WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.480 Hallelujah. How are we doing? How are we doing? Good? 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.960 Good, good, good, Praise the Lord. I get to bring 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.720 the sermon part of launching into the Daniel fest. 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:21.879 Are you ready? Yes? Are you really ready? All right? 5 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:26.239 So I'm gonna I want to talk about two things. 6 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:35.359 I want to talk about intimacy and about partnership. And 7 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:41.920 if you've been at New Horizon very long, you're already 8 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:47.439 kind of familiar with this stuff, and so we don't 9 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:50.840 have a lot of time for the sermon. So since 10 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:55.399 you are already very familiar, I'm not going to go 11 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.640 too deep on this stuff, right, So, but I want 12 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:06.000 to courage you that that over these twenty one days, 13 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.760 this is what we're trying to do, is we're trying 14 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:12.480 to deepen our intimacy. 15 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:12.640 With the Lord. 16 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:18.000 Right, So that's our friendship in prayer, that's worship, communion 17 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:20.959 time spent. You know, we're asking you in the book, 18 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.040 we're asking you to spend thirty minutes in each one 19 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:32.840 of your devoted times with the Lord some morning, noon evenings. 20 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.599 That's kind of the bar that we're setting, and a 21 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:43.079 lot of that is developing the intimate side of friendship. 22 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.040 So in the Lord, we are no longer called slaves. 23 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.239 We're called friends. So we enter in with boldness because 24 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.560 of the covering of the blood of Jesus. We enter 25 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:59.480 in as friends, not as slaves. When we enter in 26 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.400 with worship, and we enter in with thanksgiving, and we 27 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:08.719 enter in and prayer out of this friendship relationship because 28 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:17.599 we're sons dead marker, because we're sons and you know 29 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.719 what love underneath. Yeah, I just saw my new markers 30 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:23.680 right there, and I prefer. 31 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:25.919 The darker. 32 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.120 So let's grab the black as the black there. The 33 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.400 black's not there. The black's right there, stolen by Pastor 34 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:43.280 Dwayne earlier. Perfect beautiful. So we are sons right and 35 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.879 daughters right, and we are friends, yes, And so that's 36 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:54.479 that's cultivating the intimate side of our of our prayer. 37 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:00.599 And as we cultivate that, then we enter into his 38 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:08.479 presence and it's that devoted friendship and that devoted time 39 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.080 where we enter into his presence, then we begin to 40 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.439 hear from him. And when we hear from him, everybody 41 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:23.759 say here, When we hear from him, then it's inspired thoughts, right, 42 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:30.280 it's wisdom, it's insight, it's inspired thoughts, and it's the 43 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.599 leading of the Holy Spirit right, and that's where we're 44 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.759 getting the Rama of Holy Spirit. The Rama of Holy 45 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.599 Spirit is the living Word, and the living Word has 46 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.680 life giving power, and the Rama the Living Word, not 47 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.120 the logos, but the Holy Spirit quickening us because we're 48 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:59.319 spending time with Him results in the power to exercise faith. 49 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.039 So now we're hearing from Him because we're taking time 50 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:09.039 to enter in with him Romans ten seventeen. Faith cometh 51 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:16.319 by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ, the 52 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:21.319 Rama of Christ. And so we're hearing living words and 53 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.839 it's just coming as inspired thought. It's not like and 54 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.120 you might it might feel audible or not. It might 55 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.560 feel like there's goosebumps there or not. It might feel 56 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.600 like super powerful or not. But you'll recognize higher thoughts 57 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.040 and thoughts that you probably wouldn't have thought. 58 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:41.360 Right. 59 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:45.680 So sometimes that's how you know Holy Spirit speaking is 60 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.319 because what you're hearing is not something you would have 61 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.439 thought of, and so you're taking note of that, and 62 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.319 that's empowering your partnership in the spirit with them. That's 63 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.560 empowering what around here we call the prophetic right. That's 64 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:21.759 empowering a prophetic expression or decrees and declarations, and so 65 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:27.319 that's where we're entering into partnership with him. So there's 66 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.000 things happening in the spirit realm, and I want to 67 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.519 go to a couple verses on this fact is, let's 68 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.040 go to a couple of verses on this some that 69 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:39.879 we could just pull out of our memory, right, we 70 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.000 could pull a few out of our memory. For instance, 71 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:50.319 Matthew sixteen nineteen, I will give you the keys to 72 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.519 the Kingdom, and whatsoever you bind will be bound, and 73 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.519 whatsoever you lose will be loosed. 