The Mind Of Christ | Roman Kotelevskiy

Everything is happening so quick that my heart trembles because

I'm like, God, what's the rush? And then I felt

like the Lord said, why don't you ask that to

Moses when the Israelite nations chasing him? What's the rush?

Get across the sea? The enemy's coming after the youth,

after the young adults? So why is this not planned? Aheads?

People plan for this kind of stuff for a year,

and we have about one month and not even in

some cases. But we're trusting the Lord the best we can,

and we're gonna we're believing. So thank you for everybody

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So thank you for serving us. Thanks for serving the

young adults and believing with us. There's a little handouts,

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don't you take a few and believe that God's going

to give somebody to you for you to give that too.

Like a young adult. You're gonna come across somebody say hey,

this is for you. You need to be there. Okay, okay,

I'm not gonna take up any more time on that,

just because if you're a young adult, you're gonna be

there Saturday night. I believe it that God's just gonna

draw you in. But I have a message on my

heart and it's burning in there, and I'm totally excited

to share this message. Oh Lord, I think that some

of us here may or may not have a partial

heart attack when this unfolds. But I just asked, bear

with me. I'm praying that God gives you grace. It's

gonna be a lot of fun. And if you think

you know, you don't know, just get ready. Okay, I'm

just gonna dive in. Ready. Thank you Father for your goodness. God.

I thank you that this morning is your more and

that we live for you. And I ask for all

of our hearts just to be open to whatever you

have to say in Jesus' name. Amen. So I have

a topic today and it's the Mind of Christ, the

Mind of Christ, and I'm gonna go into Ephesians. I'm

gonna be there for a little bit, but I want

to read something straight up out of Ephesians chapter one,

verse three. He can put that on the screen. All

praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us? I want you to catch that.

He didn't say who will bless us? He didn't say

who might bless us. He didn't even say who won't

bless us? He said who has? Say? Has he has

blessed us? With? What? Let's find out?

Oh?

Come on, I hear you, Dennis, Thanks my man, all

of them.

Who has blessed us with every say.

Every every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we

are united with Christ.

Come on, end of sermon, Praise the Lord.

Let's go. We got this. That's good enough. Come on,

somebody say, Amen, We've been blessed with everything that God

has to offer because of our union with him. Is

this making sense? Good? I feel like for some it's

not making sense. Come on, now, somebody knows what's coming.

He's been raptured. No. Has anybody seen this who has

never seen something like this in their life? Good? I'm

gonna tell you exactly what this is. This is what

we're talking about. This is every blessing in the heavenly

realms right here right in front of us. This is

making is this is not making sense. I gotta I

gotta do a demonstration. So right here in front of

me is everything that God has to offer to someone

who is united with Christ. All right, let's unpack this.

So this for those that don't know, does something amazing.

Let's go to the next verse. Or yep, here we

go verse eight.

He has showered, showered, not dribbled, showered his kindness, Oh,

along with all wisdom and understanding.

Next verse. Ever since I heard of your strong faith

in the Lord Jesus and your love for God's people everywhere,

I have not stopped thanking God for you, and I

pray for you constantly for what asking God, the glorious

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you ready to give

you spiritual wisdom insight that you might grow in your

knowledge of God. I pray that your hearts come on.

Somebody will be flooded with light so that you can

understand the confident hope that He has given to those

He has called. This is a word over you, his

holy people, come on, and his rich and glorious inheritance.

This is a good word. I'm gonna stop here for

just a second. We might go through the ceiling. That's okay.

