So the last Cup, last week, we started this thought process on
anointed terrain so that we could understand why there's an
anointing. And last week was Pentecost
Sunday. It's when the Holy Spirit got
poured out on the day of Pentecost and then those in the
upper room got filled with the Holy Spirit.
They began to speak in an unknown tongue and in languages.
Now when I say that, let me preface it.
It does not mean just because they heard their language that
the ones speaking were actually speaking the language.
It says they heard. I said they heard.
Now this actually happened at Anchor Fay Church when we were
over at this 312 location. Pastor David Emay, before he
went on to be with the Lord. In fact, it was the last time he
ministered in our church. He came on a Sunday and the Lord
spoke to me that morning and said, tell Pastor David that
he's going to minister this morning.
I didn't give him any warning. It just came up in the Spirit.
And I said, Pastor David, the Lord told me that you were going
to minister this morning, so the pulpit's yours.
So he said, OK. And so he obeyed the voice of
the Lord, and he ministered on the Holy Ghost.
He ministered on the power of the Holy Spirit.
I'll never forget it. We were actually in the back.
We were dealing with the county. We couldn't be up front.
We had to be pushed back. Remember we were been this three
3600 square feet, even though we had 10,000 square feet.
We were stuck in one little back section.
But he was back there and he was preaching.
Well, there was a lady that had come to the church that was
Spanish, and she could not understand English really at
all. So one of the ladies who brought
her new Spanish, and while he was preaching, she was
translating, whispering in her ear.
About halfway through the message, she looks over to her.
Her name was Tanya that was translating.
She said Tanya, you don't have to translate.
He's speaking in Spanish now. I can hear everything he's
saying, but he never changed language.
To everyone else it was English, but to her what she heard was
Spanish. It switched.
Are you hearing me so you don't may you may not know that when
you speak in an unknown tongue, although it's unknown to you, it
could be in the hearing of someone else exactly what they
need to hear. In fact, Doctor Rodney Howard
Browne gave us a particular testimony in his service that he
had ministered a message years ago.
It was actually on a tape back in the day when they were doing
tapes and some gentleman in the Philippines, I believe it was he
was, he had gained access to this tape on the anointing of
God. And so he put it in there, was
listening to it. And he ended up seeing Pastor
Rodney at some other time, I think 10 years later and says,
you saved my ministry. Thank you.
And he said how he's never met him before.
How did I save your ministry? He said, well, I was
discouraged. I was a pastor in the
Philippines. You know, things weren't going
great. And at the end of the day, you
know, I was ready to quit. But I got a little tape of yours
on the anointing and I put it in.
And while I was listening to it, I was shocked when you began to
speak in my language and begin to encourage me in my own
language. And he said, what was the title
of that? And he told him what it was.
He said when I got back home, I looked it up.
He said I had to go into the archives.
And so he said, I put the tape in.
I started to listen to it, and I only spoke English except for
one time. I began to speak in the spirit.
And that's all that was on the tape is me speaking in the
spirit. But when he heard that right,
the guy in the Philippines, trans, it was translated in his
hearing as the language that he understood.
He was shocked that Pastor Rodney knew his language, but
it's what encouraged him because he admonished him in that talk
to continue. Don't stop, don't quit, keep
moving, keep going. Are you hearing me?
So we need to understand why we're anointed to rain.
Amen because we are not just born again to die and go to
heaven. We've been born from above so
that we can make an impact on the earth and we need to do it
as God intended us to do. Are you hearing me?
So with that being said, let's pick back up in John chapter 12.
We read some of this last week and I'm going to finish on
because we want to talk about anointed terrain.
And it says on the next day, the large crowd who had come to the
feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him and
began to shout Hosanna blessed to see who comes in the name of
the Lord, even the King of Israel.
So they were announcing his kingship.
He goes on and says Jesus finding a young donkey sat on it
as it is written, as it is written, which means Jesus had
to find the donkey because it had been written.
He would come into Jerusalem this way years, decades,
centuries before he showed up. And so it says, fear not,
daughter of Zion, behold your what?
