Speaker 1: How are we doing God? I can tell you're happy.
Speaker 1: Prayer the Lord. Let's stand and prayer over the word. Amen.
Speaker 1: See if I can get us into this holy spirit.
Speaker 1: You're good. We just make room for you right now.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your word. Let your word touch our hearts.
Speaker 1: Let every person be lifted into higher thoughts, higher realms
Speaker 1: of understanding. Thank you for it. Come on, just say
Speaker 1: it with me. I leave the low behind. Say it again.
Speaker 1: I leave the low behind, the mundane, the week, the unproductive.
Speaker 1: I leave it behind in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you
Speaker 1: may be seated. So Colaussians one. I want to start
Speaker 1: at the end. So who's back there helping me? Johnny?
Speaker 1: Is that you? All right? So I want to start
Speaker 1: at the end. I start at the beginning, So we'll
Speaker 1: start at the end. Colossians one, fifteen through twenty. The
Speaker 1: sun is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
Speaker 1: over all creation. For in him all things were created.
Speaker 1: Everybody say all things. All things were created, things in
Speaker 1: heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, Whether thrones or powers,
Speaker 1: or rulers or authorities, all things. Everybody say, all things,
Speaker 1: all things have been created through him and for him.
Speaker 1: He is before all things. In mm all things hold together.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. He is before all things, and in him
Speaker 1: all things hold together. Not amazing. And he is the
Speaker 1: head of the body of the church. In other words,
Speaker 1: if it's not in him, it's going to fall apart.
Speaker 1: If it's not in him, it's going to fly apart. Right.
Speaker 1: If it's not in him, it's not going to last.
Speaker 1: If it's not in him, it's going to create turmoil.
Speaker 1: Right in him, all things hold together. He is the
Speaker 1: head of the body the church. This is like, this
Speaker 1: is an addendum. He's throwing this on. And he is
Speaker 1: the head of the body the Church. He is the
Speaker 1: beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that
Speaker 1: in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased
Speaker 1: to have all of his fullness swell in him, how
Speaker 1: much all of his fullness well in him and through him,
Speaker 1: to reconcile to himself. That's to buy back, to bring back,
Speaker 1: to heal, to mend what was broken, to reconcile all
Speaker 1: things to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven,
Speaker 1: making peace through his blood shed on the cross. We
Speaker 1: want to read one more verse. Let's go over to
Speaker 1: second Trinthians ten three through five. This is not the
Speaker 1: end of my verses, but trying to go somewhere. Sec.
Speaker 1: Trinthians ten, ten three through five. You know it, maybe
Speaker 1: here as kind of a warfare passage Trent. For though
Speaker 1: we live in the world, we do not wage war
Speaker 1: as the world does. The weapons we fight with are
Speaker 1: not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
Speaker 1: have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and
Speaker 1: every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. Now,
Speaker 1: the Bible says that as the kingdom grows, the knowledge
Speaker 1: of the Lord and the knowledge of his glory will
Speaker 1: cover the earth. You ever driven behind a Sherwin Williams truck,
Speaker 1: No anybody ever used Sherman Williams paint. They have a
Speaker 1: high opinion of their paint. If you want to pay
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a gallon by Sherman Williams faint, you
Speaker 1: better get at the contractor's discount. That's all I can say. So, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I don't know how some Peter that I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know who it is, might have been Steve if
Speaker 1: he's in the building. Thing. You know, love Sherwin Williams faint. Well,
Speaker 1: I was frustrated with my raw to paint, so okay,
Speaker 1: I'll try some of that stuff. Right, they had some
Speaker 1: products I wanted, so I started paying attention to Sherwin
Speaker 1: Williams paint. I never paid it tension to shore everyone
Speaker 1: William's faint before. But I started seeing Shrewan Williams trucks, right,
Speaker 1: And they have a globe and above the globe is
Speaker 1: the can of paint, and the pan of paint is
Speaker 1: dumping paint over the globe. And it says cover the earth.
