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The Big Mystery

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  1. There. It is good morning church. I stand madden of the word.

  2. Um. Yeah, we are in the Church of a million announcement two of

  3. the means, and that means we're the Church of a million activities here and

  4. woke up in the mornings and were happened to my house. We went up

  5. in the morning. My wife, who has a million active niece, says,

  6. what are you doing today? How do you? I say, oh,

  7. at it after your house? You I had it there and she says,

  8. what can I give you an idea or two? You're the bride Christ

  9. here, you come to the house, We're giving you an idea or two?

  10. Right, So, so much going on? Somebody good to um?

  11. Yeah, tonight it is after shop um and so a little bit of a

  12. Vania was in the world. The training and then we go out and teams.

  13. If you're not so confident, just come five o'clock. Feel's going to

  14. lead the team out tonight. And if you need a little bit of confidence,

  15. he'll carry up with somebody that has more and it'll be fun. Amen.

  16. And this week you're ready for more. This is nine eighty two on

  17. the announcement scale. This week we got our wet Land set back rageria finished

  18. off, and so it was sitting it to me. This week we go

  19. to the city and that means that this hurdle will be out of the way,

  20. so we can move forward with the building. So we're believing on Wednesday

  21. that we'll have a good favor, they won't want to argue what we present,

  22. and then we can move forward. And I think we got to start

  23. planning for the balcony, so not only finishing the upstairs and expanding the fourrier

  24. and the back, and then I think we got to start working on the

  25. balcony. Amen. So good things, Holy Spirit, We just thank you

  26. for your amazing grace, thank you for your favor, thank you for the

  27. outpouring of supernatural endowment and empowerment. Because we've positioned ourselves to trust in Jesus,

  28. rely on him, believe in him, run after him with all of

  29. our hearts. We welcome you to flood our hearts now this morning with a

  30. wisdom and insight, understanding and enthusiasm into astism. Come come and animate us

  31. with fresh power and Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen, you may be

  32. seated, believe or an author's warm. I'm leaving things on the table you're

  33. wondering what more. I can't tell you. We were hid nine hundred and

  34. eighty two announcements, but I do want to talk to you about partnering with

  35. God and kind of what this season looks like. And when I say this

  36. season this morning, I'm talking about the macro season from the first coming of

  37. the Lord until the last coming of the Lord. So that's kind of what

  38. my mind is on this morning. And it's because I feel like the Holy

  39. Spirit wants to keep firing us up, keep encouraging us, keep stirring us

  40. up. And it's so important that we don't grow weary and well doing is

  41. so important that we continue to run. It's so important that we see how

  42. what our role is and how important our role is. And so for some

  43. of you that have been around me for a while, this will be like

  44. you'll have heard some of this before, and so it'll be a good refreshment,

  45. all right. So when we talk about the macro, kind of the

  46. macro that's a little different than the microme the microcosm. And I like to

  47. think sometimes of the microcosm theologically as the microcosm like me, And so the

  48. microcosm of what God is doing is a little bit different than the macrocosm,

  49. but we fit into the macrocosm of what God is doing. And during COVID

  50. we talked quite a bit about what we felt like God was saying and what

  51. God was doing and what God's answer was for COVID, and we believed as

  52. well as well with the world and with the the World Economic Forum and this

  53. group and that group, that it's a global reset. We believe for that

  54. it's a global reset. However, what we see as a global reset is

  55. totally different than what they see, so they see it as a global reset

  56. that actually empowers darkness on the planet. We see it as a global reset

  57. that empowers the Kingdom of God on the planet. And actually that did happen.

  58. You know what did happen? There was kind of an interesting reset in

  59. that the churches that are bold and courageous grew and the churches that were wimpy

  60. shrunk or closed. Did you know that that's kind of a good thing.

