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The Big Lie About The Promised Land | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

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  1. How are we doing God? I can tell you're happy.

  2. Prayer the Lord. Let's stand and prayer over the word. Amen.

  3. See if I can get us into this holy spirit.

  4. You're good. We just make room for you right now.

  5. Thank you for your word. Let your word touch our hearts.

  6. Let every person be lifted into higher thoughts, higher realms

  7. of understanding. Thank you for it. Come on, just say

  8. it with me. I leave the low behind. Say it again.

  9. I leave the low behind, the mundane, the week, the unproductive.

  10. I leave it behind in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you

  11. may be seated. So Colaussians one. I want to start

  12. at the end. So who's back there helping me? Johnny?

  13. Is that you? All right? So I want to start

  14. at the end. I start at the beginning, So we'll

  15. start at the end. Colossians one, fifteen through twenty. The

  16. sun is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn

  17. over all creation. For in him all things were created.

  18. Everybody say all things. All things were created, things in

  19. heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, Whether thrones or powers,

  20. or rulers or authorities, all things. Everybody say, all things,

  21. all things have been created through him and for him.

  22. He is before all things. In mm all things hold together.

  23. That's crazy. He is before all things, and in him

  24. all things hold together. Not amazing. And he is the

  25. head of the body of the church. In other words,

  26. if it's not in him, it's going to fall apart.

  27. If it's not in him, it's going to fly apart. Right.

  28. If it's not in him, it's not going to last.

  29. If it's not in him, it's going to create turmoil.

  30. Right in him, all things hold together. He is the

  31. head of the body the church. This is like, this

  32. is an addendum. He's throwing this on. And he is

  33. the head of the body the Church. He is the

  34. beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that

  35. in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased

  36. to have all of his fullness swell in him, how

  37. much all of his fullness well in him and through him,

  38. to reconcile to himself. That's to buy back, to bring back,

  39. to heal, to mend what was broken, to reconcile all

  40. things to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven,

  41. making peace through his blood shed on the cross. We

  42. want to read one more verse. Let's go over to

  43. second Trinthians ten three through five. This is not the

  44. end of my verses, but trying to go somewhere. Sec.

  45. Trinthians ten, ten three through five. You know it, maybe

  46. here as kind of a warfare passage Trent. For though

  47. we live in the world, we do not wage war

  48. as the world does. The weapons we fight with are

  49. not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they

  50. have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and

  51. every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. Now,

  52. the Bible says that as the kingdom grows, the knowledge

  53. of the Lord and the knowledge of his glory will

  54. cover the earth. You ever driven behind a Sherwin Williams truck,

  55. No anybody ever used Sherman Williams paint. They have a

  56. high opinion of their paint. If you want to pay

  57. one hundred dollars a gallon by Sherman Williams faint, you

  58. better get at the contractor's discount. That's all I can say. So, yeah, so,

  59. I don't know how some Peter that I know, I

  60. don't know who it is, might have been Steve if

  61. he's in the building. Thing. You know, love Sherwin Williams faint. Well,

  62. I was frustrated with my raw to paint, so okay,

  63. I'll try some of that stuff. Right, they had some

  64. products I wanted, so I started paying attention to Sherwin

  65. Williams paint. I never paid it tension to shore everyone

  66. William's faint before. But I started seeing Shrewan Williams trucks, right,

  67. And they have a globe and above the globe is

  68. the can of paint, and the pan of paint is

  69. dumping paint over the globe. And it says cover the earth.

  70. That's the glory of God. The glory of God is

  71. going to cover the earth, and the knowledge of his

  72. glory is going to cover the earth. When before the rapture, Yeah,

  73. did I say that? Yeah? Yeah, before the rapture, before

  74. he wraps this thing up, He's going to cover the

  75. earth with the knowledge of his glory. Yeah. I'm prettying

  76. better than your suting. So I want you to see

  77. this though, I want you to see this in a

  78. different I want you to see some of this in

  79. a different con Next, this says that our warfare is

  80. to demolish strongholds. Now, the word arguments or strongholds. There

  81. is each logismos in the Greek logic and reasoning, and

  82. those strongholds are bulwarks. This is the Greek interlinear Bible.

