WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.919 Father. We just thank you Father, this moment, your presence 2 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:14.359 is here. Father, we just we just acknowledge you, Lord, 3 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:22.280 We acknowledge you. We're so thankful. Yeah, our hearts rejoice 4 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:27.399 Lord in your goodness. We thank you Father that you've 5 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:30.160 brought us here today. We thank you for this word 6 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:34.719 that's uh gonna challenge us, it's gonna lift us up, 7 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.880 encourage us. Father God, I thank you Lord for every 8 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.119 heart that will receive this seed, this word, Father God, 9 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.039 I thank you that it will bear fruit, and it 10 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:49.560 will bear much fruit for your glory in Jesus' name. 11 00:00:49.799 --> 00:01:01.039 And everyone said, Amen, all right, let's go, come on, hallelujah, 12 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:05.519 warrior like victories from child like faith. We're going to 13 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:08.840 be reading in the Book of Matthew chapter eighteen, verses 14 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:13.000 one through four. Book of Matthew, chapter eighteen, verses one 15 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:21.079 through four. And we got some kingdom realities that we're 16 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.599 going to be sharing here today. And so let's just 17 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.200 dive into what to the world of God. So let's read. 18 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:34.000 It says at that time the disciples came to ask Jesus, 19 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:37.760 who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 20 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.680 Jesus called a little one to his side and said 21 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:49.560 to them, learn this well, everybody, repeat, learn this well. 22 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.079 Unless you dramatically change your way of thinking and become 23 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.680 teachable like a child, you will never be able to 24 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:01.799 enter in. Whoever continuously hume himself to become like this 25 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:08.039 little child is the greatest one in Heaven's kingdom. Realm, amen. 26 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.199 So I just wanted to share with you, just really quick. 27 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:15.520 There's some hopeful research that I was able to uh find, 28 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.759 and I wanted to share with you with regards to 29 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:24.360 the ability the ability of testing and finding out about 30 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:30.439 the genius, about the genius that is inside of each human. 31 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.319 So people were undergoing this test, and I want to 32 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.560 quiz you on it. I'm gonna ask you, maybe you know, 33 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.400 maybe you don't know. So of the people that are here, 34 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:47.919 who do you think scored the highest in creativity at 35 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.800 genius level? So I'm gonna give you four categories. Are 36 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.759 you ready? Category number one dum dum, dude, not yet, 37 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:02.199 not yet, okay? Category number one just three to five okay, 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:10.120 Category number two ages ten, Category number three ages fifteen, 39 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:17.319 and category number four adult age around thirty one years old. 40 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.919 So if you can just tell me which of these 41 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:28.159 categories do you think scored the highest percentage on genius level? 42 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:32.879 If you say it's ages three to five, raise your hand. Okay, 43 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:36.000 that's a good amount of people. All right, what about 44 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:42.960 ages ten? Excellent? Okay, a little bit excellent. Okay, let's 45 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.159 what about age fifteen? We know them, teenagers know everything. 46 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:52.719 Come on now, at least that's what I thought when 47 00:03:52.719 --> 00:04:01.080 I was fifteen. What about adults averaging age thirty one? Good? Good? Okay, 48 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.800 maybe three or four? Right, and you're like, yeah, that's 49 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.199 my age group. Yeah, all right, Well, before I reveal, 50 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.039 before I reveal what the statistics shows is, I want 51 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:18.079 to be able to let you know that two things 52 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.720 that were tested here had to do with the way 53 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:27.319 that people think and so divergent and convergent. Convergent thinking, 54 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:32.040 which basically, for divergent thinking is the ability to just 55 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.480 be able to think of all of the thoughts that 56 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.160 just come to you and write and you're just like, 57 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.759 you're like this idea fairy almost you know, we can 58 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.120 use in different words. You're just like you've got a 59 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.720 plan for everything, and you can see solutions for everything. 60 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:51.279 And then the second aspect of thinking is convergent, which 61 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.360 is more like let's focus in. Okay, we got one 62 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.120 thing to do. We're gonna do this, and that's how 63 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.879 it's gonna get done. That's a little bit of what 64 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.879 you know. And both of them are necessary. We need 65 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:09.800 to be able to have both kinds of thinking in 66 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.639 our thought process. They're both good. But what I want 67 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.439 to be able to share today is a kingdom perspective. 