WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Seated with Christ Publishing Date: 2026-09-20T03:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/seated-with-christ/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.280 Jesus, what do you feel when you see your people together? What do you feel when your bride is 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:32.280 being refined, is being molded, is being prepared? How do you feel when we come hungry and thirsty? 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:47.080 How do you feel when we think of you? Thank you for the privilege to come together as a people. 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:57.240 Thank you for that. You didn't just create 100 mountains and keep us each on one peak. 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:05.680 You brought us together. So this afternoon, as we pray, as we listen to your word, 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:22.000 we submit ourselves to you, your ways, your desires. We understand that there is a story 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.880 you are writing in each of our lives, but at the same time there is something you 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:36.080 will accomplish through our lives together too. So I thank you. I just want to take another few 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:40.560 seconds to think of how you think because often we are so obsessed with how we think. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:48.480 I want to think of how you think even right now, Jesus. Your people, your bride, 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:58.960 your blood that was shed, you paid the price so that we can be here. So we honor you. We thank you. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:01.440 Jesus name. Amen. 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:21.840 In Leviticus chapter 10, sons of Aaron, two of them, one Nadab and two Abichu. 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:33.200 Both of them, they stepped towards the tent of meeting and they attempt to do what Bible calls 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:42.880 about or talks about as an unauthorized sacrifice. So these are sons of Aaron. They are Levitical 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:49.440 from the tribe of Levi and they attempt to do something that God did not authorize them to do. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:56.960 And Bible says, as soon as this happened, a fire came down and both of them dropped dead. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:05.440 A few chapters later in that same narrative, you see God speaking to Moses and then Moses talking 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:13.280 to Aaron. And the whole idea is God sets this day up once every year and he calls it 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:21.440 the day of atonement. And he says, here is the process. Every day of atonement, 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:28.000 then you have the time to come together as a people. But one man, which is the high priest, 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.960 gets access to the Holy of the Holy. So depending on the version of the Bible you're looking at, 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:40.240 if it's ESV, it will just say Holy places. If it's another version like KJV, it will say 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:47.840 the most holy place. But the priest had one day to offer sacrifices. There are sacrifices happening 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.640 every other day too, but then there is one day, the day of atonement, when it's special. And the 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:59.120 Jewish people, even to this date, treat this as the holiest of days. So if you're an orthodox 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:05.040 Jewish guy, if you're asked the question, you'll say on the calendar, this day is the day, it's 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.520 this day is the day, it's the holiest of days, because they observe it to this day like that. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:17.520 Today happens to be the day of atonement. It starts later today and then goes on till 00:04:17.520 --> 00:04:26.240 tomorrow sunset or past sunset. Typically, it's about 24, 25 hours of time when the Jewish people, 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:32.480 they observe this day. And what they do is they fast sometimes, it's considered again, the holiest 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:37.040 of the days in the year, and they go through their rituals, the things that they believe in. 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:43.680 I was thinking about all of this and I thought today would be a good day for us to just go back 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:54.320 to why we do what we do and why the sacrifice of Jesus is so much superior and life-changing 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:03.040 for you and I. Why we get to do what we get to do. Because today, as I walk up and walk down, 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:10.560 you walk around, whatever we do here, see, we don't have protocols. We are not afraid of dropping 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:17.440 debt the next second. But they did. And we have to be understanding of that, that the Jewish people 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:22.400 thought if they did something wrong and it happened over and over again, things happen. 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:29.600 So what changed from then to now? Yeah. And I know we know the overall story, because that's 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.600 the story that got us to where we are at today. But I just want to look at a couple of different 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:39.200 things and trust that the Holy Spirit will do something in our lives and give us 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:46.320 a greater hunger to become all that Christ has for us. Yeah. So, 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:54.160 so, Neda and Abihu, they did this and God instituted the day of atonement. And on the 00:05:54.160 --> 00:06:02.800 screen here, as soon as it comes live, you'll see this is the picture, an attempted picture 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:09.280 or a representation of what it looked like. Leviticus chapter 16, day of atonement. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.840 All I want to say in this is you see there is the altar, there is the tent of meeting 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:20.720 within which you have the holy place and the most holy place where you have the ark. 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:28.800 Like I said, the only time in the year that the high priest could go in to the most holy place 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:35.600 is the day of atonement. And when he did that, two things had to happen. Just remember that one, he 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:43.680 had to sacrifice for his own sins and the sins of his family. And then two after that was done, 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:51.600 he could go in and do the rest. Right? So first he had to sacrifice and make sure that his sins 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:57.920 and his family's sins were atoned for. And then after that, he can take the next step and say, 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.800 now for the sake of the people of Israel, here is what I do. There are so many things, you know, 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.680 you could literally be here on this screen and go through all of the things that had happened 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:14.800 the first time the day of atonement was instituted. And we can spend a lot of time there, 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:23.600 but I just want you to see the protocols. I want you to see the way it got instituted stuff. For 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:30.800 instance, the high priest had to take a shower before he did anything. And two, after that, 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:36.400 he had to wear linen garments. And we've talked about some of these things at Acts 29 over and 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:41.200 over again. Why? What? But there was a lot of things that he had to pay attention to 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:52.880 for him to go in and conduct everything that God had ordered for within the most holy place. Okay. 00:07:52.880 --> 00:07:59.840 Now, the other side of the story, we know this, which is that our Jesus, the one who saved us, 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:05.120 he did something that the high priest could not do, which is why I really loved the writing of 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:12.640 the book of Hebrews, the epistle of Hebrews, because it talks about how Jesus is the high priest, 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:18.720 that he went before us, that there is a verse that I just want us to pay attention to. 