Speaker 1: I'm convinced that in church and with church, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pessimistic theology that is thrown at us, and
Speaker 1: we get washed with a lot of pessimism, and every
Speaker 1: once in a while, you know, it's good to have
Speaker 1: a little bit of washing that out of us, because
Speaker 1: God is up to good things. He wants to do
Speaker 1: good things, and we're all looking to the future, whether
Speaker 1: you know it or not, whether you think about it
Speaker 1: or not, you're constantly subconsciously looking to the future. And
Speaker 1: if the lens that you see with you know, even
Speaker 1: Matthew six twenty two says, if your eye is dark,
Speaker 1: then your whole being is going to be regulated by
Speaker 1: that darkness. This is the words of the Lord. So
Speaker 1: we're looking to the future and vision or our eye
Speaker 1: is metaphoric for that that glance toward the future. Do
Speaker 1: we have a hope filled glance toward the future? Do
Speaker 1: we have a pessimistic glance toward the future. And my
Speaker 1: thought is that that God's looking for people with hope
Speaker 1: filled glances because he can partner with that and that
Speaker 1: he can he can bring something good to pass no
Speaker 1: matter what season it is. You know, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like you know, the the revival in Wales, of which
Speaker 1: you know mister Trump is related to the Welsh Revival.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that, but uh, and
Speaker 1: he still has an original Bible from the Wells Revival.
Speaker 1: But the revival that broke out in Wales. That wasn't
Speaker 1: a Trump loving speech. It was just a comment. But
Speaker 1: the revival that broke out in Wales, it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: during revival season, Jacob, I think if I had more volume,
Speaker 1: might be more happy, and I like to be happy.
Speaker 2: The revival that broke out.
Speaker 1: In Wales, it wasn't with Evans Roberts, young kid was
Speaker 1: at the court at the center of the revival. Uh,
Speaker 1: the you know the I could name others. Uh, the
Speaker 1: move of God that broke out through Smith Wigglesworth. You
Speaker 1: ever heard of him? Uh, it wasn't during revival season.
Speaker 1: You know what is revival season? So many of us
Speaker 1: in our theology were constantly putting off something off to
Speaker 1: the future. Revivals coming, And as long as you put
Speaker 1: something off to the future, you'll never get to where
Speaker 1: it's at. You're actually living in the greatest season that
Speaker 1: has existed. You're living in the outpouring of the holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: You're living in a season of power, a season of glory,
Speaker 1: a season of the new creation, a season of the
Speaker 1: righteousness of God, imputed your spiritual bank account that you
Speaker 1: didn't earn or deserve. I need even more, Jacob, even more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because oh yeah, I like to hear myself. I love
Speaker 1: my own voice. My mom and dad told me that
Speaker 1: my whole life. I got a lot of spankings over it.
Speaker 1: But the Lord had something in mind, thank you.
Speaker 2: So. But you're living in.
Speaker 1: The greatest season, this this amazing season, right. But what's
Speaker 1: happening is religion wants to keep telling you what a
Speaker 1: bummer season it is. And religion wants to keep your
Speaker 1: eyes focused on a negative view of the future instead
Speaker 1: of a positive view of the future. Not just on
Speaker 1: a macro level. But everything you view on a macro
Speaker 1: level is uh uh dehydrated. That's the only word that's
Speaker 1: coming to my mind. That is not good. But you know,
Speaker 1: everything you view on a macro level, you know is
Speaker 1: also distilled. That could be, that could be fair inwardly
Speaker 1: in your own heart. So you know these things are interrelated.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a macro view this negative, you've
Speaker 1: got a micro a micro view that's negative, and God
Speaker 1: wants to wash that out of us because God can
Speaker 1: move in any season. Now, now I'm gonna I'm going
Speaker 1: to show you today why God especially wants to move
Speaker 1: in this season and why if you continue pessimistic in
Speaker 1: this season, you really are in a bummer state. I
Speaker 1: don't mean the state of Washington.
Speaker 2: But we could go there too. But what I mean is.
