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One With Him - Kingdom Order

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  1. Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.

  2. Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.

  3. Now enjoy this message today. I want to start in Ephesians

  4. chapter 5 verse 28 to 35. I'm going to read out of the

  5. passion translation. I believe it to be a

  6. continuation from the weekend and it says, husbands have the

  7. obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way.

  8. They love and care for their own bodies.

  9. For to love your wife, is to love your own self.

  10. No one abuses his body, but Pampers, it serving in

  11. satisfying, its knees. That's exactly what Christ does

  12. for his church verse 30. He serves and satisfies us as

  13. members of his body. For this reason, a man is to

  14. leave the father, his father and his mother and lovingly.

  15. Hold to his wife. Since the two have become joined

  16. as one flesh, marriage is the beautiful design of the

  17. almighty, a great and sacred mystery meant to be a vivid

  18. example of Christ. And his church, Jesus said in

  19. Matthew 16:18, he said, but I say to you that you are Peter

    Matthew 16:18

  20. Matthew 16:18 that you are Peter and Upon This Rock.

    Matthew 16:18

  21. I will build my church and the Gates of Hell or Hades will not

  22. overpower it. In the series, we've done in the

  23. past called, I'll build my church or my church.

  24. Jesus says his word, my is of me in my pocket.

  25. Here is a handkerchief and it's mine and I could pull it out and

  26. throw it down. It would still be mine, but it

  27. would not be of me although a smile on Jesus in this context

  28. says I will build my church, meaning of me, it's like my arm.

  29. Now, if I cut my arm off, that's going to be a different story.

  30. Are you hearing me? I can throw my handkerchief down

  31. and come back and get it a month later and it doesn't matter.

  32. I throw my arm off my body a month, come back and there's a

  33. problem. I said there's a problem, it's

  34. going to be very difficult to reattach it without some

  35. Supernatural taking place. Are you hearing me because the

  36. blood in my body is what causes every member of my body to be

  37. sustained and maintain life. You cut the blood supply off and

  38. it begins to die. Amen.

  39. So then Jesus says this in Colossians chapter 1 or Paul

    Colossians 1 chapter mention

  40. writing concerning Jesus and his church in Colossians 1:18 he he

    Colossians 1:18

  41. is also the head of the body, the church.

  42. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead so that

  43. he himself will come to have first place in everything.

  44. So Jesus is the head of the church.

  45. So Jesus and the church are connected.

  46. Just as much as my head is connected to my body.

  47. So, church is not something we do, it's something we are We are

  48. of Christ. We don't go to church, we are

  49. the church. So we don't go to church, we are

  50. the church. We are the dishes.

  51. Why people say, well, it's not a build in any, you're right?

  52. It's not, but you can't be the church by yourself.

  53. No more than my finger Can Be Me by itself.

  54. Now, we can be my finger but if it's disconnected it's not

  55. working well and I can't have the use of it in my hand because

  56. it's no longer attached. So we can boast its mind all day

  57. long, but it serves no purpose. I said it serves no purpose and

  58. it doesn't have life unless you are under understand that when

  59. you were born again that he wrote your name down in glory,

  60. it was not so that you could go to heaven, but it's so that you

  61. could become Um, a Son of God, a child of God and he could attach

  62. you to his body. I said he could attach you to

  63. his body turned over to 1st Corinthians.

  64. Chapter 12, First Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 18.

    1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention

  65. I love this verse because if the body of Christ would get this

  66. verse, then we would dominate The Globe.

  67. Immediately we would immediately dominate The Globe says, but now

  68. God. But now whoo-hoo-hoo God has

  69. placed Place the members. Why are you searching for

  70. church? Let's just be honest.

  71. If you're searching for a church and you have to show up to

  72. determine if it's for you, you're not really good at being

  73. led by the spirit. Let's just be honest because if

  74. you were really led by the spirit, you can hear it first

  75. and show up there to the church. The one that's where you

  76. immediately, without any guesswork.

  77. Hallelujah. But you show up because you need

  78. to see you need to hear. Those are things that are

  79. seeing. We're not led by what we see or

  80. hear were led by what we know on the inside.

