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Father, we thank you for your word this morning, we thank you
for this conference. All that you are imparting and
we pray that we have Minds to receive Hearts to respond.
Father. I thank you both.
That we are receptive to the word and responsive through
application that we can be Bears of fruit through all that we are
receiving this week. Father, I think you, we are not
here as only. We are doers and we see the word
applied and accomplished in our lives, in Jesus name.
Amen. Matthew 13.
If you will In true AFC fashion, Pastor Oman blew past his time,
it's on the application to be an Interfaith Church.
Pastor, you have to if you finish a message within an hour,
you are disqualified. So To his.
You're catching Pastor Daryl see is is that there's something
about an hour down here at anchor, Faith Church.
It goes a lot longer than an hour anywhere else.
But man, this conference is just been so rich.
If you received something already golly, it's just my
goodness. I could have just listened to
that and, you know, to his credit, he did have to say
everything twice. So he really only preached about
34 minutes. If you really count it, man.
So we are talking about the mystery of the Kingdom.
We are talking about how we see hear receive this Kingdom word.
It's been about 15 years now that I have been entrenched in
the kingdom and the thing that I have learned over these 15 years
when it comes to the kingdom message versus just receiving
any message or any word. Is that the degree of Kingdom
that is revealed or exhibited in your life?
Directly correlates with the degree to which you receive the
kingdom? You cannot exhibit.
You cannot apply. You cannot live beyond what you
comprehend? No, understand or receive.
And we saw in John chapter 3 that Jesus had a conversation
with the religious leader, the elite of the elite, the top dog,
as if you will, when it came to matters of the kingdom of God,
that should have been at the elite or at the top.
Jesus has a conversation with Nicodemus and Nicodemus, says
Master. We hear the great teachings, we
see the signs and wonders, we see the miraculous taking place
and we know that God is with you.
And Jesus responds with a very interesting statement.
He says, you cannot see the kingdom unless you Born again,
very interesting that he would immediately move to, man, you
haven't even graphs. The beginning of this thing, you
are seeing the results of the Kingdom, you're seeing evidence
of the Kingdom. You're seeing proof of the
Kingdom. Yet, you don't know where it's
coming from. You don't fully understand what
this kingdom is really all about.
You haven't fully grasp, what I'm really coming to bring.
And so, we understand that the degree of the Kingdom that we
Understand either enhances or limits the capacity of the
Kingdom Life we live. I'll say that again, the degree
of the Kingdom that we understand, either enhances or
limits the capacity of the Kingdom Life that we live.
And as we saw with Nicodemus, this is what happens is where we
misunderstand something or where we fail to understand, we
usually will redefine. I'm going quickly because this
is a recap, you should already have this.
Yesterday, what I failed to understand I usually will
redefine, I'll dumb down, I'll lower it standard.
I'll bring it to something that I can understand.
And what we do essentially is we make God into something that
looks like us, so rather than rising to his level rising, to
his standard rising, to what he intended, the original meaning,
or the original purpose of something, we lower it down to
our Our standard and we serve a God.
That looks a lot like us sounds. A lot like us responds.
A lot like us when God is calling us to rise, this is
Kingdom. What kingdom rise?
We are rising up, we are coming to a higher level.
We are trying to discern. The original intent in the thing
is, is when I lower the standard, I compromised, the
purpose, when I lower the standard, I compromised, the
purpose. If the kingdom is something that
already looks like what I'm living.
Then, it's not really the kingdom.
We're building our own kingdom. We're creating our own kingdom
rather than entering his kingdom.
He says, unless one is born again, you cannot see the
kingdom born again, to Jesus meant something a lot different,
than what Born Again, has come to mean to you.
And I, in society, and culture in American Christianity, and
the world we live in today, born again, is just simply entrance.
This is what this is. Let me just give you an example
and give you a picture and imagery of what this is.
So the Holy Spirit, the Bible tells us that none comes into
the Kingdom, on our own that we are drawn by the spirit of God.
And so this, this leader this guide, the Holy Spirit, he
brings us to the kingdom, brings us to the entrance of the
Kingdom shows us this great Kingdom.
Here's the entrance. And then he says, hey, let me
show you around. Let me show you what faith looks
like. Let me show you what healing
looks like. Let me show you what?
Real Deliverance looks like. Let me show you what Redemption
looks like. Let me show you what Prosperity
looks like. Let me show you what this
kingdom is all about. And this is what we do.