Speaker 1: You're in a bummer state of mind, right if you
Speaker 1: man pessimistic in this season. But I just want to
Speaker 1: I want to just talk to you about how God
Speaker 1: can find you. God can find you if you will
Speaker 1: throw away all pessimism. God can find you in any season,
Speaker 1: as he did with Evans Roberts, as he did with
Speaker 1: Smick Swiggelsworth, as he did with We could just name
Speaker 1: a hundred of him this morning, right, John g. Lake
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So God's looking for something. In Judges chapter six, God
Speaker 1: was looking for something. He calls Gideon to lead an army.
Speaker 1: He starts with thirty two thousand, and God sends most
Speaker 1: of them home. He couldn't work with them because they
Speaker 1: had the wrong thing on the inside. Their eye was dark,
Speaker 1: so their whole body was dark. Only three hundred of
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand had the right attitude, and so God says,
Speaker 1: I'll take the three hundred and I'll win the battle
Speaker 1: with them. God will find you where wherever you're at,
Speaker 1: God will find God will create revible for you. God
Speaker 1: will create breakthrough for you. God will create prosperity for you.
Speaker 1: God will create increase for you. God will create victory
Speaker 1: for you if you will shift your heart out of
Speaker 1: this pessimistic common religious view and say I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be a part of that anymore. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing with Joshua and Jermicho. You know, God, if you
Speaker 1: go home today and read Joshua chapter one, you know
Speaker 1: the Lord spoke over Joshua, and he was very, very
Speaker 1: thorough and all through that first chapter he's engaging with
Speaker 1: his heart. Proverbs four twenty says, out of your heart
Speaker 1: determines the boundaries of life.
Speaker 2: It's your heart. It says, guard your heart.
Speaker 1: Right, we got to guard our heart because out of
Speaker 1: out of your heart, that's what determines.
Speaker 2: The boundaries of your life.
Speaker 1: And so multiple times in Joshua chapter one, he's saying,
Speaker 1: be careful to only meditate on what I've promised you
Speaker 1: He's telling him, be careful to only meditate on what
Speaker 1: I've promised you. And he says, not on that. He says,
Speaker 1: don't even let anything else get in your mouth. Only
Speaker 1: say what I've promised you. Now, this was important because
Speaker 1: for forty years Joshua knew something right. He was a
Speaker 1: set apart person. He already knew that forty years ago,
Speaker 1: there were twelve that were sent in despy out what
Speaker 1: kind of land, Oh, the Promised Land, which is heaven
Speaker 1: on earth? For you, you have a promised land as well.
Speaker 1: It was real for them, it's a metaphoric reality for you.
Speaker 1: This is why Jesus said, pray this way, Thy kingdom come.
Speaker 1: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: God has loosed us into the potential of bringing Heaven
Speaker 1: to earth. But religion is filled with pessimism and wants
Speaker 1: to get you thinking negatively toward the future instead of
Speaker 1: partnering with God concerning what Jesus already done on your
Speaker 1: behalf so that Heaven could come to earth and into
Speaker 1: your life. And so he says, so Joshua knew something.
Speaker 2: Of the twelve spies that went.
Speaker 1: Into the Promised Land, there were only two that came
Speaker 1: back with a positive report and a report. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like a Robert Schuller positive report or a zig Ziglar
Speaker 1: positive report or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they just agreed with God. They just
Speaker 1: agreed with God. Two of them agreed with God. Remember
Speaker 1: who they were, Joshua and Joshua and Caleb agreed with God.
Speaker 1: The other ten disagreed with God. And so those that
Speaker 1: disagreed with God, they became the dominant face of all
Speaker 1: of Israel. And they had to wonder for forty years.
Speaker 1: Why did they have to wonder for forty years? Because
Speaker 1: that generation had to die off while josh and it
Speaker 1: was a forty year generation, while Joshua and Cadeb were
Speaker 1: raising up a new generation of those who would believe.
Speaker 1: So for forty years, it says, they wandered around Mount
Speaker 1: seer Sei, or for forty years, they actually went around
Speaker 1: the same mountain, year after year after year after year.
