WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:07.599 Hallanu Yeah, hallelu yeah, hallelu yeah, Helle lou Yeah, hallelu yeah, 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:15.400 hallnelu. Yeah. How we doing? Are we happy? Let's stay 3 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.320 in prayer for the word. Yeah, give me a little bit more if 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:22.760 you would, bruh, please thank you, louren way, I won't yell 5 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:30.960 or shout too loud. Thank you Lord. You look amazing this morning. 6 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.320 Good to see you. You like my green. It's crushed, This has 7 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:41.439 crushed something. You can tell it's been crushed. You can just store this 8 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:45.159 in the closet. You don't even have to hang it up right, and 9 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.399 then just step on it when you're getting your breeches, you know, and 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:55.079 then because it's crushed, it's gonna stay crushed. Father, we thank you 11 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.359 for your word. Today we just opened our hearts to receive from you, 12 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.920 and we just welcome you to teach and train and equip and strengthen us. 13 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:11.480 Today we say yes to you and all that you're up to in our lives. 14 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.120 In Jesus' name. Everybody said, heymen, you may be seated. 15 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.319 I want to talk to you a little bit about the season that we're in. 16 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:29.000 You know, I think it's uh we had we had We've had a 17 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.959 lot of announcement of this season, I think, and a lot of it 18 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.359 was happening at the Summit as well. That we're in this kingdom building season. 19 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.079 You know, that's what I think this season is right here, you 20 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.319 know, this is our season, kingdom building. Everybody say kingdom building. 21 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:52.680 And we know too, we've been learning that it is the Kingdom of Heaven, 22 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.400 all right, everybody say heaven. It's the Kingdom of Heaven. It's 23 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:04.159 the Kingdom of Heaven, specifically the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Right, 24 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.039 So, boy, you weren't near as convinced on that one, were you. 25 00:02:07.039 --> 00:02:15.599 You've been watching h what is it? Constantly negative news too much? 26 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:24.039 Sletland, CNN, constantly negative news. So it's the Kingdom of Heaven. 27 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.120 And remember this is Matthew sixteen nineteen and following it's the Kingdom of Heaven on 28 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:39.199 Oh hallelujah. So we're in this timeframe right. So and we you know, 29 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:46.520 we talk quite a bit about that here, like Isaiah and nine, 30 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:52.599 one of our favorites, Isaiah nine and six through you know, seven and 31 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:57.319 following six through and nine. Whatever. So his name shall be Emmanuel, 32 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:05.639 Wonderful counselor oh my God, and of the increase of His government of peace, 33 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.560 there shall be no end. Now, it kind of looks like the 34 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:17.800 stock market sometimes, but we should never get confused when this is happening, 35 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:24.919 that somehow that scripture is not getting fulfilled. Of the increase of His kingdom, 36 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.719 there shall be no end. Do you believe the Bible? How many 37 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.879 eve in the room believed the Bible? Well, then you should have shouted 38 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:42.039 when I said that, because it doesn't matter what you see. God is 39 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.800 working with somebody, whether it's you or somebody else. He's working with somebody 40 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:51.120 by the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, to bring increase to the 41 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.240 kingdom. Right, so others that we like around here, you know, 42 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:05.759 Matthew thirteen thirty one through thirty three, Right, the Kingdom of Heaven is 43 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:12.000 like a man who put leven in three loaves of bread, could be three 44 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:15.080 one thousand years periods. We don't even know what that meant. What did 45 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.240 that mean? A man who put eleven and three loaves of bread? And 46 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:25.160 the Kingdom of Heaven is like the leavening that levens all. And the Kingdom 47 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.639 of Heaven is actually a metaphoric picture of that that that leven is thrown into 48 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:39.600 the earth, and it's going to continue until it. Levens levens part levens 49 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:45.800 for you in the back. That's the all. Eugene has your eyeballs back 50 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.759 there checking out. Okay, good, So Leven's all right. So others 51 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:55.399 we like uh Daniel two, Daniel seven, Daniel two thirteen through fourteen. 