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  1. Father, we just bless you, and we open our hearts to the word

  2. right now. We love your word, we love your voice, we love

  3. we just love every aspect of you and all that you have for us.

  4. We welcome you to come right now and just right on our hearts, right

  5. on our hearts, wash us with the water of the word. We ask

  6. in Jesus' name. Everybody said, Amen, I want to talk to you

  7. about the goodness of God, and because I think that's what he wants to

  8. talk to you about, and I think it's to work more assurance within you.

  9. I think that that Father wants you to have so much assurance in you

  10. about His goodness toward you, that you can overcome every challenge and that you

  11. can defend yourself against all seduction, seduction of fear, seduction of self effort,

  12. seduction of distrust. You know, I just believe that about what he

  13. has. So I want to start though, just talking about this thing about

  14. Heaven on earth. So we know that this is the maybe a central point

  15. to the Lord's prayer, and we talk about it a lot here. It's

  16. one of our themes, you know, And so it's out of Matthew six

  17. ' nine through eleven, the Lord's prayer right, and it's the disciples saying

  18. how should we pray? Just how to pray? John taught his disciples how

  19. to pray. We would love it if you would teach us how to pray.

  20. And so that's, you know, that's this prayer. So then he

  21. says, our father, who aren't in heaven hell, it would be thy

  22. name, thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will be done. And it's actually,

  23. it's interesting, you know, our language doesn't do this very fair,

  24. and that's how we can get deceived because in our language, actually our language

  25. sounds like it's more of a petitionary prayer. But in the Greek or the

  26. Aramaic, in what he spoke, it's actually more of a declarative prayer.

  27. So I don't know if you've heard that before. I've been taught that,

  28. but that was something that Larry Lee brought out for years when he taught on

  29. prayer all across the nation and the nations. It's actually come, thy Kingdom,

  30. be done, thy will. It's more of a prophecy than it is

  31. a petition. It's more of a declaration because whatever you lose will be loosed

  32. if you lose what he's loosed, and in the Christ he was losing God's

  33. kingdom, which is not only God's kingdom, but it's the Kingdom of Heaven.

  34. He was releasing it on the earth. That's what he came to do.

  35. He came to release his kingdom on the earth. And it wasn't just

  36. the Kingdom of God. We know it's synonymous with the Kingdom of Heaven.

  37. You often hear me talk about that, but I'll talk about it a little

  38. bit more again because you have to see that it's very important that you see

  39. the two or one that the Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Heaven,

  40. and Heaven represented something significant because and visually to them as they would have heard

  41. it, they would have understood as well that Eden was an expression of Heaven.

  42. So essentially everything that was lost in Eden, which was a replica of

  43. Heaven. Now, Jesus was saying, you are to proclaim that it come.

  44. You are, and this is what will please Father, is that you

  45. pray this way, that you say this way, that you speak this way,

  46. that you come into agreement that this is what's happening. Now. Because

  47. of the way that we have it in the English and because of bad theology,

  48. and we say bad theology. Of course, anything that isn't Duyne's theology

  49. is bad theology. So you know that to be true. Well, you

  50. you're part of my church, so you must believe something that's going on here.

  51. If you didn't, you should get out of here. So because of

  52. and there is a such thing as bad theology, is there not? All

  53. right? Good, thank you for saying that. So because of bad theology,

  54. some people see that what Jesus was saying in the Lord's Prayer is actually

  55. looking down the timeline to the second Advent advent. I'm not talking about the

  56. Seven day Adventists, I'm not talking about a church. Advent means his coming.

  57. There was the first coming. That means that's advent. Everybody's advent.

  58. There was the first coming, and then there is a there is a second

  59. advent, there is a second coming. Right, So some reading that this

  60. is a sideline, this is a French fry. I'm just thrown out at

  61. you. You know, we like to dip our friends fries and ice cream.

