Cling Tightly to What You Have | Pastor Joe Sims | New Horizon Church

Would you just stand with me this morning. Please, I'm

gonna just pray over the Word this morning.

Father. Were so grateful for your presence in this house. God.

We thank you for our time with you this morning

so far. And we ask Lord, as we open your word, God,

that you would just pour into us that that you

would have us to have today.

God. And we hear people, Lord, we say, we hear you,

We obey.

We want more of you God, more of your presence,

more of your word, more of everything that you have

for us. God, and we give you praise for it

in Jesus' name, and then you may be seated. Thank you, hallelujah. Well,

I want to talk with you this morning. You know,

a couple of weeks ago during pastors one of the

pastor's sermons on God and Government, have you of you

have just really been enjoying that series, Amen, Just phenomenal stuff.

I've had, you know, the opportunity to share some of

that with people that I know and just really it's impactful,

you know, and share that and tell them where to go.

Find it on YouTube, find it on the church's websites, etc.

But during the message a couple of weeks ago, the

Lord spoke to me and said, he said, don't lose

your crown.

Don't let go of your crown.

I thought, man, what a odd word and place. But

it immediately kind of took me to my mind, to

the scripture and revelation.

And so I went and I read that, and I.

Thought, swiftly, so cling tightly to what you have, so

that no one may seize your crown of victory. And

I used to think that this was really just an

end time ripture, and.

It is that, but it's also for today.

And the reason that it's for today is because he

gives us a hint here, He says, cling tightly to

what you have, not what you will have, but what

you actually have right now. And so it implies that

we have a role to play. You've got a responsibility

to hold on to what you have. And I don't

know about you, but I don't want the enemy or

anyone else for that matter, to steal what I have.

Hold on to it tightly, he says. And it doesn't matter.

You know, if there are friends, they're well meaning Christians.

They might be a boss, they could be the teller

at the bank, they could be.

A clerk at a store.

But if they can steal what you have, for example,

if they can steal your joy, they stole something from you.

And he says, cling tightly to what you have.

And then also, let me touch on something I want

to draw you right back to Pastor's sermons for the

last couple of weeks. It also means don't leave your

crown at home because you're afraid culture will be offended

by what you have. So that means we vote. That

means we're not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We're not ashamed of what He has done in our lives.

We're not ashamed of how we believe and what we

believe and how we're going to do things. Amen, we're

not going to adgcate our rights. We don't walk away

from them. Pastor said this on Thursday night at prayer.

He said this.

He said, it is the will of God that Heaven

reigns on earth, and how much of this happens is

up to you.

See the first part we can all aim in.

Because that didn't require any responsibility.

But when it becomes now.

It's now, Oh, I have a role to play in

getting Heaven to earth. Oh, yeah, you do, baby, Come on,

you've got a big role to play.

Amen.

We partner with heaven so the Holy Spirit can come

and see the Kingdom of God established here on earth.

We are his royal priesthood. We are his holy nation.

So we don't want to miss our opportunity to see

deliverance in the nation, in the state, in the city

of Fife, in the county of Peers, wherever you are.

We want to see deliverance. We want to see healing,

we want to see salvation. Come on, when we're driving

along the streets in our city, whether it's five Tacoma,

it doesn't matter, and you see those that are addicted,

to those that are in sin, we should be shouting

deliverance over them as we're moving along, declaring who they

are in God. It's kind of interesting that you know

Terrell Taylor, he's over here.

You you've probably heard him.

Terrell always addresses you as king or queen. You know

what he's doing. He's announcing who you are. Well, he's

announcing who you are. Don't let that bother you. When

we have done with this message today, only he's gonna

bother you at all. It's kind of interesting, you know,

in the old Testament. There's a story of Sarah and Abram.

You have you know that story.

Okay, So what's interesting is that you know Sarai was barren,

which was a very you know, embarrassing, bad thing in

the culture of the day. But here's what's interesting. Her

name meant princess. So every time somebody said hello Sarai,

they're saying hello princess. No matter how she felt about herself,

Good morning, Sarai, Good morning, princess.

