WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.520 Potter, We thank you for your word today, thank you 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:10.679 for the power of your word to transform us, and 3 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:18.239 we welcome you moving in upon and our hearts and 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:24.519 in this atmosphere right now in Jesus name. And everybody said, Amen, 5 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.320 isn't that so much better? I get so excited. What 6 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.320 happens is the volume calms me down. If I can 7 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:39.280 tell I'm killing you with volume, then call me. Colds 8 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:44.880 me right down. I want to talk to you a 9 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.000 little bit this morning about a redeemed imagination. You know, 10 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:57.200 when we think about your soul, your soul is Your 11 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:06.239 soul is mind, will, emotions, imagination, and reasoning, and your 12 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.319 soul is the unredeemed part of you. Essentially, it's what 13 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:18.040 gives you personality. It is a spiritual element. But when 14 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.760 we're born of the spirit, our soul is not sanctified 15 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:28.120 or redeemed. Our soul has to be redeemed. It has 16 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:32.439 to be sanctified by the washing of the water of 17 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:37.719 the word. And so the word, the Word, by way 18 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:43.040 of conviction and by way of promise, is washing out 19 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.239 of us. And we're responding. And this is the calling. 20 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.439 The calling that we have is to pay attention to 21 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.439 the logos, the written word. Pay attention to the spirit, 22 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.439 the rama, the spoken word in our own hearts. Pay 23 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.200 attention to the prophetic word, which is the ram Us 24 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:05.400 spoken through others over us and to us. So this 25 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:13.360 is all us us positioning and placing our soul before 26 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:18.599 the Lord in humility, so that the Holy Spirit dwelling 27 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.680 on the inside, who is the manifestation of Jesus, and 28 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.719 the Spirit of truth, testifying of truth, leading us into truth, 29 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.439 so that he will wash our soul so that our 30 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.840 entire personality is presented before the Lord and becomes useful. 31 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.960 I don't want just the testimony of Holy Spirit within me, 32 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:51.439 convicting me or leading me, and me not responding, arguing, 33 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:59.800 not cooperating, not partnering with I want the Holy Spirit 34 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:07.159 in me, finding partnership in my soul so that with mind, will, emotion, imagination, 35 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.840 and reasoning that what he wants to do is fully 36 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:19.120 fully accentualized, fully brought to the forefront, fully manifested, fully experienced. 37 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.680 And the imagination has a huge part of that. Fact 38 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:29.280 is your imagination is so critical, it's so key because 39 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:33.719 it's even what you it's how you posture your will, 40 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:39.360 like my will, which is like the backbone of my soul, 41 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:43.520 my will. I can posture my will to think on 42 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.560 or meditate on something, and through imagination I can begin 43 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.840 to see things that aren't seen. This is a God 44 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.080 quality that you have. You have a God quality about 45 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:59.759 you to be able to do this with your imagination. 46 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:07.639 This is this is like no other animal or specie. This, 47 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:11.280 this is what separates you apart from the rest of 48 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.199 created order or nature. Is that this ability to see 49 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:21.439 and this ability to function with imagination, It's an amazing thing. 50 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.839 So what I want you to see is that you 51 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.600 got this from You got this from your father, you 52 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.959 got this from God, and that this is how God 53 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:37.040 operates concerning you as well, that that God actually is 54 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:43.399 a God of imagination. Now we might say that imagination 55 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:49.040 is essentially seeing things before they exist, and this is 56 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:54.399 how God brings things into order. God brings things into creativity. 57 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.759 This is how God expresses then faith, and we might 58 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.920 we have to understand that even though we are compelled 59 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.759 to be people of faith, and even though we are 60 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.360 challenged to be people of faith, and even though we 61 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.759 are constrained to be people of faith, and we talk 62 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:13.279 about faith all the time in church, this is actually 63 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:19.399 God's realm, That faith is God's realm. That you know, 64 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:24.480 God doesn't say you walk by faith, and I don't right, 65 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.079 that faith is actually his realm, that he actually walks 66 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:35.199 by faith, and that he's showing us how faith works, 67 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.279 even you know, through scripture and throughout the Bible, and 68 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:44.279 he's showing us how it partners with imagination. So, for instance, 69 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:49.800 in Genesis one one through three, it says that he 70 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:55.680 created the earth, and it says that darkness was there 71 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:02.519 and that he was brooding. So the earth was formless 72 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:06.120 and empty, darkness was over the sea surface of the deep, 73 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.360 and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 74 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:15.720 So hovering is one translation. Another is brooding, Another is fluttering. 