  81. Now if you come and you don't know yet, that's fine.

  82. I don't have a problem with that because God will help navigate

  83. you, but at the end of the day, you're going to hear hear.

  84. Because if you're making a decision to attach to a local

  85. body based upon what you see, and what you hear, and what you

  86. like, That is you placing yourself and not God.

  87. I said it's you placing yourself and not God.

  88. This is why he said In this passage of scripture, the hand

  89. can I say to the foot? I don't need you.

  90. Well, I'm not going to go to that when I don't like it, but

  91. if the Lord says, but that's where I need you.

  92. Hallelujah. But now, God has placed the

  93. members, which one of them, which one?

  94. Each one of them. Not just the pastor's, not just

  95. the apostles, not just the prophets evangelist and

  96. teachers, but that's the Saints. Each member he places them in

  97. the body, just as he desires where he wants you, what he

  98. wants you to do, where he wants you to be.

  99. Now, why is this important? Because the churches of Jesus,

  100. and Jesus will not abuse his body, Jesus does mutilated.

  101. Jesus doesn't cut it. Jesus doesn't pound on it.

  102. Don't abuse it. A man cutting and beating on

  103. himself. Has a demon probably Oh, you

  104. don't hear this, okay? If a man is bruising his own

  105. physical body cutting and beating on himself, we have

  106. scriptural evidence that they're probably possessed of a demon.

  107. No wonder men. Do they said they are not going

  108. to intentionally try to hurt themselves.

  109. So we should never intentionally try to hurt our wives.

  110. Because Jesus has never intentionally, never

  111. intentionally and unintentionally, is he hurting

  112. his body? That's why a lot of pulpits have

  113. false Doctrine when they're saying, God, put that sickness

  114. on you to teach something that's a lie.

  115. He's not abusive like that. I said, he's not abusive like

  116. that. No, he's the Healer.

  117. I said he's the Healer. Now the devil puts sickness on

  118. you, if you don't judge your body, right?

  119. Lee and you just keep ingesting, a bunch of chemicals, will guess

  120. what? Your body is going to respond.

  121. And that's not a god problem. That's a cigarette problem.

  122. That's a high fructose. And other things issue.

  123. Amen. If you don't judge your body,

  124. well, God's in control. If he wants me to be healthy, I

  125. will no no. Don't put water in your car.

  126. Just go ahead and fill it up with water from your, your, your

  127. garden hose. See how far it goes then when

  128. you go to the mechanic and say, well, you know, I just believe

  129. God would take care of it. They're like, Well, amen.

  130. No the Lord has given us wisdom right now?

  131. If we accidentally put water in the car, can he do something

  132. about it? Amen.

  133. Can't he clean it out? Does that mean the car is gone?

  134. Maybe not. May have to rebuild it.

  135. And some of us we need to rebuild some things.

  136. God can rebuild our bodies, but he's not putting something in

  137. you to harm you. He's only putting things in need

  138. to keep you running at Perfection.

  139. He plays your where he wants it to be.

  140. Why is this important because he loves us, he cherishes us, and

  141. Ephesians tells us this relationship between Christ and

  142. the church is like a marriage relationship and as Pastor Marcy

  143. said today, the reason why so much Freedom came in the house

  144. today is because so many marriages got right this

  145. weekend. But I would say this is really

  146. what took place and is found in Revelation Chapter 2 because I

    Revelation 2 chapter mention

  147. believe all of us, run the risk of Revelations chapter 2 at

    Revelation 2 chapter mention

  148. times in our own personal life. Now, Jesus is speaking to a

  149. church specifically, he's talking to the church at Ephesus

  150. and he's talking to them about the things they've done

  151. extremely well, but he had one thing against them, one problem,

  152. one issue. And it was a serious issue.

  153. I said it was a serious issue. He sells them in verse 2.

  154. He says, I know your deeds, and you're told and perseverance and

  155. that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test

  156. those who call themselves Apostles and they are not and

  157. you found them to be false. And you have persevered and have

  158. endured to my name sake, or for my name's sake and have not

  159. grown weary. He said, but I have this against

  160. you that you have left your first love.

