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Hey man, we should say that way. Praise God.
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thank God for the connection. God gave us.
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Lord. And we were here last November
and pastors were out of town. Amen.
And they invited me back. Hallelujah.
Some must have done. All right.
Amen. So we will let him get me.
Just it in here in a second. Praise God.
And so many way we really enjoy coming, we enjoy being here and
are thankful for amen. My lovely wife.
Bonnie. Praise God.
Hey man, so we've been going since 1975, so that's a pretty
good distance together in. Amen.
Praise God. And so, we're excited about
that. It did bring some books.
We got some books out there. I'm a little disappointed.
I've got a book. I'll get it to you if you'd want
it. Praise God.
We the Lord dealt with me. A lot of people.
We're believing God for many, many, many people to come to the
kingdom of God. And get born again a man filled
with the spirit prays, god. So, the Lord kept build with me.
So I put a book together and it was supposed to be an out and
then they said, it would be shipped last week that didn't
get in, but it's on the new beginnings in Christ.
And in that book, I teach on the first chapters make full proof
of your salvation. You got, you know, don't don't,
don't let your salvation you turn to be put in somebody
else's hands. Amen.
Find out what it is to be born again.
Second is why you get water, baptized, amen.
And then the third one is Be filled and stay full of the Holy
Ghost. So hopefully we'll get that one
out real soon. It's going to be a good one.
Amen. But we got a bunch of others out
there that will be a blessing to you and I think I'm sounding
pretty good now. How they look?
You didn't take very long, got a good crew back there.
Amen. Glory to God.
Amen! Amen, amen!
So praise God but tonight we're going to get in some things.
It's my honor to kick this off and get it started, so I pray
and Lord changed my message about 14 times.
But anyway, Had to change of this afternoon.
I was telling Pastor Li said you touched on three of the messages
in your message that I was going to preach.
I said either you jumped over and got in my lane or we're
hearing from God. Amen.
I thought I believe we're both hearing from God.
Amen. I believe God has a theme for
this week and I believe if you'll come and hear the word
and let it get in your heart, it'll change your life.
Amen. Praise God.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you and I
praise you for your goodness and mercy Lord.
We trust you for utterance. We thank you Lord.
For Earning our hearts and our minds and bringing to us a
spirit of wisdom and Revelation that we might see hear and
receive a know, the truth that will set us free and Lord.
We set ourselves to be good ground to hear this word to
receive this word. And then, to be doers of the
word and Lord, we thank you in advance for working with us and
for, and confirming your word with the signs that follow in a
company. And we just give you all the
praise for all things. In Jesus name, amen.
Amen. Praise I want you to look in
Matthew's gospel, chapter 4, we'll look into verses verse 17.
And then we're going to look down to verse 23 and and in
these verses we find the Lord Jesus Christ, initiating, the
gospel of the Kingdom. Praise God.
You know, Luke 16:16. It says that the law and the
prophets were preached until John, and since then the kingdom
of God is being preached and many are pressing into it.
And so we find that the Lord Jesus Christ.
When he came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit came down
upon him, he was filled with the spirit, of course, we know that
the spirit led him into the Wilderness and in the
wilderness, he established his authority by defeating the
devil. Three times of three tests with
the spoken word of God. Amen!
And so we see that the Lord Jesus is initiating the kingdom
and then also he's initiating and revealing, the power that is
in that Kingdom, that is going to change.
Humanity, forever. Hallelujah.
And in verse 17, the Bible says that from that time.
And from the time of John, you know, being put in prison, he
says Jesus began to preach. And to say, repent for the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, you know?
Isn't it amazing? The, the message that Jesus is
preaching here. Of course, you know, we'd heard
repentance all throughout the Bible.
But, you know, here he's adding a little different connotation.
He's adding little emphasis to it.
He's saying, repent because now Repentance is not going to keep
you in bondage of the law, you'll repentance is going to
bring you over into the liberty of the kingdom of God.
So your repentance the changing of your mind.
The changing of your attitudes are changing of your life, is
not just going to be going from day to day, but it's bringing
you into the kingdom of God, and is bringing you into God's
righteousness. His peace is joy.
In the Holy Ghost, his power, his anointing.
Amen. And so the Lord is really
showing you some things in your Those, it's amazing to me and
and we want to take just a moment here.
Lord just was dealing with me during the praise and worship.
There he said just touch on the fact of repentance there, you
and Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost when Peter preached
that my you know, Mighty message in the people said well what
must we do? What did he say?
He said, repent and believe the gospel and you receive the gift
of the holy spirit so you know, they repented they did the
things there. Well, we find the Lord.
Eating repentance and, and what it means is to change your mind,
to change your direction, to change your heart, to change
your life. Amen.
You what the Lord is saying. He's saying if you sick and
tired of being sick and tired, you can change it.
Now, if you don't like what you have, and you don't like what
you're doing. You don't like what things are
going on all around you. I'm giving you the open door.
Now, to change that and move over into a place where you
can't get on your own, amen. And that's the real because the
Lord took me back to whenever I was in college and I wasn't
living for God. You know, I was taught to
believe in God, be a good person.
That's about the extent of my Christianity.
Okay. And so, you know, but I was in
college and I had gotten away because, you know, you can
believe in God, try to be a good person.
Still not do the right stuff and I finally got to the place where
I said I just said it one night my door, my room I said, Said,
Lord, I just don't like who I am.
I don't like what I'm doing. I don't know how to change it.
I don't want to be this way. You know that basically was
defining, I need to repent, I need a change in my life, I need
something to take my life in a different direction.
