Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. We just thank you for your presence
Speaker 1: and your ministry today. Thank you for the word that
Speaker 1: you are already releasing over us. We bless you. Your
Speaker 1: word changes, inspires, renews, builds us up. We just give
Speaker 1: you the praise for it today in Jesus' name. And
Speaker 1: everybody said, amen, you may be seated at prayer this week,
Speaker 1: some of us guys were gathered and we were here,
Speaker 1: you know, praying and and together we just we kind
Speaker 1: of felt something and there are about four of us
Speaker 1: here and we just started moving into prayer over the nations,
Speaker 1: and the prayer over the nations was it was just
Speaker 1: so victorious and hope filled. And and while this was happening,
Speaker 1: I was just feeling literally, I was feeling divine optimism.
Speaker 1: It's like Holy Spirit knows that things are shifting and changing.
Speaker 1: He knows there's divine cooperation. He knows that he's breathing
Speaker 1: over us, breathing into his life rama the word from above.
Speaker 1: He's shifting our he's shifting our perspective. You know, when
Speaker 1: the children of Israel were sent into freedom and deliverance
Speaker 1: and out of bondage, they were to walk in the
Speaker 1: fulfillment that was given to Abraham that they would possess
Speaker 1: the promised Lamb.
Speaker 2: And that first generation.
Speaker 1: They continued in unbelief, and though they came out of bondage,
Speaker 1: they had bondage still in them. But then the second
Speaker 1: generation they begin to feel the wind of change, and
Speaker 1: they followed under the council of Joshua and Caleb, and
Speaker 1: they stayed near the Joshua and Caleeb And so their
Speaker 1: hearts were shifting as they were under that narrative of
Speaker 1: those two fathers. Those fathers were the narrative of faith
Speaker 1: over that next generation. And so their parents were dying
Speaker 1: off in the wilderness as they circled the same mountain.
Speaker 1: And it says they continued around the same mountain, and
Speaker 1: it's figurative, it's literally figurative. In other words, they continued
Speaker 1: that older generation continued around the same mind set. And
Speaker 1: there came a day when the generation had died off
Speaker 1: that it says that on that day the whole tribe
Speaker 1: turned northward and they began to march toward the promised land.
Speaker 1: There was a shift that took place, and they left
Speaker 1: the trajectory, they left the mindset, they left the circle
Speaker 1: of the same and the same argument and the same mindset.
Speaker 1: They left it behind, and it says, I can't give
Speaker 1: you the exact passage, but you could look it up,
Speaker 1: just google it. And they turn northward and you'll find it.
Speaker 1: They literally turn the northward and they begin to move
Speaker 1: away from forty years of circling around the same mountain.
Speaker 1: And so there came a shift. And today there's a
Speaker 1: shift right now in the body of Christ.
Speaker 2: There's a shift.
Speaker 1: There are winds of change right now in our hearts,
Speaker 1: in our minds, and our perspectives over us as a church,
Speaker 1: over us as the people, and us as a congregation,
Speaker 1: over you. If you'll pay attention, if you'll be listening
Speaker 1: right now, there's a day of shifting where we're beginning
Speaker 1: to cooperate with Holy Spirit northward. There's a northward change
Speaker 1: where we're leaving the circular arguments behind and the things
Speaker 1: that have held us in captive behind, and we're paying
Speaker 1: attention to the voice of Joshua, Yeshua, Joshua, our salvation.
Speaker 1: We're paying attention. We're coming into agreement. And it was
Speaker 1: only the generation of agreement that could move into the promise.
Speaker 1: The promise was the same. The promise didn't change I mean,
Speaker 1: if you know that it wasn't a new promise. The
Speaker 1: promise didn't change. There wasn't a change of promise. There
Speaker 1: was a change in the people. Suddenly the people could believe.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the people align their hearts. Suddenly the people listened
Speaker 1: more to the schooling of Joshua and Caleb than they
Speaker 1: did the narrative of their own parents. Suddenly there was
Speaker 1: a separation, and so that generation began to be separated out.
Speaker 1: And so it says that that generation went in with faith,
Speaker 1: meaning they had an expectancy of victory concerning their future.
Speaker 1: They had an expectancy of promise concerning their future. They
Speaker 1: weren't expecting the feet, they weren't expecting more of the same,
Speaker 1: but they were expecting a new realm, a new land,
Speaker 1: a new place for them, and a land that flowed
Speaker 1: with milk and honey. And so it is without today,
Speaker 1: I believe God's moving. And so I felt in this
Speaker 1: prayer meeting this week, this divine optimism, and then I
Speaker 1: began to kind of talk about it with the guys.
