God's Perspective Jude 25

Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday Night Live. This is what we we call this program Wednesday Night Live and it's it's always rather humorous to me because when we first began this, this Wednesday program, it was it was for a a nighttime meeting. We were we were transitioning from meeting here on Wednesday nights, I think COVID had a lot to do with that. And, we just kept kept it this way. So I'm recording here in the morning of Wednesday, the first Wednesday in June, but the program still is called Wednesday Night Live.

So it's, it's funny. I'm live now, but later on this will be a recording. Hopefully, it'll be lively. Maybe we should call it Wednesday Night Lively. That would be probably good.

So just etch in there on the screen. Just get a little, white marker or something and put an l y after lively after live. But whenever you're hearing this, it's great to be able to reach out to my church constituents here in Dallas and those that are very much a part of this body no matter where you live, as well as our Saints Network family that is, expanding exponentially throughout the world, not because of anything that we are. It's because of what we've been given to be and the fact that God is urgently pressing the need to make disciples of this mission. And I know that God is good and that this is his way.

And it's it's a privilege to have the opportunity to partner with so many of you who have died to self and died to the more convenient status of just playing church. I thank you for your devotion. And I I know I can't speak for the Lord, but I know how much he values what you are and how you serve him as a saint. We have a lot of wonderful things that are on the horizon for our ministries together. I don't need to detail all of them.

Of course, there's the Manaus journey to Brazil that's coming up next month, and then before we know it we'll be gathered here for the fiftieth the celebration of the fiftieth Dallas seminar. And I suppose I've had a lot of ideas. People have had a lot of suggestions, but I I suppose it's time to start laying those out and getting getting ready tangibly for it. I mentioned a lot of things on our Saints Radio broadcast from yesterday with Monica Terrell that we we are about to expand into a lot of different things, and it's it really is it really is an amazing blessing. And it's all it's all, not to sound pious, but it's all the Lord's work.

This if you know, I was thinking if this were a business, if this were a business, we would be diversifying and expanding, and we would we would really be, I would think in the natural, very very very profitable. But this is an eternal profit and it's it's it's an exciting measure. And I mentioned that recently we had, our brother pastor William Bukenya here from, well he's Ugandan but he's situated in the capital city of Canada and we had some very unique discussions about what is possible and what is what is happening right now there, what God is bringing together. And there's an appeal for the message of the saints to be interjected into that. And that's that's really been on my mind and in my spirit since the time he left to go back to the Great White North, which is a euphemism for Canada, even though he's Ugandan.

I think that I think that we're gonna be surprised at a year from now what what God has accomplished in these intervening months. And it is it is because of the time. It's because of what God is doing in the world right now. It's because we we must labor for time before the night is coming, and the Father is pouring out amazing amazing aspects of revelation and, the meat of the word. It's it's alive.

And I I just pray that we can be found faithful and that we can be those that do the 30, the 60, and the hundredfold because that really is a progression of of establishment, expansion, and diversification expanding throughout many different lands, many different spiritual sites that God chooses. And those of you who are saints know what I'm talking about. But I I'm just very, very thankful. And I I pray that God is gonna give us the laborers because we definitively are in need of them at this at this time because the harvest is great and the various aspects of what we're being prevailed upon to develop and to deliver is is monumental. And we we need his anointing to accomplish what he's appointing.

And so let's continue to pray that that we will not be found wanting. One of the things that I've been contemplating is how much of the of the more how do I say it? The deeper things that I'm receiving from the word, and it's a continual process for us that really describes what it is we're doing and how we're how we're being asked to do it and what facets of the word are being brought to bear. I'm I'm I'm so tempted to say some of those things now, but I I think that we we need to wait until seminar time. I broached into it a little bit yesterday on Saints Radio, and then I said, wow.

I I have really said too much. But it's it's the word and it makes a whole lot of sense and of course the word would make sense if you're open to hear from the word. So what's the title of this seminar in September? I tell you what, by Sunday I think we'll have to say what it'll be. I'm vacillating between a couple of things and neither one of them are bad, but we wanna do for the most part what God is asking us to do.

And he's kind of he's kind of playful with this type of thing. And I mean that in the in with the utmost respect. It's like he holds it close to his heart and you can feel the emanations of what he's wanting to accomplish, but the actual title of it is rather elusive right now, but it's not elusive because we're not seeking for it. It's just the way God is. Sometimes God, you know, he says he hides himself.

