WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.399 Father, we just thank you for your word today. Thank 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.879 you for the richness of Holy Spirit in our midst. 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.279 Thank you for opening the eyes of our understanding. Thank 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.679 you for leading us, thank you for connecting us with 5 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:21.839 an amazing family. We rejoice over the inheritance we have 6 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.280 in one another and the power that's working in our midst. 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.519 We give you the praise for it in Jesus name. 8 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:36.439 And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, you may be yeah, 9 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:41.119 you may be seated. You weren't standing, which you may 10 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:46.920 be seated anyway, all right, Praise the Lord. I want 11 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.119 to talk a little bit about royalty versus religion, and 12 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:59.039 so it's kind of along the theme of somewhat springing out. 13 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:04.079 I think of the four weeks that we had on 14 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.359 the New Creation, because we really have become a new creation. 15 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.719 We are new creation beings. And that passage for the 16 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:21.519 new creation is tewod Corinthians five, sixteen and seventeen, and 17 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.280 it means when it's the Greek word for the word 18 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:33.560 new means another kind. We've become another kind. It's not 19 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.000 like it's not like you have an old Nike tennis 20 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.000 shoe and then you get a newer Nike tennis shoe 21 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:44.599 of the same. So have you heard of the Australian tennishoe? 22 00:01:44.799 --> 00:02:00.319 The Australian tennishoe? What's the brand? No, somebody helped me. Huh, 23 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:05.920 he'll come to me. You have to buy them online. Hokahs, hokahs, 24 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:12.199 hookahs hokus. Okay, if you get a hookah? Anybody have 25 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:20.240 a hookah? It sounds like something you smoke. I was 26 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.080 afraid of that brand because I didn't know if my 27 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:29.680 feet would get high while I walked. But if you 28 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.319 get the they have certain models, you know. And if 29 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:36.199 you get a certain model and it feels good, right, 30 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.599 you kind of want to get when it wears out, 31 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.520 you want to get Okay, Well, the new creation isn't 32 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.360 like a new model, a new of the same version, right. 33 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:53.000 So the new creation in second grintheens five seventeen that 34 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:59.919 were new means of a different kind, of a new kind. 35 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.879 It's more than just like I get a second chance 36 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.400 to do it right, you know, I hope I can 37 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.360 really get at this time. I hope I can really perform. No, 38 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.479 you literally become a new person, right, You've be given 39 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:20.400 a new person. And I think what is so hard? 40 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.800 I think it's kind of hard to hang on to 41 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:27.000 because I think everything is against this. What's hard to 42 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:33.639 hang on to is that you become royalty. You become royalty. 43 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:42.039 You've become royalty Revelation one six A kingdom of priests 44 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:48.919 or kings and priests. Unto our God right he is 45 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:54.919 the king of kings, and he is the Lord of lords. 46 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:03.240 It's hard to hang on the royalty. You know, Joel, 47 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:09.319 she's got she's got Mercedes Benz Taste buds. And sometimes 48 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.520 I tell her, but we have we have, you know, 49 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:18.279 we have Volkswagen wallet with Mercedes Benz Taste buds. It's like, Honey, 50 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.439 calm down, Oh no, I know you can do it 51 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:25.720 all right, right, right. So when it comes to you know, 52 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.600 our neighbors, our neighbors on the lake, they have this 53 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:34.120 giant inflatable pad thing right, and all the women get 54 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:35.399 on it and whatever, and they get out there and 55 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:37.680 they frat andize, and you know, the kids jump on 56 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.199 her or whatever. And I'm sure they spent thirty nine 57 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.000 ninety five on that thing. But it's big, it's huge. 58 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:49.199 I think it's sufficient, Yepe, not for missus Wolf. She 59 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:57.600 wants to thirteen ninety five thirteen hundred and ninety five floaty, right, 60 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:03.279 so there's no wrestling, you know, if we do wrestle 61 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.879 with thumb rustle, and she always wins, and so I 62 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.680 just know, okay, all right. So so I found it 63 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.480 on sale. We bought the thirteen hundred and ninety five 64 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.519 floating got a little sale price. And it's kind of 65 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.519 a big hexagon thing. It's called the Mission Hecks. It's 66 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.079 a big hexagon thing, and it's got kind of a 67 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.720 little trampoline thing in the middle, right, So the ladies 68 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.800 love to get out on it, and there, you know, 69 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.240 and the kids get out in the middle of the 70 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.399 little trampoline thing and they're in the water, right, and 71 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:37.240 I'm looking at my neighbors thirty nine ninety five, I'm 72 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.959 over here. So we barely get the thing in the water. 