Turn over to Genesis chapter 1. Today, all across our nation in
the world, there are going to be a lot of people ministering
along the lines of how I'm going to minister today, meaning the
subject matter. It tends to be traditional that
we would cover the death, burial, and resurrection of
Jesus in what the United States and other parts of the world
consider Easter. Now we do know that Easter has
been hijacked by a Bunny in most places and that there are many
people that will only see this day as a Bunny.
And eggs or Reese's peanut butter cups formed in the image
of a rabbit of which I would eat because my God is bigger than
that Bunny rabbit. The point is, is that we call
this Holy Week and it should put us in remembrance.
But the question is, is why are we remembering if the
remembrance doesn't change us? What's the point in remembering
if we just continue to do what we do?
So many will be ministering along these lines without
answering the actual question why They'll they'll get to 1
aspect, but they'll not answer the full context of why Jesus
came. Yes, it is true.
Jesus came because man fell. Man became a Sinner and he came
to die for our sins. That is a true statement.
But that's not the only reason why he came.
And the reason why I say that is because God is the creator of
heaven and earth, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 3
and one, they created everything that exists.
Do you know that there is a heaven that exists, although we
cannot see it, but it is real? You can go there.
Should you qualify, you could stand before the throne of God,
of which all will stand before some seat, whether it's the seat
before Jesus Christ to the Saints and their rewards for how
they live for Him after they called on His name.
Or the Great White Throne Judgment where the Father will
open up books and have to judge the dead and cast them into the
prison system of the Kingdom called the Lake of Fire.
One of the other. They'll see it.
There is angels. They exist.
In fact, they're in this room right now, and whether you can
see them or not, does it make you more spiritually discerning?
Because the Bible says that we can entertain angels unaware.
So ain't seeing angels does not mean you're more spiritually
mature. But I'm thankful for those who
have seen them, for those who have had encounters.
I'm thankful that the Lost have even seen angels, for there have
been many accounts of missionaries that have been
attacked in other countries where before their enemy was to
take them off, they dropped their weapons and ran and later
on ran into those individuals at another time.
And they asked them to question why did you run?
And they say, well, we saw these big people on the outside
standing and when they frightened us and we ran, so
they saw angels. Angels revealed themselves in
that moment to save God's covenant people.
So God created the angels, He created seraphim, He created
cherubims. You say, why are you saying all
this? Well if you go to Jude chapter 1
only 1 chapter in Jude verse 6, it says the angels that left
their proper abode are now in chains waiting for the judgment
of that great day. Which tells me that God created
a species of being that has no ability to be redeemed, no
ability to be redeemed. So then the question is why is
man redeemed and angels are not because if God only came because
we we fail, we send well then why did he not die for those
angels? It's obvious that God has not
said something concerning the angels that he has said
concerning man. And This is why Jesus came in
Genesis chapter 1 starting in the beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth. But in verse 26, as you know, it
says this thing God said let us make before man existed.
God said let us make man in our image according to our and let
them have dominion or rule over the fish of the sea, over the
birds of the sky, right over the earth, over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth. God created man in his own
image. In the image of God.
He created him, male and female. He created them.
So God created a species in his image that was of his likeness,
from his own DNA, from his own spirit.
He created our spirit. We are a different spirit than
those of the angels, but more importantly, He spoke our
existence. Now why is this important?
Because God does not say things haphazardly, flippantly, off the
cuff. He does not say things He does
not mean, and He does not say things He will not fulfill.
So when God says let us make man in our image according to our
likeness, let them rule over the fish of the sea, let them have
dominion. Let them rule in this realm
called earth like I rule in this realm called heaven.
I'm over him, but I give him the management, the rulership, the
dominion, the governing, the oversight of that planet, of its
systems, of how it runs. And if he listens to my voice
and obeys me and hears my words, then life springs from him all
the time because I'm life, He's in my image.
I want man to be like me. And that's God's word concerning
us. Genesis chapter 2.
It takes this man and puts him in a garden.
And he says to him, now Adam, he said, the Lord God took the man,
put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it, to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, From any tree of
the garden you may eat freely, but from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.