  62. So this is this is it's good. You should try it. A

  63. little salt down the little salt French Fryan ice cream. It's good. So

  64. so some people reading that text Matthew six nine through eleven, they see it

  65. as a prayer for the second coming, Thy Kingdom come, I will someday

  66. be done honor as it is in heaven, someday in the sweet by and

  67. by someday when he finally comes back. So that's how some people see that.

  68. We know that's wrong. As new horizonates, everybody say that's wrong,

  69. bad theology, say that with me bad. That isn't what Jesus was saying.

  70. He came to lose the kingdom of heaven. He came to bring the

  71. kingdom of heaven. He came to empower us in the Kingdom of heaven.

  72. So what's crazy about that is that you know that became and has become like

  73. a core text on prayer, and that core text on prayer was something that

  74. the nations would have never been able to pray. But he says, this

  75. is how how you should pray. This is God's will that you pray this,

  76. and this is what God wants to accomplish. Now we know in Deuteronomy

  77. thirty two. We know in Deuteronomy thirty two, and it's around verse eight,

  78. and I don't have it here, but this is where God divided the

  79. nations, and this is where the seventy nations were, the etymology of the

  80. seventy nations. And this is around the time of the Tower of Babel.

  81. And we know that God only reserved one nation for himself. Who is that

  82. nation? So that nation that He reserved for himself Deuteronomy thirty two to eight.

  83. God divided the nations, separated the sons of Adam, set boundaries for

  84. the people. God put each person within those boundaries and under the care of

  85. divine or Elohim, not divine as in spiritually divine, but Elohim, sons

  86. of God. And he divided up the number based on the number of angels,

  87. or according to the number of the sons or these Elohim of God.

  88. And so this is where the seventy nations come right. We know that sixty

  89. nine of those their hearts were turned against God, and so he turned them

  90. over to unclean Elohim. Only one nation did he saved for himself, and

  91. that nation they were then called. God was working with them, even though

  92. they were banished from Eden. God in his heart toward them, was working

  93. with them that they would be the one nation on the earth, not only

  94. through whom the Messiah would come, so that all would be blessed. God

  95. actually prophesied. Galicians III says that God propheside the salvation of the nations when

  96. he spoke over Abraham and said, through you, all the nations will be

  97. blessed. And so God, now through this one nation he sanctifies them,

  98. and he allows them to taste of Eden, to taste of heaven through their

  99. journey until the Christ would come. Right, so we see that the picture

  100. of that in the land of Goshen, We see the picture of that in

  101. the land given to Abram. We see that in the land called the Promise

  102. Land. So all the way through there's pictures reoccurring pictures of God blessing Israel

  103. with abundance and goodness. Right, and though their righteousness was by faith,

  104. He gave them ordinances that they would follow. And he told them that if

  105. they would follow those ordinances, that they would be the head and not the

  106. tail above and not beneath, that they would lend and not borrow, that

  107. they would be blessed going out and blessed coming in. All of that was

  108. what all of that was the foretaste of heaven. All of that was a

  109. foretaste although it. Now he's declaring that every nation can pray, and this

  110. would be the first that every nation could pray that. And as far as

  111. we know in this room, every one of you have come out of gentile

  112. nations, as far as we know. If your Hebrew, come and tell

  113. me if you're part of the ten lost tribes, or if you're part of

  114. the two that aren't lost, come and tell me afterwards, and we'll check

  115. out your Hebrew. But as far as we know, for the most part,

  116. most of us had come out of the other nations, nations that were

  117. ruled by darkness. All of our nations were ruled by darkness. All of

  118. our nations were pagan, All of our nations were heathens. All of our

  119. nations were unclean. All of our nations were caught up in war and destruction.

  120. All of our nations were not We did not taste of heaven on earth.

  121. But now he says, pray this way. And when he said pray

  122. this way, remember what he said is loose this with your tongue. Come

  123. into agreement with God that this is what he wants to do. Heaven come.