Your king is coming seated on a donkey's colt.
But then verse 16 says is these things his disciples did not
understand at the 1st, but when Jesus was glorified, then they
remembered that with that things, these things were
written of him and they that they had done these things to
him. So again, there was things that
Jesus was doing according to Scripture that the disciples
didn't understand while he was doing when he was doing it.
But after his death, burial, resurrection, and then they got
born again and filled with the Holy Ghost, they then had
understanding of all the things He had done and why He had done
them. Let's go on verse 18 for this,
or verse 17. So the people who were with him
when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the
dead continued to testify about him.
For this reason also the people went and met him, because they
they heard that he had performed this song.
So the Pharisees said to one another, You see that you are
not doing any good. Look, the world has gone after
you. Now there were some Greeks among
those who were going up to worship at the feast.
These then came to Philip who was from Bethsaida of Galilee
and began to ask him, saying, Sir, we wish to see Jesus.
Philip came and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip came and told
Jesus and Jesus answered them saying, the hour has come for
the Son of man to be glorified. Here it is verse 24.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, it remains what alone?
It remains what alone. But if it does, it bears much
fruit. Now before I finish this next
verse, I want to say a couple of things real quick.
So just keep this up. Here He is saying I am the seed.
Remember what it said in Genesis chapter 3 when the Lord came
down to Satan? He said I'll put my seed in the
woman. Are you hearing me now?
That's the seed. In order for the seed to produce
after its own kind, it must go in the earth or die.
If you have seeds and leave them on a shelf, you'll always have
seeds. You'll never have the fruit of
what's within the seed. Jesus knew if I'm going to
produce after the God kind again or the King kind, then I'm going
to have to do the will of my Father, which is to die so that
they I pay the price of all man's wrongdoing, transgression,
rebellion. And if they'll call on me as
being Lord, then I'll make them after my kind.
They can produce my fruit. That's why verse 25 goes on and
says he who loves his life what loses it, and he who hates his
life in this world will what? Keep it to life eternal.
Now listen, Jesus said unless the grain of wheat falls into
the earth and dies, it remains alone.
You know what he's saying? He's saying if you don't die to
yourself, you're going to remain alone.
In order for you to bear the fruit that he can bear, you're
going to have to lose your life as well.
Now, you don't have to physically die.
Jesus did. But we don't.
We have to die to self. We have to die to self.
We have to say, my spirit man that is separated from God in
rebellion to God, won't even go after God.
In order for me to be right with God, I'm going to have to die.
To sell, I'm going to have to kill that.
That's going to have to die. That's why the Bible says that
when we're born again, we become a new creature in Christ.
The old what passes away, we have a funeral service for the
old spirit man never to be resurrected.
Come on now, we don't want that to ever resurrect.
We don't want a resurrection of that.
And so that spirit is passed away or, or, or moved out of
this earthly tent, and we become a new creature.
Where in Christ? What does it mean in Christ?
It means in the King. Christ is the Messiah.
Christ is the King who would come and establish his Kingdom
and there would be no end. So when we say you're in Christ,
we're saying you are in the King.
When you're born again, you are positioned in the same seat that
Christ sits on the same seat. And that's the purpose for the
new birth. The new birth's purpose is not
to take you to heaven when you die.
The new birth's purpose is to cause you to be in Christ and
forever with the King. And whether the King's in heaven
or on earth, we're with him forever, Hallelujah.
And his Spirit is within us because when we're born again,
then the Bible says that his Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the
King, comes and lives on the inside of us and bears witness
with our spirit. We are what?
Children of God, children of God.
So Jesus is saying, who I am in the earth.
I want to make more because this was always God's intent from the
beginning, cause from the beginning in Genesis 126, we
know this. But you understand, we have
guests all the time. We have people that just come a
few times. And so it's very important for
us to always keep the context of the word of God because people
can walk in here and think they know what church is until they
find out man, I don't think I know what church is.
