Activating the Promises of God | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

Two Corinthians one twenty. Last time I was up, we

talked about the promises of God and we talked about

activating the promises of God a little bit. And this

is Passover week? Are you excited about Passover week? This is? Uh?

You know every week has passed Over week? Those you

know that, well, it kind of is for us. I mean,

every week has pass over. Every week is resurrection week.

Did you know that every moment is Passover moment? Every

moment is resurrection moment. Come on, That's the way it

is for a true believer, right. So, I mean, we're

going to commemorate and we're going to celebrate. But the

commemorating and celebrating it never stops in our hearts, is it, ever? Right?

Never stops? Come on? Every moment every day, right, I mean,

this is we live and move and have our being

in Him. So, but I was talking about the promise

of God last time we were together, and how that

that those promises are accessed in him, that he that

he was the fulfillment of all that God required of

mankind ever, and that he he was the one who

was worthy for the promises to be fulfilled, And how

that when we're in Him that we can activate those promises.

And we read such Corinthians one twenty for know how,

for no matter how many promises God has made, they

are yes in Christ. And so through him a man

is spoken by us to the glory of God. For

no matter how many promises God has made, has God

made a much promises? How many promise readers in the building,

any promise readers, any promiskers, any promised lovers? You like

promises from God. Now, promises weren't made to tease us

or to tantalize us. Promises were made to be fulfilled. Right. So,

but there there's usually an equation to a promise. There's

an equation to that promise if you do your part,

I do my part. I'd like to do this for you,

if you do this for me. Right. So, a promise

is a it's like a contractual relationship. It's got a

bit of a covenant spin to it, right, And so

the covenant keeper, Jesus is the covenant keeper. So I

referred you back to Deuteronomy twenty eight. Last time we

were together, I took you to do Neuroonomy twenty eight.

It says that if you will obey and he's talking

to Israel, he's talking to the children of Israel, and

he says, if you will obey my law, if you

will obey my word, then all these blessings will come

upon you. Right. And he says, you'll be blessed in

the country, you'll be blessed. In the city, you'll be blessed.

Going out, you'll be blessed coming in. You'll be blessed.

In the fruit of your womb. You'll be blessed. In

your field, You'll be blessed. And it goes on for

fifteen versus. It's fifteen versus the blessings, but it starts

by saying, if you obey my word, right, So they

didn't obey his word. They didn't obey his word, so

they got into trouble. They got into deep trouble. The

trouble got worse because they didn't obey his word. And

you know, this is at the core of humanity is

we don't want to obey. So Gejesus came to be

the obeyor Jesus came to be the obeyor Jesus. Jesus

came to obey fully the word of God. So that's

why I was telling you if you remember were you

here two Corinthians one twenty. That's why I was telling you,

no matter how many promises God has made, they are

yes and Christ. They are fulfilled in Christ, because he

came to obey, He came to do what do Interonomy

twenty eight required of man of these children of Israel

who should have been covenant keepers because they were not

ordinary sons of Adam, they were the children of Isral.

They should have been covenant keepers. But they also fell

and did not obey, and so the promises weren't fully

actualized in them, or buy them or through them. This

is why it says in Hebrews for that they had this.

They had the good news preached to them as well,

but they did not mix it with faith, and so

it did not produce. Now, faith is not some you know,

I've talked to you a lot about faith. We talked

about faith to Sundays gooes. I was talking about the

way we activate the promises of God, and we were

kind of drawing out of this, you know, for Sewod

Corinthians one twenty, we activate the promises of God because

it says and so through him the amen is spoken

by us the amen is spoken by us. So the

promises are yes in him, and we come into agreement

with that, and we we say yes, we say yes,

we say amen, so be it. And amen doesn't mean

just so be it to what was said, but it

means so be it unto me. So God calls us

into a man that is a yes, because we are

in him. We are in Christ Jesus right. And so

I was you this amplifying that element of agreement and

that element of believing in our heart. But today what

I want to amplify a little bit is this, this

calling that we have in him, this calling that we

have in him that is also critical and key to

activating the promises of God. And this calling that we

have in him is to identify with his cross. This

is Passion week, this is Crucifixion week. And the calling

that we have in him is to identify with his

cross and to be co crucified with him. We are

called to be co crucified with him. In fact, it's

Galatians two, verse twenty. And you might be familiar with it.

