Speaker 1: I just I'm all struck at how God is visionary.
Speaker 1: Fact as I'm thinking the more I think about it,
Speaker 1: is that this is one of his most important traits,
Speaker 1: is that he's visionary. And because of that, and we're
Speaker 1: made in his likeness. I think it's one of our
Speaker 1: most important traits. One of the most important characteristics about
Speaker 1: us is that we have the potential for vision. Now,
Speaker 1: when we think about vision, we usually think about things future.
Speaker 1: But vision is interrelated to imagination, It's interrelated to meditation, right,
Speaker 1: and so God has continually been trying to capture our vision,
Speaker 1: our imagination, our meditations with what he has in mind
Speaker 1: for us, with the goodness that he's ordained, right with
Speaker 1: the beauty he's created, with where he wants to take mankind.
Speaker 1: And likewise, the enemy knows that this is this is
Speaker 1: actually the strength of your love. The strength of your
Speaker 1: love is actually your vision, your imagination. The strength of
Speaker 1: your faith is actually your vision and your imagination, and
Speaker 1: what you meditate on. It's the strength or it's the weakness.
Speaker 1: Matthew six twenty two. Jesus said that the eye is
Speaker 1: the gate, the lamp of the whole body. He didn't
Speaker 1: say that the eye is the lamp to the soul.
Speaker 1: That would be true, but he was trying to tell
Speaker 1: us something. Is that that what we focus on, and
Speaker 1: I think we have that verse to. We might have
Speaker 1: that verse. I don't know if they if they kept
Speaker 1: those things in the thing or not, but there might
Speaker 1: be some verses I allude to that we don't have
Speaker 1: because there were several that I didn't put in. So
Speaker 1: I was responsible for loading some of those things, and
Speaker 1: I failed greatly. But Matthew six twenty two says that
Speaker 1: the eye is the lamp of the body. If your
Speaker 1: eye is healthy, eyes are healthy. Now that's probably the NIV.
Speaker 1: It's not carrying the full inference of maybe the text,
Speaker 1: but the idea is that if what you focus on
Speaker 1: is pure, is good, is noble, If what you focus
Speaker 1: on is right and righteous, then your whole body we
Speaker 1: will be full of light. If what you focus on
Speaker 1: is negative, it's dark, it's unclean, it's perverse, distorted. If
Speaker 1: it's off just a little bit, right, if your vision
Speaker 1: is off just a little bit. So we see Satan
Speaker 1: is trying to capture the heart and the mind of
Speaker 1: us continually with something that will take us off course.
Speaker 2: Remember with Eve.
Speaker 1: Remember Satan said, doesn't the fruit look good.
Speaker 2: To the eye?
Speaker 1: Wow? He appealed to her vision. It's metaphoric. There's a
Speaker 1: reason that the scripture describes it the way it does,
Speaker 1: because he was appealing to what she would see, and
Speaker 1: if she would see it in a particular way, she
Speaker 1: could overcome obstruction of God's command because it looked good
Speaker 1: to the eye. We get drawn away by that look
Speaker 1: good to the eye, but that art of God. But
Speaker 1: God has things that are good to the eye. Now
Speaker 1: we have this crazy, beautiful privilege. The privilege we have
Speaker 1: is the redemption of our imagination. The redemption of our
Speaker 1: imagination is.
Speaker 2: Is what I think.
Speaker 1: It's one of the central things God was after in
Speaker 1: Christ as he delivers us out of darkness, because in
Speaker 1: Genesis sixty five it says that God repented that he
Speaker 1: made man because their constant imaginations were darkened. So what happened,
Speaker 1: and this is I want you to see what happened,
Speaker 1: is in the fall we were drawn away by Satan,
Speaker 1: pulling our vision into something that contradicted God's word in
Speaker 1: God's vision. But then as Adam became aligned with the enemy,
Speaker 1: then the constant imagination was toward destruction, toward violence, toward jealousy,
Speaker 1: toward pride, toward arrogance, toward cornality, the things that were
Speaker 1: of the cornal Man James in chapter three calls it
Speaker 1: the wisdom from beneath envy, jealousy, bitterness, competition, negativity. The
Speaker 1: imagination of man was given to this continuously. And this
Speaker 1: is what God was after in Christ Jesus. God was
Speaker 1: after your imagination. He wasn't just after getting you to heaven.
Speaker 1: He was after your imagination. He was after your vision
Speaker 1: what you ponder on. And vision is so important because
Speaker 1: when we think about vision, we think about the future.
