Yahweh Ezer

Okay, guys we are talking about Yahweh Ezer and you're thinking to yourself never heard of that before and

That's understandable

Yeah, doesn't ring a bell. So

We're basically continuing to examine

Ways that we can

Apply to come out of being plundered come out of being imprisoned

which is where we started four or five weeks ago and

Come out of places of plunder and come out of prisons to a broad place where we can stand

Broad places of strength. So let me say that again. We are continuing to examine

Ways or means to apply in our lives to come out of plunder and to come out of prison into broad places of strength

and

so one of the names I want to examine today and is this thing is this name that

Sometimes

God is referred to as and it's Yahweh Ezer. It's not even a name. It's just just a

Title given to one of its characters Yahweh Ezer and Yahweh Ezer means the Lord my helper

Yahweh Ezer means the Lord

my helper and

You see some of it in Psalm

33 20

The Lord my helper that's what Yahweh Ezer means Lord my helper

You see it in Psalm 33 20

But it's not Psalm 33 20 that I want to look at today

I want to look at another scripture and then examine two concepts or two precepts that we need to consider

And that scripture is Hebrews 13 6

Hebrews 13 6 and

Here's what her Hebrews 13 6 says

Let me read it Hebrews 13 6

Bernice will you be needing a translation in French or you okay?

Okay

Hebrews 13 verse 5 onwards

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you have for he has said

I will never leave you nor forsake you so we can confidently say

The Lord is my helper I will not fear

What can man do to me

The Lord is my helper I will not fear

What can man do to me and that's what I want to examine

Guys our understanding of the word helper if I asked you to define helper. How would you define?

Helper right helper quickly define

Right helper quickly define someone who helps brilliant anybody else

Someone who knew knows what you need and is able to facilitate helper

Okay, sorry say that again comfort under every circumstance

Someone who lifts you up and upholds you

Assistant and these are the words I thought of too and so stuff

I've written is our understanding or my understanding of helper is someone who assists or contributes or plays an

Invaluable part in the fulfillment of a purpose or fulfillment of an assignment

But unless this definition changes the scripture is of little value to us

Our our whole thought of helper is one who assists one who contributes towards

Something getting better one who sometimes may play an invaluable role in helping me fulfill an assignment

But unless this definition changes this scripture and the character of God it reveals is of little value unless

This definition changes

This scripture that I've read out

Hebrews 13 6 the Lord is my helper

I will not fear what can man do to me this scripture and the character of God it reveals is of little value guys

God is not someone who assists

God is not someone who contributes

God is not someone who occasionally plays an invaluable role in the fulfillment of your life purpose or in assignments that you have

Our definition of the word helper has so diminished this

This this character of God in our lives because when we think the Lord is our helper

It's like saying I can do it, but I'd really like your help

And goes against the grain of everything God is trying to say in terms of Yahweh as there the one who helps

The only way you will realize the full impact of

The Lord is my helper is when you actually begin to see yourself as absolutely helpless in every given situation

The only way you and I will realize the full impact of the Lord is my helper is

When you actually

Begin to see yourself as

Absolutely helpless in every situation otherwise he's an assistant

Otherwise he's an assistant

Through Christ who strengthens me yeah good good Maria

You can even be speak I didn't understand what doesn't mean yeah

Yeah

Workplace and God opened the door I testify about Jesus and he was very open to receive it Wow

About things that I was going to work and I was talking to God I said God I know you are

You're a healer inside me, but I don't understand what I'm going through this pain and God was extremely

Inside and I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and I went when I went to work and the customer came it was a new

customer

It was very interesting that

I'm not a believer

I don't believe in go on I don't believe in Muhammad

But I'm a seeker and I talked to me what Jesus and he said to me I know I read Bible

It's a new testament and I'm I love about the Philippians and I said to him which is scripture and he said to me

Philippians 4 13 and and I said to him I can do everything to

I

Absolutely

Absolutely guys the thing is because we think of him as assisting us as perhaps making a

God sized contribution to what we are doing and

Sometimes playing an invaluable role, especially in very difficult situations. That is what we render him as in terms of helper

but again

Like I was saying the only way you will realize the full impact of the Lord is my helper or the full impact of Yahweh

Is there is when you actually begin to see yourself as absolutely helpless in any given situation?

