Don't. Let's stand and pray over the word real quick. Glad you hear,
Glad to be in the house, so fun what God's doing rem for
Behold, darkness will cover the earth. Darkness will cover the earth, and
deep darkness to peoples. But the Lord will rise upon you, and his
glory will appear upon you. Come on, somebody, nations will come to
your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your
eyes round about and see they all gather together. They come to you.
Your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried in the
arms. Then you will see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill
and rejoice because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. Father.
We just turn our hearts to your glory. We turn our hearts to
the development of your glory within us, the development of your glory within us.
Joel talked about the mitochondria recently. You have a mitochondria within you.
The motor of your entire being is your spiritman, and the glory of your
spirit man, Holy Spirit. We welcome you to develop the glory within our
Spiritman. There'll be a deepening today. We ask we pray, we believe
in Jesus' name. Everybody said, amen, you may be seated. Our
theme, our theme is out of Isaiah forty, but it's you know,
it's in Malachi three as well. And we've been meditating on this theme a
little bit, just feeling like this is what the howays heard saying right now,
and so we're going to lean into what he's saying, and when he
says something, we try to figure out what he's saying, right So some
of this stuff is, you know, these are the mysteries that we long
to look into and to understand. And what we feel like he's saying is
to prepare for his coming. And it's not the coming like the second Coming
or the rapture pend of coming, but it's just a coming in glory,
a greater coming in glory. And the part of it we have to realize
is that the coming of the glory, the coming in glory that he has
in mind is a glory within you. It's a glory that you develop within
you, in your inner man, in your spirit man. And that's that's,
you know, even as even as it pertains to for Thessalonians four,
which is the rapture passage, the Second Coming Passage evangelicals, if you're a
Protestant evangelical, you might not as the rapture passage, but it says something
interesting. You know, this is not a rapture message, but it says
that He's coming back for a glorious church without spot or wrinkle. And I,
you know, I often talk to you, you know, out of
Ephesians four and kind of mess with your brain and tell you that, uh,
you know, out of Ephesians four eleven through fifteen, it says that
the fivefold ministry will continue to equip the Saints until we all come into the
unity of the faith of the Sun, not the faith of the Baptist,
not the faith of the Methodists, not the faith of the Assembly of God,
not the faith of the four Square, not the faith the Episcopalian,
not the faith of the Catholic, till we all come into the faith of
the Sun, and we come into the maturity of the Sun. So that's
why I teach you sometimes and say, there's going to be a generation that
walks on water. There's going to be a generation that will pay their tithe
by getting a coin off the bottom of the of the lake, not their
tithe. It was their tax he paid. Remember how he paid his axes.
You can pay your time that way too. That'd be pretty cool me.
All right. So we're talking about the development of a glorious church,
and I think this is on his mind, and I think he's passionate about
it because of the very thing that we just read out of Isaiah chapter sixty,
where darkness could cover the earth, and right now we're dealing with a
lot of darkness. We keep talking about it. I don't mean to wear
you out. We're talking about darkness. I hope I'm not bugging you.
But it's pretty obvious that things have become more dark. But the amazing part
is that glory increases on the righteous in the midst of darkness. Glory increases
in the midst of darkness, and of course that glory becomes the salvation of
the nations. So then the nations come to the glory. And it's not
only the glory on you, it's the glory in you. You have to
know it's the glory in you, not just the glory on you that you
carry in this earth. And Vessel Paul said, you carry the glory of
God in this earth. And vessel. This glory is something to be harnessed.
It's something to be developed. It's not a mitochondria that exists without your
development. It's like you have the privilege to develop this glory. And oftentimes
we read of those that have developed the glory. I'm still developing the glory
within. I was losing it this morning. I was losing it because there's
a new anointing on Frank. And I don't know if you sensed it,
but there's a new anointing on Frank. And it broke me down and I
lost it and I was setting up here for you know, ten minutes,
just weeping over the glory on Frank. There's a new anoint thing on Frank.
