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The Image of Heaven

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  1. How are we doing today? Is baptismal Sunday? What that means? If

  2. the pastor forgets you are dismissed at fifteen after, not you those who are

  3. being baptized fifteen after. If you're getting baptized and water, then you were

  4. welcome to jump up and go get ready, get our team in the back.

  5. Yep? Is that good? Ah? Let's stand pare for the warden?

  6. Who isn't God good? I thought it? We just thank you just

  7. for every moment we get to be with you. We thank you for your

  8. the outpouring of your Holy Spirit in our lives, and just the precious way

  9. you help us and guide us and direct us and go before us. We'll

  10. just give you the rest of this morning. In the word, we open

  11. our hearts to you. We ask Holy Spirit that you would teach, that

  12. you would keep making rama living word the posit's in our hearts in Jesus name.

  13. Everybody said, amen, Oh that's me. Amen. We were painting

  14. the building out front. You notice that, and that is somewhat in because

  15. the hearty board has gone bad out there. So if you're watching online,

  16. you haven't seen the hardy board. But God bless you anyway. But the

  17. hardy board has gone bad and we aren't quite ready to tear it off.

  18. We probably won't tear off that wall until the springtime, and so it needed

  19. help. So we're doing some help right now with a little bit of hate

  20. out there to get us through to this next season. We're pulling together all

  21. of our engineers right now for construction, and so our plan is to submit

  22. for permits before October twenty ninth, because all building codes change after October twenty

  23. ninth, So if you personally are getting ready to build something, get those

  24. permits in past anyway. That's what's going on. We're excited about all of

  25. that. I want to talk to you a little bit about restoration today,

  26. and I want to talk to you about the restored man, about the restored

  27. man, and specifically about Jesus, but also about you. You are the

  28. restored man. You are the restored person that God is using to shift the

  29. earth into heaven. And we've been using First Corinthians fifteen as a text.

  30. I'm going to go there First Corinthians fifteen twenty fourth through twenty five, So

  31. I want to read that to us again, and and I do want to

  32. mention a disclaimer. And this seems like a silly disclaimer, but it is.

  33. Maybe I've never said it. I don't know that I've ever said it,

  34. but you know, we have we have all sorts of people on this

  35. platform, and we have visitors on this platform. And sometimes they have like

  36. eighty percent meat and twenty percent bones. Sometimes they have ninety percent meat and

  37. ten percent bones. Sometimes they have ninety nine percent meat, one percent bones.

  38. Sometimes they have seventy percent meat thirty percent bones. So it is your

  39. it is your job as a tender to the church to rejoice over the meat

  40. and not sweat the bones. Even today, in your elogical estimation, because

  41. you are near genius yourself, you might consider what I dish out today to

  42. be only eighty five percent meat and fifteen percent bones. If that's the case,

  43. it is up to you to love the eighty five percent. It is

  44. up to you to discern the eighty five percent. Is up to you to

  45. unify with the eighty five percent and to forget about the fifteen percent. And

  46. if you can find I mean, you know, if you have fifty one

  47. percent of the stock of a company, you control the company. So I

  48. mean, if you can buy in you know, fifty one percent. Maybe

  49. you maybe this is your home. Maybe you ought to quit looking because maybe

  50. you've only been able to buy in forty eight percent every place else. So

  51. I don't know, but I'm just talking to somebody right now. So in

  52. your theological geniusness, maybe just think about that a little bit. And part

  53. of that is that we here, we hold to this growing kingdom mindset,

  54. and we're excited about the growing kingdom mindset. We love the growing kingdom mindset,

  55. but only because we find it in the word. The word keeps convincing

  56. us of this, and so we keep getting swooned by this silliness. So

  57. some people have a diminishing kingdom mindset, and I don't know why they've been

  58. swooned by that, but nonetheless, if they do, they sometimes those people

  59. that have that, they have like eighty five or ninety percent amazing things about

  60. them. So I just love the amazing things and eat those things up,

  61. and then I just set aside the other self and hug him and love him.

  62. Anyway, if we kept everybody off this platform that was theological perfect even

  63. I wouldn't be here. This would be an empty platform. You couldn't get

  64. up here. Did he just say that about me? I kind of did.

  65. Yeah, But so I mean, we just gotta we just gotta love

  66. each other and help each other. And as we press into him, we

  67. keep growing in perfect theology. That's what's cool about this is if we keep

  68. pressing in him, truly submitting to him, we'll keep growing in perfect theology.

  69. Then eventually, he says, we'll all come to a unity of the

  70. faith of a maturer man, the mature man, the heavenly man will all

  71. come into a unity of faith in the mature man, and we'll all come

  72. to the full knowledge of the sun. Every one of us are going to

  73. get theologically swooned before it's ober. Isn't that cool? Is that all right?

  74. Okay? I seem just a little loud Eric, because if I get

  75. excited, I'm written, I could blow up the speakers. But I appreciate

  76. the support because I need support. But okay, so first you're Indians fifteen

  77. twenty four, and I've been talking about this growing kingdom thing. Then the

  78. end comes, or then comes the end to say it with me, Then

  79. comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father. Now the

  80. kingdom the Kingdom is only known as two things all throughout the Word, but

  81. especially the New Testament. It's the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven.

  82. The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven. They are synonymous,

  83. right. So this is interesting is that he's going to bring something to such

  84. maturity like we just talked about out of Exhesians for he's going to bring something

  85. to such maturity that he's going to hand the Kingdom of Heaven to the Father.