On how you doing today, princess, come on, come on,

didn't matter.

It didn't matter what she saw in the mirror, because

what she saw in the spirit was totally different in

this morning. What I want to talk to you about

is that you have a crown. I'm here to announce it.

You have a crown. You have something to cling on to,

and I can't give it to you to real can't

give it to you. He can announce it, but he

can't give.

It to you.

But you've got to receive it. And also I want

you to catch this that this isn't a message of

superiority over inferiority. This is a message of royalty, the

opposite of inferiority. Inferiority isn't isn't superiority.

It's royalty. Man, You're royal. Come on, don't walk.

Around like you're better than anybody else, walking around like

you're you're in charge because God has put you there.

And so today I hope that you walk away with

a fresh perspective of who you are in Christ, and

who you are in this world, and who you are

in the Kingdom of God. So I'm going to leave

you with three things today. And I'm telling you these

now because I have until twelve twenty, But I want

you to catch three things about your royalty.

We get to live at the throne.

We get to live from the throne, and we get

to live for the throne. Amen, we're serving a buffet.

So the first thing I want to talk to you

about is that we get to live at the throne.

It's a place of receiving. It's a place of thanksgiving,

you know, for those of you that have been like me,

and you moved a lot in your lifetime, and I

don't even I've moved so much. When I was a kid,

I can't tell you how many places.

We lived, but we lived.

We moved so often that our house had wheels. We

lived in a trailer and we never took the wheels off.

It's a lot easier to move that way. You're just

ready to go instantaneously. And we weren't the wealthy people

in the dirt trailer park. We were the poor people.

We left our wheels on. See a lot of them

they had.

They would you'd.

Get the foundation set and you'd put the jacks under

and you'd level it. Need to take the wheels off.

We never took the wheels off ours. We were the

poor folks. I used to say, we were so poor.

We couldn't We were just poe. We couldn't afford the

O and R. But see, when you go and you

get to live at the throne of God, you have

a new permanent address. You now have a fee simple

deed that means nobody can take it away from you.

You have a fee simple deed to your place of

authority at the throne. Hebrews four says this is It says,

seeing then that we have a great high priest. Come on,

it's royalty. Come on, we're talking royalty here. We talk

the language of royalty. A great high prist who has

passed through the heavens Jesus, the Son of God. Let

us hold fast our confession, for we do not have

a high priess who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but

was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come boldly.

Come on, say, come boldly to the Throne of Grace,

that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help

in the time of need. Come on, you've got to

approach life from a different us. You get to approach

life from a whole new place. Somebody says where you live,

you give him the address of the throne. Come on,

come on, be proud of it. Come on, be proud

of it. Be proud of who you are. When you

come to that throne of Grace the first time, he

has crowned you with something. Come on, maybe it's Morgan.

You come to the crown of Grace for the first time,

and there's an exchange that's made. The crown of shame

has fallen off, the crown of victimhood has fallen off,

the crown of sin has fallen up, the crown of

addiction has fallen off. The crown of whatever it is

the enemy labeled you with has fallen off and you

now are walking under the royalty of Heaven. Thank you Jesus.

It is the way to live. We come to him

through the blood of Jesus. You see the veil that

he sees you through. Says you're pure, says your whole,

says your royalty, says your perfection, says you're beautiful.

Come on, says you're delivered.

Come on, it says it says that you're walking out

your purpose in the Kingdom of Heaven. Well, that's the deliverance.

That's the blood of Jesus working in our lives. It's

why we are such advocates of communion on a regular

basis of our house, because the blood of Jesus wipes.

Out everything else.

Come on, you can't plead guilty because you're plead the blood.

