All right, turn over to Isaiah 55, verse 11.
Isaiah 55, verse 11. Amen.
I want to kind of go to .4 about reigning from the context of
authority, really dominion, because this year, as you know,
it's the reigning church the most the the next move of God,
OK will be the church maturing. It's a big deal for the church
to mature. And so we we need to position
ourselves so that we can be the church that's receiving the
latter rain. All right.
And in Agricultural Society, you know, there's the early rain and
the latter rain. The early rain is to be able to
get the seeds so that it would take root that way this plant
would come up and this plant coming up, which is pretty
amazing, isn't so amazing if it doesn't have fruit on it.
And so, you know, you know, conversion after you've accepted
Jesus by all rights is the seed breaking forth, the plant which
is on the inside of it. But the goal is to produce
fruit. And you know, the vine dresser,
he doesn't come through and say, wow, look at these branches,
they're amazing. The vine dress.
He said, I'm the vine, you are the if a man remains in me, he
will. So the key here is that we bear
much fruit. In fact, he goes on to say, by
this, the world knows that you're my disciples not by your
conversion, but by your fruit. So fruit bearing is really
important with the Lord. This is what he's looking for.
This is his examination. And in each season you can bear
fruit. And then he will come along at
the end of that particular season and say, now let's cut
this off, which is, you know, here's a little more carnality
we need to cut off. I want to address with you now,
or we need to cut this little bit off.
And sometimes God's not cutting any carnality or flesh.
He's just cutting a weight because the Bible talks about in
Hebrews that don't allow the sin or weights that so easily beset
you. A weight isn't sin.
It's just something that can hinder your progress.
It can slow you down. So the Lord can say, you know,
let's cut this out of your life. Not that it's a sin, but I want
you to cut back on that because I want you to give a little more
towards the gifting that I've made you to the body, to the
world. And I want to pull some more
fruit out because when you get pruned, it's so that you'll bear
what more fruit in the next season.
Which tells me God is never satisfied with the amount of
fruit that you are bearing from one season only.
God doesn't want you to do less fruit the next, nor does He want
you to do no fruit in the next. Because in that same passage of
Scripture, He says that if he comes to your branch and there's
no fruit, well, he'll cut that off and it gets cast and then it
dries up and then it's not good for anything but to be burned.
Well, we don't want to be a branch like that, right?
We want to bear fruit. So their seasons in life.
And why, why do I say that is because if we are people who go
from faith to faith, glory to glory, Well, then we have to
realize that we will have to go from one place where we have
been stretched. And then we we see the power
plan, the grace of God on our lives and him accomplishing what
we were believing. And then we look at that fruit
and go, wow, look what God did. Then all of a sudden he speaks
to us again because faith is calling those things that be not
as though they were so firm persuasion in his word that
we're like man, and you know that fight and you've got to
decide, will I step over it and go more or am I going to say let
me just stay right here. But the problem with staying
means that next season won't be as fruitful.
So I'm always excited to expand my my apostle Marcy and I, my
wife, we were talking and I said, you know, I remember the
season when we moved into the mall and man, we were like
having to, you know, tear all this stuff out and build
everything, you know, in the different theaters and, and the
money involved in all that. And then, you know, we got to
where, you know, finally enough people came and we were, you
know, money was just not a problem at that point.
You stretched yourself when you first came, but then you know,
God began to continue to provide.
Next thing you know you're moving and shaking, right?
You're like, what can't? What do you want to do now where
you want to give? What do you want to sow?
What do you want to buy? Whatever it is, you know,
there's not an issue here. But then when we met with the
owners about renting more, the Lord said, tell them you want to
buy it. And they said, well, we want to
buy them all. And they said, well, we've never
sold them all. We said, well, we've never
bought one, right? Well, then when we negotiate the
price and then you start seeing what that's going to be, then
you're like, well, that's different.
Now the question is, can I even do that?
So on paper, I'm like, well, naturally, I guess I can.
If we spend nothing, right? You know, that's one little
piece of toilet paper for all of you.
Each time you go in tight, you know, tight and but God's
exceeding money. Don't get me wrong.
My point is though you move, we moved into that season of faith
and things were different but God say, but God, because we are
moving forward from one now, what's the next thing God's
asking that's going to stretch us that you're like man now if
we do that well, I don't want to be comfortable here and think
this is all there is because it's not.
You know why it's not because there's 8 point something
billion people on the planet and not and most of them are not in
the Kingdom of God and we've got to advance the Kingdom and we've
got to preach the Kingdom and we have to get that out into the
world because they need to know that the king has come, the
savior of the world, the lamb has been slain.
The blood has been applied, but they need to get it applied to
their life through a confession of his lordship, right?
Isaiah 5511 says this. So will my word be which goes
forth from my mouth. It will not say.
It will not. It will not return to me empty,
without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in
the matter for which I sent it. That's powerful.
Now, God has said that. Now, if we truly are living by
faith, then we would know man. If God said it, that's it, I
said. If God said it, that's it.
And again, I'm not saying it, but if God said it, then I
believe God because God's word, which comes from his mouth, will
not return to him empty. It won't do it at all.
