WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.160 We've gone through a lot of scriptures about this showing 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:11.000 you and there's a lot more. So, not wanting to 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.559 wear out your patients, you know, I've just I've highlighted 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.760 a bunch and then if you have more questions, I 5 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.000 would love it if you would seek me out more. 6 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:29.719 And we also sell a book in the lobby called 7 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.600 Victorious Eschatology, so that would be a good book for 8 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.880 some of you to read. So here this we call 9 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.719 this or the Lord called this right the Kingdom of Heaven. 10 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:52.840 So it was also called the Kingdom of God. All right, 11 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:55.039 so when we you know, when we think about the 12 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.359 Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God, so this 13 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:03.600 is also called the days of the New Creation, okay. 14 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:08.000 And Peter said it's called a new Heaven and a 15 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.640 new Earth. And we've talked a little bit. I don't 16 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.519 have all day with you, but we've talked a little 17 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.879 bit about why Peter called it a new heaven and 18 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.519 a new Earth. And today I want to talk a 19 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.920 little bit more about that because I'm what I'm trying 20 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:28.959 to do a little bit is I'm trying to prove 21 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:34.280 to you that we can be assured that this is 22 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:38.079 the days of a new creation, new Heaven, and a 23 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.760 new Earth, Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God. We can 24 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:46.200 be assured of that because of scripture and because of 25 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:54.359 everything that took place with this resurrection and with him 26 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:59.640 ascending to represent us at the right hand of the Father. 27 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.840 So remember the passage in Hebrews. He ever lives to 28 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.599 represent us, to be our intercessor, he ever lives to 29 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:12.120 be our intercessor, he represents us before the Father. He 30 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:16.560 represents And I want us to keep focused on that. 31 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:22.919 You were a bunch of ugly heathens. I added the 32 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:28.879 word ugly for emphasis, strong emphasis. But you okay, me too. 33 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:34.639 We were all a bunch of gentile heathens. There are 34 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.960 very few Hebrews in the room today. And so we 35 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.719 were outside of the promises of God. We were outside 36 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.599 of the covenant of God. And all of us came 37 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:51.120 from reprobate nations of rebellion. So if you are Swedish 38 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.919 or Norwegian, or English or Irish, or if you are 39 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:01.879 from the Gauls, the Danes, if you are from you know, 40 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.199 we could name any nation right any nation around the world. 41 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.080 We all came from these reprobate heathen nations. And we 42 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.680 didn't know God, and we weren't a part of Israel, 43 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.080 and we weren't a part of what God was doing. 44 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.319 But God was promising through Abraham. He made Abraham the 45 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.879 air of the world, and he was promising through Abraham 46 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.639 that he would bring every nation back together. And the 47 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:38.879 beginning of that was the pouring out of the spirit. 48 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:47.680 So like right here, right, So here's the cross. God 49 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:54.240 didn't waste any time. Fifty days after Passover, he pours 50 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.639 out his spirit and he does a reverse of Babel. 51 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:06.400 A reverse of Babel happened fifty days after Passover, and 52 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:11.159 there was somebody there from every nation. The Bible says, 53 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.199 somebody was there from every nation, and he deposited the 54 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.959 seed of the Gospel in them, and three thousand came 55 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.040 to the Lord that day. Four thousand came to the 56 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.399 Lord a few days later. Is it a little too loud? 57 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.319 There's a little ring to it. I think it's just 58 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.600 a hair too loud maybe, But they're what they're doing. 59 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:34.959 They're honoring me and they're blessing me, so they know. 60 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.040 I like it loud because that way I talk soft. 61 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.519 If they turn it down, I start hollering. It's a 62 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.279 subconscious just pray for me. I need healing. I receive 63 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:51.879 it right now. So in fifty days later he does 64 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:58.079 a reverse of Babel, and then thousands are coming to 65 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:02.560 the Lord. Then his person acution rises. What happens. They 66 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:10.560 are dispersed back to their nations, and so amazing things happen. 