1 00:00:14,119 --> 00:00:17,359 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,399 --> 00:00:24,100 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,659 --> 00:00:27,039 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:44,159 So, if you can open up your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 2, and we're only really looking at one verse. 5 00:00:48,039 --> 00:01:00,579 And I'm really excited about what the Lord's been showing me in these scriptures, and so let's pray. 6 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:06,500 Father God, Lord, we want your will done in our lives. 7 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:10,439 Lord God, we want to be part of your will. 8 00:01:10,819 --> 00:01:13,340 We want to be ambassadors of your will. 9 00:01:14,739 --> 00:01:17,420 Lord God, we want to be used by you, Lord God. 10 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,420 Only you truly know us, Lord. 11 00:01:21,579 --> 00:01:32,420 And so, Lord, we ask you to speak to us this morning through your word and in your spirit that we can all glean exactly what we're meant to have here. 12 00:01:33,219 --> 00:01:47,120 Lord God, we ask you to just scrape away any bias or predisposition to what we think of these concepts, and instead just receive them fresh and new, Lord God. 13 00:01:47,879 --> 00:01:52,040 Because we know this is your will for our lives, that we would walk in these things. 14 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,519 And so, we ask you for this in Jesus' name, Amen. 15 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:05,560 So, as I shared last week, I don't even know how much I'll get through signs and wonders, miracles, and gifts today. 16 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:11,360 I perhaps will get all the way through it, but it's really important to really grasp these things. 17 00:02:12,219 --> 00:02:15,280 Last week, we talked about signs and wonders. 18 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,900 And if you can recall, the wonders were really things that happened that are illogical. 19 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:23,740 They're, I guess, paranormal, supernatural. 20 00:02:23,740 --> 00:02:32,500 These wonders, you can't explain them, but they always carry with them a sign. 21 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:33,479 Remember we said that? 22 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,060 Like every time you see a wonder, there's always a sign with it. 23 00:02:36,620 --> 00:02:40,539 And these signs are usually pointing to something even more significant. 24 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:48,960 And we went through examples of this where something happened that was magnificent, but Christ was actually pointing to something even greater, right? 25 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:52,840 And then other things that seem more subtle, you know? 26 00:02:52,840 --> 00:03:01,560 I was thinking this morning about how, do you remember when Philip went and got Nathan and said, 27 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:06,400 I think we have found the guy that Moses was always talking about, Jesus of Nazareth. 28 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:09,759 And Nathan's like, what good can come out of Nazareth? 29 00:03:10,020 --> 00:03:12,199 I mean, he can't be anybody special, right? 30 00:03:12,939 --> 00:03:17,439 And so, as he comes towards Christ, he sees him, and he says, 31 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:24,539 here he is, an Israelite beyond compare a man who is righteous and zealous for the Lord. 32 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:25,800 You know, I'm paraphrasing. 33 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,259 And Nathan said, you know me, you know? 34 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:32,099 He says, I watched you under the fig tree. 35 00:03:32,419 --> 00:03:34,180 Now, this fig tree wouldn't have been right nearby. 36 00:03:34,539 --> 00:03:41,379 The Lord was seeing him in a vision, how he was studying the word, which would be normal in that culture 37 00:03:41,379 --> 00:03:46,139 and to be in the shade underneath a fig tree, reading the word. 38 00:03:46,139 --> 00:03:50,520 It was something that Nathan was shocked that Jesus had seen him there. 39 00:03:50,620 --> 00:03:53,580 He goes, certainly you are the son of God, you know? 40 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,699 And he's like, you believe me just because I said, I saw you. 41 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,759 You're going to see greater things than these, right? 42 00:04:01,060 --> 00:04:04,719 You're going to see angels ascending and descending upon the son of man. 43 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,020 That's me. 44 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,080 So him stating to Nathan, I saw you was the wonder, like, wow. 45 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:15,900 But the sign was you're going to see even more things than this. 46 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:16,720 Do you know what I mean? 47 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,720 It's even more significant. 48 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,779 And so that's the idea of signs and wonders. 49 00:04:22,939 --> 00:04:29,180 I believe he's always planting those things in our lives to show us that he is real. 50 00:04:29,819 --> 00:04:32,240 He is very involved in your life. 51 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,480 And he's always reminding you that he has a significant plan for your life, you know? 52 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,139 So those are the signs and wonders. 53 00:04:39,139 --> 00:04:43,279 But now we're going to shift towards miracles. 54 00:04:44,259 --> 00:04:48,339 And miracles are much more abundant in the New Testament. 55 00:04:48,660 --> 00:04:55,120 You can read the word for miracles, dunamis, 120 times in the New Testament. 56 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,319 It's just miracles are everywhere. 57 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,420 But it's also because miracles are not just some significant thing happening. 58 00:05:02,740 --> 00:05:07,199 It's a broad definition of the power of God. 59 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:09,379 In fact, miracles equal power. 60 00:05:09,540 --> 00:05:12,759 It's the same word in Greek, dunamis. 61 00:05:13,379 --> 00:05:14,300 It's power. 62 00:05:14,740 --> 00:05:17,000 So miracles are power. 63 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:25,259 And that's what the Lord wants us to realize that we have his power upon us and in us. 64 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,019 Do you remember when Jesus was preparing his disciples for when he would ascend to heaven? 65 00:05:30,019 --> 00:05:41,500 And he said in Luke 24, 49, he said, behold, I send you the promise of my Father upon you. 66 00:05:41,939 --> 00:05:45,860 But tarry, it means wait in the city until you are in due. 67 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,420 That means clothed with power, dunamis, miracles. 68 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,060 You will be clothed with miracles from on high. 69 00:05:55,060 --> 00:06:02,399 And so he was preparing them, don't do anything until you are empowered with these miracles. 70 00:06:03,699 --> 00:06:08,139 And then even before, well, and then that happened in Acts 1, verse 8, 71 00:06:08,139 --> 00:06:12,680 we read again that he was saying, but you shall receive power 72 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:18,639 when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem 73 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:23,319 and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. 74 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:31,319 And so we're reading in Hebrews chapter 2, how the Lord is saying, 75 00:06:31,899 --> 00:06:35,660 don't neglect your salvation, your great salvation, 76 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:41,779 which the Lord proved through miracles, signs, wonders, and gifts of the Spirit. 77 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:47,220 Well, he's still doing that today, but he's doing it through his body, 78 00:06:47,420 --> 00:06:49,660 which is us. 79 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,720 We are the body of Christ. 80 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,720 He still wants to be pouring out the signs and wonders and miracles 81 00:06:57,259 --> 00:07:01,540 and gifts of the Spirit through us, if not us, then who? 82 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:08,379 Now he's going to do amazing things and the Lord doesn't need humans to carry out his will, 83 00:07:08,459 --> 00:07:11,379 but he certainly likes to use us, doesn't he? 84 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,160 I mean, this is his whole design, that greater things will you do than these 85 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,720 when you are empowered from on high. 86 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,379 And so this is the idea that he wants to empower us. 87 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:27,100 When Jesus, even before his ascension, 88 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:32,660 when Jesus was preparing the 12 disciples, he said, I'm going to send you out. 89 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:36,740 And in Luke 9, we read that you will receive power. 90 00:07:36,899 --> 00:07:42,920 He called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all demons 91 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,120 and to cure diseases. 92 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,879 So he gave them this dunamis, the miracles. 93 00:07:49,819 --> 00:07:53,300 And then in Luke 10, when he sent the 70, he did the same thing. 94 00:07:53,459 --> 00:07:56,240 He said, I'm going to endure you with power 95 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,000 to do the things that I will do when I get there. 96 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:06,660 So prepare, let them show them what I am like. 97 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:09,759 And he's still doing that today, isn't he? 98 00:08:10,540 --> 00:08:14,980 So when you look at the word dunamis, you know, miracles equal power, 99 00:08:15,459 --> 00:08:18,620 the word dunamis, does it remind you of an English word? 100 00:08:19,519 --> 00:08:21,360 You've probably heard this before, right? 101 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:24,160 Dynamite, dynamite, I can't help. 102 00:08:24,220 --> 00:08:29,879 Every time I think of dynamite, those of you people who are around my age 103 00:08:29,879 --> 00:08:33,940 of the 70s, right, good times, dynamite, right? 104 00:08:34,220 --> 00:08:35,759 J.J.J., I don't know if any of you know. 105 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:41,039 Anybody who's underneath the age of 50, doesn't know what I'm talking about, 106 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:42,759 but they were some funny shows. 107 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:44,340 I love J.J., right? 108 00:08:44,779 --> 00:08:46,960 But that was his thing, always dynamite, right? 109 00:08:47,379 --> 00:08:49,220 But I can't think of this dynamite. 