So in Ephesians chapter one, verse seven, we're going to
start there. I'm going to talk to you about
your allotted portion today. All right, your allotted portion
Ephesians chapter one starting in verse seven, it says in him
that means in the position that he has placed you in him is this
context where you're in him. You're in a denote a denoted
fixed position. You've been fixed here all
right. In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us in
all wisdom and insight He made. Come on, He made, He made known
to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind
intentions, which which He purposed in Him with a view to
an administration suitable to the fullness of the times.
That is the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the
heavens, and things on the earth.
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been
predestined according to His purpose, who works all things
after the council of His will, to the end, that we who were the
first to hope in Christ, would be to the praise of His glory.
In Him You also, after listening to the message of truth, the
gospel of your salvation, having also believed you were sealed in
Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a
pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of
God's own possession to the praise of His glory.
Notice in this passage of Scripture, He says in Him a few
times and a lot of times we talk about in him or in Christ, but
most people don't even know what in means.
They don't even know what it really means to be in him in our
circles, in him or in Christ. Realities are spoken of often,
but we are we typically take it through the lens of what we have
in him without understanding the in we're in.
And when I say the in we're in, we're talking about who we're
in, because in him is in Christ. And Christ is not a last name,
it is a title. It is a Greek title that's
equivalent to a Hebrew title called Messiah.
And both of those terms are to be defined as the king.
And so we are in the king, which means we are royalty.
Come on, we are royalty. We are in a royal bloodline, We
have been placed in a royal family.
We are a part of a royal Kingdom.
We are in grafted in in him. All that's in him is in us.
So what's fixed in him becomes fixed in US.
And so there's an inheritance that is spoken of in these
passages of Scripture. I find it interesting in verse
11, which starts actually 2 words previous in verse 10, it
says in him also we have obtained an inheritance having
been predestined according to His purpose, who works all
things after the counsel of his will.
You understand God will do what He said He will do.
And if we will find out what God has said about us and where He
determined us to be and where He fixed us before the foundations
of the world in His Kingdom and in His King Christ, then we can
walk that path out and have everything destined to us or
allotted to us based upon an inheritance.
Based upon an inheritance. So we see then.
And to remind you in Luke chapter 12, verse 32.
Fear not little flock, for it is your father's.
What good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
To give you the Kingdom. Yeah.
Wow, that's so awesome. Listen to this in Hebrews
Chapter 11 verse says it says without faith it's impossible to
please God, right? So to be pleasing to him would
bring God pleasure, right? So there's pleasure in pleasing
all right. So it's God's good pleasure to
what do you understand God's in faith that you'll receive what
he has for you. He's believing that you'll get
it. He has a confident expectation,
a hope that you would receive. In essence, he's working
everything out so that you have an opportunity in order to walk
in what you've been predestined. And predestined doesn't mean it
happens without your involvement.
Predestined means God has a plan for every human that He saw in
Christ. Should you accept His Son by
faith through the death, burial, resurrection?
If you'll do that, He'll put you on the path He predestined
before the foundations of the world.
But if you choose not to, then you abort your Kingdom
assignment or your allotment with the Lord of your own free
will. But if you'll get in his will,
if you'll jump sides, if you'll come over into his Kingdom, then
you will be able to walk this thing out.
So he said fear not meaning don't be afraid, meaning it
doesn't matter what's going on in the world, you shouldn't sit
in fear doesn't matter what's happening in our nation doesn't
matter what's happening in in the world doesn't matter with
wars and rumors of war, doesn't matter with famines.
It doesn't matter with pestilence, doesn't matter about
those things. You are the fear not fear not.
Fear not. Fear not.
Fear not, fear not. Let me tell you, even to this
level, you are not to fear, even if natural laws take away your
liberty. Natural laws may strip you of
your rights, but they cannot strip you of Kingdom rights.
And when Kingdom rights are in play still, what can you fear?
Because when Peter was thrown in jail after King Herod saw that
the Jews loved that he killed James the brother of John.
He said I'm going to kill Peter too, but we going to wait till
after the Passover. And so the laws were against
Peter. The persecution was there, but
he fell asleep in the midst of a prison.
He was full of peace. He had no anxiety or worry
because even in Peter's mind, if if they take my life tomorrow,
I'll just be present with the Lord.
However, God was not finished with Peter and caused an Angel
to do a prison break and bust him out of jail with the
jailer's chain to him. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So in No Fear, God can deliver you, He can translate you.