And I don't know if we have it for the

screens or how fast we can pop it in. But

Galatians two twenty if I can find it. I don't

know if I can find it even but they've got

it right there. I have been crucified with Christ, and

I no longer live. I have been crucified with Christ.

I no longer live. It looks to me like you're

all alive, anybody in the building alive, but you've been

crucified with Christ. Paul says he'd been crucified with Christ,

but he was so much alive. He was writing, how

is it that his fingers was still working. He was

moving the quill on the you know, he was somehow

moving over the parchment, and something was happening. But he says,

I've been crucified with Christ. Well, if he was crucified

with Christ. When Christ was crucified, end of story, right

for three days later, But I mean during the crucifixion

period there, I mean, that was kind of the end

of it. So he says, I have been crucified with

Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in

me and the life that I live that I now

live in the body. I live by faith in the

Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

So he's talking about This is like covenant terminology. And

he's talking about also that this former life, it's a

former life. I have been crucified with Christ. The old eye,

the atom eye, that eye that used to exist, the

former person that existed has been crucified in Christ, crucified

with Christ. We were co crucified, and I no longer live,

but I'm still alive. That means the life I'm living

is because of the spirit of God in me, the

spirit of Christ in me, because I've been made alive

in Him. So we're talking about two different people. How

many of you recognize in you there's two different people.

There's a B C. And there's an there's an a D. Right,

there's a there's a there's a before Christ, there's an

after death. And and this is this is something that

I want us to talk about today and just kind

of amplify the day. Is that when we have faith

in Christ, when we have God word faith, when we

when we have this amplified faith toward Him, and in

doing so, we're activating the promises of God, like we

talked about, and and I'm affirming that. But there's another

part of this is that that that's really the resurrection

part of our life. That's the resurrection part of your life.

That were united with him in death, that we might

also be united with him in resurrection. And just as

he was raised from the dead this is Roman chapter

just as he was raised from the dead, we too

are raised up in newness of life. This is Roman

chapter six, verses five through eleven. That whole passage covers

some thoughts like that. And the key or the critical

part that I want to emphasize today that I feel

like the Holy Spirit wants us to amplify in our

own hearts and our own minds, is that we are

co crucified with Him. That we can't partake of the glory,

that we can't partake of the promises. If it's all

about just promises, if it's all about just glory, if

it's all about just the whipped cream of glory and

promises added to our disobedient life, then we can't partake

of the glory. We will never fully actualize or taste

of the fullness of what God has if we've just

thrown being horn of the Spirit on top of our

errand adam disobedient life. If it's all about our own choices,

all about our own decisions, all about our independence, all

about our self will, all about If it's all about us,

then we really haven't come to the cross. We haven't

identified with what we're called to in covenant. This is

a covenant relationship, and Jesus modeled the Covenant for us.

Jesus modeled the Covenant for us. Now Hebrew's nine to five,

and I think we might have it. Hebrew's nine to

five says that he became the mediator, So he's the sacrifice,

He's the high priest. He is the mediator of a

new covenant and a better covenant. Luke twenty two. He says,

this wine that we're about to part take up coming

into the passover is it's the new Covenant. It's actually

the shedding of my blood. He was laying down his

life in forming this new covenant. Right now, we're watching

President Trump like it or not. Some of us don't

like it. Some of us are worried about. You know,

I'm always I'm always yapping about Chinese goods. Now I'm

a little worried about my Chinese goods. I'm always I'm

always criticizing anybody buying Chinese goods, including me. Now, I'm like,

oh boy, I wonder what's gonna happen to my wallet.

So Missus Wolf and I were having a talk about

a few chure on Chinese goods when you need to

purchase right away. Uh. But anyway, but we're watching President

Trump right now negotiate these tariffs, right, and so he

has become on behalf of the American people. He has

become the mediator of a better covenant with all these nations.

That's the idea. Anyway, that's what we think is happening.

That's what we hope is happening. Right, anybody hoping, Let's hope,

Let's hope, let's hope. So he's become the mediator of

a better covenant, right with all these nations, with better promises. Well,

this is what Jesus Jesus. It says multiple places, but

I think Hebrews nine to five is one of them

that Jesus is a became the mediator of a better covenant.

And this is a covenant with better promises. So a

mediator means that. So he's making he's making this covenant

with God on our behalf. And like there's terms to

the covenant. There were terms to the covenant. One was restitution.