Speaker 1: That's the glory of God. The glory of God is
Speaker 1: going to cover the earth, and the knowledge of his
Speaker 1: glory is going to cover the earth. When before the rapture, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did I say that? Yeah? Yeah, before the rapture, before
Speaker 1: he wraps this thing up, He's going to cover the
Speaker 1: earth with the knowledge of his glory. Yeah. I'm prettying
Speaker 1: better than your suting. So I want you to see
Speaker 1: this though, I want you to see this in a
Speaker 1: different I want you to see some of this in
Speaker 1: a different con Next, this says that our warfare is
Speaker 1: to demolish strongholds. Now, the word arguments or strongholds. There
Speaker 1: is each logismos in the Greek logic and reasoning, and
Speaker 1: those strongholds are bulwarks. This is the Greek interlinear Bible.
Speaker 1: Those strongholds are bulwarks of logic and reasoning. And then
Speaker 1: it goes on to say every pretension or imagination, and
Speaker 1: that is every high thing, every high thought lifted up
Speaker 1: against the knowledge of God. And it says that our
Speaker 1: warfare is to bring those into captivity and to make
Speaker 1: them obey, or to bring them into obedience. Now this
Speaker 1: is part of God reconciling all things to the sun.
Speaker 1: So part of what He's reconciling. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: I wanted you to see this picture of the seven
Speaker 1: Mountains of influence. Here are the seven mountains of influence.
Speaker 1: So this is globally over culture. And we we would
Speaker 1: sometimes call them seven spheres, right, So seven mountains, seven
Speaker 1: spheres of influence over culture. And this is this is
Speaker 1: what Satan has been seeking to seize. And even when
Speaker 1: he took Jesus up on a high place, as it's
Speaker 1: recorded in Luke four and Matthew four, and he showed
Speaker 1: him all the kingdoms of this world, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if part of what he showed him was his
Speaker 1: dominion over the kingdoms of influence, over economy, over family,
Speaker 1: over arts and entertainment, over religion, over government, over education,
Speaker 1: over media. And he was ruling over them. And part
Speaker 1: of why he was ruling over them is because he
Speaker 1: controlled the narrative. He controlled the narraputive of how we
Speaker 1: understand those mountains of influence and the narrative is like
Speaker 1: the disciplines of study. And at our universities today we
Speaker 1: have featured there the disciplines of study. We have sociology,
Speaker 1: we have science, we have medicine, we have law, we
Speaker 1: have all of these disciplines of study. Right we have history,
Speaker 1: we have archaeology, we have literature, all of these disciplines
Speaker 1: of study. And it's the perspective on the disciplines of
Speaker 1: study that determines who will reign over the mountain of influence.
Speaker 1: And what we've seen is that the enemy possessed authority
Speaker 1: over these. But as the kingdom has grown, and as
Speaker 1: the kingdom grew, what happened is that the word of
Speaker 1: God and the works of God began to invade our
Speaker 1: perspective on the disciplines and reshape the disciplines and to
Speaker 1: reconcile the disciplines under God. And as the disciplines were
Speaker 1: reconciled under God, we began to see science through the
Speaker 1: lens of God, history through the lens of God, literature
Speaker 1: through the lens of God, language through the lens of God, medicine,
Speaker 1: as through the lens of God. As we began to
Speaker 1: see these through the lens of God, then they begin
Speaker 1: to be reclaimed, and the influence of righteousness began to
Speaker 1: grow in each of the mountains. And this is even
Speaker 1: how we've come to so much illumination and innovation. Is
Speaker 1: that at one time the early Church was only to
Speaker 1: study the Word of God, and the Word of God
Speaker 1: was the parameter, and it became, almost, as it were,
Speaker 1: the limitation on understanding. But then a revelation came to
Speaker 1: the early Church fathers that not only were they to
Speaker 1: study the Word of God, but God had disclosed himself
Speaker 1: in the works of God, and that they also were
Speaker 1: to discover God and find God in the works of God.
Speaker 1: And if they would discover God in the works of
Speaker 1: God and not only the Word of God, then they
Speaker 1: could understand how to bring forth all that God desired
Speaker 1: and What they were building toward was this, They were
Speaker 1: building toward Heaven on earth. How many of you think
Speaker 1: it's better to write in a chariot to church this
Speaker 1: morning than to walk. How many of you would have
Speaker 1: rather walked to church. How many of you might have
Speaker 1: chosen the church closer to home if you had to walk.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking about innovation and breakthroughs were released
Speaker 1: in a powerful way in culture when they begin to
Speaker 1: study not only the word of God but the works
Speaker 1: of God, and they begin to marry the two together
Speaker 1: and then thrust that study into the disciplines that feed
Speaker 1: into the foundation of the seven spheres, of the seven
Speaker 1: mountains of influence. Now God desires the same for us.
