Waypoint Conference 2020 (Saturday) - Pastor Corey Russell (October 3, 2020) | Life Bible Church

First breakthrough of the night. Come on, Lord.

It's the first deliverance right there. Lord

just broke in on my part. Good. It's good to

be with you guys. I'm not senior pastor of Upper

Room. I'm one of the teaching, preaching pastors

there in Dallas at Upper Room. Many of you might

be familiar with some of the songs that have

come out of there and just getting to run there

is beautiful. This is absolutely beautiful, man.

I love this. I feel a little far from you. I

feel like I wish I could get a little closer

to you. This is where we're at. Yeah, I want

to first off just tell you how honored I am.

That worship was beautiful. Absolutely loved

it. And I love being here with you guys. I got

radically saved. And if you have your Bibles,

go ahead and turn to Ephesians 1. Just turn there

and I'm just praying you don't really know where

it's at. So I'm going to take about five to ten

minutes talking. That was my first joke. I got

three more. I'll tell you when they come. So

in case they just stumble by you and they're

too deep for you. But I'm originally from northwest

Arkansas, and so southern boy, and grew up in

a great family, but had no conviction nor really

encounter with Jesus. So go deep into the stuff

of this world throughout high school, increases

in college. And before we knew it, we were doing

the stuff that keeps you up three or four days

a week at a time. Way out there. But I had a

praying mom. And my friend had a praying mom.

I'm talking about an old Pentecostal praying

mom. Kind of mom that anoints everybody with

oil. That's always praying in the Holy Ghost.

They never sleep. And I'm grateful for moms like

that. Anybody got a mom like that? Devil come

out or I'm coming in after you kind of women?

You can laugh. Come on. Come on. Work with me.

Work with me. And I remember going to his house

different times, and I'd come in his house, and

she'd be waiting at the door. I'd come in high

as a kite at 3 in the morning. She'd be waiting

at the door saying, Corey, you can come in, but

you leave those demons outside. You can't come

in my house. So she'd come in. Other nights I'd

lay my head on the pillow, and she had put anointing

oil all over the pillow. And so saying, Lord,

anoint his ears. Anoint his ears, Lord. And so

that's the kind of house he grew up in. We had

praying parents. And in about November of 1996,

when we had been up for a few days and come off

of it, my friend came back and he was weird.

For the next four months, he didn't talk. We

just took him everywhere we went, but he stopped

talking. And he was weird. And us dopeheads were

planning his intervention. So you know it's bad

when dopeheads are planning another dopehead's

intervention. And so that was where we were living.

But my friend went through four months of this,

February 1, 97. I had been up at the University

of Arkansas partying that night, show up at his

house another day to hang out, and he comes running

out the front door screaming at me at the top

of his lungs, screaming, Corey, it's heaven or

hell. Corey, it's heaven or hell. You need to

make a decision right now. This is the first

conversation I've had with him in four months.

And now he's screaming about Jesus and heaven

and hell. And Corey, if you don't give your life

to Jesus, you're going to go to hell. And he

had like five brothers and sisters out in the

front yard. I go, dude, chill out. Well, he won't

chill out. And so I grabbed my other buddy and

we leave. And it was known he had come back to

Jesus. He went through a powerful three -day

deliverance. He got radically saved and I got

angry. I had put up with a weirdo for four months

and you don't get saved at 20. You get saved

at 30 when you're ready to calm down with your

life. And so I was very angry at him for leaving

me. Two weeks later, he showed up at the college

that I was at, and he took me to lunch, and he

began to share with me that for those four months,

the spirit realm was opened up, and that he was

seeing angels and demons, and he was seeing what

was controlling people, and that we were being

controlled by real devils. He says, Corey, this

is what's going on. He says, I've seen what your

life, you are being controlled. He says, and

we were shut up in a little house. He goes, this

is what happened to me. A couple of weeks earlier,

we were shut up in a little house. And the voice

of the Lord broke in the middle of the party

that we were at. And the Lord spoke to my friend

saying, he goes, Satan is raising up an army,

but I'm raising up an army too. And I'm calling

you out tonight. And I want you to go call your

friends out. So he's over lunch telling me, Corey.

You need to give your life to Jesus or you will

go to hell. I looked him right in the face. I

said, dude, shut up and take me back to school.

I never want to hear any of this again. He goes,

fine. He drives back to the college, pulls into

the parking lot. I was studying to be an elementary

teacher by degree. Wow. Thank God I got saved

on this side of the elementary teaching thing.