52 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.160 And I saw one like the son of Man ascending, and he came to 53 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.399 the ancient days, and there was a given a a kingdom was given him, 54 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:08.040 that all peoples, that all nations should serve him, and that his 55 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:15.560 kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and it will never pass away. Now that's a 56 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:24.680 fulfillment. That vision was actually seen again in Revelation twelve, Revelation twelve seven 57 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:31.040 and following Revelation in twelve, and there was a war in the heavens, 58 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:38.920 and there was a war in the heavens. Yeah, a war broke out, 59 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:45.839 thank you. We have scriptures. We're Bible believing here. Actually we 60 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.759 have good stories, but we believe in the Bible. A war broke out 61 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:54.600 in heaven. Michael waged war against the dragon. Now why did the war 62 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:02.079 break out? The war break broke out because the ascended Man Jesus the last 63 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:09.360 Atom. When he rose from the dead, there was no longer place for 64 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:14.560 the one who was coming into the heavens in the authority of first Atom. 65 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:21.319 Satan only had access to the heavens because of the authority of first Atom. 66 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:28.199 When Second Adam defeated Satan, there was no longer room for Satan to be 67 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:34.120 hanging out at the throne bugging God about the saints. So a war broke 68 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:42.560 out because the second Atom, the victorious man, ascended and when he ascended 69 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:49.920 the enemy the dragon was thrown down to the earth. And it's those are 70 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:57.560 both. Those are both a picture of Daniel two and Daniel seven. So 71 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.000 we believe in this stuff, and we believe that this is a kingdom, 72 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.720 this is a kingdom period. But we also were also sober minded about something. 73 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:12.000 We also know that something happened back here. We also know that when 74 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:18.839 Israel became a nation in nineteen forty eight, then a very strong evangelical teaching 75 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:26.240 that most all of us were exposed to was that the Lord would come back 76 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:32.319 by nineteen eighty eight. Do you make any of you remember that? So? 77 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:42.160 Because it was an interpretation or translation of Matthew twenty four where it says, 78 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.480 and this generation shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled. 79 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:50.040 Anybody remember that, who's been a Christian long enough to remember this stuff? 80 00:07:53.480 --> 00:08:00.079 A good couple of you. So a generation is forty years and so so 81 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.319 all of our theologians, including you know, all of my theologians. Then 82 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:11.720 we said that the Lord's coming back by nineteen eighty eight. The problem is, 83 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.560 the Lord didn't come back by nineteen eighty eight. But what happened is 84 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.199 here is that we prepared for his coming back. Everybody say prepared, So 85 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.360 we prepared in a very unique way. We believed that the anti Christ was 86 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.480 going to take over. We believed the mark of the Beast was coming. 87 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:35.960 We believe one world government was here. We believed that the love of many 88 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.799 would grow cold. We believe there'd be a great falling away. And so 89 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:46.960 in preparing for all of that, what happened is the church we kind of 90 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:54.039 withdrew. Anybody remember that. I don't know if I spelled that right. 91 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:01.840 We kind of withdrew from culture and society, and there was a little bit. 92 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:09.039 What happened is there was a little bit of hopelessness. I love somebody, 93 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.840 you've heard the land of Goshen. Theybody heard the land of Goshen. 94 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:18.720 When I was growing up. It was Mom and Dad's favorite expression. Land 95 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:24.159 of Gshen. Wouldn't matter what happened, wouldn't matter what happened. The dog 96 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.120 just knocked over the hamper, Land of Goshen. The car just rolled out 97 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:35.279 of the garage, Land at Ghost. Somebody just left five hundred pounds of 98 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.399 groceries on the front porch, Land at Ghost. All right, everything you 99 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:45.360 know, so, but you know, Goshen is where Goshen is where Joseph 100 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.559 got to live when he brought Dad down to Egypt. Remember that it was 101 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.399 the best of the land. It was like Eden, Eden. Everybody said 102 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.120 Eden. So it says the land of Goshen was down there in Egypt, 103 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.679 and Goshen was actually like and that's where they got to live when they went 104 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:07.799 down there. And what happened during this period is we kind of we became 105 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:16.080 in grown and it became all about our personal Ghoshen. Life was going to 106 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.159 be hell, everything was going to get worse, But as long as we 107 