It says he he needs to be awakened. It says, you know, I search for you. You gotta search for me with your whole heart and all those wonderful things. But it it speaks about really the endearing relationship that God wants with us. And, he he sometimes is very, very direct.

A lot of times he expects you, and Jesus said this on how many occasions, to remember what he has said and to be doing it. In fact, I I was looking at a passage in the book of Revelation where God was Jesus was talking to the church in Ephesus. And as I was reading what he said, I one by one by one, I saw well, he's and we've said this to a large degree in the past, but he's speaking to a church of saints here. And everything that he said to them, we have become. And the admonition that you need to keep pressing forward into the first agape, that sometimes is is misinterpreted, because he says you have to continue in your works, and you have to continue to endure this the challenges of those works.

But I think Ephesus being what it was as a capital of superstition, and, it was known as the preeminent manufacturing center for idols. And it it really was the supply for most of the religions in the known world. And if you had something that was made in Ephesus, you you had a quality piece that people would invest in, and they thought, well, this is gonna protect my home. It's gonna protect me. And, so there there was a lot.

It was a different it was a different set of, intermingling fact factors than, say, being in Rome or being in Corinth or even being in Antioch. But Ephesus had to deal with a lot of I I this the stress level of dealing with that stuff all the time. You can become wearied in it while you're still doing what you're supposed to do. In the essence, you know, you've left your first love. That doesn't mean.

What is it got? What is love? It's agape. It's not manifestation. It's not tears.

Even though I bless those of you who weep. It's not it's not any kind of outward demonstration. Agape is the bedrock commitment from deep within your spirit to the depth of what God allows you to know in him, that you are devoted to his purpose, that you are breathing hard after the accomplishment of that, and you breathe hard because you are you have committed yourself to the climb. And so the first love, the proactive love, would be that you come to the point where you you might not want to keep pressing. You're still doing all the works.

All those things Jesus said the Ephesians did, and this is not the message. But all those things Jesus said that that the Ephesians did, he knew them, and they were essentials. And it's I mean, if you stack that up with most of the other churches, these people were leading the league in batting. I mean, they they were a top notch functioning church. But the first love, again, is is finding that place of communing with God to where you are wanting to be continue to be proactive in obedience to him.

To to not say, no. I've done enough. I I can't go any further. And and there's always that challenge where you have to keep doing all these things that you know you have to do and manage them while you're also contending for the faith and you're contending with people. And, you know, at some point you just it's not that you don't love God.

It's that you you you really just stop entertaining the prospect of finding something new in him. So you always have that ploughman reaper being full and hungry. You you always have to have that that counterweight. And this is this is what Jesus was saying. And then he continued, which we'll explore more in September, to talk about being with him in the paradise and enjoying the measures of the the tree of life.

And that that church was accessing that type of environment. And it once you begin to do that, it it changes you. And see, this is another factor of spiritual development. There are some things that you just have to keep strong. But whenever God changes you, and he or remember whenever he provides a promotion of, you know, ruler over many things because you were faithful in the other things, that whole measure of development and partnership with him, you you function in different ways.

And you you have to keep your your core identity functioning, but now you've got to you've got to minister in new ways commensurate with where God has commissioned you to be and the authority he's given you, the responsibility he's given you. But at some point you can become so ensconced in the in the business of pneumonicas that you may not be wanting to seek after what God may be beckoning you to partner with him in because God is always moving in grace. When you stop moving in grace, you you lose it. What do I mean by that? God is always doing a new thing.

And, you know, we we read these scriptures about like Isaiah, you know, you come to a point where you you know God is looking for somebody to send. And you can get to the point where you say no. Oh, man. We dealt with that. The general church, didn't we?

Well, I've served for twenty years and it's time for somebody else. Well, why don't you just go over to wrestling and pick out your plot right now? You could set up a tent there, save time and effort, your family, you know, a lot of challenges they'll have getting you over there if you wait too long. Just go ahead. Just the moment you stop moving in grace, you're in trouble.

And grace, the throne of grace, is is where the agape of God is officiated. And so to leave your first love and then to follow it up by saying, you know, this is Jesus. There's work to do here in paradise. There's work to do here. And this tree is a functional reality for you.

