WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:06.960 Good morning, church. How are you doing. Let's stand. We've been 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.320 standing, but we'll stand and just prayer for the Word. That's all right, 3 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:18.679 poly Spirit. We're so grateful for you, so grateful for your presence 4 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:27.960 and your ministry, testimony of Jesus and our testimony of his glorious victory and 5 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:35.439 his redemptive proclamation over us. We just say yes to your word this morning. 6 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.560 I'm and be rich right on our hearts. Right on our hearts. 7 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.119 We'll give you the thanks for it Jesus name, everybody said, and then 8 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:52.320 you may be seated. So fun. Look at you, my goodness, 9 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:57.399 good to see all of you. Yeah, Heilue, your wife is back. 10 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.320 I see your beautiful wife is back. From Ethiopia. Helu had a 11 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.200 trumans. Yes, thank you, so good to see you. That he 12 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:11.840 had a tremendous testimony, and he came by the church and shared with me 13 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:18.200 a tithing testimony and task a testimony of God's goodness. They had both gone 14 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:22.280 to Ethiopia. He applied for a new job and it would be it's going 15 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.840 to be a miracle to get it. And he presented it before the Lord, 16 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:30.159 and they contacted him in Ethiopia and said come back for your interviews. 17 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:40.560 So he flew back early and was awarded this amazing job. So it's I 18 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:46.599 know, it's one of many testimonies that have been coming in and just so 19 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.079 thankful for the two of you, and and just your trust in the Lord. 20 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.760 When I loved your humility as you came in, and just like, 21 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:59.159 ah, God has done this. You know God has done this and this. 22 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:06.159 You know God to do miraculous things in our lives. We are remember 23 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:15.879 remember the Hebrews says that the New Covenant has greater benefits, greater blessings than 24 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.520 the old. And in the Old he said, you are the head and 25 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:25.159 not the tail, above only and not beneath that you're blessed coming out, 26 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.000 and you're blessed coming in. You're blessed in the city, you're blessed in 27 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.360 the country. You're and you know, one of the things when we think 28 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.759 about the throw up those ten promises, maybe if you would I identified only 29 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:46.240 ten promises of a faithful tithing. There's there's a there's a ton more than 30 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.719 ten, but I only identified ten. But one of the one of the 31 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:55.120 words that I felt was important. Last week we shared a little bit on 32 00:02:55.319 --> 00:03:01.680 it was that if you're not experiencing these benefits and your tithing, it's not 33 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:13.000 that God is the problem. It could be that you're the problem. It 34 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:20.680 could be that the devil's the problem. It could be that there's a window 35 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:27.520 for you to press into something deeper in risk taking or education or relationship building. 36 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:32.719 It could be that remember James One says that when you're facing a trial, 37 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:38.000 a trial means that you have a promise, but you're not experiencing it, 38 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.080 so your experience falls below your promise. And it says, if you're 39 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.840 facing a trial, you're going through a trial, then ask of God, 40 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:52.240 who gives joyfully and liberally wisdom to you. He will give you wisdom and 41 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.919 you'll come to know. And so you know, sometimes sometimes even just a 42 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.919 one day fast or a one meal fast and getting before the Lord will literally 43 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.639 open up the windows of wisdom over you, and you'll know what's holding up 44 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:10.919 your promises. You'll know what's hindering your promises. All at once. You'll 45 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.000 have illumination and you'll know what to do to press in, or you'll know 46 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.800 what enemy to subdue to press in. You'll know, but it's not God, 47 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:24.160 that it's not And The thing is is that you know, we we 48 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:29.759 touched on this because Jeff had talked about Malachi three. You know, Malachi 49 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:33.879 three eight through ten says I'll open the windows of heaven for you. But 50 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:39.600 then Malachi like verse twelve, I think it says, you know, God 51 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.360 says I have this against you. Remember me talking about that. He said, 52 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.879 I have this against you, And they said, you've got something else 53 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.079 against us? What is it? You know? And he says, your 54 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:54.120 words, your words have been saying it's in vain that I serve the Lord. 55 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.279 Your words have been against my blood. I want to bless you, 56 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:02.279 but you're saying it's it's in vain that we serve the Lord. There's and 57 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:11.279 actually the King James says there's no profit in serving the Lord, and so 58 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.439 we don't want to get in that spot. And I think if any of 59 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:20.120 us are tithing and just you know, bringing that sacrifice of love and that 60 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:28.519 sacrifice of finance to the Lord and we're running into stuff. He just wants 61 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.639 you to know this this morning, it's not him that's causing the stuff. 62 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:38.959 That there is a breakthrough for you, and that if you'll press in a 63 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.000 little bit believing he'll meet you with wisdom. Then he'll pour out wisdom upon 64 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.639 you and you'll see what you haven't seen, and you'll have the insight to 65 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:53.800 overcome what's trying to overcome you. So let's just pray on that right now. 66 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.920 Let's just agree on that right now. Okay, can you do that 67 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.920 if that's you even a teensy bit, just like do this, just like 68 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:05.279 then. We don't want everybody to know that shoe. But just this got 69 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:09.519 just okay. You want to go big, Roman wants to go big? 70 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:14.480 All right, Holy Spirit, we just agree right now that you have ordained 71 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.759 blessing. You're not trying to get money from us. You're trying to get 72 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.720 money to us. You've called us the head and not the tail above and 73 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:26.360 not beneath, Blessed going out and blessed coming in, and Lord, we 74 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:34.199 just agree that whatever we're going through, whatever is harming, oppressing, holding 75 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:41.360 up the blessing and the promises you yourself. We didn't beg for these promises. 76 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.399 We didn't submit a list of promises like a demand. You better promises. 