  124. Will of God be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now,

  125. we know some things about heaven, right, we know some things about

  126. heaven. We know there's no sickness in heaven. We know there's no disease

  127. in heaven. We know there's no I was going to say, there's no

  128. death in heaven. There's no premature death in heaven either. There's no crying

  129. in heaven. There's no mourning in heaven. There's no weeping in heaven.

  130. There's no sorrow in heaven. There's no poverty in heaven. There's no lack

  131. in heaven. There's no discouragement in heaven. There's no fear in heaven.

  132. There's no turmoil in heaven. There's no chaos in heaven. There's no negativity

  133. in heaven. There's no depression in heaven. There's no rejection in heaven,

  134. no abandonment in heaven, no bitterness in heaven, no animosity in heaven,

  135. no wars in heaven. This is what He's ordained for every single person that

  136. now comes to him through Christ. That's why it's called good news. And

  137. this is what they were preaching. The word that they went out, they

  138. went and preached the gospel. What they were preaching isn't even recorded all the

  139. time. It's just encapsulated in the message called the Gospel. What we see

  140. continuously in the writer's expression is that they were to preach the Gospel, which

  141. is everything I just told you. It's the Gospel of it's the good News

  142. of the Kingdom of Heaven. And that means it's the good news of the

  143. Kingdom of Heaven on earth. How do I know that? Well? I

  144. know it because of the text. I know by all these texts. I

  145. know it by Matthew sixteen nineteen. Behold, I give you the keys to

  146. the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. And whatever you bind will be bound,

  147. and whatever you loose will be loosed. He gave them the keys to free

  148. heaven. Right. So, and much of that was just like we didn't

  149. we don't. We don't hear every sermon that Jesus preached. We don't hear

  150. every sermon that Paul preached. We don't hear every sermon. The whole sermons

  151. aren't written down. The encapsulation of the message is called the Gospel, and

  152. the gospels called the good News of the Kingdom of Heaven. And so we're

  153. supposed to understand. Oh, then what they proclaimed was Isaiah sixty one and

  154. more. How do I know that well, because that's the first sermon,

  155. the first sermon in Luke chapter four. Right, So Luke chapter four,

  156. he's baptized in water. The dove descends, the voice of God comes out

  157. the atmosphere. This is my beloved son and whom I'm well please. The

  158. Holy Spirit descends on him, and he's baptized in the Holy Spirit with power,

  159. though he's the son of God. There's a baptism of power, just

  160. like we receive. So he had a two part thing going on. Everybody

  161. say two part remember the two part thing. And that's how it works for

  162. us. We become a son or a daughter. Then there's a baptism of

  163. power. Upon the baptism of power came upon him though he was a son.

  164. Then he goes into the wilderness. He's fasting for forty days. At

  165. the end of the fast, he's hungry and he's thirsty. Then he's challenged

  166. by the enemy. He overcomes the enemy, and then he comes out of

  167. that experience in the power of the Spirit, and he comes out with the

  168. message of the Gospel, the message of the good News. I'll read you

  169. a verse in a minute. We'll actually get to the Bible. Then it

  170. says that he went into the synagogue and he asks for the scroll of Isaiah.

  171. So they hand him Isaiah and he opens it up to what is for

  172. us chapter sixty one. But there weren't chapters in those days. But he

  173. opens it up and he finds what is for us chapter sixty one, and

  174. he starts to read it. Would you like to hear what he read?

  175. Because this is the gospel. Everybody say gospel, this is the gospel,

  176. this is the good news. Having me think the good news should be good,

  177. Let's see if I can find it somewhere? Does anybody have it?

  178. Does the stream have it? Where is it? What have I done with

  179. myself? Where did the preacher go? Jesus? So here it is here?

  180. It is here, it is verse eighteen. We have an overhead protector,

  181. person halle Louish Verse eighteen. The spear of the Lord is upon me.

