Hallanu Yeah, hallelu yeah, hallelu yeah, Helle lou Yeah, hallelu yeah,
hallnelu. Yeah. How we doing? Are we happy? Let's stay
in prayer for the word. Yeah, give me a little bit more if
you would, bruh, please thank you, louren way, I won't yell
or shout too loud. Thank you Lord. You look amazing this morning.
Good to see you. You like my green. It's crushed, This has
crushed something. You can tell it's been crushed. You can just store this
in the closet. You don't even have to hang it up right, and
then just step on it when you're getting your breeches, you know, and
then because it's crushed, it's gonna stay crushed. Father, we thank you
for your word. Today we just opened our hearts to receive from you,
and we just welcome you to teach and train and equip and strengthen us.
Today we say yes to you and all that you're up to in our lives.
In Jesus' name. Everybody said, heymen, you may be seated.
I want to talk to you a little bit about the season that we're in.
You know, I think it's uh we had we had We've had a
lot of announcement of this season, I think, and a lot of it
was happening at the Summit as well. That we're in this kingdom building season.
You know, that's what I think this season is right here, you
know, this is our season, kingdom building. Everybody say kingdom building.
And we know too, we've been learning that it is the Kingdom of Heaven,
all right, everybody say heaven. It's the Kingdom of Heaven. It's
the Kingdom of Heaven, specifically the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Right,
So, boy, you weren't near as convinced on that one, were you.
You've been watching h what is it? Constantly negative news too much?
Sletland, CNN, constantly negative news. So it's the Kingdom of Heaven.
And remember this is Matthew sixteen nineteen and following it's the Kingdom of Heaven on
Oh hallelujah. So we're in this timeframe right. So and we you know,
we talk quite a bit about that here, like Isaiah and nine,
one of our favorites, Isaiah nine and six through you know, seven and
following six through and nine. Whatever. So his name shall be Emmanuel,
Wonderful counselor oh my God, and of the increase of His government of peace,
there shall be no end. Now, it kind of looks like the
stock market sometimes, but we should never get confused when this is happening,
that somehow that scripture is not getting fulfilled. Of the increase of His kingdom,
there shall be no end. Do you believe the Bible? How many
eve in the room believed the Bible? Well, then you should have shouted
when I said that, because it doesn't matter what you see. God is
working with somebody, whether it's you or somebody else. He's working with somebody
by the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, to bring increase to the
kingdom. Right, so others that we like around here, you know,
Matthew thirteen thirty one through thirty three, Right, the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a man who put leven in three loaves of bread, could be three
one thousand years periods. We don't even know what that meant. What did
that mean? A man who put eleven and three loaves of bread? And
the Kingdom of Heaven is like the leavening that levens all. And the Kingdom
of Heaven is actually a metaphoric picture of that that that leven is thrown into
the earth, and it's going to continue until it. Levens levens part levens
for you in the back. That's the all. Eugene has your eyeballs back
there checking out. Okay, good, So Leven's all right. So others
we like uh Daniel two, Daniel seven, Daniel two thirteen through fourteen.
And I saw one like the son of Man ascending, and he came to
the ancient days, and there was a given a a kingdom was given him,
that all peoples, that all nations should serve him, and that his
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and it will never pass away. Now that's a
fulfillment. That vision was actually seen again in Revelation twelve, Revelation twelve seven
and following Revelation in twelve, and there was a war in the heavens,
and there was a war in the heavens. Yeah, a war broke out,
thank you. We have scriptures. We're Bible believing here. Actually we
have good stories, but we believe in the Bible. A war broke out
in heaven. Michael waged war against the dragon. Now why did the war
break out? The war break broke out because the ascended Man Jesus the last
Atom. When he rose from the dead, there was no longer place for
the one who was coming into the heavens in the authority of first Atom.
Satan only had access to the heavens because of the authority of first Atom.
When Second Adam defeated Satan, there was no longer room for Satan to be
hanging out at the throne bugging God about the saints. So a war broke
out because the second Atom, the victorious man, ascended and when he ascended
the enemy the dragon was thrown down to the earth. And it's those are
both. Those are both a picture of Daniel two and Daniel seven. So
we believe in this stuff, and we believe that this is a kingdom,
this is a kingdom period. But we also were also sober minded about something.
