1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,200 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,700 We're going to, we're going to continue on. 6 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:16,900 In the series. We've been in what we're looking 7 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:23,000 at is we're looking at the progressive, the progressive 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,900 experience of the spirit in our life that there's always more 9 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,900 and we need to realize that. There's always more Or if for no 10 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,200 other reason we're finite and God's infinite. 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,600 You'll never Plumb the depths of who he is. 12 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:39,700 You can until your God, you have to remain teachable because only 13 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:42,300 God knows everything and you never will be. 14 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:44,800 So remain, teachable will be learning for eternity. 15 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,100 And there's always more in God and there's dangerous theology, 16 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:50,500 that says you have it also calm down. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,700 As your faith is, so be it unto you. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,700 And so there's always more than God and. 19 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:01,600 So we've been using this analogy of in scripture, this typology 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,099 that's all through scripture of water, being a type of the 21 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:06,600 spirit. And so we talked about in 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,000 Isaiah, Isaiah said, we drink, we draw Joy from the wells of 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,600 Salvation. So our first drink of the spirit 24 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,900 is in Salvation. He comes to reside in Us in 25 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:22,400 measure, then we are filled with the spirit in the baptism in the 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,500 Holy Spirit, we take a drink that is then becomes a river 27 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:29,500 that's released from us. And and salvation, we partake of 28 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:32,000 him in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,100 We become a source of Supply in Salvation, the spirit resides in 30 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:39,900 Us, in the baptism. In the Holy Spirit, we enter 31 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:44,800 into the spirit in Salvation. You take a drink in the baptism, 32 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,600 you take a bath. We are submerged into him, we 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,500 come up dripping, saturated dripping with his presence, but 34 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,500 there's a further analogy and we love this one around here. 35 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:01,100 And that is of outpourings, the reign of the spirit revivalism, 36 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,700 the outpourings of the spirit, and those seasons are awesome. 37 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:08,500 And that's the way we replenish the river. 38 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:12,100 Paul is very clear that we are to keep on being filled to the 39 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:15,200 spirit. There is an initial baptism but 40 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,000 there's many and filling. X. 41 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:21,500 And often those in fillings happened when we get connected 42 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:25,400 with a larger group of believers who are contending for an 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,800 outpouring. And there are seasons of rain 44 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:31,800 where God replenishes our River. I want to replenishing. 45 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,100 I'm not I'm not dry but I can handle some more. 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,200 I want it running over the bank's. 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,900 I love Revival but then we talked about the last couple 48 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:42,400 weeks I shared with you in an encounter. 49 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,800 I had with the Lord and 2009. Really, it was 2010 I had walked 50 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:54,500 Out the side out, looking over the monkey bars, where that 51 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:58,600 playground the kids playground here and it was during a time of 52 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,100 soaking at the congregation and I was, I was in danger of 53 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:04,400 snorkeling that's when you snore when you soak. 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,800 And so being the pastor, I didn't want to do that. 55 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200 That just doesn't look good. You know, you're speaking in 56 00:03:09,208 --> 00:03:12,400 tongues you start, it's just not, it's not proper. 57 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:15,400 So I got up and I walked out there and I looked out that side 58 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,300 window and when I did I went into a vision and I saw Saw this 59 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:22,500 Dome, this translucent Dome over Heartland with this oil, just 60 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,900 dripping out over the whole property and we were under this 61 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:29,600 this Dome of God's glory and I was so excited. 62 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,300 I was blown away at what the Lord was showing me. 63 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:35,300 And then he spoke a couple of personal things to me and then 64 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,100 he said this, the do of Herman will be released. 65 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:44,000 And I shared with you last week that I was excited by what I saw 66 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,400 but disappointed by what I heard because to me do doesn't sound 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,400 exciting. I'll pouring sound exciting, but 68 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,800 do do not, do not to sound exciting as a I wanted 69 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,800 outpouring. I wanted power the Lightning's 70 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,000 of God but the Lord told me, I said God, why do? 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,400 And he said it's mine on disruptive way to nourish the 72 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 land. And when he said that, it's so 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,400 ministered to my heart because we had been through a move of 74 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,500 God, tremendous move of God over months about a year and a half 75 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,100 prior to that and I was still tired from that time. 76 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:27,400 It was exhausting and I realized the disruptive nature of an 77 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:33,000 outpouring and although they're necessary their disruptive, when 78 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,800 you've had famine and we pray for rain. 79 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,200 It's disruptive but its necessary, their Seasons, where 80 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,400 we've seen the pain start to go low the streams around Iowa go 81 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:50,300 low and we rejoice in the rain. But usually we still wait to for 82 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:52,200 a break in the rain, to go to our car. 83 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,500 Unless you've really been in and famine and you might be one of 84 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:59,000 those crazy people that dances in the parking lot and sings In 85 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,800 The Rain for a few minutes. But you don't do that every 86 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,700 time. You because it's disruptive and 87 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:06,500 and so I began to talk to the Lord about this. 88 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,200 In another thing, he Said to me, which really edited my theology. 89 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,200 It shocked me. I almost argued with him, but 90 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,900 he's a lot smarter than me. He said, outpourings were made 91 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,400 necessary by the Fall. As you begin to meditate on 92 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,000 that. I thought, you know, Lord you're 93 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 right, you always are but you're right. 94 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:31,600 It never rained in Paradise, the heavens never opened until sin 95 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,700 had come to a certain point in humanity. 96 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:38,400 Adam and Eve were driven from the garden but as the thoughts 97 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,700 of men were continually towards violence, then the deeps opened 98 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:48,200 up and the skies opened up and there was a flood and that's 99 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,300 when it began to rain. And so what we talk about is 100 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:57,400 outpourings are necessary because of sin but it's not the 101 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,500 superior expression. God wants us to go for now. 102 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,000 We're praying for Revival and I Rejoice every time I'm I hear of 103 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,100 one but I'm telling you this Superior expression, the Zenith 104 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:13,400 of what God wants to release and we have a promise in this house 105 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,600 of this thing. The Lord told me in an open 106 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,800 Vision, the do of Herman will be released here and I do not 107 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,500 believe we've yet touched the fullness of that word and what 108 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:28,000 he told me was that it was going to be released here and the idea 109 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,300 is this that we begin to no longer be dependent upon 110 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:36,700 outpourings Because we are nourished. 