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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, family, welcome to the house.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're so glad you're here, and we are excited about
this word that you are getting ready to receive what's
going to bless you and change your life. And and
God speaks to you and it resonates very deeply, and
there's a promise maybe something that you've been praying for
it and believe in God for I want you to
sew a.
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Seed absolutely whenever God meets me. I make it my
personal commitment to so a seede to build an altar
when there's something in that message that you know the
light turns on or it deals with something that you
have been struggling with. There is something about having this
practical manifestation of that response of what God just said
to you and for me, that comes when I sow
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a seede.
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Mm.
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We love you God, bless you. Watch it to the
end and then share this message with somebody. It's gonna
change your life and hopefully many others. Oh I really yeah,
then come if Jesus I'm still stuck on that a
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little bit. Happy Resurrection Sunday to each of you, and
we can feel resurrection power moving in our midst even now.
I want to draw your attention to Hebrews chapter twelve.
We'll look at the first two verses therein, and we'll
have a conversation about Jesus. He says, therefore we also,
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since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight and the sin which
so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance
the race.
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That is set.
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Before us, looking unto Jesus, looking unto Jesus, the author
and the finish of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before.
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Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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May the words of my mouth and the meditation and
my heart be acceptable in your sight. We thank you
that man doesn't live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceeds out of your mouth. Lord, make this
temple like Bethlehem, a house of bread, that we might
be nourished and built up and edified and strengthened unlike
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ever before. May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened.
And God, I thank you for the spirit of wisdom
and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and full
access to Heaven's resources, to bless these your children that
you love so much. Have your way, do an incredible thing.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen, Amen, Amen, God bless you much like our bishop.
I have more message than I have minutes. But I
want us to consider, or to perhaps expand our understanding
of what it means for Jesus to be the way,
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because if we don't look into that passes John chapter fourteen,
if we don't look into it deeply, we will think
that it simply means that Jesus is the door, and
he is the door. But he's more than the door.
He's more than the path to what Heaven desires for us.
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He is also the model.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Are you hearing me?
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Because many of us only know Jesus as the only
begotten son, but we don't know him as the first
born son among many brethrens. In other words, it isn't
that we are sitting back staring at Jesus and marveling at.
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Jesus for Jesus.
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But there is something in our ability to look at
Jesus with a certain curiosity about what does his reflection
in my life look like?
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Are you tracking with me?
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So?
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Yes, he is the door He conquered death, hell, and the.
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Grave, and now we have access to all of the
covenantal benefits and promises of God.
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Yes we have that, but he is also the model.
That is why he said, let it happen. I need
to show you when I'm gonna say it happen. I'm
talking about that as baptism.
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When John tried to p him, he said, no, no, no,
don't don't stop, don't prevent. I need to do this too,
not simply because I want to be in alignment, but
I need to show you what to do.
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And now don't you tracking with it.
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Not only do I need to show you what to do,
but I need to show you what to expect. That's
why when you consider baptism, you have to look at
what Jesus did, and then what happened after Jesus came
up out of the water.
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Three things.
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It says the heavens opened up to him. So when
you get baptized, don't just think that it is an earthly,
unpowerful symbolism. No, when you get baptized, the heavens will
open up to you, giving you access to another dimension
in the spirit, and it changes your life. And that's
how you go watch this from blind to seeing, because
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now you have the ability to see.
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In the spirit. Right, so the heavens open.
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Then it says he saw the spirit of the Lord
study that falling upon him. So it wasn't simply that
the spirit fell on him. He knew the spirit had
fallen upon him. And then thirdly it says that there
was a voice from heaven that said, this is my
beloved son, whom I am well please.
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In other words, now there is a.
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Relationship based on how God sees you and how God
feels about you.
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That begins to ground your journey.
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So you don't go living believing or thinking that God
doesn't love you. Everything that God does is love. Even
when he corrects me, it's love. Even when he chases me,
it's love. So he is more than the door. He
is the model, and that changes the way.
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I look at Jesus.
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I see him as the only begotten son who saved
me from my sins. But I also see him as
the first born son among many brethrens. Study Romans chapter
eight and you'll get all of that.
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So he's my model, he's my example. He's I need
to look at it.
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And if I look at him, I'll see more. And
you know what's interesting as it relates to him being
a model. After that moment, after the moment of baptism,
and let's just break it down to us, after that
moment of salvation, one would think that I was in obedience,
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fulfilled righteousness. I went and got baptized. One would think
that things are getting ready to get very.