67 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:18.040 And it wasn't the televangelist that were the superstars, you know, 68 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:22.120 people from Day Star or TBN or people nothing like that. 69 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.839 It wasn't the televangelist the superstars. It was the common 70 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.600 ordinary believer. Like Philip goes to Samaria and begins to 71 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.800 work signs and wonders because from this moment until the end, 72 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:43.480 you have been ordained to work signs and wonders. Greater 73 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.920 works will you do? Because he goes to the Father 74 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.839 and he's sent the Holy Spirit. Greater works will you do? 75 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.759 I'm just thinking today that it's bad for me to 76 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.279 talk this way because because that's the end of the sermon. 77 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.720 So I'm giving you a little view into the end 78 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.360 of the sermon. But I was thinking today, you know, 79 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.000 Bill Johnson testifies that when they first started going after 80 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:14.319 this kind of thing at Bethel, that people started leaving 81 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:19.360 the church in droves. And also part of what happened 82 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:21.839 is is they begin to go after this thing, they 83 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:27.560 had more lack of results than they had results. Randy 84 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:32.720 Clark testifies from Global Awakening. Randy Clark testifies that more 85 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:36.399 people got sick after he prayed than got sick when 86 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:40.120 he prayed. You know, it's like they would get worse 87 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:42.879 instead of better when he would pray for them because 88 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:48.000 he began to believe that God would do miracles through him. Right, 89 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.199 And so this is but part of what we're trying 90 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.759 to say is that and part of what I'm trying 91 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.040 to get at all the way through this is God 92 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.800 has given us permission to press in. God has given 93 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.920 us permission to taste of heaven. God has given us 94 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:07.000 permission to bring Heaven to earth. This is God is 95 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.199 God's in favor of this. We're not trying to talk 96 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.240 God into something. God is trying to talk us into 97 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:19.759 believing and then partnering with him to see this happen. 98 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.079 Is that all right? So we're talking about, you know, 99 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.920 some of the blessings of this kingdom and what are 100 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.360 the you know, whether the hallmark blessings of this kingdom? Uh, 101 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.959 And we have to realize that this kingdom is, this 102 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.680 is this is huge, a huge thing, and we have 103 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.800 to realize that this, this Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God, 104 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:47.439 it is not meant to be ethereal only. It's not 105 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:51.920 it's not something in the sky in the sweet by 106 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.959 and by, it's not something that we just taste of 107 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:59.079 in our heart. But it has no practical application or 108 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:07.759 no no relevance to everyday living. Now, that's unfortunately what religion, 109 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.800 and I'm picking on religion just generically, can I do that. 110 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:17.360 What religion has been telling us for hundreds, if not 111 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:21.160 longer of years, is that the Kingdom of Heaven is 112 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:28.639 a spiritual kingdom, spiritual only that we enter into the 113 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.039 Kingdom of Heaven. And they've used various texts like Jesus 114 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.519 at the Cross, he didn't fight, and so they were 115 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.200 questioning him why he didn't fight, and he said, my 116 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.159 kingdom is not of this world. If it were of 117 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:51.480 this world, my disciples and I we'd put up a fight, right, 118 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.840 But it's not this world. Because they were expecting the disciples, 119 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:59.360 others were expecting the Messiah to be an earthly king, 120 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.919 but an earthly king would have a lifespan an earthly 121 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:10.919 king would have a period of rule, but then their 122 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:15.559 rule could fade. So they didn't understand something about the Messiah. 123 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.840 They didn't understand that his kingdom it wasn't of the earth. 124 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:28.480 But that doesn't mean it wasn't going to influence the earth. Likewise, 125 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.840 when we hear that this world is not our home, 126 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:37.759 we've crafted these religious thoughts. Oh, if this world is 127 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:42.200 not our home and we're just passing through, then we 128 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.759 we're not really called to engage with the world. Now, 129 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.080 that doesn't mean we don't engage with witnessing. You know, 130 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.279 we engage by sharing our faith and leading other people 131 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:55.759 to the Lord, so they too will not make this 132 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:04.039 world their home. This is wrong thinking. This is wrong thinking. 