For the day you eat you will, surely.
And we've said this many times, but it bears repeating because
we have quite a few guests. If Adam had never eaten the
fruit, where would he be today? He'd be right here in this
planet. See, it's hard for us to
conceive this planet without sin, yet it existed without sin.
God did not make Adam eat the fruit.
God did not force him to eat it. God gave him more opportunities
to eat other fruit, but of one tree he says do not eat.
For the day you eat, you'll surely die.
And for the first day he was alive, the second day, the
second year, the third year it doesn't.
We don't know exactly how much time passed.
We do know it's less than 115 years because that was the age
of Adam when Seth was born, and that was after the death of
Abel, his son by Cain, of which the fall has already taken
place. So in less than 115 years, man
has released his dominion. In essence, man became separated
from God. Sin is simply disobeying God.
When we say death dead is not ceasing to exist, it means to be
separated from God. So when God says when you eat
this fruit will be separated, you'll have you'll experience
spiritual death, you'll no longer be like me because God
does not go against his word. God never goes against his word.
I'm going to harp on that one more time.
God never goes against his word. Oh, the love of God is amazing.
He's such a righteous God. He's a keeper of his word.
I said he's a keeper of his word.
And so man is in the garden. You may say, why in the world
did he put a tree there anyway? I mean, God's all knowing.
Doesn't he know he's going to do this?
Just because God knows it doesn't mean he made him.
But more importantly, God cannot make you love him.
God cannot make you obey Him willingly.
But God can't place things in your path for you to demonstrate
it. Because think about it, just for
a moment. And we're in the business of
helping you think again. We are here to help you repent,
change your thinking. I'm not here to give you a
discourse for you to believe and eat.
Period. I'm here for you to go, huh?
Because God has answers. And many of us, if we don't
watch out, will become so religiously brainwashed that
we'll make statements that aren't even in line with
Scripture. So it is our assignment to help
you become a critical thinker because then the devil cannot
deceive you anymore because you say no.
It is written. And we know what the Bible
actually says. So again, it says God made man
in his image. He formed him out of the dust of
the earth. Breathe into his nostrils.
The breath of life is Adam at this point without sin.
Is he in the image of God? How about Eve when he pulls the
the rib from his side and creates this woman and brings
him to act, brings her to Adam. And he said, man recognize the
bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.
A man shall leave his father, mother and become one flesh.
And they haven't even began. They haven't even started to be
a father and a mother yet. So he has a concept beyond his
experience because he has the knowledge of God and he is of
the nature of God. So it's God, Adam and Eve in the
garden, no sin, zero sin in the earth.
In essence, you could say it's heaven on earth, but it's not
heaven, it is earth. I didn't call it that, the Lord
did. Amen.
And so there's no sin, yet God is saying, how do I know Adam
loves me? I just need him.
What did Jesus say? If you love me, you'll keep my
word. And so he gives them this tree
that is his. Don't eat it.
You have way more options to eat other fruit.
This one's mine. And if you love me, if you love
me. Because he knows he's of his
nature, but he needs his love demonstrated towards him.
And what does Adam do? Well, Genesis chapter 3, where
most of us kick off on today's message, but we must get the
back story. Genesis chapter 3.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast to the field
which the Lord God had made and said to the woman, indeed, has
God said, You shall not eat from the tree of the garden?
The woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the tree of
the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree which is
in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat from
it or touch it, or you'll die. And the serpent said to her, You
will surely not die. Now in essence the serpent's
saying, Listen what you think you know about God, you don't
know. He goes on to say, For God knows
because I know him, and he knows who God is.
He used to be somewhere else and he has the same ambition on
earth as he did in heaven. And you can read about it in
Isaiah chapter 14 where he wanted to exalt his throne above
the Most High. He wanted to take over God's
Kingdom realm in heaven. But Jesus said, I saw Satan fall
light, lightning from heaven. When he rebelled with the angels
who left their proper abode, he cast them, kicked them out, and
they were gone like lightning. That's how powerful our Father
is. That's how weak our enemy is.
He goes on to say, for God knows that the day you eat it, your
eyes will be open and he knows they'll be open.