77 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.639 This is your idea. Father, You have ordained all this, so 78 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:53.519 you came up with all of this, and you want us to press in 79 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.120 and believe, and so whatever is hindering, Holy Spirit, we ask you 80 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:02.480 now turn on the wisdom. Turn on the wisdom, lose wisdom over your 81 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.279 kids right now, to see what's missing, to see what's lacking, to 82 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.759 see what needs to be subdued, to see what needs to be done was 83 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:18.839 to see what needs to be advanced against even the identity. Just shift at 84 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:25.240 royalty within us and over us, Holy Spirit, and subdue doctrines of demons. 85 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:30.720 Where we've we've blamed you for bad stuff, we just dismiss the doctrine 86 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.920 of doctrines of demons. You've ordained good stuff. You're the author of good 87 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:40.839 things, and we come into agreement with that right now. Every good and 88 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:45.839 perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no 89 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:51.600 variation or shifting of shadow. You don't change your mind. You don't change 90 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:57.920 your mind. You're the Father of goodness, and we turn our hearts toward 91 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:03.639 you in every way. This morning in Jesus name, everybody said, amen, 92 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.040 Wow, I want to I want to talk to you specifically this morning. 93 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.040 Oh, it's gonna do it. I think it's it might yeah, 94 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.800 I don't know. We might have to send this into the to the factory 95 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:30.040 for rebuilding in the first service. I can't take the Lord. I can 96 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:39.759 go somewhere, all right, okay, we oh here we go? Where 97 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:41.120 about that? Oh? Yeah? I want to talk to you today, 98 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.159 especially about being planted in the House of the Lord and how important it is 99 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.440 and in fact is I want to I want to start with that scripture. 100 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.240 If we've got it. I don't know. Did we get it. We 101 00:08:52.320 --> 00:09:00.279 might have got it. Look for Psalm's ninety two Psalm ninety two. Because 102 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.960 there's so much blessing that flows in the House of the Lord. There is 103 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:13.960 God has ordained to bless abundantly with wisdom and grace and the outpouring of his 104 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:22.240 spirit. There is a dispensation of so much revelatory gifts and so much that 105 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:28.360 He wants to bring in and through our being planted in the House of the 106 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:37.080 Lord. And this is it's like super contrary to American thinking or because Americans 107 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:48.279 we pride ourselves on End Dependence Day right and our nation, our nation is 108 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:56.840 a democracy that means actually we're in charge were it's a democracy. But what 109 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:03.840 we don't get sometimes is the kingdom is a theocracy and the Kingdom is a 110 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.480 family, and it's a family under authority, and so this is tough for 111 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:16.960 us as American Christians. Many times it's tough for us to understand the power 112 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:22.320 and the grace of being planted in the house of the Lord. And we're 113 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.720 also we are the number one nation not only of independence and democracy, but 114 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:33.080 we're the number one nation of consumer ism. We are consumers. We know 115 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.799 the power of voting with our dollar, and how we can manipulate or move 116 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:46.960 things with our dollar, and how that things must please us. Things have 117 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.639 to please me, and if they don't please me, they don't get my 118 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.279 dollar. We're consumers, and all of this is trying to make its impression 119 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.879 subtly on all of us as we think about church, as we think about 120 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.039 God. It's it's trying to And so we have a tendency we have to 121 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.799 break out of even to serve, even to give, even to to be 122 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.840 apart, even to knit ourselves to something. We have to break out of 123 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:24.919 so much American thinking. And many churches and many Christians never break out of 124 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:30.159 it. Never, they never break out of it. And so everything's done 125 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.759 by a vote, and they let the church be a democracy and and everything. 126 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.159 We gotta be seekers sensitive, we gotta we gotta figure out exactly what 127 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:45.639 the consumer wants. And then we've got to provide exactly what the consumer desires 128 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.799 or they won't come. And if they don't come, we don't grow. 129 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:58.120 And if they don't grow, we can't brag about growing. And so there's 130 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:05.879 this whole minds said that is actually it's counter Bible. It's contrary to the 131 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:11.240 word. It's contrary to theocracy, and it's contrary to family. It's contrary 132 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:18.399 to Christ is king. What does king sound to you like? I mean, 133 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.679 maybe if we were in Britain, this would be easier for us. 134 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:28.240 I don't know. But but Christ is king. We didn't vote him in 135 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:41.679 and we can't vote him out. Verse twelve. The righteous will flourish like 136 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:48.399 a palm tree. They will grow like a cedar of Lebanon, planted in 137 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.519 the house of the Lord. They will flourish in the courts of our God, 138 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.279 planted in the house of the Lord. They will flourish in the courts 139 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.279 of our God. Planted. That's putting down roots. That's finding where you're 140 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:09.120 called and who you're called. Two. This is another distortion we've made church 141 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:15.879 about the nominations. We've made church about buildings. We've made church about marketing, 142 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.039 We've made church about signage. We've made church about every kind of thing 143 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.039 that it's not about. It's actually about who am I called to, where 144 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:30.000 am I called? And who am I called too? And Biblically, we're 145 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:35.440 more likely it's more likely that we're called to a leader and a leadership team 146 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:45.399 church leader than we are called to a building or a denomination. Fourteen was 147 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:50.159 fourteen. Soon they will still bear fruit in old age. Will come on, 148 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.600 somebody, let's have the fruitful youngsters and the fruitful ulsters so they will 149 00:13:54.600 --> 00:14:03.840 still bear fruit in old age. They will stay fresh and green. Wow. 150 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:11.000 I was playing football last night. I even caught a pass proclaiming. 