Speaker 1: Forty years they went around the same mountain, waiting for
Speaker 1: that generation of unbelieving ones to die off. Now, when
Speaker 1: a new generation had been raised up under Joshua and Caleb,
Speaker 1: then God said to them, turned northward, and now's the
Speaker 1: time to go in, and when they got there, Joshua
Speaker 1: and Caleb were justified in their hearts because when they
Speaker 1: showed up Rahab, the woman who they came to in
Speaker 1: the city of Jericho, said where have you been forty
Speaker 1: years ago? Our hearts melted like wax, and the dread
Speaker 1: of your God fell on all of us. The beautiful
Speaker 1: thing is with Joshua and Caleb is that they didn't
Speaker 1: miss it. God sustained their life. So they were living
Speaker 1: in the midst of a bunch of unbelievers, like two
Speaker 1: million unbelievers. Hello, two million unbelievers who are all having babies.
Speaker 1: And God says, I'm going to get your seed. Your
Speaker 1: seed will go in and possess the land. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get all your babies. They're going to come under
Speaker 1: the tutelage of Joshua and Caleb. But you are not
Speaker 1: going to go in because you said we are not able. Therefore,
Speaker 1: God said, numbers fourteen twenty eight. I forgive you, but
Speaker 1: she won't go in because what I heard you say
Speaker 1: in my ears, that's what I have to give you.
Speaker 1: Read it, numbers fourteen twenty eight. What I heard you
Speaker 1: say is in my ears, That's what I have to
Speaker 1: give you even though I forgive you. It's amazing. So
Speaker 1: Joshua knew something. He knew that he had to have
Speaker 1: a heart. That was because in the midst of unbelief,
Speaker 1: in the midst of all of this negativity and pessimism,
Speaker 1: that God would honor him. And God extended his life
Speaker 1: in Joshua and Caleb lived longer than anybody in their generation.
Speaker 1: He extended their life, and he took them in and
Speaker 1: he gave them their mountain, their territory, and their inheritance.
Speaker 1: So God can meet you in the middle of Crod.
Speaker 1: He can meet you in the middle of Washington State.
Speaker 1: God can meet you in the middle of western Washington.
Speaker 1: Not the Bible Belt, the Perverse belt.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: God can meet you right here. God can give you revival.
Speaker 1: God can give you breakthrough. God's going to give us
Speaker 1: traffic to new horizon. God's going to give us the
Speaker 1: greatest harvest Pierce County's ever seen. God's going to give
Speaker 1: us a harvest out of South King County. And God's
Speaker 1: going to give us traffic jams. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: even if you don't like what I preach this morning,
Speaker 1: God can do it anyway. Go ahead and leave here
Speaker 1: in a bad mood over what I preached. And you
Speaker 1: know what, if you leave here believing this first part
Speaker 1: of my sermon, God's going to show up for you.
Speaker 1: Every season is due season. Every season is promised season,
Speaker 1: ever since the Resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: If you aren't living in a breakthrough season, shame on you.
Speaker 2: It's not God's fault. It's not God's fault.
Speaker 1: If you're not living in a breakthrough season, you have
Speaker 1: the opportunity in God.
Speaker 2: To seize the goodness of God.
Speaker 1: And this is why he said, even Matthew eleven twelve right,
Speaker 1: the kingdom of Heaven is advancing, and those those who
Speaker 1: are entering in and seizing the Kingdom of Heaven are
Speaker 1: those who are violent of nature. They won't be denied.
Speaker 1: Somebody in this room needs to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's available. I'm not going to be denied. I'm going
Speaker 1: to pressin and I'm going to partake of heaven in
Speaker 1: my generation. I'm going to partake of the goodness of
Speaker 1: God in my generation.
Speaker 2: God likes that.
Speaker 1: God likes the aggressiveness. Well, hello, Loya, let's start. I
Speaker 1: want to go somewhere let's start with going somewhere. I've
Speaker 1: got a couple minutes left. This is going to be bad.
Speaker 1: Fucked myself happy and got the own room for the sermon.
Speaker 2: Okay. So here's what I want to show you, though.
Speaker 1: I want to show you that we are living in
Speaker 1: this amazing of kingdom advancement. I know some of you
Speaker 1: heard me talk about this before, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about her again today because it's part of what
Speaker 1: washes us and helps us.
Speaker 2: So this is a.
Speaker 1: Kingdom advancing season, and it runs all the way to
Speaker 1: the last day. The last day happens has recorded in
Speaker 1: on Grinthions fifteen twenty six. The last day and the
Speaker 1: last enemy to be put under our feet is death.