110 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,440 Really, when you read dunamis, it's where we get dynamite 111 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,899 because dynamite is powerful, isn't it? 112 00:08:57,639 --> 00:09:01,940 We lived near a quarry in our previous house 113 00:09:03,579 --> 00:09:08,720 and sometimes you could feel the earth, like you're just sitting, 114 00:09:08,860 --> 00:09:11,279 I remember one time I was hunting in a field with Jake 115 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:14,779 and we're waiting for geese, I know you animal lovers, sorry, 116 00:09:15,179 --> 00:09:17,039 but we're waiting for geese to come down 117 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:20,659 and all of a sudden we felt boom, like the whole earth shaking. 118 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:23,220 Now this is a quarry that's miles away 119 00:09:23,220 --> 00:09:30,720 and yet still you feel the earth shaking from the power of dynamite, right? 120 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,159 Because dynamite blows up things, doesn't it? 121 00:09:34,879 --> 00:09:38,379 Dynamite is power for destroying things. 122 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,820 And you know, the Apostle John, when he wrote in his first letter, 123 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:47,840 he says, that's why the Lord came to destroy the work of the enemy. 124 00:09:48,779 --> 00:09:53,519 You know, the Lord wants to tear down all the strongholds of the enemy, doesn't he? 125 00:09:53,779 --> 00:09:56,539 When he went into that temple, you know, we have this picture of Jesus 126 00:09:56,539 --> 00:10:01,519 just being sometimes like, no, I'm just gonna say it, 127 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:07,419 a lot of these portrayals of Jesus makes him have to be meek and weak. 128 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,100 He was powerful, he was power, right? 129 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:14,039 And when he went into that temple, he said, what is this? 130 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:16,059 No, no, no, no, no, what did he do? 131 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,980 He turned over the tables, he chased them out of the temple. 132 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,960 You're not gonna do this in my father's house. 133 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,759 He wants to tear down the work of the enemy, right? 134 00:10:28,519 --> 00:10:31,960 And now that he's in heaven, our chief navigator, right? 135 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,919 He's guiding us to do the same things. 136 00:10:35,019 --> 00:10:40,379 I love what Paul wrote to the Corinthians when he said, 137 00:10:41,259 --> 00:10:46,139 in second Corinthians 10, he said, although we walk in the flesh, 138 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,700 we do not war according to the flesh. 139 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,960 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 140 00:10:52,179 --> 00:10:57,180 That means fleshy, but mighty, and that's dunatos, or dunatos, 141 00:10:57,860 --> 00:10:59,620 that's actually a version of dynamite, 142 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:04,360 mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 143 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:09,759 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself 144 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:11,799 against the knowledge of God, 145 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:16,879 bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ 146 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:20,360 and being ready to punish all disobedience 147 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,940 when your obedience is fulfilled. 148 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:27,779 So if we are obeying what the Lord's telling us to do, 149 00:11:27,980 --> 00:11:29,159 we are invincible. 150 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:30,919 I mean, that's what that says. 151 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:38,059 We can punish the spiritual realm that is defying God's truth. 152 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:41,279 I believe that about me, I don't know about you, 153 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:45,299 but I believe that when I am confident in who I am in Christ, 154 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,500 I don't care what's in that. 155 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:51,960 I just feel like God's going to do whatever he wants to do right now in me, 156 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:52,759 and I am nothing. 157 00:11:53,639 --> 00:11:59,919 I'm just a tent, but he's going to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. 158 00:12:00,879 --> 00:12:03,019 I mean, it's significant what he can do. 159 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:07,480 He's always trying to tear down those strongholds, okay? 160 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,620 I can't help but think, and don't get mad at me for tying in a little bit of news, 161 00:12:12,279 --> 00:12:16,460 but there was a recent explosion in the Middle East, okay? 162 00:12:16,460 --> 00:12:25,740 And it was bombs that were designed to take out a greater threat, was it not? 163 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:30,159 If we believe the news, I believe hopefully this is all accurate, right? 164 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:36,320 But these are nukes that we're going to eventually be using as innocent people, right? 165 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:37,879 But what happened? 166 00:12:38,179 --> 00:12:39,700 We took them out. 167 00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:42,740 We obliterated them or whatever we want to say. 168 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:50,759 In the same way, the Lord is blowing up the enemy's design for evil in our lives. 169 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:54,120 He still tears down things, doesn't he? 170 00:12:54,539 --> 00:12:58,720 You know, the enemy is always trying to build walls between us and God. 171 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,899 He's always trying to build up addictions in our bodies. 172 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,860 He's always trying to build up distractions, lust, whatever it is. 173 00:13:08,860 --> 00:13:13,960 He's trying to build those things into our lives so that we avoid God. 174 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:16,200 But what is God trying to do? 175 00:13:16,659 --> 00:13:21,740 He's trying to destroy those things so that we can have free access to Him. 176 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,179 He's trying to tear down those walls. 177 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:29,000 You know, I know, I just was thinking a lot this morning about these different things, 178 00:13:29,159 --> 00:13:32,159 clips in the news, but, you know, when Reagan said, 179 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:35,500 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. 180 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:41,080 I mean, once it was torn down, there was a lot of freedom, was there not? 181 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:44,700 And I believe the Lord wants to do that in you and I. 182 00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:52,039 He wants to tear down the walls that the enemy is building up in our psyche, in our hearts. 183 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:55,559 You know, that callousness of our hearts towards God. 184 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,539 The Lord just wants to blow it up. 185 00:13:58,620 --> 00:14:00,240 He wants to destroy the work. 186 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,919 But He also wants to build things up. 187 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:04,639 That's the power of God, right? 188 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,440 He also wants to build. 189 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,460 When you think of what believers have done in this world, 190 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:14,360 I mean, magnificent things in the far reaches of the world, 191 00:14:14,779 --> 00:14:17,399 building hospitals, building universities, 192 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,659 building all these things for the betterment of society. 193 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,279 Now, granted, sometimes the enemy has regained control of those things, 194 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:27,559 which is very sad. 195 00:14:27,559 --> 00:14:31,919 Some of the things, these organizations, you realize they used to be Christian. 196 00:14:32,139 --> 00:14:32,379 Wow. 197 00:14:33,019 --> 00:14:35,059 Like how far they've fallen, you know? 198 00:14:35,580 --> 00:14:37,559 But that wasn't God's fault, okay? 199 00:14:37,779 --> 00:14:40,159 The power of God built those things. 200 00:14:40,580 --> 00:14:45,480 What happened is people surrendered them again to the enemy, right? 201 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:46,500 In many cases. 202 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:48,500 And so this is what the Lord wants to do. 203 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:52,159 He wants to be powerful in your life. 204 00:14:52,299 --> 00:14:54,720 He wants to transform our life. 205 00:14:54,919 --> 00:14:56,560 He wants to cast out addiction. 206 00:14:56,639 --> 00:14:59,139 He wants to cast out sickness. 207 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:04,220 He wants to cast out whatever is warring against the Lord. 208 00:15:05,059 --> 00:15:08,740 But He also wants to impute His greatness into us. 209 00:15:09,340 --> 00:15:14,159 And so we are these ambassadors of this dunamis power, amen? 210 00:15:14,879 --> 00:15:19,559 That's what He wants to do in our lives, is to transform our lives. 211 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:23,799 He wants to build up your bank account. 212 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:26,360 Now, I say that sounds like prosperity preaching. 213 00:15:27,039 --> 00:15:27,139 No. 214 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,419 No, He doesn't want you to be enslaved to debt. 215 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:37,399 He doesn't want you to be enslaved to economics of this world. 216 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:39,620 We're supposed to be the head, not the tail, right? 217 00:15:40,259 --> 00:15:44,639 And so He wants to empower your life, not to leave you meek and weak. 218 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:50,480 Now, I'm not saying there won't be times where He's teaching us things through those trials. 219 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,419 You know, like Paul said, you know, I know what it is to abound, 220 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,620 and I know what it means to be a based, 221 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,639 but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 222 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,860 You know, Paul himself knew there were some good times there, 223 00:16:02,419 --> 00:16:04,080 but there's been some bad times. 