74 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.720 Right, So you're familiar with that one, and. 75 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.000 You know the context is that we're hearing from him 76 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.680 and we're taking steps of authority in prayer on the 77 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:19.319 basis of what we're hearing. So we're hearing what he's loosed, 78 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.800 and we're hearing what he's bound, and we're interacting with 79 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.800 the promises. We're coming up into the promises in prayer, 80 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.879 and then we're partnering with him. So you know, the 81 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:37.199 highest realm of Christianity, the highest realm of Christianity is 82 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:44.360 not petition. Petition is the pathway to the highest realm. 83 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:52.319 So petition is where we're going up into the atmosphere 84 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.160 of hearing from him. But the highest realm is where 85 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:00.480 we partner with Him through declaration and prophetic decree. 86 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.160 That's the highest. 87 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.959 Realm, because that's what and that's what the earth is 88 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.360 longing for. Right we read it out of Romans eight 89 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.720 last week. The earth is longing for the manifestation of 90 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:18.079 the sons of God, that they would deliver the earth 91 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:22.040 out of futility and to the liberty that the Sons 92 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.879 of God have been they themselves been delivered into. You've 93 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:31.480 been delivered into liberty when you partner with Holy Spirit 94 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:37.120 in prophetic decrees and declarations. Now you're coming up into 95 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:42.839 a realm as a manifest Sun, where of their things 96 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.279 begin to shift and change and come up into that 97 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.120 realm as well. And we're putting a lot of our focus, 98 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.879 a lot of our aim this particular season on restoring 99 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.800 the church. We want to see the church restored. We 100 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.920 realize that we are we're in a day and an 101 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:07.439 age where over half of the church is falling short 102 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:10.920 of the glory of God. But the promise is for 103 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.680 a glorious church, one that's been washed by the water 104 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:20.040 of His word, and one that is glorious in every way. 105 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.839 That's the promise. That's what God has in mind, that's 106 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.800 what he's ordained. We can partner with him and bringing 107 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.040 that to pass as we come into prayer and we 108 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.639 come in, we can come in with petition, but we're 109 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.120 going to come into that higher realm of hearing from 110 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:44.720 Him and then partnering with him. Is that good? Let 111 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.600 me read to your revelation eight to two. This is 112 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.080 I want you to see the picture a part of 113 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.480 what's happening as you pray. And I saw seven angels 114 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.639 who stand before the Lord, and the seven trumpets were 115 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.759 given to them. And another angel came and stood at 116 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:02.320 the altar holding a golden sea, sir, And much incense 117 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.000 was given to him, that he might add it to 118 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.039 the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar 119 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.000 that was before the throne. This is interesting, your prayers 120 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.519 are coming up into the throne. This is just one picture, 121 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:21.120 one metaphor of what's happening in prayer, right, And so 122 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.879 what's happening in prayer as well as it is you're 123 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:28.440 coming up in prayer. Your prayers are coming up before 124 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.600 the throne in petition. Guess what else is coming up impetition? Impetition, 125 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:40.639 and in this intimate friendship, you're coming up, You're coming 126 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.799 up into the throne, and you're realizing, oh, I'm seated 127 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.559 in heavenly places. So part of what's happening in our 128 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:51.879 intimate friendship is leaving the world behind and coming up 129 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:56.080 into higher places. So we come up with our worship, 130 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.039 with our petitions, we come up as well, and so 131 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.559 we can see what's going on. Listen, though, let's go on, 132 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.919 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of 133 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.679 the saints went