  61. I don't know, that's okay. I think that's kind of interesting. But

  62. thinking about this globally, I mean thinking about the kind of the macro,

  63. the macro time, the macro season, what we see is that the Kingdom

  64. of God began with the first Advent of Jesus. So we're not waiting for

  65. the Kingdom of God to start, or the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom

  66. of heaven and on earth. That kingdom actually started with his first advent.

  67. We're not waiting forward to start after the Second Coming or what we would call

  68. the Rapture or the second Coming. It actually started here when he first came.

  69. It's just a growing kingdom. And just because we don't see Heaven on

  70. earth, or because we don't see what we would perceive to be aspects of

  71. a growing kingdom, doesn't mean it isn't growing, and doesn't mean that the

  72. kingdom didn't start. And remember, everything that we believe has to be based

  73. on scripture, not based on experience or what we see. We don't even

  74. walk by what we see. We transfer what we see and what is seen,

  75. so that what is seen becomes what we see. And so going to

  76. scripture and just thinking on that from a scriptural context. Matthew twenty eight.

  77. I'm sorry, Matthew sixteen twenty eight. Truly, I say to you,

  78. there are some of you who are standing here who shall not taste death until

  79. they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. And that's a parallel

  80. to something out of Daniel chapter fact is, it's almost a direct quote out

  81. of Daniel chapter two, Daniel chapter seven. So Jesus was saying that you're

  82. going to see the son of the Son of Man coming into his kingdom,

  83. in other words, ascending into his place of his throne and the beginning of

  84. the kingdom. When he was doing some deliverance ministry. You remember that in

  85. Matthew twelve he was delivering somebody, setting them free, and they accused him

  86. of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and he said, no,

  87. no, no, no, that's foolish. House divided, can't stand.

  88. But then he had some of their commentary on that, and one of

  89. them was he said, if I cast out demons by the spirit of God,

  90. then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. And we could give

  91. you, you know, ten other scriptures. I don't know what your schooling

  92. has been. We're all coming from different theological backgrounds. We want to persuade

  93. you that ours is the best. It's not the only, but it's but

  94. it's fairly good. Uh. And so you could have laughed right there.

  95. That would have been okay, because I'm about as infallible as a snail.

  96. But I mean, it's it's okay. We can we can. We can

  97. laugh at one another and take another one another a little later later. But

  98. there are, you know, many verses that talk about how that the kingdom

  99. began then and so that was the beginning of something great in God. But

  100. the kind of the thrust of this whole kingdom, uh is not on a

  101. macro scale, it's not so much about restoration, but that is the goal

  102. of God. Restoration is the goal of God. So essentially, Jesus is

  103. according to First Corinthians fifteen forty five. Everybody say three times fifteen forty five.

  104. So First Corinthians fifteen forty five, Jesus is the last atom. He's

  105. the second atom. He's the last atom. Jesus is the embodiment of God's

  106. solution to reclaim the earth and to restore the earth. Essentially, and this

  107. is part of what God is after. He's after the restoration of man first

  108. and then the restoration of the earth second. This is what he wants,

  109. this is what he desires. And on the macro viewpoint of all of this,

  110. we see that we're in a growing kingdom season, we're in a Satan

  111. being banished season, and the two of those can of correspond hand in hand.

  112. In other words, the more, and this is kind of interesting,

  113. it's not the more the kingdom grows that Satan will be banned. It's just

  114. more that Satan has banished that the kingdom will grow. Did you hear that?

  115. It's actually the more Satan is banished, the more the kingdom will grow.

  116. But then again, the more that the true kingdom grows, the more

  117. Satan will be banished, because the true sons and daughters of light will be

  118. about the business of banishing darkness. So the two go hand in hand,

  119. all right? Is that all right? So let's go to First Contends fifteen

  120. twenty four because because what I want you to see, let's not go there

  121. yet. Yeah, because they'll read it and get distracted. That means kill

  122. it. What I want you to see is that actually this crazy period from

  123. the first Advent until his last Advent is actually a period of global deliverance,