This is the word of God over those who would

believe you are a holy people, and not only that,

you are His rich, oh and glorious inheritance. When God

looks at you, he sees his inheritance. When you look

at God, you're like, I'm inheriting the kingdom. This is

coming to me, I'm inheriting the sonship. But when he's

looking at you, he's actually seen the opposite. He's inheriting you,

and he's privileged with your presence. Oh, somebody's getting delivered

right now, I'm telling you all right. Next verse, I

also pray, Oh, come on, it gets better, Lord Jesus,

helpless God. I also pray that you'll be able to

understand the incredible greatness of God's power for all of

those who believe in him. This is the same mighty

power that raised Christ. Next verse, that raised Christ from

the dead and seated him in the place of honor

at God's right hand. Now, he, Jesus, is far above

any ruler, authority, power, or leader or anything else, not

only in this world but in the world to come.

Next verse, For he has raised us up from the

dead along with Christ and seated us with him in

the heavenly realms. Because we are united with Christ Jesus.

Come on, somebody say, Amen, this is the ladder and

it's this is whose heart's beating right now? Your heart's

probably beating faster than mine, believe it or not. This

is amazing. So let me go put this somewhere. Who

I'm just kidding, it's stuck up. I think it's stuck

on something. Give me a second. Is that a net?

I can't even see it? What is there? A net?

Hold on? I wish there it goes? All right? Whose

heart just got done beating faster? This is gonna be

a TikTok. I promise somebody's gonna say, pastor, some person

brought a crazy ladder to the church. All right, So

there we have it. Come on, Praise the Lord. Wipe

your sweat off your forehead. What is that? No, there's

no bar. That was like a little net that you

can't even see. Praise the Lord. Thank you Lord for

being with me. Can you matchine? S amen? End of sermon.

Let's just go home now I'm kidding. All right, Well,

so what we have, let's let's dial it back in.

So here we have the ladder of God, and this

is everything that God has to offer. To us because

we are united with Christ Jesus, and every every step

that we take is another level. I want to quickly

go to John chapter one. Did you know that Jesus

utilized this ladder? Jesus utilized this ladder. I'm gonna I'm

gonna go through a quick story. When Jesus got baptized,

revival broke out, and disciples just started forming all around him.

Andrew comes, Andrew brings his brother Peter, Philip comes, Philip

brings Nate. And when Philip goes to Nathaniel, he say, listen, Nathaniel,

you've got to come. We have found the one that

Moses and the prophets talked about. His name is Jesus,

son of Jacob, from Nazareth. Nathaniel he goes Nazareth. Can

anything good come out of Nazareth? And all the meanwhile,

Jesus sees this in the realm of the spirit. I

want you to see something verse forty seven of chapter one.

As they approached Jesus, Jesus said, now here is a

genuine son of Israel, a man of complete integrity. What

is Jesus doing? This is what he's doing some of

you about He get really nervous. What did Jesus do?

He stepped into the spirit realm to grab a word

of wisdom and said, here is he's never met Nathaniel,

never what is he tapping into. He's tapping into something

divine granted to him by the spirit of God. Watch

the next verse. How did you know about me, Nathaniel asked.

Jesus replied, what did again? What did Jesus do? Even higher?

Jesus says, nope, go back, said I could see you

under the fig tree before Philip found you. What did

he do? He tapped into the Word of knowledge? Next verse.

Then Nathaniel exclaimed, Rabbi, you are the son of God,

the King of Israel. Next verse, Jesus asked him, do

you believe just because I told you what I've seen

under the fig tree? I'm telling you what the people

all around you are waiting for you to get on

your ladder because they're gonna believe once you give them things.

From there, you will see greater things than this. Next verse,

then he said, I tell you the truth. All all, Oh,

come on, I tell you the truth. You will all

see heaven open and the angels of God going up

and down on the son of Man. Hold up, he

is the one that is the stairway between heaven and Earth.

Hold up a second. What you're telling me is that

the one that we access all the blessings through this one.

His name is Jesus. Yes, his name is Jesus, and

he is available to absolutely everyone. You know what the

challenge is. I'll tell you what it is. When you

when you hear the gospel truth about Jesus. This is

what happens. You believe in your heart and you confess

with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. So you've stepped

on to the ladder of faith, and this is called salvation.