And so you you have to be willing to enter into that in the new way. That's what the first Agape is. Because we've said this before, haven't we? I just need to come back to it. Agape is not compassion.

Agape is not emotion. Agape is not goosebumps and touchy feely. Agape is not some demonstration of power where people think they've got revival. Agape is not pleasing everybody. Agape is to breathe hard after the next thing in God's purpose he's wanting to do.

Now some people would say, well, you're you're doing too much. Aren't you happy with what you have? Of course you are. But grace is always moving forward. Grace is always moving forward.

And that is the distribution of agape. And so this is where we are as saints. And and again, I would challenge you to go through there and see Jesus says, I know you, and boom boom boom boom boom, every one of those things. Even when the Lord says, you hate you hate the Nicolaitans, which is really that infusion of cultures that would try to draw you off into some other type of thing. It's really funny here in Texas because the senate campaign, the democrats are running this guy called Talarico who is doing as much effort as he can to clean up who he really is and to hide it.

But he's he's supposedly a a minister or trained seminarian, and he there's so many recordings of him touting progressive doctrinal heresies. And, you know, he he spouted off this business of all of these roads lead to God, and now he's trying to draw it back. There are so many genders. Now he's trying to draw it back. And but the Nicolaitans is really a description of this progressivism, where anything that has come in, now you become that.

And that is evil, and God says he hates that. And it really is the the Midianite strategy where Balaam was speaking about, I can't curse them, but I'll tell you what'll do them in. You let them intermarry. Not and I'm not talking about racial things. I'm talking about, you know, these people worship Dagon.

Let your kids marry them. This is what destroyed Solomon. And we have to be really careful. And as saints, we have to be really careful with general churchy stuff, because that stuff is just a reclining chair, and people just like to sit out in it and drink mint juleps, and they want you to come because they love you. And God says don't leave your first agape.

You need to keep pressing toward the next thing, and I'll tell you what the next thing is Jesus says, you have to overcome in this because there's work to do where the tree of life is concerned, and this is your right. This is your function, and that's where we are. So we we need to, yes, learn lessons from the other six churches, and we've studied that in so many different angles over the years, haven't we? And aligning it with the seven spirits. But, you know, when Jesus says, I'm gonna come quickly and remove your candlestick, what's he mean by that?

Well, we've studied about the candlestick. We've studied about the role of supplying for that, which is a a biblical role. I mean, it's in a couple of places in the Bible, so discount it all you want, but you're really taking it up with a divine author. Not me, God. And if you're not supplying, God's gonna find somebody who will.

And why is it quick? Because if the oil is shut off, the light goes out and God cannot go out. He will not go out. His plan will not be extinguished and when it's oil supply, there's no straight of Hormuz thing. There's no wait period.

It's a quick thing because you're dealing with God Almighty. You were supplying him of all things, and he doesn't tolerate fools in that regard. So but you you would equate those two things. Are you gonna continue to partner with my ways? Are you gonna continue to seek after the new thing that I am desirous of doing in grace through the the greatest gift of all, agape.

People with a cause cannot be defeated. Well, unless a greater cause comes. There's a lot of people in this nation with a cause. We don't recognize it. Did you see what's happening in England right now?

Lots of stuff. You should take a gander. Just squint your eyes and look to the East. Well, actually, Northeast. People are awakening, but it could just be short lived.

I pray that God will give us, an extended period where sanity is at least honored, and, this progressive ideology is is demonic. It's a Nicolaitan thing, and God says I hate it. And again, they like to hide. It's like a it's a debilitating disease. They like to hide under things that are kind of like golden calves for us.

That's a bad term. Forget forget that. Like, they'll say, you know, we wanna do this perversion, and we need you folks over here who have suffered to come alongside and help us. Well, you folks over here who've suffered have largely done that through the power of the Lord, and you need to watch who you're supplying because these people are functioning in the demonic. And but it's so crafty.

It's it's power and it's money, and it's the root of evil. It's the it's the way they pull. It's all money. So we need to keep pressing hard after God, and we'll talk more about this paradise business, in just a couple of months when seminars here. And if God changes it and says, okay, go ahead and release it now, we will.