73 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.839 We're like in the water three days and I look 74 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:51.360 out there and it's half flat, got a big hole 75 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:56.160 in it. So we're like, how do you find those hole? 76 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.040 How do you even find a hole like that? Right, 77 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.879 And so you know, we're looking all over, we can't 78 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:03.879 find it. We turned upside down we find it. So 79 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.240 where the trampoline comes in to the net and it's 80 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:14.199 kind of woven in, a stick from somebody else's dock, 81 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.879 A little piece of pressure treated, some stick, some scrap, 82 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.600 some piece of junk, some piece of garbage from somebody 83 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:32.600 else had floated into my floating and somehow got in 84 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:37.160 between the trampoline and the floaty thing in a barber right, 85 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.759 and it had a screw in it where they were 86 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.519 remodeling their deck. It had a little screw and you know, 87 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.480 had a deck screw in it. And they had cut 88 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:47.560 the screw off with like some kind of a you 89 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.959 know thing, and it made a really sharp barbed and 90 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:56.839 that thing was poking a hole in my floating, and 91 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:04.560 that floating was suddenly worthless. Thirteen ninety five nothing ninety 92 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:11.000 five worthless. But its me. It makes me think about 93 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.120 us in our royalty. It makes us me think about 94 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.279 us who are called the royalty. We are, we're made royalty. 95 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.519 We are we are literally the kings of the earth, 96 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.680 the kings and the priests of the earth. We literally 97 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.839 we abide in royalty. We're seated in royalty at the 98 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.959 right hand of Papa. Are you hearing me? But royalty 99 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:42.360 wants to leak out of us. Somebody else's junk comes 100 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:48.800 over and bumps into us. Right, stuff pokes us, and 101 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.480 next thing you know, we've developed a leak. And almost 102 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.279 every day, I'm telling you this is important, Almost every 103 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.879 day you have to And this sounds this sounds a 104 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.839 little sac religious maybe, but I don't know, but it 105 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:08.720 seems every day you have to fight to retain your royalty. 106 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.800 And I don't mean like a fight, like a fight 107 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.079 of works. I don't mean that kind of a fight. 108 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.639 I mean just a fight over your own heart and 109 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:22.959 mind that you do not let your own failures, your 110 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:28.439 own faults, somebody else's faults, some other issue, some chunk 111 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:35.399 of pressure, treat with a bar about it, poke you 112 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:46.120 and get you out of your royalty. When that thing 113 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:56.720 is inflated appropriately, it is extremely worthwhile and you can 114 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.759 rely on it and it provides a lot of enjoyment. 115 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.480 But all you have to do is pull ten pounds 116 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.360 of air pressure out of that thing. Five pounds of 117 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.360 air pressure out of that thing, and immediately it's worthless 118 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.159 and nobody can rely on it, and nobody wants anything 119 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:15.320 to do with it. The structure didn't change. It still 120 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:19.240 is what it was. This is the way with us. Listen, listen, listen. 121 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.840 The enemy is wanting to attack your royalty every day 122 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.320 to bring you off of the throne where you are 123 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:33.240 now coceded with Christ ruling and reigning in life, expecting 124 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:38.360 and receiving fully the blessings of God, without works whatsoever. 125 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.600 The enemy wants to pull you off of that so 126 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.360 bad and if he can just poke, if he can 127 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.679 just get five pounds of the pressure out of you, 128 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:54.519 it doesn't take a lot to make you worthless. It 129 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.399 doesn't mean you're not a new creation anymore. It doesn't 130 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.840 mean you've changed in your nature. It doesn't mean that 131 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.639 you changed in your structure. It doesn't mean you're no 132 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:07.799 longer coceded. You just have disconnected your faith to who 133 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.799 you are. You've disconnected your heart to who you are. 134 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:15.840 You've disconnected your attitude from who He's made you to be. 135 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.159 And if you