Speaker 1: So on the last day, at the last trump trumpet,
Speaker 1: the last enemy will be subdued, and the Lord is
Speaker 1: actually only coming back, according to First Corinthians, chapter fifteen,
Speaker 1: He's coming back to put that last enemy under our feet.
Speaker 1: So this is a progression of massive, massive victory and
Speaker 1: the increase of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. And
Speaker 1: you know Isaiah sixty five, Remember Isaiah sixty five. Isaiah
Speaker 1: sixty five says, what's happening during this time seventeen through
Speaker 1: twenty three.
Speaker 2: Write that down.
Speaker 1: Is what's happening is righteousness is increasing. The age of
Speaker 1: the righteous is increasing. Anybody that dies under one hundred
Speaker 1: is going to be thought to be a cursed We're
Speaker 1: actually living to the lifetime of a tree and wearing
Speaker 1: out all of our stuff. Now right now, your stuff's
Speaker 1: going to outlive you, probably, but there's a generation coming
Speaker 1: that is going to outwear their stuff. They're going to
Speaker 1: outlive their stuff. Now this is before the rapture or
Speaker 1: the Second Coming. This happens before the rapture or the
Speaker 1: second Coming. How do I know that people are dying?
Speaker 1: The righteous are dying after the Second Coming? No, righteous
Speaker 1: people are dying after the second Coming. You even incorruptible body.
Speaker 1: So this is First Thessalonians four and first Corinthians fifteen. Right,
Speaker 1: So in the twinkling of an eye, you've heard it,
Speaker 1: and this is happening on the last day, at the
Speaker 1: last trump. But over here when people are still dying,
Speaker 1: if you die at one hundred, we think you recursed.
Speaker 1: So go home and read that. You'll get happy. Now
Speaker 1: what's happening is there's an overlap here. And I want
Speaker 1: to show you this and this is the Mosaic period.
Speaker 1: Everybody say, Moses, that was pretty good, pretty good participation
Speaker 1: right there. And this right here, I'm going to start this.
Speaker 1: This is the cross. The kingdom of Heaven started with
Speaker 1: the resurrection of Jesus. The Kingdom of Heaven started with
Speaker 1: the resurrection of Jesus. So the Kingdom of Heaven actually
Speaker 1: started here and it's advancing and going forward. And this
Speaker 1: is this is a new kingdom, and this is a
Speaker 1: new kingdom of new Heaven and new Earth. Now I
Speaker 1: don't want to just tell you that and force you
Speaker 1: to believe it. I'm going to tell you it's a
Speaker 1: new Heaven and new Earth because in all of the
Speaker 1: ages previously, Satan had access to heaven and had dominion
Speaker 1: over man. Because of Adam's fall, and so the heavens
Speaker 1: were even stirred up with darkness, and Satan was coming
Speaker 1: in the authority of first Atom into the heavens. And
Speaker 1: if you don't like that, read the Book of Job
Speaker 1: and you can see how that's happening, and you can
Speaker 1: see the interaction of it. Okay, And also what had
Speaker 1: happened is there were seventy nations, and we're told about
Speaker 1: those seven nations in Genesis chapter ten, and the seventy nations,
Speaker 1: only one nation was God's nation, Israel. He reserved Israel
Speaker 1: as his own. Sixty nine nations were unclean, and those
Speaker 1: sixty nine nations were ruled by principalities and powers like
Speaker 1: the Prince of Persia in Daniel chapter ten.
Speaker 2: Right, So you have to.
Speaker 1: Realize they had those those nations, those princes of darkness
Speaker 1: were under the lordship of Satan, who was ruling over
Speaker 1: all the nations. The coming of Jesus and his victory
Speaker 1: over Satan crushed all of that. It rearranged all of that.
Speaker 1: Satan was cast out of heaven Revelation twelve. Satan was
Speaker 1: cast out of heaven to the earth, and all of
Speaker 1: the principalities and powers have been put under the feet
Speaker 1: of Jesus. And that's who we wrestle with. Now, we
Speaker 1: wrestle with principalities and powers and spiritual powers in the
Speaker 1: spirit realm to put them under our feet. Our wrestling
Speaker 1: is not feudle. We're not wrestling at a futility. We're
Speaker 1: wrestling as partners with Jesus, because Father is subduing all
Speaker 1: of them and declaring they must release their captives. So
Speaker 1: every nation is releasing their captives right now, and we're
Speaker 1: going to see this grow and grow and grow. And
Speaker 1: it's a new heaven and a new Earth.