So in Genesis 126, in God's original creation before sin
ever came to the planet, God said, let us make man in our
image according to our likeness, and let them have dominion or
rule over the fish of the sea, birds of the sky, over all the
cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,
over all the earth. So God made both male and female
to have dominion or rulership in the realm of the earth as God
has rulership in the heavens. And so God from his realm would
speak to his man for his son Adam in this realm.
And Adam and Eve would both function by the word of God and
rule in this realm as God does there.
And he would in essence be a little king to the king.
So that is how God originally intended for us to live and to
be. However, God, because he created
us in a as a free will as well as the heavenly host.
He wants to know, do you love me, my son?
And in order to know whether he loves him or not, not because
he's not giving come breathe of his own nature to make man, he
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
So man is of the nature of God already, and God is love.
The question is, love is demonstrated through obedience.
So he says, Son, 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 die.
So if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today?
Right here on the planet. He never would have gone to
heaven, because heaven would always come here.
Wow. However, Adam did eat the fruit.
He abdicated his throne. He gave his dominion over to the
serpent who came in, which we know is the devil or Satan.
Satan received his dominion. That's why I'm the temptation of
Jesus and the Luke account. He said, I'll give you all these
kingdoms or domains in a moment of time, for they've been handed
over to me and I can give it to whoever I wish.
So the authority that the devil possessed was not stolen from
Adam. It was given to him by Adam.
Did he receive it through trickery or did he receive it
through manipulation? And did he receive it by lying?
Yes, but he received it nonetheless from Adam because
Adam ate the fruit and gave the dominion.
But Jesus came to take it back because the Father said, Satan,
I'm bringing my seed. I'm bringing my seed.
Jesus is in the garden now
because Adam lost dominion in the garden.
Jesus is in the garden to regain dominion.
How does he do it? By saying, Father, if there's
any other way to do this, let this cup pass.
Why does he ask this question? Because Jesus is not ignorant of
Abraham and Isaac that the Lord's told Abraham take your
son up to the mountain that I'll show you sacrifice him to me.
And when they got up there, he tied him up and he was about to
run the knife through his son. Believing that God must have the
power to resurrect the dead. Although there's never been a
resurrection ever before on the face of the planet prior to that
moment. And the Lord was not asking
Abraham to believe for a resurrection.
He just knew that God always did his word and if he said this son
is my covenant, I don't understand how I could kill him
and I lose my covenant child. So God must be able to raise the
dead that it must be a temporary suspension.
However, when he, when God knew there was nothing Abraham would
withhold from him, he said, don't do it, son, don't kill
your son. I've provided a ram in the
thicket and Jesus in the garden saying, Dad, is there another
way? Do you have a ram in the
thicket? But the father said, Son, there
is no other way. You are the lamb, you are to be
slain. Are you hearing me?
Why 'cause, son, if the if the grain of wheat does not die, it
cannot produce after its own kind.
And in order for man to be back in the position that I created
them in the 1st place, you're going to have to die for their
sin. You're going to have to pay
their price. You're going to have to take
care of every condition that that I would have a legal just
and, and a judging right as the king of my words that if they
acted this way, they would be separated from me.
But if you'll make that payment and they call on your name to be
saved, then you'll enact all the conditions that will allow them
to be saved. They would be able to walk in
newness of life. They would be free from the
guilt and shame. They would be free from that
bondage. They would be liberated.
Hallelujah. And so Jesus dies and he has
risen and now he is the mediator of a new and better covenant.
This is what I love about our King.
Is our King's alive to talk about it?
I said our King's alive to talk about it.
It's not like he died and left us a will, which you understand,
Old Testament. New Testament is just another
way of saying an old will and a new will, OK?
It's a covenant in essence. I died, and this is what I've
left you because of my death. But the cool thing is, is that
Jesus actually gets to show up in the room and say, well, this
is what I meant. So the devil can't come and
arbitrate your will, although he's doing it for some.
He's doing it. He said, well yeah, Jesus died
for you, you know, but he doesn't heal you down here.
You know, that's only if he wills it done and he don't will
it for everybody. Well, you don't want to listen
to him as your arbitrator of your covenant right?