  124. like this is an exorcism, like there's never been and so, and I'll

  125. prove it to you in a minute. But I want you to see,

  126. like when we think on the macro scale, when we think about the macro

  127. development of man in Christ, and we think about us individually in Christ,

  128. we understand deliverance is a part of our transformation into the fullness of sonship and

  129. the maturity of Christ. So we understand deliverance is important. Every one of

  130. us need deliverance. So the act, the working out of the Cross,

  131. is to set us free from darkness and to give us the authority in the

  132. power to dismiss unclean influences out of us that have harmed us in our preconversion

  133. life. And what I want you to see that as much as we have

  134. familiarity here at the horizon about that, I want you to see that actually

  135. that's the picture of the global the global macro a work of God from the

  136. first Coming to the last coming. As well, is that we're actually more

  137. than a period of restoration, because the period of restoration is coming. More

  138. than a period of restoration, we're first in a period of reclaiming. We

  139. have to reclaim what's been lost and and what's happening. To reclaim, we

  140. have to expel or dismiss or drive out the unclean, okay with me?

  141. So First Corinthians fifteen twenty four, we can go there now. Then the

  142. end will come. Now First Corinthians fifteen. Is this passage about life and

  143. death, victory over death. It's about transformation, is about the last trumpet.

  144. It's about us being transformed in the twinkling of an eye, and it's

  145. it's it's about the last day. And how many of you have some familiarity

  146. of what I'm saying. Head's naughty everywhere, happy people beautiful. So in

  147. the midst of that, he says this, then the end will come.

  148. I say end. Then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom

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

  150. power. Then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom to the

  151. Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power. For

  152. he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under his feet.

  153. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Now the last enemy is actually

  154. destroyed on the last day, and the last day happens at the last trumpet,

  155. which corresponds with the Hebrew day on the calendar. But I want you

  156. to see this, that the end doesn't come until the last, until all

  157. of the enemies. So this is kind of interesting. So so if we

  158. were to look on a timeline at what's going to happen in the future,

  159. of what's happening now, when what's going to happen in the future, and

  160. it's it's interesting too. God will use very creative things, even like cinematography

  161. and the stirring up and the arousing of righteous motives within those who are rescuing

  162. children, who then tell their story, who then go to producers who then

  163. bring it to the cinema because it's not happening realms of authorities, so we

  164. expose it to the people, so the people begin to become animated to see

  165. evil put out. And so I'm talking about like the movie that some of

  166. us have been watching here recently. Are you hearing me today? Are you

  167. with me? And so this is what we have to see is that on

  168. a macro, on a macro timeline, from the beginning until his coming,

  169. the most important thing along that whole timeline is overcoming darkness, overcoming the enemy,

  170. overcoming Satan, overcoming every lie, dismissing, smashing, demolishing, expelling

  171. the powers, and the influence of every lie and all darkness of the planet.

  172. Banishing Satan off of the planet is essentially the theme all the way from

  173. the first advent to the last. Then the end will come when he hands

  174. over the kingdom to the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority,

  175. and power, for he must reign until he's put all of his enemies

  176. under his feet, and the last enemies. So think about I just want

  177. you to think for those of us that are going to be living until that

  178. day, which that day's ahead of us, and I want to live a

  179. long time. How many of you want to live a long time? I

  180. want to live a long time just to entertain the idea that potentially I could

  181. be there toward the end of that. But I don't know. I mean,

  182. we got some work to do, but the Lord can do it really

  183. fast too. But what I want you to see, and what he wants

  184. you to see, is that he's reigning. And Romans five seventeen says we

  185. reign with him, we co reign with him. Romans eight says we're co

  186. ers with him, that we're more than conqueror, that he even causes bad

  187. things to produce good if we love him and are called according to his purpose.

  188. And so there's so much there's so many working things happening, so many

  189. amazing, exciting things happening. And I want to go to Ephesians three even

  190. just for fun because what you have to see and part of what I want

  191. to share with you today it's so important is that we are critical to this,

  192. like we are key right because he's actually not here in person putting all

  193. power and authority and dominion underneath his seat. He's not here in person doing

  194. that, he's here in us doing that. He's here in us doing that.