Speaker 1: God God desires that the narrative of all of life
Speaker 1: flows out of His word and out of his works,
Speaker 1: and that we recognize Christ has come to reconcile everything
Speaker 1: to himself. We don't have to be afraid of science.
Speaker 1: God is reconciling science to himself through the Christ. We
Speaker 1: don't have to be afraid of medicine. We don't have
Speaker 1: to be afraid of economic principles. We don't have to
Speaker 1: be afraid of sociology. We don't have to be afraid
Speaker 1: of philosophy. We don't. There's nothing that we need to fear.
Speaker 1: The fact is we need to immerse ourselves in the
Speaker 1: disciplines because God is redeeming the disciplines, reconcile to himself,
Speaker 1: that he might bring righteousness to the apex, to the
Speaker 1: pinnacle of every mountain of culture. Now, this is part
Speaker 1: of how the kingdom grows. This is if we immerse
Speaker 1: ourselves in churchism only and in the religious mountain only,
Speaker 1: and in they hear what I'm saying, then what happens
Speaker 1: is we become shortsighted and the enemy is able to
Speaker 1: reinvade and take ground back that he had to give
Speaker 1: up because the growing emerging church stole it from him.
Speaker 1: They didn't steal it from him just with deliverance. I
Speaker 1: want you to hear what I'm saying. You don't steal
Speaker 1: from the enemy that which he's possessed in terms of
Speaker 1: leadership in the nations or in the influence of culture.
Speaker 1: With deliverance only, with prayer meetings only, with worship services only.
Speaker 1: We're gonna worship, but we're going to go out and
Speaker 1: we're going to be involved in vehicles with combustion we're
Speaker 1: gonna partake of things that comes from science. We're going
Speaker 1: to need medication, we need good nutrition, we need education,
Speaker 1: we're gonna deal with the philosophies of mankind. You're going
Speaker 1: to leave this service and immerse yourself in all sorts
Speaker 1: of things that aren't just prayer, worship and Bible. But
Speaker 1: he's reconciled all those things to himself. But he's called
Speaker 1: us also to be engaged. We're actually to be the
Speaker 1: center point of the reconciliation. He's not reconciling those things
Speaker 1: through the unbelieving, or through the wicked or the ungodly.
Speaker 1: He reconciled those things through the righteous. And so this
Speaker 1: was happening as the church grew. But now what's happening
Speaker 1: kind of like a bad day in the stock market.
Speaker 1: What's happening now is we're seeing some downturn, and we're
Speaker 1: seeing downturn in terms of a macro view of our
Speaker 1: place in history. We're seeing some of that downturn because
Speaker 1: we've narrowed our focus. And as we've narrowed our focus
Speaker 1: to church, churchism, salvation, evangelism, prayer, worship, personal devotions. And
Speaker 1: part of this is we've actually even allowed the Evangelical
Speaker 1: Church has actually narrowed its focus down to personal salvation.
Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm talking about? Do you hear
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? This is the goal now, this is
Speaker 1: the goal of the American Church or the Evangelical Church.
Speaker 1: This is the goal because we don't believe in heaven
Speaker 1: on earth. We actually believe that the promise of the
Speaker 1: promised Land and heaven on earth is actually it's a metaphor,
Speaker 1: it's a parable, it's a metaphor, it's actually a language
Speaker 1: that means heaven. So the Evangelical Church has taken God's word,
Speaker 1: the words of the Lord about the Kingdom of Heaven
Speaker 1: and the Kingdom of God, which are synonymous in the
Speaker 1: New Testament, and we've just transliterated that into our own doctrinal,
Speaker 1: denominational translation and interpretation, and that is, Oh, he's talking
Speaker 1: about heaven. So life's going to be bad. Life's going
Speaker 1: to be terrible. But God's in charge, God's sovereign. I
Speaker 1: guess he's going to work something out of this mess.