Speaker 1: We began to just kind of talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about divine optimism, and I just was seeing some things
Speaker 1: in the spirit that I think are so apropos of
Speaker 1: fitting for today and for this season. So I want
Speaker 1: to launch into that though with some passages about Jesus,
Speaker 1: about Yeshia, and it's passages that I hope that passages
Speaker 1: like this will continue to shift our thinking toward optimism
Speaker 1: and away from pessimism. Okay, come on, let's say I'm
Speaker 1: going to throw pessimism away to then yeah, let's throw
Speaker 1: it away today. And I want you to meditate on
Speaker 1: some of these passages. Now, these are passages about the
Speaker 1: coming Messiah. So these that I wanted to read to
Speaker 1: you today, they are prophetic passages out of Micah, out
Speaker 1: of Isaiah, out of the Psalms. These are prophetic passages
Speaker 1: looking forward to the time of the Messiah and what
Speaker 1: the Messiah would do, and what would happen with regard
Speaker 1: to the coming Messiah, how he would change darkness to light,
Speaker 1: gloom and despair into brightness and in the hope. And
Speaker 1: so listen to some of these like Micah chapter five,
Speaker 1: starting at verse two. But you, Bethlehem e f Ratha,
Speaker 1: though you are small among the clans of Judah, out
Speaker 1: of you will come for me one who will be
Speaker 1: ruler over Israel, one whose origins are from of old,
Speaker 1: from ancient times. Therefore, and by the way it happened, right,
Speaker 1: how many of you know what happened? Where was he born?
Speaker 1: And what is Bethlehem? The house of bread? So the
Speaker 1: bread of life was born in the house of bread?
Speaker 1: Right was he born? How many of you believe he
Speaker 1: was born.
Speaker 2: Out of you?
Speaker 1: So this is looking forward to that out of you
Speaker 1: will come one who will be ruler over Israel, whose
Speaker 1: origins are from of old, from ancient times.
Speaker 2: Now is he ruling over Israel right now? No?
Speaker 1: No, nope, he's ruining over spiritual energy Israel. But they've
Speaker 1: rejected him. So what's that mean. It means Romans eleven
Speaker 1: will come to pass. They will be grafted back in
Speaker 1: and Yashua will rule over them. They will accept him
Speaker 1: as Messiah. That means that there's hope filled days ahead
Speaker 1: because the Gentiles coming in was a great salvation to
Speaker 1: the earth.
Speaker 2: But the Jews.
Speaker 1: Coming back in, according to Romans eleven, will cause the
Speaker 1: whole earth to spring forth and rejoicing.
Speaker 2: So that's ahead of us. That's still ahead of us.
Speaker 1: Therefore, Israel will be abandoned until the time when she
Speaker 1: who is in labor bears a sun, and the rest
Speaker 1: of his brothers return to join Israel. He will stand
Speaker 1: and shepherd his flock and the strength of the Lord
Speaker 1: in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God,
Speaker 1: and they will live securely. How will they live? And
Speaker 1: they will live securely? For then His greatness will reach
Speaker 1: to the ends of the Oh, my goodness, there is
Speaker 1: a day coming where his greatness will reach to the
Speaker 1: ends of the earth, and he will sin and securely
Speaker 1: pasture his flock. Now you know what that means. That
Speaker 1: means there's some hope filled days ahead. Now, every one
Speaker 1: of these passages I'm going to read to you. I
Speaker 1: want to encourage you, I want to exhort you. I
Speaker 1: believe you can believe what you want to believe. But
Speaker 1: I believe these are passages that are coming, the pass
Speaker 1: before the Second Coming. These are coming the pastor for
Speaker 1: someone of the Second Coming. Don't ever leave here and say,
Speaker 1: pastor doesn't believe in the Rapture. Not true, pastor doesn't
Speaker 1: believe in the Second Coming? Not true? Pastor this pastor
Speaker 1: that don't be having rose pastor. After this, you can
Speaker 1: go to Arby's, but don't have pastor. Pastor believes in
Speaker 1: Versus Thessalonian chapter four. Pastor believes in a great catching
Speaker 1: up of the saints. Pastor believes in a great second coming.
Speaker 1: Pastor believes in all those things. But what I want
Speaker 1: you to see his pastor believes in a growing kingdom
Speaker 1: and advancing kingdom, a super powerful body, glorious church.
Speaker 2: He believes that these.
Speaker 1: Scriptures are coming to pass progressively. Even as Austin talked
Speaker 1: about today, he started as a baby. Did we see
Speaker 1: his dominion fully expressed of the baby. No, he walked
Speaker 1: thirty years and didn't do.
Speaker 2: Hardly a thing.
Speaker 1: Did we see his supernatural ministry and his dominion exercise
Speaker 1: during those thirty years.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Then he walked three and a half years on the
Speaker 1: earth and he exercised his dominion as a man over Satan.
