WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:08.880 All right, all right, as sin jump into the word. This morning, 2 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:19.079 light have been church. Yeah, Holy Spirit is so good to us. 3 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.760 Simon, Father, we just thank you for your presence, thank you 4 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:34.399 for your ministry. This morning. We welcome your word to open up our 5 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:40.439 hearts. We welcome you to shift and change and transform us by the word. 6 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:46.679 We want to be good receivers today, Holy Spirit, we welcome, 7 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:52.280 we welcome just the spirit of receiving and the gift of faith in the atmosphere 8 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:57.399 this morning. We thank you for it in Jesus name. Everybody said, 9 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:06.000 Amen, you may be seated. Hannuia han, thenuia, Well you got 10 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:12.599 me back. Um, so I think I would out for four weeks something 11 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:19.319 like that. So I almost forgot how to do this first service, I 12 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:26.959 felt I had butterflies, so I made them fly in formation and uh so 13 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.319 here we are. But um, I want to dive in. You know, 14 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.519 I thought we weren't going to have a series, like a preaching series. 15 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.840 But I asked Joe Sims to preach next week. How maybe you enjoy 16 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.239 Joe's preaching. He's Jose preaching, He's drink. So after first service, 17 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:52.680 he said, hey, we actually will have a series you had the first 18 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:57.200 to kick off the series. So I want to talk about receiving today, 19 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:02.760 and the name of his sermon next week is received it all. So the 20 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.359 Lord, the Lord is good. The Lord is good. Amen. So 21 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.599 I want to talk about receiving as an act of faith, receiving as an 22 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:20.400 act of faith, and how how receiving u fits into the structure of faith, 23 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:28.000 the structure of prayer, and how important receiving is because I think that 24 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:37.479 we could use a greater dose of receiving. And you know by that, 25 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.400 I mean, you know, even when you know, some of us are 26 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.479 older in the Lord, and some of us are newer than the Lord. 27 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.960 Right, So some of us have just come to the Lord recently. Some 28 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:54.439 of us have been serving the Lord for years and years. But essentially, 29 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.800 what you know, what's happening when when you come to the Lord, even 30 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.000 when you come to the Lord, but subsequently to coming to the Lord, 31 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:13.120 the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in your spirit. And the Holy Spirit is 32 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:19.120 taking the word of God, of which mine is on this device today. 33 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:23.360 How many of you have your device? So the Holy Spirit is taking the 34 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.960 word of God and making the Word of God alive. Right, So that's 35 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:39.840 essentially what's happen because you can study the Bible historically and receive no revelation aside 36 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.840 from the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that brings the revelation that opens 37 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:53.400 up our eyes of understanding. So you know, like I don't think we 38 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:58.719 have it loaded, but Tom, we could go to Romans ten seventeen. 39 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.680 Romans ten seventeen says faith cometh by hearing. That's kind of King James. 40 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:11.199 Faith comes by hearing and hearing. It's not just hearing alone, but hearing 41 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.759 the actual act of hearing in your gut, hearing in your spirit. It 42 00:04:15.839 --> 00:04:19.839 comes by the rama. The word word there is the word rama. It 43 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:26.279 means the spoken word of Christ. It means the Holy Spirit speaks to. 44 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.639 So if we can see what that word. There's two words in the Greek 45 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:39.399 for the word word right, one is logos and one is rama. Logos 46 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:46.879 is written, historical, Rama is living spoken. So faith cometh by hearing, 47 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:55.240 but not just hearing like your professor in a history class read a scripture, 48 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:01.680 or somebody just giving you a history oracle background on the scripture, or 49 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.720 even you reading the scripture devotionally. When you read the scripture devotionally, you're 50 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:14.519 opening up the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to invade your devotions and to bring 51 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:19.040 a Raymond. If you don't have devotions, if you don't read the Word, 52 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:26.120 you're not giving the Holy Spirit an opportunity to invade the logos and bring 53 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:38.000 a Raymond. And the logos is not it's not connected to revelation. The 54 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:43.240 Holy Spirit connects to the logos to bring revelation, and that's when the logos 55 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:47.959 becomes rama to you. You know what I'm saying. How many of you've 56 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:53.160 read a scripture ten times and then on the eleventh time suddenly something clicked. 