Speaker 1: But thank the Lord, I've got a promised land. Thank
Speaker 1: the Lord, I've got heaven. I've got the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: Heaven and someday in the sweep by and bye all
Speaker 1: fly away, Oh glory, you hear what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: so what happens in that mind and Satan knows this,
Speaker 1: Satan knows all of this bad thinking, and what happens
Speaker 1: in that is we become super focused on personal salvation.
Speaker 1: So it really doesn't matter what we do with the
Speaker 1: rest of our time or the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1: I don't need to know anything about literature. I don't
Speaker 1: need to know anything about history. I don't need to
Speaker 1: know about archaeology. I don't need to know about science.
Speaker 1: I don't need to know about medicine. I don't need
Speaker 1: to know about nutrition. I don't need to know about
Speaker 1: any of that kind of stuff. Give me and that
Speaker 1: are television program There's a thousand channels. Let's see if
Speaker 1: we can find one today that will bless me and
Speaker 1: turn me on. Why Because we've made this about personal salvation,
Speaker 1: not about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It's Heaven
Speaker 1: on earth, and it's the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Speaker 1: It's not the Kingdom of Heaven to come. It's the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the Kingdom of God, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Speaker 1: You're not convinced until you get convinced we're going nowhere.
Speaker 1: You got to get convinced that this is what God's ordained.
Speaker 1: God has more for you than personal salvation. And this
Speaker 1: is a trick, in a scheme of the demonic realm
Speaker 1: to keep us from engaging with culture and to keep
Speaker 1: us from building up one another being knit together a
Speaker 1: holy habitation, wherein together we emanate His glory and build
Speaker 1: for him a habitation of glory in the earth. He's
Speaker 1: coming back for a glorious charch. The parallel, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a great parallel, and we're supposed to learn from
Speaker 1: this parallel. The parallel is the children of Israel going
Speaker 1: into the Promised Land. And the Old Testament is this
Speaker 1: intricate tapestry, absolutely beyond intricate tapestry of what we are
Speaker 1: to be building toward and what we're to walk in
Speaker 1: in the New Testament on this side of the And
Speaker 1: I just want to go through just a few little
Speaker 1: nuggets of this and then kind of, you know, get
Speaker 1: to where we're going on this. But listen to me
Speaker 1: as I can to describe it. They were promised a
Speaker 1: land of milk and honey, gold, silver and precious stones,
Speaker 1: a land like Eden. Now they were promised a literal land.
Speaker 1: We are promised heaven on earth. They said, Lord, we've
Speaker 1: been hanging out with you and watching you and spending
Speaker 1: time with you, and we're watching John's disciples, and we
Speaker 1: want you to teach us how to pray. How in
Speaker 1: the world should we pray? What should we pray for? Right?
Speaker 1: And he said, pray this way, Thy Kingdom, come right,
Speaker 1: Thy will be done in heaven as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: What do you say on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: This is the central This is the central focus. The
Speaker 1: central focus of what Father has in mind is redeeming
Speaker 1: the earth, redeeming the people of the earth, reconciling all
Speaker 1: things to himself as it pertains to the earth and
Speaker 1: the sons of men. So then secondly they were put
Speaker 1: in bondage. They were promised this land of milk and honey.
Speaker 1: But then they were put in bondage under a Satanic pharaoh.
Speaker 1: So like the sons of Adam. Yeah, then they were
Speaker 1: delivered out of Egypt, out of this clutch of the
Speaker 1: pharaoh's hand. And these ten demon spirits that were the
Speaker 1: principalities and the powers of Egypt. They were delivered out
Speaker 1: of Egypt by the blood of a lamb. It was
Speaker 1: the type of salvation. Then they were delivered from them,
Speaker 1: reaching and pulling them back into bondage through the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: which is a type of baptism where the enemy was
Speaker 1: cut off from them. Then they wandered in the wilderness
Speaker 1: until they matured in faith, which is a type of sanctification.
Speaker 1: So even after we're even after we're baptized in water,
Speaker 1: we mature in sanctification because now we understand and now
Speaker 1: we have transpired over us a legal cutting off of
Speaker 1: the demonic realm. So now we grow in our sanctification
Speaker 1: like they matured in faith. Wondering in the wilderness. You're
Speaker 1: going to wonder in your wilderness until you mature in sanctification.
Speaker 1: Then they crossed over the Jordan to go into the
Speaker 1: Promised Land, and the waters were stopped at a town
Speaker 1: called Adam. It says the water's piled up at a
Speaker 1: town called Adam. That was a type for us to know.