224 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:05,279 But guess what? 225 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:08,320 I can thrive in all times, right? 226 00:16:08,659 --> 00:16:13,919 So He's always trying to cause you not just to survive, but to thrive, amen? 227 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,580 And so that's really what He wants to do in our lives. 228 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:22,379 And so let's read this one verse and then move on. 229 00:16:23,620 --> 00:16:26,019 So remember, the Lord is telling us, 230 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:31,440 don't neglect that great salvation, which was proven to you. 231 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:34,580 And in verse four, Hebrews chapter two, 232 00:16:34,820 --> 00:16:39,259 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders. 233 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:43,240 We talked about that with various miracles. 234 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:49,419 And we talked about these miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit 235 00:16:49,419 --> 00:16:54,500 according to His own will, the gifts of the Spirit. 236 00:16:54,899 --> 00:16:58,539 So we're going to talk about this, probably won't dedicate enough time to it. 237 00:16:58,779 --> 00:16:59,139 Who knows? 238 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,960 Maybe we'll loop back around next week. 239 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:05,940 But these gifts of the Holy Spirit, you know, 240 00:17:06,380 --> 00:17:09,119 we're a charismatic church, a Calvary chapel. 241 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:14,140 That means if you take Baptist and Pentecost and squeeze them together, 242 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,400 that's kind of what we are, kind of a merger. 243 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:20,380 Because we believe all the gifts of the Spirit are for today. 244 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:26,079 And we believe that the saints are called to walk in these gifts, 245 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:28,059 whether we're all going to possess all of them. 246 00:17:28,519 --> 00:17:32,839 You know, it alludes in Scripture that Paul says, do all do this, do all do that. 247 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,960 We're not going to try to decipher that. 248 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,619 What we're going to say is perhaps we have a lot of them. 249 00:17:40,099 --> 00:17:44,920 And perhaps we have a lot of them that we don't even realize we have, right? 250 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,920 And so the gifts of the Spirit. 251 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,319 And so when Paul was writing about this, and you got to remember Paul, 252 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:55,420 I mean, signs, wonders, miracles, gifts were just exploding out of him, right? 253 00:17:55,539 --> 00:17:58,099 I mean, he was just manifesting these things. 254 00:17:58,819 --> 00:18:00,920 But that's not what captivated his heart. 255 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,220 Salvations did. 256 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,819 Seeing new churches born, seeing disciples of Christ, 257 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,940 that's what turned him on. 258 00:18:09,339 --> 00:18:12,279 Seeing somebody healed, well, yeah, that's a part for the course. 259 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:13,619 That's to be expected. 260 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,380 But that's not what this is all about. 261 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:19,420 It's to glorify Jesus Christ, right? 262 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,480 And so when Paul was writing to the Corinthians church, 263 00:18:22,819 --> 00:18:26,140 which was remember a Gentile church, he said, 264 00:18:26,140 --> 00:18:30,480 listen, I want to warn you guys, because remember, they were idolaters, okay? 265 00:18:31,059 --> 00:18:35,339 Like, they loved creating things they could worship. 266 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,640 They loved worshiping lots of different Gods, 267 00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:41,880 because anything that seemed special or unique, 268 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:43,799 they wanted to worship it. 269 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,440 It's just paganistic, right? 270 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:47,480 And so, or polytheistic. 271 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:51,220 And so they got enamored by different things. 272 00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:52,720 So he was warning them. 273 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,220 He was saying, wait, I'm trying to warn you here, okay? 274 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,720 Though you're going to see great things, 275 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:03,519 don't get caught away with the actually manifestations of the gifts. 276 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:10,119 Instead, be caught up with enamoration for the giver of the gifts, right? 277 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,599 Which is Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, right? 278 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:19,759 And so he said in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, verses 1 and 2, he says, 279 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:24,059 now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. 280 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,019 You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb idols, 281 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:30,779 however you were led. 282 00:19:31,019 --> 00:19:36,920 So he said, listen, don't get caught up in the sensational things of the gifts. 283 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:43,220 Expect them to be happening, but get caught up in the giver of the gifts, right? 284 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,059 Remember when Simon the sorcerer was in Samaria, 285 00:19:47,059 --> 00:19:49,119 and he saw like Peter laying hands, 286 00:19:49,279 --> 00:19:52,920 people were just like erupting in the tongues of the spirit, 287 00:19:53,279 --> 00:19:55,480 and Simon is watching, and he was a believer. 288 00:19:56,339 --> 00:19:58,140 But he's watching and he's like saying, 289 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,880 I remember when I had all this control over these people. 290 00:20:05,819 --> 00:20:08,099 I wish I had that. I wish I could do this. 291 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,980 But he craved it for himself, right? 292 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,539 And then he said, listen, can I give you some money for this gifting? 293 00:20:15,539 --> 00:20:16,740 And remember what Peter said? 294 00:20:17,539 --> 00:20:19,619 Your money, and I'm going to paraphrase, 295 00:20:19,779 --> 00:20:25,980 but he basically warned him severely that he is in jeopardy of his own salvation 296 00:20:26,539 --> 00:20:35,240 because of getting caught away with the lure of power over people, 297 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:37,059 of attention, you know? 298 00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:43,259 Because he knew Simon's heart was to be special to the people, 299 00:20:43,259 --> 00:20:46,019 to be a ruler of the people once again, 300 00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:48,160 but in the name of Jesus, you know? 301 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,599 Many ministers still do that in congregations. 302 00:20:51,740 --> 00:20:54,960 They want to have that magnetism over the people 303 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,359 instead of pointing to Jesus, right? 304 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,680 So he's warning them about this. 305 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:03,440 You know, even remember Ananias and Sapphira, was it? 306 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:06,500 When they said, yeah, we sold this land for this amount, 307 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:09,160 and they came up and they're strutting up, 308 00:21:09,279 --> 00:21:10,700 yeah, yeah, I'm giving it all away. 309 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:13,759 And like, is this really what you got for the land? 310 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:14,819 Oh yeah, that's all of it. 311 00:21:15,180 --> 00:21:15,299 Boom. 312 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,460 The Lord took them out, right? 313 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,380 As a sign in wonder, but also as saying, look, 314 00:21:21,019 --> 00:21:23,380 don't make this about you, okay? 315 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:24,240 So it's a warning. 316 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,859 So Paul's warning them, but then he gets into the gifts of the Spirit. 317 00:21:28,279 --> 00:21:32,740 And we read this, 1 Corinthians 12, 7 to 10 and 28. 318 00:21:32,859 --> 00:21:35,759 He says, but the manifestation of the Spirit 319 00:21:35,759 --> 00:21:40,279 is given to each one for the prophet of all, 320 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:44,059 word of wisdom, and I'm summarizing them here, 321 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,299 knowledge, faith, healings, miracles, 322 00:21:48,599 --> 00:21:50,799 which we were just talking about, prophecy, 323 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,579 discerning of spirits, tongues, 324 00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:59,920 interpretation of tongues, helps, and administrations. 325 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:01,900 Now, just look at those for a minute. 326 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:05,640 When you look at those, 327 00:22:06,740 --> 00:22:11,099 which things do you wish you had the most of? 328 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,759 Jesse says administrations. 329 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:18,059 I kind of doubt that, okay? 330 00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:19,680 But let me tell you something. 331 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,700 I love administrations, okay? 332 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,480 Because I know it's something that I'm not natural at, you know? 333 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:29,519 And the Lord has been helping me in those areas. 334 00:22:29,519 --> 00:22:31,180 I'm building in administrations. 335 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:32,799 I'm getting better. 336 00:22:33,539 --> 00:22:38,900 But you know when you notice the organization you're in 337 00:22:39,980 --> 00:22:42,799 or the group you're in has no administration? 338 00:22:43,460 --> 00:22:45,160 It's when you don't have it. 339 00:22:45,339 --> 00:22:46,460 It's a mess, right? 340 00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:47,440 It's not run right. 341 00:22:48,539 --> 00:22:51,940 Administration is a valuable gift of the Spirit. 