Speaker 2: Yeah, let's pray over the Word. Father.
Speaker 1: We just ask you to minister to our hearts, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: Minister clarity, Minister of wisdom, minister through the Word. We
Speaker 1: we welcome not only your anointing in the Word, but
Speaker 1: we welcome, uh, you to just talk to us through
Speaker 1: the Word, to affirm, to confirm things that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen before, things we've never heard before. And not only
Speaker 1: through your servant, but through the atmosphere as you brood
Speaker 1: over us, Holy Spirit, we welcome you. We thank you
Speaker 1: for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen, I've
Speaker 1: got a memory. I've got you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a reoccurring memory. And I don't I don't have it perfect.
Speaker 1: But my parents, you know, we're really big berry pickers.
Speaker 1: Ever heard of the bear picker?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: And uh you know, so whenever it was berry's season,
Speaker 1: they would take us somewhere, my brother and I and
Speaker 1: older brother four years older than me, still alive.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh.
Speaker 1: I had to say that we're getting up there, you know,
Speaker 1: so live live, but we would go berry pick them
Speaker 1: and my parents they were they were like like eccentric
Speaker 1: about this, like they were over the top about this
Speaker 1: like my They would make little buckets for us and
Speaker 1: cut slots in the bucket and then put a belt on.
Speaker 2: Us, and the belt would go through the bucket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so the belt would go through the bucket,
Speaker 1: and so you know, essentially all you had to do
Speaker 1: was kind of you know, pull the berries and then
Speaker 1: get them into the bucket somehow. And of course, you know,
Speaker 1: as as young people, my brother and I we would
Speaker 1: probably eat more of the berries than we picked, you know,
Speaker 1: so it was hard to stay up with the very
Speaker 1: picking because the eating was so good. So this would
Speaker 1: be you know, every kind of berry, but the most
Speaker 1: dangerous berry was the BlackBerry, because you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that I whimpered, and you know, who knows what
Speaker 1: else I did, you know, because I was I was
Speaker 1: the son they didn't know where he came from, and
Speaker 1: so because they were sure that I wasn't exactly like them,
Speaker 1: so you know, I would probably whimper and holler and
Speaker 1: cry and beller. And that was in between throwing berries
Speaker 1: at my brother, you know, over those thorns, those blasted thorns,
Speaker 1: you know I'm talking about, you know, all the prickly
Speaker 1: stuff on the blackberries. Anybody ever picked a BlackBerry. You're
Speaker 1: all looking at me like you've never picked a BlackBerry?
Speaker 2: Have you ever?
Speaker 1: Like come away with your hands all cut up? I
Speaker 1: mean your hands are are bleeding from the blackberries, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, no, little bitty guy, you know, what's
Speaker 1: that kind of a thing. But and the and the
Speaker 1: weird you know, the weird thing. The bummer about blackberries
Speaker 1: is that the best ones are always a little bit
Speaker 1: beyond reach, like some some thief got there before you
Speaker 1: and picked all the good ones that were just right
Speaker 1: there right.
Speaker 2: And now the.
Speaker 1: Best ones, you know, the more lush, the more plump,
Speaker 1: they're out there just far enough you.
Speaker 2: Get to really get cut up really good, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And so you get to reach over like so many
Speaker 1: thorns and thistles, and you got to reach over all
Speaker 1: this stuff to get into the good berries. Praise the
Speaker 1: Lord for grocery stores. Praise the Lord for grocery stores.
Speaker 1: You know, we went to we went to Blueberry Hill
Speaker 1: and Shelane this last summer. So the whole family went
Speaker 1: over and did a trip and we went to Blueberry
Speaker 1: Hill and I saw the most amazing thing ever at
Speaker 1: Blueberry Hill is Shellanne. They've got these rows of blueberry bushes. Right,
Speaker 1: They've got a machine that looks like a big upside
Speaker 1: down horseshoe, and it's got four wheels and it drives
Speaker 1: and it picks the berries. Can you imagine such a blessing?
