WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.720 Word. We thank you that you are present in your 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:10.279 word to inspire to enthuse the You know the word enthusiasm, 3 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:18.120 It means you know that it comes from in Theosism. Enthusiasm 4 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:24.559 comes from in theos God in you, God in you. 5 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:29.239 Enthusiasm comes from God. When God gets in you, it 6 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:34.920 lights you up. You are enthused. When God is in you, 7 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.920 as you welcome, as you allow, as you receive from God, 8 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.920 then a passion, a flame, a fire comes alive within 9 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:50.799 you that nothing else can compare to. So God, we 10 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:58.520 just receive in Theosism. We receive enthusiasm today, Holy Spirit, 11 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:02.719 we welcome you life, eat up our hearts, light up 12 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.680 our hearts. We give you the praise for it in 13 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:15.879 Jesus name. Everybody said, we we spoke a little bit 14 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.840 about royalty last week, and I want to we'll just 15 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:24.079 spend a couple of minutes on that royalty royalty versus religion, 16 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:35.560 or royalty versus slavery, or royalty versus performance orientation. And 17 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.640 I had a couple of stories on that that for 18 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:45.239 the at the risk of telling too many stories of 19 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.640 which usually I'm just absolutely dry on stories. But then 20 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.799 Holy Spirit sometimes gives me these stories and I'm like, 21 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:59.760 thank you, Holy Spirit, I needed that. But I'll tell 22 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:03.359 you story, and tell you a quick story that'll lead 23 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:08.599 you to another story. They're both voting stories, which is odd. 24 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.000 But that's good. Good, that's good. When we had a 25 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.840 labrador for seven years, every story was a lab story, 26 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.240 remember that, Remember Lily the lab We had so many 27 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.319 lab stories. It was good, it was wonderful. But this 28 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.240 one here, this one here is a story about we 29 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:29.719 had a we had a doctor associate. And this doctor 30 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:36.120 treated me and many of the family members and so 31 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.280 and it wasn't like a health doctor. It was you know, 32 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.800 I don't know, I don't want to tell too much 33 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.039 of the story, but something to do with helping you 34 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:49.520 look better. That kind of a doctor, right, And so 35 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.280 then we spent a lot of time at this doctor's office. 36 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.319 And then one of our kids became best friends with 37 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:03.800 their kids. Well, this doctor is super successful and extremely wealthy, 38 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.919 owns twelve or twenty homes all over the place, and 39 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:11.039 where they would go and lived in a big mansion 40 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.039 on South Hill with a swimming pool. And then they 41 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:18.280 also had a lake house and I live in my 42 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.439 lake house. They just had it as an extra house 43 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.400 and so you know, back in the day, the kids 44 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.080 were younger, and I was spending enough time at this 45 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.520 office that there was some association going on, and he 46 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:37.039 was a believer, Like they were really strong believers. And 47 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.360 so one day they invited us to the lake house. 48 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.159 So Joel and I they were invited us to the 49 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.680 lake house. Well, you know, we love that lake, lake taps, 50 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.520 We loved the lake, but we didn't you know, I 51 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.319 think we had jet skis at the time, but we didn't, 52 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.680 you know, I mean, we were more like po folks, 53 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.639 you know, he po folks, So we were, you know, 54 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:05.080 po folks. So they're so poor that they're missing the R, right, 55 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.159 they can't even afford the R. They're just po folks. 56 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.560 So yeah, that's a Joe Simms joke right there. So 57 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.720 the invited stuff at the lake house, well just somehow, 58 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.199 and I don't know if this has ever happened to you, 59 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.279 but I'm suspecting it has. Is that we have religious 60 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.759 things that are trying to quench our royalty all the time, 61 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:31.040 and trying to quench the fullness of what we have 62 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.279 possess and have received and who have made the bee 63 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.360 in Christ. All the time. We have religious stuff grappling 64 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.519 at us. But then we also have our own stuff. 