1 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,800 All right, turn over to Isaiah 55, verse 11. 2 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,320 Isaiah 55, verse 11. Amen. 3 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,840 I want to kind of go to .4 about reigning from the context of 4 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,920 authority, really dominion, because this year, as you know, 5 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,560 it's the reigning church the most the the next move of God, 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:44,360 OK will be the church maturing. It's a big deal for the church 7 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,920 to mature. And so we we need to position 8 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,560 ourselves so that we can be the church that's receiving the 9 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,040 latter rain. All right. 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,080 And in Agricultural Society, you know, there's the early rain and 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,440 the latter rain. The early rain is to be able to 12 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,800 get the seeds so that it would take root that way this plant 13 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,680 would come up and this plant coming up, which is pretty 14 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,800 amazing, isn't so amazing if it doesn't have fruit on it. 15 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,120 And so, you know, you know, conversion after you've accepted 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,800 Jesus by all rights is the seed breaking forth, the plant which 17 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,640 is on the inside of it. But the goal is to produce 18 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,920 fruit. And you know, the vine dresser, 19 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,680 he doesn't come through and say, wow, look at these branches, 20 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,960 they're amazing. The vine dress. 21 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:34,960 He said, I'm the vine, you are the if a man remains in me, he 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,320 will. So the key here is that we bear 23 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:40,680 much fruit. In fact, he goes on to say, by 24 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,520 this, the world knows that you're my disciples not by your 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,240 conversion, but by your fruit. So fruit bearing is really 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,960 important with the Lord. This is what he's looking for. 27 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,000 This is his examination. And in each season you can bear 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,400 fruit. And then he will come along at 29 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,560 the end of that particular season and say, now let's cut 30 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,040 this off, which is, you know, here's a little more carnality 31 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,039 we need to cut off. I want to address with you now, 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,039 or we need to cut this little bit off. 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,960 And sometimes God's not cutting any carnality or flesh. 34 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,000 He's just cutting a weight because the Bible talks about in 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,440 Hebrews that don't allow the sin or weights that so easily beset 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,400 you. A weight isn't sin. 37 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,000 It's just something that can hinder your progress. 38 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,320 It can slow you down. So the Lord can say, you know, 39 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,120 let's cut this out of your life. Not that it's a sin, but I want 40 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,120 you to cut back on that because I want you to give a little more 41 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,960 towards the gifting that I've made you to the body, to the 42 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,560 world. And I want to pull some more 43 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,960 fruit out because when you get pruned, it's so that you'll bear 44 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,440 what more fruit in the next season. 45 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Which tells me God is never satisfied with the amount of 46 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,720 fruit that you are bearing from one season only. 47 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,640 God doesn't want you to do less fruit the next, nor does He want 48 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:05,080 you to do no fruit in the next. Because in that same passage of 49 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,280 Scripture, He says that if he comes to your branch and there's 50 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,840 no fruit, well, he'll cut that off and it gets cast and then it 51 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,320 dries up and then it's not good for anything but to be burned. 52 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,600 Well, we don't want to be a branch like that, right? 53 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,960 We want to bear fruit. So their seasons in life. 54 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,240 And why, why do I say that is because if we are people who go 55 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,680 from faith to faith, glory to glory, Well, then we have to 56 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,600 realize that we will have to go from one place where we have 57 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,640 been stretched. And then we we see the power 58 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,960 plan, the grace of God on our lives and him accomplishing what 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,440 we were believing. And then we look at that fruit 60 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,000 and go, wow, look what God did. Then all of a sudden he speaks 61 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 to us again because faith is calling those things that be not 62 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,400 as though they were so firm persuasion in his word that 63 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,040 we're like man, and you know that fight and you've got to 64 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:05,160 decide, will I step over it and go more or am I going to say let 65 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,040 me just stay right here. But the problem with staying 66 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,840 means that next season won't be as fruitful. 67 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,560 So I'm always excited to expand my my apostle Marcy and I, my 68 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,399 wife, we were talking and I said, you know, I remember the 69 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,800 season when we moved into the mall and man, we were like 70 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,360 having to, you know, tear all this stuff out and build 71 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,800 everything, you know, in the different theaters and, and the 72 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,600 money involved in all that. And then, you know, we got to 73 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,160 where, you know, finally enough people came and we were, you 74 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,280 know, money was just not a problem at that point. 75 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,560 You stretched yourself when you first came, but then you know, 76 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,560 God began to continue to provide. 77 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,720 Next thing you know you're moving and shaking, right? 78 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,440 You're like, what can't? What do you want to do now where 79 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,640 you want to give? What do you want to sow? 80 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,400 What do you want to buy? Whatever it is, you know, 81 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,200 there's not an issue here. But then when we met with the 82 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,920 owners about renting more, the Lord said, tell them you want to 83 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,520 buy it. And they said, well, we want to 84 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,040 buy them all. And they said, well, we've never 85 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,320 sold them all. We said, well, we've never 86 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,480 bought one, right? Well, then when we negotiate the 87 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,400 price and then you start seeing what that's going to be, then 88 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,680 you're like, well, that's different. 89 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,080 Now the question is, can I even do that? 90 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,640 So on paper, I'm like, well, naturally, I guess I can. 91 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,040 If we spend nothing, right? You know, that's one little 92 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:29,760 piece of toilet paper for all of you. 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,320 Each time you go in tight, you know, tight and but God's 94 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,560 exceeding money. Don't get me wrong. 95 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,800 My point is though you move, we moved into that season of faith 96 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:47,160 and things were different but God say, but God, because we are 97 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,520 moving forward from one now, what's the next thing God's 98 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,840 asking that's going to stretch us that you're like man now if 99 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,280 we do that well, I don't want to be comfortable here and think 100 00:05:58,280 --> 00:05:59,840 this is all there is because it's not. 101 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:02,040 You know why it's not because there's 8 point something 102 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,880 billion people on the planet and not and most of them are not in 103 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,240 the Kingdom of God and we've got to advance the Kingdom and we've 104 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,880 got to preach the Kingdom and we have to get that out into the 105 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,080 world because they need to know that the king has come, the 106 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,680 savior of the world, the lamb has been slain. 107 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,040 The blood has been applied, but they need to get it applied to 108 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,440 their life through a confession of his lordship, right? 109 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:30,080 Isaiah 5511 says this. So will my word be which goes 110 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,800 forth from my mouth. It will not say. 111 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,720 It will not. It will not return to me empty, 112 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,560 without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in 113 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,320 the matter for which I sent it. That's powerful. 114 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,600 Now, God has said that. Now, if we truly are living by 115 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,920 faith, then we would know man. If God said it, that's it, I 116 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,000 said. If God said it, that's it. 117 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,320 And again, I'm not saying it, but if God said it, then I 118 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,680 believe God because God's word, which comes from his mouth, will 119 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,200 not return to him empty. It won't do it at all. 120 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,120 God will do what he says. So when people like, well, you 121 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,240 know, God just didn't do what he, then you didn't hear, right? 