Okay, never bored them at New Horizon. And if you need to know
more about all that, go to all of our media stuff. Let's stand
for over the word this morning. Dive in. Oh Father, you're so
good. We appreciate your ministry and our manstweet. Thank you so much for
the witness of Holy Spirit to us, couponing us. We ask you to
write on our hearts in the next few moments, open the eyes of our
understanding. Continue what you've begun here today. Thank you for it in Jesus
name. Everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Maybe seated,
I want to I want to jump. I want to jump into a
little bit of where I was last week, And so if you were here,
you'll have a little bit of an advantage. But I talked a little
bit about the macro plan of God and that the macro plan of God looks
a lot like deliverance and that and one of the things that you know,
we're seeing talking about is that the deliverance ministry actually proceeds restoration ministry. And
as it is in the macro with God, so it is in the micro
with God. I'm the micro, you're the micro. And so I want
to go back real quick to first Shrinthian's fifteen twenty four and read that with
you again and just kind of set the stage for this macro view of what
God is up to, not so much like I'm not talking about in this
moment or what to expect or who's going to be the president, or I'm
talking about from this first advent of Jesus until the last Advent of Jesus.
So and we call that the second coming or the rapture, whatever whatever you
whatever terminology would use, the Lord returning from the first to the last.
The picture that we get is that the victory over Satan began here at the
first advent, but the victory continues progressively until darkness is banished. So first
Corinthens fifteen twenty four and twenty five. Then the end will come, everybody
say, Then, then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom
to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and
power. For he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under
his feet. And then it goes on. I didn't put it in there,
but verse twenty. And the last enemy that will be destroyed as death.
And that's what he's doing on that last day. So and then I
tied that last week, I tied that also the Ephees in three eight,
I don't have it in the lineup today of scriptures, where it says that
this mystery that was hidden through the ages has now been revealed, and that
through the Church, through the Church, not just to the church, but
through the Church, that God is revealing the power and the authority that displaces
the delonic realme. So he began with something here that actually loosed this authority
and this victory to us, so that we become the ambassadors, we become
the deputies, We become the overcomers more than overcomers who worked this out in
time, and so that when we get to the last day darkness, the
authority of the enemy has been banished. And this, you know, this
kind of stuff, it's congruent with Ephesians four eleven through thirteen, or eleven
through fifteen. Ephesians four, where it says that the ministry of apostle,
prophet, teacher, the fivefold ministry, that those ministries continue until we all
come into the maturity of Christ, to the full stature of Christ, and
to the true knowledge and the full knowledge of the sun. So we see,
we see this growing body of knowledge, this growing maturity of people through
time, and we see what they're up to is banishing the enemy. What
they're up to is dismissing darkness. What they're up to is overcoming darkness.
Yeah, let me read you another one. Because all of creation is groaning.
You ever groaned, All of creation is groaning for this very thing to
mature, because the maturation of this work of the Lord in us is going
to liberate all of creation. All of creation becomes liberated as the sons of
God rise up into who they are, the daughters of God, the sons
of God. They rise up into who they are, and then are loosed
in the earth to deliver the planet, to overcome darkness, and to walk
in essentially the fullness of God, the restoration that He's ordained for us Romans
eight nineteen through twenty one. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits
for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to
futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope.
It was subjected in hope. He saw you when all this started because the
creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of God or the sons of God. That's interesting. You
come into liberty first, then creation will also be delivered in de liberty.
You are set free from corruption first, then creation will be set free from
corruption. So there's this crazy, amazing progression that we're called to. We're
called to much more than spiritual salvation. We're calling them much more than than
just spiritual salvation, meaning to be born of the spirit and our trust is
in Heaven as our home, and that we will go to heaven when we
die. You're called them much more than that. You're called to manifest the
glory of God in the earth. You and I. We can't manifest the
glory of God and the earth unless we partner with Him for overcoming the enemy
and becoming living epistles of the judgment that's been written against the enemy. We
become the living epistles of the judgment that's been written against the enemy. And
essentially that's what Jesus was. Jesus was the judge and the judgment. Jesus
was the judge and the judgment against the enemy and the way we see the
way we see a judgment carried out. I talked to you last week a
little bit about it. When the folks lived in our house during COVID without
paying their rent and destroying the house. We needed a judgment. And the
way we understand a judgment issued out of a court is very much like what
God's up to right now with and through us, is that it has various
aspects to it. Right it has aspects to it. And one of the
aspects that we need the partner with God. And that's why we're going further
in this message. One of the aspects that we need to partner with God
in is the aspect of restoration. The aspect of restoration is one of the
partnership aspects, so that not only do we embrace deliverance as a remnant people
a prototype of what God's doing the ambassadors, the deputies of the Ministry of
Jesus and the earth, not only do we embrace deliverance, which in a
judgment, in a judgment is seen as evicting or dismissing or overcoming those who
have brought harm, who have stolen, who have plundered. Right so that's
that's the first part. We believe in that. We believe in deliverance.