  83. Those strongholds are bulwarks of logic and reasoning. And then

  84. it goes on to say every pretension or imagination, and

  85. that is every high thing, every high thought lifted up

  86. against the knowledge of God. And it says that our

  87. warfare is to bring those into captivity and to make

  88. them obey, or to bring them into obedience. Now this

  89. is part of God reconciling all things to the sun.

  90. So part of what He's reconciling. And I wanted to

  91. I wanted you to see this picture of the seven

  92. Mountains of influence. Here are the seven mountains of influence.

  93. So this is globally over culture. And we we would

  94. sometimes call them seven spheres, right, So seven mountains, seven

  95. spheres of influence over culture. And this is this is

  96. what Satan has been seeking to seize. And even when

  97. he took Jesus up on a high place, as it's

  98. recorded in Luke four and Matthew four, and he showed

  99. him all the kingdoms of this world, I wouldn't be

  100. surprised if part of what he showed him was his

  101. dominion over the kingdoms of influence, over economy, over family,

  102. over arts and entertainment, over religion, over government, over education,

  103. over media. And he was ruling over them. And part

  104. of why he was ruling over them is because he

  105. controlled the narrative. He controlled the narraputive of how we

  106. understand those mountains of influence and the narrative is like

  107. the disciplines of study. And at our universities today we

  108. have featured there the disciplines of study. We have sociology,

  109. we have science, we have medicine, we have law, we

  110. have all of these disciplines of study. Right we have history,

  111. we have archaeology, we have literature, all of these disciplines

  112. of study. And it's the perspective on the disciplines of

  113. study that determines who will reign over the mountain of influence.

  114. And what we've seen is that the enemy possessed authority

  115. over these. But as the kingdom has grown, and as

  116. the kingdom grew, what happened is that the word of

  117. God and the works of God began to invade our

  118. perspective on the disciplines and reshape the disciplines and to

  119. reconcile the disciplines under God. And as the disciplines were

  120. reconciled under God, we began to see science through the

  121. lens of God, history through the lens of God, literature

  122. through the lens of God, language through the lens of God, medicine,

  123. as through the lens of God. As we began to

  124. see these through the lens of God, then they begin

  125. to be reclaimed, and the influence of righteousness began to

  126. grow in each of the mountains. And this is even

  127. how we've come to so much illumination and innovation. Is

  128. that at one time the early Church was only to

  129. study the Word of God, and the Word of God

  130. was the parameter, and it became, almost, as it were,

  131. the limitation on understanding. But then a revelation came to

  132. the early Church fathers that not only were they to

  133. study the Word of God, but God had disclosed himself

  134. in the works of God, and that they also were

  135. to discover God and find God in the works of God.

  136. And if they would discover God in the works of

  137. God and not only the Word of God, then they

  138. could understand how to bring forth all that God desired

  139. and What they were building toward was this, They were

  140. building toward Heaven on earth. How many of you think

  141. it's better to write in a chariot to church this

  142. morning than to walk. How many of you would have

  143. rather walked to church. How many of you might have

  144. chosen the church closer to home if you had to walk.

  145. You know, I'm talking about innovation and breakthroughs were released

  146. in a powerful way in culture when they begin to

  147. study not only the word of God but the works

  148. of God, and they begin to marry the two together

  149. and then thrust that study into the disciplines that feed

  150. into the foundation of the seven spheres, of the seven

  151. mountains of influence. Now God desires the same for us.

  152. God God desires that the narrative of all of life

  153. flows out of His word and out of his works,

  154. and that we recognize Christ has come to reconcile everything

  155. to himself. We don't have to be afraid of science.

  156. God is reconciling science to himself through the Christ. We

  157. don't have to be afraid of medicine. We don't have

  158. to be afraid of economic principles. We don't have to

  159. be afraid of sociology. We don't have to be afraid

  160. of philosophy. We don't. There's nothing that we need to fear.

  161. The fact is we need to immerse ourselves in the

  162. disciplines because God is redeeming the disciplines, reconcile to himself,

  163. that he might bring righteousness to the apex, to the

  164. pinnacle of every mountain of culture. Now, this is part

  165. of how the kingdom grows. This is if we immerse

  166. ourselves in churchism only and in the religious mountain only,

  167. and in they hear what I'm saying, then what happens

  168. is we become shortsighted and the enemy is able to

  169. reinvade and take ground back that he had to give

  170. up because the growing emerging church stole it from him.