Speaker 1: Did we see the fullness of his dominion at that time. No,
Speaker 1: it's progressive. It's continuing to happen, and now it's happening
Speaker 1: through the empowered sons and daughters of God, and it's
Speaker 1: going to continue. The Word of God says it's going
Speaker 1: to continue. And what these scriptures show us is they
Speaker 1: show us the increasing kingdom, and they show us what's coming,
Speaker 1: and they show us the full extent of his victory
Speaker 1: and his rule and his dominion. It's going to go
Speaker 1: to the ends of the earth, and even Israel will
Speaker 1: come in and they will live securely. Halleluj you some
Speaker 1: money Psalm two seven and eight. He said to me,
Speaker 1: you are my son. Today I have become your father,
Speaker 1: asked me, and I will make the nations your inheritance,
Speaker 1: the ends of the earth your possession. I'm already preaching
Speaker 1: better than your shouting. Imagine what's ahead of us. The
Speaker 1: Sun is asking the co heirs. Now you've become a
Speaker 1: co heir. You're a joint heir with Jesus. You're a
Speaker 1: co heir of his, meaning that you're his partner in
Speaker 1: dominion over darkness. You're his partner in harvest, you're his
Speaker 1: partner in his victory. You're his partner in the reigning.
Speaker 1: Fact is he wants you to say the same thing
Speaker 1: that he is saying, kind of like I like it
Speaker 1: when my wife says the same thing that I'm saying. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so embarrassing when we show up somewhere and she's
Speaker 1: contradicting every word that I've said. That's embarrassing. Any husband's
Speaker 1: in the building, thank you much. There's a husband in
Speaker 1: the back that can bear witness of what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's so much better when the wife has agreement with
Speaker 1: the husband, and.
Speaker 2: So it is with the bride of Christ. It's so much.
Speaker 1: Better when we have in our mouth that which he's saying.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want to be saying. Yeah, Europe
Speaker 1: has lost, France has lost. Yeah, that nation has lost.
Speaker 1: This nation's lost. I don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 1: over there. Romania is going down, Bulgaria's really in trouble.
Speaker 2: Italy, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's so much influence there that's dark, and so much corruption.
Speaker 1: It's never coming back. You know what. Oh, that isn't
Speaker 1: the confession that's in the Lord's mouth. You know how
Speaker 1: much hope is in heaven. You know how much optimism
Speaker 1: is in the mouth of the Lord. You know how
Speaker 1: much optimism. Here's how much optimism.
Speaker 2: Ask of me.
Speaker 1: Ask of me, and I will give you the nations
Speaker 1: as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.
Speaker 2: Is there a bride?
Speaker 1: Is there a bride that can be asking the same
Speaker 1: thing the sun is asking?
Speaker 2: Is there a bride that can be.
Speaker 1: Confessing and coming into agreement with her husband. Is there
Speaker 1: a bride like that somewhere? I think there's one at
Speaker 1: New Horizon Church. I think there's an agreeing bride right
Speaker 1: here at New Horizon Church that can come into agreement.
Speaker 1: Because this is what the Sun is doing. This is
Speaker 1: what the Sun is saying, and we've become the prophetic
Speaker 1: intercessory partners co heirs with Jesus in the fulfillment of
Speaker 1: the nations. Coming back in Isaiah chapter two, and this
Speaker 1: is what Isaiah, the son of AMA's saw concerning Judah
Speaker 1: and Jerusalem in the last days. The mountain of the
Speaker 1: Lord's Temple, the mountain of the House of the Lord,
Speaker 1: will be established as the highest of the mountains. It
Speaker 1: will be exalted above all of the hills. It'll be
Speaker 1: exalted above education. It'll be exalted above me. It'll be
Speaker 1: exalted above entertainment. It'll be exalted above education and science.
Speaker 1: It'll be exalted above family. Every single mountain, every single hill,
Speaker 1: every mountain of culture is going to find their way
Speaker 1: to the mountain of the House of the Lord, and
Speaker 1: they're going to seek the Lord, and they're going to
Speaker 1: walk in the light of the Lord, it will be exalted,
Speaker 1: and all nations, how many, Oh, my goodness, that is
Speaker 1: just so positive. I think you need you. You guys
Speaker 1: are like sick, did you what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Are you reading the Bible? What in the world has
Speaker 1: happened to you? And all nations will stream to it.
Speaker 1: And many people will come and say, let us go
Speaker 1: to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple, to
Speaker 1: the house of the God of Jacob, and he will
Speaker 1: teach us his way, so that we will walk in
Speaker 1: his paths. The law will go out from Zion, and
Speaker 1: the word the Lord from Jerusalem. You you know we're
Speaker 1: not waiting for that day now. We aren't those of
Speaker 1: replacement theology. We don't believe that Israel doesn't have a place.
Speaker 1: We don't believe that we've fully replaced Israel and that
Speaker 1: Israel will have no place in Israel will not come in.
Speaker 2: But here's what we know. Here's what we believe.
Speaker 1: We believe according to Hebrews chapter twelve and Galatians chapter
Speaker 1: four and other passages. What we believe is that Jesus,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Man, the second Adam, the founder of a
Speaker 1: new creation people, is ruling from heavenly Jerusalem, that he's
Speaker 1: ruling from the Zion from above. Right now, he's already
Speaker 1: started ruling, and he's ruling through the hearts of those
Speaker 1: that have received the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: So we're not waiting after the rapture.