75 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:22.759 There's probably four different words there. In the Hebrew imagination stage. 76 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:33.040 This is like incubation. He's actually before he speaks, he's seeing. Now. 77 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:34.759 I don't know if you've thought of God in that light, 78 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:39.000 but but God actually is seeing things before he speaks them. 79 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.560 In other words, he's thinking about them, he's meditating on them, 80 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:53.079 and he's imagining them before he declares they are. So 81 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:55.600 let's let's uh, let's look at a couple of verses 82 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.240 factors on this, Uh, just real quick that kind of 83 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:05.480 speak to some of this. One that I love is 84 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.480 Isaiah fifty five eight through nine. For my thoughts are 85 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.560 not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways, says 86 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.839 the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 87 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.160 so are my ways higher than your ways, and my 88 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:27.920 thoughts than your thought, higher than your thoughts. So think 89 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.560 about that for a minute. So his thoughts are like 90 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.680 super high. And we know the Lord, the Father, and 91 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.879 the Son are one. So when I say God, I 92 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:37.319 just want you to see the Father and the Son 93 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.319 are one. But these are like these heavenward thoughts, right, 94 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.839 And these are even the thoughts that he has over us. 95 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:50.279 So he's got these super high, crazy thoughts that are high, 96 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.920 and he's always calling us up to his thoughts. And 97 00:07:55.040 --> 00:08:01.600 his thoughts are bigger than holiness. His thoughts include an 98 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.720 encompass holiness. But again, most of the time we're so 99 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.240 trained in church to think about sin that we miss 100 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.680 what God's really up to. We're so trained to think 101 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.920 about the Ten commandments and whether we measure up to 102 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.120 them or not, that we are we're always approaching God 103 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.839 out of legalism, and if he's this, you know, cosmic 104 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.639 kill joy up in the sky looking the club us. 105 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.000 If we don't meet the ten commandments, so then we're 106 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:31.480 missing that. No, these thoughts, they actually pertain to everything. 107 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:36.320 Like he has promises. Two Peter Chapter one, verses one 108 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.799 and two says that he has promises over your life. 109 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:45.799 They are precious and magnificent promises, which is interesting because 110 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:47.759 it's a parallel to something else we're going to read 111 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.600 in a minute. He has precious and magnificent promises over 112 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.240 your life, and it says so that you will have 113 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:01.159 everything you need for life and godliness. So he's got 114 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.919 promises over food, he's got promises over cars, he's got 115 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.840 promises over babies, he's got promises over stuff. He's got 116 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:17.240 promises over right over everything and godliness in church. We 117 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:30.679 just keep thinking that it's all about godliness. He says 118 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:32.960 these promises. Second Peter, too, we aren't going to go there. 119 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.519 Second Peter one, I'm sure. One and two. He says 120 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:46.399 that these promises are critical for us to escape corruption 121 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:53.480 and become partakers of the divine nature. So he's got 122 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.600 these promises. I want to just throw another thing out 123 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.639 of that shoe. Because we always think in terms of 124 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.279 the logos. We're always thinking terms of the logos, which 125 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.320 is the written word. But in Ephesian chapter five, where 126 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.600 he says he washes this with the water of his word, 127 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.799 you have to realize that he can't do complete washing 128 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.399 if the water of the Word that he washes with 129 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:27.159 is just the logos. Is that going to sound like heresy? 