up before God out of the angel's hand, 134 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.480 and the angel took the censer and he filled it 135 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.519 with the fire of the altar and threw it to 136 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.399 the earth. And there followed peals of thunder and sounds 137 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:28.399 and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. What would happen 138 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:32.639 if the prayers, if the saints weren't praying in this picture, 139 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.559 in this passage of Revelation eight two through five, what 140 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:43.799 would happen if the saints weren't praying, There wouldn't be 141 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.759 a shift on the earth. The shift on the earth 142 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:53.360 was coming because of a partnership with heaven. So as 143 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.240 we well, I'm more excited than you are. I can 144 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.080 tell already we got to stir something up in here. 145 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.039 The wet blankets of darkness have been trying to visit 146 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:06.480 your heart this morning during church. But you're gonna blow 147 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:10.240 those blankets off right now. Get rid of them. Say 148 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:13.440 blankets go. We are not going to be under the 149 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:15.840 wet blankets. 150 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:15.840 Of anti prayerrism. 151 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:26.840 Hallelujah, Awaken thyself, Splash coffee in thine face. Look at this, 152 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.559 Look at this. The smoke of the incense with the 153 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.799 prayers of the saints went up before God out of 154 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.639 the angel's hands, and the angel took the sensor and 155 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.679 filled it with the fire from the altar and threw 156 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.360 it to the earth. And there followed peals of thunder 157 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:47.360 sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. Now, don't 158 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.120 you know, we don't even know what was happening there 159 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.279 in the spirit realm, but I want you to see 160 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:52.320 something was happening. 161 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:55.200 And this is the hope that we have. 162 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.159 The hope that we have and the reality that we've 163 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.000 been walking in is the our devotion in fasting and 164 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:09.159 prayer brings us into a place of partnership in the 165 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:13.639 spirit realm, which is then being thrust into the earth 166 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:19.000 to bring a shift and a change to our generation, 167 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.960 to our environment. And it's going to bring a shift 168 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.279 in a change to the church. And as the Church goes, 169 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:30.039 so goes the world. We want more of heaven. 170 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.480 That's good. That's good. You're sharing yourself up. 171 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.919 The wet blankets are I feel the wet blankets are 172 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:38.639 being thrown off of your hands because I feel the 173 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.039 clapping of the church. Come on, come on, come on, 174 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.440 let's do it again. Let's do it again. It is 175 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.159 so hard to clap with those wet blankets, and so 176 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.879 we're casting those off right now. Fact does just stand 177 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.840 for a moment. Stand No, this is not the closing. 178 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.039 This is the first closing. Say it with me, Say 179 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:04.200 it with me. I throw off, I throw off every 180 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:10.559 wet blanket standing between me and prayer, between me and 181 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:14.320 my sonship, between me and my intimacy. 182 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.279 With Father and with Holy Spirit. 183 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.440 I say, go, get off of this twenty one days, 184 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:23.559 Get off of my heart and my mind, Get off 185 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:27.519 of my family, get off of this church, Leave us 186 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:32.559 alone in Jesus' name, Give him thanks right now, give 187 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:36.240 the Lord a thank offering. Come on, come on, come on. 188 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.360 He's so good. He's so good. He's so good. He's 189 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:40.519 so good. He's so good. 190 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:52.639 He's so good. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank 191 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:59.159 you Lord. Breakthroughs, breakthroughs, breakthroughs, breakthroughs. Give us a vision 192 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.519 of breakthroughs. Give us a vision of a new church. 193 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.480 Give us a vision of a new Washington. Give us 194 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:09.240 a vision of a new nation and a new. 195 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:11.320 Globe. 