Well, the Lord is good, and His mercy endures.
For how long? How long do you believe that?
Amen. Turn over to Ephesians chapter
2. In Ephesians chapter 2, we're
going to start in verse 4 and go to verse 7.
So excited to be ministering. How many have been enjoying
Wednesday night service with Pastor Marcy's?
The Lord is your shepherd. Hallelujah, man.
It's been powerful. Obviously we weren't here
Wednesday night because Pastor Mike and I had was, was
traveling, but I've been here in powerful testimonies and I'm
thankful for that. And she's got another week of of
ministry on that subject, so you don't want to miss it.
Amen. In Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4
through 7, it says this but God say but God come on say but God
say but God now this but God comes after a bad report of your
life, a bad report of all humanity, that all have sinned,
that everyone is outside of the family of God, destined to be
judged and separated eternally. They are full of sin, full of
rebellion, are against and away from God.
They are dead in spirit but God, but God, But God being what?
Rich in mercy? Aren't you glad he's merciful?
Aren't you glad he's a merciful God?
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with
which he loved us even when we were dead in our transgressions,
made us alive together with Christ.
By grace you have been saved and raised us up with Him and seated
us with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the
ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace
in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
You know, it's the kindness of God that draws us to repentance.
And so God is rich in mercy. He is rich and the reason he can
be rich is because his love has paid the price for all of our
wrongdoing. I liken it this way.
A lot of times, you know, we, we and we'll minister next year
concerning the difference between grace and mercy because
there's a difference. A lot of times we invoke the
word grace when we really should be saying it's the mercy of God.
It's not the grace of God, It's the mercy of God because the
mercy of God and the grace of God are different.
But when it comes to the mercy of God and God has done, has
paid the price for your every wrongdoing you've ever done, I'm
told. I'm saying before you even got
out of your mother's womb, he's already paid the price for it.
There is no wrongdoing. You can do that.
It's not already paid in full. Are you hearing me?
So I want us to get a little better picture of the mercy of
God because we've all experienced this kind of mercy
in the natural. All right, Now, I'm not going to
make you have a show of hands, but maybe most of us that are of
driving age have exceeded the speed limit at some time in our
life. And as a result of that, we just
happen to exceed it when the police were watching and
monitoring it. In fact, I passed 2:00 today.
Yeah. Now, when I said pass, I didn't
blow past them. You understand, I was on the
road. Can I can I just pause for a
second? I'm going to come back to this
story. I have learned what it means to
function properly with power because when I purchased a
particular vehicle that has, that's built for power, right?
You have to be wise when you possess power.
I've been at lights and all of a sudden things happen with the
other vehicles. If it causes them to want to
challenge my power, they just look over and they see me and
they like, oh, I have literally had them take off as if we were
racing. And in my mind concerning which
vehicle that took off, I think to myself, if you only knew what
I could do, but I restrain myself.
Are you hearing me? And so today, you know, I wanted
to get to service. I get excited about getting to
service. And so when this an open Rd.
sometimes, you know, the desire to I put mine in sports mode
today, not because I had to. I just wanted to not that I
drove as a sports car. I just put it in that mode.
And so it was tempting to want to say, let me just do 20 miles
real fast and then come back off.
You know what I'm saying? Just get up there real quick and
then come right back, right? And every time I have, I
thought, no. And then all of a sudden there
was a police officer with the gun out.
I thought, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
I restrained myself, right? And so then I turned off to go
to down another St. and nobody's on the road.
That thought came. Just hit it right.
You have power. I'm like, Nah, you know, I
didn't. Then when I got to the end of
the road, hit the stop sign, there was a police officer
across the road. He'd have watched me just fly
up. Well, you know what happened
then? Yeah, I'd have seen the light.
So you know how many of us have seen the light?
We have seen the light. We've done those things where
all of a sudden someone, you know, pulls you over and you
know, they asked the proverbial question, Sir, did you know you
were speeding? You know, now some of y'all
aren't honest. You lie right out the gate,
right? No, I didn't.
For me, it's like, yes, Sir, right?
I mean, let's just tell the truth.
What's coming's coming at the end of the day, right?
So what do they do? Typically they go at that point,
they pulled up, they grab your license, they go sit back in the
car and they let you sweat a little bit, right, 'cause, you
know, I have been caught, it is justified, I am wrong.
And the ticket they give me, it is due.
I have to pay the price period for my wrongdoing, right?
