Kingdom Perspective

Okay, good morning. Are you guys happy? Oh yeah, it's such

a good time. Man, Just close your eyes for a second. Lord,

we just thank you for your goodness this morning. We're not in a

hurry. Just take a moment to remember it's all about you. It's all

about you, Jesus, and it's all about what you want to do.

It's the craziest thing, Gody, You're all about us. Just like blows

your mind, how you're so in love with us, You're so fixated on

us. And I believe that I will even free somebody here today to know

that God is so fixated on you. He's not disappointed when he's looking at

you. He's actually smiling. He loved a man. Okay, I got

like twenty minutes. Hey, it's better than last service. Well, no,

last service. I thought I had like fifteen. No Ida, I

have two more menister service? Who two minutes one? This is good.

I'm so glad. I would you know, I would be stuck in worship

the whole time as long as the Lord's ministering to us. You know,

he's already speaking to our hearts. There's things that you've probably already received that

you can walk out of those doors and you'll be okay. You'll be all

right. And so that's that's what we're after work. We don't just want

some fancy words or even some convicting message that I'm about to bring, you

know, we just we just need Jesus, and if we have him,

we're gonna be okay. And if you walk away with that, you'll be

okay. If you just have Jesus, you'll be all right. A few

nights ago, I was praying that God would light up my world and just

expose any thought pattern, any perspective, any motive that is contrary to who

He is in his heart. And so that night I had a dream.

And in this dream, I got underpaid for a job that was supposed to

be for six hundred books. And the client gives me three hundred dollars bills,

gives me twenty two three twenties, and three packets of like spices,

you know, like the taco flavoring, taco flavoring, taco seasoning, those

kind of like cheap spot They weren't like expensive cheap spices. I felt like

this is not right. I told him. I was like, listen,

I only get paid cash. I'm sorry, and he's like, sorry,

this is all I got, and I started to defend what's mine. I'm

like, sorry, I'm kind of need to take a payment. We signed

a contract. And he goes into his jew, doesn't find anything there.

He goes into his car, doesn't find anything there, and so I'm in

the beginning of his driveway and I'm like not letting him leave. He turns

on his car to leave and I'm like, no, you're not going anywhere.

I need my money. And he tries to go around me and he

gets on the rock. His old front end on the car goes up.

Is terrible for him. He gets out of the car and I just make

a scene, big scene, and while he's trying to push me away from

his property, and I'm trying to take what's mine. I used to do

wrestling in high school, and so I did this cool submission. I don't

even know what I did, but it was cool in the dream. And

I put him down on the ground and I'm like, you owe me what's

mine. And the Lord begins to wake me up from the dream in that

moment, and he whispered something to me, how I just begin to cry,

and he says to me like waking me up from this dream, no

time to process what's going on. Nothing just wakes me up. I still

feel the injustice, by the way. I still feel like have you ever

woken from a dream and you're still in the dream and you feel what you're

feeling in the dream. And so I still feel like somebody owes me money.

I don't know who it is. And I hear the Holy Spirit brings

the words of Jesus to my mind as I'm laying on My eyes are still

closed. I just woke up. It was like three in the morning or

six, and I don't remember. It was early in the morning. And

he says to me, says, if they take your shirt, give him

your coat, and if they force you to walk one mile, walk too.

And in the matter of ten seconds, I go from feeling like I

need to take what's mine and if I ain't defending myself, nobody will.

In this perspective that I had for myself in my life, the Lord being

a interject and he's saying, it's more blessed to give than to receive.

Your job is to love. His job is to give justice. How many

of us know that the Kingdom of God it's an upside down kingdom. The

first shall be last, the last shall be first. If you want to

be the greatest among us, you shall be the least the servant. And

today I want to talk about this perspective, the kingdom perspective. And God

was just totally like reckon me. He woke me up from a dream just

to wreck me in the middle of the night. And I was wrecked.

And I was like, God, I don't want I don't want to ounce

of a perspective that doesn't belong to you. If you turned with me to

Mark chapter eight in this In this chapter, Jesus asks his disciples who do

people say I am? And they begin to say you're this, You're that,

You're prophet, great guy, the greatest guy that has ever lived.

And then he asked him who do you say I am? And Peter gets

up and he's like, man, you're the Messiah. And then Jesus.