Speaker 2: Okay. Why is it a new Earth?
Speaker 1: Well, because he's given all of the sons of Adam who.
Speaker 2: Believe in Jesus the authority.
Speaker 1: To dominate Satan and to bring the very power and
Speaker 1: the grace of Heaven to the earth. So the new
Speaker 1: Earth doesn't start over here. This is the consummation of it,
Speaker 1: the finality of it.
Speaker 2: But it started over here with me. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I want you, I want you to hearing some
Speaker 1: of that. And by the way, so I'm trying to
Speaker 1: go his fans again, but keep that piano player off
Speaker 1: the stage, by the way. So this is eighty seventy,
Speaker 1: and this is eighty seventy, and this is eighty thirty three.
Speaker 2: This is the Lord.
Speaker 1: And by the way, these were called the last days.
Speaker 1: These are not called the last days.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You've been told all of your life that you're living
Speaker 1: in the last days. You've been told all of your
Speaker 1: life that these are the last days.
Speaker 2: These aren't. These are the new days. Now, let's talk about.
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because all of the New Testament. Everything
Speaker 1: they referred to regarding the last days they were they
Speaker 1: would referred to the last days of the Mosic period.
Speaker 1: And during these last days of the Mosaic period thirty
Speaker 1: seven years, God was doing amazing things, and amazing things
Speaker 1: were happening. One you know it because you're Pentecostal charismatic cruismatics.
Speaker 1: You know this that Joel Chapter two, Verse twenty eight,
Speaker 1: Acts Chapter two, sixteen seventeen. And such Peter stands up
Speaker 1: when it looks like one hundred and twenty people have
Speaker 1: been praying, and the Holy Spirit lands on them with
Speaker 1: tongues of fire wind and an outpouring of his spirit.
Speaker 1: Remember this what happened, Acts Chapter two.
Speaker 2: We have the verse.
Speaker 1: We can throw it up. We're talented, we're skilled, and
Speaker 1: this is and this is Peter, this is Peter. On
Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost, they say, Pentecost, this is Peter,
Speaker 1: and this is He's gonna explain it. And this is
Speaker 1: what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall
Speaker 1: be in the last days, and it shall be in
Speaker 1: the last days.
Speaker 2: God says that.
Speaker 1: I will pour forth my spirit upon all mankind. Oh,
Speaker 1: not the last days? When did he do this. When
Speaker 1: did he pour this out fifty days after the resurrection
Speaker 1: or fifty days after passover? Penta means fifty fifty days
Speaker 1: after passover. So right here, these were the last days.
Speaker 1: Now why were the last days? Because they were the
Speaker 1: last days because the tabernacle system and the sacrificial system
Speaker 1: was coming to a close. He was closing that down
Speaker 1: because once he destroyed the temple in the sacrificial system,
Speaker 1: there would never ever ever be a sacrifice again. Because
Speaker 1: Jesus was the priest, He was the sad sacrifice, He
Speaker 1: was the lamb, and this temple was no longer needed.
Speaker 1: It was obsolete because you have become the temple of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. So these were the last days. So
Speaker 1: let me just I'm going to give you some more
Speaker 1: on this if you like it.
Speaker 2: Did you like that? Is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: Hebrews one one, go with me really fast, God after
Speaker 1: he spoke long By the way, Hebrews is all about Hebrews.
Speaker 1: The Hebrews is all about the closing of one tabernacle
Speaker 1: and the opening of another. Right, So Hebrews Chapter one one,
Speaker 1: God after he spoke long ago to the fathers and
Speaker 1: the prophets in many portions in many ways in these
Speaker 1: last days has spoken to us in his son in
Speaker 1: these what in these last days? I'm telling you all
Speaker 1: throughout the New Testament, where it talks about the last days,
Speaker 1: it's referring to this period, not this period.
Speaker 2: This is a period of.
