Pastor Tim Dunn "Small Things Week 2" (Sunday 3-2-25)

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We are going to continue in our series. Well it

wasn't a series, but now it is small things we're

going to talk about that. We're going to talk about

the prophet Zachariah and another vision that he saw that

the Lord showed him and how that relates to us.

And so for that, I want to start by going

to Zachariah chapter four, and we're going to start with

verse two and read verse two and verse three. And

I know you just got comfortable, but I'm gonna ask

you to stand all right. Verse two and verse one

basically says the Angel showed up again. That's really basic.

Guy says. And he said to me, what do you see?

And so I said, I am looking. And there is

a lamp stand of solid gold with a bowl on

top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with

seven pipes. Verse three. Two olive trees are by it.

One at the right of the bowl and the other

at its left. Amen, you can be seated. Now, if

you just read those and you haven't done any kind

of studying on this, that just seems okay, he had

a vision. But I want to point out something really quick.

So there is a little contrast in this. A lot

of times when we talk about a candlestick, we think

of the candlestick that was or the candlelabra that was

in the holy place of the Tabernacle of Moses, and

this there are some subtle differences, but powerful differences between

the candlelabra or the candlestick that was in the tabernacle

and this one that was in the vision of the

prophet Zachariah. The one that was in the tabernacle was

it was constructed in a way where the lamps were separate.

They were all separate, and so being separate, they all

had to be individually trimmed and filled with oil by

the priest. And so the priest would come in and

he would trim the lamps and he would fill the

oil because that was the only light in the holy

place of the Pernacle. And so that candelabra, that candlestick

was constructed in a way that it included and needed

and had to have the work of the priest involved

for it to stay lit. The candlestick that Zachariah sees

is a little bit different. It's constructed in a different

way the one here. All of the lamps are joined

together by different pipes, and they all are fed oil

consistently pull or by the bull that stood over it.

And the bowl was continually supplied with oil without any help, care,

or attendance of man. Okay, and so that's what this vision.

He's seeing this. And there's two olive trees, one on

either side of the candlestick, and they're full, they're fat,

and they're fruitful, and they're producing on their own accord

plenty of oil that is constantly poured into the bowl

that stands above the candlestick, and then through the larger

pipes it's dispersed into the candle stick so that it

continues to burn. Nobody needed to attend this candlestick, nobody

needed to furnish it with oil. All of those things

were done naturally, organically, spiritually, and so that's what Zachariah

sees here. Then you go down to verse eleven and

the prophet says. Then I answered and said to him,

talking to the angel of the Lord, what are these

two olive trees at the right of the lampstand and

at its left? That was verse eleven, verse twelve. And

I further answered and said to him, what are these

two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the

two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains. So

he gives us this picture of these oil of these

olive trees that are growing on either side of this

lamp stand and the branches, and there's this big bowl

above it, and two large pipes coming out of it

into smaller pipes to feed the lamp stand. And off

of these two olive trees are branches that are coming over,

and they're full of olives, and the oil from the

olives are constantly dripping. That's the picture we're being painted here.

Can you see it? And I further answered and said

to him, what are these two olive branches that drip

into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which

the golden oil drains? Verse thirteen. Then he answered me

and said, do you not know what these are? And

I said, no, my Lord, in verse fourteen. So he said,

these are the two anointed ones who stand beside the

Lord of the whole earth. And I want to explain

what that means. The Church, first of all, is the candlestick.

The church is the lamp stand. Okay, So in your mind,

when you're looking at this picture, this vision given by

the prophet Zachariah, I want you to understand that the

church us not the building. The church. You and I

are the lamp stand a man. And so everything I'm

gonna say, here's with it that we are the lamp stand.

We are the candlestick. Okay. We are set up to

be a light in this dark world. We are called

to hold the light of divine revelation to the world.

If they want to know who Jesus is, where do

they come? They come to the church, not to the building,

to the church, to you, to me, to us. Amen.

Why because we've met him. He's changed our life. Amen.

