Speaker 1: Word. We thank you that you are present in your
Speaker 1: word to inspire to enthuse the You know the word enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: It means you know that it comes from in Theosism. Enthusiasm
Speaker 1: comes from in theos God in you, God in you.
Speaker 1: Enthusiasm comes from God. When God gets in you, it
Speaker 1: lights you up. You are enthused. When God is in you,
Speaker 1: as you welcome, as you allow, as you receive from God,
Speaker 1: then a passion, a flame, a fire comes alive within
Speaker 1: you that nothing else can compare to. So God, we
Speaker 1: just receive in Theosism. We receive enthusiasm today, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: we welcome you life, eat up our hearts, light up
Speaker 1: our hearts. We give you the praise for it in
Speaker 1: Jesus name. Everybody said, we we spoke a little bit
Speaker 1: about royalty last week, and I want to we'll just
Speaker 1: spend a couple of minutes on that royalty royalty versus religion,
Speaker 1: or royalty versus slavery, or royalty versus performance orientation. And
Speaker 1: I had a couple of stories on that that for
Speaker 1: the at the risk of telling too many stories of
Speaker 1: which usually I'm just absolutely dry on stories. But then
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit sometimes gives me these stories and I'm like,
Speaker 1: thank you, Holy Spirit, I needed that. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you story, and tell you a quick story that'll lead
Speaker 1: you to another story. They're both voting stories, which is odd.
Speaker 1: But that's good. Good, that's good. When we had a
Speaker 1: labrador for seven years, every story was a lab story,
Speaker 1: remember that, Remember Lily the lab We had so many
Speaker 1: lab stories. It was good, it was wonderful. But this
Speaker 1: one here, this one here is a story about we
Speaker 1: had a we had a doctor associate. And this doctor
Speaker 1: treated me and many of the family members and so
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like a health doctor. It was you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to tell too much
Speaker 1: of the story, but something to do with helping you
Speaker 1: look better. That kind of a doctor, right, And so
Speaker 1: then we spent a lot of time at this doctor's office.
Speaker 1: And then one of our kids became best friends with
Speaker 1: their kids. Well, this doctor is super successful and extremely wealthy,
Speaker 1: owns twelve or twenty homes all over the place, and
Speaker 1: where they would go and lived in a big mansion
Speaker 1: on South Hill with a swimming pool. And then they
Speaker 1: also had a lake house and I live in my
Speaker 1: lake house. They just had it as an extra house
Speaker 1: and so you know, back in the day, the kids
Speaker 1: were younger, and I was spending enough time at this
Speaker 1: office that there was some association going on, and he
Speaker 1: was a believer, Like they were really strong believers. And
Speaker 1: so one day they invited us to the lake house.
Speaker 1: So Joel and I they were invited us to the
Speaker 1: lake house. Well, you know, we love that lake, lake taps,
Speaker 1: We loved the lake, but we didn't you know, I
Speaker 1: think we had jet skis at the time, but we didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we were more like po folks,
Speaker 1: you know, he po folks, So we were, you know,
Speaker 1: po folks. So they're so poor that they're missing the R, right,
Speaker 1: they can't even afford the R. They're just po folks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a Joe Simms joke right there. So
Speaker 1: the invited stuff at the lake house, well just somehow,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this has ever happened to you,
Speaker 1: but I'm suspecting it has. Is that we have religious
Speaker 1: things that are trying to quench our royalty all the time,
Speaker 1: and trying to quench the fullness of what we have
Speaker 1: possess and have received and who have made the bee
Speaker 1: in Christ. All the time. We have religious stuff grappling
Speaker 1: at us. But then we also have our own stuff.