So every time you use up you usurp

Responsibility for managing the areas of your life

You basically have abdicated dependence on God every time you usurp

The responsibility of managing your life because we are grown-ups. We are able

Every time you usurp the responsibility of managing your own life. You're I end up abdicating my dependence on God

For some strange reason guys we have this conceited self-righteous idea

That you and I can do a thing if God will help us

For some strange reason we have this conceited

Self-righteous idea that you and I can do a thing or two if God will help you

See the difference between

Like when you look at Gabrielle

She does not have that conceited self-righteous idea that she can do anything

There is this helplessness, which is why she can turn and say

Mariana is my helper. I will not fear what can man do to me?

But as a result of that, she is able to do anything

I will not fear what can man do to me?

But as kids grow up you'll find that Tavis perhaps can't say it with the same innocence as Gabrielle can

And then we grow up to where we are at

And we have this conceited self-righteous idea that there are things that I can do quite well

So sure I wouldn't mind some help

But really not the kind of help that God wants to give and so God will allow you to go on

Till you break the neck of your ignorance on some obstacle

God will allow you to go on till you break the neck of your ignorance on some obstacle

Now it comes with a warning

It's getting worse by the year

There are reasons why you don't recognize your helplessness guys or why I don't recognize my helplessness

One of the reasons I don't recognize my helplessness is because yeah, that's the positive side of it me

One of the reasons I don't recognize my helplessness is just because of human pride in terms of what I do well

Like I've begun to cultivate the habit of

Being helpless in terms of teaching being helpless in terms of the prophetic because a time had come about six months ago where

There is a pride in just just the grace in me. There's a pride over that too

And so one of the reasons I don't recognize my helplessness is because of my human pride too

It's because of my expertise. I've been doing this since 94

I've been leading worship since 94 at least or actually even before 91

That's a heck of a lot of years to be leading worship. There's a degree of expertise that comes with it

And yet this morning I was telling the lord father

I want

To be both able to enter into a place in worship that i've never been before

And help others to enter into too as one who is leading worship

That's why I was getting so excited about that song sing like never before

Oh my soul because surely there are infinite places to go to in god

Third reason is because of our view that god perhaps is standoffish and capricious

That's one of the reasons we don't think of god as helper

Because we think god perhaps is standoffish

And capricious as in whimsical. He sometimes does sometimes doesn't

We asked this question two three weeks ago guys

Have you I don't know if you did your homework or I don't know if you've been doing your homework over the last two weeks

If if you remember that teaching on the good shepherd

We talked about how over the next two weeks

We will follow a pattern in the way we approach god during the day

and

Want to say to you that i've been practicing

So I hope you've been because if you're not there's nothing we can do about it

So here's the thing guys

We asked this question, how do you

Identify god's perception of you

In here, how do you think god is towards you? Yeah, that was the question. How do you think god is towards you in here?

Not what you know here here. We know god loves us god is kind god is there's god is that we know it here here

How do you think god is towards you?

And we said for some of us god may be in our in our heart we think but he's always judgmental or

I've always got to try and please him

Or he's standoffish

I know I know he's done a great lot of things for me. I know people are getting healed and all that stuff

But most of the day, I think he's standoffish. It's

it's not that

He he approaches me always and wants to be with me there's a standoffishness

We ask that go and ask yourself that question because strange answers will come out from each of us will come a different answer

as to how you

How you think god is towards you?

And I can almost guarantee that there'll be no one in this room who will be able to say

that

God is just a complete father and friend and he's just intensely in love with us

All that is in here very few of us think like that here

That's why I find for myself

I realized that that's why maybe god said trust in the lord with all your heart true

No the difficult I would separate both issues mariam i'd say the difficult time

Has nothing to do with god allowing it because if he allowed it then he wouldn't rebuke it

So in that sense, it's a separate issue. But yes

The thing the our response to the issues of life and our response to experiences our response to ministry is colored

By how we think god is towards us

So if god is standoffish, it'll take me longer to trust him. I'll give you an example

eric

Was pondering on this question?