That's true statement. And you'll be like God, knowing
good and evil. Here's the thing.
God just didn't want Adam and Eve to know evil, didn't want
them experience, didn't want them to experience anything
outside the life of God. It says when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, for food.
And this is the problem. A lot of times we start to live
by sight instead of by the word of God.
We start making decisions about what we see instead of what
we've heard and what we're hearing from God.
And that was a delight to the eyes and that it was desirable
to make one wise. So she thought she took its
fruit. 8 And she also gave to her husband, and he ate.
And when he ate, verse 7, then the eyes of both of them were
what opened, and they knew that they were naked.
And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
loin coverings. And they heard the sound of the
Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, which
was his custom. And the man and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the
garden. Then God called to man and said,
Where are you? And that's the same question
he's asking today. Where are you?
Where are you now? We know that God's all knowing.
It's not like he doesn't know where they're at.
What he is saying is what position are you in?
Now obviously he begins to have a little conversation with him
of which he converses with Adam, moves over to Eve, and then gets
to the root of the temptation, the one who enticed man, but it
was still man's decision. The temptation has no effect if
you don't act on it, but Adam acted on it.
And if we drop down to verse 15, it says God then says to this
serpent, I will put enmity. Now he's not talking to a
serpent, He's talking to the spirit behind.
He said I will put enmity between you and the woman,
between your seed and her seed. You shall bruise.
He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the
hill. Now who we talking about?
OK, this is Anchor Faith Church, right?
OK, who we talking about here? Jesus.
This is obviously talking about Jesus now.
This is why Jesus has to come, because God does his word.
Let me help pull you out of fantasy.
God is obligated to his own word.
If he's given dominion to man, Adam, who's his son, without
sin, then God himself as God cannot take it back.
But God can come as a man who has legal right to that dominion
and take back what Adam gave to the devil.
That's why in the Luke chapter 4 account of the temptation of
Christ, that when the devil took Jesus up to a high pinnacle and
showed him not religions, but all the kingdoms, all the
domain, the authority, the power of government influence over the
all over the world. He said all of this domain I
will give to you, for it has been handed over to me.
Well, who handed it over to him? His name was Adam.
So if a man gave the dominion away, it will require a man to
take that dominion back. So Jesus comes not just because
you've sinned. He came for a even higher cause
than you, and that is to fulfill My Father's word concerning you,
that you will have dominion. And in the current state of man
after the fall, Adam did not fall from heaven, and Adam did
not lose the religion, Christianity.
He lost the dominion his Father had given him to reign on the
earth as he reigns in heaven. And he says, this is my plan for
man, my idea. It's not my idea.
It's God's idea. God's idea for man was never for
us to be broke. Beat down, disgusted,
struggling, scrapping, dying, begging.
That was hurt, sick, busted. That was never his plan for us.
And for his way to fulfill us, to get us back in that position,
it requires a man to come. So Jesus says I love you, but I
love the will of my dad more. And it's because of that reason
I'm coming. And through the process of time,
we're waiting for a virgin to show up that has favor with God.
Think about it. God could have with the first
daughter of Adam and Eve sent the seed, but he didn't because
God is way more wise than we are.
In fact, when this thing concludes with the new heaven
and the new earth, right? And everyone who has disobeyed
God and has nothing wants nothing to do with his lordship
or cast into the lake of fire of their own free will.
God will restore all things. God will have tried man in every
possible situation and scenario to show that he never would have
lived up. God is the only just God and
ruler of all. Of which all of us through the
various dispensations will willingly say you are Lord,
you're King of all, and we bow to you, we honor you, we obey
you because we want to, because your life.
Remember we said this couple weeks ago just to help get it in
context, because people would say, why in the world would I
have to do what Jesus says? I think there's a way that I can
do it. It may be right.
Well, the Bible says there's a way that seems right to a man,
but then he analyzes death. But how about what if your
right's not my right? And what if my right's right and
your right's wrong? Well, you're wrong because my
right's right, because my right's his right.
I don't even have a right. It's his right.
Just to let you know, his ray is right.
