Qualified to Receive

All right, all right, as sin jump into the word. This morning,

light have been church. Yeah, Holy Spirit is so good to us.

Simon, Father, we just thank you for your presence, thank you

for your ministry. This morning. We welcome your word to open up our

hearts. We welcome you to shift and change and transform us by the word.

We want to be good receivers today, Holy Spirit, we welcome,

we welcome just the spirit of receiving and the gift of faith in the atmosphere

this morning. We thank you for it in Jesus name. Everybody said,

Amen, you may be seated. Hannuia han, thenuia, Well you got

me back. Um, so I think I would out for four weeks something

like that. So I almost forgot how to do this first service, I

felt I had butterflies, so I made them fly in formation and uh so

here we are. But um, I want to dive in. You know,

I thought we weren't going to have a series, like a preaching series.

But I asked Joe Sims to preach next week. How maybe you enjoy

Joe's preaching. He's Jose preaching, He's drink. So after first service,

he said, hey, we actually will have a series you had the first

to kick off the series. So I want to talk about receiving today,

and the name of his sermon next week is received it all. So the

Lord, the Lord is good. The Lord is good. Amen. So

I want to talk about receiving as an act of faith, receiving as an

act of faith, and how how receiving u fits into the structure of faith,

the structure of prayer, and how important receiving is because I think that

we could use a greater dose of receiving. And you know by that,

I mean, you know, even when you know, some of us are

older in the Lord, and some of us are newer than the Lord.

Right, So some of us have just come to the Lord recently. Some

of us have been serving the Lord for years and years. But essentially,

what you know, what's happening when when you come to the Lord, even

when you come to the Lord, but subsequently to coming to the Lord,

the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in your spirit. And the Holy Spirit is

taking the word of God, of which mine is on this device today.

How many of you have your device? So the Holy Spirit is taking the

word of God and making the Word of God alive. Right, So that's

essentially what's happen because you can study the Bible historically and receive no revelation aside

from the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that brings the revelation that opens

up our eyes of understanding. So you know, like I don't think we

have it loaded, but Tom, we could go to Romans ten seventeen.

Romans ten seventeen says faith cometh by hearing. That's kind of King James.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing. It's not just hearing alone, but hearing

the actual act of hearing in your gut, hearing in your spirit. It

comes by the rama. The word word there is the word rama. It

means the spoken word of Christ. It means the Holy Spirit speaks to.

So if we can see what that word. There's two words in the Greek

for the word word right, one is logos and one is rama. Logos

is written, historical, Rama is living spoken. So faith cometh by hearing,

but not just hearing like your professor in a history class read a scripture,

or somebody just giving you a history oracle background on the scripture, or

even you reading the scripture devotionally. When you read the scripture devotionally, you're

opening up the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to invade your devotions and to bring

a Raymond. If you don't have devotions, if you don't read the Word,

you're not giving the Holy Spirit an opportunity to invade the logos and bring

a Raymond. And the logos is not it's not connected to revelation. The

Holy Spirit connects to the logos to bring revelation, and that's when the logos

becomes rama to you. You know what I'm saying. How many of you've

read a scripture ten times and then on the eleventh time suddenly something clicked.

Or you've heard somebody preach something like fifteen times, but on the sixteenth times

something clicked, right, So this is the logos becoming rama to you.

So, but that whole thing, it's the gift of God, and it's

the Word coming and the Word with it's touched on by the Holy Spirit,

gives you the potential to have faith. You can't have faith on your own.

So it's like godward faith is a gift from God because of the Word

of God coming alive by the Holy Spirit with revelation to your inner men,

and that gives you the potential for faith right, But the potential for faith

doesn't mean that you'll respond to the Word in a right way. Like when

somebody hands you a gift, the right response when somebody hands you a gift

is to receive the gift. And the Word of God is essentially a gift.

That's what the Word of God is. The Word of God is a

gift to your inner man to bring you into abundant life, to bring you

into courage, to bring you into wholeness, to bring you into to royalty,

the royalty that you are in Christ. The Word of God is a

gift to you. But the Word of God comes in seed form Luke eight

eleven, first Peter one twenty one through twenty three. The Word of God

is seed. It is imperishable seed. So the Word of God is sown

in your heart. The Word of God is seed. It comes in seed

form. And so you know, seeds have to have something happen. And

it's a similar expression like when somebody hands you a gift, you have to

receive the gift. Well, the seed is kind of like that, when

the Holy Spirit makes it a posit of the Word in you by revelation,

giving you the potential for faith. You have to receive that word. That's

what germinates the word. If the word isn't germinated, then it won't grow

up and produce the life it was meant to produce. Even though God gave

it to you. God showed you it's his will. God showed you what

he wants to bring the past. Even if it was prophetically spoken over you

by ten Destiny team members, doesn't matter. If you don't receive it,

then you haven't germinated it. By partnering your reaction or action to the gift

of revelation in Jesus a making sense so that you're receiving that activates it.