  86. And actually, what I saw is I saw him as the ultimate Matthew

  87. twenty five user of the talents. Like Father has actually handed him five talents

  88. based on his ability, and he's actually invested them in you, and there's

  89. going to be a great return on that. And when Father brings this whole

  90. thing to a close, he's going to say to the Son, show me

  91. what you've done with what I gave you. He's gonna say, I invested

  92. it in all of these kids, and they've brought me a massive return,

  93. and he's going to say, well done, good and faithful servant. He

  94. is the ultimate Matthew twenty five servant. And so let's go back to it.

  95. Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom kingdom of Heaven to Father,

  96. to God the Father, when he puts an end to all rule and

  97. authority and power. When he has put when he has put that's the that's

  98. what he's saying for. He must reign until he has put all enemies under

  99. his feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. So we've

  100. been talking about this growing kingdom. It starts at the first Advent of Jesus.

  101. Here he is a seeds sown, and it starts with him, and

  102. then it grows and it grows and it grows until we get over here to

  103. the last day. For Strinthians fifteen, the last day, the last trump.

  104. On the last day, and on the last day, he conquers the

  105. final enemy of Adam's sons. First Adam, he conquers the final enemy of

  106. the sons of men, conquers the final enemy that was loosed upon Adam way

  107. back by his cooperation with the demonic Realm, and that his death. That's

  108. the last enemy to be conquered his death. And so throughout this progression of

  109. time, that means that through him and by him, we are conquering more

  110. and more and more of the enemies of the Supreme, Man, of the

  111. heavenly, Man of the Christ, of the One. You came to restore

  112. everything that first Adam lost. Not exciting. So I've called it a global

  113. deliverance. I've called it on a macro scale, this is a massive,

  114. massive deliverance. But guess what's happening during the deliverance is that we're getting restored.

  115. First we are restored, then the earth is restored. First we are

  116. restored, then the earth restored. The final summation of our restoration. Is

  117. this corruption taking on? In corruption? This body being translated into a heavenly

  118. body, a body that doesn't die. Adam had one in the beginning.

  119. The second atom abides in one bearing the image of the heavenly and now we're

  120. that's that's the final victory for us, right and so, and that also

  121. begins then the culmination of the restoration of the earth. So I don't know,

  122. is that fun? Is this okay? I'm saying this because even on

  123. this platform, from time to time, we will hear people talk about that

  124. it's dark and it's gonna get darker. It's dark and it's never gonna get

  125. light again. It's dark and it's it's gonna be terrible, terrible, terrible

  126. from now on out. And and I just I want you to see and

  127. understand that from my humble, non genius, uh finite, limited iological perspective,

  128. I don't think that's the way it's going to go. Now. It

  129. is dark, and it could get darker, but the light is going to

  130. prevail and the kingdom is going to grow. And the promises Matthew thirteen thirty

  131. one through thirty three, the promises that the Kingdom of Heaven. Remember,

  132. he's turning everything into heaven. Heaven is the model. Heaven is the pattern.

  133. Heaven is the plan, it's the blueprint. Heaven is the template.

  134. He started with a little chunk of heaven called Eden, and he's going to

  135. finish by turning the entire planet into a giant chunk of heaven. That's what

  136. he's up to. That's why the prayer, that's why your number one prayer,

  137. Kingdom of God Come, Will of God be done on Earth as it

  138. is in That's why when he came, he came to bring the Kingdom of

  139. Heaven. Yeah. Okay, so I've been talking a little bit about this

  140. macro plan. I want to talk about the restored man, because it's it's

  141. you know, this whole thing is based on this model of heaven, and

  142. Jesus is the He's the centerpiece of heaven, he's the centerpiece of man.

  143. He's the centerpiece of of what life was meant to be. And he came

  144. as the Last Adam to restore everything that the First Adam lost. And and

  145. there's reason for us to talk this way, and we'll get to that,

  146. but I just want to lay a little bit of groundwork in the moments that

  147. I've got, so, you know, thinking about him as the last Adam,

  148. the new Adam, the restored Man. And this is important because religion

  149. has a tendency to have us viewing Jesus in his divinity. But it's super

  150. important that you also understand see and view him in his manhood, because he

  151. was both fully man and he was and fully gone right. He was both,

  152. so it's important that you see that. And he set aside his divinity

  153. to model what the heaven life was like through his humanity, So that's important.

  154. First Corinthians fifteen forty five through forty nine, so it is written the

  155. first man Adam became a life giving being, and the Greek there and the

  156. King James are closer, says a life giving soul. Now, what we

  157. know is is when he sinned, he was cut off from the life of

  158. God, and he was cut off from eternity, and so he couldn't he

  159. could no longer give life, and the only thing that he was left to

  160. give was corruption. So when he fell, we were in him. When

  161. he fell, we were in his loins, so to speak. That's what

  162. the Bible says, right, we were in his loins when he fell.

  163. And so we bore his image. We bear or before we come to the

  164. waters of baptism, and before we put the image of first Adam to death

  165. in the burial of the waters of Baptism, we bore his image. So

  166. everything that he was given to and his fallenness and his corruption, and his

  167. death, and his decay, and his sickness and his disease, and his

  168. propensity to rebel and disobey. A fact is the Bible calls us and calls

  169. him those of us that were in Adam. Every all of us were in

  170. Adam sons of disobedience, because the spirit of disobedience was living in Adam,

  171. and the spirit of disobedience has been passed down through us, we became sons

  172. of disobedience. Okay, So the first Adam, through his fall, became

  173. a living soul. The last Atom, though, became a life giving spirit.

