Speaker 1: Hallelujah. You lived through the fireworks hangover. Hallelujah. This is wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's so good to see you. How many of you
Speaker 1: got five hours of sleep? How many of you got six?
Speaker 1: If you got six, okay. Amazing people. How many of
Speaker 1: you got seven? Seven. Some of you got seven. Wow,
Speaker 1: you were in a cave somewhere. That's good. How many
Speaker 1: of you use earplugs? That's my technique. That's my technique.
Speaker 1: Pastor Joel, she has an amazing pillow. Her pillow is
Speaker 1: like soundproof. And so she buries herself under a pillow
Speaker 1: every night. And it must be a powerful pillow because
Speaker 1: she has ears like an eagle. She can hear me
Speaker 1: a mile away, right? But that pillow is so effective
Speaker 1: that she actually can go to sleep while the bombs
Speaker 1: are going off. And I'm telling you, the bombs were
Speaker 1: going off. Debbie Lewandowski made it this morning with three
Speaker 1: hours of sleep. She said that it didn't stop at
Speaker 1: her house until four in the morning. Can you believe that?
Speaker 1: The Chinese are rejoicing. They made a billion dollars last
Speaker 1: night off of American freedom. It's just amazing, isn't it? Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: They rejoice over American freedom. If they didn't have American freedom,
Speaker 1: where would their economy be? What in the world? Anyway,
Speaker 1: so good to be here today, praise the Lord. We
Speaker 1: didn't lose any limbs. We made it through. And so
Speaker 1: we're rejoicing. I want to talk to you a little
Speaker 1: bit about answers from heaven. And maybe more appropriately, the
Speaker 1: reliability of the word of God. The power of the
Speaker 1: word of God. And the reliability of the word of God.
Speaker 1: At my current house, we have Puget Sound Energy. It
Speaker 1: used to be called Puget Power. Remember that? How many
Speaker 1: of you are old enough to remember Puget Power? All right. Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple people in the room. So it's now Puget
Speaker 1: Sound Energy. And how many of you, your bill has
Speaker 1: been increasing? Have you been noticing? Anybody been noticing? Who
Speaker 1: pays attention to the money in your house? My bill
Speaker 1: is up, you know, our bill is up like 20
Speaker 1: to 30%. They said it was only going to go
Speaker 1: up 12%. It's like 30% because they've got all this
Speaker 1: stuff they're throwing on there. They got the cap and
Speaker 1: trade carbon thing they're throwing on there. So if, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Somehow we've got to stop the cows
Speaker 1: from fluffing. If we can do that, we can get
Speaker 1: rid of this carbon thing. Did he just say that
Speaker 1: on national TV? I can't believe it. But we have
Speaker 1: fugitive sound energy at this house. So here's the crazy thing.
Speaker 1: At the house before, we had underground power. We lived
Speaker 1: in the same house for 28 years on South Hill
Speaker 1: in Puyallup. We had underground power, and we never lost power.
Speaker 1: In 28 years, maybe once, we lost power. And that
Speaker 1: was probably an accident. I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 1: Even here, in 22 years, we've lost power one time here.
Speaker 1: and I attribute some of that to underground power. But
Speaker 1: at the new house, people in our neighborhood lose power
Speaker 1: all the time. Like if a little gust of wind
Speaker 1: blows through the neighborhood, a tree will knock over a
Speaker 1: power line somewhere, and they've got the power lines running
Speaker 1: through trees. Like if a branch falls, you could lose power.
Speaker 1: And so when we first moved in, I saw this,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a, This was a distressed sale.
Speaker 1: And so the sellers didn't want to tell us anything
Speaker 1: about the property because it was under duress. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? They were getting a divorce. He held
Speaker 1: a gun to her head. It was a bad thing.
Speaker 1: But there was a plug out in the carport. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what in the world is that plug? Well,
Speaker 1: I found out what the plug was pretty soon because
Speaker 1: everybody in the neighborhood has generators. and a branch falls,
Speaker 1: everybody loses power, I found out there was a generator
Speaker 1: plug wired into my home. Isn't that wonderful? And so
Speaker 1: we could just plug that thing in. And so right away,
Speaker 1: I had to go buy a generator. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: things we take for granted. Like, we take power for granted. Right? No,
Speaker 1: not the power bill. But we take power for granted,
Speaker 1: and yet it's there. We've got 240 volts flowing into
Speaker 1: our home. You have a lot more power flowing in
Speaker 1: than you actually use, right? Most of the time. Unless
Speaker 1: you're baking Jasmine's cookies. There's a cookie advertisement right there.
Speaker 1: But we've got 240 volts, you know, flowing into our homes, right?
Speaker 1: And we take it for granted. But taking it for granted...