One was restitution. He had to pay off our debt,

so there was restitution. So the sacrifice of his body

now the ceiling of the covenant. The ceiling of the covenant,

that was the shedding of his blood. The shedding of

his blood was the laying down his life completely under

Father's will. And he's representing us. And we were errant,

we were rebellious, we were prideful, we were boastful, we

were we were sinful, we were calloused. And and the

essence of our sin, the full understanding of our sin,

is not defined by our sin. The essence of our

sin is defined by our disobedience. So when you even

think about your own life and you think about your sinfulness,

or your sins, or your lack of sin, just remember

this that that it's it's not the numerical number of sins.

It's not even the type of sins. It's not how

many sins, it's not it's not whether you Because look

at Paul. Paul says, I'm the Hebrew of Hebrews, and

I've kept the law, but yet I count everything I've

done as dung. Because keeping the law is counting yourself

as righteous by not sinning. But the summary of our

the summary of our sinfulness, is disobedience that we don't

want to disobey. We don't want to. I mean, we

don't want to obey. We don't we don't want to

obey God's desires of us even so much. And you

know you've experienced it. I don't know you've experienced it

with yourself, experience it with your children, experience it with

your spouse. But but Paul says in Roman Chef seven

that it's so bad that even when I want to

do something good, if if the word of God tells

me to do something, then I don't want to do

it anymore if the law tells you not to do it,

or if the law tells you to do it. Like

if somebody tells you, like you, you've got it in

your heart to give somebody some money, and then somebody

comes along and says, hey, you got to give them

some money. You're like, I don't have to give anybody anything.

Who were you telling me? But you were just thinking

a moment ago you'd like to give them some money.

But then when somebody demands you give them the money,

suddenly like it's it's disobedience. Ephesians two one and two

says that the spirit of disobedience was implanted in us.

It literally was deposited when Adam fell the spirit of

disobedience against the perfection of God, against the perfection of

his desire against and the law. All the law is

is the codified desire of God. That's why the law

is called perfect. In the Psalms, it's called perfect. The

law of the Lord is perfect. That's why in Roman

chapter seven, Paul says, the law is holy. Why am

I bucking against the thing that is holy, the thing

that is holy that was meant to actually stimulate goodness

in me? Sin rose up. And when the law says

thou shalt not covet, I sin revived in my members

and I suddenly wanted to covet. Does that mean the

law is unholy? No, Paul says, the law is not unholy.

The law is good. But it's disobedience in me, disobedience

in me. And this is when Jesus was negotiating. He

was the mediator on our behalf, in his humanity, not

in his divinity. Jesus fully human, fully human. And when

we think about Jesus, like if you think your intelligent.

He love somebody if you think you know, if you

think you know a thing, uh huh uh huh, let's

just line you up up against Jesus, right. So, I mean,

we're talking about learned, We're talking about we're talking about perfection.

We're talking about memory, understanding, We're talking about insight. Counsel.

That says in Isaiah eleven, the sevenfold spirit of God

was on him, not in his divinity, in his humanity.

The spirit of counsel was resting on him. The spirit

of wisdom was resting on him. We're talking about somebody

that could make a decision or two. We're talking about

somebody that could have been independent. We're talking about somebody

that could have had an independent thought. We're talking about

somebody who could have been in control. We're talking about

somebody who you follow what I'm saying. And yet, and

yet he brought he, He in this mediation, mediating a

new covenant for us that we would be brought into

as we yielded ourselves to him. He had to conquer

in the mediation. He had to conquer the biggest thing

ever that humanity will ever deal with, disobedience. He had

to conquer disobedience. This is the suffering he endured, the primary,

and the first, and the major and the most important

suffering that he endured. We see it in the garden

in Matthew twenty six. We see it in first Peter four,

or me to two you in a minute. The primary

suffering that he endured that we're called to endure now

is the suffering of obedience. That he would bring every

thought to Father, that he would bring every thought to Father,

that he would subject to every thought to Father. Why

because in this mediation, Adam had never done it. Adam

couldn't do it. Adam wouldn't do it. Adam was sold

to disobedience and would not yield his or her thoughts

to God, would not obey. And so Jesus, the mediator

of this new covenant, had to yield every thought to God.

And he did it on our behalf. But he calls

us into the same calling. This is the this is

the this is the this is the sweat on his brow,

This is the agony in the garden. This is him embracing,

embracing what Father has called him to do. And we

say it in Matthew twenty six, I think thirty eight.

Let's go there real quick, and this is a familiar passage.