That was my third joke. That's all you got for

the rest of the night. It's about to get intense.

So this is the get to know you. This is the meet

and greet part of my message. So honestly, I

mean, thank God I didn't end up teaching your

little Timmy in school or something like that.

But anyway, he pulls to the parking lot, and

right before I get out of the van, Holy Spirit

filled the van. And I didn't know it was the

Holy Spirit. I felt some power move, and I started

cussing. I didn't know what it was. And before

I knew it, I'm shaking violently like I'm having

a seizure, and the power of God's touching my

body. and I'm seeing a tug -of -war battle between

light and darkness over my soul. My friend pulled

in the back of the parking lot, and I guess his

mom taught him one prayer because he went right

for it. He goes, in the name of Jesus, I bind

the Antichrist spirit. And as soon as he did,

it manifested into a chokehold around my throat,

and I couldn't breathe. And I knew at that moment,

let's get Jesus involved. Amen? We want Jesus

when you've got some devil around your throat.

And so I go to say his name, but all I can get

out is, geez, geez, geez. It kept getting tighter

and tighter and tighter. And he's in my ear screaming,

say it, say it, say it. I said, I'm trying, I'm

trying. And I remember taking a deep breath and

with all the power inside of me screaming, Jesus.

And right when I screamed his name, the hold

broke off of me. And it was like God came and

breathed into my mouth at that moment. And I

kept saying for the first five minutes, I've

got air, I've got air, I've got air. He's jumping.

He ran around the van dancing. Jericho's come

down. Jericho's come down. I didn't know what

Jericho was, but I knew it was deep. And so I

hadn't gone to Bible school yet. And so I kept

saying, I've got air, I've got air, I've got

air. And after a couple of minutes, I heard a

voice as clear as day saying. Get out of the

van and get on the pavement and give me your

life, your mind. And so this was February 18,

97. I jump out of the van, college kids running

everywhere, and I start screaming. Here's my

sinner's prayer. Jesus Christ, I give you my

life. I'm yours. Jesus Christ, I give you my

life. I'm yours. And in that moment, I pass from

death to life. In that moment. I was delivered.

We were sticking needles in our veins, smoke

a bag a day, drink a quesadilla, and in one raw

encounter with the presence of God, I was instantaneously

set free from all addiction, all perversion,

and the power of Satan. And the power of God

touched my life. I went home that afternoon,

and I sat on my porch swing for two hours, undone

by how blue the sky was, how green the grass

was, and how loud the birds were. I was absolutely

undone, and within a month, I had a drug ring

of friends that had encounters like that. I led

my little brother to the Lord, and we moved into

a season of revival where the next six months

was half the high school coming to Jesus, five

meetings a week till three in the morning, and

I just got a holy addiction for the presence

of God. I had just gotten my second DWI right

before I got saved. So I couldn't go anywhere.

So I was like, God, I've got to get all those

Tupac lyrics out of my head. I've got to get

some Bible in my head so I'd read the Bible for

eight hours a day. And I fell madly in love with

the presence of God. And that's really what's

driven me up until this day. That was whatever,

22, 23 years ago. I'm just a man that's madly

in love with the presence of God and proximity

to God. Is the purpose of our existence. It's

not just knowing him. And having get out of jail

free card. Not going to hell. It's eternal life.

Which is found in the search. And the discovery

of how beautiful God really is. How exhilarating

God really is. How fascinating God really is.

How absolutely beautiful he is. How glorious

his son is. And how this is eternal life, not

going to some cloud up there, but knowing the

only true God and Jesus Christ whom you've sent.

And I want to tell you what's as deadly as being

a strung out drug addict. It's a person that

has a form of religion, but has not experienced

the power of it. What's more dangerous than a

strung out drug addict is a form of godliness,

devoid of encounter. You were made for encountering

a real person with eyes like fire, head like

wool, his eyes are on fire, and you were made

for deep intimacy with him. Can I go there tonight?

Can I go there? God's going to deliver you and

deliver us from the greatest cancer and crisis

confronting the church in America, and it's the

cancer called boredom. We're not ready. Go to

Ephesians 1. Are we okay? You were already there.

