Jesus Generation Conference 2025 Myles MacCloskey Podcast 96 Parte 1

Welcome to Burning Lab Podcast. The daily refresh

for your life. Jesus is the center of everything

we do. Burning Lab Church. I came here to ask

you guys a couple of questions. How many of you

want a greater level of intimacy with Jesus?

Good, good, good. How many of you want a greater

understanding of your identity in Jesus? I believe

that intimacy births identity. You will find

out who you are when you are intimate with the

Lord. One day we're gonna see him face to face,

guys. Are you preparing yourself for that moment?

We believe not because we see, but there is coming

a day where we will see him. The reward of every

sacrifice we made on the earth will be fulfilled

in a moment when my eyes are locked with his.

Does anybody get excited about that? Or is it

just me? Or is it just session four? Alright,

I'm just checking. Holy Spirit, wake me up. Let's

ask the Holy Spirit today to give us intimacy

and identity. 1 John chapter 3 verse 2 says this.

1 John 3:2

It says, beloved, we are God's children now,

and what we will be has not yet appeared. But

we know that when he appears We shall be like

him why because we shall see him as he is There

is a perfect version of you And it will be revealed

when you see Him face to face. So if you're struggling

in your identity, it's because you're looking

at yourself and not looking at Him. What can

I fix about me? What can I change about me? What

can I improve about me? See, your problem is

you cannot be your standard. Perfection is your

standard. Jesus is your standard. If I'm going

to have any identity, it's in Him, not in me.

Seeing Jesus allows my identity to be formed

in Him. Look at this. Hebrews chapter 1 verse

Hebrews 1:3

3 says this. He is the radiance of the glory

of God the exact imprint of his nature and he

upholds the universe by the word of his power

He is the radiance That's good, I need to know

He's the one that's going to light up all of

heaven for eternity You understand there's no

sun moon or stars in heaven The glory of the

Lord and the lamb will be its lamp Do you know

how bright he is? So what happens when I look

at him? What happens when I look at his radiance?

This is what the word says in Psalm 34 5 Those

who look to him are radiant And their faces shall

never be ashamed Do you see how looking at Jesus

changes everything? Some of us have been looking

at ourselves for far too long. We ain't getting

any prettier. I'm getting a little thicker. Thicker.

Guapo? I don't know. I'm just guessing here.

He is the radiance of the glory of God. Can you

imagine that? He is the mark of the glory of

God. And it comes out from him as radiance. And

when I look to him, I become like him. I believe

our greatest form of ministry is radiance. I

have no idea. Our greatest form of ministry is

radiance. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 5 14. He

says you are the light of the world. He says

let your light shine before others so that they

may see your good works and give glory to your

father who is in heaven. In other words, others

will see my affection, my fire and have to attribute

it to God. They'll have to attribute it to their

creator. Even those who don't know him, they

will see him because I see him. Do you see how

our ministry is radiant? We always think it's

about what I can do. All of my good works. The

question really is are you on fire? How are you

keeping your fire going? Do you have intimacy

with Jesus? This must be the greatest question.

You see my greatest ministry to Jesus is looking

at Jesus. And my greatest ministry to people

is looking like Jesus. I don't know about you

guys, you ever think about your funeral day?

You care about the flowers that are going to

be there, right? You want to know who's going

to show up? Some of you have bouncers ready?

You want to make sure certain people don't get

to come to your funeral? I know you feel bad

that I'm dead now. So now you want to show up.

I'm gonna have bouncers. I don't really care

about any of that stuff. What I do care about

is what will be said about me at my funeral.

What will be said about you? He reached one million

souls for Jesus. He pastored the greatest church

in the world. It's called Burning Lamb Church.

He had the greatest and deepest revelations of

Jesus. None of these I long to hear. All good

things. I long to hear, Miles looked just like

Jesus. He looked just like him. I am convinced.

There is no greater accomplishment than to be

just like Jesus. Go find me a better one. You

will not find it. If my greatest accomplishment

is to be like Jesus, that must mean there's no

greater calling than to set my gaze upon Jesus'

face. I know this house is very familiar with

Psalm 27. This is the desperate cry of David.

One thing have I asked of the Lord. That will

I seek after. That I may dwell in the house of

the Lord all the days of my life. Why? To gaze

upon the beauty of the Lord. I get to just look

at Him. What is so great about golden streets

in heaven? The only thing great about them is

I walk on them to get to him. I can't even see

where I'm walking without his light anyway. I

don't want to wait till I get to heaven to gaze.