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Easy for me. I did the right thing. I pursued
all of righteousness.
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There was great celebration and adoration around my decision. And surely, surely,
when the Bible says that for he knows the plans
that I have, that He has for me, they're good
and not eat, plans to prosper me and not harm me, Surely,
after I've come into alignment.
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Things are getting ready to get real sweet.
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But the Bibles says that immediately after that, the spirit,
the same spirit that fell upon him, led him into
the wilderness now.
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To be tempted of the enemy. Let me just take
a moment, because this is important because a.
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Lot of times we misunderstand or we misinterpret the wildernesses
that the Lord allows us to go into. Some people
think when I hit a wilderness, when I hit a
tough spot.
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It means that my life is over.
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It means that God's good plan for my life is over.
When I go into a dark spot or dark place,
a place that is confusing, a place where there are lions,
tigers and bears. If I don't understand because I've been
following Jesus and looking at Jesus because he is my model,
he is my measuring stick, I will think that something
very bad is happening to me. But how many of
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us know something very bad was not happening to him.
He was getting ready to be developed on a whole
new level because he is led by the spirit.
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But he comes out in the power of the spirit.
Are you hearing what I'm saying.
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I don't want us to misinterpret trouble because trouble is
God's strategy. Hey, Trouble is God's strategy to take you
to another level, to take you to another dimension, to
cause you, to force you to be a youth that
you would never sign up for because of you. The
only you that you would sign up for is a
you to never goes through anything, the you that has
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everything lined up and perfect, and there is no pursuit
or passion for the things of God. For the becoming. See,
sometimes you gotta become just to survive.
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And so he's not just the he is the model.
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And that brings us to Hebrews chapter twelve. As the
writer is trying to teach us how to win in life,
the writer is trying to teach us how to win
in the spirit.
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And there is evidence in the previous chapter.
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We know Hebrews Chapter eleven as the chapter that deals
with the heroes of faith. Those who watch this had
encounters with God, had been tested and tried, and ultimately
became and did things that we're still talking about today.
So he starts Hebrews chapter twelve saying, since we are
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compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, he's
referencing back to those who who trusted and believed and became,
and ultimately their legacy is still speaking.
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See.
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I don't know about you, but I want everything that
God has for me. I want my life to still
speak when I'm in the grave. I want my children
and my grandchildren, and my children's children's children, and quite frankly,
and your children and your grandchildren and their children.
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I want my life to still speak. I want the.
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Oil that flow through my life to still be flowing
when I'm dead and in my grave. I want people
to go to the cemetery and put their face on
my grave and fill the oil flowing so much so
that it will raise the dead.
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Just turn to somebody and say, how bad do you
want it? I want all of it? And so Hebrews
chapter twelve.
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Tells us how to do it. It says, since we're surrounded
ima by such a great cloud of witnesses.
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In other words, my stuff works.
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I've got thousands of years of evidence that if you
get your life right with me, if you put your
trust in me, if you're willing to get out of
your father's house and out of your country, if you're
willing to believe the report of the Lord above any
other reports, you will see see. God says, I've got evidence.
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Check my record. I've got thousands of years of history
of making the impossible.
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Possible. So this is not a new thing. This is
a true thing.
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And we are compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses.
That means right now Heaven is bearing witness to the
power of God.
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Fee listening.
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So he says, since we're compassed about with such a
great cloud of witnesses. He says, let us lay aside
aside every way and the sin which so easily ensnaris us. See,
some things aren't worth your future. Us we cheapen I
gotta move on, But we cheapen the purpose and the
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plan of God on our lives by these little things that.
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Seek to trap us.
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See, that's why we got to be real hungry for
the things of God. Because watch this, According to your hunger,
you'll be led. Watch this, and whatever you feed will
produce the most hunger. So if you'll feed your flesh,
your flesh will be so hungry that it will drown
out a desire for the spirit. But if you hunger
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and thirst after righteousness, and you pursue righteousness and the
things of the spirit, you begin to build an appetite
for the things of the spirit, it'll get easier. I'm
not a doctor, but I try to stay away from
sugar as much as possible, because the tricky thing about
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sugar is the more you eat, the more you want.
There's something they say the gut is another brain. And
so when I want to break my sugar addiction, I
starve it.
