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uh Luke the 3 chapter and um

it's a subject that we could go weeks

and weeks with this. I have no idea how

far we'll get today or how many weeks

we'll stay in this, but uh Luke the 3rd

chapter and I'm going to kind of jump in

the middle of something here. we've got

where in Luke's gospel, we've got uh if

you if you go back to I think it's the

23rd verse where it talked about Jesus

um you know when he was baptized came up

out of the water praying and the heavens

opened the spirit of God descended in

bodily form like a dove came upon him

remained upon him and a voice came out

of heaven that said this is my beloved

son thou art my beloved son in thee I am

well pleased. So we we can go back there

and then it goes directly from there and

it starts giving what we'd call the

genealogies.

Okay. And starting uh at a particular

point there at the at the baptism of

Jesus. But then if you go back and it

starts giving all the genealogies this

one who was the son of this one who was

the son of this one who was the son of

this and really excuse me we end up

going about about 4,000 years of

genealogies in here. Okay, half of these

names I've never read before. Okay,

that's why I'm not going through them

because I can't pronounce them anyway.

But then going back through there, we go

back through uh I'm guessing roughly

about 4,000 years. And uh it's it ends

up I'll get the right verse here. It

says I I'll just go to verse se 37. Luke

the uh 3rd chapter verse 37 says

it's getting toward the end of these

genealogies. It said backing backing up

from Jesus back to the beginning. It

said which was the son of uh get the

right verse here.

What is it? Okay. Which is the son of

Matthysula which was the son of Enoch

which was the son of Jared which was the

son of Malia which was the son of Canaan

and which was the son of Enos which was

the son of Seth. Okay, we're going

somewhere with this. which was the son

of Adam,

which was the son of God. Now, if you go

back through there, there's such a

genealogy here. You can go back 4,000

years, and when you get back to the very

beginning, everything comes back to who

was the son of Adam, who was the son of

God. And you'll find back there, that

was the first time that someone was

called a son of God.

>> But it was also the last time someone

was called a son of God for about 4,000

years. He was the last one. Adam was

called the son of God. That's who he

was. God had breathed his own life into

him. He was called the son right there.

He's called who was the son of Adam who

was the son of God. What a what a place

there. Okay. What a stand he had. What a

what a location he had. But but what

happened was God said, "Do not eat of

the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

For in the day that you do, you'll

surely die. You'll be separated from me.

You won't necessarily die physically.

that will set in eventually, but uh you

you know you eat of that tree, you're

going to die, you will be separated from

me. And so really, he gave that

instruction to Adam. And of course, you

know, Adam and Eve, you you can just

humanity was already finding its way.

And you can find out which tree they

were the closest to. They're around the

tree of knowledge of good and evil.

There was a crazy talking snake in there

said, you know, you really ought to eat

like of this because if you eat of this,

you'll be like God. Well, what they

didn't know is they already were like

God. He was the son of God. He had God's

DNA working in his system. Okay? So, he

was already way off course on that. But

going back through there, when

Adam made that stand, he disobeyed God,

obeyed Satan, chose a new master, fell,

died spiritually, separated himself from

God, and as in Adam all died. That was

going to pass upon everybody. So God's

going to have to repair this problem for

eternity because mankind is all this

thing's just going to keep going.

>> And so he's he's working on that. And

you look back there and and Adam set the

whole thing in motion. And so for you

track this if you go back through and go

back to I think 23rd verse I'm not sure

exactly where it was without going back

to look but in the the third chapter of

Luke if you go back to where you know uh

it talks about Jesus being baptized and

the Holy Ghost coming on him and so on

and Bible said he's about 30 years old

when this took place he stepped into the

fullness of his ministry. We know from

the scriptures um he had laid aside his

mighty power and glory. He'd laid aside

his anointing. He laid aside what he had

as this as the uh part of the godhead

and laid that aside and took on flesh

and blood and bone and lived among us

for about 30 years time. At about 30

years old, he steps over into the river

and he comes up uh after being baptized

and the the Holy Ghost comes on him. The

anointing comes on him and God says,

"Thou art my beloved son." He hadn't

been able to say that for 4,000 years.

He hadn't had anybody that we're aware

of. You can track it back through. I've

looked at best I could look. And I've

not found anywhere in there he found. He

He had 4,000 years of servants.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. He He even

had a friend. Moses was called friend.

God looked at him like he did a friend.

