WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Trifecta- Faith, Anointing, Glory Part2 Publishing Date: 2021-02-28T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/trifecta-faith-anointing-glory-part2/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Hey guys, hey guys, hey guy chapter 2, hey guys, okay. 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Just kidding, it's not hey guy chapter 2, it's hey guys, okay. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:22.000 So this is part 2 of Faith, Anointing, Glory that we started yesterday. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:29.000 Yesterday we talked about faith and anointing, and so today we deal with the third part of the trifecta, which is glory. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.000 Yeah? 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:41.000 Hey guy, could I have my Hebrew? 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:48.000 It's amazing. Hey guy, can I have my Hebrew? 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:56.000 I find it terribly funny, but if nobody else gets it, let me just chuckle inside for a second. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:01.000 I'm done, I'm done, I'm done. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Thanks, thanks Brandon. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:10.000 Okay, so yesterday we talked about faith and anointing and today we do glory. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.000 See, faith and anointing have limits because they pertain to man. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:21.000 Faith and anointing have limits because they pertain to man, but there are no limitations to glory. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:28.000 Faith and anointing have limits because man is involved, my faith is involved, how far will I exert it? 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 What is my capacity when it comes to anointing? 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 How yielded I am? We talked about those six factors. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.000 But when it comes to glory, there are no limits. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:42.000 There is no limitation to glory, though faith and anointing have limits because they pertain to man. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:50.000 And so the anointing is like taking water in a glass and the size of the glass determines the amount of water in the glass. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.000 But glory is like an ocean poured out from heaven. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:02:03.000 These are just comparisons that will help us understand how superior glory is to everything else that is. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.000 How superior it is. And it was God's original plan. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.000 There was never a need for faith till Adam sinned. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.000 There was only obedience. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 Faith happened after Adam sinned. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:25.000 And now he had to exert faith to overcome his mind that had become a mind that couldn't think like God. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.000 Till then it was only obedience. 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:33.000 So the point is that the anointing is like taking water in a glass and the size of the glass can vary. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.000 And according to the capacity of the glass, water can be poured into it. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.000 But glory is like an ocean poured out, poured down from heaven. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.000 Glory is like an ocean poured down from heaven. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:55.000 For instance, if anointing and faith heals sickness, the shekinah or the glory of God makes sickness illegal. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:03.000 We see that in Psalm 105, verse 37, where it says there was not a single person who was feeble amongst them. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.000 Meaning with the shekinah of God dwelling in the midst of a stiff-necked people, 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.000 when they left Egypt and as they walked through the wilderness, there was not one that was sick among them. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.000 When they died, they died of plagues. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:25.000 When they died, they died because of limitations God had put on their lives because of disobedience. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:30.000 But here's the great thing that because the shekinah dwelt outside a people, 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.000 because the glory of God was that which they encamped around. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.000 There was none that was sick among them. 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.000 This is the difference. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.000 Faith and anointing can heal sickness. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Glory can make sickness illegal. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:50.000 That is the ridiculous difference when God pours out his glory. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 Faith places a demand on the anointing. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.000 We talked about this yesterday that faith places a demand on the anointing, 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.000 but one who walks in the anointing can open up the floodgates of glory. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.000 Faith places a demand on the anointing, 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:12.000 but one who walks in the anointing can open the floodgates of glory. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.000 Why? Because here is a man or a woman who's yielded. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.000 Here is a man or a woman who's pressing into character. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:25.000 Here is a man or a woman who is foolish and therefore risks things for God. 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:31.000 Here is a man or a woman who walks in order and therefore has a framework to operate within. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Here is a man or a woman who has capacity. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.000 And so the point being, faith can place a demand on the anointing, 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.000 but the anointing is what opens the floodgates of glory. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.000 A church that is anointed is one step away from opening the floodgates of glory 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:54.000 so that God can pour from heaven what he wants to, to saturate the earth. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:00.000 Most churches, however, get so enamored with the anointing that they peddle the anointing. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.000 And it's only a matter of time where anointing that is peddled will distort or will corrupt. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.000 You should never make money out of your anointing. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:21.000 I remember, many of you haven't heard this story, 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:26.000 but I remember going to Indonesia the first time with Elmer and Anne, 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:34.000 and we met a man in a small group who was a businessman who was going bankrupt. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.000 And he asked if we would come to Jakarta to pray for his business. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.000 And my immediate response was no, 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:47.000 because it's very common in Indonesia to have holy men pray for your business. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.000 So I said no. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:52.000 And so we went back and I was talking to Anne and Elmer and felt God saying, no, you should go. 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.000 So I said, okay, I'll come. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:06:00.000 And so he flew me to Jakarta, treated me really well, put me up in really good hotels. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:06.000 And the only thing God said to me as I was going to Jakarta was two things. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.000 One, say exactly what I ask you to tell him. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:14.000 And two, he'll offer you an envelope full of money when you're done. 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:15.000 Do not receive it. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:22.000 And so for the sake of this teaching, that's exactly what happened. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.000 I won't go into the details of what happened next. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.000 But at the end of the day, after having said everything to him and he was delivered, he was set free, 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:33.000 he was a new man in gratitude, not to buy me, but in gratitude, 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:39.000 he pulled out an envelope, thick envelope full of US dollars, $100 bills, and he gave it to me. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:46.000 And I remember giving him a hug and saying thank you, but no thank you and walking out of there. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.000 You cannot peddle your anointing. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Whenever you peddle your anointing, that's when it becomes a form of divination, 00:06:53.000 --> 00:07:00.000 especially when it is a prophetic anointing. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.000 Anointing is critical. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:03.000 We said this yesterday. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.000 Anointing is critical for the role you function in, 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:10.000 but glory is critical for the move of God through you. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:13.000 Anointing is critical for the role you function in, 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:19.000 but glory is what is critical for the move of God that we are presently in. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:25.000 Our anointing is not sufficient to carry this globally. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:33.000 But the glory of God, my God, that, the glory of God is so accustomed to washing over the world. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:38.000 It's been doing it from the beginning of time. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.000 And that is why I feel that we need to talk about faith, we need to talk about anointing, 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 we need to talk about glory. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:51.000 All three, like I said yesterday, are critical determinants of what we are involved in. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.000 They are progressive and they are cyclical. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.000 So it's not like we just go from faith to anointing to glory and that's it. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.000 No, it's cyclical. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:07:59.000 It's cyclical. 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.000 It keeps happening. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Again and again I exert faith so that I can expect things of God, 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.000 so that my degree of expectancy is huge. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:15.000 After that, I begin to follow the six factors we spoke of yesterday 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.000 so that God can anoint and send us out to preach the gospel to the poor, 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 to heal the sick, to open blind eyes. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.000 Man, this morning I woke up and I literally was telling God that, 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:29.000 Father, I feel I got wings. 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:33.000 Because there was this readiness to the gospel shoes I was wearing today, 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:38.000 like I rarely felt. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.000 And then comes this idea of glory where it is, 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.000 hey, great that the anointing is critical for the role I want you to function in, Jacob, 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.000 but there is also a move I want to bring on the earth and that, 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 nobody's anointing can handle that. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.000 That needs a washing of the earth with the glory of God. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.000 We will define glory. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.000 So faith brings to life God's principle. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000 Faith brings to life God's principle. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:10.000 So faith brings to life God's principle. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:17.000 Anointing brings to life God's power. 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:27.000 And glory brings to life God's manifest, omnipotent, 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:44.000 unlimited person and presence. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 And you can disregard anointing and glory. 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.000 It's not that just because God is saying, 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:53.000 hey, I want you to step into the anointing that is upon you, Jacob, 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:58.000 or I want you to step into the glory that I'm sending you away, Acts 29. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.000 It doesn't mean that now we are forced to. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.000 We can disregard the anointing and the glory. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.000 And it doesn't mean that God will change his mind and lift it. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.000 He'll wait to see if he will respond to it. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.000 He doesn't necessarily change his mind. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.000 But God may change his method and he may alter your destiny. 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.000 God may change his method and he may alter your destiny. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.000 When God sends his glory, it is to achieve a purpose on earth. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.000 And if Saul is not ready to walk in that anointing and in that glory, 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 then God changes his method and he raises up a David. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.000 God changes your destiny because now the reason he put you on earth 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:33.000 is not going to work out. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.000 So he changes your destiny. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.000 He reshapes it. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.000 He puts it back on the potter's wheel because he loves you. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.000 And he will not deprive you. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:41.000 He will not diss you. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:42.000 He will not damage you. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.000 But he will change and alter destiny. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.000 So don't be a holdout in these situations. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.000 Please don't sit on your high horse with your arms folded saying, 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:56.000 yeah, yeah, we'll see. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:57.000 Let me think about this. 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:58.000 I don't know about this. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.000 All that will happen is your destiny will change. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:03.000 Because God will change his method. 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.000 He won't change what he's going to do. 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.000 At 55, I don't want God to change his method, 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.000 nor do I want him to change my destiny. 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:10.000 I want to live it out, man. 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.000 At 25, you think you can afford it. 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.000 At 55, you have enough wisdom to know you can't afford it. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.000 So let's define glory. 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:32.000 I literally saw someone sitting with their arms folded up with that look saying, 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:33.000 convince me. 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.000 I ain't here to convince you, man. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:49.000 Let's define glory. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.000 Glory is God's... 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.000 There are different ways we can talk about it. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.000 Glory is God's fullness. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:01.000 It's all that he is, all that he has. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.000 It is his I am-ness. 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.000 It is his weight. 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.000 It is the weight and the splendor. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.000 It is the glory. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.000 It is the glory. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.000 It is the glory. 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.000 It is the weight. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.000 It is the weight and the splendor 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.000 of his majesty. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:39.000 We'll have to use words like this because none of us have seen his glory 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.000 except for Jesus. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.000 And even what Peter and John saw on the Mount of Transfiguration 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:51.000 really is a lesser version of what God is really like. 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:57.000 Again, I was watching my favorite channel on some days, 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:01.000 which is the NASA channel, and they were showing pictures of the sun. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:08.000 And there were these sun flares that were happening, and it was brilliant. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:10.000 It was so bright. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.000 And I'm looking at that and I'm thinking to myself, 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.000 so if this is glorious, what is the glory of God like? 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.000 Because the sun is only 109 times bigger than the earth, 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:24.000 and God must be so much bigger, occupying a place beyond space. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.000 What is his glory like? 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.000 What they saw on the Mount of Transfiguration ain't nothing, man. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.000 How do you describe something like that? 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.000 But this is what God's plan was right from the beginning. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.000 Listen, I want you to know the fullness of glory. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.000 This is what is shocking for me. 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.000 I've been trying to wrap my head around it for a while, and I'm not able to. 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:51.000 That this glorious God, whose glory is brighter than the brightest sun, 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:57.000 whose glory is exceeding, who fills the universe and then beyond, 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.000 who cannot be contained, this God is saying to Jacob, 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:07.000 this finite, 5'6", handsome individual, God is saying to this Jacob, 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.000 listen, I want you to know the fullness of my glory. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.000 I want you to know the fullness of my glory. 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.000 What kind of God is this, man? 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.000 And he doesn't say these things to make me happy. 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.000 He does these things so that I might actually believe him. 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:30.000 And so he wants me to know what it is, to know the breadth and the height, 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.000 the depth and the length of who he is, as Paul said. 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Paul in Ephesians 1, in the apostolic prayer, 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.000 is actually praying that people may know his glory, his fullness. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 He talks about it in Colossians 2, 9 and 10 too, 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 that the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwells in Jesus Christ, 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.000 and he dwells in us and that we are supposed to know his fullness. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.000 Our time spent here on earth through circumstances, through hostility, 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.000 through difficult times, is to continuously press into the glory of God, 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:04.000 into the I am-ness of God, into the weight and the splendor of his majesty, 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.000 into all that he is and all that he has. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:10.000 For the first time in the history of the earth, 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.000 revealed through his son, presented to us saying, 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.000 come take, come eat, come have. 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:24.000 To limit glory to a two-hour service where some people keel over, 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:31.000 is just like Jane was saying, bottling it. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:36.000 Though even though that's a manifestation of his glory. 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.000 In John 17, 24, Jesus actually prays that. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:49.000 In John 17, 24, Jesus prays, he's praying that amazing prayer 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:53.000 for those that will come after him, for his disciples, including you and I. 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.000 And in that prayer he's praying, Oh God, can you, 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 can you please, please, please, please, please, 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:03.000 In that prayer he's praying, Oh God, can you get them to a place 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:08.000 where they will see, they will know the glory that I had with you before. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.000 He actually says that. 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:16.000 It was Jesus' prayer that we know his glory. 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.000 If Jesus prayed that prayer, let's just look at it, 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.000 John 17, verse 24. 