You see there's a difference we can glance or

we can gaze There's a big difference You see

before you're married I see y 'all glancing Looking

at some fine things walking by I know nobody

struggles with that in here That's the other

conference When you glance there is no intimacy

But if I get you in front of a candlelit dinner

Now we step into intimacy I want to be a gazer

not a glancer We can celebrate that if we want

to But the question really becomes for us. Do

we love seeing a move of God? Or do we love inviting

God to move in? We gotta get this people. Do

we desire pursuit? Or do we desire intimacy?

We must recognize the only thing to pursue is

intimacy. Some of us have been living a life

of pursuit, completely lacking intimacy. I glance

every Sunday morning, Saturday night, I glance

at the cross and we're almost distant from him

because we don't know how to look at him. That's

what I've come today for. I've learned that people

struggle with their identity. It's not because

they have an identity problem. It's because they

have an intimacy problem. When you are distant

from your creator, you forget what you look like.

We have an intimacy problem. Remember the scripture

from the Psalms. Those who look to him are radiant.

Look at this part. And their faces shall never

be ashamed. You see, when we see Jesus rightly,

we will not walk in shame. Because when we see

Jesus We get to see how he sees us You ever think

about that? Oh, I desire to see the face of Jesus

What happens when he looks back? How does he

see me? We need to flood our minds with this

thought How does Jesus see me? This is where

we find the fullness of our identity. Let me

tell you something. One time I went and got alone

with the Lord. This will be a fun one. You know

what a caboose is of a train? What is it? I'm

so sorry, it's okay. I went and stayed in this

this Airbnb. And it was like this this caboose

of a train. Just in the middle of some land.

It was red and cute. And I just went and got

alone with the Lord. I don't know about you.

But pretty much any time I'm expecting something

from the Lord, it's always extreme. Guys, I'm

looking up at the ceiling tiles during worship,

and I'm just wondering, like, when's the fire

coming down? So I'm thinking I'm going to this

train caboose, and the Lord's just going to pick

it up and bring it to heaven, and I'm going to

see a vision or something. Hey, nothing wrong

with this vision, though, right? Or this desire.

I want it to be a little extreme. I don't want

to not ask for anything from the Lord, right?

But I just desired that he would speak to me

while I was there. And I just said, Lord, what

do you want to speak to me? And he said this

to me. Everything will change when you know how

I see you. Changed my life. Everything will change,

Myles, when you know how I see you. I started

to learn something new from this. As one of our

greatest struggles as children of God, is that

we attempt to see Jesus' face, based upon the

condition of my flesh. I see Jesus, I look to

Jesus, but there is a filter between us. Maybe

you could just call it a veil, I don't know.

But there's this filter and it's designed by

my sin. So when I look through a filter of sin,

I'm attempting to look to Jesus through my shame.

But the word says when I look to him, my face

should become radiant. And I should never be

ashamed. How is this even possible? We look at

Jesus through the lens of our failures, our sin,

our evil thoughts, our past mistakes, basically

everything Jesus already paid for. Doesn't he

worthy of a better perception? You see, what

I started to find out is that there are three

different realities, but only one of them is

truth. Are you ready for them? I believe that

you could be set free from some things in this

moment right now. Here are your three realities.

How you see you, how others see you, and how

Jesus sees you. Think about that for a moment.

Which of these three do you want to matter the

most? how you see you, how others see you, or

how Jesus sees you. Here's the problem. The one

that matters the most to you is the one that

floods your mind the most. I know we all want

it to be number three, right? But which one's

flooding your mind? Oh, I just always, I can't

stop thinking about how Jesus sees me. That would

be the greatest problem in your life. No, the

problem we face often. Is that I look at myself

in the mirror And I see all my problems And when

I don't have a mirror to look in I have my mind

And all I can think about is what others think

about me What do others say about me? These things

flood my mind more than how he sees me What if

right now in this room take a moment reject your

thoughts reject the thoughts that people have

about you Even if they're good, they're not his

thoughts. He says, my thoughts are higher than

your thoughts. You can't even measure how high

they are. As high as the heavens are above the

earth. So are my thoughts of you. That's great

that you can tell me something good about myself.

It still can't define me. I can't let it define

me. I can't let it shape me. There's only one

that matters. This one thing I'm after. If I

can just gaze upon his face. Jesus, what do you

see when you see me? Can we just get lost in

that? What if we only pursue, how do you see

me Jesus? I think we struggle with this though.

We're constantly working on ourselves. And when

we're not, somebody else is trying to work on

us too. Nobody likes that. But if I'm going to

be clay, and I have one potter, I want him to

mold me. Maybe some of us have been molded and

shaped. By other people's words And we wonder

why God allows us to be broken sometimes Everybody

hates suffering But maybe Paul was onto something.

He says we don't just rejoice in glory. There's

a suffering we can rejoice in. Because if there's

a suffering I'm walking through right now, maybe

it's my father shaping me into something new.

Somebody just shout, Father shape me.