WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.960 I just I'm all struck at how God is visionary. 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.280 Fact as I'm thinking the more I think about it, 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.480 is that this is one of his most important traits, 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:18.320 is that he's visionary. And because of that, and we're 5 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.079 made in his likeness. I think it's one of our 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:26.640 most important traits. One of the most important characteristics about 7 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.879 us is that we have the potential for vision. Now, 8 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:35.200 when we think about vision, we usually think about things future. 9 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:42.880 But vision is interrelated to imagination, It's interrelated to meditation, right, 10 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:52.679 and so God has continually been trying to capture our vision, 11 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.159 our imagination, our meditations with what he has in mind 12 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.759 for us, with the goodness that he's ordained, right with 13 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.239 the beauty he's created, with where he wants to take mankind. 14 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:14.040 And likewise, the enemy knows that this is this is 15 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.439 actually the strength of your love. The strength of your 16 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:28.200 love is actually your vision, your imagination. The strength of 17 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:33.599 your faith is actually your vision and your imagination, and 18 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:38.239 what you meditate on. It's the strength or it's the weakness. 19 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.920 Matthew six twenty two. Jesus said that the eye is 20 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:46.560 the gate, the lamp of the whole body. He didn't 21 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.120 say that the eye is the lamp to the soul. 22 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.840 That would be true, but he was trying to tell 23 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:59.000 us something. Is that that what we focus on, and 24 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:00.680 I think we have that verse to. We might have 25 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:03.319 that verse. I don't know if they if they kept 26 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.799 those things in the thing or not, but there might 27 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.759 be some verses I allude to that we don't have 28 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:10.960 because there were several that I didn't put in. So 29 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.759 I was responsible for loading some of those things, and 30 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.599 I failed greatly. But Matthew six twenty two says that 31 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.919 the eye is the lamp of the body. If your 32 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:28.439 eye is healthy, eyes are healthy. Now that's probably the NIV. 33 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:33.400 It's not carrying the full inference of maybe the text, 34 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.319 but the idea is that if what you focus on 35 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:45.039 is pure, is good, is noble, If what you focus 36 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.039 on is right and righteous, then your whole body we 37 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.520 will be full of light. If what you focus on 38 00:02:53.719 --> 00:03:04.199 is negative, it's dark, it's unclean, it's perverse, distorted. If 39 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.000 it's off just a little bit, right, if your vision 40 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.319 is off just a little bit. So we see Satan 41 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.599 is trying to capture the heart and the mind of 42 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:17.520 us continually with something that will take us off course. 43 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.560 Remember with Eve. 44 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.840 Remember Satan said, doesn't the fruit look good. 45 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.919 To the eye? 46 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:37.800 Wow? He appealed to her vision. It's metaphoric. There's a 47 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.000 reason that the scripture describes it the way it does, 48 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.560 because he was appealing to what she would see, and 49 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.000 if she would see it in a particular way, she 50 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:54.479 could overcome obstruction of God's command because it looked good 51 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:00.800 to the eye. We get drawn away by that look 52 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:08.120 good to the eye, but that art of God. But 53 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:13.879 God has things that are good to the eye. Now 54 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.480 we have this crazy, beautiful privilege. The privilege we have 55 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:22.959 is the redemption of our imagination. The redemption of our 56 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:24.399 imagination is. 57 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.040 Is what I think. 58 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.759 It's one of the central things God was after in 59 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:38.519 Christ as he delivers us out of darkness, because in 60 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.439 Genesis sixty five it says that God repented that he 61 00:04:42.519 --> 00:05:00.600 made man because their constant imaginations were darkened. So what happened, 62 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.560 and this is I want you to see what happened, 63 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:10.040 is in the fall we were drawn away by Satan, 64 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:14.240 pulling our vision into something that contradicted God's word in 65 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:22.519 God's vision. But then as Adam became aligned with the enemy, 66 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:30.000 then the constant imagination was toward destruction, toward violence, toward jealousy, 67 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:36.519 toward pride, toward arrogance, toward cornality, the things that were 68 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:43.040 of the cornal Man James in chapter three calls it 69 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:53.519 the wisdom from beneath envy, jealousy, bitterness, competition, negativity. The 70 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:59.319 imagination of man was given to this continuously. And this 71 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.759 is what God was after in Christ Jesus. God was 72 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:07.040 after your imagination. He wasn't just after getting you to heaven. 