130 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:32.320 Sounds like heresy, doesn't it. You think about it when 131 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.960 even when Paul wrote that word, they didn't even have 132 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.120 the logos. When Paul wrote that, it wasn't even scripture, 133 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.720 they didn't have the New Testament. But you you have 134 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.279 been told to limit your entire spiritual experience to the logos, 135 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:52.600 to the written word. But you can't get your mind 136 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:57.159 renewed with the logos alone. The Holy Spirit. Why would 137 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.320 you put the Holy Spirit, who is the us of 138 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.279 a person of whom you've been created in the likeness 139 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.039 of Why would you put him in a box and 140 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.600 say that he can't talk. Why would you say he 141 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:12.240 can't speak to your heart? Are you going to tell 142 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:26.279 your wife she can't speak to your heart? So the 143 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.039 washing of the water of the Word, this is the 144 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:33.159 Holy Spirit. Is he's calling you. He's got so many 145 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.120 Oh my word, he's got so many crazy things that 146 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.240 he wants to say over you, to make imprint on 147 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.799 your imagination, to bring you into a realm of hope. 148 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.919 But if you limit what he can say to the logos, 149 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.720 to what's written, then you've limited his ability to brood 150 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.399 over you. He was brooding over the earth, he brooded 151 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.720 over Abraham, he brooded over Joseph. If he brooded over 152 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.759 this one, that one the other one to bring forth 153 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.960 the royal calling and the royal significance that he had 154 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.919 over them. But if you limit him to the logos, 155 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.480 then you will not allow him to bring you into 156 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:19.320 the fullness of what he has for you. Now, let's 157 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:24.679 look at this. This is this is I'm trying to 158 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:31.840 connect you to the fountainhead of hope. God's imagination is 159 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.200 known as hope. We're infused with hope, we're born again 160 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.159 with the spirit of hope. But we can have darkness 161 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.240 in our soul that's resisting that hope, blocking the hope. 162 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.200 We can have darkness in our soul. We can have distrust, 163 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:50.960 we can have bitterness, we can have jealousies, we can 164 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:59.320 have carnality that's blocking the hope. But God is the 165 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:04.360 supreme see of hope, and that hope is really just 166 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.600 the use of his imagination. It's what he sees over tomorrow. 167 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.360 And it's only hope because God can't see with darkness. 168 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.240 There is no darkness in him, so when he imagines, 169 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.759 he can only imagine that which is good. So that's 170 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:29.879 why whatever flows out of God brings hope, because there's 171 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:35.039 no darkness in him. You can use your imagination. You 172 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.440 know how to use it really good with fear. You're 173 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.840 a professional with worry. You're skilled with anxiety. You know 174 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.759 what to do with dread, you know exactly how to 175 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:49.240 milk that one. But that's not hope because you're using 176 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.759 your imagination and it's connected to something dark and so 177 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:59.000 all it brings is depression or sorrow. But you're using 178 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.679 your imagination and you can frame it really well and 179 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:04.759 you can see how it's going to unfold, and you 180 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:08.159 can have every single detail put together with that thing. 181 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:15.720 That means you're skillful with your imagination, but you're not 182 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.960 grabbing that tool with your will and aligning it with 183 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:25.039 God's word over your life. And God has a word 184 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.279 of your life. God has a God has a bigger 185 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:35.600 word of your life than the logos. Sounds like harrisy, 186 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.360 but I'm going to prove it to you. Listen to 187 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:44.200 some one thirty nine. If for if two Peter Chapter 188 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.279 one wasn't enough for you, write that down to look 189 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:49.000 at it, read it, study it, but listen to some 190 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.039 one thirty nine. How about the one you have memorized? 