Bringing Heaven To Earth!

M h. You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of

the Week. We hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. Job, Kylie,

good job. What do y'all think? Yeah, it's it's interesting.

I don't I don't know. There's a when the presence

of the Lord gets heavier in worship and ministry time starts.

You can actually see a tangible haze in the atmosphere

in this building, and and that is a tangible, tangible

manifestation of His presence. The Azuzu Street, the Glory of

the Lord, when it talks about the smoke filled the

filled the house, it it was like fog. There was

testimonies of children playing hide and seek at floor level

because of how thick the tangible presence of the Glory

of the Lord was. I do not personally believe that

those uh manifestations are over God. God chooses how he

manifests to us where we don't. We're not in charge

of how he shows up. We position ourselves, we posture

our hearts with a place of humility, expectancy, hunger. But

how he manifests it's up to him. I said this

first service, we don't get to put in a list

of three visions, one translation, one throne room encounter, and

a couple of dreams. Thank you Jesus, it's not it's

it's not a drive through spirituality, right, And I I

just want to encourage you because I'm gonna I'm fixing

to talk about some some interaction between heaven and Earth

and hopefully get a little bit of a snapshot on

how the Lord's prayer when it says your kingdom come,

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

That is our marching orders. Jesus didn't die so that

one day we experience heaven. He died to get Heaven

inside of us. And it's it's our mandate, it's our

commission right now to bring heaven to earth. We co

labor with him. It says the heavens, even the heavens,

are the lords. But He's given the earth to the

sons of men, so we have a responsibility. We have

been left behind people. And you know, just a little

side note, you know, you know, the word rapture is

based off of one scripture in the entire New Covenant,

and it's when it talks about being caught up or

snatched up only one verse. Yes, I'm leaving you with tension.

I'm actually gonna I'm gonna teach on the end times

pretty quick here to try to try to clear up

some misconceptions so that when that time comes, if we

are here and things don't work out the way you

were told they would with our Western dream, then you'll

actually be prepared. So but when he says the disciples

came to Jesus and said, Lord, teach us how to pray,

can we all agree that in that moment everything that

was important to the Lord was addressed to the disciples. Right,

So he said, Lord, teach us. They said, teach us

how to pray? Lord, And the first thing he did

was say, my Father. He wanted us to connect to

the father heart of God first and foremost, so that

we don't live as orphans, right, because if you live

as orphans, then you build empires and you don't leave

inheritance for your children because it's all about you, your fame,

your rock star, all of that, And that's an orphan mindset.

But he says, your kingdom come, Your will be done

on earth, just as it is in heaven. So what

in the world is going on in heaven? When we're praying,

what's going on in heaven when we're praying the Lord's prayer,

when we're saying Lord, just like it is in heaven

that you can't get a more apostolic prayer than that.

Are you with me? And so I want to talk

to you very briefly in my opinion, you may not

agree with brief, but I want to talk to you

about the family in heaven, his sons meaning his Beniah Oohem,

the sons of God, his angels, his divine counsel, and

what is happening because we need to understand that every

single prayer that we pray is an act of spiritual

warfare in one way or another. Why do I say that,

because anytime you petition the Lord to do anything on

your behalf, things start happening. Angels are released according to

His word, which there's never been a single angel commanded

by a human being ever. So don't say, I com

you ain't commanding crap. You're not commanding angels. It's not biblical.

Are you with me? I don't want to break any

toes here, but it specifically says that angels respond according

to the word of the Lord. So if you're praying

according to his will. You're praying his word, then the

chances of having a whole lot of angelic activity with

you is going to be a whole lot better than

you thinking you're commanding an angel'll do something. Just remember

one angel wiped out one hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrians.