He is the way actually, OK, but it's like this all of our bodies
and I am not going to break down the oxygen that we because
there's a lot going on in our atmosphere besides just oxygen.
But we all can't accept the fact that you're breathing oxygen to
a degree, OK, And you do this because your body's telling you
this is how you're living. You can rebel against your body
and say, don't tell me to breathe oxygen to live.
I choose propane. Propane is my gas.
That's how I roll. And you could come in here with
a propane tank as I'll be opening up some propane later
today, not to sniff it, but to grill with it.
All right. In fact, I've tasked my son with
grilling. I'm just going to watch.
With that being said, you could come in with a mask full of gas
called propane and begin to breathe it in rebellion to your
body, telling you that you must have oxygen.
Now all of us know the end of your story.
You're going to die. Your body's going to shut down.
It's not going to work, right? So really you're fighting
against that, which is telling you by creation.
See, you may be a free will, but your body tells you what you
breathe because someone ordered it that way.
Someone ordained it that way. And if you rebel against that,
then you're willfully saying I don't want life.
I want a different gas that will cause me harm.
You can go to propane, you can go to helium, You can go to all
the other types of gases out there.
Some will get rid of you quicker than others.
Some will make you talk funny before you die.
But nonetheless, in fact, the actual gas you exhale, if you
breathe it in too much, you'll die from it called carbon
dioxide. So when I say I want to do what
my father says, it's because it's life.
To not do it is sucking propane and I'm not here to die.
My father has words of life. Are you hearing me?
So we see that God said I need to bring my seed in the woman so
that he can crush you in order for me to have what I've said
concerning man in order for man to have the ability to be back
in the position. I have spoken concerning him.
I won't make him, but I will give him the opportunity.
Now get this, everything God has said concerning what will happen
to those who disobey will bring death, and He will fulfill even
death's price. This is why we're without
excuse, because everything done in disobedience, even the world,
the Word will say, I'll fulfill the word concerning that.
I'll take it on, I'll pay its price, I will fulfill its cost.
It doesn't go away without payment and the blood will be
the payment. So for this to happen, Jesus
must be stripped. Let's look at Matthew chapter 21
starting to verse No, excuse me, let's look in Philippians
chapter 2 verses six to seven. It says Who, although being
essentially one with God, and in the form of God possessing the
fullness of the attributes which make God God, did not think this
equality with God a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, but
stripped himself of all privileges and rightful dignity,
so as to assume the guise of a servant slave, in that he became
like men, and was born a human being.
We know this verse, Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6, it says that
God that a child will be born, a son will be given son's not born
because the son always existed, but a child's born cause a
body's needed to house the spirit of the Son.
And it goes on to say and the government shall rest on his
shoulders. And it says there'll be no end
to the increase of his government.
He will accomplish this task because Jesus is coming back.
Or Jesus came so that the dominion that Adam gave away, he
lost, he relinquished. Jesus gets back so that we can
be back in that standing. But in order to do that, He has
to strip himself and come in the form of man.
The Bible tells us that Jesus discovered himself through the
Scripture. In essence, when He came through
the womb of Mary, the Son of God had to discover who He was.
He was no longer all knowing because He was in the form of
man. And in order for him to discover
himself, he began to read the word that was given the law and
the prophets. And as he read them, because he
was without sin, he was he was that which was pinned, He's the
word. He began to realize that's me,
that's me, that's me. And don't you know, Mary was
saying, Son, I'm here to tell you that an Angel showed up and
that's why I got prayed to you. I, you're the Messiah, Son,
you're the one. Now it's one thing for Mama to
tell you. It's another thing to discover
yourself in the written word. And so mom at a young age told
him and would speak to him and then he would go through the,
the, the, the, the law when the prophets and begin to see
himself and discover himself. This is why in the end, when he
was walking with two other people, he was like, do I need
to show you what was written about me 'cause it's been all
the stuff you've been reading the whole time.
You didn't know I had to come and suffer first.
You didn't know there was a reason first.
You missed the first act, but the end's coming.
I said, but the end's coming. And so he stripped himself of
the privileges right and dignity so as to assume the guise of a
servant, a slave that in becoming like men.