Some nights ago after I asked it in vernon and he's awake at two o'clock at night

And suddenly he hears a scream from his son's room and his son says daddy

And eric just gets up from the bed and dashes into luke's room

And he's standing there and

Even as eric was telling the story

He suddenly realized that

God turns up in a second when you call

But very rarely do we think that god turns up with that kind of speed at your call

Many of us who've been through experiences that are taking forever have this

idea that

It'll take a while before

This god responds because boy is he slow in getting to his feet and yet in the middle of the night

Luke says daddy and eric is there in a flash

Because his son just called and he's standing there saying what happened luke

And luke responds saying daddy it's pitch black in the room

Because he has two nightlights and one had died

And the other and when he went to sleep it was on but at some point during the night it had died

So it's pitch black and he's saying daddy it's pitch black. And so one of the nightlights had died the other nightlight was

upstairs in a fort

That luke had built with cushions and stuff like that and so he says

Daddy the light is upstairs

And so eric says don't worry luke i'll go get it and he says no daddy i'll get it and so he goes up

stairs and

Says it's in the fort and eric says

Don't worry son i'll get it for you

And he says no daddy i'll get it. He says but son i can get it easily

No daddy, if you get it, you'll spoil the fort

You'll spoil the fort and so he creeps into the fort

And he's trying hard to yank at the light and he can't get to it because he he's too small for it

And eric is standing there and watching he's saying son. I know exactly how to do it

I will not break your fort. I'll move a couple of cushions and i'll put them back

I'll pull the plug out of the socket. I'll get no daddy. You can't come into my fort

You will spoil the fort. I want to get the light and he struggled and he struggled and he struggled

And finally after a lot of struggling eric went took two cushions out pulled off the light held his son's hand

Took him back to bed plug the light on

And it was like a parable of our lives

Calling for help

And then not willing that god come and fix it

Because after all the help we call out for

You can't because you will spoil my fort

It is the condition of my life in your life may i say

The first thing that touched me is as soon as he said daddy his dad was there

And

I was thinking of it after I heard the story from eric two days ago and I thought father i'll never again doubt your

immediate arrival at my cry

I'll never doubt it again

Because if you as fathers being evil know how to respond how much more my heavenly father as it says in the book of luke

I said i'll never doubt it again that when I ask for things even though there is no feeling

Even though there is no

Taste or sense of it that you are there jesus because this is your this is your this is your very nature that is being expressed

Here in this case through eric

And then once he comes

And once i've asked for help

To yes go with him upstairs, but now to have the ability to be helpless

So that my father can help me

So that my father can help me

What is the fort in your life matt that you don't want him to dismantle what is the fort in your life jacob?

That you don't want him to touch because it'll

It'll mess things up temporarily

What is the fort in your life morris vane?

You can cry for help, but no don't mess with this, but he's not messing with it

It's not messing with it

He's talking about my timing

That's that's not I I think that's a lie that's being perpetrated by some preacher some time ago

that

I'm, not saying you are i'm just saying it's a lie that his timing is not my timing

Gabriel couldn't care two hoots about timing because she knows her mom knows the time

We are the ones who think that it is not this is my time and this is god's time

No, no, no once you trust helplessly there is no need to be afraid of timing

Gabriel never says but it's time to feed but I guess my time is different from your time. No, all she does is

She doesn't do that she's much finer girl than that

But but the point is this whole thing of timing would not be an issue if I was helpless

The whole thing of timing becomes an issue because I want my fort

Constructed a certain way and served a certain way by the god of the universe and therefore timing kicks in

I

Mean not touching that today. We are talking about only about childlikeness

Where there is it's okay to assume responsibilities for something but today if you notice I use the word when you usurp responsibility

And you usurp responsibility and that's different

Because there is a time when I have to move from

Childishness to greater maturity to greater maturity and that is when there are times when the father will say I've taught you well

I want to see you begin to walk

But I'm not talking about that at all today. I'm talking about rendering ourselves helpless if god wants to be Yahweh as there to you

I mean, that's why Paul does say when I was like a child I thought like a child

Gordon free puts it this way

When the Sun comes up

The streetlights are extinguished. So there is a time for that

But till then

That's a separate topic today. We're talking about

being helpless

So

Those are the reasons guys human pride expertise because your view of god is

Do you understand Maria more? I'm trying to say timing is only an issue because we are not helpless

It's not an issue once I'm helpless

Because now Yahweh is there it's perfect in this time. And so I don't have a contrary time

So

Contrary time

So, let me read these lines just as is without explaining it so that we hear it one more time

Our understanding of helper is someone who assists or contributes or plays an invaluable part in the fulfillment of a purpose or an assignment

Unless this definition changes the scripture and the character of god it reveals is of little value

God is not someone who assists not someone who contributes or occasionally plays an invaluable role in the fulfillment of your life

The only way you and I will realize the full impact of the lord is my helper

Is when you actually begin to see yourself as absolutely helpless in every given situation

Every time I usurp responsibility for managing areas of my life, I abdicate dependence on god

As long as you have a conceited self-righteous idea that you can do a thing if god will help you

God will allow you to go on till you break the neck of your ignorance over some obstacle

There are reasons why you don't recognize your helplessness a human pride b expertise c

Because of your view of god as standoffish or capricious or judgmental or slow

D

Sometimes we see god as one who may help but spoil what I have poured my sweat into to build

That's what happened with luke

Finally the boy went to bed night light was put on and eric stood there saying son

Why were you stopping me from bringing you light?