It doesn't matter what's going on.
Why are we afraid of anything? Not when you're a Kingdom
citizen, Not when you know who you are in Christ, Not when
you're walking out the allotted portion.
The Bible is very clear. You cannot be taken out by any
enemy if you are in the plan and purpose of God and you are
pursuing it. If you are pursuing it, God will
allow you to finish your course. I'm not saying that the end of
your course could not be being martyred.
I'm not saying that because Peter was martyred.
Paul was martyred, OK, but they finished their course is what
I'm saying. They finished.
However, many will never experience being martyred.
They will can just finish their course and then leave and go on
and be with the Lord. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So in essence, why would we ever be in fear when we're guaranteed
by the King that He will accomplish in US everything He
purposed or predestined before the foundation of the world that
we would walk in according to the council of his will?
Cannot be taken out, cannot be stopped, can't happen.
Acts chapter 26 verse 18 says this open to open their eyes and
determine them from darkness to light and from the power of
Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and
inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in
them. Notice Jesus Christ came to give
you the Kingdom. In order for you to walk in the
Kingdom, you're going to have to be saved or born of that
Kingdom. We use the term born again, but
the correct way to say that is born from above.
In essence, Jesus is saying you must become a legal citizen of
my Kingdom. And in order to be a legal
citizen of my Kingdom, you have to be born of my Kingdom.
And so Nicodemus was like, how can I be born from above or born
again? I cannot go back into my
mother's womb. I'm an older man.
He says you're missing it. This is not a natural thing,
this is a spiritual thing. And so when we believe that
Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, and we
confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord, we become a new creature.
Where? What?
In Christ we are fixed in a position, seated on the throne,
raised up in heavenly places. In Christ, we're seated there,
We're placed there. In essence, He takes us into the
family. He pulls us out of the domain of
darkness or the power of the enemy.
He pulls us away from the power of Satan, and He moves us into
the family of God, where we again are royalty.
We are a holy nation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, all
right, and it gives us an inheritance.
Look what it says in Colossians 112 through 14.
Give me thanks to the Father who has qualified, Say I'm
qualified, say I'm qualified, who has qualified us to share in
the inheritance of the Saints in light.
For he rescued us from the domain of darkness and
transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
Do you understand? We are transferred into the
Kingdom not when we go to heaven.
We are transferred in the Kingdom the minute we are born
again or born from above, the minute we confess Christ as
Lord. The sin account that we have is
taken off our books. I said taking off our books.
The blood that has been poured on the mercy seat now has been
applied. You know, we talk a lot about
grace and we don't talk enough about mercy because again, in
order for the grace of God to get active in your life through
faith, mercy first showed up. We say, but for the grace of
God, really it's but for the mercy of God, grace came by
faith because the the blood is not on the grace seat.
It's on a mercy seat. I said it's on a mercy seat, and
when we didn't deserve mercy, God gave us mercy.
But mercy comes at a cost. Mercy is not free.
Mercy comes by way of the blood. And so blood is poured on the
mercy seat, which now can be transferred to your account.
Why? Because of the throne of grace.
God's empowering grace. He says, I'm going to give you
what you don't deserve, which is forgiveness.
And then when you receive my son, I'm going to empower you
with the same grace that comes from my throne, which is an
empowering grace to overcome every form of temptation.
And it's all activated by the principle of faith you believe
and firmly persuaded in your heart.
So we are, we have been qualified, say qualified.
Come on, stay qualified. We have been qualified because
we're born again. You're not qualified because you
were good enough. You're not qualified because you
deserve it. You are qualified because by
faith you received Jesus and have been given a new name and
then been given the name, the name that's above every name.
And what's been qualified in Him has now been given to you and
you have a right to it based upon that.
Hallelujah. You have a right to it because
of your birthright. Inheritance by definition means
an allotted portion. You need to walk in your
allotted portion. Notice here in verse 12 again,
it says who qualified us to share, say share.
So guess what? You don't get all of the
inheritance. It's amazing how many Saints
want to be the the closest one that looks like the Messiah.
They want to be the anointed one, the one that everyone comes
to, the one that everyone wants to get a word from, the one that
everyone has their hands, has their hands laid upon them.
The one who prophesied, the one who no, we're share.
We share in this thing. Nobody, no one has it all.
No one was supposed to have it all.
But when we come together as one, then it's all available.
I said it's all available. This is why the church is so
important, because I need your allotment.