He had servants. He had even had a

friend. But one thing he didn't have, he

and and we just sang about all the

names. God had all these names of all

that he was. He he had covenants and

he'd honor his covenant. But the one

thing he did not have, he didn't have a

son. And I want to talk about that for a

little bit today. We may get back next

week. I have no idea at this point. But

if you go back through there, the one

thing that God was missing was what he

started out with where Adam was his

plan. He formed him from the dust of the

earth. He he breathed his own life into

him. Adam became a living soul. He took

a rib and formed Eve. So, he's got a

couple there. and uh he's breathed his

life into them. Okay? And Adam's called

a son of God, but he he left that walked

away and really fell. And if you track

that through for the next 4,000 years,

you've got God with dealing with

servants and dealing with nations and

dealing with even a friend now and then.

What he didn't have a he didn't have a

deal with a son until suddenly

suddenly you you you've got Jesus before

God. Pastor Janet just talked about it

during the offering over there in John

John 3:16

3:16. For God so loved the world

>> the whole world that he gave his what?

His only what? Begotten son. He didn't

have a son for 4,000 years. And all of a

sudden, he so loves the world that he

gives his only begotten son. And so you

see Jesus, he takes on flesh to dwell

among us. And he just he takes that spot

for about 30 years. He goes to the

temple. We see him when he's 12 years

old. He's in the temple. He's studying.

He's learning. He's reading. He's

finding himself. Okay? He's finding what

the scriptures say about him, learning

who he is, what is going to be his

assignments in life. So, he's doing all

that at about 12 years old. We see him

at birth. We see him, oh, he's about 2

years old. We see him at 12 years old.

We see him again at 30 years old. And

he's never worked a miracle. He's never

done a sign, never done a wonder. He's

never healed any bodies. He just was God

in the flesh, but he laid aside the

mighty power and glory he had as that

capacity. And so we see him there in

Jesus

all of a sudden, like I said, at 30

years old, the Holy Ghost comes on him.

We see in Luke the 4th chapter, he says

back there, uh, he reads out of, um, uh,

Isaiah Isaiah 61:1, "The spirit of the

Isaiah 61:1

Lord's upon me because he's anointed me

to preach the gospel to the poor. He

sent me to heal the brokenhearted,

preach deliverance to the captives,

recovering of sight to the blind, set at

liberty them that are bruised, preach

acceptable year of the Lord. He closed

the book, gave it again to the minister,

sat down. The eyes of all them that were

in the synagogue were fastened upon him,

and he began to say unto them, "This

scriptur is fulfilled in your ears."

He'd been able to read that for 4,000

years. Anybody could have, but all of a

sudden, it's fulfilled why he's just

been to the River Jordan. The Holy Ghost

came on him. So we look at that and

Jesus, we watch for 30 years. He didn't

work any miracles. Now the Holy Ghost

comes on him. He steps into the

fullness. God said this, "Thou art my

beloved son." He hadn't called anybody a

son for 4,000 years. Didn't have one.

Suddenly he does. Thou art my beloved

son and thee I am well pleased. Jesus

stepped out there. John's gospel said if

everything loose to interpretation John

said if everything Jesus did could be

written down I don't suppose the world

itself could contain the volumes he went

from no miracles his first 30 years to

his last three and a half years they

couldn't count the miracles that he did

okay what happened was Jesus

Jesus was the first son God had in 4,000

years and what happened was he God so

loved the world He gave his only

begotten son. So he gave us his son. He

demonstrated a son. He operated through

Jesus as a son. Jesus walked as a son.

Talked as a son. Lived as a son.

Demonstrated to us what a son would look

like, walk like, talk like. Jesus was a

son of God. The firstborn son of God.

Okay. Since Adam's fall. All right. Did

all did all that. And um

he was he took that place. So what he

did was he he showed us what a son would

live like. Walk like, talk like, act

like the works, okay? The the the signs,

the wonders, the miracles. And his

disciples had no clue who they were

with. The devils knew it. Thou art the

son of God. Okay? Have you come to

torment us before? They knew, but the

disciples didn't quite get it. So

finally Jesus says to Peter, "Who who do

people say I am?" And Peter said, "Well,

the some say that you're Jeremiah or one

of the prophets." And Jesus said, "Okay,

that's good. But the bottom line is who

do you say I am?"

>> That's the big question. It's not who

they say I am. Who do you say I am? And

Peter says, "Thou art the I'm sure you

use King James. Thou art the Christ."

Thou art the Christ, the son of the

living God. I don't He I think it

shocked him when he said that. And Jesus

said, "Blessed art thou, Simon v Jonah,

for flesh and blood has not revealed

this unto thee, but my father which is

in heaven. And upon this rock I'll build

my We know the rest of that." Okay. And

so Peter's got it. Thou art the Christ.

