WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: John 17 - Majesty Publishing Date: 2026-08-23T03:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/john-17-majesty/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:14.900 Okay, while he sorts it out, we are going to start a new series today. The series is John 00:00:14.900 --> 00:00:21.960 17. So over the next few weeks we will go through John 17 and take themes from it, not 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:33.960 then see where we land. In a sense, John 17 is really the Lord's prayer. Even though we 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:39.200 always refer to our Father who is in heaven as the Lord's prayer, the real Lord's prayer 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:46.300 is John 17 where Jesus begins to pray. It is the kind of prayer which is for others, 00:00:46.300 --> 00:00:50.040 but He really cannot teach it to anybody else because He is the only one who can pray that 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:55.720 prayer. So we will start with John 17. The reason I am here one week and not here another 00:00:55.720 --> 00:01:02.720 week is because of being in St. Martin's where we have a retreat with people coming 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:08.440 from different parts of the world. So again, next week I won't be here, but it will be 00:01:08.440 --> 00:01:15.200 every alternate week most likely. It is a lot of traveling, but it is absolutely worth 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:22.340 coming back here to be with you. That might sound terribly noble and Christian, but it is 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:27.340 true. And now if I can have my iPad back. Okay. So guys, when you look at John 17, today we 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:33.340 will start with John 17 5, John 17 5. So if you want to turn to it, John 17 5. Let me 00:01:33.340 --> 00:01:39.340 read the verses 1 to 5. After Jesus said this, and what did He say? It is in 1633. I have 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:45.340 told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you have trouble, 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:51.340 but take heart and be patient. I have told you these things so that in me you may have 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:57.340 peace. After Jesus said this, He looked towards heaven and He prayed, Father, the time has 00:01:57.340 --> 00:02:03.340 come. Glorify your Son that your Son may glorify you. For you granted Him authority over all 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:09.340 people that I have given you. I have given you the authority to be a good son. I have 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:15.340 given you the authority to be a good son. I have given you the authority to be a good 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:21.340 son. I have given you the authority to be a good son. I have given you the authority 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:27.340 that your Son may glorify you. For you granted Him authority over all people that He might give 00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:33.340 eternal life to all those you have given Him. Now this is eternal life that they may know 00:02:33.340 --> 00:02:39.340 you. The only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I have brought your glory on 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:45.340 earth by completing the work you gave me to do. We will talk about that one day. We will 00:02:45.340 --> 00:02:51.340 talk about that one day. What brings God glory. So many things in this chapter that makes it 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:57.340 very clear what we need to do. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you 00:02:57.340 --> 00:03:03.340 gave me to do. And now Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:09.340 before the world began. We are going to take that bit where it says glorify me in your 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:15.340 presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. So one of the things we need to 00:03:15.340 --> 00:03:21.340 understand is that there was a pre-earth glory that Jesus had. One of the scriptures that the 00:03:21.340 --> 00:03:27.340 disciples must have been completely confounded with was when Jesus says to the disciples, 00:03:27.340 --> 00:03:33.340 it is beneficial for you that I go away. It will benefit you if I go away. The disciples must have 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:39.340 been thinking, how can it benefit, how can your going away benefit us? We are walking with God. 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:45.340 It has never happened before since Adam. The last person who walked with God was Adam in the Garden 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:51.340 of Eden. And now we've been walking with you. We've seen you. We've seen who God is through you. 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:57.340 How can you then say that it is beneficial for us that you go away? 00:03:57.340 --> 00:04:03.340 And so they didn't understand it then, but as Paul then says in 2 Corinthians 5.16, 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:09.340 we do not look at Jesus as Jesus of Nazareth anymore. We look at him as not as Jesus of Nazareth, 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:15.340 not after the flesh. We look at him as Jesus of Nazareth. 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:21.340 We look at him as Jesus of Nazareth. We look at him as Jesus of Nazareth. 00:04:21.340 --> 00:04:27.340 We look at him as not as Jesus of Nazareth, not after the flesh. 00:04:27.340 --> 00:04:33.340 So we've stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ 00:04:33.340 --> 00:04:39.340 merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now. And so there is a 00:04:39.340 --> 00:04:45.340 pre-earth Christ that we need to recognize today. And we'll try to do that. 00:04:45.340 --> 00:04:51.340 Go to John 1.1. John 1.1. 00:04:51.340 --> 00:04:57.340 It says there, and I know you know this, but John 1.1 says, 00:04:57.340 --> 00:05:03.340 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:09.340 The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:15.340 We're talking about this Jesus that we worship here has pre-existed 00:05:15.340 --> 00:05:21.340 without a beginning or an end. In the beginning. As in, right from when it started, 00:05:21.340 --> 00:05:27.340 and he has no start, it talks about him. And then go to John 1.14 and read it from the message. 00:05:27.340 --> 00:05:33.340 John 1.14. John 1.14 from the message. 00:05:39.340 --> 00:05:45.340 The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. 00:05:45.340 --> 00:05:51.340 We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one of a kind glory, like father, like son. 00:05:51.340 --> 00:05:57.340 Generous inside out, true from start to finish. If you read it from the NIV it says, 00:05:57.340 --> 00:06:03.340 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, 00:06:03.340 --> 00:06:09.340 the one and only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 00:06:09.340 --> 00:06:15.340 Go to John 8.58. John 8.58. And you see Jesus making an amazing statement. 00:06:15.340 --> 00:06:21.340 It must have so riled up the Pharisees. 00:06:21.340 --> 00:06:27.340 We start at verse 57. John 8.57. 00:06:27.340 --> 00:06:33.340 You are not yet fifty years old, the Jews said to him. And you have seen Abraham? 00:06:33.340 --> 00:06:39.340 I tell you the truth, Jesus answered. Before Abraham was born, I am. 00:06:39.340 --> 00:06:45.340 At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself, 00:06:45.340 --> 00:06:51.340 slipping away from the temple grounds. I tell you the truth, before 00:06:51.340 --> 00:06:57.340 Jesus answered, before Abraham was born, I am. And so it's this idea of 00:06:57.340 --> 00:07:03.340 a pre-earth Christ. 