You need my allotment. There's times we're going to
come together a lot. You need the allotment that's
bestowed on me. I need the allotment that's
bestowed on you so that when we all come together, the full
inheritance begins to manifest. In fact, I'm quite persuaded
that the local body has the full measure of the inheritance.
Now, when I say that, don't equate that with the corporate
church, Don't equate that with the corporate church.
OK, when I say corporate church, that means every church that's
out there that's professing Jesus Christ as Lord.
What I'm saying is is that this church when we come together, we
have every bit of the resource available to us and through us
for this assignment that other bodies we're not dependent on
those we're not because God's assigned us in this location
where we get the full measure. How do I know this Because
Ephesians tells us that when we come to maturity that we would
be complete, we would develop the fullness of Christ.
And this is you can't be this where someone in Indian, someone
in Kenya, someone out because we're not assembling physically
with them. This has to do with the ones
that are assembling physically together.
We can have a completion of all the inheritance from the Kingdom
of Heaven to manifest through our lives corporately and not
lack anything that's financially, that's physically,
that's emotionally, there's not a lack when we come together,
but we're sharing. Come on, we're sharing.
You're going to have to learn to share.
I said you have to learn to share.
Got to share better. You know, you got to play well
with others. If you're one of those that
doesn't play well with others, you need to repent.
Get it together, because you're going to have to learn to play
well with others. Because God did not come and
save you. He didn't come and save you.
He came so that everyone can be saved, of which you're one of
them. So the inheritance was never
designed to be available only when you die and go to heaven,
but was designed to be available because he died.
I said he died. An inheritance is something you
receive because someone has died.
And it's amazing how many believers are waiting to inherit
heaven. When the Lord's like, I'll get
it down on the earth, I'll get it down there.
You don't have to wait on this thing.
I don't want you waiting. I want you receiving it is the
Father's good pleasure to what give you the Kingdom, his King's
dominion now to function in it. And he's giving you and me an
allotted portion. And when we all come together,
we have a complete portion of his inheritance that we get to
function and walk in because Christ died.
And here's what's so awesome about this inheritance we have
because when you sit down and Reese and the reading of the
will has come, you know, by the legal people of what is yours
through the inheritance. What's so awesome is there's no
way it could be corrupted because Jesus rose on the third
day and comes and tells you Now let me tell you all that I died
and left you. It became legal because I died
and I'm alive to make sure you get exactly what I've died for.
Amen. I mean, the devil has been in
multiple will readings telling them can't have this, you can't
have healing, that's for later. You can't have joy.
You just going to have you can't have, you can't have, you cannot
have, you cannot have, you cannot have, right saying these
things. Yet they won't listen to Jesus
in the room that says, that's not what I meant, that's not
what I wrote, that's not what I'm saying.
Come on. Look at Romans chapter 8, verse
14 to 17. Come on, let's talk about our
lot of portion. It says for all, for all who
have been, who are being led by the Spirit of God.
These are sons of God. So a confession of faith gets us
in the family. Then God expects us.
They expects us, expects us to have an ear to hear the Holy
Spirit. What does this look like?
The great fallacy that permeates our culture and has hit other
nations because we are the greatest export exporters of
missionaries to the world. And as a result of of sending
out missionaries, many have gone out with the intent to tell
people that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave
and that is true and that if you call on his name you'll be
saved. That is true.
But it's all in the package of where are you going to go when
you die? It is not a reading of the will.
Let me tell you what is yours now in Christ because we would
be dominating nations if this was the case, OK.
And so because. There has been this digression
of not talking of all the full counsel of God, just this really
escapism. I don't want to go to hell, I
want to go to heaven. I know I'm wrong.
Jesus's blood forgave me. I'm going to ask him to come to
my heart now. I know I'm going to heaven when
I die. And that's the sum of the
conversation. However, the Lord, when you
received Christ, expected you to have a revelation of a thing
called Lordship, not Savior ship.
Christ saved us and we've said this here at Anchor Faith Church
on multiple occasions. You can find this in the book of
Beginnings, which is the plan for man.
God said in Acts chapter one, when he has created this heaven
and earth that has no sin in it. Genesis one, no sin.
He's created the heavens and the earth, no sin in this earth He
has he places his man there. He said let us make man in our
image according to our likeness and let them have what dominion
over the fish of the sea. You know the Scripture.
Then he goes and he takes the man in the second chapter, still
no sin, tells him to take care of the garden, keep it, all
these particular things. And then he says this.