57 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.360 Or you've heard somebody preach something like fifteen times, but on the sixteenth times 58 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.920 something clicked, right, So this is the logos becoming rama to you. 59 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:11.120 So, but that whole thing, it's the gift of God, and it's 60 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.800 the Word coming and the Word with it's touched on by the Holy Spirit, 61 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:21.639 gives you the potential to have faith. You can't have faith on your own. 62 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:30.360 So it's like godward faith is a gift from God because of the Word 63 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.480 of God coming alive by the Holy Spirit with revelation to your inner men, 64 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:45.240 and that gives you the potential for faith right, But the potential for faith 65 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:49.839 doesn't mean that you'll respond to the Word in a right way. Like when 66 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.839 somebody hands you a gift, the right response when somebody hands you a gift 67 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:02.839 is to receive the gift. And the Word of God is essentially a gift. 68 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.879 That's what the Word of God is. The Word of God is a 69 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:13.319 gift to your inner man to bring you into abundant life, to bring you 70 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.519 into courage, to bring you into wholeness, to bring you into to royalty, 71 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:24.399 the royalty that you are in Christ. The Word of God is a 72 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.560 gift to you. But the Word of God comes in seed form Luke eight 73 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.360 eleven, first Peter one twenty one through twenty three. The Word of God 74 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.680 is seed. It is imperishable seed. So the Word of God is sown 75 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:38.759 in your heart. The Word of God is seed. It comes in seed 76 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:43.759 form. And so you know, seeds have to have something happen. And 77 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.439 it's a similar expression like when somebody hands you a gift, you have to 78 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:55.040 receive the gift. Well, the seed is kind of like that, when 79 00:07:55.240 --> 00:08:00.720 the Holy Spirit makes it a posit of the Word in you by revelation, 80 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:05.000 giving you the potential for faith. You have to receive that word. That's 81 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:15.519 what germinates the word. If the word isn't germinated, then it won't grow 82 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:22.319 up and produce the life it was meant to produce. Even though God gave 83 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.759 it to you. God showed you it's his will. God showed you what 84 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.399 he wants to bring the past. Even if it was prophetically spoken over you 85 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:39.559 by ten Destiny team members, doesn't matter. If you don't receive it, 86 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:50.200 then you haven't germinated it. By partnering your reaction or action to the gift 87 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:58.000 of revelation in Jesus a making sense so that you're receiving that activates it. 88 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:07.720 So and you know, there's various ways we receive gifts, right, gratitude, 89 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.480 that's amazing, Thank you so much. I'm going to use that immediately. 90 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.919 That's so cool. Wow, I'm glad you thought of me. And 91 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:26.600 usually those are like acceptable levels of gifts. Usually, if the gift is 92 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:37.480 it's given in an acceptable level as we understand the relationship of the gift giver. 93 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:43.279 Usually it's easy for us to receive the gift and to be grateful for 94 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:50.519 the gift. But if the gift is too extravagant, it's hard for us 95 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:58.759 to receive it. The more the extravagant of the gift, the harder it 96 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:09.200 is for to receive it. What happens is the more extravagant the gift becomes, 97 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:15.320 the more we measure as we're receiving the gift. If we deserve the 98 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:22.840 gift, like I guess, they're out of circulation. But if you found 99 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.360 one, the Treasury Department still has to honor it. But we used to 100 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:33.960 have a thousand dollar bills. So if somebody walked up to you and gave 101 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.559 you a one thousand dollars bill and it wasn't a bonus, it wasn't something 102 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:46.360 you've earned. You didn't have a relationship with them wherein you could measure your 103 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:52.399 worth for the gift, you would probably push it away. No, no, 104 