Speaker 1: And God wants your imagination partnered with him for the future. Now,
Speaker 1: there was no way he could do that. He couldn't
Speaker 1: do that, He couldn't harness your imagination for the blessed
Speaker 1: future that He ordained for every one of us, and
Speaker 1: what he was working the earth toward until Christ came.
Speaker 1: When Christ came, there was a piercing into the stony
Speaker 1: heart and the removal of that stony heart, and the
Speaker 1: replacing of that stony heart with a soft heart, soft
Speaker 1: toward the spirit, so that we could hear him, partner
Speaker 1: with him and begin to think his thoughts. God has
Speaker 1: called us to think thoughts that are up here in heavenward.
Speaker 1: So that's why Colossians three says Colossians two, delivered out
Speaker 1: of darkness. Colossians three, Now that you have been delivered
Speaker 1: out of darkness, set your mind on things above where
Speaker 1: Christ is, where you are already seated Roman's eighty six.
Speaker 1: The mindset on the carnal realm is resulting in death.
Speaker 1: And it's not like you died today. It's just like
Speaker 1: you're killing everything you touch. But the mindset on the
Speaker 1: things of the spirit is life and peace. Where do
Speaker 1: we set our minds? There's a great liberation that God
Speaker 1: was bringing to our mind. Now God's been appealing to
Speaker 1: God's been appealing to us through.
Speaker 2: From the very beginning.
Speaker 1: There's metaphor after metaphor after metaphor, story after story after
Speaker 1: story where God appeals to us with regard to the future,
Speaker 1: trying to show either Abraham or Israel or Joseph. What
Speaker 1: was Joseph known for? What was he called? Joseph is
Speaker 1: a picture of Christ? What was he called the dreamer?
Speaker 1: Joseph is called a dreamer, He's the favored son, He's
Speaker 1: got the coat of many colors. It's like the robe
Speaker 1: of righteousness on him. He is literally the symbol of restoration.
Speaker 1: Joseph goes down to Egypt and he's given the land
Speaker 1: of Goshen, and it's even described that the land of
Speaker 1: Goshen was as Eden. So Joseph the Favored Son enters
Speaker 1: into the land of Eden to bring preservation to all
Speaker 1: of Jacob, to all of Israel. And what's he known
Speaker 1: as He's the Dreamer's trying to show us all the
Speaker 1: way through that he wants to speak to us in
Speaker 1: the language of dreams and visions, the language of dreams
Speaker 1: and visions. He wants to capture our heart with the
Speaker 1: language of dreams and visions that are heavenward, that are
Speaker 1: out of heaven, that are out of victory, that are
Speaker 1: out of grace, that are out of hope, that are
Speaker 1: out of life, that are out of provision, that are
Speaker 1: out of the fullness of heaven. Jesus said, pray this way,
Speaker 1: Matthew six nine through eleven, Thy Kingdom come, I will
Speaker 1: be done on earth as it is in heaven. That
Speaker 1: can't be just a prayer. You have to see heaven first.
Speaker 1: If you're praying what you can't see then your prayer
Speaker 1: is worthless. It's an appeal to heaven. And maybe he'll
Speaker 1: start to show you you felt what I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: really you have to pray what you see. What do
Speaker 1: you see about heaven? What do you see about heaven?
Speaker 1: Abundant resources, health, redemption. God's sovereign plan is to redeem us,
Speaker 1: redeem man, restore men, then restore the earth. Do you
Speaker 1: see that when he says, pray that Heaven comes to earth,
Speaker 1: he's calling us to see what heaven is, and that
Speaker 1: Heaven is now accessible for us, not in the sweet
Speaker 1: by and by, but accessible for us to begin to
Speaker 1: agree with and begin to walk in and begin to
Speaker 1: see it grow in the earth, in our lives and
Speaker 1: in the earth. And I think this is a good
Speaker 1: definition of sovereignty if we understood the sovereignty of God
Speaker 1: is that God has a vision, and his vision is
Speaker 1: to restore Heaven on earth, and he's going to win
Speaker 1: by the way he's.
Speaker 2: Going to win.
Speaker 1: God's vision is to restore heaven on the earth and
Speaker 1: to completely banish Satan and principalities and powers and completely
Speaker 1: put them under the feet of the righteous that delivered
Speaker 1: the sons of the Second atom. He has that vision,
Speaker 1: and sovereignty is him working that vision out in history,
Speaker 1: bringing forth a restored people, bringing forth a restored earth.