111 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,500 By accessing the hidden Caverns within one. 112 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:45,600 Another In Paradise, it did not rain. 113 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:50,600 There were Caverns under the Earth that would emit a mist and 114 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,200 it would nourish the land and it was called Paradise. 115 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:02,000 And God longs to bless environments that step into what 116 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,800 we call the unity of the spirit or the do of Herman. 117 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,900 So, let's look at Psalm 133. I'm just going to read these 118 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:13,200 quick three verses and we're going to spring into another 119 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,100 passage father. We ask God that this morning 120 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,700 that you would anoint our ears to hear. 121 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:23,300 And Lord. We, as we speak of rain Lord, I 122 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:29,100 pray along with Moses's phrase, Lord that you're teaching would 123 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:34,300 fall like rain Lord, on our hungry hearts are parched 124 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:37,400 cracked hearts. Lord, that your word would begin 125 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,400 to nourish those areas of our hearts where they're dry. 126 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:43,800 Lord, I ask for a spirit of wisdom and Revelation that we 127 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,800 would have flashes of insight and understanding we didn't have 128 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,800 when we stepped in here this morning and Lord that you would 129 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,200 move us along corporately as your people that you would 130 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,700 accomplish what you want to accomplish. 131 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:00,700 In and through us that you would receive the rewards of your 132 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:07,800 suffering in Jesus name. Amen, Psalm 133 and this is part 133 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,000 of the biblical text, it starts with this phrase, a song of a 134 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,500 sense of David. And I mentioned this last week, 135 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:15,700 this is one of the songs of ascent. 136 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:20,400 There were a body of Psalms that were sung as they made their way 137 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,400 to the temple. They would step on a stair. 138 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,100 Read the psalm step up, the next stair. 139 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:27,400 Sing out that song. And So forth. 140 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,400 And Psalm 133 was one of them but I believe there's a 141 00:08:30,407 --> 00:08:34,600 prophetic element to that phrase that this is a Psalm that holds 142 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:40,700 the keys to going higher. Two ascending verse 1 behold, 143 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,700 how good and pleasant it is when Brothers dwell in unity and so 144 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:50,800 he's giving us a vision for something, trying to present our 145 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,500 instill in US of value for something. 146 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,400 Something that you, and I don't realize the great value of and 147 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,400 that is when Brothers dwell in unity together, it's both good 148 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,800 and pleasant. It's good for you, but it's also 149 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,100 Pleasant and those aren't always. 150 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:09,900 A package deal. Some things that are good for 151 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:11,500 your heart Pleasant and vice versa. 152 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,300 But this is both Hallelujah. Verse 2 and he so he gives us 153 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:19,400 two analogies. It's like the precious oil on 154 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,900 Aaron's head running down his beard, on the beard of errand 155 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,500 running down on the collar or the Hem of His robe. 156 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,800 We talked about that. Then number three is the one 157 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,800 we're really going after, because it's the one, the Lord 158 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,300 spoke to me, it is the do as like to do of Herman. 159 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,100 What would fall on the mountains of Zion? 160 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,600 And then he closes it with this blessing for there. 161 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:46,000 The Lord has commanded the blessing and then he defines it, 162 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,600 life forevermore. All last week. 163 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:54,100 And really the week before as we've been praying in the 164 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:57,200 sanctuary we we meet for prayer Tuesday through Friday. 165 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,300 And as I've been just I like to walk and pray and so as I'm 166 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:06,000 walking I kept seeing this picture of these giant grapes. 167 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:10,500 I'm talking they were about this big around and the vine was just 168 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,000 bending low under the weight of the fruit. 169 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,500 And I just kept feeling the Lord, invite me to make that 170 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:19,900 Declaration of fruitfulness of life. 171 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:22,500 Evermore to be released into the environment. 172 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:26,700 There is an invitation from God, there's a fruitfulness that 173 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:30,300 we're about to step into, their has been a pruning. 174 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,600 Unnecessary, but painful, pruning in many of our lives 175 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:41,800 corporately and individually. When God sees a fruitful Vine, 176 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,300 he prunes it. He cuts it back so that it can 177 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:52,000 be even more fruitful later on. And if you'll endure with the 178 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,100 right attitude, the pruning process, you'll find more fruit 179 00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:00,100 on the horizon and I believe there's greater fruitfulness on 180 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,900 the horizon. There's a heavy-laden asst to 181 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:08,000 the Vine. And so, there's a declaration of 182 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 blessing forever more. Now, I want you to catch this. 183 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,300 It's a commanded blessing. The Lord himself says, they're 184 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:21,900 there is a place a circumstance, which he commands a blessing. 185 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:25,100 I'm gonna tell you when God commands a blessing, there is no 186 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:28,600 demon in hell, no person on Earth, that can stop that 187 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,200 blessing from arriving at your doorstep. 188 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:36,600 There is a place that God commands a blessing, there is a 189 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,300 context through which God guarantees a blessing. 190 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:48,200 I am not shy about it. I want the blessing, I am hungry 191 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,700 for the blessed life. I want to live in the blessing 192 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:54,400 of God, I want to live a fruitful life and I understand 193 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:57,500 the fruit I produce is not for my own consumption. 194 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:00,200 You don't see grapevines eating grapes. 195 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:04,000 They produce them. So others can come by and enjoy 196 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 the fruit and God wants to produce a fruitfulness out of 197 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,600 this house that will feed the nation's. 198 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:17,800 So, it begs the question. How do we step into that place? 199 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,400 What are the circumstances that will guarantee that commanded 200 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,500 blessing? If we can answer that question 201 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,500 and dedicate our life to that, we will guarantee the blessing 202 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:32,800 rather than praying for blessing. 203 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:36,300 Maybe what we need to do is pray that we can be blessed ssible. 204 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,000 I don't know if that's a word, it is now. 205 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:42,500 We just created a word that we want to be blessed ssible. 206 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,700 We want to be, we want to meet the criteria of Heaven. 207 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:51,100 God, what is what is the man or the woman that you will bless? 