He says this because I need to know you love me, because love
is demonstrated through obedience.
And he says to him, Adam, you can eat from any tree or man.
You can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.
For the day you eat you will surely.
And we've asked this question, if Adam had never eaten the
fruit, where would he be today to be right here on the earth,
which means Adam was never singing.
When we all get to heaven. Adam did not have a desire to go
to heaven because God came to the planet all the time.
And it's amazing how many people struggle with that one thought
because it's really not about location anyway.
It's about being present with the Lord.
I mean, if Jesus Christ came and manifested right here on the
platform right now and said to you, I want to go home with you,
would you say no, or you can go to my house, but I want to go to
heaven. I mean, you're with Jesus,
right? In fact, the Scripture says to
be absent from the body is to be what?
Present with the Lord. He is presently in heaven, but
we know he's not staying there. The point is, is that that Adam
was not looking for a place to go because he was already in a
perfect place and God was with him already, but because Adam
fell from dominion, not heaven. And redemption is to put us back
in this dominion state, not to take us to heaven, although we
will go there. We will transfer there for a
time, although we won't be there permanently.
Because I'm going to be where the Father is.
And if you want to know where the Father is going to be, read
Revelations 21 and 22. Because I'm going to be where
the Father is and when I'm going to be with the Father, because
that's all that matters. And So what we've done is we've
gone around and we've had this expectation.
So we said this, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, then he
would still be on the earth, which means Jesus never would
have needed to save us. Jesus would not need to be
Savior. So Savior is an assignment
because Adam fell, but he's always been Lord.
And salvation is not about just Savior Jesus.
It's about actually making Jesus Lord.
Now Lord means supreme and authority.
It's not a religious word at all.
Yet we've made the message of Jesus religious.
Just ask Jesus into your heart to save you.
That way when you die, you'll go to heaven.
Well, it's not about asking Jesus to come into your heart
and save you alone. It's about making him Lord of
your life where now you are yielded and submitted to his
will because he's the one who's supreme in authority.
This is why Romans brings a little more clarity and says,
now listen, you want to know if you're a son of God, you're
going to be led by the Spirit, which means you're not calling
the shots. God is so true.
Sons of God are having an attentive ear to hear what the
Spirit is saying and saying. Yes Sir, because your Lord.
It's your will, not my will. This is extremely important
because you're not going to walk in your allotted portion of the
inheritance if you are not yielding to the voice that you
are supposed to be submitted because you made Jesus your Lord
who happened to save you from your sins.
And for some people, they say, well, that's semantics.
It's not semantics because people who live a life according
to Savior Jesus and those who live a life according to Lord
Jesus live two different lives. Savior Jesus, people will be
sick, will be carnal, will live much like the world, but will
tell you they're going to heaven when they die.
And when you look at them on the outside, they look like they are
subject to the rest of the world.
And like the rest of the world, they're up and down, highs and
lows, no consistency in their life, none.
But you get around someone who's Jesus is Lord.
Oh, that person's a totally different person.
They begin to walk in the covenant rice.
They walk in their inheritance. They begin to walk in their
authority. They begin to manifest the
Kingdom in their lives to where people would say you're not even
of this world Savior Christians, they look like the world and
they make basically live this life.
I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by grace.
I mean, I sin every day too, but I'm going to heaven when I die.
That is not what God expected. God expected that we come out of
that darkness. We are no longer subject to sin,
that we would be above it and then we walk in the authority
that we have. So Romans 4814 says, and all who
are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
You have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear
again. Again, fear not little flop, for
your father has chosen what come on chosen what come on chosen
what to give you the Kingdom For you not received a spirit of
fear again or a spirit of slavery leading to fear again,
but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we
cry out ABBA father. Now that's an interesting word,
adoption here because you're like, wait a minute, I thought I
was born of God. How can I just be adopted?
Well, this word adopted really just means you've been
possessed, positioned, you've been put in a in a position, all
right, says the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that
we are children of God. And if children, then what are
we? What are we?
Come on, help me out. What are we?
We're heirs, also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.
So we're heirs of God, but we're fellow heirs with Christ, if
indeed we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified
with him. And you know, the sufferings
we're going to have with Jesus is we're going to put down our
will to do the will of the Father.