122 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,440 Because God always does what He said or you abandoned what He 123 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:30,640 said, one or the other, because God always does what He says. 124 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,360 Isaiah 45, starting in verse 21. Look at this one. 125 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,320 It says declare and set forth your case. 126 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,360 Indeed, let us counsel together. That's God saying, you want to 127 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,120 talk to me, let's talk, let's talk. 128 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,440 He said, Who has announced this from a vote? 129 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:52,760 Who has long since declared it? Is it not I the Lord, and there 130 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,200 is no other God besides me, Say there's no other God. 131 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,600 Come on, there's no other God. There's no other God. 132 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:06,480 And in in our world, really, the, the God that challenges the 133 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,160 only God the most are not idols, but it's man. 134 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,920 It's a man with his ideas, with his way of doing it. 135 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,000 In essence, he's like continuing with God. 136 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,040 No, I want to do this and I don't want to do it that way. 137 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,680 No, we should do it this way. And almost it's like the Lord's 138 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,680 like, well, you God or am I God? So there are no other gods 139 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,520 beside me, a righteous God and a savior. 140 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,200 There is none except me. All right, turn to me and be 141 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,880 what? Be safe all the ends of the 142 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,360 earth, for I am God and there is no other. 143 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,720 What an appeal. But then he goes on and says, 144 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,760 yes, I have sworn by myself. The word has gone forth from my 145 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,560 mouth in righteousness. Righteousness is not a religious 146 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,200 word. It means right standing with the 147 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,080 governing authority, and that's in essence. 148 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,200 The king from the throne has issued His decree, and he cannot 149 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:07,400 take it back, because He always does His word and will not turn 150 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,000 back. That to me every knee will bow, 151 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,240 every tongue will swear allegiance. 152 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,400 This is going to happen. Now look what it says in verse 153 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,440 24, because that will happen regardless. 154 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,200 He said. They will say of me only in the 155 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,720 Lord, our righteousness and strength. 156 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,520 Men will come to him, and all who were angry at Him will be 157 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:34,680 what? So you can either be saved and 158 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,760 bow as a child of God, or you can be angry with God, reject 159 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:43,240 him and bow anyway. But if you when you bow that 160 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:50,920 time he will read you all of your trespass, everything that's 161 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,040 against you and his Kingdom, and he will cast you into the lake 162 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:56,440 of fire, which is the second death. 163 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,040 So every knee will bow. Are you hearing me? 164 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,880 Let me tell you what will not happen. 165 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,320 Now, you've heard this little story before. 166 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,520 I'm going to use Melvin because we don't have any Melvin's here. 167 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:13,120 You know, little Melvin went to school, you know, and he was a 168 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,360 bit rebellious. And so, you know, he kept 169 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,040 getting in trouble and for, you know, acting out. 170 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,360 And ultimately, you know, the teachers like Melvin, you sit 171 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,240 down, he sit down. He said, I may be sitting down, 172 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:25,800 but I'm standing up on the inside. 173 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,680 Let me tell you, at the Great White Throne judgment, no one 174 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:33,400 will be saying Jesus is Lord, but I'm standing up on the 175 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,280 inside. It's never going to happen. 176 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:42,040 They are going to be in such awe of his glory, His Majesty, his 177 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:47,480 power, shaking in absolute fear because they will be in the 178 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:52,680 presence of holiness, of, of the creative power. 179 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,240 They're going to. They will be begging, but it 180 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,120 won't matter because his case against them will be infallible. 181 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,880 He will show them every opportunity they were given to 182 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,040 repent, to come to Him, to acknowledge him as their Lord, 183 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:15,480 to receive them as Savior in their life, to accept the blood 184 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,040 he shed. He will show it all and they'll 185 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:23,080 be without excuse and he'll cast them and they will get what they 186 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,960 wanted. Eternity without God, which is 187 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,840 death, the second death. OK. 188 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,880 And so the Lord understands this. 189 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,200 He wants everyone to yield and submit to hit to who He is. 190 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,480 All right, He wants that and it's up to us. 191 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,920 But what He does with His Word concerning that pathway, He 192 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,600 makes it come to pass. So when He says certain things, 193 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:55,760 He is making pathways for the free will created beings who 194 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:00,040 have access based upon his words to be able to accomplish what he 195 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,600 said. Now I said that in kind of a, 196 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,640 you know, ambiguous way because I want us to turn over to 197 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:11,400 Genesis chapter one, verse 26. What has God said about man? 198 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,160 He said I what I it's left my mouth. 199 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,680 It's not going to return to me empty. 200 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:25,920 OK, so God and in the creation, Genesis 1, he said let us make 201 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,800 man in our image according to our likeness, and let them have 202 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,400 what? Dominion over the fish of the 203 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,080 sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all the 204 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,400 earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, 205 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,720 OK. He made both male and female to 206 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,240 have dominion. This is the purpose of man. 207 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,280 Man is in God's image. Looks like God. 208 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:53,080 OK, functions in the capacity that God, he's not God, but he's 209 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,120 in God's nature, he's God's DNA. Again, I am not my Mama or my 210 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,480 daddy, but I do have their DNA. There's parts of me that are 211 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,160 like them. In fact, if you looked at 212 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,280 certain pictures, you say wow, you look just like have you ever 213 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,120 seen like sons? You can look just like their 214 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,720 dads and daughters look just like their moms and then or 215 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,440 their sons look a lot like their moms, whatever it's in the DNA 216 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,680 And so, but here it says you are in his image according to his 217 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:17,640 likeness. And we know that God's Spirit, 218 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,520 and so our spirit man, our Adam and Eve spirit, was in the same 219 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,480 likeness of God, no sin, full of life. 220 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,440 Amen. Now what is their purpose? 221 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,080 To have dominion, to rule. Their purpose is not to be in 222 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,160 heaven singing. They were not created for that. 223 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,320 There are other beings that are all in the throne, roaming, 224 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,000 going around singing. Holy. 225 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,480 Holy is the Lord. I'm not saying we won't sing to 226 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,760 the Lord, because we will, but for this idea that when we die 227 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,320 we'll go to heaven and we'll just sing and worship him 228 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,480 because we associate worship only with singing forever. 229 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,600 That is not true. That's not even biblical. 230 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,520 We will sing praises. Worship by true definition has 231 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,160 nothing to do with singing, although it can involve singing 232 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:11,080 because worship means to obey. And so we're going to worship 233 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,400 God forever because we're always going to be in obedience to Him, 234 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,840 because His words final and we want to obey Him. 235 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,160 I said we want to obey Him because we've already lived that 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,400 other life. Come on, we've lived that other 237 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,840 life. We don't want, we do not want to 238 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,040 go back to the place where, you know, we're in rebellion. 239 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,160 So God says let us make man in our image according to our 240 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,600 likeness and let them rule. This was the destiny of man. 241 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,000 Now God needs to know whether man loves him or not, right? 