Speaker 1: He's going to work that out in history. And that
Speaker 1: is the sovereignty of God in action. And the how
Speaker 1: is Jesus. Every vision needs a how, and Jesus is
Speaker 1: the how. Jesus is the one thrust into history to
Speaker 1: bend it toward God's will. Now, God's invited us into
Speaker 1: God's invited us into this new realm of imagination. And
Speaker 1: why I say that this could be the most powerful
Speaker 1: redemptive thing about you vision, Your vision could be the
Speaker 1: most powerful thing about you in redemption because of all
Speaker 1: the things God promised to restore first, because your vision
Speaker 1: has to be restored first. You can't love beyond what
Speaker 1: you can see loving. You can't accomplish what you cannot
Speaker 1: see accomplishing. You cannot give what you cannot see yourself giving.
Speaker 1: You cannot serve beyond what you can see yourself serving.
Speaker 1: You cannot perform, you cannot build, you cannot do it.
Speaker 2: So it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that when the Bible talks about pouring out
Speaker 1: the spirit, not on the Jews only, No, not on
Speaker 1: err and only no, not on Levi.
Speaker 2: Only when the.
Speaker 1: Bible talks about pouring out the spirit on the gentiles,
Speaker 1: on all flesh globally. When the Bible talks about it, Joel,
Speaker 1: Chapter two, verse twenty eight. When the Bible talks about it,
Speaker 1: you know what to say us. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a restoration of dreams and visions. Gentile people, Gentile people
Speaker 1: whose minds have been darkened, who are aliens from the
Speaker 1: Promise and the covenants. Gentile people are going to be
Speaker 1: delivered out of darkness, and their imaginations are going to
Speaker 1: be resuscitated. Their ability to visioneer with God, their ability
Speaker 1: to see what God's up to, is going to be
Speaker 1: resuscitated by the Holy Spirit. And they're going to receive
Speaker 1: the potential to dream with God. They're going to receive
Speaker 1: the potential to dream heavenward dreams, to see things they
Speaker 1: could never see, and to partner with Holy Spirit. So
Speaker 1: he says that, he says that this is like the
Speaker 1: This is the hallmark, the hallmark, by the way, the
Speaker 1: hallmark of the hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: This is the.
Speaker 1: Hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It's not
Speaker 1: speaking in tongues. Wow, in Pentecostal churches, we've made the
Speaker 1: hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues.
Speaker 2: That isn't the passage.
Speaker 1: And when Peter talks about this passage in Acts chapter two,
Speaker 1: in Acts chapter two, he says, they're not drunk like
Speaker 1: you suppose. And by the way, the tongues that they're
Speaker 1: talking on, the tongues that they're speaking on the day
Speaker 1: of Pentecost, those tongues were the tongues of the one hundred
Speaker 1: and any nations that were present in the auditorium, in
Speaker 1: the audience, in the audience, there was somebody there from
Speaker 1: every nation under the globe. Somebody was there, and they
Speaker 1: heard people speaking in languages they had never learned, the
Speaker 1: glory of God and the glory of Jesus, and the
Speaker 1: glory of the resurrection and the glory of redemption in
Speaker 1: their own tongue from people that had never learned their language.
Speaker 2: That's so. Then you got some.
Speaker 1: Demon led naysayers in the crowds saying, now they're just drunk.
Speaker 2: Eh, heh, they're just drunk. And Peter stands out.
Speaker 1: The read who became a rock stands up and says,
Speaker 1: they're not drunk, you dingbats. It's only nine o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.
Speaker 1: As it shall come to and it shall come to
Speaker 1: pass in the last days, Saith God, I got news
Speaker 1: for you. By the way, got.
Speaker 2: A mess with you. These are not the last days.
Speaker 2: You're not living in the last days.
Speaker 1: And if you're living in the last days, you keep
Speaker 1: waiting for the Holy Spirit to be poured out, you
Speaker 1: missed it. The Holy Spirit already got poured out. You're
Speaker 1: not living in the last days. You're living in the
Speaker 1: new days. This is the growing kingdom of heaven. Oh
Speaker 1: boy Lord, help us. This is the growing kingdom of art.
Speaker 1: Thank you for helping me. Growing Kingdom of Heaven, growing
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven. Right, the last days aren't over here
Speaker 1: somewhere He was talking about the last days of the
Speaker 1: Mosaic period. So if you had Joel two twenty eight only,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know that. Joel said, in the last days,
Speaker 1: I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and they
Speaker 1: will prophesy. You know what prophesi is. Prophesy is the
Speaker 1: word seer. Prophets were called seers. He says I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pour out my spirit up lesh, and everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: a seer. A seer is the person who operates in visions.