65 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.199 We've got like our first atom stuff, the old creation 66 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.600 stuff that's trying to pull us down as well. And 67 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:52.160 that stuff is also trying to tell us that we're inferior, 68 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.040 that we're worthy of rejection, that we don't fit, that 69 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.680 we're So it's not just you know, the qualit before 70 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.800 God stuff, but we also have the qualified among men stuff, 71 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.360 if you know what I'm talking about. And usually when 72 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:14.279 we feel like we're qualified in our audience of relationships, 73 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:19.800 we feel better about ourselves. Anybody feel better about yourself? Okay, 74 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.319 one honest person, but okay, but the truth of the 75 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:30.240 matter is the supreme qualification is with him, right. Anyway, 76 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.000 these folks invited us to go out on the late day. 77 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:38.199 I don't know what I did wrong, but I felt like, Hey, 78 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.399 this is cool, Like something is buddy here. You know, 79 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.839 I could just sense something was really budding, you know, 80 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.040 you ever since something is really budding about the but 81 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.560 about the bloom. I'm like, oh, this is so cool. 82 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.199 And so we went to their lakehouse, special lake house, 83 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:56.120 and they invited us even for food, and you know, 84 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.720 there was food, and then we went down on the 85 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.360 boat and we went for a tour around the lake. 86 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.600 And I don't know what I did wrong, but whatever 87 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:10.120 I did, like they were, they were they were casting 88 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.120 the net, you know, kind of a thing they were. 89 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:13.879 They were kind of you could tell. It was like 90 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.439 a friendship interview. You ever been on one of those? 91 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:25.439 You been on a friendship interview? I failed. I turned 92 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.120 in my application, I went for the interview. I failed. 93 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.680 I don't know what I did. You know, my lovely 94 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.360 wife and I we've talked about this, you know a 95 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.800 few times since since, like I don't you know, we're 96 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.759 done talking about it now, of course, but you know, 97 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.720 but back in the day when this happened, it was like, 98 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.040 I don't know, you know, did I talk too much? 99 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:45.360 Was that I was nervous? I was nervous. You ever 100 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.360 been nervous? I was nervous. I don't know. If I 101 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:52.199 talked too much, told too many dumb jokes? Was I 102 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.000 too goofy? Was I just not cool enough? You know, 103 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.600 you gotta flex your chest sometimes a little bit, you know, 104 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.199 you know, act more cool. I don't know. Sometimes I'm 105 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.720 bad at cool. I'm good at goofy, but bad at cool. 106 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:05.959 So I don't know. It could have been that I 107 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:09.399 was bad at cool and to goofy, But that was 108 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.040 like the interview was over and it was kind of 109 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.519 a you know, we got in the car and drove away, 110 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.000 and that was kind of at the end. We were 111 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.600 never invited to the lake again. The fact is, I 112 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.199 don't know if we've ever even had a conversation, you know, 113 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.199 you know, I mean it was just like, okay, well, 114 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:37.240 glory and what we have to know and does this 115 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.480 happened to you? You failed the interview. What we have 116 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.680 to know is that Father still has poured out every 117 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:50.279 blessing on us, that he still calls us royalty, whether 118 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.199 we measure up with man, whether we rasure up with religion, 119 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.279 whether no matter what our history has been, whatever our 120 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.920 family has been, whatever, it doesn't you know, I don't 121 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:02.639 know what it was that day, the shorts, the hair, 122 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.879 you know, I don't know what it was. But here's 123 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:10.360 the beautiful thing. We've still been blessed with everything we 124 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.839 need in Christ Jesus. We still have been brought into 125 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.519 heavenly places. In Christ Jesus. We are still we are 126 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.800 still a walking open heaven. You're a walking open heaven. 127 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.000 You're a walking revival. You're you you. We we still 128 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.920 have to know that we are royalty. We are royalty. 