WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.480 Father, We thank you for your word. Today, we thank 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.320 you that you're feeding us with mana from heaven. You 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:12.800 ever had you ever had syrup on your manna? I 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:15.800 think that's what happened at the New Horizon. We get 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.320 syrup on our manna. Oh yeah, syrup on the mana. 6 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.719 Thank you for it, Jesus name. Everybody said, you know 7 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.280 what mana is. You know what mana is. Mana is 8 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.879 what God fed the children of Israel with for forty 9 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.759 years when they were wandering through the wilderness. He sustained 10 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.520 them with mana. But it was a picture of his word. 11 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.679 He sustained them with his word as they were going 12 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.840 through the wilderness, and every day they would go out 13 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.799 and gather some mana. Right, So bread is important, yes? 14 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.359 How many of you think bread is important? Bread is 15 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.039 metaphoric to old food. How many of you eat in 16 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.640 the building, anybody eat in this building? How many of 17 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.280 you think food is important? All? Right? Those that didn't 18 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:09.920 raise your hand, no lunch for you. Bread is important, right? 19 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:14.480 And so God sustains us with bread. Yes, so we 20 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.280 had a We had a visitor at the wolf house 21 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:17.680 last night. I don't know if I should tell this 22 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.120 story or not. I'm not sure if I'm gonna get 23 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:26.439 in trouble or not pastor results not listening. But last night, 24 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:32.239 yours truly was very exhausted, probably after whipping up on 25 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:39.000 everybody in cornhole and uh, what's that air again? Pick 26 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.519 a ball? I don't even know what it is. But 27 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.719 after such great victories, I got home and I was 28 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.319 a little exhausted, and so I like, I collapsed. All 29 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:55.159 my stuffing fell out, and so i'm you know, I 30 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.319 went to bed early, and so I'm and I'm wiped out. 31 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.640 And so I said the passageholes sent honey, did you 32 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:06.480 close the and it's three stories down? I said, honey, 33 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.479 did you close the dining room door? Oh? I don't 34 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.159 think so. Was it open? Yeah, it was open. I 35 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.719 don't think so. Well, you probably should close that. Oh 36 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:20.159 all right, all right, anyway, so this morning, this morning, 37 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.520 we get up and she proceeds to the kitchen earlier 38 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.400 than me. Now, kitchen, the kitchen is where you find 39 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.800 the bread of life. The kitchen is where you find nourishment. 40 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.199 The kitchen is where you eat. The kitchen is where 41 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:40.520 everything is available to you. Should you should you intentionally 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.520 do something about her? Right? And so she goes down 43 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:45.479 to the kitchen sooner than me, and then I hear them, 44 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.759 and I had this funny feeling last night. I don't know. 45 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:53.719 Last night, at the table at the house parting, for 46 00:02:53.719 --> 00:03:00.319 some odd reason, people brought up raccoons. Chris, you were there, 47 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.520 Joe Simms is at that table, Jim was at that table, 48 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.840 and somebody else. Anyway, somebody brought up raccoons, and so 49 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.800 I had this funny feeling last night though our raccoon 50 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.280 was gonna come in the house. Now. I don't know 51 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.159 if it was the table discussion or what it was, 52 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:22.639 but I get this hollered from Joel Honey come up quickly. 53 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:29.759 I'm like, oh boy, so something came in the house 54 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.560 last night. We don't know what it was. Something came 55 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.199 in the house last night. It pulled the Dave Killer's 56 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.800 bread off the countertop and had eaten a bunch of it, 57 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.439 and then it left kind of like a lot of us, 58 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:48.319 It left a couple of heels sitting there, uneaten. Even 59 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:52.840 the raccoons don't like the heels. What's with that? That 60 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.759 proves right there that the heels, Oh that's not the 61 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.520 best right there anyway. But the raccoon knew where to go, 62 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.879 It knew to come to the kitchen. I don't know 63 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.479 if it's the raccoon. It might, I don't know what 64 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.960 it was it. But the tooth marks, all right, the 65 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.439 tooth because there were bites out of the bread. They 66 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:18.879 didn't look like mouse bites. They were fairly large. Would 67 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.319 you rather have a raccoon in your house or a 68 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:24.240 mouse or a rat? Raccoon, I think a raccoon, and 69 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:29.040 then you know that it's not