133 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.039 You are an heir of the earth. You actually are 134 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.879 an heir of the earth. That God's giving He's not 135 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.159 giving the earth to the devil. He's not giving the 136 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.200 earth to the wicked. He's not giving the earth to 137 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.159 the unrighteous. When this whole thing wraps up on the 138 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:25.360 last Day, where's he coming back to Oh hm, he's 139 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.080 coming back to the earth, and he's bringing all the 140 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.720 saints with him. He's restoring the earth. This whole thing 141 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.360 is about restoring the earth. This whole thing is about 142 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:40.039 spreading Eden all over the earth. So when we have 143 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:44.360 this religious I call it religious religious thinking that the 144 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.399 earth is not important, the world is not important. We're 145 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.720 missing something, we're missing that God has made you the 146 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.399 error of the earth. Now, how has God made you 147 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.360 the heir of the earth because you're a joint heir 148 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:06.799 with Jesus. When the Bible says that Jesus is the 149 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.720 heir of the promise made to Abraham. There's two promises 150 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.759 made to Abraham. One is the promise of the spirit. 151 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.360 The promise of the spirit was made to Abraham. Well, 152 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.120 I don't think Jesus needed the promise of the spirit. 153 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.519 Jesus had the spirit without measure. So that wouldn't be 154 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.720 the promise he would be inheriting in his victory, or 155 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:35.279 his manhood, his humanity, in his righteousness, in his victory 156 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.480 over the enemy. That wouldn't be. That wouldn't be the 157 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:43.519 thing he's receiving. What he's receiving is the earth. The 158 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:47.200 promise in Romans four thirteen. Let's say, if we have 159 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:51.759 it Romans for thirteen. Romans for thirteen tells us that 160 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.720 Abraham was promised the earth or the world. This is 161 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.159 what he was promised. So it was not through the 162 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.039 law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that 163 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.320 he would be the heir of the world. So he 164 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.759 was promised two things. He was promised the spirit, but 165 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.480 he was also promised the world. But it was through 166 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.000 the righteousness that comes by faith. Now the Bible tells us, 167 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:21.279 let's go to Galicians three twenty nine. Galatians three twenty nine. 168 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:23.639 If we haven't. If you belong to Christ, then you 169 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:28.840 are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Then 170 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.559 let's go to Romans eight seventeen. If we have it now, 171 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.679 if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of 172 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.159 God and co heirs with Christ. If indeed we share 173 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.399 in his sufferings in order that we may also share 174 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.240 in his glory. Now the suffering there, we talked about 175 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.559 that a few weeks ago. It's the suffering of presenting 176 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.960 ourselves as dead to the sinful nature into who we 177 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.039 used to be and are entering into identification with him. 178 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:59.399 But look at this, we have become heirs of the world. 179 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.519 We've become heirs with Abraham of the world. So we 180 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.799 do care about the world. And though the kingdom is 181 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:13.240 entered into spiritually, the impact of the Kingdom is tangible. 182 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.919 It's a tangible impact, and we influence the world in 183 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:26.600 a tangible way, receiving leadership, receiving direction, receiving insight, receiving 184 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.879 wisdom from above, receiving revelation from above. So we become 185 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.000 those who are now edonizing the world. We become those 186 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.960 who are expressing the government of God, the wisdom of God, 187 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.080 the power of God, the glory of God, all of 188 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.039 this in the world, everywhere we go, so that the 189 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:49.159 world is edonized, so that the prayer Jesus told us 190 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.679 to pray, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on 191 00:13:54.799 --> 00:14:00.759 earth as it is in heaven. So the victim that 192 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:07.679 Jesus wrought for us, the victory that actually exalted him 193 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:13.840 to the heavenly place, that victory now is resounding in him, 194 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:18.080 the last atom in the heavens. But He's ordained that 195 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.759 it resounds in us and through us, because that's the 196 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:26.039 way everything started. In the beginning, Eden was a replica 197 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.679 of Heaven, including the Mountain of the Lord, including the gold, 198 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.039 including the precious stones, including the fire, include every aspect. 