God will do what he says. So when people like, well, you
know, God just didn't do what he, then you didn't hear, right?
Because God always does what He said or you abandoned what He
said, one or the other, because God always does what He says.
Isaiah 45, starting in verse 21. Look at this one.
It says declare and set forth your case.
Indeed, let us counsel together. That's God saying, you want to
talk to me, let's talk, let's talk.
He said, Who has announced this from a vote?
Who has long since declared it? Is it not I the Lord, and there
is no other God besides me, Say there's no other God.
Come on, there's no other God. There's no other God.
And in in our world, really, the, the God that challenges the
only God the most are not idols, but it's man.
It's a man with his ideas, with his way of doing it.
In essence, he's like continuing with God.
No, I want to do this and I don't want to do it that way.
No, we should do it this way. And almost it's like the Lord's
like, well, you God or am I God? So there are no other gods
beside me, a righteous God and a savior.
There is none except me. All right, turn to me and be
what? Be safe all the ends of the
earth, for I am God and there is no other.
What an appeal. But then he goes on and says,
yes, I have sworn by myself. The word has gone forth from my
mouth in righteousness. Righteousness is not a religious
word. It means right standing with the
governing authority, and that's in essence.
The king from the throne has issued His decree, and he cannot
take it back, because He always does His word and will not turn
back. That to me every knee will bow,
every tongue will swear allegiance.
This is going to happen. Now look what it says in verse
24, because that will happen regardless.
He said. They will say of me only in the
Lord, our righteousness and strength.
Men will come to him, and all who were angry at Him will be
what? So you can either be saved and
bow as a child of God, or you can be angry with God, reject
him and bow anyway. But if you when you bow that
time he will read you all of your trespass, everything that's
against you and his Kingdom, and he will cast you into the lake
of fire, which is the second death.
So every knee will bow. Are you hearing me?
Let me tell you what will not happen.
Now, you've heard this little story before.
I'm going to use Melvin because we don't have any Melvin's here.
You know, little Melvin went to school, you know, and he was a
bit rebellious. And so, you know, he kept
getting in trouble and for, you know, acting out.
And ultimately, you know, the teachers like Melvin, you sit
down, he sit down. He said, I may be sitting down,
but I'm standing up on the inside.
Let me tell you, at the Great White Throne judgment, no one
will be saying Jesus is Lord, but I'm standing up on the
inside. It's never going to happen.
They are going to be in such awe of his glory, His Majesty, his
power, shaking in absolute fear because they will be in the
presence of holiness, of, of the creative power.
They're going to. They will be begging, but it
won't matter because his case against them will be infallible.
He will show them every opportunity they were given to
repent, to come to Him, to acknowledge him as their Lord,
to receive them as Savior in their life, to accept the blood
he shed. He will show it all and they'll
be without excuse and he'll cast them and they will get what they
wanted. Eternity without God, which is
death, the second death. OK.
And so the Lord understands this.
He wants everyone to yield and submit to hit to who He is.
All right, He wants that and it's up to us.
But what He does with His Word concerning that pathway, He
makes it come to pass. So when He says certain things,
He is making pathways for the free will created beings who
have access based upon his words to be able to accomplish what he
said. Now I said that in kind of a,
you know, ambiguous way because I want us to turn over to
Genesis chapter one, verse 26. What has God said about man?
He said I what I it's left my mouth.
It's not going to return to me empty.
OK, so God and in the creation, Genesis 1, he said let us make
man in our image according to our likeness, and let them have
what? Dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all the
earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,
OK. He made both male and female to
have dominion. This is the purpose of man.
Man is in God's image. Looks like God.
OK, functions in the capacity that God, he's not God, but he's
in God's nature, he's God's DNA. Again, I am not my Mama or my
daddy, but I do have their DNA. There's parts of me that are
like them. In fact, if you looked at
certain pictures, you say wow, you look just like have you ever
seen like sons? You can look just like their
dads and daughters look just like their moms and then or
their sons look a lot like their moms, whatever it's in the DNA
And so, but here it says you are in his image according to his
likeness. And we know that God's Spirit,
and so our spirit man, our Adam and Eve spirit, was in the same
likeness of God, no sin, full of life.
Amen. Now what is their purpose?
To have dominion, to rule. Their purpose is not to be in
heaven singing. They were not created for that.
There are other beings that are all in the throne, roaming,
going around singing. Holy.
Holy is the Lord. I'm not saying we won't sing to
the Lord, because we will, but for this idea that when we die
we'll go to heaven and we'll just sing and worship him
because we associate worship only with singing forever.
That is not true. That's not even biblical.
We will sing praises. Worship by true definition has
nothing to do with singing, although it can involve singing
because worship means to obey. And so we're going to worship
God forever because we're always going to be in obedience to Him,
because His words final and we want to obey Him.
I said we want to obey Him because we've already lived that
other life. Come on, we've lived that other
life. We don't want, we do not want to
go back to the place where, you know, we're in rebellion.
So God says let us make man in our image according to our
likeness and let them rule. This was the destiny of man.