73 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.040 He was after your imagination. He was after your vision 74 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.079 what you ponder on. And vision is so important because 75 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.120 when we think about vision, we think about the future. 76 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.839 And God wants your imagination partnered with him for the future. Now, 77 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.120 there was no way he could do that. He couldn't 78 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.879 do that, He couldn't harness your imagination for the blessed 79 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.560 future that He ordained for every one of us, and 80 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:39.560 what he was working the earth toward until Christ came. 81 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:46.720 When Christ came, there was a piercing into the stony 82 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.360 heart and the removal of that stony heart, and the 83 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:54.240 replacing of that stony heart with a soft heart, soft 84 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.079 toward the spirit, so that we could hear him, partner 85 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.800 with him and begin to think his thoughts. God has 86 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.759 called us to think thoughts that are up here in heavenward. 87 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:12.839 So that's why Colossians three says Colossians two, delivered out 88 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:18.079 of darkness. Colossians three, Now that you have been delivered 89 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:23.279 out of darkness, set your mind on things above where 90 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:29.000 Christ is, where you are already seated Roman's eighty six. 91 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:34.639 The mindset on the carnal realm is resulting in death. 92 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.120 And it's not like you died today. It's just like 93 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.959 you're killing everything you touch. But the mindset on the 94 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:47.680 things of the spirit is life and peace. Where do 95 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.839 we set our minds? There's a great liberation that God 96 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.120 was bringing to our mind. Now God's been appealing to 97 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.399 God's been appealing to us through. 98 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:01.519 From the very beginning. 99 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:06.519 There's metaphor after metaphor after metaphor, story after story after 100 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:11.199 story where God appeals to us with regard to the future, 101 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:18.040 trying to show either Abraham or Israel or Joseph. What 102 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.199 was Joseph known for? What was he called? Joseph is 103 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.439 a picture of Christ? What was he called the dreamer? 104 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.800 Joseph is called a dreamer, He's the favored son, He's 105 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:33.440 got the coat of many colors. It's like the robe 106 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.559 of righteousness on him. He is literally the symbol of restoration. 107 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:47.480 Joseph goes down to Egypt and he's given the land 108 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:51.120 of Goshen, and it's even described that the land of 109 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:57.080 Goshen was as Eden. So Joseph the Favored Son enters 110 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:00.759 into the land of Eden to bring preservation to all 111 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.919 of Jacob, to all of Israel. And what's he known 112 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:10.200 as He's the Dreamer's trying to show us all the 113 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.879 way through that he wants to speak to us in 114 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.720 the language of dreams and visions, the language of dreams 115 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:23.080 and visions. He wants to capture our heart with the 116 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:27.440 language of dreams and visions that are heavenward, that are 117 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.200 out of heaven, that are out of victory, that are 118 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.279 out of grace, that are out of hope, that are 119 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.519 out of life, that are out of provision, that are 120 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:45.600 out of the fullness of heaven. Jesus said, pray this way, 121 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:49.279 Matthew six nine through eleven, Thy Kingdom come, I will 122 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:57.000 be done on earth as it is in heaven. That 123 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.679 can't be just a prayer. You have to see heaven first. 124 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:08.320 If you're praying what you can't see then your prayer 125 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.320 is worthless. It's an appeal to heaven. And maybe he'll 126 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.679 start to show you you felt what I'm saying, But 127 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.679 really you have to pray what you see. What do 128 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.840 you see about heaven? What do you see about heaven? 