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:31.360 had a Goshen, we'd be okay, you home me. And so that's 108 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.840 a little bit. What Now, what happened though is and I'm not here 109 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.360 to argue anything with you. I'm just here to say that this is what's 110 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:48.279 happening now, and this is how Holy Spirit is shifting the entire church in 111 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.200 the entire planet right now, and he's moving us towards this and he's maturing 112 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.000 us. You know. You know, during this time, we didn't know 113 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:03.840 the authority, we had principalities and powers, we didn't have a solid identity 114 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.240 in the New Creation. I mean, we were lacking so much. But 115 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:13.120 what happened is that the enemy came and kind of took advantage of some of 116 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.600 this stuff. And you'll see some of the greatest losses on the plane. 117 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.639 It happened here. Nineteen sixty two. Prayer was taken out of the schools. 118 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:28.279 Remember that, Bible taken out. Nineteen sixty two, Bible taken out, 119 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.039 Prayer taken out of the schools, remember that. And just you know, 120 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.840 I mean, there were fifty or one hundred bad things that happened during 121 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:41.279 this period, and part of it we kind of expected it to happen. 122 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.519 My point is, I don't think we recovered from this. I think that 123 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:58.240 the enemy was able to infect the church with defeat, with hopelessness with despair, 124 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.360 and we you know, we we comfort we comfort one another. We 125 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.480 do comfort one another, you know well. Like and remember the songs, 126 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.559 remember the songs during this period, like the number one hit song all fly 127 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:20.080 Away, Oh Glory. Life was so bad that we just were dreaming about 128 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.200 going to heaven all the time, and there was no salvation for the planet. 129 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.559 Mind you, the Bible says that you're joint heirs with Jesus, and 130 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.320 he's inherited the planet. Jesus inherited the planet, and the Earth is what 131 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.080 becomes heaven. Did you know that? So? And we're joint airs with 132 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:43.200 them. You're actually an heir of the earth. The meek shall inherit the 133 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:50.000 Oh oh, don't give me theology. I'd rather have these terrible thoughts I've 134 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:58.559 got so so. My point here, though, is that I think some 135 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:03.080 of this still bother still affects us a little bit. And wherever there's hopelessness, 136 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:09.360 we're a dismembered army. We're not an army at all. Wherever there's 137 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:16.519 hopelessness. Ezekiel thirty seven. God's speaking to Ezekiel. He shows him this 138 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:22.000 valley of dry bones, remember it, really well? He doesn't know what 139 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.360 the valley of dry bones is. He doesn't even know what's going on. 140 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.240 And he says, can they live? And he says, I don't know. 141 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.720 Only you know, Lord, And he says, breathe on the bones, 142 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.720 and speak to the bones, and prophesied to the bones, and all 143 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:35.720 this stuff about the bones. Right, remember the bones? How many of 144 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.960 you remember the bones? We're still back on revelations. Well, what happened? 145 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:45.279 We can kill that one. But Ezekiel thirty seven, I don't have 146 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.799 it in the notes. But Ezekiel thirty seven, can these bones live? 147 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.200 And only you know, Lord? So he you know, he breathes on 148 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.840 the bones, he prophesies to the bones. But the end of that, 149 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:01.559 remember he says, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Oh, 150 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.360 now he's getting a revelation on the vision he see and he says, and 151 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:15.759 what they say is our hope has perished. Wherever we despair, then we're 152 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.600 no longer an army. We become dead and dismembered. We become divided, 153 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:28.639 and we become just potshureds of death on a valley floor. Wherever we allow 154 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:35.279 hopelessness or despair to prevail. This is why It doesn't even matter. If 155 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:41.159 we know when the end is. We know what Father's up to. What 156 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.159 he's up to is building the kingdom. What he's up to is subduing darkness. 