Speaker 1: I want you to I want you to focus for
Speaker 1: a minute. I want you to focus for on that
Speaker 1: crown of thorns up there, because as I'm talking about thorns,
Speaker 1: I want to draw your attention to what was on
Speaker 1: the head of Jesus while he was crucified. Genesis chapter three,
Speaker 1: I think it's seventeen. It says that of the curse,
Speaker 1: you know, of the curse. It says that thorns and
Speaker 1: thistles came in with the curse. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that came in with the curse, a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that there's no you know.
Speaker 2: It's just like it's up in our face all the time.
Speaker 1: And if you weren't fighting the curse, the curse is
Speaker 1: fighting you.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And the real truth is that we're fighting the curse
Speaker 1: every day. We're up against the curse every day because
Speaker 1: the curses up against us. And I'm not talking about curses.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about witchcraft today, I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: curse that is upon the earth. Through the fall of Adam,
Speaker 1: everything was lost. It wasn't just eternal life that was lost. Yes,
Speaker 1: they could no longer go into the Tree of Life.
Speaker 1: There was a cherubim stationed at the eastern side of Paradise,
Speaker 1: the garden, so they couldn't get in. They were they
Speaker 1: were kicked out right, They were kicked out through their
Speaker 1: obedience to the demonic realm. When when when Adam obeyed,
Speaker 1: So if he's Romans six sixteen says to whoever you obey.
Speaker 2: To that one, you become a slave.
Speaker 1: And when Adam obeyed Lucifer Satan, this one in the garden,
Speaker 1: it empowered him. That's how he became the prince in
Speaker 1: the power of the air. You know who the Prince
Speaker 1: of the power of the air was. Prince just means
Speaker 1: first one, it means in charge.
Speaker 2: You know who that was? It was Adam.
Speaker 1: Later, when the Bible says that Satan is that, it's
Speaker 1: because he usurped that from Adam through the fall. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't just the Tree of life. He
Speaker 1: could no longer go in and partake it. The tree
Speaker 1: of life. It wasn't just life, eternal life that was lost.
Speaker 1: The whole earth shifted immediately, and overnight, the entire earth shifted,
Speaker 1: and suddenly there were thorns and thistles. Suddenly there were
Speaker 1: thorns and thistles. Suddenly there were weeds. Suddenly there was
Speaker 1: sickness and disease. As soon as death came in, as
Speaker 1: soon as death came in, as soon as they could
Speaker 1: no longer eat of that tree of life, and they
Speaker 1: were unrighteous to do their obedience to Satan. And as
Speaker 1: soon as that happened, sickness and disease came in. Suddenly
Speaker 1: they were up against sickness and disease, And sickness and
Speaker 1: disease was up against them. The curse was empowered, and
Speaker 1: the curse flourished, and the curse, and with it came.
Speaker 1: You know, we could name all the things we fight,
Speaker 1: but it's corruption, right, It's it's it's corruption in every way.
Speaker 2: It's poverty.
Speaker 1: Poverty came in, condemnation came in, Inferiority came in, Hatred
Speaker 1: came in, violence came in, murder came in, rage came in.
Speaker 1: We know all of the things that pertained to our
Speaker 1: humanity and to our relationship one another. Competition came in,
Speaker 1: Animosity came in, Separation came in. We were meant to
Speaker 1: compliment one another, not compete, but compliment. We were meant
Speaker 1: to build up one another and complete. We were meant
Speaker 1: to complete one another. That's why even racially today, every nation,
Speaker 1: that's because we complete one another. We don't compete with
Speaker 1: one another. We complete one another. So all of this
Speaker 1: came in with the fall. But here's what I want
Speaker 1: you to see. I want you to see that as sweeping,
Speaker 1: as broad, as deep, because it wasn't just the impact
Speaker 1: of you and I and our relationships and our own
Speaker 1: internal man and then our relationships one with another that
Speaker 1: was affected through the fall. I want you to see
Speaker 1: the entire earth was affected. The spirit realm was affected.