68 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:23.000 It's a kingdom reality with regards to child like faith. Amen. 69 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.439 All right, So then as we look at the Book 70 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:33.839 of Oh, let me show you the chart. Sorry, ninety 71 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.120 eight percent of the kids that were tested between the 72 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:43.279 ages of three and five scored ninety eight percent of 73 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:49.279 the genius. Okay, ten of the same kids at the 74 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.959 age of ten were retested. This is a fifty six 75 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:59.120 year study that was done by NASA, well for NASA. 76 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:03.079 By these in the vials the age at the age 77 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.040 of ten, the percentile went down to thirty. Then at 78 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.639 the age of fifteen, he went down to twelve. And 79 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:14.279 then they retested not just these individuals, but they also 80 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.759 retested two hundred and eighty thousand people around the age 81 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:22.519 of thirty one and the percentile was two percent. And 82 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:26.600 so this kind of like sparks something in me because 83 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.439 the Word of God talks so much about the Kingdom 84 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.439 of Heaven, and it talks about how we need to 85 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:37.120 be like children to be able to enter in. Somebody say, 86 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:43.079 enter in. And the way of this world is like 87 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:50.439 upside down. The way of this world is upside down. 88 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.879 So it doesn't really work. It's not equivalent. It's not 89 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.040 the same as the way of the Kingdom of Heaven. 90 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.759 So Jesus the Mighty Teacher, speaks to the disciples and 91 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.720 answers a question. There is a question that is raised 92 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.519 up by the disciples, by the followers of Jesus, those 93 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.399 that are seeing what Jesus is doing there. Some of 94 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.920 them are convinced, some of them are like, I think so, 95 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.120 and some of them are like, oh yeah, maybe not right. 96 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.279 We have a mixed crowd of people of followers of Jesus. 97 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:37.160 And so basically Jesus God has you know, just enters 98 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.079 into an invitation to the disciples and breaks it down 99 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:45.560 to them, to the disciples to hear the way of 100 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:51.639 the Kingdom. So, who then is the greatest in the 101 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:57.240 Kingdom of Heaven is the question? Who then is the 102 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.000 greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? And So when we 103 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.839 think about this question and we look at the question 104 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:06.759 and we try to break it down a little bit, 105 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.560 it talks up it's saying who. And when it says who, 106 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.720 that means that the crowd that is present has some 107 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:21.120 kind of relation to what is being asked. So the 108 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.600 disciples are there, and so the question is like, okay, 109 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:29.600 so who amongst us, who that are close to you? 110 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:36.240 Who that has been working the hardest? You know, who 111 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:40.240 that has been you know, the most righteous? You know, 112 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.759 the best clothing that whatever it is right? Who? Who 113 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:50.360 of us is going to be in that position? Who 114 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.879 of us? So we see that in the human intellect, 115 00:08:54.679 --> 00:09:01.759 in the natural realm, there is comparison, comparison saying it 116 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.320 hinders the ability to be able to walk in the 117 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:10.360 fullness of what God has called us to do. It's 118 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.720 the worst thing ever. But we could see that the 119 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.519 mindset of those that were following Jesus right here, there 120 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.919 was still some of that. They were like, well, you know, 121 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.679 we have a community, we have a culture, we we 122 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.200 we have an upbringing, and this is kind of like 123 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.440 how it goes for us. This is what we do. 124 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.200 We know, right, we work really hard and we do 125 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:43.679 this and we have ways of doing things, and those 126 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:47.919 are all good things so long as they don't come 127 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:53.039 into conflict with the Kingdom of heaven, so long as 128 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.840 they don't come into conflict with what the way of 129 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:02.039 the Kingdom of Heaven is. Like, that's good. Chips and salsa, 130 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:07.240 Praise the Lord. That doesn't offend anybody. Right, come on now, 131 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:16.799 go to Peru, have some sevice. Come on, now, everybody's blessed. Right, 132 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:23.320 we go to you know, steak and potatoes, whatever it is, 133 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:27.480 it's all good, Praise God. So those things we can celebrate. 134 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.320 They're not keeping us from being able to enter in 135 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.519 and live out the fullness of the Kingdom of Heaven. 