208 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:55,700 What does that matter woman? Look like what is it to walk in 209 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,300 life forevermore? I want life to emanate from me. 210 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,800 I don't want people to come up and there's just Death Or 211 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,000 there's just there's no life. I don't want them to shake a 212 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,400 cold hand and feel no life from my words. 213 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,300 I want The drippings from Heaven to be flowing off my life. 214 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:15,900 I want that for you, I want when people step into this building, 215 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,100 they encounter the life of God, that they know. 216 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:22,400 Oh my goodness. There is a presence From Another 217 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,700 World in this room. They I'm reminded of that that 218 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:29,100 testimony Tommy 10 he had in his book. 219 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:34,400 The God Chaser she was. He was talking with this young 220 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,900 Pastor in this, pastor was sharing the story, their church 221 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,200 had moved into a tremendous. Outpouring during this season, 222 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:44,400 and he had a brother-in-law who was an atheist, Not only was he 223 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,400 an atheist, he was an Evangelistic one. 224 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,800 He was very willing to share his atheism with anybody that would 225 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,300 listen. He was a cynic and an atheist 226 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,500 and therefore there was a bit of a strain in their relationship 227 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:58,500 because one was a preacher and one was an Evangelistic atheist. 228 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,000 Well lo and behold in the middle of this move of God, they people 229 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,900 would drive by the church and just pull off in the grass and 230 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:08,000 come in and get saved. It was animate. 231 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,500 The blessing of God was literally on their geographic 232 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:15,300 location and in the midst of that move, the 8th, the 233 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:18,500 Evangelistic atheist brother-in-law calls the pastor 234 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:22,000 and says, hey, I'm going to come for a visit and he said, okay. 235 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,200 And he's thinking this will be awkward, he said, yeah, and I'm 236 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,800 going to be flying in at such and such a time. 237 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Can you pick me up? Up. 238 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,400 Absolutely, I'll pick you up from the airport so they're 239 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,700 coming home from the airport and it you know it's he's trying to 240 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:39,100 talk but the guy's not real open and and so they're driving by 241 00:14:39,108 --> 00:14:41,000 the church. He said hey we put new carpet 242 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,100 in. Do you want to see it? 243 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,300 Just trying to make conversation you guys ensure they walked up 244 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:49,400 to the church, the pastor and locked the door, open the door, 245 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,100 the brother-in-law put one foot on. 246 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,600 The threshold fell down began to weep and got gloriously saved 247 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:59,500 later on the shocked. Pastor asked me son? 248 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,900 What happened? He said, I don't know. 249 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,000 All I can tell you. Is this that when I stepped up 250 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,500 to the door, I didn't believe in God, but once I was in that 251 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:11,900 church, I was in the presence of the one. 252 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,600 I didn't believe existed. I had to surrender. 253 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:20,400 That's what I want. There is a place in God, where 254 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,300 God will entrust a level of his presence to those people if they 255 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:30,600 will. Steward at well, last night, my 256 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,800 17 year old said, Dad can we just go down to the church? 257 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,700 I'm studying at that, well, I guess I could study there, 258 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:40,400 that's not a bad thing. So he just wanted to come in the 259 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,600 sanctuary and I was in my office just praying and reading and 260 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,900 studying and I thought, man, he's been in there a long time. 261 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:49,400 I'm going to go in and I came I'm in, I could hear him sing 262 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,200 it. So I just kind of blacked out. 263 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:56,300 I'm back to my office. I said, Jesus, what are you 264 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:59,900 doing? Finally. 265 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:02,400 It was we'd been here several hours I walked in, he was just 266 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,500 laid there and he looked up. He said, Hey Dad, we got in the 267 00:16:06,508 --> 00:16:09,000 car. He said he's working with the 268 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,700 kids this morning so I'm not embarrassing him. 269 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:14,000 He can't hear me. He said, hey Dad, he said I 270 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,200 think we had to do this every Saturday. 271 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,600 He said, I just like being here. I like being in that room. 272 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,000 So we began to talk about theirs. 273 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:28,200 There's places that have been cultivated with God's presence. 274 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,800 And he said, you know, Dad, not every band you here carries the 275 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,400 presents and and it's a lot like places, isn't it? 276 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,800 Not every place carries the same amount of presents and I told 277 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,700 him, I said, God is not picky where else show up. 278 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:47,300 Doesn't have to be a real nice place, but he has to be the 279 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:53,100 guest of honor, not because he's arrogant, but because he cannot 280 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:56,500 entrust himself to people who will not value him. 281 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:01,200 Told the children of Israel, I can't go with you. 282 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:06,200 Because they weren't obedient the presence of God. 283 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,099 In the midst of a disobedient, people is a dangerous thing. 284 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:13,599 It's why the front end of Revival is always repentance 285 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:15,900 where people are preparing their heart to getting their heart, 286 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:18,300 right? So that he can be stewarded as 287 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:21,400 the guest of honor and where he is the guest of honor. 288 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:28,300 Be in a barn, a Manger or a cathedral, he will come God is 289 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:33,800 looking for places to land. He's looking for places to 290 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,900 occupy. Where is that blessing? 291 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,100 The blessing is the place of unity. 292 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,800 Now, I talked last week and I love this, I started getting 293 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 text. What do you mean by unity? 294 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,500 Pastor Define then I think that's what I need because I 295 00:17:48,508 --> 00:17:51,500 don't want to scratch itches that don't exist or not scratch 296 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:54,500 an itch that does exist and I am painfully aware. 297 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:56,300 I'm more of a philosophical preacher. 298 00:17:56,300 --> 00:18:00,100 I'm not real practical. So just ask me questions and 299 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:02,400 I'll try to be more definitive - so that's what we're going to do 300 00:18:02,408 --> 00:18:06,300 this morning, turn with me to Ephesians, 4, Ephesians 4. 301 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:13,500 I told you last week, I believe it was that I personally 302 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:15,300 believe. Psalm 133. 303 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,000 Lays over Ephesians 4, very beautifully. 304 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,300 You could say that they're both dealing with the same subject. 305 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:31,000 Psalm 133 from an Old Testament perspective Ephesians 4 from the 306 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,600 New Testament perspective of the church. 307 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,900 When he talks about the oil flowing down, he's talking about 308 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:41,000 fivefold Ministry, we're not going to get into that. 309 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,600 This morning, we've taught on that before. 310 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:47,600 But when we're talking about the do being transferred from one 311 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,100 mountain to another, it's talking about that. 312 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:56,100 Mutual exchange of Honor that we recognize what one another 313 00:18:56,100 --> 00:19:00,400 carries. And it's very, very clear in 314 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:05,500 Ephesians 4 that we each have a measure of the gift of Christ, 315 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:09,000 but we can't touch the fullness of Christ without being 316 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,800 connected to other believers because God will not release the 317 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,000 fullness of himself to an individual. 