199 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:43.480 Eden was an expression of heaven on earth, and God 200 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:47.919 is rebuilding that in this season. This is what God's 201 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.279 in the mood to do. God is already in the 202 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.440 mood to do this right now. You don't have to 203 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.519 talk him into it. You don't have to wake up 204 00:14:55.559 --> 00:15:00.200 and say, oh, Father, just make today like heaven. He's 205 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.720 waking you up, right, And when you wake up, he 206 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:08.679 was watching. He's watching right, And then you open your eyes. Wow. 207 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.679 And then he's like hoping that, hoping that you will 208 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:20.600 lean in and partner with him right to bring heaven 209 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.080 to earth. So we talked a little bit about some 210 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.399 of these blessings. I want to I want to dive 211 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.919 into some of those because I gave you a list 212 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.240 of some of these blessings that are like, these are 213 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:40.519 like the hallmark of these are the hallmark of heaven 214 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:46.120 on earth. He's made us friends, right, He's made his friends, 215 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.960 so friends know what the Father's up to. He's delivered 216 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:55.240 us out of darkness. Come on, say that one with me. 217 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:01.120 He's delivered us out of darkness. He has made us 218 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.759 to be a new creation. We actually are a We 219 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.039 actually are a new creation. So that fits the new 220 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.519 creation period because he's actually made us to be a 221 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:14.480 new creation. Right, do you believe that he's bestowed upon 222 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.559 us the glory of the Godhead. We read out of 223 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:21.919 John seventeen. He's bestowed upon us the glory of the Godhead. 224 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:30.440 Is that amazing and with unveiled face, with unveiled face 225 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:34.120 Tewo Corinthians three and four. He says that the glory 226 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.600 of the New Creation is beyond the glory of Moses, 227 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.519 so much so that the glory of Moses appears to 228 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:46.759 be dead, like that glory is so different. The glory 229 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.679 of the New Creation is so much more vastly glorious. 230 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.720 He actually said that these this this was actually these 231 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.559 were letters of death or tablets of death, because what 232 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.000 they did is the identified how dead you are. They 233 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:07.480 identified how corrupt you are. They identified how corrupt all 234 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.480 the gentiles were. But these are letters of life, and 235 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.400 he writes the letters of life on our heart. So 236 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:20.519 this only brought the understanding that we were corrupt. This 237 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:26.519 brings the understanding that we've been recreated in the righteousness, 238 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.720 into glory, into life. So that's why our faces can 239 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:35.519 shine with glory, because He's redeemed us and delivered us 240 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.079 out of our Gentile Heathen nations. Blessing number five was 241 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.160 He's anointed us with the oil of Joy. And there 242 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.799 was a lot of stuff in that passage that I 243 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.799 read you about the oil of joy, and that was 244 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.039 out of Isaiah. Number six. He's conquered the power of 245 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:55.000 death for us, because Satan held the power of death 246 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:02.640 ever since Adam's fall until the resurrection. Satan held the 247 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:04.960 power of death, and he held the righteous and the 248 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.359 wicked in hell in Hades in sheie Old number seven. 249 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.799 He's delivered this out of Sheieol. So we're delivered out 250 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.720 of Siel. That one kind of goes with that. Out 251 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.160 of Sheiel she All. Okay, that's the bowels of the earth. 252 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:26.319 That's the that's Hades, death held the grave. Number eight, 253 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.039 he's conquered the curse. How many of you that sounds 254 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.279 like something? Had he ever conquered the curse before? This 255 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:39.920 is interesting. He's conquered the curse for us Colossians chapter two, 256 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:46.839 And he did this for gentiles Colossians chapter two. Conquered 257 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.160 the curse. When you were dead in your sins and 258 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:54.960 the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you Colossians heathens, 259 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:58.839 ugly heathens alive with Christ. He forgave us all of 260 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.960 our sins, having can the charge of our legal indebtedness, 261 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.359 which stood against us and condemned us. He's taken it 262 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:09.079 out of the way, nailing it to the cross, and 263 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:14.400 having disarmed powers and authorities. Remember I've been talking to 264 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:18.079 you about how every gentile nation was under principalities, powers, 265 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:25.480 rulers of darkness. These God had given these lesser gods, 266 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:30.839 these Elohim. He had given them authority over the nations 267 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:36.000 because of the rebellion of the people. Honoring the rebellion 268 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.359 of the people, he kept Jacob only for himself Deuteronomy 269 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.440 four nineteen Deuteronomy thirty two, eight and nine. He kept 270 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.319 Jacob only for himself, Israel, I have kept for myself. 