  195. Right. If I could get an amen, i'd get really excited.

  196. But I mean, I don't know. Maybe you don't agree, but I

  197. mean that's part of why we're doing this is we're trying to convince you to

  198. agree. Because until the church agree with what God's up to, this whole

  199. macro thing is kind of like held up. Everything is held up until we

  200. start to agree with God, because if we disagree with God, then we're

  201. like the husband and the bride, like fighting you ever fought any married people

  202. ever fought? I was reflecting this morning. I know it's funny, but

  203. I was like in the bathroom. We have dual sins and we have our

  204. little countertop there. And I don't know why, but my main mine started

  205. thinking about how cool it is that Joel likes uh the um um um baking

  206. soda toothpaste that I like. Does anybody use armand hammer baking soda toothpaste in

  207. the building? Anybody? One? Two? I see that hand? Three,

  208. thank you Jesus. Anybody else? Four? Five? Good? Six?

  209. I didn't know what you'll use, but Joanna, try this stuff.

  210. It's really good. So but I but I was reflecting on this, this

  211. idea. I was just reflecting on how weird is it that that I liked

  212. that toothpaste. I mean, it's nice if you use the same toothpaste.

  213. I mean, I know you can buy two different ones, and we have

  214. two different ones anyway, but but I mean, it's just kind of nice.

  215. You don't have to shop for two things. I don't need awkward fresh

  216. and crest. I mean, I just went right. I was just reflecting

  217. on how cool it is that we like the same toothpaste. I don't know

  218. why that that hit my mind this morning. That's a weird thought, but

  219. just taking it into the whole mindset of unity. How cool is it that

  220. the bride comes into agreement with the groom, that the assignment of the bride,

  221. the mindset of the bride, the thinking of the bride, the desires

  222. of the bride, the vision of the bride, that the insights of the

  223. bride, that all of it lines up totally with the groom. That we

  224. come into complete agreement with the groom. That's what we're supposed to do.

  225. We're supposed to come into complete agreement with the groom and the assignment on the

  226. groom Ephesians three eight. To me, the very least of the saints,

  227. this grace was given to preach to the gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

  228. and to enlighten all people as to what the plan we're talking about, the

  229. plan, and Paul made clear the plan. Paul was unfolding the plan.

  230. Paul was writing about the plan, the very plan that we're talking about today,

  231. the plan of the mystery, which is which for ages has been hidden

  232. in God, who created all things. This plan was hidden. It was

  233. a mystery. It was hidden so that the multifasted wisdom of God might now

  234. be made known through the Church, through the Who, through the Church,

  235. the plan, the plan of dominion, the plan of subduing every authority and

  236. every ruler. And we're talking about darkness. We're talking about demonic, satanic

  237. plans and darkness. And his claim on the earth, his claim on the

  238. earth because of him usurping Adam's authority, deceiving Adam and Eve and usurping their

  239. authority, his claim on the earth a wrongful claim. And now God has

  240. woven together a plan that was hidden with mystery. He's now revealed it,

  241. and he's now called and empowered and redeemed a bride a church. And this

  242. word is ecclesia one hundred and fifteen times in the New Testament. It's ecclesia.

  243. It's us. It's God's called out, it's God's set apart, it's

  244. God's ruling body in the earth. And now that plan has been real and

  245. it says that plan might now be made known through the Church to the rulers

  246. and authorities in heavenly places, spiritual powers, spiritual it's going to be made

  247. known through. How's it going to be made known through? Because we're the

  248. ones called to overcome darkness, were the ones called to walk out what he

  249. overcame were the ones called to see to it that what He did is manifested

  250. and fleshed out. In prayer and in prophecy, and in works, and

  251. in ministry, and in love and in good deeds. In every way we

  252. flesh out his victory over darkness. In every way we flesh out His victory

  253. over darkness. And this is this is why, by the way, this

  254. is, this is why it's so important that we do what we do.