And I think the anointing on Frank God on me. And I think
that's what Holy Spirit wants to do with us. Because the glory of your
spirit man is perceptible in the spirit realm, the glory of the spirit,
the glory of your spirit man, the glory that comes on your spirit man
is perceptible in the spirit realm. And we can discern and sence it in
one another and on one another and with one another. And if we aren't
there's the hardness that has to be broken if we aren't there's a distraction that
has to be broken, if we aren't perceiving it, if we aren't discerning
it. Supposed to be shaking hands. But I met Jason in the bathroom
one, two, three, four, five, six six rows back.
We just had a little conference back there to check the plumbing. It's all.
We were doing plumber in my former life. I wanted to make sure
it was fine. We were both undone. But he's six rows back.
But he was undone because he was perceiving something. His spirit was picking up
something in the spirit. And this is what Holy Spirit wants us to be
and to do, is he wants us to be spirit conscious. He wants
us to be spirit engaged in spirit conscious. What I do, what I
do? Bless you if I filled this with boogers, Oh, you'll be
embarrassed for me. We'll just send it here. Men aren't supposed to do
this year anyway? What are you trying to do to me? I was
trying to get to our text. Our text is Isaiah forty, but it's
also Malachi three, and it's you know, prepare, prepare the way of
the Lord. There's a greater glory. We're entering into a greater glory.
We're doing it right now. We're entering into a greater glory. And it's
God right up a standard against the darkness, and he's raising it up in
you. He's raising up in your spirit man. As you pay attention to
your spirit man, he's raising it up in you. Charles Fenny, looking
him up. Charles Fenny, one of our heroes of the faith. Probably
heard of him. Most of his ministry was in New York. He wrote
a lot of books and did some cool things, but hundreds of thousands of
people came to the Lord through Charles Finny, and it was just somewhat because
he carried the glory. Well, I think you know, we just don't.
I don't even know. And I wish I wish I knew. I
wish I could tell you. I wish I wish I could just line you
all up and impart something to you and just but I don't even know the
depth of his glory. Yet. We're still delving into the developing of our
spirit man, so that we begin to abide and flow in His glory as
we're supposed to. And it's not enough that we're born of the spirit,
when we can be filled with the spirit and have an outflowing of the spirit,
and we don't even know the depths of that, but it's a river
of living water. So wherever your spirit ministers through you without hindrance, living
water is dispensed. That's what we all want. So Charles Fenny I was
reading. I was reading. You know, I've got little books in my
library tucked away into stuff. You know, I've read years ago and I
didn't remember. It's called Power Were on High and it's his story of getting
baptized in the Holy Spirit, and you know, just all the things that
happened. I think Charles Fanny was an attorney. I can't remember, but
he became the catalyst of a great move of God on the East coast.
And this is, you know, one hundred years ago or something more than
maybe somewhere in there. But he was recounting one of the stories in there
that I had forgotten about. I'd even forgot that he told the story.
I thought somebody else told the story about him, but I'm sure that's true
too. But he was recounting the story of how he went into you know,
one of the cities to minister, and the dignitaries of the city invited
him to, like the premiere factory of the city. And so he went
to visit this premier factory of the city. And it was really more of
like a show and tell, you know, like a mayor would take you
to the Port of Tacoma to show you. You know, the Mayor of
Fife going to show you the port of Tacoma, the pride and joy.