  174. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and then the spiritual.

  175. The first man was of the dust of the earth. The second man

  176. is of heaven, as was the earthly man. So also are those of

  177. the earth, as is the heavenly man. So also are those who are

  178. of heaven. So he's talking about he's talking about image. We've already sung

  179. about image. It's interesting. I didn't arrange the songs this morning. Holy

  180. Spirit arranged all the songs this morning. But we've already been thinking about his

  181. image. We've been singing about his image. It's because Holy Spirit is causing

  182. us and calling us to gaze upon his image and the sea. That he

  183. is the image of Heaven. He is the new Man. He is the

  184. image of the heavenly Man. And we are called to bear his image.

  185. We are called and we are empowered to bear his image. And just as

  186. we board the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image

  187. of the heavenly Man. Now not only in the likeness of incorruption, but

  188. also in the likeness of his being, because his Holy Spirit has come to

  189. bring his life and his character and his mark and his anointing and his conviction

  190. to dwell within us. His enablement dwells within us. The enablement of Heaven

  191. is already dwelling in you. Is that good? So I'm you know,

  192. I've talked in the past a little bit about how that. I don't know

  193. if you're interested, but I don't know if I have time if you're interested

  194. either. But there's a progressive restoration that takes place too. It's really cool,

  195. is that. I think everybody say he thinks I think that as as

  196. the heavenly Man takes over and the heavenly Daughter, the heavenly Son and the

  197. heavenly Daughter, as we take over the planet, because this is a heavenly

  198. takeover. Essentially, this is all a heavenly takeover. As we take over,

  199. what happens is that everything begins to shift, because restoration comes first to

  200. the sons and daughters of God, then to the earth. And what happens

  201. is that everything shifts. And I think what happens is when Israel is grafted

  202. back in. And I think israel Is grafted back in before the rapture or

  203. the end, or the Second Coming, or before the last day, because

  204. they become one with us, and they're actually a part of everything that happens

  205. on the last day. You're okay with that. Okay, good one of

  206. you. That's good. And so it says here in for instance, you

  207. know, Isaiah sixty five, just a little bit of a digression. It's

  208. kind of fun. See. I will create new heavens and a new earth.

  209. The former will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

  210. Be glad and rejoice forever. And what I create, I will create Jerusalem

  211. to be a delight, and it's people a joy. I will rejoice over

  212. Jerusalem, and think the joy in my people. The sound of weeping and

  213. crying will no longer be heard in it, never again will be. They're

  214. an infant that lives just a few days, or an old man that does

  215. not live out his years. The one who dies at a hundred will be

  216. thought to be a mere child. The one who fails to reach a hundred

  217. will be considered accursed. They will build houses and dwelling them, plant vineyards

  218. and eat the fruit, and no longer will they build houses and underliving them.

  219. For as the days of the trees will be the days of my people,

  220. my and ones will enjoy long life and the work of their hands.

  221. They will not labor in vain. They will not bear shield and doomed for

  222. misfortune. They will be people blessed by the Lord, and their descends with

  223. them. Before and he said something crazy, I skipped it. He said,

  224. as the life of a tree, so it will be my children,

  225. and they will wear out the work of their hands. He's talking about Israel,

  226. So it has to be them grafted in. This isn't just like a

  227. metaphoric passage that's fulfilled through us. The gentile Church is a This is a

  228. prophetic word over them. So they're grafted back in. Righteousness is growing in

  229. the earth. The sons and daughters of God are coming into manifestation, and

  230. we are walking in more and more a greater restoration. The Kingdom of Heaven

  231. is growing in the earth. We haven't yet reached the final day. Israel's

  232. grafted back in. All these things are so cool. They are going on

  233. as we're takeing of righteousness. Even our life span is extended. And so

  234. the righteous are living longer, they're wearing out the work of their hands.

  235. They live so long as the lifespan of a tree. So God is blessing

  236. the righteous with this crazy stuff that's going on. And this is all coming

  237. up to the final Day. We know this happens before the final day because

  238. the righteous don't die after the final day. Hello, So this has to

  239. be happening before the final day because after the Final Day, the righteous don't

  240. die. But this says the righteous are still dying. It's just that they

  241. have long life that fun. So what I wanted to ask you today is

  242. why why do we want to be morling Jesus? Fifteen after okay, baptism

  243. candidates dismissed. You know what, I've only got about five more minutes to

  244. preach even Oh my word, have I helped anybody yet? Are you helped?

  245. What? I believe the holys favorite one to say today is that we

  246. need so much more than forgiveness. We need to be so super careful,

  247. super careful theologically the way we think about things, there is some religious persuasion

  248. that we want to avoid. In one of those religious persuasions is that we've

  249. come to God through Jesus for forgiveness, that it's all about forgiveness. But

  250. he could have just kept the Old Testament sacrificial system. If it was just

  251. about atonement and forgiveness, he could have just continued with that system. If

  252. really the essence of what he desired was forgiveness and atonement or at one month.

  253. Atonement means at one month, so through the sacrifices he would bring you

  254. back and make you at one with himself again atonement at one moment. He

  255. could have just kept that system if it was all about forgiveness. Sometimes religion

  256. tells you that's what it's about, but it's not about that. The gospel

  257. message is about creating a new man. It's about creating the image of Jesus

  258. in you. It's about bringing Heaven to earth. God has no contentment over

  259. the incomplete work of atonement. Forgiveness is I'm not calling atonement incomplete, uncalling.