  161. He said, therefore remember from where you have fallen repent,

  162. repent and do the Deeds you did it first or else I'm coming to

  163. you and will remove your lampstand out of its place.

  164. Unless you what? Repent then he recognize another

  165. thing, they hated that he hates himself and he says Those Who

  166. hear he'll overcome Specifically.

  167. Now, what's interesting about this is that he said, you've

  168. lost your first love when we deal with marriage.

  169. Is a lot of times when we come down and say I do, there are a

  170. lot of things we're doing prior to the.

  171. I do moment, we're very attentive to one another, we

  172. care about one another. You know, we were courting, we

  173. are, we are doing everything to make sure they know that I'm the

  174. one forever. We're nice work.

  175. God, we're long-suffering, we're merciful, when argument comes we

  176. drive where the where the we try to get rid of it as quick as we

  177. can because, so we can kiss, we want the kiss and make up, we

  178. don't want the argument. But once we've come together, we

  179. become one flesh. We've been in the house together

  180. for a year. Two years, a honeymoons, Over

  181. All. All of a sudden those beautiful

  182. feet, don't look so beautiful anymore.

  183. The routine of coming home to the same person.

  184. The routine of hearing the same voice, the routine of living

  185. life day in and day out all of a sudden.

  186. It's not that they're not the same person or that they've even

  187. progressed and become someone even greater in God.

  188. It's just that to us, it becomes familiar.

  189. And we do this with the church, the reason why the atmosphere

  190. and worships like this today is because we were renewed for

  191. those. You know, when you get 160

  192. people, they get jacked excited about their relationship with

  193. Another and how that is an example of their relationship

  194. with God and they're like, man, I'm just need to come in here

  195. and worship my king because I was forgetting about the wife of

  196. my youth and how beautiful she was and how awesome she is.

  197. And you know what, she's really gone through a lot in his past,

  198. a lot of tests. And who am I to complain about

  199. this? I'm actually a really blessed

  200. man. And the wives are saying, you

  201. know what, my husband has done a really good job.

  202. Actually, you know, when I look at all that, they've done where

  203. they could, what could be mad? What am I doing?

  204. And all of a sudden we've renew and then when we get into places

  205. that we don't care but you know what?

  206. We apply Faith to it. Then things begin to manifest

  207. and then when we get crazy and actually have sex with one

  208. another like more than the world does because we're the only

  209. lawful authorized people to have that kind of form of intimacy.

  210. Amen. I will not let the world out.

  211. Sleep me. It's not going to happen.

  212. Y'all gonna be alright. Some of y'all struggling

  213. already. All right.

  214. Good thing. We don't have to bail because I

  215. understand, we have kids. They need to learn.

  216. Don't think these teenagers aren't seeing this on Snapchat,

  217. Tick-Tock, don't think they have it on sitcom all day here.

  218. Seen his guys, holding hands girls kissing and I'm going to

  219. talk about sex right now in the church because we have

  220. children's ministry and they could be there, the youth are

  221. here. And they definitely need to hear

  222. about this because have them been sending tick-tock.

  223. New photos of each other around and that needs to stop.

  224. Are you hearing me because we'll lose our?

  225. First loves will, make sure to routine and we won't get up in

  226. here and worship. God be passionate about the one

  227. who laid down his life for died on the cross.

  228. Are you hearing me? No, we need to be an example in

  229. the home and then let it overflow into the church.

  230. Wow, because we're in the church first.

  231. I said we're in the church first.

  232. How do I know this? All you got to do is go back to

  233. the book of Beginnings. In the beginning, God created

  234. the heavens and the Earth. He makes all these great things

  235. then he says, let us make man in our image, according to our

  236. likeness. And he makes this Man Out of the

  237. Dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils, the breath of

  238. life, and he became a Living spirit a living Soul.

  239. He's in the image of God, the DNA of God, he has a direct

  240. relationship with God and he's the only person in the planet.