151 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.759 What will they proclaim? The Lord is upright? Oh, that means he's 152 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.559 faithful to his word, He's faithful to his promise. This is the opposite 153 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.720 of what they were saying in Malachi three versus twelve and following they proclaimed, 154 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.120 the Lord is upright, he is my rock and there is no wickedness in 155 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.559 him. Isn't that good? Oh? My gonna say. I want to 156 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:39.559 start with that, because when we think about tithing, that one might work. 157 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.080 Yeah, that when we think about tithing, we race up here to 158 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:54.679 the Christ right, and he is the fulfillment of the seed of Abraham. 159 00:14:54.759 --> 00:15:01.480 Right, So Isaac was only a picture of the fulfillment Jesus. Oh, 160 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:09.039 look at that. I do hope my pants are zipped. This could be 161 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:16.879 an embarrassing morning right here. Alrighty then, okay, so we're we're we're 162 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.919 trying to get well over on the fringes. We acknowledged last week the fringes 163 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:28.159 couldn't see. And then this week this church leadership team who's highly anointed. 164 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.879 They were supposed to get doodle working for me and they didn't. So we're 165 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:39.279 doodling on the boards more so over here, here's here's Abraham. All right, 166 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:45.559 Uh, we're gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna go Abraham and we're 167 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.320 just gonna go like that. Is that all right? And then we got 168 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.279 this, we got the mosaic period here, we got done, okay, 169 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.279 And so the law was added four hundred and thirty years later, and the 170 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.720 law gave us all sorts of insights on tithing, but the law gave us 171 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.039 all sorts of other insights. The law gave us a bunch of insights also 172 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:07.720 on the priesthood and the priesthood over here, it started with mel Kezedek, 173 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.759 So Holy Spirit, forgive me for all these abbreviations. It started with Melkzedek 174 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:23.080 over here as the priest. And Melkesedek was the forerunner of the fulfillment of 175 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:29.519 Christ. And so when Jesus comes, he actually comes as the fulfillment of 176 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:34.000 the Malkesic priesthood. Right, let's go to Hebrews chapter seven. Let's read 177 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.679 it real quick. How much time do we have Hebrews chapter seven. Just 178 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:42.559 think how great he was is talking about Melkesedick. Even the patriarch Abraham gave 179 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:47.799 him a tenth of the plunder. Now the law, the law was added 180 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.480 later four hundred and thirty years later. This is the law over here under 181 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:57.679 Moses. And under Moses we had a priesthood of Aaron, the high priest, 182 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:07.920 and then we had the es as the priesthood. And so the law 183 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:14.079 requires the descendants of Levi who become priest to collect a tenth from the people, 184 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:18.319 that is, from their fellow Israelites, even though they are descendant from 185 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.480 Abraham. This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, 186 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.799 Yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 187 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.359 And without doubt, the lesser is blessed by the greater. So in underwords, 188 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.880 Malkezdick was greater than Abraham because he was the blesser. In this case, 189 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.680 if you're the blesser, then you're greater than the one who's getting blessed. 190 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.039 In one case, the tenth is collected by the people who die, 191 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:48.480 the Levites during this period, these Levites, they would all die. In 192 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.839 one case it's collected by people who die, but in the other case by 193 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.559 him who is declared to be living. So Malkezidek continued to live. One 194 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.960 might even say that Levi, who did the tithe or the tenth, paid 195 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.960 the tenth through Abraham, because when Mkazadick met Abraham, Levi was still in 196 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.599 the body of his ancestor. Right, if perfection could have been attained through 197 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.319 the leavitical priesthood, and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood, 198 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.480 then why was there still the need for another priest to come, One 199 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.519 in the order of malk Kesaedick, not in the order of Erin so this 200 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:29.880 is interesting. The levitical priesthood was added with the law until the fulfillment came 201 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.559 and the fulfiller came, but after that we revert to the malk Kaesadic priesthood. 202 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:41.759 But what we see is that there's still valid principles throughout in the Mala, 203 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:47.839 in the Lavitical priesthood that relate to the malk Kasadic priesthood. So when 204 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.039 people say, for instance, you'll hear Christians say, yeah, you know, 205 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:53.799 this doesn't apply. That doesn't apply, the other thing doesn't apply. 206 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:59.039 And they might even say tithing doesn't apply because we're not under law, we're 207 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.519 under gray. What they don't understand, though, is that there has been 208 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:08.880 a transfer of priesthood. We're still under a priesthood, and the priesthood of 209 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:15.400 Melksedek carries with it parallel principles to the priesthood of Aaron or Leo Levite. 210 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.240 And so you know, people don't realize that, and so and what my 211 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:26.559 job is to get us under the spout where the goodies come out. And 212 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.440 if you have missed, if you have missed, you know, if somehow 213 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:36.880 you have missed the truths of tithing and how it relates to being planted in 214 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:41.640 a church and under the theocracy of Christ and the authority of Christ, that 215 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.440 it could be you're missing out on so much that it would blow your mind. 216 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.839 What would happen if you would bring yourself under that place where you're in 217 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:55.519 this theocracy and partnering with God by coming under the covering of authority, the 218 00:19:55.559 --> 00:20:02.880 authority that still does exist in a priesthood, because it's a Malkaic prieston we 219 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.079 Okay, Paul talked about this some more for Strinthians chapter nine. He actually 220 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:17.119 says that those who serve in the Gospel, the mel Keesitic priesthood, the 221 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:23.279 priesthood of Jesus, those who serve in that ministry actually have a right to 222 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:30.400 receive tithe from those who they serve, just exactly like the Levites had a 223 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:36.960 right to receive from those who came to the altar. Now he uses the 224 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.799 word right. I only bring it up, not to be harsh, not 225 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:41.279 to be weird, not so we can take a second offering, not for 226 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.279 guilt or condemnation, not for any that. I only bring it up because 227 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.359 He brought it up. He uses the word that we have a right. 