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.879 well, woa WHOA, what's going on? That's right for somebody else? 105 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:03.639 What's attached to that? And you would begin to push it off. 106 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:11.720 But what I want to show you in scripture this morning, is it blessing 107 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:22.799 after blessing after blessing has been poured out upon us with a past tense understanding 108 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:28.039 of fulfillment, and we tend to do the same thing. We tend to 109 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:35.480 push it off, and it's almost like we've got kind of this you know, 110 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:43.679 mental disorder. Right, It's like we petition for it, but push 111 00:11:43.720 --> 00:12:09.440 it away because it just seems like it's too much. Right, it's kind 112 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.600 of thinking about the prodigal son. Holy Spirit brought that one to my mind, 113 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:22.480 the prodigal son. It's interesting how much legalism now. Mind you, 114 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.840 the law is good, the law is perfect, the law is holy. 115 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:39.279 But Jesus was the Torah and he still is a few weeks ago, when 116 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:46.759 I was up last to bat, we talked a little bit about Deuteronomy twenty 117 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:52.000 eight. All of these blessings coming upon you and overtake you if you hearken 118 00:12:52.120 --> 00:13:00.960 fully to the to the Word. Well, the New Testament equivalent of that 119 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:07.279 is that it's not the Torah word, and that we hearken diligently to today. 120 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.440 He was the Torah. He's the fulfillment of the Torah. He's the 121 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:20.440 abiding Torah. He lives in you as the Torah. All of these blessings 122 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.960 come upon you Deuteronomy twenty eight as you hearken diligently to the living Word, 123 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.399 who abides in your spirit. Man right, and I think I told you 124 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:39.399 then. You know these the blessings named in Deuteronomy twenty eight, from verses 125 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:45.080 one to fourteen. Blessed in the country, blessed in the field, blessed 126 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:50.279 in your kitchen, blessed going out, blessed coming in. Those are blessings 127 00:13:52.440 --> 00:14:00.960 that you don't have to pray about. And this is kind of where I 128 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:09.840 want to go today, is that I think that by religion I mean anything 129 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:20.840 like as we're involved in today Christianity, instead of in royalty, seeing ourselves 130 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:33.960 in judgment instead of redemption, seeing ourselves in worthlessness instead of seeing ourselves in 131 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:41.960 royalty now and spent his inheritance on wild living. But when he came back, 132 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 the crazy thing is it's a Luke fifteen. We won't go there by 133 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.200 the way time. But the crazy thing is when he came back, you 134 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.320 know, the father ran to greet him. The father puts the robe on 135 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.360 him, The father puts the royal sandals on him. There goes my LIGHTE. 136 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:05.559 How'd I do that? Wow? The father? The father puts the 137 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.879 signet ring on him. And remember remember the mindset of the prodical son was 138 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:24.360 the mindset of works. It was the mindset of works, and it's the 139 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.399 works that Jesus has done and accomplished on our behalf that we enter into. 140 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.120 But the mindset of the prodical son was works. And so he says, 141 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.200 if I just go back to my father's house, you know, at least 142 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:45.600 I can eat at Louis. But the father received him and restored him, 143 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.039 and the father threw a big party for him. But then the brother is 144 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.960 observing all of this. You remember the story, the brothers observing all of 145 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.919 us, and the brother says, and the brother had a big pity party, 146 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.000 and he was angry and he was upset, and the brother's free, 147 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.600 you can out to all of my life. And I didn't go off, 148 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.759 and I said, you know, I didn't spend my inheritance on you know, 149 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:10.879 crazy stuff, and you know, and so and then the follower's reply 150 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:17.440 is everything I have is yours. Everything I have has been yours all along. 