136 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:38.159 So that's good, all right. So then who isn't the question? 137 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.399 Who then is the greatest? The second thing that we 138 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.840 could observe here in the question is that there's something 139 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:52.639 inside of them boiling up about seeking status. Because first 140 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:58.519 they're looking at who. Okay, I'm checking you out. I'm good, 141 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.720 is good? You all right? Know? The Lord bless your soul. 142 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:07.679 But great is like, that's what I want. I want 143 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:13.519 the greatest. And then we can see right that there 144 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.360 is a seeking of status because not just good, not 145 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:23.240 just awesome, but the greatest right. So there's a there's 146 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:28.080 a mentality, there's a thought process here that's being revealed 147 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.720 through this question, and so we can see the reflection 148 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:39.720 of the natural human tendency to compare positions and to 149 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:46.960 seek status. But I have news to share because many 150 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:51.919 people work really hard to build a certain kingdom, the 151 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.360 kingdom of religion, the kingdom of my way or the highway, 152 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.000 the kingdom of I know and you don't, the kingdom 153 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.919 of I walk how I walk, and you don't get 154 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.759 in my path because this is what the good old 155 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.919 Lord tell me to do for real. And you're by 156 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:15.679 yourself in that kingdom. Huh. Come on. So there's all 157 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.240 these kingdoms in the natural realm, but God is not 158 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.759 calling her to be a part of any other kingdom 159 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:29.200 except the Kingdom of Heaven. So in the Kingdom of 160 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:33.799 Heaven there is a question, and Jesus is explaining to them. 161 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.480 We could understand that these ideas and the question that 162 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:43.240 was asked is rooted right on social and religious context 163 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:47.200 of the time. That they would know that they would differentiate, 164 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.080 They would know by the way that somebody looked and 165 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.600 the clothing that they were worrying where they were, you 166 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.200 know what they believed, right, they can tell, oh, this 167 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.799 is a pharisee, this is a sadducey, these are another 168 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:07.519 group of people, These are non Jewish people. The different 169 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.600 categories and the different groups right within that region, within 170 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.840 this time. So culturally we can see there's things that 171 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:22.000 there's markers that help to identify the differences. And again, 172 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.120 so long as those things do not hinder us from 173 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.960 being able to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, those 174 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.799 are all great things come on. And so we see 175 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:39.759 here the disciples really wanted to find out. They really 176 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.320 wanted to find out if their paradigm, if the way 177 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:46.240 that they believe the kingdom should be, would fit in 178 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.840 with what God was trying to teach and present about 179 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:53.600 the Kingdom of Heaven. So on verse two, Jesus calls 180 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.279 the little one in the crowd. There's a little kid 181 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.600 hanging out over there. And Jesus caused the little one 182 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:10.320 on his side. If you look at the at the 183 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.440 calling out of this kid, of this kid right of 184 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:15.759 this young person. We don't know if it was a 185 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:19.159 boy or girl or exact age, but he was a 186 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:26.240 young person. But in in the original language. When he 187 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.559 calls out the child to come next to him. The 188 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.799 word that he used is talitha. Does that remind you 189 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.720 of a certain story in the Bible, right where there 190 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.639 was where there was a girl that had seesed that 191 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:50.639 that that that ceased to live, And Jesus said, tita 192 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:57.679 kumi levan tat okay that the part of that was 193 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:05.480 not in the Hebrew, that was in Spanish. Rise up, okay, okay, 194 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:10.200 no more speaking in tongues. So now so we we 195 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:17.279 so And then even furthermore, it talks about a wounded lamb. 196 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:23.559 It talks about a wounded lamb, which actually what Jesus 197 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:27.120 is doing. The first thing that he does when the 198 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:33.080 question comes to him is he says, hey, little wounded lamb, 199 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:39.360 come over here. Let me let me place you right 200 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:44.120 here next to me, because I'm about to present something 201 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.279 that is so powerful, that's so amazing, that's gonna blow 202 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.759 