  171. They didn't steal it from him just with deliverance. I

  172. want you to hear what I'm saying. You don't steal

  173. from the enemy that which he's possessed in terms of

  174. leadership in the nations or in the influence of culture.

  175. With deliverance only, with prayer meetings only, with worship services only.

  176. We're gonna worship, but we're going to go out and

  177. we're going to be involved in vehicles with combustion we're

  178. gonna partake of things that comes from science. We're going

  179. to need medication, we need good nutrition, we need education,

  180. we're gonna deal with the philosophies of mankind. You're going

  181. to leave this service and immerse yourself in all sorts

  182. of things that aren't just prayer, worship and Bible. But

  183. he's reconciled all those things to himself. But he's called

  184. us also to be engaged. We're actually to be the

  185. center point of the reconciliation. He's not reconciling those things

  186. through the unbelieving, or through the wicked or the ungodly.

  187. He reconciled those things through the righteous. And so this

  188. was happening as the church grew. But now what's happening

  189. kind of like a bad day in the stock market.

  190. What's happening now is we're seeing some downturn, and we're

  191. seeing downturn in terms of a macro view of our

  192. place in history. We're seeing some of that downturn because

  193. we've narrowed our focus. And as we've narrowed our focus

  194. to church, churchism, salvation, evangelism, prayer, worship, personal devotions. And

  195. part of this is we've actually even allowed the Evangelical

  196. Church has actually narrowed its focus down to personal salvation.

  197. Do you hear what I'm talking about? Do you hear

  198. what I'm saying? This is the goal now, this is

  199. the goal of the American Church or the Evangelical Church.

  200. This is the goal because we don't believe in heaven

  201. on earth. We actually believe that the promise of the

  202. promised Land and heaven on earth is actually it's a metaphor,

  203. it's a parable, it's a metaphor, it's actually a language

  204. that means heaven. So the Evangelical Church has taken God's word,

  205. the words of the Lord about the Kingdom of Heaven

  206. and the Kingdom of God, which are synonymous in the

  207. New Testament, and we've just transliterated that into our own doctrinal,

  208. denominational translation and interpretation, and that is, Oh, he's talking

  209. about heaven. So life's going to be bad. Life's going

  210. to be terrible. But God's in charge, God's sovereign. I

  211. guess he's going to work something out of this mess.

  212. But thank the Lord, I've got a promised land. Thank

  213. the Lord, I've got heaven. I've got the Kingdom of

  214. Heaven and someday in the sweep by and bye all

  215. fly away, Oh glory, you hear what I'm saying. And

  216. so what happens in that mind and Satan knows this,

  217. Satan knows all of this bad thinking, and what happens

  218. in that is we become super focused on personal salvation.

  219. So it really doesn't matter what we do with the

  220. rest of our time or the rest of our lives.

  221. I don't need to know anything about literature. I don't

  222. need to know anything about history. I don't need to

  223. know about archaeology. I don't need to know about science.

  224. I don't need to know about medicine. I don't need

  225. to know about nutrition. I don't need to know about

  226. any of that kind of stuff. Give me and that

  227. are television program There's a thousand channels. Let's see if

  228. we can find one today that will bless me and

  229. turn me on. Why Because we've made this about personal salvation,

  230. not about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It's Heaven

  231. on earth, and it's the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

  232. It's not the Kingdom of Heaven to come. It's the

  233. Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the Kingdom of God, the

  234. Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

  235. You're not convinced until you get convinced we're going nowhere.

  236. You got to get convinced that this is what God's ordained.

  237. God has more for you than personal salvation. And this

  238. is a trick, in a scheme of the demonic realm

  239. to keep us from engaging with culture and to keep

  240. us from building up one another being knit together a

  241. holy habitation, wherein together we emanate His glory and build

  242. for him a habitation of glory in the earth. He's

  243. coming back for a glorious charch. The parallel, you know,

  244. there's a great parallel, and we're supposed to learn from

  245. this parallel. The parallel is the children of Israel going

  246. into the Promised Land. And the Old Testament is this

  247. intricate tapestry, absolutely beyond intricate tapestry of what we are

  248. to be building toward and what we're to walk in

  249. in the New Testament on this side of the And

  250. I just want to go through just a few little

  251. nuggets of this and then kind of, you know, get

  252. to where we're going on this. But listen to me

  253. as I can to describe it. They were promised a

  254. land of milk and honey, gold, silver and precious stones,

  255. a land like Eden. Now they were promised a literal land.