You see them because you're watching them in your rearview
mirror, you know, you're trying to act calm and cool, you know,
not sweat and get all upset, right?
And then all of a sudden they get out of the vehicle and they
start walking up and they hand you your license back, you know,
and your insurance card. And they said, and I'm going to
give you a warning. Anybody gotten a warning before?
All right, I'm going to give you that's called mercy.
I'm going to give you a warning. You need to just slow down,
right? Because what they've done is
they've looked at your record and because your record's been
clean, you understand what I'm saying?
Because your record's been clean or there's something, there's
something they decided. Now, it's not like they don't
think this probably ain't the first time.
Maybe they log your mercy moments, You know, Now, I'm not
a police officer, but I kind of have that little idea myself
warning on this vehicle. And if that happens within a
month, then the next guy's like, you already had a warning, bro.
You're getting a ticket anyway. You received the warning.
You drive off, you're like, and what's usually the first words
out of your mouth. Thank you, Jesus, thank God I
didn't get a ticket, right? Amen.
In fact, let's even go one more you now let's don't do that one.
So anyway, you drive off and you know, mercy has happened.
And usually we take this thought that that's how God is, but
that's not how God is. Let me tell you why, because we
know that he just gave you mercy and that the penalty for your
wrongdoing is not paid. It's as it's treated as if it
didn't happen. However, that's not how your sin
is treated like it didn't happen.
So Jesus, if he was the police officer stopping you and says,
do you know that you were speeding?
Yes, Sir, I'm sorry. You repent and they take your
stuff. They run your thing, come back
and say I'm going to give you a warning because, you know, Jesus
gave warnings, go and send no more.
And so give a warning. But what you don't know is Jesus
then sits down in the car and writes out the ticket and the
penalty, and then goes back to the station and pulls out of his
own pocket the price of the ticket that's in your name and
pays it on your behalf. The reason he can extend mercy
is because he knows this isn't going unpaid.
I'll pay it, which gives me the ability to extend this mercy
because everything has to be paid.
And the reason you can receive mercy from Jesus is not because
you get away with it, it's because he'll pay it so you
don't have to. And that's called mercy.
So anytime mercy comes to us, know that Jesus took it himself.
But God being what? Rich in mercy?
Being rich in mercy, every time mercy came running to us, Jesus
said, I, I paid it, I paid it, I paid it, I paid it.
When you walked away free without that penalty, I paid it.
The debt was satisfied. But God being rich in mercy,
because of his great love, of which he loved us when we were
dead in our transgression, made us alive together with Christ,
verse 6, but raised us up with him, and seated, say seated, say
seated, seated with him. Where?
In heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
This word seated means to cause to sit together, to cause, to
sit together, to place together. So he has seated us, He's caused
us, He's placed us together with Him, He's placed us together
with him, He's placed us together with him.
You're not saved out of hell and they're not safe.
When you're safe from something, you're saved to something.
Most people know what they're safe from, but they don't know
what they're saved to. They don't know what they've
been delivered out of and what they've been delivered into.
You had a position change when Jesus became Lord of your life.
He repositioned you. He placed you in a different
seat. OK, I know we've taught along
these lines, but man, we need to be reminded.
Just like last week. I know we talk about faith, but
man, we need to be reminded because you understand, we are
living in a time frame of the world that the church has to
remind themselves what seat they're on, where they're
seated. I said where they're seated.
Because when you don't know where you're seated, or if you
don't stay in the seat, there can become problems.
But while you were yet a Sinner, Christ died for you.
Paid the price. He's very merciful, which means
He's talking to us all the while, encouraging us and
drawing on us to receive His forgiveness.
Receive the blood that paid full price for all of our wrongdoing.
Get us out of one position into another position, and get us
put. Place us on His seat.
He wants us to sit down together with Him.
Amen. The Murdoch translation says
this. But God, who was rich in his
mercies, because of his great love with which He loved us when
we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah,
and rescued us by his grace, and resuscitated us with him, and
seated us with him and in heaven in Jesus the Messiah.
Messiah is the Hebrew word which is the anointed one in his
anointing. Christ is the Greek word that is
the equivalent. Both of those are making
reference to Jesus the King. Say he's the King and he is
seated on a throne. Thrones are in kingdoms, not
religions. And aren't you glad that God has
given us his seat? Amen.
Now when I say given us His seat, that doesn't mean He stood
up and he said, take a seat. He is in the seat and we are in
him. Hallelujah, we are in the same
seat. He's in glory to God.