157 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:46.960 What he is up to is healing people. What he's up to, 158 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.639 he hasn't changed his mind. From Isaiah sixty one to Luke chapter four, 159 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.120 when he stood up and said, the anointing of the Lord is upon me, 160 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.879 and he's anointed me to heal the broken hearted. He's anointed me to 161 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.759 set the captains free. He's anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 162 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:09.840 He hasn't changed his mind. He hasn't changed the assignment. But if 163 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:15.399 we allow hopelessness or despair to affect us, regardless of what we think about 164 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.600 the end, and by the way, none of us probably know right, 165 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.120 the pan trip is one of the safest things, right, get a little 166 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:30.879 pan out. We don't know everything about the end. But if we allow 167 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:35.120 hopelessness to get a hold of our hearts. Now, my point is that 168 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:41.120 during this time, the entire hopelessness to get a hold of their hearts, 169 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.919 and that's why they stopped being an army. Now we're always a hospital. 170 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.120 We're always a hospital. But as soon as we're healed, we join the 171 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.679 army, and we're not beating up people, we're beaten up demons. We're 172 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.799 learning our authority in culture, in society, in every sphere. Right. 173 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.360 I want you to stand with me this morning. We're not closing out, 174 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:14.240 so don't get anxious and excited. Nobody leave the building or you'll have the 175 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.919 double tide. But I want you to stand with me, and I want 176 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:23.399 you to pray with me. I want you to renounce. Now you say 177 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.679 I wasn't even around in nineteen eighty eight. You know, I've never heard 178 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:32.279 that stuff before. This was so pervasive on the church. It's kind of 179 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.159 like Calvinism. You've maybe never heard Calvinism, you might not even know who 180 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:41.279 Calvin is, but somehow you got the notion through other churches and people that 181 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:47.840 God is ultimately sovereign and he controls everything, which is another distortion of theology 182 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:53.720 because it removes the demonic realm out of the equation of the sphirit realm. 183 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.360 God is ultimately sovereign, that is, he will have his ultimate way, 184 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:03.480 but he's working out in time and space with people of faith who either obey 185 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.400 him or obey the devil, and he's given you sovereignty over you, so 186 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.559 he doesn't control you. You are called to control the demonic realm and the 187 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:18.720 curse and get it under your feet. So you've probably been influenced by Calvinism. 188 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.359 You don't even know Calvin's name, but he lived in fifteen hundred in 189 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:32.559 Geneva. And now everybody thinks you know calvinistic thoughts bummer. Well, maybe 190 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.400 you weren't around in nineteen eighty eight and you didn't hear all this stuff. 191 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.880 But somehow, because you've been in the church, around the church, a 192 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:44.079 little bit of defeat has gotten a hold of you. And we're really good 193 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:47.839 at building the church inwardly. We're so good at building the church inwardly. 194 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.519 We've got fivefold expressions, and we've got the shepherding and the care of the 195 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.279 flock. We've got worship and the prophetic, we've got the help's ministries. 196 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:00.480 We've got teaching and healing and deliverance, and we're good at building holding the 197 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.039 flock inwardly. But what happened is during that time, so many of us 198 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:10.480 turned our hearts away from the world, thinking it's hopeless to save them, 199 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.920 it's hopeless. What good can my little bit do? And what's happened is 200 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:21.960 we're still somewhat operating that way, and we're not taking the gifting and the 201 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.000 empowerment and the healing and the life giving ministry that He's given us. And 202 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:32.079 then we're not taking it like we could and should and getting it back out 203 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:37.319 here into culture. But this is what we're called to do, is to 204 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.680 take this life giving ministry that He's given us and get it back into culture. 