342 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:52,900 It truly is. 343 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,319 And I believe when Paul was saying to Timothy, 344 00:22:55,519 --> 00:22:58,480 look, you remember the gifts that we laid on you? 345 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,059 Okay, don't neglect them, okay? 346 00:23:01,519 --> 00:23:04,480 I think he was saying the teaching and the administration 347 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,039 because he was in charge of a lot of things, right? 348 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,140 I value administrations. 349 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:11,500 Some people think, oh, it's so behind the scenes. 350 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:12,779 It's not sensational. 351 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,779 It's valuable to anybody to know. 352 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:19,119 You know, the brain is our administration, right? 353 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:20,660 I mean, thank God for the brain 354 00:23:20,660 --> 00:23:23,900 or else we wouldn't be operating correctly, right? 355 00:23:24,259 --> 00:23:25,480 So administrations helps. 356 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:30,160 You know, I love the fact that believers are so quick 357 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,359 to pour at and give 358 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,440 and really give in such significant ways 359 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,839 to the least of these. 360 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:39,380 Remember Jesus said, when you did it for them, 361 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,119 you did it for me. 362 00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:42,099 I mean, those are gifts of the Spirit. 363 00:23:42,420 --> 00:23:46,559 We shouldn't yawn at those things, okay, 364 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:48,980 just because they seem less sensational. 365 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:52,319 But we also shouldn't assume this is what I do. 366 00:23:52,420 --> 00:23:53,240 Maybe there's more. 367 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,099 Maybe there's more, right? 368 00:23:55,619 --> 00:23:57,500 I'm kind of seem to be working backwards, 369 00:23:57,700 --> 00:23:59,660 but tongues, interpretation. 370 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:01,259 I don't interpret tongues. 371 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,700 I don't. 372 00:24:02,819 --> 00:24:03,640 Maybe you do. 373 00:24:04,579 --> 00:24:06,640 But I pray in tongues. 374 00:24:07,059 --> 00:24:08,480 And what's interesting sometimes 375 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,380 when someone's praying, 376 00:24:10,980 --> 00:24:12,779 you ever hear a prayer and you're like, 377 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,779 yes, man, yeah. 378 00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:15,440 And you just like, 379 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,079 and you just something inside you is like screaming amen, 380 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,619 but very quietly, right? 381 00:24:21,579 --> 00:24:23,480 And as you're hearing the prayer, 382 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:25,420 I just start praying in tongues, 383 00:24:25,539 --> 00:24:26,259 but not loud, 384 00:24:26,339 --> 00:24:28,319 because I know how people get all bent out of shape with, 385 00:24:28,420 --> 00:24:29,859 wait, man, shouldn't there be an interpreter here? 386 00:24:30,939 --> 00:24:35,059 So, but quietly, I just pray because, 387 00:24:35,539 --> 00:24:36,859 and I don't even think about it. 388 00:24:36,859 --> 00:24:37,900 I don't even realize I'm doing it. 389 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,119 I'm like, wow, something's resonating 390 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:41,720 in here in my spirit, you know? 391 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:44,519 I think praying in tongues is amazing. 392 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,299 And I really, and you know what? 393 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,420 No one taught me how to do it. 394 00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:50,859 I heard a pastor one time saying, 395 00:24:51,579 --> 00:24:54,220 you know, there's no right and wrong way to go 396 00:24:54,220 --> 00:24:56,140 into your closet, lay on your face, 397 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:57,720 and just start praying. 398 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,200 Just say, Lord, I'm tired of my own English language. 399 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,460 I'm tired of the way I keep giving you 400 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:05,759 this Christmas list of the once. 401 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,039 Instead, Lord, I want you to pray through me. 402 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:13,359 You know, the spirit just yearns 403 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,180 and groans within you. 404 00:25:15,579 --> 00:25:17,980 And suddenly, as you're laying on your face, 405 00:25:17,980 --> 00:25:20,220 just praying, you start thinking of things 406 00:25:20,220 --> 00:25:22,779 that you haven't thought of in days or weeks. 407 00:25:22,859 --> 00:25:23,859 You're like, wow, I guess this is 408 00:25:23,859 --> 00:25:25,240 what I'm praying about right now. 409 00:25:25,619 --> 00:25:28,519 And you're praying, and you're seeing this real. 410 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:29,920 I don't know if you've ever done it. 411 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,000 Can I get an amen, somebody? 412 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:33,579 You know, you're looking at me like I'm an alien. 413 00:25:33,819 --> 00:25:35,500 I hope not, but no, really. 414 00:25:35,779 --> 00:25:37,400 Just give it a try. 415 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:39,079 I was telling someone who just went through 416 00:25:39,079 --> 00:25:42,359 a significant experience recently, 417 00:25:42,539 --> 00:25:44,200 and as they were telling me, I'm like, you know what? 418 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,519 Just start praying in tongues. 419 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:47,359 Well, I don't know. 420 00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:49,299 Just start doing it. 421 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,819 Just go alone in a quiet place 422 00:25:52,819 --> 00:25:54,539 and just say, Lord, if you want me to do this, 423 00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:58,880 I want to connect with you in this spiritual way. 424 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:02,700 And perhaps the Lord wants to do this with you 425 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,319 because there's a connection, 426 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,980 because we can keep talking to God 427 00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:09,640 and feel like we're just telling him things 428 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,140 rather than let him pray through us, you know? 429 00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:16,619 And so the tongues, and there are, actually, 430 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,140 John Bevere has an amazing video series 431 00:26:19,660 --> 00:26:21,720 on the different kinds of tongues, 432 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,799 and he says that there's four different kinds, 433 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,859 and I could definitely see that in Scripture laid out, 434 00:26:27,339 --> 00:26:29,740 but different kinds of tongues and so forth. 435 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,799 But discerning of spirit, I mean, that's significant. 436 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,619 Identifying what is actually happening here, you know? 437 00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:40,900 And not to get into all different examples, 438 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:44,960 but there's times when you can even be in a church environment 439 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,259 where you're saying, this doesn't feel like God, you know? 440 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,259 This doesn't feel right, okay? 441 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,440 There's something off, you know? 442 00:26:54,839 --> 00:26:57,039 And perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't, 443 00:26:57,039 --> 00:26:58,980 but then you have to navigate through that 444 00:26:58,980 --> 00:27:01,240 because just because I think I'm right 445 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:02,299 doesn't mean I am. 446 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,119 So now you have to kind of discern 447 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,980 and then you have to navigate 448 00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:09,859 because just because you are right 449 00:27:09,859 --> 00:27:13,240 doesn't mean the person that you're going to talk to thinks you're right. 450 00:27:13,859 --> 00:27:15,819 So then you have to navigate that too, right? 451 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,839 How do I sensitively deal with this subject of spirits? 452 00:27:21,339 --> 00:27:25,380 But it's important to be in tune with the spiritual realm. 453 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,259 Also so that we can discern, hey, it's time to cast this thing out, right? 454 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:32,160 When it doesn't belong there. 455 00:27:32,579 --> 00:27:35,500 And it's amazing how when you talk to someone, 456 00:27:35,940 --> 00:27:38,500 they start off with what they think is the problem 457 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:42,880 and the longer you talk to them, it gets deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, 458 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,779 and all of a sudden it comes down to them being molested as a child, 459 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:48,640 it comes down to them being neglected, 460 00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:52,920 it comes down to all these other deep rooted things 461 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:53,839 that you're like, well, 462 00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:57,220 your problem isn't the problem you think there is. 463 00:27:57,539 --> 00:28:00,859 It goes far deeper, you know, the discerning of spirits. 464 00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:02,779 But we have this capability. 465 00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:04,319 We really do, you do. 466 00:28:05,140 --> 00:28:09,220 It's really just asking the Lord, reveal this to me, 467 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:11,700 help me discern these things. 468 00:28:12,099 --> 00:28:12,660 So why? 469 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,960 For the prophet of all to love people, 470 00:28:15,980 --> 00:28:17,299 which we're gonna get into in a minute. 