Riches

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Wednesday Night Live. This is pastor Ron Crawford coming to you from the Father's Church in Dallas, Texas, and I am really thankful for the opportunity to reach out to my father's church family as well as to all who are affiliated with this house and all of our Saints Network nation. You know, the Bible speaks about a holy nation, and it's almost sounds like a football fan club. Well, we're Saints Nation. Well, we don't...

We bless the New Orleans Saints NFL team, but Peter calls us a holy nation, and I I see that building and developing in such amazing ways. We are very grateful to be back home. This last trip to Western Europe was amazingly blessed, but coming back, even though we were away for only a brief amount of time, I felt a deeper draining in many different ways in any other journey that I can remember. And I think that's because of the, of course, the release of what God has given us as saints to impart to others, but it's also the stretching of the Lord, the expansion of the Lord in our lives. You know, when the scripture says lengthen the cords, strengthen the stakes, we often just read that.

We say, yes, yes. And we proclaim and blow the shofar, and, you know, we think that it's probably more of a schematic thing or a poetic expression that has meaning somewhere in application. But when you're stretched, you know, we talk about kids when they're growing, call them growing pains. When you are stretched and the spirit is expanding your capacity, that does something. I think this is a season where this is happening.

And for many, you have to elect whether you're going to sign on to that expansion or whether you're just going to dwell by the Riverside and applaud every now and then. Rejoice over all your past victories. You know, at every juncture of the spirit of truth and sonship, we have the option of doing what that partnership with the ways of God is designed to do. And we can reflect, we can rejoice, we can allow God to equip and to empower and to inspire and to bring measures of promotion, authority that is going to be necessary in the new season, the changing of garment, the act... Activating of what God wanted to do through all of us from the foundation of the world.

And all of that requires your willingness to say yes to the Lord and to go forward. But I think in many instances people get to that point and they've been through it so many times as glorious as it is, human nature would say no. You know, it's kind of like the eye of the needle. The more the more effective a warrior is, the more precise they have to be. You know, you don't just send a battalion in to do a strategic behind the lines work.

You you better have someone that has been through the drills and is willing to say yes to become a type of warrior that is a specialist. And you know, a lot of general church people don't like to hear that. I remember when we first began here at the Father's Church in 9798, and God every week was giving us downloads of understandings of his word that throughout my life and through my education in the word I had never contemplated before. And when we began to talk about how God wanted to take us from babies to sons to heirs and joint heirs, there were people even who had been touched by the spirit who rejected that. And I don't know why.

I think for one thing, if you accept that reality, and it is a reality, it's going to place a demand on you. It's much easier to just sit and sing about power instead of submitting yourselves to actually be a vessel of His power. And to whom much is given, what is it now? Much is required. Well, nothing's required of me.

He did it all. He's sitting up there in the heavenly easy chair, and know, and he's just waiting for the Father to say bring my children home. Well, you better reread your scriptures because Christ is with us in Arterio. He is praying for us that we will accomplish the will of God. And it might be helpful for the Lord to know that he's done it all and there's no reason for him to be praying to the Father if we've already got everything we will have.

See, the logic of those stationary doctrines is eradicated over and over again by the living word. If we allow ourselves to see it and to participate with the Lord today, he is the king of saints. Even what we've studied about regarding our mission as saints and what that is in the Bible, the defining of that term hagios from the New Testament and where it comes from in the Old Testament, and how it is segmented in the greetings of the churches from those that accept a perhaps more stationary existence with the Lord. What do I mean by that? To those who love the Lord, to those who are born again, and to the saints.

There are specified measures, even when Paul writes, you know, he's writing to the Corinthians, you know what I'm teaching you I know is new, but you people sitting in the back row of the converted synagogues, you consult the pneumatocos and the prophets and they will verify that what I'm saying is right. See even reading that kind of thing by Pentecostal Stoics, You know, they don't want to recognize, well, what in the world does it mean that you have people who are specialists in the spirit? What does it mean that you actually have prophets that are active in the church and who are who are who are willing to lead the people into these next measures of truth? Even Peter wrote about Paul. You know, I have the greatest confidence in my brother Paul.

Some of his teachings are immediately hard to understand, yet we must press on. The meat of the word. You know, meat belongs to those. Strong meat, what is that? It's it's it's juxtaposed against those that are babies wanting milk.

