1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,920 So we have Chris Berglund with us this weekend, and I know I've 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,960 been talking about Chris for a number of months, telling you 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,240 that I invited him. I met Chris through Dean Briggs. 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,760 We were together down in Burlington and then we did a 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,840 conference together over in Omaha and I just fell in love 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,240 with him. I'd heard of Chris for many, 11 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,720 many years. I've heard Lou Engel. 12 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,520 We've hosted Lou several times and he always talks about this, 13 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,680 his personal profit, his dreamer. 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,080 And and so it was Chris and they've been connected for many 15 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,200 years. Chris made a comment yesterday 16 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,480 that I think is worth repeating. He, he as he was teaching, he 17 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:50,160 was talking about how he and Lou were just doing AQ and a time 18 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,840 recently and Lou was talking about how, you know, this, this 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,360 tremendous dreamer that's sitting next to him that he's 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,720 had in his life. And, and Lou is kind of 21 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,800 leveraged that in his life. And, and Chris stopped him and, 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,080 and, and said, you know, you need to understand something. 23 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:09,760 Chris that or Lou, I didn't. I didn't dream like I do until I 24 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,400 connected with you. And he, he put it this way, he 25 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,960 said my dreams had no missional value until I connected with 26 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,040 you. And all of a sudden there was a 27 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,920 purpose behind those dreams. I'm sure that other people had 28 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,120 been blessed previously, but it's a lesson in this that when 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,840 we find the tribe and the people were to run with, all of a 30 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,640 sudden our gifts are heightened. There's there's they come 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,040 online, so to speak. It's like they're they're 32 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,720 heightened. And and our mission, Our 33 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,600 Calling, our assignment in life is connected to those around us. 34 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,040 And so there's no way for us to enter into what God has for us 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,680 without one another. We've talked about this before, 36 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,560 but fusions is very clear. The fullness of God is in the 37 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,960 body. Ephesians chapter one last two 38 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,200 verses. He hath put everything under 39 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,360 Christ's feet. Comma for the church, comma the 40 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,600 fullness of him. You have a piece, I have a 41 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,080 piece. But when none of us will ever 42 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,680 have the fullness and in fact, God will withhold from you what 43 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,160 you need in your quiet time so that you'll get it through 44 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,800 fellowship and community. There are things that you need 45 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,400 you will never get with just you and Jesus because he designed it 46 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,680 that way. It's going to be the Jesus and 47 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,440 someone else that's going to meet your need. 48 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,360 And as we were talking about the, I've never seen it this 49 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,960 way, but it's like a puzzle piece, you know, it's like the 50 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,560 puzzle. A puzzle has a picture on it. 51 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,200 That's one of the ways, you know, But then the pieces fit 52 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,120 together. There's a void in one that the 53 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,240 other fills, and as they click together, all of a sudden you 54 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,920 get a greater picture. And every one of us are a piece 55 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,440 of the puzzle, but we need the one sitting next to us. 56 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,280 And often God will hide the very thing you need and the person 57 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,440 that irritates you the most. Now, that'll be for another 58 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,760 Sunday morning. We'll talk about that. 59 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,960 But anyway, I've just really grown to appreciate Chris and he 60 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,560 and he, he runs with a group of intercessors, prophetic 61 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,680 intercessors for a number of years. 62 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,480 It's fascinating the way they do it. 63 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,080 We've learned a lot from them from afar on how they steward 64 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,760 the word of the Lord and pray that. 65 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,560 And so it's just a pleasure to have Chris. 66 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,400 Chris, come on. Let's give Chris Berglund a good 67 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,440 heartland welcome. Yeah. 68 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,680 Love you, man, Bless you. Love you. 69 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,880 Yeah, I think, I think Dave is right. 70 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,520 I don't think there was really any value to anybody else 71 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,960 besides me and my dream life before Lou because I wasn't 72 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,920 giving anybody. I think that my dream life was 73 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,240 encouraging to me and the Lord would speak to me. 74 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,320 But when we connected covenantally is when that 75 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:05,520 missional covenantal heart and we made a we had the language of 76 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,000 Jonathan and David. I want to say that with Lou, and 77 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,200 this was 40 years ago, you know what Jonathan did with David, 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,240 right? He gave him his cloak. 79 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,079 Basically, Jonathan is in is the Prince and he's in line to the 80 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:22,480 throne and he's, he's clothing David and said, it's OK if 81 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,600 you're the one in line to the throne, which he was, right? 82 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,880 He's giving him his his identity. 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,400 And there's something that happens in covenantal 84 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,880 relationships where Luke gave me his identity, his calling for 85 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,120 the nations. And so I wore that. 86 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,480 I wear that. And then my dream had missional 87 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,840 value to it. I share that because it really 88 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:49,400 didn't have. I don't remember my dreams 89 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,720 affecting anyone else besides me until we made covenant together. 90 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,560 I do remember one of the first I shared I think yesterday 91 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,360 dreaming is easy. You just go to sleep right? 92 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,840 And you there's nothing to brag about. 93 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:09,680 It's like maybe it's worse than bragging because you God can't 94 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,520 speak to you in the daytime. He puts you to sleep right. 95 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:16,240 So you're so dull on the put you to sleep and but there is a 96 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,880 preparation I and I don't want to negate the preparation the 97 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,480 Lord showed me early on. You know, this is how you know 98 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,120 there's always levels of interpretation right of 99 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,680 Scripture. And I remember the Lord speaking 100 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,000 to me and don't let the sun go down on your wrath. 