Bill Johnson teaches how the Holy Spirit empowers us to walk in the fullness of God’s Kingdom here on earth. Jesus told His disciples that it was better that He went away, so that He could send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been entrusted to us by God, to transform us into the image of Jesus and build His Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is available here and now, but if we are not aware of what we have legal access to as sons and daughters of God, we will not lean in to partner with Him to see His plans and purposes fulfilled in the earth. Bill’s message follows a time of prayer for healing. 0:32 Jokes 2:30 Words of Knowledge and Prayer for Healing 13:26 Sermon: How the Holy Spirit Empowers You to Build God’s Kingdom Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: Ephesians 1 1 Corinthians 3: 21 Luke 12: 48 John 7: 37-39 John 14: 17 1 John 4: 17 Revelation 1 Isaiah 62: 7 Matthew 5: 16 Acts 5: 13 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on October 15, 2017. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #HolySpirit #KingdomOfGod
the holy spirit in US is actually
conforming us into the image of this one
who is raised from the dead ascended to
the right hand of the father and is
glorified that glorified Christ is the
image that the artist is painting in
your life that you would be a right now
living representative of that
reality yeah bless him
Jud bless I’m good all
right a clean house is the sign of a
broken
[Laughter]
computer spell check has got to be my
worst
enema I tried to follow my dreams now I
have multiple restraining
orders
there are three kinds of people in this
world those who are good at math and
those who
[Laughter]
aren’t arguing with a woman is like
getting arrested everything you say can
and will be used against
[Applause]
you
I I didn’t write these I’m just sharing
the news with
you I have so many and they’re all so
edifying when I get old I’m going to
move in with my kids hog the computer
pay no bills eat all the food trash the
house and when asked to
clean pict you fit like it’s killing
me I love this one when I die I want my
last words to be I left a million
dollars under
[Laughter]
[Applause]
the that’s
fun anyone with arthritis stand
up there’s quite a few here with uh knee
joint pain some specifically have damage
and or or missing cartilage in the knees
stand up but if you just have uh knee
issues ongoing issues of pain stand up
uh in your
knees how many of you are actually in
pain tonight put your hand
up all right um let’s see is there
anyone anyone here that has a parasite
or you fear you have a
parasite you
do okay you got over uh parasite causes
food intolerance I believe Jesus will
heal that tonight so all right anybody
here with with a parasite I heard that
earlier
this evening parasite yeah okay all
right anybody want a
parasite bad joke bad joke bad
joke all right we’re going to we’re
going to pray for these um Also let’s uh
let’s do the food allergy thing uh again
uh if you have if you have issues with
food allergy stand
up
um my favorite one of
these
uh happened a while ago where on a
Sunday morning I just asked people with
food allergies to stand up and a young
mom stood up right over
here and uh and I found out later she
had uh she was standing in for her son
who was allergic to Dairy and to wheat
and he was
autistic and she stood in place for him
receed prayer and then uh when the
meeting was over she took her son to go
get pizza
wheat and
dairy and he was not only healed of uh
of the food allergy he was no longer
autistic who was
here that’s
amazing such a great
story such a great story so we’re going
to pray for these uh that are standing
hold on just Rebecca here was healed of
food allergies wave your hands several
several years
ago over two years ago almost three
almost three years ago right back over
there I remember about the third row in
yep boom so uh the Bible says that all
foods were made for us to
enjoy and uh and so that’s uh that’s his
will so anything outside of that isn’t
his will so we’re we’re able to pray
with authority because we are embracing
his mission his
mission is is to to correct things here
that aren’t consistent with his design
his plan and so that’s what we’re going
to do so all of you that are standing
put a hand up all of you that are
sitting your Born Again believer join
with us please find out uh what’s wrong
and uh and lay hand on if it’s a proper
place to put your hand Lay Your Hands on
the
problem
okay you can put your hand down once
somebody has come to
you if no one has come to you yet wave
your hand at me and we’ll get somebody I
need somebody right here in
the right here yep thank
you there’s still another one back
here
I’ve got two to my right I need I need
two folks to go over here about halfway
back thank
you find out what’s wrong you don’t need
a big story just give them a Target