  182. So he this is his first sermon, because he has anointed me to

  183. preach, to proclaim good news to the poor. By the way, it's

  184. the poor, It's not the poor jew. The fact is the Jews didn't

  185. have a poverty problem. I love somebody this is his declaration of a liberation.

  186. And what this actually is, by the way, Isaiah sixty one,

  187. I don't know if we've realized this. I don't know. Maybe you already

  188. realized this, maybe you've heard me saying before. But Isaiah's sixty one is

  189. essentially his declaration of Leviticus chapter twenty five. This is his declaration of a

  190. perpetual jew believe. So these particular listeners when they heard what he was saying,

  191. they're like, oh, my goodness, he's quoting out of Levetica's chapter

  192. twenty five. What in the world And they're trying to figure it out.

  193. This is back. Isaiah declares it looking forward to the Messiah, to the

  194. coming of the Christ. Now Christ grabs the scroll and he reads it,

  195. and he's not looking forward. He's He's going to declare something. And this

  196. is the gospel. It's the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Gospel

  197. of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and it comes with a perpetual jubilee.

  198. Everybody said, ju believe, you can't even say that without like smiling.

  199. Can you say jubilee without acting happy? Jubilie? Did you know some

  200. Christian folks from People's Church. So I was the youth pastor of People's Church

  201. for five and a half years. You know over there wrangle in one hundred

  202. and twenty youth and you know one of our church members. They had a

  203. hamburger shop in Tacoma called Hamburgers. You ever been there? Anybody ever been

  204. the Jubilee Hamburgers over on thirty eighth there you go see there, Well that

  205. that was Jubilee Hamburgers because they were rejoicing over every burger because they got the

  206. jubilee. They had the perpetual jubilee because they were Christians. So they named

  207. their burger shop Jubilee Hamburgers. I know, just a little trivia there for

  208. you. The love grass fed beef. There you go, God bless you

  209. get some more of that grass fed beef. So he grabs the scroll the

  210. spear of the Lord's bond, because he's annoying me to proclaim good news to

  211. the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery

  212. of sight for the blind, to set view press free, to proclaim the

  213. year of the Lord's favor. But he didn't mean, oh, this is

  214. the year a d thirty three point five. That isn't what he meant.

  215. What he meant was, I am declaring a perpetual jubilee over humankind, over

  216. the earth, and over mankind, and it will be loosed through me.

  217. That's what he was saying. And then he rolled up the scroll, gave

  218. it back to the attendant, and sat down. And then the eyes of

  219. all the people of the synagogue are intently directed at him. Imagine, you

  220. know, like three or four hundred people like staring at the guy. I

  221. don't know how many were there that day. And he began to say to

  222. them, today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Everybody say today,

  223. this is why we know that the Kingdom of Heaven didn't. It's not

  224. something forward, not something in the future. Though there is a growth.

  225. The Kingdom of Heaven is growing as Father subdues all of the enemies of the

  226. Christ, as his promise three times in scripture, and he puts them under

  227. his feet. There is a progressive victory over all of the enemies of the

  228. Christ, as he is putting them all under his feet. Everybody say feet,

  229. what part is the body of Christ? What part is the body of

  230. Christ? Are you the head. No, you're actually the body the body.

  231. You're not getting it. Are the feet a part of the body?

  232. That was better? Okay, I just wasn't saying it right, That's all.

  233. It was me. It was me, I was messing up. God

  234. is putting all the enemies of Christ under the feet of Christ. You,

  235. being the body of Christ, represent the feet of Christ. Therefore God is

  236. putting all of the enemies. Now, everybody say the word all. Could

  237. all include the curse? Could all include the curse? Could the curse be

  238. included in all? When did that start? Is it something we're looking forward

  239. to or is it something that already started? Today? This scripture is fulfilled

  240. in your hearing. Did you know you will only part take of what you

  241. believe you're entitled to partake of. Did you know there's for the most part,