Speaker 1: We're not waiting for him to come and physically come,
Speaker 1: ride in on a white horse and touch down on
Speaker 1: the Mount of Olives for him to begin his kingdom
Speaker 1: and his dominion and his rule and his reign. No, no, nope, no,
Speaker 1: that is when Daniel saw either. In chapter seven, he
Speaker 1: saw Jesus in his ascension given the kingdom. Jesus was
Speaker 1: given the kingdom in his ascension as he ascended leading
Speaker 1: captives out of captivity in his train Ephesians chapter four,
Speaker 1: Revelation twelve. He came up to the heavens. And when
Speaker 1: he came in his ascension as a victorious man, not
Speaker 1: in his divinity, Death couldn't hold him, not because of
Speaker 1: his divinity. Death couldn't hold him because of his righteousness.
Speaker 1: So he ascends before the Father in his righteousness, and
Speaker 1: the kingdom is given him. You want to hear it, Daniel,
Speaker 1: Chapter seven. Oh, I'm skipping out of Isaiah tap chapter
Speaker 1: two prematurely, but we have to hear this out of
Speaker 1: Daniel chapter seven. Are you still here? We're talking about
Speaker 1: heaven's optimism? Are you getting optimistic? In my vision at night,
Speaker 1: I looked, give me the cross, cross cup, the cross
Speaker 1: cup to our pastor look at that beautiful somebody saw
Speaker 1: me with a naughty cup on the platform. I think,
Speaker 1: did you see my naughty cup a few weeks ago?
Speaker 2: Weeks?
Speaker 1: Well, I won't tell you what it said. You'll just
Speaker 1: have to ask some church member that saw it. It
Speaker 1: was an accident.
Speaker 2: You have this saw.
Speaker 1: You've forgiven me already, they said, leftist tears. In my
Speaker 1: vision at night, I looked in there before me was
Speaker 1: one like this of man, a son of Man, coming
Speaker 1: with clouds of heaven. This is none other than the
Speaker 1: ascension of be she If he Ephesians four and Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty four. He approached the Ancient of days and was
Speaker 1: led into his presence, and he was given authority, glory,
Speaker 1: and sovereign power. All nations and people of every language
Speaker 1: worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will
Speaker 1: not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will
Speaker 1: never be destroyed. Church that already started, that already started.
Speaker 1: That's why we can be so filled with hope. That's
Speaker 1: why when somebody pokes us, we bleed hope. Everywhere we go.
Speaker 1: We have the hope of heaven a coming out oozing
Speaker 1: out of us, oozing out of us. Listen, let's go
Speaker 1: on with Isaiah chapter two. The law will go out
Speaker 1: from Zion, the word the Lord from Jerusalem. He will
Speaker 1: judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples.
Speaker 1: How's it going to do that? Through the sons and
Speaker 1: daughters of God, through the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.
Speaker 1: King is already residing in you. He's already accomplishing these scriptures.
Speaker 1: And you haven't even realized it. You're already living in
Speaker 1: hope and haven't even realized it. You're already dwelling in
Speaker 1: a land of hope and haven't even realized it. They
Speaker 1: will beat their swords in the plowshares and their spears
Speaker 1: in the pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword
Speaker 1: against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. That's
Speaker 1: happening before the Second Coming. Wrong Church. I didn't know
Speaker 1: it was a Lutheran congregation. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: too quiet here this morning. The Lutherans are louder than
Speaker 1: us today. Oh, back in the day, back in the day,
Speaker 1: the Lutherans were loud. Can you imagine Martin lu Through
Speaker 1: led those people into so much freedom, so much breakthrough,
Speaker 1: so much revelation and grace.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: What do you see? This is crazy stuff. Uh, this
Speaker 1: could actually come to pass right now. You know we're
Speaker 1: living in today where it could come to pass that
Speaker 1: we actually we actually recycle metal today, we actually are
Speaker 1: going to turn our war machines into combines. Isaiah and
Speaker 1: nine Austin read it this morning. For Rundus, a child
Speaker 1: is given, a son is born, a child is given.
Speaker 1: The government, administration, leadership of the nations will be on
Speaker 1: his shoulders. And what's cool here of the greatness of
Speaker 1: his government of peace or the government of peace or
Speaker 1: on and peace. So we've talked about that, but I
Speaker 1: want you to see.
Speaker 2: That these scriptures, there's multiple, multiple, multiple, multiple.
Speaker 1: Prophetic scriptures that show you that the growing king means
Speaker 1: an increase of shalom. There's there's got to be a
Speaker 1: people on the planet. I want to be in that
Speaker 1: generation where they expect an increase of Shalom. They begin
Speaker 1: to expect an increase of shalom, and the piece is
Speaker 1: so great, we're going to read it in a moment
Speaker 1: that the wolf, and it could be Dwayne Wolf.
Speaker 2: It could be. I don't know, it could be. It
Speaker 2: could be. I don't know. We were thinking.
Speaker 1: About that this morning. Is Pastor Joel a little lamb,
Speaker 1: and so it could be that the wolf is dwelling
Speaker 1: with the lamb. I don't know, it could be. But
Speaker 1: but it goes on to say that the Shalom, the
Speaker 1: Shalom is increasing so much so that it's shifting natural order.