those of you that are praying you’re
praying the will of God so rebuke the
Affliction speak to the disorder command
it to
come into
order
in Jesus
name now those of you that are receiving
prayer you don’t need to
pray I just want you to be aware of the
Holy Spirit touching your
body
there is damage to the left ankle that
the Lord is healing right now it’s it’s
I can feel it all along the the side all
around that left ankle so I don’t know
if it was a sprain if it was a break
didn’t heal correctly whatever it is if
that’s you uh just lay your hand on your
own ankle it should uh should come into
order even right now we declare Jesus uh
the healing Grace of Jesus over people’s
bod bodies right
now the healing Grace of Jesus
Affliction trauma we rebuke you in the
name of the Lord Jesus there’s somebody
here whose knees were injured in a very
traumatic way who is that your knees
were actually injured in a very
traumatic way is that right here all
right just rebuke the spirit of trauma
yeah those of you praying for the the
ones with the the dramatic injury to the
knees literally rebuke the spirit of
trauma we declare in Jesus name be free
from that Spirit of trauma that would
torment
you amen you got about 15
seconds 15 seconds just so to
pray thank you Lord
yeah okay you did good stay with the
person stay with them but everyone that
received prayer look up up at me sh
everyone that receive prayer just look
my
way all right the next moment is as
important as was the prayer and that’s
where you put faith into an action I
don’t want anyone to do something stupid
to try to prove you have faith all I
want you to do is test your own body
through movement through you know if
there was a tumor see if it’s still
there that sort of thing um to see what
the Lord has done and if you’re at least
80% better then I want you to wave both
hands for like 20 seconds or so but just
check yourself out real good check
yourself out move around try to move in
a way you couldn’t move yeah wave the
hands if you’ve been healed yeah
beautiful all right turn I want you to
turn and pray again would you turn and
pray again we’ll pray one more
[Applause]
time
thank you Lord increase the Breakthrough
for anointing here God the Breakthrough
for healing the
anointing for
healing increase increase that
more increase that Lord you got about
another
minute
thank you
Lord okay all right go ahead all of you
that receive prayer if he your knes
start checking them out if he need
stairs to walk on we got stairs here
just do something to uh examine
yourself and if you’ve been healed wave
your hands over your head as a testimony
of What the Lord Has Done let people
around you know that we we give you
thanks
Lord
beautiful all
right all right hug a neck or two and be
seated
open Ephesians 1 we’re going to read
several verses here as we get started
anyone have a birthday
today have a birthday today
come to today anyone have a birthday
today today right here days today yeah
come here here’s uh the passion
translation the whole new testament
Merry Christmas bless you you’re
welcome the uh whole New Testament
psalms Proverbs song of songs and uh and
if you are waiting for the real leather
Edition that comes in December but it’s
like four times as much is it your
birthday today no it’s not your birthday
today is anybody’s birthday anybody
else’s birthday
is it is it anybody’s anniversary today
anniversary anniversary today come here
come here another anniversary over here
all right
anniversary anniversary anniversary
shees wonderful Tom would you go get two
more and give them to the an yeah happy
anniversary give them um Tom go over by
the TV Camera the people are right over
there and uh yeah two more two more
Bibles
beautiful how many of you have an
anniversary sometime this year how many
of you have a birthday sometime this
year right well that qualifies you to
buy
[Laughter]
one yeah we’re we’re pretty enthused
with this uh this Edition all right
here’s what here’s what I want to do we
we’ll just see how long it it takes me I
I I’m wanting to get to two passages one
in John one in 1 John but I kind of want
to set the stage a little
bit let me ask you this
question what if you hadn’t had a real
meal in several
days your phone was turned off you just
got an eviction
notice uh because you just haven’t been
able to pay your
rent um
you’ve got all this kind of stuff going
on and then there’s a knock on your
door and a lawyer is standing there and
he says we’ve been looking for you for a
number of
months um you are uh you’ve just
inherited a Great
Estate and you have $10 million in your
bank
account plus the land and other things
that you’ve just
inherited even though you’ve not eaten a
real meal yet you’re you’re still
sitting there in your present
condition how how many of you think your
attitude would change just ever so
slightly about yeah even though you’re
still in the the clothes you’d rather