Going a little further, he fell with his face to

the ground and prayed, my Father, if it is possible,

may this cup be taken from me? Yet not as

I will, but as you will. Now we know that

as like this famous this famous prayer. Nevertheless, not my will,

but yours be done. And you'll notice too. And Luke,

it says, no one takes my life from me, but

I lay it down. Why because this was part of

the mediation. God's not going to take your life from you.

You have to lay it down. This is part of

the mediation. Part of the mediation on our behalf is

that he would become that gentle lamb, that he would

become that submitted one, that he would become that yielded one,

and in doing so bridge the gap and make this

covenant with Father on our behalf, that we could be

brought in, that we could receive the spirit, we could

receive a heart of flesh, and that we too, then

would bring our lives, that we would bring our disobedience

to the cross, and that we would be co crucified

with him, co crucified with him. Let's go over to

the first Peter chapter four. I want you to see that,

and then I want to go to Romans eight. A

lot of times I quote out of Romans eight, I

quote the juicy parts of Romans eight, but we forget

about the hard parts. So today I'm going to talk

about the hard part, not just the juicy part. First

Peter four. Therefore, since Christ separate in his body, arm

yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever supped in

the body is done with sin. Now this is interesting.

He's talking about he's talking about arm yourselves. This is interesting.

Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves against the devil, Arm yourselves against

the curse, Arm yourselves against wickedness, Arm yourselves against darkness.

Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves out through suffering, through suffering by

not feeding your flesh, by coming into disobedience to Holy Spirit.

Arm yourselves, Arm yourself, because this is what he did.

He's suffered in the flesh, is what it says in

the body here, But it's sarks in the Greek. It's

the flesh. It's the flesh nature. The NIV doesn't do

a true justice. It's not just the suffering in the body.

It's not like it's oh yeah, he went without a

meal or two or oh yeah, that's what when he

had his forty days. No, no, no, he lived a

life of moment by moment, being armed against the flesh,

by suffering and not disobeying Holy Spirit, submitting and subjecting

every thought to God and bringing his thoughts we'll talk

about it in a moment out of Southern Corinthians, chapter ten,

bringing his thoughts into subjection to God. We're called to

bring our thoughts into subjection to Christ. He brought his

every thought into subjection to God. This is actually spiritual warfare.

He was engaging daily and moment by moment in spiritual warfare.

He didn't take up his cross in the end. Only

he was taking up his cross daily, the cross of

not asserting my will, having it my way, not staying

in control, not being in charge of everything. No, the

Father is in charge. The Father is leaving me, the

Father is calling me, the Father is directing me. I'm

subjecting every thought to the Father. Have the same attitude

in you, because whoever suffers in the flesh is done

with sin. As a result, they do not live the

rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but

rather for the will of God. Who do they live for?

Who do they live for? Who do they live for?

Who they live for the will of He says, Jesus

did this as an example. Jesus did this as an example.

And we are called to arm ourselves in the same

way that we would. We would present ourselves as dead

to the old life, dead to the adam life, dead

to the desires of the old life, dead to self government,

self will, dead to disobedience, dead to pride and rebellion.

Look at uh, go over to uh. Let's let's go.

I'm Romans eight. Here we go, Romans eight seventeen. I

like to quote the juicy parts out of this Romans

eight passage where it says, you know that the whole

earth is groaning for the sons of God to be manifest,

you know. And I like to get us all excited

about that stuff. And it's true. It's good that we

are called, and Joe is talking about it during the offering,

that we are called Royal Team, we're called the sons

of God, we're called the heirs of God. That the

earth is groaning for us to manifest our redemption. Essentially, right,

that's all good. That's all the juicy parts Verse seventeen. Now,

if we are sons of God, if we are children,

then we are heirs errors of God and coheres with Christ.

Heirs of God, coheres with Christ. We are heirs of

the fullness of the Spirit. We are heirs of righteousness.

We are heirs of this earth. We are He's inherited

the earth by virtue of his victory over darkness and

this covenant that He's made, So we are heirs. We

are heirs of God coheres with Christ if indeed, we

share in his sufferings in order that we may share

in His glory. So death precedes resurrection. And it's it's

not a one time thing. It's not like you can

just die now. We're gonna have water baptism next week.

And according to Roman chapter six and Colossians and all

sorts of passages, we're told that water baptism is your

entry into death. It's significant if you haven't been water baptized.

Water baptism is not for people that are going to die.