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And it's rough at first, because.
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That chocolate cake and those chocolate cookies come on somebody
in that sweet potato pie. It just because I just
walk somewhere and all of a sudden, the aroma of
chocolate will get in my nose and you have to
walk through that. But after a while, when you kill
it and you starve it, and you say, yes, I
want it, but I know it's not good for me yet.
Yes I want it, but I don't want diabetes. And
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that's how we have to look at faith and I
walk with God.
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These things that are out.
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There that would so easily as I don't want to
be the gu that's easily ensnared, that will sabotage by
destiny for a cookie.
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But we gotta go. So it says, let us.
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Lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race
that is set before us.
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But I want us to see something here. In verse two,
this is very very important.
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It says looking.
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Looking onto Jesus. And we're looking is a very interesting word.
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It's a deep, profound Greek word and it doesn't mean
just looking. It means literally staring into. One of the
things about Good Friday and resurrection Sunday is that it
allows us watch this, to stare at Jesus afresh.
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Oh God, I feel it.
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Like us.
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See see Jesus is vast, and who who you are
in Christ is vast.
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And you will never see.
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Or experience all that you are in Christ if you
don't get in the habit of staring.
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At Jesus feel holy ghosts.
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He's given you the ingredients on how to win right now,
how to have your name added in the Hall of Faith,
and your children and your children's children are blessed, and
their children are blessed, and their generational blessings over your life.
And you have no idea what's in you. Their nation's
assigned to you. It's not just your family, but it's
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literally nations. That's how potent and powerful you are. But
you'll never unlock it unless.
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You stare at Jesus.
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He's saying, this is how it happens looking unto Jesus,
staring at Jesus.
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And what's interesting.
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And I have time to break that word all the
way down, But it's comprised that we're looking is comprised.
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Of two words.
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One of them literally means to stare at, but the
other word is off. So if it could have just
been the one word that was translated looking, which means
to stare at, that will be enough.
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But for some reason, the writer, in order for us
to really.
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Understand how to look at Jesus, the word off is
in their opo, and it's all that's in there, and
I begin to question, like, why did you add that
that doesn't need to be in there?
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We get what looking unto.
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Jesus means, and I really believe the Spirit spoke to
me and says, in order to look at Jesus the
way that you need to look at Jesus, you're gonna
have to take your eyes.
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Off of other things. Are you tracking with me?
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I can't look at Jesus and my problem and experience
what I need to see in Jesus simultaneously. I can't
look at Jesus and my past and my guilt and
my shame and my fear and see.
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What I need to see. I feel the Holy Spirit.
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I was praying this morning, I'm almost done. Give me
about two hours that we'll be out here. I was
praying for you this morning. I got up and I
had a burden to pray for my children. My literal
children right, and I prayed, and I was praying, I said, God,
I just want us looking forward to us getting together
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later on to day. Who don't gather and God, my
prayer for my children is that they would be near
you and that they would know you. And God says,
that's good. That's how I feel.
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About my kids.
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I want to gather them. I want them to be
near me, and I want them to know me.
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Paul said, Paul said. Paul said, I count all. This
is a Philippin store. You got to just do Bible study.
When we're all done here, he says, I count all
of my accomplishments.
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That's nothing.
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Everything that I've done, Watches, even the things that I've
done for God, everything that I've done, every.
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Place that I've been.
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I count all of that, everything that's in the past,
even my past victories, not just my past pain. Even
my past victories, not just the stuff. I want to forget, everything,
because sometimes we are so enamored by looking at our
accomplishments of the past that we miss what God wants
to do next.
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He says, I count all of that as nothing. Watch says,
he said that I might know.
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Him and the Fellowship of his sufferings and the power
of his resurrection. So that means that God wants us
to know him more deeply. But we can't know him
more deeply unless we stare at him. So he comes
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out after he is baptized. He comes out of the
water and into the fire, and then out of the fire,
and he comes out in the power of the spirit,
and he starts preaching a very precise message, and it
was the message of the ca.
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And signs followed.
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Him as he preached the message of the Kingdom.
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People got healed, people got delivered, people got set free,
people were awakened, people discovered purpose, people started living incredible lives.
In the spirit wants to hear the message of the Kingdom.
And then I started thinking.
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I took.
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Our daughter.
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We took our daughter to Greece recently, and it was
a school trip and we were there for eight days,
and I'll.