Now God needs to know whether man loves him or not, right?
Although he's made him in his nature and God is love.
So the reality is he should be in love with one another.
But God proves the fruit of that love through obedience.
He said you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.
For the day you eat you will surely die.
And you understand God does this because He does not want man to
be with him as a robot with no choice.
He made us with choice, and so man has the choice to choose to
be with God and stay in this relationship with Him, or he can
choose to go his own way. The problem is, going his own
way is death. So there's more options to live
obedient in the garden than there is to be disobedient.
All right. And so here he is in the garden.
He can eat from any tree of the garment of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. He shall not eat, for the day he
eats, he dies. Now we know they're anointed.
Cherub had fallen, came into the garden.
He's considered a serpent. And he tells Eve, you know,
deceives Eve. She eats the fruit, gifts to her
husband. He rebels and he eats the fruit.
And then sin enters the world, enters the system by which man
governed it, because man had rule of the systems of the
earth. See, the earth is the Lord's, he
owns the planet. He let man have dominion or
rulership in it. The minute he sends it causes
death to be a byproduct of this now dominion that he has, of
which he has handed over to the devil.
Yes, Luke chapter 4, Luke chapter 4, verses 5 through 8,
just so we can see this in context, Jesus and in the
temptation after he was baptized in the Jordan and the Holy
Spirit came upon him without measure, He goes into the
wilderness being led by the Spirit to be tempted of the
devil, of which he never failed. I said he never failed in this
particular temptation. The Luke account says then the
devil taking him up on a high mountain showed him all the
what? What he's showing, what he's
showing. Come on.
What he's showing. Say it louder.
I know it's Wednesday night. Say it one more time.
Kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
So the devil knows this is not about religion.
This is about Kingdom. He's confused the world in
religion because religion is them seeking after a God.
But God is the king of the Kingdom.
All right? So he goes on to say this, the
Kingdom of the world in a moment of time, and the devil said all
this what one translation says domain or domain?
So dominion and authority work hand in hand.
He said all this dominion or authority I will give to you and
their glory. So what's the devil saying?
I'll give it to you. It's what you want anyway,
right? He said.
For this has been what delivered one translation said, hand it to
me. I can give it to whomever I
wish. Which means he actually had the
authority to do it cannot be a temptation if he doesn't
actually have it, right? So the people you know that come
around said, well, he didn't have.
It's a temptation. There's no temptation for me to
give you Matt Ryder's truck. No temptation.
I'm going to give away Matt Ryder's Ford.
You know, F2F-250, you know, it's really decked out tonight.
Just come see me. I'll give you the keys.
You can have a lock, stock and barrel and be like, wow, that's
super cool. Well, it's not cool when it's
not mine. And you're really not tempted to
come see me afterwards. And if you do, that's sad.
All right. But now if I own the vehicle
with the title, and I said I'm giving this to you, and I have
given some vehicles away, well now I'm authorized.
So now it's tempting whether to take it or not because you know,
I can give it. Now he's saying to him, look,
you've come for these kingdoms. I've met your brother.
Because again, Adam was the Son of God.
Now it's not God in the flesh, but he's son of God nonetheless.
I met your brother because he Adam's the first Adam.
Jesus is considered the last Adam.
He said, I met your brother. Now, when he met his brother,
the devil had nothing. But now that he sees Jesus, he's
like, I have it all right, and I've been waiting on you If
you're the guy, I've been killing off multiple sons before
you got here. So if you are, I'll just give
you this. But what's the what's the Lord
say? It is written, it is what it is
as my Father has spoken, it is what he said out of his mouth,
it is the word that he said from his mouth is what I'll follow
and yours I will not. Now this is where real authority
begins to kick in, because Jesus is going after this and Jesus
wanted another way to get it. So don't think this isn't empty
because the way he has to go, he has talked to his father about
it. Lord, if there's any other way,
remember that time I was in the wilderness?
I mean, he was just going to give it to me.
Is there a way we can trick him? You know, like I'd take it act
like I'm going to bow down, but just before I do is swoop up and
grab it and making them. I mean a lot of believers, a lot
of times to negotiate. Now, did Jesus have that kind of
conversation? No.
But he did have a real conversation about another
option that he was looking for, so much so that he asked three
times. But how did he always conclude
not? But now, in order to know will,
you must know a word. How can you know my will unless
I say it? So in essence, he's saying not
the word out of my mouth, but the word out of your mouth,
because the word out of my mouth should only come from what I've
heard out of your mouth. That's why Jesus went around and
said this. I only do what I hear, only say
what I hear, only do what I've heard from the Father.
I don't. Well, I don't say anything on my
own initiative. I don't do anything on my own.
What I hear from the Father that I do.
Come on, can I get an Amen? This is Dominion status because
if the first Adam would have looked at the serpent and say
you get away from my wife Eve, remember the word of the Lord,
we eat the fruit, we die. And I don't care what he is
trying to say. Our father is he's done come up
in here and trying to paint a picture about our father that
we've never seen before in character.
We've never seen him act like that.