And so he walks into this factory and as the gaze of his eyes comes
in contact with the employees at the machines, and I think it was a
textile factory or something. But as the gaze of his eyes comes in contact
with the employees at the machines, they begin to be touched by the glory
of God, and the love of God begins to overwhelm them, and they
begin to crumble at their machines. They just begin to lose it at their
machines, and one after another, as they see him and they just make
eye contact, the Holy Spirit is using the glory within him to pour over
them with love and with the very presence of glory. Like you know,
the word glory is kabad in the Hebrew and it means weight, right,
And so you begin to you just kind of get crushed under the weight of
His presence and the ministry of his nearness. And I was saying, as
I was saying a moment ago, if you're not getting crushed under his weight,
then you've got to crush something of you to get it out of the
way, so you can get into a place where you can get crushed under
the weight of His glory, so that your spiritman is moved to the forefront
of your consciousness to begin to be aware of your Spiritman in such a way
that you don't have these blockades in these fears and these distractions and these anxieties
that keep you from an openness before him. Anyway, it starts happening in
this factory. Within the next one hour period, every one of the factory
workers in that particular spot in the factory gave their lives to the Lord,
and the owner of the factory, who was an unbeliever, who had brought
them in a believer had made the way, so a believer had brought them
into the factory, but the with an unbeliever, and he too gave his
life to the Lord and they're all. They all were converted and touched and
filled with the Holy Spirit in that factory, and they ended up shutting down
the factory for several days, and everybody heard the gospel. And we haven't
seen or tasted or been touched by stuff like this, But it's what's available
to us. It's actually what's available to us as we develop our spiritman,
as we make room for our spiritman, as we bring our spiritman to the
predominance and the pre eminence of our life. And I believe this is you
know, this is what the Holy Spirit wants to say today. I read
to you the last two weeks I've read to you, Matthew six. I
want to read it again because again I believe the Holy Spirit is talking to
us, and that just means he's not done, or may say he's not
done. So he's just talking to us a little bit again about distraction.
But today he wants to frame it in the terminology of giving place to your
spirit man. The enemy knows that if he can distract your attention off of
your spirit man, your inner man. See, we are tripart beings.
You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a
body but your body is not you. Your body is not the fullness of
you. The body is not even life giving. The body is not life
giving. Your body is not the fullness of you. The body is just
your third dimensional expression. The real you is your spirit Man, and your
spirit Man is a life giving you, you that have been born of the
spirit. Your spirit Man is a life giving you, and it is the
essence of the real you. And when you come to the Lord. Frank
was leading us, those of us, all of us, cross this room.
Frank was leading us to accept the Lord, to open up our hearts
to the Lord. Believe upon him with your inner man, your heart all
the way to the core of you. Believe upon him, and then confess
that he is the Lord of your life with your mouth. He was leading
us into just coming into that fresh place with him. When we do that,
As we do that, our spirit Man comes alive. We become united
with the Holy Spirit, and there becomes no delineation of separation between your spirit
and Holy Spirit. Your spirit is energized and made alive with Holy Spirit,
and your spirit is now the dwelling place of home. Holy Spirit and Holy
Spirit now dwells in your spirit, and your Spirit is fully one with Holy
Spirit. But life and your history, and pressure and everything around you wants
all of your attention on your body realm, and on your emotion or your
soul realm. Everything is trying to distract you. The enemy's working hard to
distract you because he knows that the glory is not in your earth suit.
It's not in your body. It's handsome and amazing as it might be,
Ladies, as beautiful as your body might be, the glory is not in
your body. The glory's not in your soul. The glory is in your
inner man. It's in your spirit. Man. That's where the glory dwells.
That's where the glory erupts. That's where the glory comes forth. Holy
Spirit wants us to develop that crazy mitochondria on the inside. Matthew six twenty
eight. Why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the
field grow. They do not toil, nor did they spin. Yet I
say to you that not even Solomon and all his glory, clothed himself like
one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which is alive today and tomorrow's thrown into the furnace, will he not much
more clothe you, you of little faith. Do not worry then, saying
what shall we eat, what shall we drink? What should we wear?
For clothing? For the gentiles, those that don't know Father, those that
are not born of the spirit, those that don't have a Daddy, those
that haven't been brought into the family of God. For the gentiles, eagerly
seek these things. For your heavenly Father knows you need all these things.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be
added to you. And I'm not saying, and I don't think the Holy
Spirit is saying, that you're running around spending all your time seeking these things.
But if we aren't careful, what happens is our mind is full of
things that pertain to those things. We're not mindful of the spirit man.
We're mindful of the earthy things and just And it's not that we're in sin,
it's just that we're drawn away. We're drawn away. And when we're
drawn away into all these things, then we're not harnessing, developing, releasing
our inner man because we're just drawn away. And one of the ways we
can do it is we can just we can put prayer in a box.
Put prayer in a prayer box. We can have this whole thing where we've
got the sacred and we've got the secular, we've got the religious expressions.