God and I didn't really know, but, you know, the Lord spoke to
me and he ministered to me and he showed me and he led me to a
couple of ball players. I played football in college.
And so he led me to a couple of my teammates who were on fire
for God. And they took me Romans, 10:9,
and 10, and I found out that repentance wasn't just me being
sad or Aggravated or frustrated with the life.
I was living repentance meant that I needed to turn from that
and find how to get out of that situation and get over into a
better situation. Amen.
I didn't know anything about the kingdom of God, or the kingdom
of darkness? I just need a change.
But when I found out as I've learned, is this by going to my
friends and then taking me to Romans 10:9 and 10 and teaching
me that, if I would believe that Jesus was the Christ, that God
raised him from the dead, accept him in my heart confess.
Has him as my Lord. I would be saved.
What they were doing was this, they were saying through your
dissatisfaction with your life. Now, you can turn to the Lord
Jesus Christ, and he will take you out of the kingdom of
darkness, and I fall under the authority of darkness and take
you out of that life, that you're tired of and bring you
over into a life. That is so full of God and Grace
and blessing, that it'll change you forever.
Hallelujah. And I didn't know what happened
to me that night, but I went from the kingdom of darkness
took over to the Kingdom of God. Hallelujah.
I changed Lords. I changed the the the the one
who had Authority in my life. So you see repentance isn't, I'm
just don't like my life. I'm tired.
Repentance is seeking God because he said this kingdom is
right here, but you got to come till you got to find it.
Amen. And you got to come to it
through the way. The Lord says, now, in the 23rd
verse after the Lord is teaching and ministering.
He gets down here and he says, and Jesus went about all Galilee
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
kingdom and healing. Healing all kinds of sickness
and all kinds of disease among the people.
Now, we begin to see some more truth.
Not only will the kingdom of God sets, you free from your sin.
Come on, not only when you repented and turn your life to
the Lord and turn his kingdom. Did he set you free from
darkness and sin and your past. But now he brings you into a
kingdom, that has great power. They can also heal your life,
heal your body, heal your mind. Heal, Relationships and he'll
everything about you and make you a completely changed and
transformed person in this world because Jesus didn't just teach
to come into the kingdom. He then demonstrated the power
of the Kingdom in his preaching. Amen.
And so we begin to see an any. And I didn't know a lot of this
stuff. I was going to a denominational
church. I went there because the pastor
of the church was the Um, chaplain of the football team
that I played them and so we connected.
But after about six months of going to the church bonding are,
you know, we've gotten married. Now, we're going to church
together and I and they just came to me.
God, there's got to be more than what I've got.
I'm thankful that I'm not out here doing that crazy stuff.
I'm thankful, there's a change. I know there's a change, but I
got weak and I didn't even have a Bible.
I finally, we got sebab and so we found out and I started
reading Matthew Mark and Luke and I said, Woo though, that is
a Jesus right there. Yeah.
He don't remember the, he don't even resemble.
The Jesus and we got here and our church.
Hallelujah, that's the Jesus spoke to me in my dorm room back
there. And my friends introduced me to
man. He was Healing The Sick casting
out demons, I mean he was trying to bring over the devil in every
era. And so I said Lord what is it
that we're missing and the Lord spoke to me and he said, you're
missing the fullness of the holy spirit in your life.
You need the power of the Kingdom in your life.
You don't just need the knowledge of the kingdom and you
don't need to just be in the Kingdom.
You need the power of my kingdom in operation, in your life.
And so I've set out on my quest to find out how to live in a
powerful Christianity. Not just a barely get along
Christianity. Not begin to pursue God.
And I knew that my answer was in the word of God.
Are you hearing me? It wasn't in religion.
It wasn't in denominationalism, it wasn't in philosophies, it
was in the word of God, and I had to find out through the
word. What the kingdom of God is and
what happened to me when I repented and moved over into
God's kingdom. Amen.
Now, look in first Corinthians, the fourth chapter, let me show
you what the Apostle Paul has to say about this.
In First Corinthians, the fourth chapter, the Apostle is is
really correcting. The church are Corinth and you
know, the Corinthian Church they were a carnal Bunch.
Yeah, thank God, they got saved. They got filled the Holy Ghost
and then they got crazy. Hallelujah.
Well, they were already crazy and Paul just, you know, all the
time, he's ministering to him, he's trying to correct him.
But you know what, the sad is this?
I related to a lot of stuff they were doing, hey, men because I
was doing it and I understood now, why Paul was writing these
letters, but Paul is writing to him here in 1st Corinthians,
chapter 4, I want you to, I want you to look at and it will.
I wanted to tie verse 18 in verses 19 to 20 says, now some
of you are puffed up as though, I were not coming to you.
You know, Paul is writing to these people and some of them
have gotten all you know, arrogant and Dated, and I'm
running the show and all this stuff and then acting like, you
know, you'll probably never coming back so we can do what we
want to. And so he says, but I will come
to you shortly if the Lord wills and I will not know the word of
those who are puffed up now, there were there speech.
In other words, I'm not going to come back there and listen to
The Arrogant, puffed-up religious, talking religious,
cliches, empty Idle, Word of Mouth people that are talking
around act like they know something.
When they don't do anything, their life is a mess and all
they're doing is talking and religion.
Are you hearing me? Because here's a man who was out
here, living in religion, as past brother.
He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees and he's out here
doing all his stuff and he found out that wasn't the way the live
Jesus knocked him down one day. It made him sit around and think
about it for a few days until they had another guy come lay
hands on him, so he can see again, amen?