228 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:55.160 We apostles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ have a right to receive from you 229 00:20:55.599 --> 00:21:00.960 exactly like they did under this discipline station. So yeah, we're not under 230 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:10.240 this dispensation. But there are parallel principles that are central to our victory, 231 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:17.599 are anointing and the revelation we flow in even Okay, so here it is 232 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.119 for strengthened. Chapter nine. Am I not free? Am I not an 233 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.599 apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result 234 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.839 of my work in the Lord? Even though I may be an apostle to 235 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.400 others, surely I am to you, for you are the seal of my 236 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.359 apostleship and the Lord. So he's kind of establishing the groundwork for what he's 237 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.880 going to talk about. But he's actually going to talk about money, and 238 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.720 he goes on verse seven. Who serves as a soldier at their own expense, 239 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.599 who plants a vineyard, does not eat the grapes, who tends of 240 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:47.319 law, and does not drink the milk? Do I say this merely on 241 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:49.720 human authority? Doesn't the law say this? For it's written in the Law 242 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.400 of Moses. Do not muzzle ut. Now he's going to talk about something. 243 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:59.319 Then, in most of his writings. He says, has found its 244 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:02.720 fulfillment Christ, So why is he going to talk about it. He's going 245 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.039 to talk about it because Jesus showed him that the parallel. There's a parallel 246 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.480 in mel Kezedek. That's why he's going to talk about it. And so 247 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:15.240 he says that there's a parallel. So he says, doesn't the law say 248 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.000 do not muscle the ox while he's treading out the grain? Is it about 249 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.640 the oxen? God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn't 250 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.279 he? Yet? This was written for us because whoever plows and threshes should 251 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:30.839 be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If 252 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:34.519 we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap 253 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.880 a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you 254 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.319 other apostles, And he's talking about him because he hasn't exercised that right. 255 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:51.240 But because he hasn't exercised the right, now some have come along and said, 256 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:56.359 you're not an apostle. And he's saying, no, no, no, 257 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.440 Just because I haven't exercise the right doesn't mean that just doesn't mean I'm 258 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:06.759 not an apostle, nor does it does it mean that I don't have a 259 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:11.160 right to this even as others have this right. So I mean this was 260 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.279 very well known in the early Church. If others have this right from you, 261 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:19.559 shouldn't we have it all the more. But we did not use this 262 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.559 right. On the contrary, we put up with any anything rather than to 263 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.799 hinder the Gospel of Christ. Don't you know that those who serve in the 264 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.759 temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altars 265 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.160 share what is offered at the altar in the same way, or by saying 266 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:38.599 in the same way. In the same way, the Lord has commanded that 267 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:45.160 those who preached the gospels should receive their living from the Gospel. Now what 268 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:49.559 did he just do? He just elevated gospel ministers, who we know from 269 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:53.279 effusions, for we're gonna talk about that in a moment. He just elevated 270 00:23:53.519 --> 00:24:03.920 gospel ministers to the melchastic priesthood. He just infolded gospel ministers into the mal 271 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:08.640 Keztic priesthood. And he just showed us the correlation between gospel ministers and leolitical 272 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:15.359 ministers. And though we're not under Levi anymore, we're under the covering of 273 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:22.039 gospel ministers. And he says, these gospel ministers have actually been called by 274 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.480 Him. By the way, this is not talk you into going to New 275 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.559 Horizon. This is not I hope you stay at New Horizon. This is 276 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:36.160 not about any of that. By the way, this is about all of 277 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:41.920 us coming to grips with I need to be called to the house where I'm 278 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:45.319 going. I need to have some sense that the Holy Spirit wants me in 279 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:51.720 this house. I need to be knit to the covering over this house in 280 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:56.000 some manner, shape or form. I need to come with honor to the 281 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:00.440 house where God has called me. I need to see that the headship over 282 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:06.160 the house where God has called me has been called by Christ. And I 283 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:11.240 need to have that heart toward them so that I can partake from the anointing 284 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:18.319 that flows through them and into this house and over this house. And that 285 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.200 doesn't have to be New Horizon house. I mean, you could have been 286 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:25.119 here for six months and this is your morning, this is your last morning 287 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.279 because you're realizing, oh, I need to go. I need to go 288 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:30.200 find a place where I'm calling. Or you could have walked in this morning 289 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.279 and filled out a newcomer card on the back of the chair and turn that 290 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.720 in. And we don't possess you, and we're not demanding this should come 291 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.440 to this place, and we're not trying to talk to you into anything God. 292 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:44.200 We want God to be the one that talks you into something. If 293 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.039 the Holy Spirit niche you to a house, and the Holy Spirit niche you 294 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.319 to a leadership team, then you can't be ripped off. It can't be 295 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:56.359 stolen from you. You can't get offended in the four you're you're leaving next 296 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.720 week. You can't be popping around here and there in the other place and 297 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.799 getting planted. Once you know you are where God wants you under the leadership 298 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:08.759 God's called you to, you're gonna flourish, and you're gonna cause that place 299 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:15.119 to flourish, and everything is going to go better for you. And it 300 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:22.480 doesn't have to be here. It doesn't have to be here. Let's jump 301 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.400 over to Ephesians for and I want you to see, you know, just 302 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:33.119 some stuff. So the priesthood has some parallel principles that the functions are different. 