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:25.280 It talks about how, because Jesus entered into the most holy place, we now have access to the 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:33.120 most holy place. Yeah. But altogether, there are two main things I want us to know from what Jesus 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.160 did. Number one, Jesus now, what did Nader and Abihu start to do or try to do? They were trying 00:08:40.880 --> 00:08:49.520 to draw near to God, offering an unauthorized sacrifice. You see, for us to now draw near to 00:08:49.520 --> 00:08:58.640 our father, for us to now draw near to our savior, there is no protocol. There is no protocol. And 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.680 it's so easy for us Christians to just go past all of this stuff because we feel like we know 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:10.000 this very well. But it's important to appreciate what has happened for us to be able to be like this. 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:17.360 And two, on one hand, we have access to our father. What would we have done if we did not have access 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:25.440 to him? Right? Can you imagine? Because we are so used to having access. We are so used to living 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:32.560 like this that we don't know what it would feel like to not have access. It's crazy, isn't it? 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:39.520 That we've gotten so used to this life that Christ has given us that we have no clue what it would be 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:48.320 to not have access. So that's one. And the second thing is not only did Jesus give us access 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:56.080 to the father, he has also done something no high priest could ever do. What is it? 00:09:57.280 --> 00:10:05.600 He is now seated at the right hand of the father. He now gives us not just access, but a position. 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:12.560 What is that? He says, I'm going to have Derek sit with me at the right hand of God. 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:20.720 Those two things and those two things alone is what I believe God wants us to know today. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:27.120 And I won't go anywhere else. These two fundamental things. Number one, that I have access 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:35.040 24 seven all the time. Number two, not only do I have access, there is something else happening 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:44.400 where Jesus then says that Derek, you are seated with me in the heavenly places. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:54.960 And that's a truth that many of us and most of us, including me, have not fully understood. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.880 So let's just spend a little more time there on that today and go from there. Any questions or 00:11:00.880 --> 00:11:09.040 comments before I move ahead? All good? Okay. So number one, drawing near to the father, see 00:11:09.040 --> 00:11:16.560 couple of things that try to stop us from drawing near to the father. One is since and our conviction 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:24.240 that condemnation that brings this guilt and shame into our lives saying that you're not clean enough 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:31.040 to go to the father. Number two, it's not sometimes your sin that stops you from approaching the 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:37.280 father freely. It's someone else's sin. Meaning someone else does something to you, but now you 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:44.080 fall prey to that trap. And because of that, you don't approach the father as you could. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:51.040 So many stories all around us where these things happen. It happens in our lives too. So for 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:57.680 instance, Jane treats me so bad that one day I wake up and say, aha, how can Jane treat me so bad? 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:04.240 Now, after having gone through a conversation like that with God, I get bitter to her and I 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:11.360 get bitter with God. And then I say, it's okay. I'll take some time before I come back. You see, 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:18.640 maybe I was right and maybe Jane was wrong, but Jane's sin in that example has prevented me 00:12:18.640 --> 00:12:25.120 from gaining access to this father that I have. So it's not always just my sin. It's sometimes 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:32.240 another person's sin that causes issues, thoughts, emotions, whatever mindset and sometimes even 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:37.760 strongholds. When over a period of time things happen with the way we were raised, the families 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:42.320 we come from, all these different things, that's when strongholds happen. Stronghold is not built 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:49.680 overnight with a lowercase s. That's not built overnight. Strongholds happen over a period of 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:57.360 time. And these are certain mindsets that prevent us from enjoying all that the father has for you 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:04.000 and I. But I want us to see that distinction, which is sometimes we think when I'm not approaching or 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.440 I can approach the father if it's just me and you. It's true, but we can't let another thing 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:15.520 come in between. That's also important, which is why a few months earlier when I was talking about 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:22.480 Nazarites, I said something like this. One of the things that God commanded a Nazarite not to do is 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:27.600 not to touch unclean things. And in the New Testament understanding of how God works with 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:32.000 us and who God is, the real understanding of what's wrong with touching a dead body. 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:39.120 Because the Nazarite was told, don't touch a dead body, but we touched dead bodies. 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:44.480 What changed? The whole idea is this, that when there is a dead situation, when there is a sin, 00:13:45.040 --> 00:13:51.760 you don't go touch it with your flesh. You respond to it with your spirit and that changes it. So if 00:13:51.760 --> 00:13:57.440 someone treats me harshly and someone does something or there is some sort of stuff happening where 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:04.560 I feel like I'm wronged, there are two reactions. One is a reaction to the man or the woman or to 00:14:04.640 --> 00:14:10.720 what is happening and the other is a response to God. And so when I'm able to touch that very thing, 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:17.360 not with my flesh, but with my spirit, something changes. You see how those things now don't have 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:22.320 the ability to stop me from accessing everything that my father has for me. 00:14:23.280 --> 00:14:27.360 It's fundamentally different in the way we sometimes think about it. And so crucial because 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.760 all of these things that the high priest did, Jesus did once. 