318 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,000 There's only one man that ever touched that and that is Jesus. 319 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,200 The Apostle Paul didn't touch that. 320 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,500 It was the Apostle Paul that carried the Revelation that the 321 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:29,900 body is the fullness of Christ, and God will never give me all. 322 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:34,200 I need directly. He will give me much of what I 323 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,400 need indirectly through you. And he will with, if I refuse to 324 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,600 get with you, he will withhold it from me. 325 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,600 Because God intends that we are mutually dependent upon one 326 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,200 another. And it's in that way that were 327 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,500 no longer dependent upon outpourings the heavens opening 328 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:58,900 that even when there's no rain, we can access the hidden caverns 329 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:00,600 of anointing with win one another. 330 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,200 But and we talked about this last week but let me just touch 331 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:09,000 on it and you may not have been here that We've got to be so 332 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:16,300 careful because the test of honor is familiarity, it's so 333 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:20,600 easy. Once you get to know someone, To 334 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,500 no longer appreciate what they carry, you stumble over what 335 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:27,300 they're not and failed to receive what they are. 336 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:33,400 There's a mature level of honor that can say, hey, we're all in 337 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,400 process and I know your weaknesses. 338 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,800 But I also value what you carry in God, you know, God is less 339 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,400 picky than we are. God will anoint people? 340 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,800 We don't agree. He would, he should annoyed. 341 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,600 I'm not talking moral issues here. 342 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:58,800 Talking idiosyncrasies and even irritations, sometimes God will 343 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,700 give he will place the thing. You need the most in the most 344 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:06,600 irritating person in the room. We could just go home right on 345 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:07,500 that. Yeah. 346 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,800 So we've got a pass that test of familiarity. 347 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:16,900 There is a level of maturity, required of a body that really 348 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,900 becomes a place of honor where we can accept one another's 349 00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:24,600 giftings, it's easy to honor a mystery. 350 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,000 You bring in some famous person that has these great stories of 351 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Miracles overseas, or whatever, and you don't live with them and 352 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,700 they come in and they're God's moving. with them and they say 353 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:40,100 these profound things, But you're not rubbing shoulders 354 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:44,100 with them day to day, where they're the fractures in their 355 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,300 personality, begin to be revealed. 356 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,100 It's one thing to honor a mystery. 357 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:54,100 It's another thing to honor familiarity, it's a higher level 358 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:59,100 of maturity. When you can say, I receive God 359 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:04,100 in you, the anointing on you the Insight that comes through you. 360 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:10,500 even though I know that you're not perfect, And so a lot of 361 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:13,300 times churches don't break into that. 362 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:17,700 They they cut themselves off from that final Progressive 363 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,500 expression. The ultimate they can experience 364 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,800 outpourings but they can't maintain what they obtained 365 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,900 because it's got to be maintained through the unity of 366 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:29,400 the spirit. So they break into things and 367 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,900 they lose grown and they break into things and they lose ground 368 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,200 and God wants to call us higher and teach us to really honor one 369 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,900 another. Create a prophetic culture that 370 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:43,700 believes in one another before we believe in ourselves. 371 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:49,600 That we call each other higher and when one goes up, we all get 372 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,000 to go up. That's the whole idea of the do 373 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,500 of Herman. How can the do that's on on 374 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,000 Mount Hermon? It's up in the north of the 375 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,100 north part of Israel. It's what, as a wetter climate 376 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,900 fall on Mount Zion, which is in the South, and it's a drier 377 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:08,200 climate. It's too far apart. 378 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,300 You're not going to have do show up there and you're going to 379 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,800 take your bucket full on Mount Zion, it's a supernatural thing. 380 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,900 That is the point that when there's Unity when one mountain 381 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:23,700 gets wet, the other is so Act as well, your Victory becomes my 382 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:28,000 victory, and it undermines competition in that jealousy 383 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 that that encroaches into churches. 384 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,000 I don't have to have the beautiful pipes to be able to 385 00:23:33,008 --> 00:23:35,700 get up here and sing and Lead You In Worship. 386 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,000 I don't need that gift because I have the worship leaders. 387 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,700 I'm in Covenant or relationship with them and because I have 388 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:48,200 them, I have their gift. And I can I can cheer them on 389 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,200 and when they get a win I know that's my win to we're in this 390 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,400 thing together when God anoints him I'm on the front front, row 391 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:01,900 getting wet. And it causes us to fight for 392 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:06,300 one another as Kingdom family. That's what God wants to bring 393 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:09,600 us into. So let's look at how, what is, 394 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,100 what's the nature of this Unity? Because I got some texts and I 395 00:24:14,108 --> 00:24:18,400 want to try to answer that and oh boy, we're going to take 396 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,400 communion receive communion a few minutes and that was just 397 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,300 the intro. Look at verse 1. 398 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,600 I therefore a prisoner for the Lord urge you to walk in a 399 00:24:27,608 --> 00:24:30,200 manner worthy of the calling to which you have received. 400 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,600 There is so much in that phrase. Paul is referring to the calling 401 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,700 that he is unpacked. In chapters 1 through 3 there. 402 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:43,000 He talks about how the church is, the fullness of God. 403 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,400 It's to teach the principalities and powers in Heavenly Realms. 404 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:51,300 The wisdom of Heaven, the wisdom of God, God is going to force. 405 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:57,100 It's like he is His Psalm 82 refers to these principalities 406 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:00,600 and Powers as the Fallen sons of God, and they're under his 407 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,800 judgment. And he's taking these rebellious 408 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,900 sons and forcing me to go to Sunday school. 409 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:09,200 You know what, the Sunday school is your life, the church and he 410 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,800 says watch this. I'm going to force you to learn 411 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,400 my wisdom by watching my church walk through what they walk 412 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,500 through. And the ignorant principalities 413 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:22,600 and powers in Heavenly Realms. Learn of the wisdom of God 414 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,000 through your in my life. And there's more that Paul 415 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,900 unpacks in Ephesians, it's an amazing book of the Mysteries 416 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:34,900 that he unpacks and then he shifts gears, he goes, he stops 417 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:37,300 teaching on Doctrine and now he's gonna get real practical. 