We say. That's okay, I'll take it from
here. And we start journeying through
this Kingdom without the guy, the Holy Spirit leading us, and
guiding us into what all truth. If the Holy Spirit can get us to
the kingdom, he can get us through the kingdom and he's not
just in our life to get us to the door and then leave us
there. He's in there to get us to the
door. As they let me show you what
faith looks like in the Kingdom. Let me show you what healing
looks like in the Kingdom. Let me show you what their liver
and slight looks like in the Kingdom, he should be guiding us
throughout all. And so what happens is is we
understand principles without the context.
It's like you're in this house and you're going room to room
and I'm journeying through these rooms the we miss the forest for
the trees. We start hugging trees.
We start hugging elements principles of the Kingdom
without the context of the Kingdom, without the big picture
of the Kingdom. We're missing the context, and
in Matthew Chapter 13, Jesus describes this Kingdom as a
mystery in verse 10, the disciples came and said to him.
Why do you speak to them in parables?
In verse 11, he answered and said unto them because it has
been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of
Heaven, meaning this it can be right in front of you and you
still miss it. Nicodemus can name the evidence
He could describe the proof, the tangible visible results of the
Kingdom, but miss where the results were coming from.
I hear the awesome teaching. I see the amazing signs.
I see the walking on the water in the multiplying of food in
the casting out of demons, and the raising of the dead and the
delivering all the things that Jesus did tangibly.
But yet still miss the kingdom, that was right in front of him
crucified. I murder killed the very one
that they thought they were looking for and guys were still
doing this today. We're still doing this today.
And we think we understand principles, but without the
context will find that we will actually destroy both will
destroy both know. He says it's a mystery.
Do you? It's been given to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
But to them it has not been given in Mark, chapter 2, I want
to jump over here. Because I want to just give you
my, I've got, like 10 minutes to do all this.
So in Mark chapter 2, I want to just give you a personal.
Reflection, if you will. Mark 2:21.
No one sews. A piece of unshrunk cloth on an
old garment or else. The new piece pulls away from
the old and The Tear is made worse.
And no one puts new wine. Everyone say, new wine into old
wineskins or else, the new wine burst the wineskins, the wine is
spilled and the wineskins are ruined.
Look at this statement, but new wine.
Every once a new one must be put into new wineskins.
Everyone say new wineskins, say new wine, say new wineskins, 15
years ago, 14 years ago, when the kingdom message, first came,
Pastor Earle prepared us initially, ministering a message
on the Unseen. Principal In an effort for us to
be prepared, in our minds to receive something new.
He did this in the month of May and then in the month of June,
he released the kingdom, he wanted to release the kingdom
when he received the kingdom and the Lord told him, no, you've
got to get it in you first and then you've got to prepare the
church for this message. And of course, we don't know all
the backstory. We just know for the month of
May, he's ministering a series on the Unseen principle.
Seeing the Unseen bringing the Unseen into the sink.
And he's preparing us. I remember on June 9th, was it
June 9 2013 7, 2009. I played drums for worship and
then my wife and I we were the children's, Pastor is here, and
so we were serving that morning and so I did not hear the
initial message, the initial release.
We just had the one service, we're serving back with the
elementary students. Like we did just about every
week and so we went to lunch with Pastor Marcus and Pastor
Meredith. We were Arby's right over here
on 312. And I said, I got to hear share
with me. What?
Because service obviously went
super long longer than usual. Gotta gotta clarify that.
It already goes long, it went longer than usual plus Pastor.
Open minute been building up to this for a long time and I'm
thinking, man, I got to know what was the release?
Well, was this message, what's this thing that he released?
And so, they're explaining it to us at the Kingdom.
The kingdom in, these are all the thing about this message
was, it was all things that we had.
I'd heard before it was all words that were heard, before
I've heard Kingdom, I've said Kingdom, he just said it a year,
prior, he ministered a message on the government of God, we
understood principles without the context.
And something can lie. You know, what about the
kingdom? I understand Kingdom, the
kingdom, the kingdom, the kingdom, we know the kingdom of
God and pass the market is like, no, no, this is different.
There's emphasis on thinking, and then of course, we didn't
just stop there. Then we started Kingdom Crusades
where we actually took a Thursday Friday, Saturday just
to preach Kingdom principles. A my personal story just to be a
little transparent was for about six months.
I struggled. It's about June to December,
maybe not a full six months. It was June 27, 2010 Burr, June,
July August, September for those four months.
I struggled. I didn't struggle with the
message of the Kingdom. a struggling with the emphasis of
the Kingdom, the word that I would use was there was an
obsession about the kingdom, and I could not reconcile it, and
I'm thinking number one, This is all bent.
Now, I cannot, I cannot explain away.