  256. We are promised heaven on earth. They said, Lord, we've

  257. been hanging out with you and watching you and spending

  258. time with you, and we're watching John's disciples, and we

  259. want you to teach us how to pray. How in

  260. the world should we pray? What should we pray for? Right?

  261. And he said, pray this way, Thy Kingdom, come right,

  262. Thy will be done in heaven as it is in heaven.

  263. What do you say on earth as it is in heaven.

  264. This is the central This is the central focus. The

  265. central focus of what Father has in mind is redeeming

  266. the earth, redeeming the people of the earth, reconciling all

  267. things to himself as it pertains to the earth and

  268. the sons of men. So then secondly they were put

  269. in bondage. They were promised this land of milk and honey.

  270. But then they were put in bondage under a Satanic pharaoh.

  271. So like the sons of Adam. Yeah, then they were

  272. delivered out of Egypt, out of this clutch of the

  273. pharaoh's hand. And these ten demon spirits that were the

  274. principalities and the powers of Egypt. They were delivered out

  275. of Egypt by the blood of a lamb. It was

  276. the type of salvation. Then they were delivered from them,

  277. reaching and pulling them back into bondage through the Red Sea,

  278. which is a type of baptism where the enemy was

  279. cut off from them. Then they wandered in the wilderness

  280. until they matured in faith, which is a type of sanctification.

  281. So even after we're even after we're baptized in water,

  282. we mature in sanctification because now we understand and now

  283. we have transpired over us a legal cutting off of

  284. the demonic realm. So now we grow in our sanctification

  285. like they matured in faith. Wondering in the wilderness. You're

  286. going to wonder in your wilderness until you mature in sanctification.

  287. Then they crossed over the Jordan to go into the

  288. Promised Land, and the waters were stopped at a town

  289. called Adam. It says the water's piled up at a

  290. town called Adam. That was a type for us to know.

  291. For them, it's what cleared the way for them to

  292. go in to the Promised Land. For us, it's a

  293. picture that the curse is cut off, The curse over

  294. your life is cut off as you come through sanctification

  295. and come into a fullness of faith. The curse of

  296. your life is cut off so that you can go

  297. in to heaven on earth. It's so that you can

  298. go into your promised land. Well, you'll notice everything I'm saying.

  299. I'm opening every single statement with they. Everybody say they.

  300. You'll notice they did this together. You'll notice this wasn't

  301. a personal walk. This was a corporate walk. This wasn't

  302. a personal work. It was a corporate work. You'll notice

  303. that they wondered in the wilderness until they all came

  304. into faith. That's what it says. They wandered in the

  305. wilderness until they all came into faith. And when they

  306. went in to possess the promised land, there was none

  307. feeble and none in unbelief. They all went in with faith.

  308. It was a corporate and I want you to see this.

  309. This is like the major focus I believe of Holy

  310. Spirit today is that we go together, that we possess together,

  311. we dispossess the enemy together. We are knit together. We

  312. need each other. That you don't go in to your

  313. promise land alone. And this is the big lie that

  314. I believe Holy Spirit wants to pinpoint today that you

  315. have a personal promise land that isn't interconnected to the body,

  316. and that you should just focus on your personal salvation.

  317. That is so shortsighted and it's unattainable. It's unattainable because

  318. your victory is my victory, and my victory is your victory,

  319. and your failure is my failure. And the entire kingdom

  320. is moving forward as we move forward, not as I

  321. move forward. They were to dispossess the enemies of God

  322. in the land, which is the type of spiritual warfare

  323. for us, dispossessing the demonic realm in our land. And

  324. what that showed us is that God fights when we fight.

  325. God fights for us when we fight. If we will

  326. not fight, he won't fight. It's as easy as that.

  327. Every time they went forward and fought with God, God

  328. fought with them. Every time they went forward under the

  329. command of the Lord, then the Lord was there with them.