  260. You remain incomplete. If you stop at atonement, you remain You are

  261. meant to be a full image of Jesus, a full image of the heavenly

  262. Man. And so atonement, though complete, was meant to bring you into

  263. a oneness with God that results in a transformation of your nature. That's why

  264. Jesus had to come, because the Holy Spirit had to be deposited in you

  265. so that when you put your old life to death, the Holy Spirit would

  266. come in you and give you resurrection life, and so you would become an

  267. image bearer of Heaven. You're an image bearer of Jesus, but you're an

  268. image bearer of Heaven. Everywhere you go, you're bringing the Gospel of Heaven.

  269. It's the Gospel of the Kingdom of what the kingdom. It's an incomplete

  270. phrase. If you say it's a Gospel of the kingdom and you stop,

  271. that's a kingdom of What's it was always called the Kingdom of Heaven. It's

  272. the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. You're bringing Heaven. Everywhere you go.

  273. You carry Heaven in you. You bear the image of the heavenly Man

  274. who came to restore heaven on earth. That's why, that's why it's not

  275. just praying for heaven to come, but it's actually partnering with Jesus, looking

  276. to Jesus, emulating Jesus, following Jesus. You're not just born of the

  277. spirit, you're born of heaven. You're born of Heaven. You're born of

  278. a new nature, a new lineage, a new overcoming power, and that

  279. power is the power to bring heaven. And everything you do brings heaven into

  280. your atmosphere. Everything you're called to is bringing heaven into your business and your

  281. family, and your church and your community. If it doesn't ring of heaven,

  282. it doesn't ring of kingdom, because it's the kingdom of Heaven Romans eight

  283. twenty nine or thirty. For though for those whom he God, the Father,

  284. those whom he foreknew, foreknew, he knew we were going to come

  285. to him, he drew us, but he knew, he foreknew us.

  286. There was he could see down the timeline that we would choose him, that

  287. we would yield to him, that we would come into the sun. He

  288. God also predestined them to be conformed to the image of his son. We

  289. are conformed to the image of His Son. We're not just forgiven. I'm

  290. not just forgiven. Forgiveness got me into a family. Forgiveness got me into

  291. heaven. Forgiveness gave me access to the heart of Father. Forgiveness was the

  292. door to get me in hest and that I would be conformed to the image

  293. of his son, so that he Jesus would be the first born, not

  294. the last born, not the only born, but the first born among many

  295. brothers and sisters. He's the firstborn among all. We're we've all been brought

  296. into this. And those he predestined he also called, and those whom he

  297. called he also justified. And if the band could join me on the platform

  298. right now, because I don't want to go too much longer, but I

  299. need the musicians to come, and my beautiful wife to come, and the

  300. baptismal candidates hanging out around at the back door, and I need the water

  301. tub ready, and I'll continue to talk for a moment while everybody's coming.

  302. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called old,

  303. he also justified, And those whom he justified he also glorified. I

  304. love that he justified us. I love that he justified us. That means

  305. that he's actually declaring to Gabriel, to Michael, to Michelle, to you

  306. know, whatever their names are. He's declaring, treat them like they haven't

  307. sinned. Hey, you see Zach down there, help Zack out. Treat

  308. him just like you would the sun. See Angel down there. Hey,

  309. I need you to run over here and help Craig gets the situation. Craig,

  310. are you kidding me? Yes, help Craig. Treat him like he's

  311. never sinned, just defy. Just as if they've never ever missed the mark.

  312. They're hidden in the perfect one, and so treat them like they've never

  313. ever missed the mark. All of heaven, the resources, the resources of

  314. heaven are at your beckon, and they're working with you, and they're helping

  315. you, just as if you've never missed the mark, because you've chosen him

  316. and hidden yourself in him, and you've put away the old life, and

  317. you're constantly remembering, I've buried that person, and I live by the faith

  318. of the one who gave himself for me. This morning we sang about him,

  319. and I'll close with this, we are transformed as we behold him.

  320. And I was thinking this morning, worship in church is the most precious thing

  321. to me in my entire life. I literally go nuts over worshiping church.

  322. It's like the Holy Spirit goes nuts in me and on me and over me,

  323. and I just go nuts over it. But I was thinking this morning

  324. that the privilege that we have that we don't have to leave this to church,

  325. only that we can behold him daily, that we can gaze upon him

  326. daily, that we can learn of him daily, we can absorb what it

  327. is to be heavenly minded daily, that we can run to him daily.

  328. And if the power the power, and I just I end the David's tent

  329. and tabernacle, I end the twenty four seven Ministry of Zion and what David

  330. had set up. I know that David must have run there all the time

  331. just to be in that house and to be around the anointing, and he

  332. would have been. He wouldn't have been hanging out in the back. I'm

  333. gonna just tell you right now, if you want to be like King David,

  334. he would have been up at the front around the altar where the cherubim

  335. hung out, and he would have been where the glory came between the chair

  336. of him over the mercy seat. That's where David would have been. He

  337. wouldn't have been sipping a lot day in the back. And so I'm just

  338. warning you, just telling you that, and so, but you can have

  339. that in your house. You can have that. I turned to my garage

  340. into that with a moon box for years. I just you know, you

  341. can have that, you can have you can have a touch of Heaven in

  342. your life. And there's so much power in it, and there's transforming power.