Verse 15, Paul says, this is the prayer. I can't

stop praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of glory, would give to you the spirit

of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of

him. I love it that pastor just prayed another

apostolic prayer out of Colossians 1. I'm praying

one out of Ephesians 1. That the God of Jesus,

everybody say God of Jesus. And then he calls

him, my favorite title of God in Scripture, he

calls him the Father of Glory. The Father of

Glory. And this is his prayer for the church.

It's not for the lost. It's for the church. That

the Father of glory would give to the church

the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge

of him. The him he's talking about is Jesus.

It's his glorious son that from the previous

14 verses says that we have so many spiritual

blessings, so many heavenly blessings in this

man. We have been accepted in Christ Jesus. We

have an inheritance in Christ Jesus. We are forgiven

in Christ Jesus. We are redeemed in Christ Jesus.

We are sealed with the Holy Spirit. We know the

mystery of his will in Christ. And Paul says,

you have received these things. You haven't been

brought into the revelation of what you've been

given. That's why I can't stop praying for the

spirit of revelation in the knowledge of him.

And then he prays that the eyes of your understanding

would be opened. And that you would know the

hope of his calling. That you would know what

are the riches of the glory of his inheritance

inside of you. And that you would know the exceeding

greatness of his power. I like to say that I

would know where I'm going. I would know who

I am to Jesus. And I would know that he specializes

in raising dead people, dead things, dead relationships,

and dead circumstances. My favorite verse in

the Bible is the first one. Because in the very

beginning of your Bible, it says, in the beginning,

God. So you've got to ask yourself, we see from

the very first couple of verses of Scripture,

we see the Father, we know from John 1, and through

the Word, all things were made. So we have the

Father, we have the Son, and we see the Spirit

brooding over the darkness. So from the very

beginning, we see the Father, the Son, and the

Holy Spirit. In the beginning, before there was

ever anything created, there was God. And you've

got to ask yourself a very important question

from the very first verse of the Bible. If God's

there in the beginning, when did he begin? And

it's at that moment that you jump off the pages.

And you go on the search of the discovery of

the beginning of God's days. And I would encourage

you to go home tonight and think about this.

Maybe a million years before Genesis 1. Maybe

a billion years. Maybe a trillion years. Maybe

999 trill. 999 bill. 999 mill. 999 thou. 999

years. And you're going to keep going and going

and going. And you're going to hit a wall. And

the wall is called out of numbers. And when you

hit the wall called out of numbers, you've got

to stop and then look back to Genesis 1 and say

to yourself, I'm actually closer to Genesis 1

right now than I am to the beginning. Our God

is uncreated. There's never been a time that

he was not. He has always been. He inhabits eternity.

Jesus' name is called Alpha. He's the first.

The Father is the one. The ancient of days. And

it says that He dwells in eternity. And that

He is from everlasting and He's to everlasting.

There's no beginning to the beginning of God's

days. I love Micah chapter 5 saying, Oh Bethlehem,

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there's a ruler that's coming through you whose

goings forth are from everlasting. That he is

the one that was before anything. You must understand

when dealing with God that you're dealing with

uncreated. You're dealing with something outside

of any framework, any logic, anything that we

have to deal with, and we are dealing with eternity.

We are dealing with the uncreated God. Why is

that important, God? Why is that important? Number

one, it punches you in the forehead to say he

ain't like anybody you've ever met. Worship.

is around fascination, around something you'll

be searching for billions of years. You don't

worship what you've figured out. Why is that

important? Because what kind of love has he loved

us with? An everlasting love. His mercy is an

everlasting mercy. His goodness is an everlasting

goodness. His power, his dominion, all that he

has has always been, and no one can take it away,

not even you on a bad week. All right, maybe

that one's a little too much for you. Everybody

hold your hand out like this. Not only is God

eternal, God is transcendent, which means he's

far above everything common and created. He is

infinite. His glory fills the highest of the

heavens. And in Isaiah 40, it says that God measures

the heavens with His hand, with the span of His

hand. I ain't playing. Hold your hand like this

now. He measures all the waters in the palm of

His hand. He weighs all the mountains in scales.

The nations are but a drop in the bucket before

him, and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers.

He hung the earth on nothing. We're going to

worship tonight, and I may not play an instrument.

Is that okay? Have you ever read the book of

Job before? Hard season? I tell you, the hardest

thing that Job went through was listening to

his friends talk to him. I call it Facebook comments.