So you come to junctures in the plan of the Lord where you say, am I wanting to go forward with him? You know, when the early church met in Acts 13 at Antioch and Paul and Barnabas were there. He had teachers and prophets together with the church in the place where Christians were first identified thusly, and they were fasting and praying and ministering to the Lord, and the Holy Spirit said, there's a new horizon, you need to send Paul and Barnabas into it. Why didn't they just stay there? Well, they could have just said, well, you know, we have originated a term that means Christ like, and we are embracing.

We are in good fellowship. We're keeping up with the Ephesians. We're keeping up with all of the other areas of the fledgling Christian church. And no, I don't think we need to fast and pray. We've we've we've got all the gospel here.

And now, this Paul and Barnabas, they're kind of antsy fellows. Why don't we just bless them, give them an offering, and let them go? Right? Or we'll pledge, we'll give a pledge, we don't want to go, but we'll send them out because in a little while, we'll just say that missionaries are apostles. That's easy.

And then we'll take the next step. We'll eliminate the entire apostolic venture by saying that all of that died when the early church transitioned in its generations. How about that? Now these people, and in the first miracle was that the teachers and the prophets were actually together and not firing at each other, and that they were fasting and praying together, and they didn't even have a a prayer list to try to bend God's arm to answer these hard requests that he seemed to be turning a deaf ear to. Come on now.

Say amen or ouch. I grew up in this too. Oh, you shouldn't be saying that. You're decrying our heritage. Well, somebody needs to.

At every juncture, do you think Christ went in with that Mona Lisa grin in his face with his hands folded at the rock in Gethsemane? He was laboring in prayer, sweating as it were great drops of blood. He drove people out of the temple with a whip of his own making. He didn't buy it online. He spoke truth to power in the best sense of the word.

And so the concept of people who were mature in the Lord committing themselves to pray and fast when there wasn't some emergency urgency, Aunt Clara is in need of a new pair of shoes, burden to pray. That's what these people were doing, and it happened over and over and over again in the scripture. And whenever God's wanting to do a new thing, he brings people to this point, dare I say, of spiritual exasperation. Maybe that's not a good word. Perhaps I could dream up another synonym that somebody out there will say, that's not a word, pastor.

You know, it's it's really... You know, it's funny because the word of the day on Merriam Webster couple days ago was abscond. And I remember one time I... When I was working on the, the Princes of the Dark Realm book, and and the spirit was speaking very candidly to me about this. And one day I was writing and studying the scripture and the voice inside my head said, these powers absconded with what belongs to me.

And I thought abscond. I've heard that word before. I've read it, but I've never really explored what it means. And I looked it up and I thought, well, thank you, Lord, you do know the English language. It's what you wrote the King James in.

And so I started using, you know, these enemy forces absconded with the deposits of the glory. And there were some well meaning people in my church who said, yeah, it's too big of a word. I've never heard that word before. I don't think it works. But it apt...

Aptly describes what what God said happened in in the rebellion of the enemy. And we're gonna address some of those places of the deposit of the glory here in just a few minutes. But there's something happening right now, and God God has led us to this point and we cannot we cannot ignore the heavenly vision. You know, I I probably need to move on so we can talk about this... The scriptures here, but just know that this next season, we already see tremendous moves that are happening in Western Europe.

We're very encouraged by some of the most recent adjustments that have been made in Brazil, and I think it's apparent that God is mobilizing the hearts of people, and there is placement of kingdom reality in pockets, in churches, that are going to take responsibility now to embrace the message and become a reservoir of the things that God has revealed so that you can demonstrate what these principles are in the word and teach them. That's great. But this not only is gonna make their ministry a greater challenge that they have to break through, but it's taking us into a new place of responsibility. And with that, there are ways that God is stretching us. He's activating new things that really have been there.

We just haven't seen them yet. So we need to be in prayer. We're gonna be talking about this more over these next couple months. You might as well just get ready for it. But, these are good things, and we must continue to move forward for our Lord.

And that... You know, that's the beauty of this. We've said this over and over again, and I have to keep repeating it. We're not on some five year plan. We're we're not on some denomination building agenda.

You know, I'm I'm not selling stock to this thing, and and I'm not saying, know, you need to get out there and you need to get 10 more churches because in the background I know that if I get those 10 churches, it's going to increase salary and, you know, we're going to have this much more access. We're not building anything for ourselves. You know that. And that's our motive, and I think that's what the Lord requires with this whole marturia testimony business. We're dying for his message.