The sufferings Jesus did was to resist temptations, to handle
trials and tribulations, to not speak his own mind, but to only
speak what his Father said. Remember what he said one time
to the crowd? He said, how much longer must I
suffer with thee? Now they weren't beating because
when we say suffering, most of us think, well, that's the
beatings. Well, that what that did there
was a physical suffering he took that is true statement.
But again, we're not going to take 39 stripes on our back.
So it's not physical beatings that make us the same, it is the
context that we are denying self, denying our will to do His
will. We take up our cross, meaning we
take up our assignment and purpose, not our own.
We deny ourselves like Christ denied himself.
I don't come to do my own will, but only of the will of the one
who sent me. OK, and so then we are heirs.
The word heir means one who receives his allotted possession
by right of sonship. So you are an heir because of a
rite of sonship. Aren't you glad you're born
again? Aren't you glad you said goodbye
yesterday? I'm not living that way anymore.
Amen. My wife and I don't talk a whole
lot about our yesterday. I mean, it's uncomfortable for
us to talk about our yesterday. There are times that we may
communicate a little bit about our yesterday because they can
help somebody get out of there today.
But I don't dwell on my yesterday.
I don't focus on it. In fact, to talk about it
grieves me because it grieve God that I live that kind of
existence. And that's why Jesus came, so I
could get out of it. So I don't revel in it.
I don't prop it up. I just get excited about what
Christ has done. I'll talk more about Christ and
this new life I'm in than the one I came out of.
Now, that doesn't mean I've forgotten where I've come from.
But I don't dwell, will I? Where I've come from.
I don't dwell there. I've been redeemed, I've been
changed, I've been bought and paid for.
I'm not even the same person. It's like even kind of odd to
talk about it 'cause I'm so different.
OK, but verse 17 of Romans 8IN the easy read version, I like
this. Look what it says.
If we are God's children, are you God's children?
Come on, are you God's children? We will get the blessings God
has for His people. Notice this next statement.
He will give us all that He has given Christ.
He will give us all He has given Christ.
Everything the Father has given Jesus, he will give.
Now notice it's still an allotted portion.
Now there's some things you get full things of you get full
healing, you get full provision, you get full joy.
But then your gift, there's a portion of your gifting or your
assignment that's connected with other people's assignment.
And when you stay connected in those veins, then it ultimately
releases the full measure. It's when you disconnect from
those individuals that your your portion can dwindle.
I'll give you a great example of this.
I didn't think I was going to go here but I will.
Just in a quick recap, the father gave two sons their
inheritance because the younger one did not want to wait for his
father to die. So when he requested that he get
his inheritance, now he receive it.
Now his father gave it to him while alive.
But in order for him to give the younger son his inheritance, he
must give the older son his as well.
And the older son, concerning this particular nation, received
a double portion of the inheritance.
So the younger son received his allotted portion.
And instead of staying with the family, with the household, he
took his allotted portion and did it his way.
So the minute he disconnected the allotted portion, he had
dwindled up, died, and he became impoverished.
Well, people don't realize when they're in connection with the
churches. When you start to start flowing
in your inheritance, if you get out of the place you're
assigned, it will seem good for a while because it seemed good
with this guy. In fact, when he first left, it
seemed like he had hit the jackpot.
He was in the slap will of God. He was having the best life
ever. And if he would have been on
social media, he'd have been posting all the great things
that he was accomplishing. Now that he has left the house,
but we would have recognized later on, there's very few posts
happening what seems to have happened.
So again, just because in the beginning stages it seems like
it's all there, if you're not where you're supposed to be
planted, it will eventually dry up.
And here's the only remedy. Are you ready for this?
The only remedy is you have to go back to the house repented.
You have to come back repented. If you never come back in a
position of repentance, then you'll never receive any more
allotted portion. Wow, are you hearing me?
He will give us all that He has given Christ.
Well, what has Christ been given?
Look at Matthew 18 or 28. Matthew 28.
Amen. Matthew 28 You ready to shout?
Because everything I'm a read is yours.
He will give us all that He has given Christ.
OK. And Jesus came up and spoke to
them, saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and
on earth. What did the Father give Jesus?
All where and and do you have some authority now?
You have it because he has it. You have it because he has it.
This is not an authority you have on your own.
This is an authority because you're in Christ.
You've been raised up and seated with him.
When God looks at you, he's like that guys on the throne.
That woman's on the throne. That's my child.
They're speaking on behalf of my son.
This is why he says whatever you bind on earth shall have been
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have
been loosed in heaven, because all authority has been given to
our King Jesus, which means we share.