00:07:03.340 --> 00:07:09.340 Now go to Daniel. Daniel chapter 7, verse 14. 00:07:09.340 --> 00:07:15.340 Daniel 7.14. Daniel 7.14. 00:07:15.340 --> 00:07:19.340 Let the scriptures speak to us, yeah? 00:07:19.340 --> 00:07:23.340 How they speak to us, it will be the Holy Spirit who helps us. 00:07:23.340 --> 00:07:27.340 But each of us will begin to see things that we need to see. 00:07:27.340 --> 00:07:31.340 Daniel 7.14. So there's the pre-earth Christ and we talked about John 00:07:31.340 --> 00:07:35.340 1.1, 1.14, 8.58, 00:07:35.340 --> 00:07:39.340 as in before he came to the earth. 00:07:39.340 --> 00:07:43.340 And then there are 00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:47.340 scenes where his glory was made evident in visions. 00:07:47.340 --> 00:07:51.340 His glory in visions before 00:07:51.340 --> 00:07:55.340 he came to the earth. Before and after he came to the earth. 00:07:59.340 --> 00:08:03.340 And so the first one is Daniel 7.14. 00:08:03.340 --> 00:08:07.340 Daniel 7.14. And here's what it says. 00:08:07.340 --> 00:08:11.340 Let's start at verse 13. In my vision at night, 00:08:11.340 --> 00:08:15.340 I looked and there before me was 00:08:15.340 --> 00:08:19.340 one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. 00:08:19.340 --> 00:08:23.340 He approached the ancient of days and was led into his presence. 00:08:23.340 --> 00:08:27.340 He was given authority, glory, and sovereign power. 00:08:27.340 --> 00:08:31.340 All nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. 00:08:31.340 --> 00:08:35.340 His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away. 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:39.340 And his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. 00:08:39.340 --> 00:08:43.340 Go to Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel 1, 26-28, 00:08:43.340 --> 00:08:47.340 Ezekiel 1, 26-28, 00:08:47.340 --> 00:08:51.340 Ezekiel 1, 26-28. 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:03.340 Here's what it says. Above the vault over the heads 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:07.340 was what looked like a throne of Lattice Ladiuli. 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:11.340 And high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:15.340 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:19.340 he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire. 00:09:19.340 --> 00:09:23.340 And that from there down he looked like fire. 00:09:23.340 --> 00:09:27.340 And brilliant light surrounded him. 00:09:27.340 --> 00:09:31.340 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. 00:09:31.340 --> 00:09:35.340 This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. 00:09:35.340 --> 00:09:39.340 When I saw it, I fell face down, and I heard the voice of one speaking. 00:09:39.340 --> 00:09:43.340 And then we know that he's seated on a throne now. 00:09:49.340 --> 00:09:53.340 And we can go to Hebrews 1, verse 3, 00:09:53.340 --> 00:09:57.340 Hebrews 8, verse 1, 00:09:57.340 --> 00:10:01.340 and Revelation 4, verse 2-5. 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:05.340 Let's have a look. Hebrews 1, verse 3. 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:09.340 Hebrews 1, verse 3. 00:10:13.340 --> 00:10:17.340 The Son is the radiance of God's glory 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:21.340 and the exact representation of His being, 00:10:21.340 --> 00:10:25.340 sustaining all things by His powerful word. 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:29.340 After He had provided purification of sins, 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:33.340 He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven. 00:10:33.340 --> 00:10:37.340 Hebrews 8, 1. 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:45.340 Now the main point of what we are saying is this. 00:10:45.340 --> 00:10:49.340 We do have such a high priest 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:53.340 who sat down at the right hand of the throne 00:10:53.340 --> 00:10:57.340 of the Majesty in Heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, 00:10:57.340 --> 00:11:01.340 the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being. 00:11:01.340 --> 00:11:05.340 Revelation 2, 00:11:05.340 --> 00:11:09.340 sorry, Revelation 4, verse 2-5. 00:11:13.340 --> 00:11:17.340 At once I was in the Spirit, 00:11:17.340 --> 00:11:21.340 and there before me was a throne in Heaven with someone sitting on it. 00:11:21.340 --> 00:11:25.340 The one who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Ruby. 00:11:25.340 --> 00:11:29.340 A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. 00:11:29.340 --> 00:11:33.340 Surrounding the throne were 24 other thrones, 00:11:33.340 --> 00:11:37.340 and seated on them were 24 elders. 00:11:37.340 --> 00:11:41.340 They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. 00:11:41.340 --> 00:11:45.340 From the throne came flashes of lightning. 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:49.340 We had that last night, right? From the throne came flashes of lightning, 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:53.340 rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:57.340 the stars were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 00:11:57.340 --> 00:12:01.340 So you have him seated on the throne, 00:12:01.340 --> 00:12:05.340 and then you have eyewitnesses of his Majesty in the Scriptures. 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:09.340 Eyewitnesses of his Majesty. 00:12:09.340 --> 00:12:13.340 Sometimes through the miracles he did, 00:12:13.340 --> 00:12:17.340 sometimes through other revelations that happened. 00:12:17.340 --> 00:12:21.340 You see the first one in Luke 9, 43, and the second one 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:25.340 in 2 Peter 1, 16 onwards. 00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:29.340 So Luke 9, 43. Luke 9, 43. 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:41.340 Starting at verse 42. 00:12:41.340 --> 00:12:45.340 Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in a convulsion. 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:49.340 But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, 00:12:49.340 --> 00:12:53.340 and he healed the boy and gave him back to his father. 00:12:53.340 --> 00:12:57.340 And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. 00:12:57.340 --> 00:13:01.340 While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus did, he said to his disciples, 00:13:01.340 --> 00:13:05.340 listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you. 00:13:05.340 --> 00:13:09.340 In some versions, it says, they were all, in the ESV for instance, 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:13.340 and all were astonished at the Majesty of God. 00:13:13.340 --> 00:13:17.340 All were astonished at the Majesty of God. Eyewitnesses to his Majesty. 00:13:17.340 --> 00:13:21.340 2 Peter 1, 16. 2 Peter 1, 16. 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:25.340 Here is a man who was actually an eyewitness to what happened. 00:13:25.340 --> 00:13:29.340 2 Peter 1, 16 and 17. 00:13:29.340 --> 00:13:33.340 2 Peter 1, 16 and 17. 00:13:33.340 --> 00:13:37.340 For we did not follow cleverly devised 00:13:37.340 --> 00:13:41.340 myths when we made known to you 00:13:41.340 --> 00:13:45.340 the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his Majesty. 00:13:45.340 --> 00:13:49.340 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, 00:13:49.340 --> 00:13:53.340 and the voice was born to him by the majestic glory, this is my beloved son, 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:57.340 with whom I'm well pleased. They're talking about the time of transfiguration. 00:13:57.340 --> 00:14:01.340 That's what they're talking about. 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:05.340 So why look at all this? Because Psalm 145, verse 5 says 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:09.340 that you need to meditate on this and then speak about it to the next generation. 