the minds of the people that think they know so 203 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:57.960 much with something so very simple. Here we go, little 204 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:02.600 wounded lamb, come right here next to me, Talitha, come 205 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.919 right next to me. And I love that there's such 206 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:10.960 an invitation because even you and I as sons and 207 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.759 daughters of God. You may not even have a personal 208 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:16.279 relationship with God, and you're here for the first time. 209 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:22.559 Guess what Jesus still says, Talitha. He says, wounded lamb, 210 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.200 come to me, and I'm placing you right here next 211 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.279 to me, and you're going to be able to enter 212 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:34.960 in the Kingdom of Heaven. Wait a minute, how does 213 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:38.559 the wounded lamb get to be able to skip the line? 214 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.679 I've been here for thirty years. I've been here for 215 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:49.039 you know, I know this much. And Jesus is like, 216 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:53.799 wounded lamb, right there, come here, wounded lamb, Come let 217 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.480 me show you about the Kingdom of Heaven. And so 218 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:00.440 Jesus called the little one to his side. And then 219 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:06.799 as a kid, think about this. Culturally, this child was 220 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:12.680 in like a big situation because culturally the children were 221 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:18.519 not looked on highly. The children were just children and 222 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.039 they were left to be and the social status of 223 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:27.359 the communities. Kids were just like messing around with stuffed 224 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.640 sheep and helping out and bringing water and doing these things. 225 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:38.359 But guess what, in this moment, God calls that which 226 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:43.839 was looked under, that which was looked down upon, to 227 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:49.559 demonstrate the simplicity and the importance of being and having 228 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:55.039 child like faith to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 229 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.519 And so as I was saying with with this kid, 230 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:08.200 he comes up right next to Jesus, and I just 231 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:14.640 imagine myself as that kid, And I'm like, who me 232 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.960 looking around, you know, like all these people around and Jesus, 233 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.039 the guy that everybody's talking about, the guy that's doing 234 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.599 the miracles, the guys that everybody's there to listen to. Right, 235 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.480 He's like, you're calling me, oh my goodness, but wait, 236 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.279 oh no, there's all these adults that are here, and 237 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.920 they don't they don't think of me highly. They just say, 238 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:39.319 I'm a kid. They're gonna probably kick me out of here. 239 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.039 Of entering into the kingdom of the simplicity of being 240 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:50.680 able to get away from your own thought process, get 241 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:57.559 away from your own paradigm of things that you've built 242 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:01.000 and you and the enemy has built, and and strongholds 243 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.759 that the enemy has built in your mind to keep 244 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:09.440 you from being able to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. See, 245 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.599 just because you come to church, it doesn't mean that 246 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:21.319 you've entered in Just because just because you could sing 247 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:23.960 a good song, it doesn't mean that you have entered 248 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.799 in just because you feel the hairs on your on 249 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:32.359 your arms and in your back and whoo, hallelujah. All 250 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.359 that is great, Amen, hallelujah. But that doesn't necessarily mean 251 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:40.039 that you have entered in. You're experiencing the presence of God, 252 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.119 you're getting to see the presence of God being manifested. 253 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:51.359 But have you entered in? Well, Jesus called a little 254 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.759 one and and he and he sees the example in him. 255 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:58.200 And then I came up with this, Like, as I 256 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:03.599 was reading this, I'm like, Okay, God, So the reason 257 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:08.480 why the children were not really like considered, you know, 258 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:12.519 as part of like the social status. The reason specifically 259 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:16.160 it mentioned is that it's because they didn't really have authority. 260 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:20.799 They didn't have authority, right, And once I read that, 261 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:24.880 I was like, Wow, God, I think that's a principle 262 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.680 that we as Christians really need to tap into. So 263 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:34.200 it's not being like a child, like we're ignorant, like 264 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:36.839 we don't know what to do, we have no wisdom. 265 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:44.440 It's not being a child like in that sense, but 266 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:49.440 it's being like a child in the sense of being vulnerable, 267 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:55.279 in the sense of being humbled in the sense of 268 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.960 knowing that as a child of God, you have a thought. 