Okay, Lord, I believe we'll just sit there.
I'm going to let you stew on this and since you can't see
anything, you can just think about it.
But he, you know, he comes in. So Paul then says, in verse 24,
the kingdom of God is not in just speech or talk religious
words, but it is in power. One translation says it is, it
is not just a religious Idol work, but it is a empowered life
to live for God. So, even the Apostle Paul later
on, is coming on tying in with the same theme, the Lord says
that the kingdom of God, is an empowered life to do, the things
that God has called you to do. Amen.
Acts 17 6 says that in thessalonica.
They got all upset with everybody and then to get down
to verse 6. It says that this this was the
fussing that the world was thrown at him.
They that have turned the world upside down, have come.
Now here they come here to there.
In other words, there was a group of Believers that were not
religious. They didn't just talk the talk
but they walk the walk, they walked in the revelation of the
power of the kingdom of God. They walked in the revelation of
who they were in. And when they showed up in town,
they did the works of the Lord Jesus.
Because they found out that the kingdom of God is not just a
religious experience that you join a church and you stay the
same, the rest of your life. But the kingdom of God is a
transformation that takes place in your life that God takes you
from weakness to strength. He takes you from defeat to
Victory, he takes you from a nobody to somebody, he takes you
to somebody that nobody wants to be around to somebody that can
change lives and where you go. In the book of Acts is full of
nation changing, amen. Hallelujah, people that moved
and shook Nations shook cities. Why are we not shaking places?
We should be a city shaken Nation, changing World
harvesting bunch of Kingdom, Believers.
That cannot be stopped. Hallelujah, amen.
We should not walk in with idle talk and arrogance about us, but
we should walk into our workplace just being quietly
walking in the authority and the power of the kingdom of God and
under breath, just say, in the name of Jesus, things are
changing in this place. How later God, you did, you put
me here to bring your righteousness, your pee?
He's your joy in the Holy Ghost. I'm here to help people get out
of their bondage. I'm here to live a lie times
here, to let Jesus be Lord in my life and for people's lives to
be changed how they lujah heard. Brother.
Copeland say, years ago, I've been in this for a while.
So this was I won't tell you how many years but anyway, he was a
young guy then, but he said he had this car and he was having
problems with the transmission. So he took it to the mechanic
and he said this mechanic was known to jug, he was the best
mechanic, but he cuss like Like a trooper.
He, I mean, he just just every other words, cussing and so
brother, Copeland said, I just stood over her and said I'd been
listening brother Hagin teach on the authority of the believer
and so he said I just stood over there and had man was underneath
my car cussing and working. I just under my breath said, in
the name of Jesus, I bind that Spirit devil, you're not going
to cuss while you work on my car.
So he said, I didn't say it loud.
He said, I just I just knew who I was.
And he said I'm standing there and he said the fella rolled
himself out on the car said preacher, would you leave for a
while? He said, why he said, cause a
man can't fix this without cussing and I for some reason
can't cuss while you're in my garage.
He said I ain't leaving and you ain't cussing affected.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Somebody says well I don't know if I believe it or not, will
don't worry. It won't work for you.
Hallelujah. You'll be okay.
You don't have to worry about it.
Praise God. Because you see, there's
something that causes all these things to work together and
brings it into the fullness. And that is this, you have to
understand that the power of God's kingdom operates, through
the currency of faith. Faith has to be an operation in
your life, for these things to work in your life.
The Lord Jesus lived every day of his life in faith.
In faith and you see, you got to understand something.
You've got to get over in the faith and you got to understand
something to, you can know the Bible and still not have faith.
Because Faith doesn't just come from knowledge.
Faith comes from relationship. Are you hearing me?
Just because I know about somebody doesn't mean I know
that person and it doesn't mean that have any more access to
them and you do but whenever I have a relationship with them
and I walk with them and they teach me and I learn from them
and I follow their examples and then they're the influence in my
life and they know me and I know them.
Then it brings me into a different realm of working with
them. And we as Christians, who is
citizens of the kingdom of God, have to understand that our
faith doesn't just come because we come to church and hear and
leave and we don't let it change as a Transformer.
Say meant the word is given to us so that we can know God and
enter into relationship with him.
He mad and it's come it comes to give you faith and somebody
says, well you sure brother. Help me.
The faith is that important? Well you can't please God
without faith Hebrews 11:6. You can't get saved without
faith. He if Asians 289, And you can't
really live unless you live by faith in Galatians 3:11.
Are you hearing me your faith won't work.
Mark 11, 22, 23 and 24. If you don't have faith, you
prayers aren't going to work if you don't have faith.
So I'd say faith is a pretty good thing that have.
Amen. And then faith comes out of a
relationship with God through his word and that word has to
take upon itself life in you You have to begin to and I'm going
to get into what I want to really get in tonight.
You have to really begin to identify yourself with the word
of God and the word of God begins to describe who you are
in this life. Until it changes the way you see
yourself. It changes the way you see
things it changes how your attitude is when you are
confronted with situations and instead of thinking like the
world thinks about it, you think like God thinks, and instead of
letting the flesh, be the first thing that responds, your spirit
man responds because your spiritual walk with God, is
greater than your fleshly walk with the world and my
relationship with God. And the kingdom of God is
greater than my relationship is with the The world in the
kingdom of darkness. Amen, look in Luke's gospel.
The fourth chapter, let me show you the Lord, Jesus shows us
this and gives us this as our example.
In Luke, the fourth chapter will begin a verse 14.