  242. no healing that takes place in churches where they believed that healing shouldn't take

  243. place. Why do you think why do you think that there's virtually no healing

  244. that takes place in churches where they believe that no healing should take place because

  245. they don't believe for healing to take place, so they don't lose it in

  246. their heart, and they don't lose it with their voice. They don't agree

  247. with it, and so God is deactivated. The presence of God, the

  248. spirit of God, the power of God is deactivated in those places. Though

  249. they partake of salvation of the spirit, they don't partake of the blessing of

  250. healing. Did you know? Very little God released blessings? Prosperity increase is

  251. released in churches where they believe that God doesn't bless increase and prosper the people

  252. of God. Why are they prospering? Because Jesus came and he loosed a

  253. grace on the earth like no other, and they can partake of a level

  254. of it through their self effort. But jubilee means you've been delivered from the

  255. self effort. The picture of the jubilee, by the way, the picture

  256. of the jubilee, this happened in Israel, and with Israel every fiftieth year,

  257. everybody say fifty. And by the way, it was upon the celebration

  258. of Jubilee, upon the celebration of the fiftieth year, which is Pentecost,

  259. Penta meaning fifty, that the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the early church,

  260. symbolizing not only the outpouring of power. But the outpouring of heaven it

  261. was, and just the outpouring of power, it was the outpouring of heaven.

  262. Oh that sounds way too secular for me. That sounds way too materialistic.

  263. Oh really, well, God created a materialistic world for you to live

  264. in and to enjoy. And I'm glad you put on clothes this morning because

  265. the materialistic things are covering up a lot of stuff I didn't want to see

  266. today. So thank God you have a little bit of materialism. I love

  267. somebody, So you believe happened every fiftieth year. There were seven years of

  268. seven, so seven seven seven celebrations all the way through on the seventieth seventh

  269. seventh year. But on the seventh cycle through the next year was the fiftieth

  270. year, and it was the year of Jubilee. Let me read to you

  271. a little bit about the year of Jubilee. Okay? Is that all right?

  272. Okay? So it was called the acceptable, the year of the Lord.

  273. It was called the favorable year of the Lord. It was called the

  274. year of the Lord's favor. The words you believe literally means the blast of

  275. the horn. I gotta be honest with you, I played trumpet growing up,

  276. and I prefer those over those other things. But the other things are

  277. fine. Mine had valves and those others. See, we had to we

  278. had to work on the ambrature of our lips to get the right tone out

  279. of the horn. But when some of you below your horn, you haven't

  280. you haven't perfected anything melodic, And so we just get this giant noise and

  281. it sounds exciting to some, but it can hurt the ears to others.

  282. I'm just saying, but it literally means the blast of the horn. The

  283. fiftieth year, it's a time of celebration and rejoicing. The Ram's horn was

  284. blown blown. The year of Jubilee was a release of indebtedness, a release

  285. of all bondage. All prisoners and captives were set free, All slaves were

  286. released, All debts were forgiven, all property was returned. Labor was deceased

  287. for a year. Now, think about that. Labor was to cease,

  288. self effort was to cease for a year. The land was to rest,

  289. and the people were to rest for the entire fiftieth year. And God is

  290. saying that Christ is the fullness of that picture, and that we enter into

  291. a perpetual jubilee, where he is our source. He is our supply,

  292. and we can literally drink liptin lemon flavored highly sweetened iced tea on a lounge

  293. chair. I love somebody. This is how you should posture your heart,

  294. by the way. That's not the way I posture my work, but the

  295. way I posture my heart while I work has to be that He is my

  296. provider. And it doesn't matter that interest rates for seven and a half percent.