They may carry the fear of the Lord? Are you

with me? So little recap When we think about the

fall of man, most people simply think about Genesis three, right,

the snake the serpent, which you know, I just want

to say, as a side note, if a four legged

serpent came up to me and started talking to me,

I would think I would be a little concerned. It

didn't seem to bother them at all. By the way,

and Adam was silent the whole time. Then he blames

Eve silence of Adam, and so the fall happens. But

we don't pay attention to this theme that takes place

with sin and further decay, because just three chapters later,

in Genesis six, you see that the Beniolohem the sons

of God, make a pack. They see the daughters of men,

scripture says, and they take them as their wives. Beniolohem

is only used for angels. It is not used for man, okay,

And we know that as a result of that, the

Nephilum came right and it says there was nephelim in

those days and after the flood. And Jesus said, just

like in the days of Noah, so shall it be

when the Son of Man returns. So do you think

there may be nephylum today? Absolutely? It's what we trainranslate giant.

That's the Hebrew word for giants. So you have Genesis six,

then you fast forward I think a chapter and you

have the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel. Think

about this. Humanity was in such alignment agreement in the

soul of man, not the spirit, but the soul that

God said, hey, we need to go down and see

what's going on, because nothing is impossible for them now

because they're one agreement in the soul. Now I have

a question for you. There's a reason why the Lord

hates discord and division and those that sow discord among

the brethren. Now, for one moment, think of the potential

for the kingdom if we as a new creation, a

new breed that's never been on the earth. Before the Cross,

actually were in unity. We were one in spirit, not

just soul. What would happen for one? We know? In

the Psalms it says that God commands a blessing when

the brethren dwell in what unity. So and the other

thing about the Tower of Babel is you have to

understand Nimrod was actually one of the first Nephilim, it says.

And Nimrod began to become a mighty one in the

earth if you really study that, whatever spiritual juju was

going on there for that transformation, he began to do that,

and he builds Babel the city. They build this place

a tower. They said they wanted to reach the heavens.

This tower was not necessarily a literal skyscraper. Are you

with me? It means a spiritual high place. It met

a place where where they could connect to spiritual beings

or the eloheim, which many people think the word eloheim

is directly connected to Yahweh. It's not. Loheim is used

for other gods. It's not unique to Yahweh. Yahweh is

only used for Yahweh. Are y all with me? So far?

I'm trying to lay a whole lot of sidewalk here

real quick. So Babbel happens. God comes down, brings confusion

over all the languages. I have a hard enough time

with the English if he hadn't figured that out, And

he all of a sudden, all these nations are dispersed.

Didn't you ever wonder like, okay, So what's the background

of this? He brought all these languages in confused? The

people sent sent the nations out all over the earth.

But what is the purpose in that? What is the

interaction between heaven and earth? What's going on here? I'm

glad you asked so. Deuteronomy thirty two eight nine says

when the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance

when he divided mankind. This is a snapshot into Babel.

So follow this. When he divided mankind, he fixed the

borders of the peoples according to the number of the

sons of God, according to the numbers of the benig Elohem.

But the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is his

allotted heritage. So Babel hits he disperses the nations, and

he tells the divine Council the sons of God the Banialohem,

which we get more revelation of all of this structure

in the New Covenant, which Paul and Ephesians clearly stated.

And he puts the council these principalities over the nations.

But he says, but Israel, Jacob, your mind, that was

the moment when he said your mine. So what happens

is when you go to Psalm eighty two one to eight,

we actually see that these sons of God, they weren't

all good, and so he literally holds a counsel with

them to bring judgment. Anybody ever heard this teaching, Yeah,

a couple of y'all. So in well, it's all here,

I promise it's scripture Psalm's eighty two. God has taken

his place in the divine council. This is the council

that's over the nations when they were divided and they

had principalities put over them. In the midst of the gods,

which is Elohem and the Hebrew. He holds judgment. How

long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the

wicked Selah, give justice to the weak and the fatherless,

maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute, Rescue

the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand

of the wicked. They have neither knowledge nor understanding. They

walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth

are shaken. I said, you are Elohem's sons of the

Most High, all of you. Nevertheless, like men, you shall

die and fall like any prince. Arise o God and

judge the earth, for you shall inherit all the nations.