Speaker 1: Visions are how God announces the future. Satan wants you
Speaker 1: to focus on the present and on the past. God
Speaker 1: wants you to focus on the future. Your future is
Speaker 1: bright and full of heaven. God wants you to focus
Speaker 1: on all of your problems. I mean, Satan wants you
Speaker 1: to focus on all your problems and all the things
Speaker 1: that disqualify you for good things. But God is interrupting
Speaker 1: that by Jesus. And God is interrupting you with vision,
Speaker 1: and He's made you a seer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even the women poke.
Speaker 1: God was disrupting everything by the Holy Spirit. Joel didn't
Speaker 1: know when this was going to come to pass. He
Speaker 1: just said, in the last days, Well, when are the
Speaker 1: last days coming? Well, Daniel even thinking on this stuff
Speaker 1: till the last days. Daniel said, you know, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with all this? And
Speaker 1: God said, you know, write it up because this is
Speaker 1: you know, write it up and seal it because it's for.
Speaker 2: The last days. What were the last days?
Speaker 1: Well, the last days were the last days of the
Speaker 1: Mosaic period. This was the end of a period of
Speaker 1: being under the law. Jesus started a new period of
Speaker 1: being under truth and grace. The law of God is
Speaker 1: now written on our heart. We don't live according to
Speaker 1: the Decalogue the Ten Commandments. We live according to the
Speaker 1: spirit dwelling in us, which supersedes the law.
Speaker 2: Our righteousness is.
Speaker 1: Greater than that of the law because we don't just
Speaker 1: judge ourselves according to our actions. We judge ourselves according
Speaker 1: to the imagination of our heart. A good wow, So
Speaker 1: he says, in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit.
Speaker 1: So did that happen? Now there can be revival burps
Speaker 1: along the way as God is fully restoring us to
Speaker 1: the fullness of what of Christ.
Speaker 2: Iph He's in four.
Speaker 1: God is restoring us to the fullness of Christ because
Speaker 1: Christ is the image of the new Man, and He
Speaker 1: is the last Atom, and we're being restored into that image.
Speaker 1: So there's going to be burps of revival along the way.
Speaker 1: But you have to know, we are waiting for some
Speaker 1: kind of outpouring of the spirit out here somewhere. The
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit was poured out, and Peter said, to clear
Speaker 1: up any confusion, this is what Joel prophesied of that
Speaker 1: in the last days of Moses, before the Tabernacle was destroyed,
Speaker 1: and right before the last sacrifice was ever made, God
Speaker 1: poured out his spirit on all gentiles, on all flesh,
Speaker 1: and he inserted into their hearts the seer anointing.
Speaker 2: You have the seer anointing.
Speaker 1: You talk about the most astounding privilege on the planet.
Speaker 1: Believers in Jesus Christ, are you hearing me this morning?
Speaker 1: You have the privilege, the grace, the power, the anointing
Speaker 1: to be visioneers of heaven. You have the grace, the power,
Speaker 1: and the anointing, the enablement to see things that nobody
Speaker 1: else can see, to create what nobody else can create,
Speaker 1: to build what nobody else can build, to develop what
Speaker 1: nobody else can develop, To write what nobody else can write. Satan,
Speaker 1: even right now, Satan is trying to grab your attention
Speaker 1: with negativity, with fake book. Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: The most powerful thing you have is your ability to
Speaker 1: envision the future and your ability to imagine your partnership
Speaker 1: and the partnership of the Body of Christ with Heaven,
Speaker 1: so that Heaven will grow.
Speaker 2: But you have to harness this.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is so kind and gracious, he's not
Speaker 1: going to come down and grab your brain, grab your mind,
Speaker 1: grab your thoughts and force you to think happy thoughts.
Speaker 1: You have the privilege to partner with him. You have
Speaker 1: the privileged to visioneer with him. Oh my goodness, let's
Speaker 1: go back to Matthew six twenty two, just for a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's think about that for a moment. If your vision
Speaker 1: is dark, here's some notes. I got A heaven sent
Speaker 1: vision will will fuel I'm almost out of time. I
Speaker 1: got to cut to the chase. A heaven sent vision
Speaker 1: will fuel your life and passion. A heaven sent vision
Speaker 1: is a compass. A heaven sent vision will cross examine
Speaker 1: every behavior. A heaven sent vision will give life purpose.