Why were you struggling so hard preventing me from helping you

Bring light into your life

In any area guys where I need help I must come to the king as helpless

In any area of my life where I need help

I must come to the king not as can you assist assist me but I must come to the king as helpless

Helplessness

It's a beautiful thing to be helpless is basically to be disrobed of self-reliance

To be helpless is to be disrobed of self-liter is to be disrobed

Disrobed

Of self-reliance

On my abilities

It is

To be unruffled i'll explain this unruffled by my

Insufficiency

It is to be excitedly

Dependent

On papa

Excitedly dependent on papa

And last and the fourth one is refusal

To claim

Ownership

Of grace and gifts in my life of the graces of the graces and gifts in my life and i'll explain it

I

Christie I don't know if anybody told you but the preacher here goes on for a while. Okay?

The first one was a disrobed of self-reliance on my abilities disrobed so

helplessness is to be disrobed of

Self-reliance on my abilities so that's the first one because I have abilities you have abilities

There's nothing wrong with them they're given by God but it disrobed of it not to not to wear it as a robe that now becomes

that which

Opposed me because then there's no need of help

To be disrobed as an aware of it but not

But a greater awareness that there is a helplessness in which the sufficiency of God can do well

And second one is beautiful

unruffled by my

insufficiency

unruffled by my insufficiency guys

We are so ruffled by our lack and our inadequacy

That we cover it up with all kinds of drama and all kinds of bravado and all kinds of stuff

To be unruffled by your insufficiency. I saw the ruffling of

Jason's insufficiency the night before I asked him not to take his notes and preach I

Didn't hear it his wife even heard it

But I saw it he was highly uncomfortable as he made his way back to his room and I could see his face was tight

But I didn't know what it was

How bad it was but you should have seen how unruffled in his insufficiency?

he was the next day when he was standing there on stage with not a care in the world because

Now there was nothing he could do no notes no nothing

Unruffled by his insufficiency. It's a place where nakedness is okay

You're not ruffled by

God wants yeah, and that's part of it and there's another part to which I'll touch

Yes, when we live like this God does get the glory guys whoever you reveal gets a glory

Whoever you reveal in your life is the one who gets a glory if I reveal myself

Like when this lady's ear was healed who was revealed?

I made such a such a strong attempt to make sure that the father was revealed because I knew after three days of teaching

That I could easily reveal myself and if I reveal myself who would get the glory

I would if you reveal acts 29 who will get the glory acts 29 will if you reveal your

Denomination who will get the glory your denomination will

Depending on who you reveal in your Christian actions that is what or that is who gets a glory you reveal the father the father

Gets a glory

There are different ways we reveal it

There are different ways we reveal it. I could have prayed for this woman and so praise the Lord

Thank you about for the gift that's resident did me. Hello

We got amazing Christian ways of doing this man

Yeah

Unwrapped by my insufficiency. This is a key one a to be at peace with your insufficiency

This is not what the world teaches is advertisements sell things because you are ruffled by your insufficiency

So let me put some cream on your face and you look better and really you don't

Kamala night discovered that long ago

Thirdly guys to be excitedly dependent on Papa

Not

Gotta depend on him again

To be excitedly dependent on Papa. Look at her. She just walks ahead

I was thinking of this I was walking with Jason and the kids at the airport

It's a strange place to meet him

But and they were walking ahead a Mariana was sitting with the one that can't walk yet

and the other two kids were walking and at times you could see them coming towards a

Escalator and you will think they can't handle it

And yet there is an excited looking at Papa and they'll stand there and then look at him

Look at him and then he'll come and say okay go ahead

There's an excited dependence on Papa

Helplessness always has an excited element in it. I'm helpless, but I'm excited because my papa is going to help me down this escalator

and

Fourthly a refusal to claim ownership of one's own gifts and graces meaning you're aware that you have gifts