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Be honest with you, it was beautiful.
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But things got quite monotonous after a while because you
would see these ruins, these temples, these temples.
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That were really great and awesome, majestic.
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Temples, and they were now ruins, and we probably saw
we got so tired of it because they almost all
begin to look the saying this temple made for this god,
this up we made for that God, and this big
palace and all these other things, which at one point
in time were absolutely majestic. I mean, and people would
bring gifts to these, to these these gods and all these.
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Sort of things.
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But I mean, these two, what they made for them,
it was incredible. And I'll be honest with you, you got
a little monotonous, and it got a little born. First
of all, I don't be doing all the other God stuff,
So yeah.
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I already felt a little funny.
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I was trying to be a good tourist, but but
it was messing with my chondo a little bit, you know.
And this was to the guide of this and that
and all this kind of stuff, right.
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And I was over in Corinth and all these places.
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But here's what's interesting, And here's the thought that I
want to leave you with. Here's what's interesting. I was wondering, like, God,
why are you, Why are you showing me this? And
then he he wanted me to to meditate on the
Apostle Paul, and quite frankly even Jesus for that matter,
and how the Apostle Paul and even Jesus as there
related to the temple in Jerusalem. How they were preaching
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and invisible kingdom in the midst of people who were
enamored with physical kingdoms. I mean, these were real powers
and authorities. I mean it was right there that the
ruins said that something great was there. And here comes
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Paul preaching in Greece, in Corinth, in Ephesus, in Rome,
talking about this invisible, powerful, undeniable and unstoppable king.
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Can you imagine how foolish he looked?
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To go with me for a second.
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They are there and they're you know, they got their
pagan gods, and they've got these.
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Massive temples to these pagan gods.
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And here he comes showing up talking about the Kingdom
of God and how Jesus is the king of kings
in the world, lord of lords, and how crazy he must
have looked, although he was fruitful. And then it dawned
on me as I walk through Greece, I'm standing in ruins,
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ruins of that which was once the powerful kingdom of man,
and here I am, a kingdom citizen walking through it
two thousand years later, knowing that everything that can be
shaken was shaken. Will be shaken, but that which cannot
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be shaken will remain.
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What does that mean to you?
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Be ye, steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord. Don't you worry about kings and kingdoms because
I heard a song say kings and kingdoms will all
pass away. But there is something about that name.
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Keep on walking the kingdom, keep on talking the kingdom,
keep on preaching the kingdom, because there is a shaking
that is coming, and.
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Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Don't you
bow down, don't you relate, don't you stop praying, don't
you stop preaching. Don't you stop teaching. Don't you stop believing?
Because everything that man made is gonna fall flat, but
the Kingdom will stand. Give Jesus a shout if you
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believe it.
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Come on, kid, the people.
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Let me hear kingdom people, give God a shout.
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Everything that can be shaken be shaken.
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Come on, somebody, turn to your neighbor and say, I'm
shake proof.
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I'm shake proof. Bring it on, devil on this rock.
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I will build my church and the very gates of.
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Hand will not profound.
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I feel like the Kingdom is here, uh huh, gonna
be ruins gonna be ruins.
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It looks big and bad right now.
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It looks unstoppable right now, it looks unshakable right now.
That's why it ain't about.
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Fighting and arguing.
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Just stand on the kingdom, stand on kingdom business, and
lots who out glass what it's a kingdom. Think it's
a kingdom. Think it's a kingdom. Think it's a kingdom.
Think it's a kingdom. Think it ain't a church thing,
it's a kingdom thing.
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Stare at Jesus and he will teach you, and he
will lead you into the things of the kingdom.
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Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. Some of you
are frustrated, some of you are hopeless. Some of you
think things are going down. Yeah, everything that can go
down is going down. So that that which can't go
down will stand up.
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Where am I saved?
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Holy ghosts, Kingdom seeking people at in God's House?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love you.
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Kings and kingdoms.
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We'll all pass away. Kings and kingdom, we'll all pass away.
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But there's something about that name.
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Listen, the Pottest House isn't just a place, it's a movement.
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Family. We are so much better when we come together
and today, we're inviting you to be a part of
something bigger. When you sow a seed, you're planning the
future of hope, healing and change.
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In times of uncertainty.
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The house stands strong and because of you, it keeps
standing for others.
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You're giving.