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.000 What I'm trying to convince you guys, 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:32.000 is that we need to press into knowing the fullness of how I defined it. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 When I use the word glory, it is almost, in Christianity, 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.000 glory is as often used as the word love is used in the world, 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.000 where it's kind of lost its sense. 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.000 And to begin with, it's a very difficult word to describe. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.000 So if you go to John 17, 24, for us this is critical at this state, 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.000 because no global revival happens without the glory of God. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Being poured out. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.000 And the strange thing is every time the glory of God has to be poured out, 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.000 there has to be a vessel that it is poured out into. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.000 It can't be one individual, it has to be a people. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.000 We'll go and talk about that. 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.000 But if you look at John 17, 24. 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.000 John 17, 24. 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:24.000 Father, I want those who have given me to be with me where I am, 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000 and to see my glory, the glory you've given me because you loved me 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.000 before the creation of the world. 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 Father, I want these whom you've given me to be with me where I am. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.000 They can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.000 There will be a time when we will know his splendor 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.000 in a way that we've never known it before, and that time will not be on earth. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.000 But my God, I'm going to spend every ounce of my strength 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 knowing it to the extent that I can know it, so that the earth benefits. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 Once I'm gone to heaven, the earth does not benefit. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Here's the other thing, guys, and this is strange but important. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:11.000 God usually does not visit us with his glory beyond the revelation we have of it. 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:21.000 God usually does not visit us with glory beyond the revelation we have of it. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.000 Because he's not an entertainer, he's not here to say, 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:39.000 He's not here to say, Hey, want to see my glory? 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:44.000 No. His thing is, listen, can you begin to learn who I am, how I am? 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:49.000 If glory is about his I am-ness, if glory is about his weight and splendor, 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:54.000 if glory is about his majesty, if glory is about all that I am and all that I have, 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.000 if that is what Kabul or the weight of glory is, 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:04.000 then the extent to which he visits with glory is often determined 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.000 by the revelation that you have of it. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:17.000 This is why when God spoke from the heavens over Jesus, 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.000 you find four different reactions. 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.000 Jesus heard it and understood it. 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.000 The disciples heard it and did not understand it. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.000 The crowd heard it and said angels were speaking. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.000 And then one part of the crowd said, This is thunder. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.000 Four different reactions to this is my beloved son. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:38.000 One heard it and understood it because he knew what his father was like 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 and was able to walk in sonship. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.000 Some heard it and they did not understand it. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.000 They could not figure it out. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.000 The third group heard it and they thought it was angels. 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.000 The fourth group heard it and they thought it was noise or thunder. 00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:00.000 Fortunately, in 1 John 2 verse 27, it says that the anointing is within you, Jacob, 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 as in Jesus Christ the Anointed One and His Holy Spirit is within you. 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000 So you don't need to be taught. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000 You can learn quickly. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.000 We can learn. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:16.000 The first place where glory is revealed is in the gospels 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:20.000 because Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.000 And the letters that Paul writes begin to now break open 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.000 what we just see as a biography in the gospel is broken open 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:32.000 so that we can put our hands in and actually eat of what has been presented. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:36.000 It is not possible to know the glory of God or define the glory of God 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.000 or know whether it is the glory of God or is some other counterfeit 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.000 if I am not fluent in the word. 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:53.000 This is why counterfeit flourishes when it comes to things of glory and anointing. 00:20:53.000 --> 00:21:03.000 When you look at Exodus 33.19 and Hebrews 1.3, Exodus 33.19 and Hebrews 1.3, Exodus 33.19, 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:07.000 it says, God said, I will make my goodness pass right in front of you. 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.000 I will call out the name God right before you. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.000 That's from the message. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.000 And the word of God is in the gospel. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.000 So you don't need to be taught. 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.000 You don't need to be taught. 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 I will call out the name God right before you. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.000 That's from the message. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.000 Let me read from the NIV. 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.000 And the Lord said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.000 and I will proclaim my name the Lord in your presence. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.000 I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.000 and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.000 But he said, you cannot see my face for no one may see me and live. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.000 Now go to Hebrews 1.3. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000 Hebrews 1.3. 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.000 The sun is the radiance of God's glory, 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.000 the exact representation of his being, 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.000 sustaining all things by his powerful word. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.000 The sun is the radiance of God's glory, 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.000 the exact representation of his being, 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.000 sustaining all things by his powerful word. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:05.000 Here's the thing we need to know. 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.000 If you and I need to get familiar with glory, 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.000 as in familiar, as in push into glory, 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.000 as in get to a place where we can live and move 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.000 and have a being in the cloud of his glory. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000 Because at the end of the day, 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.000 if you want to get familiar with glory, 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:31.000 you have to enter into the life of God. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.000 And there are three things you have to pursue 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:37.000 if you want to live, move, and have your being 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.000 in the cloud of his glory. 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:43.000 And the three things that we can derive from Exodus 33.19 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.000 and Hebrews 1.3 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.000 are the goodness of God, 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.000 which is the essence of his nature, 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.000 the goodness of God, which is the essence of his nature, 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.000 his presence, 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.000 and his voice, 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.000 and awareness of his presence, 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:21.000 and response and alertness to his voice. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.000 These are pathways into the glory of God, 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.000 into the I am-ness of God, 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:29.000 into the weight and splendor of God, 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:31.000 into all that he is and all that he has, 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:33.000 into the kabod of God. 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.000 These are, when you take these two scriptures 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.000 where Moses asks to be shown the glory of God 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.000 and the way God responds saying, 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.000 Yeah, my presence will go with you. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.000 I'm going to proclaim my nature to you. 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.000 I will show you my goodness. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:54.000 And Hebrews 1.3 where Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:57.000 He is the exact representation of God's nature. 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:01.000 And it is his voice that holds and sustains all things. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:05.000 These are three things that Acts 29 must. 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.000 We do not have choices in matters nowadays. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.000 We do not have choices in matters, 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:16.000 nor do we have the choice of the pace of how we grow nowadays. 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:19.000 And thank God for that. 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:23.000 These are three things that I must press into every day. 