00:14:09.340 --> 00:14:13.340 If you go to Psalm 145, verse 5, 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:17.340 Psalm 145, verse 5, it says that 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:21.340 one generation, verse 4, one generation shall 00:14:21.340 --> 00:14:25.340 commend your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts. 00:14:25.340 --> 00:14:29.340 O on the glorious splendor of your Majesty and on your wondrous 00:14:29.340 --> 00:14:33.340 works I will meditate. Why do we need to meditate this? Because 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:37.340 most of the time, guys, Jesus is just 00:14:37.340 --> 00:14:41.340 someone who's far better than all the people on earth. 00:14:41.340 --> 00:14:45.340 Our Jesus is a very mid-sized Jesus. 00:14:45.340 --> 00:14:49.340 He's greater than all the kings and presidents. 00:14:49.340 --> 00:14:53.340 It's no big deal being greater than all the kings and presidents in the world. 00:14:53.340 --> 00:14:57.340 That's not power. 00:14:57.340 --> 00:15:01.340 Our Jesus is very small and the Jesus of the Bible is 00:15:01.340 --> 00:15:05.340 enormous. And we need to figure him out differently. 00:15:05.340 --> 00:15:09.340 Because a mid-sized Jesus can only be 00:15:09.340 --> 00:15:13.340 approached for mid-sized results. 00:15:13.340 --> 00:15:17.340 So when you really look at it, he's just not lord over 00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:21.340 he is not just 00:15:21.340 --> 00:15:25.340 lord over heaven and earth. 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:29.340 He's not just lord over the earth. 00:15:29.340 --> 00:15:33.340 He's not just superior or far superior. 00:15:33.340 --> 00:15:37.340 He's not just far superior to the 00:15:37.340 --> 00:15:41.340 rulers of the earth. 00:15:41.340 --> 00:15:45.340 He's not just 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:49.340 stronger than Satan 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:53.340 and principalities. 00:15:53.340 --> 00:15:57.340 He's not just stronger than them. 00:15:57.340 --> 00:16:01.340 He's not just more 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:05.340 brilliant or more intelligent or more creative 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:09.340 than us. 00:16:09.340 --> 00:16:13.340 than us. 00:16:13.340 --> 00:16:17.340 He's not just vastly, not just vastly superior 00:16:17.340 --> 00:16:21.340 wiser, 00:16:21.340 --> 00:16:25.340 greater 00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:29.340 in power than us. This is how we have a tendency to think. 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:33.340 This is why sometimes it's 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:37.340 important not to be taken captive 00:16:37.340 --> 00:16:41.340 by the chosen or by a portrayal of Jesus 00:16:41.340 --> 00:16:45.340 by Hollywood or by Christian 00:16:45.340 --> 00:16:49.340 TV or movies. Because this Jesus is far 00:16:49.340 --> 00:16:53.340 greater than that. I'm not dissing chosen. But I'm just saying 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:57.340 I know I've said this before. What did 00:16:57.340 --> 00:17:01.340 Michelangelo do when he wanted to portray God? He made him look older 00:17:01.340 --> 00:17:05.340 than Adam and man reaching out to touch his hand on the Sistine 00:17:05.340 --> 00:17:09.340 Chapel. That's what we do with idols. We make 00:17:09.340 --> 00:17:13.340 idols look greater than humans. This God 00:17:13.340 --> 00:17:17.340 is not just far superior to the 00:17:17.340 --> 00:17:21.340 rulers of the earth. He's not just stronger than Satan. He's just not 00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:25.340 a little more intelligent and creative than all of us. He's not vastly superior 00:17:25.340 --> 00:17:29.340 vastly wiser, vastly greater in power than us. 00:17:29.340 --> 00:17:33.340 It's unimaginable this God. 00:17:33.340 --> 00:17:37.340 I mean, when you really think of it 00:17:37.340 --> 00:17:41.340 I'm trying to capture the idea of him. We've got to get 00:17:41.340 --> 00:17:45.340 used to this word. 00:17:45.340 --> 00:17:49.340 Transcendent 00:17:49.340 --> 00:17:53.340 majesty. 00:17:53.340 --> 00:17:57.340 You have to get used to this word. Transcendent majesty. 00:17:57.340 --> 00:18:01.340 He's not part of this earth. He's not part of the universe. 00:18:01.340 --> 00:18:05.340 He's not part of the heavens. He transcends 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:09.340 all that. And he is majesty. 00:18:09.340 --> 00:18:13.340 He's not just the Lord of 00:18:13.340 --> 00:18:17.340 the earth. Do you know this number? 00:18:17.340 --> 00:18:21.340 Try figuring out this number. 00:18:21.340 --> 00:18:25.340 Do you know what that number is? 00:18:25.340 --> 00:18:29.340 That's the number of galaxies 00:18:29.340 --> 00:18:33.340 that exist. 00:18:33.340 --> 00:18:37.340 To the observable. 00:18:37.340 --> 00:18:41.340 These are just, that's three trillion galaxies. 00:18:41.340 --> 00:18:45.340 That's three 00:18:45.340 --> 00:18:49.340 followed by twelve zeros. That makes three trillion galaxies. 00:18:49.340 --> 00:18:53.340 And that's just what we know. That's what has been 00:18:53.340 --> 00:18:57.340 hypothesized through discovery. It's not even that it's been 00:18:57.340 --> 00:19:01.340 counted. Do you know how many planets in each galaxy? 00:19:09.340 --> 00:19:13.340 A hundred billion planets 00:19:13.340 --> 00:19:17.340 in each galaxy. Do you know how many 00:19:17.340 --> 00:19:21.340 stars in each galaxy? 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:25.340 Four hundred billion 00:19:25.340 --> 00:19:29.340 stars in each galaxy. 00:19:29.340 --> 00:19:33.340 The closest star to us is a star called 00:19:33.340 --> 00:19:37.340 Proxima Centauri. 00:19:37.340 --> 00:19:41.340 Tonight if you look at it, 00:19:41.340 --> 00:19:45.340 the light from that star started traveling to you in May 00:19:45.340 --> 00:19:49.340 of 2022 if you see tonight. And it's traveling 00:19:49.340 --> 00:19:53.340 at 300,000 kilometers per second. 00:19:53.340 --> 00:19:57.340 And it started in May of 2022. 00:19:57.340 --> 00:20:01.340 And if you look up and see today, it started traveling. That light 00:20:01.340 --> 00:20:05.340 that you see today started traveling four and a half years ago. 00:20:05.340 --> 00:20:09.340 I want you to know, I want 00:20:09.340 --> 00:20:13.340 me to know, there's God. 00:20:13.340 --> 00:20:17.340 It's 00:20:17.340 --> 00:20:21.340 unfathomable with my mind. 00:20:21.340 --> 00:20:25.340 But the more I think of this God, the more 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:29.340 I think to myself, what am I afraid of? 00:20:33.340 --> 00:20:37.340 Do you understand why Chris Tomlin in 2004 wrote 00:20:37.340 --> 00:20:41.340 Uncontainable, Indescribable? 00:20:41.340 --> 00:20:45.340 And this God happens to be 00:20:45.340 --> 00:20:49.340 my father and I am his beloved and 00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:53.340 he takes delight in me. It doesn't compute. You know why I can't 00:20:53.340 --> 00:20:57.340 emotionally try to drum up something? Because you have to compute 00:20:57.340 --> 00:21:01.340 things for emotions to write. I cannot. 00:21:11.340 --> 00:21:15.340 You know, 00:21:15.340 --> 00:21:19.340 because I can see the sunset every day 00:21:19.340 --> 00:21:23.340 from the 37th floor, one of the things I do, especially during summer, 00:21:23.340 --> 00:21:27.340 is I'll walk on my balcony, turn around, and then 00:21:27.340 --> 00:21:31.340 quickly turn around and look at it again because every couple of minutes 00:21:31.340 --> 00:21:35.340 the sky changes. Vignettes of sunset 00:21:35.340 --> 00:21:39.340 that changes every single day. 00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:43.340 That changes every two minutes you'll see colors change. 