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not there. It doesn't mean it's not active.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's not alive. It doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: not working. You follow what I'm saying? What I mean is,
Speaker 1: most of the time, you don't spend any time meditating on,
Speaker 1: staring at, focusing on, channeling your inner psyche at the
Speaker 1: light switch. Most of us don't. Most of us don't. Now,
Speaker 1: there might be a couple in the room that are
Speaker 1: struggling with this, but most of us We just take
Speaker 1: for granted that there's power somehow connected to that switch.
Speaker 1: And when we walk in the room, we just flip
Speaker 1: the thing on and go on about our day. We
Speaker 1: don't even get deep in rejoicing. Right? Because the power
Speaker 1: is there. And I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: today about the power that is in the Word of God.
Speaker 1: The power that is in the kingdom message, the kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven message. the power that is in the word
Speaker 1: of God. And I wanna start by talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about how that our forefathers knew this, that our
Speaker 1: forefathers knew about the power and what we enjoyed yesterday
Speaker 1: in Chinese fireworks, what we enjoyed yesterday is actually the
Speaker 1: outgrowth of the word of the kingdom in our nation,
Speaker 1: and that's what brought the revolution, and that's what brought independence,
Speaker 1: and that's what brought the Constitution, and that's what brought
Speaker 1: the liberty and the freedom that we have. That's what
Speaker 1: brought the abolition of slaves. It was the working out
Speaker 1: of the Word of God. And a lot of us
Speaker 1: don't know the framework that led to 1776. We don't
Speaker 1: know that there were thousands of crazy, crazy preachers crisscrossing
Speaker 1: the entire 13 colonies, pouring out their hearts and lives
Speaker 1: in the 13 colonies, sharing the gospel, preaching the word,
Speaker 1: preaching the kingdom of heaven on earth. This was the focus.
Speaker 1: The focus of the early preachers was the kingdom of
Speaker 1: heaven on earth. It wasn't the rapture, though the rapture
Speaker 1: is a wonderful word. We are going to be caught
Speaker 1: up to be with the Lord. He is coming back.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing. But the focus of those early
Speaker 1: preachers was not on getting off of the planet. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a pessimistic word. Let me say it that way
Speaker 1: as well. It was an optimistic word. They believed that
Speaker 1: they were living in the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Speaker 1: they believed that the word of the kingdom of heaven
Speaker 1: was theirs to dispatch and to give. And they were
Speaker 1: filled with optimism over this nation and over the land
Speaker 1: and over the future of our nation. Um, let me just,
Speaker 1: and there's, there's some stuff that I just discovered this weekend. So,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I am an old geezer. Did you
Speaker 1: know that my, my, uh, facial hairs have turned white.
Speaker 1: I mean, that means I have come into a mark
Speaker 1: of ancientness that is absolutely significant. And even though I've
Speaker 1: got that mark of ancientness, I didn't know some of
Speaker 1: what I was discovering. So George Whitefield was the, we
Speaker 1: could say he was the fountainhead of this crazy preaching.
Speaker 1: And out of George Whitefield, there were thousands of preachers
Speaker 1: raised up, and the body of Christ, the laity, was
Speaker 1: completely animated in preaching and sharing the gospel message in
Speaker 1: a powerful way. But George Whitefield was just kind of
Speaker 1: an iconic guy, inspiring all of the 13 churches colonies
Speaker 1: in a crazy way. His evangelistic preaching in American colonies
Speaker 1: spanned a total of 32 years, beginning in 1738 with
Speaker 1: his final tour in 1770. He made seven distinctive tours
Speaker 1: across those 13 colonies just time and time and time again,
Speaker 1: absolutely devoted to the message of the kingdom of heaven
Speaker 1: on earth. That was what they were devoted to. And
Speaker 1: I want to read to you out of Isaiah 61
Speaker 1: because Isaiah 61 is the fountain. It's the wellspring of
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven on earth. And it's interesting in
Speaker 1: Matthew 10, 7, he tells the disciples, he sends them out,
Speaker 1: and he tells them, go and declare that the kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven is at hand. We have to recognize that
Speaker 1: he wasn't sending them out with swords, guns, and weapons
Speaker 1: to kill people to say you're going to heaven, and
Speaker 1: that's at hand. He was telling them to go and
Speaker 1: declare that heaven is about to invade earth. Heaven is
Speaker 1: about to invade earth. The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Speaker 1: Heaven is about to invade earth. That was the message,
Speaker 1: Matthew 10, 7, that they were to preach. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1: And before I forget it, how many of you think
Speaker 1: I shouldn't forget something? I could forget it, so I
Speaker 1: should mention it now. But I'll mention it now because
Speaker 1: it came to me. So I should mention it now.