And so when the when those that are hopeless and

hurting and hungry, looking for an answer, looking for a savior,

looking for hope, looking for healing, looking for to be

fed and to be nourished, where do they come? They're

gonna run to the light. They're gonna be drawn to

the light. We are the light lamp stands. Why Jesus

in Matthew five says you are the light of the world. Amen.

We are the light of the world. And so we

are to hold that light of divine revelation. We are

be a light in the darkness. The candle is God's.

The Church is but the candlestick. All of it made

of gold, all of it precious, all of it great

and excellent. Why because it was created, and it was ordained,

and it was ordered by God. Amen. So that makes

it holy. That makes it precious. Man. The Church is golden, Amen,

Why because it's made by Him. All things are made

by Him and for Him. Amen. There was not anything

made that wasn't made by Him. Amen. So, however, there

is a constant supply to the Church that flows from

a place depicted in this vision. Okay, And I want

to show you this. It's the two olive trees. What

are the two olive trees? The Angel season on the

sword of the whole earth. And I want to show

you what this means. These two olive trees are the

two relationships that exist between God and the Church. Amen.

It's what they are. And the first relationship I want

to show you is the relationship between Jesus Christ and

the Church. How does Jesus Christ relate to the church.

This is the relationship. This is one of the olive

trees that exists on the side of the lampstand that

the prophet Zachariah saw. Amen. And I want to start

with the verse that shows us a little something Verse Timothy,

chapter three, verse sixteen. And without controversy, great is the

mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified

in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the gentiles,

believed on in the world, received up into glory. And

so Jesus comes to establish the church. Amen. He then

becomes two things for the church. He establishes himself as

the chief corner for the foundation of the church. That's

why he told Peter upon this, I will build my church. Amen.

He was talking about the revelation of who Jesus was

that Peter had he said, who do men say that

I am? Well, they say you're a prophet, they say

you're this, they say you're that. He said, Peter, who

do you say? He said, you are the Christ? Amen,

you are the Savior. Amen. And that that foundation, that belief,

that understanding, that revelation of who Jesus is, is the

foundation of the whole church, not life city, the global church,

the church that began in an upper room in Jerusalem

in the Book of Acts chapter two, when his spirit

began to move, that church that moved throughout Jerusalem from

home to home, and lives and souls were added to

it daily and over generation, in decades and centuries. He

has never stopped moving. And he's moving here today. Why

because there are still lost souls out there. He will

never stop reaching, he will never stop moving, he will

never stop calling until every life has had an opportunity

to kneel before him and give their life to him. Amen.

And so Jesus comes and he establishes himself as the

chief cornerstone for the foundation of the church. But he

is also the head of the church. So he is

the head of the church, but he's also the cornerstone

for the foundation of the church. He feels all in all, Amen,

and be in the head. What do you have in

your head? Okay, wrong, crowd, most of the time, what

do you have in your head? A brain? There we

go give yourself a hand. I'm just playing being. We

have a brain. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Amen.

We have a mind. Amen. If he is the head,

that means his mind directs the church, and a mind

has a will. When we pray about the will of God.

You know what we're praying, Lord, let them let what

Paul wrote to the church at Philippi and Philippians two five.

If you'll put that up says, let this mind be

in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Amen, when

you pray, Lord, let your will be done. You know

what you're asking. You're asking Lord, let my mind attach

itself to your mind. Let your thoughts become my thoughts.

Let what you're thinking become what I'm thinking. I want

to see what you see. I want to know what

you know. I want to walk where you lead me. Amen.

And that's what praying the will of God means. It

means us fastening our mind to his mind, Amen, dispersing

the thoughts that we have, and taking hold of the

thoughts that He has for us and about us. Amen.

His will directs the church, His will orders our steps. Amen.

So also, what does it mean to have the mind

of Christ? Well, being a part of the church is

not just at tending church. Man. We understand that, right,

I've said that enough here. You guys know that being

a part of the church means walking in the mind

of Christ, walking in the mind of Christ. So what

is the mind of Christ. Well, we're told that in

Philippians chapter two, verse seven and eight. Let's read that

but made himself of no taking the form of a

bond servant, and coming in the likeness of men. Amen.

