agrees with the
holiness of God, even agrees with the laws of God. So many times
we contain in that glory. We restrict that glory and don't enter in fully.
But the very thing that is ours, like you, don't have to
earn more glory. Second Corinthians four, Sun Corinthians for this Cool Passage,
you know that talks about Second Crinthians for the Cool Passage from Sun Crinins three
to four talks about how Moses face would glow with the glory. And we
know that's when he came down off of the mount somewhere around Exodus thirty three,
and that glory that he was shining with it was more than the Israelites
could bear. It was like amazing, right, and he had been forty
days in the presence of glory, and the amalgamation of that glory it had
transformed him. But it was an upon glory. It wasn't a within glory.
Now Paul's trying to say here, he's trying to say that we have
a greater glory than even Moses, and we have not a fading upon glory
because we were in the presence. We have a within glory, and this
glory never has to fade because we constantly not only dwell in the presence,
but the presence dwells in us verse six and seven. For God's said let
lights. For God who said let light shine out of darkness, made his
light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's
glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure. We
have the very same treasure, the very same treasure that was in Christ the
Anointed. We have this treasure in jars of clay. Jars of clay are
earth suits. To show that this surpassing power is from God and not from
us. In other words, you can even be frail, and you can
be weak, and you can be finite, and you can be you can
be in your earth suit, and the glory of God will still be pre
eminent, be known, be felt, be seen, be manifest, because
His glory is not restricted by your earth suit. His glory is not restricted
by your earth suit. He just needs an earth suit that will cooperate.
That's part of why Paul said, I I'm not going to get in a
bunch of shame over my earth suit. I'm going to glory in my weakness
because in my weakness he is made strong. He will be manifested through my
weakness if through my weakness I allow him to come through me. Look at
the life of Jesus. Now this is second atom. Okay, still,
this is second atom. This is last atom. Who is the example for
us to follow. And he's not just an example for us to copy emulate,
be like examine. But the Holy Spirit of Jesus dwells in us,
and the Holy Spirit of Jesus has made us into brand new creatures. We
are new creatures in Christ Jesus. But I just want to take fellowship because
Jesus was the embodiment of Heaven on earth. Jesus was the embodiment of heaven
on earth. He was also a perfect theology Luke three twenty one. Now,
when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while
he was praying, Heaven was opened. Now, when I talk about praying,
I don't want you to go into some kind of a mode every time
I read about praying. This is what the apostles wrote about him, and
this is what the translators translated to be. But I don't want you to
think of it as necessarily some certain particular petitionary or pious activity. We praying
was and is, and I want you to see it in this context of
the first atom context that it was fellowship with Holy Spirit. The fact is,
while we're there, while we're camping on that, let's go to this
really cool reference of fellowship with the Holy Spirit, which is two corinth Ens
thirteen fourteen, Second Trinthens thirteen fourteen. This is the Apostle Paul finishing his
second letter to the Corinthian Church. Remember there's no chapters, there's no verses.
We added all that. This is one big letter to the Corinthian Church.
He's ending the letter with certain thoughts, directions, and things that he
wants them to be aware of and to follow through with. And this is
what he says. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love
of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. So
when we think about Jesus pray, and we're going to get back to that
in a minute, I want to read some of those I want you to
see that even even the Apostles noted like a lot of frequent times where Jesus
was openly to their awareness having fellowship with Holy Spirit in such a way that
they could identify it, and they could identify that Heaven was emitting out of
him, that the glory of Heaven was emitting out of him. So at
one point, even you know, they said, teach us to pray.
John taught his disciples how to pray. We're watching you, we're seeing everything,
you're carrying, everything that's happening. We're realizing that we don't know how
to pray. But you teach us how to pray, and it really teaches
how to have fellowship with Holy Spirit. Teach us how to have fellowship with
Holy Spirit. And the word fellowships here Paul says, this is super important
as I close out this letter to you the Corinthian Church, that you continue
in fellowship, that you have fellowship with Holy Spirit. So the word there
its translated fellowship. I keep talking about fellowship, but actually it's the word
coinn and ea and have you ever heard the word coin and it's a Greek
word. From it, we get fellowship, which is one of the four
meanings of the word fellowship. But there's other meanings to the word fellowship.
