WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:07.559 How are we doing God? I can tell you're happy. 2 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:13.119 Prayer the Lord. Let's stand and prayer over the word. Amen. 3 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.920 See if I can get us into this holy spirit. 4 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.199 You're good. We just make room for you right now. 5 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:29.839 Thank you for your word. Let your word touch our hearts. 6 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:36.560 Let every person be lifted into higher thoughts, higher realms 7 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:41.520 of understanding. Thank you for it. Come on, just say 8 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:46.200 it with me. I leave the low behind. Say it again. 9 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:55.520 I leave the low behind, the mundane, the week, the unproductive. 10 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:01.880 I leave it behind in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you 11 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:11.040 may be seated. So Colaussians one. I want to start 12 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.439 at the end. So who's back there helping me? Johnny? 13 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.280 Is that you? All right? So I want to start 14 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.760 at the end. I start at the beginning, So we'll 15 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.480 start at the end. Colossians one, fifteen through twenty. The 16 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.000 sun is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 17 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.480 over all creation. For in him all things were created. 18 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.560 Everybody say all things. All things were created, things in 19 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:41.920 heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, Whether thrones or powers, 20 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:45.400 or rulers or authorities, all things. Everybody say, all things, 21 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.959 all things have been created through him and for him. 22 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.680 He is before all things. In mm all things hold together. 23 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:59.519 That's crazy. He is before all things, and in him 24 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:05.519 all things hold together. Not amazing. And he is the 25 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.239 head of the body of the church. In other words, 26 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.120 if it's not in him, it's going to fall apart. 27 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.879 If it's not in him, it's going to fly apart. Right. 28 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.599 If it's not in him, it's not going to last. 29 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.960 If it's not in him, it's going to create turmoil. 30 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.960 Right in him, all things hold together. He is the 31 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.159 head of the body the church. This is like, this 32 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.759 is an addendum. He's throwing this on. And he is 33 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:37.159 the head of the body the Church. He is the 34 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.680 beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that 35 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:47.000 in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased 36 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:49.240 to have all of his fullness swell in him, how 37 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:54.560 much all of his fullness well in him and through him, 38 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:00.560 to reconcile to himself. That's to buy back, to bring back, 39 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:10.599 to heal, to mend what was broken, to reconcile all 40 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:16.039 things to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, 41 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:21.840 making peace through his blood shed on the cross. We 42 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.800 want to read one more verse. Let's go over to 43 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.719 second Trinthians ten three through five. This is not the 44 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:32.120 end of my verses, but trying to go somewhere. Sec. 45 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:37.840 Trinthians ten, ten three through five. You know it, maybe 46 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:42.039 here as kind of a warfare passage Trent. For though 47 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.240 we live in the world, we do not wage war 48 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.599 as the world does. The weapons we fight with are 49 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.800 not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they 50 00:03:51.840 --> 00:04:01.280 have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and 51 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:07.560 every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. Now, 52 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:12.840 the Bible says that as the kingdom grows, the knowledge 53 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.439 of the Lord and the knowledge of his glory will 54 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:22.120 cover the earth. You ever driven behind a Sherwin Williams truck, 55 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.680 No anybody ever used Sherman Williams paint. They have a 56 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.160 high opinion of their paint. If you want to pay 57 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.600 one hundred dollars a gallon by Sherman Williams faint, you 58 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:40.120 better get at the contractor's discount. That's all I can say. So, yeah, so, 59 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.240 I don't know how some Peter that I know, I 60 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.639 don't know who it is, might have been Steve if 61 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.439 he's in the building. Thing. You know, love Sherwin Williams faint. Well, 62 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:52.079 I was frustrated with my raw to paint, so okay, 63 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:55.079 I'll try some of that stuff. Right, they had some 64 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.040 products I wanted, so I started paying attention to Sherwin 65 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.839 Williams paint. I never paid it tension to shore everyone 66 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.800 William's faint before. But I started seeing Shrewan Williams trucks, right, 67 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.399 And they have a globe and above the globe is 68 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:10.879 the can of paint, and the pan of paint is 69 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.800 dumping paint over the globe. And it says cover the earth. 