129 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.159 I was thinking coming into the ordination. I was thinking 130 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.679 of Ephesians chapter four, because I was going to read 131 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.279 a little portion of that. How when he ascended, he 132 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.240 gave gifts to men, and then he called them to 133 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.759 be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip the 134 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.559 people for ministry. So I was thinking on that, and 135 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:55.440 I started with Ephesians for one as a prisoner for 136 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.240 the Lord. This is just a couple of verses where 137 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.879 he starts this, But you have to realize that he 138 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:06.759 Ephesians four is the breakpoint in the six chapters. Ephesians 139 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:11.200 is six chapters, and Ephesians four is actually the beginning 140 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.279 of the second half of the book or the letter, 141 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.080 and he actually shifts into a new dimension, and so 142 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:23.320 it's totally different than the first part. And this is 143 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:26.200 how it starts. As a prisoner of the Lord, I 144 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.480 urge you to live a life worthy of the calling 145 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.360 you've received. I urge you to live a life worthy 146 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.000 of the calling you've received. Well, he spends the first 147 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.360 three chapters telling us and the Ephesians Church. How amazing 148 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.559 we are. He's telling us in chapter one, verse three, 149 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.279 that we're blessed with every spiritual gift in Christ Jesus. 150 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:54.799 He tells us in chapter three that God will do 151 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.559 abundantly be on what we ask or think. He tells 152 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.360 us in chapter three, and it's now through the Church 153 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.639 that the mystery of God will be disclosed and made 154 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:08.639 known to principalities and powers and authorities in the heavenly places. 155 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:11.720 He's telling us all through. He's telling us in chapter 156 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.759 two that we've received grace and that he's broken down 157 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:19.440 the dividing wall between jew and gentile, and those who 158 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:23.399 didn't have any promises have been brought into the promises 159 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:27.840 of God, and we gentiles have been made partakers of 160 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.879 the promises of God. I mean, he's telling us for 161 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.960 three chapters all this amazing stuff, and then he's exhorting us, 162 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.320 and he's also praying that we would come to know this. Right, 163 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.000 there's a giant prayer in chapter one and in chapter 164 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.759 three that we would come to know the hope of 165 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:51.639 our calling and the power. Do you remember what the 166 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:55.519 first one was in chapter one? The inheritance we have 167 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:59.720 in the Saints. That's why it's good when we hear 168 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:03.799 one another sharing and testifying, and when we love on 169 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.440 one another, because we're actually one family, and there's an 170 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:11.440 inheritance we have toward one another in the Saints. So 171 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.120 the inheritance we have in the hope of our calling 172 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.919 and the power to us who believe, which is the 173 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.679 same power that raised Stries from the dead. So he's 174 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.279 praying that we would come into that knowledge, and he's 175 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.080 praying that the Holy Spirit of wisdom and revelation will 176 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.559 visit us so that we'll come to know that stuff, 177 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.080 because if we don't know it, and if we don't 178 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.919 come into the understanding of it, we may not touch 179 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.600 verse one of verse four, that we will begin to 180 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.080 live a life worthy of the royalty we've been called to. 181 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.639 You are called a royalty. You are not a Walmart 182 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:06.919 shopper in your pajamas. God bless you if you try 183 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:11.120 that one time, Heaven help you. But just don't let 184 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:14.399 that be your identity. Church. You are the head and 185 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.399 not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You 186 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:24.480 lend and you don't borrow. You are the supreme. You're 187 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.720 the kings of the nations and the kings of the earth. 188 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.679 You are the priests of God, meaning people find Christ 189 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.480 through you. You represent Christ to them. We don't have 190 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.840 a priesthood. We have one priest and a giant priesthood. 191 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.679 We're different, we're different. Some churches are still reaching into 192 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.360 the old system and they have a priest or, a father, 193 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.240 or a rector or somebody. They have something up here, 194 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.559 and so all of the lay people they lay around, 195 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.360 they're called laity, and they're just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, 196 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:02.919 sheep dumb. And then we have the clergy in salvations 197 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.720 for the clergy, and the clergy is really they're the 198 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.639 cool ones. They're the anointed ones. That's not the New 199 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.600 Testament Church, that is not the New Testament. The New 200 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:17.120 Testament is. You are all anointed. You are all the ministers, 201 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:21.080 you are all the called of God. You are all 202 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.399 a royal priesthood. You all carry Yeshia in your gut 203 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.600 and in your gizzard. You are all a walking revival, 204 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.480 and you are in open heaven wherever you go. Heaven 205 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.600 is not a place you're going to, It's an atmosphere 206 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:40.279 you carry. Every one of us. Do that, anyone on 207 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:44.519 this platform or in this ministry that leads is an equipper. 