Speaker 1: The new Heaven and the new Earth, where righteousness dwells. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'll read it to you in a minute. I have
Speaker 1: no opinions. I only speak the word of God Hebrews
Speaker 1: nine twenty five. Nor was it that he should offer
Speaker 1: himself often talking about Jesus as the high priest, enters
Speaker 1: the Holy Place year by year with blood that's not
Speaker 1: his own. Otherwise he would have needed to suffer often
Speaker 1: from the foundation of the world. But now at the
Speaker 1: consummation of the ages, or the NIV says, at the
Speaker 1: culmination of the ages, this is interesting, is that? And
Speaker 1: Paul talks about this to the Ephesians that in Christ,
Speaker 1: this is Colossians and the Ephesians that he was summarizing
Speaker 1: all things in Christ.
Speaker 2: So this is the summary of all of the ages past.
Speaker 1: It's the summary of all the ages past, and it's
Speaker 1: the summary of the law and the prophets and everything
Speaker 1: God ever said was culminated and consummated in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 1: so that he could begin this brand new era of
Speaker 1: many sons and many daughters who partake of the glories
Speaker 1: of God ten ten ten, nor grumble as some of
Speaker 1: them did, talking about the Israelites who were negative nillies,
Speaker 1: and grumble as some of them did, and negative neds,
Speaker 1: and they were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things
Speaker 1: happened to them as an example, and they were written
Speaker 1: for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages
Speaker 1: have come. He's writing to this contemporary audience right here,
Speaker 1: because these are the last days, and this is the
Speaker 1: end of a complete period where they were on the
Speaker 1: outside looking in, but he was beginning a new age
Speaker 1: of those on the inside as sons and daughters. First
Speaker 1: Peter one twenty. For he was foreign known before the
Speaker 1: foundation of the world, but he has appeared in these
Speaker 1: last times for the sake of you two Timothy three
Speaker 1: to one, knowing that God was going to judge Israel.
Speaker 1: God was going to judge Israel and to destroy the
Speaker 1: temple and destroy the sacrificial system, of which happened, and
Speaker 1: which is called the Day of the Lord or the
Speaker 1: Tribulation knowing that was just ahead of them.
Speaker 2: They were actually rejoicing over that thing.
Speaker 1: They were rejoicing over it because they knew that that
Speaker 1: would be the consummation of the ages, and when that
Speaker 1: came to pass, that the new kingdom would fully begin
Speaker 1: to advance in rapid succession, and the restoration that God
Speaker 1: desired would begin to happen. Unless Satan could come along
Speaker 1: and try the church to become pessimistic. It's sure, I'm
Speaker 1: telling the truth, so tewod Timothy three to one. But
Speaker 1: realize this that in the last days, difficult times will come.
Speaker 1: He's talking about a falling away. Jesus prophesied about a
Speaker 1: falling away in Matthew twenty four. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a falling away. He said, well, that's not a falling
Speaker 1: away for us, and what he's talking about in two
Speaker 1: Timothy three. Realize this and the last days, difficult times
Speaker 1: will come. We read this all the time. If it's
Speaker 1: for us, it's not for us. Though there's relevance, there's application.
Speaker 1: It says, avoid those who have a form of godliness
Speaker 1: but deny the power of God. There's an application for that.
Speaker 1: But this wasn't for isn't for us. This isn't what
Speaker 1: we're to expect. We're supposed to expect the increase of righteousness,
Speaker 1: a growing kingdom, the overcoming power of God. And so
Speaker 1: we quote this because we don't understand that. When Paul
Speaker 1: wrote to Timothy about the church, he was pastoring and said,
Speaker 1: realize this in the last days, difficult times will come
Speaker 1: and men are going to be lovers of self and
Speaker 1: lovers of money and blah blah blah. He was giving
Speaker 1: Timothy warning for pastoring at church, and he's telling Timothy
Speaker 1: be careful, don't get around pessimistic, negative or ungodly people.
Speaker 2: Avoid them.
Speaker 1: But we quote it like, oh, yeah, it's the last days.
Speaker 1: It's going to be terrible. The last days are going
Speaker 1: to be terrible. Well, you're in the wrong Last days.
Speaker 1: You're pessimistic for nothing. You're not agreeing with God. If
Speaker 1: you don't agree with God, you're going to miss the boat.