He didn't get it from mankind. He got it

out of heaven. Thou art the Christ, the

son of the living God. So I'm sure first

thing he did was to go back and find all

the other disciples and say, "Do you

have any idea who we're working with? Do

you know who our boss is? Do you know

why he works all these miracles? Do you

know why he's training us? Do you know

why he's pouring into our lives? Do you

know who this is? You know, I'm sure you

went, I know who this is.

I'll just fill you in on some details.

And and so he got hold of it. Thou art

the Christ, the son of the living God.

So his disciples at this point, think

about that. All right? They're working

miracles, not just because some special

anointing. They've tapped into the son

of the living God. They're with him,

walking with him, talking with him. And

so when they're doing this, we we follow

this on through

and uh uh Jesus with his disciples and

uh there, you know, they got it figured

out. Well, they've just got it figured

out who they're with. You know, that

alone would kind of make your day.

>> Yeah,

>> we're with him. Nobody knows who he is,

but we know who he is. When all of a

sudden, they go a little further in the

11th chapter of Luke's gospel. They uh

they said to Jesus, "Jesus, teach us to

pray as John also taught his disciples."

He said, "Okay." Didn't bother him. Be

glad to. I want you to pray. I'll teach

you to pray. He says, "When you pray,

say this." Think about this. They're

just get they just got it figured out

who they're with. And he says, "When you

pray, you when you pray, say this."

Okay, Jesus, what do you want us to say?

What are the first two words?

>> Our father.

>> Who's

>> our father? They're going, "Whoa, wait a

minute. Wait a minute." To say I I I

could say, "Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, God of No, I could say that."

But you said when we pray to say,

>> "Our Father, which art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name." Jesus was what?

Now, now he's going to start in

empowering them and teaching them not

just how to walk with a son, but how to

be a son. He came as a son. He showed us

a son. He acted as a son. And then he

made us sons.

When the church gets hold of that, we're

going to change the world.

>> We've lived so far below our rights and

privileges as children of God. Not just

children of God, sons and daughters of

the living God. We've lived far below

that.

>> And if you go back through there, he

said, when you when you pray, say this,

our father. And so from that point on,

Jesus is going to spend the rest of his

earthly ministry teaching his disciples

how to operate as a as a son of God

because he going to go. And when he

goes, he's going to pray the father and

he's going to pour out the Holy Ghost.

And all we that are left down here are

going to go from friends and servants to

sons.

>> He was raising up a generation of sons

so he could raise up a kingdom of sons.

>> That's really what it's all about is

God's wanting to raise up a generation

of sons and daughters of the living God.

He had years, 4,000 years of friends.

Okay? Some even were servants. Some even

obeyed him. It was all good. But what he

wanted to do was get us raised up where

we He wanted to show us a son and then

make us sons.

>> Empower us to be able to do that. And so

the disciples got hold of it and Jesus

got this across to them and he's

empowering us to be able to live as sons

and daughters of the living God. And

here we are couple thousand years down

the road and it's it's time for us to

learn who we are. Who who who are we in

Christ? Redemption doesn't just tell me

what Jesus could do, should do, wanted

to do. Redemption tells me what he did

do.

>> He empowered us to live as sons and

daughters of the living God. And you'll

see that we we watch this through his

earthly ministry, Jesus. And then when

he left, he empowered us and made us

sons and daughters of God. And he showed

us how this is all to work. And so that

being the case, he uh

he empowered us by the the anointing of

God, the power of the Holy Ghost. He

filled us up, empowered us, charged us.

Okay? On the day of Pentecost, on the

day of Pentecost, they were all

>> filled with the Holy Ghost, began to

speak with other tongues as the spirit

gave them utterance. So we can look back

through here and see where Jesus the

plan was to raise up a generation and

raise up a kingdom of born again

bloodbought believers but not just not

just those that know the son of God but

those that are sons and daughters of

God. I mean if you go back through to um

John chapter John chapter 1 12 I think

John 1 · chapter mention

it is. It said he came to his own and

his own received him not.

>> Think about that. Paid the price. Came

to his own and his own received him not.

But to as many as believed on him,

>> to them gave he the power

>> to become the sons of God.

1 John chapter 3 verse one, he says,

1 John 3 · chapter mention

"Now we are the sons of God, and it does

not yet appear who what we shall be."

And so on. Okay. So God empowered us to

be sons and daughters of the living God.