Speaker 1: Heaven's vision is the source of discipline when you're literally
Speaker 1: partnering with because you have to. You have to understand
Speaker 1: that you are. You are tethered to this. You are
Speaker 1: tethered to this grace of an increasing kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: You're tethered to it. But if you ignore it, you
Speaker 1: can't partner with the grace that's available. But when you
Speaker 1: partner with the grace that's available with the increasing kingdom,
Speaker 1: it's like you you don't even need food to have energy.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs to wake you up.
Speaker 1: You don't need an alarm clock to wake you up
Speaker 1: like you're waiting for the alarm clock.
Speaker 2: Is that thing ever going to go off? I got it,
Speaker 2: I got a date. It FULFILLM so good.
Speaker 1: Now, what I want you to see is that you
Speaker 1: your life is tethered to Zion. I want you to
Speaker 1: see that your life is tethered Desion, and I want
Speaker 1: you to see that this visionary thing of building the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven, because you're a partner in that, is
Speaker 1: because your life is tethered to Zion, the House of
Speaker 1: the Lord, and it's out of Zion. It's out of
Speaker 1: Zion that we are sent as arrows in the culture.
Speaker 1: It's out of Zion. This is home, and this is
Speaker 1: the house. This is the house God has built. It's
Speaker 1: the pre eminent house. It's not that these other houses
Speaker 1: aren't important. No, we're anointed here to go as apostolic
Speaker 1: arrows into these mountains. We're anointed and we're sent like
Speaker 1: flaming arrows into the mountain of family. That's psychology, that's psychiatry,
Speaker 1: that's medicine, that's everything to do with family. We're anointed
Speaker 1: like Aros and sent into that. And as we go,
Speaker 1: we go building this vision. We see that this is
Speaker 1: the vision God is building. He's poured out his spirit
Speaker 1: upon us. We are full of grace and power. We
Speaker 1: go and we partner with him, and he's building the
Speaker 1: kingdom in family, in arts and entertainment, in the economy,
Speaker 1: in the government mountain, in the education mountain, in the
Speaker 1: media mountain, and he's reclaiming these and they become, they become,
Speaker 1: and they begun to come back. So others they begin
Speaker 1: to come, and they're fed out of Zion, and all
Speaker 1: of us are fed out of Zion. And this is
Speaker 1: the vision he wants us to have. They come and
Speaker 1: they're fed out of Zion, and then they go back,
Speaker 1: and we go back and forth. As the mountain of
Speaker 1: the Lord becomes the chief mountain. The mountain of the
Speaker 1: Lord becomes the chief mountain. And that's part of why
Speaker 1: what we do here is so important. It's not important
Speaker 1: because this is the only mountain. It's important because this
Speaker 1: is the chief mountain, and it's out of the House
Speaker 1: of the Lord, the mountain of God's presence, the mountain
Speaker 1: of God's glory, the mountain of God's instruction, the mountain
Speaker 1: of God's wisdom, that we are said, like flaming arrows
Speaker 1: into every sphere of culture, to bring transformation, to bring reformation,
Speaker 1: to bring the life of God and the power of
Speaker 1: God and the wisdom of Heaven into those spheres, those
Speaker 1: mountains of culture. I got two minutes, maybe three if
Speaker 1: I cheat. I think Dennis went long saw chee this morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: but Frank, are you handy? Are you close? Where's Frank?
Speaker 1: Where's Frank? That's your Frank, that's your Frank. Okay, listen
Speaker 1: to this Isaiah too. It's in Micah four as well.
Speaker 1: It's Isaiah too. It's Micah four. I want you to
Speaker 1: hear this. This is what Isaiah saw concerning Jerusalem and Judea.
Speaker 1: And this is about the last days. And we just
Speaker 1: talked about the last days, and this began to happen.
Speaker 1: It's not finished in its accomplishment, but it began to happen.
Speaker 1: In the last days. The Mountain of the Lord's People,
Speaker 1: or the mountain of the House of the Lord, will
Speaker 1: be established as the highest of the mountains. It will
Speaker 1: be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream
Speaker 1: to it. Now, he's delineating and MiCT for Isaiah to
Speaker 1: He's separating and delineating this out from the Tabernacle of Moses.
Speaker 1: It's not the Tabernacle of Moses. He's talking about the
Speaker 1: Mountain of Zion. Galatians, we don't have time. Galatians four
Speaker 1: twenty six, Hebrews twelve twenty two. Believers in Jesus do
Speaker 1: not see earthly Jerusalem as our headquarters. Earthly Jerusalem is
Speaker 1: not the headquarters of believers in Jesus. It is Mount Zion.
