Good News | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

Wasn't that good? I promised you, I promise you. Ah helujah,

so good fun. Miss Wolfe was beautiful, Katie had Lissa

Nitro and refined team. You're amazing. Thanks for investing your

kids like that. So good, so good part of them,

so good, so fun. I want to read a little

bit about John Schaffter, want to you a little bit

out of Isaiah Long, and then we'll close this morning.

Don jap John, the man sent from God whose name

is Jean. He came as a witness testify concerning that light,

so that through him all might leave. He himself was

not the light. He came only as a witness to

the light, the night that gives light. Everyone was coming

into the world. He was in the world. And though

the world's made through him, the world did not recognim.

He can't to that which was his own. His own

did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him,

to those who believe in his name, he gave the

right to become children of God, sons and God, not sleves,

but sons and daughters, children of God. Children born not

of natural descent, nor human decision, or of a husband's will,

but born of God. Churchive over your heart to receive Jesus,

and in doing so you've received the light of all men.

In doing so you've received not slavery, not slavery tod

or rules, or you've received sonship. You really the end

it comes to live within you. I'm born in experience,

born not of the will of man, born of God.

This is experience, it's rebirth. It's what we call being

again because when we're born naturally born, separated from God,

and we're called to be born again, that is to

get decision. Nobody forces on you. It's kind of interesting

that we're born in unrighteousness, but we can choose be

born again. Isn't it interesting that we you know, righteousness

wasn't forced on you. Come on, think about that. Righteousness

doesn't forced on you. So you can decide to be

born again. You can decide to be born of God,

born from above, born of the spirit. This is what

God has givens and sin his son. And it's good news, goodness.

You know the word all means goodness. No bro in church.

For years I didn't know that, and maybe I needed

my head again. But some moason it felt me there

was such a bad news but the gospel actually means

good news, and the good news of the gospel was

first player by Isaiah in chapter sixty one. I want

to read a little bit of it to you. This

is the good news of gospel of the king godbel

of the Kingdom. So when we think about what does

the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven look like, it's

the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. And it's an

increasing where in our heart and lives and in the earth.

And I love that we don't have to be I

love that the gospel being good news delivers is out

of peasant Isn't that good? Now? Isaiah? That on purpose

because so many churches still are under the influence of hesimism,

so many Christians are still under the influence of pessimism.

And one of the reasons why is because there's a

doctrine out there that says that the increase of the

Kingdom of Heaven on earth doesn't actually happen until after

He comes the second time. The opponents all over in

Christianity telling you, telling uh that the Kingdom of Heaven

will start we out the second time, not per time,

but the second time becn some time that's when the

Kingdom of Heaven on earth will in Greece. But that

isn't what Isaiah said in chapter nine. We read it

earlier today. This isn't what Jesus said. That isn't really

what the words said. Now is the time for the

Kingdom of heaven to a trice. Now the time for

the Kingdom of Heaven to a tries in our hearts

and in to intries in the earth. And the very

p' setting here in this environment day proves that it's

already been happening for two thousand years and it's a

continued heaven. So I love that Isaiah chapter nine starts

by saying, no more gloom and no more doom. Isn't

that good? Wow? Because a child is born, unto us,

no more gloom. Because a child is born, that's when

the kingdom of on earth had it's began it. And

here's what he declared concern himself. This is idea Isaiah

chapter sixty one. It's the messianics. It's the passage about

the Mossaiah coming. It's one of those wonderful passages as

to what Jesus stood up and read as the German

Luke chapter four. Matthew. Chapter four records he was in

chapter three of both of those books. We're told about

he baptized in water, but chapter four about his first

sur and after he was baptized and water, the Holy

Spirit descended upon him a dove. And then he was

led into the wilderness and for pretty days faceted, and

at the end of that period was tested by the enemy,

and he prayled right out of that he his for sermon,

and he walked into the Senegal again. He asked a

scroll of Isaiah. They handed him the school and he

turned Isaiah sixty one. Now it didn't have numbers in

those days, but he turned to now is numbered as

sixty one. And hear what he said. The spirit of

the Solar Lord is opony, because the Lord has anointed

me to proclaim good news to the poor. It wasn't

just poor and spirit. It wasn't just more at heart.

It wasn't just those that he's claiming liberty to or

good news who he was proclaiming good news to the boar.

Because he had come shaped every system poverty, systems that

were cast system, systems that help people in poverty. He

can't break every one of them. Down and to bring

liberty for the lossing of God over every person. You know,

the gender nations didn't even have. It was to prosper

under the blessings God. Only Israel knew what it was

to prosper the blessings of God. What he came proclaiming

was for every person. He goes on, he says he

has me to bind up the broken hearted. He broken

hearted people here. We've all been broken heart We've all

experienced heartbreak. We've all experienced brokenness of a relationship, of jury,

of abuse, of harm, no matter what the harm is.