Speaker 1: Mark 16, 20 says that as they preached this word,
Speaker 1: that the Lord worked with them. We could pull it
Speaker 1: up if we were really fast. The Lord worked with them,
Speaker 1: confirming the word with signs and wonders. How many of
Speaker 1: you know that scripture? How many of you heard that
Speaker 1: scripture before? All right, three of you. How many Christians
Speaker 1: in the room? All right, 10, 10 Christians. Praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good about this morning. I want you to
Speaker 1: see this, though, because we're going to hover here in
Speaker 1: a moment. We don't want to hover there yet, but
Speaker 1: we'll hover there in a moment. We're going to hover
Speaker 1: over this element of understanding is that the Lord works
Speaker 1: with the Word. That the Lord confirms the Word. No
Speaker 1: word out of your mouth, no Lord working with the Word.
Speaker 1: Mouth closed, mouth distracted. Mouth turned away. The Lord doesn't
Speaker 1: work with your word. The Lord works with His word
Speaker 1: in your mouth. The Lord works with... Now today I
Speaker 1: might talk about the boat. Today I might talk about
Speaker 1: waves and water. We have a birthday party at the
Speaker 1: house today. I'm sure I'm going to celebrate some child.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah somebody. But there's no anointing on that word. There's
Speaker 1: no anointing on those words at all. And you could
Speaker 1: bring a word somewhere. You could bring a word and
Speaker 1: And you could bring a word. If you bring a
Speaker 1: word that is just of your own word, it may
Speaker 1: have relevance with wisdom or understanding, or it may be
Speaker 1: that you're trying to bring some kind of word of
Speaker 1: wisdom and understanding that isn't related to the word. There
Speaker 1: won't be any anointing on that at all. It'll be dry.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to teach something and it was
Speaker 1: dry because the anointing wasn't present? But then when you
Speaker 1: teach or share something that's kingdom, that's kingdom of heaven,
Speaker 1: it's not dry. The Holy Spirit's present on that word. Why?
Speaker 1: Because the Holy Spirit watches over the word. The early
Speaker 1: preachers knew this. These people were not like springing up
Speaker 1: out of some cave of darkness somewhere. We're talking about
Speaker 1: These people in the 13 colonies that loved the founding
Speaker 1: of our nation, that loved this nation, that loved what
Speaker 1: God was doing, they had a God-centered vision. And in
Speaker 1: their vision, they saw God through Isaiah 61 meeting every
Speaker 1: need of society and culture. This was what they saw.
Speaker 1: You don't have a heaven on earth message if you
Speaker 1: don't see God is able to answer every need in
Speaker 1: society and culture. That's not a heaven on earth message.
Speaker 1: They have this understanding and we'll get there in a
Speaker 1: moment out of Isaiah chapter 61. But first I wanted
Speaker 1: to drill down on the thing I didn't want to
Speaker 1: say I was going to drill down on. And that
Speaker 1: is that God's word in your mouth and not just
Speaker 1: God's word of repent or God's word of turn or
Speaker 1: burn or God's word of Jesus loves you or God's
Speaker 1: word of God, Jesus wants to save you. So many
Speaker 1: times when we think of evangelism, when we think of evangelism,
Speaker 1: we've allowed religiosity and the enemy to cook this, you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't the word I want, but to pigeonhole, that's
Speaker 1: the word I want, to pigeonhole us into just sharing
Speaker 1: that somebody needs Jesus. But the word they were sent
Speaker 1: to preach wasn't just that everyone needs Jesus, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even the word that they should repent. The word
Speaker 1: that they were sent to preach, though all of that
Speaker 1: has appropriate times and seasons, was the word of the
Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven on earth. That's the word. The word
Speaker 1: of the kingdom of heaven. That's the word. And so
Speaker 1: encapsulated in that word is a lot more, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to get to that, because there's an anointing on
Speaker 1: that word that's powerful, and Holy Spirit doesn't want you
Speaker 1: thinking about sharing or living out, sharing verbally or sharing
Speaker 1: by pen, anything to do with the kingdom of heaven,
Speaker 1: and then staring at it with unbelief, or even hesitating
Speaker 1: and wondering, and being cautious about it, wondering if there's
Speaker 1: any power to it. Hello, I'm making a parallel here.
Speaker 1: I'm making a parallel here. The Word of God is
Speaker 1: so energized with power, you don't need to doubt that
Speaker 1: when you flick on the Word, the power will be
Speaker 1: released to make that that you're sharing alive and powerful.
Speaker 1: So George Whitefield, I want to go back to George
Speaker 1: Whitefield for a moment because we don't have this context.
Speaker 1: We don't understand this. We don't know this. We're so
Speaker 1: distant from the contemporary moment of what was happening in
Speaker 1: those 13 colonies that we don't see how... I mean,
Speaker 1: it was so energized and so powerful. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: In his second tour, this was the most famous tour ever.
Speaker 1: It spanned 15 months. He went from New York to Charleston.