  330. It's totally a picture. And now remember their leader was Jesus.

  331. Their leader was Joshua. Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus.

  332. Jesus is the Greek of Joshua. Joshua was their leader.

  333. This was a type of Matthew sixteen nineteen. Whatever you

  334. bind will be bound. If you bind it, I'll see

  335. tooth that it gets bound. Whatever you lose, they'll be loosed.

  336. If you'll lose it, I'll see tooth that it gets loosed.

  337. This was a type of that, because whenever they fought,

  338. he fought for them. So they would just show up

  339. with swords and he'd rain hailstones down. He had miracle

  340. after miracle after miracle that gave them the victory. If

  341. they would just show up for battle and do their part.

  342. They had to do their part. And it's not all

  343. it's not all cussing out devils. We have to do

  344. our part. We have to turn off our televisions. We

  345. have to turn off our movies. We need to stop

  346. bragging to eat one another about how many movies we

  347. watched this year. We need to start bragging about how

  348. many books we've read. We need to start excelling again

  349. as the early Church did, in the disciplines of study

  350. that are the foundation stones of influence, because otherwise we're

  351. just going to be a bunch of spirit filled born

  352. again dumb Christians. I said it here, and you might

  353. get somebody born again, but you won't be able to

  354. have a conversation about philosophy or literature, or history, or science,

  355. or nutrition or medicine, or the arts or music. You'll

  356. be as dumb as the brick because you've had your

  357. head in Comcast Exfinity one thousand channels into the movie

  358. parlor ten times this year, and you're wasting your life

  359. away when God's called you to be a partner with

  360. Jesus in reconciling all things back to God. Not reconciling

  361. the church back to God. Reconciling all things back to

  362. God because in Him, in Him, they were created, and

  363. they are created for His glory. Well they don't. I

  364. wasn't done yet with the parable. They were not to

  365. intermarry or compromise, and any evil they tolerated would become

  366. thorns to them. As a type of how we are

  367. to completely drive the enemy out, we aren't just supposed

  368. to drive the enemy out of the church. We aren't

  369. supposed to just on a microcosm or a microcosm drive

  370. the enemy out of us. Part of us understanding what

  371. God wants to do to bring heaven on earth. Is

  372. that we're supposed to drive the lies, the distortions, the

  373. perversions of thinking out of the disciplines of study. We're

  374. supposed to bring higher truth, higher wisdom, higher thought to

  375. the disciplines of study, and in that way drive the

  376. enemy out. And anything we won't drive out, anything we tolerate,

  377. anything we allow, anything we ignore, will become a thorn

  378. to us and a thorn to our side. As it

  379. was with them, and it spoiled the land for them,

  380. It harmed their promise. It kept them from fully actualizing

  381. and enjoying what they were promised in the Promised Land

  382. because they whimped out and they didn't fully dispossess the

  383. enemy in much of their regions and their territories. And

  384. it's not that God was not willing or able, it's

  385. just that they ceased from war were given an example

  386. of something with them in Joshua seven. Right. Joshua seven,

  387. I think gives us an insight into not only them

  388. as the children of Israel and the twelve tribes, where

  389. they were to fight for one another. Like even the tribes,

  390. they would leave their territory if they were getting victories,

  391. and they would run over to Benjamin's territory, or they

  392. would run over to Asher's territory, or they would run

  393. over to you know, one of the others, and they

  394. would fight for one another. And we see this corporate,

  395. this corporate thing happening even here in Joshua chapter seven.

  396. Because Aiken held on to some of the devoted stuff,

  397. one person sinned and it harmed their assent into the

  398. fullness of their promised land. Their next battle was Ai,

  399. and they went out to Ai, and they lost the battle.

  400. They lost the battle at Aim. They lost the battle

  401. because Aikin sent a held on to devoted stuff. The

  402. whole corporate Israel suffered. Two million plus people suffered because

  403. one person hung on to some devoted stuff. Hello, someboddy

  404. and several people perished in the Battle of Ai. Several

  405. people died because one guy hung on to some devoted

  406. stuff and they had a fall. In the stock market, right,

  407. Kingdom was going up looking real good boy, this promised

  408. land stuff is tasting good boom bad day. Well, I

  409. guess it's all over. I guess it's curtains. I guess

  410. the anti crisis is coming. The raptures any moment. Gaes no, no, no,

  411. that wasn't the end of the story. Find aken, straighten

  412. him out, and let's move forward. Let's keep building because

  413. it is an increasing kingdom. But I want you to

  414. see the corporate implication. The corporate implication in this metaphor

  415. is clear. Your sins do matter. You're not an island.