Speaker 1: We've got like our first atom stuff, the old creation
Speaker 1: stuff that's trying to pull us down as well. And
Speaker 1: that stuff is also trying to tell us that we're inferior,
Speaker 1: that we're worthy of rejection, that we don't fit, that
Speaker 1: we're So it's not just you know, the qualit before
Speaker 1: God stuff, but we also have the qualified among men stuff,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm talking about. And usually when
Speaker 1: we feel like we're qualified in our audience of relationships,
Speaker 1: we feel better about ourselves. Anybody feel better about yourself? Okay,
Speaker 1: one honest person, but okay, but the truth of the
Speaker 1: matter is the supreme qualification is with him, right. Anyway,
Speaker 1: these folks invited us to go out on the late day.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I did wrong, but I felt like, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is cool, Like something is buddy here. You know,
Speaker 1: I could just sense something was really budding, you know,
Speaker 1: you ever since something is really budding about the but
Speaker 1: about the bloom. I'm like, oh, this is so cool.
Speaker 1: And so we went to their lakehouse, special lake house,
Speaker 1: and they invited us even for food, and you know,
Speaker 1: there was food, and then we went down on the
Speaker 1: boat and we went for a tour around the lake.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what I did wrong, but whatever
Speaker 1: I did, like they were, they were they were casting
Speaker 1: the net, you know, kind of a thing they were.
Speaker 1: They were kind of you could tell. It was like
Speaker 1: a friendship interview. You ever been on one of those?
Speaker 1: You been on a friendship interview? I failed. I turned
Speaker 1: in my application, I went for the interview. I failed.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I did. You know, my lovely
Speaker 1: wife and I we've talked about this, you know a
Speaker 1: few times since since, like I don't you know, we're
Speaker 1: done talking about it now, of course, but you know,
Speaker 1: but back in the day when this happened, it was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, did I talk too much?
Speaker 1: Was that I was nervous? I was nervous. You ever
Speaker 1: been nervous? I was nervous. I don't know. If I
Speaker 1: talked too much, told too many dumb jokes? Was I
Speaker 1: too goofy? Was I just not cool enough? You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta flex your chest sometimes a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, act more cool. I don't know. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: bad at cool. I'm good at goofy, but bad at cool.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. It could have been that I
Speaker 1: was bad at cool and to goofy, But that was
Speaker 1: like the interview was over and it was kind of
Speaker 1: a you know, we got in the car and drove away,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of at the end. We were
Speaker 1: never invited to the lake again. The fact is, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we've ever even had a conversation, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was just like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: glory and what we have to know and does this
Speaker 1: happened to you? You failed the interview. What we have
Speaker 1: to know is that Father still has poured out every
Speaker 1: blessing on us, that he still calls us royalty, whether
Speaker 1: we measure up with man, whether we rasure up with religion,
Speaker 1: whether no matter what our history has been, whatever our
Speaker 1: family has been, whatever, it doesn't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was that day, the shorts, the hair,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what it was. But here's
Speaker 1: the beautiful thing. We've still been blessed with everything we
Speaker 1: need in Christ Jesus. We still have been brought into
Speaker 1: heavenly places. In Christ Jesus. We are still we are
Speaker 1: still a walking open heaven. You're a walking open heaven.
Speaker 1: You're a walking revival. You're you you. We we still
Speaker 1: have to know that we are royalty. We are royalty.
