Give It Back!

Okay, never bored them at New Horizon. And if you need to know

more about all that, go to all of our media stuff. Let's stand

for over the word this morning. Dive in. Oh Father, you're so

good. We appreciate your ministry and our manstweet. Thank you so much for

the witness of Holy Spirit to us, couponing us. We ask you to

write on our hearts in the next few moments, open the eyes of our

understanding. Continue what you've begun here today. Thank you for it in Jesus

name. Everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Maybe seated,

I want to I want to jump. I want to jump into a

little bit of where I was last week, And so if you were here,

you'll have a little bit of an advantage. But I talked a little

bit about the macro plan of God and that the macro plan of God looks

a lot like deliverance and that and one of the things that you know,

we're seeing talking about is that the deliverance ministry actually proceeds restoration ministry. And

as it is in the macro with God, so it is in the micro

with God. I'm the micro, you're the micro. And so I want

to go back real quick to first Shrinthian's fifteen twenty four and read that with

you again and just kind of set the stage for this macro view of what

God is up to, not so much like I'm not talking about in this

moment or what to expect or who's going to be the president, or I'm

talking about from this first advent of Jesus until the last Advent of Jesus.

So and we call that the second coming or the rapture, whatever whatever you

whatever terminology would use, the Lord returning from the first to the last.

The picture that we get is that the victory over Satan began here at the

first advent, but the victory continues progressively until darkness is banished. So first

Corinthens fifteen twenty four and twenty five. Then the end will come, everybody

say, Then, then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom

to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and

power. For he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under

his feet. And then it goes on. I didn't put it in there,

but verse twenty. And the last enemy that will be destroyed as death.

And that's what he's doing on that last day. So and then I

tied that last week, I tied that also the Ephees in three eight,

I don't have it in the lineup today of scriptures, where it says that

this mystery that was hidden through the ages has now been revealed, and that

through the Church, through the Church, not just to the church, but

through the Church, that God is revealing the power and the authority that displaces

the delonic realme. So he began with something here that actually loosed this authority

and this victory to us, so that we become the ambassadors, we become

the deputies, We become the overcomers more than overcomers who worked this out in

time, and so that when we get to the last day darkness, the

authority of the enemy has been banished. And this, you know, this

kind of stuff, it's congruent with Ephesians four eleven through thirteen, or eleven

through fifteen. Ephesians four, where it says that the ministry of apostle,

prophet, teacher, the fivefold ministry, that those ministries continue until we all

come into the maturity of Christ, to the full stature of Christ, and

to the true knowledge and the full knowledge of the sun. So we see,

we see this growing body of knowledge, this growing maturity of people through

time, and we see what they're up to is banishing the enemy. What

they're up to is dismissing darkness. What they're up to is overcoming darkness.

Yeah, let me read you another one. Because all of creation is groaning.

You ever groaned, All of creation is groaning for this very thing to

mature, because the maturation of this work of the Lord in us is going

to liberate all of creation. All of creation becomes liberated as the sons of

God rise up into who they are, the daughters of God, the sons

of God. They rise up into who they are, and then are loosed

in the earth to deliver the planet, to overcome darkness, and to walk

in essentially the fullness of God, the restoration that He's ordained for us Romans

eight nineteen through twenty one. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits

for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to

futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope.

It was subjected in hope. He saw you when all this started because the

creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty

of the children of God or the sons of God. That's interesting. You

come into liberty first, then creation will also be delivered in de liberty.

You are set free from corruption first, then creation will be set free from

corruption. So there's this crazy, amazing progression that we're called to. We're

called to much more than spiritual salvation. We're calling them much more than than

just spiritual salvation, meaning to be born of the spirit and our trust is

in Heaven as our home, and that we will go to heaven when we

die. You're called them much more than that. You're called to manifest the

glory of God in the earth. You and I. We can't manifest the

glory of God and the earth unless we partner with Him for overcoming the enemy

and becoming living epistles of the judgment that's been written against the enemy. We

become the living epistles of the judgment that's been written against the enemy. And

essentially that's what Jesus was. Jesus was the judge and the judgment. Jesus

was the judge and the judgment against the enemy and the way we see the

way we see a judgment carried out. I talked to you last week a

little bit about it. When the folks lived in our house during COVID without

paying their rent and destroying the house. We needed a judgment. And the

way we understand a judgment issued out of a court is very much like what

God's up to right now with and through us, is that it has various

aspects to it. Right it has aspects to it. And one of the

aspects that we need the partner with God. And that's why we're going further

in this message. One of the aspects that we need to partner with God

in is the aspect of restoration. The aspect of restoration is one of the

partnership aspects, so that not only do we embrace deliverance as a remnant people

a prototype of what God's doing the ambassadors, the deputies of the Ministry of

Jesus and the earth, not only do we embrace deliverance, which in a

judgment, in a judgment is seen as evicting or dismissing or overcoming those who

have brought harm, who have stolen, who have plundered. Right so that's

that's the first part. We believe in that. We believe in deliverance.