Whoa, we share in that inheritance.
We have authority over sickness, disease.
We have authority over poverty and lack.
We have authority over This is why, you know, when I hear the
mantra of, you know, are, are you being depressed right now?
You know, you know, people are are being I'm like, have they
forgotten their authority? Now, again, don't get me wrong,
I understand that things will attack us.
I get it that again, you know, you hear people say, well, I
just want to be honest. Fine, can I be honest?
Honestly, all of us deal with thoughts.
Quit trying to attach yourself to humanity instead of your
sonship. I mean, if you have to get
around those people who can let you know that they feel like
you, they hurt like you, they deal with things like we all
deal with stuff. That's not the point.
The point is we overcome it and it's amazing how many people
get, they don't want to get around the one that's like, you
have the victory and you can, you know, walk in joy and like,
well, you know, it seems like those people never have any.
We have the same stuff. We just choose to not dwell on
it. So the minute you're like, well,
it seems like they have no problems at all, You should know
that's a lie. In fact, if you associate with
someone, it's seeming like they don't have any problems.
You should probably say I ought to get around them a little bit
more and see how they're able to manifest that all the time
'cause I know that they're dealing with stuff like I do,
but they seem to manifest Kingdom responses more
frequently. But the church, well, I just
want to be real. Just because you have real
attacks doesn't make that more significant than we have real
victory in Christ. And that's the goal is not to
talk about our problems and to share our issues.
Oh, good. I thought I was the only one.
You're not the only one. You'll never not be the only one
which is a double negative. So you shouldn't say that you
will never be the only one that has problems that somebody else
currently is not facing, which I still put a knot in off.
We'll, we'll work it out. It's a long sentence.
Maybe I should have put a period somewhere.
Praise the Lord. So Jesus said all authority has
been given to me in heaven and earth.
Guess what, You have have authority.
I said you have authority. Your current financial situation
is not a problem. You have authority.
Whatever you're going through is not the problem.
You have authority. You just need a word from the
King. He said go, therefore make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father Son, teaching them to observe all that I come in to
you and lo, I'm with you even to the end of the age.
Wow, John 14 verses 12 to 14 says this truly, truly, He says
this twice. Truly, truly, in case you think
he's lying about it truly, truly because Jesus not a man, God's
not a man that he shall lie. Jesus is of the Father.
They are one, so Jesus cannot lie either.
So when he says truly, truly he's like, you need to listen
what I'm saying. This is the truth.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he. He who believes, those who
believes, are you a believer? Come on, are you a believer?
He who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also in
greater works than these he will do because I go to the Father.
Whatever the Father has done in Christ, He has given it to you.
You have an inheritance. This is why we are not the
weakest thing. We are the greatest thing on
planet earth today. We have, we have, we are the
most attacked entity because we are the greatest example of
God's Kingdom ever. The church is God's message to
the world. The church is Jesus Christ is
coming back for the church, not for individuals, but for the
church that has individuals within it.
He's coming back for the church. The church is the manifest
presence of the fullness of Christ and his Kingdom and man.
All of us when we come together and believe, we do greater works
because all of us are doing the things that Christ did when he
was on the planet. My gosh, verse 13, whatever.
Now again, this whatever is not a whatever like you to make this
up, whatever, this is a whatever in connection to His will.
So again, we got to get it with the Bible first.
John 5 says if we ask anything according to His will, He hears
us, and we have that which we asked for.
Why? Because God will always do His
own word. And we read when we first opened
this up in Ephesians, that God who predestined us to do a
particular work according to His counsel, His will, His purpose,
when we are connected to His word and His purpose.
Jesus said, I say nothing on my own initials, but only what the
Father says. So whatever is, is more clear to
say whatever we're saying according to the will of our
Father, you ask in the name of Jesus, and that will no, I do so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
You understand this, You know why many of us are not seeing
things that are rightfully ours in covenant.
I'm going to tell you the number one ingredient.
Why you do not see it quicker is because your prayer actually has
a bit of selfish desire in it. Now, what do I mean by that?
It means this in the name of Jesus, I believe that I'm
healed. Now that's covenant, right?
But yet I'm not seeing healing. Well, if you have this in you
that says I prayed and I asked the Lord to heal me and he did,
Now you're time to take an ownership and get a little bit
of ownership in that. And I laid hands on people and
they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Well, you didn't do that. I mean, you did your part, but
if you don't watch out, it can get where you were.