I said glory to God. The Amplified classic says it
this way. And He raised us up together
with Him, and made us sit down together, giving us here it is
joint seeding with Him in the heavenly sphere by the virtue of
our being in Christ Jesus the Messiah, the Anointed One.
Amen. I mean, that's you going to a
place, getting invited to a place that, you know, I don't
even deserve to show up based upon who I am, my nature.
But there's been an invitation. And when you came in, in
essence, when you got to the door, you were in filthy rags.
You're not dressed for the occasion and you you answer.
You rang the doorbell, you've been invited.
The king is called and they open the door.
And when the door is open, which is the cross of Jesus Christ,
the minute you hit the doorway, you don't know how it happens,
but they pull off your filthy rags and clothe you in royalty.
You get into the house in a whole different apparel.
You're in King's clothings now. You've been robed in right.
Come on, you've been robed in righteousness.
You've been in right standing with the governing Thor.
You have the robe of right. You have the helmet of the crown
on your head is a is a headdress of salvation.
You have a ring on your finger that shows the authority and it
has his name on it. You have the King's ring and
then he ushers you into the banquet hall.
You go past the the last row, though you would have been
satisfied just to be in the room.
He gets you past the middle way and he takes you all the way up
to the platform and sits you in the same seat that he's in.
He puts you in the banquet from the same vantage point that the
king sits in. That amazing.
Wow. The problem is, is that we've
been outside the building for so long we don't think we know how
to act on the seat. But training starts in the seat.
I said training starts from that position.
Psalms 2910 says if the Lord sat as king at the flood, yes, the
Lord sits as king. How long come on?
How long come on church, How long?
I mean, I can finish in 5 minutes if you like, if you just
participate with me, right? I mean, yes, the Lord what sits
as king, How long? Forever Psalms 47, Eight says
God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
Glory to God, aren't you glad that our King sits on the
throne? He's never been dethroned.
He cannot be dethroned. It doesn't even matter about the
nations of the earth because our King reigns over all the
nations. When I visited Rodney Howard
Brown, I went to his church and, you know, spent a little time
with him. We were talking about the
election prior to November the 5th.
And he was, you know, obviously active in that sector of society
as well. And he was talking about, you
know, the things that were coming up and, you know, he was
concerned about our nation, concerned about his direction,
concerned about policies. And he said he was praying to
the Lord and I was talking to him.
And the Lord says, Son, do you think I care who's in the White
House? Now, that doesn't mean God
doesn't care. But what he was referencing is
that it doesn't matter who's in. I'm on the throne.
So he said, do you want to know if I care who gets elected?
I'm telling you right now, I don't care who it is because
Jesus is on the throne. And guess what?
If Jesus is on the throne, then guess who else is?
There? You are because you're seated in
that place, Amen. Now, that doesn't release us of
our responsibility of civic duty.
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that when it's
all said and done, he reigns over the nation's.
One of those nations happened to be the United States of America.
He rules over it, Amen. And his throne, he sits on it.
So you need to understand his seat of authority is our seat of
authority. I said, his seat of authority is
our seat of authority. Praise the Lord, I said, praise
the Lord, glory to his name. Look what it says in Ephesians
chapter one. This is one what we call one of
Pauline Paul's prayers to the church starting in verse 17.
He says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory may give to you. That's us a spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him.
He said, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so
that you may know what is the hope of his calling, What are
the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints.
Do you know you have an inheritance and that you can
walk in that inheritance now because Jesus has died and risen
and he has given you an inheritance that you can have
now. Not what?
Not not to wait till you get to heaven.
You can walk in that inheritance now.
And what is the surpassing greatness?
Look at these words that are describing greatness and God in
these awesome things. I mean, we see riches, we see
surpassing, we're seeing wisdom, revelation, we, he wants us to
know these things, He said. What is the surpassing greatness
of his power toward us? Not against us, but toward, you
know, God's not against you. God's not against his own
people. He's made power available toward
us. We are not weak, beat down,
barely getting along, or, you know, holding on until we either
die or the trumpet blows and we're caught up together with
him. No, He's given us a surpassing
greatness of power towards those us who what belief now is
required in order to receive. He goes on to say these are in
accordance to the working of the strength of his might, which he
brought about in Christ. When say when?
When he raised him from the dead.
Has he been risen? Has has He risen from?