It says, then Jesus returned in the power of the spirit in
Galilee, or to Galilee. And the news of him, went out
through all the surrounding region and he taught in their
synagogues being glorified ball. So, he came to Nazareth where he
had been brought Up. And as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up to read
and he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was
written. The spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor. He has sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, he and to Proclaim Liberty to the
captives. The recovery of sight to the
blind to set at Liberty, those who are bruised oppressed, and
broke down, beaten down to downtrodden to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord. Then he Closed.
The book. Gave it back to the attendant
and sat down the eyes of all, who were in The Synagogue were
fixed on him. Now, you stop there.
And Jesus has done nothing more than the Pharisees.
Did Jesus. Just read a passage from the
scripture that encourages everybody.
But the Lord Jesus doesn't stop with just reading the
scriptures. He doesn't stop with just
declaring the scriptures. He doesn't just stop by.
Well, just getting off. You know who he gooey about the
scriptures? He does something that nobody
else has done look, the next verse, you're not done till you
get to verse 21 and he began to say to them today.
This scripture is fulfilled in your hearing, you know, with the
Lord Jesus just did Jesus just came in there and declare it out
of his mouth that he is everything that he just spoke
Come on, Jesus standing in the midst of them.
Just show them who he was, according to what the word says.
Now, there are two keys. I want you to get ahold of here
that the Lord Jesus is showing us.
And the first key is found in Verses 16 and 17, and it says,
so, he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up.
And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the
Sabbath day and stood up to read and he was handed the book of
the prophet Isaiah, and when he had opened the book, now listen,
here's the part. You got to get, he found the
place where it was written. He opened the book he asked for
the scroll. They hand him.
They didn't open it up to Isaiah 61, and he read it.
He with their own purpose and opened it up and read it out
loud. And then in verse 21, he says
everything that you have just heard is standing in front of
you. So what was the first thing that
the Lord Jesus Christ? Did Jesus found his identity and
his purpose in God's word. I will say it.
Again. Jesus discovered or found his
identity of who he is and his purpose on Earth in the word of
God. Now you can be born again,
filled with the Holy Ghost and headed to heaven, and not know
who you are, and not know why your purpose on the earth is
until you get into this book and you read it out loud and let it
talk to you and then you stand up and say that is who I am.
Are you hearing me? This is who I am mr.
Devil lot of nobody. I met somebody in Jesus.
Hallelujah. So you have to identify, this is
who I am. And this is what I can do.
Hallelujah. And the people got upset with
him. Because when you start
identifying yourself, as a citizen of the kingdom of God,
and you identify yourself with What God Says About You
religious people get upset with you because religion says, you
can worship, God, but you can know God.
And religion, says, you go to heaven, but you can't do
anything while you're done here. And religion says, you're Just a
Nobody and you just need to crawl to the Old River.
Sunday and repentance God to forgive you and live that dead
condemned life, right? The Jesus said I came to deliver
you from that Beatdown broke down.
No-account, bruised battered life and set you free,
Hallelujah. So, if you and I are going to be
powerful City. Shaken Nation changing World
harvesting devil. Cashing Out Christians and
citizens of the kingdom of God. The first thing you're going to
do is get in the word and find yourself in God's Bible.
I refuse to identify myself with the world.
I don't identify myself with who I watch him read over and second
Corinthians five, you know, we read verse 70 in Old Town,
therefore, If anyone is in Christ, are a new creation, old
things are passed away, All Things become new and on Verse
18, all things are of God but you know, you get up a couple
verses before that. And Paul says this, if one died,
then all died, therefore none should be live for themselves
and even though we have known Christ in the flesh, we don't
know him that way anymore, and we no longer recognize you in
the flesh. We don't know you Brother
so-and-so, who was, you know, that is Son and not every day.
And the old guy that went down the street of the old guy worked
out. He said, we don't know you as
who you were before, you accepted Jesus in your heart.
We only know you now in the spirit as a new creation in
Christ, Jesus, that those old things are passed away, you're
not a thief, you're not a liar, you're not some old somebody.
You are now a child of the Living God.
And that's the only way we're going to recognize you And what
you got to do is you got to get into the book.
James said it's a mirror. You got to get into this word
until you look in there and go. Oh, there I am.
Whoa, I'm looking good. Thank you.
Jesus. So if you're fighting sickness,
all the time, all you what you doing is, you see yourself as
defeated, but you see, you got to get in the word and all of a
sudden, you start reading first. Peter 2:24 by whose Stripes, you
were healed and Matthew. A 17 himself bore our sicknesses
and carried your pains and then you get over in Psalm 107 verse
20. He says he sent his word and
healed them and delivered them in their structure.
And you re Psalm 103 says who forgiveth all thine iniquities
and heals all our diseases, and then you go to Exodus. 15:26
says, I'm the Lord, the god that he'll has a and you get in
there. You, I'm Healed, man.
That's who I am and you declare it.
This name Aster devil. This is fulfilled in your
hearing. I want you to hear what God says
about me, because I'm changing my identity.
That loser died on the cross with Jesus and was raised up
more than a conqueror when Jesus came.
Hallelujah. Now I'm an overcomer and Christ,
you see, you have to declare it in the midst of, with all of
them here. I mean, you know, Paul tells
Timothy, he says Jesus held a good confession even before
poly, you know what he told everybody, it didn't matter
whether you liked it, or you didn't like it, who he was.
And you, and I cannot be one thing in this building and
something else in some other building.
This has got to be so real to you.
This is who you are all the time, amen.
So the first thing you got to do is I'm going to find my identity
and my purpose in the word of God.