Speaker 1: For them, it's what cleared the way for them to
Speaker 1: go in to the Promised Land. For us, it's a
Speaker 1: picture that the curse is cut off, The curse over
Speaker 1: your life is cut off as you come through sanctification
Speaker 1: and come into a fullness of faith. The curse of
Speaker 1: your life is cut off so that you can go
Speaker 1: in to heaven on earth. It's so that you can
Speaker 1: go into your promised land. Well, you'll notice everything I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm opening every single statement with they. Everybody say they.
Speaker 1: You'll notice they did this together. You'll notice this wasn't
Speaker 1: a personal walk. This was a corporate walk. This wasn't
Speaker 1: a personal work. It was a corporate work. You'll notice
Speaker 1: that they wondered in the wilderness until they all came
Speaker 1: into faith. That's what it says. They wandered in the
Speaker 1: wilderness until they all came into faith. And when they
Speaker 1: went in to possess the promised land, there was none
Speaker 1: feeble and none in unbelief. They all went in with faith.
Speaker 1: It was a corporate and I want you to see this.
Speaker 1: This is like the major focus I believe of Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit today is that we go together, that we possess together,
Speaker 1: we dispossess the enemy together. We are knit together. We
Speaker 1: need each other. That you don't go in to your
Speaker 1: promise land alone. And this is the big lie that
Speaker 1: I believe Holy Spirit wants to pinpoint today that you
Speaker 1: have a personal promise land that isn't interconnected to the body,
Speaker 1: and that you should just focus on your personal salvation.
Speaker 1: That is so shortsighted and it's unattainable. It's unattainable because
Speaker 1: your victory is my victory, and my victory is your victory,
Speaker 1: and your failure is my failure. And the entire kingdom
Speaker 1: is moving forward as we move forward, not as I
Speaker 1: move forward. They were to dispossess the enemies of God
Speaker 1: in the land, which is the type of spiritual warfare
Speaker 1: for us, dispossessing the demonic realm in our land. And
Speaker 1: what that showed us is that God fights when we fight.
Speaker 1: God fights for us when we fight. If we will
Speaker 1: not fight, he won't fight. It's as easy as that.
Speaker 1: Every time they went forward and fought with God, God
Speaker 1: fought with them. Every time they went forward under the
Speaker 1: command of the Lord, then the Lord was there with them.
Speaker 1: It's totally a picture. And now remember their leader was Jesus.
Speaker 1: Their leader was Joshua. Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the Greek of Joshua. Joshua was their leader.
Speaker 1: This was a type of Matthew sixteen nineteen. Whatever you
Speaker 1: bind will be bound. If you bind it, I'll see
Speaker 1: tooth that it gets bound. Whatever you lose, they'll be loosed.
Speaker 1: If you'll lose it, I'll see tooth that it gets loosed.
Speaker 1: This was a type of that, because whenever they fought,
Speaker 1: he fought for them. So they would just show up
Speaker 1: with swords and he'd rain hailstones down. He had miracle
Speaker 1: after miracle after miracle that gave them the victory. If
Speaker 1: they would just show up for battle and do their part.