Has He risen from the dead? Has he been raised up when he
raised him from the dead, and seated him at his right hand in
heavenly places? Now what does that seat give
Jesus? Far above all rule, and
authority, and power and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.
And He put all things, say all things in subjection under His
feet, and gave Him as head over all things to The Who are we,
Who are we, Who are we? We're the church, which is his
body, the fullness of Him who feels All in all.
His seat of authority is our seat of authority.
Hallelujah. When we stay in sin
consciousness, we never take our seat.
We never take our seat when we stay in sin consciousness, when
all we do is think about who we were before Christ and we live
the existence. This is this is who I was.
This is who I was. Oh man, I don't deserve this.
Who I was, this is who I was. And all the while the King's
like, take a seat. Come on, take your seat.
Because what you're in doesn't have to wait till you get to me.
You're no longer subject to the flesh anymore.
You're no longer subject to the devil anymore.
You understand? Let's talk about rulers.
Let's talk about authorities. Let's talk about powers.
Let's talk about dominions. He said that they are.
He is far above. Not just above, but what?
Far above? I mean, it's like it's not even
close. Not even close.
None of you would never want to if, if Jesus Christ, if Jesus
Christ was an athlete on a team, you would never want to go to
his games because they would only be blowouts.
They would only be blowouts because he's far above.
He's far above. It's not even close.
I said it's not even close. I saw this little parody where
this little kid came to his mom and was upset because they
played a Christian School and they said, you know, Jesus was
working for the team. Y'all see that little thing
isn't that funny? He's like, they got hurt and
Jesus healed them. You know, that was really good.
You can't win. I thought that was really funny,
but that's how it is. You know, you praying, if you're
playing against God, you can't win.
I said you can't win if you're playing against God.
You can't win because if God be for you, who can be against you?
Listen, you have to, you have to get this vantage point that now
that I'm in Christ, the things of this world are far below me.
Now when I make that statement, I'm not saying that in a pride
like yard beneath me. I'm saying that the issues that
cause death and destruction are far beneath you.
Far beneath you. If you get caught up in
something, it's not because it had the power to run you down.
You are letting it, you've heard it say before that you know,
some teams are so good that they they can't be beat.
They have to just lose the game. I mean, for Jesus to be
defeated, he would just have to not participate.
And so when things are happening in our lives, it's only because
we're not participating. Because when you participate
with Jesus, you are far above all, say all.
There's no principality or power, none that can overtake
you, none. So if you're in something today,
you need to say man no more. You need to see that which has
attacked you as weak and you have the ability to overcome it
with such a victory that you'll forget you even had the battle.
I said you'll forget you even had the battle.
Hallelujah. Look what it says in Psalms
chapter 2 verses one through 4. It says, Why do the nation's
assemble with commotion, uproar with confusion of voices, right?
And why do people imagine, meditate upon devices and empty
scheme? The kings of the earth take
their places, the rulers take counsel together against the
Lord and his anointed. 1 The Messiah, the Christ.
They say, let us break their bands of restraint asunder, and
cast their cords of control from us.
He who sits in it, the heavens, what does he do?
Laughs. The Lord has them in derision
and in supreme content. He mocks them.
So you understand when the Lord is looking at what's going on in
the planet and the attacks that nations are doing against His
church, what is our Father doing?
What's he doing? What's he doing?
He's laughing, he's laughing, he laughs at it.
Ha ha ha ha. He, he, he, he, he, he, he.
He's a laugher, he's laughing. The only time you're going to
get God over into grieving is when you as a child are not
yielding to the overwhelming power he's already given you on
the seat. Because he's not grieving over
the nation's as far as that they're a legitimate threat.
They're not a legitimate threat. They're not because he laughs at
all their efforts. He's laughing at it because he
knows, man, my power is far above all this rule, all this
power, all this principality, all this power and dominion,
it's over it all. It's not even close.
And he's so merciful. I said he's so merciful because
when it's time to bring wrath to the ones who don't yield to his
mercy and receive him as their Lord, it's not a good day for
them. It's not a good day because God
has all power. I said he has all power.
Isn't that amazing? I said, isn't that amazing?
So he laughs. He goes on and says this, Now
listen in Psalms, he's communicating of something to
come because we're not talking about King David here.