Another verse says, he became sin He lowered himself, sinless, spotless, perfect,

took on the lowly form of a man for you,

for me, Amen. He didn't come to be exalted, He

came to take your place in my place. Amen. Hallelujah.

There's power in that verse eight. And being found in

appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient

to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

The mind of Christ is a life of servanthood. It's

a life of unity with the mind and the will

of God, and its obedience to the will of God.

That's what having the mind of Christ is about. When

the church walks in obedience to His will, when the

church takes on the spirit of servanthood, walk in obedience

and unity with the mind of Christ. Amen. Our purpose

is not to be elevated. Our purpose is to serve

and reach and intercede and encourage the hungry, the hurting,

and the hopeless. Amen. The Church is not to be praised.

The head of the Church is to be praised. Amen.

He is the King of kings. He is the oil.

We are just the lamp stand. He is the light.

We are just the lamp stand. We are to hold

the light within us and to shine it in the darkness.

And so when we as the Church walk in obedience

and in obedience life a life of servanthood. We live

in the covering of his name. Amen. We live in

the covering of his name. He called it his church

because his blood was shed on Calvary. He calls it

his church because his name is upon it. His power

fells it. That's why he called it his church. And

if we want to be the Church, we must become

obedient to his will, and we must walk in servanthood

to his purpose and his will for our life. Amen.

And when the church begins to understand that we didn't.

Our purpose is to serve. Our purpose is to be

a witness. Our purpose is to make disciples. That's it.

That's all we're called to do. We're not and mighty

temples so that people drive by and say, oh my,

look at what man did. If you want a history

of that, go to the Old Testament and read about

this place called Babbel and the tower that was built there.

But we don't learn. You drive down I twenty or

I thirty from West Texas to East Texas and there

are no minimum on massive, unbelievable temples built for quote

unquote worship. Amen. If God build a house, if God

build a house, Amen, we were not called and I

know he's oh passor you got this building back here

that you got you're gonna build. Amen, that's not my building,

you know what. And if the Lord never lets us

build that building, Amen, that's his call. Amen. You don't

belong to me, Amen, you belong to him. I'm in

this jug I'm in this just as much as you are. Amen. Hallelujh.

That's not for us, that's not for tim, that's not

for the dun family. Amen. If he allows us to

build it, guess what he's gonna build it. And if

he can build if he wants it built, he'll finance it. Amen.

He's already shown that he used King Xercees of the

Persian army to fund the rebuilding of the Wall of Jerusalem. Man,

that don't make sense, a pagan God funding the building

of the Wall of Jerusalem. Amen. When God builds the house,

no man can carry on. Hallelujah, hallelujah. So when we

understand what our purpose is, what we're called to do,

we're called to serve. We walk in obedience and servanthood. Amen.

So that's the first tree. The first tree is the

representation of the relationship of Jesus Christ to the Church.

The second tree is the relationship between the Holy Ghost

and the Church. Amen. So upon the ascension of Jesus

days later, the Holy Spirit is poured out in fulfillment

of the word of the prophet Joel when he said,

upon is, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. Amen.

And so this happens in the Book of Acts chapter two.

Suddenly a mighty rushing wind, and all of that. You

know it, You've read it, We've taught and preached from it. Amen.

In John chapter fourteen, verse six, Jesus is speaking to

the disciples, and he says, I will pray the Father,

and he will give you another helper, that he may

abide with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. Amen. I

love that Verse seventeen. The Spirit go to verse seventeen.

The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because

it neither sees him or knows him. But for he

dwells with you and will be in you. Not only

is the Spirit of God given to abide in us,

he comes as the Spirit of Truth. Amen. He comes.

He gives us the ability the baptism of his spirit

gives us the ability to discern every spirit and voice. Amen.

The Church must know the voice of the Master. We

must know the voice of the Shepherd of the Good

and Great Shepherd. We must understand and know his voice.