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.000 I must be convinced more and more every day that, 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.000 Listen, oh God, 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:32.000 I'm able to see clearly your goodness despite my circumstances. 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:37.000 I'm able to therefore speak clearly of your goodness without faith. 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.000 Without faith, out of sheer knowing. 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:46.000 The words that come out of my mouth are not statements of faith saying God is good. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.000 They are statements of facts saying God is good. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:01.000 Of all the things that God could show him when Moses asked to see a glimpse of his glory, 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:04.000 goodness was what God came up with. 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:12.000 The thing is, till I know his glory by pressing into these three things, 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.000 I will never be able to convey it. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.000 I can convey teaching, I can convey a presentation of Jesus, 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.000 I can convey things, 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000 but I'll never be able to convey glory in its purest form 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.000 if this is not the purest form that I have arrived at. 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.000 That in his essence, he is good. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:34.000 And that I'm more and more aware of his presence on a 24-7 basis. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.000 It doesn't matter what I'm doing. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:37.000 It doesn't matter what kind of intense work I'm involved in. 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:39.000 It doesn't matter that I'm teaching and preaching right now. 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.000 Aware of his presence. 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:43.000 Aware of his presence, not in a tangible, where are you Jesus, 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:48.000 but aware of his presence in an intangible, I know you are here, Jesus. 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.000 Continuously aware. 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:52.000 Continuously aware. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.000 And awareness of his presence only comes out of two things, 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:58.000 reverence and love. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.000 Those are the two things that always bring an awareness of presence. 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:04.000 Those are the two things that always bring an awareness of presence. 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.000 You are aware of someone's presence because you have such awe of them 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.000 that your eyes are continuously looking for where they are. 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:16.000 It's like serving some great king or some great NBA star or some great whatever. 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:18.000 And you're continuously aware. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:21.000 It's strange I didn't go to hockey. 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.000 Canucks are doing really bad. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.000 It is to be so highly aware. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.000 And so awareness comes out of two places. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.000 One, you have such reverence and awe. 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.000 And two, you have such love that you can't take your eyes off her. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:38.000 One or the other. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.000 And then the third one is his voice. 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.000 His voice sustains everything. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.000 His voice sustains everything. 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:57.000 It's strange though that in Genesis, as soon as Adam sinned 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:01.000 and fell short of the glory of God as it says in Romans 3.23, 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.000 he questions God's goodness. 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:06.000 He hides from the sound of his voice. 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 He's cut off from his daily presence. 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.000 Those are the three things that immediately die in Eden. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.000 He questions God's goodness. 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:26.000 And so the ploy to keep us from returning to Eden or regaining Eden, 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:31.000 the ploy to keep us from returning to the original mandate of being carriers of his glory, 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:32.000 is still the same. 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:36.000 And I'm saying this to those that are listening to me right now 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.000 and those that have listened to this years down the line, 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.000 that the common ploy of the enemies is, 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.000 can I have you question the goodness of God? 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.000 Over and over again, I will question you about the goodness of God 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:49.000 till I plant a seed of suspicion in your mind 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.000 that in this area you cannot rely on God and he isn't good. 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.000 And he is not true to his promise 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.000 because I have questioned you for the last 20 days 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.000 and you have not been able to answer me. 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.000 I want to get to a place where the goodness of God is no longer a matter of faith for me. 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.000 It is a matter of absolute truth. 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.000 Gravity is not a question of faith for me. 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.000 You step into these realms and I can guarantee you as a church, 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:21.000 we will become receptacles of his glory, which is what God is looking for. 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:27.000 And awareness of his presence that comes from awe, such reverence. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.000 Reverence then takes care of everything else. 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.000 Reverence takes care of holiness, reverence takes care of awareness, 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:36.000 reverence takes care of presence, takes care of everything. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.000 Love takes care of everything. 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:39.000 Love takes care of everything. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.000 Love takes care of everything. 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:43.000 Reverence takes care of presence, takes care of everything. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.000 Love takes care of holiness. 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:53.000 A husband who is committed in love to his wife cannot even imagine infidelity. 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:57.000 He doesn't entertain that thought because to think like that 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:00.000 feels like he is harming his wife or betraying her. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.000 His voice. 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.000 I am not talking about hearing God, guys. 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.000 We hear God so that he can lead us. 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:20.000 Nothing wrong with that. 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:23.000 It's a critical part of Christian living. 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:26.000 It's just stupid that we don't live that way. 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:31.000 I am talking about his voice as in that which gives life, 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:35.000 that which sustains, that which you find yourself in. 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.000 It is not give me direction. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.000 It is what are you thinking? What are you saying? 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.000 I just want to participate with you, O God. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.000 Everything you do is with your voice. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.000 Your word is your voice. 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:49.000 Jesus is your voice. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.000 The Holy Spirit is your voice. 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.000 Your voice, I see it in creation. 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:55.000 It says so in Psalm 29. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.000 Creation speaks day and night. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:04.000 It speaks how to be engaged with God in terms of his voice that way. 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.000 That the voice of the Lord splits the cedars. 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.000 The voice of the Lord creates streams in the desert. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.000 I don't know. 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:21.000 I think I have to help differentiate what I mean when I say 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.000 it's not about hearing God. 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.000 It is the voice of God. 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.000 We'll talk about in the future. 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000 There is so much, man. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.000 There is so much God wants to tell us. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.000 It's this combination of Samuel on one hand who has a child. 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:46.000 Here is the voice of God. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:51.000 And then it's also a combination of Isaiah who isn't even being addressed 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.000 but says here I am. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.000 Send me because he knows God is speaking. 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000 And it's a combination of John on the island of Patmos 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:02.000 when he hears a trumpet's play and he sees one whose face is 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.000 as bright as the morning sun and his feet are burning brass. 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:11.000 And he's about to reveal a story about himself, the testimony of Jesus Christ. 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.000 And John happens to hear it. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:16.000 It's this combination where on one hand you're like a child who is alert 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:19.000 and does not even fathom what is being said 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:24.000 but knows that he needs to go and tell Eli, I think I heard someone calling 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.000 to Isaiah who knows that he's not being addressed 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:31.000 but hears a voice in the divine council and says, please, please, can I? 