269 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:05.319 Could it be? Could it be that the reason sometimes 270 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:09.720 that you're experiencing certain things in your life is because 271 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:13.000 you're acting like you're not a child of God, and 272 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.240 you're acting like you don't have the power of the 273 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.440 living Christ inside of you. Is that because maybe you're 274 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:25.599 not putting into practice the authority that God bestowed upon 275 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:29.079 your life. That's just a question that came to me, 276 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:35.240 and I'm sharing it with you. So in the spirit realm, 277 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:37.920 when I saw that in the spirit room, I thought, well, 278 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:44.480 demons don't respect because if there's no authority, if there's 279 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:46.880 no power, then what are they going to be able 280 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:52.480 to submit to? They can't You're going to continue on. 281 00:21:55.640 --> 00:22:00.559 In the first century Jewish society, status was often measured 282 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:07.200 by age, wisdom, or adherence to the law, and so 283 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:13.240 again children did not fit into the status or that category. 284 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:18.359 So this young person that Jesus calls out and joins 285 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:26.440 him embraces vulnerability and humility, revealing to us that your 286 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:33.000 worth isn't based on your achievements. Your worth is not 287 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:38.079 based on your achievements. Your worth is based on the 288 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:44.279 affirmation from the one who's truly significant and has declare 289 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:52.720 your value and your worth. If you think about it 290 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.400 for yourself, you would never come out of the crowd 291 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:02.000 and sit next to Jesus. But because, but because you 292 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:06.880 are truly humble, you receive and you respond to the 293 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.599 calling of the Lord over your life. And you said, 294 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:13.279 you know what, I'm going to be humble. God has 295 00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:17.079 given me authority. God has given me power. God wants 296 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.480 me to enter into the Kingdom and live out all 297 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.960 of the great things that are from being a part 298 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.880 of the Kingdom. I'm going to be humble. I'm going 299 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.200 to accept that, and I'm going to be raising dead people, 300 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.440 and I'm going to be healing people, and I'm going 301 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:36.960 to be having a restored marriage, and I'm going to 302 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:42.319 be having great kids because it's part of being in 303 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:49.200 the kingdom. So even though culturally children were often not 304 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.640 valued or honored, they were dismissed as insignificance simply because 305 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:59.960 they lack authority. This child, this child dared to stay 306 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:08.119 in and be next to Jesus. There was a right 307 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:16.119 side up way of the Kingdom, the way of this world, 308 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.119 the way of the natural man, and the fallen nature 309 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:24.160 is the right side down, right or upside down. I'm sorry, 310 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:27.920 upside down. But in the Kingdom of Heaven is right 311 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:33.279 side up. And so this uh, this understanding. Jesus called 312 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:38.119 the young person out and places him where next to him. 313 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:44.920 Come on, wounded lamb. Wait, but there's there's this big 314 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.680 buffy one over here. There's this you know, there's there's 315 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:49.480 this one that has a lot of money over here. 316 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:54.599 Why are you calling out the wounded lamb? Oh? Yeah, 317 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:59.880 come wounded lamb right here next to me. Receive, receive 318 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.839 the healing, receive the restoration, receive the righteousness that I'm 319 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:08.440 imputing into you. I'm placing you right here next to 320 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:13.200 me where you could experience complete healing and restoration, so 321 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:16.240 that then you can live out everything that I have 322 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:23.640 set for you in the Kingdom of Heaven. In Verse 323 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:28.079 three says learn this well. Unless you dramatically change your 324 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.880 way of thinking and become teachable like a child, you 325 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:37.960 will never be able to enter in. Before anyone there 326 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:47.799 was thinking about all the different possibilities of their ways 327 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:50.559 of how to do things, the Lord had to help 328 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:54.359 them understand by breaking it down and making it simple. 329 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.240 It's okay God does that for us. He loves us 330 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.680 so much that he make sure that we're able to 331 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:07.000 take it in, that we're able to go from the 332 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:14.039 very basic basic foundation entering into the Kingdom of heaven. 