  297. It doesn't matter that gas is five dollars a gallon. It doesn't matter

  298. what's going up, it doesn't matter what goes down. It doesn't matter what's

  299. happening in life. This world is not my source. Self effort is not

  300. my source. I've been delivered from the curse on the earth. I've been

  301. delivered from the curse of the law, and I've been delivered into the Kingdom

  302. of Heaven, where Heaven is my source. And it's not my source for

  303. one year, it's my source perpetually. I'm a partaker of the abundance of

  304. Heaven perpetually, so my heart can rest continually no matter what's happening around me.

  305. This is the picture of Peter when Jesus says, Peter says, if

  306. it's you bid me to come, and he says it's me, go ahead

  307. and come. And it's the picture of the walk of faith to Jesus.

  308. There's always a walk of faith to whatever he's called you to, whatever he's

  309. put in your heart, whatever he's deposited within you, whatever vision he gave

  310. you, whatever he's developing in you, that you, as long as your

  311. eyes are on him, you literally can walk across the water circumstances that are

  312. crazy waves going nuts, and you will never sink. It's impossible for you

  313. to sink. You can only sink if you take your eyes off of Him

  314. who called you, him who bid you come on the water of his word.

  315. It doesn't matter what your taxes are. Quit complaining about taxes. It's

  316. just overhead, and God has it covered. Everybody has to pay it across

  317. the entire planet. Quit moaning and grown in like you're some special thing that

  318. you have to be. God already knows all about your taxes, and he

  319. has it covered. If you choose to believe that He has it covered,

  320. just as he had it covered for the Lord who called a fish to bring

  321. him a coin off the bottom of the sea to pay the taxes. God

  322. also can make sure all of your taxes are paid because He has sent the

  323. Sun to release the blessing of heaven in your life and over you. Fact

  324. is, you should stop complaining about everything. You should never complain again as

  325. long as you live. Stop complaining and live in the thanksgiving. Complaint only

  326. turns you into complaint is being driven by fear, being driven by fear and

  327. driven by comparison. Stop complaining and look to Him who is sufficient to you

  328. for everything, who Romans eight thirty two, Him who gave you the kingdom,

  329. Will he not also freely give you all things? Oh my goodness,

  330. you don't need more complaining. You need more courage, more faith to believe

  331. what is in this book, which is so incredibly beyond comparison that you've got

  332. to pinch yourself to make sure you're still are. You've got to be kidding

  333. me. You have got to look at the word more and realize you've got

  334. to bring your heart into more conformity to faith because this gospel is too good

  335. to believe. It's too good to be true. I haven't given you the

  336. full delio yet, but I didn't even read my gospel verses, so disappointed

  337. to myself teasing facetious speech. Listen to this, listen to this. Uh,

  338. you know, most of the time in church we talk about we talk

  339. about Galicians three thirteen that he bore the curse for us to deliver us from

  340. the curse. And there it's the curse of the law. So he delivered

  341. us from the curse of the law, which is Deuteronomy twenty eight. Deuteronomy

  342. twenty eight has like sixty two verses. The first fifteen are all about the

  343. blessings of the law, and then the last forty seven or something like that

  344. are all about the curses of not keeping the law. And so Galatians three

  345. thirteen, believe me, it's relevant, and it may be supremely relevant to

  346. be delivered from the curse of the law. But also he's delivered as from

  347. the curse that came upon Adam. And in Genesis three it says, curse

  348. it is the ground because of you, through painful toil. You will eat

  349. food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and

  350. thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field by the

  351. sweat of your brow. Now there's a lot of verses on the breakthrough of

  352. the Lord for us, but I want you to hear a couple of them,

  353. because the picture of redemption for us is not just the scope of the

  354. law. And I think it had to be this way because the gentile nations

  355. weren't under the law. But the scope of what God did for us is

  356. to remove the curse that came upon first Atom, and Luke twenty two forty

  357. four says, and being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his

  358. sweat was like or became like drops of blood falling to the ground. Now,

  359. I want you to go somewhere with me theologically, just for a thought.

  360. What you saw in Genesis three that I just read to you was the

  361. inheritance of Adam after the fall, separated from God. But it couldn't have