No, Jesus would get in a room and say that's a lie because
he's a liar. No, by hit by my stripes you're
healed. You've got a covenant right to
walk in healing now. You've got a covenant right to
be prosperous now. You have a covenant right to
have joy now. You do not have to wait until
you get you to sweet by and by to reign in this life now and
here's the kicker, not only do you reign, I've anointed you to
reign. I've given you power to reign.
This isn't like hypothetical stuff.
This is I actually possess power.
That's why it says in John chapter one verse 32 to 33 John
testifies saying I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out
of heaven and he remained upon him say upon him, I did not
recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to
me, he upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining
upon him. This is the one who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit. Are you hearing me So John in
essence Saul the anointing of the king.
We talked about this last week that when the king is anointed,
when God goes to anoint kings, he anoints them with power.
The Old Testament type and shadow is oil was laid upon the
the human that they would anoint as king over the nation of
Israel and oil is a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit.
Well Jesus has the Holy Spirit come upon him without measure.
Now here's someone Jesus, who knew no sin, never sinned.
In fact, up to this 30 year span of 0 to 30, He's never blown it
one time. His nature is perfect.
He's fulfilled the law and all of its requirements.
He's never sinned once. Yet the Father will not let him
go minister until the Holy Spirit comes upon him.
I don't want you talking about my Kingdom until the Holy Ghost
comes upon you. And we said this last week in
another passage of this context of being baptized by the Holy
Spirit. After John baptized him in water
and the the heavens opened up and the Spirit descended upon
him and he was filled with the Holy Spirit.
He said, John said I have need of you to baptize.
Me listen, everyone in this room has need to be baptized by the
Holy Ghost to be baptized by the Holy Ghost.
Why is it that a believer when they realize when I say a
believer, a Sinner when they realize I am not going to be in
a relationship with the Father unless I accept Jesus Christ of
my Lord I'm I have to change everything that I think I know
about being right with God. My way isn't good enough.
The right things I do is not good enough that everything I
try to do is only death. We have this revelation that the
Holy Spirit says there's only one way to the Father is through
Jesus Christ their son and both men and women will humble
themselves with all their heart to confess that Jesus Christ
died on the cross, rose from the grave, and that he is Lord,
which is not a religious word. It means supreme in authority.
He is supreme in the authority of my life.
Are you hearing me? But yet when he says now get
baptized in the Spirit, then we want to debate whether we need
it or not, whether we need it or not.
At the end of the day, is it true that a person could confess
Jesus and Lord and not be baptized in the Holy Ghost and
if they die, they go to heaven? Sure.
But again, that's not why you're supposed to be born again
anyway. You're not supposed to be born
again to know where you go when you.
All religions are asking that question, Every religion.
Jesus did not come to satisfy that answer for you.
He came to give you life and life more abundantly now, and he
came to crown you and to indo you with power.
The same spirit that came upon Jesus.
He came so that you could be an unstoppable force in the planet
and do the same works that Jesus.
Jesus said the works that I do, come on, the works that I do
well, Jesus did none of those works till he was baptized in
the Holy Ghost. Didn't do one of them, didn't
heal a person, didn't cast out a devil, didn't do any till after
he was baptized in the Holy Spirit.
And so we say, you know, that we can do the same works that he
does. Well.
Do you have the same power that he has and that's just not the
Spirit of God within it has to be the Spirit of God upon you'll
do the greater works if you do so.
This is why in Acts chapter one verse three.
Look what it says here. It says to these he that's Jesus
also presented himself alive after his suffering by many
convincing proofs appearing to them over a period of 40 days.
Now look what Jesus is talking after his resurrection and
Speaking of things concerning the Kingdom of God.
You know what? Jesus was not speaking, He
wasn't saying. Now listen, I have died and
risen from the dead. This is all I want you to tell
people. Be born again.
Ask them, do you know where you're going to go when you die?
That is not what the risen King told his disciples to say.
The risen king told his disciples, you go tell them
about the Kingdom. Now, here's the cool thing.
If you're going to learn about the Kingdom, people are going to
be like what happens in Acts chapter 2, what must we do?