You're aware that you have the grace of God to function in a certain way

But refusal to claim ownership and I have done this I have claimed ownership of some of the gifts

I have and the grace and I've seen it in my words

I was thinking of it this morning how many times I've said

It's because of the grace in me and there's a claiming of ownership and yet not to claim it and let it function. Oh

This is where Eddie stands up that man has grace and gifts in him, but he never claims ownership

Guys

The more conscious you are of your successes and failures of your distinctions and your distortions

The more you will look at yourself and the less helpless you are

It comes back to this whole thing of being unruffled in my inadequacy

The more you are someone who looks at your success and looks at your failure

looks at your distinctive ways and looks at your distortions the more you are

Focusing on yourself and the less you are helpless

Are they?

Are they?

It goes against the grain of everything the world teaches us

The more I look at the more I think oh I did this successfully the more I think

That was a failure the more I think well that was good

This is such a weakness the more I focus on myself the less helpless I'll be because now I'll try to cover it

Myself there's a tendency. It's a fig leaf thing. It started long ago guys long ago started

Cover things with fig leaves

So in a sense

Helplessness is directly proportional to transparency

You want to measure helplessness? You'll know a helpless person when you see their transparency

I will know you don't need to know we will know we will know you're helpless when your life is transparent

We disguise our lives because we are not helpless so we help ourselves a child is transparent

That's why they say things they should not be saying

Helplessness will always show in transparency

Sorry

Not happy with our weakness unruffled in our insufficiency not necessarily happy but unruffled

Someone who's transparent is usually someone who's dependent. I'm not talking about someone who is

Speaks their mind without thinking I'm talking about someone who's transparent is usually someone who is

Who understands helplessness Jesus was like this guys he was caught

This is ridiculous

He was conscious of his inability to do anything apart from his father

Just think of it

I mean I I know this but just think of it

He's the son of God and he's conscious of his inability to do anything without his father

So he determined not to speak his own words not to follow his own plans not to work his own mighty words

And he goes ahead and says in John 15 5

Jacob

Listen to this. He says to me Jacob apart from me

You can do nothing

But before he said that to me in John 15 5 in John 5 19

He said just so you know I as the son can do nothing by myself either

He says the son can do nothing by himself

So Jesus was conscious of his inability to do anything apart from the father

He didn't have this conceited thought and if there was anyone who could have a conceited thought about who he was it's him man

Philippians 2 9 says 2 6 9 says that knowing that he was equal with God

If there was anyone who could be considered as him saying after all I am God

But he didn't have this conceited self-righteous thought that he can do a thing if God his father helps him

You see how far we have to go guys so this week guys try to develop

the awe the wonder the helplessness and the dependence of a child

It's an awe and wonder helplessness, huh, it's not a oh

I'm useless. I'm a worm helplessness. It's an awe and wonder helplessness. I

Want to cultivate this man might I'm selling a lot of fun. It might take a couple of years

I feel God saying well start today

Pardon yeah, great so start there

Start there

The Lord is my helper I will not be afraid what can mortal man do to me

That takes us to the second part guys, and it's a completely different shift now

So we've talked about helplessness and now we'll talk about something completely different

Which still has to do with I will not be afraid what can mortal man do to me guys

There is helplessness on one side, and then there is this thing called authority on the other side, and they are not oxymorons

They are like

Gravity and aerodynamics so on one hand you begin to understand helplessness and walk in it, but on the other hand

Is my teaching making you feel sleepy?

She's going home to sleep

You're on video I

Know I know no we don't need to say that someone just left the building to go home and sleep

It's a free church

So

Guys so on one hand there is helplessness and then on the other hand there is this thing that we are called to function in

Which is authority?

It would seem like two completely different things

It would seem like two completely different things and yet they have to come together

On one hand Jesus empties himself on the other hand he is Lord of all

So I just want to touch on authority

Matthew 28 all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me

Therefore go and make disciples teach nations and so on guys

Here's the definition of authority mastery

Power of rule

Those are enough mastery of power of rule that gives you a good idea

so all

Authority Jesus said in heaven and earth so what is the jurisdiction that Jesus operates in what are the towns or districts?