242 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,840 Although he's made him in his nature and God is love. 243 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,680 So the reality is he should be in love with one another. 244 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,080 But God proves the fruit of that love through obedience. 245 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,240 He said you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the 246 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,080 tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. 247 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,240 For the day you eat you will surely die. 248 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,880 And you understand God does this because He does not want man to 249 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,480 be with him as a robot with no choice. 250 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:09,760 He made us with choice, and so man has the choice to choose to 251 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,200 be with God and stay in this relationship with Him, or he can 252 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,240 choose to go his own way. The problem is, going his own 253 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,840 way is death. So there's more options to live 254 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,040 obedient in the garden than there is to be disobedient. 255 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,400 All right. And so here he is in the garden. 256 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,200 He can eat from any tree of the garment of the tree of the 257 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,040 knowledge of good and evil. He shall not eat, for the day he 258 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,040 eats, he dies. Now we know they're anointed. 259 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,440 Cherub had fallen, came into the garden. 260 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,480 He's considered a serpent. And he tells Eve, you know, 261 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,400 deceives Eve. She eats the fruit, gifts to her 262 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,000 husband. He rebels and he eats the fruit. 263 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:51,200 And then sin enters the world, enters the system by which man 264 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,080 governed it, because man had rule of the systems of the 265 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,840 earth. See, the earth is the Lord's, he 266 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,160 owns the planet. He let man have dominion or 267 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,120 rulership in it. The minute he sends it causes 268 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:12,080 death to be a byproduct of this now dominion that he has, of 269 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,080 which he has handed over to the devil. 270 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,400 Yes, Luke chapter 4, Luke chapter 4, verses 5 through 8, 271 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,720 just so we can see this in context, Jesus and in the 272 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,200 temptation after he was baptized in the Jordan and the Holy 273 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,160 Spirit came upon him without measure, He goes into the 274 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,800 wilderness being led by the Spirit to be tempted of the 275 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:37,760 devil, of which he never failed. I said he never failed in this 276 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,080 particular temptation. The Luke account says then the 277 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,960 devil taking him up on a high mountain showed him all the 278 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,640 what? What he's showing, what he's 279 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,840 showing. Come on. 280 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,960 What he's showing. Say it louder. 281 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,640 I know it's Wednesday night. Say it one more time. 282 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,800 Kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 283 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,840 So the devil knows this is not about religion. 284 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,120 This is about Kingdom. He's confused the world in 285 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,359 religion because religion is them seeking after a God. 286 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,760 But God is the king of the Kingdom. 287 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:12,280 All right? So he goes on to say this, the 288 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,520 Kingdom of the world in a moment of time, and the devil said all 289 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,000 this what one translation says domain or domain? 290 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,680 So dominion and authority work hand in hand. 291 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,920 He said all this dominion or authority I will give to you and 292 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,840 their glory. So what's the devil saying? 293 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,360 I'll give it to you. It's what you want anyway, 294 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,040 right? He said. 295 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,360 For this has been what delivered one translation said, hand it to 296 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,960 me. I can give it to whomever I 297 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,440 wish. Which means he actually had the 298 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,720 authority to do it cannot be a temptation if he doesn't 299 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,360 actually have it, right? So the people you know that come 300 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:55,360 around said, well, he didn't have. 301 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,920 It's a temptation. There's no temptation for me to 302 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,520 give you Matt Ryder's truck. No temptation. 303 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,320 I'm going to give away Matt Ryder's Ford. 304 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,200 You know, F2F-250, you know, it's really decked out tonight. 305 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,520 Just come see me. I'll give you the keys. 306 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,520 You can have a lock, stock and barrel and be like, wow, that's 307 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,080 super cool. Well, it's not cool when it's 308 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,040 not mine. And you're really not tempted to 309 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,680 come see me afterwards. And if you do, that's sad. 310 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,360 All right. But now if I own the vehicle 311 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,840 with the title, and I said I'm giving this to you, and I have 312 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,840 given some vehicles away, well now I'm authorized. 313 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,120 So now it's tempting whether to take it or not because you know, 314 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,920 I can give it. Now he's saying to him, look, 315 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:46,240 you've come for these kingdoms. I've met your brother. 316 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,840 Because again, Adam was the Son of God. 317 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,800 Now it's not God in the flesh, but he's son of God nonetheless. 318 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,760 I met your brother because he Adam's the first Adam. 319 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,920 Jesus is considered the last Adam. 320 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:04,040 He said, I met your brother. Now, when he met his brother, 321 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,640 the devil had nothing. But now that he sees Jesus, he's 322 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:13,040 like, I have it all right, and I've been waiting on you If 323 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,440 you're the guy, I've been killing off multiple sons before 324 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,520 you got here. So if you are, I'll just give 325 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,320 you this. But what's the what's the Lord 326 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,600 say? It is written, it is what it is 327 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,520 as my Father has spoken, it is what he said out of his mouth, 328 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,480 it is the word that he said from his mouth is what I'll follow 329 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,840 and yours I will not. Now this is where real authority 330 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:49,280 begins to kick in, because Jesus is going after this and Jesus 331 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:54,080 wanted another way to get it. So don't think this isn't empty 332 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,800 because the way he has to go, he has talked to his father about 333 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,840 it. Lord, if there's any other way, 334 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:05,600 remember that time I was in the wilderness? 335 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,720 I mean, he was just going to give it to me. 336 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,080 Is there a way we can trick him? You know, like I'd take it act 337 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,520 like I'm going to bow down, but just before I do is swoop up and 338 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,360 grab it and making them. I mean a lot of believers, a lot 339 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:28,880 of times to negotiate. Now, did Jesus have that kind of 340 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:29,960 conversation? No. 341 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,800 But he did have a real conversation about another 342 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,160 option that he was looking for, so much so that he asked three 343 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,000 times. But how did he always conclude 344 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:47,720 not? But now, in order to know will, 345 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,440 you must know a word. How can you know my will unless 346 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,400 I say it? So in essence, he's saying not 347 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,400 the word out of my mouth, but the word out of your mouth, 348 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,800 because the word out of my mouth should only come from what I've 349 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,280 heard out of your mouth. That's why Jesus went around and 350 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,760 said this. I only do what I hear, only say 351 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,280 what I hear, only do what I've heard from the Father. 352 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,720 I don't. Well, I don't say anything on my 353 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,840 own initiative. I don't do anything on my own. 354 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,280 What I hear from the Father that I do. 355 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,480 Come on, can I get an Amen? This is Dominion status because 356 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,960 if the first Adam would have looked at the serpent and say 357 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,800 you get away from my wife Eve, remember the word of the Lord, 358 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,480 we eat the fruit, we die. And I don't care what he is 359 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,840 trying to say. Our father is he's done come up 360 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,160 in here and trying to paint a picture about our father that 361 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,240 we've never seen before in character. 