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:42.560 And that was it. The high priest had to do it once every year, which is why Jesus has sacked 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:47.760 guys today. I don't have points. I'm just going to talk through this and I'm going to trust the 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:55.760 Holy Spirit that he will convey to you what is important for you. Yeah. And so the high priest 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:02.800 did things once a year, all of this, Jesus did it once, which is why the Bible talks about what 00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:12.560 Jesus did as a perfect sacrifice. Wow. Meaning he did it once and it was so complete 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:18.480 that nothing has to be done ever again. But you know what the perfect sacrifice led to? 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:27.440 The perfect sacrifice led to a perfect spirit in me. So it's not just his perfect sacrifice. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:34.080 I think we understand that part really well. His sacrifice is perfect, but his perfect sacrifice 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:43.680 has now led me to having a perfect spirit. That my spirit and your spirit is so perfect, 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.240 which is why we have the conviction that if we die tonight, we'll be with Christ. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:56.320 We have the conviction for that 100%. But when we are out and about and doing things, that's when 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:03.280 we are like, Oh, am I, am I fully clean? Am I fully perfect? Is there no condemnation? And God 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:08.960 says, yeah, there is no condemnation because the sacrifice that I did once and for all, 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:16.480 that was complete. That was perfect. So there is then no sin that can stop me. Then there is no 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:24.400 man's sin or no woman's sin that can stop me. There is no familial, whatever curses X, Y, Z, 00:16:24.400 --> 00:16:29.520 that we all talk about sometimes and wonder about. None of those things can stop me because the 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:38.640 sacrifice that Jesus did, his own life, his blood poured out is so complete. He's so perfect that 00:16:38.640 --> 00:16:43.840 I need to know this when I wake up and when I, when I go to bed, that it is so complete that 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:52.640 perfection has now come inside me. Jesus himself, he lives inside me. Wow. So I'm perfect. You are 00:16:52.640 --> 00:17:00.240 perfect. So every time the devil comes and does this in inside your ears and says, no, no, no, 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:05.440 maybe there is that maybe there is this, you can now stand up and say, no devil, I don't trust you. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:11.920 You deceive her. I tell you who I am. I am made perfect by the perfect blood of Jesus Christ. 00:17:12.800 --> 00:17:21.600 This truth, all of us know, but it is the living out of this truth that we need to progress in. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:27.440 Because there are moments in time when we know what we know, but we don't live what we know. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:35.120 And therefore, like I said last time, everything is out. The transformation that Christ brings in us 00:17:35.120 --> 00:17:41.440 is when he reveals something to us. And when he's, I was talking to Prosper the other day, 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:47.920 it helps you see something differently. And so Prosper was telling me that he had a dream. 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.480 You're okay with me sharing the dream? Okay. So he had a dream. And in this dream, 00:17:53.840 --> 00:18:01.440 he is at, yeah, he's standing at a door and there are people coming in. Yeah. And as people keep 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:07.440 coming in, he lays hands on them. And as he lays hands on people, they're getting healed. 00:18:09.280 --> 00:18:15.680 And then the dream has a second part. In the second part of the dream, Prosper is inside that 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:20.640 house and there is an older man there. And this man says, 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:30.640 his bread has healed us. That's all. His bread has healed us. And as soon as these older men 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:37.520 says his bread has healed us, he starts crying in the dream. That's all he remembers. What is happening? 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:41.920 Here's what's happening. What God is doing with Prosper in that example is this. God is telling 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:51.600 Prosper, I want you to know this, that I have given you my spirit and my anointing so that when 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:58.000 you lay hands on the sick, they will be healed. That is where God wants him to go to. Correct? 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:03.840 But yeah, this is the beauty about our father. He doesn't stop there. But in order to help him 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:10.960 get to that place, what God does is he gives him part two of the dream, which is what? A revelation. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:18.960 What is the revelation? Someone cries in the dream and says his bread, bread is what heals us. 00:19:19.600 --> 00:19:25.600 Meaning the body of Christ that was broken is what heals us. Now, what is God trying to do in that 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:33.680 dream? Simply this with him that God is giving him a revelation that is so personal to him about what 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:41.360 happened on the cross. What does that revelation do? It leads to transformation. So he's, did he 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:46.800 not know that truth? Of course he knows it. He knows that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that 00:19:46.800 --> 00:19:52.480 by his stripes we are healed. You see, there is something more when God communicates like that, 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:59.360 when God reveals something and it goes inside of your being, this is where it changes how you think 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:07.040 and that then leads to transformation to a point where when he now prays for someone and he prays, 00:20:07.040 --> 00:20:12.560 he is not praying. I say chapter 53 verse four, this is what happened. No, he's praying from a 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:19.520 place of God spoke to me. God has taught me. He has revealed me. I trust what he says and that 00:20:19.520 --> 00:20:28.640 transformation that happened inside of him leads him to pray a certain way. Yeah. And so this is why 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:39.120 I want us and it's okay to just slow down and just marinate in truths that we think we know. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:47.360 Yeah. Because it just changes the way because otherwise he will think about Isaiah 53 a certain 00:20:47.360 --> 00:20:53.920 way, but now God has taught him something about Isaiah 53, which we pray will absolutely change 00:20:53.920 --> 00:21:01.760 his life forever. Yeah. Similarly, God is saying, Derek, I want you to know that this access that I 00:21:01.760 --> 00:21:07.520 have given you according to Hebrews today, I'll go back for the notes, but it's in Hebrews. I 00:21:07.520 --> 00:21:14.560 believe it's in chapter 10 in Hebrews chapter 10. This access that I've given you, Derek is 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:21.920 two things I want you to know. One, it's living. It's a living way that I have given you and it's 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:27.600 a new way that I've given you. There is another passage in Isaiah that talks about any path that 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:35.120 God creates. It's an eternal way, which means that see it's, it's almost like Jesus did all of these 00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:40.720 things and he has set up this canvas, this, this entire plan for our lives. It's all, which is why 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:47.120 Jesus says it is finished. It is complete, meaning there is nothing more to be done. This is a fresh 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:54.640 and living way. It's fresh and living way to the father. Each time, each doesn't matter how you 00:21:54.640 --> 00:22:00.960 feel. Doesn't matter who told you what doesn't matter who did what to you. It's the same every 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:07.680 day. I have access to my father 24 seven in, in, in, in what way fresh, 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:20.080 fresh, fresh, living. Why is fresh important? That there are things that God always does 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:27.120 every day, which is why my, his mercies are new every morning. So you see, when I get that 00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:32.720 revelation, now I am not expecting my exchange with my father the same way. When I talk to him about 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:39.040 something the next day, because it's a fresh way, he has fresh insights. There are fresh things he 00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:46.960 does inside of me that causes me to respond to him in a new way. It's a fresh way and it's a living 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:56.640 way. The outcome is always sure. When I open my mouth, he listens. When you open your mouth, 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:02.480 he listens. And I want us to have this imagery almost where he leans in to listen. 