101 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,320 And he was speaking to me in the context, Chris, because if you 102 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,360 have wrath, if you go down, let the sun go down your wrath, you 103 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,720 will not dream, you will not have the pure dream life because 104 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,040 you're hindering the flow of the spirit at night. 105 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,160 And then he would encourage me. I know for for our team, we go 106 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,440 on assignments and we may spend 2 weeks or 4 weeks or or 107 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,880 whatever, praying, fasting, breaking fast, starting again 108 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,760 during the fast. But I there won't those nights. 109 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,480 The preparation is making sure there's no offense in the heart. 110 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,440 I'm making sure I'm praying in the spirit. 111 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,840 I want to enter into the most holy faith, right? 112 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:14,120 I want to go into the, the the place with the Lord without 113 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,800 there. All's I'm saying is no matter 114 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,160 what the gifting and calling is on our life, there is a there is 115 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,800 a surrender that allows that gifting to flow. 116 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,200 So I don't want to minimize the consecration because the 117 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,320 consecration in the Kingdom with one another. 118 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,080 And that's why it was such a joy to meet to covenant with Lou, 119 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:44,200 because you don't always find a man that's so consecrated that's 120 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,680 night and day. He's just thinking about Jesus 121 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,640 and revival, right? It's just he wakes up in the 122 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,080 morning, goes to sleep at night. He's burning. 123 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,400 He's burning with the Lord's heart for the nations and, and 124 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,440 so there is a great cost in the, in the, you know, I, this is 125 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,440 kind of funny, but we, we had taken 70 young people from the 126 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,680 Trail of Tears. The Lord, we had a dream and in 127 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,800 the dream, the Lord told us that we had to wear the shoes of the 128 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,920 Native Americans to overcome abortion in the land because of 129 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,280 what, what we found out was that the first abortions in the land 130 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,280 were the some of the white men ripping open the wombs of the 131 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Native Americans in the war, in the battles and stuff. 132 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,040 Some of the first, I'm not saying it was necessarily the 133 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,120 first, but it was. So we took these 70 young 134 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,480 people. We were going to walk the Trail 135 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:43,360 of Tears from Charlotte area to Oklahoma and oh, so we're in the 136 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,360 middle of this long fast, Lou. Lou thought it'd be a good idea 137 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,600 to start with a 40 day fast. So we're on this 40 day fast and 138 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,320 he didn't feel like we were doing that well. 139 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,160 So somebody has a dream. We're supposed to do an Ester 140 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,800 fast. I'm like, you got to be kidding. 141 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,440 We're on a 40 day water fast. Now you want us to go 3 days 142 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,160 with no food? I remember we were young. 143 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,760 I remember telling one of the young people, he said, can we 144 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,040 brush our teeth? I said, no, you can't. 145 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,840 You can't use toothpaste and you can't, you know, and don't sit 146 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,240 in the shower and open your mouth. 147 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,720 It was totally, really legalistic. 148 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:26,600 It was not God. And yeah, got some of those 149 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,560 stories. I pastored. 150 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,320 I shouldn't have been pastoring. I'm not a pastor, but I helped 151 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,919 the Korean church and they asked us to come and help them walk 152 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:37,280 through some difficulties for three months and it ended up to 153 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,000 be 3 1/2 years. And I remember calling a fast 154 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,720 and one of the young Korean girls called me and said, can I 155 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,240 do this this certain fast? I said no problem, you'll you'll 156 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,920 be fine. I think I don't know what it 157 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,240 was, but I get a call the next day. 158 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,480 She's in the emergency room. I'm like, OK, well you didn't 159 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,280 tell me you had these different issues. 160 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:04,680 Anyway, so a guy prophesied to me and said I'd be a pastor and 161 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:07,840 I knew he was missing it. I thought there is no way. 162 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,880 And then I got tricked. Jehovah, Sneaky, whatever his 163 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:20,000 name is, my wife's the pastor. My one of the Koreans came to my 164 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,520 wife and said we really feel like since Chris's pastor that 165 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,280 he should stand at the door and greet people. 166 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,480 My wife goes, if you want a greeter, you're going to have to 167 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,480 do it yourself. My husband's not going to sit at 168 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,080 the door anyway. Sorry. 169 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,480 That's what happens when you're an introvert. 170 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,840 You're like, that's your greatest fear, right? 171 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,920 Your greatest fear is being in church. 172 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,160 And the pastor gets up and says, let's break into groups and 173 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:47,720 pray. No, I don't mind so much 174 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,080 anymore. But a couple weeks ago, I was at 175 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,160 the church, a small church with 50 people and Leah that was 176 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,080 pastoring. And she's so like, everyone 177 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,520 break up with somebody you love and what? 178 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,040 Take communion. And I just did. 179 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,480 I didn't move. I was sitting alone. 180 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,240 And she comes over and says, Chris, I said break, move 181 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,360 somebody love. And I said, I am anyway, So the 182 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,960 introverts in here will understand. 183 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,560 But it's been fun to be with you. 184 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,120 I, I want to share a couple dreams just for fun and, and 185 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:24,840 because in the dreams we can learn things. 186 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,960 And Lou, Lou called me a couple weeks ago and said, Chris, it 187 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,160 was on a Tuesday, said on Wednesday, he's leaving for 188 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,680 Manchester, England. He said, will you see if the 189 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,840 Lord gives you any dream? And of course that's I just pray 190 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,680 and ask the Lord for Lou. And because of that covenantal 191 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,160 unity, I, I start getting things for him in in the dreams. 192 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,960 And that night I had an interesting dream. 