You know what an issue comes? You need a breakthrough

in the finances. I'll tell you what you need to do.

You need to go higher, say go higher. What happens

when you go higher. There's a different perspective. There's something

else that you can see when you're a little bit

higher and you get a breakthrough. You know what happens

when we get our breakthrough. For a lot of us,

thank you God for that breakthrough. I'm good with my salvation.

I got the money that I needed. Praise what you got? Sick?

I need a healing. Oh, Lord Jesus, please help me.

I need to see clearly, I need faith to believe

for healing. And then boom, you got a breakthrough. And

then you're like, thank you God for that breakthrough. I'll

just I'll just be right here. And then all of

a sudden, you need a family member that needs a healing,

a deliverance or something. You're like, God, give me your vision,

give me your perspective. I need to see. And God

gives you whatever you're asking for, because he's a faithful

God and he will rant to you what you're requesting.

But so many times we get our answer because we.

Use God for ourselves instead of partnering with God for

the things that he wants, because we are seated in

heavenly places, yet we are His habitation on earth, and

this isn't necessarily meant to be used, but to be

partnered with for life. So what happens is all of

a sudden we're at work and somebody's asking, well, I

have a family member and they're just dealing with depression.

What do I need? And so many times we get

off the ladder and we're telling them what we think

in the natural, Well, you know, you should just maybe

create some distance and you know, and just put up

boundaries and you know, and maybe just be careful with him,

you know, and just you know, watch your back. You know,

they can stab you in the back, and we give

them a natural wisdom. But what they're asking for is

what is the Lord? What is the mind of Christ?

Say so, when somebody comes to you, this is what

you shoot. Give me a moment. I need to go

to places I haven't been before, to believe with people

who I have not believed before. I need to touch

heaven until Heaven comes to earth. I need something from

this place. Listen, if you're worried about me being on

my ladder, you're on your own ladder right now, living

a life. And I'm telling you what you might think,

this one's shaky, but you got to look at your

own because I'm telling you there's answers for this earth

that are only found in the people who will choose

to believe in the living God. And I'm asking you

this morning, will you believe in.

The God who raised Christ.

From the dead and that same spirit lives in you.

Here's what we do, though, here's.

What we do. Thank you Jesus for my salvation thank

you God. I don't need anything else.

And then what we do, we've become professional observers. We're

down here, we're like, thank you God for my salvation.

Nobody's gonna take me from visity. Praise the Lord. Ain't

know a devil, ain't gonna do. Thank you God, higher,

higher levels, higher devils. I ain't gonna go there. I

don't need that. But then we see people up there

and we're like, oh, they're stumbling up there. Oh, God's

called me to be a discerner. What are you discerning from?

What place are you discerning from? I'll tell you what

the true place of discernments found up there. God forbid

us become critical of each other and judge each other's lives, motives,

and we live before God. Why should we have division

in the church and judge each other amongst where we

think we are? It's all him. He's listen. Christ is

the foundation. Christ is the destination. He is the purpose

of where we're going. He is the vision, He is

the and he is the reward. He is everything. We

don't judge each other based on our own lives. So

when we stand here about this thing from TMU, No,

I'm kidding. So I bet you we got at least

two people in here who are waiting for this and

he fail so they can have a story. Uh yo,

I don't want that story either. We're not gonna have

that story. Praise the Lord. What happens is when we

stand here and become critical of everyone else, we actually

actually subvert the actual move of God in our life,

because we all have a ladder. It could be different sizes,

it could be different heights, it could be different places.

God gives to each according to their own abilities. And listen,

when you sit in a place of just me, myself

and I and what God has to do for me

and the things that I need, the prayers I need,

the answers I need, we don't fulfill the call and

the mission of God that he's calling us higher. Eat

it up there already, guys, we're already up there. And

when we stand and just be comfortable lives and just

live according to our own abilities, we make gods unto ourselves.