We're not talking about King David when he makes this
statement in verse six. He says, yet the King of heaven,
he, he says, yet I have appointed, installed in place my
king, Say, my king firmly on my holy hill of Zion I will declare
the decree of the Lord. And he said to me, You are my
son. This day I declared, I have
begotten you. What happened on the day when
Jesus went down to the Jordan and John baptized him in the
river, and when he came up, the heavens opened up and the Holy
Spirit descended upon him? That's the anointing full
measure. The anointing without measure
came upon Jesus. Because that's what you do to
kings, You anoint them. And then the Father decreed,
This is my beloved Son, and whom I am well pleased.
For God so loved the world, the systems of the world, that he
gave his own only begotten Son. Who is this King of glory?
Come on, who is this King of glory?
He said, I've set him on the hill of Zion.
I've placed him back in the earth.
I have made him king of all the earth.
My Mama, I said my Mama, he's made a, he's made him king, and
he has established him as the head and not the tail.
He's above and not beneath. He's never been defeated.
He is placed on the seed of the power of the right hand of God.
For what does it say in Luke 2269?
But from now on, the Son of Man, one translation says the son of
Adam, the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the
power of God. Man when he made this statement,
they went ballistic. Now this is at his trial his his
illegal trial that they had to be able to move him towards
crucifixion. All right.
And so he says the Son of man will be seated will be what?
Come on, say it will be what? Seated at the right hand of the
power of God? Well, if Jesus is seated there,
where are you seated? Where are you seated?
So how can you be inferior? Because again, he's already
raised you up. Before you even confess Christ,
His hope for you is that you would get to the place He sees
you. This is His desire for you, that
while you're yet a Sinner, He raised you up.
That means He gave opportunity for you to get to that seat.
All you have to do is call on the name of the Lord, and he'll
transfer you out of the domain of darkness, walk you straight
into the palace, take you straight to the throne of grace.
You can go straight to the Father in His name, and you can
go see Dad and sit at his right hand.
Oh my gosh, He makes you worthy. You worthy to come.
You're not walking into his throne room.
Beat down, unworthy. I don't deserve.
You're a child of the king. It is your seat.
It has your name on it. It's a sign.
Seating. It's a sign.
See, you want to go to the Father?
Come on, Brian, bring me that seat.
You want to come to the Father? You want to go to him.
You want to pray to your heavenly Father in the name of
Jesus when you begin to commune with him, the Father is sitting
on his throne in heaven. And the Bible tells us that we
can boldly come before the throne of grace.
So there's the seat of God right here.
And when you come in prayer, we're going to kind of
demonstrate you're like in essence, if you could see it in
the Spirit that when you begin to say, Father in the name of
Jesus, I come to you. If you could see, it's as if the
Father's saying you've come into his, Oh my goodness, you've come
into his course with Thanksgiving and pray.
You understand you've come into his course because courts are in
kingdoms, not religions. All right?
You've come into his courts and you come to make your petition
known. And when you walk into his
court, this is what Dad says. Dad says son or daughter.
Well, come on, get in your seat. Come talk to me.
You're not talking to him from hey, Dad, you're not opening the
door of the court and saying, Dad, are you there?
Right? Because when he hears your
voice, he says, we'll come on in.
I got a seat for you. Get in your seat, son.
So when I'm praying in Christ in the position, this is what it
looks like in heaven. Hey, dad, he's right here.
People like man, how close. I said I didn't feel like I'm
close to God. If you only knew.
When you begin to pray and go before the throne of grace in
God, it's like you're seated right beside him.
He's not hard to hear him because you're right by him.
You have his ear. Hey, Dad, I just need to talk to
you about a few things. Come on.
Are you hearing me? You're seated at his right hand,
I said. You're seated at his right hand,
man, You need to have a seat. You need to take your seat.
You need to rest in the seat he placed you.
I mean, yes, you didn't deserve it.
I get it. You didn't deserve it, I get it.
But God always destined it from the original creation of Adam
that we would have dominion and it would be our seat all the
while. And when Adam left the seat, he
abandoned the seat. The Lord says, I will send my
son so that man can have his seat again.
And those who call on the name of the Lord, it's not like,
well, you know, because again, what do we do when we try to, we
get really religious in our humility, right?
Really religious in our humility.
And I won't do this because I don't want to take the cameras
off, but we want to run to the back and sit there and act like
that's humility. But the God never saw you in the
back of the room. Even in your trespasses and sin,
He doesn't see you in the back of the room.
It was never where you were supposed to feel like you
deserve. He's telling you your worth.
I'm where I'm at today. Not because of me, not because
what I think, what I feel. I just want to be where he told
me. And he said, son, this is your
seat. Have a seat.