So and you know, there's various ways we receive gifts, right, gratitude,

that's amazing, Thank you so much. I'm going to use that immediately.

That's so cool. Wow, I'm glad you thought of me. And

usually those are like acceptable levels of gifts. Usually, if the gift is

it's given in an acceptable level as we understand the relationship of the gift giver.

Usually it's easy for us to receive the gift and to be grateful for

the gift. But if the gift is too extravagant, it's hard for us

to receive it. The more the extravagant of the gift, the harder it

is for to receive it. What happens is the more extravagant the gift becomes,

the more we measure as we're receiving the gift. If we deserve the

gift, like I guess, they're out of circulation. But if you found

one, the Treasury Department still has to honor it. But we used to

have a thousand dollar bills. So if somebody walked up to you and gave

you a one thousand dollars bill and it wasn't a bonus, it wasn't something

you've earned. You didn't have a relationship with them wherein you could measure your

worth for the gift, you would probably push it away. No, no,

well, woa WHOA, what's going on? That's right for somebody else?

What's attached to that? And you would begin to push it off.

But what I want to show you in scripture this morning, is it blessing

after blessing after blessing has been poured out upon us with a past tense understanding

of fulfillment, and we tend to do the same thing. We tend to

push it off, and it's almost like we've got kind of this you know,

mental disorder. Right, It's like we petition for it, but push

it away because it just seems like it's too much. Right, it's kind

of thinking about the prodigal son. Holy Spirit brought that one to my mind,

the prodigal son. It's interesting how much legalism now. Mind you,

the law is good, the law is perfect, the law is holy.

But Jesus was the Torah and he still is a few weeks ago, when

I was up last to bat, we talked a little bit about Deuteronomy twenty

eight. All of these blessings coming upon you and overtake you if you hearken

fully to the to the Word. Well, the New Testament equivalent of that

is that it's not the Torah word, and that we hearken diligently to today.

He was the Torah. He's the fulfillment of the Torah. He's the

abiding Torah. He lives in you as the Torah. All of these blessings

come upon you Deuteronomy twenty eight as you hearken diligently to the living Word,

who abides in your spirit. Man right, and I think I told you

then. You know these the blessings named in Deuteronomy twenty eight, from verses

one to fourteen. Blessed in the country, blessed in the field, blessed

in your kitchen, blessed going out, blessed coming in. Those are blessings

that you don't have to pray about. And this is kind of where I

want to go today, is that I think that by religion I mean anything

like as we're involved in today Christianity, instead of in royalty, seeing ourselves

in judgment instead of redemption, seeing ourselves in worthlessness instead of seeing ourselves in

royalty now and spent his inheritance on wild living. But when he came back,

the crazy thing is it's a Luke fifteen. We won't go there by

the way time. But the crazy thing is when he came back, you

know, the father ran to greet him. The father puts the robe on

him, The father puts the royal sandals on him. There goes my LIGHTE.

How'd I do that? Wow? The father? The father puts the

signet ring on him. And remember remember the mindset of the prodical son was

the mindset of works. It was the mindset of works, and it's the

works that Jesus has done and accomplished on our behalf that we enter into.

But the mindset of the prodical son was works. And so he says,

if I just go back to my father's house, you know, at least

I can eat at Louis. But the father received him and restored him,

and the father threw a big party for him. But then the brother is

observing all of this. You remember the story, the brothers observing all of

us, and the brother says, and the brother had a big pity party,

and he was angry and he was upset, and the brother's free,

you can out to all of my life. And I didn't go off,

and I said, you know, I didn't spend my inheritance on you know,

crazy stuff, and you know, and so and then the follower's reply

is everything I have is yours. Everything I have has been yours all along.

And I think I think we have a little bit of work to do

in that same way as that we tend. We tend that subconsciously to only

be able to receive what we believe we deserve. But your receiving has nothing

to do with what you deserve. It has everything to do with what he

deserves. That's the good news. Did you know the gospel means good news.

It's supposed to mess up all the bad news. It's like supposed to

be really good news. But the enemy and accusation and your own failures and

your own stumbling. Does anybody stumble? Anybody in the building stumble? Couple

of you? Good? Does anybody sin? A few more? Okay?

Good? All right? Six sinners in the building, ras the lorn.