Speaker 1: Natural order is actually shifting because the government of Shalom
Speaker 1: is increasing so powerfully before the second Coming, and there's
Speaker 1: a people that partner with his victory so powerful before
Speaker 1: the second coming, they begin to expect in corruption instead
Speaker 1: of corruption Isaiah eleven. A shoot will come up from
Speaker 1: the stump of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the son of David. The house and the
Speaker 1: kingdom that's being restored is the house and the lineage
Speaker 1: of David. And so a shoot will come up from
Speaker 1: the stump of Jesse. From the roots, a branch will
Speaker 1: bear fruit. The spear of the Lord will rest on
Speaker 1: him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
Speaker 1: counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the
Speaker 1: fear of the Lord. And he will delight in the
Speaker 1: fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what
Speaker 1: he sees with his eyes, nor will those who bear
Speaker 1: his spirit well. I added that or decide by what
Speaker 1: he hears with his ears. But with righteousness. He will
Speaker 1: judge the needy with justice. He will give decisions to
Speaker 1: the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth
Speaker 1: with the raw out of his mouth. With the breath
Speaker 1: of his lips, he will slay the wicked righteousness.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that.
Speaker 1: Talking about his mouth, he will strike the earth with
Speaker 1: the rod of his mouth. It's an emphasis on the
Speaker 1: prophetic and the sword of the spirit, which is the
Speaker 1: word of God, which you, as a co heir, are
Speaker 1: to bear in your mouth. And with the breath of
Speaker 1: his lips he will slay the wicked. These are pictures
Speaker 1: of a fulfillment that can only come to pass as
Speaker 1: you partner with him. These scriptures can only come to
Speaker 1: pass if you will be the Joshua and Caleb generation
Speaker 1: that partners with him as equal errors of his victory
Speaker 1: and his reigning in the earth. Righteousness will be his belt, faithfulness,
Speaker 1: the sash around his waist. Dwayne wolf will live with
Speaker 1: Joel the lamb. We're waiting on the scripture. Help us,
Speaker 1: help us back. There you go, there you go, thank you.
Speaker 1: The wolf will well, We'll live with the lamb. The
Speaker 1: leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf with
Speaker 1: the lion, the year ling together, and the little child
Speaker 1: will leave them. The cow will feed with the bear young.
Speaker 1: The young will lie there never mind, and the lion
Speaker 1: will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play
Speaker 1: near the cobras. Den. Uh, I was, I was having
Speaker 1: this picture of Karen Conley this morning. They have thousands
Speaker 1: of acres over there in eastern Washington, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you get out there in eastern Washington, you gotta be
Speaker 1: careful where you go. There could be a rattlesnake that
Speaker 1: jumps out of a rock and bite you on the
Speaker 1: leg or something. Right, you're ever going hunting over in
Speaker 1: the east side of the mountains, you know, and your
Speaker 1: dad says, be careful, and if you ever hear this noise,
Speaker 1: get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But there's coming today, Church, there's coming today where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be walking through a field and you don't care
Speaker 1: if there's a viper or a cobra. You could go
Speaker 1: over to Thailand and hang out and visit the Mahawans.
Speaker 1: You don't care if there's a python or anything else.
Speaker 1: You don't even care if there's a tiger out in
Speaker 1: the woods. Hello, somebody, Why Because Shalom has permeated the
Speaker 1: atmosphere of the earth, because righteousness has grown so much,
Speaker 1: and the King is ruling and raining all of this
Speaker 1: before the second coming of the Lord. Therefore, as we
Speaker 1: look forward, as we look forward, you should be you
Speaker 1: should be looking for weak Come on, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 2: What are you looking forward for?
Speaker 1: What are you allowing to determine, to wash over, to
Speaker 1: to permeate, to penetrate your heart, your mind and the
Speaker 1: way you think and the way you look toward the future.
Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you that what Holy Spirit wants you
Speaker 1: to have. He wants you to have the eyes and
Speaker 1: the lens of hope. He wants you to have the
Speaker 1: expectation of the increase of heaven. He didn't just say
Speaker 1: pray this way, thy Kingdom come, that will be done
Speaker 1: on earth as it is in heaven. So you would
Speaker 1: have some little religious catechism, so you would have a
Speaker 1: little song on the platform with little children. He has
Speaker 1: us praying that way because this is the very thing
Speaker 1: He's going to fulfill once he raises up a generation
Speaker 1: who believe that this is his will. Come on, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, look at the end of this. The end
Speaker 1: of this is good because we quote this one for
Speaker 1: the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord,
Speaker 1: or the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the.
Speaker 2: Waters cover the sea.
Speaker 1: Even the most pessimistic, dispensational Christians will quote that scripture,
Speaker 1: but they won't quote the stuff up above. Am I
Speaker 1: being mean? Just go ahead and say, yes you are passer?