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:37.000 To John who is just an exile on a remote island 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:42.000 and who turns around because he knows someone has just walked down to the island. 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:44.000 That is what I mean by voice. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000 It is not just a hearing of God. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.000 The reason we don't experience his glory, and I said this many weeks ago, 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:58.000 is because we try to accommodate his glory and his glory cannot be accommodated. 00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:59.000 He can only be surrendered to. 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.000 We cannot accommodate his glory. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.000 I cannot accommodate his glory in a song, 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:09.000 which is why it is impossible to deal with glory without being undignified. 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000 At least in the Old Testament, they didn't have a choice. 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:17.000 When the glory of God would fall on someone or something, it would become undignified. 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Saul would strip himself naked. 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:28.000 But now that does not happen because we are in control of our brand new spirits 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000 and God doesn't take over control. 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.000 But it is impossible to accommodate glory. 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.000 And the way we accommodate glory, or let's even forget glory, 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:43.000 the way we accommodate anointing or glory is by deciding the limits to which 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.000 we will choose to be undignified. 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.000 It has to stay within a certain latitude. 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:54.000 I want to never be able to accommodate God in Acts 29. 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.000 Never. 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:01.000 We can only surrender to it. 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:07.000 And any surrender is ultimately going to make you look disheveled, undignified, 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.000 absolutely beautiful. 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:11.000 No questions, eh? 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.000 Guys, the glory carries. 00:33:56.000 --> 00:34:04.000 The glory of God carries, creates, and is undignified. 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:17.000 Carries, creates, judges, subdues, resurrects. 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:29.000 The glory of God carries, as in once the glory of God enters any realm on the earth, 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:34.000 any church, it has the ability to carry the church. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:39.000 It has the ability, the anointing then is great because you function in your role, 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:45.000 but you are not able to do anything because it is the I Am Now who carries 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:51.000 whatever he needs to carry, creates, judges, as in judges what is right and wrong, 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.000 and deals with what is wrong. 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.000 The glory of God deals with what is wrong, eh? 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.000 Subdues, resurrects. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:06.000 Whenever the glory of God comes into a place, it is always accompanied by the voice of God. 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.000 Never forget that. 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:14.000 That the glory of God, whenever it comes anywhere, is always accompanied by the voice of God. 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:15.000 It is never separated. 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:18.000 It is always accompanied by the voice of God. 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:22.000 You will hear the voice of God. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000 It is almost like a litmus test. 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.000 So what do you mean glory carries, creates, judges? 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.000 Guys, sometimes our, even though we read the Bible, 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:42.000 when I found this out I was just so blown away that I haven't even had time to explore it further, 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:51.000 but sometimes when we read the Bible and we try to imagine the scene, 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.000 especially the Gospels and the Book of Acts, you try to imagine the scene, 00:35:54.000 --> 00:36:01.000 and most of our imaginations are then drawn from the latest Jesus movie or the latest Acts movie. 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.000 And in the process we sometimes don't realize the enormity of what has happened. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:16.000 So when you look at John 18, remember the scene where Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane, 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:24.000 and he has just gotten up from praying, and now the gods have come to arrest him. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:30.000 And they come looking for Jesus of Nazareth, and he says, I am. 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:37.000 In most Bibles it's I am he, but the idea was that I am. 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.000 What we don't realize is the number of people who are there. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.000 Let's go to John 18. 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:48.000 John 18, talking about the glory, let me show you what the glory can do to the enemies of God. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:37:02.000 John 18, verse 6, and they said, again he asked him, verse 7, sorry, verse 4, 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.000 Jesus knowing all that was going to happen to him went out and asked him, who is it that you want? 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:14.000 When Jesus of Nazareth, they replied, I am he, Jesus said, and Judas the traitor was standing there with them. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:19.000 When Jesus said I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:24.000 This idea of drew back and fell to the ground, depending on the denomination you're from, you'll put a spin on it. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:29.000 Some say only Judas fell to the ground. Some say, yeah, the guys who came with him fell to the ground. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:35.000 Go to verse 3. I know I'm spending a lot of time with this verse, but it's just to show you a point. 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:41.000 So Judas came to the grove guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.000 They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:48.000 The actual word used for soldiers that the detachment was a band or a cohort. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:52.000 You know how many soldiers were there that day? 600. 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.000 600 soldiers come to arrest Christ. 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.000 And they ask, are you Jesus of Nazareth? And he says, I am he. 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:07.000 600 of them go back a step and then fall down on their backs. 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:14.000 In most movies we see two or three staggering back. 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:20.000 600 people or more, because they were not just soldiers, they were men with the soldiers. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:26.000 A cohort, which is 600 people, a legion is 6,000. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:33.000 So 600 of them, when they hear him say, I am, fall backwards. 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:39.000 Just to give you an idea, God has the ability to take creation and use it to display his glory. 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.000 What does he do? He says to Joshua, listen, I wanted you to do something. 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:47.000 I know I've said everything in order. I know I have put things in orbit. 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:51.000 But I want you to turn and say to the sun and the moon, stand still. 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:56.000 God uses creation to display his glory, sometimes to subdue the enemy. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:06.000 I've heard real life stories of God using the elements of nature to completely turn a nation around or a people around. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:10.000 God uses that idea of glory to resurrect people. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:19.000 Peter goes resurrects Dorcas. Paul goes resurrects Eutychus. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:24.000 Or raise people. I won't use the word resurrect. Raise people from the dead. 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.000 That is a glorious act, man. 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000 There's no anointing to raise the dead. 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.000 But the glory of God can do it. Jesus did it multiple times. He did it with Jairus' daughter. 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:42.000 He did it with the son of the widow of Nine. He did it with Lazarus. 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.000 This is a display of who I am. That's the intent. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.000 Listen, you're coming to arrest me? If I want to, I can call on 12 legions of angels right now. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.000 But I won't. I will just tell you who I am. 00:39:54.000 --> 00:40:03.000 Am I Jesus of Nazareth? Yes, I am. And that was enough. 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.000 This is what this church should become a receptacle for. 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:12.000 So that God can do what he wants to do upon the earth just by his sheer I am-ness. 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.000 But to get there, we have to become a certain kind of people. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:27.000 The next week, and if necessary, midweek, the intent is that, oh God, please, oh God, we need to become a receptacle for your glory. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.000 Joshua is still the son. Moses divided the Red Sea. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:36.000 Try doing it with the phraser. Go to Richmond, but don't take the bridge. 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:42.000 It is the glory of God that paths a lake or a sea or an ocean. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:49.000 Elijah did it. Elijah did it. They did it with the Jordan. 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:55.000 Elijah called down fire. Elijah stopped the rain. 00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:06.000 These are glorious acts of God. I want to hear before I die, where is the God of Elijah? And I say, here he is. 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:12.000 I believe in power encounters. I believe that nations are taken through power encounters. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:17.000 I've seen them firsthand. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:25.000 Where national gods are dismantled in one power encounter and an entire nation begins to turn. 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:32.000 But it is not enough that one man do it. God is so not into one man shows. 