I'm going to get it. I'm going to declare it.
I'm going to make it who I am. If God said it, I believe it.
That settles it. And you know, the great thing
about is this if you get in the word long enough and talk it,
Long enough, they'll come a day where it will become so real to
you that you won't have to convince yourself, you're that
it'll just come out of you because you have become a sponge
that God. So full of what God says about
you, every time someone touches you, the word comes flowing out
of your mouth and every time the enemy tries to take you down,
you tell him that you're more than a conqueror and you got
anything good question, you just take him to the word and read
the word time. Amen.
There are times. I said now.
Mr. Devil on love, you know, I know, you know, some scripture
cuz you quoted the Jesus I think you can read.
But if you can't, let me show you what I am.
I want you to listen. Now you've been telling me who
I'm not. I'm going to read here and show
you who I am. I want you to hear and you're
hearing mr. Devil, I want you to know.
This is who I am and he'll say, you don't feel like it.
It, I didn't say I am because I feel like it We all look like
this. Say I am because I look like it.
I said, I am because God said it.
And as I keep saying it, I viciously I'm gonna look like
it. And if it is I'm gonna feel like
it and eventually you're gonna have to acknowledge that.
I'm not only have it. I is it?
Hallelujah. Amen.
So we have to follow the Lord's example.
He's our King, he's our Lord and we had to fall and he showed us.
He went specifically to the scripture found the place, ready
to them and just describe this as my Ministry and this is who I
am. And this is what I've come to
do. You have to look anymore for the
anointed one. He standing right here.
Front of you. And folks, we should be able to
stand before. People say, you have to go look
for it anymore for to try to find a real Christian right
here, right here. and we're not like that group over in Corinth,
that Paul was talking about who was arrogant and inflated and
talking things that they weren't Who couldn't put up any fruit
with what they were saying. But the fruit of their life was
the power in their life, this is not bragging when I do it.
Amen. I'll tell you natural situation
at one time I had played golf in my life and and one time I was
decent and before I played more than once a year.
But anyway, we were out in the friend of mine, he still comes
church, he was leading our church and he'd give his heart
to the Lord, you're on the golf course.
And so he told me past you take care of me on Sunday, I'll take
care of you, the rest of the week.
Hallelujah time. You want to play, come on out.
And so he worked with me and helped my game, so some of us By
playing one day and we were on this par 4 and I said, see that
spot right out there and we'll land my ball right out of there.
Well yeah, they started laughing.
So I said help me Jesus how they go but I hit that ball and it
went right down and it landed within two feet of where I said
I was going to end up. And my friend who owns it goes,
she said well it ain't bragging if you can do it.
And walked off. Hallelujah.
Paul was saying a bunch of you a bunch of braggarts and Corinth,
you're not done a thing. You're trying to tell everybody
else what to do, but it's not real to you.
And that's not what the kingdom of God is.
The kingdom of God, is you making it real in your life, and
you discover who you are and your life and then speaking out
of a position of authority, and a physician relationship with
God, that challenges people to come on up to another level and
encourages people. It doesn't condemn people.
It doesn't put them down because Jesus didn't say he was anointed
to condemn people or show them their problems, he was anointed
to bring them life and bring them deliverance and to bring
them healing and to set him free and walk in Victory.
And if you're walking in the power of the kingdom of God,
you're not going to walk in and bring guilt condemnation and
Brokenness to people. You're going to bring healing to
them of all those things and you're not going to go in and
they're not going to get saved because you told him to get
saved, they're going to get saved because they see something
in your life. That is something they want in
their life and they want to have have that in the oven and you
have the opportunity to share with them the Revelation out of
relationship. Who your lord and King?
Yes. And then Jesus operates through
that and brings the kingdom of God into their heart.
See a lot of people want to repent and they want to change
but they don't know how to get it but Jesus said it's right
here. It's right here at hand is right
here before you. You got to repent.
You got to believe on me, and you've got to come and find
yourself in this word. Second thing is this.
He says up here, in verse 14, then Jesus returned in the power
of the spirit to Galilee. The second thing is this Jesus
receive the power to do God's will through the power of the
Holy Spirit. If we're going to see a move of
God, it's got to come through the power of the Holy Spirit.
You know, the Jesus did not do one Miracle until he was
baptized in the Holy Ghost. Amen.
He was just as much the Son of God when he was 25 as he was
when he was 30, but he didn't do any Miracles.
You hear Jesus in the temple discussing the scriptures at the
age of 12 and then you hear nothing else until he shows up
that John's at the River. Jordan.
And Jesus comes up out of the water and he's full of the Holy
Ghost in melee. He begins to bring the kingdom
of God to us. What's he saying?
You saying you cannot operate in the power of the kingdom of God
in your own ability. You need the helper to come into
your life. You need the Holy Spirit.
That's why in Acts chapter 1, he told the disciples, he said,
listen, don't go out, don't do anything.
Even though I've commissioned you to do this Terry right here,
stay right here in Jerusalem until you are endued with power
from on high. You have to receive that promise
that I told you about the John records, that I will pray the
father and he will send you another Helper and he'll buy
with you forever. And he's the spirit of Truth and
he will guide you into all the truth.
And he will anoint you in equip. You just like, he has me.
He told him in Acts 1:8 but you shall receive power after the
Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be Witnesses, unto me.
Power ability, you know, an empowered life is what he's
saying. And so, the Lord Jesus show,
shows us that we not only have to know who we are in Christ,
but we have to ask the Holy Spirit to come into an upon us
to empower us to live that revelation Remember it read over
the Old Testament I think is over in Zechariah where he's
telling to the prophet, God speaking to him and he's telling
me he's going to rebuild the Temple.