208 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.200 They aren't one. We don't. I can't dispense any more 209 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.519 grace than anybody else in this building, because we're all 210 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:55.519 dispensers of grace, because we're all equal partakers of grace. 211 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.360 But we have to come to that knowledge. We have 212 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:03.759 to knowledge or we will not walk worthy of our calling. 213 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:08.879 And he exhorts us for the next three chapters. He's 214 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.159 exhorting us to walk worthy. That's just the beginning of 215 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:16.240 us walking. He starts that way second half, to walk 216 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.799 worthy of our royal calling. That we are no longer slaves, 217 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:24.159 We're no longer performers. We're no longer getting our identity 218 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.080 out of performance. We're not getting our identity out of 219 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.240 what somebody says, or if they don't want to take 220 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.759 us on another boat ride or not. Our identity is 221 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:38.000 secure in the Beloved, It's secure in his purchase of 222 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:43.120 our salvation. It cannot be taken away from us, he 223 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:49.600 says in Roman chapter eight. Not height, nor depth, nor persecution, 224 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.600 nor famine nor peril. There is nothing that can separate 225 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.399 us from the love of God. There's nothing that can 226 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.840 separate us from the love of God. Which is fir 227 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.639 established who we've become in Him, and that we are 228 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:10.759 full part takers now of everything everything in Christ Jesus. 229 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.360 But knowledge is key. You're you're really not here today. 230 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.399 You're not really here today to get more holy You're 231 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.960 not here today to get a deeper revival. You're not 232 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.080 here to really today to get more glory. You're not 233 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.159 here today to get some this dispensing from us that 234 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.879 you don't already possess. You're here today primarily to get knowledge. 235 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.480 You're here today primarily to get knowledge, because you already, 236 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:44.080 if you're in Christ, you possess all things already. You 237 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:48.039 just don't know you possess it. You don't know what 238 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:54.600 you already have. We assemble many times the a major 239 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:01.679 focus of our assembly is that we would receive more knowledge, 240 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:07.320 because knowledge is central. Knowledge is critical. And when we're 241 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.159 worshiping the Lord and the Holy Spirit starts. Because because 242 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.039 when you're worshiping, what happens. The Bible says, when you worship, 243 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:18.200 and this is what happened with David, who was a 244 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:24.240 precursor to the Salvation. We experience what happened in Zion, 245 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.000 and why we have the psalms, Why do we have 246 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:33.480 all these prophetic psalms, all these crazy, crazy, crazy amazing psalms. 247 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.799 Why do we have those? Because in Zion, where they 248 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.000 brought not animal sacrifice, but the sacrifice of their lips 249 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:46.600 and the sacrifice of their instruments, then God would minister 250 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.799 to them and minister through them, because as it says 251 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:54.679 in the psalms, they would assind with a shout, they 252 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.600 would ascend with the clap, they would ascend with praise, 253 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.120 they would ascend with the worship. They would go. And 254 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.240 what happens with us is we come up into the 255 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:10.880 place where we're already seated in Him. When we worship, 256 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:14.240 we come up into the place where we're already seated 257 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:21.000 in Him, and we're able to receive what's being spoken 258 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:28.119 over us in that atmosphere, so we're getting knowledge. That's 259 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:32.559 a part of why it's so rich to worship is 260 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:37.960 because worship and praise brings you up to where you're 261 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:43.359 already at so you can hear what's already being said 262 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.920 that you weren't hearing that you need to hear, and 263 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:54.440 it's the release of the prophetic promises over your life. 264 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:59.519 Because God's not done talking. The canon was not the 265 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:03.000 ceiling of God's voice. We didn't close the writing of 266 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.200 the cannon, the canonizing of scripture. We didn't close the 267 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:11.759 canonized in scripture. And then some ecclesiastical denomination somewhere shouted, Okay, 268 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:16.200 you're done. You can't talk anymore. We forbid you to talk. 269 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:22.200 That isn't what happened. God still talks, the Holy Spirit 270 