And the Spirit of God abiding in us gives us

the ability to discern the spirits. There's a lot of

spirits in this world. The Holy Spirit is not the

only spirit you're gonna face, right, How do you know

the difference discernment? Amen. See Jesus says, I am not

going to leave you empty handed. I'm not just gonna

go away and not give you anything. Says the comforter,

the helper, the teacher is coming and he's gonna he's

gonna teach you all things that you need to know. Amen.

It opens our eyes to understand, because there are gonna

be spirits that you face. And I know if you're

new here, you know, I don't know how to say it.

We believe in miracles, we believe in healing, We believe

in spiritual things. There's a spirituals a realm that we

live in that we see, and there's a realm that

we don't see most of the time. Amen. And so

sometimes it shows up and it freaks us out. But amen, Amen.

But there are a lot of spirits in this world. Amen.

And without the Holy Spirit living and abiding in us,

we can't discern what are spirits of God and what

are spirits of this world? Amen. And we'll open the

door to the wrong spirit and won't understand and won't

have a knowledge and an understanding of what's going on

and what's wreaking havoc in our life. David said this,

He says, he says, I will not set any evil

thing before mine eyes. Why, David, understand good? The things

that we allow in to our life carry spirits with them. Amen.

Everything in life has some type of spirit attached to it. Amen.

All right, trying to figure out which rabbits chase because

I got about five in my sights right now? All right,

I'm gonna go back to the verse. Let's focus verse seventeen.

The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. Amen.

His spirit infills us, He empowers us, He anoints us,

He is leading us the church. You and I we

are empowered by the pouring out of his spirit. We

are anointed by the oil of the spirit to perform

the work he has called us to do. If you

want to know further about the Spirit of God, read

and study Roman chapter eight. I don't have time to

go to eight. Read about the Spirit of God. And

so we have these two trees, the relationship between Jesus

and the Church and relationship between the Holy ghosts and

the Church. We have this representation in this vision of

how these two trees are constantly pouring in. And another translation,

and another and commentary. They said that word that they

use for bold also can be interchanged with fountain, a

fountain constantly flowing out, constantly pouring out. Amen. Why the vision?

Why show this lampstand. Amen. I believe God was trying

to give us a picture of the church. He was

trying to give us this picture that once there was

a lamp stand that needed man to make sure that

it would always stay lit. And he said, but now

I've called the church to be a light. And all

I'm gonna ask you to do is be my witnesses.

All I'm gonna ask you to do is reach for

the lost. All I'm gonna do is be my hands

and feet. And you're not gonna worry. You're not gonna

have to worry about trim and the lamps. And you're

not gonna worry about refilling the oil, he says, because

I've already taken care of that. And he says, I'm

gonna constantly fill the fountain. I'm gonna make sure that

the fountain of the Holy Ghost is constantly full of

anointing oil. I'm gonna make sure, amen, and that peace

never stops. I'm gonna make sure that the fountain is

always flowing. Why. Because I've called my church to do

a great big task, Amen. And I'm not calling you

to do this great big task without giving you the

tools to do it. With without giving you the anointing

to do it with. Hey, man, you're never gonna have

to worry about having enough anointing to fulfill my purpose. Why,

he says, because I've placed this constant flow of the

anointing of the Holy Ghost to flow over the Church

of the Living God. That every day, Amen, there's gonna

be anointing oil. Every day you step out of your house,

You're going to be anointed to fulfill my purpose. You're

never gonna have to wonder, am I anointed today? Is

there enough oil in the lamp. There's always enough oil

in the lamp to keep you anointed to do His work. Man,

hallelu hallelujah. There is an anointing of His spirit attached

to the church. The fountain stays full, which means it's

continually and constantly pouring out. This is why his mercies

are new every day. This is why his grace is sufficient.

Why because it never stops its flow over the church. Hallelujah.