271 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:56.240 Now he's saying that God disarmed these powers and authorities. 272 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:02.920 We don't need to tremble at them. You don't need 273 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:09.559 to tremble at powers, principalities, authorities, rulers of darkness. God 274 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:14.319 has put all of them under our feet. Having disarmed 275 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.359 the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, 276 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:22.720 triumphing over them by the cross. This was him overcoming 277 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:29.519 the curse on our behalf overcoming, you're still hear the curse. 278 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:35.680 And of course Galatians three point thirteen. Christ redeemed us 279 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.359 from the curse of the law having become a curse 280 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.240 for us Blessing number nine. He created a new race 281 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:43.240 of people who were born in the spirit and who 282 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:48.480 reign on the earth over these former principalities and powers. 283 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:53.599 So he's actually not only delivered us from them, but 284 00:20:53.759 --> 00:21:02.480 he's actually empowered us to reign over them. Now, if 285 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:05.319 you're just eating food and going through live checking in 286 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:09.759 to McDonald's, don't go there. Oh boy, I went yesterday 287 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.680 so bad if you're just checking in, if you're just 288 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.440 running around and do it. I had all the grandkids. 289 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.599 We went to the monster trucks just so bad. I 290 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.400 think they've ruined McDonald's. But anyway, as if it needed 291 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:28.559 ruin more. Mister Kroc, if you're watching, God bless you 292 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:37.119 forgive me forgiving think about this though. It's not just 293 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:42.079 that we've been delivered from their power, which was a 294 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.440 blinding power, which was a bondage power of captivity power, 295 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:50.039 but we've also been empowered to rule over them. If 296 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:52.960 we aren't ruling over them, if we're just going through 297 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.160 life punching the clock and we're not ruling over them. 298 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:59.319 That means actually, you've now been ordained to be the 299 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.960 bass of demon's spirits. That's why when Jesus showed up 300 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.680 at the shore of the you know, the gatherin's there, 301 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.799 and you know he show he shows up, the demons 302 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:13.720 are already talking to him from the shore. You know, 303 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:17.599 please don't judge us before our time. What have we 304 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.319 to do with you? Jesus? Are you going to what 305 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:25.000 are you going to have? Mercy? Honesus Jesus. Now you 306 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:29.680 can't always hear the spirit realm talking, but I want 307 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:34.119 to encourage you that as you rise up in who 308 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:36.440 you really are and who you've been made to be, 309 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:42.359 this is what begins to happen, is that that your 310 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:48.319 lordship over them. You've been made a lord, You've been 311 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:54.200 enabled to reign. Romans five seventeen says, because of this 312 00:22:54.319 --> 00:23:00.480 abundance of grace that we've received, we reign in life. Well, 313 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:02.720 I don't need to rain over the things I already 314 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:05.359 have rain over. I don't need to rain over my 315 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:07.759 plate or my fork. Well maybe I do. I don't 316 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:12.119 need to rain over my TV clicker. I've been made 317 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:16.880 to rain over these that used to rain over me, 318 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:21.119 and that rained over darkness, and so we now reign 319 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:29.400 over them. Everybody say rain. So this, this goes on. 320 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.680 There's more and more and more of this. But what 321 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:36.880 I want you to see, especially today, what I want 322 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:42.680 you to see is that you have so much to 323 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:50.000 do with this. Chelsea. Could you pull up Joshua one 324 00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:53.200 six through eight just for fun? Could you add that in? 325 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.480 You and I have so much to do with this. 326 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.519 Let me read Ephesian chapter one. See what's going on 327 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.720 is that, for one thing, we've been influenced greatly by 328 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:09.279 Calvin and Augustine, and they've told us that if God 329 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:11.920 is in a good mood, then God will do if 330 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:14.160 God will do what he's in a mood to do, 331 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:17.440 and if he's not in a mood to do it, 332 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:22.759 then we have to labor to talk him into that mood. 333 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:29.119 But what I'm trying to show you is that God 334 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:34.960 was already in a good mood, and