193 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:52,480 Manchester United was in a soccer match with Arab Emirates, 194 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,120 Arab United Emirates in the soccer match that it was tied 11 195 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,520 to 11 in my dream. And the first team to get 12 and 196 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:06,560 sudden death would win. And at 1111, Manchester United 197 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,320 goes to the sideline and I'm I'm over there listening to them and 198 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,680 they're saying we should have paid the price for these certain 199 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:16,280 players. And the the overtime lasted. 200 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,800 It seemed like a couple hours in the dream. 201 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,040 It was like one of those extended listening to them. 202 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,640 We should have paid her the price for this. 203 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,040 We should have got this, this player named Johnson. 204 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,720 And in some of my dreams, Johnson becomes a a continued 205 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,360 theme with either the sons of John the beloved or sons of John 206 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,560 the Baptist has some meaning to them more than more than just 207 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,080 the literal name. So I share the dream with Lou. 208 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,880 I said, well, Lou, here's what I got last night. 209 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,040 And so he's, he's going to Manchester. 210 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,600 It was, well, he, he was on his way on Wednesday of that week, 211 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,240 couple weeks ago. So he goes and he, because we've 212 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,320 been together for 40 years, he's just come to the point of, you 213 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,120 know, Chris, I, I know you, I know I trust your dreams. 214 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,000 I'm going to just share the dream and we'll see what 215 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,040 happens. So he said, here's the dream 216 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,360 from my friend. It was 11 to 11. 217 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,320 It was sudden death. And we believe it has to do with 218 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,440 England. We believe Manchester has a, a 219 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:19,200 price to pay or, you know, right now, if you've hear a lot of 220 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,880 people are saying England is, doesn't have a chance, right? 221 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,680 They're just, they're, they've lost their culture to, to 222 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:29,920 invading cultures, culture war. And I'm not saying I'm not 223 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,200 pointing out to flesh and blood. I'm I'm saying spiritually there 224 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,120 there's, you know, you're hearing where there's teenage 225 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,440 girls getting raped in the middle of the day because 226 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:44,520 there's a culture that is controlled by these unseen 227 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,240 entities that that have no value for women, right. 228 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,600 And so it's like that's but it now they're in a different 229 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,480 country and it's turning the country upside down. 230 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,360 So anyways, they Lou shares this dream and the leaders are like, 231 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,000 OK, we really need to pray and pay the make sure we have paid 232 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,280 the price for our country. So it was a level of sobriety in 233 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,920 the dream that was on a Wednesday or Thursday. 234 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:13,080 And now on the next Wednesday, he's back and he he felt led to 235 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,080 go to Manchester, NH and on a Wednesday. 236 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,160 So that Wednesday there's actually a soccer match between 237 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,840 United, Manchester, Manchester United. 238 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,720 They're not playing United Arab Emirates, they're playing 239 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:33,200 Grimsby soccer club. It was a, a cup, a cup match, 240 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,680 meaning they had to win and to proceed and and Grimsby was 241 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,280 level 4. Not I don't, I don't pretend to 242 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,600 understand a whole lot about soccer. 243 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,280 I play a little bit for fun, but never on a team. 244 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,960 And Grimsby didn't have a chance. 245 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,240 They were level 4 United, Manchester United, top level, 246 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,520 top tier level. Well, on that Wednesday, they're 247 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,120 in this cup final. It's 11 to 11 and the first one 248 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,240 to 12 in sudden death wins. Grimsby ends up beating 249 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,680 Manchester United in this cup final a week after the dream. 250 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,240 And I'm asking the Lord. I said, Lord, you really were 251 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,480 clear with the dream, but not. So why did I miss the Why did I 252 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,160 miss the different teams? He said, this is what I felt, 253 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,840 Chris, you didn't miss the teams there. 254 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,000 What? There's a culture coming from a 255 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:30,080 certain, you know, spiritual realm, but there's a grim report 256 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:35,440 that is going to cost England their country if they side with 257 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,160 the 10 spies that have a bad report. 258 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,600 I feel like the feel like the and So what happens is when this 259 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,600 soccer match actually happened a week later on their own, this 260 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,160 group, this conference calls a 40 day fast to really fight for. 261 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,440 And I'm not telling you is the 40 day fast is the answer. 262 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,000 They would just said we need to pay the price, whatever it is 263 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,920 for our country. This and I want to I wanted to 264 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:07,560 share that because the spirit realm there has to nothing 265 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,720 happened. Very little happens in heaven. 266 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,840 I'm not going to say nothing, but God is always looking for 267 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,000 our agreement on the earth. There has to be an agreement 268 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,040 with him before there's a move on on the earth because he's 269 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,480 made us coin Co reigning with him right in Christ. 270 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:32,520 And so it's very sobering to me to to say I I want to make sure 271 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,080 that my the words out of my mouth says England doesn't have 272 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,360 a chance. You know the they're being taken 273 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,160 over. America does is to is too too 274 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,440 late for revival. It's trying to spit like loo 275 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:51,200 sorry. Anyway, let me do this. 276 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,640 Let me transition a little bit here. 277 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:02,360 Well, let me, let me encourage you because I last night, last 278 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,800 night and the night before, I want to put two dreams together, 279 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,600 2 partial dreams that what I've had and I believe, I believe for 280 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,680 you guys in the first night, part of the dream was there's 281 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,080 going to be a wealth transfer. But it wasn't talking about 282 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,000 money. It was talking about people, the 283 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,480 wealth, the treasure. We are the treasure. 284 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,200 There's we have, there's a clay pot with a treasure inside. 285 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,640 We are that treasure, right? There's a transfer of wealth 286 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,000 that's coming. And I saw it in my dream where 287 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,200 large churches would be emptied out and churches that had the 288 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,680 life of Christ would be filled with those treasured vessels. 