151 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.879 And I think I think we have a little bit of work to do 152 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:30.080 in that same way as that we tend. We tend that subconsciously to only 153 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:42.799 be able to receive what we believe we deserve. But your receiving has nothing 154 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:48.200 to do with what you deserve. It has everything to do with what he 155 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:59.200 deserves. That's the good news. Did you know the gospel means good news. 156 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.120 It's supposed to mess up all the bad news. It's like supposed to 157 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:11.920 be really good news. But the enemy and accusation and your own failures and 158 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:17.720 your own stumbling. Does anybody stumble? Anybody in the building stumble? Couple 159 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:22.119 of you? Good? Does anybody sin? A few more? Okay? 160 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.279 Good? All right? Six sinners in the building, ras the lorn. 161 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.200 I feel better, I feel better. There's seven of us? Then should 162 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:45.079 have raised my hand. The enemy and our own prohibitory consciousness wants to disqualify 163 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:52.039 us from receiving the best from God, the goodness of God, the blessing 164 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:57.000 of God, on the basis of our own failures, our own faults, 165 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:07.039 our own shortcomings, and point those out to us. And this can be 166 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:18.640 a part of a religious system as well. And what the Word wants us 167 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.279 to see. The Word wants us to come into more of a posture of 168 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:32.680 receiving and the Holy Spirit. And this receiving is what germanates the Word. 169 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.400 The Word is a seed and the Holy Spirit wants to help us through this 170 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:41.759 right so that we're because as long as we're petitioning for things that we already 171 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:52.759 have been given, we're exercising a little bit of unbelief. As long as 172 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:59.519 we're petitioning for things that we already have been promised, we're exercising a little 173 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.640 bit of belief. And that little bit of unbelief keeps the seed of the 174 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:15.799 promise from germinating and fully developing. How much pooh should you allow in your 175 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:25.400 brownies? There you go? How much unbelief should you allow in your walk 176 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:30.920 before God or in the promises God has given you? Yevert hasn't come to 177 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:40.359 pass yet. Well, it's a progressive work, and the progressive work of 178 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.880 it coming to pass has a lot to do with the maturity of you, 179 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:52.720 and not the maturity of your perfection in perfect works, but the maturity of 180 00:19:52.759 --> 00:20:00.000 your perfect faith. Believing that what He's done in the Christ on your behalf 181 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:06.480 is true, and that you are a new creation, that you are royal 182 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.160 blood, that you are fully redeemed, that you are justified, You are 183 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:18.319 one who is just as if you've never sinned. This is the mindset, 184 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:22.920 by the way, this was also the reaction of the debtor. The debtor 185 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:30.880 in Matthew eighteen twenty one through thirty five, where the gentleman owed the master 186 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:36.960 or the judge or the king, he owed ten million dollars. It was 187 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:42.599 the ten million dollars debt. And the mindset of the debtor was that just 188 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:51.160 be patient with me and I will work this off. Be patient with me, 189 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:56.599 and I will pay you back everything. And this is it's not just 190 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:02.160 a legalistic mindset, but it's it's the mindset that we were born with. 191 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:08.480 It's actually the carnal mind. The carnal mind understands work, the carnal mind 192 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:15.319 understands what we deserve. But in God, we have been qualified for what 193 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:25.319 He deserves, not what we deserve. And you know, in this way, 194 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:27.200 we try to shove things off. We try to you know, we'll 195 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.200 take on a valid poverty, we'll take on this, we'll take on that. 196 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.519 We'll try to push things back that we don't deserve. And yet at 197 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:40.880 the same time we recognize that we're needy. So then we rationalize that maybe 198 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:47.160 some of our needs are just not going to get met because we don't deserve 199 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:51.920 for them to be met. And so this is part of where you know, 200 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:57.599 petition gets really like you know, it gets deeper. We need deeper 201 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:04.480 petition maybe if I you know? And so this is am I making any 202 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:21.160 sense? Second Corinthians one twenty through twenty two. For no matter how many 203 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:29.079 promises that God has made, they are yes in Christ. I think the 204 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:33.720 King James says something like the promises of God or yes and amen to those 205 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.960 who are in Christ. Anybody in Christ in the building in Christ? Is 206 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:45.519 this in Christ? Is this phrase that Paul uses like a dozen times at 207 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:51.960 least in the epistles, recognizing that we are hidden in him, that our 208 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:57.599 lives are hidden in Him, that we are that we are completely dependent and 209 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.839 covered by Him in salvation, and so our lives are in Christ. And 210 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:10.319 he's he's saying that that the promises of God are yes. And a man, 211 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:17.519 so what we say is and this is what we declare right. So 212 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.319 now how many promises God has made, they are yes in Christ. And 213 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.400 so through him, the amen is spoken by us to the glory of God. 214 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:33.480 Now it is God who makes both us and U stand firm in Christ. 