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.279 still leads, The sons of God are led by the 271 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:34.079 Spirit of God, and knowledge is central. Let's go to 272 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.720 second Peter. I'm gonna close just a moment. I'm working 273 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.200 on my first closing. We've got a keyboard coming. I 274 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:45.359 can't close without a keyboard. Keep preaching, he'll get trip 275 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.519 him on the way. Just keep preaching until he gets 276 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.519 on the platform. Sorry about that rope on your leg. 277 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.839 Tewod Peter. Chapter one, Simon, Peter, are a bond servant 278 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.440 apostle Jesus Christ to those who have received of faith 279 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.400 the same as ours, by the righteousness of our God 280 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.839 and Savior of Jesus Christ. So we've received this salvation, 281 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:14.519 this faith, we've received by His righteousness imputed to our 282 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.200 spiritual account. Right then he goes on. Grace and peace 283 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:25.240 be multiplied to you. They knew about math two thousand 284 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:31.359 years ago. Multiplication not just simply added to your life, 285 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.799 but grace and peace be multiplied, exponentially, poured out upon you. 286 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:39.160 Let grace and peace be poured out multiplied to you 287 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.519 in the knowledge of God, Oh, in the Oh, in 288 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:48.119 the knowledge of Oh, in the knowledge of God. Knowledge 289 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.799 is connected to grace and peace. Grace is unmerited favor 290 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.079 and deserved favor, unearned favor. But grace is also the 291 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:02.279 power to accomplish God's will, no matter how big that 292 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.880 word or will is over you. So grace grace be 293 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:09.519 multiplied to you. Peace is shalom. Shalom be multiplied to you. 294 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:13.960 Shalom is nothing lacking and nothing missing, is what shalom is. 295 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.599 Shalom only exists in its fullest expression, where there's nothing 296 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.119 lacking and nothing missing. And that's what the word means. 297 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:25.079 Grace and peace be multiplied to you. But how in 298 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:29.359 the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Why 299 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:34.480 Because everything that we've become is hidden in him, and 300 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.480 he's the fountain head of the new creation of whom 301 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.039 we've become. Seeing that His divine nature has granted to 302 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.440 us everything pertaining to life and godliness, how many things. 303 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:50.039 Notice that it's granted. It's not going to be granted. 304 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.920 You already have everything you need for tomorrow. You already 305 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.000 have everything you need for Tuesday. You already have everything 306 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.160 you need for Wednesday. You have everything you need for. 307 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.680 Every difficulty coming, every trial coming, every problem coming, every 308 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:08.480 bill coming, you already have everything you need. He's granted 309 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.119 to us. His divine power is granted to us everything 310 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.480 pertaining to life, life, and godliness. Well, I just want 311 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.519 to be more godly. Well I just want more life. Hey, 312 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.880 let's have both through the true knowledge. We go back 313 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:28.079 to knowledge. Through the true knowledge, that means there can 314 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:33.759 be Leviathan, there can be twistings, there can be lying knowledge. 315 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.880 There can be twisted knowledge, there can be distorted knowledge, 316 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.039 there can be there can be deceiving knowledge. We have 317 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:42.640 to have the true knowledge. If we don't have the 318 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:46.519 true knowledge, then we aren't going to have everything granted 319 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.279 to us. But it's not his problem. He granted it. 320 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.440 Where it's us we're missing it. You ever miss it 321 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:56.279 through the true knowledge of Him who called us by 322 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.039 his own glory and excellence. Verse four. Now look at this, 323 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:04.359 for by these he has granted to us his precious 324 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:17.440 and magnificent What promises, oh, oh, my goodness, promises are 325 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:23.119 how we acquire or lay hold of, or come into 326 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:27.480 the understanding of the knowledge by these he has granted 327 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:31.799 to us his precious, magnificent promises, so that by them, 328 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:39.640 by the promises which define the knowledge which we must have, 329 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:46.160 by them you meet, you may become partakers of the 330 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:55.480 divine nature. Are you lacking some of the divine nature? 331 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.519 Are you? Are you falling short? Are you needing more? 332 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.839 Are you desiring more of a man manifestation? Well, he's 333 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:03.960 not going to give you more of the divine nature. 