  241. Are you hearing me? And then he says, it's not good

  242. for man to be alone. So he has him fall down into a

  243. deep sleep. He doesn't make another skin

  244. suit and breathe into it. He pulled out of the man from

  245. the side of the man. What was already contained

  246. within the man? And he formed a woman.

  247. And when Adam saw this, he said this is woman.

  248. She's bone of my bone and Flesh of My Flesh, man, shall leave

  249. his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they'll become

  250. one flesh. Meaning we have a relationship,

  251. this spirit that all of a sudden got multiplied into two.

  252. Had a relationship with God before we ever said I do.

  253. So it didn't God marriage or God Family Church.

  254. It's God Church. You're not going to have family.

  255. You're not going to have marriage and do nothing until

  256. you realize you're of the church that the relationship with God

  257. is supreme and Authority. Because when Jesus says here in

  258. Revelations, he said, you've lost your first love.

  259. He says, you've forgotten the priority that I am to be

  260. preeminent in all your life and your decision making and how you

  261. do everything you have come in. Into my presence in a

  262. traditional sense, knowing what to do, but you don't actually

  263. consult me first. You don't make me first

  264. priority. You show up when you want to,

  265. you come when you want to, you do what you want to do, then you

  266. consult with me. You take things that were of

  267. mine, do it in your own ability, and then 20 give me glory for

  268. it. The minute I slipped a second.

  269. That's a problem. And immediately we in our

  270. weekend of our marriage banquet. The only reason why these

  271. marriages were on fire is because they didn't put that

  272. relationship as a higher priority than their work

  273. relationship. Then their children

  274. relationships. Then the friend relationships

  275. because they got bored with someone they became familiar,

  276. they forgot to see you then since the butterflies in their

  277. stomach, what made them fall in love with them in the first

  278. place? Because in actuality, you're of

  279. me. How can I look at you and not

  280. see me? I said how can I look at you and

  281. not see me, this is what Jesus said how can I look at you and

  282. not see me because you're of me you're my church and you know

  283. Jesus Longs just spend time with us.

  284. So once your church look like you come in ready.

  285. Excited. Can't wait to assemble with the

  286. rest of the safe because God's playing at me and anchor, Faith

  287. Church, it pleased him so that I could grow Prosper, strengthen

  288. gonna be something great. He put me in his kingdom.

  289. So the king can oversee my life and make me a child of the king.

  290. So I'm a king itself because he's the king of who are those

  291. kings? You are those kings right now?

  292. Not when you get to heaven. But today today, so I Jesus said

  293. You pray, pray this way, Our Father who art in heaven,

  294. Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be on as

  295. it is. We don't have to wait to heaven

  296. to get heaven to show up in our lives because the kings of the

  297. Earth have dominion again but that's when God's first.

  298. When he's first, when he's first when he's first when he's

  299. preeminent. When he's the source and supply

  300. of all that we are and do and know that if I Seek You first,

  301. then it just overflows into my marriage, it overflows into my

  302. relationships. They were, but I'm not even

  303. married Pastor. I'm just a single person within

  304. you ought to be the first one in church.

  305. You ought to be the first one. Why?

  306. Because you should have Paul said, listen in First

  307. Corinthians 7. He said, listen, it's not a

  308. command, it's just my opinion. But listen, if you can remain

  309. single do so because you don't have to deal with the spouse,

  310. meaning you have to care for them.

  311. That's someone you're going to have to be obligated.

  312. That's someone you got to you're not independent of you are fully

  313. dependent on them, you're going to serve them, you're gonna

  314. cater to them, you're going to prefer them, you're going to

  315. honor them male or female, doesn't matter in the marriage

  316. relationship, husband and wives are doing this.

  317. And they're jockeying to serve each other because they want to

  318. be able to be a blessing to one another.

  319. But when you're single, you can just focus on God and God Alone.

  320. So, you have to be first here. First one down in the altar.

  321. First one worshiping God. First one running.

  322. Because your whole relationship is driven by the king of glory.

  323. Hey men, are you running around? Trying to find your man?

  324. Are you running around trying to find you a woman instead of

  325. letting God bring them? Hey men, he'll bring them.