We believe in deliverance ministry. We believe in a judgment against the enemy and

then evicting be it out of our lives, our hearts, our church,

our family, our communities, our cities, evicting, dismissing darkness, the

powers that shouldn't be here. They're here illicitly. They're here trespassing, they're

here against the Christ, They're here to bring harm. But we have a

judgment from the Supreme One that they are now trespassing, that they're no longer

welcomed here, that we don't need to yield to them anymore in our body,

in our soul, in our family, in our marriage, in our

church, in our community, we no longer need, so we dismiss them.

So we come into agreement with that. But there's another part of the

judgment. The other part of the judgment is the judge says, oh,

this is what they owe you. The other part of the judge is where

the judge says, this is what they because of their violation, because of

their theft, because of their wrongful action against you, because of their deception

and their coercion. This is what they owe you, and so you get

a judgment for me. There's a judgment of several thousand dollars due to the

misuse of my home right. And we see Jesus is also representing that judgment

with regard to the people and with regard to the nations. And one of

the clearest places to see it is in Isaiah chapter forty two. In Isaiah

chapter forty two, it's it's God through the prophet Isaiah. He's speaking over

Israel. He's speaking over the people, and he's actually talking about how they've

been taken advantage. They've been stolen away, they've been deceived, they've been

plundered, they've been harmed. His heart is for them, and he yearns

for them, and he yearns for them to be brought back. He yearns

for them to be restored. God is a god of restoration, overcoming the

enemy, that getting getting the tenant out, getting darkness out, the macro

plan of God to dismiss darkness. It's only it's only half of the equation

of a judgment. The other half is to get back what was taken.

The other half is to get back what was taken. So It's interesting,

Isaa forty two. We have this crazy passage, and it reminds me.

It reminds me quite a bit of what we do with little ones. We

do this with little ones. And you know, I'm sure it was done

with me a lot, because I was kind of rian out of control.

My parents couldn't figure out where I came from. But you know, if

we see Easton, this is a grandchildren talk five of which you know we

have. If we see Easton wrongfully take a toy from Judah right, then

a Judah might even say he's got my toy right. And so then authority

steps in and says, potentially in a gentle way. Depending on how the

first time goes, could be there a raised tone if the first If the

first attempt doesn't go well, it could be there's a raised tone in the

second attempt. Easton, give it back, Give it back. Everybody say

give it back, Isaiah forty two, verse twenty two. But this is

a people plundered and pillaged. All of them are trapped in caves or are

hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder with no one to save them,

and spoils with no one to say give them back. This is interesting

because this is a messianic passage. This is God looking at his children,

and essentially he's talking about the coming One. And this is what the coming

One is going to say. The coming One is going to say to the

realm of darkness, to the demonic realm, to Satan, the coming One

is going to say, give them back, give them back, give them

back. So this this is an interesting proclamation because you today, in your

vernacular of relationships, when you make a judgment against the wrong that needs to

be confronted and dismissed, you also find yourself saying, give it back,

give it back. And we in Isaiah forty two, we were the it.

Remember the Tower of Babel, prophetically speaking, this just wasn't only over

Israel alone, but in the Tower of Bibles we come, you know to

that whole Seventy nations were split out of that tower. Sixty nine were given

over to darkness. Only Jacob was kept unto God. Sixty nine nations were

lost. Jacob was the prototype and the forerunning nation that would bring forth the

Christ. But what we see in Isaiah forty two is not only the proclamation

of God over Israel, but this is the proclamation of God over sixty nine

gentile nations. Give them back, give them back, give them back.