303 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:38.519 Everybody say different. The Levites and the priest you know, the majority 304 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.519 of their time was spent around the sacrificial system, and the majority of their 305 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:48.759 time was spent helping the people bring sacrifice and then presenting that sacrifice either in 306 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:53.319 the Inner Court or the Holy of Holies. And so their role was different, 307 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.920 Their ministry was different. Our ministry role those who are called the churchly 308 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.000 ship. And I'm going to put Jesus in the clouds Galatians Force says that 309 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.240 he is leading us from heavenly Jerusalem, and then I'm going to put church 310 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:14.720 leadership here. And most of us know that our role here is different. 311 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.480 And Ephesians For kind of defines a little bit of that. But there's otter 312 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.680 places too where it talks about that. We'll read a couple of those. 313 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:27.240 And here's what Ephesians For says. Ephesians Force says, So Christ himself gave 314 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:34.000 the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers 315 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:40.240 to equip his people for works of service. Now, service is the niv. 316 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.119 Doma is the word. Doma is the word in the Greek, and 317 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:52.400 it means equip his people for the works of ministry ministry, and that ministry 318 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.720 is broad, it's expansive. We could we could define all sorts of ways 319 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:04.480 that now we're called as people into we're all called into the ministry. Every 320 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:15.079 Christian is called into the ministry. Yes, and so the leadership folks over 321 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.480 the church, and he defines a bunch of them here, five of them. 322 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:23.279 Here. We call this the fivefold ministry. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, 323 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:27.680 pastors, and teachers. They are to equip the people, to equip 324 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:32.599 these people for the works of ministry, so that the body of Christ may 325 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.480 be built up. Oh, they're also to build up the body of Christ 326 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:40.359 until we all reach unity and the faith and the knowledge of the Son of 327 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:44.799 God. So they bring more knowledge to the Body of Christ, and it 328 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.119 says, to the and become mature. Oh, they bring maturity part of 329 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:56.400 the blessing until we all obtain the fullness of the stature of the faith of 330 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:02.400 Jesus. So part of part of what church leadership is called to do is 331 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:07.799 that they are called to bring the body into maturity. They are called to 332 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.799 equip, they are called to build up. They are called to teach, 333 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:17.440 terrain, correct, and reprove. They so there's this calling on them. 334 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:23.799 It's different, but it's still a function that's parallel to the levitical function in 335 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:33.119 that I'm serving, or church leadership is serving under Jesus, who is the 336 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:38.640 fulfillment of the malkastic priesthood. Yes, I want to read another one till 337 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.640 you, because I think this is really a cool one, and it is 338 00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:47.880 first pet or five. And you guys know there's more about these. You 339 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:49.920 know a lot of these an adjustment first Peter or five. Though, to 340 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.880 the elders among you, I appeal as a feller elder and a witness of 341 00:29:55.000 --> 00:30:00.720 Christ suffering who also will share in the glory to be revealed. Be shepherds 342 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.559 of God's flock that is under your care. So this is one of the 343 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:10.400 callings on church leadership, and it's mentioned several times in scripture. Be shepherds, 344 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.839 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them, 345 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.359 not because you must, but because you're willing, as God wants you 346 00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:26.799 to be. Not pursuing this honest gain right. So they have a right, 347 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:34.240 they had a right to receive financially from those are caring for. But 348 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:41.640 there's also an obligation to not manipulate, not deceive, not trick, not 349 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:51.640 not have schemes that bring finance in so so being careful, not pursuing dishonest 350 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:56.160 gain, but eager to serve, not lording it over those entrusted to you. 351 00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.799 Okay, well, this is an authoritarian model. This is a theocracy. 352 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:07.000 But now we're given instruction church leaders that begin being they're giving instruction here 353 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.519 that they aren't to lord it over those It's like, you know, church 354 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.079 leaders are supposed to be like the prime minister, right, and the prime 355 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:19.559 minister the word minister doma we saw it here just a moment ago, as 356 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:26.920 servant. You know, a prime minister is it means first servant. That's 357 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:32.240 what it means. Prime minister means first servant. It goes back to what 358 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:37.960 the Lord's declared in Matthew twenty. He that wants to be the greatest must 359 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:42.160 be the servant of all, right, and so not lording it over those 360 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.920 entrusted to you, but being an example to the flock. And when the 361 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.440 chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade 362 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:57.759 away. Jesus is the chief shepherd, there are shepherds under him. And 363 00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:01.880 then like in our structure, we have an eldership team, right, And 364 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:07.880 this eldership team help us care for the flock and help us care for the 365 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.359 atmosphere of the flock, and the teaching of the flock, the instruction of 366 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.839 the flock, the people of the flock. And then under in our situation, 367 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:24.200 then we have some staff, right, we have staff, and and 368 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:30.000 right there equal to staff, we have department leaders, right, and so 369 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.480 you know, we have all of these utters. And then under you know 370 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:40.160 some of that, you know, we have connect leaders, right, and 371 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:46.279 connect leaders have a role that's under authority as well. But it's kind of 372 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:52.200 knit up here as well, because we call the connect leaders lay passers and 373 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.000 they are to help us shepherd and care for the flock. But then you 374 00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.039 know, here we are. And I think the question is, you know, 375 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:02.400 a question is you know, are we finding ourselves in this family? 