  326. I said he'll bring go and it's not on your time.

  327. Has on his time. As some of you need to get some

  328. things right before he can bring them because he has for you is

  329. better than you think and you don't have to settle so you need

  330. to be the best for them. Are you hearing me?

  331. But this just comes Natural. When you love God, I'll say that

  332. comes natural when you love God. And so, man, we get in an

  333. atmosphere like today. Why?

  334. Because we begin to remember intimacy intimacy.

  335. Alleluia, this is why I struggle sometimes with how churches

  336. become institutionally speaking. Bring it on man.

  337. Getting them out, just lectures. It's just lectures.

  338. Let me ask this, who said you had to be in your seat right

  339. now, and you couldn't come down and begin to worship God right

  340. here. Now, you're not gonna be able to

  341. interrupt a sermon but who says that, if God didn't move, you

  342. couldn't come down here and just begin to minister to him.

  343. They said you had to wait till an altar call to say, man, I

  344. need get it right? I got to come down and get

  345. right. Hey, men mean as long as you

  346. don't attack the stage, there's going to be no problem.

  347. If you take the stage is going to be a problem.

  348. It's not lecture moments. These are intimate moments.

  349. Why cannot are singing go longer?

  350. It depends on how much we just want to sing.

  351. And the Lord says oh they're not just doing a routine.

  352. Let's just sit here, this a little bit longer.

  353. Then the atmosphere stays and in that atmosphere people get

  354. healed, demons, get cast out, start running shave, a demon.

  355. Could come here, demon came in the synagogue's with Jesus, but

  356. he kicked him out. Right.

  357. They're not going to stand against the anointing not in

  358. this house. Amen.

  359. Why? Because God is in this place,

  360. and he's looking for a church that wants to be intimate.

  361. I mean, we're full of instruction, we're going to

  362. continue to grow and have those expressions.

  363. But I believe, God, just wants us to minister to him.

  364. Jesus said, In Ephesians chapter 5.

    Ephesians 5 chapter mention

  365. The passion translation. Verse 32.

  366. He says marriage is a beautiful design of the almighty of great

  367. and sacred mystery. Meant to be a vivid example.

  368. Of Christ and his church. I love all aspects of my wife,

  369. Spirit soul and body. I love her by her spirit first

  370. because she's a conqueror in Christ.

  371. And I've seen her through her soul realm, her mind, her will

  372. and her emotions yield in every test to what the spirit of God

  373. says, to her spirit, she's an overcomer.

  374. That's the sexiest thing on the face of the planet.

  375. The body is just what houses her. and so, when I'm around

  376. her, I'm not intimate with her just because of her outside, but

  377. because who she is really on the inside, I like to drive and I

  378. reach over and she touches my hand.

  379. I like to hear your voice. When I'm traveling, she's not

  380. there because of technology. I FaceTime.

  381. If I could FaceTime, God, I would I much rather see her,

  382. then just hear voice. But at times of all I can do is

  383. hear of Our Song with just want to hear her voice.

  384. Because we're intimate, then there's times we come together.

  385. You'll know what I'm talking about coming together.

  386. And sometimes in those moments it's like don't stop.

  387. Can this thing last for five hours?

  388. No, all right, don't look at me like that cause all y'all going

  389. to movies and you're seeing, fornicators and adulterers

  390. relationships all the time, you don't ever see in the movies,

  391. husband and wives in the bed. But it's like, man, I don't want

  392. this to end. But we come to church.

  393. And we could have an intimacy with God greater than that

  394. moment. When we know how to make him

  395. first. To, where will I don't want it

  396. to end. What would it look like if we

  397. all showed up and says we're going to press in and be

  398. intimate with God and it just became so full of his spirit

  399. that were like man I just don't want to see any you're not

  400. going. Now maybe a guest to do that.

  401. I get it. You know they don't maybe they

  402. don't know who they are in Christ.

  403. Maybe they're just checking it out.

  404. Trying to see what fits them, you know, they don't know, they

  405. don't know any better. But for us, you know, we should

  406. give such a vivid example, not only in our personal lives in

  407. husband and wife, because we prefer each other, but when we

  408. come together in this thing that we're so passionate about God,

  409. let me just tell you something. If you have a bad marriage,

  410. you're uncomfortable with those who have good ones.