there, right, It's like, okay, okay, 70 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.480 I think it's gone, but a rat, a rat could 71 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.600 be hiding. Right. So anyway, we had a crazy visord 72 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:41.079 last night. So but I think it fits because what 73 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.759 the Lord's calling us to do is to get into 74 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:51.399 the kitchen. The Lord's calling us to uh to intentionally 75 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.079 devour the bread of heaven. And this is you know, 76 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:01.279 this is the beautiful part of the privilege of royalty 77 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:07.160 is that we get the bread of heaven. We get 78 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:15.160 the bread of heaven. Right, So Matthew four, men shall 79 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:21.519 not live by but by every word that proceeds from 80 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:24.360 the mouth of God. Now God is not done talking. 81 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.160 God didn't when the cannon was sealed, when the canon 82 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:37.079 was closed. God wasn't done talking. He created women. No, no, 83 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.639 work with me, work with me, work with me. Women 84 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:46.439 have twenty five thousand words a day. Men five gabby men, 85 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:51.920 Gabby men, Jayson gabby men maybe have five to ten thousand. 86 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.120 I don't know any gabby men in the building. Italian men. 87 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.160 Have you been to Italy? My word? They're like women. 88 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:05.079 Shut up already, any Italians in the building. Frank went 89 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.720 home already? Okay, so Frank Frank, you know, not Frank 90 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:15.240 caster home. But huh Frank Vittali. So I don't know. 91 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.199 Is he like that? I don't know. Is he talkative? No, 92 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:23.879 he's not like that. Raised in America, ruins everybody. So 93 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:28.000 manahall not live by bread alone, but by every word. 94 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:33.439 God has so many words over us. He's not short 95 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:38.360 on words. And the cannon was was sealed, but God's 96 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.600 mouth was not. And God dispenses the bread of heaven. 97 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:45.519 But we, you know, we have to stop. We have 98 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.839 to we have to be intentional. The kitchen doesn't chase me, 99 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.160 the supplies of the kitchen doesn't chase me. Uh, I 100 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:56.680 have to stop. I have to take time. I have 101 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.959 to be intentional. I literally have to pause the kitchen 102 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.959 and is this beautiful place in my home with purpose. 103 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:08.279 The kitchen has purpose, and it's there that I find 104 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:11.759 nourishment and sustenance. And there's other rooms that are beautiful 105 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.319 to hang out in. There's other rooms where there's entertainment. 106 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.279 There's other rooms where there's activities. There's other rooms where 107 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.199 there's rest, there's other rooms where there are chores. But 108 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:26.199 the kitchen is very intentional. It's the kitchen where I 109 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:31.759 find nourishment. If I turn my attention to it. I 110 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:37.040 can have a kitchen loaded with goodies, right, loaded with 111 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:43.319 breads and spreads and goodies. But it does not force 112 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.759 itself into my digestive system. It's waiting for me to 113 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:52.759 interact with it and to initiate and to actually lean 114 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:59.759 into right and to actually work my energy in that 115 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.360 kitchen right so that the nourishment available will then get 116 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:10.800 into the palate or over the palate, Is the palate 117 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:17.560 is into or over? You don't know? All right, it's over, 118 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.000 it's over over the palate, down the gullet. Is it 119 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.839 in the gullet? You don't know. You're not familiar with 120 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:34.919 these goofy words. Down the hatch, down the down the hatch. 121 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.519 There has to be an interaction. And this is uh, 122 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:43.720 you know, this is religion. Religion was religion is and 123 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:56.759 was blind obedience. Wow, religion was blind obedience religion still today, 124 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:03.039 as we think about religion, it's it's rules without revelation. 125 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:11.679 Are you with me? Rules without revelation? If here's what 126 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.639 I think, I think, wherever you're struggling with God's rules, 127 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.480 it's because it's only because you're lacking revelation. Wherever I'm 128 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:27.200 struggling with God's rules, I'm simply lacking revelation. Royalty, the 129 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:31.360 royalty of the indwelling spirit. Here's the indwelling spirit, right, 130 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.519 and this is royalty. And the royalty of the indwelling 131 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:42.840 spirit is the release upon us of revelation. So now 132 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:48.159 in Yashiah we have this privilege of coming into the kitchen. 133 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.240 And the bread of heaven is revelation. The bread of 134 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.840 heaven is understanding. The bread of heaven results in faith. 