Speaker 1: They had to do their part. And it's not all
Speaker 1: it's not all cussing out devils. We have to do
Speaker 1: our part. We have to turn off our televisions. We
Speaker 1: have to turn off our movies. We need to stop
Speaker 1: bragging to eat one another about how many movies we
Speaker 1: watched this year. We need to start bragging about how
Speaker 1: many books we've read. We need to start excelling again
Speaker 1: as the early Church did, in the disciplines of study
Speaker 1: that are the foundation stones of influence, because otherwise we're
Speaker 1: just going to be a bunch of spirit filled born
Speaker 1: again dumb Christians. I said it here, and you might
Speaker 1: get somebody born again, but you won't be able to
Speaker 1: have a conversation about philosophy or literature, or history, or science,
Speaker 1: or nutrition or medicine, or the arts or music. You'll
Speaker 1: be as dumb as the brick because you've had your
Speaker 1: head in Comcast Exfinity one thousand channels into the movie
Speaker 1: parlor ten times this year, and you're wasting your life
Speaker 1: away when God's called you to be a partner with
Speaker 1: Jesus in reconciling all things back to God. Not reconciling
Speaker 1: the church back to God. Reconciling all things back to
Speaker 1: God because in Him, in Him, they were created, and
Speaker 1: they are created for His glory. Well they don't. I
Speaker 1: wasn't done yet with the parable. They were not to
Speaker 1: intermarry or compromise, and any evil they tolerated would become
Speaker 1: thorns to them. As a type of how we are
Speaker 1: to completely drive the enemy out, we aren't just supposed
Speaker 1: to drive the enemy out of the church. We aren't
Speaker 1: supposed to just on a microcosm or a microcosm drive
Speaker 1: the enemy out of us. Part of us understanding what
Speaker 1: God wants to do to bring heaven on earth. Is
Speaker 1: that we're supposed to drive the lies, the distortions, the
Speaker 1: perversions of thinking out of the disciplines of study. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to bring higher truth, higher wisdom, higher thought to
Speaker 1: the disciplines of study, and in that way drive the
Speaker 1: enemy out. And anything we won't drive out, anything we tolerate,
Speaker 1: anything we allow, anything we ignore, will become a thorn
Speaker 1: to us and a thorn to our side. As it
Speaker 1: was with them, and it spoiled the land for them,
Speaker 1: It harmed their promise. It kept them from fully actualizing
Speaker 1: and enjoying what they were promised in the Promised Land
Speaker 1: because they whimped out and they didn't fully dispossess the
Speaker 1: enemy in much of their regions and their territories. And
Speaker 1: it's not that God was not willing or able, it's
Speaker 1: just that they ceased from war were given an example
Speaker 1: of something with them in Joshua seven. Right. Joshua seven,
Speaker 1: I think gives us an insight into not only them
Speaker 1: as the children of Israel and the twelve tribes, where
Speaker 1: they were to fight for one another. Like even the tribes,
Speaker 1: they would leave their territory if they were getting victories,
Speaker 1: and they would run over to Benjamin's territory, or they
Speaker 1: would run over to Asher's territory, or they would run
Speaker 1: over to you know, one of the others, and they
Speaker 1: would fight for one another. And we see this corporate,
Speaker 1: this corporate thing happening even here in Joshua chapter seven.
Speaker 1: Because Aiken held on to some of the devoted stuff,
Speaker 1: one person sinned and it harmed their assent into the
Speaker 1: fullness of their promised land. Their next battle was Ai,
Speaker 1: and they went out to Ai, and they lost the battle.
Speaker 1: They lost the battle at Aim. They lost the battle
Speaker 1: because Aikin sent a held on to devoted stuff. The
Speaker 1: whole corporate Israel suffered. Two million plus people suffered because
Speaker 1: one person hung on to some devoted stuff. Hello, someboddy
Speaker 1: and several people perished in the Battle of Ai. Several
Speaker 1: people died because one guy hung on to some devoted
Speaker 1: stuff and they had a fall. In the stock market, right,
Speaker 1: Kingdom was going up looking real good boy, this promised
Speaker 1: land stuff is tasting good boom bad day. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess it's all over. I guess it's curtains. I guess
Speaker 1: the anti crisis is coming. The raptures any moment. Gaes no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the end of the story. Find aken, straighten
Speaker 1: him out, and let's move forward. Let's keep building because
Speaker 1: it is an increasing kingdom. But I want you to
Speaker 1: see the corporate implication. The corporate implication in this metaphor
Speaker 1: is clear. Your sins do matter. You're not an island.
Speaker 1: Your sins are affecting me right now, are affecting you.
Speaker 1: I don't live to myself. It's not personal salvation. It's
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven on earth. God's trying to build
Speaker 1: something significant. And if we just get in this realm,
Speaker 1: then well, if I sin a little bit, big deal. Well,
Speaker 1: if I struggle a little bit more than I should,
Speaker 1: big deal. Well, when God's ready for me to get
Speaker 1: done with this, I guess big deal. No, it is
Speaker 1: a big deal. Wake up, sleeper, arise from your slumber
Speaker 1: to Seephesian five. Let God shine on you and bring
Speaker 1: illumination to your folly, because you are harming the entire kingdom.
Speaker 1: This is the truth of the metaphor is we can't
Speaker 1: go in by ourselves. You have to go in with me.