He operates in he operates in the district of heaven and he operates in the district of earth and all authority in both these jurisdictions

all mastery all power of rule has been given to me therefore

You guys can now go ahead and cleanse lepers you guys can go ahead and heal the sick

You guys can go ahead and cast demons out you guys can go ahead and teach you guys can go ahead and help people

Observe what I've taught them guys. This is just the first level of authority

It is given to everybody in this room who knows Jesus Christ as Lord

This is the first level of authority it's called authority that is delegated to you as in given to every believer

And along with that comes a promise that as you go know that I'll always be with you

This is what we talked about

Last week when we mentioned the name of this guy called Hill Keeah in Isaiah 22 verses 22 23

Isaiah 22:22

Which you have all read as because you go over your notes every week and so

Well, and so I always forget that the videos watching I was gonna say something sarcastic so

He'll kill was this guy who

Was given the keys to open and shut those we talked about this last week guys the first level of authority is

given to everybody here saying here you go ahead I have

Power of mass power of rule and mastery over the entire heaven and earth so Marcus you go ahead

I give you now power of rule and mastery to go and cleanse lepers

Heal the sick raise the dead teach people about me that is applies to everybody. It's called delegated authority

That's the first level but guys there's more to it than daddy

There is another level of authority that comes by virtue of my position

There's another level of authority that comes by virtue of my position

And here's how it works and this is something we don't walk in it because it's not the way we think

Because I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places and to begin with we don't think that's really a reality

But because we are seated with Christ in heavenly places and because Christ is seated above all

Principalities and powers thrones dominions and every name that is named

Therefore I have authority over those things that are under me

We don't think like this but stand up and say I am the authority

We don't think like this but it's time we began to because we entering our next seven year phase

I am seated with Christ in heavenly places. So how does that work Jacob?

Your life is hidden in Christ and Christ who is in heaven lives in you

It's that moment and I've explained this before it's that moment when a child has just been born and they haven't cut the umbilical cord yet

And so on one hand the child is connected to the mother on the other hand the child is out in the world

It's a dual existence suddenly both connected to the mother's womb and out in the open

This is our condition. I am hidden with Christ and seated with Christ wherever the throne of God is

And at the same time Christ who is king over the entire universe

Dwells in me

So where am I seated with Christ over above all principalities powers dominions names thrones

When I begin to let this soak I'll understand that there is a certain authority that comes to me just because of how I'm located positionally

For instance when a lion cub is sitting next to a full grown male lion and there's a hyena cub nearby or a calf of a giraffe nearby

Because of the way the food chain is arranged we know who is king

When the food chain is arranged we know who is king

We know that the lion cub sitting next to the full grown male lion has authority over the little calf or over a hyena cub

Doesn't matter we know how it works because the food chain is arranged a certain way

Just like the food chain has authority structures when it comes to the spiritual chain there is an authority structure

And I as a lion cub sitting next to the full grown male lion called Aslan have authority just by virtue of my position and my pedigree

So what should the devil do then to make sure that Acts 29 never walks in it? Cause you never to ponder on these truths

Render you earthbound so that you never come into this understanding of authority positionally

Do you know how helpful it is when we understand the first layer of delegated authority the second layer of positional authority and now we go to the third layer

Especially when you confront the realms of darkness remember guys sickness is a weapon used by the powers of darkness

And should be resisted with all your strength instead of accepting it as part of life

I've never said this line here and I'm saying it very clearly to you sickness is not a part of life

Sickness is an enemy and it is a weapon used by the powers of darkness to inflict to be used as weaponry against people made in the image of God

Begin to resist it into saying this is life this if it is life then we are still stuck in the face called fall

And we do not think of a face called redemption already not yet I understand it will happen but see it as an enemy

Because if you don't see something as an enemy why would you resist it?

Why would you resist something that's not an enemy? If it's part of life there'll be a lack in your heart to resist something

The third level of authority guys can be drawn from Jesus' story again

Why was Jesus given a name above all names and given the authority he was as king over everything and everything should bow to him

Why was he given that name above all names?