215 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:38.200 He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put 216 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:45.400 his spirit in our hearts as the deposit guaranteeing what is to come. So 217 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.680 this is this is interesting, and I know some of you have heard me 218 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.720 talk about this before, but but you know, Christ is the fulfillment of 219 00:23:52.839 --> 00:24:00.519 every promise God ever made. Christ is the apex. He is the head 220 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:07.000 of the new creation and of redemption, and he is he is the last 221 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:14.200 atom. God invested everything into the first atom. He invested everything into the 222 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:19.559 last atom. He is the center piece of humanity. He is perfect in 223 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:27.440 every way. And what's crazy is that He has qualified us before God for 224 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:33.759 every promise to be fulfilled. And it's not every promise in the future, 225 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:42.680 it's every promise that's already been He's already qualified as for every promise. So 226 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:51.640 it's past tense everything in the promises of God because we live on this side 227 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.240 of the cross. We live on the completion side of the of the cross 228 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.799 and of the resurrection. Everything on this side of the cross, and the 229 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.480 His direction is in the past. Am I making any sense? For instance, 230 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.119 I'll give you an example, and I know you've heard it talked about 231 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:17.160 for s. Peter two twenty four, when Isaiah said what Peter quoted, 232 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:25.599 and for Peter two twenty four, he himself bore our sins in his body 233 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:30.559 on the cross, that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. 234 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:34.240 For by his wounds you have been healed. How many of you heard by 235 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:44.079 his stripes you were healed. You notice you notice it's past tense. You 236 00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:56.240 were healed. You're actually looking back on healing. All you need to do 237 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:08.279 is bring healing into the present. I would have accomplished. But when Isaiah 238 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:14.240 said the same exact thing, when he wrote this. When when when he 239 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:18.559 said this in Isaiah chapter fifty three, verse four, it was looking forward. 240 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:27.200 It wasn't accomplished. It was a prophetic view to the future. But 241 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:33.359 when Peter writes it, it's a view looking backwards. By his stripes, 242 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.000 you were healed. Well, if I were healed, or if I was 243 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.519 healed, or if healing is accomplished, that means I don't have to talk 244 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:52.000 God into healing me. Jesus already talked to God into healing me on my 245 00:26:52.079 --> 00:27:03.519 behalf. If Jesus already talked to God in the healing all humans with sickness 246 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:10.519 or disease who are hidden in Him, hidden in Him, of whom every 247 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:15.160 promise is yes and amen. If Jesus already did the talking on my behalf. 248 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:25.359 Then I can be a receiver. So I don't need near as much 249 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:30.359 petition as I need receiving. Am I making any sense? So it's like 250 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:38.440 my posture, my posture out of First Peter two twenty four is not trying 251 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:44.960 to get qualified before God for healing, because Jesus did it for me. 252 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:51.119 My posture is I receive healing. I receive healing in my body right now. 253 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:56.279 Because why because it's a it's a word, it's a living word. 254 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.680 And if you'll meditate on that word, the Holy Spirit will quicken that word 255 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:04.599 to you. Then your part, having received the seed of the word, 256 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:10.000 is to bring german Nation to the word. And you bring Germanation to the 257 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:17.039 word not with unbelief, but with faith. And the first act of faith 258 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:25.960 when you receive a word is to receive it. Remember the Holy Spirit ministered 259 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.880 to Merry through the angelic visitation and gave her the word. And then she 260 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:38.880 said, so be it unto me, according to your word. I receive 261 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:45.000 it. I receive it. I receive it. I receive healing in my 262 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.880 shoulder. Today, I receive healing in my knee. Today I received healing 263 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:59.880 of the years. Today I receive healing of the heart today. Well I 264 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.440 just did that, Pastor, I did that last week, and nothing happened. 