Speaker 1: You have to we go in together. So that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why we're that's why the word says, provoke one
Speaker 1: another done to good deeds. That's why the word says,
Speaker 1: let no ye look at Hebrews twelve fifteen, Let no
Speaker 1: one falls short of the grace of God. Let no
Speaker 1: one fall short of the grace of God. Good luck
Speaker 1: on that one. How are we gonna do that one? Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have relationships. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have friendships. You're gonna have to know one another. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to pray for each other. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be near one another. You're gonna have to cover
Speaker 1: for one another. You're gonna have to strengthen one another.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to Oh you mean I gotta live
Speaker 1: outside of my personal promised land? Yes, yes, the church
Speaker 1: is a we group. We are in also a group.
Speaker 1: We are in us group. Think about it. If this
Speaker 1: is all about your promised land, then you could contentment
Speaker 1: in your personal breakthrough. You could look the other way
Speaker 1: when you see evil around you. You could abandon your
Speaker 1: brother and sister. You could abandon the church. And how
Speaker 1: many have done that? In the fugees sound twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the population says they're born again, but will not
Speaker 1: darken the door of a church. Twenty percent of our
Speaker 1: population in the Puget Sound region says they're born again
Speaker 1: and they are Christian, but they will not engage with
Speaker 1: the church because they've been fed doctrines of demons. This
Speaker 1: is a lie. You aren't meant to go in by yourself,
Speaker 1: and you can't come into the fullness of what God
Speaker 1: has for you by yourself. And it's not just about
Speaker 1: you getting to heaven. That's a lie. If you were
Speaker 1: all about our promised land, we could immerse ourselves in
Speaker 1: personal endeavor, and maybe that's why so many of us do.
Speaker 1: We could let others rot. We could ignore the poor,
Speaker 1: we could ignore the prisoner. We could be careless if
Speaker 1: our schools were filled with trash. Our government is perverse
Speaker 1: and poorly managed. We could be careless about the next generation.
Speaker 1: But it's not that it's not one that God has
Speaker 1: in mind. God has something bigger in mind. Ten the
Speaker 1: prayer he taught them, it starts with my Father, who
Speaker 1: art in heaven. No, it doesn't starts with our father.
Speaker 1: He's writing through the Ephesians in chapter six. It's recorded
Speaker 1: for us I wrestle not against flesh and blood. No,
Speaker 1: it says we we wrestle. We as a corporate assembly,
Speaker 1: We as warriors together, we who are locked arm in arm,
Speaker 1: We who care about one another, restore one another, prophesy
Speaker 1: over one another, pray for one another, hold one another accountable,
Speaker 1: hold one another's feet to the fire. We need longer
Speaker 1: baptismal services. You know, you hold them down until they
Speaker 1: stop sinning, right, So they used to do count longer one, two, three, four.
Speaker 1: Then you wait for the Holy Spirit to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're done. When you finally hear the Holy spirits say
Speaker 1: they're done, oh okay, let them up, Let them up, waterboarded,
Speaker 1: water for it good. You're done. Never going back to
Speaker 1: that garbage, are you No? I won't come back. Our
Speaker 1: struggle is not against flesh and blood our father, who
Speaker 1: are in heaven. Holl it would be thy name. We
Speaker 1: go together. We go together. Scripture after scripture right Ephesians four,
Speaker 1: ten eleven through thirteen. I love it. The apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, leaders,
Speaker 1: these gifts that have been given to edify the body
Speaker 1: of Christ. They continue until we all come in through
Speaker 1: the unity. Johnny put it up. These gifts continue until
Speaker 1: we all come into the unity of the faith to
Speaker 1: the full measure of the stature that belonged to the sun.
Speaker 1: Not a couple of us, not one, not two, not
Speaker 1: the preachers, not the pastors. It's a corporate ascension, and
Speaker 1: it's a corporate battle, and it's a corporate war, and
Speaker 1: it's a corporate victory. And it's a corporate strengthening of
Speaker 1: one another. And it's a corporate rallying of one to another,
Speaker 1: and it's a corporate coming around one another. As we
Speaker 1: seek to do what overcome every argument, all logic, all reasoning,
Speaker 1: every imagination, every high thing, every lofty thing, every lofty expression,
Speaker 1: every lofty word, every lofty doctrine, dogma, instruction, discipline that
Speaker 1: had set itself up against the knowledge of God. What
Speaker 1: are we going to overcomeing with? We've got a higher knowledge,
Speaker 1: We've got a higher wisdom. We've got a higher knowledge.