Speaker 1: I was thinking coming into the ordination. I was thinking
Speaker 1: of Ephesians chapter four, because I was going to read
Speaker 1: a little portion of that. How when he ascended, he
Speaker 1: gave gifts to men, and then he called them to
Speaker 1: be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip the
Speaker 1: people for ministry. So I was thinking on that, and
Speaker 1: I started with Ephesians for one as a prisoner for
Speaker 1: the Lord. This is just a couple of verses where
Speaker 1: he starts this, But you have to realize that he
Speaker 1: Ephesians four is the breakpoint in the six chapters. Ephesians
Speaker 1: is six chapters, and Ephesians four is actually the beginning
Speaker 1: of the second half of the book or the letter,
Speaker 1: and he actually shifts into a new dimension, and so
Speaker 1: it's totally different than the first part. And this is
Speaker 1: how it starts. As a prisoner of the Lord, I
Speaker 1: urge you to live a life worthy of the calling
Speaker 1: you've received. I urge you to live a life worthy
Speaker 1: of the calling you've received. Well, he spends the first
Speaker 1: three chapters telling us and the Ephesians Church. How amazing
Speaker 1: we are. He's telling us in chapter one, verse three,
Speaker 1: that we're blessed with every spiritual gift in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: He tells us in chapter three that God will do
Speaker 1: abundantly be on what we ask or think. He tells
Speaker 1: us in chapter three, and it's now through the Church
Speaker 1: that the mystery of God will be disclosed and made
Speaker 1: known to principalities and powers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: He's telling us all through. He's telling us in chapter
Speaker 1: two that we've received grace and that he's broken down
Speaker 1: the dividing wall between jew and gentile, and those who
Speaker 1: didn't have any promises have been brought into the promises
Speaker 1: of God, and we gentiles have been made partakers of
Speaker 1: the promises of God. I mean, he's telling us for
Speaker 1: three chapters all this amazing stuff, and then he's exhorting us,
Speaker 1: and he's also praying that we would come to know this. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a giant prayer in chapter one and in chapter
Speaker 1: three that we would come to know the hope of
Speaker 1: our calling and the power. Do you remember what the
Speaker 1: first one was in chapter one? The inheritance we have
Speaker 1: in the Saints. That's why it's good when we hear
Speaker 1: one another sharing and testifying, and when we love on
Speaker 1: one another, because we're actually one family, and there's an
Speaker 1: inheritance we have toward one another in the Saints. So
Speaker 1: the inheritance we have in the hope of our calling
Speaker 1: and the power to us who believe, which is the
Speaker 1: same power that raised Stries from the dead. So he's
Speaker 1: praying that we would come into that knowledge, and he's
Speaker 1: praying that the Holy Spirit of wisdom and revelation will
Speaker 1: visit us so that we'll come to know that stuff,
Speaker 1: because if we don't know it, and if we don't
Speaker 1: come into the understanding of it, we may not touch
Speaker 1: verse one of verse four, that we will begin to
Speaker 1: live a life worthy of the royalty we've been called to.
Speaker 1: You are called a royalty. You are not a Walmart
Speaker 1: shopper in your pajamas. God bless you if you try
Speaker 1: that one time, Heaven help you. But just don't let
Speaker 1: that be your identity. Church. You are the head and
Speaker 1: not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You
Speaker 1: lend and you don't borrow. You are the supreme. You're
Speaker 1: the kings of the nations and the kings of the earth.
Speaker 1: You are the priests of God, meaning people find Christ
Speaker 1: through you. You represent Christ to them. We don't have
Speaker 1: a priesthood. We have one priest and a giant priesthood.
Speaker 1: We're different, we're different. Some churches are still reaching into
Speaker 1: the old system and they have a priest or, a father,
Speaker 1: or a rector or somebody. They have something up here,
Speaker 1: and so all of the lay people they lay around,
Speaker 1: they're called laity, and they're just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb,
Speaker 1: sheep dumb. And then we have the clergy in salvations
Speaker 1: for the clergy, and the clergy is really they're the
Speaker 1: cool ones. They're the anointed ones. That's not the New
Speaker 1: Testament Church, that is not the New Testament. The New
Speaker 1: Testament is. You are all anointed. You are all the ministers,
Speaker 1: you are all the called of God. You are all
Speaker 1: a royal priesthood. You all carry Yeshia in your gut
Speaker 1: and in your gizzard. You are all a walking revival,
Speaker 1: and you are in open heaven wherever you go. Heaven
Speaker 1: is not a place you're going to, It's an atmosphere
Speaker 1: you carry. Every one of us. Do that, anyone on
Speaker 1: this platform or in this ministry that leads is an equipper.
Speaker 1: They aren't one. We don't. I can't dispense any more
Speaker 1: grace than anybody else in this building, because we're all
Speaker 1: dispensers of grace, because we're all equal partakers of grace.
Speaker 1: But we have to come to that knowledge. We have
Speaker 1: to knowledge or we will not walk worthy of our calling.