  411. And you don't want to hang out with them.

  412. So that's why some people aren't going to come and stay at a cafe

  413. church because we have such a great relationship in our

  414. worship. And so free to have expressions.

  415. Are you hearing me? Are you just passionate for the

  416. Lord? What rekindles things that are

  417. personal marriages old photos memories of things we did.

  418. Looking back at our children, when they were just babies

  419. putting ourselves in those moments that remind us of why we

  420. were together. How much more in the church

  421. were, like, but God being rich in his Mercy, while we were

  422. still sinners Christ died for me.

  423. He died for me when I was separated, cast-off, doomed, in

  424. Rebellion. But God.

  425. And fulfillment of his father's word.

  426. Gave me an opportunity that by faith.

  427. I could call on his name and get back into the house, not just

  428. getting the house. So I can go to heaven when I

  429. die, but get back in the house and begin to live with him.

  430. Now, begin to sit with him now, be a part of the vine now,

  431. getting grafted in now have fruit now.

  432. Be intimate with God, now hear his voice and at times, even get

  433. caught up in the spirit. And the naturally say, when's

  434. the last time you dated your wife?

  435. When's the last time you did this?

  436. When's the last time you did that?

  437. When's the last time you came to church and said, I'm not going

  438. to leave till I touch him. And get what I came for.

  439. We'll get what I came for because he wants to see me.

  440. He wants to talk to me. He wants to spend time with me.

  441. Stand to your feet. There's an anointing here.

  442. To rekindle your first love. And anointing.

  443. There's an anointing here. And you just going to have to be

  444. honest with yourself, just like all the marriage couples had to

  445. be honest with themselves this weekend.

  446. We're hearing a lot of great reports, great testimonies of

  447. how God ministered to them and their marriages are being

  448. strengthened and encouraged. Coming back to life more and

  449. more seeing hope in it, it was powerful.

  450. It was powerful. But right now, the Lord saying,

  451. but what about me? Well, by me.

  452. Now, there's an anointing. And that anointing is not in

  453. your chair. It's not in your chair.

  454. But that anointing is up here and I'm not giving it away, it's

  455. in the atmosphere, but it's going to require you to make a

  456. step. No husband and wife relationship

  457. is ever going to continue to grow stronger and stronger until

  458. both move. He said, well I'll move when God

  459. moves God's not going to not going to do it.

  460. Because when you are lost and dead in your trespasses and sin,

  461. he pursued you, the Bible said that God, Drew you to Christ.

  462. He did that, but the Bible tells us once you're born again.

  463. God, doesn't pursue you anymore. James says, draw near to God.

  464. And he'll draw near to you because the minute you made

  465. Covenant with the Lord. He said I'll never leave you nor

  466. forsake you he'll never leave you.

  467. He's never in the leaving position, he doesn't get.

  468. So aggravated mad with you that he slams, the door and leaves.

  469. He never gets so frustrated with you that he walks out and says,

  470. I need some time. He never gets so aggravated and

  471. said we going to separate for a little bit, know if separations

  472. happening if anger and a door slamming in somebody's leaving,

  473. it's on our part. Because in order for you to get

  474. intimate with God, you got to go back home, because he's not

  475. left. He's never left.

  476. He's been calling your home the whole time.

  477. So many people want to come to church and just be preached to

  478. the God. Just wants to minister to you

  479. today. Today today today today.

  480. Today. Today, today he wants to

  481. minister to you, hallelujah? Thank you Lord.

  482. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

  483. Thank you Lord. Thank you.

  484. Lord. You know when marriage is tough.

  485. When the husband gets prideful, don't want to give up his right

  486. to be right or perceive right? And so he'll just dig his heels

  487. in. Wait, be stubborn stiff-necked

  488. going to make sure the wife bins and yields first or vice versa.