  416. Your sins are affecting me right now, are affecting you.

  417. I don't live to myself. It's not personal salvation. It's

  418. the kingdom of heaven on earth. God's trying to build

  419. something significant. And if we just get in this realm,

  420. then well, if I sin a little bit, big deal. Well,

  421. if I struggle a little bit more than I should,

  422. big deal. Well, when God's ready for me to get

  423. done with this, I guess big deal. No, it is

  424. a big deal. Wake up, sleeper, arise from your slumber

  425. to Seephesian five. Let God shine on you and bring

  426. illumination to your folly, because you are harming the entire kingdom.

  427. This is the truth of the metaphor is we can't

  428. go in by ourselves. You have to go in with me.

  429. You have to we go in together. So that's why,

  430. that's why we're that's why the word says, provoke one

  431. another done to good deeds. That's why the word says,

  432. let no ye look at Hebrews twelve fifteen, Let no

  433. one falls short of the grace of God. Let no

  434. one fall short of the grace of God. Good luck

  435. on that one. How are we gonna do that one? Well,

  436. you're gonna have to have relationships. You're gonna have to

  437. have friendships. You're gonna have to know one another. You're

  438. gonna have to pray for each other. You're gonna have

  439. to be near one another. You're gonna have to cover

  440. for one another. You're gonna have to strengthen one another.

  441. You're gonna have to Oh you mean I gotta live

  442. outside of my personal promised land? Yes, yes, the church

  443. is a we group. We are in also a group.

  444. We are in us group. Think about it. If this

  445. is all about your promised land, then you could contentment

  446. in your personal breakthrough. You could look the other way

  447. when you see evil around you. You could abandon your

  448. brother and sister. You could abandon the church. And how

  449. many have done that? In the fugees sound twenty percent

  450. of the population says they're born again, but will not

  451. darken the door of a church. Twenty percent of our

  452. population in the Puget Sound region says they're born again

  453. and they are Christian, but they will not engage with

  454. the church because they've been fed doctrines of demons. This

  455. is a lie. You aren't meant to go in by yourself,

  456. and you can't come into the fullness of what God

  457. has for you by yourself. And it's not just about

  458. you getting to heaven. That's a lie. If you were

  459. all about our promised land, we could immerse ourselves in

  460. personal endeavor, and maybe that's why so many of us do.

  461. We could let others rot. We could ignore the poor,

  462. we could ignore the prisoner. We could be careless if

  463. our schools were filled with trash. Our government is perverse

  464. and poorly managed. We could be careless about the next generation.

  465. But it's not that it's not one that God has

  466. in mind. God has something bigger in mind. Ten the

  467. prayer he taught them, it starts with my Father, who

  468. art in heaven. No, it doesn't starts with our father.

  469. He's writing through the Ephesians in chapter six. It's recorded

  470. for us I wrestle not against flesh and blood. No,

  471. it says we we wrestle. We as a corporate assembly,

  472. We as warriors together, we who are locked arm in arm,

  473. We who care about one another, restore one another, prophesy

  474. over one another, pray for one another, hold one another accountable,

  475. hold one another's feet to the fire. We need longer

  476. baptismal services. You know, you hold them down until they

  477. stop sinning, right, So they used to do count longer one, two, three, four.

  478. Then you wait for the Holy Spirit to say, yeah,

  479. they're done. When you finally hear the Holy spirits say

  480. they're done, oh okay, let them up, Let them up, waterboarded,

  481. water for it good. You're done. Never going back to

  482. that garbage, are you No? I won't come back. Our

  483. struggle is not against flesh and blood our father, who

  484. are in heaven. Holl it would be thy name. We

  485. go together. We go together. Scripture after scripture right Ephesians four,

  486. ten eleven through thirteen. I love it. The apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, leaders,

  487. these gifts that have been given to edify the body

  488. of Christ. They continue until we all come in through

  489. the unity. Johnny put it up. These gifts continue until

  490. we all come into the unity of the faith to

  491. the full measure of the stature that belonged to the sun.