129 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:35.360 Abundant resources, health, redemption. God's sovereign plan is to redeem us, 130 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:38.600 redeem man, restore men, then restore the earth. Do you 131 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.840 see that when he says, pray that Heaven comes to earth, 132 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:49.480 he's calling us to see what heaven is, and that 133 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:55.240 Heaven is now accessible for us, not in the sweet 134 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.639 by and by, but accessible for us to begin to 135 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.639 agree with and begin to walk in and begin to 136 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.360 see it grow in the earth, in our lives and 137 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:12.240 in the earth. And I think this is a good 138 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:17.080 definition of sovereignty if we understood the sovereignty of God 139 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.679 is that God has a vision, and his vision is 140 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.759 to restore Heaven on earth, and he's going to win 141 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.320 by the way he's. 142 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:27.600 Going to win. 143 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.519 God's vision is to restore heaven on the earth and 144 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:37.559 to completely banish Satan and principalities and powers and completely 145 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.039 put them under the feet of the righteous that delivered 146 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.720 the sons of the Second atom. He has that vision, 147 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:53.919 and sovereignty is him working that vision out in history, 148 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.919 bringing forth a restored people, bringing forth a restored earth. 149 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.960 He's going to work that out in history. And that 150 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:07.000 is the sovereignty of God in action. And the how 151 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:12.840 is Jesus. Every vision needs a how, and Jesus is 152 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.799 the how. Jesus is the one thrust into history to 153 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:30.440 bend it toward God's will. Now, God's invited us into 154 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:35.799 God's invited us into this new realm of imagination. And 155 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.840 why I say that this could be the most powerful 156 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:48.240 redemptive thing about you vision, Your vision could be the 157 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:56.799 most powerful thing about you in redemption because of all 158 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:02.879 the things God promised to restore first, because your vision 159 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:08.360 has to be restored first. You can't love beyond what 160 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:15.039 you can see loving. You can't accomplish what you cannot 161 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:21.080 see accomplishing. You cannot give what you cannot see yourself giving. 162 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.600 You cannot serve beyond what you can see yourself serving. 163 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.720 You cannot perform, you cannot build, you cannot do it. 164 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:35.480 So it's crazy. 165 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.759 It's interesting that when the Bible talks about pouring out 166 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:44.639 the spirit, not on the Jews only, No, not on 167 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.200 err and only no, not on Levi. 168 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.120 Only when the. 169 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.000 Bible talks about pouring out the spirit on the gentiles, 170 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.879 on all flesh globally. When the Bible talks about it, Joel, 171 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.759 Chapter two, verse twenty eight. When the Bible talks about it, 172 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:01.799 you know what to say us. There's going to be 173 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:14.480 a restoration of dreams and visions. Gentile people, Gentile people 174 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.639 whose minds have been darkened, who are aliens from the 175 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:28.279 Promise and the covenants. Gentile people are going to be 176 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.879 delivered out of darkness, and their imaginations are going to 177 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:40.000 be resuscitated. Their ability to visioneer with God, their ability 178 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.720 to see what God's up to, is going to be 179 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:46.519 resuscitated by the Holy Spirit. And they're going to receive 180 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.159 the potential to dream with God. They're going to receive 181 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.879 the potential to dream heavenward dreams, to see things they 182 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:06.399 could never see, and to partner with Holy Spirit. So 183 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:09.679 he says that, he says that this is like the 184 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.559 This is the hallmark, the hallmark, by the way, the 185 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.840 hallmark of the hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 186 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:20.200 This is the. 187 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.200 Hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It's not 188 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:32.679 speaking in tongues. Wow, in Pentecostal churches, we've made the 189 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.840 hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues. 190 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:38.120 That isn't the passage. 191 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.960 And when Peter talks about this passage in Acts chapter two, 192 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.120 in Acts chapter two, he says, they're not drunk like 193 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.720 you suppose. And by the way, the tongues that they're 194 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.480 talking on, the tongues that they're speaking on the day 195 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.759 of Pentecost, those tongues were the tongues of the one hundred 196 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.960 and any nations that were present in the auditorium, in 197 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.639 the audience, in the audience, there was somebody there from 198 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:14.679 every nation under the globe. Somebody was there, and they 199 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:19.879 heard people speaking in languages they had never learned, the 200 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:23.639 glory of God and the glory of Jesus, and the 201 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:27.480 glory of the resurrection and the glory of redemption in 202 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:39.000 their own tongue from people that had never learned their language. 