We do it. It's like you receive Jesus because you've

incorporated him into your life, but you haven't laid down

your life for him. You've received salvation, but this is

kind of how you live, if I may, this is

the world right here, right here, this is how we live.

We know we're saved, but you know we just dabble in,

dabble into some worldly things, dabble in with some sin.

That's why you need restored life ten times pastor they're

not hearing it the first time, telling you sorry, Restored

life is happening. And on Thursday if you need to

comfort the ton time. There's no shame in that. But

just listen, listen, believe. So what happens is we're stuck

in a place and we're we're blocking the way of

God because we're so stuck in thinking that it's just

for us. God saved you for himself. You are his possession.

We've become so friends with God that we've we've forgot

that he's a master and he's a lord. So we've

welcomed his move in our life. We've we've welcomed his

his salvation, the financial breakthrough, the healing, the freedom in

our mind. We've we've welcomed everything He has for us.

But once we go to higher places and God's asking, well,

would you allow the nword transformation to move to the

exterior We're like, we're just gonna cruise in this comfortable

place because it's just it's comfortable. That's literally what it is.

There's it's very simple. It's just comfortable. You don't affect anybody.

You don't You don't touch anybody's life. You just kind

of live because you've put something on yourself, a label

that the world said you're just this kind of person.

That's not you're calling. I'm not talking about everybody going

out and reaching people for Jesus. I'm talking about you

and your workplace elevating to higher places. I'm talking about

you if you feel like you called the government, not

sitting there and just filing away papers, but actually calling

to a place of influence. I'm talking about you who

are in the education realm, that you wouldn't just sit

there and do as you're told and just sit there

as a person that's filling a void, but that you

would partner with the Lord to see what God's saying,

the mind of Christ at the top, what he wants

to deliver to your region, to your school, to your area.

I'm talking about family, that you wouldn't just believe for salvation,

that you would believe that your family is meant to

leave a legacy for the Kingdom of God on earth

that we would demonstrate Heaven on earth. I'm talking about

all the spheres of influence, even in the even those

that would go and go into different religions and be

as an apologist for Christ and come and bring people in.

Come on. This is all available to us. But you know,

we're just good with believing, having a comfortable life. Make

sure all of our meeds are met, and God forbid

anybody's healed, or God forbid anybody needs a healing, Well,

we'll go to that realm. We'll pray a little bit more.

If we need some guidance in any other way, maybe

we'll step up a higher, but we'll always come back down.

And I'm not trying to shame anybody. I'm just saying

this thing is available to all. And it's not just

higher levels, higher devils. The higher the level you go,

the greater his presence. Do you get to see facets

of Him and be one with Him in ways that

you never were before. I'm telling you, and I would

probably I would probably suggest the higher the levels, the

weaker the devils, because there's realms, there's things you can

see that they're just powerless. They have nothing, have nothing.

Notice how every time God wanted to speak to Moses,

Moses had to go to a place of his presence,

and primarily in the beginning, he would be up on

a mountain. When Jesus went to pray, he went up

on a mountain, he went up to a place. He

ascended to a place to go and be with the Lord.

So if I were to put this ladder up there,

there's actually a platform that I could stand on with

the Lord wants. I'm not gonna do this just because

you know there could be difficulties. But if I were

to put the ladder, the Lord wants us to climb, ascend,

habitat with God, be with him, and then come back

down and release the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth.

Come on. It's way more than just salvations. That's a

big part of it. It's way more than that, though.

It's to be the Kingdom of God on this earth.

To be his answer. You are the best that God

has here, the best. You're the only ones with direct

access to Him. You're the only ones. Don't wait for

anybody else. If God puts you into business and there's

things that God speaking to you and asking you to

build it. Don't wait for somebody else. God's calling you

to it. If God's put you into a different place

and or he's called you to even to the house,

and he's calling you to serve, serve with all your heart,

do it. Go to the places that God's calling you

to and come down with his answers. Wow, no casualties,

Praise the Lord. Pastor Joel thought I was joking when

that thing wasn't that would have been a story. Well.