The kingdom message. I'm struggling with its emphasis
and I'm struggling with and and Marcus.
And I are having conversations, Josh clay back there, we're
having conversations. I had some conversation with and
am reading the Myles, Munroe books.
And I'm trying to download this as we said yesterday as
information. And the number one struggle I
had was you know my testimony is I was raised in church I was
raised in good churches, I was raised in word churches.
I went to Rhema Bible Training Center.
I said under brother Hagin ice at her side under some of the
greatest Bible teachers this planet has ever seen and I'm
struggling on the inside, almost angry, like why have I never
seen this before? Why am I strong?
What Myles Munroe. I grew up listening and watching
Myles. Rook.
That's not the first time I heard Myles.
Munroe. Not the first time I heard his
name not first time. I'd been around us.
I mean he's a minister from the Bahamas.
I'm not know what he preaches. I know what he believes.
But there was this Kingdom lens. This Kingdom framework that I
was struggling to grasp and get a hold of And in September of
that year, Pastor Earle took us as staff to a local church here
in town in a minister. Oh, very well-known Minister
came. It was a very small group.
Maybe 150 200 people wasn't that many people there?
And he ministered on the kingdom, and he opened with this
verse right here in Mark chapter 2 He opened with no one puts new
wine into old wineskins, or else, the new wine burst the
wineskins, the wine is spilled and the wineskins are ruined new
wine. Must be put into new wineskins.
And when he ministered from this position, I got it.
I wasn't struggling with the wine.
I was struggling with the wineskin.
I had them reversed. I had been trying to put the
kingdom in everything I knew. I had to take everything I knew
and I had to put it into the kingdom.
I was trying to take an Essence. We've already said it.
I don't know how many times just in these last several days.
You hear us say it a lot here and Interfaith Church.
The kingdom of God is not a subject.
If this is just a subject to you, if this is just four days
of focusing on the kingdom than, that's all you're going to get
out of it. But the kingdom must be the
entire theme of every subject. Every principle it is the
context through which every subject has to be viewed.
It is the framework. It is the lens.
Through which now I view. Every other principle In this
passage these two words but new wine must be put into new
wineskins in the English. The word new is the same word
new in the Greek. It is not In the Greek, the
first word, but new wine means new as in brand new.
New in age. But the word new with new
wineskins is not the word new as in new, as in age, as in length
of time. It is new as in the word
renewed, fresh The the word renewed, meaning it is been
there the whole time, but now I have to receive it as new
renewed. Anybody know, a verse that talks
about the renewing of something The wine skin is been there the
whole time, but it's has to become new to me.
Otherwise, I will destroy the new wine, this new word, this
new message, I will lose both the wine and the wine skin.
The Amplified reads it this way. No one puts new wine into Old
wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst
the skins and the wine is lost and the bottles are destroyed.
The new wine is to be put in new fresh wine skins.
This is why Jesus, when he came to minister, the very first
words, he said found in Matthew 4:17 from that time.
Jesus began to preach and say, repent.
For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
When you see, when you begin to receive the kingdom message, you
now have to go back and re-evaluate, everything you ever
knew, or thought you knew. It all has to be put back
through the filter of the Kingdom.
We've been doing this in our church.
Now for the last I don't know, six or seven weeks.
We've been redefining. Redefining principles in the
word of God that are basic Elementary truths that.
We thought we knew just as Believers and putting them
through the wineskin of the kingdom of God.
We've been ministering on topics, such as lordship.
We explain the difference between Savior and Lord
righteousness. The word of God.
I just took two weeks to talk about the law. of the word and
the constitution of the word, The word of God in the lens of
the kingdom of God, because we all know what the Bible is.
But when you understand that, the Bible is the law of God.
As in a nation, as, in a government, it's a constitution
that declares to you your rights in your privileges, the
aspirations of the king, for his citizens, it changes, everything
guy. It makes everything makes sense.
And it's a mystery unless it's revealed.
I tried to receive the kingdom as information, and I got locked
up. Time I received the kingdom as
Revelation and doors opened up. And he says that when you want
to hear when you have the fervency, the urgency, the
intentionality to hear you will have abundant Clarity.
But when you don't want to hear eventually you will refuse to
hear. And I've watched people over the
years over the last fourteen fifty years, 15 years, as they
received the word of the king, some of them they lock up
immediately don't want anything to do with it.
And I'll explain why in just a second, some of them receive an
immediately with joy. That's why Matthew 13.
The parable of the sower, is the Paramount Parable for every
other Parable that you'll ever receive.