Speaker 1: And during this period, he preached nearly every single day
Speaker 1: to crowds as large as 30 to 80,000 people. Every
Speaker 1: single day for 15 months, crowds 30 to 80,000 people.
Speaker 1: And out of that, and it wasn't just this, George
Speaker 1: Whitefield's message was a message of kingdom of heaven on earth.
Speaker 1: His message was centered around Isaiah 61, which I'm going
Speaker 1: to read in a moment. But this spawned thousands of preachers.
Speaker 1: This raised up thousands of churches. And many of those
Speaker 1: churches would have been brush arbor churches. They would have
Speaker 1: been what we talk about in Africa. You know, Pastor
Speaker 1: Joel was showing the videos in the month of May.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the church in Nakapirit, where they were
Speaker 1: gathered around a tree? That's a brush arbor church in
Speaker 1: America in the 1700s. People would just gather wherever and
Speaker 1: form a church and be turned to the word of
Speaker 1: God in a new and a fresh way. Isn't that great?
Speaker 1: I want to read a little bit more about him
Speaker 1: because this is back in the notes a little bit
Speaker 1: that I've got. In the early days of America, the
Speaker 1: preachers and the churches had a great role in shaping
Speaker 1: the thinking of our nation. Preaching in America fundamentally shaped
Speaker 1: the nation's founding by popularizing the philosophical and moral arguments
Speaker 1: that fueled the revolution. Pastors synthesized biblical theology and championed
Speaker 1: ideas like unalienable rights and government by the consent of
Speaker 1: the governed, and resistance to unjust rule. And again, this
Speaker 1: was springing up out of the liberty of Isaiah 61,
Speaker 1: the first sermon that Jesus ever preached. The profound influence
Speaker 1: of the American pulpit manifested through several key movements and events. First,
Speaker 1: the Great Awakening, traveling preachers like George Wedfield ignited widespread
Speaker 1: spiritual revival. by emphasizing the individual believers were equal before God.
Speaker 1: That movement broke down hierarchy and hierarchical speech therapy coming
Speaker 1: this week. religious structures, and paved the way for democratic
Speaker 1: thinking and questioning of absolute authority. And then the black regimen.
Speaker 1: A term was coined for thousands of patriot pastors who
Speaker 1: became staunch defenders of the American cause. They delivered political
Speaker 1: sermons that interpreted pragmatic historical events through political theology and
Speaker 1: often serving as the primary source of news and civic
Speaker 1: instruction in the colonial communities. Remember the Johnson Amendment of
Speaker 1: 1964 to shut the church up and tell churches and
Speaker 1: pulpits and pastors that they can't influence the nation or
Speaker 1: the political agenda? How many of you know that was
Speaker 1: the devil? Hello, somebody. Yes, I said it on video.
Speaker 1: the Black Robe Regiment, these sermons, so they were thousands
Speaker 1: of pastors, preachers, and those in pulpits, but those sermons
Speaker 1: were widely reprinted and distributed by the Sons of Liberty.
Speaker 1: The Sons of Liberty were hundreds of thousands of laity
Speaker 1: across the 13 colonies who took those printed sermons and
Speaker 1: distributed them to nations the public all across the 13 colonies.
Speaker 1: And then there was the educating of the framers. Prominent
Speaker 1: clergymen actively shaped the architects of the Constitution. For instance,
Speaker 1: John Witherspoon, a minister and the president of the College
Speaker 1: of New Jersey, now Princeton, tutored James Madison, Aaron Burr,
Speaker 1: and numerous other founders, shaping their views on civil government
Speaker 1: and civic virtue. So this is crazy stuff. Most of
Speaker 1: these guys, and I don't know that it matters to you,
Speaker 1: but most of it mattered to me. I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. Most of these theologians were post-millennials. They believed
Speaker 1: that they were living in a millennial period where God
Speaker 1: was leavening the earth with the gospel, where Isaiah 61
Speaker 1: was coming to pass, and that the second coming or
Speaker 1: the rapture would come at the end of some kind
Speaker 1: of a period. And crazy enough, like Trump, they called
Speaker 1: it the golden age. It's here. It's here. You can
Speaker 1: find it. I'm reading this off of the internet. I
Speaker 1: just looked it up on the internet. So I'm not
Speaker 1: this smart. Here was the vision of the future. The
Speaker 1: vision of the future that these pastors and preachers and
Speaker 1: the sons of liberty had. Number one, the global triumph
Speaker 1: of the gospel. That the revivalists believe the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: will continue to sweep across the nation's eventually converting the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the world to Christianity. Now, this is
Speaker 1: only 250 years ago, folks. This is just a short
Speaker 1: time ago, and God has been working, and he's not done.
Speaker 1: He's not done.