Speaker 1: It is the Zion from above. It is the Zion
Speaker 1: of God. It is David's House and David's Tabernacle. We
Speaker 1: are the restored David's House in David's Tabernacle, Acts, chapter fifteen.
Speaker 1: Look it up and read that as well. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I want you to see this. He says, in the
Speaker 1: last days, the mountain of the Lord's Temple, the mountain
Speaker 1: of the House of the Lord, will be established as
Speaker 1: the highest of the mountains. It will be exalted above
Speaker 1: the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many
Speaker 1: will come and say, let us go to the Mountain
Speaker 1: of the Lord, to the temple of the God of
Speaker 1: Jacob He will teach us his ways that we may
Speaker 1: walk in his paths. For the law will go forth
Speaker 1: from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He
Speaker 1: will judge between the nations and settle dispuse for many people.
Speaker 1: Now they will beat their swords into plowshares and their
Speaker 1: spears into puny hooks. Nations will not take up sword
Speaker 1: against nation anymore, nor will they train for war anymore.
Speaker 1: This is the growing kingdom that's functioning out of the
Speaker 1: headquarters as we The ligaments and the lively stones are
Speaker 1: connected to the Zion from above. Okay, one more and
Speaker 1: we're done. This is a very short cheat. I'm not
Speaker 1: cheating very long.
Speaker 2: You ready ready? Really?
Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty one as a sixty one is the passage
Speaker 1: that Jesus stood up in his first sermon. Looked for Matthew,
Speaker 1: for it's his first sermon. He says, hand me the
Speaker 1: book they hand him Isaiah. He opens it up to
Speaker 1: chapter sixty one. They didn't have chapters, but he opened
Speaker 1: it up to the spirit of the Sovereign. Lord's u bond.
Speaker 1: Because the Lord's annoying me to proclaim the good news
Speaker 1: to the poor, sent me to bind up the broken heart,
Speaker 1: to proclaim freedom to the captives, release the darkness, released
Speaker 1: for the from darkness, for the prisoners, who proclaim the
Speaker 1: year of the Lord's favor, the day of vengeance in
Speaker 1: our regard, comfort all who are more than preside those
Speaker 1: who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a beauty,
Speaker 1: crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy
Speaker 1: instead of morning, a garment of praise instead of a
Speaker 1: spirit of the spare.
Speaker 2: They will be called.
Speaker 1: This is why I want I was going fast because
Speaker 1: I wanted to go slow. They will be called oaks
Speaker 1: rye nighteousness. The planting of this is now, this is you.
Speaker 1: You're a dweller of Zion. Zion is the mountain of
Speaker 1: the Lord. Zion is the house of God. Yes, they
Speaker 1: will be called. You will be called oaks of righteousness,
Speaker 1: the planting of the Lord. They you will rebuild ancient
Speaker 1: ruins and restore the places long devastated, like school districts,
Speaker 1: like cinematography, like technology, like the family. No more divorce,
Speaker 1: no more broken families, no more brokenness, no more orphaned
Speaker 1: that children, no more orphaned that children. Let's rebuild things devastated.
Speaker 1: They will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated,
Speaker 1: like Seattle, like New York. Strangers will shepherd your flocks.
Speaker 1: Foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will
Speaker 1: all be called the priest of the Lord. Why because
Speaker 1: you're connected Desion, and you will all be ministers of
Speaker 1: our God. Why because every one of us are connected Desion,
Speaker 1: and this is our home, and we are sent ones
Speaker 1: from Zion, and we're all ministers.
Speaker 2: And we build the House of God, and we.
Speaker 1: Tether our vision to this growing kingdom, to this increasing kingdom.
Speaker 1: And as we do, we're filled with life, strength, power, energy.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody past, Frank, come and kick me off
Speaker 1: the platform. Let's stand for a moment while he's coming
Speaker 1: to kick me off the platform. Stand quickly, stand quickly,
Speaker 1: stand quickly say this with me, Holy Spirit, I receive
Speaker 1: from you the grace to harness my imagination to be
Speaker 1: a visioneer of heaven, to see what you see, to
Speaker 1: see this growing kingdom of Heaven, to see the expansion
Speaker 1: of it, the grace of it for me, for my family,
Speaker 1: for our church, for the Church, for the Kingdom, for
Speaker 1: every believer, and for the world. In Jesus' name, Give
Speaker 1: the Lord a shout give the lord a shout,