disconnect your heart, your faith, and your 136 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.600 attitude from who He's made you to be, it doesn't 137 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:23.240 make you less than who he made you to be. 138 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:28.639 It just positions you to not partake of who he 139 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:35.399 made you to be, and that makes you worthless. So 140 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.679 then you're feeling worthless. But it isn't him who made 141 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:44.360 you worthless. You just allowed some something to poke you. 142 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.639 You allowed something to pull out of you, your royal identity, 143 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.799 your faith in who he made you to be. You 144 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:58.480 just allowed something to draw down all that He put 145 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:06.159 in you to make you work. While that wasn't your choice, 146 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.399 I mean his choice that was that was your choice. Wow, 147 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.759 the wilderness is a The wilderness is a really good 148 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.399 you know, the wilderness was meant to be a really 149 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:25.919 good picture of the new creation coming out of the 150 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:30.159 old and going into the new. And you know, the 151 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.399 wilderness period, the wilderness. This is Deuteronomy. I thought i'd 152 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.000 look it up, Uh, just for fond too. I didn't 153 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.440 do that for service, but let's do that. This is 154 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.720 Deuteronomy eight. For the Lord, your God is bringing you 155 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.879 into a good land. Everybody say good land, A land 156 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:51.480 of brooks of water, of fountains and springs. Now, if 157 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:53.919 you've been, if you've been in a wilderness for a while, 158 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:58.799 this sounds good. This sounds really good. Of fountains and 159 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.320 springs flowing for work in valleys and hills. That sounds 160 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.679 better than a desert. A land of wheat and a 161 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.519 barley of vines and fig trees of pomegranates, a land 162 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.679 of olive, oil and honey. A land where you will 163 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:17.399 eat food without scarcity, in which you will lack, you 164 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.039 will not lack anything. A land whose stones are ironed, 165 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.399 and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And 166 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.840 when you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless 167 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.360 the Lord your God for the good land he has 168 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:35.919 given you. Now that's just one little passage in Deuteronomy eight. 169 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.879 One little passage in Deuteronomy eight of some of what 170 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:47.200 the promised land would look like. Right, So there's further references. 171 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.279 It's called the land of milk and honey is called 172 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.159 and it's a land where there would be every kind 173 00:12:54.759 --> 00:13:00.799 of copper and brass and bronze and gold. And I mean, 174 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.720 just the descriptions are. And then you got the wilderness. Right, 175 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:09.000 This is we have. It's supposed to be a picture. 176 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.759 The whole thing, the whole story was a metaphoric picture 177 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.759 of your life before Christ and your life after Christ. 178 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.960 It's not a metaphoric picture of heaven. It's a metaphoric 179 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:30.440 picture of heaven on earth. How many of us have 180 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:36.039 thought or been told that's a metaphoric picture of heaven, 181 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.000 But it's not. It's a metaphoric picture of Heaven on Earth. 182 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:48.039 And listen, listen. Moses didn't die on Mount Nebo because 183 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.559 he was a bad dude, as all of theology will 184 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:58.440 tell you, Moses died on Mount Nebo because the law 185 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.840 can never take you in to your promise. The law 186 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:08.440 cannot take you into your promise. The law shows you 187 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:13.519 that you need the Christ. The law is a tutor, 188 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.840 a schoolmaster, leading you. Because the law will always accuse you, 189 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.519 and it will always convict you, and it will always 190 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.679 show you what's wrong. And it doesn't matter if you're 191 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.039 Jew or gentile. If you're Jew, you have the six 192 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.840 hundred and thirteen, you have the decalog, you have the 193 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.799 Ten Commandments. If you're Jew, you know the law. But 194 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.639 if you're gentile, then Romans one says you have the 195 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:39.440 Law of God inwardly in your conscience, convicting you of 196 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:44.639 right and wrong. And the enemy will always use the 197 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:52.039 law to keep you defeated and to keep you outside 198 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:59.799 of your royalty, and to keep you humbly accepting the wormy, cruddy, 199 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:08.639 lousy louse. You are the number one shunk of pressure 200 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.480 treated lumber with a screw in it. To the believer 201 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.279 that wants to poke a hole in your inflatable is 202 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.159 your own heart and mind partnering with the law to 203 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.600 prove to you that you are worthless, that you don't 204 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:28.159 measure up, that you don't perform well enough, you don't 205 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.720 pray enough, you don't fast enough, you don't give enough, 206 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:38.000 you don't serve enough, you're not humble enough. The enemy 207 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:44.440 will constantly use that tool to deflate your royalty. This 208 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:48.039 is why every day you have to press a little 209 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.399 bit in and I don't mean press in out of works. 