By the way, if you plan on the next Sunday

Easter Sunday, we'll have water baptism. But if you planned

on dying next Sunday, not spiritually. Literally, if you plan

on dying, you don't need to be water baptized. You'ld

be fine. Water baptism is people. Is for people who

plan on living. If you plan on living, then you

really want to get out of Adam and you want

to get into Christ, and so you need a burial service.

The water baptism is a burial service. It's a literal spiritual.

It's not figurative. It's not like a game. It is

a literal spiritual. It is a burial service. And we

put Adam to death, We put the and we put

our obligation to Adam, and we put our disobedience to Adam,

and we put we put everything about Adam to death

in the waters of baptism to burial service. This is

Drawman chapter six. To burial service. But we're called the resurrection.

And he says that we are heirs of God and

co ers with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings.

Now what are the sufferings? It's the sufferings I'm talking

about the primary suffering that He's called us to share him,

the first, the primary It will be later today. A

moment by moment is going to be the primary it's

going to This is going to happen several times the

rest of this day. Today. It's the suffering of obedience.

And it's not just the suffering of obedience like distance obedience.

It's the suffering of obedience to the point of yearning

to obey. It's the point of yearning to obey like

wanting to include. So the soft heart, Jeremiah says, I'll

make a new covenant with them. And when I make

a new covenant with them, I'm going to pull out

their heart of stone and I'm going to put in

a heart of flesh. That means that when we are

co crucified with them and we receive the Holy Spirit,

then we begin to think about how to include him.

We begin to think about thoughts that please him. We

begin to bring him into every realm. We aren't ignoring him.

The life of the resurrected believer is the right life

of including him. Right, I'm not I'm not trying to

ignore him. I'm trying to include him. And this is

part of part of why we have Uh. You know,

you can have devotions in the morning, right, anybody ever

had devotions in the morning, any morning devotion. People, you

can have devotions in the morning, but how many of

you know you're not done. How many of you know

your relationship with God is not some summarized by devotion,

by a devotion, by devotions in the morning, that your

relationship with Him is throughout the day, that we're constantly

in this relationship with Him. We're feeding on the spirit.

Were led by the spirit, the sons of God. It

goes on to say here that the sons of God

are those who are led by the Spirit of God.

It's an ongoing relationship, and there there's literally times throughout

the day where you embrace the cross again, like something

happens and somebody cuts you off, and then somebody says

something harsh, and then there's a chance to get offended.

And there's this, that and the other thing. And you're

constantly bringing that endemic nature to the cross and presenting

it crucified, and you're leaning into Holy Spirit, and you're

activating Holy Spirit, and you're coming into agreement with Holy

Spirit that you are that resurrected person. You are that

new creation person. You are that one who is in

the second atom. You're not that one who is in

the first atom. Let's govern the Second Corinthians, chapter ten.

We're so familiar with that passage most of us, and

so many of us are familiar with that passage because

of restored life. And I'll use that passage. Any of

us there are that are beaten up devils will use

this passage. But I want you to see this passage

in light of what we're talking about. That the suffering

that we're called to is the suffering to bring disobedience

to the cross and to put disobedience to death. And

this is what Jesus did as he negotiated as the

mediator of the New Covenant. This is what Jesus did,

not only in the Garden Matthew twenty six, but this

is what Jesus did throughout his life, throughout his life.

So even his expression in Matthew twenty six in the Garden, nevertheless,

not my will, but yours be done, he had been

saying that for thirty three years. This was his life.

Tewod Trinthens, Chapter ten, three through five. The weapons we

fight with are not the weapons of the world. Did

you start a verse three? Huh? Go back to verse three, Oh,

there is there is there. I got ahead for though

we live in the world. We do not wage war

as the world does. So let's talk about that for

a minute. Waging war, because we've introduced this idea first,

Peter four, arm yourselves this war. It's a war. It's

a war to be bringing like our war is to

overcome darkness and to overcome the enemy and to overcome

the curse. That's our war. But the weapons that we

have are to suffer. The weapon that we have is obedience,

and to arm ourselves with this weapon of obedience, wherein

we will not disobey the Holy Spirit, and we will

include him in all that we are and all that

we do. So let's keep it in that context instead

of today, instead of that context of beating up principalities

and powers, I want to keep it in the near

context of beating up everything that wants to get in

the way of the glory that God has for my life.