We've never thought of him as something trying to withhold
from us, keep from us, keep back from us.
I mean, he's only been great. Look at all the trees we've been
able to eat now. Yeah, these do look a lot better
than the rest, maybe. And man, you know, I've eaten
these others, and sure, it would be nice to have one, but Dad
said they're there. And why would I doubt his word?
Because every other tree I've eaten, there's been no problem.
And now we're going to eat one that he says don't and see if it
works. No, what it is, as my dad has
said out of his mouth, unfortunately he did rebel sin
enter the world right now. Why do I bring this up, this
transfer? Because just because Adam fails
to maintain the position of dominion, God has spoken.
God himself is now obligated to make sure the pathway to what he
says is available to man. So that's why you've heard me
say this in the past, because people use this, you know, and
they use this kind of as a tool when they're altar calls, you
know, you know, when it gets kind of quieted by by your head
and close your eyes. And now we want people to make
decisions. And so we're like, now listen,
if you were the only one that would ever make Jesus the Lord
of their life, he would have came for you.
Now, do you believe that? Sure.
I mean, I would believe that. However, it's not accurate
because Jesus is coming whether any of us do it, because God is
going to do His Word even at the expense of His own Son.
And if all of them reject me when they stand before me, I'll
say He was the way to what I said about you, and you could
have been back in it. Now, Adam did not fall from
heaven, He fell from dominion. So to be restored is not about
going to heaven, it's about having dominion.
And that doesn't have to wait till you go to heaven to have
it. We get to walk in that today.
That's amazing. Now, again, the Bible is very
clear to be absent from the body.
You'll be what? Present with the Lord?
And where is the Lord presently? But do you believe He's coming
back? You know He's coming back.
Actually, He's coming back to a place that we will actually see
them and be called up together with Him in the air.
So He's not staying in heaven. The third He will come back at
least to the first, we'll be called it with him, but we also
know after that time period, he'll come and put his foot back
down on the earth. So Jesus actually going to come
here. Then if you read the back of the
book, we know there's new heaven and new earth.
The new Jerusalem comes down out of heaven and we will reign with
him here in the the capital of all creation called Jerusalem.
All right, and then expand from there.
So here God has to do a pathway. This why he says, listen, a man
lost dominion is going to require a man to get dominion
back. I'll empty myself through my
son, put him in a child so that he'll have legal interest in the
earth and then I will anoint him as Adam was anointed so that he
can demonstrate to the world what they can be anointed of
God. And so Jesus functions that way.
That's why we've told you and multiple times that Jesus
functioned in the dominion that Adam lost.
He obviously fish were not issues for him, right.
Adam had dominion over all the fish of the sea.
That's why Jesus could speak about putting Nets in place and
fish would follow to get in it. This is why fish that two in his
hand could multiply because he said I am the resurrection of
the life. So he can cause the sales of
that meat on those fish that have been out of the water and
been in a little boy's lunch to multiply so that he can feed
probably at minimum 10,000 people if not more and there be
leftovers. Hallelujah.
Why? Because that's the dominion, not
that God had, but that Adam had come on, get this.
We live in a coastal community. You should use your dominion
when you go fishing. Talk to the Lord says what's
what, what, what do you want me to catch today?
Talk to me before I go out there and throw a line in and wish
that they take my no give me insight.
Call them to your line because God had no problem calling them
to your line and not even be on the shore.
Peter, we have to pay some taxes, go fishing, and the fish
you catch will have the coins for our taxes in his mouth.
And that fish heard the king picked up the coins.
I don't know, maybe he's had them in there for a couple
weeks. Like, why do I keep these in my
cheeks for a while? Kind of messing up my gills, you
know, I'm just kind of waiting on the Lord.
I sense that I got to go jump on a hook somewhere, right?
Getting somebody's net. So anyway, so God has to do
this. Why?
Because he wants you to be his child in the authority he's
assigned to you. You understand, the death,
Baron, resurrection of Jesus was not so he could escape you out
of the planet. It's so that he could put you
back in the authority he always had for mankind, both male and
female. And the thing that I love about
God is God is like, you know, in each dispensation of the Bible,
he's showing himself back to the devil.
I'm coming, I'm, I'm going to have what I say.
I'm coming. And he revealed himself a little
bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more and a
little bit more and a little bit more.
Now we're in this dispensation, a new and better covenant.
And the Lord's like letting the devil know because Jesus
Colossians, chapter 2, verses 14 to 15.
I mean, he's like, ah, now you're really in trouble.
Up to this point you were running a little wild, but not
anymore because of Jesus. See, we act like the devil has
all this power. He is in the most scared state
ever. Now.
Now how do we know? Because first of all, when Jesus
came to the planet and the madman of Gadare confronted
member of the conversation, have you come to torment us before
our time? Now this is Jesus in the flesh,
anointed of the Holy Ghost, which is not what God can do,
but what man can. Come on, get this, please come
on, strike with me. And those demons are like, Oh my
God again, when he comes, they don't run away, they run to him
and bow down before him. Hollywood has sold Christianity
a lie. The Exorcist never would have
turned out that way if we would have walked in the room, stop
spinning your head, quit throwing up, shut up and come
out not have been the end of the movie.