Speaker 1: Everything that we everything that we breathe, everything that we need,
Speaker 1: everything around us, everything experienced the fall. Roman Day twenty
Speaker 1: says that the entire earth was subject to futility. The
Speaker 1: entire earth was subject to flutility. Verse twenty two says
Speaker 1: that Verse twenty two of Roman Day says that the creation.
Speaker 1: Since then, the creation has been groaning, groaning like a
Speaker 1: mother in with birth. Thanks with groaning desiring, longing to
Speaker 1: be delivered, redeemed, out of the curse, out of this futility,
Speaker 1: out of this loss, out of this this uncleanness that
Speaker 1: the earth was made subject to. So this is this
Speaker 1: is a reality. We're up against it. It's up against us.
Speaker 1: And what I want you to see today, I want
Speaker 1: you to see something today is that Jesus came. Jesus
Speaker 1: came to completely reverse the curse. Now, when we get
Speaker 1: together a weekend like this, we get together, this was
Speaker 1: this was Passion week for the Church, for the for
Speaker 1: the Body of Christ, for all Christians globally worldwide. This
Speaker 1: is passion week. When we get together on a week
Speaker 1: like this, and we did Friday night for a good Friday.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's called good Friday because there was Sunday.
Speaker 1: If there wouldn't have been a resurrection Sunday, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a good Friday. It would have been a
Speaker 1: terrible Friday. But because Sunday came, it's a good Friday.
Speaker 1: That's why we call it good Friday. When we get
Speaker 1: together for a weekend like this, though, our minds go
Speaker 1: to the Cross and they go to mainly in Christendom,
Speaker 1: our minds go to forgiveness, and that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Our minds go to forgiveness of sin. That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And then Sunday comes and we're here Easter morning, and
Speaker 1: we're here to celebrate the resurrections to our minds go
Speaker 1: to eternal life, and our minds go to because we're
Speaker 1: now partakers of the Tree of life again. Right, so
Speaker 1: that's been opened up to us again. So our minds
Speaker 1: go to eternal life and our home with heaven. We
Speaker 1: have an assurance salvation. Believing in the Lord and believing
Speaker 1: upon the Lord, Jesus Christ gives us this assurance that
Speaker 1: we know where we're headed. Right, So that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: We want that solved, we want that settled. That's a
Speaker 1: big thing. But sometimes what happens is we skip. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we skip, sometimes we miss. Sometimes we overlook in Christianity
Speaker 1: that this is much more that. If that's all there was,
Speaker 1: if that's all there was, those two elements, we could
Speaker 1: be potentially content. I don't know, so many of us
Speaker 1: maybe are content with that. But God isn't. God isn't
Speaker 1: The scope of the redemption of Jesus is as big
Speaker 1: as the scope of the fall this single thing that
Speaker 1: the Fall touched. Jesus came to restore every single element,
Speaker 1: every single thing, every single issue. I mean, it gets
Speaker 1: so vast that when you get over to Isaiah sixty five,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna read it this morning. You know, if
Speaker 1: you've been here, it's my favorite. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite passages. Isaiah sixty five, seventeen through twenty three. Write
Speaker 1: it down, read it later. But you'll see that as
Speaker 1: restoration goes, the restoration gets so vast that even the
Speaker 1: violence between the animals receives the shaloma the Lord, and
Speaker 1: everything is shifted as God's redeeming the planet. This is
Speaker 1: before the Second Coming, before the Second Coming. The shift
Speaker 1: is so vast that the violence between the nations is
Speaker 1: no more, the violence between the animals no more.
Speaker 2: That peace is.
Speaker 1: Flooding the earth, and the knowledge of the glory of
Speaker 1: the Lord fills the earth like the waters cover the sea.
Speaker 1: So does the peace of God. So does the peace
Speaker 1: of God. So God is working out this restoration, and
Speaker 1: this restoration is removing and overcoming the curse and pouring
Speaker 1: out a blessing that exceeds the power or the influence
Speaker 1: of the curse. The blessing of God, the blessing of
Speaker 1: God in Christ exceeds the power of the curse, the
Speaker 1: influence of the curse. Let me read this to you.