All right. Now, that being the case, um

I want to just take a few minutes. We

could go for a few days, few weeks,

whatever. But just for a few minutes, um

what does that mean to us? That that

gives us an assurance. That gives us a

guarantee. There's certain things when I

became a child of God that made that

that absolutely assured some things into

my life and your life. When Jesus paid

the price to bring us out of being

friends or bring us out of being

servants, went to bring us into being

sons, that made some guarantees. There's

some certain things that we could we can

count on. You can take it to the bank,

it's always going to be God's never

going to change. And so if you go back

through there, uh the first thing we can

look at is the first great difference is

we spent 4,000 years of God being with

us. All of a sudden, when we became

sons, it switched over not to God being

with us, but God being in us.

>> Every And when that happens, everything

changes.

Everything changes over there in

Colossians chapter 1. I think it's verse

Colossians 1 · chapter mention

27 says uh the the mystery that's been

hidden through for the ages but now it's

revealed to us which is Christ

>> in you the hope of glory.

>> Okay. One translation would basically

say Christ in you the uh the expectation

of his manifestation.

>> God lives on the inside of us. And we've

talked about this before. I've read how

John G. lake. Uh when he was in

particularly in South Africa, he'd get

all dressed up, ready to go. Started, I

don't know, 500 churches um had over

100,000 people uh basically when he

moved back to Spokane, Washington. Had

over 100,000 people uh with divine

healing taken place in their bodies,

amazing miracles. But he'd get himself

all dressed up, ready to go, head out on

the city, and he'd stand in front of a

mirror before he left the house, and

he'd point at himself. I've studied for

years. I wanted to know what did Lake

know that I don't know?

>> What did he do that I don't know how to

do? What what did he operate in that the

church is not operating? Why did we have

one John Lake?

>> So good.

>> I asked somebody one time, I said, "Why?

Why did we only have one Smith

Wigglesworth?" I think it was talking to

We're talking to brother Osborne, TL

Osborne. I think it was him that we were

talking to. And I said, 'Why did we just

have one one uh uh Smith Wigglesworth?

He said, 'Oh, we didn't have just one

Smiggle Smith Wigglesworth. He said, 'We

had Smith Wigglesworth all over the

world. He said, it's just that very few

people took time to write it down.

Somebody wrote it all down. If people

start writing down what we see, we're

going to have a lot more Wigglesworths

that are going to take that same place.

>> I thought that was pretty good.

So now go back wherever I was before I

jumped off on that.

>> Thank you. Expectation of his

manifestation.

>> Okay. So if we go back there, we we can

see where where uh God ra he's raising

up a a generation, not just a

generation, a kingdom of people that

walk in the power of God. And that's

what he's trying to get us there for to

to get where we see it. we we walk in

and and if you see that with um with uh

uh Jesus working through the the lives

of his disciples and then passing that

on, he passed it on uh Luke the 9th

chapter, passed it on to the 12. And

then you go to the 10th chapter, he

passed it on to the 120 or this I'm

sorry, first to the three and then to

the 12. And then you get to Mark 16, he

passed it on to the body of Christ.

>> Isn't that what he said?

Go into all the world, preach the gospel

to every creature. He that believes and

is baptized shall be saved. He that

believes not shall be damned. And these

signs will follow

>> specially gifted people, apostles and

prophets. No, these signs shall follow

the believing ones. God's been trying to

get that across to the church for 2,000

years now. It's about time we got that.

>> Okay. And so going back through here,

when we take a look at at what God's

doing in the church world doing for us,

in us, to us, and through us, God's

wanting us to get hold of who we are in

Christ. Okay? What is what did

redemption do for us? What's it doing in

us? And what does God want to do through

us? Who are we in Christ? Let the

redeemed of the Lord say so. We got to

know so to be able to say so. Yeah.

>> So anyway, uh as as we go back through,

I'm trying to find a place to cut this

off so we don't go all day long. But as

we go back through there, we see that

with that, um

um

Jesus raised us up and through the new

birth made us son, sons and daughters of

the living God. We're in the family of

God. We're children of God. He lives in

us. He walks in us. He talks in us.

We're we're the redeemed of the Lord. We

have a covenant with God. Okay. And and

that being the case now, what are we

going to do with that? When's the church

going to get hold of the fact that I am

a child of God? You know, people say,

people say, "Well, you know, Jesus

worked all the miracles because he was

the son of God." Well, that's wonderful,

but who do you think you are?

>> I'm going to say that again. If Jesus

worked all the miracles because he was

the son of God, then what excuse do we

have to not be working the miracles? If

it's just by sunship alone, then we're

we've cut ourselves short,

>> right?

>> If he if Jesus was the son of God and he

showed us a son, acted as a son,

empowered us as sons, and made us sons.