Speaker 2: He's still leavening the earth with the gospel of the
Speaker 2: kingdom of heaven. Number two, they believed that America was
Speaker 2: the cradle of of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Edwards, you know Jonathan Edwards became the president of
Speaker 2: Princeton College as well. Jonathan Edwards, do you remember him?
Speaker 2: Jonathan Edwards and his contemporaries harbored a pro-nationalistic view that
Speaker 2: God had chosen the American colonies as a specific staging
Speaker 2: ground for global transformation. No wonder Satan's mad. No wonder
Speaker 2: Satan's mad. Hello, somebody. We are a special called out
Speaker 2: people of God. We are a special nation. And this birthing,
Speaker 2: the revolution and the birthing of the nation and the
Speaker 2: writing of the Constitution and the liberties, it was birthed
Speaker 2: out of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And as they
Speaker 2: shared and as they preached, they didn't wonder if the
Speaker 2: light would come on. They had a tremendous confidence that
Speaker 2: God was better than Puget Sound Energy. That when they spoke,
Speaker 2: the anointing would be present. When they ministered, the anointing
Speaker 2: would be present.
Speaker 1: Number three. They believed in a restored society because Whitefield
Speaker 1: and other preachers emphasized that everyone needed the born-again experience
Speaker 1: regardless of class, wealth, or race. They envisioned a future
Speaker 1: with a vastly reduced social hierarchy where walls were torn down.
Speaker 1: They saw a society where spiritual equality translated into civic
Speaker 1: equality and harmony. They saw a nation where where the
Speaker 1: efforts of revival would transform the values of darkness. And
Speaker 1: it was their preaching to black Americans and native Americans
Speaker 1: and to the Anglos across the colonies that inspired the
Speaker 1: abolitionist movement. Isn't that awesome? Number four, the rejection of
Speaker 1: dead institutionalism. These guys sound like us. 250 years ago,
Speaker 1: the rejection of dead institutionalism, Whitefield and his allies expected
Speaker 1: the future of the church to be dynamic, decentralized, and
Speaker 1: driven by individual faith rather than rigid state church hierarchy.
Speaker 1: By traveling across boundaries and preaching in open fields, Whitefield
Speaker 1: bypassed traditional parish systems, creating a blueprint for future American
Speaker 1: religious landscape defined by volunteerism. free choice, and interdenominational cooperation.
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? I want to tell you the word works.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Isaiah chapter 61. Isaiah chapter 61,
Speaker 1: and I want to read it to you out of
Speaker 1: the New Living Translation. This is the sermon that Jesus
Speaker 1: preached as he was launching the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Speaker 1: This is This is his first sermon. He's baptized in water.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit comes upon him as a dove. The
Speaker 1: voice from Father comes and says, this is my son
Speaker 1: in whom I am well pleased. He goes into the
Speaker 1: wilderness for 40 days. He comes out and overcomes the enemy.
Speaker 1: He goes into the synagogue and this is his first sermon.
Speaker 1: He says, hand me the scroll of Isaiah. They hand
Speaker 1: him Isaiah. He turns and to chapter 61, and this
Speaker 1: is what he reads, and he says at the end
Speaker 1: of this, today, these words are fulfilled in your hearing.
Speaker 1: This is his first sermon. This is the launch of
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven on earth. This is the beginning
Speaker 1: of what he told the disciples, go and say this,
Speaker 1: in Matthew 10, 7, go and declare the kingdom of
Speaker 1: heaven is at hand, this is the beginning of that.
Speaker 1: And this is why later, at the end of his ministry,
Speaker 1: three and a half years after he read this from Isaiah,
Speaker 1: at the end of his ministry in Matthew 16, 19,
Speaker 1: he says, behold, I give you the keys to the
Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven. And he's loosing them now. He's declaring
Speaker 1: them to be keys his representatives, and he's releasing over
Speaker 1: them ecclesiastical power to every believer that as they bind
Speaker 1: the enemy, he shall be bound. As they loose heaven,
Speaker 1: heaven shall be loosed. Here's what he said. The spirit
Speaker 1: of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has
Speaker 1: anointed me. The Lord has anointed me to bring good news.
Speaker 1: Now remember John 20, 20 through 22. Jesus said, as
Speaker 1: the Father sent me, so send I you. As the
Speaker 1: Father sent me, and then he breathed on them and said,
Speaker 1: receive the Holy Spirit. This is John 20. Everybody say
Speaker 1: John 20, 20. What kind of vision do you wish
Speaker 1: you had? 20, 20 visions. 2020 vision. What kind of
Speaker 1: vision do you wish you had? What kind of vision
Speaker 1: do you have in the spirit realm? He breathes on
Speaker 1: them and says, receive the Holy Spirit. He says, as
Speaker 1: the Father sent me, so send I you. That means
Speaker 1: that this passage is real and relevant for us.