So we get a snapshot. We get a picture of

the failed job of this council to be ruling nations

and actually persuading them towards righteousness. Do you understand? Let

me give you this illustration. A demon will come next

to you, give you thoughts, and if you don't recognize

those thoughts aren't yours, you begin to partner with that spirit,

and that spirit begins to make a bond with you

through deception because you think it's your thoughts. And then

all of a sudden, now it becomes familiar to you

to such a degree you cannot distinguish its thoughts versus yours.

Are you with me? That principle is what happens with principalities,

except for they govern a nation, and they're either influencing

the thought process of a nation towards righteousness or lawlessness.

When a nation is in lawlessness, then the principle of

if my people, who's my people the church, If my

people who are called by my name show what humble themselves,

come on repent, seek my face, he goes, I will

hear from heaven, and I will heal their land. Part

of that healing is then now the Lord is justified

to remove that principality that is not ruling with righteousness,

a fallen principality, and actually replace it with a righteous principality,

a principality that is not broken covenant with God, y'all

with me. I know this stuff is like first time

I read Psalm eighty two, I was like, there's other gods. No,

there's no there there. It was the council, right, the Elohem.

But it messes with you because I was taught. I

went to Bible college, y'all, and I always thought the

name Elohem, the name one of the names for God,

was distinct to him. So because I'm messing with you know,

it's messing with my theology. This is what I say.

God will never violate his word, but he'll violate your

understanding of it. Anybody been there. Yes, So this interaction

of heaven and Earth. We're watching our nation right now.

We are we're in the pendulum and we we just

we just watched uh an attempted assassination on Trump a

week ago, which, by the way, last I think it

was last Sunday when I when I got the word

that the winds of change are blowing. The very next morning,

Milania wrote a letter and released it to the United States,

and at the end of her letter it said, and

the winds of change are here. So I was like, Okay, Lord,

I'm paying attention. And I'm like, so I started asking

the Lord, well, what all's involved in the winds of change?

And and I once I feel like I've gotten enough

insight from him, I'll probably dive deeper into that. But

we can look with our natural eye right now and

recognize that the winds are blowing. The uh Church as

usuals disappearing. Judgment starts first in the House of God.

He's he's dealing with his elders, his leaders in the church.

He is changing thrones. You know, this is an election

year all over the world. Did y'all know that all

over the world, many nations are getting new kings and presidents.

This is a pivotal, pivotal year for elections, and the

winds of change are here. It's gonna be very interesting.

M hmm. Man, I don't want to say that you

gotta get you gotta give me grace on this, okay.

And I'm not saying this is necessarily thus saith the Lord.

Obviously it's looking like we know who the president's going

to be. Right when when last week happened and he

as a leader put his fist and said keep fighting.

There when you watched it, did you not feel something

like there was like, okay, something significantly shifted there. And

I'm not trying to be political in this moment, but

because we're called to pray for all leaders, right regardless

if you like them or not, whether they can remember

anything or not, we pray for them. And so but

let me say this, there's very turbulent times ahead of

us as a nation. Regardless of what happens period. There

are things there's a ball rolling that will not go

back up the mountain, if you will. There are difficulties

ahead of us as a country economically, politically, there's still

difficulties ahead of us with more church exposures. Navigating through

this what John Paul coined the perfect storm in two

thousand and nine. Navigating through this means that you need

to be close to the Lord. We need to understand

his government, his structure, how we interact with him, how

we partner with seeing Heaven come to earth. I don't

know about y'all, but I don't want to live where

it takes forty five minutes to see somebody healed from

a headache, right, anybody been there? It's like it seems

like it's the smallest thing in the world you're praying for,

and it's like, what is going on? So there are

things that He's pruning inside of us as a preparation.

I also want to encourage you to never look at

a political leader like a savior, otherwise you have an idol.

So I'm crawling my hand up from my shoulder. In

Ephesians three seven to ten, Paul says of this gospel,

I was made a minister according to the gift of

God's grace, which was given me by the working of

His power to me, though I am the very least

of all the saints. This grace was given to preach

to the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to

bring to light for everyone, what is the plan of

the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things?