362 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,800 We've never seen him act like that. 363 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,560 We've never thought of him as something trying to withhold 364 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,040 from us, keep from us, keep back from us. 365 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,560 I mean, he's only been great. Look at all the trees we've been 366 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,800 able to eat now. Yeah, these do look a lot better 367 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,320 than the rest, maybe. And man, you know, I've eaten 368 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,160 these others, and sure, it would be nice to have one, but Dad 369 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,720 said they're there. And why would I doubt his word? 370 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,760 Because every other tree I've eaten, there's been no problem. 371 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,920 And now we're going to eat one that he says don't and see if it 372 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:21,160 works. No, what it is, as my dad has 373 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:27,480 said out of his mouth, unfortunately he did rebel sin 374 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,360 enter the world right now. Why do I bring this up, this 375 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:36,360 transfer? Because just because Adam fails 376 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,440 to maintain the position of dominion, God has spoken. 377 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:46,000 God himself is now obligated to make sure the pathway to what he 378 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,760 says is available to man. So that's why you've heard me 379 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,400 say this in the past, because people use this, you know, and 380 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,920 they use this kind of as a tool when they're altar calls, you 381 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,280 know, you know, when it gets kind of quieted by by your head 382 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,480 and close your eyes. And now we want people to make 383 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,800 decisions. And so we're like, now listen, 384 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,560 if you were the only one that would ever make Jesus the Lord 385 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,640 of their life, he would have came for you. 386 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:13,560 Now, do you believe that? Sure. 387 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,320 I mean, I would believe that. However, it's not accurate 388 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:24,200 because Jesus is coming whether any of us do it, because God is 389 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,800 going to do His Word even at the expense of His own Son. 390 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,680 And if all of them reject me when they stand before me, I'll 391 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:40,200 say He was the way to what I said about you, and you could 392 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,600 have been back in it. Now, Adam did not fall from 393 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:48,000 heaven, He fell from dominion. So to be restored is not about 394 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,480 going to heaven, it's about having dominion. 395 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,680 And that doesn't have to wait till you go to heaven to have 396 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,320 it. We get to walk in that today. 397 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,960 That's amazing. Now, again, the Bible is very 398 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,080 clear to be absent from the body. 399 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,120 You'll be what? Present with the Lord? 400 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,440 And where is the Lord presently? But do you believe He's coming 401 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,640 back? You know He's coming back. 402 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,000 Actually, He's coming back to a place that we will actually see 403 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,080 them and be called up together with Him in the air. 404 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,600 So He's not staying in heaven. The third He will come back at 405 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,400 least to the first, we'll be called it with him, but we also 406 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,600 know after that time period, he'll come and put his foot back 407 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,760 down on the earth. So Jesus actually going to come 408 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,600 here. Then if you read the back of the 409 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,200 book, we know there's new heaven and new earth. 410 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,760 The new Jerusalem comes down out of heaven and we will reign with 411 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:33,600 him here in the the capital of all creation called Jerusalem. 412 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,920 All right, and then expand from there. 413 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,080 So here God has to do a pathway. This why he says, listen, a man 414 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,760 lost dominion is going to require a man to get dominion 415 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,440 back. I'll empty myself through my 416 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,640 son, put him in a child so that he'll have legal interest in the 417 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:58,680 earth and then I will anoint him as Adam was anointed so that he 418 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,880 can demonstrate to the world what they can be anointed of 419 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,440 God. And so Jesus functions that way. 420 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,520 That's why we've told you and multiple times that Jesus 421 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,520 functioned in the dominion that Adam lost. 422 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,640 He obviously fish were not issues for him, right. 423 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,440 Adam had dominion over all the fish of the sea. 424 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,680 That's why Jesus could speak about putting Nets in place and 425 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,600 fish would follow to get in it. This is why fish that two in his 426 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:29,360 hand could multiply because he said I am the resurrection of 427 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,040 the life. So he can cause the sales of 428 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,240 that meat on those fish that have been out of the water and 429 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,360 been in a little boy's lunch to multiply so that he can feed 430 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:45,880 probably at minimum 10,000 people if not more and there be 431 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,560 leftovers. Hallelujah. 432 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,160 Why? Because that's the dominion, not 433 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:58,200 that God had, but that Adam had come on, get this. 434 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,640 We live in a coastal community. You should use your dominion 435 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,400 when you go fishing. Talk to the Lord says what's 436 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,840 what, what, what do you want me to catch today? 437 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,040 Talk to me before I go out there and throw a line in and wish 438 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,720 that they take my no give me insight. 439 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,320 Call them to your line because God had no problem calling them 440 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,120 to your line and not even be on the shore. 441 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,600 Peter, we have to pay some taxes, go fishing, and the fish 442 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,240 you catch will have the coins for our taxes in his mouth. 443 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,960 And that fish heard the king picked up the coins. 444 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,960 I don't know, maybe he's had them in there for a couple 445 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,400 weeks. Like, why do I keep these in my 446 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,200 cheeks for a while? Kind of messing up my gills, you 447 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,240 know, I'm just kind of waiting on the Lord. 448 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,480 I sense that I got to go jump on a hook somewhere, right? 449 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,400 Getting somebody's net. So anyway, so God has to do 450 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,240 this. Why? 451 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,280 Because he wants you to be his child in the authority he's 452 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,120 assigned to you. You understand, the death, 453 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,040 Baron, resurrection of Jesus was not so he could escape you out 454 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,160 of the planet. It's so that he could put you 455 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,960 back in the authority he always had for mankind, both male and 456 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,480 female. And the thing that I love about 457 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,880 God is God is like, you know, in each dispensation of the Bible, 458 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,560 he's showing himself back to the devil. 459 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,000 I'm coming, I'm, I'm going to have what I say. 460 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,360 I'm coming. And he revealed himself a little 461 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,400 bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more and a 462 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,360 little bit more and a little bit more. 463 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,600 Now we're in this dispensation, a new and better covenant. 464 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,400 And the Lord's like letting the devil know because Jesus 465 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,840 Colossians, chapter 2, verses 14 to 15. 466 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,680 I mean, he's like, ah, now you're really in trouble. 467 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:49,360 Up to this point you were running a little wild, but not 468 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,080 anymore because of Jesus. See, we act like the devil has 469 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,240 all this power. He is in the most scared state 470 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:58,480 ever. Now. 471 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,680 Now how do we know? Because first of all, when Jesus 472 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,520 came to the planet and the madman of Gadare confronted 473 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:15,800 member of the conversation, have you come to torment us before 474 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:22,920 our time? Now this is Jesus in the flesh, 475 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,400 anointed of the Holy Ghost, which is not what God can do, 476 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,800 but what man can. Come on, get this, please come 477 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,080 on, strike with me. And those demons are like, Oh my 478 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,880 God again, when he comes, they don't run away, they run to him 479 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:43,360 and bow down before him. Hollywood has sold Christianity 480 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,760 a lie. The Exorcist never would have 481 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:53,680 turned out that way if we would have walked in the room, stop 482 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,360 spinning your head, quit throwing up, shut up and come 483 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,000 out not have been the end of the movie. 