471 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,880 And then again, miracles, you know, 472 00:28:20,059 --> 00:28:23,660 the Lord moving in power through you. 473 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,720 I don't know if you've ever been involved with deliverance, 474 00:28:27,220 --> 00:28:29,819 but I'm telling you, it's like, it's not this like sensational, 475 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,740 like, you know, head spinning around. 476 00:28:32,740 --> 00:28:37,599 It can be very subtle and very quiet until it's coming out, 477 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,160 until someone is vomiting, until someone is, 478 00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:43,400 but like realizing that like, 479 00:28:43,579 --> 00:28:48,640 I am who God chose to be in this place at this time to do this. 480 00:28:49,319 --> 00:28:51,799 It's not as a matter of whether I'm confident in myself, 481 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,259 I'm confident in Christ. 482 00:28:54,119 --> 00:28:57,960 I know what he wants to do right here, right now. 483 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:00,119 You know, it's believing him in you. 484 00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:01,759 It's not trusting yourself. 485 00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:05,480 It's trusting the power of God within you. 486 00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:08,140 And then healing, you're laying hands, 487 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,160 you know, definitely get in the habit of laying hands 488 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,119 on people who are sick immediately. 489 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,220 I'm telling you, you know how many times you say, 490 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,799 oh, yeah, I have this issue or so, I'll pray for you. 491 00:29:20,380 --> 00:29:22,019 As soon as you walk away, no, you won't. 492 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,299 I'm just saying probably, okay. 493 00:29:24,779 --> 00:29:27,559 Unless you write it down, put it in your phone, 494 00:29:28,119 --> 00:29:31,420 or you have a list, you'll forget. 495 00:29:31,420 --> 00:29:34,140 Because you know how many people are asking you to pray 496 00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:34,880 for them in a day? 497 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,099 Probably a lot, right? 498 00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:38,579 Or people that you know you should be. 499 00:29:39,059 --> 00:29:41,759 But the first thing you do is lay hands on them there 500 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,460 and just pray for whatever the situation is. 501 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,059 Because we need to be a house of laying hands on one another 502 00:29:50,059 --> 00:29:54,059 and praying and believing that the Lord is moving through us. 503 00:29:55,420 --> 00:29:56,539 I don't want to go there, it's too long. 504 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:58,400 But anyway, so does that make sense? 505 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,480 Healing, faith, you know what's interesting? 506 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,059 Faith is an interesting thing. 507 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,779 Because faith, the word says that we all have 508 00:30:06,779 --> 00:30:07,720 a measure of faith. 509 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:12,480 That means everyone has the capacity to believe in God. 510 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:13,839 That's what I do believe that. 511 00:30:14,539 --> 00:30:17,380 Like otherwise, God has designed people not to believe in Him. 512 00:30:17,579 --> 00:30:23,839 I mean, that's kind of Calvinistic and it's a harsh God. 513 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:25,519 He doesn't want everyone to go to heaven. 514 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:27,559 The word says the opposite, right? 515 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:30,059 He wants none to perish, right? 516 00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:35,339 So I believe that He doesn't design people for damnation, right? 517 00:30:35,579 --> 00:30:37,859 He wants everyone to call upon Him, right? 518 00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:42,460 Everyone has a measure of faith, a capacity to believe. 519 00:30:42,619 --> 00:30:44,559 So it's something organic, right? 520 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:50,420 But then, okay, when we exercise our faith now 521 00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:53,140 in terms of believing in Christ, 522 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:57,039 now the Holy Spirit anoints that faith. 523 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,059 Now it's a supernatural faith. 524 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:01,940 Now it's a spiritual faith. 525 00:31:02,180 --> 00:31:04,980 He just gave you more faith, right? 526 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:10,220 And now we can actually believe like we've never believed before. 527 00:31:11,059 --> 00:31:14,019 And the longer we go in walking out our faith, 528 00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:17,039 the more you believe, you believe, you believe, right? 529 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,000 It's just like, how can I not believe? 530 00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:22,579 I believe there's a wonder working God. 531 00:31:22,579 --> 00:31:24,339 I don't know how that song goes, but it's a good song. 532 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,539 But like I believe because I've seen it again and again 533 00:31:27,539 --> 00:31:29,059 and again, don't you believe that way? 534 00:31:29,299 --> 00:31:32,599 The longer you walk in faith, you can't not believe. 535 00:31:33,220 --> 00:31:36,500 You've seen too much evidence of your faith, right? 536 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:38,660 But then it doesn't stop there. 537 00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:41,480 The word actually says you can add to your faith. 538 00:31:41,539 --> 00:31:43,319 You can actually build up your faith. 539 00:31:43,940 --> 00:31:46,660 So that actually in 2 Peter chapter one, 540 00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:49,400 it talks about building up your faith. 541 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,099 So faith is a complex thing. 542 00:31:52,579 --> 00:31:55,579 But what I do know is that the longer you walk in it, 543 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,799 the more you add to it, the stronger it gets. 544 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,700 And the more you believe, the more you receive. 545 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,019 That's the truth. 546 00:32:03,420 --> 00:32:06,319 The more you see the conquering power of God 547 00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:10,599 working through your life and knowledge and wisdom. 548 00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:13,940 It's interesting, wisdom being the first gift mentioned. 549 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:17,920 I believe wisdom is important for all of the gifts 550 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,500 because sometimes and I've experienced as people 551 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:26,599 who have a gift, but they don't yet have the wisdom to walk in it. 552 00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:28,319 They need it. 553 00:32:28,579 --> 00:32:30,720 They need somebody to help the mentor them 554 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,220 because they can in a sense move in something 555 00:32:35,220 --> 00:32:37,880 that they're not mature enough to handle 556 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,640 and it can go sideways. 557 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,220 It can get a little messed up. 558 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,660 And so it's important for if they're gifted for something, 559 00:32:46,660 --> 00:32:49,359 for someone to come alongside them and say, 560 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:50,819 hey, let's do this together. 561 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,740 Like for instance, it was a young man. 562 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:54,279 He was, I love them. 563 00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:56,380 He was so on fire for the Lord. 564 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,079 And he had so much faith that everyone, 565 00:33:01,420 --> 00:33:02,440 he could lay hands on anyone. 566 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,980 They'd be saved and praise God. 567 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,220 But like he would walk up to people 568 00:33:06,639 --> 00:33:08,400 and he would say, hey, can I pray for you? 569 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,619 And like, no thanks, no thanks. 570 00:33:10,180 --> 00:33:10,559 And they're walking. 571 00:33:10,779 --> 00:33:11,039 No, really. 572 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,240 And he would be chasing them down the street. 573 00:33:13,819 --> 00:33:16,660 And I'm like, you know, 574 00:33:18,539 --> 00:33:19,880 maybe they're not ready to receive 575 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,160 what you're trying to give them. 576 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:23,980 Like I don't know that you see Christ doing that. 577 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,440 Like running, please, please let me gird my loins. 578 00:33:26,660 --> 00:33:27,779 Please let me heal you. 579 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,299 No, it was they came to him, right? 580 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,400 You know, that's not necessarily maturity 581 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,339 but he still had so much zeal. 582 00:33:35,539 --> 00:33:37,920 I'm like, just slow down. 583 00:33:38,799 --> 00:33:41,319 Don't you think they should want this from God 584 00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:42,920 before they receive it? 585 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,180 You can't force things. 586 00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:48,240 You know, Christ was not a forceful master 587 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,319 that made people be delivered. 588 00:33:51,980 --> 00:33:53,759 They came to him, right? 589 00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:55,819 And so anyway, that's a side note. 590 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,259 But so those are the gifts of the spirit. 591 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:01,319 But remember, it's for all of us. 592 00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,039 We're all members of the body. 593 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:10,420 And Paul goes on in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 11. 594 00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:12,960 He says, but one and the same spirit works, 595 00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:14,880 all things, all these things, 596 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,500 distributing to each one individually as he wills. 