191 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.399 You have one memorized. Everybody in this building's got Jeremiah 192 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.919 twenty one eleven memorized. I know the plans that I 193 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:03.320 have for you, Plans to give you a hope and 194 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.519 a future, plans to prosper you. One translation I hated 195 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:14.600 it says plans for welfare. There's no welfare plans for 196 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.480 many cheligd Okay. We know the translators didn't. They weren't 197 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:25.279 connected to the United States welfare system, so they weren't. Okay, 198 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.120 But we know Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. So God says, 199 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.159 I know the plans I have for you. God is 200 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:36.399 imagining something over you now. He said that over Israel 201 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:41.120 when they were messed up, they were super messed up. 202 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.399 They were all they were in sin. Jeremiah was giving 203 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.360 them a good what forward. They were the good swift 204 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.159 kick and a rebuke. But in the middle of that, 205 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:55.759 his grace was so sufficient, was so amazing. He said, 206 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:59.639 even though you have problems, and you've been a problem, 207 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.600 even though I still have plans for you, I'm still 208 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.279 calling you into the royalty. I'm still calling you up 209 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.080 out of degradation. I'm still calling you up out of 210 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.279 that negativity. I'm still calling you up out of that bitterness. 211 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.679 I'm calling you out of that unforgiveness. I'm calling you 212 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.399 up out of that anxiety. I have plans for you, 213 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.559 says the Lord. Well, those plans weren't in the logos. 214 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.399 He was telling them to draw near, and he actually 215 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.039 says in Jeremiah thirty three to three, just a couple 216 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:36.799 chapters later, he says, call to me, and I will 217 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:40.919 answer you and show you great and mighty things that 218 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.200 you do not know. How many have you had that 219 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.759 memorised Jeremiah thirty three to three. Okay, some of you 220 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.200 know that scripture. If you know that scripture, call to me, 221 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:51.799 and I will answer you and show you great many 222 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.600 things that you do not know. You know what that means. 223 00:16:55.200 --> 00:17:03.440 It's not all in the logos, it's not all in 224 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.680 the Bible. Well, then how am I gonna get it all? 225 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.640 You better do what we talked about today. You better 226 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.359 draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. 227 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.200 He says, draw near to me, and I will draw 228 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:26.599 near to you. Wow. I mean this is this is 229 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:32.480 like a major One of the major reasons why I 230 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.079 seek the Lord every day and I get on my 231 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.720 face and I turned to him and I draw near 232 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.799 to him is because I know what I don't know, 233 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.440 and I know I don't know a lot, and I 234 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:56.400 know he knows, and some I one thirty nine, your 235 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:03.799 eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for 236 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.119 me were written in your book before one of them 237 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:14.160 came to be. Huh did you hear that? How precious 238 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.559 to me are your thoughts? Oh? Oh, these aren't negative thoughts. 239 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.480 These are precious thoughts. Did you know that God saw 240 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:26.279 you in Christ before you came into being. God saw 241 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.599 you in Christ. He didn't see you in Satan. He 242 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:32.599 saw you in Christ. The Bible says fall wrote to 243 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.799 the Cristons. He said God was in Christ, redeeming the 244 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.480 entire world to himself. God saw you in Christ. That's 245 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.559 why he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of 246 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:47.160 the earth, God saw you in Christ before you had 247 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.680 day number one. Meaning the book he wrote about you 248 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.559 is not a book of despair. It's not a book 249 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.759 of defeat. It's not a book of sickness. It's not 250 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.200 a book of disease. It's not a book of failure. 251 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.400 It's not a book of fear. It's not a book 252 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:02.839 of sorrow. It is a book of victory, a book 253 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.440 of grace, a book of blessing, a book of health 254 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:14.759 and wholeness. He wrote the book he wrote about you, 255 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:19.039 he wrote it in and through the beloved who covers you. 256 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:22.160 So the book he wrote about you couldn't be any 257 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:27.240 different than the book he wrote about the sun. You 258 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:29.559 hear what I'm saying, Like he didn't write a book 259 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:33.599 about Okay, Oh your Shua all right now, he's gonna 260 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.160 be the word made flesh, and he's my heart made flesh. 261 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:39.279 And oh, he's gonna raise the dead, and he's gonna 262 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:41.960 he's gonna pay his taxes by calling coins out of 263 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:45.039 the and he's he's oh, he's gonna walk on water. 