418 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,700 Like Pastor Dave fails to do a lot. 419 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,400 He gets real practically said, walk worthy of the calling the 420 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400 word worthy there. It's translated worthily. 421 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:47,700 It literally means a counterbalance. 422 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:52,100 And at the idea is that what if you have ten pounds on one side 423 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:54,100 of the scale, you need to put 10 pounds on the other to 424 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:57,400 counterbalance it. If you got a calling, a 10-pound 425 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,100 calling a 2-pound lifestyle won't balance the scale. 426 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:06,700 If you got a 10 lb calling, you need to walk in a 10-pound 427 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:10,800 lifestyle. Or you will fail to live up to 428 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,500 the calling. You're not living worthily. 429 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,100 Some of you have been going through some 10-pound trials 430 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 because you are called to attend pound calling. 431 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 And you're wondering why God has allowed the things you're going 432 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,100 through. He's wondering why you he's 433 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,600 allowing you to go through it, man. 434 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,300 Of God. What these other people that 435 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,100 have to go through this stuff I want just tell you. 436 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:37,500 One thing is that everybody has their heartache, everybody has 437 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:42,800 their story. I remember one time people don't 438 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,200 say this to me anymore, but years ago he had some 439 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,100 missionaries in and we were we took them out to lunch 440 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,500 afterwards and we were talking about just things, you know, 441 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:53,400 life and stuff. We had shared, one of our 442 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,100 children had passed away at 4 and we have a daughter that's 443 00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,500 handicapped and stuff. And the missionary's wife 444 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:04,400 blurted out, She said I was wondering if you guys had any 445 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,800 problems, you got this great church and she said, you're 446 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,600 beautiful. I'm looking at my, they still 447 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,400 said to my wife don't said to me anymore. 448 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:15,400 I thought well, thank you. She said, she said, you guys 449 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,900 look like you have a Charmed Life and I'll hear people said 450 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:23,600 everybody has their story. Everybody has their heartache. 451 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,600 Don't compare yourself and allow yourself to get jealous because 452 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,300 someone else is breakthrough in the church. 453 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:32,900 You attend is your breakthrough if you if you handle it, right? 454 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:38,200 And if you're going through things, other people haven't had 455 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,800 to go through. It, just may be that God has a 456 00:27:41,808 --> 00:27:44,600 more weighty calling that he's placing on your life. 457 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:49,100 And if you can understand that, if you can understand how to 458 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:55,400 Steward that you can get through that process quicker, So Paul 459 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,000 says walk worthy of the calling. In other words let your 460 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,800 lifestyle show up and the same weightiness that God has called 461 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:09,700 you into so he goes on. He says Verse 2 with all 462 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:12,900 humility and gentleness, with patience bearing with one 463 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,500 another in love eager to maintain the unity of the spirit 464 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:17,800 in the bond of Peace. We're going to land it there 465 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,900 this morning. Look at verse 2 again with all 466 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,800 humidity so the walk worthy of the calling. 467 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,500 How do you do that with all humility? 468 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:31,400 These are progressive elements to you walking worthy with all 469 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,200 humility and gentleness, with patience bearing with one 470 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,800 another in love eager. To maintain the unity of the 471 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:48,600 spirit in the bond of peace. What does unity look like 472 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,600 humility? Gentleness. 473 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:59,100 Patience bearing with one another in love means put up 474 00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:05,800 with other people's stuff. It means to have another way to 475 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,700 say it in the Old. English is long-suffering 476 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,600 Forbearance. That we're able to walk with 477 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,900 people as they go through their stuff and not get impatient and 478 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:24,100 discard them. But in fact, there's an 479 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:27,700 interesting verse in Romans. Paul said you who are spiritual 480 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:32,400 bear, the failings of the week. Listen to what he's saying. 481 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:41,100 He's saying the true measure of your spirituality is how much of 482 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,900 another's, weakness, you can put up with what without showing 483 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:48,400 your own. The true measure of your 484 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,100 spirituality is how much of someone else's weakness can you? 485 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,000 Put up with, and keep your love on. 486 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,300 And he's not just talking about biting your lip. 487 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,100 Sometimes you gotta bite our little bite our tongue but I'm 488 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,900 talking about suet. It becomes so worked in us that 489 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,900 we don't feel tempted to say what? 490 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,600 Because we truly see from God's perspective, we don't have time 491 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,200 to unpack these maybe we will next week, but let me just make 492 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,600 a few comments because I want to get to this Unity of the spirit. 493 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:23,900 He says, how he put it With all humility. 494 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:33,200 Humility is not. A mask we put on, it's not 495 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,000 something. We try to White Knuckle. 496 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:40,700 It's we accept the revelation of Truth. 497 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,900 Humility is simply seeing yourself the way God sees you, 498 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,000 nothing more, nothing less. You no longer argue with God, 499 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:54,200 you never take credit ultimate credit for what you do because 500 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,700 you knew it started with him. Why would we brag about 501 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,000 anything? When God the very breath we 502 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,700 breathe is a gift from heaven. The Greek word that Paul uses 503 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,900 here. They didn't have a word in Greek 504 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:12,600 or Greek tradition culture, or Roman culture. 505 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,700 For that idea of humility because it was such a degrading 506 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:19,300 that was not something that they aspired to. 507 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,000 They looked at as someone groveling. 508 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:27,500 Many people think that Paul invented the word to sum up this 509 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:31,200 high value and it's it's really the seedbed out of which all 510 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,900 these other things grow. So, we walk in humility. 511 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:42,300 Says, and out of humility, then that gentleness flows that 512 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:46,300 gentleness were tender with people, we're not in patient 513 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:50,700 where we start to get an edge in our voice, where we discard 514 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,900 them. There is a tenderness that 515 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:55,400 exudes from us because we're truly humble. 