484 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,120 She'd have been in her right mind and said I'd give her 485 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,880 something to eat. That'd have been it. 486 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,960 I said that because the scary music would have been for the 487 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,560 demon in the child, not for the priest. 488 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:20,520 All right, we are, we are, we are a, a royal priesthood. 489 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,160 The royal priest would have walked up in the room and say, 490 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,160 shut up, come out. Okay, Get the girl something to 491 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,440 eat. I'm going to the next one. 492 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,840 Oh, Hallelujah. Look what it says. 493 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,760 Here's Colossians 214 and 15. This translation says it this 494 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,600 way. He canceled out every legal 495 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,760 violation we had on our record. And the old arrest warrant that 496 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,480 stood to indict us, he erased it all. 497 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:49,240 Our sins, our stained soul, soul, soul. 498 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,120 He deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved. 499 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,640 Now, this doesn't mean he was like, let's just forget about 500 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,760 it. So you got to understand that 501 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,720 statement doesn't mean God's like, hey, let's just act like 502 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,560 it didn't happen. Because if that's all God had to 503 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:12,560 do, then when he came down and said, Adam, where are you? 504 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,480 He could have looked because he's got a forgiving God. 505 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,960 Does did God want to forgive man? 506 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,480 Absolutely. It's why he's sending his son. 507 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,920 He could have said, son, I forgive you right then, but he 508 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,280 can't because he said if you eat, you die. 509 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,160 Now death has a wage that's required to be paid. 510 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,320 Silver and gold won't get it. No natural things of the earth 511 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,720 is going to be able to make that payment. 512 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,920 But the blood of Jesus does. So when we hear this statement 513 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,280 he cancelled out, that's because he paid it with his own blood. 514 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,640 It's not that he, he wiped it out because he applied the blood 515 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,880 to it. So it was of great 'cause again, 516 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,360 modern day Christianity, you know, echoes the free gift to 517 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,200 where we hear free. But anytime you hear free, you 518 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,000 have to understand it really means at the cost of something, 519 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,560 someone or something else. Anytime you hear free, it's at 520 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,960 the cost of someone or something else. 521 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:20,800 Not specifically you as the receiver, but someone paid. 522 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:27,160 All right, so it goes on to say everything we once were in Adam. 523 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,040 That's the first. Adam has been placed onto his 524 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,600 cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of 525 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560 cancellation. Glory to God, I say glory to 526 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,400 God. Then Jesus made a public 527 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,200 spectacle. Now we didn't see it, and planet 528 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,000 Earth didn't see it, and the humans that were there on the 529 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,160 planet, after they took Jesus's body down and placed him in a 530 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,520 tomb and rolled the stone and sealed it, they didn't see this. 531 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:01,000 But this happened. He made a public spectacle 532 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,720 somewhere in the realm of the spirit of all the powers and 533 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,000 principalities and darkness, stripping away from them every 534 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,520 weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse 535 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,360 us. And by the power of the cross, 536 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,040 Jesus LED them around as prisoners in a procession of 537 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,280 triumph. He was not their prisoner. 538 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:29,240 They were his Now they, they, they rejoiced for a time until 539 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,680 the third day, Because when the third day came, Jesus, who's in 540 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,480 paradise, because he told the thief today you'll be with me in 541 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,080 paradise. He's in paradise, OK? 542 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,440 He's going to leave captivity captive, all the righteous dead 543 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,640 that are waiting on the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus 544 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,200 for their atonement, their eternal atonement. 545 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,440 Gee, the Holy Ghost says it's time to leave. 546 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,680 I said it's time to leave. And when that took place, he 547 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,080 stripped the devil of all of his story. 548 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,720 He said where you once had dominion that the first Adam 549 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,920 gave you, I take it back. I take it back in the realm of, 550 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:12,160 you know, health, healing, provision everywhere, you know, 551 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,360 joy, peace, righteousness. He took it all. 552 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:21,720 He he stripped all of that off. He says now I am the king of the 553 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,520 earth. I am the one that rules and 554 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,040 reigns. I have stripped you of your 555 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,280 power. And for anyone who bows to me 556 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:40,120 and calls me Lord, there'll be set free from you and you cannot 557 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,120 stop it. He's powerless, I said. 558 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,040 He's powerless. He only has power on those who 559 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,480 are still in darkness, still blinded, and have not yet called 560 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,160 on the name. But for us who've called on the 561 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,440 name, powerless. And you know, he's wringing his 562 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,760 hands now, his little bitty old nasty little hand. 563 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,040 Now I'm not diminishing his deceptive, manipulative power 564 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,280 because it's there, but I'm saying for us, it's nothing to 565 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,400 us. We are US been raised up and 566 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,719 seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus because when we 567 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,719 recognize this not about going to heaven when we die, it's 568 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,840 about God came to us, put his Spirit in US, made us a new 569 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,120 creature in Christ that can now hear God's word grow in God's 570 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,560 word. We renew our minds to the word 571 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,000 that now we can walk in this dominion that the devil cannot 572 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,199 stop us at all on the planet. So in essence, this dispensation 573 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,840 is like, hi, you've had it. You've had it good up to this 574 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,760 point, but now I've stripped you of your power and all that pop 575 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,719 over. You can't stop. 576 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:49,000 And which means now if Jesus walks off a boat to the the 577 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:55,159 madman of Ghadera and we are in the likeness of Christ, now the 578 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,120 devil has a problem because he sees a little Jesus there, 579 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,600 little Jesus here, little Jesus there, little Jesus there, 580 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,960 little Jesus there. This becomes majorly 581 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,120 problematic. This is why He wants you to 582 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,280 believe that all you get out of the deal of the blood of Jesus 583 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,520 is heaven when you die, which is the same thing He is hustling 584 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,120 and selling to every other religion where you're going to 585 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,400 go when you die. But for us, we're like, we know 586 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,200 it's not about a destination, it's about destiny, it's about 587 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,840 sonship, it's about dominion. It's about the authority God has 588 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,000 given us that we've received His authority, and we get to 589 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,680 function in that thing. We're able to walk that thing 590 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:41,800 out in the earth. Hallelujah thank you Jesus that 591 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:48,400 is good Christopher all right Matthew 2818 Jesus says this and 592 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,600 Jesus came up this is after the death burial resurrection comes 593 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,160 up to a disciple and spoke to them saying all authority. 