Because it shows you, how people receive it, some receive it with
joy, persecution comes because of the Kingdom, they immediately
follow the would fall away. We watched people leave in the
following months. After the kingdom message was
declared, isn't that true? Not locked up on the kingdom?
Note that some got locked up initially when it was given some
received it with joy and then we're like, whoa, wait a minute,
I'm being persecuted and being question of being challenged
others walked away because of deceitfulness of riches and
their own agendas and ideas. And then, of course, there's the
last where they received it. They applied it, they understood
it and it became fruitful in their lives.
There's two mentalities that the kingdom of God will always buck
up against that will always come to.
That are a direct contrast and will always conflict with the
kingdom. Number one is the American
mentality. If you have an American American
Democratic mentality, the kingdom of God, will destroy
disrupt will ruin, everything you thought, freedom, and
liberty, and Independence, was it destroys it every time my
husband. Errol even make the statement in
1991 when he came to the US and started delivering, he told the
lord, I can't even, I can't get this message across to
Americans. They enjoy too many freedoms.
They enjoy too many Liberties. They enjoy too much Democratic
personal say, I get to vote in and vote out, and I get to have
a decision making process and the King doesn't invite you into
that process. You get to enjoy the benefits of
the king because he declares over you.
What you need, he knows what you need knows, what you don't need,
and you learn to just fully submit to the King and his word.
The second mentality is religion.
Religious. You know, I felt like Nicodemus.
Jesus makes a statement later on in that conversation.
He says, how are you a respected Jewish teacher not able to
comprehend this? It's, he's asking it
sarcastically, meaning all your information will not help you.
And I had to come to the realization, my upbringing, my
background, the phenomenal word. I've sat under going to Bible
School having a diploma. Those were not the
qualifications for receiving the kingdom.
There were the qualification for receiving.
The kingdom was a heart that says yes, it's what Pastor Ramon
just got done showing us with obedience if You want to hear
the voice of God? Learn to say yes, before he
speaks. If you're waiting to hear what
he says to determine, if I will obey or not, then you're going
to close yourself off to the revelation of the word of God.
It is a guarantee you will flood with abundance when you say,
yes. Yes, Lord, your servant is
listening. Is he yielded heart?
Because we said this yesterday Mysteries are not discovered
through information. They are discovered through
revelation. That's how you receive a
mystery. That's how you have Mysteries
opened up to you. That's how you see things that
everybody else is missing. Everybody else is reciting
verses and quoting pastors and quoting teachers.
And they're listening guys, the people that are missing the
kingdom. They go to church every weekend,
the guys that are missing the kingdom, listen to podcast, the
guys that are listening to Kingdom promote books and, and
retweet tweets, and Greek quote on Instagram and they, but
they're missing the kingdom message, and it's right in
front. One of them, everybody says we
want to move of God. Well, does anybody want the god
of the move? Do you just want the results of
the kingdom? Do you want the kingdom that
invites? You to Bree a participant and
produce the results of the Kingdom?
There's a difference and if you are religious then you will be
relegated to a bystander. Standing aside applauding a
miracle yet not change by one yet, not able to participate in
produce the fruit and results of the kingdom of God.
And that's what Jesus Is Telling Nicodemus.
Here he says, you can attest to the Miracles, the signs, the
Wonders, the evidence, the proof, but yet, you don't even
you. You see the effects of the wind
and how it's blowing, but you don't know where it comes from.
You're reduced to the Natural tangible results.
I don't know about you, but I want to be a part of the Kingdom
about. I want to produce the results.
Jesus is trying to invite us into the process.
That doesn't just allow us to sit back, and we have a country
that's crying out for Revival. I don't want to move of God, I
want to be a move of God. I want to be a part of what he's
doing. And that's what this is all
about. The mystery is right in front of
me. So let's go back to Matthew
chapter 13. Matthew 13, the new King James.
Jesus makes this statement for whoever has to him, more will be
given and he will have abundance, but whoever does not
have even what he has will be taken away from him today.
I want to focus on the emphasis of the posture of the heart.
The posture of the heart because this is, this is where people
get locked up and trapped. And the kingdom has a way of
revealing someone's heart, better than any other message,
your heart will get revealed. Your heart will will, will come
to the surface? What's in?
You will come to the surface when the kingdom message.
It's that confronted. That's why we make such bold
statements. If you've been here at anchor,
fake church or even about officer any location, probably,
for any length of time, we make some in-your-face statements,
Jesus never preached one, message about being born again,
Jesus never preached the message about going to the Cross.
Jesus, never preached, the message about dying and going to
heaven. Why do we make these such
confrontational disruptive? Stay because we've got to get
the Mind switched over quickly. You cannot ease your way into
this Kingdom. You have to blast your way.