  343. And so my closing scripture before I turned over to Pastor Joel for the

  344. baptism second corintins three seventeen through eighteen. Now, Now the Lord is the

  345. Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom,

  346. there's liberty. The Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the

  347. Lord is, and ountherwords, wherever we invite him. Now, the preceding

  348. versus says that the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving,

  349. so they cannot see the glorious light of the Gospel of Truth. They

  350. can't see the Christ. But for us, but for us, we invite

  351. the Lord. We invite the We intentionally invite the Lord into our garage,

  352. into our car, into our bedrooms, into our prayer closets, whatever they

  353. look like, boombox and all we intentionally because if we'll invite the Lord,

  354. then the spirit of liberty comes and a veil is lifted off of the eyes

  355. of our understanding, and we begin to see him face to face. We

  356. with unveiled face. Look as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord.

  357. We look at the glory of the Lord. But we remember, as

  358. we do, and as we do, we really what happens is it's a

  359. mirror. We actually as we look at the glory of the Lord and gaze

  360. upon him intentionally in a spirit of liberty where we've invited him to come,

  361. then there's a transforming power and we become a mirror image of what we're looking

  362. at. We become transformed. We become an image of what we're gazing in.

  363. Do you want to be transformed? Stop getting up and going to work

  364. without having times with Jesus, Stop living a day without a glory experience around

  365. the arc and in the presence, all right, none of that. Looking

  366. as a mirror at the glory of the Lord. We are being transformed into

  367. the same image, the heavenly image, from glory to glory, just as

  368. from the Lord the spirit comes. Okay, let's stand, I know where

  369. jul is going to take us. Let's stand. Father. We just received

  370. this word right now, and we received that. We're called the glory,

  371. We're called to bear the image of Heaven. We are the likeness of the

  372. Sun that even we don't even know all about us because tomorrow's glory will eclipse

  373. today's. We thank you for the transforming work of the spirit as we gaze

  374. upon the heavenly Man in Jesus name, and everybody said, Hey, man,

  375. God, bless your church. Hallelujah, hallelujah. What a message.

  376. God is so good. This morning has been the best morning ever. Amen.

  377. I've had the opportunity to be in the back with the kids, and

  378. they are rocking at back. They're the kids are growing in the Lord and

  379. just getting more and more, just more and more like Him, even in

  380. the back hall. It's so cool. But I have a group of people

  381. right now that are anxious to get baptized. Are you ready to baptize them?

  382. Are you ready? Because here at New Horizon, If you've never been

  383. here at a New Horizon baptism, I just want to let you know that

  384. this is not normal like you've ever seen before. Because you're a part of

  385. this baptism. You're gonna help us pray, You're gonna help us witness this

  386. happen. These are your friends, these are your brothers and sisters, these

  387. are your people, and we have got an amazing group of people. Some

  388. of these folks are brand new babies in the Lord, some of them are

  389. rededicating their life. But every single one of them have a story to tell.

  390. And I'm gonna read this at a collagions haven't been buried with him in

  391. baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith, in

  392. the working of God, who raised him from the dead, when you were

  393. dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made

  394. you alive with Christ forgave us of our sins, and having canceled the charge

  395. of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us, he has

  396. taken it away and nailed it to the cross. And that's why we are

  397. here too, absolutely determined. So for those of you who are new with

  398. us, what I'm going to ask you to do is you're gonna put your

  399. hand for we're gonna pray over every one of these candidates. You're gonna sing

  400. and work ship when they go down, and you're gonna hoop and holler when

  401. they come up, because we are gonna celebrate, just like the angels in

  402. heaven celebrate when they come to Christ. Say man, all right, so

  403. come on out, we're gonna do this. Come on out this we have

  404. Cindy Ramos here, Cindy, come on over here before you climb in,

  405. come here, come here. How long have you been here at church?

  406. Eats Candy ramels, Oh, Candy, six months? Six months? I

  407. remember when you walk through the door the first time. Where were you at?

  408. Were you standing like right over here? Right? And you you came

  409. forward for prayer? Yes? And has that changed your life a lot?

  410. A lot? So it says, here, Kenny, why don't you go

  411. ahead and clas She's already starting to cry. Are you guys ready to pray

  412. this girl through? Okay? Candy? Her her husband is coming next.

  413. Candy says, I feel the need to baptize, to be baptized in my

  414. heart and in my bones. She feels the desire to get tice. She

  415. wants to lay down her old life and come into the new. When she

  416. goes into that water, she is going into the grave of her old self,

  417. and she is going to come back alive in the resurrection power of Jesus.

  418. Amen. So let's go, okay, band, are you ready,

  419. Let's take us there? Hallelujah, Let's put her hand towards her father and

  420. Jesus Name, Lord God, we thank you, we thank you. We

  421. thank you for her, We thank you for her family, we thank you

  422. for her son. We thank you for her future. We thank you that

  423. you have plans and purposes for her. And in Jesus Name God, we

  424. just pray for her. Right now, let's go ahead and shout hallelujah,

  425. hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Who in the river, come on, we

  426. come alive in the river. Praise you Jesus, Praise you Father, got

  427. hallelujah. So now Candy's husband, I told you he was coming. He's

  428. next here. So we have Oscar come on over here. Oscar, you

  429. and I were back in the nursery just a minute ago with your sweet son.

  430. So Candy came in and got prayer and her life turned around. How

  431. did it work out for you? I worked out the same way. I

  432. just came in to help her with our son, just so because it was

  433. a little hard for her, and I loved it ever since. And yeah,

  434. I haven't stopped coming. She hasn't stopped hers. So you feel like

  435. you need to get baptized and said, I want a new start, and

  436. go ahead and climb in. He says, I want a new start.