00:21:43.340 --> 00:21:47.340 Clouds catch light. And it's not as if 00:21:47.340 --> 00:21:51.340 he's got a few options that he's trying to 00:21:51.340 --> 00:21:55.340 permute and combine. It's not permutations and combinations of a few 00:21:55.340 --> 00:21:59.340 different palettes that he has that he's throwing. This God 00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:03.340 does not have a limit when it comes to creativity. It is infinite. 00:22:03.340 --> 00:22:07.340 We do not understand infinity. But he isn't playing 00:22:07.340 --> 00:22:11.340 with a few things. He's not trying to say 00:22:11.340 --> 00:22:15.340 use blue and yellow yesterday. Let's try yellow, green, and blue. 00:22:15.340 --> 00:22:19.340 He's not playing with the colors of the rainbow. It's unlimited 00:22:19.340 --> 00:22:23.340 what he can do. And when he has reached what you think is the limit, 00:22:23.340 --> 00:22:27.340 there's a new limit tomorrow. It's impossible. 00:22:27.340 --> 00:22:31.340 This is the God that we're talking about. 00:22:31.340 --> 00:22:37.340 You have to take that God and now 00:22:37.340 --> 00:22:41.340 put him in a baby. 00:22:51.340 --> 00:22:55.340 You have to take that God and put him on a cross. 00:23:01.340 --> 00:23:05.340 You have to take that God 00:23:05.340 --> 00:23:09.340 and worship. 00:23:15.340 --> 00:23:19.340 It's very different guys. 00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:27.340 This is why Paul said we do not evaluate him according to the flesh. 00:23:27.340 --> 00:23:31.340 We cannot. 00:23:47.340 --> 00:23:51.340 This being 00:23:51.340 --> 00:23:55.340 or for us as believers, he 00:23:55.340 --> 00:23:59.340 Jesus, the 00:23:59.340 --> 00:24:03.340 anointed creator, 00:24:03.340 --> 00:24:07.340 king, which term will fully 00:24:07.340 --> 00:24:11.340 capture it? None! 00:24:11.340 --> 00:24:15.340 None. This being 00:24:15.340 --> 00:24:19.340 is, he's outside 00:24:19.340 --> 00:24:23.340 of creation. He's 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:27.340 outside of creation. He's not part of the three trillion galaxies. 00:24:31.340 --> 00:24:35.340 Adam was supposed to 00:24:35.340 --> 00:24:39.340 find out more with God. 00:24:39.340 --> 00:24:43.340 To explore more with God. Didn't work out. 00:24:43.340 --> 00:24:47.340 But a time is coming when 00:24:47.340 --> 00:24:51.340 life after this earth will be an exploring of 00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:55.340 God. 00:24:59.340 --> 00:25:03.340 It's such a privilege to belong to him guys. 00:25:03.340 --> 00:25:07.340 He lives outside 00:25:07.340 --> 00:25:11.340 of creation. He is undefined. 00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:15.340 You cannot define him. The best that you can come up with 00:25:15.340 --> 00:25:19.340 was his self definition. 00:25:19.340 --> 00:25:23.340 When he goes to Moses and he says to him that I am the Lord 00:25:23.340 --> 00:25:27.340 gracious and compassionate. Full of mercy. 00:25:27.340 --> 00:25:31.340 That's his first self revelation. And then his second self 00:25:31.340 --> 00:25:35.340 revelation is the Christ. Full of grace and truth who lived 00:25:35.340 --> 00:25:39.340 amongst us. This God living amongst us. 00:25:39.340 --> 00:25:43.340 And then the third full revelation is actually supposed to be 00:25:43.340 --> 00:25:47.340 the bride. 00:25:47.340 --> 00:25:51.340 Where it will have to come to a point 00:25:51.340 --> 00:25:55.340 where we will have to deal with what Jesus says in John 00:25:55.340 --> 00:25:59.340 17 where he says that they will know me 00:25:59.340 --> 00:26:03.340 because of how you love each other just as I have loved you. 00:26:03.340 --> 00:26:07.340 Acts 29 knows what it is to be united. 00:26:07.340 --> 00:26:11.340 Acts 29 does not know what it is to be one in love. 00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:15.340 We don't. 00:26:17.340 --> 00:26:21.340 Acts 29 knows how to be united in purpose. 00:26:21.340 --> 00:26:25.340 United in following God. United in worship. But Acts 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:29.340 29 does not know what it is to love each other 00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:33.340 like Christ loves us. That kind of oneness we do not 00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:37.340 know. But thank God for the Holy Spirit. Thank God for the 00:26:37.340 --> 00:26:41.340 word. And thank God for how the word and the Holy Spirit can change us 00:26:41.340 --> 00:26:45.340 like he has changed so many areas in our lives. 00:26:45.340 --> 00:26:49.340 And he shall do it again. 00:26:49.340 --> 00:26:53.340 I am 00:26:53.340 --> 00:26:57.340 so scared and excited about it 00:26:57.340 --> 00:27:01.340 because it will require a transparency on my part that 00:27:01.340 --> 00:27:05.340 I have never touched before. 00:27:05.340 --> 00:27:09.340 But we'll go there. 00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:13.340 You know what's so encouraging is that Jesus 00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:17.340 prayed the prayer and what he prays is answered. 00:27:25.340 --> 00:27:29.340 His outside creation is undefined. He is indescribable. 00:27:35.340 --> 00:27:39.340 He is uncontainable. 00:27:39.340 --> 00:27:43.340 He is all powerful. 00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:47.340 These are words that try so hard to capture who he is. 00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:51.340 All that may be true but here's what blows my mind. 00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:55.340 He's all that and I 00:27:55.340 --> 00:27:59.340 am invited 00:27:59.340 --> 00:28:03.340 into him 00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:07.340 and the Father. 00:28:07.340 --> 00:28:11.340 I am invited into him and the Father 00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:15.340 by the Spirit. 00:28:19.340 --> 00:28:23.340 Just think of that for a second. 00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:27.340 There's this God who 00:28:27.340 --> 00:28:31.340 is beyond three trillion galaxies with a hundred billion 00:28:31.340 --> 00:28:35.340 planets and four hundred billion stars in each galaxy. There's this God 00:28:35.340 --> 00:28:39.340 that is transcendent outside of creation. 00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:43.340 You know when we use those dolls for Christ's life and try to 00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:47.340 explain the Holy Spirit in us, we end up imagining 00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:51.340 that there's a big doll called Jacob and in that is a little Holy Spirit. 00:28:51.340 --> 00:28:55.340 Christ in us, it reduces everything. 00:28:55.340 --> 00:28:59.340 What we are trying to capture is different here. We are saying 00:28:59.340 --> 00:29:03.340 that this God who is so big is saying 00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:07.340 hey Jacob, he says in John 14 verse 20, hey Jacob 00:29:07.340 --> 00:29:11.340 I am in the Father 00:29:11.340 --> 00:29:15.340 you are in me 00:29:15.340 --> 00:29:19.340 and I am in you. What he really means is Mark 00:29:19.340 --> 00:29:23.340 I'm inviting you into the fullness of my Godness. 00:29:23.340 --> 00:29:27.340 You're like a little cork bobbing up and down 00:29:27.340 --> 00:29:31.340 in the endless 00:29:31.340 --> 00:29:35.340 pounding waterfall called Niagara. Imagine throwing 00:29:35.340 --> 00:29:39.340 a cork into the waters of Niagara and imagine it bobbing up 00:29:39.340 --> 00:29:43.340 and down delightfully, happily. It's unending water. 00:29:43.340 --> 00:29:47.340 It has been going on for years every time I go there and I stand there 00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:51.340 and I hear the loudness of that waterfall. I'm in awe. 00:29:51.340 --> 00:29:55.340 It just keeps going, keeps going and comes crashing down. 00:29:55.340 --> 00:29:59.340 And imagine being a little cork thrown into the water bobbing up 00:29:59.340 --> 00:30:03.340 delightfully, caught up in the waters, not knowing where 00:30:03.340 --> 00:30:07.340 it's going but caught up. That is what God is doing to me and to you. 00:30:07.340 --> 00:30:11.340 Caught up in his bigness, in his bigness to be invited 00:30:11.340 --> 00:30:15.340 into that God itself shows that I'm obviously loved. 