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:09.280 He leans in to listen to what I have to say and what you have to say, which means that even when 00:23:09.280 --> 00:23:14.800 there are days when we don't feel like it or whatever, it's still the same. When we feel the 00:23:14.800 --> 00:23:21.440 holiest on earth, it's the same. When we feel like we are the scum of the earth, it's the same. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:29.040 And God says, don't feel like the scum of the earth. You are perfect. And some of us need to hear it. 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:38.320 We need to hear this, that this Bible calls this elemental principle. 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:45.840 Bible actually calls this as elemental principle. That this is very elemental. This is 101 for us 00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:54.080 according to him. But this 101 for us according to him, see we can actually go like this sometimes. 00:23:55.760 --> 00:24:00.000 Even though it's 101. And that's why God says, I want you to have such 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:09.120 firm-footedness about this, Derek. This way is living. This way is fresh. Access to me 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:17.120 is always. When you feel like it, when you don't feel like it, it's the same. Now, when I have that 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:22.240 revelation and it has sunk in, guys, can you imagine how powerless the devil is? 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:31.680 How powerless the devil becomes the moment you say yes to this truth for real in your life. 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:36.400 Because the same devil otherwise used the same cunning strategies to deceive you that no, 00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:42.240 something else needs to be done. That you're not perfect. That you're not good enough. And now you 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:48.640 rise up and say, yeah, I am not going to give in to condemnation. I'm not going to give in to shame, 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:54.800 not to guilt. And I rise up. There is one thing I remember a few years ago when I was 00:24:54.800 --> 00:25:00.080 writing down something, and this particular thing was about pornography. I was writing down a series 00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:09.200 of things that God had been telling me about the church and this sexual sin, i.e. pornography. And 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:14.240 as I was writing this down, one of the images that God gave me then is this. 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:20.320 It's like a sea and you see these waves. And then God said, Derek, can you see how my church 00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:28.960 goes through these waves? These are holy men, pure men, great men and women. But then there are days 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:34.320 when they feel like they're on top. And just when they feel like they're on top, they come down. 00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:40.320 And they're on the ground. And they're on the ground. And they're on the ground. And they're on the ground. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.640 And they feel like they're on top. And just when they feel like they're on top, they come back down. 00:25:45.280 --> 00:25:51.920 And I saw something as I was thinking with God about it, that was fresh and new to me, 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:58.080 because it was a perspective of heaven, how this large mass of water rises up and then goes down, 00:25:58.080 --> 00:26:05.760 and then rises up again and goes down. You know why in that example, why these many, many, many, 00:26:06.560 --> 00:26:13.680 millions of people struggle with that? Yes, there is lust that Christ sets us free from. 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:20.320 But the greater thing that binds people is shame and condemnation and guilt. It's true, guys, 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:26.640 which is why I don't want us to think this is easy. It is easy for Christ to give us victory in, 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:31.840 but don't think like, ah, it's okay, not me. Because your problem may not be lust, 00:26:31.840 --> 00:26:37.840 your problem may not be something else, maybe something else. But this stance, which is the 00:26:37.840 --> 00:26:44.880 devil uses guilt, shame, condemnation to bring you down. And now when you say, now, I have been made 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:54.960 perfect. I have been made so clean. I rise and I sit with this awareness. And not only am I aware 00:26:54.960 --> 00:27:05.040 about this, I approach my father in fresh ways, in new ways every day. Fresh, new ways. I was 00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:16.000 thinking the other day that I think God really loves us telling new things to him. And we should, 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:23.200 we should aspire to be like that with him, original. Like the way I talk is so different 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:30.080 from the way Mike talks is so different from the way Shireen talks is so different from the way Nelly 00:27:30.080 --> 00:27:36.000 talks. It's so different. And if I ever tried to talk like Shireen to him, my goodness, 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:45.200 he loves these unique things that he has put in us and the way we communicate. And so this fresh 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:51.920 and living way, aha, it also involves me being a certain way, the way he has created me to be 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:57.760 and engaging him with him like that. So a couple of things that I want us to 00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:05.440 think about in terms of drawing near, because that's the very thing that killed two men because they 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:09.920 did it the wrong way. Now, because of Christ, we don't need to be afraid. We have made, 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:15.120 we've been made perfect. We can do this every second. What a privilege. Our problem is we don't 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:22.880 know what it means to not draw near because now he has brought us so close, which is a good problem 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:30.720 to have that we have forgotten the old ways. We forgot like Tony often says, the Egypt is a 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:38.160 forgotten memory. A couple of things with respect to before we go to seated with Christ 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:45.520 that I want us to think about. I'll give you some references so that it's there. 00:28:51.360 --> 00:28:57.120 The drawing near reference was Hebrews chapter 10 verse 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:04.720 19. I think if you go 19 through 25, you will see that. 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:13.600 Okay, Psalm 19, 12 and 13. Psalm 19, 12 and 13. 