333 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.519 Unless you dramatically change the way of thinking. You must 334 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:27.960 realize that just to enter in, you need His thoughts 335 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:31.920 for you. Just to be able to enter in and 336 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.839 walk out all of the great things that He has 337 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:39.759 the sign and in his heart and his desire for you, you 338 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:44.640 need his help. He's so good that we can't even 339 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:50.920 understand or comprehend the level of goodness unless we have 340 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:55.440 the Holy Spirit to help us receive so much goodness 341 00:26:55.480 --> 00:27:04.839 in our lives. I just sensed that the Lord was saying, 342 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.559 in order for us to be able to have warrior 343 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:14.880 like victories from childlike faith, we need to be able 344 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.319 to enter in. We need to be able to lay 345 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:27.400 aside our paradigms, our way of doing things, and we 346 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:30.960 need to be able to receive the mind of Christ. 347 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.880 The Bible says in Jeremiah twenty ninety eleven. For I 348 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:38.400 know the thoughts that I have towards you, declares the 349 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.720 Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give 350 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:48.440 you a future and a hope. His wonderful thoughts over 351 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:55.160 us are innumerable. You cannot even count them. There's so many, 352 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.640 so so, so many, so many, so many, and we 353 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.319 need the help of the Holy Spirit. The reason why 354 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.000 I brought up that chart from the very beginning is 355 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:18.359 because there's hope. The way that we've developed our education system, 356 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:25.319 the way that we've molded ourselves and made ourselves fit 357 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:32.240 into the structure of education, even in our country or 358 00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:39.279 the countries you know where we came from, has kept 359 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:44.319 us from being able to live out the fullness of 360 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:46.559 what God has called us to do. The reason why 361 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.160 is because we want our kids to hurry up and 362 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.680 grow up, get a job, get a career, go to college, 363 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:03.680 do all these things. Those are all great things. But 364 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:09.400 God is calling us to grow up and to promote 365 00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:14.759 into childlike faith, that we would be able to come 366 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:18.200 at His feet, that we would be able to speak 367 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:24.799 to him continually, continually, unless you dramatically change the way 368 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:28.279 you think we need to continually be able to do this, 369 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:41.480 take every thought captive, like the Bible says, right, He's 370 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:52.240 able and willing. His thoughts are higher are greater. Verse Corinthians, 371 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:56.839 chapter two, verse sixteen, it says, for who has known 372 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.519 the mind of the Lord, that he may instruc them. 373 00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:05.960 But we have the mind of Christ. I'm going to 374 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:11.720 invite you to stand with me today and if you 375 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:18.000 were to just extend your hands this afternoon, and just 376 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:25.599 like a child with childlike faith. The reason why these 377 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:29.440 kids within the age of three to five score so 378 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:38.039 high in their ability to be considered genius in creativity 379 00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:44.200 is because unlike us, we don't put all the We 380 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:50.119 put all the excuses, but kids they don't. They hear 381 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:53.359 the voice of Father saying, hey, you could do this, 382 00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:59.079 and what do they do? They believe it? Would you 383 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.720 believe the Father over your life today? Would you be 384 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:09.200 bold enough, would you be humble enough to say, Okay, God, 385 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:17.519 I'll take you at your word. I'll take you at 386 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.559 your word. It doesn't matter what age you you are, 387 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.640 whether you're young, whether you're older, it doesn't matter. From 388 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:31.680 this very moment, the mind of Christ has been made 389 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:36.559 available to you and I so that our thoughts are higher, 390 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:44.480 that our ways are higher. Not way long time from here, no, 391 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.920 right here and right now. You can say, just like 392 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:53.119 a child with child faith, like you could say, God, 393 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.400 I receive your word. I'll take you at your word. 394 00:31:58.440 --> 00:32:02.039 I'm going to do this. I'm going to conquer the 395 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:06.400 sin that's trying to put me down. I'm going to conquer. 396 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:11.599 I'm going to have a great victory over my mind 397 00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.519 and the thoughts from the enemy that tell me otherwise. 398 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:20.079 I'm going to have great victory because your thoughts are higher, 399 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:24.839 your ways are better, are higher. So therefore my ways 400 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:31.200 are higher and better. Hallelujah your ways, Hallelujah. He makes 401 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:36.359