  362. been the inherence of Jesus. The second Atom, who was one with the

  363. Father, and who was righteous and under temptation, continued in righteousness. So

  364. I want you to see something that until this day in the garden, in

  365. a garden very similar to the garden that Adam was created in and then fell

  366. in, in a garden one who had never ever had a drop of sweat,

  367. began to sweat. And as he's in this garden, coming under the

  368. burden of redeeming you and me, and redeeming not just one nation, but

  369. every nation, every tribe, every tongue, every kindred people, delivering out

  370. from Satan's hold, every person, he begins to feel the weight of the

  371. curse, the curse of toil through which, only through which, by the

  372. sweat of the brow, every person had been able to eat and partake of

  373. sustenance. And the weight of that toil began to land on him in that

  374. garden, and he felt the weight of the toil. Not just the weight

  375. of our sin, not just the weight of our separation, not just the

  376. weight of our immorality, or our perversion or our lives. He felt the

  377. weight of our toil. And he began to sweat. And it says that

  378. he began to sweat in a deeper and a more profuse way. And at

  379. one point the sweat became so intense as it beat it up on his forehead

  380. and dripped off of him, that it began to be mingled with blood.

  381. And he's sweating now drops of blood. He's beginning to shed his blood to

  382. redeem us out of toil. The early Church read that. The early Church

  383. understood that. And I don't know if you knew it, but that's the

  384. beginning of innovation, the beginning of innovation to deliver us from toil. Machines,

  385. gears, wheels. They began to see that, and they begin to

  386. offer prayers of Holy Spirit, show us how to be delivered out of to

  387. will. It's not your will that we would be delivered of that we would

  388. be under toil. It's not your will that we would sweat just to produce

  389. Holy Spirit. Begin to show us. Do you know this morning I got

  390. in this ridiculous machine with wheels, wheels upon wheels, and when I turned

  391. the key, little fires started igniting, little fires. I was trying to

  392. explain to Easton yesterday that an engine actually runs with fire. He's like,

  393. what he turned seven today? Now there's fire exploding in all those little buckets

  394. inside that motor, fire exploding. And then that controlled fire drove me here.

  395. And I came twenty two minutes to church this morning with an air conditioning

  396. machine on, and I didn't have one drop of sweat to get here.

  397. Don't tell me God, isn't good. This would have never happened without Christ

  398. coming and bearing up under our toil in the garden and made me move from

  399. the garden to the cross. And something prophetic happened on the cross. Says

  400. that they wove a crown of thorns. They wove a crown of thorns,

  401. and they put it on him. They didn't know what they were doing,

  402. but there was the prophetic move. There was something happening. God was using

  403. their folly to accomplish something. See none of the nation's new royalty. None

  404. of the nations understood royalty. None of the nations flourished in royalty. The

  405. nations had been under struggle, war, hardship, sickness, disease, fever,

  406. destruction, famine, poverty, manifestations of the curse we just read about

  407. in Genesis three. He was crowned with the crown that was on the nations,

  408. the crown of thorns and thistles. They placed it on him, that

  409. the crown of royalty could be placed on you, that the crown of royalty

  410. could be placed on the nations, that all of those who come to Jesus

  411. could receive a crown of royalty. Our crown went on him that his crown

  412. could come on us stand with me this morning. Now, I believe that

  413. he's saying old this this morning to us because he wants us to have these

  414. giant, generous hearts. It's the backdrop of this that Jesus declares, Matthew

  415. six, take no thought for tomorrow. Father wants to clothe you better than

  416. the lilies. He wants to clothe you better than Solomon in all of his

  417. royalty. He wants to clothe you and feed you and take care of you

  418. better than the birds of the air. He wants us to not fear.

  419. Would you bow your heads with me this morning? Make us hord. Fear

  420. will lie to us about our lives. Fear will make us anxious. Fear

  421. will make us over work. Fear will make us rely on self effort.