After that was revealed to the disciples, Jesus begins to tell them what Jesus

must go through, that he must suffer at the hand of the Pharisees,

and that he will die but on the third dead hell in third day he'll

raise from the dead and Peter full of revelation. It's like God forbid that

happened to you, Jesus, and watch what happens. In verse thirty three,

Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples and then reprimended Peter. Get

away from me, Satan. He said, you are seeing things merely from

a human point of view and not from God's. Several things going on here,

first thing he guys, ready for this. The first thing Jesus releases

to Peter and to us is that your revelation of Jesus and your proximity to

Jesus does not exempt you from being influenced by Satan. Your nearness, your

relationship to Jesus does not exempt you from the attack and influence of the devil.

The second thing he does is there's a separation that Jesus performs from what

God thinks and what man think. And God's ways are always higher. And

so watch what he does. He marries. He marries, marries like conjoins

human perspective with Satan. But in doing so, watch what he does.

He conjoins Peter's perspective with God's. It'll hit you in just a second.

Jesus did not say to Peter, get away from me, Peter. He

turned to Peter and said, get away from me, Satan, for the

perspective is of this world and not from God. In joining a worldly perspective

to Satan, he pulled Peter out of that and said, that is not

you, Peter, and he's speaking that over his bride over us. That

is not our perspective, the human perspective, the worldly perspective is not our

perspective. We're called to where our identity is in Christ, and Christ is

seated with him. We're seated in the heavenly places. Therefore, the perspective

that we have as kingdom people is different than the human perspective. And so

one might ask what caused Peter to try to get Jesus to not die.

What caused Peter to have this thing build up inside of him and say,

no, Jesus, you cannot die this, this cannot be to rebuke Jesus.

It's like I'm reading this thing. The only thing I could think of

a selfishness. Selfishness. Selfishness is way more than greed, by the way,

selfishness is a filter that when it comes onto your eyes, when when

when when a person is selfish. Everything they see, everything they do,

the way they think is for self, even subconsciously. James, chapter three,

verse fifteen, jealousy and selfishness is not God's wisdom, the word wisdom.

It's it's almost like a form of life. And you live the way

you see by the way, So it comes from a perspective. So selfishness

and jealousy, James writes that it is not God's wisdom. Such things are

earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. Once again we find that selfishness does not

belong to the body of Christ. It belongs to demonic theology and demonic thinking.

I know this is strong and it's heavy, but like we're singing crazy

songs. Guys, we're singing like I'm not satisfied. We're singing things like

I want to real encounter. I'll tell you what. When you present yourself

before the Lord and you say, God, I'm not satisfied and I want

to real encounter, there must be an exchange that happens. And we find

this exchange back in Mark chapter eight, verse thirty four, when Jesus rebuked

Satan and Peter. When Jesus rebuked the perspective that Peter was coming with.

He gives them, He gives him. I don't want to say this wrong?

Is it the anecdote? Yeah? Is that right? He gives them

the solution for that perspective. I gotta use simple words. I don't know

what I'm thinking Verse thirty four. Then, calling out to the crowd,

he says, if anyone, any one of you wants to be my follower,

you must turn from your selfish ways. M Why would Jesus say that

right after rebuking the Satan and Peter? Why? Because there needs to be

in exchange. You must lay down your perspective for his perspective. There is

no two. There is no my way in his way. A lot of

us try to make a plan for our life and then ask God to bless

it. No, we got to lay down our life so that He can

show us the direction and it will be blessed. A lot of us are

scared to tithe. He's already laid it out in here. Why what are

we holding onto? Like? God can do more with your ten percent than

you can do with your hundred. But we're so tied to self and selfish?

And how do I and what I can I do? I mean,

you look at COVID nineteen. Yeah, I'm going way back there. COVID

nineteen. We think it's about a disease, death, and and just there's

so much more that the enemy did than death. He's trying to infiltrate the

perspective of the bride. What did COVID do before you walked out? Grab

a mask? You don't know who you're gonna meet. You're always thinking.

Every day. I remember, probably over a year, every single day somebody

said something about COVID. And if we talked about Jesus that way, I'm

telling you things would shift around us. But watch, every day we talked

about COVID every day, Like I don't remember, I remember thinking, I

can't wait for the day somebody doesn't talk about COVID. I just can't wait.