265 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:08.359 It's a seed. Last time I planted a seed and got it all 266 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:17.200 germinated, it looked like nothing happened. But after a while, as I 267 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:23.079 watered it with Thanksgiving. You can't water a seed with more doubt and unbelief. 268 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:27.200 You can't water a seed. You can't water the seed of the Word 269 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:33.240 with I wonder or not for me or probably won't, yeah, probably not. 270 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.960 And you can't water a seed that way. You water a seed by 271 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.920 rejoicing over it. When we go to the garden, we go with a 272 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.319 hose and we're like, phrase the Lord, these beans are going to be 273 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.519 so good this year, Lord to God. I can't wait to have these 274 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:55.319 green beans. Oh, these raspberries. Last year we had so many raspberries. 275 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.119 We froze them in bags. We have them on our pancakes. That 276 00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:06.640 can't wait to have those raspberries. You don't go out there with steel toe 277 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.720 boots and hop in the garden bed and start kicking it and cussing it, 278 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:21.400 and you lousy things. You've done nothing. I knew it. Thanksgiving we 279 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:30.279 water. We water the seed with thanksgiving, and you only you will only 280 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:52.799 move into thanksgiving when you've moved it first into receiving second Peter one three. 281 00:30:52.960 --> 00:31:00.359 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our 282 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:04.640 knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and greatness. So that's 283 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:11.400 interesting. If you study this passage, what you're going to find is what 284 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:22.039 is lacking is not your efficacy of petition. What is lacking. And by 285 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.680 the way, what the King James says, which is a little more accurate, 286 00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:30.319 It says that he has given us everything we need pertaining the life and 287 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:41.440 godliness. He already gave us everything we need pertaining the life and godliness. 288 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:48.119 Why because he gave it to the sun. And you are in the sun. 289 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.680 You dwell in the sun, you're hidden in the sun. You are 290 00:31:51.759 --> 00:32:01.920 an in Christ human. That's why Philippines Force says that we will receive what 291 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:08.960 we need out of the riches of his glory, the glory that's in Christ. 292 00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:17.640 Wow. Because everything about us, who are hidden in Him, we've 293 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.079 come to know that he's qualified as for everything that belongs to him. Romans 294 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:30.559 eight seventeen. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. You're 295 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:39.079 a joint heir, right, So this is just this is cool stuff. 296 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:43.160 And if you read that passage out of Second Peter chapter one, it says, 297 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:47.839 really, the thing that's lacking is not like a new style of petition 298 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:54.119 for you, like a new stuff, bigger kneepads. What's lacking is your 299 00:32:54.240 --> 00:33:08.519 knowledge. What's lacking is your knowledge of what He's done for you before the 300 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:21.599 Father to present you as qualified for everything that belongs to him. He feases 301 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.640 one three through five. Praise be to the God and the Father of our 302 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:30.000 Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in heavenly realms with every spiritual 303 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:38.319 blessing in Christ. I know it sounds crazy, but what you know, 304 00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:45.359 what if we shifted, what if we shifted into a little bit more thanksgiving 305 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:52.440 and receiving prayers? Right, He's blessed us with every he This is you 306 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.400 know, if you were reading the King James, it would say who hath 307 00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:04.480 blessed us? For? He shows us in him before the creation of the 308 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.759 world, to be holly and blameless in his sight and in love. He 309 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:13.800 predestines for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance with the pleasure of his 310 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:35.239 