P The hardest thing to do is to get people to quit looking at
you, but you can keep it in your heart that way.
I said you can keep it in your heart that way because when
you're doing the works of Jesus, you want them to say, man,
that's what Jesus would do. Not all.
Well, you need, you know, Pastor Angie to do this.
Pastor Angie has no power in love herself.
Everything she has is in Christ. So we don't flock to her for a
because of her. We want God glorified.
Look what God did. And you know, as a church, let's
get better at that. Let's get better at recognizing
God even though God's working through us.
Let's get better at that, which means then when something
happens in essence, like today, don't go home and say, you know,
Pastor Marcy and Pastor Angie had a word.
They didn't. God had a word for us through
them. Now again, this is not
dishonouring people who are in positions, but yet the focus
should be man. The Lord spoke to us today a
very encouraging where it should come out that way.
Really what happened Well, Pastor Marcy happened to get up
again. She just became the vessel.
But when we LED with God was doing something, then we're
giving God glory first. Wow, that worship.
God was so powerful in worship today.
Really, what happened? Well, as Chelsea LED or as
Bridget did, then you know, we're talking about the
individuals or vessels he used. But God got glory first.
Let's be a better church at being able to communicate what
God's doing 1st, and then we can acknowledge the vessels by which
He did something. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And we would be a lot further along if we did this because
then ministries wouldn't dry up and die when a personality left
wouldn't dry up and die because a personality left.
The church is not built on personality.
Man's church is built on personality, but Christ's church
is built on the King, built on Jesus, and He's number one in
our lives. And man was his presence, not
with us today and still through the ministry of this word right
now. So again, truly, truly says he
who believes in me the worst that I do, He will do also
greater works than these He will do.
Aren't you glad you can do greater works?
Say I can do greater works. Say I do greater works.
Now you have to believe that you have an inheritance.
Again, the inheritance is not what you did, it's what Christ
did. Just enjoy the inheritance, but
you have to work the inheritance.
If I left you $10 million upon my death and put it in an
account with your name on it, well, it will do you no good if
you never go to the bank. Pull it out.
You have. We have to work the inheritance
by faith. It's not what I deserve.
It's what I receive because I've come into His Kingdom and I'm
going to enjoy it. I'm going to work this thing by
faith. I'm going to do greater works.
I'm going to do greater works.
Why? Because Christ wants to be
glorified. Hallelujah.
John chapter 15, verse 16.
Jesus says you did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you. Say I'm appointed that you would
go and bear fruit and that your fruit would remain, so that
whatever you ask of the Father of my name, He may give it to
you. He wants your fruit to remain.
God expects when you became a child of God is that you would
have remaining fruit. You would bear fruit.
You would do this. And we need to continually bear
fruit. Keep bearing fruit, keep bearing
fruit, keep bearing fruit, keep bearing fruit, just bear fruit.
Hallelujah, because God chose you.
You've been handpicked by the King and He picked you when you
were not even desirable. Matt Hunt, would you stand up?
Matt Hunt has the right. He has the right and the claim
to fame to be the very first pick of Anchor Faith Church's
flag Football League. He is the first ever first pick.
Thank you, Matthew. Yeah.
Now his friend just happened to. Didn't know, didn't know that he
wasn't necessarily a strong football player.
Right. Typically you pick first pick
based upon ability, not friendship.
I know you wanted me to leave that out, but it's relevant
right now to the message. The point is is that in one
sense he did not deserve to be first picked based upon ability
or talent, but he has the title nonetheless.
We understand when we were lost in our trespasses and sin man,
we were not in a position to be first pick on God's team.
But God being rich in his mercy man, he laid down his life.
Why so you can become his first pick on the team.
Now you say how do you know it's how can I be first pick when so
many people got born again? We're all on the same seat.
Oh, y'all don't want to hear that?
There is no. And I used to play band, OK.
And in band they have first seat, second seat, third seat.
Come on, y'all who know that when you go to orchestra, not
everybody's on the 1st and there's first seat, first chair.
You can be first seat, second chair, OK, which means you play
the first chair, seat part, but you're in a different chair.
It means you're not as powerful as first seat, first chair.
Well, there's only one chair up in heaven.
I said there's a chair where Jesus sits.
John, you're on it, I'm on it, my wife's on it.
Marissa, you're on it. It's the same seat, first seat,
first chair in Christ. We're all first picks.