There is a divine benefit to being a part of

a church and being a part of the church. Being

a part of a church is like you being a

part of life city church. Being a part of the

church is being a part of the Church of the

Living God. Amen, and there is divine benefit. Zachariah four

and six. This is the most popular, most known verse

in all of Sachariah. He says, so he answered, and

he said to me, this is the word of the

Lord to Zerubrabyl, and probably next week, because there's more

to this chapter that I can't get to. I don't

have the time. And I promised Tiffany that if she

the longer she went, the shorter I'd go. So I'm

trying to keep my word the best I can. It's

not working out much. Zerubabyle is is another representation of

the Church. But he says, not by might nor by power,

but by my spirit, says the Lord of Host. The

truth is, God doesn't need us. He wants us. This vision,

the candlesticks, the trees, the oil, the bowl, the fountain,

the church used to give light. We are the light

of the world, the light of the world.

The thing is this, I've often thought at times in

my life that the light went out in my life.

But when I read this, I realize, no, that's not

the case. I just quit holding it up. I can't

snuff out a light that I don't produce. Amen, like

the old Sunday is ghost song. I can hunder, I

hide it under a bushel, but it doesn't blow it out.

You know why, because the oil of the Lord is

constantly flowing. And as long as there's oil, there's light. Amen.

As long as the oil of the Holy Ghost is flowing,

the light of God is shining Amen. And his spirit

is moving here today. Amen, That oil of anointing is

moving here today. Feel an anointing for certain things you

feel called, you feel anointed. Don't ever doubt what God

has called you to do. Amen. If He's anointed you

to do it, act in servanthood, in obedience to do it. Why,

because it's in our mind. It's such a small thing

to hold a light. Kill these floods right here. Threw

them off there. There wasn't ready for that one. Amen.

Can we turn them off? Everybody got a phone, Get

your phone out. It's the only time you don't your

pastors say that much. Do you get your phone out?

Wherever your flashlight is, turn it on. It's like a

concert here we go. Doesn't that feel such like a

small thing to turn the light on and hold it up,

Such a small thing to hold a light that's all

to look for something. It's about as big as and

I can use it. I do this sometimes when I'm

studying late at night and the family's are in bed

and all the lights are off. I'm reading my Bible

like this. Amen. This feels like such a small thing,

but it's such a powerful thing to hold the light

of Jesus Christ. It's such a big thing, such a

mighty big thing, to bring light into darkness. Man, And

that's what we're called to do. But you see, the Lord,

the light of God is different from this because all

I have to do is do that to turn it off.

His light never shuts off. Hallelujah. Won't you stand with me? Hallelujah.

You can keep those lights off. You don't have to

turn them back on. Amen. As we were singing and worshiping,

I felt the oil of the Holy Spirit begin to

move through this place. I not only felt it, but

I opened my eyes and I watched it move. And

he began to flow from person to person, row to row,

seat to see and I watched as people begin to

respond to that function of the spirit. Because he began

to move, Hallelujah pouring out. I know this man what

he showed Zachariah. In this vision, there is this constant flow,

this constant supply of His power, of his anointing, of

the covering of his name. Amen. See this is why

it's so important to be a part of the church,

because when you're a part of the Church, you put

yourself in the supply line of the flow of His

power and his annointy. A man, Jesus called it a

branch and a vine. He says, as long as the

branch is attached to the vine, there's fruitfulness and there's growth.

But when the branch becomes separated from the vine, the

branch dies. Being a part of the Church gives life

and makes life more abundantly. Amen. It gives power to

overcome sin. It gives power to overcome and understand what's

coming against us, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood,

but against powersess and spirits. Amen. But it also gives

us the understanding that greater is he that is in

me than he that is in the world. Hallelujah. Amen.

The power of the Holy Ghost is in this place

right now. And if you've felt like at any point

that you've lost your way, that you've got distracted or

you feel like you've removed yourself from the flow of

the spirit. Today's an opportunity to step back into the

supply of the oil of anointing. It's an opportunity to

lift your voice, lift your life, open your life, and say, Lord,

I am in need of you, and I'm asking you

today to fill me. I wonder if we would close

our eyes all over this building. Halle hallelu in the

mighty name of Jesus.

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