It's 30 chapters of Facebook comments. While

everybody's giving their diagnosis of what Job

did wrong to be in the situation he's in. And

everybody coming with their two cents of knowledge

acting like they're a PhD in something. And God,

they talk for 30 chapters and then God shows

up in a tornado. And how is God going to comfort

a suffering man who's lost everything, eaten

up with boils, whose life is completely shattered?

How does God comfort a suffering man? He asked

him a hundred questions with the same answer.

Were you there when I did Genesis 1? Did you

hang the earth on nothing? Did you tell the proud

waves they can come this far and no more? Did

you hang galaxies? Do you know about Big Bear,

Little Bear, Orion, and all her little cubs?

Can we talk about galaxies? Can we talk about

the cosmos? Okay, we don't talk about those things.

Do you know the mating season of the deer? Do

you know the name of little creatures in the

bottom of the ocean and understand their cycles?

Do you send lightning in the middle of the desert

just because? Why is God going to ask a suffering

man a hundred questions with the same answer

spanning from Genesis 1 to upholding galaxies

to taking care of the most smallest, most minutest

details of creation? What's God saying? He's

saying, Job. If I've got Genesis 1 on my resume,

upholding that, caring for that, and everything

in between, then surely I know how to take the

crowning jewel of my creation, taking you and

to bring you forth into the fullness of your

destiny with perfect wisdom and perfect power

and perfect care. Which means shut up, I know

what I'm doing. He's the God of our Lord Jesus

Christ. He's the God who brings His Son who is

born into the world. Because guys, I want to

tell you. They'll come through here. He's the

God of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the God who

uses absolute failure to disarm principalities

and powers. There was all of those disciples

left Jesus. Christ crucified is the wisdom of

God. And Christ crucified is the power of God.

It's weakness and foolishness to this world,

but it's the power and the wisdom of God. He's

the God who presents His own Son and then raises

Him from the dead. He's the Father of glory.

Do you know that God dwells in unapproachable

light? Do you know that God wraps Himself with

light? Do you know that God is light and in Him

is no darkness at all? Psalm 104 says He wraps

Himself with light. We know the new Jerusalem

will have no need for the sun or the moon, for

the Lamb will be the light of the city. God Himself

is going to light up a 1 ,500 mile long city

with Himself. He's the light of the world. And

he shines. He shines in unapproachable glory

and beauty. He is the father of glory. James

calls him the father of lights. Hebrews calls

him the father of spirits. Paul calls him father

of mercies. And we get to call him our father

who art in heaven. Hallowed be your name. He's

Abba. He's father. He is our beautiful Father,

and He's the Father of glory, and He shines.

Here's my burden, and I want to look now at Revelation

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chapter 4. It's time for the church to get out

of first heaven's chatter and second heaven's

chatter, and it's time to get connected to the

third heaven realm. No, no, hear me. We are so...

in the narratives, in the culture narratives

of the day. Friend, it's time to come up higher.

I wish Revelation 4 caught our attention like

that helicopter did. I'm serious. Revelation

4, there's a holy invitation being given to weak,

broken people like us. This is the one phrase

I heard tonight when I was praying this afternoon.

The Lord gave me Isaiah 50 verse 4. It's that

Isaiah 50:4

he gives me the tongue of the learned that I

could speak a word in season to him who's weary.

Some of you are very weary. I get it. It's been

a very hard year. Life, pressure, finances, uncertainty,

anxiety. And many of you pulled yourself. to

even this point. And I felt like this word right

here is a word from heaven for weary souls. I

feel like this word and this message can stabilize

a fainting heart. I love Jesus because in John

16, 31 and 2, He says, in the world, you will

have tribulation. He says it's inevitable. It's

coming to the saints. The believer and the unbeliever

alike, tribulation comes, but Jesus says for

the believer, you get to hope in this and understand

this. I've overcome the world. And then do you

know what Jesus did? It says he lifted his eyes

to heaven and he said, Father, the hour's come.

The way to navigate tribulation in this world

is by learning how to ascend. It's by learning

how to lock eyes with the Father on the throne

and to connect to that unseen realm until the

unseen becomes seen in your life. Most of us

worship our circumstances. Most of us live from

swirl to swirl. I get it. Emotional swirl. All

the swirls of this life. But I believe there's

a holy invitation. And I believe the power of

the Holy Spirit is going to touch you tonight

to bring a breakthrough and to bring a deliverance

into a new place of seeing God and of anchoring

your soul in the throne room. I'm thinking of

Hebrews 11 where it says that Moses endured because

he saw him who is invisible. Seeing. him who

is invisible. And your ability to endure is connected

that the unseen realm becomes more seen to you.