But every day we talked about it, and in the back of our

mind, in the subconscious of our brain, the enemy infiltrated and made us

think in selfish ways. It didn't just end with COVID. What's some of

the fruits of COVID? Distance, fear. Somebody just said it, less

love, less hope, less fellowship. A lot of us just got cooked

up in our homes and we got used to being distant from others, and

then we're saying we're traverted. Okay, I'm not gonna go there. Oh,

Lord, please forgive me for that one. That one. I don't

know if that one was the Lord. But I'll tell you what. I'll

tell you what. There's so much in here about fellowship with one another that

we can't hide behind the way we think that God created us and separate from

each other. There needs to be a fellowship. Okay, there's a position,

and there's a place where you're just more reserved and to yourself. That's

fine, but don't hide from others. They got us to daily think self

centered thoughts, and the self centered thoughts put a filter on the rest of

our thinking, referring to money, referring to time, what we do with

our time, with our energy, how we plan and what we plan for

in the back of our mind. Through even COVID just got thinking about me,

myself and I when in Mark Jesus is saying, if you want to

be his follower, me myself and I must die. I know it's kind

of it's kind of strong, but it's good. This is good. To

be selfish is to be contrary to the design of God in your life.

You weren't created for yourself first and foremost. You were created for the Lord

and for your neighbor. Believe it or not. It's like I'm gonna bring

this example, like a man can build a house, I've heard this,

but a woman can make it a home. It's just one phrase of so

much of what God does with fellowship, like and Psalms. I believe it

writes one equals one thousand, but two equals ten thousand? What kind of

math is that? What is three equal? What about four? What about

two hundred? In the room? Oh Lord, I don't know what I'm

gonna do, Like my time is out. But that was like half the

message. There's like there's like there's a second part to this. And oh

lord, why don't you guys just sign up for Kingdom School of Transformation.

We'll go through it there. I don't know, we'll just do it in

here. We don't have to do it in the Fellowship of Alve. I

mean, we are like twentysome students and it's okay. If we get a

hundre, that's fine. Do sign up within three days, by the way,

and pay the money. We'll take that too. The second part of

all this is your conscience, Jesus says, and I believe. In Mark

chapter five he says that blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall

see God. There's a perspective that is only accessible through a purity of heart.

The word heart is really connected to that conscience place of who you are.

The conscience God gave us is one of the most valuable and treasured things

for a believer, because the conscience is where the spirit of the Lord.

To those who believe in Jesus, that's where the spirit of the Lord comes

and makes his home with your conscience, and out of that place he begins

to convict you of sin, selfishness, and anything else that is not connected

to the Lord. It is through that conscious place that I had the dream

where the Lord began a correct selfishness and what I thought was righteous justice.

And it's that place that He gives us that is to be treasured, to

be valued, And a lot of times we find and even in John chapter

ten, verse three, Jesus brings up almost like a parable where he says,

my sheep hear my voice, and the voice they hear, they follow

and I'm a good shepherd. There's there's that scripture and Jesus says that the

sheep, when they hear a stranger's voice, they flee, they don't run

because they don't recognize that voice. But what happens when you hear the voice

of Jesus and you ignore it, that's called a violation. It's where you

violate your conscience. It's where you violate the most treasured thing God gave you.

It's that place to be kept holy. And the way that the Lord

speaks through your conscience isn't like loud. Yeah, somebody said I wish it

was. Yeah. He calms like a gentle whisper. Conviction, just so

subtle, almost like if you dare think twice, you'll miss it. He's

just like poored because he's testing our hearts in response to the shepherd's voice.

And what happens is when we continuously violate the conscience. What happens as we

become corrupted, and the price we pay for not following the shepherd's voice is

following one of us strangers. The voice of a stranger sounds like selfishness,

greed, it's my tithe, my money, Well they did me wrong.

I'll refer you back to Mark thirty four thirty five eight thirty four thirty five.

Anything contrary to the self lessness is contrary to your design and the Lord.

So if we'll take a few steps back. As believers, the Lord

gave us a conscience, and he breathed this Holy spirit into us to speak

through that place of our conscience, a redeemed auncience that tells us what's right,

what's wrong. It's more than just morals. Unbelievers can have good morals.