334 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:08.519 He already gave you all of the divine nature. What 335 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:13.319 you're lacking is the knowledge of the promises. As you 336 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:16.960 acquire the knowledge of the promises, then you immediately and 337 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:23.400 simultaneously come into receiving, partaking of, and manifesting the divine nature. 338 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:28.039 And then theology is going to come along, and religion 339 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:30.119 is going to come along and saying WHOA Now, well, 340 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:36.720 now be careful, you're going to have valleys. You're gonna 341 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.240 they went through a wilderness for forty years, You're going 342 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.079 to go through a wilderness and you've got some valleys 343 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:45.480 coming up, and you've got some dry times and some discouragement, 344 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:47.680 and there's going to be some really hard stuff that 345 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:50.039 comes your way. So you just might as well expect 346 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:54.319 that because they went through that, uh and and they 347 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:57.519 they had a big wilderness and there's going to be 348 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.160 a lot of stuff like that. So just prepare, prepare 349 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.880 like that. But then they these people have not read 350 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:09.319 the Bible. Not only do you become a particular of 351 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:13.680 the divine nature, but you escape the corruption that is 352 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:22.720 in the world. I know, it's hard to believe in it. 353 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.759 You can't even believe. It's so good. This is so good, 354 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.119 you can't even believe it because people have told you. 355 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:37.359 People have even told you that, I hope you didn't 356 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:42.440 come to the Lord to get out of troubles, right, 357 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.000 people have told you that, I hope you haven't come 358 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:47.119 to the Lord, because if you came to the Lord 359 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:50.720 expecting a better life, that's a bad motive to come 360 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:53.759 to the Lord. Like life is still going to be 361 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:58.480 hi double toothpicks. But at least you've got the peace 362 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:02.079 of God in your heart. That's what you've been told 363 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.519 for hundreds of years. But that says right there. Not 364 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:08.039 only do I become a partaker of the divine nature. 365 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:12.200 I escape the corruption that is in the world through 366 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.240 deceit or lust. Send with me. I know we got 367 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:19.559 to close. I'm just telling you the Bible is going 368 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.680 to scare the crid right out of all those lives 369 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.319 that you've been heard listening to, and all of that 370 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:30.640 stuff that's told you that you are not royalty, that 371 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.799 you are not set apart, that you're not a partaker 372 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:39.200 of the goodness of God. The word of God is true. 373 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:42.359 The word of God is true, and the Word of 374 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.400 God is declaring this over you today, that you are royalty, 375 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:51.160 that you are sons and daughters of God, that you 376 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:54.599 who have given your heart to Him, you have trusted 377 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:59.880 him for salvation. You're leaning into him. You're recognizing, in 378 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.480 counting your old life as put to death with Him 379 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.759 and the Cross, you have already come into resurrection, and 380 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:13.759 you are living with Him, victorious over sin, over corruption, 381 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:21.359 over the curse, over darkness, hopelessness, fear, over depression, over performance, 382 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.599 and the demands of religion destiny theme. Would you come, 383 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:28.559 just spend a couple more minutes with us at the front, 384 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:31.640 If you're here today giving your life back to the Lord. 385 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:35.279 If you're here today you've been just like overwhelmed with 386 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:40.319 falling short in performance. If you're here today needing just 387 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:43.680 the encouragement of the spirit of God on you, and 388 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:49.039 if you missed just being prayed for, we want you 389 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:51.680 to come and just be ministered to. As we're closing today, 390 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:58.759 we've got those ordination placards to sign. We've got lunch 391 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:00.680 for you today. You don't need to us out of here. 392 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.680 We've got everything covered. This is like Fred Meyram. This 393 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.720 is like one stop shopping right here. Pharmacy is right 394 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.279 around the corner. If you need a little anointing oil, 395 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.720 they'll give that to you instead of aspiring. Okay, so 396 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.960 but listen, listen, you don't need to run out of here. 397 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.240 God is good, love one another. That's the inheritance we 398 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.799 have in the saints, and then tap into the goodness 399 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:30.440 of God that's ours in the power to those who believe. Father, 400 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.240 we thank you for this day. We thank you for 401 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.319