So that through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God

might now be made known to the rulers and authorities.

In the heavenly places, y'all, it says we're seated with

Christ and heavenly places. And there's a teaching out there

that basically, and it's very gnostic in nature, it basically

says we can access heaven at will because we're seated

with Christ in heavenly places. And it's very poor exit Jesus,

it's very, very, very poor Bible study, because if you

go on in that chapter, it says sow that in

the life to come, there's a part of our inheritance

that we do not have yet here on this side

of eternity. Paul rebukes the men of the church for

acting as mere humans, and he says, do you not

know you will judge angels? But you're not judging angels

right now, and if you try it, it could cost

you your life. And so we're seated with Christ in

heavenly places. It is our mandate to show the manifold

wisdom of God. And one of the primary ways in

which the manifold wisdom of God is being made known

is by actually preaching the mystery that's been hidden in God,

which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It's

the eternal Gospel of the Kingdom. And yet today we

still find so many people that never share their faith.

Pen and tell her, you know the magicians that you know,

the big tall dude. I think it's Penn who's the atheist? Right?

Or is it tell her Pen? I don't know the

tall dude. Yeah. Some time ago he said, how much

does a Christian have to hate people by not sharing

his faith? If it's true? An atheist said that recognizing

the impact of the gospel. An atheist said that, recognizing

if the Gospel is true, how can believers not share

the Gospel to those around them? See, I think we

forget this is just practice. This side of eternity, we're

co laboring with the Lord. But on the other side

of heaven, when you go to heaven, you're not going

to be sitting there playing a harp next to David

and just everything so great. It actually says that we're

going to rule and reign with him. And if you're

an amillennialist, bless your heart. If we're in the millennial reign,

I want my money back right now, because this doesn't

look like the millennial rain that I read about Ephesian

six ten to thirteen. Finally, be strong in the Lord

and in the strength of His might. Put on the

whole armor of God, that you may be able to

stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do

not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,

against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,

against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore,

take up the whole armor of God, that you may

be able to withstand in the evil day. And having

done all, to stand firm y'all. It's it's too easy

to forget that we're in a battle. There's too many distractions.

Anybody ever wake up and like, Oh, I'm gonna I'm

gonna read my Bible. I have my Bible app. I

always read. I do my Bible app every morning. And

but have you ever accidentally pulled up Facebook first or Instagram?

And then yeah, accidentally and then you, and then all

of a sudden, there's fifteen minutes later you're mindlessly scrolling

through shorts and reels and you're like, oh, my word,

I just wasted fifteen I think I'm actually stupider after that.

I just wasted fifteen minutes of my life and I

could have been reading his word, staying the greater the

sword is his word. If we're in a spiritual battle

and you don't know his word, it's like going out

on the battlefield with no gun getting shot at. Some

of y'all look really excited, glad to see here's another thing.

Satan is in the wilderness. He's dealing with Uh, he's

attacking Jesus. And how does Jesus beat the enemy? No, okay,

so you think that might be a little important. Do

you think we need something greater and bigger and secret

that nobody knows about? Or do you think that's enough

if he dealt with Satan himself with his word? Y'all,

it's the simplicity of the gospel, the Gospel of the Kingdom,

the eternal message that God became flesh and died in

our spot. What's going to change this nation is the

church actually carrying the Eternal Gospel to everyone around them.

You can vote to Kingdom. Come. We don't even know

how secure the voting system is right now. Voting is

not going to transform the hearts of people. Just like

with human trafficking, you can't rescue your way out of it.

People have to get saved, people have to have their

hearts changed, because as long as there's desire, wicked desire

in man's heart, there's always going to be a demand

for things. It's just the truth. And if we're not

step one sharing the gospel with those around us, looking

intentionally for opportunity to talk to people that don't know

the Lord, how in the world are we partnering with

the interaction of heaven to earth. How are we involved

in this battlefield? We're showing up butt naked on the

battlefield with nothing. There's your picture and some me ya

never mind, I'm being good. But Ephesian six paints the

reality of what's going on all around us right now.