She'd have been in her right mind and said I'd give her
something to eat. That'd have been it.
I said that because the scary music would have been for the
demon in the child, not for the priest.
All right, we are, we are, we are a, a royal priesthood.
The royal priest would have walked up in the room and say,
shut up, come out. Okay, Get the girl something to
eat. I'm going to the next one.
Oh, Hallelujah. Look what it says.
Here's Colossians 214 and 15. This translation says it this
way. He canceled out every legal
violation we had on our record. And the old arrest warrant that
stood to indict us, he erased it all.
Our sins, our stained soul, soul, soul.
He deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved.
Now, this doesn't mean he was like, let's just forget about
it. So you got to understand that
statement doesn't mean God's like, hey, let's just act like
it didn't happen. Because if that's all God had to
do, then when he came down and said, Adam, where are you?
He could have looked because he's got a forgiving God.
Does did God want to forgive man?
Absolutely. It's why he's sending his son.
He could have said, son, I forgive you right then, but he
can't because he said if you eat, you die.
Now death has a wage that's required to be paid.
Silver and gold won't get it. No natural things of the earth
is going to be able to make that payment.
But the blood of Jesus does. So when we hear this statement
he cancelled out, that's because he paid it with his own blood.
It's not that he, he wiped it out because he applied the blood
to it. So it was of great 'cause again,
modern day Christianity, you know, echoes the free gift to
where we hear free. But anytime you hear free, you
have to understand it really means at the cost of something,
someone or something else. Anytime you hear free, it's at
the cost of someone or something else.
Not specifically you as the receiver, but someone paid.
All right, so it goes on to say everything we once were in Adam.
That's the first. Adam has been placed onto his
cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of
cancellation. Glory to God, I say glory to
God. Then Jesus made a public
spectacle. Now we didn't see it, and planet
Earth didn't see it, and the humans that were there on the
planet, after they took Jesus's body down and placed him in a
tomb and rolled the stone and sealed it, they didn't see this.
But this happened. He made a public spectacle
somewhere in the realm of the spirit of all the powers and
principalities and darkness, stripping away from them every
weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse
us. And by the power of the cross,
Jesus LED them around as prisoners in a procession of
triumph. He was not their prisoner.
They were his Now they, they, they rejoiced for a time until
the third day, Because when the third day came, Jesus, who's in
paradise, because he told the thief today you'll be with me in
paradise. He's in paradise, OK?
He's going to leave captivity captive, all the righteous dead
that are waiting on the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus
for their atonement, their eternal atonement.
Gee, the Holy Ghost says it's time to leave.
I said it's time to leave. And when that took place, he
stripped the devil of all of his story.
He said where you once had dominion that the first Adam
gave you, I take it back. I take it back in the realm of,
you know, health, healing, provision everywhere, you know,
joy, peace, righteousness. He took it all.
He he stripped all of that off. He says now I am the king of the
earth. I am the one that rules and
reigns. I have stripped you of your
power. And for anyone who bows to me
and calls me Lord, there'll be set free from you and you cannot
stop it. He's powerless, I said.
He's powerless. He only has power on those who
are still in darkness, still blinded, and have not yet called
on the name. But for us who've called on the
name, powerless. And you know, he's wringing his
hands now, his little bitty old nasty little hand.
Now I'm not diminishing his deceptive, manipulative power
because it's there, but I'm saying for us, it's nothing to
us. We are US been raised up and
seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus because when we
recognize this not about going to heaven when we die, it's
about God came to us, put his Spirit in US, made us a new
creature in Christ that can now hear God's word grow in God's
word. We renew our minds to the word
that now we can walk in this dominion that the devil cannot
stop us at all on the planet. So in essence, this dispensation
is like, hi, you've had it. You've had it good up to this
point, but now I've stripped you of your power and all that pop
over. You can't stop.
And which means now if Jesus walks off a boat to the the
madman of Ghadera and we are in the likeness of Christ, now the
devil has a problem because he sees a little Jesus there,
little Jesus here, little Jesus there, little Jesus there,
little Jesus there. This becomes majorly
problematic. This is why He wants you to
believe that all you get out of the deal of the blood of Jesus
is heaven when you die, which is the same thing He is hustling
and selling to every other religion where you're going to
go when you die. But for us, we're like, we know
it's not about a destination, it's about destiny, it's about
sonship, it's about dominion. It's about the authority God has
given us that we've received His authority, and we get to
function in that thing. We're able to walk that thing
out in the earth. Hallelujah thank you Jesus that
is good Christopher all right Matthew 2818 Jesus says this and
Jesus came up this is after the death burial resurrection comes
up to a disciple and spoke to them saying all authority.
How much come on, how much, how much has been what given to me
in and in heaven? And we do not have more dominion
in heaven. Then he starts out verse 19 with
these two words Go there for come on, He says what?
Go there for John 1412 to 14 says this Jesus says truly,
truly I say to you, he who believes in me, Do you believe
in Jesus? Is he the Lord of your life?