He's going to do all this stuff and then file he looks at him.
He says oh by the way, I'll paraphrase for you, it's not by
might nor by power but by my spirit going to get this done.
It's not going to be your strength.
You're not going to be able to brag about it.
You're not going to be able to say, look what I did.
You're going to have to understand, listen folks, when
people get healed, it wasn't you, the hill.
Damn. It was the power of the Holy
Spirit flowing through you that God them healed.
When you led somebody to the Lord, it wasn't you who
convicted their heart and brought them to revelation of
Jesus was Lord. It was the Holy Spirit operating
in that situation it when you were praying and seeking God and
all of a sudden Revelation comes to you from what you're supposed
to do. You didn't get that because
you're so worthy of it. You got that because the spirit
of Truth is on the inside of you and he begins to bring to you
the revelation of God's plan and purpose and will, and he begins
to show you how to do these things.
Greatest thing, after being born again, was Winter.
I go, I feel the Holy Spirit. Change my life.
So thankful for what God did how they live and I was in a
denominational Church where they said it wasn't of God.
They thought it would gone away and we didn't do that anymore.
Then he said it's split the church but I read it.
He and I did the church. The Jewish people couldn't
believe that the Gentiles could be gets saved till they heard
him. Talking in tongues, they were,
oh my God. Don't go say that Bunch too.
You better be careful because you know, you might have this
little attitude if you don't want you to develop it and then
somebody that you just knew, God would never use, we can same
feel the Holy Ghost and they'll do something you go.
Oh my God. Whoops, I'm in the wrong group.
I got to get over in the good group.
Hallelujah. Amen.
But what did the Lord do? He got filled the spirit.
He was led by the spirit he operated by the power of the
spirit. When he healed people, what
happened. The power of God would flow out
of him and touch their lives. Change their lives.
You see, God wants us to be transformed citizens of the
kingdom of God. He wants us to get in the word
and locate in the word who we are and identify with What God
Says About Us and begin to, let it changes and begin to let it
heal us. And Deliver Us and and heal up
the hurts and the Brokenness in our lives.
To the point that we can be a whole person, Spirit soul and
body. Mostly physically socially, and
we began to be a positive influence to others.
But God says, now that you've got it, you need to be able to
share it. But to share you need a Helper
and the Holy Spirit will help you.
Now to fulfill what I've called you to do, and He will Empower
you to be able to get it done and he'll help you to touch
other people's lives just like he touched yours.
So, the second thing we're going to do is we're going to get
filled the holy spirit. Amen.
Now, you were there in, Luke chapter 4, look in the fifth
chapter, I want to bring us to a close because we want a minister
but in Luke Chapter 5 and we'll pick it up here in verse 17
says. Now, it happened on a certain
day when he was teaching that there were Pharisees and
teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every town
of Galilee Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was
present to heal. Them.
It's pretty plain didn't. And how were they going to get
healed? The power of the Lord was
present to heal them. That means the anointing of the
Holy Ghost was there because he just said in Luke chapter 4, the
spirit of the Lord has anointed me and he returned in the power
of the spirit. So power Spirit, anointing or
synonymous. Amen.
You can't have the anointing in the power without the spirit.
Come on. So the power of the Lord is
present Hill. It's the spirit of the Lord is
present. He'll the anointing, the Yoke
destroying burden, removing power, and anointing of the Holy
Ghost is present in the Lord right there with him to heal all
these people. Now, look what happens?
Then behold men brought on a bed, a man who was paralyzed,
whom they sought to bring in and lay before him.
And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because
of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and and let him
down with his bed through the tiling into the midst of them.
Whoo, that's a determined group of guys.
We can't get in. Let's just go up there and Hike
away some of the roof and we'll slide.
Why'd you down that way? Now, let's read on when he Jesus
saw their faith their faith. Whose Faith the the faith of
those guys. One says he had four friends
dropping him down when he saw the determination of these men.
The here's what you got to understand.
Apparently, these guys had heard about Jesus and they heard if I
can just get you to Jesus you could, we could get you healed
and when they get there, they're so determined that the crowds
not going to. Cause them to back off or quit.
Nothing's going to hinder them from getting what they came for
and so they're so determined. They said they're in instead of
just accepting defeat and walking.
Also, well, must not been God's will for today, for me to get
this. I said can't get in that way.
Can't get in this way, and somebody, pokes it Yeah, don't
tell anybody we're going to tear his roof off.
I'll hit it yet and they climb up open the roof and they drop
him down. And when Jesus saw their faith,
their determination of faith that refuse to be denied based
on the circumstances, it was confronting it.
A no-fail? No quit, no give up.
I'm not going to go away empty-handed faith.
When Jesus saw that type of determination in these people,
he said to him. The person that was on the, The
Fearless man, your sins are forgiven you, and the scribes,
and the Pharisees began to reason, question argue among
themselves saying, who is this, who speaks blasphemies, who can
forgive sins, but God alone, but when Jesus perceived their
thoughts, he Children said to them.
Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
Why you sitting there question, trying to figure out what I'm
doing? Which is easier to say your sins
are forgiven you or to say rise up and walk.
But that you may know that the son of man has power on the
earth to forgive sins. He said to the man who was
paralyzed, I say to you rise, take up your bed and go to your
home, immediately, he rose up before them took up.
What he had been lying on and departed to his own house
glorifying God, Now, I got to praying about this.
And as I was praying about it and I said, Lord, you looked at
the man who's definitely has infirmity and you turn to him.