Last week, it was huge when he turned his head

just slightly, that was not an accident. I guarantee you.

In the spirit, there was an angel that said, even

though he didn't feel it, do you understand and that

the angels are ministering spirits assigned to us that will

inherit eternal life. But I can tell you this that

if you actually practice exercising your spiritual senses, you can

get to a place when God starts moving. You can

actually discern the difference between an angel ministering with God's

presence versus the Holy Spirit ministering himself, because an angel

carrying his presence discerns different than the Holy Spirit. This

is available to all of us because you're a new

creation in Christ. The God of the universe lives inside

of you. So why you losing it? Why do we fear,

fret and worry. Why are we worried about the future.

We already know the end. Why are we afraid to

share the Gospel with people? Think about it right now.

Think about the last time you actually shared the Gospel

with someone, y'all. That's ground zero. Like this, that's where

it starts. It starts with us as the body of

Christ being the Light and salt. Because the whole intention

of revival is to bring a sustained revival, is to

bring reformation. And the only way you see reformation is

if you actually have the entire fivefold ministry, equipping the

saints for the work of the ministry, and actually getting

them into the seven Mountains of influence so that you

can actually see the culture transformed. It's not about us

perfecting the perfect service on Sunday morning Hebrews one six

to seven in verse thirteen and fourteen, and again when

he brings the first born into the world, he says,

let all God's angels worship him. Of the angels, he says,

he makes his angels wins, and his minister is a

flame of fire. And to which of the angels has

he ever said, sit at my right hand until I

make your enemies a footstool for your feet? Are they

not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the

sake of those who will inherit salvation. I've had one

angelic visitation in my life. One. When I hear people

talk about having angelic visits every day and going to

Heaven every day, I call hogwash on it. There's one

time I was out of my physical body standing before

an angel, and not that all of you. When you

have God dreams, you're actually interacting with angels in those dreams.

And when you have warfare dreams. You're interacting with fallen spirits,

and you need to realize that. See, we there's enough

here that if you actually spent time, it would be

impossible for you to have a natural biblical worldview. And

that's one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the United

States Church is that we have a natural biblical worldview

rather than a supernatural You realize that if you pull

all your means and visions out of the Bible, you

would lose one third of the Bible one third. I

grew up in a denomination that didn't believe in any

of this stuff. I was so narrow minded I could

see through a keyhole with both eyes. Was was I? Hey,

she knew me when I was that way. Somehow God

had mercy on me. I still got to marry her.

So what does it look like if the if the

winds of change are blowing, what is God trying to

change in your life right now? Typically what I see

is when pressure starts coming into a part of my

life and it's like I start feeling pressure, it's because

something needs to change in that area. And God has

no problems with increasing that pressure on you. Do you

ever figure that out? Yeah? You want to be stubborn.

He just goes and he'll keep turning it up. So

where's your pressure right now? What is the Holy Spirit

taking his massive godfinger and pointing at Because we're all

in process, y'all? Are you with me? So we all

need healing. But inner healing should not last a lifetime.

If you've been in an inner healing for fifteen years,

something needs to be evaluated. But you will grow up

in him. Until you leave out of here, we'll continue

to grow up. It says. Though the outward man's perishing,

the inward man's being renewed day by day by his word. See.

I think one of the things with things changing is

that we have got to get back to the basics

of the kingdom. If number one, if you never share

your faith, Holy Cow, there's one, there's one. I have

a question. I don't know. Maybe one hundred and seventy

people in here this morning, Maybe what if every one

of you this week, every single person in this place,

was able to lead somebody to the Lord. And I

don't mean that means they come here whatever, it's the

body of Christ. But the reality is one hundred and

seventy souls come into the Kingdom, Hell was plundered. It

was because we just open our mouths and obedience to

make disciples of all nations right. Go. He didn't say sit,

he said go. But unfortunately, it's usually persecution that makes

us go. It's usually persecution that actually motivates us to

press into the Lord and actually live in the Kingdom. Then,

I want to tell you the days ahead. You're gonna

have to learn kingdom principles and how to operate and

function truly in the Kingdom and spirit and truth. It's

not easy, y'all. The tests get bigger, you get bigger words.