And when I see Jesus praying the last atom, who's now restoring what the
first atom lost and walking in what the first atom once had, when I
see when I see fellowship, I want to see I want to see it
more in the fullness of the understanding of what coin and AA is. And
number one, it's partnership. And I think that's that's really cool. I
think that's even part of what we see in chapter two eighteen and nineteen nineteen
through twenty comes into a partnership with God, so much so that this partnership
even includes naming the animals like a partnership of dialogue, a partnership of I
think it's amazing that no matter what your endeavor, this is and this is
part of understanding what prayer is all about, is understanding what fellowship is all
about. Whatever whatever you're in the midst of Holy Spirit wants to be your
partner. If you're raising children, if you're selling real estate, if you're
sharing your faith. You know, Jesus never healed the same way every time?
Did you know that? Now? I usually do the same thing every
single time, unless what unless I get instruction by giving my spiritman prominence and
asking and listening for my partner to tell me what to do. Because I'm
the junior partner. He's the senior partner, and he's ordained that through fellowship,
I enter into a partnership with him, and he knows how to do
everything, and the everything he knows how to do is to bring heaven to
my earth. It's one of the meetings for fellowship number two intimacy. Intimacy.
It's a participation of intimacy. It's actually the word intercourse. The word
fellowship means that I you to him in such a way that I allow him
to make deposits of his word in me. We talked about the bread of
his presence. We've talked about Matthew four to four. Jesus said man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God. We talk about the Lord's prayer when he taught them how to
pray. Give us this day our daily bread. It's all about hearing from
him. It's all about getting impregnated with the word from above, the word
from heaven. And so fellowship is opening myself up in such a way that
I break down the resistance, and I break down the hindrances, and I
yearn for him so much that I even throw my clock away because I want
to stay here in intimate fellowship until I really hear, until there's a deposit,
until I'm impregnated, until there's something that comes from heaven, like the
bread of Heaven. I wanted to land on my heart and quicken me in
regard to this endeavor. So there's this intimacy that happens, and the intimacy
comes from yielding to him and making time for him. Thirdly, the word
means distribution. He wants to distribute heaven upon me. He wants to distribute
that which brings heaven. He wants to distribute that which strengthens me, that
which quickens me, that which makes me wise. There's a distribution. That's
the third word for fellowship for queen, and a partnership, intimacy, distribution.
And then lastly the last word is fellowship. That's the last word fellowship.
In many ways, that's just time spin. That's just time spin.
You ever yearned for that, and a partner or a friend, you ever
yearn for that? Like sometimes Joel and I are just so busy, we're
like, you know, two ships passing in the night, just so busy
that you just you know, you're yearning for fellowship. Anybody ever yearned for
fellowship with somebody? This is why Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit yearns for fellowship
with us. He desires fellowship with us, and we see Jesus entering into
this all the time. Luke six twelve through thirteen, that was at this
time that he went off into the mountain to pray, and he spent the
whole night in prayer with God Queen and a fellowship distribution, intimacy time spent.
And when they came, he called his disciples to him and shows twelve
of them, of whom he named his apostles. This is a big,
giant decision, and he knew the decision wasn't in his robe, It wasn't
in his earth suit, it wasn't in his flesh. It wasn't in a
meal, it wasn't in a program, it wasn't in a rabbinical study.
It wasn't in a scripture verse. Somewhere he needed a download in his spirit
man. And there were hundreds that were following him and pursuing him and running
after him. But he was to call twelve to be with him. So
he spent the night in fellowship with Holy Spirit. And as he spends the
night in fellowship with only Spirit, then there is the download of all that
is hidden in coin and AA. And he comes the next day and chooses
the twelve mark one thirty five. In the early morning, while it was
still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went away to a
seclude place and was praying there Matthew fourteen twenty three. And after he had
sent the crowds away, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray,
And when it was evening he was there alone Luke five sixteen. But
Jesus himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray Fellowship point and am
Luke eleven one. It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place,
and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him,
Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples John seventeen nine.
We know John seventeen is all about a prayer that he prayed for us.
I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the
world, but on behalf of those whom you've given me, for they are
yours. He's in prayer. Every time you enter into prayer, you're prioritizing
your inner man. You're prioritizing your spirit man. You're prioritizing the source of
faith, the source of love, the source of wisdom, the source of
heaven. Every time you pray. This is why the enemy doesn't want the
church to pray. This is why your flesh wrangkles at prayer because your flesh
can't be reformed. Your flesh is not going to start running after prayer.
But you're crucified flesh will cooperate with prayer. You're crucified flesh can be mortified
by the Holy Spirit when you give Holy Spirit the central part of your life.
Just so important that we realize that Jesus wasn't just our savior. He
wasn't just He's not just the source of forgiveness. He is who you've become
per seawn for seventeen as he is, so also are we in this world.