He say, your sins are forgiven Then you heal him.
He said, Son, here's the thing. You've got to understand.
I had to correct his identity before I could correct, the
situation. Because the man sees himself as
paralyzed. And the man also sees himself,
a, maybe I sinned and calls this.
So, therefore, he's got guilt. Condemnation inferiority, he
doesn't think he's worthy. That's why his friends are
bringing him to the meeting. And Jesus said, I had to change
his identity. He had to quit, blaming himself
blaming others, feeling like he wasn't worthy feeling, like it
was his sin that got him in that place.
He said I had to Let him know that God loved him and his sins
would be forgiven if he would look to me.
See a lot of Believers today, don't get healed because they
think maybe I did something there listening to entertaining
thoughts from the devil saying you know, it's your fault.
You're not spiritual enough. You haven't prayed enough.
You don't know enough, scriptures.
You haven't been in church enough.
You know what you said last week and a lot of people are
identifying with the cause of their problem and their problem
and not identifying with the Healer and the deliverer of
their problem. so the Lord said I had to deal with the cause
before I could deal with the symptom And in Psalm 103 verse
3, you find forgiveness, and healing working together because
David said, for getting out all thy benefits, who forgives all
your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, and then amazing
David put forgiveness before he prefer Haley.
Why? Because a lot of times, we can't
get healed, because we won't forgive ourselves.
And that forgiveness is a kingdom blessing, that we are to
walk in. Somebody says now, brother
Darryl that you priest like that you're going to give people a
license to sin, and I was just telling they'll send enough
without a license. I don't need They don't need a
license to sin, they do that. I said, know what I'm doing.
So I'm giving him a license out of their mistakes and failures.
I'm showing them that we're sin, did abound God's grace does much
more about and you don't have to lay there and pay for your
mistake because Jesus Paid for on the cross so that you could
be set free from it. And so the Lord was saying to
this, man, no matter what the enemy's telling you, no matter
what things may indeed be in. Mind telling you that you can't
receive this. I'm telling you right now you're
forgiven of and you can And then he looked at the man.
And I believe that man got it, amen?
Because Jesus after he said that and explained it, what's he do?
He turns right around? Because he just said the son of
man. In other words, I have been
given the authority to forgive and help you come out of your
problems and to clean up your mess for you.
Aren't you? Glad he's the same today as he
was then, come on, and so Jesus. Has reached out this man and
changed his entire attitude about himself his situation.
And whether or not he could receive from God, and once he
corrected his belief system and got him to quit, identifying
with the failure, man. This mistake man, The Sinner
Man, and begin to identify it with the king of kings, and Lord
of lords in the Healer, then Jesus could tell him what to do
said. Now, pick up your bed.
Go home, the man, jumped up. What he went from a person being
carried into their on somebody else's Faith to a person, who
realized I can get this with my faith.
God loves me. God will heal me, God will bless
me, God loves me. And he didn't care what anybody
else thought. He just grabbed his stretcher
and I bet that man ran home And if it had been after Pentecost,
he had ran home. Speaking in tongues, Hallelujah.
And see, this is where we're at church.
This where we're at? You cannot operate in faith,
that moves mountains of faith, that moves, the things of the
kingdom of God forward. If your identity is all messed
up with the things of the world, because your faith to move
mountains, operates out of your relationship that you have with
the Lord, Jesus Christ. How many times do you have
somebody coming to the Lord? And they're asking him to do
something? And he looks at me, says, if you
can believe all things are possible to him, who believes,
remember over there? The man came to him about his
son and and Jesus, you know, boys into a seizure.
And the man looked up. He says, I believe Lord help my
unbelief. Now somebody says, what do you,
what do you get? How could you tie that into
Faith? The man, turned to Jesus at
basically, I wouldn't have brought him here.
If I didn't know, you could do it or believe you could do it.
I believe you can do this. But I'm dealing with doubts and
fears and worries. The Lord.
I tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to use all the faith.
I've gotten put the rest of it in your hands.
Is that okay? Help my unbelief.
You know, what are you saying? Lord, I'm going to believe you
with the little seed that I've got.
I'm going to put everything else in your hands.
How it happens when it happens. What you got to do to make it
happen. Your will be done.
I just believe it's going to happen.
Amen. And what did Jesus do?
He moved right? In that situation, that man,
didn't call him. Scriptures that did that, man
did, but what did he do? He had come to the place where
he realized that Jesus was who he said he was, and he could do
what he said he could do. Do and he moved into a position
of receiving not based on what he had or having everything.
Perfect. But just the fact that Lord, I'm
going to put myself in your hands.
I'm going to believe you and I'm going to put it in your hands to
make it happen. Amen.
And we're getting ready to put things in God's hands right now.
I've told the story, my son says, dad my dad tell stories
all the time. Well, I don't know.
I've been in this 47 years so it's sometimes you get some
storage. Praise God.
But I told the story but I, you know, dealt with Mark 16.
I was going to hold a healing service and I hadn't got to pray
a whole lot that day and things that come up and you know,
usually when I'm going to do healing and your, I like to
separate and pray and fast that they had do some on the spot
counseling, some other things and this and that and finally I
just just had to get my Bibles time to go the service and I go
there and biggest crowd we've had yet.
And I went back into a prayer room, so God, Jesus.
I need to be anointed because I got a good crowd out tonight and
if something don't happen, they won't come by next time.
Now you got to remember this is 1979, I wasn't but 24 years old
or so 25. So you know, I was young guy.