It's more than that. It's the whisper of Lord. You see,

Joseph had a good moral and good heart to let go of Mary when he

found out she was pregnant. But that was not the Lord. That was

not Godly. So that place of your conscience, where the Lord speaks,

is more than just morals and good thoughts and earthly wisdom. It's a perspective

that is a Kingdom perspective. And we cannot see what God wants us to

see unless that place is cleaned, unless that place is clear. A lot

of us made commitments to not watch things, and we're watching them. I'm

being real. A lot of us made commitments to not speak a certain way,

slander or slandering or speaking certain ways. A lot of us know in

our heart that we need to forgive, truly forgive as though it never happened.

Yet we find Christian language to justify. Yeah, that's demonic, That's

what James said, the wisdom of this world that is selfish. It's demonic.

And it being demonic it means it's not you. So there's no shame.

And repentance. I think Jeff mentioned it in the first service. He

said, repentance is just the change of course. It's it's just a little

bit of a change of course, and repentance is actually God's little grace kiss

to you for you to be able to shift and change and to pursue what's

right, pursue what's holy, because that's who you're called to be. It's

an identity question. Do you know who you belong to? Do you know

who you are? Because the moment that revelation hits you, things begin to

shift. The way you see things. All of a sudden, you're holy

and the way you do things is holy and you don't even know why.

It's because the Spirit of God has sprinkled the blood of Jesus over your conscience

and has purified things I want to go to Hebrews Chapter nine, real quick,

verse twelve, in verse fourteen. With his own blood, not the

blood of goats and calves, he entered the most holy Place once and for

all and secured our redemption forever verse fourteen. Just think how much more the

blood of Jesus will purify our conscience from sinful beads, so that we can

worship the Living God Chapter ten, verse nineteen. And so, dear brothers

and sisters, we can boldly enter Heaven's most holy place because of the blood

of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life giving way

through the curtain into the most holy Place. And since we we have a

great high priest who rules God's house, let us go right into the presence

of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting him, for our guilty conscience has

been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean. John chapter one, verse

one First John chapter one, verse nine. If we confess our sins to

him, he is faithful to forgive our sins and to cleanse us of all

wickedness and all unrighteousness. That cleansing of wickedness and unrighteousness. It's a question

of conscience and heart. It's not a question of just what I've done.

It's an inward cleaning and it's only possible through the sprinkle of the blood of

the Lamb. That's why we take communion. I'd like for you guys to

stand with me. I don't know where you are in life. I don't

know how you violated your conscience. See, the Bible says everything is permissible,

but not everything is beneficial, and so a lot of times the Bible

doesn't have a clearer yes and no. But the Holy Spirit conscience in you

is a clear yes and no. And a violation of that is a violation

of sin. That's in Romans, I believe chapter sixteen. When you violate

the conscience, that's sin. But here's the beauty that you and I behold,

it's the blood of the Lamb. If you want to real encounter,

this is the most precious thing you can have, is a blood washed conscience.

The place where the Lord can finally land on. Did you know every

day you can walk that way to have fellowship and communion with the Lord.

Did you close your eyes Father this morning? Spirit of the Living God,

would you convict our hearts and our minds of any place. But we've stumbled

to hear your voice. Any place we've violated our conscience. I'll say that

the blood jeans Lodge. Come on, just sing that the blood of jeeves.

I can oh again, nothing sing out precious no, prescious is love

makes me? Why nother fusie? No? God, if you have to

go get your kids, please go get him. I want to invite the

City team. Please come up. If you can't quickly, it's a gentle

moment. It doesn't have to be so emotionful. It could just be good

holy conviction. Like some of us are sleeping outside of marriage with other people,

like just repent to like be called higher. There's things that God is

doing. Some of us are just uncontrollably drinking, Like God can God can

free you from that. And not only that, there's a place for holiness

and the spiritual Lord. He will begin a convict and he will do his

job and your responsibilities just to respond to him. Just say yes to him.

And so as the death Ciny team comes up. If the Lord is

convicting you of something and maybe you got to repent from someone, just be

quick to respond to him. It's not worth it to resist him. It's

not worth it to not follow the shepherd's voice. So this this, as

we close this service, don't fail to respond to Precious Jesus. Thank you,

thank you, Lord, take us away worshiping