Speaker 2: This is the passage we carry in our spirit man.
Speaker 2: This is the passage we carry in our heart. As
Speaker 2: he was anointed, now we are anointed. Now the anointing
Speaker 2: is a different thing.
Speaker 1: The anointing, that means that when you open your mouth
Speaker 1: with something, there's actually a power that comes on the
Speaker 1: breath of your words. A power comes on the breath
Speaker 1: of your words. Whether you feel it or not, you
Speaker 1: might not even feel it. You know, when I walk
Speaker 1: in the bedroom and I flick on the power, it's
Speaker 1: a happy day when I don't feel it. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like if one of the bambinos has
Speaker 1: come along and taken the two screws off of the
Speaker 1: plate and somehow accidentally I reach in and.
Speaker 2: Touch the side of that thing and feel the power,
Speaker 2: that's a bad day. I don't need to feel.
Speaker 1: The power to know the power's on. This is what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say. You don't need an earthquake, a
Speaker 1: goose pump, or a wiggle to know that the power
Speaker 1: is on. When you share the message of the kingdom,
Speaker 1: when you deliver the message of the kingdom, the message
Speaker 1: of the kingdom of heaven on earth, the power is on.
Speaker 1: You can have the confidence. The power is on. The
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is confirming the word. You don't even need
Speaker 1: the word confirmed in front of you. Now, most of us,
Speaker 1: we're looking for the word to be confirmed in front
Speaker 1: of us. You don't need the word confirmed in front
Speaker 1: of you. The word will be confirmed. It'll be confirmed
Speaker 1: by cutting their heart. It'll be confirmed by bringing faith.
Speaker 1: It'll be confirmed by opening the eyes of their understanding.
Speaker 1: It'll be confirmed by shifting the atmosphere in the room.
Speaker 1: It'll be confirmed when they get in their car and
Speaker 1: drive away. It'll be confirmed when they wake up tomorrow morning...
Speaker 1: thinking about it. It'll be confirmed somehow. You don't have
Speaker 1: to wonder, is it going to be confirmed? Jesus went
Speaker 1: with them, watching over the word, confirming the word with
Speaker 1: signs and wonders. You don't have to know what the
Speaker 1: sign and wonder was. You don't need to check up
Speaker 1: on the sign and wonder. The Holy Spirit is active
Speaker 1: and alive. The Word of God. Hebrews 4.12 The Word
Speaker 1: of God is active and alive, sharper than any two-edged sword,
Speaker 1: piercing the soul and the spirit right to the thoughts
Speaker 1: and the intention of the heart. The Word of God
Speaker 1: is working. I remember the day and I remember many
Speaker 1: days when the Word of God pierced my thoughts and
Speaker 1: cut me in such a way that I knew it
Speaker 1: was God. And that alone was a sign and a wonder.
Speaker 1: The working of the word to cut your heart or
Speaker 1: to open your eyes or to convict you or to
Speaker 1: cause you to weep or to cause an inner transformation.
Speaker 1: That is a sign and a wonder right there. I
Speaker 1: don't need to have a leg fall off. I don't
Speaker 1: need to have an ear grow. I don't need to
Speaker 1: have any. That's a sign and a wonder right there.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody. Don't you think Holy Spirit's doing that?
Speaker 1: Didn't He do it to you? Why are you in
Speaker 1: this room? Didn't He touch you in a way that
Speaker 1: was like you try to describe it to people and
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know. It's just like, and they're
Speaker 1: looking at you like, oh, really? But you know what happened.
Speaker 1: You know the Holy.
Speaker 2: Spirit touched you, spoke to you, cut your heart, opened
Speaker 2: your eyes, shifted your thoughts, interrupted your stupidity.
Speaker 1: You know that happened. Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes? You and I need to know as they did
Speaker 2: from 1738 to 1776 that God's.
Speaker 1: Word is immutable. It is powerful. It's unchangeable. It is anointed.
Speaker 1: The anointing comes on the word of the kingdom. Not
Speaker 1: just the word of repent. You walking around with your
Speaker 1: Jesus son. You got your Jesus placard. Turn or burn. No,
Speaker 1: the message of the kingdom of heaven is so much
Speaker 1: bigger than that. It answers every problem in life. And
Speaker 1: when you bring forth problem in life and with those
Speaker 1: messages that are from the kingdom of heaven, sometimes you're
Speaker 1: just laying the groundwork for the word of Jesus. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you're just laying the groundwork. You're just laying the groundwork
Speaker 1: with all this heaven on earth stuff.
Speaker 2: Did you know you're called of God? Did you know
Speaker 2: you're favored? Did you know you've got an identity? Did
Speaker 2: you know there's a purpose for you? Did you know
Speaker 2: you're set apart? Did you know you're special? The spirit
Speaker 2: of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has
Speaker 2: anointed me. So everybody say anointed. Because anointing is powerful.