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Is it just generosity? It's ministry and what you sew
today will be the miracle someone is praying for.
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If this message spoke to you, and if you're ready
to step into faith, if you believe in what God
is doing here, don't wait so a seede move in faith.
Every gift, every act of generosity fuels this mission and
brings us closer to reaching the lives that need it
the most.
Hey, family, welcome to the house.
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We're so glad you're here, and we are excited about
this word that you are getting ready to receive what's
going to bless you and change your life. And and
God speaks to you and it resonates very deeply, and
there's a promise maybe something that you've been praying for
it and believe in God for I want you to
sew a.
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Seed absolutely whenever God meets me. I make it my
personal commitment to so a seede to build an altar
when there's something in that message that you know the
light turns on or it deals with something that you
have been struggling with. There is something about having this
practical manifestation of that response of what God just said
to you and for me, that comes when I sow
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a seede.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Mm.
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We love you God, bless you. Watch it to the
end and then share this message with somebody. It's gonna
change your life and hopefully many others. Oh I really yeah,
then come if Jesus I'm still stuck on that a
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little bit. Happy Resurrection Sunday to each of you, and
we can feel resurrection power moving in our midst even now.
I want to draw your attention to Hebrews chapter twelve.
We'll look at the first two verses therein, and we'll
have a conversation about Jesus. He says, therefore we also,
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since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight and the sin which
so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance
the race.
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That is set.
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Before us, looking unto Jesus, looking unto Jesus, the author
and the finish of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before.
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Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
May the words of my mouth and the meditation and
my heart be acceptable in your sight. We thank you
that man doesn't live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceeds out of your mouth. Lord, make this
temple like Bethlehem, a house of bread, that we might
be nourished and built up and edified and strengthened unlike
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ever before. May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened.
And God, I thank you for the spirit of wisdom
and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and full
access to Heaven's resources, to bless these your children that
you love so much. Have your way, do an incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
In Jesus' name.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Amen, Amen, Amen, God bless you much like our bishop.
I have more message than I have minutes. But I
want us to consider, or to perhaps expand our understanding
of what it means for Jesus to be the way,
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because if we don't look into that passes John chapter fourteen,
if we don't look into it deeply, we will think
that it simply means that Jesus is the door, and
he is the door. But he's more than the door.
He's more than the path to what Heaven desires for us.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
He is also the model.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Are you hearing me?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Because many of us only know Jesus as the only
begotten son, but we don't know him as the first
born son among many brethrens. In other words, it isn't
that we are sitting back staring at Jesus and marveling at.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Jesus for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But there is something in our ability to look at
Jesus with a certain curiosity about what does his reflection
in my life look like?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Are you tracking with me?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yes, he is the door He conquered death, hell, and the.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Grave, and now we have access to all of the
covenantal benefits and promises of God.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yes we have that, but he is also the model.
That is why he said, let it happen. I need
to show you when I'm gonna say it happen. I'm
talking about that as baptism.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When John tried to p him, he said, no, no, no,
don't don't stop, don't prevent. I need to do this too,
not simply because I want to be in alignment, but
I need to show you what to do.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And now don't you tracking with it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Not only do I need to show you what to do,
but I need to show you what to expect. That's
why when you consider baptism, you have to look at
what Jesus did, and then what happened after Jesus came
up out of the water.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Three things.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It says the heavens opened up to him. So when
you get baptized, don't just think that it is an earthly,
unpowerful symbolism. No, when you get baptized, the heavens will
open up to you, giving you access to another dimension
in the spirit, and it changes your life. And that's
how you go watch this from blind to seeing, because
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now you have the ability to see.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
In the spirit. Right, so the heavens open.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Then it says he saw the spirit of the Lord
study that falling upon him. So it wasn't simply that
the spirit fell on him. He knew the spirit had
fallen upon him. And then thirdly it says that there
was a voice from heaven that said, this is my
beloved son, whom I am well please.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
In other words, now there is a.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Relationship based on how God sees you and how God
feels about you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That begins to ground your journey.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So you don't go living believing or thinking that God
doesn't love you. Everything that God does is love. Even
when he corrects me, it's love. Even when he chases me,
it's love. So he is more than the door. He
is the model, and that changes the way.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I look at Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I see him as the only begotten son who saved
me from my sins. But I also see him as
the first born son among many brethrens. Study Romans chapter
eight and you'll get all of that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So he's my model, he's my example. He's I need
to look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And if I look at him, I'll see more. And
you know what's interesting as it relates to him being
a model. After that moment, after the moment of baptism,
and let's just break it down to us, after that
moment of salvation, one would think that I was in obedience,
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fulfilled righteousness. I went and got baptized. One would think
that things are getting ready to get very.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Easy for me. I did the right thing. I pursued
all of righteousness.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
There was great celebration and adoration around my decision. And surely, surely,
when the Bible says that for he knows the plans
that I have, that He has for me, they're good
and not eat, plans to prosper me and not harm me, Surely,
after I've come into alignment.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Things are getting ready to get real sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But the Bibles says that immediately after that, the spirit,
the same spirit that fell upon him, led him into
the wilderness now.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
To be tempted of the enemy. Let me just take
a moment, because this is important because a.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Lot of times we misunderstand or we misinterpret the wildernesses
that the Lord allows us to go into. Some people
think when I hit a wilderness, when I hit a
tough spot.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It means that my life is over.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It means that God's good plan for my life is over.