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:51.000 One man shows anything built around one man, anything built around a brand will collapse because all it takes is for one man to commit a mistake. 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:55.000 The king of glory is strong and mighty in battle. 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:02.000 That's who we are talking about. That, oh God, come father, revisit again, revisit again. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:07.000 Do what you used to do. Not even in the Old Testament. Let's just start with the book of Acts, father. 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:12.000 Do what you used to do in the book of Acts. 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:17.000 But we must become a certain kind of people and we'll talk about that before we end. 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.000 The king of glory, strong and mighty in battle, he cannot be resisted. 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.000 He will not be satisfied to remain at a distance. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:30.000 Hey, Acts 29, here's the truth. Either we walk with him through this and get to where he's taking it. 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:33.000 Otherwise, he will let us do church. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 I'm the pastor of this church. I'm telling you the truth. 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.000 I'm scared of it. I'm excited about it. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:46.000 And I'd be really upset if he didn't get to where God wants us to go to. 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:51.000 He will either, his thing before you is now, I've given you enough, Jacob. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.000 I've given you guys enough. I've taught you. I've taken care of you. 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.000 I've nurtured you. I've sent you the best. I've brought you up. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.000 I've taught you. I've filled you to the brim. 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:05.000 Now, give me the fruit that I want. Otherwise, I'll let you do church. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.000 Oh my God, my lungs scream saying, please, please, anything else but don't let us do church. 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:20.000 So we must be shaped into a certain type of people. Why? 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:26.000 Because if we are saying that faith, anointing and glory, and glory is what God needs to release for a global revival, 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:30.000 then the people need to become a certain type of people so that they are receptacle. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.000 Carriers. 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:44.000 The king of glory, Psalm 24, lift up your gates, lift up your ancient doors, let the king of glory come in. 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:50.000 Who is this king of glory? I'm telling you, this king of glory is strong and mighty in battle. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:55.000 He cannot be resisted. He is not satisfied to remain at a distance. 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.000 He will not compromise with us. There is no compromise with us in this. 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.000 This is what I brought you to. This is where I'm going. Do you want to come? 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:07.000 If you don't want to come, I'll let you do church. I'll make sure you all come to heaven. 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:22.000 We've had many moments like this, guys. 2007 when Eddie came, it was the same choice we had. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.000 You want to do church or you want to step up? When Chad came first, it was the same. 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:31.000 You want to continue doing what you're doing well or you want to change your way of operating? 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.000 He cannot be resisted. He will not be satisfied to remain at a distance. 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:46.000 He will not compromise with us. He will not negotiate with satanic forces. 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:51.000 He will not negotiate with Pharaoh. He will not negotiate with any other person. 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.000 He will not negotiate with any other power that exerts lordship over man. 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.000 He ain't here to say, hey Pharaoh, so how about I leave 20 and you give me 60 or... 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:08.000 There's no percentage here. I have come to make sure that you, Acts 29, have the ability to go and say to those that keep my people, let my people go. 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:16.000 Because I am not negotiating with any Pharaoh. I'm not negotiating with any power that exerts or wants to share a hold upon mankind. 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.000 I will not allow it. That is not why I have raised you. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:23.000 And if that means that I pour you out, so be it Jacob. Be poured out. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:37.000 That is when we get to speak Psalm 24 over and over again. 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.000 So I'm saying to us, let us open the gates for this King of Glory. 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:44.000 It will bring down heaven and it will bring down a whole host of angels too. 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:56.000 Because glory is almost always mediated by angels throughout the Bible, in the New and the Old Testament. 00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:03.000 Which is not what we are getting excited about. We are getting excited about the glory. 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:09.000 Getting excited about the angels would be like, not right. 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:13.000 Not right. 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:18.000 I was going to say something else but maybe I should just be good. 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:23.000 So how do we open the gates? How do we open the gates? How do we open the gates? 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.000 Psalm 24. So here are the ways we open the gates. 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:35.000 First, if you look at Psalm 24, you will see that Psalm 24 first declares who God is in 1 and 2. 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:41.000 That he owns everything guys. Then from 3 to 6 it tells you what you need to become. 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:45.000 And from 7 to 10 it tells you who he is and then it concludes. 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:52.000 So if we were to use Psalm 24, oh that's my, oh that's opposite. 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:57.000 Sorry I was just looking at the screen. My left arm is right and my right arm is left on the screen. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.000 It's not important. Psalm 24, how do we open the gates? 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:06.000 Psalm 24. First we enter into the presence of God. First we enter into the presence of God. 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:14.000 First we enter into the presence of God. 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:21.000 Not through worship. Not through worship. 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:26.000 But not through worship. 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:32.000 But by walking in a manner. But by walking in a manner consistent with his nature. 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:44.000 But by walking in a manner consistent with his nature. 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.000 This is what we will be spending the next week talking about. 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:52.000 How do we walk in a manner consistent with his nature? 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:58.000 What are the two or three things that we absolutely have to make a corporate concerted effort to become? 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:04.000 If you look at Psalm 24 and I'm reading from the KJV because it kind of conveys what God is trying to say. 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:11.000 Psalm 24 verses 3 to 6. I think verses 4 and 6. 4 and 5. 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:17.000 Psalm 24 verses, who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy place? 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:26.000 Verse 4. He that has clean hands, a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:32.000 I want us to become such a truthful church. I want us to hate lies. I want us to hate deceit. 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:37.000 I want us as a people. Me, absolutely. 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:43.000 It is absolutely important that Jacob begins to have such a love for truth in the inward parts, 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:47.000 truth from his mouth and truth of the word. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:55.000 And I want every one of us to be... one of the things glory does is that it makes a church physically and spiritually transparent. 00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:00.000 And we are not. Please don't for a second assume that. We are not. We are a great church. 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.000 There's a degree of openness that you will not find in most churches. 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:09.000 But we are talking about something else. A glory of God is becoming like him. 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:16.000 I want these things in Psalm 24 verse 5 to become something that is common to the nature of this church. 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:20.000 Why? Because then we become receptacles of his glory. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:26.000 Don, can you get me one of those golden urns? 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:31.000 You break it, you buy it. 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:38.000 Yeah. Become receptacles of his glory. If I break it, Don buys it. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.000 That's what I was trying to say. Receptacles of his glory. That's what I want us to become. 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:50.000 Where God can fill it with pleasure, God can pour out with pleasure. Empty, God can break. 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:55.000 Most jars that God actually has will never look like this. 00:49:55.000 --> 00:50:03.000 It is treasures in jars of clay, not jars that don't like this. 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:14.000 So this is the wrong one. I was talking about the other one, Don. How come you got this one? 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:19.000 I'm just kidding, Don. I was pointing at this one. After it came here, I realized it's the wrong one. 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:28.000 Anyways, guys. The first thing we do is enter into the presence of God not through worship, 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.000 but by walking in a manner consistent with his nature. 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.000 We will start looking at Psalm 24, verse 3 to 6. 00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:41.000 What does it mean to have clean hands? What does it mean to not have your soul lifted up unto vanity? 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:47.000 What does it mean to have a pure heart? What does it mean to live a life that is empty of deceit? 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:49.000 Ah! 00:50:55.000 --> 00:51:12.000 Once we do this, then what happens is the King of Glory enters into the presence of a people 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:22.000 who seek his face and walk in his ways. 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:31.000 That's what happens next. 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:36.000 That's what is happening in verse 7 to 10. 