70 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.199 That's the glory of God. The glory of God is 71 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:24.759 going to cover the earth, and the knowledge of his 72 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:35.319 glory is going to cover the earth. When before the rapture, Yeah, 73 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:40.240 did I say that? Yeah? Yeah, before the rapture, before 74 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:45.079 he wraps this thing up, He's going to cover the 75 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:51.480 earth with the knowledge of his glory. Yeah. I'm prettying 76 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.680 better than your suting. So I want you to see 77 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.120 this though, I want you to see this in a 78 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.319 different I want you to see some of this in 79 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.600 a different con Next, this says that our warfare is 80 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:09.439 to demolish strongholds. Now, the word arguments or strongholds. There 81 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:18.759 is each logismos in the Greek logic and reasoning, and 82 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:23.680 those strongholds are bulwarks. This is the Greek interlinear Bible. 83 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:29.560 Those strongholds are bulwarks of logic and reasoning. And then 84 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.959 it goes on to say every pretension or imagination, and 85 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.759 that is every high thing, every high thought lifted up 86 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:40.319 against the knowledge of God. And it says that our 87 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:46.839 warfare is to bring those into captivity and to make 88 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:53.199 them obey, or to bring them into obedience. Now this 89 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:57.639 is part of God reconciling all things to the sun. 90 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.279 So part of what He's reconciling. And I wanted to 91 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.279 I wanted you to see this picture of the seven 92 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.959 Mountains of influence. Here are the seven mountains of influence. 93 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:18.800 So this is globally over culture. And we we would 94 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:27.160 sometimes call them seven spheres, right, So seven mountains, seven 95 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:31.439 spheres of influence over culture. And this is this is 96 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:38.240 what Satan has been seeking to seize. And even when 97 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:41.959 he took Jesus up on a high place, as it's 98 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.399 recorded in Luke four and Matthew four, and he showed 99 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:49.360 him all the kingdoms of this world, I wouldn't be 100 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.000 surprised if part of what he showed him was his 101 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:59.920 dominion over the kingdoms of influence, over economy, over family, 102 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.040 over arts and entertainment, over religion, over government, over education, 103 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:09.160 over media. And he was ruling over them. And part 104 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.680 of why he was ruling over them is because he 105 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:19.959 controlled the narrative. He controlled the narraputive of how we 106 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:25.800 understand those mountains of influence and the narrative is like 107 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.439 the disciplines of study. And at our universities today we 108 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:35.559 have featured there the disciplines of study. We have sociology, 109 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:40.200 we have science, we have medicine, we have law, we 110 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:46.440 have all of these disciplines of study. Right we have history, 111 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.000 we have archaeology, we have literature, all of these disciplines 112 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:57.039 of study. And it's the perspective on the disciplines of 113 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:03.080 study that determines who will reign over the mountain of influence. 114 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:11.399 And what we've seen is that the enemy possessed authority 115 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.519 over these. But as the kingdom has grown, and as 116 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.000 the kingdom grew, what happened is that the word of 117 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:25.720 God and the works of God began to invade our 118 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:31.240 perspective on the disciplines and reshape the disciplines and to 119 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:36.960 reconcile the disciplines under God. And as the disciplines were 120 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.960 reconciled under God, we began to see science through the 121 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:44.879 lens of God, history through the lens of God, literature 122 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.039 through the lens of God, language through the lens of God, medicine, 123 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.159 as through the lens of God. As we began to 124 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:55.879 see these through the lens of God, then they begin 125 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:01.919 to be reclaimed, and the influence of righteousness began to 126 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:10.960 grow in each of the mountains. And this is even 127 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.440 how we've come to so much illumination and innovation. Is 128 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:21.559 that at one time the early Church was only to 129 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:26.360 study the Word of God, and the Word of God 130 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.960 was the parameter, and it became, almost, as it were, 131 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:39.679 the limitation on understanding. But then a revelation came to 132 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.960 the early Church fathers that not only were they to 133 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.200 study the Word of God, but God had disclosed himself 134 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.039 in the works of God, and that they also were 135 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.639 