But today, that was not the message. The message today is in the book of Jude. Jude verse 25. Jude is very interesting character in the Bible, and we don't say with absolute certainty who he was, but we can piece things together and come up with a, I think, very fair assessment of his identity. He says that he's the brother of James and that he is a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

James, of course, there were several James's, but there's the one big James. So James, the one that was vital in Jerusalem, James the pastor. This is who he's gotta be talking about. And so that then makes this Jude a brother natural brother of the Lord. Now we know that a lot of Jesus' siblings were not following him during the time of his ministry, but after his death and resurrection many of them came along and I I believe Jude obviously filled that role.

He was also very obviously close to Peter, which would make sense which would make sense because Peter was so close to the Lord. And if this was one of the brothers of Jesus, that had to be noticed. And Peter, because of that familial relationship when this guy had to come to my older brother Jesus meeting. Peter probably took him under his wing, which would explain why when you read Peter's epistles and Jude, they didn't plagiarize or copy one another, but they say almost verbatim many of the same things. And I'm I'm very grateful for what Jude writes.

I'm very grateful that there because of some of the things that he writes are so far out there that if Peter hadn't sent them said them to, this book probably would have been ejected from the consideration of the canon. In other words, it wouldn't be in the bible. I don't even think it would be. It might be in the Apocrypha, but, the point is that it's in the word, and what he says is incredible. So I wanted us to look at this last verse and align it with our understanding of voice, thunders, lightnings, earthquakes because it it is a fourfold progression.

And this is, the way Jude ends his epistle. And it says, to the only wise God. Monos is one. There is one God and he's wise, and it's only by virtue of our savior. That that is what a statement.

Be glory, count them with me, and majesty, dominion, and power both now and ever. Amen. Glory. That's our friend Doxa, and that's that this is describing who God is. This is voice, thunders, lightnings, earthquakes from God's perspective.

Not us coming to him, but God welcoming him into this. So this fourfold progression describing the the one true wise God because of our savior, is is something that we should see. So when we become willing to intercede, to lift our voice, God's glory is what is drawing us. It's the desire of God to share a partnership with you and to do something that has certainly not been done in you before, certainly something that he is wanting to do in grace that has not been yet debuted. And so the glory of God appeals to us as intercessors.

And so many of us, when we first desire to know God in a deeper way, and we were praying, And we we just wanted to know him, and that's still our objective. But from God's perspective, he created you to partner with him in his glory. And the glory of the Lord is when God is going to debut a new thing and he's looking for an intercessor through a for a partner who can share in that measure of revealing the new thing. So majesty is next and this is kind of a surprise because it's basically a derivative of megas which is expanse. It's the greater works that we will do because the Lord is at the right hand of the Father.

So this aligns with thunders, the secret place of thunder where you begin to come to the Lord in response to his appeal and glory, and then he is wanting to see if you will align with what he's wanting you to be and to do. You you have to seek him. You have to wait on him. You have to be willing to embrace his burden. You have to have a willingness.

If you draw near to God, then God draws near to you. That's the progression in scripture. And so this aspect of thunder where we would say, you know, through contrition, we come up and we're brought into this place just like in a thunderstorm, and those particles move around and they gain moisture, and then there's an electric static discharge, and it creates something that the trees have released and it's deuterium. It's like a nuclear explosion. Yeah.

That's an equipping. But it's also contrition. Are you willing? Are you going to be willing to move with this? Are you going to show me that you are going to be in this for the required time frame.

The megas is gonna begin to stretch you to see if you're willing. And there's there's a trying. You're faithful in the small things before the empowerment really comes. And so from God's perspective, the second factor of the four is here's the scope. Are you with me or aren't you?

You're moving me here. You're moving me there. You're you're up and we're down. What's this influence? What's this influence?

Yeah. I'm I'm your spirit is doing all this stuff. And with every maneuver, divinely inspired maneuver, There's a testing. Are you gonna are you gonna keep going? You could even take the fourfold of the parable to the sower.

First response, will you come with me? Nope. It's falling on a pathway. People are going here, there, everywhere. They have their own truth.

They have their own purpose. They have their own ministry. Boom boom boom boom. Don't bother. Don't bother me, God.