Speaker 1: You're missing the wagon. You could be in revival and
Speaker 1: you think you've got to be in negativity. You could
Speaker 1: be in blessing. You can think you've got to be
Speaker 1: in curse. You could be in victory and you think
Speaker 1: you got to be in asceticism. Woe is me, where's her?
Speaker 1: I need another? Oh bad, it's bad down here, It's bad.
Speaker 1: Oh is me.
Speaker 2: Hebrews eight thirteen.
Speaker 1: By calling this covenant new, he's made the first one obsolete.
Speaker 1: And what is obsolete is out and outdated. Will soon disappear.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. It disappeared Second Peter three ten. I
Speaker 1: want to go to second Peter three ten. Let's show
Speaker 1: them to that one. But know this, but the day
Speaker 1: of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens
Speaker 1: will disappear with the roar, the elements will be destroyed
Speaker 1: by fire. By the way, what's that all about is
Speaker 1: apocalyptic language. We'll go to Revelation twelve. Part of what's
Speaker 1: happening is the shaking of the heavens. The heavens had
Speaker 1: to be shaken. And it says in Revelation twelve that
Speaker 1: when Christ descended, at some point there was a war
Speaker 1: in heaven and Michael and the dragon and thought, and
Speaker 1: the dragon was not strong enough because Christ had ascended
Speaker 1: as the last atom, a supreme man, victorious over Satan.
Speaker 1: So the dragon has thrown down. This is what's happening.
Speaker 1: We're hearing this apocalyptic language of this great war and
Speaker 1: Satan being cast to the earth and the rearranging of
Speaker 1: the nations. Israel would no longer be the supreme nation.
Speaker 1: There would be a new nation known by a new name,
Speaker 1: who were covered with righteousness, and God would gather us
Speaker 1: out of every nation. Since everything will be destroyed in
Speaker 1: this way, what kind of people ought you to be?
Speaker 1: You ought to live holy in godly lives as you
Speaker 1: look forward to the day of the Lord, Look forward
Speaker 1: to the day of the Lord. We're as nervous as tarnation.
Speaker 1: You know what a tarnation is.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That thing is like a smit shine. I don't know
Speaker 1: the wolvesky all this weird stuff. They say, who wants
Speaker 1: a spit shine?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Where does she come up with this stuff?
Speaker 1: We're as nervous as a cat on a hot tin
Speaker 1: roof without hot ten ice cream?
Speaker 2: You ever had hot ten ice cream? It's good.
Speaker 1: It's got peanuts in it and chocolate, kind of a
Speaker 1: chocolate ribbon vanilla with peanuts. And I'm wasting time. Sorry,
Speaker 1: We're going to have some of the newcomer's brunch come
Speaker 1: back for hot ten roof. They weren't nervous over the
Speaker 1: coming of the Lord.
Speaker 2: They were looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Why because it was the end of this system and
Speaker 1: the end of their persecution, and it was advancement to
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven. That day we'll bring about the
Speaker 1: destruction of the heavens by fire. The elements will melt
Speaker 1: in heat. But keeping with his promise. Whose promise, the
Speaker 1: promise of the Lord? They had a promise from the Lord.
Speaker 1: In keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to
Speaker 1: a new heaven and a new Earth where righteousness dwells.
Speaker 1: We are so messed up in our theology today. If
Speaker 1: you could pardon me saying this, that you got Peter
Speaker 1: back here. You got Peter way back here looking forward
Speaker 1: to the end of the age with glee. Peter's looking
Speaker 1: forward to the end of the age with glee, knowing
Speaker 1: that it will release a fullness of the coming of
Speaker 1: the new heaven and Earth. And you got us way
Speaker 1: down the timeline over here. What are we two thousand
Speaker 1: and what? Okay, we're way down the timeline over here somewhere,
Speaker 1: and we're as nervous as hot tan ice cream melting
Speaker 1: on my roof.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's.
Speaker 1: Because we don't know what season we're in. We don't
Speaker 1: know this is the new Heaven and the new Earth,
Speaker 1: where righteousness dwells, where we reign in life, where we've
Speaker 1: received an abundance of grace, and we reign in life
Speaker 1: where there's not one enemy that God won't put under
Speaker 1: our feet a sten I hear the piano first closing,
Speaker 1: I read one more versatile clothes.