to discover God and find God in the works of God. 136 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.720 And if they would discover God in the works of 137 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:02.679 God and not only the Word of God, then they 138 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.320 could understand how to bring forth all that God desired 139 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:12.080 and What they were building toward was this, They were 140 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:17.360 building toward Heaven on earth. How many of you think 141 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.480 it's better to write in a chariot to church this 142 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.799 morning than to walk. How many of you would have 143 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.679 rather walked to church. How many of you might have 144 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:29.799 chosen the church closer to home if you had to walk. 145 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:40.279 You know, I'm talking about innovation and breakthroughs were released 146 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:45.840 in a powerful way in culture when they begin to 147 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.519 study not only the word of God but the works 148 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.360 of God, and they begin to marry the two together 149 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:58.399 and then thrust that study into the disciplines that feed 150 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:02.039 into the foundation of the seven spheres, of the seven 151 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:07.720 mountains of influence. Now God desires the same for us. 152 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:15.200 God God desires that the narrative of all of life 153 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:20.600 flows out of His word and out of his works, 154 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:28.600 and that we recognize Christ has come to reconcile everything 155 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.759 to himself. We don't have to be afraid of science. 156 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.759 God is reconciling science to himself through the Christ. We 157 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:39.879 don't have to be afraid of medicine. We don't have 158 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.039 to be afraid of economic principles. We don't have to 159 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.600 be afraid of sociology. We don't have to be afraid 160 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:49.320 of philosophy. We don't. There's nothing that we need to fear. 161 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:53.720 The fact is we need to immerse ourselves in the 162 00:12:53.759 --> 00:13:00.960 disciplines because God is redeeming the disciplines, reconcile to himself, 163 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:07.320 that he might bring righteousness to the apex, to the 164 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.919 pinnacle of every mountain of culture. Now, this is part 165 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:19.519 of how the kingdom grows. This is if we immerse 166 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:25.000 ourselves in churchism only and in the religious mountain only, 167 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:34.960 and in they hear what I'm saying, then what happens 168 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.159 is we become shortsighted and the enemy is able to 169 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:45.519 reinvade and take ground back that he had to give 170 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:50.080 up because the growing emerging church stole it from him. 171 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.720 They didn't steal it from him just with deliverance. I 172 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.440 want you to hear what I'm saying. You don't steal 173 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:59.519 from the enemy that which he's possessed in terms of 174 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.440 leadership in the nations or in the influence of culture. 175 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:09.360 With deliverance only, with prayer meetings only, with worship services only. 176 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.639 We're gonna worship, but we're going to go out and 177 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.440 we're going to be involved in vehicles with combustion we're 178 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.080 gonna partake of things that comes from science. We're going 179 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.679 to need medication, we need good nutrition, we need education, 180 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.440 we're gonna deal with the philosophies of mankind. You're going 181 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.039 to leave this service and immerse yourself in all sorts 182 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:41.000 of things that aren't just prayer, worship and Bible. But 183 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:45.519 he's reconciled all those things to himself. But he's called 184 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:49.279 us also to be engaged. We're actually to be the 185 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:54.759 center point of the reconciliation. He's not reconciling those things 186 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:57.919 through the unbelieving, or through the wicked or the ungodly. 187 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:03.480 He reconciled those things through the righteous. And so this 188 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.679 was happening as the church grew. But now what's happening 189 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.840 kind of like a bad day in the stock market. 190 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:18.919 What's happening now is we're seeing some downturn, and we're 191 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:23.879 seeing downturn in terms of a macro view of our 192 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.159 place in history. We're seeing some of that downturn because 193 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.320 we've narrowed our focus. And as we've narrowed our focus 194 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:43.600 to church, churchism, salvation, evangelism, prayer, worship, personal devotions. And 195 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.639 part of this is we've actually even allowed the Evangelical 196 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:56.519 Church has actually narrowed its focus down to personal salvation. 197 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.840 Do you hear what I'm talking about? Do you hear 198 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.279 what I'm saying? This is the goal now, this is 199 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.159 the goal of the American Church or the Evangelical Church. 