Speaker 1: Am I being a little bit caustic, a little bit cynical,
Speaker 1: a little bit in this optimistic sermon, Yes I am.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, look at the whole passage. Don't just look
Speaker 1: and quote that last part about the knowledge of the
Speaker 1: glory of the Lord will cover the earth like the
Speaker 1: cover like the waters cover the sea, and not see
Speaker 1: that this is all in the midst of God fulfilling
Speaker 1: a heaven on Earth, breakthrough in the earth. That's what
Speaker 1: God's doing. This is the picture of this coming day
Speaker 1: that we are that we can expect, is a day
Speaker 1: where Heaven has fully invaded Earth. And this is what's coming.
Speaker 1: This is what we're this is what we're believing for this.
Speaker 1: This is not some ethereal Garbiley goo. This is not
Speaker 1: a post rapture heaven. This is what God's doing in
Speaker 1: the Earth, and He's just looking for a people that
Speaker 1: will be so hope filled. You know, somebody said to
Speaker 1: me after the service. They said, yeah, I just need
Speaker 1: to be more positive. I was praying this week and
Speaker 1: I just need to be more positive. I was convicted
Speaker 1: this week that I need to be more positive. And
Speaker 1: I told them, no, you don't. You can't be more positive.
Speaker 1: It's impossible for you to be more positive. The corruptible.
Speaker 1: You can't be more positive. You haven't realized it. But
Speaker 1: corruption has to be put to death. Like you can't
Speaker 1: counsel yourself into being a better Christian because Christianity doesn't
Speaker 1: come through counseling. Christianity comes by coming to the cross
Speaker 1: and putting the sinful nature to death. Then you leave
Speaker 1: the cross in resurrection life. You can only have resurrection
Speaker 1: thoughts if you've thoroughly killed the old Adam. And here's
Speaker 1: what I'm presenting you to you today, is that you
Speaker 1: didn't know you needed to crucify pessimism. You had no
Speaker 1: idea that pessimism was sin. You had no idea that
Speaker 1: you needed to put corruption to death, corruptible thought. So
Speaker 1: I'm announcing something to do. I'm leading you into something
Speaker 1: new and fresh. You've actually defended your pessimism. You've actually
Speaker 1: thought pessimism was a gift. Some of you, a couple
Speaker 1: of you in the room thought pessimism was a gift.
Speaker 1: And for all of those who were super optimistic, you
Speaker 1: were the one that grounded them and brought them back
Speaker 1: down the reality. And if it weren't for you, they
Speaker 1: would already be have destroyed themselves with their silly optimism. Hello, somebody,
Speaker 1: am I telling the truth? There's so many more scriptures,
Speaker 1: but I hear the keyboard behind me, So I have
Speaker 1: to work into my first closing, because you bring me
Speaker 1: more beverages. Maybe one of the ones there in the beverage.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: My dad, in his later years, got these things on
Speaker 1: his eyes. When I was little I called him cadillacs.
Speaker 1: He had had his cadillacs removed, but I guess they
Speaker 1: were called cataracts actually, and so he had to have
Speaker 1: his cataracts removed. But what happened is this cataracts were
Speaker 1: blurring his vision. And I'm telling you today from the
Speaker 1: fall of Adam because you were there in his loins
Speaker 1: when he fell. From the fall of Adam forward, we
Speaker 1: were washed with corruption, and the word of corruption began
Speaker 1: to operate in our hearts. And the word that operated
Speaker 1: in our hearts it was bearing witness to corruption. So
Speaker 1: we expected corruption, We anticipated corruption. Circumstances were of corruption,
Speaker 1: History was of corruption. History continued to bear witness to
Speaker 1: the corruption we expected, and so all of Adam's sons.
Speaker 1: And this is why, by the way, this is why
Speaker 1: a negative church seems so self affirming. Negative sermons are
Speaker 1: so self affirming, because your nature is actually a nature
Speaker 1: of corruption. And other wards, your nature anticipates more rust,
Speaker 1: more hurricanes, more calamity, more chaos, more market falling, banks
Speaker 1: going out, more chaos, more depressions, more recessions, more sickness,
Speaker 1: more disease, more death, more dying. And this is why
Speaker 1: the media has such a hard time. The media has
Speaker 1: been given over to darkness corruption. So the media becomes
Speaker 1: the false prophet because it's more connected to darkness than
Speaker 1: it is to the Christ. So the media is just
Speaker 1: bearing witness to the corruption. This woven in to the
Speaker 1: suns of darkness because wove and you can't help yourself,
Speaker 1: they can't help themselves. You don't choose to be dark gloomy.
Speaker 1: You don't need to choose to be It's your nature.
Speaker 1: It's literally your nature, and so you have to bring
Speaker 1: it to the cross. You have to recognize that your
Speaker 1: anticipation for war's pandemics, hurricanes, blizzards, embargoes, calamity banks, failing markets,
Speaker 1: failing on toilet paper at costco plagues and doom and gloom,
Speaker 1: all of that is literally woven.
Speaker 2: Into your nature. It comes so natural for you.
Speaker 1: So you can even look for that at church because
Speaker 1: you think that's the way it should be. You can
Speaker 1: look for that in the sermons and the preaching and
Speaker 1: the theology. But actually since the time of Christ, of
Speaker 1: which we've dated our calendars to like Kim, hope, Kim,
Speaker 1: everyone in gloom and in doom, to everyone a rite
Speaker 1: like Kim, And so that lens of corruption. We're supposed
Speaker 1: to take it off. This is the best I could do.