264 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:56.839 That's your Shoa. Dwyane, poh, where Dwayne the bathtub. Let's see, 265 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.400 Dwayne's gonna have this going, Dwayne, He's not gonna qualify 266 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:05.559 for that great No, Jesus qualified me for a good 267 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:11.039 book before I ever came along, when the polywog hit 268 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:17.359 the seed. You know what I'm talking about. At that moment, 269 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.160 God had a book written about me, and he sent 270 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:27.160 me into this generation for a divine purpose. I'm sent 271 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.759 like an arrow, thrust into this generation out of the 272 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:35.279 quiver of God for divine purpose that he already saw. 273 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.079 Now that's what hope is. This is why when you're 274 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.680 born of the spirit, you're reconnected to your divine assignment, 275 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:53.079 your divine purpose, your divine identity. It's impossible for you 276 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.039 to fail unless you just keep believing you have to. 277 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:04.880 How stubborn are you now? I just want to be 278 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:07.720 a failure. I just like it. I just like it 279 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:12.400 down here under the circumstances, I like living under the 280 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.839 very far. I'm way down down, I'm under them, under 281 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:21.839 the circuman. Listen to the Listen to the ESV. The 282 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.400 ESV is the closest to the Hebrew, so it is 283 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.720 a trustworthy translation and I like to read it, especially 284 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:35.000 as it pertains to the Old Testament. Because of the 285 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.359 manuscripts that they use to write the ESV. So it's 286 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:40.759 not as groovy for the New Testament, because the New 287 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:45.319 Testament's Greek, but the Old Testaments Hebrew, and it's a 288 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.559 little more groovy. And listen to the way it says this, 289 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:55.599 your eyes saw my unformed substance. In your book were 290 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:59.799 written every one of them, the days that were formed 291 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:04.119 for me. In your book, we're written every one of them, 292 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:08.559 the days that were formed for me, when as yet 293 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:12.319 there were none of them. How precious to me are 294 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:14.839 your thoughts of God? How vast is some of them, 295 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.160 if I would count them, they are more than the sand. 296 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:22.680 When you are born of the spirit, you are immediately 297 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:29.960 connected to that reality you are immediately connected to and 298 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:37.640 that's the living hope and in you is directly connected 299 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.799 to the testimony of Jesus over you, which is the 300 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:45.960 fulfillment of God's identity and purpose and redeeming power over you. 301 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:55.680 Even when you don't know what it says. I gave 302 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:57.359 my life to the Lord when I was four years old. 303 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.880 Don't say it didn't happen. It was vivid. I remember 304 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:07.240 every moment of it. And as an adult fifteen years later, 305 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.519 I got to call the evangelist the Cruzy Brothers in Everett, Washington, 306 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:15.839 and talk to Johnny Cruzy who was in Ben Doregan 307 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:23.319 leading the Tinkers in and thank him. So I've been 308 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:28.519 going on with the Lord for sixty two years. I 309 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.359 still don't know all the thoughts that are in the book. 310 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:34.599 I still want to know more of the thoughts that 311 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.920 are in the book. I'm still pressing in. Paul says, 312 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.359 I've obtained a bunch, but I haven't obtained at all. 313 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:46.160 This is Philippians three twelve. So I press on that 314 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.960 I might fully obtain, that I might fully know why 315 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:53.680 he took hold of me. Right, I want to fully 316 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:56.640 know why he took hold of me. And so that's 317 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:01.240 that's like we're pressing in because why because not one 318 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:07.039 single imagination that God had, not one single thought as 319 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.480 he as he literally wrote a book about me for 320 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:16.319 my life and my generation, not one single thought was 321 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:23.920 anything other than precious and magnificent. And it is literally filled, 322 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:28.759 it is ladened with That book is ladened with promise. 323 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:36.119 It is filled with promise. So this is this is 324 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:41.440 why we prophesy. You know what prophecy is. No true 325 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:45.880 prophet is creating anything, nor is any new revelation actually 326 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:52.519 coming into existence. Any true prophet is just reaching into 327 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:57.440 the book. What's already written. They're just reaching into And 328 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:01.519 if it's if administering to Dennis, it's like, Holy Spirit, 329 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:05.640 show me what's in the book. All I'm doing is 330 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.559 reaching into the book because that's where hope is. And 331 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:13.160 wherever hope is, see, hope has to precede faith. And 332 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:18.000 once there's an incubation of hope, once there's an incubation 333 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:21.720 of hope, then faith can come. And faith is where 334 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:27.799 I partner with God through agreement. This is where I 335 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:35.480 partner with God through agreement. God nursed. I'm watching the 336 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:41.920 time God nursed. Yeah, thank you thinking easy for you 337 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:55.240 to sent. God nursed Abram along with imagination, and then 338 00:25:55.279 --> 00:26:02.759 at one point he required Abram to believe. Starts in 339 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:06.160 Genesis chapter twelve, and his name is Abram, and he 340 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.559 calls him out from his family's household, and he begins 341 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:16.200 to paint pictures of promise over him to quicken his imagination. 