200 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.080 This is the goal because we don't believe in heaven 201 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.360 on earth. We actually believe that the promise of the 202 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.840 promised Land and heaven on earth is actually it's a metaphor, 203 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:30.759 it's a parable, it's a metaphor, it's actually a language 204 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:41.159 that means heaven. So the Evangelical Church has taken God's word, 205 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:46.200 the words of the Lord about the Kingdom of Heaven 206 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:49.480 and the Kingdom of God, which are synonymous in the 207 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:55.000 New Testament, and we've just transliterated that into our own doctrinal, 208 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:59.720 denominational translation and interpretation, and that is, Oh, he's talking 209 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:06.960 about heaven. So life's going to be bad. Life's going 210 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:10.680 to be terrible. But God's in charge, God's sovereign. I 211 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.640 guess he's going to work something out of this mess. 212 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.039 But thank the Lord, I've got a promised land. Thank 213 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:20.200 the Lord, I've got heaven. I've got the Kingdom of 214 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:24.559 Heaven and someday in the sweep by and bye all 215 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:30.079 fly away, Oh glory, you hear what I'm saying. And 216 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:34.599 so what happens in that mind and Satan knows this, 217 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.640 Satan knows all of this bad thinking, and what happens 218 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.880 in that is we become super focused on personal salvation. 219 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.160 So it really doesn't matter what we do with the 220 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.440 rest of our time or the rest of our lives. 221 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.200 I don't need to know anything about literature. I don't 222 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.799 need to know anything about history. I don't need to 223 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.519 know about archaeology. I don't need to know about science. 224 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:59.480 I don't need to know about medicine. I don't need 225 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.240 to know about nutrition. I don't need to know about 226 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:02.599 any of that kind of stuff. Give me and that 227 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.519 are television program There's a thousand channels. Let's see if 228 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.079 we can find one today that will bless me and 229 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:13.799 turn me on. Why Because we've made this about personal salvation, 230 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:20.599 not about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It's Heaven 231 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:24.440 on earth, and it's the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. 232 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.279 It's not the Kingdom of Heaven to come. It's the 233 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.440 Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the Kingdom of God, the 234 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.240 Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. 235 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:44.039 You're not convinced until you get convinced we're going nowhere. 236 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:49.920 You got to get convinced that this is what God's ordained. 237 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:55.200 God has more for you than personal salvation. And this 238 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.440 is a trick, in a scheme of the demonic realm 239 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.559 to keep us from engaging with culture and to keep 240 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.000 us from building up one another being knit together a 241 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:11.559 holy habitation, wherein together we emanate His glory and build 242 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.880 for him a habitation of glory in the earth. He's 243 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:28.079 coming back for a glorious charch. The parallel, you know, 244 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.480 there's a great parallel, and we're supposed to learn from 245 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:36.440 this parallel. The parallel is the children of Israel going 246 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.559 into the Promised Land. And the Old Testament is this 247 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:52.519 intricate tapestry, absolutely beyond intricate tapestry of what we are 248 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.119 to be building toward and what we're to walk in 249 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:01.039 in the New Testament on this side of the And 250 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.440 I just want to go through just a few little 251 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.880 nuggets of this and then kind of, you know, get 252 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.319 to where we're going on this. But listen to me 253 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.920 as I can to describe it. They were promised a 254 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:19.599 land of milk and honey, gold, silver and precious stones, 255 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:25.599 a land like Eden. Now they were promised a literal land. 256 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:35.119 We are promised heaven on earth. They said, Lord, we've 257 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:38.480 been hanging out with you and watching you and spending 258 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.799 time with you, and we're watching John's disciples, and we 259 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:44.400 want you to teach us how to pray. How in 260 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.240 the world should we pray? What should we pray for? Right? 261 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:54.000 And he said, pray this way, Thy Kingdom, come right, 262 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.519 Thy will be done in heaven as it is in heaven. 263 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:12.440 What do you say on earth as it is in heaven. 264 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:19.279 This is the central This is the central focus. The 265 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:24.039 central focus of what Father has in mind is redeeming 266 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:29.279 the earth, redeeming the people of the earth, reconciling all 267 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:34.880 things to himself as it pertains to the earth and 268 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:40.200 the sons of men. So then secondly they were put 269 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.000 in bondage. They were promised this land of milk and honey. 