Philippians two five says you must have the same mind

or attitude of Christ. That's an invitation. That's saying, well,

you could be here. You're like, well, we're not Jesus. Well,

you kind of are on this earth. You're a Christian.

You know what a Christian is is a Christian christ Christ,

not Christian Christ. You're a little christ like one. You

are like him. You are the You are the body

of Christ. You are the extension of His kingdom on

this earth. You are the answer. I'm gonna declare that

truth until you believe you are his answer. It's you.

It's nobody else, nobody's waiting to fill that voice. You

could be ten years old in this room. You're his answer.

Everybody has that. If you believe in him, you got

the ladder and it's extended all the way extend it.

It's your privilege, your authority, and your right to go

as high as he's calling you. This journey that my

wife and I went on trying to have a baby.

MANI you guys know it. We always believe in the ladder, right,

We always know that God's the answer. He's everything. And

you know, even when they diagnose me infertile, I mean,

they said, broh, you're so bad that you make infertile

people look good. And that's that's how bad it was.

And I'm like, well, all right then I'm gonna go pray.

What did I do? I said, God, this is what

the world's saying. But what are you saying? Oh, Okay,

there's a victory, there's a breakthrough. Thank you God, God.

I'm just believing. While I'm walking this earth, I saw

what you saying. God, there's a breakthrough coming my way.

There's an answer coming my way. There's a healing come

in my way. I'll believe it with all my heart.

Another negative report, Father, what are you saying? God, he's

given me the privilege. Oh, not only is there a breakthrough,

but with the enemy man for evil, it'll be turned

into a blessing. And what he stole he'll have to repay. Oh,

my God, Father, I thank you for a breakthrough in this.

I'll thank you. Not only will I have a breakthrough,

but this breakthrough is gonna be so powerful. It's gonna

break the enemies back in the name of Jesus, all

this stuff. And then sometimes my wife will be like,

what is going on? Do you still think it's gonna happen.

I'd have to say, give me a moment. As we

answer so quickly, give me a moment. Father, I thank

you for all your promises. God, what else are you saying? Yep,

the breakthrough is coming. It's it's just on the horizon.

I don't know how long it's gonna take. I don't

know when it's gonna happen, but I can see it

and it's coming, just like Elijah saw the cloud and

it's coming. You better start running. I remember telling her, Actually,

I told her like many times over years. I said, Babe,

I don't know when it's gonna happen. I don't know

how it's gonna happen, but it's coming, and when it comes,

it's gonna flood in Jesus' name. And that's what we

held onto because we have an answer in Christ. So

when people around you come to you, they're like, Hey,

I don't know how to solve this issue with the

computers at workplace. Can you help give me a moment?

Oh God, I I have no idea what computers even are,

but I know all the answers are found in you.

Oh I have to press the delete button. Hey, how

about you just try this? How did you do that?

The ladder? Let me tell you about it. There's a

first wrong right here, and it's for everybody who wants

to come in. It's called salvation, and it's only by

the Lamb of God. So BEAUTIFULM gonna ask the worship

team to come up. Is this making sense? My prayer

in my heart is that the impression of this ladder

would be engraved into your minds and into your soul

for you to understand what's available, what's accessible to you

in the Kingdom. Too many times we're living and we're

going about our business, and we're so concerned about our life.

And I'll tell you what God can simplify real quick.