will or his pleasure and will talking about the power of receiving even two through 311 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:45.599 twenty five. This is a pretty familiar passage. I want to read it 312 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:47.119 to you in just a second, but first I want to read to you 313 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:52.840 out of John five five nineteen. Jesus gave them this answer. Verily, 314 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:59.400 I tell you the truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He 315 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:04.039 can only but he sees the father doing. Because whatever the father does, 316 00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:08.639 the son also does. For the father loves the son, and the show 317 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.880 shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him greater works 318 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:19.760 than these, so that you will be amazed. Now I want to read 319 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.320 that one to you. Just visiting one. We've visited, you know before, 320 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:30.400 many times, and I don't it's still it's still worth visiting. And 321 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:37.199 that's Mark eleven, right. Mark eleven is where Jesus curses the fig tree. 322 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:44.079 And it's cool, you know, he curses the fig tree. Let's 323 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:45.039 not go there yet, Tom, but we'll go there in a minute. 324 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:52.199 So he curses the fig tree and then you know they're traveling through the area. 325 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:59.159 You know the story. He curses the fig tree nothing happens. They're 326 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:05.679 traveling, but when they come back through they notice, and this is interesting 327 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:12.719 because the passage notes it. They notice that the tree is drying up from 328 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:21.719 the roots. So the curse, and it's in scripture that way on purpose, 329 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:27.960 because the curse didn't affect the leaves instantly, it affected the roots. 330 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:34.039 And then what they notice is the trees drying up from the roots. So, 331 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:45.159 in other words, even the curse took time to manifest, because even 332 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:52.159 a curse operates as a seed. Everything in the Word operates as a seed. 333 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:57.880 So then Jesus says, and Mark, we can go there now, 334 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:02.000 markleven twenty two. He says yes, And the disciples point this out and 335 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.559 they're like, whoa, look at this the tree that you cursed. It's 336 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.679 drawing up from the roots. And then he says, yes, have faith 337 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:20.559 in God, truly, I tell you, If anyone and then he takes 338 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.239 it further, if anyone says so, have faith in God. What he 339 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:34.159 means is operate like I did out of John five. You can't create your 340 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:42.719 own faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing, not just anything, but 341 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:50.559 hearing by the raima, the quickened word of Christ and That's exactly how Jesus 342 00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:58.719 operated. Jesus operated as he's calling us to operate by hearing from the Holy 343 00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:02.039 Spirit. He says, have faith in God. In other words, when 344 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:10.199 you hear something from God or see God doing something, receive that, partner 345 00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:16.199 with that, act upon that, and that will give you the desired result 346 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:23.159 or the result that Father wanted. So you can't just run around moving mountains. 347 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:37.000 You can run around moving the mountains God wants moved. And God wants 348 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:40.400 a lot more mountains moved than you think he wants. Because He calls you 349 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:47.920 royalty when you call yourself worm. He calls you qualified when you call yourself 350 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:59.119 falling, short, unworthy, worthless. So he wants you moving mountains out 351 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:06.719 of your true entity, out of royalty, not moving mole hills, moving 352 00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:15.039 mountains. Worthlessness has you moving mole hills. Royalty has you moving mountains. 353 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.519 So he says, yes, have faith in God. Truly. I tell 354 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.159 you, if anyone says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea, 355 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:30.480 and does not doubt in their heart, but believes that what they say 356 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:38.039 will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore, I tell you, 357 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:44.480 whatever you ask for in prayer or whatever you declare in prayer or decree 358 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:52.119 in prayer, believe that you have received it. When should you believe that 359 00:39:52.159 --> 00:40:05.400 you've received it when you're eating the beans in the kitchen. This is interesting 360 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:12.320 because he is saying, if we follow this, that were to do things 361 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.000 