Speaker 1: I was looking for sunglasses this morning. All I could
Speaker 1: find was Jewel's reading glasses. Forget me. This is a
Speaker 1: bad illustration right now. But that lens of corruption. This
Speaker 1: does look kind of corruptible, doesn't it. That lens of corruption.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to take it off. You can't just try
Speaker 1: to be more optimistic or more positive until you've brought
Speaker 1: corruption to the Cross, until you've recognized the corruption is
Speaker 1: of the endemic nature that it partners with. Satan is
Speaker 1: a pessimist. He can't be optimistic by the way. Satan
Speaker 1: is a pessimist, and we bear his nature that has
Speaker 1: to be crucified in the Cross. When we come to Christ,
Speaker 1: we're not just getting born of the spirit, which is
Speaker 1: getting born of positivity. It actually you're actually getting born
Speaker 1: of incorruptible words instead of corruptible words. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? I've got a couple of scriptures
Speaker 1: I didn't give the team forgive me? Do forgive me?
Speaker 1: You're okay?
Speaker 2: First closing.
Speaker 1: One feeder one twenty two, since you have been born again,
Speaker 1: not of perishable seed words or seeds. When we were
Speaker 1: born in Adam, we were born according to the seed
Speaker 1: of iniquity and the seeds of corruption, the seeds of
Speaker 1: that which perishes, that which expects to perish, that which
Speaker 1: is given over to corruption was actually sown in our hearts.
Speaker 1: But when you were born of the Spirit, you weren't
Speaker 1: born of perishable seed. But you were born of imperishable seed,
Speaker 1: incorruptible seed, the Word of God, which is what we're
Speaker 1: born of. We're born of the Word of God. Jesus
Speaker 1: is the living word of God. We're more of the
Speaker 1: Word of God. And the Word of God is bearing
Speaker 1: witness to the Christ in your heart. The Word of
Speaker 1: God and the Words of God are seeds, and so
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is trying to minister resurrection to you.
Speaker 2: Way before you ever die.
Speaker 1: He's trying to minister resurrection to you. And the Word
Speaker 1: is constantly full of incorruption and life. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: really seem natural to me, So I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should really yield to that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should admit to that. I think that just sounds.
Speaker 1: And then we're hanging out with everybody, including a bunch
Speaker 1: of Christians who are born of the spirit, but still
Speaker 1: under the influence of corruption, because they'd never put it
Speaker 1: to death, because they thought all they had to put
Speaker 1: to death was adultery and fornication and theft and lying
Speaker 1: and you know, the ten Commendment kind of stuff. They
Speaker 1: never recognized the corruption and the expectation of dread and
Speaker 1: despair and hopelessness and doom was actually something they needed
Speaker 1: to bring to the cross.
Speaker 2: That actually was. It actually was.
Speaker 1: It's probably more important that you crucify that than my
Speaker 1: neighbor crucifies his cussing. You've been born through the living
Speaker 1: and abiding word of God for all fleshes like grass
Speaker 1: and all of it's glory and the flower of the grass,
Speaker 1: the grass where there's the flower of fades and fails.
Speaker 1: But the word of the Lord remains forever. And this
Speaker 1: is the word of the good news that's been preached
Speaker 1: to you. Let's stand second, closing. Most of the time. Again,
Speaker 1: we're so conditioned to think ten Commandment focused, and I'm
Speaker 1: all over the commandments. That's good, that's great, that's cool.
Speaker 1: But I want to keep harping on this super important
Speaker 1: thing of pessimism, just for a moment, because when I
Speaker 1: read Colossians chapter three. The religious part of me wants
Speaker 1: to go to the Ten Commandments. But what I want
Speaker 1: you to hear this morning when I read Colossians chapter three,
Speaker 1: is the Holy Spirit wants you to go to heaven
Speaker 1: on earth. He wants you to Mica five and Isaiah two,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah nine, Isaiah eleven, Isaiah forty nine, Isaiah forty six,
Speaker 1: Isaiah forty eight. He wants you to go to Psalm two.
Speaker 1: He wants you to go to Psalm one ten. He
Speaker 1: wants you to go to prophecy after prophecy after prophecy
Speaker 1: of what these coming.
Speaker 2: Days should look like.
Speaker 1: Because he's trying to raise up a generation of those
Speaker 1: who will partner with him through declaration, agreement of the heart,
Speaker 1: confession of the mouth. He's trying to raise up a
Speaker 1: Joshua and a Caleb generation who will have faith not
Speaker 1: an expectancy of more corruption, not an expectancy of more
Speaker 1: pandemics and more disease and more calamity, but an expectancy
Speaker 1: of the reigning of Jesus and the coming of his
Speaker 1: kingdom and the increase of his kingdom. And they'll have
Speaker 1: such an expectancy for it that they'll begin to partner
Speaker 1: with him in agreement, so that Heaven's optimism permeates our
Speaker 1: hearts so much that we become the co heirs, the
Speaker 1: joint rulers that He's looking for.