Speaker 1: You gotta hear this one. This is Romans five seventeen.
Speaker 1: Romans five seventeen. I think we can go to it.
Speaker 1: For if by the trespass of the one man, death
Speaker 1: reigned through that one man. And this literally, this is
Speaker 1: literally death touching everything, right, This is death touching everything.
Speaker 1: Death reigned, Death reigned, Death was reigning. Death reigned through
Speaker 1: that one man. He's talking about first atom. Through the
Speaker 1: trespass of that first atom, Death reigned through that one man.
Speaker 2: How much more will.
Speaker 1: Those who receive God's abundant provision of grace. I love
Speaker 1: what Pastor Dennis was doing this morning. He was kind
Speaker 1: of getting this worked up a little bit, right, Were
Speaker 1: you worked up? Were you unhappy? Because he was reading
Speaker 1: John ten ten And you'll notice Jesus said that.
Speaker 2: I came to give you life.
Speaker 1: He was giving it to us oudam an expanded translation,
Speaker 1: really helping us. But Jesus said I came to give
Speaker 1: you life and life more abundantly. Now you notice he
Speaker 1: didn't say I've come to give you religion and religion
Speaker 1: more abundantly. And we know we know the Lord. We
Speaker 1: know that, we know that we know the Lord. But
Speaker 1: what happens is, sometimes in Christianity we missed the life part.
Speaker 1: We aren't supposed to believe for a good life. Now,
Speaker 1: your good life, that's coming after the Second Coming, that's
Speaker 1: coming after you depart, that's coming after Heaven, that's coming after.
Speaker 2: Whatever the end is for you.
Speaker 1: That's what we Sometimes we frame it that way in Christianity.
Speaker 1: But when we do so, we miss that he's dealt
Speaker 1: with the curse. We miss that that crown of thorns
Speaker 1: on his head went all the way back to Genesis
Speaker 1: three seventeen and eighteen, that the curse came in, and
Speaker 1: by the curse came thorns and thistles, and he wore
Speaker 1: that crown on purpose to symbolize the destruction of the curse,
Speaker 1: the overcoming of the curse, the complete removal of the curse.
Speaker 1: So here he's calling this grace that we've received, and
Speaker 1: the grace that we've received we know from Ephesians two
Speaker 1: six through eight even that the grace flows by faith.
Speaker 1: It's not of our works, lest any of us could
Speaker 1: boast The grace we receive is the outpour of God's favor.
Speaker 1: It is not by works lest any of us could boast.
Speaker 1: It is the outpouring of God's favor shown us in Christ,
Speaker 1: Jesus demonstrated through the sacrifice of the Sun on our behalf,
Speaker 1: and we partake of it by faith. So this grace,
Speaker 1: God's favor, God's kindness, God's outpouring. It's the power to
Speaker 1: walk in his divine will. It's the power to walk
Speaker 1: with him. It's the power to enter into communion. That
Speaker 1: grace is abundant. It's an abundant grace. I want to
Speaker 1: go back to Romans five seventeen.
Speaker 2: How much were.
Speaker 1: Will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and
Speaker 1: the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one
Speaker 1: man Christ, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Reign in life? Does he hear that?
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, if you're here for baptism, I'm gonna dismiss
Speaker 1: you right now. We've got a bunch of these seventeen
Speaker 1: getting baptized at the end of our server. So go
Speaker 1: ahead and get ready and then come back into the auditorium. Halleluja.
Speaker 1: Give them another hand as they go I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: back to that. It's it's worth going back to because
Speaker 1: here I I want you to hear this. Those who
Speaker 1: receive the abundance of grace, what how, what is the
Speaker 1: quantity of the grace? Abundance of grace will rain in life? Wow,
Speaker 1: now this is interesting. He didn't say they will rain
Speaker 1: in church. He didn't say they were rain in the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: He didn't say they'll reign in the synagogue. He didn't
Speaker 1: say they'll reign in religion. He didn't say they'll reign
Speaker 1: in religious traditions. He didn't say they'll reign in the
Speaker 1: sacrificial system. He didn't say they'll reign in ministry. Now,
Speaker 1: all of that could be true. All of that could
Speaker 1: be true as well, because I'm going to read two
Speaker 1: Peter chapter one to you in a moment.