Have a seat, son. Well, Dad, that's right beside
you. Yeah, I know.
That's your chair, daughter. That's your chair.
This has been your chair before.
The foundations of the world. Oh my goodness, are you hearing
what I'm saying? If we go on to this same Psalm,
Psalms chapter 2, verses 10:50, it says therefore now, O kings,
plural, well, who are these kings?
I said, who are these kings? He said, act wisely, be
instructed and warned. O you rulers of the of the what?
What are you supposed to be doing right now?
You're supposed to be ruling and reigning now.
You don't have to wait to get to heaven to rule and reign.
You're to rule and reign now. You're his kings in the earth.
You have access to his throne in heaven.
You are spiritually positioned and seated at the right hand of
the Father, at the right hand of power because that's the seed of
Christ and you are in Christ, which now enables you to be at a
function as a king of the earth. This is why he says act wisely,
have instruction. This is why the the Paul in the
Ephesians said that you would receive a spirit of wisdom and
revelation. Why?
Because kings must know what the Father is saying.
Because what He wants done in His rulership in heaven, He
wants it to manifest on the earth through His children,
which are His kings. And if you want His will to be
done in the earth as it is in heaven, then you need to take a
seat. He says serve the Lord with
reverent awe and Worshipful fear, rejoice and be in high
spheres with trembling, lest you displease Him.
And the only way you're at you displease the Lord is if you're
not in faith. Without faith, it's impossible
to please him. And faith comes by hearing and
hearing from the word of God. And that faith is being a doer
of what you heard. And when you do what he says,
he's not displeased because he's like, you're the kings of the
earth. I'm the king in heaven.
And I've authorized you in the name of Jesus.
The seat that you're seated on, the seat that's at the right
hand of my power, I've authorized you to perform, to
do, and to expand my Kingdom. You are the light of the world,
so we have to now set our minds to the one who sits on the
throne because our seat is not here, our seats up in heaven.
Our authority is from there, but it extends into here.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Look what it says in Colossians
chapter 3 verses one through 3. It says this.
Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep
seeking the things above where Christ is, and where is Christ
seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above,
not on the things that are on the earth, for you have died and
your life is hidden with Christ in God.
The Rick Renner or which is the Renner interpretive version, It
says this. Since then you are raised
together with Christ, earnestly and intensely seek the things
that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Focus your mind on the many things that are above and don't
get stuck in low level thinking about temporary things here on
the earth. Can I get an Amen?
Don't get stuck in low level things.
Are you hearing me? So what does this tell me?
It gave me this, this illustration in my mind.
I am seated at the right hand of the Father in heavenly places.
I have access, not just I mean, I have access to sit by, not
just to show up in a small corner, not to be on the fringe.
I'm talking right next to him. And man, when you're here,
unless you're just deaf and cannot hear at all, you are.
How will you miss what he's saying?
He's right here. And I don't mean that in a
derogatory manner. I'm just saying he's right here.
I mean, we're this close. OK, Wait till we get to the next
verse. But we got to keep our minds set
on things above, because we're the kings of the earth.
We are to draw our wisdom from above.
And this is what I see believers do.
Because remember, what's about our King, who's seated on his
throne? He looks at the nations and they
devise all kinds of plans against him, against his nation,
against his son and against his church.
And all the while he's watching it, it doesn't escape his
notice. He doesn't say, oh, I didn't
realize they were going to do that.
Wow. Didn't realize that plan was
going to take place. Didn't realize they were going
to come in and try to take them out that way.
Right. He knows.
He's aware of everything. And while he's seeing it, what's
he doing? Come on, what's he doing?
He's laughing. I said he's laughing.
But what we do, if we quit looking and setting our mind as
the encouraging words this this morning in worship, if we start
to look in the world and set our minds on what's going on here,
then this is typically what we look like.
Oh, I just can't. Have you ever seen somebody get
upset and then all of a sudden they just they get up, They get
up by that seat. You know what's going on?
Oh, and you jump up like, I'm going to do something.
Well, you need to have a seat. The Lord's like, come on, just
have a seat. Don't let that bother you.
You just need to have a seat, right?
Just look at you and say, you need to have a seat, man.
You need to rest. Because we get in a situation
where we jump up, we get a report, we have cancer.
We jump up. You know, something's going on
with our kids, We jump up. Something's going on in the
world, we jump up. Something happens with our
money, we jump up. We get all fretful and fearful
and anxious. We jump up out of that seat and
we're like, oh, what are we going to do?