289 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:39,920 There's a shifting that's taking place. 290 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,240 And then this last night I saw on the door, but it couldn't be 291 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,960 seen in the natural, but on the door there was the there were 12 292 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,520 Stones of the high priest governmental, the the 12. 293 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,480 And it was on the eastern door. And so when I got here this 294 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,600 morning, Dave brought me to the office and I'm like, yeah, this 295 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,280 is the eastern door because I could see the sun coming up. 296 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:05,800 It's the eastern door, the entrance that you use. 297 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,599 And the Lord started giving me revelation, the dream which will 298 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,319 happen sometimes where I started seeing Ezekiel 28. 299 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,040 And if you know the passage, it's where Satan is. 300 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,839 He's this covering cherub. He has a priestly role in 301 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:22,440 heaven. He's got it says he won't. 302 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,480 He walks among the 9 stones, which is very fascinating 303 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,000 because those every one of those 9 stones is on the breastplate 304 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,120 of the 12 Stones of the high priest, but he's missing 3. 305 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,560 And I felt this is what I was feeling from the Lord in the 306 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,800 dream. I was feeling like I, I knew 307 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,240 something that I didn't know before, but I knew that he 308 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,640 didn't have the three stones needed to steward the, the, the 309 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,200 priest, the priestly mediation of mankind. 310 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,560 He, he was missing those 3 stones. 311 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,760 And how did I know that? Because as I was thinking about 312 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,880 this, I started seeing Abraham looking up at the stars of the 313 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,800 sky. And I realized, oh, because 314 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:07,840 Ezekiel 28 says he is these, he, he would rise, his heart was to 315 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,480 rise above the stars. That's what he want. 316 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,200 That's what's part of his falling was he wanted to be 317 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,440 above the stars. He wanted to rule mankind, but 318 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,000 he was never given that authority to rule mankind. 319 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,720 Anyway. So I, I, I feel in the, I felt 320 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,960 in the dream. And what I saw was as I was 321 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:30,800 moving in the dream in the city, I could see some of the churches 322 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,800 having the 12 Stones, but some of the churches had 9 stones 323 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,040 that were artificial stones. And I knew, I knew in the dream 324 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,560 that those churches would be empty. 325 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,720 There'd be a season where the, the, the cost is too great for 326 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,960 them to continue to open. The, the, the Lord would take 327 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,720 away the lampstand in a sense, and there wouldn't be any reason 328 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:57,400 to go there. But part of that costly high 329 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:03,040 priestly anointing is that we would see Christ in every 330 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,880 person, every broken person. My my wife works with a broken 331 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,080 with a horse ministry with young people, teens and 20 year olds 332 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,960 that someday they'll come with a blue wristband and they'll 333 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,640 identify as a blue as a as a boy, they'll might wear a pink 1 334 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,520 though I being identified that day as a as a girl. 335 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,520 She loves she loves being in the midst of this generation of 336 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:33,440 broken men and women are identity issues they and she can 337 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,400 only talk to him about Jesus if they initiate part of the 338 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,880 structure of the of the work environment. 339 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,680 But she was telling me a couple weeks ago. 340 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,080 She said someone's this one person that she's been praying 341 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,080 for. She said she came to me and she 342 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,280 said if all Christians were like you, I'd become a Christian. 343 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,600 I'm like that's awesome. Keep loving those you know, they 344 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560 don't have we're not pointing the finger. 345 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,920 We're saying they're broke and they need Jesus, you know, 346 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,160 right. We've got a generation and like 347 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,880 Dave is saying, we're not pointing the finger. 348 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,240 They're acting according to their nature, you know, but you 349 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,600 we all have received a new creation life in us. 350 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,520 We should be different. They haven't received that life. 351 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,400 They're going to be according to Adam, right the things in their 352 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,720 heart and so and I, I mentioned what. 353 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,520 Dan Moeller said, I, I, I like this, this comes to me every 354 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,280 once in a while. I don't, haven't listened to Dan 355 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,840 for a few years, but I really loved him. 356 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,880 I really love his heart. And he said something. 357 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,920 He said we should never as believers, we should never be 358 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,880 hurt by anybody. Because if somebody hurts us 359 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,320 with their words, he said, they're, they simply don't know 360 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,080 who they are and they don't know who we are. 361 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,040 So we should be hurt for them. So they should never hurt us. 362 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,640 But if they hurt us with if they attempt to hurt us with their 363 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,880 words, it should simply hurt us. They simply don't know who they 364 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,360 are. They're just coming against 365 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,640 this. Anyway. 366 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,760 I, I thought that that's so profound. 367 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,920 It's so simple and yet so profound the, the, the life of 368 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:09,280 Christ that goes after, after all the the lost, right. 369 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,400 Anyway, so I want to read a couple passages. 370 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,040 I think there's one in Malachi. The first chapter in Malachi. 371 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,800 It says, It says I have loved you, says the Lord. 372 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,920 Yet you say, In what way have you loved us? 373 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,800 Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says the Lord. 374 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,640 Yet Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. 