You got to have bigger backbone. It's been my desire,

Oh here we go. I feel emotion. It's been my

desire to keep the ministry out of debt. It's been

my desire to to be able to build the new

buildings without a big old monster loan. And we've gotten

words about moving forward and how to move forward. And

two days ago I told Lisa, I was like, yeah,

but I haven't had a real clear word from the

Lord personally yet. Then I'm having breakfast yesterday with somebody

and they're praying over me, and all of a sudden

they start praying about Isaac and laying Isaac on the

altar and provision and show them the hidden provision. And

as they're praying about provision and hidden provision over me,

the Holy Spirit says, that's your confirmation. So guess what.

We're breaking ground this fall without a loan by faith.

We're finally at a point with the plans that we're

actually bidding them out with our subs right now. So

and I understand that's just a building. You're the church,

but God has huge plans for this region, y'all. So

we need to allow the Lord to examine us. Now.

You know, there's a reason for basic training. For those

of you that have been a military there's a reason

why when people decide to go run a marathon, they

don't go the first day and go run twenty miles.

That's stupid. I was side note, No, I know, we're

almost done. We were living in Lynchburg, Virginia, and I

was training for a ten miler. I know I'm not

built for distance, but I was training and I was

at five miles and my buddy and his wife, we're

gonna do the rock and Roll half a marathon in

Virginia Beach his wife, Jen messes her knee up the

day before. I'm young, so obviously I didn't die. I'm

still here, and he goes, man, run, why don't you

run in her place? I was like, dude, I've never

ran more than five miles, Like I can't run thirteen.

He's like, come on, man, just run with me. I

was like, okay, fine, So I put her chip on

my shoe. When I came across the finish line, it

said Jen Yates, but it had my face. And because

they gave me a plaque and they xed out Jen

Yates the certificate and put justin Carbiner and I went

from five miles to thirteen point one miles in one run.

Hardest thing I ever did in my entire life. At

mile ten downtown Virginia Beach, I'm literally yelling at myself,

come on, you wus. I'm like, you know, all the

psychological stuff. And I get across the line and I

like to not come up when I go to grab

one of those towels and all that. That's not I

say all that because I'm not bragging. Trust me, my

heart rate was up for like three days, but that's

not the time to go oh I guess I should

have been training a little bit. Are you with me?

The United States? That we well, at least I'm forty seven,

so I would say mid forties and older. That United

States is not here today? Can we all agree on that?

And now I don't believe for a moment the Lord's

done with our country. But I'm telling you right now

he's going to use the church to bring it back,

not politics. Are you with me? But that means we've

got to be about our father's business. And yes, I

know I don't have my literal Bible right here, but

that is our instruction manual to the Kingdom. It's our

instruction manual to interact in intimacy with the Lord. It's

our instruction manual for battle. Everything we need for life

and godliness, for the training and righteousness is there in

his word. And I just want to encourage y'all. Allow

the Lord in this season to prune what needs to

be pruned, Allow him to realign what needs to be realigned.

Allow him to highlight things, highlight blind spots, and surrender

those blind spots. You understand, if you don't let go,

you're guaranteed to lose your life in that area. If

you seek to save your life, you'll lose it. But

if you lose your life for my sake, then you

find it in this It's it's it's a daily choice, y'all.

It's absolutely a daily choice. So it's my heart that

we have good counsel and good good spirits over Kirk County. Right,

y'all stand, Please if the prayer team would come forward, Well,

hopefully some of that made sense. I woke up at

seven o'clock this morning not having a clue what I

was going to talk about. That seems to be the

theme in my life. Lisa says that scares her too

much to do that. So, Father Lord, may we have

the sensitivity to your spirit Lord to know the times

and seasons were in like the sons of Isakar. Lord,

give us insight. The winds of change are blowing, Lord,

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