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Philippians 2.69

He emptied himself and made himself submissive to the will of God and obedient unto therefore God is now raised him up and given him a name above all names

So that at his name every name above has every tongue confess

Guys the third level of authority is when you begin to submit and live in a kind of obedience that is ridiculous to the nature of God

You submit and live obedient to the nature of God and in the process what happened to Jesus now happens to you

Because the moment you are submitted to the nature and order of God here on earth everything that is subject to Christ is now subject to you

I'll repeat that

When you submit not to the name of Jesus, when you submit not to a set of rules but when your heart begins to actively with mistakes, with failures and getting up

When your heart actively submits to the nature of God

When your heart actively submits to the nature of God

And I deliberately use the word nature to the nature of God

Then you will find that all the things that are subject to Christ are now subject to you

Christ did that, Christ submitted to the nature of the Father, obedient unto death

And what happened? He was given a name that is above every name

What happens then is you suddenly begin to reign as co-heir

Romans chapter 8

Romans 8 · chapter mention

You become a co-heir

Now it's not delegated authority, it's not even positional authority

It is because everything that is subject to Christ is now subject to you because you are reigning with him as co-heir

This is why the demonic realm begins to now say

Jesus I know and Jason I am familiar with and I have heard about him

But who are you?

Because now it's no longer delegated authority

The sons of Sceva were trying delegated authority on a complicated level

We adjure you in the name of Jesus Christ whom Paul preaches

It was a double delegation

It's not delegated authority, it's not even by virtue of position

It's because now you are known because of the character that you have taken, the nature that you submit to

Go ahead Matt

Yeah, bring it from the head to the heart by coming and confronting the fact that Father here I know you love me

Here I think that you are a standoff fish

There's a gap about, help me

It's not a true gap

But here I know you are kind

Here I think you couldn't care less

Here I know you are a deliverer

Here I think you have abandoned me

Here I think you are gentle

But here I think you are always angry and hard to appease

Begin there

It's like the kid with the port, it's in his head and he's doing that just because of life experience of the world

And it didn't always work out

So how are you going to make your heart think any different?

Again it comes back to this one fundamental thing which I taught for two days in Vernon with regard to healing

I must have such an inviolable understanding of the nature of God that no experience will color his nature

Inviolable

Matt, there are some areas where I trust your nature

You are human, you are full of flaws

As we all are

As we all are

So even though that is there, there are times when there are some parts of you that I can trust

Regardless of whether you come early or late, there are certain things that I know you can be dependent on

And you are just human

If I've been convinced of that over the last five or six years

How much more a God who is a million times better than you?

At least

Just so you feel good about yourself

The point being guys, it happens through relationship

It happens through arriving at a certain point in time

It happens through relationship

It happens through arriving at this place of the inviolability of the nature of God

It cannot happen except through relationship

But this has to now come down here

This third layer of authority I'm talking about guys

It's an outcome of being indistinguishable from your king in terms of being submitted to his nature

Indistinguishable from your king

When the demonic sees you, it doesn't see delegated authority

It doesn't even see authority by virtue of your position

It sees an authority that comes because you have become indistinguishable with your king

Not because you're perfect

But because you seem to have been obsessed with, consumed with, submitting to the nature of your king

And this kind of authority has the capacity to enforce things legally

Whatever then that is subject to Christ is now become subject to you

It's powerful man

It carries into the capacity to legally enforce decrease on the powers of darkness

And so I'd suggest to you begin to operate out of these three layers

Build them one by one

Understand what he says in Matthew 28

Understand what he says in Ephesians 2.6

And then understand this third level

So you've got helplessness on one side and authority on the other

There is a fourth level of authority which I'll just touch on

And that is apostolic authority and it's not specific to apostles

What does the word apostolic mean?

2009, 2010, we talked about this, sent

So there is an authority which comes with one's being sent

Yes, Jesus said in Matthew 20, go

But he also sends you on specific assignments

And when he sends you on specific assignments with that comes a certain authority

Like for instance in Lufthansa, all the employees are told, go and do your work well

But then someone may come along to Lorient and say, I'm sending you on this specific assignment

And suddenly in that area, she has more authority than the others

That's what I'm talking about

So for instance, Paul goes to Malta, I think

The place before that, Pamphylia, I'm not too sure

He goes there and there's this famous magician called Elimas, a sorcerer

And he's trying to prevent the gospel from entering the land

Because Paul is witnessing to this guy called Sergius Paulus

And what does Paul do?

He turns around to this famous magician and he says to him

The guy was called the great one actually, Gretzky wasn't the first guy

So he turns to the magician and he says to him

Here's what's going to happen to you, for a time now

A blindness is going to descend on your eyes and you will not be able to see

That kind of authority Paul had because he was being sent into a place to break open that place

So that the kingdom could enter

Paul talks about the same thing in 2 Corinthians 10 verses 10 to 12 where he says to the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 10:10–12

Listen guys, I bond you, I birthed you

And so I wouldn't be boasting if I say that in terms of authority

I do have authority over this fear that I have cultivated

Go ahead

He's sensing it from God

Because otherwise it wouldn't happen

He's not cursing the guy in the name of the devil

He's saying now, this is what's going to happen

And why would God wouldn't validate something that you say if it wasn't?