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:23.680 Here's what it says, who can discern his errors, declare me innocent from hidden faults, keep back 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:29.280 your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be 00:29:29.280 --> 00:29:37.520 blameless and innocent of great transgression. I like how David writes that Psalm. He's saying 00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:43.920 there are sins in my life, God, that I know and I maybe even did it knowingly. 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:51.120 Then there are sins in our lives that are hidden. We don't even know that those sins exist. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:58.960 So there are two types of sins. One sins and patterns in my life, in our lives where 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:04.400 we know about it. The first thing that comes to your mind is that when you think about since 00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:12.400 then too, there are sins and what is sin? Sin isn't just things that dress in the 10 commandments. 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:17.520 Sin is anything that is not perfect because our God is so, because Jacob has been talking about 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:25.120 our father being so majestic. So who, see he's so holy that his standard is so high. So we can't 00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:31.920 measure him based on what we see on earth. So he's so perfect and he's made our spirit perfect, but 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:38.080 there is a journey for us to take on with respect to our mind and soul, which is the 00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:46.960 sanctification process. So Psalm 19, something for you and I to think about as I draw near to God, 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:53.760 as you draw near to God, what is it about? What are the presumptuous sins in my life? Things that 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:59.120 I'm aware of. And then what are the things that I'm not aware of that your Holy Spirit wants to 00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:06.960 shine light on in my life? It's a great question to ask because when the Holy Spirit reveals 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:13.840 something about you, that you, that's currently in your blind spot, I should be thankful. You 00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:20.960 should be thankful for that. That he says, Derek, did you ever see this? I want to show this to you 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:27.040 so that this becomes something that you walk away from and having people around us helps 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:34.720 having people we walk with helps. And at the same time, we ask the Holy Spirit, show me 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:43.280 hidden things in my life because they've pretty much gotten to be my second way of living. So show 00:31:43.280 --> 00:31:51.520 it to me. You see, it's a good prayer to pray if we, if we understand what happened with Isaiah 00:31:51.520 --> 00:31:56.160 and we see what happened with many, many, many, many people all throughout the scriptures where 00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:04.800 they say, God, I'm, I'm an unclean man. Make me clean. So my spirit is so clean and so perfect, 00:32:05.360 --> 00:32:11.120 but God, my, this area in my soul, it's so unclean, make me clean. 00:32:13.760 --> 00:32:16.000 And that prayer is such a powerful prayer 00:32:17.840 --> 00:32:25.760 because he really does that. He cleans me. He sends wave after wave of his mercy and grace, 00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:34.640 wave after wave of his power to change me. Hidden sins, free me from them 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:42.080 and since that I am used to that, I don't want free me from them. 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:53.680 And when we pray this prayer, we must believe that this is not a prayer we, 00:32:54.320 --> 00:33:01.360 so when it comes to, let's say one area of sin in your life and you're asking the Lord for help 00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:07.840 in an area of sin, you must trust that it is not going to, going to be a permanent battle in your 00:33:07.840 --> 00:33:19.280 life because the other deception of the devil is he tries to tell you and inform you that some 00:33:19.280 --> 00:33:25.840 battles with sin are forever. And you hear it also with many, many good people. When they say 00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:31.280 things, they say it in that way that makes you know, think that maybe this one I struggle with 00:33:31.280 --> 00:33:39.520 for the rest of my life. What a lie. What a lie. Because when I ask him for help and when you ask 00:33:39.520 --> 00:33:49.840 him for help, help comes. Fresh supplies come and so I must expect that these things continue 00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:57.920 to change. So today I may be praying for, okay, father, pride. I feel like I had gotten a little 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:05.200 better at it, but pride is such central in the way I think sometimes change me. I must expect 00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:13.280 God to change me. And then he shows me another area, another area. You see how 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:24.400 what Christ did on the cross. Now I'm making use of what he did. We all have kids where we give them 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:29.680 something and we want them to use it the right way, but they start toying with it, playing with it. 00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:33.920 They're not even using it the right way. And there is a part of you that thinks, ah, I wish you knew 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:44.400 how to use it. Same thing. Jesus's victory on the cross is to have me live a fully victorious life 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:51.520 that when he, when he wants, when he, when I tell him this is about what's happening, I need your 00:34:51.520 --> 00:34:59.280 help, all of his power, all of his grace is there to set me free, not some. And it is never meant 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:10.640 to be a lifelong battle. And that is truth that you are meant to progress from strength to strength, 00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:22.000 from glory to glory. It is part of the Christian's life. And these deceptive voices that sometimes 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:29.200 comes in and says these other words, we recognize it and we say, you have no room anymore at my 00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:37.680 table out. And we rise up and become all that Christ wants us to be. So drawing near one, 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:43.120 like in Psalm 12, discern your errors with the help of the Holy Spirit. Number two, embrace 00:35:43.120 --> 00:35:49.520 continuous maturity to the fullness of Christ, embrace continuous maturity to the fullness of 00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:56.080 Christ. Why is, I remember Paul from South Africa when Paul was here, he was saying something like, 00:35:56.080 --> 00:36:04.240 maturity is measured in time. And I haven't forgotten that since then. He said, maturity is 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:12.640 measured in time. What is spiritual maturity? Spiritual maturity is the, if I take that a 00:36:12.640 --> 00:36:20.640 little further, the time difference between sin and repentance. It's the time difference between 00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:28.480 sin and repentance. Because when I know that I sinned, spiritual maturity causes me not to be 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:36.720 okay with that. And I stand against it and I repent and I change. That is maturity. Lack of 00:36:36.720 --> 00:36:46.000 maturity would be me knowing that something is wrong, still engaging in it. And when I engage with 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:53.440 it, not repenting enough or fast enough, because we don't talk about this much, but it is important 00:36:53.440 --> 00:37:02.240 that repentance, when we do it is important. That shows our maturity level. If I break down 00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:09.680 my fellowship, because I cannot break down my relationship, but my fellowship with him, 00:37:09.680 --> 00:37:18.560 I can, from my side, break down. Would you agree? My relationship with him is forever intact, 00:37:18.560 --> 00:37:22.880 but my fellowship with him, his fellowship, he's always there, but my fellowship with him, 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:30.480 I have, I'm, I'm to steward it. I am responsible for it. That my spiritual maturity, heaven, heaven 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:37.680 measures it this way. What's the time for Derek between these? And it's important to think, 00:37:38.640 --> 00:37:44.400 because repentance isn't just something, of course, that we do when we get born again. It is a way of 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:50.560 thinking that we have that Christ helped me, which is why Christ says this. What did Christ 00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:58.080 mean when he said, come, take your cross and follow me? There is a way of living that he 00:37:58.080 --> 00:38:04.000 has instituted. And while we are all about all the other things that we want to do, which we'll get 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:10.880 to when we talk about seated with him, this is also important that inside of us, we have 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:20.640 a way of thinking about our soul realm and our body. 