  255. What would the world be without the Church? What would the world be without

  256. the ecclesia? What would the world be? I don't mean a church.

  257. What would the world be without the Church, the global body of Christ,

  258. out of the Catholic Church, and out of the Pentecostal Church, and out

  259. of the Baptist Church and the Evangelical Church, the nondoms. What would the

  260. world be like without the Church? The expression of the Church, the prayers

  261. of the saints, the sacrifice of the saints, the love of the saints,

  262. the ministry of the saints, the prophetic utterance of the saints, the

  263. agreement with God. Even when we disagree on certain things, we have disagreements

  264. with God. Theologically, I know we do. I grew up having disagreements

  265. with what God was doing theologically, but I had a lot of agreements still,

  266. right, every believer has a lot of agreements with God as well.

  267. And what would the world be without the global Church, without the ministry of

  268. the church. The church, what we do is so essential. We are

  269. the partner with Holy Spirit in the plan of God to banish Satan off of

  270. the planet. And the end will not come until that job is done.

  271. The end is not coming until that is done. This is why he says

  272. in Matthew sixteen nineteen. You know these verses. I give you the keys

  273. to the Kingdom of Heaven. I give you the keys of Heaven's kingdom.

  274. This is the passion translation. I love this to forbid on earth what is

  275. forbidden in Heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.

  276. This is even John twenty, verse twenty. And when he had said

  277. this, he showed them both his hands in his side, and the disciples

  278. then rejoice when they saw the Lord, and Jesus said to them again,

  279. peace be to you, just as the Father sent me. I also send

  280. you, just as just as the Father sent me. Jesus came to judge

  281. the works of Satan Jesus came to pronounce judgment on the works of Satan.

  282. Jesus came redemptively to pay the price for the sin we committed, which was

  283. the price of death. He came to do that on our behalf, and

  284. he came to qualify us for the goodness of God by presenting himself before the

  285. Father on our behalf in his righteousness. So we hide ourselves in his righteousness,

  286. because this was Satan's way. That he held us was through sin,

  287. through messing up. That's how Satan held us. Right, let's go over

  288. to Clausians two thirteen. I want you to see this little picture. I

  289. know I'm almost out of time, but I want you to see this picture.

  290. I talked about it once before, but it's worth it's worth repeating because

  291. it's got so much relevance to it. During COVID, we had some squatters

  292. stay in our house and they wouldn't move out. They wouldn't pay rent because

  293. they didn't have to. Because of dear brother Ensley, keep him in your

  294. prayers, you that are watching online, god Less, dear brother Ensley would

  295. not allow us to evict people who would not pay their rent, and they

  296. didn't need to pay their rent because dear Brother Ensley told them they didn't need

  297. to, and so, becoming aware of their liberty, they abused the Wolf

  298. family and didn't pay rent for many months, and so we were owed many

  299. thousands of dollars, but we could do nothing about it. And so in

  300. addition, they brought in drug users and drug dealers and drug sellers, and

  301. they brought in recked automobiles, and they filled our parking lot with rect automobiles

  302. and a boat out in the yard, and the boat was filled with garbage.

  303. And so all of this is going on and there was nothing we could

  304. do about it until you know, COVID was over. Finally the moratorium was

  305. lifted, and so Brother Dwayne was not happy with Brother Ensley. God bless

  306. him, and so Brother Dwayne consulted his attorney, and we needed to get

  307. a judgment against the dear family that was there, of whom we were with

  308. until midnight, you until one in the morning one night, removing and praying

  309. over them and blessing them. So but nonetheless, what happened during that period,

  310. I want you to see that the courts of Heaven are from where we

  311. have received our understanding of court as well, and that the earthly courts operate

  312. much like the heavenly courts. And so this is so when we think about

  313. what Jesus did and we think about what was getting accomplished, there's very much

