WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:07.040 I'm convinced that in church and with church, there's a 2 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:14.279 lot of pessimistic theology that is thrown at us, and 3 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:21.000 we get washed with a lot of pessimism, and every 4 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.440 once in a while, you know, it's good to have 5 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.239 a little bit of washing that out of us, because 6 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.679 God is up to good things. He wants to do 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:37.439 good things, and we're all looking to the future, whether 8 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.399 you know it or not, whether you think about it 9 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:47.600 or not, you're constantly subconsciously looking to the future. And 10 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:50.159 if the lens that you see with you know, even 11 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.280 Matthew six twenty two says, if your eye is dark, 12 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:58.119 then your whole being is going to be regulated by 13 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.920 that darkness. This is the words of the Lord. So 14 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.680 we're looking to the future and vision or our eye 15 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:11.719 is metaphoric for that that glance toward the future. Do 16 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.159 we have a hope filled glance toward the future? Do 17 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.840 we have a pessimistic glance toward the future. And my 18 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:24.239 thought is that that God's looking for people with hope 19 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:31.359 filled glances because he can partner with that and that 20 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.879 he can he can bring something good to pass no 21 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.319 matter what season it is. You know, I'm talking about 22 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.239 like you know, the the revival in Wales, of which 23 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:47.560 you know mister Trump is related to the Welsh Revival. 24 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:49.560 I don't know if you know that, but uh, and 25 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.000 he still has an original Bible from the Wells Revival. 26 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.040 But the revival that broke out in Wales. That wasn't 27 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.120 a Trump loving speech. It was just a comment. But 28 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:05.079 the revival that broke out in Wales, it wasn't necessarily 29 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:10.840 during revival season, Jacob, I think if I had more volume, 30 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:16.199 might be more happy, and I like to be happy. 31 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:18.680 The revival that broke out. 32 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:24.120 In Wales, it wasn't with Evans Roberts, young kid was 33 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.599 at the court at the center of the revival. Uh, 34 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.520 the you know the I could name others. Uh, the 35 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.199 move of God that broke out through Smith Wigglesworth. You 36 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.599 ever heard of him? Uh, it wasn't during revival season. 37 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.280 You know what is revival season? So many of us 38 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:47.199 in our theology were constantly putting off something off to 39 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.120 the future. Revivals coming, And as long as you put 40 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.439 something off to the future, you'll never get to where 41 00:02:53.439 --> 00:03:01.639 it's at. You're actually living in the greatest season that 42 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:06.759 has existed. You're living in the outpouring of the holy Spirit. 43 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.400 You're living in a season of power, a season of glory, 44 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.400 a season of the new creation, a season of the 45 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.280 righteousness of God, imputed your spiritual bank account that you 46 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.639 didn't earn or deserve. I need even more, Jacob, even more. Yeah, 47 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.400 because oh yeah, I like to hear myself. I love 48 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.400 my own voice. My mom and dad told me that 49 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.159 my whole life. I got a lot of spankings over it. 50 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.639 But the Lord had something in mind, thank you. 51 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.840 So. But you're living in. 52 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:41.719 The greatest season, this this amazing season, right. But what's 53 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.240 happening is religion wants to keep telling you what a 54 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.879 bummer season it is. And religion wants to keep your 55 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:52.479 eyes focused on a negative view of the future instead 56 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:56.240 of a positive view of the future. Not just on 57 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.120 a macro level. But everything you view on a macro 58 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.360 level is uh uh dehydrated. That's the only word that's 59 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.680 coming to my mind. That is not good. But you know, 60 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.840 everything you view on a macro level, you know is 61 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:18.079 also distilled. That could be, that could be fair inwardly 62 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.600 in your own heart. So you know these things are interrelated. 63 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.800 So if you've got a macro view this negative, you've 64 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.639 got a micro a micro view that's negative, and God 65 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.000 wants to wash that out of us because God can 66 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.879 move in any season. Now, now I'm gonna I'm going 67 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.800 to show you today why God especially wants to move 68 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.480 in this season and why if you continue pessimistic in 69 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:46.360 this season, you really are in a bummer state. I 70 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.120 don't mean the state of Washington. 