Okay? To as many as believed on him, to

them gave the power to become the sons

of God. If he did all that, then why are

we not doing what he did? Well, you

know, I'm waiting to be empowered. He

said, "Verily, verily." John 14:12,

John 14:12

verily, verily, I say unto you, he that

>> believeth on me, the

>> the works that I do shall he do also,

and

>> and greater works than these shall he he

who he that believes on me.

>> He's empowered us for that. So anyway,

going back through there,

the first the first basic the the first

everything that changed the minute the

minute we got born again, I I you know,

I go back through and when I got my life

right with God, which was November 1972,

I went to a meeting, prayed a prayer,

got my life right with God, I didn't

know what happened, but all of a sudden

something changed in there. All of a

sudden, it's Christ in me, the hope of

glory. I didn't know what that meant. I

didn't know it was a reality, but it was

him on the inside of me. And things

begin to change. And the more I learned

about that, the more things begin to

change about that. First thing is to

find you. When we find out Christ on the

inside of us, Christ in us, the hope of

glory, the expectation of his

manifestation. Once I get hold of who he

is in me, everything's going to change.

>> Everything's going to change. Where I

go, he goes.

>> You know, uh, um, John G. lake stood in

front of a mirror before he went out to

go after the lost, go after the sick,

the halt, the lame, the blind. Before he

do that, he'd stand in front of the

mirror, point his finger at the guy in

the mirror, and he'd say, "God lives in

that man." See, like I said, I wanted to

know what did he know better than I know

it. What did he know that changed his

life? What did he know that empowered

him to get 100,000 people healed

of permanent illnesses in the city of

Spokane, Washington when he moved back

to the States? What what did he have? He

understood one thing. What was that? God

lives in that man. I thought if that's

all he had, we should all be doing that.

We should all be standing in front of a

mirror on a regular basis going, "God,

God's not going to go with that person.

God's going in that person. Where they

go, God goes. Where they go, God goes.

Whatever direction they go, God goes

with them. If they go bad places, God's

going to ride along.

>> If they hang around people they

shouldn't be hanging around, God's going

to go right along with them. Why? God

lives in that person. Yes.

>> So the first thing is if you go back to

uh 1 Corinthians chapter 3,

1 Corinthians 3 · chapter mention

>> God says back there, Paul says to the

Corinthians uh know the not know you not

that you're the temple of God and the

spirit of God lives in you.

>> That's 1 Corinthians chapter 3. 1

1 Corinthians 3 · chapter mention 1 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

Corinthians chapter 6 says the same

thing again. Know you not that you're

the temple of God and the spirit of God

lives in you? And then you go over to 2

2 Corinthians 6 · chapter mention

Corinthians chapter 6. What fellowship

hath righteousness with unrighteousness?

What fellowship hath the temple of God

with unbelie? He calls us the temple of

God.

>> Okay. 1 John 4:4, "Greater is he that's

1 John 4:4

>> in you than he that's in the world?"

Colossians chapter 1:27 says over there,

"Christ in you, the hope of glory."

God's been trying for 2,000 years to get

this into the church that we are sons of

God.

>> Beloved, you are sons of God. It does

not yet appear what we shall be.

>> Yeah.

>> 1 John chapter 3:1. We don't get it yet,

but we're going to get it.

>> If God can just get us to grab hold of

this first step, I'll give you a couple

things and then we'll just pick up some

other time. First step is if you go back

through there, what is it? What What are

we guaranteed of? What's assurityity?

When when I'm a when I'm a not just a

servant but a son, what's guaranteed to

me? What is an absolute can't change it,

can't halt it, can't stop it, can't get

away from it? What do I have that I can

lean on in my walk with God? What what

can I have walking on this earth? Not

when I get to heaven. What can I have

walking on this? What can I have over

there? Well, if you look back over at

Romans chapter 8, I love that chapter.

Romans 8 · chapter mention

>> Yeah.

>> Romans chapter 7. We'll get to seven one

Romans 7 · chapter mention

of these days. Paul talked about the

problem he had between his as a

believer, as a Holy Ghost fililled,

tongue-talking, Bible believing,

scripture quoting believer. The trouble

he had between his flesh and his spirit.

Seventh chapter of Romans. Then you get

to the eighth chapter and he says over

there, "For the law of the spirit of

life in Christ Jesus has set me free

from the law of sin and death." That's

huge. We ought to be quoting that on a

regular basis. The law of the spirit of

life in Christ Jesus has set me free

from the law of sin and death. I was

under the law of sin and death, but I

got set free.