We're dying to self. We're dying to the things that would so easily beset us for his message. And that's what's necessary to move with the spirit of prophecy. And I know that as we go through November and December and we enter into the new year, 2027, it's gonna be a season of seeking the Lord in a new way, but in a way that should be very familiar to all of us. Oh, but pastor, it's the holiday season.

You know what? When God touched us in 1996, we were smack dab at the beginning of the holiday season. You realize that? I remember getting up at five in the morning on Thanksgiving morning nineteen ninety six, coming here to the sanctuary and weeping. And I remember my brother Paul was here.

He had been awakened too. He came, and we just stayed in different corners of the building calling out to the Lord on thanksgiving. And finally, I think at about 10:00, I recognized I need to go back home because it's Thanksgiving. And so... And we made it through Christmas.

We still had Christmas productions and all those things. So when this movement was birthed, it was during the holiday season. So I don't wanna hear anything about how, you know, you can't do this because we got this and this and this. God doesn't wanna hear it either. So just get ready.

We're on the cusp of an amazing visitation of the next the next move of God in this earth. And boy, does this earth need it. So, hey, the Lord be praised. You have an outline. Look at that.

There's an attachment there that uncle Scott put up for you. And I'm I'm very grateful for this because this is something that we've talked about in the past, but there's a there's a next phase of it that the Lord is speaking to us about. And it has to do with riches coming from this word in the New Testament, plutos, and that word came from a root that indicated flow, a flowing. Sometimes the flow of a river, sometimes the flow of an artesian well, sometimes the flow of a downburst of rain. It was then extrapolated into flows of currency, flows of the growth of a city due to the city being known for particular discovery or inventiveness.

It's an interesting word, but Riches has to do with flow. And as we studied together many months ago in the Hellenistic Greek world mindset, this word Plutus was a pseudonym or a nickname for Hades who they deemed to be a preeminent divine force that controlled the the underworld. So Plutus is the word that throughout the New Testament is translated as riches. So we're gonna dig into this today, not from merely a theoretical or a pursuant etymological study, we're going to dig into it because this is very real time supply for us. We've got to get this word into our spirit so that it will begin to activate what God is preparing us to access for the kingdom.

So we're just going to touch on this well known verse that speaks about Hades, reminding all of you that then when we transition and just talk about Plutus, in the Greek mind, it was the same thing. You got that? It may not be in your Schofield commentary. It may not be what John Hagee wrote. It may not be what the ex people that some of you love to follow on the Internet is saying.

But this is this is what the people in Jesus' day and the Apostle Paul's day, this is what they felt with this language. So let's see. Jesus said in Matthew sixteen eighteen, I say unto thee, speaking to Peter, upon this rock I will build my ecclesia And the gates of Hades, I said, hello. That's a typo. The gates of hello.

Where's that pastor? Where is that? I don't find that anywhere. Hell, Hades shall not prevail against it. That's interesting.

Now think about this from another way. We've talked about doors and gates. We've talked about parats parats. And Jesus is really saying that your door, your place of commune, your place of parats, or in the gap, is knowing the father and becoming Christ like and receiving revelation from him. That's the rock that Jesus is talking about.

You look at the verses before that. Who do men say that I am? I don't think he said it that way. But that's our that's our rock. That's what our parrot should be.

That we know the father, that we're embracing the pattern of Christ, and we're becoming as anointed sons, and we're receiving revelation from the father. That's what Jesus commended. Has most of the church received their revelation from flesh and blood? Yes. And man, the prettier you make that flesh and the more passionate the blood boil is, you can build a big group.

But the problem is you've got to keep that kettle boiling or people will go to the next new fire and dip into that cauldron. So Jesus establishes what the perets, the gap is, that's the rock. And the ekklesia is built on it. This is a real time broadcast, but any of you see what our Secretary of State Marco Rubio did last week? He was he was in Athens, and the beautiful backdrop of the Acropolis and Mars Hill was there.

And he was actually speaking, and I think they did this for a reason, at the place where the Ecclesia met, the called out ones, the citizen government. Where his podium was, and I researched this, I think this was for a reason, and he was speaking to the western nations about their heritage and how it was being stolen or surrendered or both, And that they needed to recognize the brilliance of what civilization had been blessed by God to know and they needed to be pretty quick about it. And just coming back from Europe, you see real time a combination of rebellion in the guise of young people right now who are saying they want their schools to be better. Well, who doesn't want that? And typical France rebellion manifestation fashion, there's a lot of burning of things and marching and shouting and throwing things at the police.