The works that I do now again in the beginning, John 11 in the
beginning was the and the word was with God and the word was
God and the word became flesh. His name is then Jesus is the
word. So the word that comes from his
mouth. Did it come to pass?
He said then the worst that I do.
Well, what works did he do now, unfortunately, you know, and the
enemy tries to get us to to focus on specific works, you
know, like he healed people. So we get get this like fantasy
to want to be a lay hands and see people be healed, right.
We tend to like that one. We tend to like, you know, the
casting out of demons, you know, because they get to flop around
a little bit, you know, then they're fine.
But you know, it seems spectacular and both of those we
can do and I'm not diminishing them, but our focus can get off
because we can see this only we're we're we're thinking on
the miraculous in those elements specifically, you know, like the
miracles, lame walking again, something to do with the body
being made whole or casting out a devil.
However, Jesus multiplied stuff. And you know, a lot of times a
believer will walk into their house and look at their check,
look at their cupboard, and then they'll say, and we don't have
enough. But Jesus didn't talk in those
terms. He takes a step back and say,
what do you want me to do? Right?
That's why I love the five loaves and two fish story,
because he had already had a conversation with the Lord that
morning on his third day of teaching.
He did not use food to draw the crowd.
They were already drawn. And now he's like, today's my
last day of ministry and they have not even eaten natural
food. They have been eating the
spiritual bread. That's when Jesus, you know, you
know, you, you, you know, not of the bread that I'm eating.
OK. And they were eating that stuff.
But he's like, if they could faint.
So he says we need to feed them. Now he had already heard from
the Lord of what was going to take place.
One of his disciples in one of the Gospel says, do you want us
to take 200 denarius, which was a day's way, so 200 days of
wages and go buy bread for them because they had the money.
Judas cannot be embezzling unless they were flowing
financially. Money was not an issue with
Jesus. All right.
However, there are sometimes Jesus.
I know I have the money, but money's not what Dad wants me to
use. He wants to do something else.
What do we have? So he shows up with what seems
like nothing, but you know, Jesus has read the the prophets
and he knows what the Father has done.
So this is no different than the widow woman with a little bit of
oil. He's fine with this.
But because these guys were looking for natural means and
not looking to the word of God, man shall not live on bread
alone, but out of every, every what that comes out of the mouth
of God. Why?
Because his word never fails. Now we have to renew our minds
to that. His word never fails.
So if you're with a word and it's not happening, you have to
say, Lord, what do I not see? Because I know you don't fail.
And so he ends up exercising the miraculous in front of them,
multiplies this food, and in turn, and you know, you've heard
me give the testimony of this black wall here, how God, you
know, supernaturally brought provision to us with that.
But then, you know, Mr. Berry, stand up.
Mr. Berry. Mr. Berry can testify of when we
were over at 3:12 and we were putting the wood picket fence
up, that we did not have enough to finish that, but God
multiplied it while we were there.
It was amazing because again, Jesus did that work.
Why do we not? We can't think.
We can't. We just aren't asking for things
that really seem impossible sometimes.
Well, with mad things are impossible.
With God there are possible. Once he speaks it, I said once
he speaks it. OK, So again, he said the works
that I do He will do also and greater works than these He will
do. Now greater is not greater in
measure, It's greater because all of us can do it, not just
through Jesus, OK, not Jesus being on the planet.
Then he goes on and says just whatever you ask in my name,
that come on, will I do so that the Father may be glorified in
the Son. So you understand when God gives
you a word about something, He wants you to believe that
because if you will not relent, then it glorifies God.
And you know, we as a church now have been, we have been, how do
I want to say this? We have helped multiple.
I say we because it's us. We have helped multiple
congregations because we have become a modern time where we
believe God for something way bigger than our ability.
And it's come to pass and, and it's being testified, man, they,
they bought them all and they're like blown away.
They bought all. Y'all have all.
Well, God had need of it. I mean, and I talked to the
Lord, I'm like, Lord, I don't need them all.
He said, I do. Well, if you do, then OK, right.
Because I'm just doing what you said.
Well, you know what it does? It stirs people up because
there's nothing worse than talking about the miracles of
the 1940s. And we haven't seen any of these
things again, but you have to position yourself, which means
you're going to do stuff that the minute you believe, then the
enemy is going to do everything you can to make what you heard a
lot and try to get you to abandon it.
Now I'll give you 1 quick example of that member.
God said to Moses, Moses, go tell Pharaoh to let my people
go. Remember, he kind of debated and
says, I don't speak real well. He said, I got MO, I got your
brother Aaron. Now this is what's going to
happen when you stand before Pharaoh.
You will be like God to Pharaoh and Aaron will be your prophet.
So that's the example, which means then when Moses says God
said let my people go, he is telling him what God has said
and God will do what he said. Are you hearing me?
God will do what he said. I said God will do what he said.
And did God do what he said? Did God do what he said?
Now Pharaoh, after that first meeting, he says, I don't know
your God, so you can leave. Then he pulls in his
taskmasters, the ones who ran the slave crews.