270 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:48.799 But then they were put in bondage under a Satanic pharaoh. 271 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.880 So like the sons of Adam. Yeah, then they were 272 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:56.319 delivered out of Egypt, out of this clutch of the 273 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:04.200 pharaoh's hand. And these ten demon spirits that were the 274 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.559 principalities and the powers of Egypt. They were delivered out 275 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:13.200 of Egypt by the blood of a lamb. It was 276 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:19.480 the type of salvation. Then they were delivered from them, 277 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:24.200 reaching and pulling them back into bondage through the Red Sea, 278 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:28.079 which is a type of baptism where the enemy was 279 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:32.319 cut off from them. Then they wandered in the wilderness 280 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:36.400 until they matured in faith, which is a type of sanctification. 281 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:40.480 So even after we're even after we're baptized in water, 282 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:47.640 we mature in sanctification because now we understand and now 283 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:54.799 we have transpired over us a legal cutting off of 284 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:59.279 the demonic realm. So now we grow in our sanctification 285 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:03.920 like they matured in faith. Wondering in the wilderness. You're 286 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.960 going to wonder in your wilderness until you mature in sanctification. 287 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.079 Then they crossed over the Jordan to go into the 288 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:21.160 Promised Land, and the waters were stopped at a town 289 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:28.119 called Adam. It says the water's piled up at a 290 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:32.680 town called Adam. That was a type for us to know. 291 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:38.319 For them, it's what cleared the way for them to 292 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:43.079 go in to the Promised Land. For us, it's a 293 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:48.599 picture that the curse is cut off, The curse over 294 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:54.000 your life is cut off as you come through sanctification 295 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.720 and come into a fullness of faith. The curse of 296 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.640 your life is cut off so that you can go 297 00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:07.319 in to heaven on earth. It's so that you can 298 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:14.319 go into your promised land. Well, you'll notice everything I'm saying. 299 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:19.559 I'm opening every single statement with they. Everybody say they. 300 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:24.720 You'll notice they did this together. You'll notice this wasn't 301 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:29.000 a personal walk. This was a corporate walk. This wasn't 302 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:32.680 a personal work. It was a corporate work. You'll notice 303 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:36.680 that they wondered in the wilderness until they all came 304 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:41.440 into faith. That's what it says. They wandered in the 305 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.839 wilderness until they all came into faith. And when they 306 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:49.200 went in to possess the promised land, there was none 307 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:53.480 feeble and none in unbelief. They all went in with faith. 308 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:56.319 It was a corporate and I want you to see this. 309 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.160 This is like the major focus I believe of Holy 310 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:04.119 Spirit today is that we go together, that we possess together, 311 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:08.400 we dispossess the enemy together. We are knit together. We 312 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.359 need each other. That you don't go in to your 313 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:19.279 promise land alone. And this is the big lie that 314 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.319 I believe Holy Spirit wants to pinpoint today that you 315 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:28.599 have a personal promise land that isn't interconnected to the body, 316 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:31.880 and that you should just focus on your personal salvation. 317 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:41.440 That is so shortsighted and it's unattainable. It's unattainable because 318 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.839 your victory is my victory, and my victory is your victory, 319 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:50.440 and your failure is my failure. And the entire kingdom 320 00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:53.799 is moving forward as we move forward, not as I 321 00:25:53.920 --> 00:26:03.200 move forward. They were to dispossess the enemies of God 322 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:06.279 in the land, which is the type of spiritual warfare 323 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:12.119 for us, dispossessing the demonic realm in our land. And 324 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.920 what that showed us is that God fights when we fight. 325 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:20.880 God fights for us when we fight. If we will 326 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:26.079 not fight, he won't fight. It's as easy as that. 327 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:32.880 Every time they went forward and fought with God, God 328 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:38.440 fought with them. Every time they went forward under the 329 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.359 command of the Lord, then the Lord was there with them. 330 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:46.200 It's totally a picture. And now remember their leader was Jesus. 331 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:54.119 Their leader was Joshua. Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus. 332 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:59.960 Jesus is the Greek of Joshua. Joshua was their leader. 333 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.519 This was a type of Matthew sixteen nineteen. Whatever you 334 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:09.519 bind will be bound. If you bind it, I'll see 335 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:12.039 tooth that it gets bound. Whatever you lose, they'll be loosed. 