We also know that something happened back here. We also know that when
Israel became a nation in nineteen forty eight, then a very strong evangelical teaching
that most all of us were exposed to was that the Lord would come back
by nineteen eighty eight. Do you make any of you remember that? So?
Because it was an interpretation or translation of Matthew twenty four where it says,
and this generation shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled.
Anybody remember that, who's been a Christian long enough to remember this stuff?
A good couple of you. So a generation is forty years and so so
all of our theologians, including you know, all of my theologians. Then
we said that the Lord's coming back by nineteen eighty eight. The problem is,
the Lord didn't come back by nineteen eighty eight. But what happened is
here is that we prepared for his coming back. Everybody say prepared, So
we prepared in a very unique way. We believed that the anti Christ was
going to take over. We believed the mark of the Beast was coming.
We believe one world government was here. We believed that the love of many
would grow cold. We believe there'd be a great falling away. And so
in preparing for all of that, what happened is the church we kind of
withdrew. Anybody remember that. I don't know if I spelled that right.
We kind of withdrew from culture and society, and there was a little bit.
What happened is there was a little bit of hopelessness. I love somebody,
you've heard the land of Goshen. Theybody heard the land of Goshen.
When I was growing up. It was Mom and Dad's favorite expression. Land
of Gshen. Wouldn't matter what happened, wouldn't matter what happened. The dog
just knocked over the hamper, Land of Goshen. The car just rolled out
of the garage, Land at Ghost. Somebody just left five hundred pounds of
groceries on the front porch, Land at Ghost. All right, everything you
know, so, but you know, Goshen is where Goshen is where Joseph
got to live when he brought Dad down to Egypt. Remember that it was
the best of the land. It was like Eden, Eden. Everybody said
Eden. So it says the land of Goshen was down there in Egypt,
and Goshen was actually like and that's where they got to live when they went
down there. And what happened during this period is we kind of we became
in grown and it became all about our personal Ghoshen. Life was going to
be hell, everything was going to get worse, But as long as we
had a Goshen, we'd be okay, you home me. And so that's
a little bit. What Now, what happened though is and I'm not here
to argue anything with you. I'm just here to say that this is what's
happening now, and this is how Holy Spirit is shifting the entire church in
the entire planet right now, and he's moving us towards this and he's maturing
us. You know. You know, during this time, we didn't know
the authority, we had principalities and powers, we didn't have a solid identity
in the New Creation. I mean, we were lacking so much. But
what happened is that the enemy came and kind of took advantage of some of
this stuff. And you'll see some of the greatest losses on the plane.
It happened here. Nineteen sixty two. Prayer was taken out of the schools.
Remember that, Bible taken out. Nineteen sixty two, Bible taken out,
Prayer taken out of the schools, remember that. And just you know,
I mean, there were fifty or one hundred bad things that happened during
this period, and part of it we kind of expected it to happen.
My point is, I don't think we recovered from this. I think that
the enemy was able to infect the church with defeat, with hopelessness with despair,
and we you know, we we comfort we comfort one another. We
do comfort one another, you know well. Like and remember the songs,
remember the songs during this period, like the number one hit song all fly
Away, Oh Glory. Life was so bad that we just were dreaming about
going to heaven all the time, and there was no salvation for the planet.
Mind you, the Bible says that you're joint heirs with Jesus, and
he's inherited the planet. Jesus inherited the planet, and the Earth is what
becomes heaven. Did you know that? So? And we're joint airs with
them. You're actually an heir of the earth. The meek shall inherit the
Oh oh, don't give me theology. I'd rather have these terrible thoughts I've
got so so. My point here, though, is that I think some
of this still bother still affects us a little bit. And wherever there's hopelessness,
we're a dismembered army. We're not an army at all. Wherever there's
hopelessness. Ezekiel thirty seven. God's speaking to Ezekiel. He shows him this
valley of dry bones, remember it, really well? He doesn't know what
the valley of dry bones is. He doesn't even know what's going on.