Speaker 1: It's special. It's the power. It is the 240 volts
Speaker 1: that's on the word to bring good news to the
Speaker 1: suffering and afflicted. Have we forgot that we are ordained
Speaker 1: to bring good news to suffering and afflicted ones? The leadership,
Speaker 1: so the woke agenda is Satan's mouth with his answers
Speaker 1: through the unsaved for the problems of humanity. Did you
Speaker 1: hear me? The woke agenda is Satan's mouth for humans'
Speaker 1: answers through unclean ones. But could it be that his
Speaker 1: mouth is enabled because ours have been too silent too long?
Speaker 1: There's always a leadership vacuum, right? There's always a leadership need.
Speaker 1: And the leadership vacuum is filled with by the enemy
Speaker 1: where believers won't rise up with the word of the
Speaker 1: kingdom or the word of truth. Are you hearing what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Wherever there's a lack of leadership, the enemy
Speaker 1: is so joyful to oblige to fill that lack of leadership.
Speaker 1: And it's the leadership really for solving the problems of humanity. Really,
Speaker 1: What we heard last week from Pastor Gary was so good.
Speaker 1: He was trying to help us see that really at
Speaker 1: the core of what appeals to those who have been
Speaker 1: ensnared with the woke agenda is compassion. The core of
Speaker 1: those who've been brought in to the woke agenda, the
Speaker 1: core of what moves them, motivates them, draws them is compassion. Compassion.
Speaker 1: And we carry the message of compassion, and ours is
Speaker 1: not dry, ours is anointed. The message of the kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven on earth is for every soul, and we
Speaker 1: have an anointed message and an anointed grace on us.
Speaker 1: And it's so important that we don't forget that. Because
Speaker 1: we are anointed to bring good news to the suffering
Speaker 1: and the afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted.
Speaker 1: How many around us are brokenhearted? How much of this
Speaker 1: agenda could be addressed if we would embrace again the
Speaker 1: core of this message of the kingdom of heaven? is
Speaker 1: to minister to the brokenhearted. He has sent me to
Speaker 1: announce liberty to the captives. Liberty to the captives. We
Speaker 1: have a message of liberty to all who are in captivity.
Speaker 1: Captivity of any kind. Hierarchy. racial, addictive. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what the captivity is. We carry a message of liberty
Speaker 1: to them. This is part of the gospel of the
Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven. That we cannot allow to be silenced.
Speaker 1: We carry a message of hope out of captivity. And
Speaker 1: the answer Out of captivity. And to open the eyes
Speaker 1: of the blind. It's not the physical blind. The physical
Speaker 1: blind can fit within the scope of this, but it's
Speaker 1: the spiritually blind. It's the darkened of a mind. We
Speaker 1: have the word that opens our eyes. He has sent
Speaker 1: me to tell those who mourn that the time of
Speaker 1: God's favor for them has come. Any bereaved people around you?
Speaker 1: Anybody sorrowing? Anybody mourning? There's a message and this message
Speaker 1: of favor is for every human. This message for favor
Speaker 1: is for every single person. God has chosen every single
Speaker 1: person for the favor dispensed through Jesus. And this is
Speaker 1: part of our message. This is the kingdom of heaven message.
Speaker 1: And you know what? There's an anointing on it. Every
Speaker 1: time you share about favor and the good intention of
Speaker 1: God to bring favor. And what does it say in
Speaker 1: Romans chapter 2 verse 4? It's the kindness of God.
Speaker 1: The kind intention of God can open the eyes and
Speaker 1: turn people to repent. The kindness of God draws us
Speaker 1: to repent, to turn from our own way and to
Speaker 1: turn to God's way. Maybe we need to recapture again
Speaker 1: some of this message that God wants to pour out
Speaker 1: favor on every person. This is the message of the
Speaker 1: kingdom and there's an anointing on it. Like every time
Speaker 1: you share it, whether you're in a good mood or
Speaker 1: bad mood, whether you're smiling or frowning, whether you were
Speaker 1: ready or not ready, the Holy Spirit is on the
Speaker 1: word of the kingdom. There's an anointing on the word
Speaker 1: of the kingdom. You don't have to question the power
Speaker 1: on the word of the kingdom. Stand with me. I'm
Speaker 1: moving into my first close. Giving beauty for ashes, joy
Speaker 1: instead of mourning, praise instead of heaviness. Church, church, church, church, church.
Speaker 1: The word works. The word of the kingdom works, not
Speaker 1: the word of Not just, don't be pigeonholed. You carry
Speaker 1: solutions for every problem. You carry through the word of
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven solutions for every problem of mankind.