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you hearing this? Are you okay? Go home and
Speaker 1: read this Isaiah sixty five, and then and then ask
Speaker 1: me for more stuff. You know, only one person talk
Speaker 1: to me after the first service. One person, one person,
Speaker 1: only one person is hungry for more. You should you
Speaker 1: should be salivating over this stuff. You should want your
Speaker 1: heart filled with positivity and filled with what God wants
Speaker 1: to do, and filled with how you can partner with
Speaker 1: him to bring heaven to earth. Are we that bought
Speaker 1: into our pessimism that even Peter two thousand.
Speaker 2: Years ago is ahead of us.
Speaker 1: He's looking forward to a new heaven and a new Earth.
Speaker 1: And he was an elder, he was pastoring a church,
Speaker 1: he was an elder, and so all of those under
Speaker 1: his care, he's leavening them with this positivity.
Speaker 2: Toward the future. What are we levening people with? Well?
Speaker 2: Per perl.
Speaker 1: Oh ver very rare, ah harsh, bad bad.
Speaker 2: But God's come on.
Speaker 1: He's coming back someday, coming back, and it's hell now.
Speaker 1: It's hell now, but it's coming back. But I got
Speaker 1: a happy heart. You don't either, your lion. You don't
Speaker 1: have a happy heart. Your heart is sick. We separate
Speaker 1: joy from happiness. Well now, but joy, joy is not
Speaker 1: Joy is not circumstantial. I've got I've got joy. Happiness now,
Speaker 1: that's happiness. That's surplus, circumstantial. I don't have to have
Speaker 1: happiness to have joy. Liar, you was this lion. That's
Speaker 1: a theological liar in the world. We're so caught, we're
Speaker 1: we're literally proud of our negativity.
Speaker 2: Cal shut up.
Speaker 1: I told you one us first Peter one eleven, concerning
Speaker 1: this salvation. The prophets who spoke of the grace that
Speaker 1: was to come to you, The prophets that spoke of
Speaker 1: the grace, the favor, the power of God, the outpouring
Speaker 1: of the fullness of Heaven. The prophets that spoke of
Speaker 1: this grace, not the grace. They not the grace they enjoyed,
Speaker 1: not the grace that they walked in. They were over here,
Speaker 1: not the grace that they were were partakers of the
Speaker 1: grace that was to.
Speaker 2: Come to you in this new season.
Speaker 1: They searched intently and with great care, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out the time and the circumstances in which the Spirit
Speaker 1: of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the
Speaker 1: sufferings of the Messiah and the hardships that would follow,
Speaker 1: and the what that would follow.
Speaker 2: Oh, somebody's reading the what the glories that would follow?
Speaker 1: I'm looking for smiles. I got half frowns. Still, I
Speaker 1: still got half frowns. You are sold out to your
Speaker 1: pessimism so deeply that you're half of you are still frowning.
Speaker 2: It's the glories that would follow.
Speaker 1: God's looking for people who will stop focusing on the
Speaker 1: negative and start focusing on the glories.
Speaker 2: We are partakers of glory.
Speaker 1: This is a season of glory with righteousness that's imputed
Speaker 1: your spiritual bank account. Righteousness which makes you one who
Speaker 1: reigns in life because you've received the abundance of grace.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, reset our compass this morning, reboot our computer,
Speaker 1: rewrite our software. Wash pessimistic theology out of our hearts.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: We we welcome you. We yield to you, We partner
Speaker 1: with you. We thank you for the abundance of grace
Speaker 1: and glory and righteousness that we are partakers of. Let
Speaker 1: us leave here with a shout today. Let us leave
Speaker 1: here with a dance today. Let us leave here with it.
Speaker 1: Let's cut a jig. You know what a jig is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is either, But let's cut
Speaker 1: a jig. Let's fit polish something. Let's go out of
Speaker 1: here triumphantly. Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 2: Church should be, Church should be.
Speaker 1: And it will be the center of joy and high five.
Speaker 1: I mean, we should just be pinching ourselves all the time.
Speaker 1: I really, is this really true? What in the world
Speaker 1: could I be? Could this be me? And this generation?
Speaker 1: Could I am I partaking of this much goodness.
Speaker 2: Now? In Jesus' name? And everybody said
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