Put put church in a church box, put prayer in a prayer box.
Yeah, Pastor, I have my devotions, man, I've been doing You've
been talking about that. I've been doing it. I've been having devotions and
I've been I've been really getting in there. I've been getting up in the
morning. I've been just man, I've just yeah, I just I sink
the find a little room, or I got the garage going on. I
got my little boom box out there, this and that and the other thing.
Whatever boon box is. I know, that's how it is. That's
out, that's out. But it's not supposed to be a prayer box.
It's supposed to be a fire starter. Like you start the fire, but
you carry it all day. You light the embers, but you carry it
all day. But this is this is part of what the enemy would love
to have. A stews have prayer boxes. We have a you know,
we have a thirty minute session with the Lord in the morning, we have
an hour of the Lord, we have this, that and the other thing,
But then we're not mindful of him all of the rest of the day.
There's no more prayer, there's no more prayer in the spirit, there's
no more prayer to him, there's no more mindfulness, there's no more drawing
near to him. We're just we're just totally engaged in our secular world.
We're just totally engaged in our stuff. But you don't have to be that
way. We don't have to be that way. We can actually take the
fire of the Spirit into everything we do. We can we can fellowship with
him all throughout the day. We can be bringing stuff to him, we
can be asking him for help, we can be drawn nearer to him all
of the time. We don't have to be so distracted all of that distraction.
It's a choice. It's a choice because we think we're a human.
It's a choice because we think we're Our life is wrapped up in what we
do and what's around us. We were thinking that our life is wrapped up
in all of that, that's where fullness of life is. But that's not
where the fullness of life is. That's why if we bring the fire of
what life really is into our expressions. Now it's like something cool's going on,
because this is how we fulfill I think Matthew twenty two thirty seven is
Yeah, the greatest commandment is love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength.
We don't just love him in our prayer box. We love him with
fellowship all day long. We love him with devotion all day long. We
love him by giving him glory all day long. We love him by deferring
to him all day long. And this is how we're led by the spirit,
right, I mean we're led by the spirit. I want to read
to you Galatians five, and I want you to think of something just as
we think about our spirit man. And there's some verses about the spirit man
that are very important. There's a whole bunch of them. They're important,
and for the sake of time, I'm not going to go into a bunch
of them. But first Grinton's two fourteen talking about your spirit man, because
you have a spirit man, says the natural man cannot or does not receive
the things of God. So this is interesting as long as we're naturally minded.
We're not even going to be receiving the things of the spirit because we
can't receive the things of the spirit because we're naturally minded. We're we actually
have all of these natural minded things going on, and it's keeping us from
even receiving the things of the spirit. Glatians five sixteen. So I say,
walk by the spirit or walk in the spirit, and you will not
gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to
the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh, and they are in
conflict with one another, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Now, this is interesting because I want to bring up something out to
you. In Galatians five, and in Romans chapter eight, and in many
passages across the scripture, it's actually talking about your spirit man. Now,
your spirit man is in dwelt by the Holy Spirit. So yes, it's
talking about the Holy Spirit, but it's actually talking about your spirit man.
And when you look in the text, the S is not capitalized. There's
no capital to the S. The translators have added the S to give clarity
to what they thought the scripture was saying. But what you have to know
is in the Greek, in the original, the S is not capitalized,
And there's no real difference between your spirit and the Holy Spirit once you're energized
with the Holy Spirit, because now the Holy Spirit dwells in your spirit.
And Romans eight sixteen and seventeen says, he bears witness with your spirit.
In other words, he's talking in your spirit. He's testifying in your spirit.
He's wanting to lead you in your spirit. He's animated in your spirit.
He has a voice in your spirit. Your spirit is one with his
spirit. So if we take away the big s and we turn this to
the little s that it was in the beginning when the scripture was written,
it brings some illumination because a lot of times what we do is we see
the big s and we project it here on him. Are you hearing what
I'm saying? So I say this, walk by the Spirit. Oh,
walk by the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit's out here somewhere. I've got to
be perceptive to what he's saying and what he's doing. I've got to be
attentive to that and walk by the spirit. Okay, Holy Spirit. But
it's actually listen it actually says, walk by the spirit, the spirit within
you. Walk by your spirit. Don't walk according to your flesh. Don't
walk bring the spirit to domination. That's what Jesus. When we say Jesus
is Lord, where does he dwell? Jesus is the Lord through your spirit.