  437. I've been away from God for so long, and I have found him.

  438. I have found him. I have found him, and I have found this

  439. church. Hallelujah. All right, So Oscar is a husband, Go ahead

  440. and sit down. Yeah, there you go. You gotta get in there.

  441. We're gonna take you all the way down. Hallelujah. Not a dry

  442. piece of hair on his head, because we don't want nothing to survive from

  443. his old life. Right this is a burial of his old way, and

  444. he is gonna come forth. Let's just begin to prophesy over him. Mighty

  445. things. Mighty things. You have the power to raise your children in the

  446. in the House of God and in the ways of the Lord. And Jesus

  447. Name. You are a wonderful husband. You are a provider. There's more

  448. than enough in your household. In Jesus name, God, we thank you.

  449. Right now we prophesy over you that God is going to do good and

  450. mighty things with Oscar and Jesus name. Jesus Name live in bath halloo Jah.

  451. Yeah, thank you, Jesus, Praise you Father. Oh what a

  452. sweet family you guys ready for another one. We got eleven of them,

  453. so you just better be ready because we got a lot going on. Hello,

  454. we have Monica, Monica Hernandez. How are you. Are you nervous?

  455. Yes? But you know what, look at all these people. They

  456. love you. They love you, they love what you're doing, and they

  457. so believe in you. Okay, let's see. Monica want you to go

  458. ahead and climb in. I'm gonna read this. I want to have peace

  459. with the Lord. Before I didn't have a choice on baptism, but now

  460. I do, and I want to because I I wanted to have the Lord

  461. guide me to have spiritual peace and happiness that I need. So what she's

  462. saying is in the past, she's been baptized, but it was kind of

  463. a forced thing this time, this is what you want to do, right,

  464. This is what you want to do. Okay, all right? Hallelujah,

  465. hallelujah Monica. Let's pray for Monica. Let's pray for her family,

  466. Let's pray for her future, Let's pray for all that she is, everything

  467. that God made her to do, everything God made her to be in Jesus

  468. name. Hallelujah, Monica, you will no longer be under the power of

  469. darkness. But hallelujah, the flesh is going under and the spirit is going

  470. to come forth. And Jesus, Snap, she is drawing a line in

  471. the sand today. You are drawing a line in the sand and saying that

  472. today your life belongs to the Lord. And she's a snap. And this

  473. whole house right now is behind her. Hallelujah, this whole house. WHOA

  474. Hallelujah, La La line in the or Hallelujah, Praise you Jesus, Hallelujah.

  475. Everything all right, Lisa wonderful, And Lisa's a daughter of the house.

  476. Go ahead and climb in, Lisa. She is a daughter of the

  477. House. And Lisa has walked through struggles and challenges and difficulties. But the

  478. cool thing about Lisa, She's still walking. She is still walking. She's

  479. still walking through them. Hallelujah, and she is going to make her way

  480. ruin. It is going to be a good thing. She is getting victory

  481. in her physical being. She was telling me the other day about some victories

  482. and some healings. Hallelujah. Lisa Harrington, I gave my life to Jesus

  483. when I was four, and I really committed my life to him when I

  484. was fourteen. I was baptized at twenty years ago. But I feel the

  485. need to recommit to my Savior and die to my old life and live for

  486. him. Hallelujah. Let's put your hand towards her and just give her all

  487. of your love and support. Begin to prophesy over her and all that she

  488. represents. She is a servant. She is a servant of the Lord.

  489. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. All right, Miss Sarah Holmes, come on

  490. over here, Miss Sarah, you and the Lord kind of go way back,

  491. right. Yeah, So when did you accept Jesus. I was four

  492. years old. You've been on the mission field, yes, and you have

  493. just done amazing things around here, I hope so. Yes. So why

  494. do you want to get baptized? Well, I wasn't. I'm not the

  495. same person that I was a year ago, Thank you, Holy Spirit.

  496. And I gave you a card for you to read so I wouldn't have to

  497. remember all the things that I Alright, alright, alright, I'll do it.

  498. Sarah is a doll, and we're just believe a full restoration for her.

  499. Amen. Sarah says, I'm not the same person I was a year

  500. ago. Gone is the orphan spirit, the spirit of suicide and depression in

  501. Jesus name, the spirit of manipulation, fear, and control. I'm healed,

  502. and I'm healing. Joy, hope, light, and first love have

  503. been restored. I want to be baptized in love and holy Spirit fire.

  504. I want to make a public deck laray should of the goodness of God in

  505. your life. I want you to reach your hands forward to her and that

  506. she finishes up with these two right here. Just begin to prophesy over her,

  507. complete restoration, complete healing. Everything that the enemy has tried to steal

  508. from you, everything that enemy has tried to take from you, from rob

  509. from you and Jesus name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Yes, halleluyah Oo,

  510. Thank you Lord, Oh God is so good. God has raised your hands

  511. right now. Hallelujah, Lord God for what you do. Hallelujah. Okay,

  512. all right, we have Selma, Selma, come on over here.

  513. How are you good? Are you a little nervous? I'm excited? Oh

  514. that's that's better. Excited is better? Excited is better. I've gotten to

  515. know you a little bit back in the back hall the kids. And every

  516. time I see you, I just think beauty. I think God created you

  517. with a special kind of beauty. Let's just pray right now over her,

  518. right now. God has created you with a special kind of beauty. Do

  519. not let any lie of the enemy tell you anything less than that. You

  520. have a beauty that is meant to be an influence and you are drawing people

  521. and it's gonna be amazing. God loves you with just an undying love.