>> And you move along, you get down to the

11th verse, and he says over there,

if the spirit that raised up, now he's

talking to New Testament believers,

writing to the church at Rome. He says

over there in Romans chapter 8 11 said

Romans 8 · chapter mention

if the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus from the dead dwells.

>> See he's been talking about God living

in us. You can just back it up two

verses and he talks about that he's not

just with us. He's in us.

>> He's not just walking side by side. He's

living wallto-wall. I am wallto-wall

God.

>> We used to sell wallto-wall houses in

the real estate business. Wall to-all

carpet. I don't want wall to-all carpet.

I want wallto-wall God. I want fingertip

to fingertip, head to toe.

>> Hallelujah.

>> And that's what he said in there. If but

if

>> if my call if the spirit of him that

raised up Jesus from the dead dwells

>> in you.

>> It's not about with you.

>> Oh, I tell you, wherever I go, God goes

with me. No, he doesn't. He goes in you.

>> I'll never leave you nor forsake you.

But if the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus, you can look at it if you want.

>> Well, there it is right there.

But if the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus from the dead dwells

>> in you,

if if we just stick with that until it

sticks with us.

>> Luke 9:44, let these sayings sink down

Luke 9:44

into your ears. Don't just get them in

these ears. Get them in these ears. get

it on the inside where I can stand in

front of a mirror and say God lives in

that person. Wherever I go today, he

goes not just with me, he goes in me.

I'm wallto-wall God. Fingertip to

fingertip, head to toe. I am wall to

wall. Wherever I go, God goes with me. I

want to be cautious where I go. Because

he's he's in for the ride.

>> He's not going to sit home and say,

"Well, if you go the right places, I'll

go with you." He says, "I'm with you

>> always." But if the spirit of him that

raised up Jesus, the Holy Ghost, the one

that raised Jesus, who's the one that

raised him from the dead? The spirit of

the living God.

>> But if the spirit of him that raised

Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he

that raised up Christ from the dead will

also Now, now notice what do I have a

guarantee here?

>> I didn't write this. He did.

>> Where'd that go again?

But if the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

does he or doesn't he?

>> He that raised up Christ from the dead

shall also quicken. Amplified, I think,

says quicken, make alive, and heal

>> your mortal. He's not say, "Well, that's

heaven." No, no, my mortal body is not

going to heaven with me. I got a whole

new set up there. That's right.

>> But if the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he

that raised up Christ from the dead will

also quicken, make alive, and heal your

mortal deathdoomed body.

>> How? By the spirit that dwells in you.

When he put the Holy Ghost in me, there

was purpose in that.

>> When he moved on the inside, one of his

jobs was to quicken, make alive, and

heal my mortal body. That's a That is

not a I hope God heals me. That is not a

well, he's promised to heal me. No, he

didn't promise to heal me. He went ahead

and did it.

>> Well, I know healing is a promise.

Healing is not a promise. It is a truth.

>> It's already been bought, purchased, and

paid for. When he moved in, the healer's

in the house.

>> Hallelujah.

>> The healer's in the house.

>> I don't have to go find him. He's living

in me.

>> When we need healing in our body, we

shouldn't go meeting to meeting to

meeting trying to find him. We ought to

get on our face before God and rejoice

because he's living on the inside of me.

Christ in us, the hope of glory, the

expectation of his manifesting. I'd

expect his manifestation because I know

he's in me.

>> Amen.

>> Thank you, Lord.

>> That's just one.

>> Really the And then it gets better after

that. Then you go to the 14th verse.

>> 14th verse, right?

We That one ought to be automatic for

us. For as many as are

>> what?

>> For as many as are

>> led by the spirit of God.

>> They are the sons of God. I have a

privilege to be healed because the

healer is in the house and he's already

done his part. I'm not trying to get it

from the outside in. I just need to get

it from the inside out.

>> I just needed to get here, up here, and

out here instead of trying to get in the

right meeting where it gets on me. Now,

I understand there are meetings where

God does things. I understand

manifestations of the Holy Ghost. But

I'll tell you what, we ought to be more

conscious of the fact the healer is

living on the inside of me.

>> God wouldn't have put him in me if he

didn't expect me to tap into that and

get healed by what he does.

>> That's just what he does.

>> Then you get over to the 14th verse.

>> For as many as are what?

>> Oh, here it starts getting better. I'm

going to have to quit. We we'll be here

all afternoon for as many as our

>> this this is a subject in itself. We'll

come back another another Sunday. But it

but he says back here for as many as our

this this is where it starts getting

really good. This is the thing that

changes everything. I know when I got

born again the spirit of God moved on

the inside. He lives in me.

>> He's not going anywhere. He's not coming

and going.