This is why Jesus is very powerful statement was this I am
the son of man. This is why he declared that now
the demons say you're the Son of God, but Jesus will say I'm the
son of man and the reason he said that he says because I'm
not here illegally. I've been sent by my father
legally into this realm as a man.
Now he's all God, but he's also all man God in the fact he's
life and he is not going to sin because he's going to please his
father. Don't you know he has the pages
of his brother Adam? That if you read the genealogies
in the Gospel, it says Adam the Son of God.
Now that doesn't mean he's God in the flesh, but he is God's
son and he was God's son without sin and so was Eve.
However, Jesus is God in the flesh and he says Adam
disobeyed. He said I only do what my father
says. Whatever my father says I do.
I do not speak on my own initiative, but what my father
says I do and the things that I'm doing, I've only heard from
my father because I'm not going to fail like everybody else
that's been wearing this flesh suit to do a word contrary to
what Father has said, but he stripped himself of his God
realm and put on man. John chapter 17 verse 5 says
this. He said, now Father, glorify me
together with yourself, with the glory which I had with you
before the world. So there was a place Jesus was
in, but he's not in right now because he stripped himself of
that glory. Now we got a little taste of
some of that glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, and it
caused the apostle to say, let us build temples for you all
right now, right? However, that wasn't the point.
The next thing that Jesus was stripped of was his clothes.
Look at this in Matthew chapter 27, verse 27 to 31, it says then
the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Petorium and
gather the whole Roman cohort around him.
They stripped him and put a garlic robe or scarlet robe on
him, and after twisting crown together a crown of thorns, they
put it on his head, and they read in his sight in his right
hand, and they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying Hail
King of the Jews. They spat on him and took the
Reed and began to beat him on the head.
After that they mocked him and they took the scarlet robe off
him and they put his own garment back on and led him away to be
crucified. Isaiah 50 and verse 6 says this,
the amplified I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to
those who plucked off the beard, off the hair.
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
John chapter 19 verses 23 and 24 says in the soldiers when they
had crucified Jesus, He's on the cross now.
They took his garments. Well, they obviously were not in
on his body anymore and made four parts, one share for each
soldier. And also the tunic, the long
shirt like undergarment, but the tunic was seamless woven.
That's what royalty wore. Very expensive garment, so they
said to one another, let us not tear it, but let us cast lots
and decide whose it will be. This was to fulfill the
scripture. They parted my garments among
them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
So the soldiers did them. See in Roman culture public
nakedness equaled maximum humiliation, especially for non
Romans. And this guy has made himself
out to be a king. In fact, his own people have
stood before Pilate and said we have no king but Caesar.
In fact, it was the kingship that caused Pilate to go ahead
and execute him. For the religious of the Jews
came and says, if you release this man, you are no friend of
Caesar, for he makes himself out to be a king.
And, and Pilate had the right then say, well, I cannot have a
letter go before the king that I let another person parade around
and act like their king. There's only one king in this
area that we dominate, that we have control over, that we have
power over, and that is Rome and Rome alone and Caesar is the
only king. That's why Pilate had it put
Jesus, King of the Jews, so you would know that they wanted to
humiliate him. So not only was he stripped of
his heavenly glory, he was stripped of all of his clothing
and exposed. And some believe that maybe a
type and shadow that takes us back to the garden of when sin
entered and Adam and Eve knew they were naked.
See it was in a garden that dominion was lost.
It was in another garden called the Garden of Gethsemane that
the dominion was was to be restored because Jesus said not
my will, but your will be done. Are you hearing me?
So Jesus is stripping represents total humiliation and
identification with with humanity shame.
This is one of the greatest examples of shame, exposure and
rejection. And for it to go even worse, the
greatest humiliation is that three are being crucified.
They placed him in the middle to say he was the worst of them
all. And through his life he
experienced another stripping and it was a stripping of
dignity and honor while he walked among people.
Matthew 1223 and 25 says all the crowds were amazed and saying
this man cannot be the son of David Kenny.
But when the Pharisees, that's the religious heard this, they
said this man casts out demons only by bells above the rulers
of demons. So they said his work was
demonic. They were giving, they were into
character assassination. They wanted this guy who was
doing the works of God to get people to question whether he
was actually acting on God's behalf.