We believe in deliverance ministry. We believe in a judgment against the enemy and
then evicting be it out of our lives, our hearts, our church,
our family, our communities, our cities, evicting, dismissing darkness, the
powers that shouldn't be here. They're here illicitly. They're here trespassing, they're
here against the Christ, They're here to bring harm. But we have a
judgment from the Supreme One that they are now trespassing, that they're no longer
welcomed here, that we don't need to yield to them anymore in our body,
in our soul, in our family, in our marriage, in our
church, in our community, we no longer need, so we dismiss them.
So we come into agreement with that. But there's another part of the
judgment. The other part of the judgment is the judge says, oh,
this is what they owe you. The other part of the judge is where
the judge says, this is what they because of their violation, because of
their theft, because of their wrongful action against you, because of their deception
and their coercion. This is what they owe you, and so you get
a judgment for me. There's a judgment of several thousand dollars due to the
misuse of my home right. And we see Jesus is also representing that judgment
with regard to the people and with regard to the nations. And one of
the clearest places to see it is in Isaiah chapter forty two. In Isaiah
chapter forty two, it's it's God through the prophet Isaiah. He's speaking over
Israel. He's speaking over the people, and he's actually talking about how they've
been taken advantage. They've been stolen away, they've been deceived, they've been
plundered, they've been harmed. His heart is for them, and he yearns
for them, and he yearns for them to be brought back. He yearns
for them to be restored. God is a god of restoration, overcoming the
enemy, that getting getting the tenant out, getting darkness out, the macro
plan of God to dismiss darkness. It's only it's only half of the equation
of a judgment. The other half is to get back what was taken.
The other half is to get back what was taken. So It's interesting,
Isaa forty two. We have this crazy passage, and it reminds me.
It reminds me quite a bit of what we do with little ones. We
do this with little ones. And you know, I'm sure it was done
with me a lot, because I was kind of rian out of control.
My parents couldn't figure out where I came from. But you know, if
we see Easton, this is a grandchildren talk five of which you know we
have. If we see Easton wrongfully take a toy from Judah right, then
a Judah might even say he's got my toy right. And so then authority
steps in and says, potentially in a gentle way. Depending on how the
first time goes, could be there a raised tone if the first If the
first attempt doesn't go well, it could be there's a raised tone in the
second attempt. Easton, give it back, Give it back. Everybody say
give it back, Isaiah forty two, verse twenty two. But this is
a people plundered and pillaged. All of them are trapped in caves or are
hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder with no one to save them,
and spoils with no one to say give them back. This is interesting
because this is a messianic passage. This is God looking at his children,
and essentially he's talking about the coming One. And this is what the coming
One is going to say. The coming One is going to say to the
realm of darkness, to the demonic realm, to Satan, the coming One
is going to say, give them back, give them back, give them
back. So this this is an interesting proclamation because you today, in your
vernacular of relationships, when you make a judgment against the wrong that needs to
be confronted and dismissed, you also find yourself saying, give it back,
give it back. And we in Isaiah forty two, we were the it.
Remember the Tower of Babel, prophetically speaking, this just wasn't only over
Israel alone, but in the Tower of Bibles we come, you know to
that whole Seventy nations were split out of that tower. Sixty nine were given
over to darkness. Only Jacob was kept unto God. Sixty nine nations were
lost. Jacob was the prototype and the forerunning nation that would bring forth the
Christ. But what we see in Isaiah forty two is not only the proclamation
of God over Israel, but this is the proclamation of God over sixty nine
gentile nations. Give them back, give them back, give them back.