00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:19.340 This is a God who says come, sit at my table. 00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:23.340 What kind of table is it? I don't know. Come, explore. 00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:27.340 And he says, 00:30:27.340 --> 00:30:31.340 you can be one with me. How does this work? 00:30:31.340 --> 00:30:35.340 How do you become one with this transcendent 00:30:35.340 --> 00:30:39.340 majestic being? He says come and be one with me. And it's not 00:30:39.340 --> 00:30:43.340 an impersonal force like chi or some stuff that comes 00:30:43.340 --> 00:30:47.340 from Eastern mysticism. It is a personal person. 00:30:47.340 --> 00:30:51.340 Full of truth and grace. Full of 00:30:51.340 --> 00:30:55.340 truth and grace is not limited to 5'8' Jesus 00:30:55.340 --> 00:30:59.340 or 5'9' Jesus. Full of truth and grace 00:30:59.340 --> 00:31:03.340 is more enormous than the universe. We do not understand 00:31:03.340 --> 00:31:07.340 the truth and the grace that is him if we don't begin to try and 00:31:07.340 --> 00:31:11.340 fathom the bigness of this God. 00:31:11.340 --> 00:31:15.340 Everything about him, everything, there is no part 00:31:15.340 --> 00:31:19.340 of his nature or character that is not infinite. 00:31:19.340 --> 00:31:23.340 There is nothing about him that is not infinite. 00:31:23.340 --> 00:31:27.340 His grace is infinite. His truth is infinite. 00:31:27.340 --> 00:31:31.340 His love is infinite. His mercy 00:31:31.340 --> 00:31:35.340 is infinite. It is always infinite. 00:31:35.340 --> 00:31:39.340 It is always infinite. And I'm being asked to become 00:31:39.340 --> 00:31:43.340 one with this God and in his oneness I know 00:31:43.340 --> 00:31:47.340 I'm obviously loved. Why would this God 00:31:47.340 --> 00:31:51.340 pick Jacob to be one with him if he didn't 00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:55.340 love him? This is holy. 00:31:55.340 --> 00:31:59.340 This is sacred bigness. It's not just size. 00:31:59.340 --> 00:32:03.340 It is holy. He is holy. I sometimes say it because 00:32:03.340 --> 00:32:07.340 he's a being outside of the limits of our thinking and our 00:32:07.340 --> 00:32:11.340 universe. He is holy. 00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:15.340 If he picks you and says you can be one with 00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:19.340 me. He's not talking about one as in spend some time with me. 00:32:19.340 --> 00:32:23.340 He's talking about your spirit and my spirit becomes one. 00:32:23.340 --> 00:32:27.340 That there is no difference. There's an inseparability 00:32:27.340 --> 00:32:31.340 to my life and this person that we are talking about. 00:32:31.340 --> 00:32:35.340 An inseparability. How else 00:32:35.340 --> 00:32:39.340 can it be true if it wasn't love? 00:32:39.340 --> 00:32:43.340 Then you think to yourself, why 00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:47.340 are you so afraid Jacob? 00:32:47.340 --> 00:32:51.340 And the love is the love 00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:55.340 of a father for his child. 00:33:07.340 --> 00:33:11.340 You see how 00:33:11.340 --> 00:33:15.340 privileged we are? 00:33:21.340 --> 00:33:25.340 Do you see what we mean when we sing you are alpha and omega? 00:33:25.340 --> 00:33:29.340 We worship you, O God, 00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:33.340 for you are worthy to be praised. Why you? 00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:37.340 Why you? 00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:41.340 Do you see the power 00:33:41.340 --> 00:33:45.340 he has? 00:33:53.340 --> 00:33:57.340 Come sing amidst the row. 00:33:57.340 --> 00:34:01.340 Then we can continue. 00:34:01.340 --> 00:34:05.340 You don't have to stand. You do what you want. 00:34:05.340 --> 00:34:09.340 Sing the way you need to sing this 00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:13.340 in the awareness of who we are worshiping. 00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:17.340 Sometimes to even say that he's in this room. 00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:21.340 No, no, no. He's... 00:34:21.340 --> 00:34:25.340 I am somewhere and he's somewhere. 00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:29.340 What I mean is the oneness is not even the oneness of Christ 00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:33.340 is present here. That presence is true. 00:34:33.340 --> 00:34:37.340 And it is true Christ is seated on a throne in the heavens. 00:34:37.340 --> 00:34:41.340 That is true too. But there is 00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:45.340 another place that he dwells in and I dwell in 00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:49.340 that is inseparable. 00:34:49.340 --> 00:34:53.340 And this is why it is required that we worship with our spirits before we worship 00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:57.340 with our minds and our hearts and our bodies. 00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:07.340 We might only sing the first one. 00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:11.340 This one. We'll see whether we'll sing the second one. 00:35:23.340 --> 00:35:27.340 Spirit of God, would you take the words that we've spoken, 00:35:27.340 --> 00:35:31.340 the scriptures we've spoken about. 00:35:31.340 --> 00:35:35.340 The scriptures we've spoken about. Could you help us worship 00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:39.340 you, O God, Holy Spirit. 00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:43.340 You were there at the beginning. The Father 00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:47.340 willed it. Christ spoke it. You began to create. 00:35:47.340 --> 00:35:51.340 You were there when three trillion galaxies 00:35:51.340 --> 00:35:55.340 that we know about came into existence. You were there, Jesus Christ, 00:35:55.340 --> 00:35:59.340 when the morning stars sang as you spoke and the Spirit of God 00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:03.340 created. You were there, Father, as you willed it 00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:07.340 to exist. 00:36:29.340 --> 00:36:33.340 The angels have to shield their eyes 00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:37.340 from wondrous things beside 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:41.340 around your throne. 00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:45.340 Around your throne the living creatures 00:36:45.340 --> 00:36:49.340 say 00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:53.340 elders cannot stand before the King 00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:57.340 even 00:36:57.340 --> 00:37:01.340 angels have to shield their eyes 00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:05.340 from wondrous things beside 00:37:09.340 --> 00:37:13.340 from your eyes the 00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:17.340 thunderings of your love 00:37:17.340 --> 00:37:21.340 lightning flashes glimpses of 00:37:21.340 --> 00:37:25.340 your heart 00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:29.340 fiery burning beauty wrapped in 00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:33.340 light how awesome is the sight 00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:41.340 how awesome is the sight 00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:51.340 no eye has seen, no ear has heard 00:37:51.340 --> 00:37:55.340 no one could know or fully search 00:37:55.340 --> 00:37:59.340 mysteries that lie inside your heart 00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:03.340 call to my deep 00:38:03.340 --> 00:38:07.340 amistor roar the roar of your mighty 00:38:07.340 --> 00:38:11.340 