But the problem is that this is a communist and a Islamic combination, and you see that there. Islam is not just a religion, It is a mindset of world domination. It just is. And you see that in our country. We're not coming here to assimilate.

We're coming here to establish outposts of whatever nation we left to come here. We want to put together our own little neighborhood and we're going to manage it, and we're going to post guards outside of it. That's not the American dream. That's not what America is, the great melting pot, E Ploribus Unum. And you look at the flow pattern of the past several hundred years, how most of Western Europe, Turkey included, was Christian or whatever it was that Christian was in those days.

And now it's predominantly Islamic. What they couldn't take by the sword, they're taking by social measure, and that's not Islamophobia, that's just common sense. See, we're too afraid of we're too afraid of being called nasty names. And Christians have been bad about this. When I was growing up, we still had the heritage of being Pentecostal, but boy oh boy, we didn't want any of that showing if the neighbors from down the street came into the church.

Shh. Shh. They'll think we're crazy. It's true. Anybody gets moving in the spirit, get them out of here.

Put them in the back room. What will a neighbor say? We want to be respectable. Well, we don't do it that way here. We'll sing about it.

We'll triumph the fact that few generations before they did it, but we've moved on now. We're respectable people. I remember one of my friends, he was actually in our wedding, and he he's since passed on, but he was going to go on from our graduate school to Harvard, and he was really trying to put the pressure on me to to come with him to Harvard, Harvard Divinity, because they were really desperate to... It wasn't diversity now as it is now, but it... They wanted to bring other, you know, other aspects of Christian belief from The United States into their school.

So he went there, and I bless him. Well, man, all of a sudden here's this kid who was a pastor's son, and now he's got a doctor of divinity from Harvard. Oh, we're respectable now. So he immediately, as a young guy, I I... We came here to Dallas, and he went to a city.

I'm not gonna be too more specific about this, but he was on the cover of the evangel. He was the governor's pastor. And, I remember having one of the last, real communications I had with him. He he said he said, Ron, you know, I'd invite you to come up here, but I don't think you'd recognize anything that the assemblies were when we were kids. This is more like a political haven here, and I have to manage everything I do very succinctly to keep appearances up.

I mean, this is the pastor of this bellwether church who only bypassed a whole score of people who wanted that pulpit because he had a Harvard Divinity School doctorate. See, we've we've got to we've got to recognize that God doesn't care about our reputation. He cares about our submission. And he does the foolish things to confound the wise. And I understand that framework of opposing forces.

But when Jesus says, Peter, who do men say that I am? And, he says, you're the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus says, flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you, but my father did. And on this rock, I'm gonna build an ecclesia. So Marco Rubio was there at this place giving basically a sermon to Western nations, very eloquently so.

It was a brilliant speech and the backdrop almost looked like a painting. It was so beautiful. But if things continue, yeah, I mean, you're you're not gonna... If you wanna go to see Europe, you better go pretty quick unless God in interviews because it is not gonna be the Europe that you remember. And I think that the times of the end, and probably the same can be said about America, this next election is going to be really crucial.

You know, what do you what do you want? Do you want communists to continue their rule of New York City? Do you want it in Los Angeles? Do you want it in major sections of the country? Gee whiz, do you want it here in Texas?

Oh, man. When I drive through our neighborhood here, it's a wealthy neighborhood. I can't believe that people who are enjoying the American system are backing somebody that wants to tear it down. It's it's idiocy. It's it's just...

God says that in the end, I will give people over to their perverted viewpoints, and I think we're seeing that. I think I know we're seeing it. If you needed any other indication that we're in the time of the end, just drive around. Just listen a little bit. And so if there was ever a time where we needed to recognize that the spiritual holdings of this earth that God created for his glory are really a battleground.

And the way that you move as God's ecclesia against the gates is through knowing the Father, hearing from him, receiving the ongoing revelation of his spirit, and embracing the role of sonship to be anointed to represent the right hand of the father according to what he created you, what he knew you from the foundation of the world, where you were foreordained, you were preordained for that. And we need to keep letting this be developed. So from that rock then, there are gates. And these are the gates of Hades, but they're also the gates of Plutus. So let's then contrast what Plutus meant as opposed to what wealth meant.