And he says, can they live? And he says, I don't know.
Only you know, Lord, And he says, breathe on the bones,
and speak to the bones, and prophesied to the bones, and all
this stuff about the bones. Right, remember the bones? How many of
you remember the bones? We're still back on revelations. Well, what happened?
We can kill that one. But Ezekiel thirty seven, I don't have
it in the notes. But Ezekiel thirty seven, can these bones live?
And only you know, Lord? So he you know, he breathes on
the bones, he prophesies to the bones. But the end of that,
remember he says, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Oh,
now he's getting a revelation on the vision he see and he says, and
what they say is our hope has perished. Wherever we despair, then we're
no longer an army. We become dead and dismembered. We become divided,
and we become just potshureds of death on a valley floor. Wherever we allow
hopelessness or despair to prevail. This is why It doesn't even matter. If
we know when the end is. We know what Father's up to. What
he's up to is building the kingdom. What he's up to is subduing darkness.
What he is up to is healing people. What he's up to,
he hasn't changed his mind. From Isaiah sixty one to Luke chapter four,
when he stood up and said, the anointing of the Lord is upon me,
and he's anointed me to heal the broken hearted. He's anointed me to
set the captains free. He's anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
He hasn't changed his mind. He hasn't changed the assignment. But if
we allow hopelessness or despair to affect us, regardless of what we think about
the end, and by the way, none of us probably know right,
the pan trip is one of the safest things, right, get a little
pan out. We don't know everything about the end. But if we allow
hopelessness to get a hold of our hearts. Now, my point is that
during this time, the entire hopelessness to get a hold of their hearts,
and that's why they stopped being an army. Now we're always a hospital.
We're always a hospital. But as soon as we're healed, we join the
army, and we're not beating up people, we're beaten up demons. We're
learning our authority in culture, in society, in every sphere. Right.
I want you to stand with me this morning. We're not closing out,
so don't get anxious and excited. Nobody leave the building or you'll have the
double tide. But I want you to stand with me, and I want
you to pray with me. I want you to renounce. Now you say
I wasn't even around in nineteen eighty eight. You know, I've never heard
that stuff before. This was so pervasive on the church. It's kind of
like Calvinism. You've maybe never heard Calvinism, you might not even know who
Calvin is, but somehow you got the notion through other churches and people that
God is ultimately sovereign and he controls everything, which is another distortion of theology
because it removes the demonic realm out of the equation of the sphirit realm.
God is ultimately sovereign, that is, he will have his ultimate way,
but he's working out in time and space with people of faith who either obey
him or obey the devil, and he's given you sovereignty over you, so
he doesn't control you. You are called to control the demonic realm and the
curse and get it under your feet. So you've probably been influenced by Calvinism.
You don't even know Calvin's name, but he lived in fifteen hundred in
Geneva. And now everybody thinks you know calvinistic thoughts bummer. Well, maybe
you weren't around in nineteen eighty eight and you didn't hear all this stuff.
But somehow, because you've been in the church, around the church, a
little bit of defeat has gotten a hold of you. And we're really good
at building the church inwardly. We're so good at building the church inwardly.
We've got fivefold expressions, and we've got the shepherding and the care of the
flock. We've got worship and the prophetic, we've got the help's ministries.
We've got teaching and healing and deliverance, and we're good at building holding the
flock inwardly. But what happened is during that time, so many of us
turned our hearts away from the world, thinking it's hopeless to save them,
it's hopeless. What good can my little bit do? And what's happened is
we're still somewhat operating that way, and we're not taking the gifting and the
empowerment and the healing and the life giving ministry that He's given us. And
then we're not taking it like we could and should and getting it back out
here into culture. But this is what we're called to do, is to
take this life giving ministry that He's given us and get it back into culture.
And I think we're standing at a Google day, We're standing at a
Tesla day, We're standing at a Microsoft in nineteen eighty six day. What
do you mean by that? I mean the greatest harvest is right before us.