342 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:20.119 I'm gonna make you a great nation. I'm gonna make you. 343 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:24.079 Every nation's gonna be blessed for you. And this just 344 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:27.559 goes on. It goes on in chapter thirteen. He says, 345 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:32.279 open your eyes and look around as far as you 346 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.119 can see, to the north, southeast, and the west. I'm 347 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.440 gonna give you this land. And just over and over again, 348 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:43.119 there's visitations and there's conversations, and he's appealing to Abram Abram, 349 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:50.480 and Abram says, you're gonna give me this land. I'm 350 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:54.000 gonna be the father of many nations. That's all great, 351 00:26:54.119 --> 00:26:57.079 But I have a hope I want to present to you, 352 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.000 hoping this is going to come through my lineage. I 353 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:05.880 would like my loins to be involved. And all I 354 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:10.279 have is Eliezer, a servant in my house right And 355 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.279 God says, no, this is going to come through you. 356 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:17.240 And so God just continues, you know, to romance him 357 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:23.039 with these downloads, leading him to fully believe. Are you 358 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:29.480 with me? Chapter fifteen, verse four, Then where the Lord came, 359 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:31.240 This man will not be your heir, but a son 360 00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:33.599 who will be your own flesh and blood will be 361 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:35.960 your heir. And he took him outside and said, look 362 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.839 at the sky and count the stars. Do you hear 363 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:44.880 God talking about imagination? This is God imagination. God wants 364 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:49.279 to partner with your imagination. So shall your offspring be 365 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:51.960 and Abraham believe the Lord, and it was credited to 366 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:56.480 him as righteousness. Abraham believed so when he believed, then 367 00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:58.599 the Lord came to him and said, all right, now, 368 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:03.160 I want you to change your name. I want you 369 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:05.920 to change your name. I want you to I want 370 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:10.160 you to now begin to go by Abraham instead of Abram. 371 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:15.359 And when God did this, when God asked him to 372 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:20.880 change his name, so much time had occurred through this 373 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:26.839 process that he was all dried up, right, his loins 374 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:31.200 were dried up. And Sarah had all dried up. She 375 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:49.240 had gone through menopause. She had paused for men. Use 376 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:57.000 your imagination. But God said, God said, change your name. 377 00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.680 And he said, not only you, I want you. I 378 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.880 want her to change her name. It's no longer Sarah, 379 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:05.839 but he said it will be Sarah. Now listen, I 380 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:08.359 want to talk to you real quick. We're supposed to 381 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:18.400 change our name. Isaiah prophesied it about it, he said, 382 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:23.440 and they will be called by a new name. We 383 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.359 change our name to Christian. And when we call ourselves Christian, 384 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:33.599 it's supposed to emote an imagination within us that we 385 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:36.839 begin to see that as He is, so are we 386 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:41.799 in this world. We begin to see ourselves healing the sick. 387 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.480 We begin to see ourselves blessed going out and blessed 388 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.440 coming in. We begin to see ourselves raising the dead. 389 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.079 We begin to see ourselves. We begin to see ourselves 390 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.400 loving the unlovely. We begin to see ourselves reconciling where 391 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.559 there's been problems. We begin to see ourselves over coming 392 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.920 evil with good. We begin to see ourselves. Because we 393 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:08.359 bear the name Christian, it's not supposed to be just 394 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:12.240 a nomenclature. It's not supposed to be just a tag 395 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:16.200 or something that we put on because we go to 396 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:21.480 a church. It's an indication of a change of nature. 397 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.440 It means that we're allowing Holy Spirit to conquer our soul, 398 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.839 and we are putting aside everything that hinders and we 399 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:34.680 are submitting our imagination not only to him, but the 400 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.680 partner with him, so that heaven can come. He can't 401 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:40.799