I feel better, I feel better. There's seven of us? Then should

have raised my hand. The enemy and our own prohibitory consciousness wants to disqualify

us from receiving the best from God, the goodness of God, the blessing

of God, on the basis of our own failures, our own faults,

our own shortcomings, and point those out to us. And this can be

a part of a religious system as well. And what the Word wants us

to see. The Word wants us to come into more of a posture of

receiving and the Holy Spirit. And this receiving is what germanates the Word.

The Word is a seed and the Holy Spirit wants to help us through this

right so that we're because as long as we're petitioning for things that we already

have been given, we're exercising a little bit of unbelief. As long as

we're petitioning for things that we already have been promised, we're exercising a little

bit of belief. And that little bit of unbelief keeps the seed of the

promise from germinating and fully developing. How much pooh should you allow in your

brownies? There you go? How much unbelief should you allow in your walk

before God or in the promises God has given you? Yevert hasn't come to

pass yet. Well, it's a progressive work, and the progressive work of

it coming to pass has a lot to do with the maturity of you,

and not the maturity of your perfection in perfect works, but the maturity of

your perfect faith. Believing that what He's done in the Christ on your behalf

is true, and that you are a new creation, that you are royal

blood, that you are fully redeemed, that you are justified, You are

one who is just as if you've never sinned. This is the mindset,

by the way, this was also the reaction of the debtor. The debtor

in Matthew eighteen twenty one through thirty five, where the gentleman owed the master

or the judge or the king, he owed ten million dollars. It was

the ten million dollars debt. And the mindset of the debtor was that just

be patient with me and I will work this off. Be patient with me,

and I will pay you back everything. And this is it's not just

a legalistic mindset, but it's it's the mindset that we were born with.

It's actually the carnal mind. The carnal mind understands work, the carnal mind

understands what we deserve. But in God, we have been qualified for what

He deserves, not what we deserve. And you know, in this way,

we try to shove things off. We try to you know, we'll

take on a valid poverty, we'll take on this, we'll take on that.

We'll try to push things back that we don't deserve. And yet at

the same time we recognize that we're needy. So then we rationalize that maybe

some of our needs are just not going to get met because we don't deserve

for them to be met. And so this is part of where you know,

petition gets really like you know, it gets deeper. We need deeper

petition maybe if I you know? And so this is am I making any

sense? Second Corinthians one twenty through twenty two. For no matter how many

promises that God has made, they are yes in Christ. I think the

King James says something like the promises of God or yes and amen to those

who are in Christ. Anybody in Christ in the building in Christ? Is

this in Christ? Is this phrase that Paul uses like a dozen times at

least in the epistles, recognizing that we are hidden in him, that our

lives are hidden in Him, that we are that we are completely dependent and

covered by Him in salvation, and so our lives are in Christ. And

he's he's saying that that the promises of God are yes. And a man,

so what we say is and this is what we declare right. So

now how many promises God has made, they are yes in Christ. And

so through him, the amen is spoken by us to the glory of God.

Now it is God who makes both us and U stand firm in Christ.

He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put

his spirit in our hearts as the deposit guaranteeing what is to come. So

this is this is interesting, and I know some of you have heard me

talk about this before, but but you know, Christ is the fulfillment of

every promise God ever made. Christ is the apex. He is the head

of the new creation and of redemption, and he is he is the last

atom. God invested everything into the first atom. He invested everything into the

last atom. He is the center piece of humanity. He is perfect in

every way. And what's crazy is that He has qualified us before God for

every promise to be fulfilled. And it's not every promise in the future,

it's every promise that's already been He's already qualified as for every promise. So

it's past tense everything in the promises of God because we live on this side

of the cross. We live on the completion side of the of the cross

and of the resurrection. Everything on this side of the cross, and the

His direction is in the past. Am I making any sense? For instance,

I'll give you an example, and I know you've heard it talked about

for s. Peter two twenty four, when Isaiah said what Peter quoted,

and for Peter two twenty four, he himself bore our sins in his body

on the cross, that we might die to sins and live for righteousness.

For by his wounds you have been healed. How many of you heard by

his stripes you were healed. You notice you notice it's past tense. You

were healed. You're actually looking back on healing. All you need to do

is bring healing into the present. I would have accomplished. But when Isaiah

said the same exact thing, when he wrote this. When when when he

said this in Isaiah chapter fifty three, verse four, it was looking forward.

It wasn't accomplished. It was a prophetic view to the future. But

when Peter writes it, it's a view looking backwards. By his stripes,

you were healed. Well, if I were healed, or if I was

healed, or if healing is accomplished, that means I don't have to talk

God into healing me. Jesus already talked to God into healing me on my

behalf. If Jesus already talked to God in the healing all humans with sickness

or disease who are hidden in Him, hidden in Him, of whom every

promise is yes and amen. If Jesus already did the talking on my behalf.