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:28.880 I think it is in Daniel chapter 10, verse 12 or something. 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:36.400 Daniel is embarking on a three week, let's call it fast. 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:50.640 Bible says he was not eating any delicacies. Bible says he wasn't drinking wine. And that version 00:38:50.640 --> 00:38:56.080 of Bible, I just picked up from here and I was, I was opening up to that version, which I don't know 00:38:56.080 --> 00:39:01.760 which version it is, but it uses another language too. It says he wasn't applying any body lotions 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:08.720 on him. That's what that version says. Trust me. So no self care for three weeks, according to Daniel. 00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:17.120 Now, one thing we know that this man is a praying man. He used to pray at least three times a day, 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:25.120 at least is a praying man. His heart is like that. But then in Daniel chapter 10, I found something 00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:33.920 that I haven't seen before. God speaks to him and he says this in verse 12 and may this ring in our 00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:44.400 ears. Verse 12, then he continued, do not be afraid, Daniel, since the first day that you set 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:50.720 your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself, yourself before God, your words were 00:39:50.720 --> 00:39:58.320 heard and I have in response to, I have come in response to them. Did you see that? That 00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:05.200 he was fasting for three weeks. He was doing certain things, but when the word comes to him, 00:40:05.200 --> 00:40:11.760 it says, Daniel, I want you to know this. Not three weeks ago, not two weeks ago, not a week ago, 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:19.360 but something happened in heaven. The day you set your heart for understanding, the day you set your 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:27.760 heart to be humble. Wow. Interesting, right? You see, heaven cares more about certain things than 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:35.200 others. The day you set your heart to learn, the day you set your heart to be humble, the day you 00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:43.120 set your heart to gain understanding, heaven recorded it. So when I draw near to him, 00:40:43.520 --> 00:40:51.760 as I walk with this mindset that God, I want to know that I'm wrong when I'm wrong. 00:40:54.640 --> 00:41:02.240 I want to know that I'm wrong when I'm wrong. That's humility. And sometimes it's painful 00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:07.040 because it comes through people. Let's accept it. If someone says, it's always good for you, 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:14.800 you haven't gotten it enough. It's not all nice sometimes because some of these things are 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:20.480 things that you think is your way. And when it is corrected, you don't always like it. 00:41:21.120 --> 00:41:28.720 But heaven records it. If you have a mindset where you say, I have submitted my life to learn, 00:41:28.720 --> 00:41:34.800 I have submitted my life to gain understanding from the spirit of God and heaven records it. 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:46.640 And that is the day a word was sent to him. So Jesus, our high priest, has gone before us. 00:41:46.640 --> 00:41:53.760 He has paved this fresh and living way. I draw near to him and there are ways I do it. 00:41:54.800 --> 00:42:02.720 And this heart attitude is so important, fundamental to how we must be. Any questions, 00:42:02.720 --> 00:42:12.560 thoughts? Yes. 00:42:12.560 --> 00:42:24.400 So 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:38.880 yeah, it's a good point, Dilna. That what Dilna is saying is the, another way Jesus's sacrifice 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:44.560 is different from what the Old Testament high priest did is this, that the Old Testament high 00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:50.400 priest was doing, they were doing it once every year for that duration. Because it could not, 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:56.320 it is not a complete thing. It had to be done again and again and again. Because we are made 00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:04.000 of three parts, mind, body, and spirit. And what Jesus, and what the Old Testament high priest did, 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:11.040 never took care of the spirit. It just covered, the word atonement means it's covering. 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:23.120 That's all it did. What Jesus did, as Dilna said, is he gave me a new spirit and made me perfect. 00:43:23.120 --> 00:43:29.760 So the old sin nature is gone from the spirit sense. The only thing that I need to work with 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:36.240 him on is the way I think, my mind. And that's why Bible then uses the word sanctification, 00:43:36.240 --> 00:43:42.560 which seems like a big word, all just to say, I move closer and closer and closer to Jesus. 00:43:42.560 --> 00:43:48.880 And I walk away and away and away from all things worldly sanctification. Yeah. 00:43:48.880 --> 00:44:02.240 Be anchored in the hope that enters into the most holy place. Be anchored in the hope 00:44:02.240 --> 00:44:08.560 that enters into the most holy place. Hebrews 6 19. I just want you to think about this later 00:44:08.560 --> 00:44:17.520 because we don't have time. Hebrews 6 19 talks about Christ having instituted or introduced 00:44:17.520 --> 00:44:24.160 a better hope through which we draw near to God. In other words, you know, this is what Christ 00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:30.480 expects us to have. We must have as we go through life, because there is a hope that he has given 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:37.760 us that goes through the high place into the most holy place. There is a type of thinking we should 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:43.520 cultivate in our life where we think about what it is like going, what it is going to be with him 00:44:44.240 --> 00:44:51.200 next day, next month, next year. It's a great thing to do. It's a hope that he has given me. 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:56.960 Hope is not for today. It's for tomorrow. So what is your hope with respect to this living access 00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:02.160 that you have with the father? Think about it, right? That next year in my communion, in my 00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:06.720 fellowship with Christ, ah, with my limited understanding, it's going to be different this 00:45:06.720 --> 00:45:12.480 way. That I will be more yielded to him. That you will be more yielded to him. That the words that 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:18.880 I speak will change. That sometimes when I talk back and I talk back a certain way, that will 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:23.760 change. That when I think about certain things, it will change. Philippians chapter four, 00:45:26.560 --> 00:45:31.520 19, somewhere there, it talks about how your thought life must change. What does it say? 00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:38.720 Think about these things, Derek. Whatever is commentable, lovely, pure, true. You see, 00:45:39.680 --> 00:45:45.680 that one verse can just change me and change you. Because now when I measure every thought that I 00:45:45.680 --> 00:45:52.880 have against that, the bar is set so high. Because is that thought commendable is the question. 