Come on, come on, we don't plead guilty. We plead

the blood. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord. And we

have to live in a place of thanksgiving. God. I

thank you for the deliverance. I thank you Jesus for

what you did in my life. Come on, come on,

the expression of praise out of Morgan is coming from

a place of thanksgiving because she knows who she would

have been, and now she knows who she is. Come on, well,

and that kind of thing breaks me up, But nothing

will tear me up faster than hearing a testimony of

somebody who's been saved by grace. The first time I

ever talked to Frank, he was in that penitentiary. Talk

to him on the phone, but I knew that God

had a place for him, and I was like, you

are gonna be amazing. You are going to do great things.

God's got a plan and a purpose for your life.

Take off that crown that the devil has given you

and put on the crown of glory.

Thank you Jesus. Come on.

When we live in a place of thanksgiving, it's an

attitude of gratefulness for everything that we have. It's an

attitude of royalty that says everything will work out the

way God intends it to for my life.

I'm not gonna be talked out of it. I'm only

heading to the place that He's called me to. We

get to.

Live from the throne. It's a place of victory. Well,

how many of you want to have some victory in

your life?

Come on?

I love this because Ephesus too, says us this, but God,

who is rich in mercy, because of his great love

with which he loved us, even when we were dead

and trespasses, even when we were living the lie that

the enemy sold us, even when you were living in

your sin. He made us alive together with Christ, and

raised us up together, and made us sit in the

heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We're not trying to work

our way into the throne. We already seated with him.

But you can't make yourself worthy enough. You can't make

yourself great enough, You can't do anything that would earn it.

You can only go there through the blood of Jesus.

I want us to catch this out of first Corinthians,

that says, isn't it obvious that all runners on the

racetrack keep on running? It goes on, and it says,

yet each one of you must run the race to

be victorious. Come on, we've got a responsibility. And then

it says, we run our race to win the victor's crown.

When they wrote this, the word crown that was used

there was the word Stephanus, which was named after Stephen,

who was a martyr because he won the victor's crown

through what he suffered. But I want you to understand something.

When they put that crown on their head, the head

becomes a target. And that's why the enemy loves to

attack you.

In your mind.

He will attack you. He will tell you you're not

good enough. He will remind you of your past. He

will remind you of all the things that you did,

because he wants to talk you out of your crown.

But God is saying today, he said, don't let the

enemy talk you out of what you have in me.

Don't let the enemy talk you out of what I

have for you. The Bible says the Romans eight thirty

seven that we are more than conquerors through Jesus, who

strengthens us. Jesus conquered that enemy. And if we're in him,

then we have also won. If you're in him, you've won,

You've won the crowd, you've won it because you're already

in him. And I think sometimes we live from this

place that if only I can, or if I make

it to health, or if I if I get that promotion,

or if I you know, if I get that relationship

or whatever it is, then all of a sudden we

feel like royalty. No no, no, you're already it. You're

already walking it right now. We gotta walk it. We

gotta talk it, we gotta run with it, we gotta

act like it. It's gonna require us to do some

things because we have a responsibility to carry it. Now,

see if our victory includes us soon as I you've

allowed the enemy to talk you out of it, your

victory can't include us, doon as your victory should only

be Jesus has already conquered the enemy in my life.

Jesus has already conquered death. Jesus has already conquered that addiction.

Jesus has conquered that sickness. Jesus has conquered everything that

has held me back. When we live from a place

of royalty, and we live from that place of the throne, room,

influence is ours, things begin to go our way. All

of a sudden, they wonder, who are you, Where did

you come from? What did you eat last night? What

cheerios did you have this morning? What breakfasts of champions?

Are you interested to come on? Well?

Because when you live from this.

Place, it is a place of victory, It's a place

of conquer It is the address of conquering people.

I love.

The scripture in Romans eight thirty seven, it says this says,

Yet even in the midst of all these things, all

the things that trouble us, all the things that hold

us back, he says, we triumph over them all, for

God has made us to be more than conquerors and

demonstrated love in our glorious victory and over everything.

Wow. Come on, and that sounds like a great address

to live from.