And then the second one is, you know, you receive it. You say yes. But then, man, first challenge, the first test, and you're done. You're out. Well, you didn't tell me it was gonna be this hard.

I'm gonna go back to Egypt. That's very interesting. You know, maybe we should make a chart of the fourfold progressions in scripture. Maybe we'll work on that. It's easy to do, but it's it's saying the same thing.

And in this factor for Jude, god's from god's perspective, god's objective is, yeah, I wanna do a new thing, and I'm gonna use you in new ways, and it's expand out of your comfort zone. Are you willing to do this? Oh, yes, Lord. I'm willing. Well, let's see.

We'll we'll we'll we'll see. I'll ask you again in a week. And when the first challenges come, the second challenges, when this person over here leaves you and then they start saying, why did you leave me? You're my bestest buddy. And all these crazy things, all these pools.

I think that every time God wants to take us into a new place, these factors hit us. We're we're in them right now. We are. Oh, I better move on, shouldn't I? Well, the next one, which would be in the lightning phase, is our old friend Kratos.

You wondered whether we were gonna get here didn't you? Some of you skipped ahead and you knew it was coming. This is where we become supercharged as God's arrows, God's sons. And if you're you're coming from the perspective of the temple of the tabernacle in the river of God, you come to water to the knees and you recognize that the knees, the barak is also barak is the lightning. So this is where God is commissioning you, where he is mixing himself into you.

In in the exact components where you are going to be known as a son. And the empowerment that comes with that is energized here. I know that the thunderings is is the place where your capacity and your willingness is being tested. And a lot of times people say, well, wait now. The thunder should be coming after the lightning.

Well, yeah. But when you're testing, you you wanna kinda know how are they gonna respond to what I'm actually doing. You you you do test runs. The the thunders is a test run for the actual lightning, and there are there are probably not to make this too mundane, but there are probably many explosions that are going on in you in that secret place where the energy, the spark is coming, and God is testing your response to it. And he's testing what you'll do with it.

And so the sound of the lightning is really this testing process, this intermingling. And this is a only God's spirit could do this kind of thing. And but when it comes time then for him to send you forth, and you are becoming as arrows in his quiver, as lightning. This is that domain from God's perspective where he's saying, okay. You've been willing.

You've been obedient, and now the tob is gonna be infused into you. I'm gonna give of myself into you. There's gonna be that mixture. If you've not heard the teaching about Kratos, you need to do your diligence and go back through and listen because it's been happening over the last few weeks. But the the mixing of God pouring himself into you in the exact quotient that would not destroy you is is really dynamic.

This is the lightning. And then where the earthquake would come, this is where, from God's perspective, he's giving you exousia. He's giving you authority. And some would say, okay. No.

Pastor, we've studied this before. It seems that you've bypassed the archae in the Icarus. Well, no. I haven't. Because, really, the archae is the beginning.

That's our Lord. It's the angelic that have been created to serve God but to minister to the heirs of salvation. And from God's perspective now, from God's perspective, once he pours himself into you and you've shown yourself to be willing and obedient, then you are already mixed into the fabric of accomplishing what your task is with the Lord and the angels. You then become an operative of what's going on in the temple of the tabernacle of testimony. And, so the place that you're being sent to, the authority of God the father to accomplish the mission is what you function in.

And I think that God is trying to teach us to a greater degree how to utilize that authority. And I think that perhaps one of the reasons God's authority has not really functioned through people to the degree that he wants to is because they're not aligned with all these things. They've been taught, well if you just do this, this, this, and this, then you'll have the power. Or you know, from the minute you're born again, you already have this. It's already yours.

He's done everything for you. Well, he has done everything for us, But the only thing he hasn't done for us is the only thing God doesn't have. What is that? Your willingness. God will not make you do this.

He looks for you in relationship and in love to submit to him. God will not make that happen, and it's a progression. So from God's perspective, he's saying, I want to partner with my creation. This is why I made men and women. I sent my son to die so that they could come.

He's the only wise God through our savior. It's all through him, only through him. And will will they say yes to me? Not just become born again, but will they say yes to me? And will they then submit themselves to my to my testing, to my extending myself to them?

Will they do this? And and then if they come through that place, then I can pour myself into them and entrust myself into them. And then I can know that they're going to be partnering with me as the their elder brother, with the angels to accomplish the tasks for which I have empowered them. And they go forth in authority now. How do you use that authority is the question.