597 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,119 So we don't need to be envious 598 00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:28,159 if someone is manifesting a gift thing 599 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:30,940 that we say, man, I wish I had that. 600 00:34:31,619 --> 00:34:32,980 I wish I had that. 601 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,079 Because then all of a sudden, 602 00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:38,519 it's like a competitive spirit, right? 603 00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:41,760 And it's a judgmental spirit, you know? 604 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,800 And then all of a sudden we could see things in the flesh 605 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,960 like, oh, look at the way they're carrying on. 606 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:47,820 You know, it just becomes judgmental. 607 00:34:48,179 --> 00:34:48,900 You know what's interesting? 608 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,840 I read something that Chuck Smith, 609 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,980 who was the founder of Calvary Chapel, 610 00:34:55,139 --> 00:34:57,760 and he was just such a tender guy. 611 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,480 You know, he really was just a loving guy 612 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,380 and super humble. 613 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,320 And he wrote about how he was at this church meeting, 614 00:35:10,119 --> 00:35:11,699 and these young people just came. 615 00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:14,059 This was in the 70s, you know, the Jesus revolution. 616 00:35:14,579 --> 00:35:19,780 And these young kids just came from a healing conference 617 00:35:19,780 --> 00:35:23,460 or a healing service with Katherine Coleman. 618 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,199 Did you ever hear that name, Katherine Coleman, right? 619 00:35:26,699 --> 00:35:28,719 And if you watch videos of her, 620 00:35:28,820 --> 00:35:30,500 I mean, she was unusual, you know, 621 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:31,659 just the way she moved. 622 00:35:31,659 --> 00:35:32,699 I think she floated. 623 00:35:33,599 --> 00:35:35,659 I think she really went, yeah. 624 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,219 And she had this show, I, what is it? 625 00:35:38,380 --> 00:35:40,539 I expect a miracle or something about a miracle. 626 00:35:41,099 --> 00:35:43,760 And she would just be, and she was very theatrical 627 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,420 and very, very animated to watch. 628 00:35:47,820 --> 00:35:49,880 So anyway, so they came and they said, 629 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:51,960 yes, someone so just got healed, you know, 630 00:35:52,139 --> 00:35:52,840 at Katherine Coleman. 631 00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:56,820 And Chuck Smith was so transparent. 632 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,860 He says, when I heard that, I was like jealous. 633 00:36:01,799 --> 00:36:04,599 Like, Lord, why don't you give me that gift? 634 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:07,059 You know, for him to say this, 635 00:36:07,059 --> 00:36:09,760 this is the founder really of a movement 636 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,420 that has now 2,000 churches around the world. 637 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:14,719 Lord, why couldn't you give that to me? 638 00:36:15,659 --> 00:36:17,420 And the Lord spoke to me, he says, you know what? 639 00:36:18,179 --> 00:36:19,320 I gave her that. 640 00:36:20,340 --> 00:36:21,840 And I gave you teaching the word. 641 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,639 I give people things that I want them to have 642 00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:27,000 because I know they're going to be good stewards of it. 643 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:28,380 Don't be jealous. 644 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,599 And when I read, I'm like, that's so, 645 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:33,500 that is so transparent, you know? 646 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,260 And he just embraced her. 647 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,599 They were on TV shows together all the time 648 00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:39,860 and interviewed and so forth. 649 00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:43,199 But it's like, we don't have to envy someone else's gift. 650 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,500 We can celebrate it and say, 651 00:36:45,579 --> 00:36:47,239 hey, how can I glean from this? 652 00:36:47,380 --> 00:36:49,880 What can I, maybe this is for me too, right? 653 00:36:50,539 --> 00:36:52,099 And so these gifts of the Spirit 654 00:36:52,099 --> 00:36:54,199 are for all of us, aren't they? 655 00:36:55,059 --> 00:36:58,320 And then in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, it gets into, 656 00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,800 it's all about love, right? 657 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,059 It's all about love. 658 00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:03,840 If you try to do these things in your own strength, 659 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,420 you know, like chasing a guy down the street, 660 00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:09,340 maybe it's like a clanging symbol, okay? 661 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,079 Remember that? 662 00:37:10,079 --> 00:37:13,179 If you read 1 Corinthians 13, it's all about love. 663 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:16,260 Like everything we do is to be showing people 664 00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:17,960 that Christ loves them. 665 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,800 If he's healing them, if he's delivering them, 666 00:37:22,139 --> 00:37:24,159 whatever he's doing, it's because he loves them. 667 00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:26,400 He wants a better life for them. 668 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,079 There's times when a situation arises, 669 00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:32,699 I'm thinking, yeah, I really don't, in my spirit, 670 00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:34,619 feel like I have the faith for this right now, 671 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,119 whatever the reason is. 672 00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:39,300 I'll go grab someone who I know does. 673 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,260 And you might say, hey, that sounds like, 674 00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,860 you should be the guy. 675 00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:49,099 If I don't feel like I'm connected in this situation, 676 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,539 I'm not gonna try to pretend or fake it. 677 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,420 I'll go find someone that I think is, you know? 678 00:37:55,420 --> 00:37:58,659 Because especially if something just happened 679 00:37:58,659 --> 00:38:00,059 through them or to them. 680 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,519 You know, that's the best. 681 00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:04,679 I love saying to somebody that just received a miracle, 682 00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:08,039 I'm like, please be an ambassador for that miracle. 683 00:38:08,739 --> 00:38:08,920 You know? 684 00:38:09,779 --> 00:38:12,480 Please, please try to give that away. 685 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,559 You know, it's like we're supposed to be pouring through, 686 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,420 you know, the Lord's pouring through us. 687 00:38:17,139 --> 00:38:18,760 Give that gift to somebody else. 688 00:38:19,019 --> 00:38:20,199 You know, you've just received it. 689 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,800 You know what it's like to be set free of that 690 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,039 or to be healed of that. 691 00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:26,559 Give it to somebody else, you know? 692 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,440 I mean, that's really what he wants us to do, 693 00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:30,360 to be receiving and giving, you know, 694 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,360 just to give it away, you know, because there's more to come. 695 00:38:34,139 --> 00:38:35,619 And so, and then finally, 696 00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:39,780 1 Corinthians 14, verses 1 and 3. 697 00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:46,019 Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. 698 00:38:46,099 --> 00:38:47,599 So he says they're desire them. 699 00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:49,559 There's nothing wrong with wanting these things. 700 00:38:49,699 --> 00:38:50,420 Do you realize that? 701 00:38:51,139 --> 00:38:52,940 But it's to pursue love. 702 00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:55,840 If the motivation is right, 703 00:38:56,940 --> 00:38:58,400 then step into it and say, 704 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,300 Lord, I wanna love people like they've never been loved before. 705 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:06,559 What can I have to pour out that love to others? 706 00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:09,260 But especially that you may prophesy, 707 00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:10,500 I'm not gonna get too much into this, 708 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,280 but he who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation 709 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,239 and comfort to men. 710 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:19,139 And you know, prophecy, I believe we are all prophets. 711 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,960 And you go, whoa, hold on, slam on the brakes. 712 00:39:22,619 --> 00:39:23,599 What do you mean? 713 00:39:23,699 --> 00:39:25,079 You're gonna all tell the future? 714 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,780 Well, in a sense, we can all forth tell the future. 715 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,360 We have the future right here. 716 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:33,300 We know the future. 717 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,480 We know the word of God, right? 718 00:39:36,820 --> 00:39:39,679 If you speak the word of God, even if you paraphrase it, 719 00:39:39,780 --> 00:39:41,139 aren't you speaking prophecy? 720 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,360 Because we know the end of all things, don't we? 721 00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:49,119 We know how sin corrodes and contaminates and destroys. 722 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,280 We know the enemy wants to kill, steal and destroy. 723 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,340 We know all this, right? 