Speaker 2: So Calausians three.
Speaker 1: If you have been raised up with Christ, you've read
Speaker 1: this a thousand times. I know you have. Colaussians three.
Speaker 1: If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the
Speaker 1: things that are above, where Christ is seated at the
Speaker 1: right hand of God. Set your mind on things that
Speaker 1: are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Speaker 1: For you have died and your life is hidden with
Speaker 1: Christ in God, Church, Church, Church. That's not that you
Speaker 1: become heavenly minded. It's just that you don't give place
Speaker 1: to the pessimism of this world and the pessimism of
Speaker 1: every unbeliever around you, who cannot be positive as much
Speaker 1: as they try, because they're given the corruption. So they
Speaker 1: expect the market to go down. They expect more trouble,
Speaker 1: they expect embargoes, they expect more wars. They look forward
Speaker 1: to it. They almost rejoice when they see it. Why
Speaker 1: because their whole inner nature is given over to corruption.
Speaker 1: But your inner nature has the witness of incorruption. Your
Speaker 1: innernature has the witness of the imperish. Will see the
Speaker 1: word of God that's come Matthew thirteen thirty three, that's
Speaker 1: come to leaven the entire globe, the leaven of the
Speaker 1: Word of God, the seed, the leavening of the Word
Speaker 1: of God, has been sown into the doe of the
Speaker 1: earth that it might completely leaven all. So you have
Speaker 1: become recipients of Heaven's optimism. When you hear and see
Speaker 1: the pessimism of the world, don't set your mind on that.
Speaker 1: Sets your mind on the overcoming Jesus, the overcoming you
Speaker 1: shue with the overcoming Joshua, who's raising up a generation
Speaker 1: of faith. Right now? What would Joshua be thinking? What
Speaker 1: would he be saying over this situation, Him who's triumphed
Speaker 1: over sickness, Him who's triumphed over depth, Him who's triumphed
Speaker 1: over pandemics, Him who's triumphed over wars, Him who's triumphed
Speaker 1: over fighting and jealousies and fear, Him who is triumphed
Speaker 1: over all of that.
Speaker 2: What would he be saying right now?
Speaker 1: Would what would he have me, the bride of this
Speaker 1: amazing groom.
Speaker 2: What would he have me say over this situation? Right now?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, Let's give
Speaker 1: him a thank offering for the hope.
Speaker 2: The hope, the hope, the hope, the hope, the optimism
Speaker 2: of heaven. Pray this with me.
Speaker 1: Even you watching on television right now, you're watching by video,
Speaker 1: you watching right now, just pray with me, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I bring pessimism to the Cross. I bring corruption to
Speaker 1: the Cross, the seeds of corruption, the seeds sown in
Speaker 1: me by the demonic realm through the fall of my
Speaker 1: ancestor Adam. I bring that power, I bring that agreement.
Speaker 1: I bring that influence to the Cross right now, and
Speaker 1: I declare that I'm dead to it, and it's dead
Speaker 1: to me. I'm dead to it, and it's dead to me.
Speaker 1: I no longer have to listen. I no longer have
Speaker 1: to participate. I no longer have to obey. I no
Speaker 1: longer have to collaborate with pessimism, with corruption, with negativity,
Speaker 1: with the thoughts of that which perishes, with the fear
Speaker 1: and the dread that it brings. But I can partner
Speaker 1: with the resurrection.
Speaker 2: I choose to partner with resurrection.
Speaker 1: I choose to partner with the risen Christ, with the
Speaker 1: victorious Joshua Jesus, Captain of my salvation in Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: and everybody said, he's about just for a moment.
Speaker 2: He's about just for a moment.
Speaker 1: Some of you right now are wishing you would have
Speaker 1: come forward and been prayed for at the call during worship.
Speaker 1: I know that some of you missed an opportunity and
Speaker 1: you're thinking, I wish I would have gone forward. I
Speaker 1: could have used a divine touch this morning. I could
Speaker 1: have used encouragement. I could have used a transformation of soul.
Speaker 1: I could have used that. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: didn't go forward, but you're regretting that, and I want
Speaker 1: to just right now call the team back up to
Speaker 1: the front, just for a few moments. We have the
Speaker 1: meat and mingle, and I know we got things going on.
Speaker 1: We're going to transform the room as well, because we've
Speaker 1: got the thing tonight, so we're going to reset chairs
Speaker 1: and we're starting to do all of that. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little noise going on. But I want
Speaker 1: the prayer team up here just for a moment, right now,
Speaker 1: right now, Prayer team, come as we go out, worshiping
Speaker 1: as we go. If that's you and you wish you
Speaker 1: would have been prayed for. Please come come quickly and
Speaker 1: be minised to as we close and worship. Father, we
Speaker 1: thank you for this day. We bless your people and
Speaker 1: the hope that resides in them in Jesus' name, and
Speaker 1: everybody said, God, bless your church. Let's worship as we
Speaker 1: go