71 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.720 But we could go there too. But what I mean is. 72 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.759 You're in a bummer state of mind, right if you 73 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.199 man pessimistic in this season. But I just want to 74 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.079 I want to just talk to you about how God 75 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.839 can find you. God can find you if you will 76 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:12.120 throw away all pessimism. God can find you in any season, 77 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:14.879 as he did with Evans Roberts, as he did with 78 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.759 Smick Swiggelsworth, as he did with We could just name 79 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.319 a hundred of him this morning, right, John g. Lake 80 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:20.839 or whatever. 81 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:21.160 Right? 82 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:26.720 So God's looking for something. In Judges chapter six, God 83 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.439 was looking for something. He calls Gideon to lead an army. 84 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.839 He starts with thirty two thousand, and God sends most 85 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.519 of them home. He couldn't work with them because they 86 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.399 had the wrong thing on the inside. Their eye was dark, 87 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.000 so their whole body was dark. Only three hundred of 88 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.360 thirty two thousand had the right attitude, and so God says, 89 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.519 I'll take the three hundred and I'll win the battle 90 00:05:53.560 --> 00:06:00.879 with them. God will find you where wherever you're at, 91 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.720 God will find God will create revible for you. God 92 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.480 will create breakthrough for you. God will create prosperity for you. 93 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.519 God will create increase for you. God will create victory 94 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.399 for you if you will shift your heart out of 95 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.720 this pessimistic common religious view and say I'm not going 96 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:25.199 to be a part of that anymore. It's the same 97 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:28.279 thing with Joshua and Jermicho. You know, God, if you 98 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.160 go home today and read Joshua chapter one, you know 99 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.360 the Lord spoke over Joshua, and he was very, very 100 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:39.360 thorough and all through that first chapter he's engaging with 101 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.399 his heart. Proverbs four twenty says, out of your heart 102 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.160 determines the boundaries of life. 103 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.319 It's your heart. It says, guard your heart. 104 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.639 Right, we got to guard our heart because out of 105 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.399 out of your heart, that's what determines. 106 00:06:57.959 --> 00:06:59.079 The boundaries of your life. 107 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.079 And so multiple times in Joshua chapter one, he's saying, 108 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.040 be careful to only meditate on what I've promised you 109 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.000 He's telling him, be careful to only meditate on what 110 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.839 I've promised you. And he says, not on that. He says, 111 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.399 don't even let anything else get in your mouth. Only 112 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.680 say what I've promised you. Now, this was important because 113 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.639 for forty years Joshua knew something right. He was a 114 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.959 set apart person. He already knew that forty years ago, 115 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.360 there were twelve that were sent in despy out what 116 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.920 kind of land, Oh, the Promised Land, which is heaven 117 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.920 on earth? For you, you have a promised land as well. 118 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.079 It was real for them, it's a metaphoric reality for you. 119 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.480 This is why Jesus said, pray this way, Thy kingdom come. 120 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.279 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 121 00:07:59.439 --> 00:07:59.720 God. 122 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:06.040 God has loosed us into the potential of bringing Heaven 123 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:11.519 to earth. But religion is filled with pessimism and wants 124 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.560 to get you thinking negatively toward the future instead of 125 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.959 partnering with God concerning what Jesus already done on your 126 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.920 behalf so that Heaven could come to earth and into 127 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:26.680 your life. And so he says, so Joshua knew something. 128 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.839 Of the twelve spies that went. 129 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.240 Into the Promised Land, there were only two that came 130 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.159 back with a positive report and a report. It wasn't 131 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.399 like a Robert Schuller positive report or a zig Ziglar 132 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:38.399 positive report or. 133 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:38.919 Something like that. 134 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:45.279 It wasn't like they just agreed with God. They just 135 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.480 agreed with God. Two of them agreed with God. Remember 136 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:52.120 who they were, Joshua and Joshua and Caleb agreed with God. 137 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.279 The other ten disagreed with God. And so those that 138 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.480 disagreed with God, they became the dominant face of all 139 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.919 of Israel. And they had to wonder for forty years. 