375 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,560 I laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of 376 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,800 the wilderness. Even though Edom has said we 377 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,520 have been impoverished, but we will return and build the 378 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,720 desolate places. Thus says the Lord, They may 379 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,080 build, but I will throw it down. They may be called the territory 380 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,720 of wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord will have 381 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,560 indignation forever. When you read these Scriptures 382 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,440 and throughout the Old Testament, Edom is an increase 383 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:12,240 of Esau, just like Jacob, just like Israel's an increase of 384 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,560 Jacob, right? It's that when he's talking 385 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:21,040 about Esau, he's saying Esau. I hated because Esau despised 386 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,840 the seed of Christ, the birthright, his inheritance. 387 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,200 He he sold it for a bowl of soup. 388 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,160 He said I don't need the seed of Christ. 389 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,240 Basically what he's saying is I will have war forever with the 390 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,680 with Adam. There is no I hate Adam. 391 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:43,280 There's nothing good in Adam. When when when man sinned and 392 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:49,000 and and the life of Christ left, it says the whole world was full 393 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,640 of wickedness and violence. None there was none that were 394 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,000 seek that there was nothing. Everybody's heart was intense of 395 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,480 their heart were evil continually. 396 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:03,200 Genesis 6 and if if you weren't in a position to say I need the 397 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,000 seed, if you despise the seed, God is saying, I hate that. 398 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:16,400 I hate that everyone from the lineage of Esau, from the 399 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,240 lineage of Edom. He's not saying he's not saying 400 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,040 he's looking at a person hating the person. 401 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,840 He's hating the life that they're agreeing to because he 402 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,920 died to save them from that Adam life. 403 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,280 He actually buried all of us into Adam. 404 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,800 Isn't that amazing? All of Christ in Romans and 405 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,760 Corinthians, all of all of all of Adam died in Christ and was 406 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,960 buried. We talked about this yesterday a 407 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,000 little bit. The the crucifixion and the 408 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,680 burial of Adam is universal, but the resurrection is by faith 409 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,920 alone. All of Adam has has died, but 410 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,600 the resurrection is by faith. There's there's got to be a 411 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,600 faith in this seed. And I want to, I want to talk 412 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:03,680 about this because this is a hard saying, but there the only 413 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,680 thing Christ is looking for is an increase of of himself. 414 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,360 The only thing the Father's looking for is an increase of 415 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:15,680 the life of Christ in us. All of our good ideas are are 416 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,240 Esau. It's our own imagination. 417 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,080 It's our own good. He hates that. 418 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,680 He hates that those things, they, they have nothing to do 419 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,240 with him. They're of a different 420 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,320 everything that's not coming flowing from him is something 421 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:35,000 that he doesn't he doesn't long for, he doesn't want, he hates. 422 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:39,760 It is a hard saying, isn't it? It's like we're talking about 423 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,160 this everything when when God made Adam, it says he's a 424 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,440 picture. Adam is a picture of Christ. 425 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:52,040 Eve is a picture of the church, Ephesians and Romans. 426 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:59,280 When God made Adam and he wanted to, it was good that it was not 427 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,440 good that she should be alone. So he made Eve. 428 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,600 What did he do? He took life from Adam and he 429 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,920 made Eve with that life. Christ took his life. 430 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,480 He made a bride and then he gave that bride back to Christ to see 431 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,160 see what he's doing. The very life that he gives us, 432 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,360 he receives back from us. That's what he's looking for. 433 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,120 He's always looking for an increase of his own life. 434 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,400 And so we were talking kind of go quickly through a couple of 435 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,560 passages, but all of the Old Testament is a shadow of Christ 436 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,240 in some way or another, good or bad. 437 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,000 We talked about leprosy. We talked about Leviticus like 438 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,640 14 or 15. It says if I spit on somebody, 439 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,040 that person becomes unclean. That's kind of weird. 440 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,920 They they got to go through a cleansing ritual, go outside the 441 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:44,560 camp. Why? 442 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,600 Because everything that comes from the flesh is defiling. 443 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,840 It's just a picture of the body. It's a picture of Christ's body, 444 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,680 the church. And he's saying there's boundary 445 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,240 line. So every every law that was 446 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,880 given in Scripture is simply a boundary line of the life of and 447 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,160 nature of Christ. What are the wars? 448 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,520 The wars are simply the victories of Christ. 449 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,480 The the sacrifices are fragrance and, and the death of Christ. 450 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,720 They're all pointing in a weak way. 451 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,120 They're pointing to the substance which is Christ. 452 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,880 And so in the Old Testament, the first three times Israel is 453 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,440 used. It's very significant when Jacob 454 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,480 goes with his staff to go find a bride, he he goes into a hostile 455 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,480 territory. He leaves the House of God. 456 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,040 The Bethel goes into a hostile territory. 457 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,640 He claims a wife. He he laborers there for 20 458 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,840 years and guess what? When he leaves, guess what is 459 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,520 with him? There's a bride, there's flocks 460 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,320 and there's sons. It's a picture of Christ coming 461 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,800 and having an increase. See see this the scripture. 462 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,320 There's a couple really clear points in scripture that God, 463 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,880 his love comes down. His love is defined in John, but 464 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,640 he's giving all things I because I love you, I'm giving you all 465 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,520 understanding, all knowledge, because I love you, I'm giving 466 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,520 you all things. Well, that's what love is. 467 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:18,320 It's giving fully of himself and glory is the increase of that, 468 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,000 the nature, it's the increase of what he's looking for. 469 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,600 He's he's looking for an increase of what he's given. 470 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,880 He's not looking for more than Christ in us. 471 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:30,400 He's looking for Christ in us. And so when Jacob is wrestling 472 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,880 with God, he's wrestling with Laban, with man, but then he 473 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,200 wrestles with God and you know, he touches his hips and 474 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,280 dislocates it. But he's God says because you've 475 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,920 prevailed, I'm changing your name to Israel. 