Speaker 1: And he exhorts us for the next three chapters. He's
Speaker 1: exhorting us to walk worthy. That's just the beginning of
Speaker 1: us walking. He starts that way second half, to walk
Speaker 1: worthy of our royal calling. That we are no longer slaves,
Speaker 1: We're no longer performers. We're no longer getting our identity
Speaker 1: out of performance. We're not getting our identity out of
Speaker 1: what somebody says, or if they don't want to take
Speaker 1: us on another boat ride or not. Our identity is
Speaker 1: secure in the Beloved, It's secure in his purchase of
Speaker 1: our salvation. It cannot be taken away from us, he
Speaker 1: says in Roman chapter eight. Not height, nor depth, nor persecution,
Speaker 1: nor famine nor peril. There is nothing that can separate
Speaker 1: us from the love of God. There's nothing that can
Speaker 1: separate us from the love of God. Which is fir
Speaker 1: established who we've become in Him, and that we are
Speaker 1: full part takers now of everything everything in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: But knowledge is key. You're you're really not here today.
Speaker 1: You're not really here today to get more holy You're
Speaker 1: not here today to get a deeper revival. You're not
Speaker 1: here to really today to get more glory. You're not
Speaker 1: here today to get some this dispensing from us that
Speaker 1: you don't already possess. You're here today primarily to get knowledge.
Speaker 1: You're here today primarily to get knowledge, because you already,
Speaker 1: if you're in Christ, you possess all things already. You
Speaker 1: just don't know you possess it. You don't know what
Speaker 1: you already have. We assemble many times the a major
Speaker 1: focus of our assembly is that we would receive more knowledge,
Speaker 1: because knowledge is central. Knowledge is critical. And when we're
Speaker 1: worshiping the Lord and the Holy Spirit starts. Because because
Speaker 1: when you're worshiping, what happens. The Bible says, when you worship,
Speaker 1: and this is what happened with David, who was a
Speaker 1: precursor to the Salvation. We experience what happened in Zion,
Speaker 1: and why we have the psalms, Why do we have
Speaker 1: all these prophetic psalms, all these crazy, crazy, crazy amazing psalms.
Speaker 1: Why do we have those? Because in Zion, where they
Speaker 1: brought not animal sacrifice, but the sacrifice of their lips
Speaker 1: and the sacrifice of their instruments, then God would minister
Speaker 1: to them and minister through them, because as it says
Speaker 1: in the psalms, they would assind with a shout, they
Speaker 1: would ascend with the clap, they would ascend with praise,
Speaker 1: they would ascend with the worship. They would go. And
Speaker 1: what happens with us is we come up into the
Speaker 1: place where we're already seated in Him. When we worship,
Speaker 1: we come up into the place where we're already seated
Speaker 1: in Him, and we're able to receive what's being spoken
Speaker 1: over us in that atmosphere, so we're getting knowledge. That's
Speaker 1: a part of why it's so rich to worship is
Speaker 1: because worship and praise brings you up to where you're
Speaker 1: already at so you can hear what's already being said
Speaker 1: that you weren't hearing that you need to hear, and
Speaker 1: it's the release of the prophetic promises over your life.
Speaker 1: Because God's not done talking. The canon was not the
Speaker 1: ceiling of God's voice. We didn't close the writing of
Speaker 1: the cannon, the canonizing of scripture. We didn't close the
Speaker 1: canonized in scripture. And then some ecclesiastical denomination somewhere shouted, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're done. You can't talk anymore. We forbid you to talk.
Speaker 1: That isn't what happened. God still talks, the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: still leads, The sons of God are led by the
Speaker 1: Spirit of God, and knowledge is central. Let's go to
Speaker 1: second Peter. I'm gonna close just a moment. I'm working
Speaker 1: on my first closing. We've got a keyboard coming. I
Speaker 1: can't close without a keyboard. Keep preaching, he'll get trip
Speaker 1: him on the way. Just keep preaching until he gets
Speaker 1: on the platform. Sorry about that rope on your leg.