336 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.839 If you'll lose it, I'll see tooth that it gets loosed. 337 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:19.519 This was a type of that, because whenever they fought, 338 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:22.480 he fought for them. So they would just show up 339 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:29.400 with swords and he'd rain hailstones down. He had miracle 340 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.160 after miracle after miracle that gave them the victory. If 341 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:38.559 they would just show up for battle and do their part. 342 00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:43.039 They had to do their part. And it's not all 343 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:48.599 it's not all cussing out devils. We have to do 344 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:53.319 our part. We have to turn off our televisions. We 345 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.440 have to turn off our movies. We need to stop 346 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.799 bragging to eat one another about how many movies we 347 00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:01.640 watched this year. We need to start bragging about how 348 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:05.839 many books we've read. We need to start excelling again 349 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:10.319 as the early Church did, in the disciplines of study 350 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:16.440 that are the foundation stones of influence, because otherwise we're 351 00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:21.559 just going to be a bunch of spirit filled born 352 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:36.279 again dumb Christians. I said it here, and you might 353 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.240 get somebody born again, but you won't be able to 354 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:45.000 have a conversation about philosophy or literature, or history, or science, 355 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:51.680 or nutrition or medicine, or the arts or music. You'll 356 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.039 be as dumb as the brick because you've had your 357 00:28:54.079 --> 00:29:00.559 head in Comcast Exfinity one thousand channels into the movie 358 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.799 parlor ten times this year, and you're wasting your life 359 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.559 away when God's called you to be a partner with 360 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:16.680 Jesus in reconciling all things back to God. Not reconciling 361 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:21.160 the church back to God. Reconciling all things back to 362 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:27.599 God because in Him, in Him, they were created, and 363 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:39.359 they are created for His glory. Well they don't. I 364 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:43.440 wasn't done yet with the parable. They were not to 365 00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:49.599 intermarry or compromise, and any evil they tolerated would become 366 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:53.160 thorns to them. As a type of how we are 367 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:57.160 to completely drive the enemy out, we aren't just supposed 368 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.279 to drive the enemy out of the church. We aren't 369 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.880 supposed to just on a microcosm or a microcosm drive 370 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.359 the enemy out of us. Part of us understanding what 371 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:09.400 God wants to do to bring heaven on earth. Is 372 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:15.799 that we're supposed to drive the lies, the distortions, the 373 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:21.839 perversions of thinking out of the disciplines of study. We're 374 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.920 supposed to bring higher truth, higher wisdom, higher thought to 375 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.960 the disciplines of study, and in that way drive the 376 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:34.559 enemy out. And anything we won't drive out, anything we tolerate, 377 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:38.759 anything we allow, anything we ignore, will become a thorn 378 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.240 to us and a thorn to our side. As it 379 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.720 was with them, and it spoiled the land for them, 380 00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:51.920 It harmed their promise. It kept them from fully actualizing 381 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:57.640 and enjoying what they were promised in the Promised Land 382 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:06.359 because they whimped out and they didn't fully dispossess the 383 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:11.400 enemy in much of their regions and their territories. And 384 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.200 it's not that God was not willing or able, it's 385 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:28.079 just that they ceased from war were given an example 386 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:33.319 of something with them in Joshua seven. Right. Joshua seven, 387 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:38.759 I think gives us an insight into not only them 388 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:41.880 as the children of Israel and the twelve tribes, where 389 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.640 they were to fight for one another. Like even the tribes, 390 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.839 they would leave their territory if they were getting victories, 391 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:51.480 and they would run over to Benjamin's territory, or they 392 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:54.119 would run over to Asher's territory, or they would run 393 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.079 over to you know, one of the others, and they 394 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.640 would fight for one another. And we see this corporate, 395 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.160 this corporate thing happening even here in Joshua chapter seven. 396 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.559 Because Aiken held on to some of the devoted stuff, 397 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:22.240 one person sinned and it harmed their assent into the 398 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:27.839 fullness of their promised land. Their next battle was Ai, 399 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.559 and they went out to Ai, and they lost the battle. 400 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:38.480 They lost the battle at Aim. They lost the battle 401 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:42.279