And I don't want to be an observer. I want to be an
investor. I want to be a partaker the greatest harvest. Elon Musk sold
something for three hundred million dollars, had some money. Then he you know,
bought some other did some other stuff. But then he found these guys
in California that built an electric car. They already had it figured out,
They already had it figured out. What he grabbed a hold of was something
that a breakthrough had already been. Like they already had the breakthrough. They
just needed somebody to invest. Right now, the kingdom is just waiting for
believers to invest their lives in the community around them the kingdom. And this
is what you know. I preached on this during the summit, But I
totally believe this, that dread has come upon the enemies of God. Now
as long as you believe dread is not on the enemies of God, then
you're going to hesitate. Well, I could get more involved in government.
I could get more involved in economy. You know, maybe I could start
a little coaching thing on leadership, have a coaching small group even at work.
Maybe I could do something like that. But I don't know. I
don't know. I don't want to. I don't want to walk into something
where it's gonna I'm gonna be facing defeat. And of course there's always a
risk, and we're called to take a risk. He said, don't leave
Jerusalem until the anointing, the power, the undoment from on high comes upon
you. But then go out into the world and be my martyrs. Be
my martyrs. The word witness in the Greek is martyr. Go ahead and
be my martyr. In other words, take a risk for me. Don't
love your own life. That's Revelation twelve. The enemy has come down to
us in the earth. Oh oh oh, but I see something John said.
I see they overcome that enemy by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony, and loving not there, loving not their lives
unto the death. As long as we love our lives, we're not going
to do much. You can never bear fruit hanging on to the trunk of
the tree. You got to get out on a limb. So we have
to engage in these things. But what's happened is we've become very We've become
very inner church minded, and we do church well. And this is everywhere,
by the way, you know, the statistics of community reformation in Houston,
Texas, all around Joel Ostein's church, largest church in America, the
statistics of community of reformation, they're no different than places where there is no
giant church. We're doing church really good, but we're not doing this really
good. But we stand at the greatest opportunity. We stand at a Tesla
opportunity, stand at a Google opportunity, a Microsoft opportunity, where if we'll
just let it be unleashed, if we'll take risk, if we'll step out,
if we'll engage, if we'll do crazy stuff, if we'll get wild
ideas, if we'll ask Holy Spirit for the anointing of crazy ideas, crazy
inventive ideas, the promise of the anointing. Think about this Joel two twenty
eight, Acts, Chapter two, Acts Chapter one. Luke twenty four forty
nine. The promise of the Anointing. He says, the fulfillment of the
promise of the anointing is fulfilling that which Joel foresaw. That the anointing will
come upon you, and you will have dreams and visions, and you will
prophesy those dreams and visions. They aren't just for you to make more money
or protect the stuff you've got. Oh, I had a dream and a
vision about, you know, protecting my stuff. No, No, these
are dreams and visions of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. These are
dreams and visions Holy Spirit wants to release up on us to build the Kingdom
of Heaven on earth. And don't you think life will get better for everybody?
If we lose our lives, we will find it. But if we
hang on to our life. We'll lose heaven on earth if we hang on
to our life and just say I'm just we're going to stay in the church
bubble. We're going to lose this. But if we spend ourselves, if
we lose ourselves, then we're going to gain a manifestation of the very thing
that we long for. But what I want us to do, I want
us to break covenant with this and this is I can only do this right
now with you that are in the room. But I want you to break
covenant right now because I believe you've been influenced by this. You don't need
to know everything about eschatology. I was reading. I was reading an Uther
scripture. You know. They were bugging him in Acts chapter one and they
said, oh, is it at this time you're going to restore the kingdom?
And he's like, it's not the times of that. They aren't even
like they're not. Those are all under the Fathers understanding and his decree.
Here's what I know. What I know is you're going to receive power from
on high. When you receive power from on high, you're going to be
witnesses and you're going to go. And it says in Acts chapter eight.
Acts. Chapter eight starts this way. It's really crazy. Acts Chapter eight
starts this way. It says that a great persecution arose against the church,
and everybody, say, everybody, everybody but the twelve. Isn't God sneaky
and tricky? Everybody but the twelve. Now this is we're talking about thousands.