Go back to it. So, though we live in the world,

we do not wage war as the world does. The

weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Where are the first strongholds that I'm concerned about? They're

in me. We demolish arguments. Oh, this is interesting. We

demolish arguments and every pretension or imagination that sets itself

up against the knowledge of God. And we take captive

every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Wow, now

this is interesting. This is really wild. And we're talking

about a Coro crucifixion. We want a co glory, we

want a co resurrection, but it can't happen without a

co crucifixion. And he says, and I think this is

interesting that the Holy Spirit was highlighting this to me

with conviction. No, we don't just bring our sinful thoughts.

It doesn't say and we and we take captive every

sinful thought. That's what I tend to do. Can I

just be honest, anybody in the building, are you listening,

don't record this part. What I tend to do is

I take captive every sinful thought. So if I if

I know a thought is sinful, I'm working on that

one right there. You know, don't do that, don't do that,

don't do that, don't do that. I'm thinking captive every

sinful thought. But no, this is a relationship of covenant

submission and covenant unity. This is a relationship of common union. Hello, somebody,

I mean, this relationship is so close. You think you're

close with your spouse, This relationship is so much closer,

but so much similar. That he says that the weapons

of our warfare are to bring every thought into captivity.

Bring every thought, not just our sinful thoughts, bring every

thought into captivity, and submit those thoughts to our husband,

to our marriage partner, to the one who covers us,

the one who made this covenant on our behalf with father,

and that we've entered into. We've entered into that covenant.

The only way we can enter into a covenant is

we have to die to ourselves. We have to die.

A covenant is a death expression. You know that, marriage partners,

how's it working out for you when you try to

keep your life? Those of you that got married you,

you didn't know you were getting married to die. Nobody

told you that. You thought you thought it was wedded bliss.

Well it is wedded bliss if you die. But if

you don't die, then it's wedded misery. You have to die.

That's what a covenant is all about. A covenant is

all about death. A covenant is all about because in

death you're essentially giving the fullness of you, Like there's

no greater sacrifice than laid down your life for the

other person. So that's what a covenant symbolizes, that I

no longer live for you. I live I mean for me.

I live for you. So I'm laying my life fully

down and trusting it will result in resurrection. The stand

is worn. Let's just pray together, heads bowed, eyes closed,

just for a moment. And that's the destiny theme to

come and help us up front. The riches of his inheritance,

the powers of the age to come, the glory of Heaven,

the manifestation of the promises of God. They aren't whit

cream just to be thrown on top of your already

hon rebellious, self, willed, disobedient self. If that's the Christianity

you're looking for, you're looking in the wrong place. It

won't work. It won't work. Your opinions don't matter. Your

opinions don't matter. My opinions don't matter. His opinion is

the only opinion that matters. And when I come to Jesus,

I have to give up my life to enter into

the covenant that he gave up his life to make

on my behalf. If you're here this morning and you

just Holy spirits calling you to a deeper place. Now,

I want you to just, with our heads a bowed

and eyes clothes, I want you to just examine your

life for a moment. Is there something you're keeping from him?

Is there something you're not even allowing him into? Are

there thoughts in your world? They aren't even sinful thoughts

in your understanding, but you don't include him in them?

Are their opinions you're making, even about church, religion, ministry, life, culture, family, money, serving.

Are there opinions you're making where you haven't invited him in.

That's called independence, that's called self will. And you don't

know it, but you're limiting your glory. You're harming resurrection life.

You're quenching the glory to be revealed in you, every

one of us by keeping a little bit of the

old life alive. So, Holy Spirit, we ask you right

now just calm and rest upon all of us. Let

your conviction rest upon us, as you call us to royalty,

as you've knitted to the beloved, as we've joined our

heart to you, Holy Spirit, Come even as we go

into this week, and we commemorate the death of the Song.

Let us not look at it this week without seeing

that we are co crucified with them. That all of

our stubbornness, all of our independence, all of our self will,

all of our opinions, they were brought to the cross

and placed on the cross with him. And the only

way for us to participate and receive and partake of

resurrection is by leaving all of those there right at

that cross quickness. Today, we're gonna worship as we go.

I invite you to come and be prayed for. We've

got a lot of stuff going on. We're an active body.

We're gonna have a little meet and greet if you're

newer with us, right back at the my church wall.

So if you're newer to our body, we welcome come

back and have a cookie with us at the meet

at the my church wall. Then we've got the nacho

bar going. But you know, I don't run out of

here without praying or just being prayed for the Holy

Spirit touching you and talking to you about drawing near

to Him through the suffering of obedience. Then come and

be prayed for today, and God bless you. We love

your church