What are we going? The Lord's like, son, just have
a seat. Have a seat, son.
Come on, let me get you and get you laughing about this deal.
Amen. Because the place to sit the
most is when you're having personal attacks because this
Psalms references, they are railing against him personally
and he's just laughing. He laughs at it because he knows
it's not going to come to naughty.
It's not going to come to pass because you know why He has the
final say on the matter. And so you need to stay in your
seat. Why?
Because he's going to want to talk to you.
He's going to want to tell you as the king what to say.
Look at this in Hebrews chapter 10, starting in verse 12, we'll
read out the amplified. It says this whereas this one
Christ after he had offered a single sacrifice for our sins
that shall avail at all time sat down at the right hand of the of
God. Jesus is not jumping around now
we have 1 recorded instance of him standing up and that is that
Stevens being martyred because as Steven stayed in his seat of
authority God Jesus stood up and applauded him.
Are you hearing me? OK but he sits at the right hand
of God. Then verse 13, to wait until His
enemies should be put made a footstool under his feet, for by
a single offering He has forever completely cleansed and
perfected those who are consecrated and made holy.
And also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us in
confirmation of this. For having said this is the
agreement, the testament, the covenant that I will set up and
conclude with them after those days, says the Lord, meaning the
Spirit is put inside us to bear witness with our spirit.
We are children of God. But not just that.
Look what it does. I will imprint my laws upon
their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds, on their
innermost thoughts and understanding.
He's saying, listen, stay in the seat, think like a king.
Stay in the seat, think like a king.
When things are coming, stay in the seat think like a king time
I going to respond thing like a king.
What's going Let me think I, I keep my mind focused on things
above any circumstance that comes on into our life for like
how do you want to handle this? How do you want me to respond?
What do you want me to do? And what's so awesome He has
left me a documentation called the Holy Bible that allows me to
see his character, his way of doing things.
Do you understand that? Because I am always going to
respond biblically. The greatest 3 words you can say
in any issue that you face is it is written.
Because if you'll go to it is written, it won't be.
This is how you made me feel, this is how I feel.
This is what you did. I can't forgive you.
You can't even go those places. It is written.
It is written because that's the voice of the King, because he is
the word of God and he's written this in our hearts and on our
minds. Why?
Because he says, listen, your born again experience was not
about going to heaven. It was about becoming a child of
God and reigning as a king. Now, because we are been given
this rulership far above all, not only in this age but also in
the one to come, there's two more ages still to come.
Two more, the millennial reign and then the eternal reign, and
this transitions into both ages. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So I close with this verse.
Revelations 21. Five.
Just tell your neighbor, have a seat.
And he who sits on the throne, behold, I'm making all things
new. And he said right.
For these words are faithful and true.
I'm so glad that Jesus came so that I could be placed back in
the original seat that was destined for man or for
humanity, and that is the seat to reign with God, to reign with
him. And so I just rest in his seat.
You understand, when you are seated in that kind of power,
what can man do to you? You just, Hey dad, I need to
talk. I got some stuff happening and
he says, son, what's going on? Because I can guarantee you
there's nothing you're going through that we have not already
conquered. Without a doubt, we got this
thing whipped. We just sit down and say, dad,
what are you saying about this? He's going to say, son, this is
what you do. And then from this seat, if you
say what Dad said, and if you say anything the dad says, then
dad performs his own word. I said he performs his own word.
And he always delivers the righteous out of all their
trouble, out of all their trouble.
Hallelujah. Please let us renew our minds to
who we are in Christ. I didn't say this.
The Bible said this, that you are such a superior being in
Christ that you are far above these things.
He placed you there. He doesn't even want if you'll
get. It's not even a fight in compare
when you recognize the position you're in, then it's easy for
you to endure and persevere to your flesh, it's a struggle to
your mind and emotions it can struggle.
But if you'll stay in the word and the Spirit, it all begins to
just fade. And ma'am, when I do that, the
problems just keep getting lower and lower and lower and lower
and lower. And you just have this
confidence. Like, watch out now, Daddy's
here, Daddy's with me. Daddy's with me because Daddy's
for me. He cares for me.
He placed me here. I have a right to win.
I'm going to say that again. You and I have a right to win.
You have a right because Dad said you're in his seat.
And I've never seen Jesus defeated.
Never. He's never lost.
But you can't.