Because there were three thousands, say the first day, and four thousand
saved another day. We're talking about thousand. By the time we get to
Acts chapter eight, thousands of people have already come to the Lord. And
it says everybody but twelve were scattered across the entire planet. And it says
Act chapter eight. It says, and they went out preaching as they they
went out preaching. They went out preaching the good news. You mean the
carpenters went out preaching. Yeah, you mean the tax collectors went out preaching,
yep, them to you mean the bankers went out preaching, Yes,
how about the chiropractice they went out preaching to everybody went out preaching. The
tent makers, Yes, they went out preaching. Everybody went out preaching the
good news of the kingdom. They all went out preaching. This is us.
It's a picture of us. When we leave this place today, we
go out with the Word of Heaven. The word it's you. Remember gospel.
Remember what it means. It means good news, right, it means
good news. We go out with good news. Every person has been purchased
by God. Every person is royalty. They don't even know it yet God
has called them to royalty. They are His royal possession. So I want
us to break this though. You're gonna have to trust me though, and
I want you to repeat after me in a repeat after me prayer. There's
a moment or two where you can decide if you should or not. So
that's good. It can be personally safe that way, right, Like he's
not going to leave me in some bad prayer, Okay, I'll try not
to. O. Hey, let's pray this one. Father. We observe
and see that she didn't come in nineteen eighty eight. But we believe that
you are coming for us. You're coming in the Christ, You're coming in
victory. That there is a day where you're sending this on. But we
acknowledge right now this is Kingdom building season, harvest season, healing season.
The Works of Isaiah sixty one and the proclamation of Luke four. These are
coming to pass. These are days of victory, These are days of overcoming
power. These are days you're putting principalities and powers under our feet. You're
giving us dominion over darkness, and these are days to plunder darkness. Satan
is creating an awesome harvesting opportunity, and we're going to be there in this
greatest moment of kingdom advancement. And so Father, we renounce right now defeat
the spirit of defeat, the ministry of defeat, Fear, withdrawal, isolation,
despair, hopelessness. Every negative spirit that's affected us affected me because I've
been part of the evangelical Church in America. I've darkened the door of a
church, I've come into a building, I've hung out with other believers.
Any negative, unbelieving, despairing spirit, I renounce it in Jesus' name,
and I command these influences have to go. They have to leave me alone.
They have to get out of my prayer life, out of my mind,
out of my imagination, out of my evangelism, out of my risk
taking, out of my anointing, off of me and out of me.
Every unclean spirit bearing witness to defeat. Leave me alone, leave this church
alone. In Jesus' name, Let's get the Lord of thankoffering right now.
Thank you Lord. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on. Victory, victory, victory. We are
a people of victory. We are a people of hope. We are a
people of victory. We are a people of overcoming power. We are a
people who bring it forth the kingdom. We are a people who will see
the advancing of the Kingdom of Heaven for such a time as this you have
been born. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Yeah, set us
free, Set us free, Set us free, Set us free. Every
argument, you know what happens is sometimes too we just think, you know,
I had to start a small group in my neighborhood. Maybe I should
just start walking around my neighborhood and just doing a little bit about reach.
Once a month, we start thinking these things. Maybe I should just have
a football Maybe I should just have a football TV day. They got the
Super Bowl coming, I'm in invite some unbelieving friends or neighbors and some believing
ones to come, and then maybe during halftime we'll just show, you know,
some testimonies of some of those born again quarterbacks, and we'll just,
you know, instead of watching the mini skirts at halftime, maybe we'll watch
the heavenly skirts, you know, from I don't know, and so we'll
we'll just share something, you know, and you get these ideas. And
then what happens is, because we've had this going on, we talk ourselves
out of it. We talk ourselves out of it, not knowing that dread
has already fallen on your enemy. Dread has already visited your friends and your
neighbors and your business associates. Dread has already visited the spirits that have been
harming them, controlling them, abusing them, and lying to them that there's
already a victory for you if you'll just step out, and people are going
to be led to the Lord. They're going to be influenced by the Kingdom
of Heaven. They're going to see the light in you. They're going to
be drawn. And you have to do Jehovah sneaky things like in the in
the in the business community, in the in the mountain of economy. Don't
have a Bible study now, I mean, if God visits you and says
have a Bible study, have one but don't have a Bible study at work
or in the business community, or at the real estate office, or at
the bank, or with your banking friends or your business associate friends. Have
a leadership study, have a leadership study. Be be more sneaky a just
have a weekly leadership get together or a monthly leadership get together. Use some
John Maxwell stuff, some Jordan Peterson stuff, you know, just use some
different resources. You don't even have to be the guru. You you can
know nothing and just say we're gonna be yeah, we're just gonna page for
some books here and you know whatever, and just use stuff that has some
Bible in it. All of us can do this because all of us are
called to this. God would never call us to something He wouldn't grace us.