Speaker 2: That's all true.
Speaker 1: But God is trying to get something across through the
Speaker 1: writer that sometimes we miss. Sometimes we miss what God
Speaker 1: is trying to communicate through the writer or the writing.
Speaker 1: Because what really what we we're gonna leave here today?
Speaker 1: We came to the house, we are believers in Jesus.
Speaker 1: We got lint on our shirt. I'm dropping plastic wrappers
Speaker 1: out of my pocket. You didn't see it because you
Speaker 1: had your eyes closed praying over the sermon.
Speaker 2: Oh you did see. You were cheety, so you know
Speaker 2: it might have been a muffin. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: you know, here we are, we're trying.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave here and we're gonna be back up
Speaker 1: against the curse and the curses up against us. And
Speaker 1: so that's life. That's life. That's life. That's life. We're
Speaker 1: gonna leave here and engage in life again. But he said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna reign in life. This is important because if
Speaker 1: we don't wrap our hearts around this, if we don't
Speaker 1: wrap our mind and our hearts and our thinking and
Speaker 1: our thoughts around this, we can't wrap our faith around it.
Speaker 1: If we don't wrap our faith around it, we can't
Speaker 1: partake of it. You can't partake of what you don't
Speaker 1: wrap your faith around because because if you can't wrap
Speaker 1: your heart and your mind around what, he's literally overtaking
Speaker 1: you with wow.
Speaker 2: Grace, the grace poured out.
Speaker 1: Upon you in Jesus is not something you need to
Speaker 1: beg God for petition, God for Jesus.
Speaker 2: He tells us.
Speaker 1: We can't earn it, and we don't deserve it. It's
Speaker 1: more like the blessing of Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight and
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. It says, all these blessings will
Speaker 1: overtake you.
Speaker 2: There. He's in there.
Speaker 1: So many times, our thinking, our Christian thinking, our background,
Speaker 1: our theology, what we've been trained or taught or heard
Speaker 1: it positions us as a beggar. We're still a beggar.
Speaker 1: We're still a beggar. We still don't deserve anything, and
Speaker 1: we're still a beggar. And so we have to petition
Speaker 1: and petition and petition, and maybe after a long period
Speaker 1: of petitioning you, we might get God's favor. We might
Speaker 1: earn an answer from God. We might get a breakthrough
Speaker 1: from God. We might deserve something before God. We really,
Speaker 1: we need to say, subdue ourselves, and we need to
Speaker 1: get really calm, We need to get pious, we need
Speaker 1: to get very, We need to get and we need
Speaker 1: to earn this thing we need to And an earning
Speaker 1: can get woven into our thinking subconsciously, and we don't
Speaker 1: even realize it. And so even when we wake in
Speaker 1: the morning, we don't wake with expectancy.
Speaker 2: We wake wondering what we have to do.
Speaker 1: First in order to get God's favor, God's word, God's help,
Speaker 1: God's insight, God's wisdom.
Speaker 2: But that isn't the way this operates. That isn't.
Speaker 1: This is called the gospel, and the gospel means good
Speaker 1: news and the good news of God's grace that's accessed
Speaker 1: by your faith.
Speaker 2: The good news of this is that when you believe,
Speaker 2: when you just believe.
Speaker 1: Before you've said one prayer, before you've earned anything, before
Speaker 1: you've served anybody, before you've even got the second eye
Speaker 1: lid open, it's already pull is already there, wanting to
Speaker 1: overtake you with answers for today, with insight for today,
Speaker 1: with blessings for today, so that the blessing on you
Speaker 1: will cause you to.
Speaker 2: Reign in life.