Whoa, glory to God. That way when Jesus says, I'm
calling up Marissa, that's my best athlete right now, that's
my first pick to move by the Spirit right now to do what I
need to be done in my body right now to perform this task.
Not well. I don't have anybody else.
I guess I'll pick, Nope, that's not how it works, Amen.
Just walk in that inheritance. We'll close with this passage of
Scripture. John chapter 16.
We have some water baptism to do today and we get to rejoice in
that, Amen. And John 1623 to 26, it says
this. In that day you will not
question me about anything. Truly, Truly, I say to you, if
you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to
you. Until now you have not asked for
nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so
that your joy may be made full, these things I've spoken to you
in figurative language. An hour is coming when I will no
longer speak to you in a figurative language, but will
tell you plainly of the Father. In that day you will ask in my
name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the
Father on your behalf. That's a powerful statement,
which means all authority that's been given Him in heaven and
earth been given to you, and that the Holy Spirit is #1
revealing the written word of God to us so that it becomes
revelation of our inheritance. And the Father is still speaking
to us through the sun by the Spirit of things that are
necessary for today. That is not technically written
in Scripture. Now, when I say that, I'm not
saying you can get your own revelation.
I'm saying it has to do with your own personal walk.
What do I mean by that? I'll give you the example that
just popped in my head from Pastor Lynette.
Pastor Lynette Hagen was going home one day, she said.
And she was driving. And she was, you know, kind of
late, and she didn't have much time to go home and come back to
the church. So she was moving pretty quick.
And in her spirit, she heard slow down.
In her spirit, you kept moving at that same speed.
In her spirit, it got a little louder, a little more
authoritative. Slow down.
She says she pulled off the gas. OK.
And she pulled off the gas as she was approaching a green
light in her intersection. She pulled off the gas, slowed
down, was coming into the light, and just before she got there a
car blew through and ran a red light.
If she had not listened to that voice, it would have T boned her
and most likely she would not be in the planet today.
Again, the Father speaks to us today that are not directly off
pages, but they're in line with Scripture.
OK, because God will deliver us out of our trouble.
She didn't even know trouble was coming.
He will deliver you from the snare of death, the valley of
the shadow of death. He can deliver.
And there was the case in point. And He delivered her that day
because she obeyed the leading of the she was, because she
could have just went on home and been with Jesus if she had not
developed herself to hear and respond to the leading of the
Spirit. So there are things we're going
to ask for in his name because all authority has been given to
us because we have an inheritance.
We have a right to things that are ours in the King, in Christ.
I'm not listing the mall today. You need to most of you know
this. For those who don't, we'll
continue to do teaching to to let you know cuz when we talk
about healing, when we talk about provision, when we when we
talk about you know, our attitude and, and, and taking
captive thoughts. These are all thoughts have no
right to rule your mind. Thoughts have no right to come
and talk to your mind anytime they want to.
You actually have authority to control what's in your brain.
You have been given the authority to take every thought
captive. Thoughts don't even have the
right to run through your brain. That's a inherited right.
That's part of an what the heir's portion is, that you're
no longer having to just filter everything or be subject to
everything that comes across your mind, nor do you have to
say it. You don't have to give everybody
a piece of your mind, Amen. But you can take these things
captive because this authority we have been given covers so
many things. And what's the most important
about we being heirs is this. I'm going to close with this
thought. Psalm.
The Psalms tells us Psalms 24 believe it's verse one.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
It does not matter what all will happen in this planet because
God has not lost planet Earth. He will redeem the planet.
He will redeem it means he'll put it back in its original
state. He's going to do that.
God has not given up on the planet.
It will come by way of global warming, but it will come to
pass. He'll burn the planet with a
fire. He'll burn it up and get a new
one. OK.
And so he's the planet's his. So it doesn't matter what
systems are functioning today. You're not of those systems,
you're of the Kingdom. And as an inheritor, what did
Jesus say? The meek will inherit the earth.
So quit saying, man, this world's going to hell in a
handbasket. The world will not go to hell.
The Earth will not go to hell. The Earth will be reborn.
So just saying, it's Dad's planet.
He's taking it back. He's taking it all back.
Don't matter how bad it's getting.
We have authority. We can do our purpose.
We cannot be stopped. We will accomplish what our
Father has sent us to do. There will come a day, and I'll
be an eyewitness to it, along with all that are in the family
of gods of the redemption of this Earth and the planet going
back underneath the full authority of our King.
It's a global takeover and we're a part of it.
Hallelujah. Let's pray.