the way Jesus did them and the way that Father has ordained for us to 362 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:30.239 do them. That is, Jesus was already rejoicing over the cursed figtree when 363 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:34.960 the curse was proclaimed, not a couple of days later when they saw it 364 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:46.119 was drying up. And this is the way. This is the way faith 365 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:53.239 works. Faith works in that when we received the word and we partner with 366 00:40:53.280 --> 00:41:02.639 that word, it's then that we believe that we have received. It's then 367 00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:10.639 that we believe that we've already received. We're already seeing the raspberries. We're 368 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:19.119 receiving the raspberries. We're already seeing by faith the green beans. So we're 369 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:23.320 receiving the green beans. We received the word. We've received the green bean 370 00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:37.440 word he talked in first he talked in Ephesians one three through five. He 371 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:44.679 talks about that we would share in his holiness. In second Peter one, 372 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.599 he says we are partakers of the divine nature. You don't need to go 373 00:41:49.719 --> 00:42:01.199 through those tongs. I'm just talking. You know. We can shift this 374 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:06.000 over and go into blessings, and we can go into abundance, and we 375 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:12.599 can go into wealth and royalty. But sometimes it's more impactful to go over 376 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:16.880 into holiness. Forget about that from and let's just go over into holiness. 377 00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:27.639 What if we began to say, I receive the gift of holiness, because 378 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.920 we'll spend a lot of time petitioning God for holiness. But if we stopped, 379 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:43.000 because He's said in Ephesians one three through five that He's blessed us with 380 00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:52.480 every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus and already ordained for us to be receivers of 381 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:59.360 holiness, that we would live in our generation in holiness. Holiness is not 382 00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:05.960 a bad deal. By the way, it could be that one of the 383 00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:15.039 acts of faith that would kick us into a greater manifestation of holiness would be 384 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:27.599 the acknowledgement that we receive holiness. Because wherever petitioning is the full expression of 385 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:34.400 our Christianity, that petitioning leaves a little crack in the door or in the 386 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:43.400 window. For unbelief. I usually petition heavily for the things that I don't 387 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:50.440 believe I have yet. But if I believe I fully have something, that 388 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:53.920 I begin to thank Him that I do have it. I begin to receive 389 00:43:53.960 --> 00:44:00.800 it fully, acknowledge it with thanksgiving. And little did I realize that was 390 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:07.679 the step that it took to germinate the faith of the Word given to begin 391 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:14.119 to bring it to pass. But I tend to look at my stumbling and 392 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:24.519 I'm like, yeah, but I'm not Holy. Don't continue to look at 393 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:31.000 circumstances to determine your identity. When He's determined your identity will begin to shift 394 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:40.199 your circumstances. Let your true identity work by partnering with receiving faith, so 395 00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:47.800 that that true identity will begin to emerge and shift your circumstances and your behavior. 396 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:52.719 Stand with me this morning. Do this make any sense at all? 397 00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.639 Just put up our hands, Holy Spirit, Come on, say it with 398 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:08.000 me, Holy Spirit. I receive from you the fullness of Jesus, the 399 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:15.559 Word of Jesus, the Word of life, the good news. I receive 400 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:23.559 that He's qualified me before the Father to walk in holiness, to walk in 401 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:30.239 abundance, to walk in wisdom, to walk in the mind of Christ, 402 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:35.199 to walk in the divine nature, to walk in the fruit of Holy Spirit. 403 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:46.199 He's qualified me. He's qualified me. I cast aside the accusations, 404 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:57.559 the shortcomings. I cast aside the propensity to work and the labor, and 405 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:04.760 only receive from you, Father, what I feel I deserve, according to 406 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:17.719 my labor. I cast that aside. I received today that all that you 407 00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:25.880 lavishly pour upon me is according to what he deserves, not according to what 408 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:35.239 I deserve. Thank you, Father, This is the gospel. This is 409 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:45.159 the gospel. This is grace that you give me what he deserves in Jesus 410 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:52.360 name, I receive it. Amen. I'd bless your church. Let's worship 411 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:52.760 as we go.