Plutus was some kind of a flowing source. It was a source, whether that source was going to remain or whether it was going to be constant or whether it was for a season. That is a seasonal source. That's Pluto's. Now wealth on the other hand was understood as a wise building that was a retention that becomes in so many ways its own source, like old money.

So Pluto's was a quick thing. It was what's happening now, and wealth was the establishment. And you know, you probably could equate wealth in the in the best sense, in the best sense, with our inheritance. Where for us, wealth is in God. Wealth is in our calling from him.

Wealth is in the inheritance that he has ordained from the foundation of the world, the inheritance of the saints. That's our base of identity and and an internal supply, but it is not our source. Wealth in that mindset can become a god, and it can cut you off from being willing to lay it down. So both of these things can be problematic. But the gates, the Plutos, are not necessarily wealth.

They are supply. They are the burst of a needed measure of empowerment or the establishment of a flow that will fuel a valley of dryness or a desert. So Gates. Let's look let's look at some verses about Plutus. The first one, and this one I just cited from Matthew 13, the well known parable of the sower.

And in every one of the versions of this parable is this same designation. He that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of Plutus. Choke the word and he becomes unfruitful. What does that mean? We've talked about the cares of this world over and over again.

Thorns, those things that can rise up to take away your priority of seeking the Lord, or you negotiate. Well, you know, I'd really like to do this, but I have this obligation here. And guess what? That obligation there always takes precedence with a by your leave, my Lord. You understand, my Lord.

That is never gonna cut it. If I seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, God will make a way for those needs to be met. But if you prioritize those cares of this world, you will miss the boat. What boat are you talking about, pastor? That's just a colloquialism.

But there's not just the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of Plutus. Now what does that mean in light of what we've just been saying about Plutus? Well, when you get to this point where fruitfulness is on the line, you're going to need supply, and you just better be careful what supply you seek because deceitfulness means now what it meant then, and what it meant then it means now. Don't go running around for some source. You know, talked about that early on, back...

Way back in the day when people actually were flocking to this place because God was beginning a new thing. We would see all these other places that would talk about, we've got the river. Come over here. And I talked to them about people being river hoppers. They would just go from one to the next, one to the next, never really taking responsibility to partner with God to be a vessel of his source.

They were just going to sample. They were Epicureans rather than entrepreneurs. They weren't sowing themselves into anything. If you told them they needed to take responsibility, oh, that's too much work. No, no, no, I can't do that.

I just want to love. I want to feel his presence. Oh, let's run over there. Oh, he laid hands on me. Oh, you know, that's deceitfulness, and it has to do with supply.

And I, you know, I know I've irritated some of you because I have been such a staunch defender of our calling from God. And I I don't like people playing around with other sources or even trying to bring those other sources into what we're called to do. This engine burns on one kind of fuel from the father, and I don't want any other grades of fuel coming in here and sputtering our engine. And so the deceitfulness of riches, you know, you you have... You even have people...

Like the rich young ruler, and that word rich was Plutus. I don't... I didn't include this here. It was a derivative of Plutus. That guy obviously had sources that fueled whatever he wanted to do, whether it was old money coming in or whether it was people that he knew or whatever.

He wasn't willing to cut all those off to follow the Lord. But even sometimes when we go and we... The Lord opens a door and we pray and we see God move in people and the visitation of the spirit is there and there's impartation, And and it always hurts my spirit. And to some degree, it angers my mind. I'm just being honest.

When people the next week are going after something else. And I remember one time we were ministering in the South Of France. This was years and years ago. And God had been moving in this this group. And we had a meeting at the end of our set of meetings with the leadership.

And they had lined up all these different prophets and people that were going be coming in over the next few months. And one of their elders said, why are we doing all that when we've received something from God here that we all know is what we're supposed to be? And I just, I was just listening because I thought that man is speaking the truth. But it wasn't it wasn't effective enough to cause that group to change. They they just like bringing into whatever...

Like like Mars Hill. Bring bring bring in this message. Bring in this message. And Paul stands up and says, you're too superstitious. You're after everything.

And the deceitfulness of Plutus will destroy the fruit. If you don't commit yourself to him as the source and the peculiar needs of that fruit harvest that God himself wants to supply for, you will destroy your harvest and you'll destroy what that tree is supposed to be. This is really important for us. This is this is important for us. You know, we were talking about this the other day and so giving thanks to the Lord for the way these wonderful brothers and sisters in France who are really embracing what they're calling is the Saints in the midst of a nation that is just used to running after every dog and pony show that comes from North America.