724 00:39:53,820 --> 00:39:56,960 And we know what God's promises are, yes and amen, 725 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,079 and his plans. 726 00:39:58,679 --> 00:40:01,400 Don't we kind of have everything wrapped up 727 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:02,400 in the word of God? 728 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:03,679 We can speak prophecy. 729 00:40:04,139 --> 00:40:06,619 Remember when the Pentecost came and they said, 730 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,539 you know, your old men will dream dreams. 731 00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:10,860 Actually, I'm dreaming more and more dreams, I must say. 732 00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:13,059 But anyway, but that doesn't mean I'm old, okay? 733 00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:18,639 But, and your sons and daughters, they will prophesy. 734 00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:20,579 Well, it's not just for them, 735 00:40:20,739 --> 00:40:22,960 and also your servants will prophesy. 736 00:40:23,059 --> 00:40:24,659 Like, that means like everybody, 737 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:27,820 everybody has the capacity to prophesy, 738 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,679 not saying, okay, that just happened. 739 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,739 Let's read the newspaper, all right, this, see? 740 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:34,699 The moon's, the moon's Jupiter and all that. 741 00:40:35,059 --> 00:40:36,559 You know, I don't get in all that stuff 742 00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:39,619 because there's a lot of prophecy that, 743 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,099 you know, may or may not happen. 744 00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:43,860 I just know what the word says, 745 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,199 and if I live this out, God, I'll be just fine, okay? 746 00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:51,500 I could just see who's in front of me and minister in that way. 747 00:40:51,860 --> 00:40:54,099 But it's prophecy is important. 748 00:40:54,219 --> 00:40:59,500 We all have the capacity to prophesy in the word of God, amen. 749 00:41:00,739 --> 00:41:04,500 And so, as I was thinking through this, you know, 750 00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:11,260 how sad it would be to have giftings or empowerment 751 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,320 that you don't realize you have, 752 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:18,219 and you never access them 753 00:41:19,299 --> 00:41:22,239 and actually tap into your full potential. 754 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,340 And that's probably all of us. 755 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:24,079 It's probably me too. 756 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,119 All of us are probably gonna miss a little bit. 757 00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:28,159 You know, we are His workmanship, 758 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,880 creating Christ Jesus for good works, 759 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,579 which God prepared in advance for us to do. 760 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,659 But what about when I get to heaven and Jesus says, 761 00:41:33,739 --> 00:41:35,699 yeah, you know, I had a little things lined up for you there. 762 00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:36,380 You missed them. 763 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:41,840 I don't think I'm gonna be, you know, judged for bad. 764 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,480 I'll be judged for rewards of what I did do. 765 00:41:44,699 --> 00:41:47,159 So, you know, perhaps we'll miss some stuff, right? 766 00:41:47,619 --> 00:41:50,179 But to miss out on the big picture. 767 00:41:51,099 --> 00:41:53,460 So I asked Zach, he's always been kind of into the, 768 00:41:53,699 --> 00:41:54,320 what do you call them? 769 00:41:57,860 --> 00:42:00,519 Superheroes, comics and stuff like that since he was a kid. 770 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,579 And I don't know any of those things, 771 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,820 the X-Men and this and that and whatever. 772 00:42:05,059 --> 00:42:06,199 I'm probably saying it all wrong. 773 00:42:06,659 --> 00:42:07,820 But anyway, so I said exactly, 774 00:42:08,199 --> 00:42:11,340 was there ever a superhero that had this power? 775 00:42:11,340 --> 00:42:14,019 Who never knew he had it, okay? 776 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,500 Just for an example. 777 00:42:16,260 --> 00:42:18,099 And he brought up Superman, okay? 778 00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:20,380 And apparently Superman, he came to the world. 779 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:21,599 He didn't know where he came from. 780 00:42:21,860 --> 00:42:25,039 But as he started to pursue things, 781 00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:27,159 and I didn't, haven't read all the things, 782 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,119 but suddenly, hey, I think I'm looking through this wall. 783 00:42:30,139 --> 00:42:33,760 Hey, I think I could see things that I never saw before. 784 00:42:34,019 --> 00:42:36,420 Or hey, I think I can kind of jump higher today 785 00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:37,539 or whatever it might be. 786 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:38,760 And before he knows it, 787 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,460 he's flying through the skies and he's doing these things 788 00:42:42,460 --> 00:42:47,159 that he never knew he had the capacity to do, right? 789 00:42:48,179 --> 00:42:50,920 Because he never unleashed what was inside him. 790 00:42:51,019 --> 00:42:52,440 Now, I know that's a comic strip. 791 00:42:52,619 --> 00:42:55,320 I know that's just, you know, that's a show, okay? 792 00:42:56,019 --> 00:42:58,960 But you know, it's much more real in you and I. 793 00:42:59,739 --> 00:43:02,539 Because we really are new creations 794 00:43:02,539 --> 00:43:05,159 with empowerments in us. 795 00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:06,599 You know, I was thinking, 796 00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:07,719 while I was thinking about through this, 797 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,679 I remember a movie that was shot in the year 2000 798 00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:13,500 in Philadelphia. 799 00:43:13,739 --> 00:43:15,400 There's not many movies made in Philly. 800 00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:16,960 But this one was. 801 00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:21,360 And Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson was in it. 802 00:43:21,659 --> 00:43:23,079 And it was called Unbreakable. 803 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,800 Any of you guys remember the movie? 804 00:43:24,980 --> 00:43:26,159 A couple little waves and a little. 805 00:43:26,780 --> 00:43:28,900 So, but Unbreakable. 806 00:43:29,780 --> 00:43:32,920 And all I can remember is this guy, 807 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,699 Bruce Willis, David Dunn, 808 00:43:35,699 --> 00:43:36,920 he played. 809 00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:40,679 Well, apparently he didn't get hurt. 810 00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:44,760 Now, how you go through life at the age of whatever he was 811 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,679 in the movie 30, something to not know that is peculiar. 812 00:43:48,079 --> 00:43:50,940 But he was in a major car accident. 813 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,099 Like the car was destroyed. 814 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,400 And he walked out of it without a scratch, okay? 815 00:43:57,219 --> 00:44:00,079 And so the movie begins when he's in a train wreck 816 00:44:00,700 --> 00:44:03,699 and the whole train is destroyed, derailed. 817 00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:08,559 Everyone dies on the entire train, except him. 818 00:44:08,619 --> 00:44:09,579 He doesn't even have a mark. 819 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,139 So the news and everybody is, you know, this guy, 820 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,559 it's amazing, how could this be, you know? 821 00:44:16,079 --> 00:44:19,739 And so this other guy who played Elijah Price 822 00:44:21,019 --> 00:44:22,559 was Samuel Jackson. 823 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:24,280 So he sees this article. 824 00:44:24,460 --> 00:44:27,820 He's like, well, now Samuel Jackson had an issue 825 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,039 with the fact that he broke easy. 826 00:44:31,679 --> 00:44:33,380 So his bones were brittle. 827 00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:36,079 So if he even like bumped something, he could break his leg. 828 00:44:36,260 --> 00:44:38,820 He had whatever that brittle bone syndrome is. 829 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,420 And so he was always, as a child, he was always, you know, 830 00:44:42,739 --> 00:44:45,219 on crutches, sometimes in a wheelchair 831 00:44:45,219 --> 00:44:47,460 and he got mocked as a kid. 832 00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:49,179 They called him Mr. Glass, you know, 833 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,079 and he just was fragile, very fragile, right? 834 00:44:53,319 --> 00:44:55,219 So Mr. Glass, I mean, 835 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,460 Elijah suddenly sees this article 836 00:44:58,460 --> 00:44:59,760 about this guy who was untouched. 837 00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:02,139 And he's like, I got to reach out to him 838 00:45:02,139 --> 00:45:05,039 because this guy was really into the comics. 839 00:45:05,940 --> 00:45:06,639 And he said, you know what? 840 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,079 If there's someone like me in this world who breaks easy, 841 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,320 maybe there's someone the opposite of me who never breaks. 842 00:45:16,460 --> 00:45:17,940 Maybe this is the guy. 843 00:45:18,420 --> 00:45:20,679 So through the whole movie, he's reaching out to him, 844 00:45:20,780 --> 00:45:22,559 trying to convince him and so forth 845 00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:26,420 that he perhaps is this guy, right? 846 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:31,900 And so finally, he realizes he is unbreakable. 847 00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:34,139 He realizes he's stronger than he ever knew he was. 848 00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:36,340 You know, he was a football superstar. 849 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,780 So he's finally putting this together saying, 850 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,380 maybe I was, you know, 851 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,159 maybe I was designed for more than this 852 00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:44,280 and maybe this is really me. 853 00:45:44,539 --> 00:45:45,659 Maybe I'm unbreakable. 