  522. Hallelujah, hallelujah. When did you accept Jesus when I was really young?

  523. But I take baptism really seriously, and I told God God, when I'm

  524. when I'm ready to fully die to myself, I'm gonna get baptized. So

  525. I fully died to myself. You go right on ahead, hallelujah. Isn't

  526. that the coolest thing? She's getting ready to die. We're going to a

  527. funeral, But this isn't a bad kind of funeral because the only thing that's

  528. dying here is her old self. She's gonna come back up out of that

  529. water filled with the Holy Ghost and ready to go forward and serve God with

  530. all of her heart. All right, So let's put our hands towards or.

  531. We're not gonna give up. We're not gonna get tired. Thank you,

  532. Father for this young lady. Thank you for her beauty. Thank you

  533. for her profession of faith. Thank you, Lord God for her decision.

  534. Thank you, Lord God that you're gonna give her an overcoming spirit. Lord

  535. God. Nothing can go hold her back, nothing can hold her back,

  536. nothing will trip her up. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus,

  537. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah,

  538. Hallelujah. We come, Hallellujah, Prise you Lord, Praise you Lord.

  539. Oh, thank you Jesus. Come on over here, just come to me.

  540. Oh, there we go. So we have Edgar Gonzalez here. So

  541. this young man has quite a story. We could be here all night,

  542. probably all day and all afternoon hearing your story, right, Yeah, for

  543. sure. How'd you get here? How'd you come to us? One of

  544. my neighbors, where's Ron? Where's wrong? Where's wrong? Ron? Yeah?

  545. Yeah, I was walking in a neighborhood and he told me he prayed

  546. for me right there, and he told me to come over here, and

  547. I came over here like a month or two ago, and we're here now.

  548. Okay, I'm gonna read this and you might have to give a little

  549. bit of explanation. But let me just tell you. This young man was

  550. shot four times three months ago, and I believe he says that he believes

  551. that the Lord saved his life so he could be reborn and live in him.

  552. Come on, so tell me a little bit. How's that healing going

  553. on? Just tell me a little bit about this ever since, Like when

  554. I woke up and I just I seen my family around me, used to

  555. look up from being the from being from being shot. Yeah, from surgery.

  556. I had an emergency surgery. I got my stomach cut open from here

  557. to here. They got my stomach all the way open, and I look

  558. up and I was just I just got close to God, close to God.

  559. And it's been three months ago, and they said I wouldn't be able

  560. to be doing stuff for like six months. So I know God has been

  561. with me every step of the way. WHOA, Okay, you go ahead,

  562. climb right on in there. Hallelujah. You never know who's walking by

  563. you down the street. You never know, people of God. What need

  564. God is sending to you walking past your house. Hallelujah. How many of

  565. you are ready to share the Lord with anybody anywhere because you have no idea

  566. how it is. Hallelujah God. I pray right now. This is Edgar,

  567. Yes, Edgar and Jesus name God. We just pray right now that

  568. whatever has gone on in your life in the previous weeks and decades, we

  569. just pray right now your Holy Spirit to be upon him. Be upon him,

  570. Be upon him, Be upon him, Father God, and Jesus name.

  571. Satan, rebek off of him. A spirit of death is off of

  572. him. Come on, come on home, malon in the rim. Hallellujah,

  573. hallelujah, Come on out, hallellujah. Oh praise God. Just throw

  574. your hands in the air, praise Him, praise Him. Okay, we

  575. have come out. Come on, Comel comel Leonard. He says here he

  576. wants to be reborn through Jesus, and I want to live a life for

  577. him. Are you ready for this? Are you nervous? Yes? Are

  578. you gonna be? Okay? Do you know look at all these people.

  579. They love you. You are never alone. You are never ever alone.

  580. And Jesus loves you. He surrounds you all the time. And these people

  581. are around you right now, they're cheering for you. Okay, go climb

  582. in that baptism tank. Let's do this. Hallelujah. Let's just talk about

  583. the coming generation. Let's just talk about the next generation. Let's talk about

  584. being legacy leavers. Let's talk about the Bible that speaks more and more about

  585. the father's father's father's and the children's children's children. This is not a religion

  586. that just dies with us. This is a generational thing that we are in

  587. the midst of, and this is the next generation. Pour your spirit into

  588. the next generation. Be one that raises up the next generation. God,

  589. I pray over this young man. I pray over this young man. Grace,

  590. grace. Every plan of the enemy is broken off of this young man.

  591. There will be no addiction on him. Hallelujah. Come on, here

  592. we go in the rear. Yes, woo, hallelujah. How are you

  593. okay? So we have a Caleb here, Caleb, Caleb culture. How

  594. are you today? Are you ready for a life change? Absolutely? Absolutely?

  595. Are you ready to make a one eighty degree turnaround in life? Amen?

  596. God loves you and he wants a whole new future for you. And

  597. she's as name. Amen. Okay, go ahead and climb in. Hallelujah.

  598. Oh Father God, I just pray right now over this gentleman and she's

  599. his name, Lord God, I thank you for his obedience today for you,

  600. Lord, I just ask you right now, Oh hallelujah. There is

  601. a there is an amazing shift that's happening right now. There is an amazing

  602. shift. There's an amazing shift. There's a line being crossed. There is

  603. a change and a turn in Jesus name, Lord God, I thank you

  604. right now for this young man. I want you to just stir up your

  605. spirit right now in the spirit language. If you have that, I want

  606. you to just pray that over him. I want you just right now.

  607. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. God's shifting some things in the atmosphere.