516 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:02,200 We realize everything that we have is is on loan That we're 517 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,900 just we're stewards of the gift of God. 518 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:10,400 And so we walk in gentleness with people and then he says 519 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,600 bearing with one another in love and then here's what we really 520 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,900 want to get to verse 3. Eager to maintain the unity of 521 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:21,900 the spirit in the bond of Peace. Eager to maintain that word is 522 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:25,200 also eager to maintain. That phrase is also translated 523 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,400 with with haste, make haste, do it quickly keep short accounts 524 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,300 go after this thing, he's talking about a Zeal in a deep 525 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:40,800 concern that We guard the unity of the spirit that we're 526 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,000 maintaining that guarding. It were staying on guard so that 527 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,400 nothing will encroach upon the unity of the spirit and he says, 528 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,200 what keeps the unity of the spirit? 529 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,500 There's a bond, there's an adhesive. 530 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:57,000 There's something pulling us together and he tells us what it 531 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,600 is. It's the bond of peace. 532 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,700 So the secret to Unity is keeping the peace. 533 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,300 The the word bond there is sin decimals it's where we get the 534 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:16,200 word Des Mala G. Des Mala G is the medical, it's 535 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,500 the it's that that that it's Anatomy, the study of anatomy, 536 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,200 but a very specific part of anatomy. 537 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,000 And that's of ligaments. We have ligaments, we have 538 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,400 cartilage, we have tendons and they're all made of this fiber. 539 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:37,200 Burris collagen stuff. The the cartilage is a cushion 540 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:47,300 between the bones tendons. Tie our muscle to our bone, but 541 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:49,900 ligaments, pull the bones together. 542 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:52,900 Remember those those little plastic skeletons are little 543 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,100 people and you'd push that little button and the rubber 544 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:58,200 band holding them together and they kind of fall down, then you 545 00:33:58,208 --> 00:34:03,000 push but they'd say that's We would be without ligaments, we 546 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,300 just be kind of hang in there. We met a pile of bones. 547 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:09,500 So you think about it? What we have this element of our 548 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:13,800 anatomy that is unyielding. You it doesn't Bend or at least 549 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,699 not very much especially the older you get and it's called 550 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:20,400 your skeletal systems. It's your bones. 551 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:26,100 It's the unyielding structure of the body and everybody every 552 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:30,400 organization and every church needs structure. 553 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:35,400 Sure. It needs a skeletal system to 554 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,600 get up and get something done. Otherwise, we're just a blob of 555 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,400 life. We may be fun to be around but 556 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,900 we don't get a whole lot done. I've attended that church before 557 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,600 and so we have, we have structure, but it within the 558 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,199 structure, there's something that keeps us connected and 559 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:58,900 enable us to function and also enables us to have movement and 560 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:02,400 even absorb stress and it's our ligaments. 561 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:07,800 That's Word that Paul is using your, the ligaments of peace. 562 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:12,700 I find that fascinating. My daughter has what's called 563 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,600 hypertonicity. My daughter Alisa I took her to 564 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,600 the doctor, the other day for something, totally disconnected. 565 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:23,400 And I injured her coming out of the doctor's office and she 566 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,100 ended up bedridden for several weeks. 567 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,200 What happened is, is her foot was hanging off her wheelchair 568 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,600 as putting her in the the, the wheelchair van And her foot just 569 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,100 caught the doorway just a little bit and moved her foot back 570 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:39,000 about this much. She went out to you and I 571 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,300 wouldn't be a big deal I think she's either tore cartilage, or 572 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:47,000 ligaments. Because of the hypertonicity CC 573 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:53,200 always lives under stress. So when stress was introduced, 574 00:35:53,400 --> 00:36:00,500 that most of us could absorb it injured her and it it caused her 575 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,500 to be disabled to a greater degree. 576 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:10,000 And this is the lesson for you. And I if we live in stress you 577 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,300 she see her body is not cooperating with her. 578 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,400 She has a disability called cerebral palsy and so her 579 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:23,100 muscles are always tight. She's just her muscles. 580 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:27,200 It's called hypertonicity. She's always under stress, there 581 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,300 are relationships like that. The norm is stressful. 582 00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:37,000 There are churches like that. The norm is stressful. 583 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:44,000 It's a handicapped relationship. It's a handicapped body of 584 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,200 people. And they can live like that but 585 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,300 the smallest little stress that would cause you and I to say 586 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:55,000 ouch that was uncomfortable and move on to her caused her to end 587 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,500 up on all kinds of drugs and pain medication. 588 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,800 And she was in bed for weeks and we couldn't hardly just barely 589 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,700 touch her and she would start crying. 590 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,700 And there are a lot of relationships in life that we 591 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:11,100 don't. We're not living in unity, we're 592 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:16,200 not guarding the unity of the spirit we stress, and that kind 593 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,600 of the stress, and the relationship is always there. 594 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,700 And so, when stressful time comes, it causes a break. 595 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:28,000 It causes a tear. Hard times you're going to come. 596 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,200 They always do every one of us have them in our life but we've 597 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,100 got to learn to do is guard the unity of the spirit, through the 598 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:41,200 bond of peace, and keep short accounts, make haste guard that 599 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,500 thing. We don't allow that stress 600 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,700 between us and if there is stress, we go after that thing 601 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,900 and one of the things that we need to do is we have we walk in 602 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:53,900 humility one for another? It's not that well, I'm stressed 603 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:55,800 and I think you have something against me and I'm going to 604 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,900 force you to home. Do yourself and come to me and 605 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,600 make no that's not what Paul said. 606 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,900 He didn't say, make sure your brothers and sisters walk in 607 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,200 humility towards you. He said you walk in humility. 608 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,100 You walk in forbearance and longsuffering. 609 00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:15,600 Walk in peace. And when we do that, when that 610 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:21,200 is the reigning, relational fabric, that we live in, when 611 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,700 hard times come, we can absorb that stress and go back. 612 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:26,500 The ligaments are an amazing thing. 613 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,900 You can bend a leg and cause great stress, and even bend it 614 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:34,400 beyond, what it should be, for a short amount of time, and it 615 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,400 will absorb that stress and go right back and the connection 616 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:43,000 and the function remains But if you stretch it too much for too 617 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,100 long, you will injure it and you will disable that member of your 618 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:50,600 body. So Paul says, guard, the 619 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:56,100 ligaments guard, the unity of the spirit through the ligaments 620 00:38:56,100 --> 00:39:01,000 of peace. Now, we take out your communion 621 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:08,600 stuff. If you go in the New Testament 622 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,200 did, this is a fascinating study. 