196 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.720 We want a global change and a global shift and 197 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.240 a global breakthrough. Lord, we want a global breakthrough. Lord, 198 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:24.159 we want a global breakthrough. Thank you, Lord. You may 199 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.000 be seated. I heard the Holy Spirit say to me 200 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.759 this morning, it's harvest time. But then, but then we 201 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.039 could say, oh good, that's your sovereign will go after it, God, 202 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:44.039 go big, God, and then we could miss our partnership 203 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:48.919 with his word. His word is never a guarantee. His 204 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.759 word is the unfolding of the potential that we can 205 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.919 enter into as we partner with him. 206 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:56.320 That's what his word is. 207 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.720 His word is the potential of the unfolding of his 208 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:03.039 will that we can partner with if we will then 209 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.600 exercise our faith to be a part of it. That's 210 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.919 why it says faith cometh by hearing. Faith is a 211 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.320 potential that comes by the Spirit for us to enter 212 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.720 into and partner with, so that as we partner with it, 213 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.960 then the thing that he desires to do can come 214 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:27.440 to pass. The thing that he desires to do can 215 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.679 come to pass. 216 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:29.840 Amen. 217 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.840 I want to just I want to bug you a minute. 218 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:34.840 Are you ready to be bugged? 219 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:45.360 One of the prevalent and predominant, maybe maybe even the 220 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:55.879 most prolific doctrinal influencers in the church is John Calvin. 221 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.759 And John Calvin launched what is now known is the 222 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:05.720 Second Reformation, or in most circles just known as the Reformation. 223 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.399 But there was the Reformation before with Martin Luther, and 224 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.240 he was known as a Reformer, and he launched what 225 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:20.279 would be the first Reformation and began the Protestant movement 226 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.399 those who protest. That's where we get the word Protestant, 227 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:30.399 those who protest. He was protesting Catholicism's heresies. And not 228 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.519 all of Catholicism is filled with heresy, but he identified 229 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.240 ninety five heresies. That's early fifteen hundreds. One hundred years 230 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:47.600 later comes John Calvin. John Calvin protests another giant boatload 231 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:50.720 of Catholic heresies. 232 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.799 He starts a reformation. 233 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:58.399 And all who follow him would not be called Protestants. 234 00:16:58.440 --> 00:16:58.960 They would be. 235 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:05.640 Called reformed reform theology, reformed churches and reform theology of 236 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:10.680 which you know the mountain. The list of that is long, 237 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:16.000 but the central one is the Presbyterian Church. And I'm 238 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.240 you know, in thirty three years of being your pastor, 239 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.039 I'm not one to talk bad about other churches. I'm 240 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:27.480 not one to talk bad about other theologians. We took 241 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.240 the position years ago we're going to emphasize the truth 242 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.480 and make our emphasis on the truth and not on 243 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:36.359 the laws. 244 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:37.880 But tomorrow. 245 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:39.759 But this morning I want to break with that a 246 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:45.400 little bit, because the emphasis of reform theology is so vast, 247 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.839 and the emphasis today still of reformed the churches like 248 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.359 Mars Hill in Seattle, which was there at one time 249 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:58.559 and ten thousand people, or like I'm trying to think 250 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:03.240 of the one I mentioned this morning. His name John Huh, 251 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:09.559 John MacArthur, No, no, no, John Piper. So anyway, the 252 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:15.960 influence is vast of reform churches, and out of Calvinism 253 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:21.519 came five Tenants of Faith, but mountains of books. He 254 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.480 wrote mountains of books, and much of the influence of 255 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.759 Calvinism is antithical to what we talk about at New Horizon. 256 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.319 But yet I recognize you have to fight, maybe inwardly, 257 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.880 that battle a little bit, because if you've been to 258 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.440 any other church on the planet more than three Sundays, 259 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:45.240 you've been exposed to reform theology. And reform theology is 260 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.240 going to rob you to a degree of your passion 261 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:52.039 to pray, because it's robbing you of your passion of 262 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.160 a partnership with God, and it's robbing you of the 263 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:58.079 need for you to enter into that partnership. Because the 264 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:03.440 viewpoint of sovereignty, the sovereignty of God, of Calvinism and 265 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:08.279 reform theology is so pervasive, so strong, and it's entered 266 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.240 into our churches so deeply that even us we can 267 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:19.599 walk around and observe evil, or observe difficulty or hardship 268 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.640 or pain or loss or suffering or circumstance, and we 269 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.599 can assume, well, that's just God's will. Well, God's in 270 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:29.759 charge of everything, that's why that's happening. 