God ordained for 335 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:41.440 an increasing kingdom of glory and light and illumination. And 336 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:47.079 what happens is because we come under these religious thoughts 337 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:51.559 or doctrines of demons, or these influences we're waiting on 338 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:57.319 God when God's waiting on us. We're waiting on God 339 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:59.720 for more healing, or more of a touch, or more 340 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.599 an anointing, or more revival or more harvest. We're waiting 341 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:08.039 on God when God wants us to partner with Him 342 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:17.799 with the fullness of faith. Ephesians one eighteen. Listen to 343 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:19.880 this one. I pray that the this is Paul writing 344 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:27.799 to the church at Ephesus formerly homely Heathens. I pray 345 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.680 that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so 346 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:31.880 that you will know what is the hope of his calling. Oh, 347 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:37.319 he's called you, Ephesians. He has called you. What are 348 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.839 the riches of his glory, the glory of his inheritance 349 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.279 in the saints? And what is the surpassing greatness of 350 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:48.519 his power toward us who believe these? All three of 351 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.640 these that he's just mentioned are in accordance with the 352 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:53.680 working of the strength of his mind, which he brought 353 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.319 about in Christ when he raised him from the dead 354 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.319 and seated him at the right hand is right hand 355 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:04.960 in heavenly places, far above all rule, authority, power, and dominion, 356 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:08.319 and every name that is named, not only in this age, 357 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:13.680 but also in the one to come, and he put 358 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:18.200 all things Now this age he's writing right here. He 359 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.839 wrote this right here, and he's looking into the one 360 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:30.480 to come, far above all rule, power, dominion, every name 361 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:32.119 that is named, not only in this age, but also 362 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.599 in the one to come. And he put all things 363 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:38.839 in subjection under his feet and gave him as head 364 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:48.680 over all things to the Church, which is his body. 365 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.440 So Father put all things in subjection under Jesus gave 366 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.599 him as head over us the Church. We are his body, 367 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:05.480 the fullness of him, the what the fullness of him. 368 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:07.319 That's what it says. Did we have it up there? 369 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:08.799 I don't know if we had it up there. I want 370 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:12.559 you to see it. The fullness of him head over 371 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:15.440 all things to the Church, which is his body, the 372 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.079 fullness of him who fills, He fills all in all, 373 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:29.119 He fills us. And we are the fullness of him. 374 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.079 Think about that, because we're constantly asking to be filled, 375 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:37.599 and we're constantly wishing we could be the fullness. But 376 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.839 he's already declared, in a good mood toward us that 377 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.359 we are the fullness. And then he's already showered on 378 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:52.319 us the fullness. He's showering on us the fullness. So 379 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.720 the problem can't be a God problem that we don't 380 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.240 have the fullness. The problem has to be an us problem. 381 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:03.160 The problem has to be an intimacy problem, a fellowship problem, 382 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:12.119 a distraction problem, a unity problem, a faith problem. And 383 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:13.960 this is part of one of the things I want 384 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:19.119 you to see is that one doctrine is well, if 385 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:21.839 God wanted more to show up, he would be doing it, 386 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.279 and since he's not doing it, he must not want it. 387 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.240 But another one is well, that's out here in the millennium. 388 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:31.799 When we get out here, then we'll have the fullness. 389 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:41.000 But these aren't right doctrines. The full the fullness started 390 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:44.920 right here in these new days of the new creation. 391 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.880 And this is what he longs for. He longs for 392 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:54.880 us to stir up. He longs for us to awaken. 393 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.000 He longs for us to partner with him in the 394 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:07.079 fullness that stands morning. Pastor Todd was here over the 395 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.599 weekend and he was telling them about their experience a 396 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:12.279 little bit. Some of you were here, some of you weren't. 397 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:16.240 I want to linger on that for a minute. They're 398 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:21.960 in Dawson, Georgia, Dawson Dawson, Dawsonville is it Dawsonville, Georgia, 399 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.359 sixty miles north of Atlanta, suburb out here, little town 400 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:35.440 of thirty five hundred people. Eight and a half years 401 00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:41.519