210 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.080 I mean with your heart and with your mind to 211 00:15:53.200 --> 00:16:03.679 remember because royalty leaks. Royalty leaks. Everything about this world 212 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:11.720 is postured to pull the royalty out of you. But 213 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.159 Father wants us to see, even in what he did 214 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.759 with Israel, he wants us to see that what he's 215 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.279 called us to is the promised on. What he's called 216 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:25.120 us to is royalty. He's called us out of a wilderness. 217 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.039 He's called us out of scarcity. He's called us out 218 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.159 of wondering around without purpose. He's called us out of 219 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:34.879 going around the same issues time and time again. He's 220 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.240 called us out of bondage. He's called us out of 221 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:42.559 He's called us out of all of that into abundance 222 00:16:43.039 --> 00:17:04.559 and plenty and rejoicing. One of the key, one of 223 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.000 the key stories the Lord told about all of this 224 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.359 is the Prodigal story. And I don't know if you've 225 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.880 thought of the prodigal story in light of Jewan gentile, 226 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.400 but I want to give it to you in light 227 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:29.480 of Jewan gentile, because the older son was the metaphor 228 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:37.119 the figurative picture of the Jewish people. The Jewish people 229 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:43.839 were keeping the law and attaining their righteousness according to 230 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.680 the law. And of course this is what life springs 231 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.519 out of life. Life and blessings and everything springs out 232 00:17:53.559 --> 00:18:00.279 of righteousness, right relationship with God. Righteousness. Righteousness is the 233 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:07.079 central key to not only eternal life, but the tree 234 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:13.160 of life. And you and I have been brought into 235 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:17.519 Father through his righteousness so that we can taste of both. 236 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.680 We not only eat of the tree of life, but 237 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:28.839 we eat of the goodness of God in every way. 238 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.440 So in the Prodigal Son's story, this is Luke chapter 239 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.920 fifteen eleven. And following I'll just tell the story for 240 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.000 the sake of time, because I want to get to 241 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:44.599 a few other thoughts. But you know that the younger 242 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.119 son said, give me your inherit, give me my inheritance, 243 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:54.119 and he went out into wild living. And it's really 244 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:59.839 a picture of the gentile nations. The gentile nations wanted 245 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.079 nothing to do with God, and they went out into 246 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:09.640 wild living. But then at some point he came to 247 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:15.640 his senses. And this is what happens with all of 248 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:20.519 us as well, as we come to our senses and 249 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:28.920 we come back to God in our works. So he 250 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:37.079 said to himself, I know that even the servants back 251 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:42.799 at Dad's house, they at least have food and housing. 252 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:50.039 So he's coming back to Dad and Dad is running 253 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:53.400 to meet him. Remember the story, So Dad's running to 254 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.079 meet him. He's coming back to Dad and Dad is 255 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:03.279 rejoicing to see him, and he throws himself prostrate before Dad, 256 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:10.039 and he says, I'm not worthy. This is all of us, 257 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.799 this is all of us, this is the gentile nations. Now, 258 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.279 as we come back to God, this is religion, as 259 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:19.839 we come back to God, I'm not worthy to become 260 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.559 your son or to be called your son. Just make 261 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:33.000 me one of your hired servants. Wow, he's coming back 262 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:39.160 to live like old brother older brothers living. But Dad 263 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:42.920 will have nothing to do with it. Dad's like, you 264 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:48.039 don't have to pay me back. I'll reinstate the full inheritance. 