He's not dwelling in your finger. He's not dwelling in your foot,
He's not dwelling in one of your ears. He's dwelling in your spirit.
Man by the Holy Spirit. So when we say Jesus is Lord, we
mean that now your spirit man is Lord. Not your emotions, not what
you think, not what you wish, desire or will, not what you
want. Jesus is Lord means my spirit is now lord of my life.
I used to be led by the body and everything the body desired. I
used to be led by my emotions and everything my emotions were putting me through
and going through, and what they were thinking, and the distractions of my
emotions and the feelings of my emotions. But no, no longer am I
led by my emotions. No longer am I led by my body. I
am led by my spirit. And if I will be led by my spirit,
then then I'm losing the life of God within me, and this glory
is it's just it's part of the developing of the glory within. It's hard
for you to develop something for me to develop something that I'm not allowing to
be pre eminent. Like if I if I, if I make my body
pre eminent and I get to the club and I work on my body,
my body becomes stronger and it becomes whatever I make pre eminent. It becomes
more attractive, it becomes more powerful, it becomes right whatever I But Paul
says, bodily exercise actually doesn't profit, not compared to the spirit, because
it's not life giving. I can't give you the life of the profit of
my body. I can hug you, I can squeeze your hand harder,
but I can't impart something to you that will change you. I can't impart
love to you with a muscle. I can literally impart the glory of love
to you with my spirit man. But if my spirit man is not built
up, and it's emaciated, or it's atra feed because I'm not giving it
any attention, then I can't impart anything to you. This is the treasure
within, This is the treasure within Galician's five twenty two. But the fruit
of the spirit. I'm gonna take the s right there, everybody, take
the ass, make it small, the fruit of your spirit. See when
we make the s big, then oh yeah, that's the fruit of the
Holy Spirit. Yeah. Well, of course that's the fruit of the Holy
Spirit. Of course, that's what the Holy Spirit. He's always sowing those
seeds and the Holy Spirit, and that's his fruit. And when the Holy
spirit's near, of course, of course, of course that's a frue of
the Holy Spirit. No, no, it's the fruit of your spirit.
The fruit of your spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, meekness,
gentleness, self control, the fruit of your spirit. The fruit of
your spirit. Now, I can't say that outside this building. I can't
say that down at Chase Bank, I can't say that at Starbucks. I
can't say that to anybody. I can say that to you, the born
again you, the born of the spirit people are your spirit is now one
with Holy Spirit, the fruit of your spirit. So that means if these
things love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, meekness, self control,
and if those things are not coming out of you, that means you're
letting your body dominate you're letting your emotions dominate. You're letting something dominate that
is not meant to dominate because you're a tripart being and it's your spirit that's
supposed to dominate. So you're out of order, you're out of balance,
you're out of order, you're messed up because you're letting something other than your
your spirit, your spirit dominate. That makes sense. One more versus let's
stand. So if we don't make our spirit man the priority of life,
we will not bear fruit. We just won't bear fruit. Did you know
that this is what the enemy wants us to do? Like one John two
sixteen. He wants the enemy wants us drawn. I hate to talk about
the enemy all the time, but we have one. He wants us drawn
away into living as we once did, but forgiven. But we have eternal
life. That's religion. That's religion. That's religion. Religion is religion is
devoid of life changing relationship, but selfishly content because I'm going to heaven,
I go to church. I'm forgiven. Are you kidding me? We'll just
shoot you right now if that's all you think. If that's all you think
it's about. There's a few in the in the building packing guns today.
We can just take care of you now. If that's really all you want,
we can just take care of that right now. Just gets you to
heaven. No, you are made to bring Heaven to earth. He's coming
back not for a sick sorry, go to heaven church. He's coming back
for a glorious church without spot and wrinkle, a church that carries the glory.