203 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:41.000 That's so. Then you got some. 204 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:47.320 Demon led naysayers in the crowds saying, now they're just drunk. 205 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:56.480 Eh, heh, they're just drunk. And Peter stands out. 206 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.840 The read who became a rock stands up and says, 207 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:05.240 they're not drunk, you dingbats. It's only nine o'clock in 208 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:09.559 the morning. This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. 209 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.720 As it shall come to and it shall come to 210 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.480 pass in the last days, Saith God, I got news 211 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.720 for you. By the way, got. 212 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.160 A mess with you. These are not the last days. 213 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.559 You're not living in the last days. 214 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.799 And if you're living in the last days, you keep 215 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.599 waiting for the Holy Spirit to be poured out, you 216 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:35.440 missed it. The Holy Spirit already got poured out. You're 217 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.240 not living in the last days. You're living in the 218 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:45.519 new days. This is the growing kingdom of heaven. Oh 219 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:50.119 boy Lord, help us. This is the growing kingdom of art. 220 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.039 Thank you for helping me. Growing Kingdom of Heaven, growing 221 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.799 Kingdom of Heaven. Right, the last days aren't over here 222 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:01.440 somewhere He was talking about the last days of the 223 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:08.079 Mosaic period. So if you had Joel two twenty eight only, 224 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:12.599 you wouldn't know that. Joel said, in the last days, 225 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.759 I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and they 226 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.359 will prophesy. You know what prophesi is. Prophesy is the 227 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:27.000 word seer. Prophets were called seers. He says I'm gonna 228 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.440 pour out my spirit up lesh, and everybody's gonna be 229 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:34.279 a seer. A seer is the person who operates in visions. 230 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:40.960 Visions are how God announces the future. Satan wants you 231 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.200 to focus on the present and on the past. God 232 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.039 wants you to focus on the future. Your future is 233 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.559 bright and full of heaven. God wants you to focus 234 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:54.279 on all of your problems. I mean, Satan wants you 235 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:57.839 to focus on all your problems and all the things 236 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.720 that disqualify you for good things. But God is interrupting 237 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.160 that by Jesus. And God is interrupting you with vision, 238 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.240 and He's made you a seer. 239 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.920 Yeah, even the women poke. 240 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:23.559 God was disrupting everything by the Holy Spirit. Joel didn't 241 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:25.079 know when this was going to come to pass. He 242 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.359 just said, in the last days, Well, when are the 243 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.680 last days coming? Well, Daniel even thinking on this stuff 244 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.880 till the last days. Daniel said, you know, oh my goodness, 245 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:34.200 what am I going to do with all this? And 246 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.599 God said, you know, write it up because this is 247 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:40.599 you know, write it up and seal it because it's for. 248 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.480 The last days. What were the last days? 249 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.440 Well, the last days were the last days of the 250 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.680 Mosaic period. This was the end of a period of 251 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:53.359 being under the law. Jesus started a new period of 252 00:19:53.400 --> 00:20:01.440 being under truth and grace. The law of God is 253 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.759 now written on our heart. We don't live according to 254 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.480 the Decalogue the Ten Commandments. We live according to the 255 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.640 spirit dwelling in us, which supersedes the law. 256 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.480 Our righteousness is. 257 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:14.920 Greater than that of the law because we don't just 258 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:19.000 judge ourselves according to our actions. We judge ourselves according 259 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:28.240 to the imagination of our heart. A good wow, So 260 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:31.039 he says, in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit. 261 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:35.720 So did that happen? Now there can be revival burps 262 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:40.880 along the way as God is fully restoring us to 263 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.680 the fullness of what of Christ. 264 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:44.920 Iph He's in four. 265 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:49.160 God is restoring us to the fullness of Christ because 266 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:51.759 Christ is the image of the new Man, and He 267 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:55.160 is the last Atom, and we're being restored into that image. 