They slandered him. They gossiped about him.
They got him back rooms and talked about him.
They made excuses. They assembled with others and
say he can't be that, he can't be this.
But they were threatened by his mere existence of righteousness
and godliness, but all the while spreading lies, trying to create
within their own nation reasonable doubt of the
character of this man. And day by day they were
stripping him of the dignity and honor and integrity he deserved
as the Son of God in the flesh. Psalm 69, verse 7 says, Because
for your sake I have bore reproach, dishonor has covered
my face. Then verse 9, for zeal for the
house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach
me have fallen on me. In essence, not only did He
literally take on our sin, but before He actually took on our
sin, because He was actually righteous, the man who knew no
sin became our sin, but before he actually took it on, people
were taking it on. In their mind, He was that which
He was not. And every time they saw Jesus,
they would question His motive, why He was doing what He was
doing, how He was doing what He was doing.
And then telling people, I don't believe it's all like that.
No, it's not really that way. You know, that seems like a good
act. Sure, that person was healed,
but he used the devil to do it. I'm sure someone said he just
wants your money. I'm sure somebody said that
probably was Judas, though. He just wants your money.
We need another offering because we know where Judas's heart was
at. Verse 12 says those who sit in
the gate talk about me and I am the song of drunkards.
This is talking about you, Jesus just walking into a community.
There was a wave of accusations. He was daily being stripped of
honor and dignity in the eyes of the crowds, even though he's
working the miraculous. The religious don't care whether
you think he's a prophet. They cannot have you think he's
the king. They cannot have you believe
he's the Messiah. He's the anointed one, the one
to come because they them too would have to bow, Matthew 27
verses 1412 to 14 says. And while he was being accused
by the chief priests and elders, he did not answer.
And Pilate said, do you not hear how many things they testify
against you? And he did not answer him with
regard to every single charge, to even a single charge.
Excuse me? So the governor was quite
amazed. You know what, you ought to be
amazed when you hear somebody being talked about, but the
person won't actually say something about it.
That's being the accused. Maybe the one being accused is
the one that's actually right. Mark chapter 10 verse 34.
And they mocked him and they spit on him, and they whipped
him and put him to death. But after three days he will
rise again from death. Matthew 2667 they spat in his
face and struck him with their fists and someone slapped him in
the face. They say prophecy to us Jesus
who did this. Now can we take a moment before
I move forward? Because this moment's really
important. This moment has never been
caught on film. No one has ever accurately
showed the humiliation of Jesus when he was stripped of His
glory. It's difficult for us to
understand because he was a worker of miracles, man.
I mean, he already outshined humans.
But really what Jesus was showing us is this is how you
used to live. This was the dominion you had.
Now why do I say that every miracle Jesus performed was
within the dominion Adam lost? Think about his miracles on more
than one occasion he dealt with fish.
What was Adam's dominion over the fish of the So when he says
throw your net on the other side, When he says put your line
in and get tax for me when he takes 5 loaves and two fish that
are dead in anyone else's hand. But the Creator can give life to
the molecules, and even the dead have to deal with the judge, the
righteous 1 He can speak over that fish and it multiply, and
he did that twice. Plants are of the earth.
He could talk to fig trees because they're on the earth.
This is no issue plants he had dominion.
This is why anyone that suffers from addiction from leaves,
whether those are tobacco leaves or marijuana leaves, you should
never have a plant have dominion over you or any other drug that
comes from a plant for that matter.
God never intended for a plant to rule you and control you and
control your pocketbook and control your relationships and
control when you get into bed with someone whether you know
them or not. I'm preaching better than you
shot. But that's OK because this thing
we're in is not a one way ticket to heaven.
It's a dominion status. It's an understanding that God's
come to fulfill His word concerning you, that God has to
keep his word concerning you. And Jesus said the dominion I'm
walking in is the same dominion that Adam had before he ever
lost it. Winds and waves are of the
earth. He can speak to those things.
You have way more authority than you know.