Right there, Amen, The most important thing that the Bible

teaches us is that Jesus has finished the work for

our salvation. He has finished the work for our healing,

He has finished the work for our deliverance. He has

finished it all, and we are seated with him as victors.

We're not trying to win anything. We've already won it.

Some one O three says that we've been crowned with favor.

This is kind of cool. He didn't say I have

given you favor, or that I've put favor on you.

That'd be good and that's cool, but he says, you've

been crowned with favor, and so that you know you're

supposed to reign. Don't take the back seat to anybody

you've been crowned with favor one. You don't see a

way I've been crowned with favor man. Whatever we're facing,

whatever that's been reigning over us, dysfunction, insecurity, lack, sickness, depressed,

and anxiety, regardless of how big it is, When we

step into faith, there's gonna be a shift, and that

thing that's been raining over you, you will be raining over it.

Thank you Jesus.

We can't face another day believing or wondering if we

can win this battle. I hope you here today knowing

that you've already won. It's yours. Come on, take the victory,

Take the victory lap. Get the party going. You've already won.

Come on, get the party going. You've already got the healing.

Get the party going. You've already been promoted. Get the

party going. God has already set you free. Get the

party going. We get to live from from the throne.

We get to live for the throne. This is the

place of ministry. When you live for the throne, you're

living in a place that begins to call out the sickness,

call out the disease, call out the infirmity, call out

the things that are holding people back and begin to

bring them up to the level that you have been

on for a while.

When you live for the Throne, all of a sudden and.

Your life is intertwined with everything that God has for you,

and there isn't a moment that you can't You can't

get away from the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom

of God can't get away from you. And this place

that's entwined requires you to like always think Kingdom thoughts.

You're never caught up in the worry of the world

because your focus is on the Kingdom of God. That

doesn't excuse us from doing our part. It just requires

us to take responsibility to bring the Kingdom of God

into everyday living. For Thessalonian says, for what is our

hope or joy or crown of rejoicing, It is not

even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus.

Christ, for you are our glory. He's talking there.

About winning people and how that that's going to be

part of his reward in heaven and of our reward

in heaven. The Bible says he who wins souls as wives,

there's a reward for those of us that are out

trying to bring people into the Kingdom of God, and

we should be proud when we touch people's lives.

We should be excited.

When people get touched by what God's doing through us

and for us.

You are our glorious pride. One version says.

We've got to be involved in the culture to make

that happen. We've got to be willing to say, you

know what, I want to help those that are down

and those that are out.

If I'm living for the.

Kingdom of God, there's not a moment that goes by

where I don't try and connect what I'm doing with

the Kingdom.

There's no disconnect.

I can't be one thing at home, another at the church,

another one at work, another one in the entertainment, whatever

it is. I've got to live one way. I've got

to be the same person constantly, because if I'm going

to truly live for the Kingdom of God, I'm going

to be impacting people with my royalty. I use my

royalty as influenced to change their lives. Ephesians two says

this says, even when we were dead in our trespasses,

He made us alive together in Christ and raised us

up together, made us to sit in those heavenly places

with Christ Jesus that in the ages to come, Come on,

He's about to show you something.

In the ages to come, he might.

Show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kind

toward us.

In Christ Jesus, Wow, come on, you are.

To be an example by what He's done in your life,

not just for you, but so that others can see

what He can do through you and in themselves. You

are the light of the world. You are the hope

for this world. I'll say this because I wrote it

down the other day. This verse gives us responsibility, not theology.

There's a lot of theology out there, but we need

some responsibility to go with that. He's made us something great.

He has set us in a high place above the enemy. Amen,

a lot of us have How many of you have

a wardrobe at home?

All of you? Hopefully we all do. A guy like me,

I've got.

Also a wardrobe of hats at home for obvious reasons.

If it's sunny, I don't want to get burned. If

it's raining, I don't want to get wet, and if

it's cold, I want my wigwam. But I want to

encourage you with something God's given you a wardrobe of crowns,

and those crowns represent your identity in Him.

The Bible is full of these.