Now, what I want you to see is that this is the This is

the other part. This is the other expression of a judgment, because a

judgment should result in a full restoration. A judgment should result in a full

restoration. I'm looking around the room right now, I'm looking on the front

row, and some of us have gone through this where we had to rise

up against the enemy and we had to say give it back, or we

had to say give them back. But some of us haven't understood that this

is part. This is part of us entering into a partnership with God in

the breakthrough that we desire and need that will shift everything in our lives as

we partner with them. Because we, as the sons of God, we

have become the delegates of His judgment, and as the deputies of God,

we have become the delegates of His authority. And we don't realize so many

times, because of the way we've been brought up in religion, we don't

realize so many times that our partnership is needed for restoration. We think everything's

up to Jesus, and so we're praying these prayers of submission while the enemy

is actually tearing us up, obedient us to pieces, messing with our whole

world. And we pray, but we keep praying these prayers, Lord help

me, Lord help me, Lord help me, and we're yielding or we're

submitting things to him. But he's saying, my people perish for lack of

knowledge Jose at four six. My people perish for lack of knowledge because he's

called us in the macro of this particular time, from the beginning to the

end, he's called us to be the partners of his working out the judgment

that he rendered. And the result of that is that Satan's house and the

works of the enemy against us are plundered and we are restored. We are

restored, So our declaration becomes super important. Matthew twenty eight. Are are

you getting this a little bit? Let's settle in on you a little bit.

Holy shit. We ask you to just open the eyes of our understanding.

Right now, we talked about how that we're deputized in Jesus, and

so we've recognized we have authority to confront the enemy. We don't need the

yield or listen or submit to the lives of the enemy, or the works

of the enemy against us, against our stuff, against our families, against

our marriages, against our children, against our womb, against our finances,

against our city, against our schools, against our communities. But now,

Holy Spirit, you're telling us that we need to begin to shout over the

enemy, give it back, give it back. We need to begin to

shout over the enemy as the voice of the judgment of the Lord, as

the voice of the judgment of the Lord over and against darkness and the enemy.

We need to embrace what you modeled for us, that even as you

yearned for us to come back, you begin to shout over us, give

them back. And this is the word becoming flesh. Jesus was this word

Isaiah forty two, twenty two. Jesus was this word becoming flesh and demanding

that Satan would give back the nations. And the result is he won a

great victory, and he comes from the cross declaring, all authority has been

given me over the nations. Now go to all the nations and make disciples

of all the nations. So he won a victory. But the fullness of

the dominion that he foresees to banish darkness. You've empowered us to work that

out, as we partner with him in dismissing darkness and commanding that the enemy

give it back all that's been stolen, all that's been stolen, Give it

back, all that's been stolen, Give it back. Last week I read

till you probably six thirty one. Yet if he is caught, he must

pay sevenfold, though it cost him all the month of his house. Be

sure you catch the right thief. It's not your neighbor. You won't get

sevenfold out of your neighbor. You won't get sevenfold out of your friend.

You won't get sevenfold out of the boogeyman. You won't. You will only

get sevenfold. See, there's a spiritual power orchestrating all evil against you,

and against me and against us. The spiritual power is what you confront.

You don't confront your neighbor and demand repayment, you won't get sevenfold that way.

You'll only get sevenfold if you confront the spiritual power working behind your neighbor

to bring forth the darkness that brought harm to you. If you want one

fold, confront your neighbor and create more animosity. But if you want sevenfold,

confront the darkness and say to the darkness, give it back. Some

of you, some of you've been around here for a while, so you've

heard some of our crazy stories. I've got a lot of crazy restoration stories.

But recently I heard another one of somebody that came through Restored Life.

So I thought, oh man, we need to hear somebody's story besides mine.

So I can't share their name with you, but I did get permission.

I reached out and got permission to share the story. I wish I

could share more, because you know, the more we shared these stories,

the more it's like it quickens our faith, right, and most of us

just haven't embraced or made application of this authoritative declaration though we've received a judgment

from the judge and we've even come into a level of freedom in our families

or our own lives because we've evicted something. We haven't seen the restoration come

because we haven't begun this declaration of give it back. So this is kind

of fun. Though she said that, she said, I believed that I

had authority to call back our family van that was stolen from the South Hill

Mull, So I blessed the thieves, and then I demanded that our van

be returned to us in Jesus name, and we were called within a few

hours and it was returned to us. Here's another one. I demanded that

my husband would be loosed and give back to me in Jesus name, after

living with ten years of deception, lies and covenant breaking. I also called

mentors into his life and that he would be free, and it happened as

I declared it. He's been set free, he has mentored mentors in his

life, and he's been given back to me and to my marriage. Here's

another one. I called leaders into my kids' lives when they were not seen

by their dad or their stepdad and have been fully abandoned. And God,

provided he was faithful. Leaders came into their lives to take the place of

their fathers. And God has been faithful and he's restoring my children. Many

of you know, Mike crazy testimonies. You are family testimonies of motorbikes being

stolen and us commanding them to be returned. And our jet skis were stolen

from the front of our house and we commanded that they would be returned.