Speaker 1: And it'll be greater than the curse Jesus. It's greater
Speaker 1: than the curse tewod Peter, Chapter one, verse two. Grace
Speaker 1: and peace be multiplied to you. Grace and peace, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: even more be multiplied to you in the knowledge of
Speaker 1: God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine
Speaker 1: power has granted to us everything, how many things, everything
Speaker 1: pertaining to life and godliness pertaining to life, Why did
Speaker 1: he put that in there? Why didn't he just stick
Speaker 1: with the spiritual stuff. Why didn't he say everything pertaining
Speaker 1: that godliness? Why did he have to throw.
Speaker 2: In that life stuff? Because this is God's kindness.
Speaker 1: This is God's favor, this is God's love, This is
Speaker 1: God in Christ, completely redeeming us holy, reversing the curse,
Speaker 1: reversing the curse, this is God. God desires to fully
Speaker 1: reverse the curse. I want to read to you out
Speaker 1: of Romans chapter eight, if I can find it, Romans
Speaker 1: chapter verse twenty. This is one I kind of alluded
Speaker 1: to before, but it's worth reading again for the creation
Speaker 1: with subjected to futility, not willingly, because of Him who
Speaker 1: subjected it.
Speaker 2: In hope, in what? In what?
Speaker 1: In hope, God saw the redemption from the moment that
Speaker 1: he cursed the earth because of our all, because of
Speaker 1: our separation, because of our disobedience, because of Adam's allegiance
Speaker 1: to Satan, which loosed all of this on the earth.
Speaker 1: God saw at that moment he saw something hope sees.
Speaker 1: Hope is the power of imagination to see something good.
Speaker 1: God saw redemption, He saw the earth restored, He saw
Speaker 1: the cursory verse. He saw the working of the sun
Speaker 1: at that very moment. He subjected it in hope because
Speaker 1: the creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage
Speaker 1: of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to submit this to you. I want to
Speaker 1: submit that this is not this is not an instantaneous
Speaker 1: thing that happens. This is something that's being worked out
Speaker 1: right now. This is being worked out right now. God
Speaker 1: is actually restoring the earth right now. God is because
Speaker 1: he's restoring the sons and daughters of God. And this
Speaker 1: says that even as we've received liberty, the glorious liberty
Speaker 1: of the children, even as we've received liberty, we are
Speaker 1: the ones who lead the way for the curse to
Speaker 1: be reversed in the earth. We're the ones who lead
Speaker 1: the way for the earth to be restored. We're leading
Speaker 1: the way. So I want you to think about that
Speaker 1: cross for a moment. Think about that cross for a moment,
Speaker 1: and the reversing of the curse. The crown of thorns
Speaker 1: represented the curse on the earth. He's taken it on.
Speaker 1: The males represented the victory of his perfection over sin
Speaker 1: and Satan. The nails represented his victory, the victory of
Speaker 1: His perfection, his perfection offered in our place. Colossians chapter
Speaker 1: two says that every nail, every hammer blow on those nails,
Speaker 1: was actually God nailing the judgment of Satan against us,
Speaker 1: because we fall short to the cross, so that He
Speaker 1: could defeat them on our behalf. Listen to Colossians too.
Speaker 1: When you were dead in your sins and in the
Speaker 1: uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ.
Speaker 1: He forgave us all of our sins. Having canceled the
Speaker 1: charge of legal indebtedness which stood against us and condemned us,
Speaker 1: He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
Speaker 1: Every accusation against us has been nailed.
Speaker 2: To the cross.
Speaker 1: Every failure, every sin, every falling short of the Torah,
Speaker 1: every aspect of it six hundred and thirteen laws or
Speaker 1: the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, every aspect of falling short
Speaker 1: was nailed to the cross his perfection on our behalf,
Speaker 1: that we could enter into liberty and freedom and a
Speaker 1: relationship with God. Triumphing over powers and authorities. They were disarmed,
Speaker 1: they were disarmed, they were disarmed, and He triumphed over
Speaker 1: powers and authorities on our behalf. Then First Peter two
Speaker 1: twenty four says, then he bore our sins in his
Speaker 1: body on the cross, so that we might die to
Speaker 1: sins and live for righteousness. For by his wounds the
Speaker 1: Greek there the word is welts by his wounds. By
Speaker 1: his welts thirty nine stripes, thirty nine stripes, by his wounds,
Speaker 1: you have been healed, or you were healed. Some people say, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know if healing is really in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Why do you take medicine. You're trying to contradict God's will.