And, you know, I said, you know, it's kind of like a young couple they meet, they fall in love, and the next thing you know, either that guy or that girl sees the one that supposedly loves them outdating other people. You know, it comes to a point where you say I have found the pearl of great price and I'm selling every other thing I have. And so the deceitfulness of riches along with the cares of this world, we've not focused enough on the deceitfulness of Pluto's. It is deceitful. It promises you something.

It promises you a quick fix. It promises you a hot date. And sure, the spirit of the Lord may be there moving with those people, but that is not your source. He is your source in the in the in the orchard where he has called you to serve. And it'll destroy not only the fruit, but it'll destroy the tree.

You will become unfruitful. Why? Because that source is synonymous with the Lord. And you are called to see the opening of the wells that the enemy has filled. Do you see that?

Hey, it's easy, especially in our world today, you know, I can pick up this fancy phone of mine and I can have 15 different sermons at the boom boom boom boom. I can go on X and hear all kinds of testimonies of these kinds of things. We bless God for that. But it's almost like your family as opposed to all the other neighbors and their kids. You can bless those other ones, but you have a responsibility right there and you better take it.

So the deceitfulness of riches, we better think about that a little bit more. You know, in Brazil, I I see that, you know, people are struggling with the place that God has called them to serve. A lot of people are. Not all the churches, but some of them are. And before you turn around, they're over here at this meeting, and they're over here at this meeting, and they're over here at this meeting.

And you bless those ministries, but at the same time you're saying it's hard, this mission that God's given me, you start abandoning what is gonna be necessary for you to have victory in your house where God has called you to stand with him. And if you're going out here and here and here and here, you're spoiling your your hunger and you're not gonna find him if you're not hungry. That's that's so important. And I believe God is changing this, but this is an ever present challenge for the things of the Lord and how he wants to work in you. So let's keep looking.

I still have fifteen minutes according to this high and holy clock in the booth. You've got this outline. I'm not gonna burp you. We're gonna get all the way through this. And and I mean that in the sincerest form because the the man in question always has a a plethora of insights, and we admire that.

And it is just wonderful. And sometimes there's so much that you just can't eat at all. You feel like you're at a buffet table. You want some more? No.

I'm full. And plus the the restaurant's closing. Riches and glory. Romans nine twenty three, that he may might make known the riches, this is plurals, of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had a fore prepared under glory. Man, this one is a sermon in itself.

Do you know that God prepared you as a vessel of mercy? He prepared you of somebody that he wants to know. He wants to bring you to that mercy seat, and he wants to talk to you about what he wants you to be as an anointed son. And you were prepared for, that's that's predestination really, preordained to partner with him in his glory. And with that, he wants to make known the riches, the Plutus, from that glory.

Accessing these gates. So the gates of Hades is not just you coming and binding and rebuking and casting out, It's distributing the goods according to Luke 11. And that's the riches of that partnership with God. Ephesians three sixteen, that he would grant you according to the plutos of his glory to be strengthened, that's the power of the throne, with function, dunamis, by his spirit, where? In the inner man, in that ma'a, in that fren area, the deposit of his spirit within you, which is the index of your life, born again only through Christ.

That that verse there in Ephesians three sixteen is amazing. So that would indicate that if we are functioning on behalf of our born again spirit that communicates mysteries directly to God through speaking in tongues, and you breathe from there, and the well of resource flows from your innermost being, from out of your belly, that functions according to the power and the dictates of the throne, the kratos, that God would grant you the riches of his glory. That's coming. We we have been being trained in the power words of the of the scripture. We've been being trained in the the placement of the throne.

We are being trained about the spirit within, and we must see here that when that is in place, he would grant us access to the plutos of his glory. Think about that one. Ephesians one seventeen, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. What is your bastion of of inherited identity, the wealth of the resource of God within you and in your perets, where you have established that so that then you can begin to function in the plutos, the gates of his plutos. This is all here.

Every one of these phrases we have studied together from the word. You just go through them and chew them and see what God is saying. Be... Keeping on with verse 19. What is the exceeding greatness of his dunamis to us who believe, according to the working of his mighty Ischus Kratos?