135 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:04.799 Wherever there's revelation, there's faith. Faith is the energy of God. 136 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:10.360 Faith is the fuel of heaven. Faith is the access 137 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:18.960 of grace wherever we have because Jesus has commandments, but 138 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.960 you know what he says, about his commandments. Jesus says, 139 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.000 his commandments are not hard. Now, why would the Old 140 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.320 Testament commandments be hard? Why would the Old Testament commandments 141 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.759 be hard to perform? And the commandments of the Lord 142 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:43.440 would be easy because the absence of faith makes them hard. 143 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:52.720 This came to them as logos, This comes to us 144 00:10:53.120 --> 00:11:03.080 as Ramaiah. The rama is the living word of God. 145 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.360 The rama is living bread and the privilege of you know, 146 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:12.519 it's like, not everything hits your appetite the right way 147 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.720 you ever you ever been promised one thing and you 148 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.320 got a different thing, And I know, not everything hits 149 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.480 our appetite. Like sometimes you're in the moon for Chinese 150 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:25.879 and then they walk in the door with Mexican. You're like, 151 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:29.559 I thought it was going to be eggfu Young, you're 152 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.960 bringing tacos. You know. Sometimes you're in the moon for right. 153 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:38.159 Sometimes sometimes your wife's got leftovers. Anybody ever have a 154 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.879 leftover in their home? You know what a leftover is, 155 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:44.360 And so you pull out all the leftovers, you put 156 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.679 them out on the counter and you're like kind of 157 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:52.440 like eyeh, and she's like which one, honey, And you're like, well, 158 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:56.720 not that one, right, So there's no rama on it. 159 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.320 There's no life on that one. That one's two weeks old. 160 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.279 I think it's growing fur, all right, Just shove that 161 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:14.519 one to one side, No thanks, loving right, So, and 162 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.399 and this is see, the Holy Spirit wants to kiss 163 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.039 the word over your heart. Not just the written word, 164 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.120 but he wants to kiss you with a living word 165 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:32.320 every day as you pause in the kitchen of intimacy. 166 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:41.440 Friendship attention intentional could be worse. I don't know what 167 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.120 kind of moves you into the kitchen. I know what 168 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.799 moves me into the kitchen, right, so I know time 169 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:55.320 spent and there's no real quality without quantity in human relationships, 170 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:02.120 quality will be highly lacking. If there's no quantity, it 171 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:09.639 takes quantity to find nuggets of quality. Do you think 172 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:15.519 it's different with God. It's no different with God. If 173 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:21.480 you if you don't invest time, but you expect great quality, right, 174 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.919 you might just get wonderbread. Yeah, a lot of a 175 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:32.480 lot of white air, puffy stuff, you know, right, so 176 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:34.440 the raccoons won't even eat that stuff. That's like that's 177 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.559 like heels. I don't know. So, but if you invest time, 178 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.840 then you're gonna get the better nutrition, right, Because quality 179 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:49.080 is somewhat governed by quantity. And it's not just him pressing, 180 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.279 you know, him relating back to us, but it's as 181 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.759 we press into him, you know, relationally, it's the same. 182 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:04.399 You know, I'm investing in my spouse some quantity, but 183 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:13.799 the quantity isn't always of high standards, because a thought comes, 184 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.639 and then a squirrel comes, and then and then I 185 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.360 remember something, and then and she's trying to tell me something, 186 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:23.519 and we're trying to talk through something, and then I 187 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:25.279 think I gotta grab my phone and take a note 188 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.360 on something, and she's like, do I still have your 189 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.399 attention to any Yeah, that'll just give me a second. 190 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.840 Something gain in my mind. Here it's a valid thing. Love, 191 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:38.360 it's a valid thing, you know. So even in spousal relationships, 192 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:44.840 part of what makes the quality really require some quantity 193 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:50.120 is because we're drawn away. I get drawn away when 194 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:54.279 I'm in the spiritual kitchen. I'm in the spiritual kitchen 195 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.159 and I'm drawing near to the Lord in worship, in 196 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:02.600 adoration and thanksgiving, and I want to invest in him, 197 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:04.840 knowing that he wants to invest in me. But I 198 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.360 got to position my heart to receive what he's going 199 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.120 to invest There's going to be word downloads, there's going 200 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.799 to be good downloads. But I need to position my heart. 