When I go into a dark spot or dark place,
a place that is confusing, a place where there are lions,
tigers and bears. If I don't understand because I've been
following Jesus and looking at Jesus because he is my model,
he is my measuring stick, I will think that something
very bad is happening to me. But how many of
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us know something very bad was not happening to him.
He was getting ready to be developed on a whole
new level because he is led by the spirit.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But he comes out in the power of the spirit.
Are you hearing what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't want us to misinterpret trouble because trouble is
God's strategy. Hey, Trouble is God's strategy to take you
to another level, to take you to another dimension, to
cause you, to force you to be a youth that
you would never sign up for because of you. The
only you that you would sign up for is a
you to never goes through anything, the you that has
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everything lined up and perfect, and there is no pursuit
or passion for the things of God. For the becoming. See,
sometimes you gotta become just to survive.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And so he's not just the he is the model.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And that brings us to Hebrews chapter twelve. As the
writer is trying to teach us how to win in life,
the writer is trying to teach us how to win
in the spirit.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And there is evidence in the previous chapter.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We know Hebrews Chapter eleven as the chapter that deals
with the heroes of faith. Those who watch this had
encounters with God, had been tested and tried, and ultimately
became and did things that we're still talking about today.
So he starts Hebrews chapter twelve saying, since we are
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compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, he's
referencing back to those who who trusted and believed and became,
and ultimately their legacy is still speaking.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know about you, but I want everything that
God has for me. I want my life to still
speak when I'm in the grave. I want my children
and my grandchildren, and my children's children's children, and quite frankly,
and your children and your grandchildren and their children.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I want my life to still speak. I want the.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oil that flow through my life to still be flowing
when I'm dead and in my grave. I want people
to go to the cemetery and put their face on
my grave and fill the oil flowing so much so
that it will raise the dead.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Just turn to somebody and say, how bad do you
want it? I want all of it? And so Hebrews
chapter twelve.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Tells us how to do it. It says, since we're surrounded
ima by such a great cloud of witnesses.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
In other words, my stuff works.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I've got thousands of years of evidence that if you
get your life right with me, if you put your
trust in me, if you're willing to get out of
your father's house and out of your country, if you're
willing to believe the report of the Lord above any
other reports, you will see see. God says, I've got evidence.
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Check my record. I've got thousands of years of history
of making the impossible.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Possible. So this is not a new thing. This is
a true thing.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And we are compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses.
That means right now Heaven is bearing witness to the
power of God.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Fee listening.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So he says, since we're compassed about with such a
great cloud of witnesses. He says, let us lay aside
aside every way and the sin which so easily ensnaris us. See,
some things aren't worth your future. Us we cheapen I
gotta move on, But we cheapen the purpose and the
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plan of God on our lives by these little things that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Seek to trap us.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
See, that's why we got to be real hungry for
the things of God. Because watch this, According to your hunger,
you'll be led. Watch this, and whatever you feed will
produce the most hunger. So if you'll feed your flesh,
your flesh will be so hungry that it will drown
out a desire for the spirit. But if you hunger
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and thirst after righteousness, and you pursue righteousness and the
things of the spirit, you begin to build an appetite
for the things of the spirit, it'll get easier. I'm
not a doctor, but I try to stay away from
sugar as much as possible, because the tricky thing about
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sugar is the more you eat, the more you want.