268 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:58.279 So there's going to be burps of revival along the way. 269 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:00.799 But you have to know, we are waiting for some 270 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:03.880 kind of outpouring of the spirit out here somewhere. The 271 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.359 Holy Spirit was poured out, and Peter said, to clear 272 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:12.920 up any confusion, this is what Joel prophesied of that 273 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:19.160 in the last days of Moses, before the Tabernacle was destroyed, 274 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.440 and right before the last sacrifice was ever made, God 275 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:28.119 poured out his spirit on all gentiles, on all flesh, 276 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:33.119 and he inserted into their hearts the seer anointing. 277 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:35.119 You have the seer anointing. 278 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:46.440 You talk about the most astounding privilege on the planet. 279 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:50.599 Believers in Jesus Christ, are you hearing me this morning? 280 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:56.039 You have the privilege, the grace, the power, the anointing 281 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.920 to be visioneers of heaven. You have the grace, the power, 282 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.640 and the anointing, the enablement to see things that nobody 283 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.119 else can see, to create what nobody else can create, 284 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.200 to build what nobody else can build, to develop what 285 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:16.519 nobody else can develop, To write what nobody else can write. Satan, 286 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.359 even right now, Satan is trying to grab your attention 287 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:33.119 with negativity, with fake book. Come on, come on, come on. 288 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:37.920 The most powerful thing you have is your ability to 289 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:43.920 envision the future and your ability to imagine your partnership 290 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:46.960 and the partnership of the Body of Christ with Heaven, 291 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:49.799 so that Heaven will grow. 292 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.880 But you have to harness this. 293 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.200 The Holy Spirit is so kind and gracious, he's not 294 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.920 going to come down and grab your brain, grab your mind, 295 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:05.599 grab your thoughts and force you to think happy thoughts. 296 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:14.480 You have the privilege to partner with him. You have 297 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:27.319 the privileged to visioneer with him. Oh my goodness, let's 298 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:29.319 go back to Matthew six twenty two, just for a moment. 299 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:35.519 Let's think about that for a moment. If your vision 300 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:38.759 is dark, here's some notes. I got A heaven sent 301 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:43.559 vision will will fuel I'm almost out of time. I 302 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:46.960 got to cut to the chase. A heaven sent vision 303 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:51.559 will fuel your life and passion. A heaven sent vision 304 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:55.559 is a compass. A heaven sent vision will cross examine 305 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.440 every behavior. A heaven sent vision will give life purpose. 306 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:07.319 Heaven's vision is the source of discipline when you're literally 307 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.920 partnering with because you have to. You have to understand 308 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.960 that you are. You are tethered to this. You are 309 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:18.319 tethered to this grace of an increasing kingdom of heaven. 310 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.319 You're tethered to it. But if you ignore it, you 311 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.960 can't partner with the grace that's available. But when you 312 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:27.240 partner with the grace that's available with the increasing kingdom, 313 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:31.319 it's like you you don't even need food to have energy. 314 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:33.119 Nobody needs to wake you up. 315 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.480 You don't need an alarm clock to wake you up 316 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.400 like you're waiting for the alarm clock. 317 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:38.759 Is that thing ever going to go off? I got it, 318 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:43.920 I got a date. It FULFILLM so good. 319 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.640 Now, what I want you to see is that you 320 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:53.359 your life is tethered to Zion. I want you to 321 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:55.640 see that your life is tethered Desion, and I want 322 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:59.480 you to see that this visionary thing of building the 323 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:04.559 Kingdom of Heaven, because you're a partner in that, is 324 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:07.480 because your life is tethered to Zion, the House of 325 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.640 the Lord, and it's out of Zion. It's out of 326 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:18.119 Zion that we are sent as arrows in the culture. 327 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:23.079 It's out of Zion. This is home, and this is 328 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:26.079 the house. This is the house God has built. It's 329 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:28.599 the pre eminent house. It's not that these other houses 330 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:33.240 aren't important. No, we're anointed here to go as apostolic 331 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.039 arrows into these mountains. We're anointed and we're sent like 332 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.599 flaming arrows into the mountain of family. That's psychology, that's psychiatry, 333 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.640 that's medicine, that's everything to do with family. We're anointed 334 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.880 like Aros and sent into that. And as we go, 335 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:52.680 we go building this vision. We see that this is 336 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:55.519 the vision God is building. He's