140 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.159 Why did they have to wonder for forty years? Because 141 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.320 that generation had to die off while josh and it 142 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.639 was a forty year generation, while Joshua and Cadeb were 143 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.559 raising up a new generation of those who would believe. 144 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:20.960 So for forty years, it says, they wandered around Mount 145 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:25.279 seer Sei, or for forty years, they actually went around 146 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:29.639 the same mountain, year after year after year after year. 147 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.960 Forty years they went around the same mountain, waiting for 148 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:41.600 that generation of unbelieving ones to die off. Now, when 149 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.799 a new generation had been raised up under Joshua and Caleb, 150 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:49.159 then God said to them, turned northward, and now's the 151 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:53.120 time to go in, and when they got there, Joshua 152 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.919 and Caleb were justified in their hearts because when they 153 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.440 showed up Rahab, the woman who they came to in 154 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.279 the city of Jericho, said where have you been forty 155 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.639 years ago? Our hearts melted like wax, and the dread 156 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:14.320 of your God fell on all of us. The beautiful 157 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.720 thing is with Joshua and Caleb is that they didn't 158 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:23.360 miss it. God sustained their life. So they were living 159 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.720 in the midst of a bunch of unbelievers, like two 160 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:32.320 million unbelievers. Hello, two million unbelievers who are all having babies. 161 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.320 And God says, I'm going to get your seed. Your 162 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.000 seed will go in and possess the land. I'm going 163 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:38.919 to get all your babies. They're going to come under 164 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.519 the tutelage of Joshua and Caleb. But you are not 165 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.720 going to go in because you said we are not able. Therefore, 166 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.360 God said, numbers fourteen twenty eight. I forgive you, but 167 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.399 she won't go in because what I heard you say 168 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.200 in my ears, that's what I have to give you. 169 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.360 Read it, numbers fourteen twenty eight. What I heard you 170 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.879 say is in my ears, That's what I have to 171 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:10.720 give you even though I forgive you. It's amazing. So 172 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:14.080 Joshua knew something. He knew that he had to have 173 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:18.159 a heart. That was because in the midst of unbelief, 174 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.639 in the midst of all of this negativity and pessimism, 175 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.120 that God would honor him. And God extended his life 176 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.480 in Joshua and Caleb lived longer than anybody in their generation. 177 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.919 He extended their life, and he took them in and 178 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.360 he gave them their mountain, their territory, and their inheritance. 179 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.000 So God can meet you in the middle of Crod. 180 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:43.720 He can meet you in the middle of Washington State. 181 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.440 God can meet you in the middle of western Washington. 182 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:52.879 Not the Bible Belt, the Perverse belt. 183 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:53.720 Right. 184 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.840 God can meet you right here. God can give you revival. 185 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.360 God can give you breakthrough. God's going to give us 186 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:03.000 traffic to new horizon. God's going to give us the 187 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.480 greatest harvest Pierce County's ever seen. God's going to give 188 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.159 us a harvest out of South King County. And God's 189 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:16.440 going to give us traffic jams. I'm just saying that 190 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.039 even if you don't like what I preach this morning, 191 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:21.720 God can do it anyway. Go ahead and leave here 192 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.919 in a bad mood over what I preached. And you 193 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:27.759 know what, if you leave here believing this first part 194 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.200 of my sermon, God's going to show up for you. 195 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:38.120 Every season is due season. Every season is promised season, 196 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.200 ever since the Resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 197 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:45.759 If you aren't living in a breakthrough season, shame on you. 198 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.519 It's not God's fault. It's not God's fault. 