Speaker 1: Tewod Peter. Chapter one, Simon, Peter, are a bond servant
Speaker 1: apostle Jesus Christ to those who have received of faith
Speaker 1: the same as ours, by the righteousness of our God
Speaker 1: and Savior of Jesus Christ. So we've received this salvation,
Speaker 1: this faith, we've received by His righteousness imputed to our
Speaker 1: spiritual account. Right then he goes on. Grace and peace
Speaker 1: be multiplied to you. They knew about math two thousand
Speaker 1: years ago. Multiplication not just simply added to your life,
Speaker 1: but grace and peace be multiplied, exponentially, poured out upon you.
Speaker 1: Let grace and peace be poured out multiplied to you
Speaker 1: in the knowledge of God, Oh, in the Oh, in
Speaker 1: the knowledge of Oh, in the knowledge of God. Knowledge
Speaker 1: is connected to grace and peace. Grace is unmerited favor
Speaker 1: and deserved favor, unearned favor. But grace is also the
Speaker 1: power to accomplish God's will, no matter how big that
Speaker 1: word or will is over you. So grace grace be
Speaker 1: multiplied to you. Peace is shalom. Shalom be multiplied to you.
Speaker 1: Shalom is nothing lacking and nothing missing, is what shalom is.
Speaker 1: Shalom only exists in its fullest expression, where there's nothing
Speaker 1: lacking and nothing missing. And that's what the word means.
Speaker 1: Grace and peace be multiplied to you. But how in
Speaker 1: the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Why
Speaker 1: Because everything that we've become is hidden in him, and
Speaker 1: he's the fountain head of the new creation of whom
Speaker 1: we've become. Seeing that His divine nature has granted to
Speaker 1: us everything pertaining to life and godliness, how many things.
Speaker 1: Notice that it's granted. It's not going to be granted.
Speaker 1: You already have everything you need for tomorrow. You already
Speaker 1: have everything you need for Tuesday. You already have everything
Speaker 1: you need for Wednesday. You have everything you need for.
Speaker 1: Every difficulty coming, every trial coming, every problem coming, every
Speaker 1: bill coming, you already have everything you need. He's granted
Speaker 1: to us. His divine power is granted to us everything
Speaker 1: pertaining to life, life, and godliness. Well, I just want
Speaker 1: to be more godly. Well I just want more life. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's have both through the true knowledge. We go back
Speaker 1: to knowledge. Through the true knowledge, that means there can
Speaker 1: be Leviathan, there can be twistings, there can be lying knowledge.
Speaker 1: There can be twisted knowledge, there can be distorted knowledge,
Speaker 1: there can be there can be deceiving knowledge. We have
Speaker 1: to have the true knowledge. If we don't have the
Speaker 1: true knowledge, then we aren't going to have everything granted
Speaker 1: to us. But it's not his problem. He granted it.
Speaker 1: Where it's us we're missing it. You ever miss it
Speaker 1: through the true knowledge of Him who called us by
Speaker 1: his own glory and excellence. Verse four. Now look at this,
Speaker 1: for by these he has granted to us his precious
Speaker 1: and magnificent What promises, oh, oh, my goodness, promises are
Speaker 1: how we acquire or lay hold of, or come into
Speaker 1: the understanding of the knowledge by these he has granted
Speaker 1: to us his precious, magnificent promises, so that by them,
Speaker 1: by the promises which define the knowledge which we must have,
Speaker 1: by them you meet, you may become partakers of the
Speaker 1: divine nature. Are you lacking some of the divine nature?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you falling short? Are you needing more?
Speaker 1: Are you desiring more of a man manifestation? Well, he's
Speaker 1: not going to give you more of the divine nature.
Speaker 1: He already gave you all of the divine nature. What
Speaker 1: you're lacking is the knowledge of the promises. As you
Speaker 1: acquire the knowledge of the promises, then you immediately and
Speaker 1: simultaneously come into receiving, partaking of, and manifesting the divine nature.