>> Somebody said one time to me, wonder if

so and so if they've got saved again.

Well, I hope they did because if they

gave it away once, they're not going to

get it back again. He said, "I'll never

leave you."

>> God's not going to leave us.

>> Why would he leave us? He doesn't come

and go.

>> It's not one of those deals. It's not

Burger King. It's not have it your way.

It's not late. No. No.

>> Right.

>> That's what he says. He lives in the

inside of us. And if he does that, if he

lives on the inside of us, first and

foremost, he says, "First thing I'll do

is I'll heal your mortal body."

>> That's not that's not even just a

promise. That's a fact.

>> Well, I know God promised to heal me.

No, he didn't. He just went ahead and

did it.

>> He did his part. If we'll just reach out

and take our part. And then let's just

jump over this one. We'll finish. Then

if you go to Romans chapter 8:14, where

he says, "For as many as are

>> led by the spirit of God," this is where

it gets really good. This is what

changes everything. This is the bottom

line to all of it. For as many as are

>> led

by the spirit of God, for as many as are

led by the spirit of God, they are the

>> the minute I got born again, I didn't

grow into being a son. I was born that

way.

>> It wasn't like, well, you know, all of a

sudden, man, I'm 17 years old. Do I get

to be a son now? I was born one.

>> How do you get to be a son of God?

You're born as one.

>> Amen. You don't, you know, you don't

just walk with God for 15 years and then

say, "God, can I have a uh something to

put on my wall says I'm now a son of?"

No, you're born into that. It's a

birthright.

>> It's not just if you do all the right

things. It's if you're in the right

family.

>> If the spirit of him that raised up

Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he

that raised up Christ from the dead will

also quicken, make alive, and heal our

mortal body. Then you get over to the

14th verse and said, "For as many as are

>> led by the spirit of God, they are the

sons of God." The minute the minute I

moved in the family of God, the minute

God lived on the inside of me, I have an

instant fulltime all the time, every

situation, every nation, every time,

I've got somebody living on the inside

of me.

>> And he knows everything.

>> Now, if there's anything he doesn't tell

me, it's because it's none of my

business

>> and it doesn't pertain to me. I've had

him tell me those things. I I can think

of a few in the past five years where

trying to pray about some situations.

Not really none of my business. I was

just trying to help somebody. And I've

had the Holy Ghost say, "Leave it alone.

It's not your business."

>> Whoa.

Okay.

And it wasn't. But I was trying to make

it my business. It's okay. But if he

said it's none of your business, it's

because none of your business. Anything

that is your business, he'll tell you

anything you need to know.

>> All the facts, all the figures, all the

numbers, everything lives on the inside.

>> It's already there. I'm telling you,

find that out. I was so glad to let me

finish with this. When we uh

when we were, like I said, when we were

getting ready to leave for um our our

first trip was going to be from here to

Dallas, Dallas to um

Madrid. Thank you. Madrid. We've been a

been everywhere, man. We went to Madrid.

Then from Madrid, we were going over to

uh uh to uh

we're going over to Israel,

right?

>> You don't know. Don't hold us

accountable for anything. give us one or

two more days.

We're going from Madrid and we're going

from Madrid anyway. We're we're supposed

to end up eventually into uh Tel Aviv

and we're on our way over there, but we

had good

friends that knew a lot more than we

know that said, you know, in so many

words send you you're going to have to

do what you need to do, but I I don't

recommend you take this trip.

People in some places that knew a lot

more than we did. I don't recommend you

take this trip. There's a war that could

break out anywhere from 5 to 20 days and

it's a pretty sure thing it's going to

happen and you don't want to be over

here and not able to get out. And I

thought, well, that's a lot of truth to

that.

But but so like Pastor Janice said, she

and myself and then and then brother

Joe, we just were went three different

directions and all of us prayed. All of

us said, "What have we got on the

inside?" Every one of us, we got back on

the phone and said, "I've got absolutely

not a care in the world. I do not have

an issue. I do not have a problem. I do

not have a hesitation. I don't care if

they say the whole world's going to blow

up in the next 5 days because somehow

the greater one on the inside let us

know, don't be concerned about it."

>> We got on the plane, ended up there in

two and a half days, I think it was. We

got over there, walked the streets,

walked down into the city, walked down

by the great the Western Wall. We've

went all these different places. Went

back to the hotel and prayed. Never had

a concern, a care.

>> Middle of the night, middle of the

night, a siren went off in our hotel and

a lot of talking, but it was all it

wasn't in English. I didn't know if they

were telling us to get out, get under

the bed, go down to I I didn't know what

they were saying, but I do not like my

sleep being disturbed.