There's something they say the gut is another brain. And
so when I want to break my sugar addiction, I
starve it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And it's rough at first, because.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That chocolate cake and those chocolate cookies come on somebody
in that sweet potato pie. It just because I just
walk somewhere and all of a sudden, the aroma of
chocolate will get in my nose and you have to
walk through that. But after a while, when you kill
it and you starve it, and you say, yes, I
want it, but I know it's not good for me yet.
Yes I want it, but I don't want diabetes. And
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that's how we have to look at faith and I
walk with God.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
These things that are out.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
There that would so easily as I don't want to
be the gu that's easily ensnared, that will sabotage by
destiny for a cookie.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
But we gotta go. So it says, let us.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race
that is set before us.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But I want us to see something here. In verse two,
this is very very important.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It says looking.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Looking onto Jesus. And we're looking is a very interesting word.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It's a deep, profound Greek word and it doesn't mean
just looking. It means literally staring into. One of the
things about Good Friday and resurrection Sunday is that it
allows us watch this, to stare at Jesus afresh.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Oh God, I feel it.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Like us.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
See see Jesus is vast, and who who you are
in Christ is vast.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And you will never see.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Or experience all that you are in Christ if you
don't get in the habit of staring.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
At Jesus feel holy ghosts.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
He's given you the ingredients on how to win right now,
how to have your name added in the Hall of Faith,
and your children and your children's children are blessed, and
their children are blessed, and their generational blessings over your life.
And you have no idea what's in you. Their nation's
assigned to you. It's not just your family, but it's
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literally nations. That's how potent and powerful you are. But
you'll never unlock it unless.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You stare at Jesus.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He's saying, this is how it happens looking unto Jesus,
staring at Jesus.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And what's interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And I have time to break that word all the
way down, But it's comprised that we're looking is comprised.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of two words.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
One of them literally means to stare at, but the
other word is off. So if it could have just
been the one word that was translated looking, which means
to stare at, that will be enough.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But for some reason, the writer, in order for us
to really.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Understand how to look at Jesus, the word off is
in their opo, and it's all that's in there, and
I begin to question, like, why did you add that
that doesn't need to be in there?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We get what looking unto.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Jesus means, and I really believe the Spirit spoke to
me and says, in order to look at Jesus the
way that you need to look at Jesus, you're gonna
have to take your eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Off of other things. Are you tracking with me?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I can't look at Jesus and my problem and experience
what I need to see in Jesus simultaneously. I can't
look at Jesus and my past and my guilt and
my shame and my fear and see.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What I need to see. I feel the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I was praying this morning, I'm almost done. Give me
about two hours that we'll be out here. I was
praying for you this morning. I got up and I
had a burden to pray for my children. My literal
children right, and I prayed, and I was praying, I said, God,
I just want us looking forward to us getting together
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later on to day. Who don't gather and God, my
prayer for my children is that they would be near
you and that they would know you. And God says,
that's good. That's how I feel.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
About my kids.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I want to gather them. I want them to be
near me, and I want them to know me.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Paul said, Paul said. Paul said, I count all. This
is a Philippin store. You got to just do Bible study.
When we're all done here, he says, I count all
of my accomplishments.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That's nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Everything that I've done, Watches, even the things that I've
done for God, everything that I've done, every.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Place that I've been.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I count all of that, everything that's in the past,
even my past victories, not just my past pain. Even
my past victories, not just the stuff. I want to forget, everything,
because sometimes we are so enamored by looking at our
accomplishments of the past that we miss what God wants
to do next.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He says, I count all of that as nothing. Watch says,
he said that I might know.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Him and the Fellowship of his sufferings and the power
of his resurrection. So that means that God wants us
to know him more deeply. But we can't know him
more deeply unless we stare at him. So he comes
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out after he is baptized. He comes out of the
water and into the fire, and then out of the fire,
and he comes out in the power of the spirit,
and he starts preaching a very precise message, and it
was the message of the ca.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And signs followed.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Him as he preached the message of the Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
People got healed, people got delivered, people got set free,
people were awakened, people discovered purpose, people started living incredible lives.
In the spirit wants to hear the message of the Kingdom.