Speaker 1: It's not just a rebuke that we bring. No, there's
Speaker 1: a renewed mind. Don't you need a renewed mind after
Speaker 1: you've had a good deliverance. Don't you need a renewed,
Speaker 1: renewed mind. Don't you want to buy into the renewal
Speaker 1: of the spirit. Guess what, there's a renewed mind for science,
Speaker 1: there's a renewed mind. For philosophy, for history, for archaeology,
Speaker 1: for every discipline, there is a renewed mind, and that
Speaker 1: is the mind of Christ that reconciled that discipline back
Speaker 1: to God. And when you're in the middle of it,
Speaker 1: you're doing exactly what you should do. You're redeeming economics,
Speaker 1: business and real estate. You're redeeming arts and entertainment, you're
Speaker 1: redeeming education. You're doing spiritual warfare. You could rejoice over
Speaker 1: yourself a little bit more recognized in the middle of
Speaker 1: your fight and in the middle of the embrace of
Speaker 1: the disciplines that influence culture, you're doing battle. It's not
Speaker 1: just when you have a rebuke on your mouth against
Speaker 1: the enemy. You're doing battle when you're in the midst
Speaker 1: of embracing the wisdom from above and bringing it together
Speaker 1: in a marriage with the knowledge of God. And you're
Speaker 1: confronting the lies in culture. If those are the lies
Speaker 1: in the economy, the lies in education, the lies in government,
Speaker 1: wherever those lies exist, you're doing a good fight. You're
Speaker 1: bringing forth a good fight as you confront that reasoning
Speaker 1: and we confron it together, we lock arms. Wow, you
Speaker 1: got what I got what do you got covered? I
Speaker 1: got this covered today? How about you and we strengthen
Speaker 1: one another and we wean ourselves off of the binkies
Speaker 1: of entertainment. Get off your entertainment binkie, Get off your
Speaker 1: entertainment binkie. You are called to be a world changer
Speaker 1: and an overcomer. You're called to be a world changer
Speaker 1: and an overcomer, and you can't do that with the
Speaker 1: binkie in your mouth. Come on, don't shout just because
Speaker 1: I'm preaching. Good, fair team, come to the front with you.
Speaker 1: I'm in every head, about every eye close across the building. Today.
Speaker 1: God is calling you royalty. He's calling you royalty. He's
Speaker 1: called you in your generation because you are royalty. You
Speaker 1: are a king and a priest. You're a king and
Speaker 1: a priest. You're a ruler. You're an overcomer. God has
Speaker 1: destined and puts you in this generation to influence, to
Speaker 1: make a difference, not only to flourish, but to impact.
Speaker 1: And so Holy Spirit, we ask right now that you
Speaker 1: will meet your word and meet this today, this word
Speaker 1: from above, with downloads that raise us up into the
Speaker 1: royalty You've called us to be, lift us up into
Speaker 1: the royalty. You've called us to be quicken us out
Speaker 1: of the mundane, out of the normal. We are not normal,
Speaker 1: out of the natural. We're not natural. We're called the supernatural,
Speaker 1: living and supernatural partnerships with the Supreme One, who's reconciling
Speaker 1: all things back to himself. To here's today and giving
Speaker 1: your life to the Lord. I want you to come.
Speaker 1: This is your moment just to come and be prayed for.
Speaker 1: Maybe earlier you are already prayed, but this is your
Speaker 1: moment to receive an assurance of salvation. If you're here
Speaker 1: today and you haven't been baptizing the Holy Spirit, and
Speaker 1: you're not functioning and flowing in the gifts of the Spirit,
Speaker 1: the supernatural gifts of God, then come be prayed for.
Speaker 1: As we close today, just take a moment and allow
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to touch you in a powerful way. If
Speaker 1: you're here you need a word from God about your future,
Speaker 1: about your life, about your destiny. This is your moment.
Speaker 1: Come and be ministered to. We're going to close with worship,
Speaker 1: but we're going to seek Him as we go. Now,
Speaker 1: bless your church,