Speaker 1: And as you share it, as you dispense it, as
Speaker 1: you declare it, as you share about it, the anointing
Speaker 1: is present to watch over those words. You know, in
Speaker 1: John 16, 8, Jesus said, I'm going to send the comforter.
Speaker 1: And when the comforter comes, he will convict the world
Speaker 1: in regard to sin and righteousness of judgment.
Speaker 2: How many of you think that happened? John 16, 8.
Speaker 1: How many of you think the comforter came? Well, then
Speaker 1: why do we need Christians? Why do we need believers?
Speaker 1: Why do we need preachers? Do you realize the Comforter
Speaker 1: is waiting for you to open your mouth? The Comforter
Speaker 1: is waiting for you and me to pick up a
Speaker 1: pen and open our mouths and bear witness to Isaiah 61,
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven on earth. The Comforter is actually,
Speaker 1: he actually rides on the wind of our words. This
Speaker 1: is why on the day of Pentecost even, on the
Speaker 1: day of Pentecost... Nothing was going on. The comforter was waiting.
Speaker 1: And then Peter stood up and preached. And then he
Speaker 1: said this. He said, let all of Israel be assured
Speaker 1: of this. God has made this Jesus whom you crucified,
Speaker 1: both Lord and Messiah. When the people heard this, When
Speaker 1: the people heard this, I could give you so many
Speaker 1: examples in the Word. I'm out of time. I'm working
Speaker 1: on my last day. When the people heard this, they
Speaker 1: were cut to the heart and said to Peter and
Speaker 1: the other apostles, brothers, what should we do? When did
Speaker 1: they say that? And then 3,000 gave their lives to
Speaker 1: the Lord right then. When they heard it. This is
Speaker 1: why in Romans chapter 10 it says, how can they
Speaker 1: hear unless there's a You know the verse. Come on,
Speaker 1: help me. How can they hear unless there's a preacher?
Speaker 1: How can they hear unless there's a preacher? We don't
Speaker 1: need more ecclesiastical preachers. We need more body preachers. We
Speaker 1: need more laity preachers. We need more. We've got a
Speaker 1: room full of clergy this morning. You've got the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord in your mouth. And Holy Spirit, who
Speaker 1: has been sent to convict of sin, judgment, and righteousness,
Speaker 1: He's just brooding over you, waiting for that opportunity for
Speaker 1: you to open your mouth or to pick up your
Speaker 1: pen and to share something about the hope that is
Speaker 1: woven into the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. And
Speaker 1: every time you do, you don't have to wonder if
Speaker 1: the power is on. Every time you do, the power
Speaker 1: is on. Every time you do, Holy Spirit is released.
Speaker 1: Every time you do, He's cutting somebody to the heart.
Speaker 1: Every time you do, He's opening up blinded eyes. Every
Speaker 1: time you do, He's lifting somebody up out of depression
Speaker 1: and out of discouragement and out of poverty and out
Speaker 1: of negativity. Every time you do, Every time you do,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to know everything, and you don't
Speaker 1: need a seminarian degree. All you need to know is
Speaker 1: that Isaiah 61 is true. It's just as true today
Speaker 1: as it was in 1738, as it was in 1776.
Speaker 1: It's the same God working, the same Jesus is watching
Speaker 1: over His Word, and He's confirming His Word to the
Speaker 1: hearts of those who hear it with signs and wonders.
Speaker 1: And he can shift this nation again.
Speaker 2: And if he's got a bunch of people like you,
Speaker 2: he will turn this nation again. And this nation will
Speaker 2: once again be raised up. And heaven will come. And
Speaker 2: people will rejoice. And we will see the goodness of
Speaker 2: God in the land of the living. Father, we devote
Speaker 2: our hearts to you this morning. And we devote our
Speaker 2: hearts to trust in your word. To say together, the
Speaker 2: word works. The word works. The word works. The word works.
Speaker 2: Today we agree. We don't need to doubt. We don't
Speaker 2: need to wonder. We don't need to look at the
Speaker 2: light switch. We can know today that the light switch
Speaker 2: of the Word works, that Holy Spirit power is working
Speaker 2: in the midst of the Word, that every time we
Speaker 2: share biblical principles of the kingdom, every time we share
Speaker 2: the truth of the kingdom, every time we lift up
Speaker 2: the hope of the kingdom of heaven on earth, that
Speaker 2: you bear witness to it with power. And we thank
Speaker 2: you for it today. And we say.
Speaker 1: Yes through me. Yes through me.
Speaker 2: Even as he said in John 20, 20, the 2020 vision.
Speaker 1: We say now send us, Lord. Send us. We will
Speaker 1: be your workers. Send us as the Father sent you.
Speaker 1: So now you send us. And we thank you for
Speaker 1: it today in Jesus' name. And everybody shout it. God
Speaker 1: bless you, church. Let's worship as we go.