But because we're stuck in sin consciousness and failure and
how much we've done wrong, we don't want to accept that we
could live a little bit higher here.
We wait till we go there. And the devil wants you to wait
till you go there, because if you start.
Functioning like Jesus in the earth, of which he said you
would, of which he said that the same works that I do, they will
do. We go see this, but before we
go, I just want you to go back in time with me and let's
pretend this pole is the cross. I think many of us have been in
church way too long. He was stripped everywhere he
walked. He talked about him, posted on
social media about him, ran him down, attacked him constantly,
and then when the time came, the attack came and they took great
pleasure in his punishment. You kings.
And you know what? If it's only about the
forgiveness of your sin, then Jesus should not have to take
the beating. But it's not just about your
sins, it's about another thing that came with sin.
It was called disease that attacks your flesh.
And that's why it says by his see he needed enact the
healthcare system of his Kingdom to be able to get and play.
I don't know how you can accept one symptom without a fight.
I understand they can come, but they, they, they got to fight
on. They got to fight a fake.
You cannot stay on this covenant suit.
It's not immortal, but it does not have to bow to sickness and
disease. Because my Lord and King, He
healed all who were oppressed of the devil and the stripes he
took on his back was not A warm up was not to get him loose.
It was to take on our sicknesses as disease so that we could
accomplish the will of our Father.
He was beat, stripped, scourged, mocked.
We go come into church services and have this like little
emotional experience. These people were so ruthless
that they saw the deformity of someone that the Bible declares.
He did not even look human anymore, but they loved seeing
every bit of it. And if we do not put that image
in our mind, then it allows Wednesday night service to be a
complacent time for us, and next Sunday service to be a
complacent time for us, and the next service a complacent time
because we have forgotten the price that was paid.
We forgotten. And why did he do it?
First Timothy 2, four through 6. Who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of truth.
For there is one God, one mediator also between God and
men, The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for the
testimony given at the proper time.
So has he made a ransom for all. But we'll all be ransomed.
Not all will receive that which has been ransom for them.
He was stripped of glory, stripped of his clothes which
humiliated him, stripped of his dignity as honor.
But all that stripping gave him the power to strip.
So Jesus had a little bit of, I'm going to strip some things
myself. And so he goes to the grave and
he's down in paradise with the criminal that was just on the
cross with him and the criminal saying.
I am so glad I abandoned what I was doing on the way to Gal
Gotham. I'm so glad that I quit
listening to the other thief. I am so glad that I feared God,
that I repeated of my wrongdoing, that I recognize you
are righteous and I called. You, my king.
Cuz here I am with you in paradise, with Abraham, with
David, come on with Moses. I'm here with all the righteous
dead waiting for Jesus, waiting for the one who will redeem
them, who will bust them out day.
Two we still hanging out cuz with the Lord a day is like A
and 1000 years like a so day one 1000 years, day two another
thousand years. Well, it's been a couple
thousand years since the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus.
Could we be approaching the third day?
Could we be approaching the third day where he's going to
break out in the cloud, the trumpets going to sound?
Come on, the King of Glory, one day, 1000 years, two days, 1000
years. But on the third day, something
started rumbling in the grain. A power started to flow down
into the grain. A spirit started to show up in
the grain. It was the Holy Spirit and he
came through and he broke captivity captive.
He busted them out of paradise and resurrected the dead that
were in faith that Jesus was coming in the old covenant and
all the writings up towards. But it doesn't end there.
Jesus leaves the place not where the devil was because the devil
isn't hanging out in hell. It's not his home and it's not
his domain. Hell is the prison system of the
Lord. No, the devil is called the
Prince of the power of the. He is the God of this.
And so Jesus left the grave by the power of the Holy Ghost and
says, go once again, Holy Ghost, because you've already done it
once. You took me to the devil on the
planet, and he tempted me on all accounts, but I did not sin.
Take me back to the devil. Just lead me straight to him.
And he led him to him in Colossians chapter 2, verses 14
and 15 gives the account. When Jesus was raised out of the
dead, he said by blotting out the certificate of debt that
stood against us with its legal demands, he took it away.