201 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.840 And then and then my heart starts going sideways, and 202 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:19.360 I think of so I gotta get done today, and 203 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.399 then I owe my word. My taxes are due tomorrow, 204 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:23.759 and then oh my goodness, if I don't get that done, 205 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.279 and then, oh my word, I got to call the land, 206 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.840 so I got to kill. I keep notes with me, right, 207 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.840 and these are these are distraction life savers like I 208 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.000 will write down what's coming to my mind. Sometimes I'll 209 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.080 just open a live email and I won't send it 210 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.919 and I'll just start loading it up with today's stuff. Uh, 211 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.399 so that I don't Once I write it down, I'm 212 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.000 done with it. I don't have to go back to it. 213 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.679 Because I'm investing, because I'm here for quantity intentionally in 214 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.600 this kitchen where holy Spirit, where the presence of Father, 215 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.679 where the ministry of Jesus is here by my invitation, 216 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:08.480 because because I've paused in this place and we're calling 217 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.000 at the kitchen today, I've paused in this place to 218 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:17.360 hear from him because I don't want this. I don't 219 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.600 want it to be hard. I don't want rules without revelation. 220 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:28.440 I don't want blind obedience. I want the bread of Heaven. 221 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.320 I want the release of His revelation over my heart. 222 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.480 I want I want faith. Faith comes by what say 223 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:43.720 it again, Faith comes by hearing Romanstein seventeen. We could 224 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:47.919 go there, We've been there before Romanston seventeen. Faith comes 225 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:54.639 by hearing, but not just general hearing. Faith comes by hearing, 226 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:02.679 but hearing by the Word of Christ. The word. The 227 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:10.480 word therein in the passage is rama. So hearing the 228 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:16.079 scripture doesn't necessarily bring faith. The scripture or the Word, 229 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:20.559 or the promise or the whisper on your heart, the 230 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.160 leading of the spirit on your heart has to be 231 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:30.119 quickened by the Holy Spirit and made into a living rama. 232 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.440 So faith doesn't come just by hearing the word, like 233 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:40.839 the logos. Faith comes by the quickening of the spirit 234 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:49.559 on that word, making that word alive to your heart, irresistible, powerful, 235 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:54.200 grace filled, and it ignites faith immediately. It ignites faith. 236 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.960 Even if it's a hard thing. Go give pastor Dwyane 237 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:03.000 a million dollars. Even if it's a hard thing. I'm 238 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:05.440 just being silly. But even if it's a hard thing, 239 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:13.839 if it's God breathed. Then immediately you will sense the 240 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:18.279 ability for you to lean into it with your faith, 241 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.319 because grace is in the Word, and it's bringing the 242 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:29.119 potential of faith to your heart. Right And this is 243 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.119 this is how, this is how we're called to live. 244 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.440 We're called to actually live this way. We're not called 245 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:43.599 just to visit this faith is something we're actually called 246 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:50.480 to walk by faith. Now, walk by faith. That's an 247 00:18:50.559 --> 00:19:01.160 illustration of every spend every day in faith, every endeavor 248 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:07.240 by faith. Right. So, faith is always correlated with the Word. 249 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.799 So if it's walked by faith, that really means walk 250 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:16.480 by the ram of word. If it's if it's lived 251 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:21.000 by faith, live every day by the rain of word. 252 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:28.440 So and and here's here's here's the rub is that 253 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:34.960 I think that it's moderately easy for us to come 254 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:39.440 into the Kingdom, be born again, born of the spirit, 255 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:48.680 sins forgiven, uh, baptize in water, have this experience, and 256 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:57.160 then live like an Old Testament person. Wow, I think 257 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:01.920 that's actually possible. It's actually possible that we find ourselves 258 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.559 living like an Old Testament person. Now, what I mean 259 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:12.240 by that is that once we've been in church for 260 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.799 a little while, we've been around religion a little while. 