I believe Revelation 4 is absolutely a must in

this hour. The apostle John has been exiled to

Patmos. He's in a work camp. He's 90 years old.

They tried to kill him twice. He wouldn't die.

And he has an encounter with Jesus in chapter

1, gives seven letters, and then in chapter 4,

he sees a door standing open in heaven. And he

hears a voice like a trumpet saying, come up

here, and I will show you things which must take

place. I declare to every one of you right now,

if you're jacked up, weary, fainting, barely

making it, struggling with addiction, struggling

with all kinds of things, I want you to know

there's an invitation being given to you right

now to come up, to come out, and to come in to

a new place in God. There's no other group He

has to deal with than jacked up folk like us.

There are no superstars. There's nobody that's

arrived. There's jacked up people like us that

need God. And God issues the invitation to you

saying, come up here and I will show you things.

Because without vision, you perish. Without vision,

you perish. And as soon as you stop seeing, you

start dying. As soon as you stop seeing, you

start dying. And I will show you things immediately.

I was in the spirit. What I'm about to speak

to you is not Disney World. It's not a make -believe

place. It's a reality that is happening right

now. This is really happening right now. This

is the living room, the throne room of the new

Jerusalem, and it's way up there. And by faith

and through the Holy Spirit, you and I have been

raised with Christ and seated in this spiritual

place. But that city is going to come down very

soon. We always talk about us going up there.

Friend, heaven's coming down. Let me tell you

the gospel. It's not fat babies sitting on clouds

up there. Heaven is coming. A 1 ,500 mile wide,

long, and high city is going to come out of heaven

and is going to descend upon this earth. And

it's specifically going to descend over the city

of Jerusalem where two realms will become one,

where Jesus will rule over the nations of the

earth from Mount Zion. The king you're longing

for is coming. I'm not playing. This is the gospel.

This is the gospel. Come up here immediately.

And then I love this. He says, immediately I

was in the spirit. And the first thing that John

sees is a throne set in heaven. I'm praying.

I felt the Lord whisper to me this afternoon.

I'm going to take a lot of October and fast and

pray for the next election. I'm going to be leaning

in this whole month. I'm going to be praying

for government officials. I'm going to be doing

my civic duty and leaning in that God would do

things for us and for our children. But I want

you to understand something, that my hope is

not fully in November 3rd. My hope isn't fully

in November 3rd. I'm locked in on a throne that

is set in heaven. That is far above every White

House. That's above every Buckingham Palace.

That's above every Saudi Sheikh. That's above

every palace in this world. There is a throne

set in heaven. There is a throne set in heaven.

It's an immovable throne. It's far above every

power and principality and ruler and dominion.

It's above every angelic power. There is a throne

set in heaven. He's set enthroned at the flood,

and he sits as king forever. There is a throne

set in heaven, and John says, one set on the

throne. Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is

one. I saw one sitting on the throne, and he

who sat there was shining bright like a jasper,

burning like sardius. John is seeing light. And

fire engulfing itself. And he sees an emerald

rainbow surrounding the throne. I declare to

you, this is who God is and what God's like.

Our God is beautiful. But he's not some stoic,

detached ball of light at a distance. He is burning

fire. He is the God who comes after you. He's

not stoic. He's not indifferent. He's the engaged

God. He's the passionate flame. He's the God

that when humanity doesn't want Him, says, ha

-ah, and comes down here and takes on your flesh.

And the perfect life you could not live, He lived.

And then He climbed up on that cross and bore

the wrath of the Father. Grabbed you into Himself.

broke you out of the grave, and ascends you to

the right hand of Abba. Our God is not stoic.

He's flame. He's intense. There's nothing passive

about Him. He's a flame. Everything in the presence

of God is on fire. Jesus' eyes are on fire. Daniel

7 has a throne of fire with wheels of fire and

a river of fire. Ezekiel 1, the man's on fire.

Day of Pentecost, tongues of fire. John the Baptist

says he will baptize you with fire. Road to Emmaus,

their hearts were on fire. Fire tenderizes you.

Fire refines you. Fire burns the chaff. It consumes

the indifference. Most of us want to live at

a distance. How's that working in your marriages?

How's distance work in marriages? Our God is

an end to casual roommates. He's flame. But we

all know that if God's fire was let loose on

the planet, nobody could stand. That's why there's

an emerald rainbow surrounding God's throne.