When I was researching this, I've stunned at how many

different crowns there are listed in the Bible. But James

says He's giving us the crown of life. Two Timothy

says that we have a crown of righteousness.

So let's just say this for a moment. One day

you wake up and maybe you're not feeling so righteous

because yesterday wasn't perfect.

Come on, you can just say, God, I'm gonna put

on this crown of righteousness today. I don't care what

the enemy reminds me of her throws at me, But

today I'm wearing a crowd of righteousness.

To devil.

You may have caught me doing something, you know what,

I'm forgiven by the blood of Jesus. I'm washed by

the blood of Jesus, and today I'm wearing a crown

of righteousness. Come on, come on. Or maybe the next day,

you weren't so kind to somebody yesterday. Well, Psalm says

that He's crowned you with loving kindness. So all of

a sudden, that day I'm gonna wear my crown of

loving kindness and today, devil, you're not gonna trick me

into being mean. No one can steal this crown today.

I don't care how mean or how nasty they are.

No one's gonna steal this crown from me today.

Come on, come on.

Or maybe you got up this morning and you just

didn't feel all that great about yourself. That blimish on

your face looks like it's about ten times bigger than

it really is. Or maybe you just feel like you're

not the beautiful thing that you wanna be. Well, God says,

I've crowned you with beauty, but I've crowned you with

self confidence. I've crowned you to be proud of who

you are and me. Come on, come on, So today,

come on, we're gonna walk in life raining because today

I wear a crown of beauty. Today I wear a

crown of righteousness. Today I wear loving kindness. Today I

wear the crown of life. Come on, thank you Jesus.

Come on. Or maybe today's a day that you've got

to exercise something you need to rise up. Well, God

has said that he has crowned you with the crown

of authority. So today walk in the crown of authority

to who you are in Christ, Jesus, walk in the

crown of authority that he's called you to be. Understand

that you are a joint heir with him. You're seated

in the high places. Understanding he's called you up, called

you out, and has set you apart to be somebody

who touches the lives of those around you. We have

a responsibility to exercise our authority under the royalty of

Jesus Christ.

That we live and would you stand with me this morning?

Thank you Jesus.

The Bible says that he has made us the head

and not the tail. That is that we are crowned

with authority. This morning is we're standing. We want to

declare God, We're gonna wear the crowns that you've given

us proudly.

Father.

We're not gonna turn back. We're not gonna let the

enemy defeat us. He's not gonna steal our crime. We're

gonna cling tightly to that which we have as we

go out of this world this week, we plan to

touch the lives of those around us. In twine us God,

in your word, In twin us God, with the Kingdom

of God.

Let every thought be made captive.

Take them all captive, Make every thought a kingdom thought.

Make every thought one.

This says I'm gonna expand the Kingdom of God, that

I'm gonna touch those around me. Come on, if that's

you this morning, we just lift your hand with me. Well,

we're gonna pray this morning. God, we declare over your

people royalty, Father, declare over your people that we are

the heirs, we are joint arors, that we walk in

kingdom thoughts God, that we walk in the things that

you have for us, Father, and God, that we walk

out the crowns that you've given us, Lord, and we

cling tightly to those things. We take authority over the enemy,

over thoughts, over sickness, over disease, over addiction. We declare

broken off. In the name of Jesus. We declare, there's

a new level of excitement, a new level of reigning

of supremacy in your kingdom God, not over people, but

in your kingdom God, so that we can bring people

into your kingdom. Father, that's our goal. That's our hearts

to cry God. And we declared in the name of Jesus. Hey, Man,

would you give God, a shout of praise this morning.

He's so worthy. Come on, come on, he's so worthy.

God, we give you glory in this house. We give

you glory in this place.

God. We thank you for your word.

We thank you God for what you've done for.

Us through Jesus Christ in Jesus Day. Amen, God bless you.

Come on, he's worthy. Amen. Come on, he's so worthy. Wow.

What a God we serve. What a mighty God we serve. Amen. Amen,