261 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:16.799 We've been in the Bible a little while. We've been 262 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:22.200 around Christians a little while, even even attuned to our 263 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:28.640 own consciousousness, because Roman chapter one says even the Gentiles, 264 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:32.799 not just the Jews, have the laws of God testifying 265 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:38.039 in their hearts. And so after we're in Christianity a 266 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.400 little while. If we're not careful, we're living out of 267 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.599 what we know to do, instead of living out of 268 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:52.039 today's living bread. We're living out of what we know 269 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.519 is a good person. What we know are good deeds, 270 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:02.319 what we know is decent character, what we know will 271 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.000 not cost us too much pain, what we know we 272 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.680 should do to our neighbor, what we know. We're living 273 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:13.480 out of what we've come to know, instead of living 274 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:17.319 out of the bread of heaven. And the bread of 275 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:24.359 heaven is intimate fellowship today. It's ignited by fellowship today. 276 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.559 That gives me the enablement, the power, the quickening of 277 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:33.599 the spirit to live by faith today, to walk by 278 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:45.640 faith today. You all what I'm saying. I think the 279 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.960 further you get, I think, the further you get away 280 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.359 from a devotional experience, the more you're tempted to not 281 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:57.319 go back to a devotional experience. Now me, I've got 282 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:01.240 kind of a prohibitive consciousness. So and I was raised 283 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.880 in this, you know, from birth, and so I'm afraid 284 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:09.920 to sin and so but then you know, if I sin, 285 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.720 or in this case, if I skirt the kitchen and 286 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.200 I figure out I can go around the house another way, 287 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:21.000 and then I can get upstairs another way. And there's 288 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.359 other ways to get around the house, and I can 289 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:25.640 get through the yard another way, and then I can 290 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:27.559 get to the garage another way. I don't even have 291 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.039 to go through the kitchen, if I know. The first 292 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.880 the first day that I do that, I'm like, I'm 293 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:37.519 looking for lightning bolts. I'm looking for lightning bolts. I'm 294 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.440 looking for like the floor to open up. I'm looking 295 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:45.000 for lightning bolts. I'm looking for chaos. I'm looking for 296 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.880 the rain cloud. I'm looking for a bad day. I'm 297 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:56.480 just looking right, And then it didn't happen, like wow, huh, 298 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.319 that's interesting. Day number two. Well, I don't have time 299 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.920 for the kitchen today either. No time for the kitchen, 300 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.480 no time for the kitchen. I think I'll just do 301 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:09.480 this my own strength. And so I found out, you know, 302 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.960 said number two. I'm just I'm skirting around the kitchen again. 303 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:18.920 Day number two, Day number two, no lightning bolts, and 304 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:23.720 I did pretty good. It did pretty good. I did 305 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:27.000 pretty good. Maybe a couple of sales did all right. 306 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.119 No lightning bolts, no lightning bolts. Floor didn't open up. 307 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:45.640 Seems okay, seems all right. Yeah, well maybe day number three, 308 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:50.880 Day number three. Skirt in the kitchen, don't check in 309 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:56.240 with the fridge, don't get into the bread pantry. Yeah, 310 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.279 uh huh, but no, I'm not, come on though, not 311 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:04.119 that bad. I said Hallelujah five times today. I said 312 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:07.359 praise the Lord. Somebody said, how that happened? I said, 313 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:13.200 God didn't so I acknowledged him. I acknowledged him. Don't 314 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:18.240 be judging me too bad. But I'm beginning to think 315 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:22.880 maybe this intimate stuff ain't it all that's cracked up 316 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:25.599 to me. I'm beginning to think maybe I don't need 317 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.440 it all that much. After all, I'm beginning to think 318 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:34.839 I'm doing pretty good. I'm doing pretty good. I didn't 319 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:40.559 even send that much. I didn't I didn't even send 320 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:50.240 that much. Uh huh. I'm pretty cool. Well, I mean, 321 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:51.920 I know what it takes to live a good life. 322 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.720 I know what it takes to I know what it 323 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:56.920 takes that you pay your bills. You know you give 324 00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:59.680 honor where it's due. You act like a good person. 325 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:02.000 Come on, I got a little bit of law written 326 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:07.880 in my heart. It's okay. Five days in, six days 327 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:09.960 in seven days in I don't know if I need 328 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.960 to go back. Why do I need to go back 329 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.119 to that kitchen? Why don't we just blow it up? 330 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:22.200 Why do we need a kitchen in the house anyway? Now, 331 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:27.000 I'm living like an Old Testament person, but I'm claiming 332 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.160 to be royalty. I'm claiming to be a New Testament person, 333 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:36.920 but I'm living like an Old Testament person. This is 334 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:40.160 super common. I'm telling you, probably not in this church, 335 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:43.400 but this is super common with Christians who were just 336 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:47.880 checking into church, checking the church box. Got the church 337 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:49.880 box up here, We're going to check the church box. 338 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:55.920 But they are not. They are not spending time in 339 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.440 the kitchen of heaven. They're not spending time and fellowship 340 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:02.279 with God. They're not spending quality so that they get 341 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.240 the quantity of the deposit that brings faith, that brings revelation, 342 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:10.119 that brings grace, that brings strength that brings life. They're 343 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:14.559 not doing it, and the further you go without doing it, 344 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:20.319 the more you think you are indestructible. It's called deception. 