476 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,720 He's changing his name because that's he's he's he's shadowing 477 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,360 the body of Christ, the church. It's it's a one new man. 478 00:27:55,360 --> 00:28:00,440 It's it's Exodus 422. Go tell Pharaoh that Israel is 479 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,360 my son, not my sons and my daughters, my son, my first 480 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,400 born. It's a picture of Christ. 481 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,120 It's a picture of increase. So in Scripture, when a Jacob is 482 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:14,440 coming out with this increase, it's Speaking of the church. 483 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,800 The church is the resurrected body of Christ. 484 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,240 If he now you got to understand this because otherwise it sounds 485 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,440 weird. It's like, what are you saying? 486 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,720 We're God? No, not at all. 487 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,040 The church. See, we do. 488 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,880 If you know, most of the time, if I would say who is the 489 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,520 church, we would define it. You can't define it because he 490 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,960 defines it. He defines it by his life. 491 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,360 So the measure of Christ's life in this room is the measure of 492 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,520 the church in this room, right? We can say we're the body of 493 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,960 Christ, but we're only the body of Christ as the life of the Son 494 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,240 lives through us. There's part of us that is not 495 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,480 the life of Christ. And that's the that's the part 496 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,640 of us that we continually surrender to. 497 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,800 It's the mind that hasn't been renewed. 498 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,680 It's the thoughts that aren't his thoughts. 499 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,240 It's not the body of Christ. He when he resurrected from the 500 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,480 dead, isn't it interesting? Nobody that knew him now 501 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,840 recognized him. The road to Emmaus, They didn't 502 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,560 recognize him. Mary thought, this is the 503 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,040 gardener. Peter and James didn't recognize 504 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,720 him until they said, cast it over and catch the 153, whatever 505 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,280 the fish or whatever. Nobody recognized him because he 506 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,880 came in a different form, Same life, different form. 507 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,840 He says to Mary, Don't cling to me. 508 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,320 I don't want to be known like I was known for the last three 509 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,360 years. I want to be known differently. 510 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,600 And so he's, he's appearing and disappearing and he's coming and 511 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,680 going. He doesn't want anyone clinging 512 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,840 to him because he wants people to find him in the body. 513 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,960 He's the head now. Guess what? 514 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,480 We're the body of Christ. He wanted people to see. 515 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,440 Look, the the life is the same, but the form is different. 516 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,280 It's an increase. What is the greater works? 517 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,240 It's not a greater life, it's just a greater number. 518 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,320 It's a greater increase of the very life of Christ. 519 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,760 So when Christ heals through us, he's the one healing. 520 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,720 It's not my power to heal. I'm just the like we always say, 521 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,280 unless we were misunderstood, the vine, the branch doesn't 522 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,040 become the vine. We don't become God. 523 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,920 The vine simply gets a clean vessel, a conduit to go through 524 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,880 his life, to go through, to flow through. 525 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,200 Isn't it amazing? In Isaiah 60, it says that 526 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,720 there's a time coming when all the nations will come and bow 527 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,280 down at our feet. That is, that's crazy. 528 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,760 What does that mean? That means God is purified, A 529 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,120 remnant that no longer that it's just they just see Christ. 530 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,840 They don't even see us. It's like they don't see us. 531 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,840 They see him and they come down to worship him in US and God's 532 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,360 not, not, not only not offended. This is where his heart 533 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,400 rejoices. Finally, the my body is my body 534 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,000 and he he has no problem casting Thrones down because it's his 535 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,600 life, right, You know what I'm saying? 536 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,480 I mean, giving us Thrones and we casting them back, however, over 537 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,880 you know, it's kind of silly to think I'm wearing anybody going 538 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,880 to be comfortable wearing a crown? 539 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,280 I'm it's not, it's not a physical crown. 540 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,200 I'm like, I'm not wearing this for all of eternity. 541 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,320 This is stupid anyway it it's just AI think it's just a 542 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,400 recognition in the spirit realm that this person laid his life 543 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,240 down. This person yielded to the very 544 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,880 life of Christ. There was an increase. 545 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,600 I love the story and we've told it several times this weekend. 546 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:38,840 But when Joseph before Joseph has a prophetic word that his 547 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,520 people are going to go into Egypt into exile and he says to 548 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,800 them, just remember this, don't leave my bones in Egypt. 549 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,560 Interesting. Don't make sure they they come 550 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,520 out of Egypt. So what happens 400 years later, 551 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,560 Moses is called to deliver the Israelites from Egypt and in the 552 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,680 front of in the front of the procession, they've got the 553 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,880 they're carrying the bones of of Joseph. 554 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,160 What's the picture? The picture is Joseph, a type of 555 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,160 Christ now has an increase of Christ, right? 556 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,000 It's that's a picture. It's a shadow, not perfect at 557 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,680 all. It's just a shadow, but 558 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,360 everything in Scripture is a shadow. 559 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,920 Jesus is the door. Jesus is the cloud that led him 560 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,240 out of the promised land. Jesus is the promised land. 561 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,600 Jesus is the manna from heaven. He's the bread that he. 562 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,440 You know, it's like you can't you go to Joseph And isn't it 563 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:33,440 interesting when I, when the Lord started revealing the, the 564 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,160 communion revival, I started seeing communion all over us. 565 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,920 I was like, wow, the Baker, the Baker dies, but the, the wine, 566 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,960 the one that serves wine to the king lives forever. 