And then I started thinking.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I took.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Our daughter.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
We took our daughter to Greece recently, and it was
a school trip and we were there for eight days,
and I'll.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Be honest with you, it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But things got quite monotonous after a while because you
would see these ruins, these temples, these temples.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That were really great and awesome, majestic.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Temples, and they were now ruins, and we probably saw
we got so tired of it because they almost all
begin to look the saying this temple made for this god,
this up we made for that God, and this big
palace and all these other things, which at one point
in time were absolutely majestic. I mean, and people would
bring gifts to these, to these these gods and all these.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Sort of things.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
But I mean, these two, what they made for them,
it was incredible. And I'll be honest with you, you got
a little monotonous, and it got a little born. First
of all, I don't be doing all the other God stuff,
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I already felt a little funny.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I was trying to be a good tourist, but but
it was messing with my chondo a little bit, you know.
And this was to the guide of this and that
and all this kind of stuff, right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
And I was over in Corinth and all these places.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But here's what's interesting, And here's the thought that I
want to leave you with. Here's what's interesting. I was wondering, like, God,
why are you, Why are you showing me this? And
then he he wanted me to to meditate on the
Apostle Paul, and quite frankly even Jesus for that matter,
and how the Apostle Paul and even Jesus as there
related to the temple in Jerusalem. How they were preaching
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and invisible kingdom in the midst of people who were
enamored with physical kingdoms. I mean, these were real powers
and authorities. I mean it was right there that the
ruins said that something great was there. And here comes
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Paul preaching in Greece, in Corinth, in Ephesus, in Rome,
talking about this invisible, powerful, undeniable and unstoppable king.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Can you imagine how foolish he looked?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
To go with me for a second.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
They are there and they're you know, they got their
pagan gods, and they've got these.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Massive temples to these pagan gods.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And here he comes showing up talking about the Kingdom
of God and how Jesus is the king of kings
in the world, lord of lords, and how crazy he must
have looked, although he was fruitful. And then it dawned
on me as I walk through Greece, I'm standing in ruins,
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ruins of that which was once the powerful kingdom of man,
and here I am, a kingdom citizen walking through it
two thousand years later, knowing that everything that can be
shaken was shaken. Will be shaken, but that which cannot
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be shaken will remain.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
What does that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Be ye, steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord. Don't you worry about kings and kingdoms because
I heard a song say kings and kingdoms will all
pass away. But there is something about that name.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Keep on walking the kingdom, keep on talking the kingdom,
keep on preaching the kingdom, because there is a shaking
that is coming, and.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Don't you
bow down, don't you relate, don't you stop praying, don't
you stop preaching. Don't you stop teaching. Don't you stop believing?
Because everything that man made is gonna fall flat, but
the Kingdom will stand. Give Jesus a shout if you
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believe it.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Come on, kid, the people.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Let me hear kingdom people, give God a shout.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Everything that can be shaken be shaken.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Come on, somebody, turn to your neighbor and say, I'm
shake proof.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm shake proof. Bring it on, devil on this rock.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I will build my church and the very gates of.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hand will not profound.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I feel like the Kingdom is here, uh huh, gonna
be ruins gonna be ruins.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It looks big and bad right now.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It looks unstoppable right now, it looks unshakable right now.
That's why it ain't about.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Fighting and arguing.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Just stand on the kingdom, stand on kingdom business, and
lots who out glass what it's a kingdom. Think it's
a kingdom. Think it's a kingdom. Think it's a kingdom.
Think it's a kingdom. Think it ain't a church thing,
it's a kingdom thing.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Stare at Jesus and he will teach you, and he
will lead you into the things of the kingdom.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. Some of you
are frustrated, some of you are hopeless. Some of you
think things are going down. Yeah, everything that can go
down is going down. So that that which can't go
down will stand up.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Where am I saved?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Holy ghosts, Kingdom seeking people at in God's House?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love you.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Kings and kingdoms.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We'll all pass away. Kings and kingdom, we'll all pass away.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But there's something about that name.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Listen, the Pottest House isn't just a place, it's a movement.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Family. We are so much better when we come together
and today, we're inviting you to be a part of
something bigger. When you sow a seed, you're planning the
future of hope, healing and change.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
In times of uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The house stands strong and because of you, it keeps
standing for others.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You're giving.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Is it just generosity? It's ministry and what you sew
today will be the miracle someone is praying for.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
If this message spoke to you, and if you're ready
to step into faith, if you believe in what God
is doing here, don't wait so a seede move in faith.
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