And it's not just doing what seems right to you. It's not doing what other people are appealing for you to do. That authority is is a it's a priceless commodity, and it should be used with discretion by the direction of God. I I was talking to someone who God has brought into my life, and this person is a a trainer for the Catholic church. And yesterday, we were together in the the discussion about the end times was coming, and boy, you know, I just listened.

I was being told about the Pope. I was being told about prophecies. I was told about the resistance to prophecies. I was told about the coming of world war three. I was told about this and all about this.

And then the discussion came concerning the two witnesses. And in and I think this may not be what Joe Blow Catholic who lives down the street from you knows, but from a trainer and a teacher, this was said that paradise is still in the earth. And, Catholics have their own viewpoint of Jesus and what he did leading captivity captive. But they're almost like in the bullpen from baseball terminology, are the two witnesses. And they are Elijah and Enoch.

And they're gonna come out. They're gonna come out throwing heat. And you know the whole issue of what's coming on the earth and the witnesses, there's great authority that is indicated in these two. Shutting up the heavens and releasing rain and calling down fire and all these other things. But my feeling is that the two that are there who are unnamed are the last in a long line of these.

And I think that God is gonna be releasing his authority to those that he has seen faithful in service around the world. And there there are going to be impacts of this kind of partnership with God through the saints and the prophets and whoever these designees are to, officiate the kingdom. You know, and you think about it, it would be pretty much impossible for two guys, two, to be impacting all these nations throughout the world. You know how many nations there are? You know for us, we're going to Brazil.

We're gonna be going into South America to a greater degree next year. There's a potential for us to be in Canada next year. We're in Europe. We're here in The US. There are other doors that are opening.

Do you know how what it means to impact one of those nations? Let alone five or six. And we're talking about in a very short period of time, saints and prophets dealing with nations all over the world and exerting authority and the power of God. And some nations will accept, some nations will go over to unclean spirits, but every one of these nations are gonna have a stomach full of what the Bible calls these martyria. And so when this final face off happens, and we read what goes on, whole world is watching on their cell phones or you know whatever.

And and there's great rejoicing that these two are finally done. And it will look like, you know, what Daniel said. The saints are gonna be battling the enemy, and the saints will overcome, then the enemy will overcome. And the saints will overcome, the enemy will overcome. It's not gonna be linear.

It's gonna be a battle, and it's gonna be directed by God. God's gonna do things the way he knows they need to be done so that his justice is unquestioned. But for those that emanate or affiliate with Rome, they've got paradise in earth with Enoch and Elijah. Now I don't really know how all this is going to play out, but the aspect of exousia and authority based upon what God has called you to do and where he's called you to be. I pray that God will help us, guide us, train us in the proper utilization of the exousia.

And from God's perspective, this is what he wants because here Jude is talking. He's given this fourfold progression. He's saying, from God's perspective, he wants to partner with you in glory. He he wants to expand. This greater works that you'll do because Jesus goes to the father.

Same word from this megas. And he's gonna test you. He's gonna try you. Are you are you willing to endure whatever measure of rigorous try testings for the task at hand? It's not about works, but it's God testing you.

I think some of those are are probably in this dimension. Some of those are probably sacrifices that you have to make which are in aligned with the authority he's wanting to give you. I think back to what God did here in our experience, where we went hard after God. We didn't know we were we were talking about his glory. We didn't really know what it meant.

We just, honestly, we thought it was overwhelming presence. And there is that with glory, but we've since learned glory is so much more. But then we begin to be tested as God was developing, trying to change us. And with each one of those, there was the opportunity to say, well, I've enjoyed what we've known so far, but it's time to go back. There's too much opposition.

There's there's too many things that are costing me a lot more than I thought it would cost. And it's almost like an internship. It's almost like that. I'm not saying it is, but it's almost like that. Okay, are you what do you think?

Are you are you willing to go the extra mile with me? This is probably going to cost you this and this. Are you willing to endure to that? And you know, I think back of a lot of the things that I personally had to give up. Career, reputation.

It just goes on. What I see now with measures of exousia that God is giving us in the nations, It's like what Jesus said, you know, if you lose this or this or this and it you're God's gonna give you a hundredfold in this life and in the world to come. We're seeing that rejection by churches. Well, here we are. They're coming out of the woodwork wanting this.