waterfall your waves of love come 00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:15.340 below the waves 00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:19.340 no eye has seen, no ear has heard 00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:23.340 no one could know or fully search 00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:27.340 mysteries that lie inside your heart 00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:31.340 call to my deep 00:38:31.340 --> 00:38:35.340 amistor roar the roar of your mighty 00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:39.340 waterfall your waves of love come 00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:43.340 below the waves 00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:47.340 you'll be low 00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:51.340 you'll be low 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:55.340 you'll be low 00:38:55.340 --> 00:38:59.340 you'll be low 00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:03.340 I am 00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:07.340 just a man of flesh and bone 00:39:07.340 --> 00:39:11.340 I am just a man 00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:15.340 of flesh and bone 00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:19.340 one with Christ I stand before your throne 00:39:23.340 --> 00:39:27.340 I am just a man of flesh and bone 00:39:27.340 --> 00:39:31.340 I am just a man of flesh and bone 00:39:31.340 --> 00:39:35.340 I am just a man of flesh and bone 00:39:37.340 --> 00:39:41.340 one with Christ I stand before your throne 00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:45.340 spirit open up my eyes to see 00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:49.340 enduring majesty 00:39:53.340 --> 00:39:57.340 enduring majesty 00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:07.340 no eye has seen, no ear has heard 00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:11.340 no one could know or fully search 00:40:11.340 --> 00:40:15.340 mysteries that lie inside your heart 00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:19.340 call to my deep 00:40:19.340 --> 00:40:23.340 amistor roar the roar of your mighty 00:40:23.340 --> 00:40:27.340 waterfall your waves of love come 00:40:27.340 --> 00:40:31.340 below the waves 00:40:31.340 --> 00:40:35.340 no eye has seen, no ear has heard 00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:39.340 no one could know or fully search 00:40:39.340 --> 00:40:43.340 mysteries that lie inside your heart 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:47.340 call to my deep 00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:51.340 amistor roar the roar of your mighty 00:40:51.340 --> 00:40:55.340 waterfall your waves of love come 00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:59.340 below the waves 00:40:59.340 --> 00:41:03.340 you'll be low 00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:07.340 you'll be low above me 00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:11.340 you'll be low you'll be low 00:41:11.340 --> 00:41:15.340 you'll be low above me 00:41:15.340 --> 00:41:18.860 above, you'll be low 00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:22.860 you'll below above me 00:41:22.860 --> 00:41:26.840 you'll below, you'll below 00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:31.340 you'll below above us 00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:57.700 Do you see why tongues are such an important gift? 00:41:57.700 --> 00:42:01.500 Where do you go after indescribable, uncontainable? 00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:04.260 Where do you go after all powerful? 00:42:04.260 --> 00:42:07.740 What to give expression to those words, 00:42:07.740 --> 00:42:09.580 call to my deep amidst the roar, 00:42:09.580 --> 00:42:13.780 the roar of your mighty waterfall? 00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:21.380 Do not sidestep or negate tongues as a gift, perhaps, for a few. 00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:25.980 It is so that we can give expression to deep calling to deep. 00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:24.380 Where do you go after indescribable? 00:43:51.380 --> 00:44:02.420 You are not worshipping from the outside, guys. 00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:08.340 By the Holy Spirit, you are in Christ. 00:44:08.340 --> 00:44:11.700 Christ is in you. 00:44:11.700 --> 00:44:14.740 It's not an in as it contained it. 00:44:15.180 --> 00:44:25.900 It is you become one so that you are in. 00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:27.780 It's like milk and water. 00:44:27.780 --> 00:44:31.540 It's not that milk is in water or water is in milk. 00:44:31.540 --> 00:44:35.740 But you say you pour water into milk. 00:44:35.740 --> 00:44:42.260 What you're trying to say is the two have become one. 00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:51.820 We're talking about someone who is transcendent Majesty. 00:44:51.820 --> 00:45:01.420 Whose desire is to invite us to explore, to know. 00:45:01.420 --> 00:45:08.340 There's nothing more he can do but invite. 00:45:08.340 --> 00:45:09.820 Thanks, Tuli. 00:45:09.820 --> 00:45:11.820 Thank you, guys. 00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:30.180 What you and I have every second of the day are delightful encounters from another dimension, 00:45:30.180 --> 00:45:57.700 delightful encounters with this God that comes from another dimension, transcendent Majesty. 00:45:57.700 --> 00:46:03.820 When you look at the, when this teaching is put online and you look at the picture 00:46:03.820 --> 00:46:15.500 that I've chosen for the title picture for the sermon, you'll see that it's a door opening 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:26.700 and a hand, there's no hand, but it's a door opening and a hand literally pushing you into 00:46:26.700 --> 00:46:41.780 a brand new, into a brand new, unvisited, into a brand new, unvisited, unvisited space. 00:46:41.780 --> 00:46:56.500 And a voice saying, all this is yours. 00:46:56.500 --> 00:47:02.740 Pour it with me. 00:47:02.740 --> 00:47:05.100 That's what God is inviting us to. 00:47:05.100 --> 00:47:14.660 Earlier during worship when we started the service, Jane had said during worship, I saw 00:47:14.660 --> 00:47:20.500 people at Acts 29 walking across a threshold like the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. 00:47:20.500 --> 00:47:25.460 And as they crossed into the promised land, we are surrounded by mist and cannot see clearly 00:47:25.700 --> 00:47:30.940 but know that there's a brand new unknown land or realm full of God to step into and 00:47:30.940 --> 00:47:31.940 explore. 00:47:31.940 --> 00:47:39.980 And I so look forward to doing this with you, yeah, to know this God who is one with us. 00:47:39.980 --> 00:47:45.420 You know, John 14, 20 doesn't say you are in Christ and Christ is in you. 00:47:45.420 --> 00:47:49.300 It says we are in Christ and Christ is in us. 00:47:49.300 --> 00:47:55.060 It's an us thing. 00:47:55.060 --> 00:47:59.700 If we get the hang of it, it will change our vocabulary, it will change how we look at 00:47:59.700 --> 00:48:05.460 circumstances, it will change why we wouldn't sin. 00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:10.220 This is what then 1 Corinthians 6 refers to where it says if you have become one with 00:48:10.220 --> 00:48:19.480 Christ, how can you take your body, separate it from Christ and join it to a prostitute? 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:24.920 Because you are a part of Christ, how can you remove yourself from Christ and join yourself 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:25.920 to a prostitute? 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:33.440 We'll talk about that another time but it's so profound when you look at it that he actually 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:40.640 thinks that I am a part of him, one with him. 00:48:40.640 --> 00:48:45.280 He thinks like this. 