By nailing it on the cross, He stripped the rulers and
authorities of their power and made a public display, leading a
triumphant procession over them by the cross.
Now we didn't see it down in little old earth, but in the
heavens. All creation saw Jesus parade
the devil. He took him up to the heavens.
He showed all the angels that stayed with the Lord.
He showed the ones that were down in the abyss chain for the
Day of Judgment. He took him in every realm of
the spirit and said where he had dominion.
I take it back. I've stripped him.
I pulled it. He doesn't have it anymore.
I take it all. I take it all back.
Whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey. But it gets better.
I said. It gets better because in
Colossians chapter one verse 13, he said he rescued us completely
from the tyrannical rule of darkness and transferred us into
this Kingdom. Not only did he strip the power
of the devil, and now he holds it to me and he says.
I. Think I'll just give it away.
I'll give it to Don, I'll give it to Michelle.
I'll give it to Marshall. I'll give it to Mike.
I'll give it to Arnelle. I'll give it to Chase.
I'll give it. I'll give it, I'll give it, I'll
give it away. I'll just give it away.
And I can give it away because Daddy said let us make man in
our image according to our likeness and let him have
dominion. It was yours in the 1st place.
You can have it if you want it. It only requires one thing, that
you bow to the king, that you repent, that you get out of your
rebellion to the Kingdom and acknowledge the death, burial,
resurrection of the king. And when you do that, then
another thing that he came to strip Romans 425 who was
betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was
raised up to secure our justification, our acquittal,
making our account balance and absolving us of all guilt.
He says, you know what, Sabrina, I'll just strip you of all your
guilt and condemnation, your shame.
I just strip it off of you. It's as if you never did it.
It's like it doesn't even exist. In fact, when I see you, I see
you as in Christ in the sun, righteous, holy, separated unto
God, a child of the King. Your nature is just like me.
You can roll and reign with my name.
You've been made righteous, holy.
And that old life, you don't want nothing to do with it,
because then I'm going to put my Spirit in you and my Spirit's
going to come and start stripping away.
The thinking in your mind that tells you you're not good
enough, you're not well enough, you don't deserve, and I'm going
to put in you, you deserve, you can, you should.
You're a child of God. He wants you, He loves you, He
has chosen gladly to give you his Kingdom.
Well, glory to God. So I close with this verse.
Hebrews 414 and 16 is so much then as we have a great high
priest who has already Are you hearing me?
I have not fallen. I'm OK, I am.
OK. Who?
Yes, I got to answer. They call the law man.
I won't want to be here. They think I've fallen.
I can't get up this apple does not know I'm a child of God.
That's the problem just called I'm 56 doesn't mean I'm fragile.
I'm strong in the Lord. I'm well able in so much then.
Come on, give me a little something there please.
Rafael in so much as then as we have a great high.
Priest who has already ascended and passed through to heaven,
Jesus the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession
of faith in Him, for we do not have a high Priest who is unable
to understand and sympathize and have shared feelings with our
weakness and infirmities and liabilities to the assaults of
temptation, but one who has been tempted in every respects, as we
are, yet without sin. Let us stand fearlessly and
confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace, the
throne of God's unmerited favor to us as sinners, that we may
receive mercy for our failures and find grace to help in good
time for every need appropriate help and well timed help coming
just when we need it. Jesus is saying, don't wait for
heaven, come to the Kingdom today.
What? Jesus?
Preached was not an insurance policy upon your death or a life
insurance policy. He did not give you that.
Jesus came to give you an inheritance that begins now in
the earth, no longer waiting. You now are not dependent upon
arriving somewhere after you die.
Now you can have what you're going to come to you, Jesus
said. Now when you pray, pray this
way, our Father. Come on, our Father.
Who art in heaven hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your
will be on as it is. And as a child of God you can
have heaven's realm reside in the earth's realm.
Through your life and authority in Christ, He's done way more
than saved you. He has restored you.
He has given you dominion back. He's given you the name of
Jesus. He's made you more than a
conqueror. He causes you to triumph in
every situation because he stripped principalities and
powers and all we have to do is act.
He's the king of kings. Who are those kings?
And we are those now in the
earth.