You've got to shut things down. We've got to unravel things.
The kingdom comes to confront, Jesus came disrupting things
disrupting measures and disrupting ideas.
He says you, say, you say, if you sleep with another woman
that you've committed adultery, I say that.
If you lust after a woman in your heart, He's disrupting
things. He's dismantling man's ways and
man's ideas and man's agendas and the kingdom dismantles.
It It tears, these things apart and we have to be
confrontational. We have to be be able in love,
of course, but the posture of the heart is the key.
I'll make this statement. What you treasure you attract.
What you treasure? you attract because he says, to
him, who has more will be given and he will have abundance, but
whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
Therefore, I speak to them in Parables, because seeing they,
do not see, and hearing, they do not hear nor do, they
understand. Now, this is what he says.
In verse 14 in them, the prophet, the prophecy of Isaiah
is fulfilled. Hearing you will hear and shall
not understand seeing We'll see and not perceive for the hearts
of this. People have what grown dull.
That's not treasuring, that's not valuing, that's not
honoring. And the honor and the value and
the treasuring is not taking place by attending church week
in and week out. It's determined by the heart
because you can attend church week in and week out with the
wrong heart, the wrong posture, not treasuring valuing, and
honoring and miss. What's being delivered?
Now, we've have a posture of the heart to do with.
He says, their ears are hard of hearing their eyes.
They have closed lest they should see with their eyes and
hear with their ears lest they should understand with their
hearts and turn so that I should heal them.
But blessed are your eyes for they see.
Blessed, are your ears for they hear watch this in verse 17
assuredly? I say to you that many prophets
and righteous men desired, everyone say, desired desired to
see what you see and did not see it to hear what you hear.
Ear and did not hear it. There are people that value.
What we sleep through, what we Overlook, what we miss, we value
the wrong, things, we're aware of the wrong things.
We desire the wrong things. And Jesus is trying to get to
the value system. He's using this Parable.
He said to us, it has been given to you.
It has been given but to them, it has not you value it
differently than they do values. Always determined by investment.
Why did they qualify in the others didn't?
Because they left everything to follow, Jesus, they left home.
They love father, and mother they left Comfort.
They left convenience. Come on, all the things we
talked about yesterday. It's too many church.
People that desire comfort and wonder why they're not seeing
the move of God, seeing the things of God because you're too
comfortable. Pastor Marcy in our prayer time
yesterday. Gave a call, get out of the
Comfort zones. Get disrupt these things.
Somebody needs to make a radical shift, Spirit soul and body
dismantling everything, you know.
You can have growth, or you can have comfort, but you cannot
have both. In the, in the Amplified.
Mashiro. We want to go.
Matthew Chapter 13, in the Amplified verse nine.
Actually, beginning at the end of the parable, he says this, he
who has ears to hear, let him be listening.
Let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.
Look at all, that ears to hear let him be listening.
Let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing verse
11 in the Amplified says, and he replied to them to you.
It has been given to know the secrets and Mysteries.
Remember we said that a mystery is a secret thing or a hidden
thing? Jesus actually spoke in Parables
so that it would conceal, the truth from those that did not
want to know the truth. He was concealing it.
And something, concealed must be revealed.
But he's saying it in a way speaking it in a way that only
those that want to know, will know, meaning if you don't want
to know then you won't know. But the danger is, if you
continue to pass yourself in a position of that you won't know,
eventually you will refuse to know. even when there are
undeniable proofs right in front of you, watch this in in in John
John chapter 12 John chapter 12. John chapter 12 and verse 37.
But although he had done so many signs before them, what does it
say? They did not believe in him.
Do we have that up there? Although he had done so many
signs before them? They did not.
See if I continue to remain in a posture of, I'm not giving
urgency. I'm not giving intention, I'm
not valuing honoring the word eventually, I'll move from a
position of not knowing to refusing to know.
I refuse to know, look at this in the passion translation, this
is crazy in the passion translation, verse 37, even with
the overwhelming, evidence of all the many signs and wonders
that Jesus had performed in front of them, his critics still
refused, you'll go from watching a miracle to critiquing a
miracle. Just a few verses earlier.
They asked for a sign. Show us another sign.
Show us another sign, he calls them an evil and adulterous
Generation all you want, is there, you know what adultery
means? Adultery means that I enjoy all
the benefits without the commitment.
I want the signs without the commitment to the kingdom.
I want the results without the commitment to the relationship
with the King. You just want signs.