What is your placement in the boundaries of God's creation, the Ischus? How are you partnering with the Arche, who Christ is, and those angels there that are mighty on behalf of what God intends to do in the world according to the power of the throne? He wrought this in Christ, made this possible in Christ when he raised him from the dead, set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and exousia, and dunamis, and those that are empowered in the darkness as curiotos, or lords, and every name that is named, those that are under the tutelage and the auspices of those curiotos, not only in this world, but that which is to come. He has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the ekklesia, which is his body, and the fullness of him that fills all in all. There it is.

Wow. I think this business of the supply is gonna be activated in new ways in the gates of nations. This is what God is working in us to activate or that we can be conduits of what he has given us authority to represent in him. Philippians four nineteen, this well known one, my God shall supply all your need. How many needs?

I'll read that again brother. All your need according to his riches, Pluto's, in glory by Christ Jesus. What is the glory? Goosebumps? Chicken skin?

No. It's partnering with God. The glory is partnership with God in something that he is ordained to do. He chooses you to partner with him in this. That is the glory.

It looks like the fire of judgment and burning. It is his fire, but it's the passion of partnership. Look at the riches of grace. Ephesians one seven, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the plutos of his grace. This is the flow of his grace from the throne of grace, from grace and supplication, that prayer partnership, who God is, one of his dimensions of his personality, one of the seven spirits, the spirit of grace and supplications.

Wow. So the riches flow from there. Ephesians two seven, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding plutos of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. What is that kindness? Oh, you poor pretty thing.

Come on up in my lap and let me tell you how sweet you are. Listen. The fact that we are walking with God is the ultimate kindness. That he's redeemed us out of this world, out of the clutches of Satan is the ultimate kindness. And how do we repay that kindness?

By walking with him in gratitude and in obedience. Ephesians three eight, unto me who am the least of all saints. Some people read this and they say, see Paul, look how humble he was. What is that word least? It's our old friend decrease.

It's that old friend that elastic comes from. He becomes whatever he has to be for the saints. He was humble. He did what... He became all things to all men.

That's the least of all saints. This grace is given, what? That I might preach among the Gentiles, the boundless Plutus of Christ. There will never be an end. And in every place where God sends you, there are variations that have not been seen before.

I think to some degree, we are privileged to also be the least of all saints. Let's finish by looking at the triumph of Christ. Revelation five twelve. You know this this context. If you don't, you should, and it's very easy for you to read those first 11 verses.

In heaven saying with a loud voice voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive seven things. Jesus has accomplished the victory, the risen slain lamb with the book, that little book now given to him. He's at the right hand of the throne. He receives power, function, and riches. Plutus.

If we align it with the seven spirits, Plutus aligns with the spirit of grace and supplication, doesn't it? And wisdom, well there's an easy shot, and strength. Prophetic is knowing where are you planted, what are the boundaries, how are you positioning yourself with the angelic. Honor, Tema, there's the saints. We commit ourselves to be imprinted by God to represent him, to be like him, and to do what he commissions us to do.

This is a righteous placement. And glory, doxa, spirit of glory and of God, and blessing, eulogia. Yes. The fulfillment of the eternal good word of God. And if you flip those, which you can, the wheel within the wheel, Pluto's is right there with where the glory would be.

Isn't that wonderful? The riches of his glory and grace, there it all is. Verse 13. Every creature. How many creatures?

Every. Which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth, such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying blessing honor let's count these shall we blessing honor glory power be unto him that sits on the throne, and under the lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and prospuneoed before him that lives for ever and ever. Four, the first is the voice is eulogia.

The second, that gathering in the secret place of thunder is honor which align with the saints. That commitment to be what God has called you to be, the imprint of who he is. Glory is the energizing of the lightning, the doxa, and power what God has ordained as the Kratos of the throne. This is where we are, but the Plutus in the gates. We need divine supply.

We need supernatural source. We need God to unlock those deposits of his glory. We need them to be God's way in God's timing, God's supply, because that's the only thing that's gonna cause the fruit of the orchards we're being called to serve to grow. I want that, don't you? So what is your need?

Where are we right now? We need the riches of God's partnership to be released into us because you can't give what you don't have. You can't represent what you have not gained victory in. We need that supply, and that's what we're calling out to God for. And see there?

Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. There we made it. God bless you all. Pray about these. Let these words digest.

This is the meat of the Lord. This is a rhema for us, but his supply is here. We must look at these scriptures and let God's wisdom guide us upon their foundation. Look forward to Friday, the power devotional. We'll see you this weekend.

Till then, God bless and goodbye.