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:53.240 You see why he would be concerned about Heidi. 00:48:53.240 --> 00:48:56.760 And then 1 Corinthians 6, 19, it's actually talking about the physical body, it's not 00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:58.760 even spiritual oneness. 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:11.800 It's just nuts if you think about it for a second. 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:32.320 What if majesty isn't just about how God carries himself? 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.700 It's also how he intends to carry you through. 00:49:35.700 --> 00:49:50.100 It is also how he intends to carry me through every circumstance. 00:49:50.100 --> 00:49:58.380 It's also how he intends to carry me through every circumstance, every situation that is 00:49:58.380 --> 00:50:01.380 overwhelming. 00:50:01.380 --> 00:50:05.180 What if majesty isn't just something that he carries? 00:50:05.660 --> 00:50:08.660 What if majesty isn't just about how God carries himself? 00:50:08.660 --> 00:50:13.660 What if it is also how he intends to carry me through every circumstance? 00:50:13.660 --> 00:50:21.780 Jacob, I will show you who I am in your circumstance, just as I did with Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 00:50:21.780 --> 00:50:27.940 20 where his circumstances and his situations were overwhelming but then I turned up and 00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:34.500 I turned up in my brilliance, in my majesty, in my bigness. 00:50:34.820 --> 00:50:42.900 What about circumstances like in Exodus 14 verse 13 where the armies of Egypt were behind, 00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:48.500 the Red Sea was in front and then I turned up and I turned up in my majesty. 00:50:48.500 --> 00:50:55.060 They began to say of the God of Israel that he is the one that put Pharaoh and the gods 00:50:55.060 --> 00:50:58.760 of Egypt to shame. 00:50:58.760 --> 00:51:01.700 What if that's how he thinks? 00:51:01.900 --> 00:51:09.220 What if John 11 verse 40 where Martha and Mary are crying and Jesus begins to say that 00:51:09.220 --> 00:51:16.540 I am the resurrection and the life, everything that exists exists because the mean is contained 00:51:16.540 --> 00:51:17.540 in me. 00:51:17.540 --> 00:51:20.500 Three trillion galaxies, that ain't the end of it. 00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:25.420 They're all contained in me and I have become one with you. 00:51:25.420 --> 00:51:33.180 Now you can see why the writer in Hebrews 13 says, the Lord is my helper, why should 00:51:33.180 --> 00:51:34.780 I fear? 00:51:34.780 --> 00:51:38.620 What can mortal man do to me? 00:51:38.620 --> 00:51:49.620 Is it possible to get to a place where we stop managing fear and start banishing fear? 00:51:49.820 --> 00:51:51.820 The Holy Spirit has the ability to do it. 00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:57.820 When you stop managing fear, you banish fear. 00:51:57.820 --> 00:52:04.420 I was once with a young guy who was the son of the governor of an entire province and 00:52:04.420 --> 00:52:09.780 in that country, the governor of a province is like the king himself. 00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:12.260 He had no fear. 00:52:12.260 --> 00:52:15.860 He had no fear because he was the governor's son. 00:52:16.100 --> 00:52:18.100 He had no fear. 00:52:36.100 --> 00:52:41.100 This is why guys, because God is the way he is, this is why God isn't calling you to 00:52:41.100 --> 00:52:42.100 something you can do. 00:52:42.340 --> 00:52:52.660 God doesn't call you, God doesn't call you, God doesn't call me or you to anything that 00:52:52.660 --> 00:52:59.060 we can do. 00:52:59.060 --> 00:53:02.340 Please understand the majesty of this transcendent being. 00:53:02.340 --> 00:53:04.460 He's transcendent in his majesty. 00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:10.700 He's not asking you or me to attempt anything that we can do. 00:53:10.700 --> 00:53:13.420 He's not a part of who he is. 00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:20.540 He will always ask you, invite you to always do what you're not able and what you're not 00:53:20.540 --> 00:53:22.540 skilled at. 00:53:22.540 --> 00:53:28.740 And then he turns up in his transcendent majesty, in his power that is not a greater power than 00:53:28.740 --> 00:53:30.180 all the powers on the earth. 00:53:30.180 --> 00:53:34.740 It is these words exist because he exists. 00:53:34.780 --> 00:53:41.700 Words like kindness, goodness, power, mercy exist because he exists. 00:53:41.700 --> 00:53:46.620 Those words will disintegrate if he stops. 00:53:46.620 --> 00:53:55.140 They exist because he exists. 00:53:55.140 --> 00:53:58.860 This is not vastly superior. 00:53:58.860 --> 00:54:01.860 There's no word to describe it. 00:54:04.860 --> 00:54:21.700 We need to stop domesticating God's agenda. 00:54:21.700 --> 00:54:28.060 The world is radicalizing while the church is domesticating his agenda, taming his agenda. 00:54:28.060 --> 00:54:29.740 The world gets more radical. 00:54:29.740 --> 00:54:34.500 The church begins to tame his agenda or don't say this or don't say that. 00:54:35.260 --> 00:54:36.260 This could be that. 00:54:36.260 --> 00:54:37.260 This could be this. 00:54:37.260 --> 00:54:38.260 This could be a cult. 00:54:38.260 --> 00:54:39.260 This could be that. 00:54:39.260 --> 00:54:40.260 Don't do this. 00:54:40.260 --> 00:54:41.260 Don't do that. 00:54:41.260 --> 00:54:45.020 We are taking our God and making him like a kitten. 00:54:45.020 --> 00:54:53.460 We've got to stop domesticating the agenda of God when the world is radicalizing. 00:54:53.460 --> 00:54:55.460 Where are the phinehases? 00:54:55.460 --> 00:55:02.220 Where are the phinehases that have this fierce jealousy for the things of God and for the 00:55:02.220 --> 00:55:08.940 person who God is, who stand up and it doesn't matter who says, we don't care for you. 00:55:08.940 --> 00:55:12.060 We think you are this, this accusation, that accusation. 00:55:12.060 --> 00:55:17.660 And you stand up and say that I am jealous for the God that I am beginning to know. 00:55:17.660 --> 00:55:20.460 And that God is beyond all human logic. 00:55:20.460 --> 00:55:25.540 So your human logic or reasoning is not going to make me shut up. 00:55:32.540 --> 00:55:36.820 Stop scrounging, Jacob, like a chicken when you're an eagle. 00:55:36.820 --> 00:55:41.980 It's scrounging for little earthworms. 00:55:41.980 --> 00:55:45.860 You know, when we talk about the majesty of God, we're not trying to say we are entitled 00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:49.980 or that this is some prosperity gospel or that we are king's kids. 00:55:49.980 --> 00:55:50.980 No, nothing. 00:55:50.980 --> 00:55:53.340 We're not saying that at all. 00:55:53.340 --> 00:56:00.660 If anything, this will help us glorify the God as he is and benefit people. 00:56:00.660 --> 00:56:03.200 That's the intent. 00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:05.380 Glorify God as he is. 00:56:05.380 --> 00:56:07.500 And don't trifle with someone like this. 00:56:07.500 --> 00:56:13.940 Yes, he is merciful, but do not trifle with this God. 00:56:13.980 --> 00:56:15.660 We need to talk about that for a second. 00:56:15.660 --> 00:56:21.260 It's not in my notes, but suddenly I feel this urgency that you don't trifle with this 00:56:21.260 --> 00:56:30.020 God, you don't mock him, you don't treat him like less than sacred. 00:56:30.020 --> 00:56:37.180 Galatians 6, verse 5 and 6, do not be mocked, sorry, do not be deceived. 00:56:37.180 --> 00:56:39.420 God is not mocked. 00:56:39.420 --> 00:56:41.260 What you sow in the flesh, you will reap in flesh. 00:56:41.300 --> 00:56:44.980 The spirit you will sow in, the spirit you will reap in spirit. 00:56:44.980 --> 00:56:45.980 Be warned. 00:56:50.980 --> 00:56:56.980 I won't be able to finish what we have, so I'll maybe touch on one or two points and stop. 00:56:56.980 --> 00:57:09.700 Maybe you can ponder on these. 