Just come up a little bit higher. You know, when

the plane is flying and there's just so much turbulence, right,

and especially when you're going up and there's a thick

clouds you're going through, and sometimes you're going up, you're

flying right, and then it goes shoo, and everybody's soul

says Jesus, I'm ready, you know, or some are like Jesus,

forgive me now, I'm ready, and then it goes shoo,

and then you're like, oh, Lord Jesus, and you don't

realize how how strong you're holding onto things and your

bones are breaking. But anyway, there's that turbulence, and a

lot of times you're the only one that's choosing to

live in that turbulence. God's giving you wings like eagles

that you would soar up above to see where the

end of the storm is, so that when you have

to go back down, you have hope, you have a vision,

you have a future, you know where you're headed, and

there's people that you can see that over their life.

Joe was telling me right before this, he said, you

know what Roman, he said, when you guys were going

through that challenge and that hardship. There was people who

were going up and down that ladder for you. Oh yeah,

I know, it's time for us to do that. It's

time for us to arise, to let go, like Paul

continues to say in Philippians, says, letting go of things

of the past, pressing forward to what lies ahead. Letting go,

come on, let go of the sin, let go the selfishness,

let go of that person, let them go. Bless those

who persecute you. I'm gonna ask you to stand if

the Destiny team can come help, just gently, if you can.

That word of letting go, I felt like the Lord

is the Lord's just going to be in a really

into our hearts. Things that we have to let go

of that could even be opportunities you made up yourself.

God never called you to things, and he's asking you

to let it go, and it could be super successful

thing that you're doing to I don't know, but he's

gonna tell you. So we're about to go into some

worship and I'm going to ask you if you can

hang for a little bit, just be in his presence,

let him do a work that's transformative to your being.

To who you are. It's the most precious thing that

can happen. To walk out of these doors just a

bit more free, just a bit more hopeful, just a

bit more delivered, just a bit more healed, just a

bit more transformed. Come on, we're rubbing on each other,

some of you, some of you are in places you

want to be, and some just you're stuck and you

don't know what. Just come pray with somebody. There's a

breakthrough happening. Pray over you, Father, Thank you for your

goodness God, that you're just gonna do the work of

the Holy Spirit. Right now. God, I just I see

all of us on this ladder right now, and I

just see you terrified. But you're taking steps of faith

and you're going up and you're saying, God, I'm gonna

trust you. You're my foundation, You're my journey, You're you're

my destination, You're my reward God, and I'm just gonna

trust you with all my heart. And if I fall,

I'm gonna fall for the livery of God. And if

I get there, I'm gonna get there for the glory.

I'm not even gonna think about it. I'm just gonna

trust your way. I'm gonna trust your word. Father, thank

you for that. And Jesus name. Come on, just be

gonna lift your voice with me and prayer. Come on,

just be going to declare things. Come on, lift it

up with me and Jesus name. Turn up the music

just a little bit. Father, I thank you for stirrings

Holy Spirit. I'm asking you they would come and blow

through this room with your spirit, with your prayers. Come on,

lift your voices a little bit higher. Come on, we're

a house of prayer. Don't be afraid of who's on

your left or your right. Come on, the power and

the presence of God is coming and break things. Come

on in Jesus name. God, there's callings that are being rebirthed.

Come on, you've been, You've been ten steps higher, and

God's saying it's time to come back up, my child.

Come on. There's things that God's breaking up. And I

see even chains on some people's legs holding them down

to lower rungs of the ladder. And God's breaking those

chains in Jesus' name. And there's a freedom that's happening.

Come on, there's a self images being broken off right

now in Jesus name. You thought for so long you couldn't.

That's because that was a lie that you kept repeating

in your mind. And the Lord has given you a

new thing to repeat in your mind. You're gonna hold

the lies captive, and truths are gonna begin to establish

who you are, and the Lord truths about your identity.

Come on, there's a freedom that's in this room. And

Jesus Mighty name. Now, if you're in the room and

you need a partner with somebody, I'm asking you to

come out of your seat, come and meet with somebody

in the front. If you need to, just get here

to the very front and kneel down before the Lord.

Do what you gotta do. But I'm telling you do

not allow the enemy to rob you from what God

wants to take you to today. In the name of

Jesus