376 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.440 Are we planted in the house? Are we serving under authority? Are we 377 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:13.640 revering that Jesus has set this thing in place and that Jesus has called this 378 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:20.160 whole thing Because there was a promise over Aaron, there's a parallel promise now 379 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:25.359 over Melkaesedek. And I want to read it to you out of Psalm one 380 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.119 thirty three Psalm one thirty three, and you probably know the passage, but 381 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:36.599 I want what you've heard concerning the priesthood of Erin. I wanted to relate 382 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:42.440 to your thoughts about the priesthood of Melkaesedek, because there's a parallel truth. 383 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:49.240 Here. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together 384 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:55.960 in unity and the sister and are welcome to It is like the precious oil 385 00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.920 upon the head. Okay, so the oil. The oil isn't dumped down 386 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:07.800 here. This is kind of interesting. The oil isn't dumped down here. 387 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:16.559 The oil is dumped on the head. Are you with me? It is 388 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:22.119 like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, even 389 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:28.400 aaron's beard, coming down upon the edge of his robes. It is like 390 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.519 the dew of herman coming down upon the mountains of Zion. For there the 391 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:45.920 Lord commanded the blessing even life evermore. What you know, what keeps you 392 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:50.119 know? The thing is, you still got like a peerid. You've still 393 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:54.880 got a very finite leader. Right, you got a finite leader, and 394 00:34:55.239 --> 00:35:01.480 you've got a leader with imperfections. But that's the way it was with Erin 395 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:08.280 as well. That's the way it was with erin as well. But when 396 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:15.880 there's unity, When there's unity, and when we come together, and when 397 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:22.880 we plant ourselves in a house and we come under authority and we revere the 398 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:30.360 calling of God on a leadership team and we knit ourselves to that place all 399 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:35.840 at once, we get in a spot where these blessings are coming over our 400 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:45.679 lives. And it's the blessings aren't limited by the finite imperfection of whoever God 401 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:53.159 has called over the house. I'm not a kinked hose over the house, 402 00:35:54.159 --> 00:36:01.239 right, and so the flow can't get through because because of my finite imperfections. 403 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.320 No, as long as I'm cooperating with Holy Spirit, and you're cooperating 404 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:14.519 with Holy Spirit, and we're cooperating together with Holy Spirit, then Holy Spirit 405 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:22.119 is being is pouring out these crazy blessings upon us, blessings of revelation and 406 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:32.760 blessings of help and hope and support and teamwork and success and breakthrough and prosperity 407 00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:40.079 and kindness and healing. And this is all flowing in an imperfect environment, 408 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:46.280 like it's an imperfect environment. But because we esteem that this is how God 409 00:36:46.679 --> 00:37:00.480 works, then God loses this upon us even in our imperfection. Now, 410 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.719 I would say that the American way, the American way, which is, 411 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:12.199 it's contrary to this, the American way, independent consumer, the American way, 412 00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:17.280 it's set up to keep you from really joining yourself to a house. 413 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.199 It's set up to keep you in as long as you're not fully joined to 414 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:31.519 a house. Satan knows you have an excuse not to tie them. You 415 00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:38.199 have a reason to not tie because we're just going here until we find the 416 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:44.719 right spot. We're just going here because they got a good kids ministry back 417 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:47.039 there and it works for us. We're just going here because you know, 418 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.320 we needed something that was a five minute drive and this one's five minutes away. 419 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:54.639 We're just going here because I mean, you know, they switched the 420 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:59.639 coffee beans last month over there. I hated him before, but they went 421 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.400 to that new coffee bean. And I don't know. It's a black rifle 422 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.000 being or something like that. I don't know, but it's like a conservative 423 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.840 being and like I don't it's wrapped in American flags. And then and then 424 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:15.440 they you know, and it's so good. So that's where we're going for 425 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:22.400 now. And we don't really serve, we don't get involved I'm not talking 426 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.360 about any of you. But we don't really throw ourselves into it. We 427 00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:29.559 don't really lay our lives down, we don't bring the homage of our money. 428 00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:36.159 We don't do those things because of the American influence, the American influence. 429 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:40.119 And I'm just saying that the American influence is not the Kingdom influence. 430 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.679 It's not what Gods are damed for your life. And through this little sneaky, 431 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.480 tricky stuff that Satan is playing upon your heart, it's keeping you from 432 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:53.320 tithing. And the keeping you from tithing is a part of keeping you from 433 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:59.119 unity and proper submission to authority. And so all of this is we're going 434 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.480 so you're not under a covering. It's twelve thirty seven. I've gone over. 435 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.400 I finally looked at the clock. Kay, I want to tell you 436 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.320 a story. Let's send I want to tell you a story. When we 437 00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:15.880 were getting ready to start this church in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine, 438 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.920 the word of the Lord came upon my heart. I heard very clearly, 439 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.360 not only the what the church was, the DNA of the church, 440 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:27.280 the picture of the church, but even the city. God called me to 441 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:31.639 this city. So we didn't. We didn't. We didn't call ourselves. 442 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.760 By the way, no pastor, no spiritual leader, no apostle should decide 443 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:42.280 this is what they want to do. Stupidest thing I've ever heard. Just 444 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.039 deciding you want to be in the ministry. You don't decide you want to 445 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:52.119 be in the ministry. He decides and he calls you. So the visitation 446 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.360 came upon my heart and we're praying into it. I prayed into it for 447 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.159 like a year and a half, and we're putting things in order, and 448 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:00.280 but we're just kind of, you know, behind the scenes, and we're 449 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.039 cautious and we're careful, and we're serving in another house at that time, 450 00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:09.119 so supercautious and careful, but just praying into it and trusting God. God's 451 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:14.320 confirming it with you know, various signs and wonders and and uh. But 452 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.440 I really felt the unction. I really felt like the moving of the spirit, 453 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.159 that this was the time, like