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:59.840 The question is not is that thought good. Because many thoughts are okay and good. What is commendable 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:06.720 is what he wants us to hunger after and go after. You see, he keeps lifting it. And so my thought 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:13.280 life and your thought life can be so superior next month compared to where it is today. Which is the 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:20.160 hope that he has given us. That it is not going the other way. Hallelujah. It is only going the 00:46:20.160 --> 00:46:26.560 opposite way. Which is the way that Christ has for us. It keeps improving. The life of God, 00:46:26.560 --> 00:46:33.200 Zoe is upon my life and upon your life. It keeps changing. Our thoughts are being transformed 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:42.640 more and more every day. Let's look at seated with Christ. Because where the Old Testament stops 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:51.360 is access. And that too, it was for one man once a year. Jesus has taken care of that. 00:46:52.640 --> 00:47:00.240 Now where Jesus and his sacrifice differs and is so superior for us is now rather than just giving 00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:09.040 us access to the Father. He has us sit with him in the heavenly places. And the title for today was 00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:16.960 seated with Christ. Because that is what changed everything too. In Genesis chapter one verse 28, 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:28.400 Jesus says, God says this, he says, I bless you. I bless you to multiply, bear fruit, subdue, 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:36.080 have dominion. Four words as an example out of that. Subdue, have dominion, be fruitful, 00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:41.760 multiply. Four things. Jesus then says in Matthew chapter 28, go therefore, make disciples of all 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:47.360 nations, baptizing them, teaching them. None of these things when it was said to Adam and Eve, 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:52.320 and when Jesus said to us, those things can't happen without the kingdom progressing. 00:47:53.280 --> 00:48:01.600 God's rule progressing. God's reign progressing. And then when we think about why is it that 00:48:01.600 --> 00:48:07.600 more than just access, he also seated us with him. When we think about that, here is the answer. 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:16.400 Sitting with Jesus is not anymore just for ourselves. Sitting with Jesus is also for others. 00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:28.640 And this truth about being seated with Christ, let's just say we come up with another way to 00:48:28.640 --> 00:48:39.120 think about it. Throne, room, living. Throne, room, living. Throne, room, lifestyle. And one of my 00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:46.000 prayers is to really understand this because I don't understand it. And I would really like 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:54.000 to understand what it means when Bible says I'm seated with Christ and that there is a type of 00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:02.400 lifestyle that I can have, which is throne, room, living. Almost sounds wrong, right? 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:10.000 Doesn't it sound wrong that we are in the throne room, that we are with Christ? 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:20.000 Yes. But that's what he did. He elevated everything. He changed everything. This is why 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:26.720 his way is perfect and his ways are everlasting. That he then says, Derek, not only am I going to 00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:33.680 give you access to my father, not only do you have this fresh and living way, I also give you 00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:44.080 this position. One was access to his position. It's at the right hand. So I want you to know, 00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:48.640 Derek, that you're always favored. I want you to know that you're appointed. I want you to know 00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:53.840 that there is unrestricted access for you. I want you to know that there are purposes that I have 00:49:53.840 --> 00:50:00.080 for you and come sit. So I just want to touch on a couple of things and we close real quick. 00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:15.360 The throne room is always crying out loud something that we read in Revelation 4, 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:25.840 verse 1 or 2, which is come up higher, come up higher, come up higher. Because you see, I am, 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:33.440 I have these eyes, these ears, this mouth, these senses that I walk on earth with. 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:40.960 My senses, my earthly senses, my five senses, if you call it five senses, they're limiting. 00:50:42.640 --> 00:50:49.760 They're very limiting when it comes to throne room living. Throne room 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:57.840 is God's view. It's a completely different vantage point when you're in the throne room. 00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:03.840 I remember at one time, I'll give you two examples that changed the way I think about a couple of 00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:12.160 things. I remember at one point I was doing something and I saw the map of Canada, like on 00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:22.240 a floor, and I saw, it was like God's feet on that map. And all of a sudden inside me, 00:51:22.240 --> 00:51:30.560 this verse came, which is the earth is his footstool. That thought in itself, for me, 00:51:30.560 --> 00:51:37.360 was new because the way I think about Canada now changes. Because it's throne room view. 00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.240 It is not Derek's view because Derek's view is very different. Derek's view about Canada 00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:49.040 has XYZ, stats, what I heard on CBC yesterday and all those things. But God's view is very 00:51:49.040 --> 00:51:56.160 different. Yeah. Two, there was a time when I was talking to God about revival. I was telling him 00:51:56.160 --> 00:52:02.080 about a few things and all of a sudden God gave me this impression in my heart that I still 00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:13.280 distinctly remember, which is, it was like a wind from heaven. And this wind is so big, so mighty 00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:20.240 that it originates in heaven. Because one of the things I believe around that time I was 00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:28.080 thinking about is, man, God, God's plan, world systems, XYZ, how it all comes together when it 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:35.360 comes to revival. And what that sense that I had in my mind did is I understood something about 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:43.680 revival in a new way, which is it is birthed in heaven. That there is a wind brewing not in your 00:52:43.680 --> 00:52:55.440 heart and my heart first. It first is birthed in heaven and then it comes on to earth. And then 00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:04.880 as this wind blows, nothing can stop it. It's so big. It's so loud. It's so mighty. It's the rushing 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:13.280 wind that cannot be stopped by man and systems. Throne room view, right? You see, 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:23.280 throne room living gives us heavenly view of our situations. So this is not just about Canada, 00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:30.240 not just about revival, not just about things that we want with him on earth. 00:53:31.680 --> 00:53:40.320 For others, it is also for our lives. How does heaven see my life? How does heaven see our lives? 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:48.640 How does heaven see Acts 29? Throne room living, throne room lifestyle. But my senses are limiting. 