Jesus has come to bund up that wound with the

ointment of His anointance of that brikanness, to bring healing.

And he has set me to proclaim freedom for the captives. Well,

that's all of us. We've all been had captive by something.

It's good news. They longer have to be captive, to

fear the rejection to a circumstance it made a victim.

We don't have beheld captive to any vice or any

negative thought, or any addition. He has come to declare

freedom to every captive and release from markness, all who

are released from markness. For the prisoners. We come out

of arness, We come out of the prison of darkness

into the light of His lorry. And then he goes

on to proclaim the air of Lord's favor. That's got

to be my favorites or eritict proclaimed the Lord the

year Lord's favor is. It's a Jewish terminology that goes

all the back to the Torah first books, to the Bible.

He was actually bring reference to the jubilee the fiftieth year.

If he recountered the seven years of seven and then

it's forty nine, so then on fiftieth year they celebrate

the Julie, and the Julie is the year of the

Lord of Earth. And in the year of Jubilee, all

that surfing them, everything is restored to every man. Every

person receives reetoration. And he was announce not just a

day of jubilee, but he was announcing a perpetually over

mancome that good news, the good news of Gospel of

Heaven is the good news of Heaven on earth. And

it's the year of God's favor this year and next

year and the next year. And no one can take

the favor of God from you. He announced the perpetual Julie,

that we could live in it and experience it. Isn't

that amazing? He closed the passage before he rolled a roll,

and he says to proclaim the day of vengeance of

our God had come from those who mourn. He came

to declare the vengeance of our God of our armies,

even though we had been our partners. Is that amazing?

If you partnered with fear, that was really an enemy

wanted to take you down. If you partnered with poverd

that was an enemy. It wanted to take you down.

If you partnered with depression, that was an enemy that

wanted to take you down. If you've partnered with any

addiction that you're ashamed of, that was an enemy that

wanted to take you down. Jesus put those under your feet.

Jesus came to be your vengeance against those enemies. Jesus

came to do something that we were strong enough to

do ourselves. And that's goodness. I wasn't wrong enough to

overcome the enemies. But He's done it on my behalf,

and I ended his victory. I enter into him, I

enter into his victory over my enemies, and I acknowledge

him and how I'm partnering with him instead of partnering

with my enemies. Doesn't send the good news. Wow, what

was you saying with me this morning? I want to

invite you this morning as we close. I want to

invite you this morning to close, to welcome the leader

of the good news. Live a little bit beer in

your heart. I zen nine. The increase of his government

of peace, there will be no end. Everyone in this room,

in being me, everyone could open our hearse up a

little bit bigger this season. Everyone has combow another need season.

Every one of us could find a door to a

room that's been locked and kept him out of it,

and we could open that this season, and we could

welcome not his judgment. He's not coming to judge, not

his condemnation. He's not coming condned. He's coming with shilloon.

He's coming with his hit from above. He's coming with

coaching that lead us beside seal Waters coaching. It will

cause us to have no coaching that will restore us all.

It's him. He's the master shepherd. He came in that stable,

but then he's the king of our hearts. I'm invited

you and pray with me right now. Father, we welcome

you right now to bring more of Jesus into our hearts.

Wish to mind if you want to, and if you will,

don't have to be loud, but I love it if

you would seal all this moment yourself in prayer. Father,

we thank you the Shaloam of the Christ, the Shalom Chambrin,

and we welcome, we welome you right now. We welcome

you in our hearts a bigger way. We want our

hearts to grow and increase in love of the Lord

in the season. We want the increase of your shalom

to come and sell here and we'll give you please

right now and give you room and we just see come.

Let this season be a season of transformation and grace

in Jesus name. And everybody's said, I'm gonna ask the

prayer team to come, and they're just going to come

up to the front. There's gonna be a few of

them up here, just lingering. If you paid that prayer

this morning and you meant it, If you prayed that

prayer this morning and you know that God's doing something

in your heart, you're feeling it right now, I want

you to come. We're going to close with the wordship,

long we go. We're in overs to get out of here.

So the Parideam is going to be here, just a mister,

just to pay. If this is your morning, this is

your morning to go deeper in Him. This is your

mourn to increase in the shalom of Lord. This is

your morning to open your heart and open the order heart.

Come be prayed for mister too. Father, we bless your

people this Christmas Eve, and we thank you for this

giving to day in Jesus name. Amen, God bless you.