You just want all the fun stuff without enjoying the with
without enduring. The commitment, the requirement
to see the signs that says, even with overwhelming evidence.
You don't have to turn there. You can just mark it down in
Mark, chapter 6, we mentioned this yesterday.
The same thing happened. He began to teach in the
synagogue in his hometown Nazareth.
Where did this man? Get these things?
What is this wisdom that has been given to him?
How are these Miracles performed by his hands?
What they're watching all the results.
They're seeing all the evidence. They've got the proof right in
front of them, yet still become offended.
And say, isn't this? The carpenter, isn't this?
The son of Mary, the brother of James, or his sister's here with
us and they were offended by him.
A man, imagine watching a miracle and yet still becoming
offended by one. This is what happens when we
have no urgency and no value and no honor, That's What offense
is. Jesus even makes the statement.
A prophet is without honor in his own.
Hometown I get honored everywhere else but I come home.
And because you know me, you know, my background, you know,
you saw me grow up, I built your your bait your bed, in your
dining table because, you know, my family, you're
well-acquainted with my Humanity, you can't receive my
deity. And they were offended.
We'll talk about familiarity a little bit tomorrow. verse 6 of
that, Mark chapter 6 says he was amazed at their unbelief and it
says this he goes around the Villages teaching Teaching, not
informing revealing but again, we know that Jesus doesn't
reveal the, he doesn't bring the pearls before the swine.
He doesn't give what is worth of great worth and of Great Value
in a way that it can be see. This is the thing.
If you squander it, if you let me say it, I got to say it the
right way. If you don't Steward the word,
you will squander the sign. Say that again, if you don't
Steward the word, you will eventually squander the sign.
If we don't value honor, the word of the Kingdom, we will
eventually waste the signs of the Kingdom.
A miracle is not going to make a difference with even the
Miracles. Jesus said that the Miracles are
what, confirming the teaching of the word.
It's all designed to point you back to the teaching, designed
to point you back to the word. We got people that are running.
After signs. Pastor Ramon just said, I need
another Revelation in the prophetic word, I need another
sign. I need another Revival bounce it
off. They have no value or honor for
the word. Word, they want to show.
They want to be entertained. They want to be performed too.
The words got to be Paramount. The word has got to be the
foundation of the Kingdom. All right, Matthew 13.
Let's keep looking through this. Back in the Amplified.
It's about the posture of the heart.
In verse 13, Matthew 13 verse 13 in the amplify.
This is the reason that I speak to them in Parables because
having the power of seeing they do not see having the power of
hearing, they do not hear nor do they grasp and understand in
them is, is the process of fulfillment of the prophecy of
Isaiah? Which says you shall indeed here
and here, but never grasp and understand.
You shall indeed look and look but never receive in person.
Steve for this nation's, heart has grown gross, fat and dull
their ears, heavy and difficult of hearing their eyes.
They have tightly closed less, they see and perceive with their
eyes and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears grasp and
understand with their heart and turn in.
I should heal them, but blessed, happy fortunate, be envied.
Are your eyes because they do see And your ears because they
do here. Truly, I tell you many prophets
and righteous men men who are upright and in right standing
with God, yearn to see what you see and did not see it to hear
what you hear. It says the they yearned to see
yearned. God's do we understand the value
of what we have to sit in front of?
This is the same thing as repeated in Romans chapter 10.
We know verse 17. Faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God but look at it in the Amplified.
Look at it in the Amplified verse 17.
Faith comes by hearing what is told and what is heard comes by
the preaching of the message that came from the lips of
Christ. The Messiah himself.
Now, watch this in verse 18. Maybe many of us haven't
journeyed past that verse that, we all know, very familiar with
the verse 18 says. But I asked have they not heard?
indeed, they have Why is Jesus going to return and say, will I
find faith in the Earth? He says, indeed, they have for
the scripture says their voice that of nature bearing.
God's message has gone out to all the Earth, and their words,
to the far bounds of the world. Again, I ask that Israel.
Not understand. Did the Jews have no warning
that the gospel was to go forth to the Gentiles to all the Earth
First, there is Moses. Who says, I will make you
jealous of those who are not a nation with the foolish Nation,
I will make you angry. Then Isaiah is so bold as to say
quoting the same prophecy that Jesus just pointed us to I have
been found by those who did not seek me.
I have shown revealed myself to those who did not consciously,
ask for me, but of Israel. He says all day long.
I have stretched out my hands to a people.
Here it is unyielding and disobedient and self-willed to a
fault, finding contrarian contradicting people.