567 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,280 I'm like, come on, That's an awesome, that's an awesome 568 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,960 picture. The, the blood anyway, And 569 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,600 Gideon, what's Gideon doing? He's baking bread in a wine 570 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,520 press. And then the big, big barley 571 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,080 loaf rolls down and and demolishes the Midianite. 572 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:08,240 Was it Midianites and anyway, just the the the whole of 573 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,400 scripture, if we understand the whole of scripture is pointing 574 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,880 for his original design, which was to have a a priestly bride, 575 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,680 right. We were talking to praying for 576 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,760 Roger and his wife earlier. There's a word in the in 577 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,840 Genesis. It says tendon keep the garden 578 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,640 and then take dominion on the earth. 579 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,960 Tendon keep is only used one other time together in numbers. 580 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,400 I think it's chapter 3 and it's in regard to the priesthood. 581 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,160 Jesus. God's original intention with 582 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,160 man was to have a priest king in the garden and to rule. 583 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,960 It was a temple. It was facing east. 584 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,240 Eden was facing east. It was the IT was had cherubims 585 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,000 in there. What's the temple facing east, 586 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,840 the cherubim in the holy of holies. 587 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,280 It was just this is the Garden of Eden. 588 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,000 It's a it's a temple on the earth and you are the 589 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,040 gatekeepers. That word in tendon keep the 590 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:09,920 word keep means to guard. I don't know if this is exactly, 591 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,920 I think it's true, but you know, Eve was deceived, but Adam was 592 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,040 told to guard, guard the garden. Why did he let the snake talk to 593 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,120 his his wife? You know, there's, there's I 594 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,320 think, I think the judgement came on him because he was to 595 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,159 guard and keep he was to make sure there was nothing happening 596 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:32,840 in that garden that wasn't supposed to happen. 597 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,000 And we're and we're, we're priests and kings. 598 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,400 And this is this is what we do. We guard, we, we guard our 599 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,239 hearts. You know, I had a dream a couple 600 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,480 years ago. In the dream it was I was 601 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:49,239 reading about Solomon who was having a dream in, in kings. 602 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,480 And it says, you know, in the dream the Lord asked him for 603 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,600 any, asked me for anything. And in the dream Solomon 604 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,760 responds and says, I want wisdom. 605 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,760 But what the Lord highlighted to me in the dream was not wisdom, 606 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,440 but govern. He said, I want wisdom to 607 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,200 govern. I'm like, OK, you're he asked 608 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:13,200 for something more than wisdom. He wanted to be at that ecclesia 609 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,960 that that priest, that king priest, right. 610 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,720 He he's like there was something that moved God's heart said you 611 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,080 have asked a good thing. You've asked something that I 612 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,320 wanted Adam and Eve to walk in and you want to restore that 613 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,680 governing wisdom. The problem with Solomon is he 614 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,840 could govern the people, but never governed his own heart, 615 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,880 right? He was a failure. 616 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,440 But in in in that sense. But isn't it, isn't it powerful 617 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,360 that God, God showed him something in a dream? 618 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,280 And sometimes we just dismiss dreams. 619 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:49,440 The Midianites with Gideon, they get a dream about this. 620 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,960 Barley. Was it? 621 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,720 Yeah. Barley loaf rolling down and and 622 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,600 destroying them. They said this is none other 623 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,480 than the sword of Gideon. And they were afraid. 624 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,800 Gideon hears it outside their tent. 625 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,200 And that was all he needed to hear. 626 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,600 To gird his loins up and go to battle was like, what a culture. 627 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:11,200 What a culture where Joseph's brothers hear a dream and want 628 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,520 to kill him. They could have said, that's 629 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,600 just a pizza, a barley dream pizza dream. 630 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,080 But they're like, no, we're going to kill you because we 631 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,080 believe in dreams. The Midianites said, gosh, 632 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,680 Gideon's going to destroy us. I had a dream. 633 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,960 They weren't even believers. But but culturally, we we just 634 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,840 got to be careful not to dismiss the and I'm not saying just 635 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,960 dreams. There's still small voice the, 636 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,000 the, the obviously the written word, like when God lays a hold 637 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,440 of that written word and you just know that, you know, this 638 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,720 is, this is the message for right now. 639 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,560 It just burns in your heart, right. 640 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,240 And I think, I think covenantally, I can say this 641 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,600 beyond a shadow of a doubt. If I wouldn't have covenanted 642 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,480 with Lou, I would have missed 40 years of dreaming. 643 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,640 I, I wouldn't have taken him seriously like this. 644 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,640 It was a cool dream. Maybe I should have bet some 645 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,240 money on that. I just saw this fight and 646 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,480 Muhammad Ali. Those are one of the first 647 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,800 dreams I had. Muhammad Ali loses at the end. 648 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,920 And I told my people in my college, I said, hey, I saw the 649 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,040 fight in my dream last night. I should have bet on it, right? 650 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,920 No, God was just saying, Chris, I want you to know you can hear 651 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,120 my voice. You can hear my voice and I'll 652 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,240 speak to you if you're willing to hear and not just say it's 653 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:24,720 just a pizza dream or whatever. And, and our, our dreams do get 654 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,160 cleaned up. Sometimes it's just a piece of a 655 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,760 dream that's like right from heaven. 656 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,440 And then some of it's mixture that you know what, what, 657 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,400 whatever reason that we're mixture in our hearts. 658 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,280 And as we, as we are saying, yes, yes to more surrender, we 659 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,000 hear clearly, just like we hear the understand the word too. 660 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,760 So the the surrender to this increase of Christ and. 661 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,080 It's all it's all about Jesus, right? 