271 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:31.680 And so this. 272 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:37.759 Has snuck into the church culture deeply, and I just 273 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.279 want to bring it to you that it's antithical to 274 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:45.880 what I put on the board, and that it harms 275 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:51.440 our passion to pray, and even subconsciously, it can harm 276 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.839 your passion to get engaged in these twenty one days 277 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.920 because you subconsciously, not consciously subconsciously, you can be thinking 278 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.599 what difference will it make? How can I move God? 279 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:05.599 When he already has made up his mind about what 280 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:09.880 he's going to do? Who am I as a player 281 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:14.839 in this? Or if he wants me to do something, 282 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:17.480 he'll show it to me. I'm not listening to a 283 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:20.640 church to tell me what to do. I'm listening to God. 284 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.440 And no, he didn't even he didn't even convict me 285 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.440 about it whatsoever. He didn't empower me. I had no 286 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:31.279 grace for it whatsoever. So therefore it wasn't his will. 287 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.920 And so let me read. I want to read to 288 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.400 you out of Calvin's institute. I want to read to you. 289 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.799 I'm almost done second closing this. This is out of 290 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:49.440 book one, Book one, and this is chapter sixteen. I 291 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:54.920 want to drill down on how deep Calvin saw and 292 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.200 this is I mean literally, there's mountains of books on 293 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:01.079 this and we could be here for several like, this 294 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:02.799 is the kind of stuff you go to Oxford for 295 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:10.480 and study four years. Right on arguing Calvinism against Armenianism, right, 296 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.519 and so we aren't going to solve it all for you. 297 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:18.279 Maybe this morning, or maybe maybe we will. Maybe you'll 298 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.039 just be quickened by Holy Spirit, and maybe you'll just 299 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:31.960 realize that there's something subconscious that is affecting you and 300 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.079 it's harming you from really diving deep into a prayer 301 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:39.839 partnership with Holy Spirit. I'm praying that's what happens. I'm 302 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:42.720 praying that even though you might be on board for 303 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:47.519 the most part with New Horizon style Armenian theology, you 304 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.960 might you might just realize that there's some of this 305 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.720 still kind of bugging me at my gut level that 306 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:58.400 I need to dismiss. I need to confront it, I 307 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:03.000 need to over over overtake it, I need to demolish 308 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:10.279 every argument. So here's out of book one, and this 309 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.960 is out of chapter sixteen. If one falls among robbers 310 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:19.359 or ravenous beast, if a sudden gust of wind at 311 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:23.920 sea causes shipwreck, if one falls among robbers, or if 312 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:25.559 one is struck down by the fall of a house 313 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.160 or a tree, or if another, when wondering through a 314 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:31.240 desert path, meets with deliverance or after being tossed by waves, 315 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:35.799 arrives in port and makes some wondrous hair breadth escape 316 00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:40.079 from death. All these occurrences prosperous as well as adverse. 317 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:46.559 Carnal sense would attribute to fortune. But those who have 318 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:48.759 learned from the mouth of Christ that the very head, 319 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:51.799 hairs of your head are numbered, will look further for 320 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:57.920 cause and hold that all the events, whatsoever, are governed 321 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:02.720 by the secret count soul of God. Now he drills 322 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.079 deep on this for volume after volume, that you'll never 323 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.640 know the will of God, you'll never know the counsel 324 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:11.200 of God. You can't explain the will and the counsel 325 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.319 of God, and that these things just take place. And 326 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:16.119 this is all the will of God. It's all the 327 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:20.960 sovereign will of God. And part of the mindset of Augustine, 328 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:27.359 which he was much earlier. But Calvin reaches into his 329 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.920 theology and draws much from Augustine. Part of this is 330 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:38.319 the belief system that Satan has been demolished or darkness 331 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:44.920 has been demolished, and that being so, then the only 332 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.599 reasoning is that God is in the midst of everything. 