594 00:35:55,160 --> 00:36:03,600 How much come on, how much, how much has been what given to me 595 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:19,440 in and in heaven? And we do not have more dominion 596 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:28,490 in heaven. Then he starts out verse 19 with 597 00:36:28,490 --> 00:36:34,490 these two words Go there for come on, He says what? 598 00:36:35,170 --> 00:36:40,920 Go there for John 1412 to 14 says this Jesus says truly, 599 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,480 truly I say to you, he who believes in me, Do you believe 600 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,520 in Jesus? Is he the Lord of your life? 601 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:54,240 The works that I do now again in the beginning, John 11 in the 602 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,960 beginning was the and the word was with God and the word was 603 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:05,960 God and the word became flesh. His name is then Jesus is the 604 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,640 word. So the word that comes from his 605 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,000 mouth. Did it come to pass? 606 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,680 He said then the worst that I do. 607 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,960 Well, what works did he do now, unfortunately, you know, and the 608 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,840 enemy tries to get us to to focus on specific works, you 609 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,880 know, like he healed people. So we get get this like fantasy 610 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,440 to want to be a lay hands and see people be healed, right. 611 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:37,640 We tend to like that one. We tend to like, you know, the 612 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,000 casting out of demons, you know, because they get to flop around 613 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,120 a little bit, you know, then they're fine. 614 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,040 But you know, it seems spectacular and both of those we 615 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,320 can do and I'm not diminishing them, but our focus can get off 616 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,040 because we can see this only we're we're we're thinking on 617 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,640 the miraculous in those elements specifically, you know, like the 618 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,360 miracles, lame walking again, something to do with the body 619 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,800 being made whole or casting out a devil. 620 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:07,080 However, Jesus multiplied stuff. And you know, a lot of times a 621 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,720 believer will walk into their house and look at their check, 622 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,800 look at their cupboard, and then they'll say, and we don't have 623 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,840 enough. But Jesus didn't talk in those 624 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,680 terms. He takes a step back and say, 625 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,680 what do you want me to do? Right? 626 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,560 That's why I love the five loaves and two fish story, 627 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,680 because he had already had a conversation with the Lord that 628 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,200 morning on his third day of teaching. 629 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,200 He did not use food to draw the crowd. 630 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,560 They were already drawn. And now he's like, today's my 631 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,040 last day of ministry and they have not even eaten natural 632 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,880 food. They have been eating the 633 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,800 spiritual bread. That's when Jesus, you know, you 634 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,640 know, you, you, you know, not of the bread that I'm eating. 635 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,000 OK. And they were eating that stuff. 636 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,200 But he's like, if they could faint. 637 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,280 So he says we need to feed them. Now he had already heard from 638 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,080 the Lord of what was going to take place. 639 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,240 One of his disciples in one of the Gospel says, do you want us 640 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,240 to take 200 denarius, which was a day's way, so 200 days of 641 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:21,600 wages and go buy bread for them because they had the money. 642 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,560 Judas cannot be embezzling unless they were flowing 643 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,480 financially. Money was not an issue with 644 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:31,680 Jesus. All right. 645 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,240 However, there are sometimes Jesus. 646 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:38,000 I know I have the money, but money's not what Dad wants me to 647 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,200 use. He wants to do something else. 648 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,680 What do we have? So he shows up with what seems 649 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,440 like nothing, but you know, Jesus has read the the prophets 650 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,760 and he knows what the Father has done. 651 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:54,960 So this is no different than the widow woman with a little bit of 652 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,720 oil. He's fine with this. 653 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,840 But because these guys were looking for natural means and 654 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,800 not looking to the word of God, man shall not live on bread 655 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,160 alone, but out of every, every what that comes out of the mouth 656 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:10,800 of God. Why? 657 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:16,440 Because his word never fails. Now we have to renew our minds 658 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,200 to that. His word never fails. 659 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,760 So if you're with a word and it's not happening, you have to 660 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,920 say, Lord, what do I not see? Because I know you don't fail. 661 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,440 And so he ends up exercising the miraculous in front of them, 662 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,960 multiplies this food, and in turn, and you know, you've heard 663 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,160 me give the testimony of this black wall here, how God, you 664 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,680 know, supernaturally brought provision to us with that. 665 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,960 But then, you know, Mr. Berry, stand up. 666 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,600 Mr. Berry. Mr. Berry can testify of when we 667 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,920 were over at 3:12 and we were putting the wood picket fence 668 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,080 up, that we did not have enough to finish that, but God 669 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,640 multiplied it while we were there. 670 00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:00,680 It was amazing because again, Jesus did that work. 671 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,840 Why do we not? We can't think. 672 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,400 We can't. We just aren't asking for things 673 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,280 that really seem impossible sometimes. 674 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,080 Well, with mad things are impossible. 675 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:15,960 With God there are possible. Once he speaks it, I said once 676 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:21,400 he speaks it. OK, So again, he said the works 677 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,880 that I do He will do also and greater works than these He will 678 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,920 do. Now greater is not greater in 679 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:32,160 measure, It's greater because all of us can do it, not just 680 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,560 through Jesus, OK, not Jesus being on the planet. 681 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,640 Then he goes on and says just whatever you ask in my name, 682 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:46,200 that come on, will I do so that the Father may be glorified in 683 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,960 the Son. So you understand when God gives 684 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,680 you a word about something, He wants you to believe that 685 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,840 because if you will not relent, then it glorifies God. 686 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,400 And you know, we as a church now have been, we have been, how do 687 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,160 I want to say this? We have helped multiple. 688 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,600 I say we because it's us. We have helped multiple 689 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:17,800 congregations because we have become a modern time where we 690 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,840 believe God for something way bigger than our ability. 691 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,200 And it's come to pass and, and it's being testified, man, they, 692 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,880 they bought them all and they're like blown away. 693 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,640 They bought all. Y'all have all. 694 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,120 Well, God had need of it. I mean, and I talked to the 695 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,160 Lord, I'm like, Lord, I don't need them all. 696 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,800 He said, I do. Well, if you do, then OK, right. 697 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,360 Because I'm just doing what you said. 698 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,200 Well, you know what it does? It stirs people up because 699 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,320 there's nothing worse than talking about the miracles of 700 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,320 the 1940s. And we haven't seen any of these 701 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,120 things again, but you have to position yourself, which means 702 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,680 you're going to do stuff that the minute you believe, then the 703 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,480 enemy is going to do everything you can to make what you heard a 704 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,160 lot and try to get you to abandon it. 705 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,920 Now I'll give you 1 quick example of that member. 706 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,320 God said to Moses, Moses, go tell Pharaoh to let my people 707 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,600 go. Remember, he kind of debated and 708 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,240 says, I don't speak real well. He said, I got MO, I got your 709 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,760 brother Aaron. Now this is what's going to 710 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,600 happen when you stand before Pharaoh. 711 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,920 You will be like God to Pharaoh and Aaron will be your prophet. 712 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,960 So that's the example, which means then when Moses says God 713 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:34,640 said let my people go, he is telling him what God has said 714 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:42,440 and God will do what he said. Are you hearing me? 715 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:50,360 God will do what he said. I said God will do what he said. 716 00:43:50,960 --> 00:44:01,940 And did God do what he said? Did God do what he said? 717 00:44:03,860 --> 00:44:10,780 Now Pharaoh, after that first meeting, he says, I don't know 718 00:44:10,780 --> 00:44:15,060 your God, so you can leave. Then he pulls in his 719 00:44:15,060 --> 00:44:19,660 taskmasters, the ones who ran the slave crews. 