the time was upon me. And 454 00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.840 so I spent a week in fastening in prayer, and that week of fastening 455 00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:30.000 in prayer was all about show me the timing Father. I don't want to 456 00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:34.480 I don't want to move till it's time to move the whole The whole week 457 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.760 was just getting before the Lord about the timing of launching the church. And 458 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.079 at the end of the week, I mean the correlation. I didn't know 459 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.519 all this was going to correlate like this. But at the end of the 460 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.960 week, I went to a ministry conference. And at the ministry conference, 461 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.639 I was invited. First day the ministry conference, I was invited to lunch 462 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.760 with a bunch of pastors. And so I'm kind of the young buck and 463 00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:00.239 I didn't know these guys, and they all invite me to this law lunch 464 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.039 during the break, you know, like on day one or whatever. And 465 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:06.559 so I go to lunch. I'll go to this restaurant. And so then 466 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:08.159 the men separated from the women, all the ladies or somewhere else in the 467 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:12.400 restaurant. All the guys were sitting at these tables, you know, together, 468 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:19.800 and and so the conversation turned to something and it made me remember that 469 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.400 last night I had this crazy dream. So I'm sitting there and I'm remembering, 470 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.079 Wow, that reminds me of that dream. So, and what had 471 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.519 happened is I had woke up the morning of that ministry conference. I had 472 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.639 woke up from a crazy dream, and I didn't know the meaning of it. 473 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:37.760 I didn't think it wasn't meaning. I actually thought it was stupid. 474 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.119 I thought it was a stupid dream. And so that's how spirtual I was. 475 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:46.079 And so the conversation turned. I'm like, oh, yeah, so 476 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:50.480 I wanted to tell him about this dream. So I start telling these guys 477 00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:54.119 about the stream that, Yeah, last night I had the dream I walked 478 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:59.599 into a barber shop and the barber put me up in the barber chair and 479 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:01.960 you know, kind of pumped it up a little bit, and then you 480 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.039 know, I had an apron on and it was just it was total barber 481 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:07.760 scene, right, It was just this total barber scene. And then he 482 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:09.639 said, what kind of you know, what do you want me to do? 483 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:14.119 And I said, yeah, just you know, trimmed the back up 484 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:15.239 a little bit. I had, you know, I had business in the 485 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.840 front and party on the back, and you know, I had a big 486 00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:23.480 curly mullet back in those days. I had hair in those days and so 487 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.599 so, and you know, and then just trimmed the top. And he 488 00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:30.159 said, well, I don't know how I'm gonna do that. Uh, 489 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:34.719 And he as he said that he spun my chair around to face the mirror, 490 00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:37.199 and when I looked at myself in the mirror, the whole top of 491 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.880 my head with bald all I had with a little bit of hair going around 492 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:43.840 the side of me like this, and the whole top of me with bold 493 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:47.679 And that was the end of the dream. So I'm sharing this and the 494 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:53.800 guy across from me, what's the chances of this? The guy across from 495 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:57.320 me, he just likes, looks at me sober, and he says, 496 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:01.159 pastor divine, I had a name tag on. He said, that's not 497 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.880 a humors stream. That's a word from God for you. And God just 498 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.199 gave me the interpretation. You don't know it, but I interpret dreams. 499 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.079 He said, would you see me afterwards, I'll tell you what the Lord 500 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:16.719 just showed me. So I meet him after the lunch and you know, 501 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:20.320 we're talking and he says, here's what the Lord showed me. The Lord 502 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:23.039 said that you're about to leave where you're at and about to start something new. 503 00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:25.400 And I said, yes, that's true. And the Lord showed me 504 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.880 you're moving from where you're at in ministry. It's going to be north of 505 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.519 where it's at, and it's going to be a ministry endeavor. And yes, 506 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:36.440 that's true. And he said, here's what the Lord was showing you 507 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.840 in that dream. The Lord was showing you because you've been asking him when 508 00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:45.119 should I go. But the Lord was showing you that you'll know when to 509 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:50.519 go because you will have a covering. And the Lord was saying to you 510 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:57.880 to not launch this ministry before you have a covering, because the covering is 511 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:04.199 the symbol of your annoying and if you're not covered, you won't have the 512 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:12.760 anointing. And I think this is so relevant for American church. You know, 513 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:16.519 thinking about statistics, say that in the Puge Sound in Washington State Pugi 514 00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:22.039 Sound that well over thirty percent up to thirty five percent of the Pugi Sound 515 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:27.880 region call themselves Christian. They declare they are Christians believers in Jesus. But 516 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.880 on any given Sunday or what we know in terms of actively involved in church 517 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:37.960 in the Washington State region, the Pugisund region, nine percent of the population 518 00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:42.920 are actively involved in church, nine percent are involved in church. Well over 519 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:49.320 twenty to twenty five percent of our population are not involved or engaged in any 520 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:52.920 church at all. And I think what they don't realize, and what people 521 00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.880 don't realize is that the covering over you has a lot to do with the 522 00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:04.960 anointing that is upon your life. You're anointing for influence, your anointing for 523 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:08.960 breakthrough, your anointing for your calling, your anointing for what God's ordained for 524 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:15.400 you, your anointing as a marketplace apostle, or your anointing for whatever it 525 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.039 is that God has for you. It is so related to your covering. 