205 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.839 And I think we're standing at a Google day, We're standing at a 206 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:52.759 Tesla day, We're standing at a Microsoft in nineteen eighty six day. What 207 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.359 do you mean by that? I mean the greatest harvest is right before us. 208 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.160 And I don't want to be an observer. I want to be an 209 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:06.799 investor. I want to be a partaker the greatest harvest. Elon Musk sold 210 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.440 something for three hundred million dollars, had some money. Then he you know, 211 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.839 bought some other did some other stuff. But then he found these guys 212 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:18.359 in California that built an electric car. They already had it figured out, 213 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.400 They already had it figured out. What he grabbed a hold of was something 214 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.200 that a breakthrough had already been. Like they already had the breakthrough. They 215 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:37.200 just needed somebody to invest. Right now, the kingdom is just waiting for 216 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:44.559 believers to invest their lives in the community around them the kingdom. And this 217 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.160 is what you know. I preached on this during the summit, But I 218 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:53.279 totally believe this, that dread has come upon the enemies of God. Now 219 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.039 as long as you believe dread is not on the enemies of God, then 220 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.920 you're going to hesitate. Well, I could get more involved in government. 221 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.519 I could get more involved in economy. You know, maybe I could start 222 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.680 a little coaching thing on leadership, have a coaching small group even at work. 223 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.480 Maybe I could do something like that. But I don't know. I 224 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.799 don't know. I don't want to. I don't want to walk into something 225 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:17.519 where it's gonna I'm gonna be facing defeat. And of course there's always a 226 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:19.279 risk, and we're called to take a risk. He said, don't leave 227 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:26.519 Jerusalem until the anointing, the power, the undoment from on high comes upon 228 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:33.720 you. But then go out into the world and be my martyrs. Be 229 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.240 my martyrs. The word witness in the Greek is martyr. Go ahead and 230 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.559 be my martyr. In other words, take a risk for me. Don't 231 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.000 love your own life. That's Revelation twelve. The enemy has come down to 232 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:49.559 us in the earth. Oh oh oh, but I see something John said. 233 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:55.079 I see they overcome that enemy by the blood of the Lamb and by 234 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:03.359 the word of their testimony, and loving not there, loving not their lives 235 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.200 unto the death. As long as we love our lives, we're not going 236 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.680 to do much. You can never bear fruit hanging on to the trunk of 237 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.279 the tree. You got to get out on a limb. So we have 238 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:22.480 to engage in these things. But what's happened is we've become very We've become 239 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:27.039 very inner church minded, and we do church well. And this is everywhere, 240 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:33.160 by the way, you know, the statistics of community reformation in Houston, 241 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:38.680 Texas, all around Joel Ostein's church, largest church in America, the 242 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:45.160 statistics of community of reformation, they're no different than places where there is no 243 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:52.599 giant church. We're doing church really good, but we're not doing this really 244 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:57.599 good. But we stand at the greatest opportunity. We stand at a Tesla 245 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:03.279 opportunity, stand at a Google opportunity, a Microsoft opportunity, where if we'll 246 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.680 just let it be unleashed, if we'll take risk, if we'll step out, 247 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.119 if we'll engage, if we'll do crazy stuff, if we'll get wild 248 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:18.519 ideas, if we'll ask Holy Spirit for the anointing of crazy ideas, crazy 249 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:25.160 inventive ideas, the promise of the anointing. Think about this Joel two twenty 250 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:29.200 eight, Acts, Chapter two, Acts Chapter one. Luke twenty four forty 251 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.960 nine. The promise of the Anointing. He says, the fulfillment of the 252 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:38.880 promise of the anointing is fulfilling that which Joel foresaw. That the anointing will 253 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.200 come upon you, and you will have dreams and visions, and you will 254 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:52.680 prophesy those dreams and visions. They aren't just for you to make more money 255 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.839 or protect the stuff you've got. Oh, I had a dream and a 256 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:57.839 vision about, you know, protecting my stuff. No, No, these 257 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:08.319 are dreams and visions of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. These are 258 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:15.799 dreams and visions Holy Spirit wants to release up on us to build the Kingdom 259 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:21.039 of Heaven on earth. And don't you think life will get better for everybody? 