  489. Sometimes a wife, not going to do it.

  490. Not going to bend, not going to break.

  491. I'm not giving in this time. I'm done.

  492. I'm done with that. I'll never do it again.

  493. It's over. They're gonna have to come to

  494. me. I'm finished, it's over.

  495. Yep, when that takes place, man, marriages are in trouble,

  496. because it always requires someone to yield and Jesus has

  497. never failed us. The father has never done

  498. anything wrong. He loves you.

  499. He just wants to put his arms around you.

  500. She got to be out of admit, I'm just not seeking him a whole

  501. heart. I'm not pressing in.

  502. You're not first and foremost on my mind.

  503. I think more about my job and my work than I do.

  504. You have put more time in it than I do on the word, praying

  505. in the spirit. I put no time in it.

  506. You know, you know God saying, come on, come on down, I'm gonna

  507. feel you. I'm a minister to you.

  508. I'm going to touch you because I'm telling you a wave.

  509. An anointing fixing a flow in this place.

  510. And it's going to be pretty shallow.

  511. What do I mean? Is only going to go so far back?

  512. But it'll go deep and those that are in it, you understand, when

  513. you go to st. Augustine, you can stand on the

  514. beach and you can see the waves coming in, but the waves only go

  515. so far. It only goes so far, and if you

  516. are hot, if you are sweating, if you need a refreshment, the

  517. ocean says, this is far as I go. If you want this, you going to

  518. come. You're gonna have to come to me.

  519. You got to come to me now. Some of you gonna have to hold

  520. some of your Your Expressions. I need you to be quiet cuz this

  521. is not an individual. This is a corporate anointing.

  522. Because some of you a routine of how you respond to God, you

  523. don't do that today. This is a new and a fresh

  524. anointing, it will not get an old response.

  525. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. now, for those

  526. that are still standing, Outside of the altar.

  527. The Lord said it appears as if those who came down or saying

  528. that they have lost their first love.

  529. He said that's not the case with many.

  530. He said, for many, they were counted the intimacy and their

  531. said, I want to do it again. I want to do it again.

  532. I want to do it again, but I do want to give occasion to those.

  533. That's why I asked for it first, because hungry ones, always get

  534. But if you are still standing in your seat and you're like, man,

  535. I love God. I love him with all my heart.

  536. There's a fresh anointing for you.

  537. A place a sense. Yeah, I don't know why God does

  538. this but I think he does it just to remind us sometimes of just

  539. how great his glory is that we can get down into the full

  540. weight of this thing. Many of us have been in Services

  541. where the power and the presence of God was so tangible.

  542. We didn't want to leave it. The next time we come to a

  543. service and we didn't sense it. You wanted it but God doesn't

  544. live and he doesn't Express himself the same way all the

  545. time. His greatest expression is his

  546. word. It is his greatest expression

  547. because the Bible said he didn't send his glory and it healed

  548. them, he didn't say he sent his healing.

  549. Power and it healed him. He didn't say that.

  550. He sent his joy and it healed him.

  551. No, he sent his word because in his word is glory, in his word

  552. is healing in. His word is Joy.

  553. Whether you feel is word or not. Is word is still truth.

  554. When acted upon by faith, he comes to pass, but there are

  555. times God just will remind you Who he is in his presence.

  556. He see his presence alone is not enough.

  557. I recently, read someone say that the future of the church is

  558. present presence, driven churches.

  559. The explanation was is that they only want to minister to the

  560. Lord. They want to do what God wants

  561. to do. They're not here to serve any

  562. other agenda, but to do that, now honestly that sounds good

  563. and we do want to be in his presence but it lacks again.

  564. It tries to put an emphasis on the wrong thing.

  565. Because the reality is the presence of God can be in the

  566. service and nobody still gets healed.

  567. Nobody still gets delivered, nobody still gets saved because

  568. the only ones who get it are those who act Jesus was

  569. personally present in a crowd and everyone was touching him.

  570. But one woman said, if I just touch him, I'll be healed.

  571. And he stopped and said, power left.

  572. The disciples who had been with him.

  573. They didn't pull the power. The crowd didn't pull the power,

  574. although he's in their presence. Thank you so much for listening

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