John says that we're going to be baffled when we see him because when
we see him, we will know him, we will behold him because we've
become like him, because you've received his nature. You received his nature.
So sometimes I think, you know, sometimes I think you know, the
key to more glory is just activating the glory within. Now, there's sovereign
moves of God. We know that's true. We know that there are times
and seasons when God moves, and we know that's true. But we also
know that generally every single revival and movement of God has been interrelated to people
quenching something that was hindering and restricting and opposing the glory within. And when
a bunch of them got together and they begin to agree together in fellowship,
and they began to quench whatever was harming and quenching the Holy Spirit. Because
the Holy Spirit, you're a glory carrier, and he just wants to get
loose. He wants to dominate you, and he wants to rate Heaven through
you, and he wants to spill heaven into everything that you touch. He
doesn't mind the secular expressions, because when you make him central, your spirit
man central in the midst of secular expressions, he turns them into sacred,
supernatural outpourings. Jesus shows up at a wedding that sounds kind of trite.
They're having wine that sounds really trite, much of sinners. He blows up
the whole party with better wine because he had the resource of heaven. So
he releases the merriment of heaven on the entire wine, on the entire wedding
party, and every religious eyebrow is lifted, but it's heaven flowing out of
his fellowship. The standards morning. If you have the glory within, If
I have the glory within and the glory is not spilling out, I know
with me, I've got this unrestricted access to the glory that I don't take
advantage of, I don't always pay attention to. And then I let stuff
pindra and quench the glory that wants to get out. Take the Ten Commandments.
I'm gonna mess with you, Jesus says in Matthew five. Your righteousness
is going to exceed the commandments. The commandments are a check on our soul
and on our body, and we will look at the commandments. They convict
us to run into Christ and to run into faith. And these commandments have
value, right, they have value. Like, if we're violating those commandments,
we could be quenching the glory that dwells within. And maybe we don't
realize we're quenching the glory that dwells within. I don't know. There's a
bunch of them there, you know, there's a bunch of them. We
could meditate on this a little bit. We don't have enough time for all
the meditation. But well, like you know, the Sabbath day, it's
actually his day. It's not our day, it's actually his day. So
if we're not keeping a Sabbath, if we think that the seventh day or
the first day or the Sabbath day is actually for us instead of for him,
maybe that alone could be quenching the glory within. We don't even realize
we're cinching the glory. If we're spending all of our time pursuing Black Friday
specials, I'm messing with you now, but you know, you know what
I'm saying. If we're spending all of our time on our stuff, he
says, have no idol before me. He says, don't make any graven
image your idol. If we've allowed deception, and we're walking with an allowed
deception, and he said, don't bear false witness like never lie, And
we're living with a little alie that we've allowed. We don't realize it,
but we're quenching the glory within. And sometimes this is what I mean by
sometimes it's just it's not like a sovereign glory that needs to come. Sometimes
it's not that he's the problem. Sometimes it's we're the problem. Sometimes we
just need to make an inner adjustment. Men can lead the way. But
if men are drawn away into anything pornographic, which is a form of prostitution
and adultery, do we realize that we actually are quenching the glory within.
When my wife and I quench one another, she teases about it, I
get real patty faced. And you know, the quenching means that there's a
loss of fellowship, a lack of fellowship maybe the four parts of fellowship,
right, And I get real patty faced. I wonder if the Holy Spirit
gets a pouty face. I wonder if he gets sad, because the Bible
says grieve, not or quench not the Holy Spirit. That means it can
be done. We can do it. And when we do it, because
your sovereign over you, you're sovereign over you. That means you have to
sovereignly choose to defer to your spirit man and run after heaven fellowship in coin
and air. And when you do, Heaven can erupt, Heaven can erupt,
Heaven can spill out, Heaven can spill out. Hands up this morning,
if you word with me, Holy Spirit, what'd you show us today?
Any behavior, any activity, any mindset, any philosophy, any choice,
any allowance that's quinching you, that's keeping you from first place and hindering
our fellowship, our coin and au and the bursting forth of your glory out
of our inner man. Would you show us only Spirit? Would you show
us wholes fail? We repent right now, Lord, return, return from
that which clinches fellowship, that which keeps you entrapped, unable to manifest.
Return from it. We shift turn ourselves to you fully, Let the coin
and day erupt. Let the coin and day erupt, Oh, Holy Spirit,
Well thank you for it, Jesus name, everybody said,