Now, what I want you to see is that this is the This is
the other part. This is the other expression of a judgment, because a
judgment should result in a full restoration. A judgment should result in a full
restoration. I'm looking around the room right now, I'm looking on the front
row, and some of us have gone through this where we had to rise
up against the enemy and we had to say give it back, or we
had to say give them back. But some of us haven't understood that this
is part. This is part of us entering into a partnership with God in
the breakthrough that we desire and need that will shift everything in our lives as
we partner with them. Because we, as the sons of God, we
have become the delegates of His judgment, and as the deputies of God,
we have become the delegates of His authority. And we don't realize so many
times, because of the way we've been brought up in religion, we don't
realize so many times that our partnership is needed for restoration. We think everything's
up to Jesus, and so we're praying these prayers of submission while the enemy
is actually tearing us up, obedient us to pieces, messing with our whole
world. And we pray, but we keep praying these prayers, Lord help
me, Lord help me, Lord help me, and we're yielding or we're
submitting things to him. But he's saying, my people perish for lack of
knowledge Jose at four six. My people perish for lack of knowledge because he's
called us in the macro of this particular time, from the beginning to the
end, he's called us to be the partners of his working out the judgment
that he rendered. And the result of that is that Satan's house and the
works of the enemy against us are plundered and we are restored. We are
restored, So our declaration becomes super important. Matthew twenty eight. Are are
you getting this a little bit? Let's settle in on you a little bit.
Holy shit. We ask you to just open the eyes of our understanding.
Right now, we talked about how that we're deputized in Jesus, and
so we've recognized we have authority to confront the enemy. We don't need the
yield or listen or submit to the lives of the enemy, or the works
of the enemy against us, against our stuff, against our families, against
our marriages, against our children, against our womb, against our finances,
against our city, against our schools, against our communities. But now,
Holy Spirit, you're telling us that we need to begin to shout over the
enemy, give it back, give it back. We need to begin to
shout over the enemy as the voice of the judgment of the Lord, as
the voice of the judgment of the Lord over and against darkness and the enemy.
We need to embrace what you modeled for us, that even as you
yearned for us to come back, you begin to shout over us, give
them back. And this is the word becoming flesh. Jesus was this word
Isaiah forty two, twenty two. Jesus was this word becoming flesh and demanding
that Satan would give back the nations. And the result is he won a
great victory, and he comes from the cross declaring, all authority has been
given me over the nations. Now go to all the nations and make disciples
of all the nations. So he won a victory. But the fullness of
the dominion that he foresees to banish darkness. You've empowered us to work that
out, as we partner with him in dismissing darkness and commanding that the enemy
give it back all that's been stolen, all that's been stolen, Give it
back, all that's been stolen, Give it back. Last week I read
till you probably six thirty one. Yet if he is caught, he must
pay sevenfold, though it cost him all the month of his house. Be
sure you catch the right thief. It's not your neighbor. You won't get
sevenfold out of your neighbor. You won't get sevenfold out of your friend.
You won't get sevenfold out of the boogeyman. You won't. You will only
get sevenfold. See, there's a spiritual power orchestrating all evil against you,
and against me and against us. The spiritual power is what you confront.
You don't confront your neighbor and demand repayment, you won't get sevenfold that way.
You'll only get sevenfold if you confront the spiritual power working behind your neighbor
to bring forth the darkness that brought harm to you. If you want one
fold, confront your neighbor and create more animosity. But if you want sevenfold,
confront the darkness and say to the darkness, give it back. Some
of you, some of you've been around here for a while, so you've
heard some of our crazy stories. I've got a lot of crazy restoration stories.
But recently I heard another one of somebody that came through Restored Life.
So I thought, oh man, we need to hear somebody's story besides mine.
So I can't share their name with you, but I did get permission.
I reached out and got permission to share the story. I wish I
could share more, because you know, the more we shared these stories,
the more it's like it quickens our faith, right, and most of us
just haven't embraced or made application of this authoritative declaration though we've received a judgment
from the judge and we've even come into a level of freedom in our families
or our own lives because we've evicted something. We haven't seen the restoration come
because we haven't begun this declaration of give it back. So this is kind
of fun. Though she said that, she said, I believed that I
had authority to call back our family van that was stolen from the South Hill
Mull, So I blessed the thieves, and then I demanded that our van
be returned to us in Jesus name, and we were called within a few
hours and it was returned to us. Here's another one. I demanded that
my husband would be loosed and give back to me in Jesus name, after
living with ten years of deception, lies and covenant breaking. I also called
mentors into his life and that he would be free, and it happened as
I declared it. He's been set free, he has mentored mentors in his
life, and he's been given back to me and to my marriage. Here's
another one. I called leaders into my kids' lives when they were not seen
by their dad or their stepdad and have been fully abandoned. And God,
provided he was faithful. Leaders came into their lives to take the place of
their fathers. And God has been faithful and he's restoring my children. Many
of you know, Mike crazy testimonies. You are family testimonies of motorbikes being
stolen and us commanding them to be returned. And our jet skis were stolen
from the front of our house and we commanded that they would be returned.