260 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:25.240 If we lose our lives, we will find it. But if we 261 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:30.799 hang on to our life. We'll lose heaven on earth if we hang on 262 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.160 to our life and just say I'm just we're going to stay in the church 263 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:40.720 bubble. We're going to lose this. But if we spend ourselves, if 264 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:47.400 we lose ourselves, then we're going to gain a manifestation of the very thing 265 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.160 that we long for. But what I want us to do, I want 266 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.799 us to break covenant with this and this is I can only do this right 267 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:57.319 now with you that are in the room. But I want you to break 268 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:02.279 covenant right now because I believe you've been influenced by this. You don't need 269 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:06.160 to know everything about eschatology. I was reading. I was reading an Uther 270 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.519 scripture. You know. They were bugging him in Acts chapter one and they 271 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.640 said, oh, is it at this time you're going to restore the kingdom? 272 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:19.799 And he's like, it's not the times of that. They aren't even 273 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:26.960 like they're not. Those are all under the Fathers understanding and his decree. 274 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.079 Here's what I know. What I know is you're going to receive power from 275 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:36.559 on high. When you receive power from on high, you're going to be 276 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:40.200 witnesses and you're going to go. And it says in Acts chapter eight. 277 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.039 Acts. Chapter eight starts this way. It's really crazy. Acts Chapter eight 278 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:48.720 starts this way. It says that a great persecution arose against the church, 279 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:53.440 and everybody, say, everybody, everybody but the twelve. Isn't God sneaky 280 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.880 and tricky? Everybody but the twelve. Now this is we're talking about thousands. 281 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.599 Because there were three thousands, say the first day, and four thousand 282 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.480 saved another day. We're talking about thousand. By the time we get to 283 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.920 Acts chapter eight, thousands of people have already come to the Lord. And 284 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:15.000 it says everybody but twelve were scattered across the entire planet. And it says 285 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:19.039 Act chapter eight. It says, and they went out preaching as they they 286 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:25.039 went out preaching. They went out preaching the good news. You mean the 287 00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:30.519 carpenters went out preaching. Yeah, you mean the tax collectors went out preaching, 288 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.400 yep, them to you mean the bankers went out preaching, Yes, 289 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.400 how about the chiropractice they went out preaching to everybody went out preaching. The 290 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.759 tent makers, Yes, they went out preaching. Everybody went out preaching the 291 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.440 good news of the kingdom. They all went out preaching. This is us. 292 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:51.200 It's a picture of us. When we leave this place today, we 293 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:57.279 go out with the Word of Heaven. The word it's you. Remember gospel. 294 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.720 Remember what it means. It means good news, right, it means 295 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:07.799 good news. We go out with good news. Every person has been purchased 296 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:12.640 by God. Every person is royalty. They don't even know it yet God 297 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:18.799 has called them to royalty. They are His royal possession. So I want 298 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.039 us to break this though. You're gonna have to trust me though, and 299 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.759 I want you to repeat after me in a repeat after me prayer. There's 300 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.960 a moment or two where you can decide if you should or not. So 301 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.319 that's good. It can be personally safe that way, right, Like he's 302 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:37.599 not going to leave me in some bad prayer, Okay, I'll try not 303 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:44.839 to. O. Hey, let's pray this one. Father. We observe 304 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:49.440 and see that she didn't come in nineteen eighty eight. But we believe that 305 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:56.599 you are coming for us. You're coming in the Christ, You're coming in 306 00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:02.839 victory. That there is a day where you're sending this on. But we 307 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:08.680 acknowledge right now this is Kingdom building season, harvest season, healing season. 308 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:15.480 The Works of Isaiah sixty one and the proclamation of Luke four. These are 309 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:21.880 coming to pass. These are days of victory, These are days of overcoming 310 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:27.359 power. These are days you're putting principalities and powers under our feet. You're 311 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:36.240 giving us dominion over darkness, and these are days to plunder darkness. Satan 312 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:42.279 is creating an awesome harvesting opportunity, and we're going to be there in this 313 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:51.400 greatest moment of kingdom advancement. And so Father, we renounce right now defeat 314 00:27:52.759 --> 00:28:00.400 the spirit of defeat, the ministry of defeat, Fear, withdrawal, isolation, 315 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:12.480 despair, hopelessness. Every negative spirit that's affected us affected me because I've 316 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:18.880 been part of the evangelical Church in America. I've darkened the door of a 317 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.319 church, I've come into a building, I've hung out with other believers. 