Accusation that you don't know the word. Well, they are saying, teach us. If you suffer with me, you also reign with me. Jesus endured and learned to be a son by the things he suffered. We don't like those verses because we wanna say, well, when you're born again, you got it all.

Well, that's that's just heretical. The potential is there, just like for any newborn. But I think you know there's a long road from the cradle to, a CEO of a major company, unless it's Neppo Baby. But that's another story. I do not understand this Neppo Baby.

Unless you're gonna be promoted just because daddy or grandpa was there, which is the way most religious hierarchies operate. So you have that testing point, and then God begins to empower you. He begins to impart himself into you. And that has a dynamism and an effect on you that is hard to describe. But then you gotta go forth to walk with the Lord to accomplish what he is the great archae has intended for this earth and for mankind, for the kingdom of God.

And the exousia then is is something that I think God's trying to teach us about right now. You know, it's funny because and I know we're out of time. And I probably shouldn't say this. But, you know, you have to be really careful with authority because absolute power can corrupt you. But, you know, I noticed just in being with people, sometimes just out they'll be talking to me as a leader.

And so many times over these past three months, I have said something. And then a few weeks later, it just happened. It happens. And I I would notice that. And I didn't declare and decree.

It was it was in conjunction with my measure of assignment, and the spirit inspired me to release something. And some of those things were miraculous as they happened. Now you're be careful with that though because then you can say, well, whatever I say is gonna happen. And once you do that, you become prideful and you become a detriment to the kingdom. But it goes forward.

I mean, the process of God using you in grace according to what Jude says is forever and ever. How many of these both now and ever? How many of these Kratos verses have we looked at over the past few weeks and every one of them says this is the way it's always gonna be? You're not gonna escape this. You can resist it now, but if you make it to heaven, you're going to be towing the company line.

This is just who God is. And for the Ephesian church which we began this with, I think at some point they started to think this is maybe they probably didn't think this because they were a disciplined lot. They probably just stopped seeking after a new thing. And that can happen because you think, how am I gonna do all this? Have we said that recently?

We we've gotta pull back now and see, God never waits for us to be ready. He never asks us, okay. You know, do you have all your ducks in a row here? Because I'm getting ready to do it. It's always to do and to teach.

The the best things that I've ever experienced in the Lord, I was thrust into a position where I knew God had prepared me, but I had no idea how what to what to do. And then he led me, and it turned out to be wonderful. So God's preparing you, but when he gets ready, it's gonna be a quickly. And so go back to the beginning and I end with this, to the Ephesians. I have one thing against you.

You you have left your first love. You gotta do the first things. Not to do the same things, but the agenda of agape. And then you go earlier, I'm gonna come quickly and remove the candlestick. Why is he come quickly?

Because when God moves, he moves suddenly. How many suddenlies are there in the scripture? And suddenly and suddenly. God of peace will crush Satan soon under his feet. And in a moment, in the twinkling of the eye, in the hour when you think not, God is a quickly God who prepares you for the moment, but then wants you to walk in faith.

So the Ephesians, he's saying, hey. Look. You've been supplying this candlestick ghula boys, sons of the oil. You've been doing all these things and I commend you for them. And you know, you hate this intermingling of the Nicolaitans.

I hate it too. But here's one thing, you're not going after the agape the way you were, and you need to repent because there's work to do in Paradiso. It's probably a city called Paradiso in Texas somewhere. Alright, we've gone way two minutes past time. I I hope you didn't pass out because supper's ready for you.

Thank you. I wanted to just make a quick announcement for our Father's Church family. I posted on Marco Polo details for memorial service for Monica Terrell's father Louis, who is a wonderful man. He's with the Lord in heaven. But Friday afternoon, 03:30 at C.

C. Young in the chapel there on the 2nd Floor. So if you would like to go, I know that they would appreciate your kindness. But whether you're there or not, Saints here in Dallas or wherever you're hearing this, please be in prayer for the Terrell family. It's a wonderful homegoing, but still stand with them in prayer.

First Saturday, this coming Saturday, don't forget, come to pray. And that's that's all she wrote. God bless you. Thanks for listening, and goodbye.