He said, now listen, this guy has just come here and talking
about a God we do not serve. Trying to add like that God is
better than ours. So this is what you're going to
do. Don't bring them straw anymore,
but keep the quota. This is why we're doing it.
So that what that man just said to me, that when the nation gets
a hold of what we are going to do, they'll think that man's
words are lies. And all of a sudden they show up
for work. Go get your own straw.
But the same bricks. And the guys are freaking out,
running all over the place. They don't make the quota.
They get beat. Show up to a meeting with Moses.
Moses is expecting to be received like he was when he
first came in. They're like, whoa, you're in.
It delivers us amazing. Gods hurt our cries.
We love it. You're amazing.
God sent you to us next day. You stink, bro.
Get out of town. We don't want you here.
You made us look bad in front of Pharaoh, our slave owner.
How quickly they changed, right? This is what the enemy will do.
You know, we, you have to understand this doesn't move
God. But the enemy wants you to be
moved away from. What God's saying.
Why? Because the devil's afraid of
you learning your authority and exercising it here.
That's what he's afraid of, of you exercising.
He doesn't mind if you listen. He really doesn't even mind if
you get born again, as long as you never exercise authority.
Because you're no threat to him. You're no threat to his his
gates. You're no threat to his
dominion, his Kingdom. You won't take nothing.
You'll just live, live life like you were lost, but yet go up to
heaven when you die only to hear the king say woo, you could
have. We could have done a lot more if
you just would have. Believe me at my word and a
whole lot more. So if you ask me anything in my
name, what's he say? Come on, what's he say?
I'll do it now. Anything is is specified, but
we'll see here. What he's trying to do now is
he's trying to give you back what Adam had in Genesis chapter
2. In Genesis chapter 2, Adam had
the power of the voice. In Genesis 219 and 20, it says
out of the ground the Lord formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see
what he would call them. And whatever man called a living
creature, that was its name. He was giving him the exercise.
Listen, I've given you a dominion here.
I created them, you call them. I give you the right to name
them. And whatever he named them, God
didn't say what? Wow, I never would have said
giraffe. Totally was going to say long
neck. Long neck horse.
Totally was going to do that. I had him in the same class.
Horse, long neck horse. Pretty easy.
Why did he say giraffe? Where did they even come from?
Mule, donkey, horse, Giraffe. What is happening?
He didn't do that, Did he, though?
It is what it is, all right? The point is, is he's showing
him the power of his words. He's showing him what you say
matters. And the man gave names to the
cattle and to the birds of the sky, to every beast of the
field, right? But for Adam, there was not
found a suitable helper. Obviously, Eve shows up after
that. Now here in Matthew chapter 8,
we got a couple more verses. We'll be shutting down Matthew
88 and 10 because we are in a new and better covenant.
Jesus Christ has died, risen from the dead.
He's we're brand new creatures in Christ Jesus.
And now the work that he's done, we can do as well.
We can ask him anything in his name and he will do it because
his name has the authority. All authorities have been given
to him in heaven and on the earth.
And when we ask in his name, which is a legal term, power of
attorney, he's giving us power of attorney.
OK. And so because again, it's about
a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.
It's not not religion, OK. And so we have this freely
because Jesus has paid the price.
We're just functioning in faith because he said now just do it.
I'm authorizing you and by faith we do it.
So it says this, but the centurion said, Lord, I am not
worthy for you to come under my roof.
But I say, but, but just say, just say the word and my servant
will be healed. For I also am a man under
authority with soldiers under me.
And I say to this one, go, and he goes into this one come, he
comes to this slave do it. And he what does it.
Now when Jesus heard this, he what marveled and said to those
who were following, truly I say to you, I have not found such
great faith with anyone in Israel.
So this is a Gentile that Jesus technically is not coming to
minister to. He's coming to the House of
Israel. But there's a few Gentiles that
have broke in on the Kingdom by faith and and God's obligated to
his word, even if you're outside his nation because he's
obligated to his word. And so here's this centurion.
He caught what it is now. The world wants you to feel like
you're in authority, power without the miss, with missing
the most important aspect of true authority.
The centurion saw it. Go back to that verse 9, maybe
verse 8, verse 98989 right here. Now, first and foremost, let me
just take this off the table. The centurion was not worthy for
him to come under because Jesus has not died and risen from the
dead and he was lost as everybody was.
But in the dispensation we're in now, guess what?
You've been made worthy. So this different context.
So don't say, oh Lord, I'm not worthy.
He made you worthy and he's giving you his name and he told
you to boldly come before the throne of grace.
So don't be dragging up in there saying, Lord, I don't deserve
nothing. I'm just, you know, I'm sorry,
you know, I hate to even ask. That's not how he positioned us.
He positioned you to boldly come and say, Daddy, I've come at
your word, giving you your word and expecting your word to come
to pass had nothing to do with me.
You said it. I believe it.
It's got to come to pass OK Centurion recognize this in
order for you to function in great authority.