We needed him for summary camping so we didn't command that they would just be

returned. We commanded they would be returned by a particular date. I believe

it was August eighth. This is several years ago. This is the first

first year we had Lily, actually Lily the Lab of which we had many

testimonies about Lily the Lab. Somebody asked me one Sunday, do you have

bet our testimonies you could share than about your dog. I'm like, you

don't like dog testimony, that's help with you. Our jet skis that were

returned, and the Lord works in crazy ways, like right, but our

jet skis were restored to us that today we needed them, so we can

take them to summer camp for water activities the very day. Not only because

we made a demand that they would be given back, but they would be

given back by a particular day. They were given back by that day.

A stands point. He doesn't want so you're the prototype. You're the prototype

of heaven on earth, and the gospels meant to make you attractive German.

You're the prototype of heaven on earth. And Jesus said, even this is

the foremost, the foremost declaration of Jesus regarding prayer was pray this way,

our Father, who art in heaven, how would be thy name, Thy

kingdom Come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

On earth, where we're the prototype of heaven, we're the ones of whom

we literally our lives. Our lives are demonstrations of the goodness of God,

not only the demonstration of freedom. Oh you know, I've gotten free and

I had this bugging me. I have that bugging me. Used to be

addicted to pornography, or it used to be addicted to fear, or used

to be addicted to chocolate, bad food, hatred, selfish, ambition.

Hey, it's good to be free. It's good to be free. The

life of freedom is like no other. But there's a judgment that was woven

into that freedom that I'm guessing a lot of us haven't finished with. Because

the finale, the progression of a judgment is restoration, and restoration comes Not

only is you partner with Holy Spirit through the dismissal of the enemy, but

you partner with the Holy Spirit in authority over the thief and command the thief

gives back what was taken sevenfold sevenfold, sevenfold sevenfold. And I think this

is a word for a bunch of us this morning. You're going to put

this to the test and then never the word. Andrew brought a word.

Where's Andrew? Andrew brought a word Friday night? If you're wondering, we

had a team up from Buffalo Friday night for a worship night and a download

of Heaven. And Andrew brought a word though Friday night, prophetic word.

I believe it was good. I recorded it. By the way. Part

of it was that he saw us embracing ninety days of communion. And I

know we've turned Joe and Sandy loose, and we've got their communion book and

we've been talking about a communion revival in the sad and I know Joe and

Sandy talked to all of us about in communion for thirty days. And you're

thinking, yeah, I kind of did that. But I believe God's in

this thing. And Andrews saw us as a body just taking the cup and

the bread daily over the next ninety days, and he saw something's going to

happen, something's going to shift, and it begins to shift on a micro

level before it shifts on a macro level, and we're the sum total corporately

of the work of the micro as it grows and it leavens, be it

the whole body, or the whole community, or the whole region. So

I just want to encourage you, and I want to tie that word with

this word today, that you not only embrace expelling darkness, but you embrace

the shout of give it back. And then we go into a ninety day

season. We go into a ninety day season where we begin to do damage

to the enemy and we begin we begin to plunder the enemy like he's never

been plundered. And it's not just give it back. It's not just stuff,

but it's give and it's not just the earth. Give it back the

earth, because it belongs to us who are in the second atom. The

earth was given to the first atom. It was lost and restored to the

second atom. But it's also give them back, give them back those in

our family, those in our community, those in our relationships, those lost

and plundered and spoiled by the enemy. So Father, we just embrace all

of this this morning. We say yes to the cup and to the bread.

We say yes to the assignment, we say yes to the increase of

heaven. We say yes to the overflow of your grace through us, and

we rejoice in advance over all that's going to be restored. We thank you

for it in Jesus's name. And everybody said, God, bless you this

morning. Church. We love you. We'll see you again soon. Let

Him reign through you. Let's worship as we go.