That's what he's coming back for. So we're supposed to be this whole
thing about bringing Heaven to earth. He's got to bring heaven to you first.
You have to become a carrier of heaven. Then when a bunch of
us are carrying heaven, then Heaven comes to earth. But we got to
carry heaven and our spiritmen. So here's the enemy for all that's in the
world, all that the world can offer, the gratification of the flesh,
the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and
importance. None of these things come from the Father, but from the world.
And Jesus says, avoid those things. Avoid those things, run from
them, Run from them. Keep your attention focus on your inner man,
And though the world around you might be decaying and even your body. You
might experience some decay and now and then hello, somebody not planned on it
go lived to one hundred and twenty at least die on mountain Ebo with full
strength of eyeballs and muscles. Me and Moses, you and me will all
do it together. But what he's saying is, don't worry about the decay.
Don't get your eyes on the decay, because your inner man is renewed
day by day. Your real man, the real man in you, your
real person, actually has the potential to be renewed day by day. That's
in the Bible. That's second Brendan's four sixteen is that we don't fix our
eyes on the decay happening. We fix our eyes on the inner man,
the inner man, the real man, the spirit man of us. That
inner man is renewed. My strength is in my strength. My strength is
not in my clothing. My strength is not in my possessions. My strength
and none of that can impart life. My strength is in the development of
this inner man. In church, we cannot afford to be distracted. This
is the parable of the sower, the third soil. In the parable the
sower the third soil. They had faith, they fully believed, they had
faith, they fully believed. But then they let the cares of this life
distract them. They let worries distract them, they let anxiety distract them,
They let stuff around them distract them, and didn't bring their spiritmen to the
forefront of their life, to the priority of their life. They didn't harness
their spiritmen, and so they bore no fruit. Holy Spirit has fruit for
us. Heads bowed, eyes closed, all across this room. Just put
your hand that with me, if you would, Because I'm just as hungry
as you are. I'm just as needy as you are. I'm just as
desirous as you are. And the calling on us is just the same.
There's no different calling for a pastor or a minister, an apostle, a
prophet, evangelist. There's no different calling than there is for every one of
us. Every one of us have the same calling. That we carry fully
the glory of the Lord. We carry fully the glory of the Lord.
That we harness our inner man, that we give attention to our inner man,
that we stir up our inner man, that we lean into our inner
man, that we listen to our inner man, that we bring prominence to
the voice of our inner man, that we pray in the spirit and build
up our inner man. Pray in the spirit and build up our inner man,
Holy Spirit, right now to you, and we just bring ourselves to
you. We once again, once again, once again, we're drawn into
balance. We're drawn into a balance that doesn't feel like anybody else's balance.
Is a balance that puts you at the very top. It's a balance that
puts the lordship of Jesus at the top. It's a balance it's filled with
the fellowship of Heaven. We refuse to live in a prayer box. We
refuse to keep prayer in a box. We refuse to keep religion in a
box. We refuse to keep church in a box. We refuse to keep
our fellowship with Holy Spirit in a box. We say no religious boxes for
us, Holy Spirit. We run for you, We run after you.
We develop our inner man. We pay attention to our spirit within. We
say yes to all that resides in our spirit. Love and joy and peace
and patience, everything that resides in our spirit. Miracles reside in our spirit.
Signs and wonders reside in our spirit. These reside in our spirit.
They're not in some distant spirit. They're in our spirit. All of the
River of God. It resides in our spirit. It's not somewhere out there,
it's not in a revival somewhere. The glory of the supremacy of Jesus
resides in our spirit. And we say yes to developing. Say it with
me, Yes, say it with me, Yes, Yes I will.
I will develop my spirit man and bring my spirit man to pre eminence and
the predominance in Jesus' name. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Let's
just do this too, Let's just say no. Say it with me.
No. I say no to the distractions of the flesh realm, the earth
realm that are harming vi e tempting, enticing, distracting, drawing me away.
I say no to it. I have a body, but I'm much
more than a body. I have a soul, but I'm much more than
a pile of emotions. I carry the glory of the Lord, and I
will make His glory the greatest thing about me. Love your search as worship
as we go