720 00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:26,680 He said, now listen, this guy has just come here and talking 721 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,560 about a God we do not serve. Trying to add like that God is 722 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,120 better than ours. So this is what you're going to 723 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,360 do. Don't bring them straw anymore, 724 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,120 but keep the quota. This is why we're doing it. 725 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,480 So that what that man just said to me, that when the nation gets 726 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,320 a hold of what we are going to do, they'll think that man's 727 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:52,720 words are lies. And all of a sudden they show up 728 00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:55,960 for work. Go get your own straw. 729 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,760 But the same bricks. And the guys are freaking out, 730 00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:01,360 running all over the place. They don't make the quota. 731 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,560 They get beat. Show up to a meeting with Moses. 732 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,720 Moses is expecting to be received like he was when he 733 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:09,160 first came in. They're like, whoa, you're in. 734 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,360 It delivers us amazing. Gods hurt our cries. 735 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:12,800 We love it. You're amazing. 736 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,280 God sent you to us next day. You stink, bro. 737 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:17,920 Get out of town. We don't want you here. 738 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,640 You made us look bad in front of Pharaoh, our slave owner. 739 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:27,040 How quickly they changed, right? This is what the enemy will do. 740 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,240 You know, we, you have to understand this doesn't move 741 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:32,840 God. But the enemy wants you to be 742 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,280 moved away from. What God's saying. 743 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,360 Why? Because the devil's afraid of 744 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,480 you learning your authority and exercising it here. 745 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,640 That's what he's afraid of, of you exercising. 746 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,600 He doesn't mind if you listen. He really doesn't even mind if 747 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,640 you get born again, as long as you never exercise authority. 748 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,480 Because you're no threat to him. You're no threat to his his 749 00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,160 gates. You're no threat to his 750 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,560 dominion, his Kingdom. You won't take nothing. 751 00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,760 You'll just live, live life like you were lost, but yet go up to 752 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,920 heaven when you die only to hear the king say woo, you could 753 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,520 have. We could have done a lot more if 754 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,680 you just would have. Believe me at my word and a 755 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,000 whole lot more. So if you ask me anything in my 756 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,640 name, what's he say? Come on, what's he say? 757 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:27,040 I'll do it now. Anything is is specified, but 758 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,040 we'll see here. What he's trying to do now is 759 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,760 he's trying to give you back what Adam had in Genesis chapter 760 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,600 2. In Genesis chapter 2, Adam had 761 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,680 the power of the voice. In Genesis 219 and 20, it says 762 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,080 out of the ground the Lord formed every beast of the field 763 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,200 and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see 764 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,960 what he would call them. And whatever man called a living 765 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,040 creature, that was its name. He was giving him the exercise. 766 00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,000 Listen, I've given you a dominion here. 767 00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:01,200 I created them, you call them. I give you the right to name 768 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,240 them. And whatever he named them, God 769 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:07,800 didn't say what? Wow, I never would have said 770 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:13,160 giraffe. Totally was going to say long 771 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,800 neck. Long neck horse. 772 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,080 Totally was going to do that. I had him in the same class. 773 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,000 Horse, long neck horse. Pretty easy. 774 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,120 Why did he say giraffe? Where did they even come from? 775 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,560 Mule, donkey, horse, Giraffe. What is happening? 776 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:28,960 He didn't do that, Did he, though? 777 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,200 It is what it is, all right? The point is, is he's showing 778 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,320 him the power of his words. He's showing him what you say 779 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,840 matters. And the man gave names to the 780 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,560 cattle and to the birds of the sky, to every beast of the 781 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,560 field, right? But for Adam, there was not 782 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,800 found a suitable helper. Obviously, Eve shows up after 783 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,760 that. Now here in Matthew chapter 8, 784 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,520 we got a couple more verses. We'll be shutting down Matthew 785 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,360 88 and 10 because we are in a new and better covenant. 786 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,600 Jesus Christ has died, risen from the dead. 787 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,400 He's we're brand new creatures in Christ Jesus. 788 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,960 And now the work that he's done, we can do as well. 789 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,160 We can ask him anything in his name and he will do it because 790 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,480 his name has the authority. All authorities have been given 791 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,400 to him in heaven and on the earth. 792 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:13,520 And when we ask in his name, which is a legal term, power of 793 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,280 attorney, he's giving us power of attorney. 794 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,840 OK. And so because again, it's about 795 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,640 a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring. 796 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,480 It's not not religion, OK. And so we have this freely 797 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,040 because Jesus has paid the price. 798 00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:29,360 We're just functioning in faith because he said now just do it. 799 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:32,160 I'm authorizing you and by faith we do it. 800 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,000 So it says this, but the centurion said, Lord, I am not 801 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,160 worthy for you to come under my roof. 802 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:44,400 But I say, but, but just say, just say the word and my servant 803 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,560 will be healed. For I also am a man under 804 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,960 authority with soldiers under me. 805 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,080 And I say to this one, go, and he goes into this one come, he 806 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,440 comes to this slave do it. And he what does it. 807 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:02,240 Now when Jesus heard this, he what marveled and said to those 808 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,760 who were following, truly I say to you, I have not found such 809 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,440 great faith with anyone in Israel. 810 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,160 So this is a Gentile that Jesus technically is not coming to 811 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,800 minister to. He's coming to the House of 812 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,720 Israel. But there's a few Gentiles that 813 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:22,000 have broke in on the Kingdom by faith and and God's obligated to 814 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:27,040 his word, even if you're outside his nation because he's 815 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,360 obligated to his word. And so here's this centurion. 816 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:36,680 He caught what it is now. The world wants you to feel like 817 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:44,120 you're in authority, power without the miss, with missing 818 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,560 the most important aspect of true authority. 819 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:51,560 The centurion saw it. Go back to that verse 9, maybe 820 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:56,720 verse 8, verse 98989 right here. Now, first and foremost, let me 821 00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:59,480 just take this off the table. The centurion was not worthy for 822 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,400 him to come under because Jesus has not died and risen from the 823 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,480 dead and he was lost as everybody was. 824 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,000 But in the dispensation we're in now, guess what? 825 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,920 You've been made worthy. So this different context. 826 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,240 So don't say, oh Lord, I'm not worthy. 827 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,760 He made you worthy and he's giving you his name and he told 828 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,160 you to boldly come before the throne of grace. 829 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,160 So don't be dragging up in there saying, Lord, I don't deserve 830 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,320 nothing. I'm just, you know, I'm sorry, 831 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,840 you know, I hate to even ask. That's not how he positioned us. 832 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,240 He positioned you to boldly come and say, Daddy, I've come at 833 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:36,560 your word, giving you your word and expecting your word to come 834 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:37,760 to pass had nothing to do with me. 835 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:38,960 You said it. I believe it. 836 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,560 It's got to come to pass OK Centurion recognize this in 837 00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,160 order for you to function in great authority. 838 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,560 You have to understand submission because the first 839 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,160 thing he recognized Jesus in verse 9, he said for I also 840 00:50:53,600 --> 00:51:00,400 meaning I identify with you how I also am a man what under 841 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,800 authority. In essence, he said you're 842 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:08,680 submitted. Now This is why the church has 843 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,480 problem with authority because the Saints have a problem with 844 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,120 submitting to the oversight. And if you can't submit to your 845 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,160 pastor, apostle prophet. Now listen, we're not here to 846 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,120 Lord over you. We're here to guide you. 847 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,120 We're here to oversee. We're here to navigate release 848 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,520 your gifts to champion you to be all that God needs you to be so 849 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,560 that all of us together can do something amazing. 