318 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:33.119 Any negative, unbelieving, despairing spirit, I renounce it in Jesus' name, 319 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:40.039 and I command these influences have to go. They have to leave me alone. 320 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.039 They have to get out of my prayer life, out of my mind, 321 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:49.200 out of my imagination, out of my evangelism, out of my risk 322 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:55.720 taking, out of my anointing, off of me and out of me. 323 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:03.240 Every unclean spirit bearing witness to defeat. Leave me alone, leave this church 324 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.640 alone. In Jesus' name, Let's get the Lord of thankoffering right now. 325 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:26.480 Thank you Lord. Come on, come on, come on, come on, 326 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:32.559 come on, come on. Victory, victory, victory. We are 327 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.599 a people of victory. We are a people of hope. We are a 328 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:41.039 people of victory. We are a people of overcoming power. We are a 329 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.440 people who bring it forth the kingdom. We are a people who will see 330 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:52.160 the advancing of the Kingdom of Heaven for such a time as this you have 331 00:29:52.319 --> 00:30:00.799 been born. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Yeah, set us 332 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:06.240 free, Set us free, Set us free, Set us free. Every 333 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:10.079 argument, you know what happens is sometimes too we just think, you know, 334 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:14.200 I had to start a small group in my neighborhood. Maybe I should 335 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.079 just start walking around my neighborhood and just doing a little bit about reach. 336 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.279 Once a month, we start thinking these things. Maybe I should just have 337 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:25.599 a football Maybe I should just have a football TV day. They got the 338 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.519 Super Bowl coming, I'm in invite some unbelieving friends or neighbors and some believing 339 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.480 ones to come, and then maybe during halftime we'll just show, you know, 340 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.960 some testimonies of some of those born again quarterbacks, and we'll just, 341 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:44.759 you know, instead of watching the mini skirts at halftime, maybe we'll watch 342 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.079 the heavenly skirts, you know, from I don't know, and so we'll 343 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:52.880 we'll just share something, you know, and you get these ideas. And 344 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:59.160 then what happens is, because we've had this going on, we talk ourselves 345 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:04.799 out of it. We talk ourselves out of it, not knowing that dread 346 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:14.240 has already fallen on your enemy. Dread has already visited your friends and your 347 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:21.279 neighbors and your business associates. Dread has already visited the spirits that have been 348 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:26.680 harming them, controlling them, abusing them, and lying to them that there's 349 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.759 already a victory for you if you'll just step out, and people are going 350 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.599 to be led to the Lord. They're going to be influenced by the Kingdom 351 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.160 of Heaven. They're going to see the light in you. They're going to 352 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.680 be drawn. And you have to do Jehovah sneaky things like in the in 353 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:48.240 the in the business community, in the in the mountain of economy. Don't 354 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.880 have a Bible study now, I mean, if God visits you and says 355 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.359 have a Bible study, have one but don't have a Bible study at work 356 00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:57.359 or in the business community, or at the real estate office, or at 357 00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.720 the bank, or with your banking friends or your business associate friends. Have 358 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:07.960 a leadership study, have a leadership study. Be be more sneaky a just 359 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:14.680 have a weekly leadership get together or a monthly leadership get together. Use some 360 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.920 John Maxwell stuff, some Jordan Peterson stuff, you know, just use some 361 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.279 different resources. You don't even have to be the guru. You you can 362 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.400 know nothing and just say we're gonna be yeah, we're just gonna page for 363 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:29.960 some books here and you know whatever, and just use stuff that has some 364 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:38.680 Bible in it. All of us can do this because all of us are 365 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:43.680 called to this. God would never call us to something He wouldn't grace us. 366 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:51.519 For Ephesians chapter four, the church is going to grow into the full 367 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:54.720 stature of the maturity of the sun. The church is going to be given 368 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.839 these five full ministries to help us grow. And the Church the Ecless, 369 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:06.000 the governing body that legislate all things in the earth. Those people are going 370 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:15.119 to be equipped for ministry. You're a full time minister. You're called to 371 