Because usually most of us, the fiery ones, are

learning, Someone like me, my journey's been

tenderness. Some of you who are more tender,

your journey's been learning fire. But with God,

he's perfect flame and he's perfect mercy. He's

perfect tenderness and kindness and faithfulness.

Can I say something to everyone here? God is

the kindest person you will ever meet. He's kind.

He's actually kind to you. He dignifies you.

He's tender with you and He's patient with you.

He's not mostly agitated with you or disappointed

with you. He's mostly the patient intercessor

who breathes on your cold heart until it becomes

aflame again. Isaiah 42 says that He will not

snuff out smoldering wicks. You know what that

means? He's not intimidated by how cold you've

been. He's seen a lot harder cases than you.

What's going to happen when the mercy of God,

what's the most merciful thing God's ever done

for you? He didn't give you what you deserved.

We all deserve hell. But in Christ Jesus, we

receive heaven and the centerpiece of heaven,

the beautiful man, Christ. And in Revelation

4, we're going to see the mercy of God. We're

going to see 24 thrones surrounding God's throne.

And on them sit elders, and they're robed, throned,

and crowned. This is what you and I look like

in the presence of God. Who in here has given

your life to Jesus? Good. Can I tell you something?

You are as clean as Jesus is in the presence

of Abba. Because Jesus doesn't shop at thrift

stores. You're as close to Abba as Jesus is.

He takes his enemies. He takes prostitutes, perverts,

drug addicts, religious folk, and he gives you

thrones and he dignifies you. He crowns you.

He robes you. And he makes you his ruling class

with him. He loves to take enemies and jacked

up people and says you're going to rule with

me forever. Do you know you'll never get over

the fact? That he's taken people like us. You'll

be pinching yourself in a billion years saying,

how did I get in here? You will never get over

it. You got a verse for that, Corey? Yes. Ephesians

2, 7. That in the ages to come, he might show

the exceeding riches of his kindness towards

us in Christ Jesus. You're going to be pinching

yourself. You're never going to get over the

fact of his kindness and his mercy and his love.

What's going to happen when the church of Oregon

and the church of America wakes up to our identity

in Christ? What's going to happen when we shed

off widow clothes and widow mentality? What's

going to happen when we stop living like slaves

and orphans and prostitutes, hoarding everything?

What's going to happen? I'll tell you what's

going to happen. Lightnings are going to come

back to the church. Thunders are going to come

back to the church. Voices are going to come

back to the church. We're going to see the prophetic

spirit loosed again out of our mouths and out

of our lives over coffees and dinner tables and

pulpits. And we're going to see it at work. We're

going to see the release of the voice of God.

We're going to see whispers that break the hardest

resistance. When whispers shatter, when whispers

break, there's seven lamps of fire burning before

the throne of God. These are seven spirits of

God. And then we see a sea of glass. And then

here, just a few more minutes. Here's the throne.

Revelation 4, it's on the throne, before the

throne, around the throne. And then it says this,

and around the throne and in the midst of the

throne are four living creatures. And look at

this. They have eyes around. You're going to

meet these guys one of these days. Eyes lining

up foreheads. Their whole being is made up of

eyes and within. Which means they're translucent

creatures that their very insides are made up

of eyes. God had a blank slate and he goes, this

is what I want to do. Give them all eyes. One

like a lion, one like an eagle, one like a calf,

and one has the face of a man. And the Bible

says they do not rest day or night. Holy. Holy.

Holy. I didn't say ten seconds. I didn't say

ten seconds. Holy. Holy. Holy. They've been in

the same room with the same person singing the

same word forever. They've never gotten used

to Him. Why did God give them all them eyes?

To look at him. Why don't they stop? It's because

he never stops breaking in with fresh discoveries

of who he is. God wants to rip the scales of

boredom off your eyes. He wants to release fresh

fascination upon you. It grieves me that pornography,

that's why there's a fight for the eyes. You

understand that, right? You understand pornography

is a worship movement. It grieves me that we

have sold our birthright for so many other things.

Whether it be pornography, Facebook threads,

or anything else, the chatter of the day. Anything

instead of us looking at him. And I can feel

the jealousy of Abba saying, I'm calling you

up higher. I'm calling you up higher into a new

place of sight. I want to blow your mind with

fresh discoveries. I want to set my hand upon

your heart. I want to deliver you from boredom.