850 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,840 We're part of the team. So if you're the center, hike 851 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:38,920 the ball man, quit trying to be a running back block. 852 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:44,400 That's your part and do it the best and drive the enemy back, 853 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,400 right? OK, so we're A-Team and this is 854 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,800 what he recognized. He said Jesus, for you to 855 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,040 function like that, you are totally submitted to an 856 00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,640 authority. The gods you're serving, you are 857 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:03,960 totally submitted because that you function in authority. 858 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,440 So you cannot say to me that you're submitted to Jesus but 859 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,280 can't be submitted to the local body church because Jesus is the 860 00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,720 head of the church. You can't say you're submitted 861 00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:21,120 to Jesus's word but yet can't submit to the fivefold ministry. 862 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,880 These are all hand in hand. You can't say you're submitted 863 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:28,200 and can't walk in love with your brother and walk it 864 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,040 unforgiveness. See, that's not submission. 865 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,440 So you first have to submit to everything God has said you're 866 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,120 under. And once you submit to all those 867 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,000 things, then you can declare in the name of Jesus. 868 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:45,600 Because once you understand submission is the foundation to 869 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,440 great authority, and then you'll get underneath the Word, get 870 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,200 under the word, rightly divided function in the Word, and yield 871 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:54,800 to it in every aspect of your life. 872 00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,040 Then when you need to declare about something, you'll have it. 873 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,840 Some people aren't being healed today not because Christ isn't 874 00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:03,400 the healer. It's because they haven't 875 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,720 yielded to God saying you need to forgive your brother first 876 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:07,360 before I can bring that healing to your life. 877 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,760 All right, submit, walk in authority. 878 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,280 Then you can talk to that sickness on your body, command 879 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:16,920 it to leave, and it has to listen. 880 00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,000 Hallelujah. All right, So when you 881 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,800 understand your dominion, then you're going to experience great 882 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,720 faith, period. Because you know where the word 883 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:33,040 of the King is, there's power. Jesus is on the throne. 884 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,720 I've been raised up and seated with him. 885 00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,960 I'm only saying what He says. If he tells me to take that, I 886 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,760 take it. If he tells me to go there, I do 887 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:40,880 it. If he tells me to lay hands 888 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,960 there, I lay hands and we will have what God says. 889 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:49,440 All right, last scripture is this first John 514 and 15. 890 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,880 So make sure you're doing this. Now I understand the religious 891 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,320 are going to call you arrogant, but you just have to not worry 892 00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,760 about that because Jesus was not worried about the religious of 893 00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,240 his day. He just did the will of the 894 00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:05,720 Father and it was amazing. So those that aren't being 895 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:08,920 submitted and have created a religion around God and they 896 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,800 form their own image of God and they're worshipping the image. 897 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,200 They've decided they can do that. 898 00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:19,880 But you, you do this scripture. This is the what is that word? 899 00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:21,720 Because you sure didn't say it very loud. 900 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,720 This is the OK, say it again like you're confident. 901 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,160 This is the, this is the confidence. 902 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,000 That's not arrogance, but you understand, I can be confident. 903 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,720 I mean, how confident can I be when God says this is what I 904 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:38,360 say, oh, well, that's it, what's done? 905 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,640 And it's not my effort. It's not what I did, it's not 906 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,880 what I'm saying. It's just what he said. 907 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,600 So this is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we 908 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:57,160 ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 909 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,480 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that 910 00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,320 we have the request which we've asked of him. 911 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,360 I'm telling you the Church maturing All Saints are going to 912 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,720 rise up in their authority that God has given them in the earth 913 00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:18,880 now that we can reign in this life and the one to come. 914 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,840 And so we need to function in this authority because why we 915 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,600 have a relationship with God. We're taking responsibility to 916 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,960 be doers of the Word and be in the word, allowing the Spirit of 917 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,040 God to renew our minds to God's Word. 918 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:39,920 And we lay down, we yield, we give up, we let go of anything 919 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:44,240 within our soul realm that would hinder us from releasing this 920 00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:48,720 new spirit God and only God could put in US and give us 921 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,080 through the bear on resurrection of Jesus. 922 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,080 And then we yield. All of those things being 923 00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,680 submitted, then guess what? Through that renewal process, we 924 00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,320 are going to reign. We are going to walk in our 925 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,160 authority, our dominion. We're going to speak. 926 00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,480 We're going to say This is why, you know, you've seen evidence 927 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,680 of us through the years that every time a hurricane came 928 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:11,760 around, we did not run, leave the county, go find shelter 929 00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,400 somewhere and cry and just beg and hope that our stuff wouldn't 930 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,520 be. We said, Lord, what do you want 931 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,720 us to say? And there's been many times the 932 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:25,560 Lord says, say, go this way. And we say, and we would track 933 00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:28,800 the little thing and it would go exactly as we were saying it, 934 00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,800 not because we were saying it without God, it's because God 935 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,280 was saying it through us in the name of Jesus, Amen. 936 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,120 And we've seen time and time again where we took our 937 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:45,000 authority and you know, we've not had a direct hit glory to 938 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,320 God. I mean, we again in prayer when 939 00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,080 the Lord spoke to apostle Marcy in prayer through her prophetic 940 00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,400 gift and says, you know, start calling that the crack houses 941 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:59,960 this summer get get exposed and she began to declare it speak it 942 00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:01,440 out, say it in the name of Jesus. 943 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,760 And then the Lord said say you'll hear about it in the next 944 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,760 two weeks. And sure enough, not because 945 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:11,680 she's, you know, is doing magic or just hearing the voice of 946 00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,280 God. And then we got in agreement, we 947 00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,120 prayed. And then next thing you know, on 948 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,680 the front page of the Florida Times Union and the Saint 949 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,600 Augustine record, 10 crack houses are busted down. 950 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,880 Largest bust of crack homes in Saint Johns County. 951 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,280 Glory to God what's Because you're hearing what he's saying. 952 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:34,480 God has sent us into the the world as the church to help take 953 00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,280 care of the planet, to be able to keep things at Bay, to push 954 00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:42,120 back the domain of darkness. But we do this through our 955 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,480 authority, not through wishful thinking. 956 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,520 Amen. When we know His word and 957 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,080 declare His word, we'll have what His word says. 958 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:55,320 Because He said out of my mouth, it will not return to me, boy. 959 00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:01,080 Which means then out of your mouth, out of your mouth in the 960 00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,720 name of Jesus. Out of your mouth in the name of 961 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,120 Jesus, I said, Out of your mouth in the name of Jesus. 962 00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:08,960 It will be as God said.