345 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.279 You know, when you're deceived, you don't know you are. 346 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:31.079 That's true. That's why it's called deceived, because you you 347 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:40.319 don't know you're deceived when you're deceived. So Papa's just 348 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:45.400 calling us back. He's called He's called Papa, He's called 349 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:52.279 Papa Romans eight fourteen through seventeen. That this relationship he's 350 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:57.440 called us to, it's not one of slavery back under fear, 351 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:10.200 and it's one of sonship where we have been brought 352 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.240 near to father, and we call him Abbah, we call 353 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:18.680 him the term of endearment, we call him daddy. So 354 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:21.480 we're not afraid to go to the kitchen because it's 355 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:24.519 not about rules and regulations in the kitchen. It's about 356 00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:27.480 the nourishment of what we need for this day's challenges, 357 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:30.240 what we need for this day's situation, what we need 358 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.359 for this day's opportunities, what we need for this day's vision, 359 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:36.160 what we need for this day's provision, what we need 360 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:39.240 for this day's insight, what we need for this day's needs. 361 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.880 This one over here, it's prohibition oriented. Do not touch, 362 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.680 do not taste, do not it's prohibition oriented. But this 363 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:53.079 one over here, it's life giving. This is life giving. 364 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.319 Why in the world are we avoiding the kitchen when 365 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.680 this is Papa preparing something for us in he's there 366 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:18.680 and he's preparing something for us. That is life giving. Hallelujah. 367 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:21.680 This one over here, the relationship is central. God and 368 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:29.480 didn't want robots. He never wanted legalistic robots. Relationship is central, relational. 369 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.720 It's central, central, central, central, central, over here, over here. 370 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:37.920 Let's go on. Let's go on. I'm gonna go to 371 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:43.039 John fifteen. We're gonna close with this, John fifteen, John fifteen, 372 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:59.200 let's start it. Verse seven. I used the I used 373 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:05.680 the New Americans standard, but I like I like the 374 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:08.720 King of James better. You know on this I'm old. 375 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:14.400 But it says if you remain in me. Oh, we 376 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.599 got the King James up. Look at that. Wow, they 377 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:24.000 heard me for service, God bless America. Uh, if you 378 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:32.000 abide in me and my words and my words. Now again, 379 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.559 this is interesting. There's only two words for word in 380 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:39.839 the Bible. There's only two. There's logos, and there's rama. 381 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:43.680 There's only two words for word, two words for word. 382 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:52.920 He was the word made flesh, the living word now 383 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:57.440 dwells in us. It says, if you abide in me 384 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:10.640 and my Rama abides in you, it's good. It doesn't 385 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.240 say if you know the laws. It doesn't say if 386 00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.200 you know what was said. It doesn't. It doesn't say 387 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:19.200 if you know what was It doesn't say if you 388 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:24.039 know what you should do based on what God had said. 389 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:28.599 It doesn't say if you've got the whole Bible memorized church. 390 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:36.759 If you abide in me, dwell remain find your life. 391 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:41.079 If you abide in me and my words, my rama, 392 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:47.200 my living Word abides in you. Some of us in 393 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:51.400 this room have only had one rama in our entire lives, 394 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:55.519 and that was a salvation rama. Some of us in 395 00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:58.279 this room have only had two ramas or three ramas. 396 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:02.240 Some of you could count on one hand how many 397 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:09.400 ramas you've had, because your intimacy has been so shallow. 398 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:11.759 Others of us in this room we know what it 399 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:16.079 is to abide in the Rama, the living Word over 400 00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:22.759 our hearts, because we've pressed in and received and recognized 401 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.200