We saw that Paul said over in Ephesians that it is God's will
to make known to you. The Mysteries God is extending
his hand stretching forth, giving you every opportunity to
receive the revelation. We are not missing Revelation
because he's failing to produce it.
We are missing Revelation because we were failing to yield
to it. They passed a Ramon set me up
perfectly. I really don't even have that
much to say because of what he brought, it's the Disobedience
it's coming in with disobedient Hearts guys.
It's coming in with the, with the lack of yielded anise.
The posture of your heart has everything to do with what you
receive or don't receive, there's two ways you can come in
here. You can come in here saying,
what do I not yet know. Or you can come in saying what
do I already know? You know how many people go to
church? Only wanting to hear what they
already know. People will tell me this and
they say it in good intentions. I understand what they're
saying. And sometimes I'll correct them
and sometimes, I'll just let it go on, but they'll come in and
say, I love this church because you preach what I believe.
Wait until I preach. What you don't yet believe.
Wait, till I flip something on the head that you thought you
knew this like, oh, wait a minute, I don't know.
I mean, until you've had that in your heart until you've had that
mmm. Now, not there's, there's a
questioning that challenges God and there's a questioning that
says, I want to know more the bereans search the scriptures to
not to question. I don't know if Paul's really, I
don't know what this Peter guy is really.
No, they said man, we gotta dig in here.
We gotta find this for myself. I'm not going to believe this
because ER said it, I'm not gonna believe it because Paul
said, it not gonna believe it was Pastor Earle, said it not
gonna believe it because they said in a kingdom rise.
I gotta know this for myself, but there's a lot of Crest lot
of Christians. That only remain, as long as
they're agreed with, And they forced the word of God to bow to
their opinion, in their idea. Since the thing about the enemy,
if the enemy can't keep you from going to church, will get you to
do it for the wrong reasons. If you can't keep you from
reading the Bible, he'll get you to do it for the wrong reasons.
You can't keep you from praying, he'll get you to do it for the
wrong reasons and it's called religious activity and you end
up like Jesus talking to Nicodemus, how are you a
respected Jewish leader? How are you grown up in the word
of faith? How are you a Rhema Bible
College student? If we do not have Propensity to
continue to learn continue to know.
Continue to discover continue to be revealed to.
If you've come to the conclusion, I've learned it all
in, there's nothing else to discover, and I just want to
continue to live my life finding people that agree with what I
already know. Then you will not only put
yourself in a position where I won't know I'm putting my
position upon myself in a position.
I refuse to know and now I critique every person that I
hear I critique Even the Miracles, the evidence, I can't
deny the evidence but I disclaim the evidence.
I just made it very difficult for everybody interpreting to
somebody in this room and I apologize.
I just went super quick. But they're good at what they
do. It's the posture of the heart.
It's the yield Earnest, a yielded heart attracts, the
voice of God. But eventually a nun.
Yielded heart, he says, Unyielding disobedient.
I love this one self-willed. Meaning your will is higher than
his will. That's not your kingdom.
Come and your will be done. Many people only want God's
kingdom as long as it agrees with their will their agenda,
their opinion. And you find yourself seeing
undeniable proof and evidence and still staying, I don't know
that, I believe that. Denying the lordship of Christ.
So we have to address this issue.
We have to address this issue of valuing and honoring the word of
God. That's what Jesus is trying to
get us to. I want to read this to you in
Matthew Chapter 13, in the passion translation, Starting
with verse 10, his disciples approached Jesus and asked, why
do you always speak to people in these hard to understand a
parables? See, the hard to understand,
should invite you to want to understand.
But he refused. He later gives a parable here in
Matthew Chapter 13. He says, the kingdom of God is
like a treasure buried in the field.
And when the man discovers that they're at, there's treasure
goes and buys the whole field. Just to gain, access to the
treasure. I value it that much.
He explained, you've been given
the intimate experience of insight into the hidden
mysteries of the realm of Heavens Kingdom, and I love
that. Jesus said, Being Born Again, is
what allows you to see the kingdom to behold the kingdom to
experience the kingdom to become aware of the Kingdom.
We said yesterday, the born-again experience the Born
Again, life should be marked by Kingdom experience.
It's a discovery. It's a journey.
May we Never Close Our Hearts off for everyone who listens
with an open. Heart will receive here.
It is progressively. More revelation.
Until he has more. Does anybody want to have more
than enough Revelation? More than enough Clarity, more
than enough comprehension more than enough understand.
I want more than enough, not barely, not just cutting it, not
just a little bit. I want more than an adult ever
be satisfied with less than what God has provided for you, but
those who don't listen with an open teachable heart, even the
Standing that they think they have.
You ever met somebody that thinks they know?