We needed him for summary camping so we didn't command that they would just be
returned. We commanded they would be returned by a particular date. I believe
it was August eighth. This is several years ago. This is the first
first year we had Lily, actually Lily the Lab of which we had many
testimonies about Lily the Lab. Somebody asked me one Sunday, do you have
bet our testimonies you could share than about your dog. I'm like, you
don't like dog testimony, that's help with you. Our jet skis that were
returned, and the Lord works in crazy ways, like right, but our
jet skis were restored to us that today we needed them, so we can
take them to summer camp for water activities the very day. Not only because
we made a demand that they would be given back, but they would be
given back by a particular day. They were given back by that day.
A stands point. He doesn't want so you're the prototype. You're the prototype
of heaven on earth, and the gospels meant to make you attractive German.
You're the prototype of heaven on earth. And Jesus said, even this is
the foremost, the foremost declaration of Jesus regarding prayer was pray this way,
our Father, who art in heaven, how would be thy name, Thy
kingdom Come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
On earth, where we're the prototype of heaven, we're the ones of whom
we literally our lives. Our lives are demonstrations of the goodness of God,
not only the demonstration of freedom. Oh you know, I've gotten free and
I had this bugging me. I have that bugging me. Used to be
addicted to pornography, or it used to be addicted to fear, or used
to be addicted to chocolate, bad food, hatred, selfish, ambition.
Hey, it's good to be free. It's good to be free. The
life of freedom is like no other. But there's a judgment that was woven
into that freedom that I'm guessing a lot of us haven't finished with. Because
the finale, the progression of a judgment is restoration, and restoration comes Not
only is you partner with Holy Spirit through the dismissal of the enemy, but
you partner with the Holy Spirit in authority over the thief and command the thief
gives back what was taken sevenfold sevenfold, sevenfold sevenfold. And I think this
is a word for a bunch of us this morning. You're going to put
this to the test and then never the word. Andrew brought a word.
Where's Andrew? Andrew brought a word Friday night? If you're wondering, we
had a team up from Buffalo Friday night for a worship night and a download
of Heaven. And Andrew brought a word though Friday night, prophetic word.
I believe it was good. I recorded it. By the way. Part
of it was that he saw us embracing ninety days of communion. And I
know we've turned Joe and Sandy loose, and we've got their communion book and
we've been talking about a communion revival in the sad and I know Joe and
Sandy talked to all of us about in communion for thirty days. And you're
thinking, yeah, I kind of did that. But I believe God's in
this thing. And Andrews saw us as a body just taking the cup and
the bread daily over the next ninety days, and he saw something's going to
happen, something's going to shift, and it begins to shift on a micro
level before it shifts on a macro level, and we're the sum total corporately
of the work of the micro as it grows and it leavens, be it
the whole body, or the whole community, or the whole region. So
I just want to encourage you, and I want to tie that word with
this word today, that you not only embrace expelling darkness, but you embrace
the shout of give it back. And then we go into a ninety day
season. We go into a ninety day season where we begin to do damage
to the enemy and we begin we begin to plunder the enemy like he's never
been plundered. And it's not just give it back. It's not just stuff,
but it's give and it's not just the earth. Give it back the
earth, because it belongs to us who are in the second atom. The
earth was given to the first atom. It was lost and restored to the
second atom. But it's also give them back, give them back those in
our family, those in our community, those in our relationships, those lost
and plundered and spoiled by the enemy. So Father, we just embrace all
of this this morning. We say yes to the cup and to the bread.
We say yes to the assignment, we say yes to the increase of
heaven. We say yes to the overflow of your grace through us, and
we rejoice in advance over all that's going to be restored. We thank you
for it in Jesus's name. And everybody said, God, bless you this
morning. Church. We love you. We'll see you again soon. Let
Him reign through you. Let's worship as we go.