  492. Not a couple of us, not one, not two, not

  493. the preachers, not the pastors. It's a corporate ascension, and

  494. it's a corporate battle, and it's a corporate war, and

  495. it's a corporate victory. And it's a corporate strengthening of

  496. one another. And it's a corporate rallying of one to another,

  497. and it's a corporate coming around one another. As we

  498. seek to do what overcome every argument, all logic, all reasoning,

  499. every imagination, every high thing, every lofty thing, every lofty expression,

  500. every lofty word, every lofty doctrine, dogma, instruction, discipline that

  501. had set itself up against the knowledge of God. What

  502. are we going to overcomeing with? We've got a higher knowledge,

  503. We've got a higher wisdom. We've got a higher knowledge.

  504. It's not just a rebuke that we bring. No, there's

  505. a renewed mind. Don't you need a renewed mind after

  506. you've had a good deliverance. Don't you need a renewed,

  507. renewed mind. Don't you want to buy into the renewal

  508. of the spirit. Guess what, there's a renewed mind for science,

  509. there's a renewed mind. For philosophy, for history, for archaeology,

  510. for every discipline, there is a renewed mind, and that

  511. is the mind of Christ that reconciled that discipline back

  512. to God. And when you're in the middle of it,

  513. you're doing exactly what you should do. You're redeeming economics,

  514. business and real estate. You're redeeming arts and entertainment, you're

  515. redeeming education. You're doing spiritual warfare. You could rejoice over

  516. yourself a little bit more recognized in the middle of

  517. your fight and in the middle of the embrace of

  518. the disciplines that influence culture, you're doing battle. It's not

  519. just when you have a rebuke on your mouth against

  520. the enemy. You're doing battle when you're in the midst

  521. of embracing the wisdom from above and bringing it together

  522. in a marriage with the knowledge of God. And you're

  523. confronting the lies in culture. If those are the lies

  524. in the economy, the lies in education, the lies in government,

  525. wherever those lies exist, you're doing a good fight. You're

  526. bringing forth a good fight as you confront that reasoning

  527. and we confron it together, we lock arms. Wow, you

  528. got what I got what do you got covered? I

  529. got this covered today? How about you and we strengthen

  530. one another and we wean ourselves off of the binkies

  531. of entertainment. Get off your entertainment binkie, Get off your

  532. entertainment binkie. You are called to be a world changer

  533. and an overcomer. You're called to be a world changer

  534. and an overcomer, and you can't do that with the

  535. binkie in your mouth. Come on, don't shout just because

  536. I'm preaching. Good, fair team, come to the front with you.

  537. I'm in every head, about every eye close across the building. Today.

  538. God is calling you royalty. He's calling you royalty. He's

  539. called you in your generation because you are royalty. You

  540. are a king and a priest. You're a king and

  541. a priest. You're a ruler. You're an overcomer. God has

  542. destined and puts you in this generation to influence, to

  543. make a difference, not only to flourish, but to impact.

  544. And so Holy Spirit, we ask right now that you

  545. will meet your word and meet this today, this word

  546. from above, with downloads that raise us up into the

  547. royalty You've called us to be, lift us up into

  548. the royalty. You've called us to be quicken us out

  549. of the mundane, out of the normal. We are not normal,

  550. out of the natural. We're not natural. We're called the supernatural,

  551. living and supernatural partnerships with the Supreme One, who's reconciling

  552. all things back to himself. To here's today and giving

  553. your life to the Lord. I want you to come.

  554. This is your moment just to come and be prayed for.

  555. Maybe earlier you are already prayed, but this is your

  556. moment to receive an assurance of salvation. If you're here

  557. today and you haven't been baptizing the Holy Spirit, and

  558. you're not functioning and flowing in the gifts of the Spirit,

  559. the supernatural gifts of God, then come be prayed for.

  560. As we close today, just take a moment and allow

  561. Holy Spirit to touch you in a powerful way. If

  562. you're here you need a word from God about your future,

  563. about your life, about your destiny. This is your moment.

  564. Come and be ministered to. We're going to close with worship,

  565. but we're going to seek Him as we go. Now,

  566. bless your church,