623 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,800 We've talked about these and more teaching settings and 624 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:18,700 classes before But when you look at the biblical concept of 625 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:24,000 Peace, you're going to find out throughout scripture that 626 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,400 there's another word that shows up in relation to it and it's 627 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,200 more foundational. It's foundational to peace. 628 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:35,600 Peace is relational. But there's something that 629 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,700 precipitates piece that is personal. 630 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,700 What I mean is this, if you look out throughout the New Testament 631 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:45,800 and quote, you a few verses the Beatitudes before you say 632 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,100 blessed is The Peacemaker for they shall inherit the king, the 633 00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:52,800 Earth. You know what the the one just 634 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,300 before that is it precipitates it. 635 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,600 In other words, peacemaking flows out of this one. 636 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:04,400 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God you Be a 637 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,000 peacemaker, unless you're pure in heart, you say Pastor, I 638 00:40:08,008 --> 00:40:10,100 think you're making too much out of one passage. 639 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,100 Let's go to James chapter 4. The wisdom that comes from 640 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:20,700 Heaven is first of all, pure comma then peace-loving. 641 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,900 It's not a coincidence that there's an order that James 642 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:28,400 picks up on that Jesus already laid out for us. 643 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,700 Why is that? Why would Purity precipitate 644 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,100 piece? Because Purity deals with the 645 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:42,300 selfish ambition in her heart, the hidden agendas of our heart. 646 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,500 When James says, the wisdom that comes from Heaven is first of 647 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:50,400 all, pure Prior to that, he said the wisdom. 648 00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:54,600 This wisdom doesn't come from above but is Earthly unspiritual 649 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,100 and of the devil. He says there's a type of wisdom 650 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:00,600 that is Earthly unspiritual and of the devil. 651 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,100 What what's the markers of that? He says it's bitter envy and 652 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:12,600 selfish ambition When we go into a scenario and what our thought, 653 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:17,400 when our thoughts are, what's in it for me, how can I finagle 654 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,000 this thing? So it's good for me, I win you 655 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,100 lose, if I can't win, we were both going to lose, but I'm 656 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:29,100 going to get something out of this that is an imp your heart. 657 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:32,700 When the New Testament talks about heart Purity, it's not 658 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:35,600 talking about moral sexual Purity. 659 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,900 Yes, that can be included but the primary The thrust of what 660 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:42,300 is being talked about in the New Testament is the motives by 661 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:44,800 which we live. As we're not living from 662 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,500 self-centeredness, but we're living from a heart Purity that 663 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:54,400 we just want Jesus to be glorified. when James says, the 664 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,100 wisdom that comes from Heaven is first of all, pure What he's 665 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:01,900 saying is, if you want the wisdom of God, you deal with 666 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:05,600 your heart on the front end, because there's Revelation from 667 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:10,400 Heaven, wisdom from God, he longs to pour out to us, but he 668 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,700 will withhold from us, until our heart is pure. 669 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,200 He can't give it to him. That's why in John 7, when the 670 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:18,100 Pharisees, the scribes came to Jesus and they said, where did 671 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:22,100 you get such teaching? He answered their question in 672 00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:24,800 such a way that they didn't think he was answering the 673 00:42:24,808 --> 00:42:26,300 question. He often did that. 674 00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:29,300 They said, where did you get such teaching? 675 00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:33,000 And he said, I came not to please myself, but the one who 676 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,900 sent me And I'm sure this is the sound they heard in their head, 677 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,900 they say, that's not what we asked, we weren't asking your 678 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:46,800 sore your motive. We're asking the source of your 679 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,200 wisdom. And Jesus is saying you don't 680 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,700 understand. My secret source is my motive 681 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,100 because I just want to glorify him. 682 00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:59,200 The heavens open and God will share anything with me because 683 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,000 he can trust me with it. I'm not going to use it for, oh, 684 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,400 my own selfish gain. I'm not in this for self. 685 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:05,800 It's ambition. I'm pure. 686 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,300 Heart James says this the wisdom that comes from above is first 687 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:13,000 of all, pure and then peace-loving what is he talking 688 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000 about? The only people God can really 689 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,900 use to broker to be a mediator and broker a deal in conflict is 690 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:26,700 the person who has no ulterior motives, When we really come 691 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:31,500 into, we say Jesus, I just want you to be glorified. 692 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:35,900 I just want your favor on their life on Earth Lord. 693 00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:37,400 We just want to be right with you. 694 00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:42,700 What he's saying is. If you can do that, you're 695 00:43:42,700 --> 00:43:46,200 blessed ssible. Nothing can keep you from the 696 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,900 blessing. We can try to break and we have 697 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:51,700 our own selfish ambition. We're trying to break into the 698 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:56,300 blessing and we actually barred the door to the blessing of God. 699 00:43:56,900 --> 00:44:01,700 But if we lay it down and say, God, I just want you to be 700 00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:05,000 glorified, we become blessed ssible. 701 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,200 We begin to have insight and we can be barriers of He's now, 702 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,900 this is beautiful in James tear this off. 703 00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:15,500 So, you know, I'm moving ahead. Okay, open your just to top what 704 00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:17,500 I want to tell you. If you open the bottom one 705 00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:19,800 first, you it's hard to get the person, so just open up the 706 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:25,700 bread. James in that passage, he shows 707 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:30,300 two types of wisdom. Two different motives from which 708 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:35,700 it comes and two different results to different harvests in 709 00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:37,300 the wisdom. That comes from the earth. 710 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:40,500 He says its Earthly unspiritual and of the devil and that where 711 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:45,000 you find it you'll find disorder and every evil practice. 712 00:44:46,300 --> 00:44:48,500 I don't know about you but I don't want anything to do with 713 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:52,500 that type of wisdom and it is a type of wisdom, James calls it 714 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,100 that. But the result is every evil 715 00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:57,500 practice. The second body of wisdom. 716 00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:01,800 The wisdom that comes from above which is first, pure then. 717 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,600 Peace-loving, he says, and peacemakers. 718 00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:09,000 See you got to be pure to move into being a peacemaker and this 719 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,700 is the key to guarding the unity of the spirit because what it 720 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:14,800 does, is it reduces the stress in the environment. 721 00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:17,300 So when stress comes As we can absorb it. 722 00:45:19,100 --> 00:45:24,100 He says peacemakers that's us. When we walk pure in heart so 723 00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:27,700 into peace, we literally create an environment of peace. 