854 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,300 And he finally realized it. 855 00:45:48,380 --> 00:45:52,199 And through all this, he actually ended up rescuing some people 856 00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:53,659 because he got a vision. 857 00:45:53,780 --> 00:45:54,800 He started getting visions. 858 00:45:55,219 --> 00:45:59,659 All of these giftings, these powers started coming alive in him 859 00:45:59,659 --> 00:46:02,739 and he started perceiving crime around him. 860 00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:03,780 He started perceiving like, 861 00:46:04,179 --> 00:46:05,719 it's the making of a superhero, basically. 862 00:46:06,139 --> 00:46:07,260 But he's seeing things 863 00:46:07,260 --> 00:46:12,019 and Elijah was always encouraging him to move on in it. 864 00:46:12,539 --> 00:46:16,800 The interesting thing was that this guy, Elijah, 865 00:46:17,139 --> 00:46:18,900 wanted to be a villain. 866 00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:24,719 He wanted to find a formidable opponent who was the hero. 867 00:46:24,860 --> 00:46:26,440 He wanted to live in a comic world. 868 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,679 So little did Bruce Willis know, 869 00:46:30,159 --> 00:46:34,800 but Elijah actually created the train wreck to find him. 870 00:46:36,059 --> 00:46:37,139 And at the end of the movie, 871 00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:39,119 you don't know this to the bitter end of the movie. 872 00:46:40,099 --> 00:46:42,599 And as they're talking, 873 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,300 they shake hands and suddenly, 874 00:46:44,579 --> 00:46:45,360 am I losing you? 875 00:46:46,119 --> 00:46:46,639 Are you good? 876 00:46:47,219 --> 00:46:49,320 So suddenly, what? 877 00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:54,199 Well, it's 25 years old. 878 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:55,559 Don't worry about it. 879 00:46:55,559 --> 00:46:56,880 You'll forget it anyway. 880 00:46:57,519 --> 00:47:00,739 But suddenly, he realized he sees this vision again, right? 881 00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:06,920 And he realizes this guy is doing this to find me, 882 00:47:08,099 --> 00:47:09,679 the opposite of him. 883 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,280 And what Elijah said, 884 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,420 all this to build to this one phrase that when I heard, 885 00:47:16,539 --> 00:47:19,400 I'm like, wow, I watched it yesterday. 886 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,239 Just to find this one moment, I'm like, wow. 887 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:26,239 So Samuel Jackson says, 888 00:47:27,139 --> 00:47:28,500 you know what's really scary? 889 00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:33,280 When you don't know why you're in this world. 890 00:47:34,739 --> 00:47:37,320 When you don't know why you're here. 891 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,820 And suddenly, it made me realize like, 892 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:47,139 Bruce Willis was discovering something that he was. 893 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,340 And he never knew it. 894 00:47:49,980 --> 00:47:50,880 What about us? 895 00:47:51,539 --> 00:47:53,820 What if there's empowerment? 896 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:55,239 And this is more real. 897 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:56,880 This is not comic strip anymore. 898 00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:58,679 This is reality. 899 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,579 These are miracles, signs, wonders, powers, 900 00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,920 gifts of the Holy Spirit from on high 901 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,239 that have been imputed to you and I 902 00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,820 to be Christ in this world. 903 00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:16,500 As Christ is so are we in this world, right? 904 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:20,900 He has done this for us, to us and through us. 905 00:48:21,739 --> 00:48:22,860 Do we realize it? 906 00:48:23,260 --> 00:48:26,739 Do we want to actually embrace who we are in Christ 907 00:48:26,739 --> 00:48:30,239 and move in this empowerment? 908 00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:32,340 Does that make sense? 909 00:48:33,159 --> 00:48:34,739 And I want to say, yes, Lord, 910 00:48:35,019 --> 00:48:39,539 I want to access everything you have for me. 911 00:48:40,619 --> 00:48:42,719 Because I don't want to leave it behind. 912 00:48:42,820 --> 00:48:43,719 I don't want to get to heaven. 913 00:48:43,860 --> 00:48:44,980 I don't know what that's going to look like. 914 00:48:44,980 --> 00:48:47,340 So we're not going to have any regret up there or whatever. 915 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:47,780 Okay. 916 00:48:48,199 --> 00:48:50,400 But I don't want to get to heaven and suddenly say, 917 00:48:50,420 --> 00:48:56,820 there were silos untapped that you could have tapped into. 918 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,639 There were works that were just all around you, 919 00:49:00,739 --> 00:49:03,039 that were just easy layups, all these. 920 00:49:03,420 --> 00:49:04,500 And you didn't do them. 921 00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:07,659 I don't know whether there's going to be that. 922 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,119 Maybe it'll be at the judgment seat before or with him forever. 923 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:10,719 I don't know. 924 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,039 But I don't want that to be me. 925 00:49:13,039 --> 00:49:15,619 I hate regretting things. 926 00:49:15,860 --> 00:49:18,519 I hate thinking that it was right there. 927 00:49:19,139 --> 00:49:23,059 I could have had it and I didn't access it. 928 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,659 He doesn't want you to miss out on him. 929 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,380 That's why he says, you know, 930 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,760 walk at your salvation with fear and trembling. 931 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,519 Not that you're going to be judged and thrown in hell 932 00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:38,519 because you didn't do everything he wanted to do 933 00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:42,400 so that you don't miss out on what he's planned 934 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:43,940 for you to do. Amen. 935 00:49:44,559 --> 00:49:45,400 Does that make sense? 936 00:49:45,579 --> 00:49:47,239 I hope I'm not sounding harsh. 937 00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:49,139 Are you guys good? 938 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,480 I can't even read your faces whatsoever. 939 00:49:52,019 --> 00:49:53,940 But anyway, let's get the worship team up here. 940 00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:56,320 I sound. 941 00:49:58,119 --> 00:50:00,119 I hope I'm not sounding harsh. 942 00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:04,059 I'm encouraging because this is reality. 943 00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:07,079 This is reality. 944 00:50:07,639 --> 00:50:11,679 You know, we have empowerment to heal the relationships 945 00:50:11,679 --> 00:50:14,360 that have been frayed for years. 946 00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:16,179 It's up to me. 947 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:17,800 It's not up to the other person. 948 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,960 I'm not going to wait for them to finally humble themselves, 949 00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:23,900 finally ask for forgiveness, 950 00:50:24,380 --> 00:50:26,420 finally come to me, you know, 951 00:50:26,699 --> 00:50:28,340 and then I'll decide then. 952 00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:31,019 No, no, why don't I just go and do the thing? 953 00:50:32,059 --> 00:50:36,559 Because I have the power in me to fix the situation. 954 00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:41,699 It's Jesus Christ within us. Amen. 955 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,840 I think Anna loves this sermon. 956 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,639 That's why she has to go out and cry in the spirit a little bit. 957 00:50:57,559 --> 00:50:59,099 But let's all stand. 958 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,139 I don't really know how to end this service. 959 00:51:02,940 --> 00:51:05,260 But I think we need empowerment, don't we? 960 00:51:06,559 --> 00:51:09,019 Do we need empowerment from one high? 961 00:51:09,420 --> 00:51:13,739 Do you want to be clothed in the power of God, the dunamis power? 962 00:51:14,099 --> 00:51:14,420 I do. 963 00:51:15,659 --> 00:51:17,480 So why don't we just ask for it right now? 964 00:51:17,599 --> 00:51:19,019 Why don't we just cry out to the Lord? 965 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:23,039 Father God, I want your power upon me. 966 00:51:23,539 --> 00:51:25,179 I want to be clothed in it. 967 00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:27,099 I want to be drenched in it. 968 00:51:27,260 --> 00:51:28,480 Lord, I want to be your wick, 969 00:51:28,579 --> 00:51:31,559 that you'll just soak up through me, Lord God, 970 00:51:31,679 --> 00:51:34,280 and burn bright in this world, Lord God. 971 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,300 I need your power, Lord, I need your power 972 00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:41,500 to fix relationships, Lord, around me, Lord, 973 00:51:42,059 --> 00:51:44,019 to fix my finances, 974 00:51:44,860 --> 00:51:47,139 to help someone else fix their finances, 975 00:51:48,219 --> 00:51:51,139 to be healed, Lord God, of physical ailments, 976 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:54,280 emotional ailments, mental ailments, Lord God. 977 00:51:54,940 --> 00:51:57,119 Your power can do all these things. 978 00:51:57,260 --> 00:51:59,119 It's your power, Lord God. 979 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,099 The blood of Jesus Christ sets us free, Lord God, 980 00:52:03,099 --> 00:52:04,760 and we are free indeed. 981 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,099 So in Jesus' name, we pray for empowerment right now, 982 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,320 that you would shine brightly on us 983 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,219 and empower us to take on the world, 984 00:52:15,519 --> 00:52:17,260 to tear down strongholds, 985 00:52:17,579 --> 00:52:20,360 and to lift up the truth of Jesus Christ. 986 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,139 In Jesus' name, amen. 987 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:23,920 Let's give the Lord a round of applause. 988 00:52:31,460 --> 00:52:34,699 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church 989 00:52:34,699 --> 00:52:37,239 as we praise God and discuss His Word. 990 00:52:37,940 --> 00:52:41,000 Don't forget to join us for Worship Lives Sunday mornings 991 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,400 at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube. 992 00:52:44,380 --> 00:52:46,480 Be blessed and have a great day!