That's the greatest need for the day. Because

in Isaiah 6, it says in the year that King Uzziah

died, which means in the year that the political

Messiah died, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord. high

and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled

the temple. He says, I'm a man of unclean lips

because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord

of hosts. I believe that God wants to rip scales

of boredom off your heart tonight. Some of you

are bound in pornography and you're bound in

the second heaven's chatter of what Biden did

today or what Trump did yesterday. And I'm like,

we've got to be able to navigate because the

Lord whispered to me at the beginning of 2020,

a verse out of Jeremiah 12 verse 5, and it's

Jeremiah 12:5

if you've walked with the footmen and they wore

you out, how are you going to begin to run with

the horses in the floodplain of the Jordan? Which

means this, if you can't handle a 2 .0 on the

treadmill, there's an 8 that's coming. I want

to be very clear with you. I believe we're steadily

moving, and I don't believe, as we've known it,

I definitely want this season to end and mass

to end and all that stuff to end, but I believe

we have crossed over a threshold in the divine

storyline of God, and the birth pangs are only

going to increase. We just want to go back to

normal, and friend, I want that, but I don't

believe we are. We're crossing into a new season,

which means lazy boy Christianity is not going

to cut it. It's going to take a greater intentionality

and a greater purpose swimming against the current

of the tide. And whatever is catching your attention

in this season, I believe the only safe place

is fascination with His beauty. I believe the

only safe place is fascination with the beautiful

God. And I believe that God wants to release

a touch upon your life tonight. I felt it in

my heart. We didn't even know we were going to

be able to have this. I said, I don't care. I'll

do this in front of an empty room on a screen.

I just knew I had to say this here. I'm not being

melodramatic. I'm being someone who's been leaning

into this for a second. And I can fear, Corey,

the only safe place is my beauty. Come out of

the lesser. Anyway, let's stand. We're going

to give our eyes to Jesus. Okay? You know what

Jesus' eyes look like? If fire is the window

to the soul, What do Jesus' eyes tell you about

his soul? Fire. I want to tell you your great

way of change is not by trying harder. I hate

that demonic statement. I hate let's try harder.

That means that it's about you. It's not about

trying harder. It's about looking at him more.

We are transformed as we behold him. We are transformed

as we behold him. Yeah. Hallelujah. Come Holy

Spirit. I want to give our eyes to Jesus. And

I know this may be a little intense for some

of you, but we're going to do it. Put your hands

over your eyes. We need our eyes. We're going

to pray a prayer of repentance right now. I want

you to see in your mind's eye the man with eyes

like fire. And I want you just to see him right

now. I just want you to repeat this after me.

Just say, Jesus. Say it loud. Say, Jesus. I ask

you to forgive me for opening my eyes and my

spirit. To all forms of perversion. And the spirit

of this age. I ask you to forgive me. I ask you

to forgive me. I ask you for your blood. That

was shed at Calvary. To wash over me now. From

the top of my head. To the bottom of my feet.

I want my thoughts to be clean. My emotions to

be clean. And my desires to be clean. I receive

your cleansing. I believe that your blood is

stronger than my most shameful sin. So I receive

it now. And in the name of Jesus, I shut every

door to darkness. I break all agreement with

darkness. And I cut every tie with darkness.

And in the name of Jesus, I open up new doors.

Doors of light. Doors of truth. And doors of

revelation. In the name of Jesus. In the name

of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Satan, you are

not my master. And I'm not your servant. Jesus

is my master. And I'm his servant. So I command

you now. Leave my mind. Leave my emotions. And

leave my desires. Everyone lift your hand. Just

say, Father. Give me. The spirit of revelation.

I want to see Jesus the way you see Jesus. Touch

me now, God. Release your presence right now,

Holy Spirit. Forgive us, God, for worshiping

at the altars of pornography. Cleanse us, Jesus.

Places we've gone to that we haven't been in

years during 2020. I want to tell you today is

a new day. Some of you have gone back to old

places in 2020 and the Lord says it's a new day

right now. Just release the blood of Jesus over

this campus, Lord, over this people. If this

helps you, you have your prayer language. I want

you to begin to lightly pray in the spirit. Come

on, look at him and pray in the spirit. Some

of you need to come up here. I want to pray for

you. The Lord's resting on you in a special way

right now. I want to pray for you. Just come

up here. Make a line right up here. I'll pray

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