00:57:09.700 --> 00:57:20.780 Majesty, how do we develop a majesty mindset? 00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:25.780 That's the question. 00:57:26.580 --> 00:57:28.580 Majesty begins with holy. 00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:40.700 If you look at Isaiah 6-3, I saw the Lord seated on his throne and the train of his 00:57:40.700 --> 00:57:42.980 robe filled the temple. 00:57:42.980 --> 00:57:43.980 Filled the temple. 00:57:45.980 --> 00:57:52.580 And then you hear the antiphonal singing by the seraphim as they begin to say holy, holy, 00:57:52.580 --> 00:57:53.580 holy. 00:57:54.380 --> 00:57:58.380 The Lord God Almighty, the heaven and earth filled with his glory. 00:57:58.380 --> 00:58:00.380 I'm not elaborating. 00:58:00.380 --> 00:58:04.380 This is what happens with Moses in Exodus 3, verse 6. 00:58:04.380 --> 00:58:05.380 What happens to him first? 00:58:05.380 --> 00:58:06.740 He's a prince, by the way. 00:58:06.740 --> 00:58:08.860 He knows what majesty is. 00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:12.980 He's been a shepherd for 40 years, but he knew what it was to be a prince, one of the 00:58:12.980 --> 00:58:15.860 most powerful empires of the world. 00:58:15.860 --> 00:58:16.860 How does it all begin? 00:58:16.860 --> 00:58:21.140 How does the renewal of majesty begin in Moses' life? 00:58:21.140 --> 00:58:23.300 He comes to a burning bush and what does he hear? 00:58:24.020 --> 00:58:26.020 Take off your shoes for the ground that you stand this. 00:58:26.020 --> 00:58:27.020 Holy. 00:58:27.020 --> 00:58:29.020 Majesty always begins with holy. 00:58:29.020 --> 00:58:30.020 We won't. 00:58:30.020 --> 00:58:32.020 We'll have to do it another time. 00:58:48.020 --> 00:58:50.020 Yeah, we'll have to end this. 00:58:54.020 --> 00:59:02.020 If you can write it down fast, I'll just read the titles and you can think about it at home. 00:59:02.020 --> 00:59:04.020 Majesty begins with holy. 00:59:04.020 --> 00:59:05.020 That's one. 00:59:05.020 --> 00:59:11.020 Second, majesty means being part of the glory of God. 00:59:11.020 --> 00:59:15.020 Majesty means being part of the glory of God. 00:59:15.020 --> 00:59:24.740 As in part of his glorious presence. 00:59:24.740 --> 00:59:33.100 Third, majesty requires wonder. 00:59:33.100 --> 00:59:41.500 Majesty requires wonder. 00:59:41.980 --> 00:59:42.980 There are things that we don't do. 00:59:42.980 --> 00:59:47.980 Do you ever wonder what majesty will look like in an encounter tomorrow? 00:59:47.980 --> 00:59:54.980 Do you ever wonder? 00:59:54.980 --> 00:59:59.980 A mid-sized God doesn't provoke much wonder, but do you ever wonder what he's going to 00:59:59.980 --> 01:00:00.980 do tomorrow? 01:00:00.980 --> 01:00:05.980 Not in a small way, in his way. 01:00:05.980 --> 01:00:08.980 Do you ever wonder? 01:00:09.460 --> 01:00:12.460 And if you ever wonder about majesty, we start thinking of money. 01:00:15.460 --> 01:00:16.460 No, not money. 01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:23.460 Do you ever wonder the encounters that you can have with this God who is beyond the universe? 01:00:29.460 --> 01:00:31.460 The wonder that a child has. 01:00:31.460 --> 01:00:33.460 Next one. 01:00:33.460 --> 01:00:35.460 Majesty costs. 01:00:35.460 --> 01:00:37.460 Majesty costs. 01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:42.940 It costs to carry the weight of majesty. 01:00:42.940 --> 01:00:44.940 Next one. 01:00:44.940 --> 01:00:48.940 The more intimate you get with majesty, the more you increase in your authority. 01:00:48.940 --> 01:01:01.940 The more intimate you get with majesty, the more you increase in authority. 01:01:01.940 --> 01:01:03.940 Next one. 01:01:04.420 --> 01:01:07.420 Majesty is grasped when you start tanking and rejoicing. 01:01:07.420 --> 01:01:15.420 When the shout of the king is in your midst, majesty is grasped when you start tanking 01:01:15.420 --> 01:01:18.420 and rejoicing. 01:01:21.420 --> 01:01:26.420 And finally, majesty and meekness are inseparable. 01:01:26.420 --> 01:01:29.420 Majesty and meekness are inseparable. 01:01:29.900 --> 01:01:32.900 It's crazy, eh? 01:01:32.900 --> 01:01:39.900 In Matthew 21 verse 5, and we'll end with this thought, in Matthew 21 verse 5, majesty 01:01:39.900 --> 01:01:43.900 comes riding on a donkey in meekness. 01:01:43.900 --> 01:01:46.100 In Matthew 21 verse 5. 01:01:46.100 --> 01:01:49.300 He comes riding on a donkey in meekness. 01:01:49.300 --> 01:01:52.300 That's in Matthew 21 verse 5. 01:01:53.180 --> 01:02:00.180 In Matthew 21 verse 13, the same king who came riding on a donkey in meekness takes 01:02:00.180 --> 01:02:07.180 a whip and he exerts the authority and power of a king over his house and he begins to 01:02:07.180 --> 01:02:12.180 chase out extortionists and corrupt officials. 01:02:14.180 --> 01:02:20.180 In Matthew 21 verse 14, he begins to invite the blind and the lame and the crippled and 01:02:20.180 --> 01:02:22.180 begins to heal them. 01:02:23.180 --> 01:02:28.180 In Matthew 21 verse 15, he says, do not stop the children for they begin to shout hosanna 01:02:28.180 --> 01:02:31.180 and he says, out of the mouth of babes I have ordained strength. 01:02:31.180 --> 01:02:36.180 This idea of majesty and meekness is something that we need to grasp. 01:02:36.180 --> 01:02:41.180 Graham Kendrick wrote a song which some of the old timers may know and it says, meekness 01:02:41.180 --> 01:02:48.180 and majesty in perfect harmony, kneels in humility and washes our feet. 01:02:48.180 --> 01:02:54.180 The Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly, lifts our humanity to the heights of his throne. 01:02:54.180 --> 01:02:56.180 It's called meekness and majesty. 01:02:56.180 --> 01:02:57.180 You should listen to it. 01:02:57.180 --> 01:02:59.180 Let's stop there. 01:02:59.180 --> 01:03:01.180 Let's pray. 01:03:18.180 --> 01:03:42.180 Father, you want us to ponder on some sentences before we go. 01:03:42.180 --> 01:03:49.180 For the first sentences, each of us to ponder it individually. 01:03:49.180 --> 01:04:02.180 For the first sentences, you and I are one. 01:04:02.180 --> 01:04:08.180 I am in you. 01:04:08.180 --> 01:04:14.180 And you are in me. 01:04:14.180 --> 01:04:22.180 I have invited you into oneness with me and the Father by the Holy Spirit. 01:04:44.180 --> 01:05:03.180 I heart so overwhelmed. 01:05:03.180 --> 01:05:29.180 I am in you. 01:05:29.180 --> 01:05:57.180 The second statement you want us to think about is Jesus saying, the oneness I have with the Father is the oneness that I give you and invite you into. 01:05:57.180 --> 01:06:02.180 And it's lifelong into eternity. 01:06:02.180 --> 01:06:31.180 The oneness I have with the Father is the oneness that I am inviting you into. 01:06:31.180 --> 01:07:00.180 The third thing you're saying is that he wants us to try to fathom first with our spirit. 01:07:00.180 --> 01:07:28.180 That you are transcendent majesty. 01:07:28.180 --> 01:07:53.180 To lose ourselves in you is to find ourselves in you. 01:07:53.180 --> 01:08:02.180 You're saying, can you go limp as a baby goes limp in your arms once it goes to sleep with its head on your chest? 01:08:02.180 --> 01:08:05.180 Can you go limp in my arms? 01:08:05.180 --> 01:08:09.180 You carry so many burdens, thoughts, problems. 01:08:09.180 --> 01:08:11.180 You're already thinking of tomorrow. 01:08:11.180 --> 01:08:19.180 Can you go limp for a second? 01:08:19.180 --> 01:08:29.180 You can lose yourself in transcendent majesty. 01:08:29.180 --> 01:08:53.180 You're saying, can you go limp as a baby goes limp in your arms? 01:08:53.180 --> 01:09:13.180 And the last statement. 01:09:13.180 --> 01:09:20.180 Come join the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in our dance of love. 01:09:20.180 --> 01:09:29.180 Come join the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in our dance of love. 01:09:29.180 --> 01:09:40.180 In our dance of love. 01:09:40.180 --> 01:10:00.180 Most joyous, transcendent, majestic being on earth, teach us.