  314. a picture of what we would see in an earthly court, because our earthly

  315. courts are fashioned after this heavenly court. And so Jesus was a judgment pronounced

  316. on Satan. Jesus came as a judgment pronounced on Satan to judge his works

  317. and to destroy his works, and then further to plunder his house, which

  318. means to get back what was stolen. Right, and even Proverbs, even

  319. Proverbs six thirty and thirty one is a it's it's messianic in some ways.

  320. Proverbs thirty six, Proverb six thirty to thirty one has a messianic aspect that

  321. the thief, when he is caught, must repay sevenfold even to the emptying

  322. of his house. This is what this is what Jesus is after Satan has

  323. been caught, and he will pay sevenfold even to the destruction or the emptying

  324. of his house. And so this is there's there's, you know, just

  325. some great things that we see in that. And so this is part of

  326. what I want us to see all the way through this is that Jesus was

  327. Jesus was the judgment on Satan, and Satan was judged in Jesus, let

  328. me read you a verse or two like John twelve thirty. In response,

  329. Jesus said, this voice was not for my benefit, but for yours.

  330. Now judgment is upon this world. Now the prince of this world will be

  331. driven out, the prince of this world. So this is the beginning of

  332. the global deliverance. The beginning of the global deliverance is somebody had to come

  333. and appeal to the court of heaven and get a judgment against Satan, who

  334. had usurped Adam's authority and brought destruction to mankind and to the earth. Jesus

  335. is that one, and that was to begin this global deliverance. But he

  336. will reign and his kingdom will increase until such time until the end. Until

  337. such time he through his braid and the empowering of the Holy Spirit, have

  338. destroyed all principalities, authorities, dominions and power you with me. Okay,

  339. So what I want I want you to see that picture, though a little

  340. bit, is that this is you know, this is part of what was

  341. happening. And then what happened is that when he made us right before God,

  342. he empowered us to walk in the victory that he wrought on behalf of

  343. mankind. Right. So this is a this is a greater picture, the

  344. greater picture. You're not saved just to be blessed, though blessings come.

  345. You're not saved just to be forgiven, though you walk in abide and rejoice

  346. and forgiveness. You're not saved just to get to heaven. Though heaven is

  347. fairly important. Most of us would like to go to some kind of a

  348. place like that with a harp and a cloud when we pass away. That's

  349. good. But we actually are the partners of Jesus. We are the spouse,

  350. the bride, the partners of Jesus for his global deliverance, for his

  351. overcoming all the darkness that has been set against mankind until all of it is

  352. destroyed. And you're a partner in that. So every prayer you pray,

  353. all your agreement is so important, it's so vital. And so this is

  354. why we have a prayer room. This is why we have church, that

  355. is why we have worshiped is why we have the word. This is why

  356. we have nineteen small groups. This is why we get together. This is

  357. why we provoke one another, we build up one another, we strengthen the

  358. other. This is why we love one another. This is why this is

  359. why we pray for one another, prophecy over one another. All of this

  360. is because it's too easy to get weary. It's too easy to get derailed,

  361. is too easy to get sidetracked, it's too easy to get distracted,

  362. is too easy to get overwhelmed. And then if the body of Christ gets

  363. distracted, right, so I set up I set up my sheriff'spot. I

  364. call the sheriff, And so what happens is, first you get a judgment,

  365. and the judgment is, yes these people are trespassing, Yes they owe

  366. you this much money, and yes they have to repay you. So first

  367. you get a judgment. But then you call the sheriff, within whom is

  368. embodied all the power of the state of Washington in your particular accounty. So

  369. you call the sheriff, and you set up an appointment for the sheriff to

  370. meet you out at your house. And so the sheriff comes out to the

  371. house and it's in the power and the authority of the sheriff, who has

  372. the writ of the judgment, who now evicts the people that are in your

  373. house, who owe you fifteen thousand dollars? Right? Are you with me?