Speaker 1: Why do you long to be whole? Why do you
Speaker 1: long to be well? Why do you pray to be healed?
Speaker 1: Why do you want to be healed? Why do you
Speaker 1: believe to be healed? Because God's woven health in your nature.
Speaker 1: God's woven health in your nature. He wove the desire
Speaker 1: for health in your nature. And then he defeated sickness
Speaker 1: and disease in Jesus on the cross. So you have
Speaker 1: to know that the scope of redemption was as vast,
Speaker 1: it was as big as the fall, and as sure
Speaker 1: as sickness and disease came in which Jesus health and
Speaker 1: healing has come in. God is for you. God is
Speaker 1: for you. God is for you. God is for you.
Speaker 1: You have to understand it's not just divine healing. It's
Speaker 1: not just divine healing. It's the wisdom for health. It's
Speaker 1: the wisdom for health. God God desires for you to
Speaker 1: be whole, and the blessing of God will enable you
Speaker 1: to overcome the curse.
Speaker 2: Would you stand with me this morning? I want to close.
Speaker 1: By inviting you, and we're we're only transitioning, so don't
Speaker 1: run away. This is a very early sermon close right.
Speaker 1: All of you that know me know that I talked forever,
Speaker 1: so this is an early sermon close. But I want
Speaker 1: to invite you to pray with me this morning, and
Speaker 1: then we're going to transition to Pastor Joel and Pastor
Speaker 1: Dennis and into the baptisms. It's a shorter message on
Speaker 1: purpose so that we've got time to fit all this
Speaker 1: in before we all run away.
Speaker 2: But here's what I want you to say.
Speaker 1: I want you to get this is that I want
Speaker 1: you to leave something here today. I want you to
Speaker 1: leave if you could drop it, drop it on the
Speaker 1: floor where you're at. I'm not going to have you
Speaker 1: run to the altar. But I want you to leave something.
Speaker 1: We'll vacuum it up later. I want you to leave
Speaker 1: unworthiness here today. I want you to leave the beggar
Speaker 1: attitude here today. I want you to leave that you
Speaker 1: always have to earn something. I want you to leave
Speaker 1: that petitionary, that petitionary compulsion that you have. I got
Speaker 1: a petition for thirty minutes or an hour or two,
Speaker 1: and I didn't do that. So I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: a breakthrough. God's not gonna help me. I need to
Speaker 1: overcome some of this curse. I need to overcome. Life
Speaker 1: is up against me. I'm up against life. What in
Speaker 1: the world am I gonna do? How am I gonna
Speaker 1: earn my way into that? I want you to leave that.
Speaker 1: We'll vacuum it up later. We'll vacuum We got big
Speaker 1: unworthy vacuums. I just sucked that stuff up. I want
Speaker 1: you to leave that here today. Because God is for
Speaker 1: you and not against you. And God is showering you
Speaker 1: with grace today, and you've entered into Him as you've
Speaker 1: entered into Jesus. You've entered into abundant grace, abundant grace.
Speaker 2: And he wants you to be a receiver.
Speaker 1: He's saying, would you be a better receiver, become a
Speaker 1: become a very unprofessional beggar. Don't get so good at petition.
Speaker 1: I'm playing with him teething, but listen, listen, but become
Speaker 1: a professional receiver. Let's do it right now, Let's do
Speaker 1: it together, Holy Spirit. I receive goodness today. I receive
Speaker 1: your love. Today. I receive the overcoming grace of God
Speaker 1: I received. Come on and say with me today, I
Speaker 1: receive the abundant grace given to me in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: I don't want to turn back. I don't want to
Speaker 1: turn back. You've made me a qualified son and daughter,
Speaker 1: a qualified child before you, and I give you the
Speaker 1: praise for it in Jesus name. And everybody said