You have to understand submission because the first
thing he recognized Jesus in verse 9, he said for I also
meaning I identify with you how I also am a man what under
authority. In essence, he said you're
submitted. Now This is why the church has
problem with authority because the Saints have a problem with
submitting to the oversight. And if you can't submit to your
pastor, apostle prophet. Now listen, we're not here to
Lord over you. We're here to guide you.
We're here to oversee. We're here to navigate release
your gifts to champion you to be all that God needs you to be so
that all of us together can do something amazing.
We're part of the team. So if you're the center, hike
the ball man, quit trying to be a running back block.
That's your part and do it the best and drive the enemy back,
right? OK, so we're A-Team and this is
what he recognized. He said Jesus, for you to
function like that, you are totally submitted to an
authority. The gods you're serving, you are
totally submitted because that you function in authority.
So you cannot say to me that you're submitted to Jesus but
can't be submitted to the local body church because Jesus is the
head of the church. You can't say you're submitted
to Jesus's word but yet can't submit to the fivefold ministry.
These are all hand in hand. You can't say you're submitted
and can't walk in love with your brother and walk it
unforgiveness. See, that's not submission.
So you first have to submit to everything God has said you're
under. And once you submit to all those
things, then you can declare in the name of Jesus.
Because once you understand submission is the foundation to
great authority, and then you'll get underneath the Word, get
under the word, rightly divided function in the Word, and yield
to it in every aspect of your life.
Then when you need to declare about something, you'll have it.
Some people aren't being healed today not because Christ isn't
the healer. It's because they haven't
yielded to God saying you need to forgive your brother first
before I can bring that healing to your life.
All right, submit, walk in authority.
Then you can talk to that sickness on your body, command
it to leave, and it has to listen.
Hallelujah. All right, So when you
understand your dominion, then you're going to experience great
faith, period. Because you know where the word
of the King is, there's power. Jesus is on the throne.
I've been raised up and seated with him.
I'm only saying what He says. If he tells me to take that, I
take it. If he tells me to go there, I do
it. If he tells me to lay hands
there, I lay hands and we will have what God says.
All right, last scripture is this first John 514 and 15.
So make sure you're doing this. Now I understand the religious
are going to call you arrogant, but you just have to not worry
about that because Jesus was not worried about the religious of
his day. He just did the will of the
Father and it was amazing. So those that aren't being
submitted and have created a religion around God and they
form their own image of God and they're worshipping the image.
They've decided they can do that.
But you, you do this scripture. This is the what is that word?
Because you sure didn't say it very loud.
This is the OK, say it again like you're confident.
This is the, this is the confidence.
That's not arrogance, but you understand, I can be confident.
I mean, how confident can I be when God says this is what I
say, oh, well, that's it, what's done?
And it's not my effort. It's not what I did, it's not
what I'm saying. It's just what he said.
So this is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we
ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that
we have the request which we've asked of him.
I'm telling you the Church maturing All Saints are going to
rise up in their authority that God has given them in the earth
now that we can reign in this life and the one to come.
And so we need to function in this authority because why we
have a relationship with God. We're taking responsibility to
be doers of the Word and be in the word, allowing the Spirit of
God to renew our minds to God's Word.
And we lay down, we yield, we give up, we let go of anything
within our soul realm that would hinder us from releasing this
new spirit God and only God could put in US and give us
through the bear on resurrection of Jesus.
And then we yield. All of those things being
submitted, then guess what? Through that renewal process, we
are going to reign. We are going to walk in our
authority, our dominion. We're going to speak.
We're going to say This is why, you know, you've seen evidence
of us through the years that every time a hurricane came
around, we did not run, leave the county, go find shelter
somewhere and cry and just beg and hope that our stuff wouldn't
be. We said, Lord, what do you want
us to say? And there's been many times the
Lord says, say, go this way. And we say, and we would track
the little thing and it would go exactly as we were saying it,
not because we were saying it without God, it's because God
was saying it through us in the name of Jesus, Amen.
And we've seen time and time again where we took our
authority and you know, we've not had a direct hit glory to
God. I mean, we again in prayer when
the Lord spoke to apostle Marcy in prayer through her prophetic
gift and says, you know, start calling that the crack houses
this summer get get exposed and she began to declare it speak it
out, say it in the name of Jesus.
And then the Lord said say you'll hear about it in the next
two weeks. And sure enough, not because
she's, you know, is doing magic or just hearing the voice of
God. And then we got in agreement, we
prayed. And then next thing you know, on
the front page of the Florida Times Union and the Saint
Augustine record, 10 crack houses are busted down.
Largest bust of crack homes in Saint Johns County.
Glory to God what's Because you're hearing what he's saying.
God has sent us into the the world as the church to help take
care of the planet, to be able to keep things at Bay, to push
back the domain of darkness. But we do this through our
authority, not through wishful thinking.
Amen. When we know His word and
declare His word, we'll have what His word says.
Because He said out of my mouth, it will not return to me, boy.
Which means then out of your mouth, out of your mouth in the
name of Jesus. Out of your mouth in the name of
Jesus, I said, Out of your mouth in the name of Jesus.
It will be as God said.