  374. So far? And so I call the sheriff and the sheriff doesn't come.

  375. That's kind of interesting right there. The sheriff doesn't come. The sheriff's

  376. not going to come. By the way, it's a whole another sermon.

  377. You've many of you have heard me preach on that stuff before. The sheriff's

  378. not going to come. Jesus is Jesus is the sheriff. He's not going

  379. to come. But he has appointed deputies. And so the sheriff gets the

  380. call. The sheriff makes the appointment, but the deputy, he sends a

  381. deputy. It's the deputy. He's going to meet me out there. The

  382. deputy is the problem solver. Just look at somebody and say, that's you.

  383. Yep, yep. You and I are deputized in Jesus. We're the

  384. ones deputized to overcome darkness. He said, when the seventy two, when

  385. the disciples came back, he said, he said, yes, I give

  386. you power over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.

  387. This is us, He's we are the ones deputized about I call the sheriff,

  388. but the sheriff that he sends a deputy. And the deputy is on

  389. his way. And as he's driving to meet me at the house for a

  390. two clock appointment, he suddenly drives by Duncan do Nuts and he whips in

  391. there for a donut, and I'm looking at my clock and I'm like,

  392. where in the world is the deputy. It's not a true story. I

  393. mean that went up, But I think this happens a lot. This happens

  394. a lot in the kingdom. Is that we're the ones deputized to overcome darkness.

  395. We're the ones who are empowered to represent Jesus. We're the ones with

  396. the agreement of God in our mouth. We're the ones who pray, and

  397. a lot of prayer is agreement with God. By the way, this is

  398. the biggest thing, the biggest thing, the biggest, the biggest, the

  399. foremost, the most important thing to our participation in this global exorcism that's going

  400. to happen from the beginning until the end. The biggest participation is just coming

  401. into agreement with God. Now, what if you came into disagreement with God?

  402. Like, what if you said, what's the name of that movie?

  403. Now, what if you said, oh, Sound of Freedom? Oh my

  404. word, what is that all about? That's so stupid? Well, yeah,

  405. but there's you know, children being harmed, and and there's this all

  406. of this evil going on. Well it's going on because evil is increasing.

  407. Don't you know that there's nothing we can do about it. I don't see.

  408. I wouldn't even want to support a movie like that, let alone get

  409. all stirred up and angry or upset or prayerful about that. If evil's increasing,

  410. it's because God wants evil to increase. There's nothing for us to worry

  411. about. God will take care of it when he wants to take care of

  412. it. How do my view that? Just took a knife and twisted it

  413. sideways in your chest. But as you know, we do that all the

  414. time with stuff. We disagree with the growing kingdom all the time, we

  415. disagree with the growing demonstration of deliverance. All the time we disagree. We

  416. allow ourselves to think and believe all sorts of things that are contrary to the

  417. growing empowerment of the Christ and his kingdom. And sometimes it's not just that

  418. we failed to agree with his growing dominion, but we actually get worried about

  419. what we see is growing evil. We get worried about it, we get

  420. frustrated about it, we get fearful about it, we get we got all

  421. stirred up about it, when the most important thing is just we just agree.

  422. Agree with the word agree with God. Father, I thank you right

  423. now that you're exposing darkness through the Sound of Freedom. You're using this film

  424. to expose things that have been hidden. Father, I thank you that you

  425. are using it to put even the enemies of Jesus, the enemies of righteousness,

  426. the enemies of Adam's children, the feet of the Christ. Father.

  427. I thank you that you're doing it, that you're working out the dominion of

  428. Jesus, and that you are actually plundering hell right now. You're actually using

  429. this film to illuminate things that will actually put to flight the powers of darkness

  430. that have been using evil men, and even those evil men and consortiums and

  431. people, that they too will be alerted, confronted, that they will be

  432. convicted, that they will turn We announce mercy over them in advance, even

  433. as Holy Spirit is convicting them of judgment. You see how that worked.