333 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.079 Even what appears to be evil is not evil at all. 334 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.839 It's God's hand for a greater cause or a purpose 335 00:23:55.880 --> 00:24:02.160 in your life. It's a misunderstanding of scripture. It truly is. Listen, 336 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:05.799 he goes on. He says, with regard to inadamate objects, 337 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:11.400 we must hold that though each is possessed of its 338 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.920 particular properties, yet all of them exert their force only 339 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.279 in so far as directed by the immediate hand of God. 340 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:23.960 Hence they are merely instruments into which God constantly infuses 341 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.599 what energy he sees appropriate, and turns and converts to 342 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:35.680 any purpose at his pleasure. We had a friend lose 343 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:40.079 his life, and about how old was Peter. He was 344 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:43.880 scrambling up a mountain up near Smokwalmie Pass, and scrambling 345 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:45.880 up a mountain, you know, didn't have a helmet on. 346 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:48.839 Scrambling means running up the rocks as fast as cannibun. 347 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:51.279 So the guys were doing it. And toward the top 348 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.799 those particular big rocks, you know, they're like chrys falls, 349 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:57.839 only they're bigger. Right, those particular rocks kind of gave 350 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.359 out and he lost his way, and he tumbled down 351 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:05.519 the hill and died at the bottom of the hill. Well, 352 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.079 this theology would say that those rocks gave way for 353 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.559 him and not for the others. There were about ten 354 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:14.920 guys with him that morning, because it wasn't time for 355 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:15.759 the utters to die. 356 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:17.920 But those other but the. 357 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:20.000 Rocks that gave way for him. They were moved upon 358 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:24.200 though inanimate, though inanimate objects, they were moved upon by 359 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:27.400 divine purpose to give way for him, because it was 360 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:39.039 his day. So this, this intricate control of Calvinism, has 361 00:25:39.079 --> 00:25:44.079 been woven in to all of our theology since sixteen 362 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:49.119 hundred and to a degree it affects all of you. 363 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.480 And even for you to say, like, well, God's in 364 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:58.599 charge now you might polish it off with therefore our 365 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:00.640 trust him. Well that's good, and go ahead and trust God. 366 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:05.599 But the enemy is still at work, and so are 367 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:11.359 a bunch of humans with free will. God has sovereign 368 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:17.319 desires and he's leading us in a sovereign plan. And 369 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:22.759 Armenianism would say that God is in charge, but he's 370 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:29.640 not in control. There's a lot we can know about 371 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.720 what God desires to do. But the way this whole 372 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:36.079 thing works is this divine partnership. It works where we 373 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:41.200 are reaching up with desire to know his will. We're 374 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.680 reaching up into the heavens in prayer in petition, we're 375 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.599 coming up into our sonship where we can see what 376 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.400 he desires. 377 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:55.240 Then we partner with him with prophetic decree. 378 00:26:54.839 --> 00:27:01.079 And declaration, and Heaven responds and react acts by sending 379 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:10.400 crazy powerful movement into the spirit realm wherein we dwell 380 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:14.440 and in our generation, and then things shift, and this 381 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:17.279 is what he desires. It's enough that he doesn't know 382 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.799 what he wants to do, that he doesn't know what 383 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:26.279 he desires to accomplish. It's just that he has limited 384 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:34.039 himself to partner with us. And the partnership doesn't have 385 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.839 to be like a super limited partnership because he's shown 386 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:42.960 his full hand of sovereign desire to the Son. And 387 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.960 then the son has made us one with the Father. 388 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:50.119 So we enter into the Father through the Son, who's 389 00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:57.680 become the victorious man, the supreme overcoming one. So we 390 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.319 don't have to have a limited knowledge. We can actually 391 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:10.240 know his will because the Sun knows his will and 392 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:13.680 to the Son he's given everything, including the earth, and 393 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:19.599 so we can enter into the Sun. We can hear 394 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:23.480 from the Sun, and then we can have the words 395 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:28.559 of the Sun to declare in our generation as send. 396 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:31.559 Now this is what we want to do in our 397 00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:35.160 twenty one days. This is this is our this is 398 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:38.400 our prayer and our desire, and I'm just I'm praying over. 399 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:44.200 You that if any disablement. 400 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:49.920 Is bothering your soul, like if you're you know, out 401 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.000