That's one of the hardest things for me is when I'm listening to
someone have a conversation and I know they're getting
everything wrong. Y'all River he's dropped on a
conversation your life they are missing all those facts right
now. I know the answers and there you
know you're just you're biting y'all.
I want to interject right now and he they have no idea what
they're talking, you know? You just you want to step in and
be like, you don't have a clue. But they think they know and
man, they sound so bold. They sound so confident, it
sounds. So they are saying it as if it's
straight fact. It's like you have no clue what
you're saying right now. Those who think they know, Even
the understanding that they think they have will be taken
from them. That's why I teach the people
using Parables, because they think they're looking for truth
yet, because their hearts are unteachable, they never
discovered, although they will listen to me.
They will never fully perceive the message I speak.
The prophecy of Isaiah describes them perfectly, although they
listened carefully to everything, I speak.
They don't understand a thing. I say, hmm.
They look and pretend to see but their eyes of their hearts are
closed, the mines are dull and slow to perceive.
Their ears are plugged. In are hard of hearing and they
have deliberately shut their eyes to the truth.
Otherwise, they would open their eyes to see that open their ears
to hear that open their minds to understand.
They would turn to me and I would instantly healed them.
Blissful are your eyes for they see delighted are your ears for
they are open to hear all these things.
Many prophets and godly people yearned to see these days of
Miracles that you've been favored to see, they would have
given everything. Are you hearing the posture of
the heart that we need to receive the revelation of the
Kingdom? They would give everything to
hear the Revelation. You've been favored to here.
I'll close with this in 2020, my wife and I Were introduced to. a
very awesome thing that has, Become maybe, maybe not so great
of a habit in 2020, you know, everybody close down.
Nobody was had distant seeing and all this stuff.
And you couldn't just walk into a restaurant and go places and
so we started using a service called doordash doordash.
Now, I need doordash users in the house.
Jake, where you at? You better wave your hand at me
wherever you're at. Well, your dad already told on
you. Doordash.
I found the ease of when I'm hungry.
You know, used to there were levels to this thing.
If you're hungry, you get up and you prepare something to eat.
But then we ended up, you know, with restaurants, I'm hungry.
I don't want to make it myself, so I'll go to a restaurant and
have them although sit me down at a table and they'll, you
know, prepare it for me and I'll just enjoy, you know, just
eating the food. But then there's another level
called fast food because food wasn't enough, we had to find a
way to make it fast quick convenient.
I don't have time to go sit down at a restaurant.
I'm hungry, but not hungry enough to go.
Sit in a restaurant, I have I'm hungry enough to drive through a
place in. My car order it without even
getting out of my car but then we were introduced to a whole
new level in 2020 called doordash.
I can literally sit at home. I'm hungry.
I don't even have to move, I don't have to get in my car and
drive to a restaurant. I don't have to get in my car
and drive to a fast food place. I don't have to even get out of
my chair from my phone. I can order in my pajamas.
Coffee breakfast dinner, all that stuff.
The only effort I had to give. Was to get up out of that chair,
walk to the front door. There's times.
I've literally thought, could they just walk it in to where
I'm at right now? Just, I've left the door
unlocked. Come in the front.
Drop it in my life. And I'm afraid in these last
days, we've created doordash disciples, I'm hungry enough as
long as someone else prepares it.
Brings it to me. I'll tell you exactly what I
want. How I want it the way I want it.
But I'm not hungry enough to get up and make it myself.
I'm not hungry enough to devote my time and my energy and my
effort to. I'm not hungry enough.
If I've got to actually invest some time in this and I'm not
hungry enough. If I've actually got to put some
work and he says, there are people, they would have given
everything to hear the Revelation, you are favored to
hear favorite to receive May we not be those that it has to be
prepared and made up and done, just right.
And if it's not delivered, the way we want it within the
confines of how he wanted within the timeframe that we wanted
within the Avenue that we wanted within the facility that we want
it within the location that we want it.
Through the man of God, that we want it.
The way they do it. I like loud preachers.
I like quiet preachers. I like teachers.
I like Apostles. I like of anxious.
I like loud music. I like soft music.
Why do we got to do with it? When we get rid of our
preferences, get rid of our opinions, get rid of our ideas,
get rid of, I got to have it my way.
This is not Burger King. This is Kingdom.
Come, your will be done and I align my values with your will
father. We thank you that your will for
us is great. It's mighty it is to our
benefit. Is that our best interest and we
do not require you to bow to our standards, we bow our standards
to your will to your plan to your purpose in Jesus name.
Amen. Thank you so much for listening
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