poured out his spirit 337 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.559 upon us. We are full of grace and power. We 338 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:02.319 go and we partner with him, and he's building the 339 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:06.240 kingdom in family, in arts and entertainment, in the economy, 340 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:09.400 in the government mountain, in the education mountain, in the 341 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:16.119 media mountain, and he's reclaiming these and they become, they become, 342 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:21.200 and they begun to come back. So others they begin 343 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:23.400 to come, and they're fed out of Zion, and all 344 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.960 of us are fed out of Zion. And this is 345 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.279 the vision he wants us to have. They come and 346 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.599 they're fed out of Zion, and then they go back, 347 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.160 and we go back and forth. As the mountain of 348 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:38.960 the Lord becomes the chief mountain. The mountain of the 349 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:41.720 Lord becomes the chief mountain. And that's part of why 350 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:46.359 what we do here is so important. It's not important 351 00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.559 because this is the only mountain. It's important because this 352 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.160 is the chief mountain, and it's out of the House 353 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.920 of the Lord, the mountain of God's presence, the mountain 354 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:57.200 of God's glory, the mountain of God's instruction, the mountain 355 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:01.400 of God's wisdom, that we are said, like flaming arrows 356 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:07.640 into every sphere of culture, to bring transformation, to bring reformation, 357 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:10.359 to bring the life of God and the power of 358 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:14.400 God and the wisdom of Heaven into those spheres, those 359 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:22.920 mountains of culture. I got two minutes, maybe three if 360 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:33.319 I cheat. I think Dennis went long saw chee this morning. Okay, 361 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:36.039 but Frank, are you handy? Are you close? Where's Frank? 362 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:38.720 Where's Frank? That's your Frank, that's your Frank. Okay, listen 363 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:40.920 to this Isaiah too. It's in Micah four as well. 364 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:43.759 It's Isaiah too. It's Micah four. I want you to 365 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:50.200 hear this. This is what Isaiah saw concerning Jerusalem and Judea. 366 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:54.519 And this is about the last days. And we just 367 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:57.359 talked about the last days, and this began to happen. 368 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:01.200 It's not finished in its accomplishment, but it began to happen. 369 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:03.880 In the last days. The Mountain of the Lord's People, 370 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:06.119 or the mountain of the House of the Lord, will 371 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.960 be established as the highest of the mountains. It will 372 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.519 be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream 373 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:16.039 to it. Now, he's delineating and MiCT for Isaiah to 374 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:21.039 He's separating and delineating this out from the Tabernacle of Moses. 375 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:24.519 It's not the Tabernacle of Moses. He's talking about the 376 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:30.359 Mountain of Zion. Galatians, we don't have time. Galatians four 377 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:39.759 twenty six, Hebrews twelve twenty two. Believers in Jesus do 378 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:45.599 not see earthly Jerusalem as our headquarters. Earthly Jerusalem is 379 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.359 not the headquarters of believers in Jesus. It is Mount Zion. 380 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:53.079 It is the Zion from above. It is the Zion 381 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:56.920 of God. It is David's House and David's Tabernacle. We 382 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:01.039 are the restored David's House in David's Tabernacle, Acts, chapter fifteen. 383 00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.480 Look it up and read that as well. Okay, so 384 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:05.440 I want you to see this. He says, in the 385 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:07.680 last days, the mountain of the Lord's Temple, the mountain 386 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.680 of the House of the Lord, will be established as 387 00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:12.000 the highest of the mountains. It will be exalted above 388 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:14.279 the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many 389 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:16.720 will come and say, let us go to the Mountain 390 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.079 of the Lord, to the temple of the God of 391 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:21.119 Jacob He will teach us his ways that we may 392 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.440 walk in his paths. For the law will go forth 393 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.160 from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He 394 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.039 will judge between the nations and settle dispuse for many people. 395 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:31.799 Now they will beat their swords into plowshares and their 396 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.519 spears into puny hooks. Nations will not take up sword 397 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.359 against nation anymore, nor will they train for war anymore. 398 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:43.440 This is the growing kingdom that's functioning out of the 399 00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:48.000 headquarters as we The ligaments and the lively stones are 400 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:54.559 connected to the Zion from above. Okay, one more and 401 00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:57.559