And so I'm back there. And I'm begging, the Lord and
the Lord said, read Mark 16. Verses 15 through 20.
I said, Lord, I don't need redone quarter to he said, I
didn't tell you to quote it. I said read, it's open my bible
up, go into all the world, preach the gospel, you know.
He believes is baptized shall be.
He believed in. I should be condemned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe, and I said,
that's it. I need some signs tonight.
He said, keep reading Some went right on down there, lay hands
on the sick, cast out demons, studded got down in the Lord and
they went forth and preached everywhere.
The Lord working with them and confirming the word through the
signs fall. I said, that's it.
I need some signs. He said, read Mark, 16, verses
15 through 20. Again, I said I just read.
He said, read it again so I read it out loud again.
Got down the same thing, reacted the same way.
I said, yes, Lord, that's what I need signs and wonders need some
feelings. You said, read Mark?
16? Verses 15 through 20.
So this time I said, Lord, I must be a little slow here
because I believe that you're trying to get a point across and
I'm just not getting it. You know, if you don't just stop
and ask the Lord, he'll keep telling you the same thing.
I said, what is it that I'm missing?
He said, okay, So who's going to do the preaching tonight?
That's what verse 15. Me me.
I'm going to preach. He goes.
That's Right. He said who's going to lay hands
on the sick tonight? I said, well me again.
He said who's going to heal them.
I said, well I ain't going to be me.
I couldn't heal him. He says that's right.
Who's going to heal? My said you are then he said
this, can you do your part? I said yes, sir he said, Do you
believe I can do my part? And I said, yes, sir!
He said then let's go out and kill these people.
Lord, I believe help my unbelief.
Are you hearing me, folks? Listen to me what I shared at
for this, you don't have to be perfect operate in the power of
the kingdom of God. You just have to have a perfect
heart, wanting to serve the Lord and get in there and find out
who you are and live. It Are you hearing me?
Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your
word. We thank you, Lord, that you
came to establish the kingdom of God in our hearts and lives in
order. I thank you and praise you.
That we have the right and the privileged operating in the
power of your kingdom and to doing your works and to seeing
lives changed. And Lord, you said you came to
heal the brokenhearted the downtrodden, those who had been
oppressed and beat down by the things of the world.
Lord, you said you came to open our eyes to see truth.
Lord, I want to thank you tonight that you're the same
Lord. You came to he'll deliver and
make us whole and Lord. You said the way we do that.
As we get to a place where we're just tired of the old worldly,
life were living. And we realized that a new life
is right at hand. It's right here and we can move
over into a through faith and trusting you and receiving you.
And so, the Lord Jesus right now, I thank you for your grace
and your mercy. Goodness, being poured out, the
Lord. I want to thank you right now
that just like you spoke to that.
That that paralyzed mind on that stretcher.
You let him know first, then no matter what had caused it.
He didn't have to pay that price, you already did. and
Lord, no matter what we've done, you've already paid the price of
the forgiveness And Liberty, and deliverance could come in our
lives and Lord with that forgiveness, and Liberty comes a
faith that reaches out. And says, yes, Lord, I am who
you say I am and I can do what you said I can do.
Thank you, Lord for speaking to Arts, speaking to lives,
speaking to each and every one of us, two things each and every
one of us need to do tonight. And as I was spend some time
going through these notes and praying over this message.
Getting ready. And then during the worship
service, I always liked being with her is good worship and
praise because many times while I'm praising and worshiping the
Lord with the praise team when they're hearing from God and
worship in and churches grow, Lord speaks things to me.
He's changed my entire message sometimes on the last song.
Praise God. But one of the things, the Lord
spoke to me while I was there. He said there's some folks in
here tonight. First of all, they've been beat
up by the world. He said, they need to come and
receive a fresh anointing of the holy spirit.
Let me heal up there, hurts and Brokenness.
And then the second thing, the Lord spoke to me and he said,
was this, there's healing in the house tonight.
There's healing in the house tonight.
I believe there's going to be some Supernatural healings, take
place in this place. If you got infirmity in your
body, you need to lay hold of that right now.
You need to get hold of it. And here's the thing.
The four guys have brought the man that was paralyzed on the
stretcher. They had Faith, determined
Faith. They got him in the presence of
Jesus, but when Jesus spoke to him, the man still had to use
his own faith to get up off of that stretcher and go home.
When Jesus said, take up your bed and walk, he had to act in
faith and belief because whenever he said it, the man was
still on a stretcher, you know, the Lord calls you delivered
while you're still in bondage. You know, the Lord calls you a
whole when you're still broken. Then once you have to do is come
to a place where you enter into Faith with him, that you agree
with what Jesus says about. You more than what your symptoms
or the world says about you. And when you come to, that place
you come into the same place of that gentleman, who came to
Jesus, and brought his son and said, I took him to disciples,
and they couldn't help, but if you can do it, and Jesus spoke
to him, What did Jesus say is not all?
Just me, you have a part two. You have to believe you have to
connect with me. You have to agree with me.
You have to come in and and let me be the word in your life.
Not what you see or feel. Now I don't know what you've
been going through, but I want to tell you, this is a kingdom
Raja. What that means?
That means we need to leave the kingdom of God, rise up on the
inside of us and around us, and be changed and transformed by
the power of the word and by the power and the anointing of the
holy spirit, amen? Because I'm going to go back to
what I wrote it down, I was praying.
The Lord said, I want my people to become City.
Shaken Nation changing World harvesting Unbelievers.
So that when they show up, they that have turned the world
upside down. Have now come here that's who
we're supposed to be. A men stand with me all over
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