00:53:48.640 --> 00:53:56.800 And when I say God give me sight, God give me hearing, I move beyond my senses. And I begin to 00:53:56.800 --> 00:54:03.840 now see things that are new, that my eyes don't see when I look at someone. But heaven shows me 00:54:04.560 --> 00:54:16.400 throne room living. Let me just finish with one other thing. So when it comes to throne room living, 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:24.160 I think in all reality, the reason we don't perhaps think about it as much, and that's my 00:54:25.120 --> 00:54:29.920 proposition, I may be wrong. But the reason I think why we don't talk about that 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:36.880 truth in the scripture as much is because in order to live that, we have to be completely past our 00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:43.040 five senses. And that's why we don't talk about that truth in the scripture as much. 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:52.880 We do. And doing that individually and together as a body is a privilege. 00:54:54.080 --> 00:55:01.600 Because it's something that Christ has set apart for us. So all of those things in the Old Testament, 00:55:01.600 --> 00:55:06.880 when it got changed, when Christ did it once forever in the New Testament, he also wants this 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:12.560 for us, come up higher, which is why Paul then writes and he says something like this. When he 00:55:12.560 --> 00:55:21.200 says, seek things that are above and not things that are below. Because my eyes want to seek things 00:55:21.200 --> 00:55:27.360 that are here. My ears want to hear things that are here because I'm continually bombarded with 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:36.480 that. So if I have eight hours in a day, and if seven and a half or eight hours in the day, 00:55:36.560 --> 00:55:42.560 I'm always seeing with these eyes and these ears and speaking with this mouth, you see what the 00:55:42.560 --> 00:55:50.400 problem is? That I must have times when I'm not just limited to these senses because I'm first a 00:55:50.400 --> 00:56:01.040 spirit being. So me saying I'm a spirit being is one. Me living like a spirit being then leads me 00:56:01.040 --> 00:56:07.600 to understanding the limitations of my senses that are physical and to then trust in the work 00:56:07.600 --> 00:56:14.000 and the presence of the Holy Spirit who gives me a completely different vantage point for life. 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:23.120 And just like anything else, we start one day and we make progress as we go. But I want us to also 00:56:23.120 --> 00:56:28.160 know that there is a special grace that God gives us to do these things because this is what he paid 00:56:28.160 --> 00:56:34.480 for. He just didn't give us free access, right? He gave us access and then he says, 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:44.880 I want you to have the seat. Last thing is in Ephesians chapter one, it talks about how, 00:56:45.680 --> 00:56:55.040 here is what it says. It says that God our father has blessed us in Christ Jesus with 00:56:55.040 --> 00:57:04.720 every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. Just hear that again, Ephesians chapter one, 00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:14.080 verse two or something. God our father has blessed us in Christ Jesus with every spiritual blessing 00:57:14.080 --> 00:57:20.640 in the heavenly places. That too is a result of what Jesus did on the cross. 00:57:20.720 --> 00:57:26.160 That you see sometimes when we go through life, we think there are things that he hasn't done yet 00:57:26.160 --> 00:57:35.520 that we need. But every spiritual blessing that Deshati needs, he has already been blessed with. 00:57:35.520 --> 00:57:42.400 And the word blessing in the Bible is really God has spoken it. He has said it. And so it has been 00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:49.840 authorized for him. It is just a matter of living it. So any of us sitting here who is deciding 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:56.320 who is desiring more of God in our lives, I want us to know and think about that verse later today 00:57:56.320 --> 00:58:04.160 or this week. Here is what it says that every that Christ will bless me. No, Christ is going to bless 00:58:04.160 --> 00:58:13.280 me. No, Christ has God has already blessed me. He has blessed me with what Derek with every spiritual 00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:19.680 blessings, not some, not a little bit with every spiritual blessing from where in the heavenly 00:58:19.680 --> 00:58:28.000 places. So as I sit there with Christ, this is my reality. And so if this is my reality, then 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:37.440 all I need to do is engage with him to experience this because he doesn't have to give it anymore. 00:58:38.080 --> 00:58:41.840 If I ask him to give it, I'm asking the praying the wrong prayer. 00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:52.240 If my dad gives me his house, let's just say that happens and don't doesn't get it. You know what I mean? 00:58:55.440 --> 00:59:04.240 If my dad gives me his house, then I have to make use of it, right? I have to use the house. 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:10.160 That's the whole idea. I don't need to need to go and ask him again. After he wrote that house to 00:59:10.160 --> 00:59:16.960 me and said, Derek, this is yours. After you say after he's after he does that, can you imagine me 00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:20.880 going and knocking on his door next day and saying, Hey, can you give me the house again? 00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:27.840 How can he answer that prayer? Can he answer that prayer? He can't answer that prayer 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:34.240 because he's already given it to me. What I should ask him is now that you've given me this house, 00:59:34.240 --> 00:59:38.240 do you have any ideas about what I do with the living room? Do you have any ideas about what 00:59:38.240 --> 00:59:42.560 we do with the land? Do you have any ideas? How? Where is the key? Is that the key? Is that the 00:59:42.560 --> 00:59:48.160 right key to use for this room? You see, it changes. That is how we access Ephesians chapter one, 00:59:48.160 --> 00:59:53.920 verse two. You've already been blessed. So don't ask him for that spiritual blessing. It is already 00:59:53.920 --> 01:00:04.080 in Christ. Engage with him to exercise it, to use it, to grow in it. Yeah. Let's finish there. 01:00:09.200 --> 01:00:13.440 You guys okay if we sing one song? Tuni can we please sing I surrender? 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:24.080 As Tuni sings this, 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:34.080 give him your heart, give him your mind, give him your spirit, give him your body, 01:00:34.080 --> 01:00:37.200 draw near to him, 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:49.440 give him a desire to submit to him so that you can grow in understanding so that heaven records 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:56.640 this day and says that is the day when Evelyn submitted to this. That is the day when this 01:00:56.720 --> 01:01:03.920 happened in his life, her life because heaven does record it. And two, you have been seated with 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:10.400 Christ in the heavenly places. So let's not ask for it ever again. Let's engage with him to 01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:16.880 experience the riches of it. And with this song, my prayer for us is if there is anyone here who 01:01:18.640 --> 01:01:25.200 today has not believed in Christ as your Lord and Savior, as you sing this song, 01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:31.760 it is an opportunity for you to submit your heart and your life to him as your Lord and Savior. 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:36.720 And two, some of you may be in a place where there are areas in your life where you feel like you 01:01:36.720 --> 01:01:42.880 know what I just need fresh access. Take it. It is yours. And then some of us may be in a place 01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:48.400 in life where you're saying this access thing I know I'm always with God. I know I have access, 01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:54.080 but I haven't understood what it means to be seated with Christ. Take it. That is the yieldedness 01:01:54.080 --> 01:01:59.600 of your heart that you and I can give him together as a people like I said with this song. 01:01:59.600 --> 01:02:05.040 So this is a day when a lot of people all around the world still goes back to the old. 01:02:05.040 --> 01:02:12.160 Why don't we as a people rely on the finished work and give him his due reward, 01:02:12.160 --> 01:02:22.320 which is our heart. Let's do it together.