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:46.000 First the people ascend the hill of the Lord, and then the Lord comes and says, 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:49.000 Alright, now you can open the gates because I want to enter into your presence. 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:58.000 Guys, here's the thing. The plan from the beginning was that Adam and Eve would reflect the glory of this King. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:02.000 The plan from the beginning was that Adam and Eve would reflect the glory of this King. 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.000 This is not something new. This is not something unattainable. 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:10.000 It has always been plan A. There's never a plan B with Jesus. 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:15.000 It has always been the plan that, listen, from the beginning it was that Adam and Eve would reflect the glory of this King 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:20.000 and that they would fill the earth with it. Through their children they would fill the earth with it. 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:29.000 They were set up in a garden sanctuary to be a resplendent royal image of the glorious King. 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:41.000 And it's the same with the Ark. In 1 Samuel 422, when the Philistines steal the Ark, 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:47.000 what do the Israelites say? That the glory of God has departed. 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:55.000 That's what the Israelites say. Because the Ark was supposed to be Israel's ultimate possession in the Ark. 00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:03.000 Or the Ark represented the glory of God. God's intent was, listen, I dwell amongst you as a people and my glory dwells amongst you. 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:09.000 And this Ark is symbolic of it. It is the kind of glory that they treated with such reverence and awe, 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:15.000 so much so that the Philistines stole it. And as this woman is giving birth, she names her son Ichabod, 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.000 which means the glory of Israel has departed. God's intent from the beginning. 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:26.000 The reason I'm saying this is you must see the absolute possibility of this. 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:34.000 It is the plan of God. It is not something that we are ascending to attain. It is what he has brought down to us. 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:49.000 This is not impossible. This is not difficult. But he needs us to become a certain kind of people. 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:57.000 In 1 Samuel 15, 29, he calls himself the glory of Israel. God's intent has always been this. 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:01.000 Please can I find a people amongst whom I can dwell and my glory be displayed? 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:09.000 He calls himself the glory of Israel in 1 Samuel 15, 29. In Hebrews, Chapter 1, Verse 3, what did they say of Jesus? 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:16.000 I read that verse out. Listen, I am the accurate representation of the God of glory. 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:23.000 And I am the radiant expression of his glory. And I sustain everything with my voice. 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:28.000 Jesus was the personification of the glory of God. 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.000 Then you look at the church. What does Paul say about the church? 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:39.000 That listen, you are a people Christ in you the hope of. Glory, Colossians 1, 27. 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.000 At the end of the day, from the beginning of time, God has been looking for one thing only. 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:47.000 And has he found it? He is looking for the carriers of glory. 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:52.000 And the strange thing is he has been finding it over the last 2000 years. 00:54:52.000 --> 00:55:15.000 He is looking for a certain kind of people that will not own, distort, monetize, monopolize or attempt to his I am-ness. 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:20.000 Which is why Psalm 24, Verses 3 to 6 is critical in this. 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:23.000 I say this week, if you know how to humble yourself, do that. 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.000 If humbling yourself means fasting from things, do that. 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:33.000 If humbling yourself means going and saying to someone that listen, I can treat you better. 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:39.000 I have wronged you and I can do better. If it lowers you, do it. 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:48.000 Because there is a process of lowering that is necessary for things that hold on to your present body to no longer fit. 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:54.000 When something shrinks, it falls off. When you shrink, what is around you now falls off. 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:00.000 Use this week to practice your own way of fasting. 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.000 I am not here to tell you what kind of fasting. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.000 Why are we fasting? Are we fasting for something from God? 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:10.000 Not really. We are fasting to become something for Him. 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:15.000 Not because we want something from Him. It is to become something for Him. 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:23.000 Now that I am in this receptive state, O God, having lowered myself, can you now do what only you can do? 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:29.000 What is that song? Do only what you can do. Did we sing that today? 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:32.000 Ah, that is why. 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:40.000 If you heard that noise, it is just what Don does every week. 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.000 Both. 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:49.000 Both. Yeah. 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:51.000 Carriers of His glory. 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.000 You know what happens once we become carriers of His glory? 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:59.000 Balaam will begin to declare. 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:07.000 Balaam will begin to declare that the Lord their God is amongst them and I hear in them the shout of a king. 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:15.000 Once the people begin to become receptacles of God's glory, Balaam will declare that the Lord their God is with them. 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.000 Numbers 23, verse 21. 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:29.000 The Lord their God is with them and the shout of a king and the shout of a king is in their midst. 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:33.000 Numbers 23, verse 21. 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:36.000 That is what Balaam begins to declare. 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:45.000 This is when power encounters become less frequent because there is no comparison to what now our people can do. 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:51.000 Belak hires Balaam but it is of no avail because Belak has to go home. 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:58.000 Numbers 23, verse 21. 00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:05.000 So finally the fourth stage is God's people begin to live under a canopy. 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:16.000 God's people begin to live under a canopy of His glory. 00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:19.000 And they follow His glory wherever it may lead. 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:29.000 They follow it, follow His glory wherever it leads. 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:32.000 Where is that from Jacob? Isaiah 4. 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.000 Let me just read it. 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.000 Again, there too there is the need to become a certain kind of people. 00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:40.000 Isaiah 4, verses 1 to 6. 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:45.000 Isaiah 4, verses 1 to 6. 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.000 God's people begin to live under the canopy, follow His glory. 00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:53.000 Others begin to seek us to have their shame removed and they beg to be called by our name. 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:58.000 I love that. Others begin to seek us to have their shame removed and they beg to be called by our name. 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.000 Not by the name of Acts 29, but the name of the people of God. 00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:04.000 Isaiah chapter 4, verse 1 onwards. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.000 Reading from the NIV. 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:13.000 In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say we will eat our own food and provide our own clothes. 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.000 Only let us be called by your name. 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:16.000 Take away our disgrace. 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:23.000 In that day the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:27.000 Those who are left in Zion who remain in Jerusalem will be called holy. 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:29.000 All who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:31.000 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion. 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:36.000 He will cleanse the blood stains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire. 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:37.000 Let it be so Father. 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:38.000 May you judge and refine. 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:45.000 May your fire fall so that, like I was saying yesterday, bring your winnowing folk so that all the chaff in my life is sacked. 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:51.000 So that all the chaff in my life is separated, oh God, and burnt away so that what remains is good grain. 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:55.000 Why? 00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:59.000 Even if it's a painful process, Father, there's huge reward, Father. 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:00.000 Huge reward. 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000 This is what we were born for. 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:12.000 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night. 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:14.000 Over everything, the glory will be a canopy. 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:19.000 It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain. 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Beautiful, eh? 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:31.000 Let me conclude with a verse for Acts 29. 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.000 The glory of God will affect Acts 29. 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:36.000 The glory of God is going to affect Acts 29. 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:41.000 It's going to transform us from a fighting church to a resting and ruling church of Revelation 227. 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:45.000 Revelation 227, it talks about, let me read it. 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.000 It's beautiful in the message. 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:54.000 Revelation 227. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:57.000 It says, Here's the reward I have for you, Acts 29. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:01.000 Every conqueror, everyone who keeps it and refusing to give up, you'll rule the nations. 