265 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.079 Kill the fatted calf. We're gonna get get the band, 266 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.960 get the dance. Were out, this son of mine who 267 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.720 has lost, These gentile nations who were lost, they have 268 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:13.240 now been found. It says Father goes to He goes 269 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:18.119 to every extreme to throw a party. It says, the 270 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.119 merriment began. And you know what, if you go to 271 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:24.920 the end of the story, it doesn't say the merriment 272 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.160 ever stopped. The merriment never stopped. It hasn't stopped to 273 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:35.920 this day. Father is rejoicing crazy over the gentiles us 274 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:41.599 as we come back to Father in faith, not in 275 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:47.400 our works, receiving the royalty of being hidden in Jesus 276 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.160 and living out of that reality of already seated in 277 00:21:52.200 --> 00:22:01.160 heavenly places with him. The older other season and the 278 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:05.319 older brother is the picture of religion, the picture of 279 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.599 working hard, the picture of trying to attain, the picture 280 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.759 of trying to please, the picture of the trying to perform, 281 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:18.799 the picture of judging myself according to my performance, and 282 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:24.519 therefore evaluating the level of royalty that I can walk 283 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:29.160 in and the blessings I can partake of. He's never 284 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:35.079 he's never partaken of blessings. He says, I'm mad, I'm bitter. 285 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:41.599 I'm mad this son who's spent everything. You're blessing him. 286 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:43.640 You put the robe on him, You put the finger 287 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:46.640 on him, you breathe the ring on his finger. You've yeah, 288 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:47.559 I put a finger on him. 289 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:47.799 Picture. 290 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:54.720 You may be seated. We're gonna make it through this morning. 291 00:22:54.759 --> 00:23:01.039 We're gonna make it through this. We're gonna be okay. 292 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.079 He was so ticked off, he was so mad, right 293 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:10.519 right because and listen what he says. He says, I've 294 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:13.960 worked for you all this time, and I've never asked 295 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:22.519 for anything from you. Why why doesn't religion partake of 296 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.200 the blessing? Why doesn't religion partake of the abundance? Why 297 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.039 doesn't religion rule and reign? Why doesn't religion partake of 298 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:34.559 the grace? Why doesn't religion receive the lavish kindness of God? 299 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:39.680 Why doesn't religion partake of the promised land? Because they 300 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:43.599 never can, They never can obtain. You're never good enough, 301 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:47.599 so you never do ask much. You're afraid to ask much. 302 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:49.960 And if you ask Jesus you gotta be careful. You 303 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.559 can't you can't receive much. And if you get, if 304 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:57.240 you if you begin to act like Jesus, Oh, religion 305 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:01.519 will tell you. How dare you? How dare you command 306 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:05.119 the weather? How dare you act like you're blessed? How 307 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.759 dare you speak the sickness and disease? Who do you 308 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:14.039 think you are? Well, let me just tell you who 309 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:19.559 I think I am. I am a joint heir with 310 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:25.799 the Beloved. I am seated in heavenly places. This earth 311 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:28.640 suit that I've got right now, this earth suit is 312 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:32.759 just an obedient extension of a spirit man that's already 313 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:38.960 raised up with Jesus. I'm only eating right now this 314 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:41.599 food because I need to to sustain this earth suit. 315 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:47.119 But the real me, it's already ruling and reigning with him. 316 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:54.240 Come on, somebody, we have to be so careful because 317 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:58.680 religion is trying to reel you in all the time, 318 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:02.480 is trying to reel you in all that, and even 319 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:05.920 to just get you talking religious. The way we talk 320 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:09.240 religious one of the ways there's so many ways that 321 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:13.200 we talk religious. We sing religious songs. I'm so thankful 322 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:16.519 for Bethel. Can I say how thankful I am forbebel 323 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:26.880 because the Johnsons and the Bethel folks who've been cranking 324 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:29.519 out beautiful songs now for twenty five or thirty years, 325 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.960 they've been helping us because they've been redeeming our bad 326 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:39.480 theology songs, because so many of our songs were filled 327 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:47.480 with religious theology instead of life giving revived. I'm a 328 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:52.039 walking open heaven. I'm a walking revival. I have the 329 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.640 open heaven living in me. I have Jacob's latter living 330 00:25:55.680 --> 00:26:01.480 in me. Wow, there's not one blessing all that hasn't 331 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:04.720 already been given to you and me. We've already been 332 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.519 blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Jesus, you know 333 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:09.680 why most of the body of Christ is not tasting 334 00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:12.759 of the blessings because they believe that they don't have 335 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:18.079 them yet. Everything's future in religion. Everything's future, and you 336 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:23.680 never get to it because you're always disqualified. The harvest 337 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:26.960 is coming, oh, Jesus, rebuke that. No, the harvest is now. 338 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:31.480 The fields are white under harvest. Now. No, the harvest 339 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:34.960 is always coming. Revival is always coming, Glory is always coming. 