Then I can be a receiver. So I don't need near as much

petition as I need receiving. Am I making any sense? So it's like

my posture, my posture out of First Peter two twenty four is not trying

to get qualified before God for healing, because Jesus did it for me.

My posture is I receive healing. I receive healing in my body right now.

Because why because it's a it's a word, it's a living word.

And if you'll meditate on that word, the Holy Spirit will quicken that word

to you. Then your part, having received the seed of the word,

is to bring german Nation to the word. And you bring Germanation to the

word not with unbelief, but with faith. And the first act of faith

when you receive a word is to receive it. Remember the Holy Spirit ministered

to Merry through the angelic visitation and gave her the word. And then she

said, so be it unto me, according to your word. I receive

it. I receive it. I receive it. I receive healing in my

shoulder. Today, I receive healing in my knee. Today I received healing

of the years. Today I receive healing of the heart today. Well I

just did that, Pastor, I did that last week, and nothing happened.

It's a seed. Last time I planted a seed and got it all

germinated, it looked like nothing happened. But after a while, as I

watered it with Thanksgiving. You can't water a seed with more doubt and unbelief.

You can't water a seed. You can't water the seed of the Word

with I wonder or not for me or probably won't, yeah, probably not.

And you can't water a seed that way. You water a seed by

rejoicing over it. When we go to the garden, we go with a

hose and we're like, phrase the Lord, these beans are going to be

so good this year, Lord to God. I can't wait to have these

green beans. Oh, these raspberries. Last year we had so many raspberries.

We froze them in bags. We have them on our pancakes. That

can't wait to have those raspberries. You don't go out there with steel toe

boots and hop in the garden bed and start kicking it and cussing it,

and you lousy things. You've done nothing. I knew it. Thanksgiving we

water. We water the seed with thanksgiving, and you only you will only

move into thanksgiving when you've moved it first into receiving second Peter one three.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our

knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and greatness. So that's

interesting. If you study this passage, what you're going to find is what

is lacking is not your efficacy of petition. What is lacking. And by

the way, what the King James says, which is a little more accurate,

It says that he has given us everything we need pertaining the life and

godliness. He already gave us everything we need pertaining the life and godliness.

Why because he gave it to the sun. And you are in the sun.

You dwell in the sun, you're hidden in the sun. You are

an in Christ human. That's why Philippines Force says that we will receive what

we need out of the riches of his glory, the glory that's in Christ.

Wow. Because everything about us, who are hidden in Him, we've

come to know that he's qualified as for everything that belongs to him. Romans

eight seventeen. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. You're

a joint heir, right, So this is just this is cool stuff.

And if you read that passage out of Second Peter chapter one, it says,

really, the thing that's lacking is not like a new style of petition

for you, like a new stuff, bigger kneepads. What's lacking is your

knowledge. What's lacking is your knowledge of what He's done for you before the

Father to present you as qualified for everything that belongs to him. He feases

one three through five. Praise be to the God and the Father of our

Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in heavenly realms with every spiritual

blessing in Christ. I know it sounds crazy, but what you know,

what if we shifted, what if we shifted into a little bit more thanksgiving

and receiving prayers? Right, He's blessed us with every he This is you

know, if you were reading the King James, it would say who hath

blessed us? For? He shows us in him before the creation of the

world, to be holly and blameless in his sight and in love. He

predestines for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance with the pleasure of his

will or his pleasure and will talking about the power of receiving even two through

twenty five. This is a pretty familiar passage. I want to read it

to you in just a second, but first I want to read to you

out of John five five nineteen. Jesus gave them this answer. Verily,

I tell you the truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He

can only but he sees the father doing. Because whatever the father does,

the son also does. For the father loves the son, and the show

shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him greater works

than these, so that you will be amazed. Now I want to read

that one to you. Just visiting one. We've visited, you know before,

many times, and I don't it's still it's still worth visiting. And

that's Mark eleven, right. Mark eleven is where Jesus curses the fig tree.

And it's cool, you know, he curses the fig tree. Let's

not go there yet, Tom, but we'll go there in a minute.

So he curses the fig tree and then you know they're traveling through the area.

You know the story. He curses the fig tree nothing happens. They're

traveling, but when they come back through they notice, and this is interesting

because the passage notes it. They notice that the tree is drying up from

the roots. So the curse, and it's in scripture that way on purpose,

because the curse didn't affect the leaves instantly, it affected the roots.