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:04.000 Your shepherd king rule as firm as an iron staff. 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:06.000 Their resistance fragile as clay pots. 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.000 This was a gift my father gave me. 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:10.000 I pass it along to you. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:12.000 Amen! 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:19.000 Acts 29 will be affected by the glory of God. 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:21.000 Put blinders on, eh? 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:23.000 Penny sent me a word today. 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:30.000 And I should just quickly read it out to you. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.000 Why do horses wear blinders? 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:33.000 Why do horses wear blinders? 01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:39.000 Horses have peripheral vision, which means they can end up running off course unless they are made to remain focused. 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:44.000 Covering part of their vision encourages the horse to take chances it would not normally take. 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:48.000 It keeps their eyes focused on what is ahead rather than what is at the side or behind. 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:53.000 It stops them from losing concentration on the direction they're supposed to be headed. 01:01:53.000 --> 01:02:00.000 It reduces the chance of the horse being spooked and making a run for it as they are easily spooked and automatically run from perceived danger. 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:07.000 May the Lord put blinders on us so that we are single-minded in our focus and our pursuit of this one thing that God wants to do on the earth, eh? 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:11.000 Other things will be taken care of in the midst of it. 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:17.000 God is not a one-dimensional God. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:19.000 Glory will affect Acts 29. 01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.000 Hallelujah! 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:23.000 This is when I wish I had the capacity to rar-ar you. 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.000 Glory will affect Acts 29. 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:28.000 And then I think to myself, thank God I don't have it. 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:33.000 Glory will affect Acts 29, transforming us from a fighting church. 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:34.000 We are a fighting church. 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:39.000 We are a church that knows how to fight and prevail. 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:44.000 Transform us from a fighting church to a Revelations 2.27, ruling and resting church. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:49.000 It will transform us from an earthly places church to a heavenly places church. 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.000 These are not terms I'm throwing around. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:54.000 These are terms that are absolutely explainable, definable. 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:58.000 That's already happening in the lives of people at Acts 29. 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:01.000 One thing we are is relatively modest. 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:04.000 Other than me, most people in this church are modest. 01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:12.000 And so you don't hear the exploits of the people in this church as much. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:18.000 We become a heavenly places church instead of an earthly places church, Ephesians 2.6. 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:27.000 And we become an unusual, we become a church with an unusual spiritual and physical transparency. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.000 And that must happen. That must happen. 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:35.000 That will happen as we go down the road of Psalm 24, verse 3 to 6. 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:40.000 May it be the spirit of fire and the spirit of judgment from God. 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:46.000 As in, let God judge, hey Jacob, this you may think is straight, but when I look at it, it's crooked. 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:50.000 Hey Jacob, let me burn this out with fire. 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.000 The thing is that I'll talk about this next week. 01:03:52.000 --> 01:04:00.000 Anytime God wants us to leave something, there's always a reward also that we leave with. 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:13.000 So looking forward to us as a people becoming something together. 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:21.000 As this happens, we'll see some strange, beautiful happenings amongst us. 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:25.000 One, we'll see the revelation of the sons of God in our midst. 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:34.000 What I mean by that is Romans 8, verse 19 says, creation longs for the manifestation of the sons of God. 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:38.000 I know that scripture can be taken and spoken about in many, many different ways. 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.000 Let me explain how I mean it. 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:47.000 As we go down this road, you will see that sons and daughters of God in this church will begin to rise up 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:54.000 and show how splendidly son of God-ish they are. 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.000 Go ahead. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.000 There's a question. 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:02.000 Can you repeat the word again from Jacob? 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:07.000 Which word, Heidi? 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.000 Pardon? 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.000 Oh, Acts 29. 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:22.000 Glory will affect Acts 29, transforming us from a fighting church to Revelation 227 from the Messaged Church, 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:30.000 a ruling and resting church, from an earthly places church to a heavenly places church, Ephesians 2.6, 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:43.000 from a holy church to an unusually spiritually and physically transparent church, Ephesians 5.27, 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:51.000 from the Messaged, puts it this way, I want you, my bride, to be dazzling in silk and... 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:53.000 Let me read it. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:57.000 It's that sense, Ephesians 5.27. 01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:05.000 Yeah. 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:11.000 A bride who's dressed in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:17.000 There's something about it that is spiritually and physically transparent. 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:25.000 That is what then allows you to don that kind of costume or that kind of apparel. 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:29.000 And as that happens, we will see, one, the revelation of the sons of God, 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:35.000 as in you will see suddenly David's rise up, Joshua's rise up, you will see Deborah's rise up, 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:40.000 you will see Miriam's rise up, you will see Paul's rise up, Peter's rise up, 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:46.000 you will see John the Beloved rise up, you will see Martha rise up, Mary's rise up, 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:55.000 you will see women and men who have in them suddenly all the purposes of God contained within the next two, three years, 01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:00.000 coming to such fulfillment that creation will long for them. 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:07.000 It says in Romans 8.21 that creation is groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God. 01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:10.000 As in show me what your God looks like. 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.000 Decay and bondage will break. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.000 Decay and bondage will be undone. 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.000 Decay and bondage around us. 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:19.000 I know those scriptures are talking about the end times, 01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:23.000 where God will reveal his sons and daughters in their absolute glory, 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:25.000 because when he appears we will share his glory. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:27.000 I know it's talking about that. 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:33.000 I also know it says that creation that is groaning in decay and bondage will be set free, 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:34.000 seeing the freedom of the sons of God. 01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:36.000 I know it's talking about the end, 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:41.000 but everything that is supposed to be consummated at the end must begin now. 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:43.000 We progressively work towards the end. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:48.000 God is not some kind of a magician who's saying let it be rotten now and that hey presto, 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:52.000 touch at the end of the ages and suddenly everything becomes new. 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:54.000 No, that's not why we were put here. 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:57.000 We were put here to display what is waiting at the end now. 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:02.000 We are a people from the future who are occupying middle earth saying look at the glory of God now. 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:06.000 I know you see dimly, but even in the dimness that you see it with, 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:11.000 the glory of God is sufficiently bright for you to have a revelation of Christ like very few can have. 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:15.000 And now for sons and daughters in this church to rise up and say hey, 01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:18.000 now look at me manifest in the glory of God. 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:22.000 When I touch something decay and I know how to break bondage. 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:23.000 That is what we are talking about. 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:26.000 So that as it says in Isaiah 60 verse 12, 01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:31.000 even the least amongst you will be able to deal with a thousand. 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:34.000 That's what it says in Isaiah 60 verse 12. 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:37.000 That's what we're talking about guys. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:39.000 That's what we're talking about. 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:46.000 When we talk about the becoming receptacles for the glory of God and the earth needs it. 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:50.000 Otherwise it continues in decay and bondage. 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:10.000 I don't know how to end. 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:21.000 Father, I just want this. 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:27.000 I want this for your sake. 01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:28.000 I want this for our sake. 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.000 I want this for the sake of the world.