199 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.720 If you're not living in a breakthrough season, you have 200 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.799 the opportunity in God. 201 00:12:58.120 --> 00:12:59.480 To seize the goodness of God. 202 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.159 And this is why he said, even Matthew eleven twelve right, 203 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:10.799 the kingdom of Heaven is advancing, and those those who 204 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.519 are entering in and seizing the Kingdom of Heaven are 205 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.639 those who are violent of nature. They won't be denied. 206 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:21.559 Somebody in this room needs to say, you know what, 207 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.799 it's available. I'm not going to be denied. I'm going 208 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.799 to pressin and I'm going to partake of heaven in 209 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.519 my generation. I'm going to partake of the goodness of 210 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:30.559 God in my generation. 211 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:32.440 God likes that. 212 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:40.679 God likes the aggressiveness. Well, hello, Loya, let's start. I 213 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.799 want to go somewhere let's start with going somewhere. I've 214 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.480 got a couple minutes left. This is going to be bad. 215 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.759 Fucked myself happy and got the own room for the sermon. 216 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.279 Okay. So here's what I want to show you, though. 217 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.000 I want to show you that we are living in 218 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:02.480 this amazing of kingdom advancement. I know some of you 219 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.480 heard me talk about this before, but I'm going to 220 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.279 talk about her again today because it's part of what 221 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:08.519 washes us and helps us. 222 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:10.679 So this is a. 223 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:16.360 Kingdom advancing season, and it runs all the way to 224 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.039 the last day. The last day happens has recorded in 225 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:23.840 on Grinthions fifteen twenty six. The last day and the 226 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:28.159 last enemy to be put under our feet is death. 227 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:34.960 So on the last day, at the last trump trumpet, 228 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.759 the last enemy will be subdued, and the Lord is 229 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.440 actually only coming back, according to First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, 230 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:50.399 He's coming back to put that last enemy under our feet. 231 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:59.039 So this is a progression of massive, massive victory and 232 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:03.799 the increase of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. And 233 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.679 you know Isaiah sixty five, Remember Isaiah sixty five. Isaiah 234 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:12.960 sixty five says, what's happening during this time seventeen through 235 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:13.480 twenty three. 236 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.440 Write that down. 237 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:20.919 Is what's happening is righteousness is increasing. The age of 238 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.840 the righteous is increasing. Anybody that dies under one hundred 239 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:27.000 is going to be thought to be a cursed We're 240 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:31.840 actually living to the lifetime of a tree and wearing 241 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.559 out all of our stuff. Now right now, your stuff's 242 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:38.759 going to outlive you, probably, but there's a generation coming 243 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:40.759 that is going to outwear their stuff. They're going to 244 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:46.039 outlive their stuff. Now this is before the rapture or 245 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:49.480 the Second Coming. This happens before the rapture or the 246 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.600 second Coming. How do I know that people are dying? 247 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.000 The righteous are dying after the Second Coming? No, righteous 248 00:15:55.000 --> 00:16:02.200 people are dying after the second Coming. You even incorruptible body. 249 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:11.200 So this is First Thessalonians four and first Corinthians fifteen. Right, 250 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.080 So in the twinkling of an eye, you've heard it, 251 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.799 and this is happening on the last day, at the 252 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.360 last trump. But over here when people are still dying, 253 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:26.399 if you die at one hundred, we think you recursed. 254 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.600 So go home and read that. You'll get happy. Now 255 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.639 what's happening is there's an overlap here. And I want 256 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.919 to show you this and this is the Mosaic period. 257 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:41.159 Everybody say, Moses, that was pretty good, pretty good participation 258 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.759 right there. And this right here, I'm going to start this. 259 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:49.000 This is the cross. The kingdom of Heaven started with 260 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:54.159 the resurrection of Jesus. The Kingdom of Heaven started with 261 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.039 the resurrection of Jesus. So the Kingdom of Heaven actually 262 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:01.919 started here and it's advancing and going forward. And this 263 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.480 is this is a new kingdom, and this is a 264 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:14.640 new kingdom of new Heaven and new Earth. Now I 265 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.039 don't want to just tell you that and force you 266 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.680 to believe it. I'm going to tell you it's a 267 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.240 new Heaven and new Earth because in all of the 268 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:29.920 