526 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:28.280 And so many of us don't realize that we need to be under the right 527 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:34.320 covering, knit to that covering where God has called us, and honoring that 528 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:39.039 covering and that covering, that right relationship will release something in our lives we've 529 00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:46.840 never had released before. Father, we even pray over this region right now, 530 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.280 would you just lift a hand with me, Lord, We just shout 531 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:58.679 right now that scales are lifted off of the eyes of the believers across this 532 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:02.480 region, that the tricks, the schemes, the doctrines of demons, the 533 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:09.159 influence of darkness, or the hearts of those who believe in Jesus and seek 534 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:15.519 to follow him, that those scales are lifted right now, right now, 535 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:19.239 that there is a coming back to the House of the Lord. There's a 536 00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.920 coming back to the church. There's a coming back, and there's a mending 537 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.440 and a healing right now, and I want to speak to something with your 538 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.119 heads about your eyes closed, just for a moment. Is that every one 539 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:37.800 of us, the enemy wants so badly to keep us from being planted in 540 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.199 the House of the Lord. And so every one of us, every one 541 00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:44.440 of us, it's not just these American schemes that I've talked about, but 542 00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:50.800 it's injuries, it's offenses, it's even noting sin or problems and leadership. 543 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:55.559 And I just want to speak over all of you this morning that there would 544 00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.559 just be a healing in our hearts that we would just allow. I want 545 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:07.360 to kneel before you, and I want to just ask right now on behalf 546 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:15.880 of church leaders. Would you forgive on behalf of church leaders? Would you 547 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:25.119 forgive us? Would you forgive us for manipulating your family? Would you forgive 548 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:34.320 us for continuing in sin when we knew it was wrong? Would you forgive 549 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:45.719 us for coming into the pulpit flagrantly not prepared, not seeking your game but 550 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:51.039 seeking our own? Would you forgive church leaders? Would you forgive church leaders 551 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:55.159 that brought harm to your family, brought harm to you, offended you. 552 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:05.440 Would you forgive church leaders today that struck you like Moses struck the Rock, 553 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:13.440 with a harsh attitude and negative attitude, a condemning attitude, a judgmental attitude. 554 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:19.239 They didn't shepherd your heart as they were called to do by Christ. 555 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:24.639 To the chief Shepherd, I'm asking this morning that she would allow the Holy 556 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:36.280 Spirit to bathe your heart right now with the water of Walsh. Whatever obstruction 557 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:42.800 has harmed you, it's kept you from planting, it's kept you from fully 558 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:49.280 giving your heart to a local body, an assembly of Zion and expression of 559 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:57.119 Melkasitic ministry. Whatever has harmed you and hindered you through the hands the voice 560 00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:04.920 the ministry of church leadership, I'm asking that you would forgive them, that 561 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:10.000 you would turn them over to Father. You would no longer you would no 562 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:19.800 longer hold or withhold trust, withholding trust from church leaders, be angry, 563 00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:32.639 being frustrated. Holy Spirit cleanse us today, make us a refreshed people who 564 00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:40.480 us to the very core. Holy Spirit cause us here to model a theocracy, 565 00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:50.079 causes heaven to come, causes the full stature of Jesus to be manifest 566 00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:57.679 work, Holy Spirit in a powerful way, with mercy and grace and perfection. 567 00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:05.119 Let all of it be present, so that we are able to receive 568 00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:13.639 from finite and imperfect vessels and yet believed together for the fullness of Jesus to 569 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:17.519 come and the perfecting worth the Lord to be completed in us and through us. 570 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:24.199 Do a good work here, Holy Spirit. I'm asking also, Holy 571 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:30.239 Spirit, that you would lead each of us to the house where we belong. 572 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:37.679 Let there be just a witness of the spirit that is undeniable. Oh 573 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.400 nit is to the leadership team and knit us to the house where you've called 574 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:46.519 us, and let the calling be made clear. We thank you for it 575 00:50:46.559 --> 00:51:01.079 today. Thank you for it today. Thank you for it today. Thank 576 00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:09.800 you Laurd, Thank you Lord, Thanks your Lord, Thank you Laurd, 577 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:27.320 Thank you Laurd. People watching online, I've experienced the same thing. And 578 00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:31.119 if we're still if we're still online, I don't know if we are just 579 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:34.960 you that are watching. Oh, the Lord wants to plant you in a 580 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:40.719 body. He covets that you are knit to a family. You've been wounded 581 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.800 through family, You've been wounded through dads and moms. My father wants to 582 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:49.400 plant you in a family. He wants to knit you to a family. 583 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:58.480 He wants you to become a valuable family member. We just lose the love 584 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:00.519 of the Lord, or for you that are watching you, that are going 585 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:08.880 to watch this stream, that you two find healing and that you're able to 586 00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:17.679 migrate hand forsake independence and become adopted into a family, find that place where 587 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:23.239 you're called. This is how we overcome the enemy. We can't overcome the 588 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:32.159 enemy with unity. Unity, unity, unity, unity, Unity releases the 589 00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:37.960 fullness of Jesus in our midst, Unity releases the anointing of Jesus in our 590 00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:46.719 midst. Would you reach over and take a hand of the person beside you, 591 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:54.119 as sweaty as it might be, and let's just do this as we 592 00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:59.920 close this morning, just symbolically, Holy Spirit, but more than symbolic, 593 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.280 lead to the core of our hearts, just asking, Holy Spirit, would 594 00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:07.360 you make us swan? Would you make us swan? Would you make us 595 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:15.000 one with Jesus? Would you make us one with Jesus. If we'll become 596 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.639 one with Jesus, will become one with one another. We'll become one with 597 00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:23.880 one another. Lose a unity with Jesus in this place, Holy Spirit, 598 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:30.199 lose a unity with Jesus in our lives. Lose a unity with Jesus, 599 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:37.360 and cause us to be those who hold on to one another and build up 600 00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:43.719 one another and strengthen one another. Let the love of Christ be lose to 601 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:52.039 flow through us one to another. We come into agreement with that right now 602 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:59.199 in Jesus name. Everybody said, God, bless your church. We love 603 00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:04.559 you, appreciate you as worship as we go this morning,