662 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,840 Everything is about Jesus living his life through US, Christ in 663 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,200 us, the hope of glory. We have nothing apart from his 664 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,040 life. But if we have his life, we have 665 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,440 everything. There needs to be a confidence 666 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,080 in US. You know, I don't have the word. 667 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,680 I don't necessarily know what to do, but he's in me and he can 668 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,920 speak freely through me if we allow him to right? 669 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,920 He can live through us. So there, you know, one of the I 670 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:29,280 know I need to end, but in 1997 I was just leaving this my wife 671 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,120 and I were just leaving the Korean church that we were 672 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,840 pastoring. And the Lord said, he said, 673 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,560 Chris, you have a a life threatening disease in my dream 674 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,640 and I'm like, gosh, am I going to die of cancer? 675 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,320 What's going on? And in the dream, the Lord goes, 676 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,360 it's comparison and it's going to kill you. 677 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,520 And Paul said, don't compare yourselves among yourselves. 678 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,360 You're not wise. We either land on one side or 679 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,160 the other. I'll tell you where I landed. 680 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,400 I always said that guy's a better teacher. 681 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,960 That guy's a better prophet. That guy's a better everything. 682 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,120 What am I doing? What am I doing? 683 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,240 The Koreans talk about intercession, man. 684 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:05,960 We had intercession meeting. I didn't even know if I was 685 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,040 saved anymore. And you know, it's just like, 686 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,560 these guys are awesome. And then the next dream I have, 687 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,080 I don't know, maybe a month later, because I was struggling 688 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,880 with this, like, OK, I, I compare myself to others and 689 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,520 I'm, I'm not measuring up. Lord. 690 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,520 And the next dream there was all those people that I had just 691 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,680 labeled that were, why would I do this? 692 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,440 Because they're so good at it. Just let them do it. 693 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:30,080 They, they were in a dream with me. 694 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,280 We're in the mountains of Colorado in this dream. 695 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:37,280 And Billy Graham was going to come and be the guest, the guest 696 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,600 at the mountain retreat. Well, he gets there and we're 697 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,760 just about to sit down for dinner and he comes up to me and 698 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,040 he says, Chris, I want to sit by you tonight. 699 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,760 And I said, no, I'm an introvert. 700 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,720 I don't talk that much. Go, go sit by so. 701 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,280 And so he can talk all night, right? 702 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,880 You know, and I know, you know, I want to sit by you. 703 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,720 I said, OK. I said be boring, but OK. 704 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,600 And then he said at night, he said, I want to sleep in your 705 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,680 cabin. I'm like, no, again, really. 706 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,960 You don't want to sleep in my cabin anyway. 707 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,520 Just. And, and I realized, oh, I'm 708 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,240 talking to the Lord. In my dream, Billy Graham was a 709 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,080 representation of the Lord. That's all it was. 710 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,880 It was just like the Lord was saying, no, Chris, I made you 711 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,080 the way you are. I love your personality. 712 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,360 He loves it would be boring if we were all the same, if even 713 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,000 two of us were the same, right? We're all so very different. 714 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,280 It's like we're we get to have a personality while we express the 715 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,600 life of Christ. That's a beautiful thing. 716 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,280 We don't have to lose our sense of humor. 717 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:42,080 I mean, I think one of my colleagues is to make Lou laugh 718 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:47,520 once a month, right? And I, I send them, you know, 719 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,520 these, these memes that are right on the edge of not not 720 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,920 being good to send. You know, he's like Chris. 721 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,040 You have, he goes, Chris, you have a serious conscience. 722 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:04,520 But I can't stop laughing. So I think for Lou and for 723 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:11,080 heaven, that's my ministry. OK, He's trying hard, but he's 724 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:24,320 anyway just saying, let me just let me just say this. 725 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,520 I'll just share something and then I'll be done in in Matthew 726 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,240 15. You, you guys know the story 727 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,400 when the woman comes to Jesus, that's a gentile and he says to 728 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,800 her, he ignores her. I should read it, but Matthew 729 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,720 15/20/21 in there, he ignores her, didn't say anything to her. 730 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:45,880 So he's ignoring this woman And you're, I remember reading this 731 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,600 thinking she's just not, he's not a Jesus having a bad day. 732 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,040 He's just ignoring some woman that's trying to get healed, her 733 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,240 daughter healed or whatever. And then the next verse she, she 734 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,400 presses in and says, you know, Jesus and the disciples are 735 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,000 saying somebody send her away. Somebody get rid of this lady. 736 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:08,960 And she's pressing in and, and Jesus says even the dogs will 737 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,000 get, you know, the dogs will get the crumbs or something like 738 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,480 that. Right now he ignores her. 739 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:18,160 Now he calls her a dog and I'm thinking what? 740 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,040 She's having a terrible day and I'm just joking. 741 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:27,160 But it goes a little further. And then she lays hold of of him 742 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,760 and she is healed and he says something great. 743 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,360 I've not seen a great faith like this or some however that goes. 744 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,360 You know what, I was meditating on this. 745 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,560 I felt like the Lord said to me, he says, Chris, I knew from the 746 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,480 first start of this she had great faith and she was going to 747 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,600 persevere and I was going to ignore her. 748 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,400 And I was going to say this, you know, the, the bread is for the 749 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,480 dogs, the Gentiles. And she was going to press in 750 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,040 and I was going to show the disciples what real faith was. 751 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,680 That's when I felt like he said, this is what real faith looks 752 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,560 like. It doesn't matter what it looks 753 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:01,520 like. It doesn't matter if you're 754 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,360 being, you feel like you're being ignored, but you're 755 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,560 pressing and you're saying, no, I'm going to lay hold of this 756 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,320 man, Jesus. Thanks for listening to our 757 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,040 podcast. 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