  434. I just turned a sermon into a prayer, and the prayer into a sermon.

  435. But I want you to see that this is how we get into agreement

  436. with God. The most important thing for God to bring this thing to fulfillment

  437. is that we come into agreement with him. The word confess means say the

  438. same thing that God is saying. It comes from two words Homo logos.

  439. Say the same thing that God is saying. Don't say your thing. Don't

  440. say a different thing. Don't say the Catechism thing, or the Sunday School

  441. thing, or the Baptist thing, the Assembly of God thing, the Fourth

  442. Square thing, the Pentecostal thing, or the Catholic thing. Don't say that

  443. thing if it disagrees with God. Say what God says, Say what the

  444. Word of God says. Say with the mind of God says, Say what

  445. God wants to do. Come into agreement with that in your prayer. And

  446. now all at once, you've become this bride who's sharing making so the toothpaste.

  447. You're sharing the passion and desire of your groom. You're sharing an expression

  448. of your groom. You're coming into agreement with your groom, instead of your

  449. groom doing one thing and you doing something else. Let's stand, Oh,

  450. Holy Spirit, we thank you for what you're doing. Let's just pray for

  451. a moment. I'm gonna ask the prayer team to come and just ready themselves.

  452. If you're watching online, We're so glad that you've been with us.

  453. God has victory for you. What's crazy about? What's crazy about? Where

  454. the majority of the focus, the macro focus from the first Advent to the

  455. last Advent, the majority of the focus is on global deliverance. It's on

  456. deliverance. It's on dominion of a darkness on a macro, on a church

  457. scale, it's about freedom and restoration. Because he's called us the people of

  458. the Promised Land. He's called us the people of Ghosten. He's called us

  459. the people of Eden. He's called us into restoration. We are actually the

  460. four runners of the restoration that's to come. We are called to embrace deliverance

  461. in a microcosm, and as we taste of deliverance in a microcoism, begin

  462. to enter into restoration as well, so that we are the forerunners of what

  463. God intends to do in the entire globe when the Christ comes back. And

  464. maybe that's a word of encouragement you need to hear this morning, Holy Spirit,

  465. we just welcome you. We welcome your fuel right now, fuel on

  466. our prayers, fuel on our devotion, fuel on our yieldedness. Grace,

  467. grace, grace, grace on the new creation life within. Holy Spirit,

  468. we welcome you, We welcome you, We welcome your reward on us.

  469. The Church is actually walking in the restoration of Israel in advance. It's it's

  470. where this anomaly we're called out to be this special people who walk in communion

  471. and intimacy with our God and who demonstrate here's goodness, so that Israel will

  472. come back in So you're actually destined for goodness. But never forget in the

  473. pathway of the of the microcosm of your goodness and the goodness of God on

  474. you. Don't forget that you are the deputy of Jesus for global deliverance.

  475. Thank you, Lauren. We just put your hands up this morning and just

  476. receive grace right now. Just come into agreement, Come into agreement that the

  477. power of the Spirit, the life of the Spirit. The encouragement of the

  478. Spirit is rekindled within you, that you embrace this plan that was once a

  479. mystery that's now unfolded, to embrace your place as the bride of Christ,

  480. the overcoming Army. The Ecclesia of the called out fully Spirit, we embrace

  481. what you're doing. We say yes to what you're doing, and we position

  482. ourselves to be fully fully one with you, fully used of you. Thank

  483. you for it. As we close this morning, you have a need just

  484. come forward. We're going to close with the worship, and I just want

  485. you to allow the Holy Spirit to touch you further. If there's something on

  486. your heart, if you came needing a touch from the Lord, or healing

  487. or any special, anything special from the Lord, a word from him,

  488. encouragement direction. Maybe you're here giving your life back to the Lord. Maybe

  489. you're watching online. This is your day to come back to the Lord.

  490. I just want to encourage you to come and be prayed with, be encouraged.

  491. Don't run out in a rush and miss what God has for you.

  492. Holy Spirit, We welcome your abiding presence Jesus name, and then