Speaker 1: And then theology is going to come along, and religion
Speaker 1: is going to come along and saying WHOA Now, well,
Speaker 1: now be careful, you're going to have valleys. You're gonna
Speaker 1: they went through a wilderness for forty years, You're going
Speaker 1: to go through a wilderness and you've got some valleys
Speaker 1: coming up, and you've got some dry times and some discouragement,
Speaker 1: and there's going to be some really hard stuff that
Speaker 1: comes your way. So you just might as well expect
Speaker 1: that because they went through that, uh and and they
Speaker 1: they had a big wilderness and there's going to be
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff like that. So just prepare, prepare
Speaker 1: like that. But then they these people have not read
Speaker 1: the Bible. Not only do you become a particular of
Speaker 1: the divine nature, but you escape the corruption that is
Speaker 1: in the world. I know, it's hard to believe in it.
Speaker 1: You can't even believe. It's so good. This is so good,
Speaker 1: you can't even believe it because people have told you.
Speaker 1: People have even told you that, I hope you didn't
Speaker 1: come to the Lord to get out of troubles, right,
Speaker 1: people have told you that, I hope you haven't come
Speaker 1: to the Lord, because if you came to the Lord
Speaker 1: expecting a better life, that's a bad motive to come
Speaker 1: to the Lord. Like life is still going to be
Speaker 1: hi double toothpicks. But at least you've got the peace
Speaker 1: of God in your heart. That's what you've been told
Speaker 1: for hundreds of years. But that says right there. Not
Speaker 1: only do I become a partaker of the divine nature.
Speaker 1: I escape the corruption that is in the world through
Speaker 1: deceit or lust. Send with me. I know we got
Speaker 1: to close. I'm just telling you the Bible is going
Speaker 1: to scare the crid right out of all those lives
Speaker 1: that you've been heard listening to, and all of that
Speaker 1: stuff that's told you that you are not royalty, that
Speaker 1: you are not set apart, that you're not a partaker
Speaker 1: of the goodness of God. The word of God is true.
Speaker 1: The word of God is true, and the Word of
Speaker 1: God is declaring this over you today, that you are royalty,
Speaker 1: that you are sons and daughters of God, that you
Speaker 1: who have given your heart to Him, you have trusted
Speaker 1: him for salvation. You're leaning into him. You're recognizing, in
Speaker 1: counting your old life as put to death with Him
Speaker 1: and the Cross, you have already come into resurrection, and
Speaker 1: you are living with Him, victorious over sin, over corruption,
Speaker 1: over the curse, over darkness, hopelessness, fear, over depression, over performance,
Speaker 1: and the demands of religion destiny theme. Would you come,
Speaker 1: just spend a couple more minutes with us at the front,
Speaker 1: If you're here today giving your life back to the Lord.
Speaker 1: If you're here today you've been just like overwhelmed with
Speaker 1: falling short in performance. If you're here today needing just
Speaker 1: the encouragement of the spirit of God on you, and
Speaker 1: if you missed just being prayed for, we want you
Speaker 1: to come and just be ministered to. As we're closing today,
Speaker 1: we've got those ordination placards to sign. We've got lunch
Speaker 1: for you today. You don't need to us out of here.
Speaker 1: We've got everything covered. This is like Fred Meyram. This
Speaker 1: is like one stop shopping right here. Pharmacy is right
Speaker 1: around the corner. If you need a little anointing oil,
Speaker 1: they'll give that to you instead of aspiring. Okay, so
Speaker 1: but listen, listen, you don't need to run out of here.
Speaker 1: God is good, love one another. That's the inheritance we
Speaker 1: have in the saints, and then tap into the goodness
Speaker 1: of God that's ours in the power to those who believe. Father,
Speaker 1: we thank you for this day. We thank you for
Speaker 1: setting us apart for ministry. We thank you for your
Speaker 1: hand on Frank and Angela Roman and Nina. We bless
Speaker 1: your people and especially with knowledge, we say, spirited wisdom
Speaker 1: and revelation. Rest heavy on your kids this week. Open
Speaker 1: up scripture to us and take us into the fullness
Speaker 1: of who you've made us to be. Jesus' name, and
Speaker 1: everybody shouted God, Bless you CHURCHM