  422. Fear will paralyze your faith. Fear will paralyze your creativity. Fear will keep

  423. you from generosity. Fear will keep you small and you're thinking. Fear will

  424. limit what Father can do on your behalf. Fear is faith in the curse.

  425. Fear will close your hand. Fear will make you anxious. Fear will

  426. keep you from blowing your horn. Certainly, you'll not live in a perpetual

  427. as you believe. Would you just start where you're at, just renouncing fear.

  428. I just want to invite you to look over your own heart this morning,

  429. wherever fear has gripped you, Wherever fear has limited you, wherever fear

  430. has tormented you, wherever distrust of God, which is fear, Fear that

  431. He's not good, Fear that he won't show you his goodness, Fear that

  432. he'll withhold his hand from you, Fear that you don't qualify for his goodness,

  433. Fear that the word can't really be true. Concerning Heaven's goodness, Heaven's

  434. blessings, Heaven's kindness. While I'm talking, would you just renounce it right

  435. now? Would you just say no to fear. Would you just treat it

  436. like it's a person and confront it, and just say no, no to

  437. fear. Every kind of fear We've renounced and resist every kind of fear.

  438. Provision concerning treasure, concerning sustenance, concerning sufficiency, concerning the kindness of God,

  439. concerning the mercies of God, concerning the treasuries of Heaven, concerning the

  440. coming of Heaven on Earth, every kind of fear. This plague has held

  441. us, confronted us, ward against us, sabotaged us. Every kind of

  442. fear that's been spawned or propelled or strengthened or empowered against us, we renounce

  443. right now. Just renounce it, Renounce it, Renounce it, renounce it,

  444. renounce it. We're not called to live under fear. If you're watching

  445. today by video, you're not called to live under fear. You're not called

  446. to give any place to fear. You're called to live largs. You're called

  447. to live and the grace of God. You're called to live in the goodness

  448. of heaven. You're called to believe with your heart fully that this is what

  449. God has for you. It has nothing to do with self effort. It

  450. has nothing to do with stature. It has nothing to do with weight,

  451. size, height, age, hair, follicles, glasses, no glasses,

  452. history, sins, no sins. It has nothing to do with all of

  453. that. God's abundance is poured out upon you. Should you believe with your

  454. heart and confess with your mouth. He's given you the keys to the Kingdom

  455. of Heaven, and he wants to pronounce and has pronounced that you believe over

  456. you should you believe. Should you believe, and if you'll believe, and

  457. if you'll agree, and if you'll confess, and if you'll partner with them,

  458. it'll begin to happen. It'll begin to happen. And what will begin

  459. to happen will be like Deuteronomy twenty eight. All the blessings will begin to

  460. chase you down and overtake you. The blessings will chase you down and begin

  461. to overtake you. And they'll be blessings beyond your self effort. They'll be

  462. blessings beyond all of your labor, beyond your talent, beyond your skill,

  463. beyond your looks, beyond your attraction, beyond anything about you. These blessings

  464. will overtake you. So, Holy Spirit, we turn our heart toward your

  465. goodness, and we say, yes, but let it be turned loose over

  466. us. Let it be turned loose over us, that you might show us

  467. off, that you might show us off, that you might show us off

  468. in Jesus' name. And everybody said, and invite the prayer team to come

  469. this morning, and as we yeah, God, the glory, to God

  470. be the glory. It's too good to be true. It's too good to

  471. be true, but it's true. Too good to be true, but it's

  472. true. As we leave, if you have a prayer need, come,

  473. There'll be a couple of people up here from the prayer team to pray with

  474. you. You have a prayer need, if there's anything that you've left off,

  475. anything that this has touched upon in your own life, any fear that

  476. needs to be addressed or confronted, come receive prayer this morning as we leave

  477. in worship, God bless you.