And then what they notice is the trees drying up from the roots. So,

in other words, even the curse took time to manifest, because even

a curse operates as a seed. Everything in the Word operates as a seed.

So then Jesus says, and Mark, we can go there now,

markleven twenty two. He says yes, And the disciples point this out and

they're like, whoa, look at this the tree that you cursed. It's

drawing up from the roots. And then he says, yes, have faith

in God, truly, I tell you, If anyone and then he takes

it further, if anyone says so, have faith in God. What he

means is operate like I did out of John five. You can't create your

own faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing, not just anything, but

hearing by the raima, the quickened word of Christ and That's exactly how Jesus

operated. Jesus operated as he's calling us to operate by hearing from the Holy

Spirit. He says, have faith in God. In other words, when

you hear something from God or see God doing something, receive that, partner

with that, act upon that, and that will give you the desired result

or the result that Father wanted. So you can't just run around moving mountains.

You can run around moving the mountains God wants moved. And God wants

a lot more mountains moved than you think he wants. Because He calls you

royalty when you call yourself worm. He calls you qualified when you call yourself

falling, short, unworthy, worthless. So he wants you moving mountains out

of your true entity, out of royalty, not moving mole hills, moving

mountains. Worthlessness has you moving mole hills. Royalty has you moving mountains.

So he says, yes, have faith in God. Truly. I tell

you, if anyone says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea,

and does not doubt in their heart, but believes that what they say

will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore, I tell you,

whatever you ask for in prayer or whatever you declare in prayer or decree

in prayer, believe that you have received it. When should you believe that

you've received it when you're eating the beans in the kitchen. This is interesting

because he is saying, if we follow this, that were to do things

the way Jesus did them and the way that Father has ordained for us to

do them. That is, Jesus was already rejoicing over the cursed figtree when

the curse was proclaimed, not a couple of days later when they saw it

was drying up. And this is the way. This is the way faith

works. Faith works in that when we received the word and we partner with

that word, it's then that we believe that we have received. It's then

that we believe that we've already received. We're already seeing the raspberries. We're

receiving the raspberries. We're already seeing by faith the green beans. So we're

receiving the green beans. We received the word. We've received the green bean

word he talked in first he talked in Ephesians one three through five. He

talks about that we would share in his holiness. In second Peter one,

he says we are partakers of the divine nature. You don't need to go

through those tongs. I'm just talking. You know. We can shift this

over and go into blessings, and we can go into abundance, and we

can go into wealth and royalty. But sometimes it's more impactful to go over

into holiness. Forget about that from and let's just go over into holiness.

What if we began to say, I receive the gift of holiness, because

we'll spend a lot of time petitioning God for holiness. But if we stopped,

because He's said in Ephesians one three through five that He's blessed us with

every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus and already ordained for us to be receivers of

holiness, that we would live in our generation in holiness. Holiness is not

a bad deal. By the way, it could be that one of the

acts of faith that would kick us into a greater manifestation of holiness would be

the acknowledgement that we receive holiness. Because wherever petitioning is the full expression of

our Christianity, that petitioning leaves a little crack in the door or in the

window. For unbelief. I usually petition heavily for the things that I don't

believe I have yet. But if I believe I fully have something, that

I begin to thank Him that I do have it. I begin to receive

it fully, acknowledge it with thanksgiving. And little did I realize that was

the step that it took to germinate the faith of the Word given to begin

to bring it to pass. But I tend to look at my stumbling and

I'm like, yeah, but I'm not Holy. Don't continue to look at

circumstances to determine your identity. When He's determined your identity will begin to shift

your circumstances. Let your true identity work by partnering with receiving faith, so

that that true identity will begin to emerge and shift your circumstances and your behavior.

Stand with me this morning. Do this make any sense at all?

Just put up our hands, Holy Spirit, Come on, say it with

me, Holy Spirit. I receive from you the fullness of Jesus, the

Word of Jesus, the Word of life, the good news. I receive

that He's qualified me before the Father to walk in holiness, to walk in

abundance, to walk in wisdom, to walk in the mind of Christ,

to walk in the divine nature, to walk in the fruit of Holy Spirit.

He's qualified me. He's qualified me. I cast aside the accusations,

the shortcomings. I cast aside the propensity to work and the labor, and

only receive from you, Father, what I feel I deserve, according to

my labor. I cast that aside. I received today that all that you

lavishly pour upon me is according to what he deserves, not according to what

I deserve. Thank you, Father, This is the gospel. This is

the gospel. This is grace that you give me what he deserves in Jesus

name, I receive it. Amen. I'd bless your church. Let's worship

as we go.