ages previously, Satan had access to heaven and had dominion 269 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:35.359 over man. Because of Adam's fall, and so the heavens 270 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:41.920 were even stirred up with darkness, and Satan was coming 271 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:47.799 in the authority of first Atom into the heavens. And 272 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.799 if you don't like that, read the Book of Job 273 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.160 and you can see how that's happening, and you can 274 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.119 see the interaction of it. Okay, And also what had 275 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.519 happened is there were seventy nations, and we're told about 276 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:04.720 those seven nations in Genesis chapter ten, and the seventy nations, 277 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:09.039 only one nation was God's nation, Israel. He reserved Israel 278 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.240 as his own. Sixty nine nations were unclean, and those 279 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.759 sixty nine nations were ruled by principalities and powers like 280 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.880 the Prince of Persia in Daniel chapter ten. 281 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:21.359 Right, So you have to. 282 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:27.000 Realize they had those those nations, those princes of darkness 283 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:31.039 were under the lordship of Satan, who was ruling over 284 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.359 all the nations. The coming of Jesus and his victory 285 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:39.920 over Satan crushed all of that. It rearranged all of that. 286 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.279 Satan was cast out of heaven Revelation twelve. Satan was 287 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:47.359 cast out of heaven to the earth, and all of 288 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.200 the principalities and powers have been put under the feet 289 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:55.039 of Jesus. And that's who we wrestle with. Now, we 290 00:18:55.079 --> 00:19:00.200 wrestle with principalities and powers and spiritual powers in the 291 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:04.200 spirit realm to put them under our feet. Our wrestling 292 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:09.440 is not feudle. We're not wrestling at a futility. We're 293 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:14.519 wrestling as partners with Jesus, because Father is subduing all 294 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:20.720 of them and declaring they must release their captives. So 295 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.359 every nation is releasing their captives right now, and we're 296 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.920 going to see this grow and grow and grow. And 297 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.640 it's a new heaven and a new Earth. 298 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:31.519 Okay. Why is it a new Earth? 299 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.400 Well, because he's given all of the sons of Adam who. 300 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:39.480 Believe in Jesus the authority. 301 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:43.200 To dominate Satan and to bring the very power and 302 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.039 the grace of Heaven to the earth. So the new 303 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:51.680 Earth doesn't start over here. This is the consummation of it, 304 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.440 the finality of it. 305 00:19:54.079 --> 00:20:01.759 But it started over here with me. Okay. 306 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.359 So I want you, I want you to hearing some 307 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.519 of that. And by the way, so I'm trying to 308 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.680 go his fans again, but keep that piano player off 309 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:17.519 the stage, by the way. So this is eighty seventy, 310 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:22.359 and this is eighty seventy, and this is eighty thirty three. 311 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:24.319 This is the Lord. 312 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.039 And by the way, these were called the last days. 313 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.119 These are not called the last days. 314 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:34.759 Now. 315 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:36.720 You've been told all of your life that you're living 316 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.119 in the last days. You've been told all of your 317 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:40.519 life that these are the last days. 318 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:47.039 These aren't. These are the new days. Now, let's talk about. 319 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:51.880 Why is that? Because all of the New Testament. Everything 320 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.559 they referred to regarding the last days they were they 321 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.599 would referred to the last days of the Mosic period. 322 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:05.799 And during these last days of the Mosaic period thirty 323 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.400 seven years, God was doing amazing things, and amazing things 324 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:16.240 were happening. One you know it because you're Pentecostal charismatic cruismatics. 325 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:20.640 You know this that Joel Chapter two, Verse twenty eight, 326 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:26.759 Acts Chapter two, sixteen seventeen. And such Peter stands up 327 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.799 when it looks like one hundred and twenty people have 328 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:33.400 been praying, and the Holy Spirit lands on them with 329 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:38.960 tongues of fire wind and an outpouring of his spirit. 330 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:45.279 Remember this what happened, Acts Chapter two. 331 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:45.759 We have the verse. 