Another great story, you should go read it

It will blow your mind when you get to the last verse 14

A guy called Joshua, he operated in all these 4 authorities

First, he was delegated, how?

Moses called him and said, here, you are delegated as my second in command

When I am done, you will take over, delegated

Second, he operated by virtue of his position

What was his position? He was the next generation leader of Israel

And God said, wherever you go, I'll cause you to prosper

Sustain my word and I'll open paths for you

Wherever you set your feet, you'll do well

Matthew, come up here fast, fast

Come fast, man, run, run

Father, I lay hands on this boy, I lay hands on this boy

I thank you for spiritual depths that are being plumbed

Spiritual depths that are being plumbed

Seed that is lying seed, successful significant man stands here

Successful significant man stands here

Because you have chosen to meditate on the word that is spoken

Therefore, I will cause you to inherit the land

You will inherit the land

You will not be someone who insignificantly passes through life

Because you have chosen to meditate on my word

Therefore, I will prosper you and cause you to inherit the land

And I bless this man, this church blesses this man

And releases the name of Christ, the author of his destiny over him right now

We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name

Amen

And so here is Joshua, guys

Delegated authority and then his positional authority

Because he is now one who has been chosen as leader

And then he was a guy who followed after God

How do we know that?

Remember, when Moses would go and stand before God in the tabernacle

What would Joshua be doing?

Not cooking manna

He'd be standing at the gate of his tent looking at Moses, man

Learning the ways of God

When Moses went up the mountain

Joshua followed him and was waiting there to see the God of Israel

While the rest were shivering in their boots saying

Don't talk to us, we tremble at the sight of Mount Sinai

What was Joshua doing?

Half way up the mountain looking at the God of the universe

Here we are talking about authority that is not delegational or not positional

But an authority that comes by walking in the nature

And a hunger and thirst after God

He learnt well

And then finally, you see in Joshua 10

This thing that comes with apostolic authority

Where now he is being sent by God to fight the Amalekites

The Amalekites, five kings, five of them came

And God has told Joshua go and fight them and he goes to fight them

And here's what God says to them

Go and fight them and as soon as you get there, they'll start running

So he goes to fight them

And then they start running and he can't kill all of them fast enough

Because evening is coming, so what does he do?

For the first time in the history of the world

A man looks up at the sky and says, sun stand still

And the sun stands still for 24 hours

Or the earth stopped rotating or however it worked

And he slaughtered the Amalekites

And verse 14 says, never in the history of a man

Never in the history of the world did a man ever command the sun to stop

Never in the history of the world did God listen

The way he did to a man when he said sun stand still

Apostolic authority has an authority for a specific task to be accomplished

Mastery, power of rule over even the elements of nature

Four different layers guys

The fourth one is for specific assignments and tasks

When we as Acts 29 decide to go into Southeast Asia over the next seven years

We go with a certain scent authority

Because this was not our idea

Never idea, never dreamt of this

And you saw the picture

Parable, pictorial parables for us to enter into

Balance it well guys, helplessness and authority

Work it together

It will be to our great advantage and to your great advantage

So pursue helpless dependence

Pursue holy obedience

And you will have the mind of Christ as you function on earth

You will be useful

You will be unafraid

You will be a servant

And you will be a battle axe in the hands of God

You will be useful

And you will be powerful

You will be a servant

And you will be a battle axe in the hands of God

You will be useful

You will be unafraid

You will be a servant

But you will be a battle axe

A battle axe

So Father we bless you

We thank you that you are a God

Not full of contradictions

But a God who has non-clashing natures

That exist in perfect harmony

Just as you used to call yourself son of God and son of man

Here are two characteristics

One of absolute helplessness

And one of amazing authority

Coming together

I pray Jesus that since we are the body of Christ here on earth

And since we are called to walk as Christ walked the earth

Combine in us as a people Jesus

Helplessness

And authority

Teachers Lord

For the next seven year cycle is upon us

And we want to do well

Why?

Simply to please you

So we bless you Jesus

We bless you

We bless you

We bless you

Amen

Thank you

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