724 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:34,400 Peace makers who sow in peace, raise a harvest of righteousness 725 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,800 of fruitfulness. I'm telling you, that's what God 726 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,300 is offering us but we got to deal with us. 727 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:47,400 We got to say God, if there's anything in me If I have aught 728 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,700 in my heart towards any brother or sister, Lord, that that one, 729 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:53,500 that irritates me and rubs me wrong. 730 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:59,000 Give me a affection for them. I want a warm affection to just 731 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,900 Bubble Up in my heart. When I see that person that used 732 00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:05,600 to irritate me, I want to stake my claim there and say God I'm 733 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,100 going to establish the love of God, an expression of who you 734 00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,700 are and that relationship because that's when it's going 735 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:15,800 to be tested in the most. And we begin to be 736 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,300 long-suffering and for bearing with one another in love. 737 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:26,000 I'm telling you, we have a prophetic invitation from 738 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,400 Heaven, on this point, it's true for anyone, it's in the word, 739 00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:34,400 but God gave us a prophetic invitation through an open 740 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:39,700 Vision to your pastor. Before we receive this morning, 741 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,600 I want to say it was Tuesday. We're in an intersession and 742 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:49,900 I'll ask, does anybody have anything and Amy Strickland. 743 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:53,700 Amy wave at everybody, there, a me down there in the orange she 744 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:56,500 often, I'll sit out. Feel like I need to ask game if 745 00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:01,000 she got anything and she said, she said, yes, I kept. 746 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,900 She said I've seen this several times. 747 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:09,100 It was ranks of the Demonic coming against us and she said, 748 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:11,600 I was, I was she didn't use this word. 749 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,000 She's like an undercover agent. She was behind the scenes. 750 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000 They couldn't see her but she could listen in on their 751 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,800 conversation. Kind of like what? 752 00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:22,400 God did with Gideon and overheard, the enemy sees you as 753 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,800 a roll of bread, that's going to Tumble the enemy. 754 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,600 And that's an, so that's good stuff. 755 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,800 When you hear that from the enemy, she said, I could hear 756 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,500 the enemy saying, we're going to have to break rank because 757 00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:36,200 they're living in unity. And she said, she could hear the 758 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,000 discouragement among the ranks of hell. 759 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,200 Listen here, the discouragement among the ranks of hell. 760 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,900 Because when God commands his Blessing, there's nothing they 761 00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:52,000 can do. They're shut out. 762 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,300 What the enemy tries to do is send an unhealthy person into a 763 00:48:00,308 --> 00:48:04,500 healthy environment to begin to disrupt it, but God wants to 764 00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:07,700 release such a level of emotional health that we can 765 00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:13,000 absorb the stress of unhealthy people and love them into 766 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000 Health. But if we're already unhealthy, 767 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,500 and we're already living under the stress of a handicapped, 768 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,300 Body of Christ. Then there's a Tipping Point. 769 00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:27,800 We bump our foot on the door and we end up disabled and in bed 770 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,800 God wants to give us the victory. 771 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,400 Just told your bread up this morning. 772 00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:39,300 First Corinthians it talks about not taking the bought the bread 773 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:43,700 unworthily. He says, if you take it and you 774 00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:47,100 don't recognize the body of Christ, he's talking about this, 775 00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:54,200 this body, his body was broken for this body and for us to take 776 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,600 of this bread and say, God, I accept what you did for me, but 777 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:03,000 I reject the others you did for it is taking it unworthily. it's 778 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,400 when we say, I don't care about my brother and sister, they 779 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:11,200 irritate me Or they've offended me or they've hurt me. 780 00:49:12,900 --> 00:49:16,500 Be patient. Loving forbearing. 781 00:49:17,700 --> 00:49:25,100 My petty little grievances. Are nothing compared to what he 782 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:29,700 went through and I can't allow to those Petty grievances to 783 00:49:29,700 --> 00:49:33,500 keep all of us from what he wants to bring us into. 784 00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:37,000 That's what's on the line. So walk worthy of the calling 785 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:42,000 take your bread and break it. Would you Jesus we thank you for 786 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:49,500 your broken body broken for us. Now, Lord, I ask that you would 787 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:53,000 break our hearts for those around us. 788 00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:57,600 Lord, were asking that you would build such Health in this body 789 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,500 that we are white blood cells as a church. 790 00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:06,200 Can fight off every every infection that we can absorb 791 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,800 stress and keep on running after you Lord, that you're able to 792 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,100 plant people that need healing and we just absorb them into the 793 00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:16,700 environment, and they're brought to wholeness and health. 794 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,300 We thank you for it. Let's eat the bread. 795 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:33,000 Now, peel off the other one. Paul said on the night that 796 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,000 Jesus first partook of this, he said this is the New Covenant in 797 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,600 my blood. Paul wasn't there. 798 00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:47,500 God felt it so important that by Revelation he gave Paul insight 799 00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:49,600 into what happened. I don't know if it was a vision, 800 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,000 a dream somehow, Paul knew the details of what happened in that 801 00:50:53,000 --> 00:51:01,700 room, it was that important. Some movements call this the 802 00:51:01,700 --> 00:51:06,300 Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, We often call it communion. 803 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,000 To compound world word, common Union. 804 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:18,200 This is what makes us one. It's an old saying, blood is 805 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,800 thicker than water, but spirit is thicker than blood, we're 806 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,900 family. Because of this, So, father, I'm 807 00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:30,400 asking God that you would help us to treat one another 808 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:35,700 accordingly. We thank you for it in Jesus 809 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:36,700 name. Let's drink. 810 00:51:39,500 --> 00:51:42,300 Hallelujah. Well, I've already gone over. 811 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:53,700 Once you go ahead and stand this morning, Hallelujah. 812 00:51:57,500 --> 00:52:00,100 Father, we thank you for your word and Lord. 813 00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:02,500 We thank you for your invitation to us. 814 00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:06,900 Lord, we don't take it lightly. God, we ask for your grace to 815 00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:08,600 come upon us in a greater degree. 816 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,500 Lord. We want to go deeper we want to 817 00:52:11,508 --> 00:52:16,700 go higher with you Lord. Have your way father we invite 818 00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:20,400 your conviction, your correction and Lord any part of us that 819 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,500 would fight it Lord we side with you against ourselves. 820 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:28,700 Go after it Lord. Have it all reminded of that 821 00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:31,200 song. He will not relent until he has 822 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,100 it all. God, we're we side with. 823 00:52:33,100 --> 00:52:36,300 You don't relent until you have every bit of us. 824 00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:38,300 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 825 00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:40,900 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 826 00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:43,500 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 827 00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:45,800 social media. If you'd like to support the 828 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,800 Ministries apartment church, you can do. 829 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,100 So at Heartland Church, online.com give