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.880 the ministry. God would never call you to the ministry. If he wouldn't 372 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.200 enable you for the ministry, you're enabled for this stuff. You just need 373 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:30.920 some Jehovah sneaky ideas. Call it leadership, call it leadership, so many 374 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.680 things. And you know what, I'm believing. I'm believing you're going to 375 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:38.319 get wisdom on this stuff. Pastor Tony at the summit, he said that 376 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:44.880 if that if every church in America just took in one foster child, it 377 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:50.160 would close the foster system in America. So I looked that up. I 378 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.759 wanted to see if that was true. Yep, sure enough, there's three 379 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:59.240 hundred and ninety one thousand children in the foster system in America. There's three 380 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:06.039 hundred and seven thousand churches in America. If every church just took on one 381 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:12.480 foster child, how about marriage mentor you could be a marriage mentor you could 382 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:17.000 even start a small group. Do you know that marriages are perishing in your 383 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.079 community, in your neighborhood where you live. You could do what we did 384 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:27.559 with Flyers. We started our small group. We've had over seventy five people 385 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.280 visit our small group in the last year and three months in our neighborhood. 386 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.000 Seventy five different people come. We just do flyers every month because people forget, 387 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.159 So we do flyers every month and we post it every month. We 388 00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:43.320 just do a flyer continually doing a flower, reminding people. But you could 389 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:47.159 do one on marriage, but my marriage is a mess. Just admit that 390 00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.360 and just watch videos. Just do one on marriage, do one on single 391 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:58.199 parenting. How God helps the single parent. But I'm a single parent. 392 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.840 I'm not worthy to do anything. Are you kidding me? He made you 393 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:07.400 worthy. You're bought with a price, you are royalty. How many single 394 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:12.440 parents, maybe even unbelieving single parents, would just come and watch a video 395 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:20.199 or read a book with you, And it's just Jehovah sneaky stuff, right, 396 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.880 But it gets us into the community. It gets us and it takes 397 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.480 the power, the grace, the resource that we've been building, and it 398 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.000 gets us into this place where we're rescuing culture. And this is what God's 399 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.840 called us to do in this season because the greatest harvest is right now, 400 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:43.320 The greatest harvest is unfolding right now, and there's dread coming on the enemies 401 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:49.719 of God that potentially the sons and daughters of God would rise up and do 402 00:35:49.800 --> 00:36:02.119 something. And guess what they're going to woo hallelujah. Let's prophesy over one 403 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.239 another right now, over your own life. I want you to lose. 404 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:12.280 We bound up some stuff, but I want you to lose some stuff right 405 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:17.639 now, Holy Spirit. Let's say it, Holy Spirit, we lose creativity 406 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:24.800 over the Body of Christ, over me, over us, over the Church. 407 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:31.199 We lose the anointing of creativity. We lose the anointing of wisdom. 408 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:43.039 We lose the grace to go. We lose you, Jesus, upon our 409 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:51.199 imagination, Come, Lord Jesus, with the mind of Christ, the mind 410 00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:59.039 of Heaven, the heart of compassion, the power and authority of Heaven to 411 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:05.400 visit our and our thoughts. Quicken us, Holy Spirit, like we've never 412 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:12.599 been quickened. And right now, Holy Spirit, we receive on behalf of 413 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:20.079 the Body of Christ, hope, like the body's never had victory, Like 414 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:24.199 we've never seen the spirit of faith, the spirit of hope, the spirit 415 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:30.920 of victory, the spirit of love fills us, fills us, leads us, 416 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.679 and fills the Body of Christ. We decree it so in Jesus' name, 417 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:47.480 And everybody said, who come on, Church, Oh, you're so 418 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:51.760 good, Lord, You're so good. You're so good. Let's worship as 419 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.280 we go. If you came with a need that's not been met, please 420 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:58.960 come and somebody will meet you at the front. If you're giving your life 421 00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:01.719 to the Lord, stepping into the royalty, God's called you to, please 422 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.320 come. Let somebody lead you in that prayer of faith. Don't leave without 423 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:12.440 allowing Holy Spirit to touch you this morning. God bless you for being here.