And my wife was so sound asleep, she

never even heard it.

Joe and I were talking the next next

day. Do you know what that was? I don't

know what it was. Somebody went to the

front desk and they said, "Oh, there was

a problem with the electrical system in

the hotel."

Well, you could have told us that in

English. That would have been nice. But

anyway,

but the bottom line, there was no

concern. No. Why? Because we checked on

the inside. Greater is he that's in you

than he that's in the world. I got

somebody living in me that's greater

than anybody on the outside. If every

devil in hell camped out on my doorstep

all at the same time, I'd say, "Take a

number.

Hallelujah.

>> I have no care. I have no worry. I have

no fret. I have no anxiety. And I'm sure

not going to be afraid of you.

>> You want to mess with me, take a number.

Cuz there's a lion out there. And it it

just ain't going to happen. Why? Because

I know who. Not because I'm the hot

shot. I just know who's living in me.

>> And once we get to that place,

>> look out, devil. We're going to we're

going to do our job. And my job is to

get stopped. So, let's all stand to our

feet.

Somebody says, "Well, that's two.

I know. I know beyond a shadow of a

doubt that he'll quicken my mortal body.

And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt

that he'll lead, guide, and direct my

life. Everything that pertains to me,

he'll connect. He He'll talk to me about

that." Oh, what? There's a lot more.

We'll get back to it sometime. That's

just one and two. There's a whole lot

more that God set us up for. Once we

know this, once we know this, we are set

up for victory. That's who we are. We

are a victorious people. Doesn't matter.

I mean, look at Israel. Probably one of

the smallest nations in the world. And

most of the world wants to do away with

them. And it's not going to happen.

>> They can whine and ball squall, cry all

they want, but they're not going to take

Israel out. Why? Because God has a

covenant with them.

>> Doesn't matter how big, how strong, how

smart you, it doesn't make any

difference. It's if you got a covenant,

if you got that, you're in good shape.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank

you so much. I thank you so much. I

thank you so much for who we are. We've

been made u sons and daughters of the

living God. You made us, you put us in

your family. We're not just wandering

like a beggar through the heat and the

cold.

We We are the redeemed of the Lord. And

I pray this over, Father, over us. May

we may we catch this like we've never

caught it before. Go in places we've

never gone with it before. May we be

able to rise up

and boldly declare, I know who I am. I

know who'sse I am. I know who I'm in. I

know who's in me. And that's all there

is to it. It's not going to change.

I'm a part of the family of God. I'm a

part of the kingdom of God. I'm I am the

redeemed of the Lord. I'm not just a

friend, a servant. I am a son of

Almighty God.

And there's nothing like that on planet

earth, heaven, earth, or hell. There's

nothing like being a child of God.

Hallelujah. So I ask you, dear Lord, if

anybody's in this room this this morning

that's never made Jesus Lord of their

life, never been born again, never

become a son of God. Some of us didn't

know if we were or we weren't. Some of

us weren't real sure about that. Some of

us didn't know if we'd walked away. We

Some of us we just didn't we just plain

didn't know. Once we got it settled,

there's no changing it. If there's

anybody in the sound of my voice that

has not made Jesus, they've not made

that

decision

to step into the shities, the guarantees

of what who who we have and what we have

as children of God, sons of God. If

there's anybody here that's never done

that, Lord, I ask you to stir them. Let

them know there's never a better time

than today.

Let them know today they can be

bloodbought, born again, made a child of

God, and that'll never go away.

So, heads bowed, eyes closed. Anybody

here to say, "Pastor Mark, pray for me.

I want to make Jesus Lord of my life

today. I want to come in the family of

God. I want to be a child of God. I want

to be a son of God." If that's you, wave

your hand at me. I want to pray for you.

You don't have to work your way in.

Don't have to earn your way in. All you

got to do is just talk your way in.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.

Anybody here? Just wave your hand at me.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God. Praise God. Well, Father,

in the name of Jesus, I thank you so

much. I thank you so much. I thank you

so much that you made us uh part of your

family, sons and daughters of God. I

thank you in Jesus wonderful name,

Father. Hallelujah. Well, let's lift a

hand and give him thanks.

>> Amen. Amen. And aren't you glad you came

to church today? Wow. So glad to have

Pastors Mark and Janet back. Amen. Amen.

Well, if you are a first-time guest,

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prayer. We'd love to agree with you and

pray for you because we love you. Amen.

And so let's say our vision statement as

we go. We live by the word. We're led by

the spirit. And we love the world. Amen.

We'll look forward to seeing you

Wednesday evening.