340 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:39.799 Everything's in the future with religion, but in the fulfillment 341 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:43.200 of royalty of the new creation. We are partakers of 342 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:46.240 it now, we are carriers of it now, we are 343 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.640 dispensers of it now, we are dwelling in it now. 344 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.839 It is ours now. How are you ever gonna shift 345 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.000 the future if you don't have something now now. Faith 346 00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:59.720 is the substance of things hoped for, not tomorrow. Faith 347 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:02.599 is a substance of things hoped for now. Faith is 348 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:05.640 the substance of things hope for. We will never shift tomorrow. 349 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.880 If we don't have it today, it's not coming tomorrow. 350 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.039 If you don't have it today, you've got to have 351 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:13.240 it in you today. If you think you're gonna get 352 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:18.359 something shifted tomorrow, it's impossible to shift tomorrow if you 353 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.000 don't have it today. That's why we've been made partakers 354 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:25.279 in Him by his righteousness, not by ours. It's not 355 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:29.160 dependent on my righteousness, it's not dependent on my works. 356 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:37.440 It's I love to pray every day. I love fellowship 357 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.119 with Holy Spirit every day, and I know you do too. 358 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.400 But if you miss a day, Hello somebody, you're not 359 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:47.599 a big pile of when he's pooh, there's nothing wrong 360 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.079 with You're gonna live. You're still reigning with Christ. You're 361 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:59.559 still a king with him. Hello, somebody you do? Oh 362 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.640 I miss Rare yesterday. I better do double time prayer today. 363 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:10.079 And wow we have you know we just okay, all right, 364 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.000 I'm sorry I should be looking at my notes that 365 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:15.519 I don't carry it away with myself. 366 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:21.279 Ephesians one three. Praise be unto God and the Father 367 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.880 of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Who hath hath the king? 368 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:28.279 James says, half everybody say hath he got a a 369 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:34.640 hath hath who? Okay, okay, the Nivas has it's I 370 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:37.839 just want you to see it's past tense. I want 371 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:43.200 you to see its past tense. It's behind you. Has 372 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:49.880 blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing 373 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:56.599 in Christ. Not some of the spiritual blessings, Not a 374 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.640 few of the spiritual blessings. Not enough to get you 375 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:04.160 to the rapture spiritual blessing. Every spiritual blessing you have 376 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:09.720 already received from Him. He's poured it. He goes on 377 00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:12.799 to say, he's lavished it. He's lavished it on us 378 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:15.599 verse seven. In him, we have redemptions for the blood, 379 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.160 the forgiveness of sin, in accordance with the riches of 380 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:24.359 God's grace. Everybody's say riches. You'd never know this the 381 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:28.640 way most of us live. You'd never know this, the 382 00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:33.559 way most Christians live, that we are partakers of lavish 383 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:38.119 riches of grace. You'd never know it. We're bummed out, 384 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:47.480 we're weary, we're wiped out, we're discouraged, we're broke, we're negative, 385 00:29:50.240 --> 00:30:00.920 we're real attractive, extremely attractive. Ah. Yeah, lavished it on 386 00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:03.400 us with all wisdom and understanding. He made known to 387 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.920 us the mystery of his will, according to the good 388 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:13.400 pleasure that he purposed in Christ Ephesians two six, because 389 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.720 of his great love for us. Remember he's talking to gentiles. 390 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.039 He's talking to the young son, the gentile nations that 391 00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:23.839 ran away. This is Ephesus, the church at Ephesis, a 392 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:28.480 bunch of reprobates, involved in every kind of impure, unclean, 393 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:32.480 debauchery and witchcraft and idolatry. And look at this, He says, 394 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:35.319 He lavished on us this love because of his great 395 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.400 love for us. God, who is rich in mercy, made 396 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:40.920 us alive with Christ. What made us alive with Christ 397 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.599 even when we were dead in our transgressions. It's by 398 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:47.799 grace you have been saved, and God raised us up 399 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.880 with him and seated us a bunch of gentile nncompoops, 400 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:57.960 seated us with him in heavenly realms, in Christ Jesus, 401 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.480