For Ephesians chapter four, the church is going to grow into the full
stature of the maturity of the sun. The church is going to be given
these five full ministries to help us grow. And the Church the Ecless,
the governing body that legislate all things in the earth. Those people are going
to be equipped for ministry. You're a full time minister. You're called to
the ministry. God would never call you to the ministry. If he wouldn't
enable you for the ministry, you're enabled for this stuff. You just need
some Jehovah sneaky ideas. Call it leadership, call it leadership, so many
things. And you know what, I'm believing. I'm believing you're going to
get wisdom on this stuff. Pastor Tony at the summit, he said that
if that if every church in America just took in one foster child, it
would close the foster system in America. So I looked that up. I
wanted to see if that was true. Yep, sure enough, there's three
hundred and ninety one thousand children in the foster system in America. There's three
hundred and seven thousand churches in America. If every church just took on one
foster child, how about marriage mentor you could be a marriage mentor you could
even start a small group. Do you know that marriages are perishing in your
community, in your neighborhood where you live. You could do what we did
with Flyers. We started our small group. We've had over seventy five people
visit our small group in the last year and three months in our neighborhood.
Seventy five different people come. We just do flyers every month because people forget,
So we do flyers every month and we post it every month. We
just do a flyer continually doing a flower, reminding people. But you could
do one on marriage, but my marriage is a mess. Just admit that
and just watch videos. Just do one on marriage, do one on single
parenting. How God helps the single parent. But I'm a single parent.
I'm not worthy to do anything. Are you kidding me? He made you
worthy. You're bought with a price, you are royalty. How many single
parents, maybe even unbelieving single parents, would just come and watch a video
or read a book with you, And it's just Jehovah sneaky stuff, right,
But it gets us into the community. It gets us and it takes
the power, the grace, the resource that we've been building, and it
gets us into this place where we're rescuing culture. And this is what God's
called us to do in this season because the greatest harvest is right now,
The greatest harvest is unfolding right now, and there's dread coming on the enemies
of God that potentially the sons and daughters of God would rise up and do
something. And guess what they're going to woo hallelujah. Let's prophesy over one
another right now, over your own life. I want you to lose.
We bound up some stuff, but I want you to lose some stuff right
now, Holy Spirit. Let's say it, Holy Spirit, we lose creativity
over the Body of Christ, over me, over us, over the Church.
We lose the anointing of creativity. We lose the anointing of wisdom.
We lose the grace to go. We lose you, Jesus, upon our
imagination, Come, Lord Jesus, with the mind of Christ, the mind
of Heaven, the heart of compassion, the power and authority of Heaven to
visit our and our thoughts. Quicken us, Holy Spirit, like we've never
been quickened. And right now, Holy Spirit, we receive on behalf of
the Body of Christ, hope, like the body's never had victory, Like
we've never seen the spirit of faith, the spirit of hope, the spirit
of victory, the spirit of love fills us, fills us, leads us,
and fills the Body of Christ. We decree it so in Jesus' name,
And everybody said, who come on, Church, Oh, you're so
good, Lord, You're so good. You're so good. Let's worship as
we go. If you came with a need that's not been met, please
come and somebody will meet you at the front. If you're giving your life
to the Lord, stepping into the royalty, God's called you to, please
come. Let somebody lead you in that prayer of faith. Don't leave without
allowing Holy Spirit to touch you this morning. God bless you for being here.