332 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:51.039 We can throw it up. We're talented, we're skilled, and 333 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.240 this is and this is Peter, this is Peter. On 334 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.640 the day of Pentecost, they say, Pentecost, this is Peter, 335 00:21:57.400 --> 00:21:59.880 and this is He's gonna explain it. And this is 336 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:02.960 what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall 337 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:09.359 be in the last days, and it shall be in 338 00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:10.000 the last days. 339 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:10.599 God says that. 340 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:14.599 I will pour forth my spirit upon all mankind. Oh, 341 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:19.960 not the last days? When did he do this. When 342 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:25.240 did he pour this out fifty days after the resurrection 343 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:31.000 or fifty days after passover? Penta means fifty fifty days 344 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:34.319 after passover. So right here, these were the last days. 345 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:36.240 Now why were the last days? Because they were the 346 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:41.079 last days because the tabernacle system and the sacrificial system 347 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:46.759 was coming to a close. He was closing that down 348 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:52.119 because once he destroyed the temple in the sacrificial system, 349 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:57.279 there would never ever ever be a sacrifice again. Because 350 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.880 Jesus was the priest, He was the sad sacrifice, He 351 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:05.799 was the lamb, and this temple was no longer needed. 352 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:09.839 It was obsolete because you have become the temple of 353 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:16.160 the Holy Spirit. So these were the last days. So 354 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:18.000 let me just I'm going to give you some more 355 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:19.319 on this if you like it. 356 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:21.559 Did you like that? Is that? Okay? 357 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.119 Hebrews one one, go with me really fast, God after 358 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:29.039 he spoke long By the way, Hebrews is all about Hebrews. 359 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:33.920 The Hebrews is all about the closing of one tabernacle 360 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:40.960 and the opening of another. Right, So Hebrews Chapter one one, 361 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:43.200 God after he spoke long ago to the fathers and 362 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:46.440 the prophets in many portions in many ways in these 363 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:51.200 last days has spoken to us in his son in 364 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:56.319 these what in these last days? I'm telling you all 365 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.680 throughout the New Testament, where it talks about the last days, 366 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.000 it's referring to this period, not this period. 367 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:05.079 This is a period of. 368 00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:08.759 The new Heaven and the new Earth, where righteousness dwells. Wait, 369 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:11.640 I'll read it to you in a minute. I have 370 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:16.400 no opinions. I only speak the word of God Hebrews 371 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.480 nine twenty five. Nor was it that he should offer 372 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.279 himself often talking about Jesus as the high priest, enters 373 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.839 the Holy Place year by year with blood that's not 374 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:28.839 his own. Otherwise he would have needed to suffer often 375 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:31.960 from the foundation of the world. But now at the 376 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:36.640 consummation of the ages, or the NIV says, at the 377 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:41.119 culmination of the ages, this is interesting, is that? And 378 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:46.240 Paul talks about this to the Ephesians that in Christ, 379 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:50.400 this is Colossians and the Ephesians that he was summarizing 380 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.319 all things in Christ. 381 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:56.279 So this is the summary of all of the ages past. 382 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:01.359 It's the summary of all the ages past, and it's 383 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:04.680 the summary of the law and the prophets and everything 384 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:13.960 God ever said was culminated and consummated in Christ Jesus, 385 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:19.799 so that he could begin this brand new era of 386 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:25.359 many sons and many daughters who partake of the glories 387 00:25:25.400 --> 00:25:29.720 of God ten ten ten, nor grumble as some of 388 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.759 them did, talking about the Israelites who were negative nillies, 389 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.680 and grumble as some of them did, and negative neds, 390 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.559 and they were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things 391 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.000 happened to them as an example, and they were written 392 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.319 for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages 393 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:51.200 have come. He's writing to this contemporary audience right here, 394 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:53.480 because these are the last days, and this is the 395 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:57.079 end of a complete period where they were on the 396 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.480 outside looking in, but he was beginning a new age 397 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.680 of those on the inside as sons and daughters. First 398 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.880 Peter one twenty. For he was foreign known before the 399 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:10.799 foundation of the world, but he has appeared in these 400 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:18.400 last times for the sake of you two Timothy three 401 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.680