  608. God is shifting things all the way down to the cellular level on this

  609. young man. In Jesus name. God is shifting things, shifting things,

  610. shifting things. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank

  611. you Lord. For Caleb. You will be a mighty man. You will

  612. see your eyes will not dim your strength will not abate. Hallelujah. Let's

  613. go. Yes, we callelle hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you,

  614. Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Oh, God is doing a work. God

  615. is doing a work. Hallelujah. Come on over here, buddy, over

  616. here, over here, there we go. We have Miles, Miles,

  617. come on over here, come over here. What are you doing? Are

  618. you gonna get baptized? Yes? What in the world are you exciting?

  619. Yes? Can you tell me what the best thing about getting baptized is?

  620. Well? Shopping God? Yeah? Yeah, that's so good. Okay,

  621. are you ready now when you go climbing that water over there, what you're

  622. deciding is that you're going to live for Jesus the rest of your life.

  623. Yes. Do you want to live for Jesus? Yes? Do you love

  624. him? Yes? How much do you love him? A lot? Okay,

  625. go climbing that water. So Miles wants to get baptized because of God's

  626. love and mercy. He says, this is Miles once again, this is

  627. He's so ready, He's so ready. Hallelujah, Lord God, I thank

  628. you right now for this little boy. Oh, I say, right now,

  629. His future is filled with you. His future is filled with you.

  630. There is no rebellion in his future. There's no waywardness in his future.

  631. Hallelujah. Oh whoa, yeah, whoa, get those eyes right up.

  632. Hallellujah. Where hallelujah. Moms and dads, if your children have not been

  633. baptized this next cycle, we want to do a special one for children.

  634. So talk to your kids and let the office know that you're interested with your

  635. children. We will do a special teaching and it'll be awesome. Let's get

  636. these kids baptized. Amen, Hey, man, what's next here? Who's

  637. next? Come on out, come on out, Give her a hand,

  638. Come on over, Jemina, Jemina, give her a hand. So tell

  639. me, have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes? What does

  640. God mean to you? He's my life? And amen, Amen, I

  641. just want let's just pray over this girl right now, because just there's a

  642. grace and a purpose upon her right now. Hallelujah. Let me just let

  643. me just pray with you before you climb in. And all of these people

  644. are loving you right now. Father and Jesus name, I thank you for

  645. Jemina. God, I just ask you right now to settle upon her,

  646. settle upon her soul. Lord Jesus, God, I just feel, I

  647. sense that there's some decisions in front of you, and I just want you

  648. know that God has your path already marked out. He has your path marked

  649. out, and He has a way for you to walk, and it is

  650. going to be a beautiful thing. And God, I just pray right now,

  651. there's grace upon her. Lord Jesus, there is grace, and your

  652. spirit will shine so brightly in Jesus name, in Jesus name. Amen.

  653. Okay, go ahead and climb in. You can give that to them,

  654. all right. There's such a preciousness about this lady, such a preciousness.

  655. Raise your hands out to her father and Jesus name. Jemina, Jemina,

  656. Jemina, hallelujah. I don't think Jiminah knows how much she's loved. I

  657. don't think she knows. I don't think she knows how much God loves her.

  658. Right now, Just poor God's love out on her right now, Poor

  659. God's love out on her right now. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh

  660. God, the love, the love, the casts out all fear, and

  661. Jesus name the love the casts out all fear, and Jesus name the love

  662. that breaks off every power of darkness. Hallelujah, Lord God, hallelujah,

  663. hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord, Praise you Jesus. Praise your Father

  664. God, the love for this daughter of yours, the love, the future,

  665. the plans, and she's his name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

  666. Yes, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Praise your Holy Name, Praise your

  667. Holy name. Crash your Holy name? Are you kidding me? Come on

  668. out here, Come on out here? How are you today? Good?

  669. Did you plan on getting baptized today? Yes? You did? Okay?

  670. So what does it mean to get baptized? You die of your old self

  671. and you return to your new life? Oh my goodness, he's got it.

  672. He has got it. How many of you think he's ready? All

  673. right? How much do you love God? All the love I can get

  674. him? Well, that's a lot, I bet this young man. If

  675. you get close to him, he has the best hugs on the planet.

  676. So if you could, would you hug God right now? Yes? I

  677. think he'd be hugging you Are you ready to go, daddy. Okay,

  678. let's go, get you in there. Okay, all right, this is

  679. a little Jason. That's once again we got we got the generations coming up.

  680. We got the generation's going. Raise your hand out to him right now,

  681. Father and Jesus Name, Lord God, I thank you, I thank

  682. you, I thank you for this young life. And Lord God, I

  683. declare even now you are setting his course in front of him. You are

  684. setting his course in front of him, and God, I thank you right

  685. now that every strategy of the enemy, every broken thing, hallelujah, Lord

  686. God has broken off of him and Jesus Name, and he will live.

  687. He will live. He will live in your presence. Lord, he will

  688. live in your joy, he will live in your peace. He will live

  689. in your presence in Jesus Name. Hallelujah, Thank you, Lord, Thank

  690. you, Lord, Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you

  691. Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you, Lord,

  692. Hey you, Jesus Hi you Father God, hallelujah. Live. Okay,

  693. that's our last one. So let's just sing right now. Hallelujah. Yes,

  694. praise him, Praise him. God is so good. God, is

  695. so good. Praise you Father God, thank you for coming. God is

  696. so good. I want to it. Just encourage you in your walk with

  697. the Lord. Today has been a fabulous day here at church. Turn around,

  698. hug somebody, love on somebody, Let them know that you love them

  699. and that you are here from them. Amen. Amen,