And Peter's going to say, well, the door is you must repent,
believe. You're going to have to confess
Jesus as Lord. You must be born again or born
from above. Because Jesus told Nicodemus
this when he said, man, it's obvious you're coming from the
Kingdom. You're not of this world.
And Jesus said, listen, unless a man's born again, he shall not
enter the Kingdom. He shall not see the Kingdom.
But again, it's entering into something you possess.
And Kingdom is not heaven because if it was heaven, this
prayer of Jesus would make no sense.
Our Father, come on, say it with me who art in heaven hallowed be
your name, your Kingdom come, your will on as so heaven and
earth are locations. Kingdom can be in both Heaven
and earth are locations, but the Kingdom can be in both.
Your Kingdom come, Heaven will always exist.
Earth will always exist. It will be redeemed.
I said It will be redeemed. God is not getting rid of planet
Earth. It will have a global warming
moment though. That is true.
He'll burn it with fire and it'd be no problem for us.
Go. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
could stand in the fiery furnace, seven times hotter and
hot while it's going on. It can be burning around us.
And we're watching the renovation take place.
We're watching the restoration, the redemption of the Earth.
I can hear all the guys now. Now that's a fire.
See, the biggest bonfire I've ever seen in my life.
Wow. It reaches up to the heavens.
And we won't have to call one fire department.
We'll get a, we'll get a restored earth, glory to God.
And after that's done, you get the new heaven and the new
earth. Then it says the new Jerusalem
is going to come down out of heaven to the eternal capital of
the world. Jerusalem is the eternal capital
of the world, and King Jesus and the Father are going to be right
here with us. Man, read your Bible.
So he's speaking about the Kingdom of God.
He said, gathering them together, He commanded them not
to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had
promised, which he said, You heard of me where John baptized
with water, but you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit
not many days from now. Now, this is something after the
John 20 account where he breathed into his disciples that
received the Holy Spirit. He walked in through the, you
know, walls, you know, popped through the walls because He's
in his glorified body. He pops through the wall and
there they are, and he breathed on him and said, receive the
Holy Ghost. Well, there's nothing Jesus ever
said that didn't come to pass. So they all received the Holy
Spirit. In essence, Jesus saw the new
birth in that room. But now this is the kingship.
This is where the anointing comes.
This is where the kingship come. This is where the kings of the
king are born. This is where the kings of the
King are commissioned. We call it the Great Commission.
Well, you better get baptized in the Holy Ghost.
Amen. Now, let me just say this.
Well, Pastor Earl, I can hear it.
Well, Pastor Earl, you know, there's plenty of people out
there that wasn't baptized in the Holy Ghost and told people
about Jesus and they've been born again and all that.
So that means nothing to me. You know why Jesus said, see
these Pharisees over here to the crowd, do what they say, but
don't do what they Am I supposed to be impressed because
somebody's born again but not baptized in the Holy Ghost and
because they can share about Jesus and someone gets born
again, the word will produce on its own.
A lost person could give the plan of salvation and a person
could get born again because the Word has power.
The word alone has power, but God never intended for his
children to be born of him. But not half his anointing never
intended that. Never.
And if you know you need to be born again, then you need to go
ahead and settle. I need to have the anointing.
I need to have the Commission of kingship.
Jesus says don't even go anywhere until let's read it.
These are guys who have the Holy Spirit, he says.
So when they had come, yeah, I just read in verse four,
gathering them together, he said, but to wait, say wait, but
to wait, but to wait but to wait because he never wants to send
them out among wolves without their authority, without all the
power the Kingdom offers. Verse six.
So when they had come together, they were asking him saying,
Lord, is it time for you time? You are restoring the Kingdom of
Israel again, we're all consumed about the Kingdom and so was
Jesus. And he said to them, It is not
for you to know the times are epochs which the Father has
fixed for by His own authority. But you will receive what power
when the Holy Spirit has come, what upon you?
And you shall be my witnesses? That's when you need to go
witness. I mean, your witnessing goes to
a whole nother level. Your witnessing goes to a whole
nother level. Why?
Because you have an arsenal from the Kingdom to bring
demonstrations like Jesus, because Jesus did not minister
till the Holy Spirit came upon him in both in Jerusalem and all
Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest parts of the world.
Guess where we're at? We're in the remotest parts of
the world. And so we are to have an
anointing to do the work God's called us through.
Look what it says in John 2220. John first, John 220, first John
220. He says, but you have an
anointing from the Holy One. You all know, man, you know when
you have the anointing, I said, you know, now here's the thing.
I don't always feel the anointing, but I have the
anointing. And the reason I know I have it
because I had the first evidence that it came on me.
And that is I spoke in the language of the Kingdom.
Not complicated, not hard, not an issue.
And again, it's false doctrine and it's the devil trying to
keep you from your power. When people teach that if you're
speaking in an unknown tongue that that's of the devil, that
is a lie. Jesus dealt with this.
He said no way. If you asked your father for a
loaf of bread would he give you a rock.
If he gave SAS for fish would he give you a serpent?
He said how much more if you ask for the Holy Spirit.
So Jesus was very clear about this because he knew the devil
would come and attack the power because he does not want you to
rise to your kingship in the earth.
The devil would love for you to only believe that all you got
are received was a a knowing that heaven where is where you
go when you die. Because when, if that's all you
know, you'll be no earthly menace to him on the planet.
None. Be very easy for him to continue
to do his plans, his schemes, his stuff, because you know what
you won't know and you'll take up this nice religious mantra.
Oh Lord Jesus, come back quickly.
You know, because the devil, he sure is coming after us.
Man, there's so many terrible things.
I can't wait to go to heaven. Like we want to abandon
everything and the devil's like, please abandon it all because
the longer you don't know who you are, the longer I get to
rule. But the minute you begin to know
who you are and know what you're supposed to say.
Well then as time gets cut short because Jesus said I when this
gospel of the Kingdom is preached in every nation as a
testimony, then the end will come.
And when you realize man, I'm born of the King.
I am a king in the earth. I'm anointed as king because
I've received an anointing from the Holy One.
I know I have it. I know I have him, I know He's
in me, but I know He's upon me. I know I have his power.
I know I've been authorized. I know I've been made in His
likeness. I know that I walk in his
authority because all authority has been given to him in heaven
and earth and under the earth. I walk as a king of the the
earth, now as an ambassador to the Kingdom.
Isaiah talks about this anointing, how powerful it is.
How do I know? Because people don't recognize
you were anointed to reign. There is nothing in your life
you should not have victory over.
The anointing he placed on your life is a powerful anointing.
Isaiah 1027 talks about how powerful this is.
And it shall come to pass in that day.
Say it's that day. We are living in that day.
I said we are living in that day.
Look to your neighbor, Say it's that day.
Say it's that day He said it shall come to pass in that day.
That his burden shall be taken away from him off thy shoulders
and his yoke from off thy neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing. Whoa.
It's that day. I said.
It's that day. I have no yoke on my mind.
I have no yoke on my emotions. I have no yoke on my feelings.
I have no yoke, no burden on me. I have cast my cares.
I have been set free. There's nothing, nothing I face
that we do not conquer, not overcome.
I have been given the anointing, Yeah.
Now this Scripture also says in others, this is really a good
analogy. This is a yoke that is on an ox,
and it says that the anointing or that the yoke is broken
because of it says fatness, Fatness.
It's the it's the only time you want to have fatness.
Are you hearing me? So what that means is, is that
joke on that ox, that ox has gotten so strong that the
muscles in its neck has been able to break that thing.
I can't control the strength of his neck.
It just breaks it off and God is placed within you and upon you a
power that breaks, and I mean it breaks and destroys, destroys
past relationships, destroys what your Mama did to you, what
your daddy did to you. It destroys generational curses.
Come on. You hear what I'm saying right
now? It destroys racism.
It destroys prejudices. It destroys lack.
It destroys it all. I mean, the church is anointed.
Wow. We've been anointed to reign.
Nothing bonds me. Nothing holds me.
Nothing controls me. Glory to God, there's a freedom
in this place right now. I said there's a freedom.