not have to wear yet you walk out of
that
apartment to the lawyer’s office to
fulfill whatever you need to do you walk
out with a different mindset you walk
out with a different awareness
of not only who you are but what you
have access
to and what the enemy works hard to do
is to make us conscious of problems
challenges failures difficulties those
kinds of things because then he it’s
almost like um a dislocated joint I
don’t know how many of you have ever had
that horrible experience but I’ve had it
with my my left knee quite a few times
and it’s it’s there it’s connected it’s
a alive you have a measure of movement
but you do not have full use and what
the enemy Works to do is to dislodge us
from our awareness of who God made us to
be not in eternity I mean that counts
obviously but actually it’s a right now
deal it’s a right now accomplishment
that that he he did when Jesus confessed
it is finished he actually meant it he
actually meant his work is done his work
is
done he he accomplished everything in a
moment on
Calvary that sets us
up to thrive in him for all of eternity
amen 100 billion years from now you’ll
still be drawing upon what Jesus
accomplished on that
cross everything that will ever be
needed from a word of encouragement to
um you know the provision that we need
for homes and whatever fill in the
blanks everything that we ever need in
this life and anything and everything
we’ll ever need throughout eternity was
actually purchased when Jesus shed his
blood not only as the Redeemer the
Redeemer is one who buys something back
but he was also the Redemption
price he bought us back but he bought us
back with
himself so he was both the Redeemer and
the redemp Redemption
price and when he did that he actually
set us up to step fully into who he
is I don’t know you know I I like
reading the stories of of the Saints of
old um I like reading the stories of the
Saints of new whatever that is people
who are alive today that have discovered
things in God because I love hearing the
stories I love seeing what God actually
accomplished in the lives of uh of
people and of all the heroes of the
faith that I have and I have quite a few
that I just admire so much uh some who
are alive today and some have gone on to
be with the
Lord um I don’t know that there’s ever
been anyone that has fully realized what
Jesus has accomplished for us right
now
Jesus came as the king of kings
and one of the reasons he came as a king
is he had to re-calibrate our
understanding of what a king is because
in our conversion he made us to be Kings
and
Priests but when we live with a common
understanding of what a king is we think
it’s a position of
prestige and power over people when in
fact it’s an unusual Supernatural divine
enablement to serve people effectively
and
efficiently it’s a divine grace to serve
people and Empower them to their
Destinies that’s what Kings do that’s
what this King does and he recalibrate
he reset redefined what it looks like to
be a king because he knew in the
Redemption he would be calling us to
himself as Kings and
Priests Ro royal priesthood Peter calls
it a priesthood that has the privilege
of representing people before God
ministering to God and people that
represent God to
people a royal priesthood and so the
Lord is giving us Insight he’s giving us
um he’s changing our
mindsets he’s enabling us to see what
he’s already accomplished so that we can
live in that
reality ignorance actually keeps us from
breakthroughs breakthroughs that are at
hand breakthroughs that are within reach
let me give you one uh simple
illustration how many of you have uh
you’ve been born again for a good part
of your life you you’ve been a Believer
all
right I grew up in church I grew up
hearing wonderful stories testimonies
are I think our favorite the ones that
moved us the most is my parents would
have uh Teen Challenge Ministry come to
town and and all these folks that had
been delivered from drugs and
prostitution and all that stuff would
come in and share their testim was
always so impacting so impressive and of
course we would cheer we would give
thanks to the Lord but I I don’t ever
remember a testimony being duplicated in
the
moment in in other words somebody share
a testimony of deliverance from drugs
and have somebody listening suddenly are
completely set free from drugs I don’t
remember ever ever remember that
happening a number of years ago we
discovered a concept in the
scripture that the testimony of Jesus is
the spirit of Prophecy a testimony
carries a prophetic
anointing prophetic either foretells the
future or changes the present so if you
think this of of it in these terms
whenever a testimony is given it changes
the present reality it actually makes
something possible that wasn’t possible
a moment earlier a
testimony a
testimony the word testimony in the Old
Testament comes from a word that means
do
again so in the very nature of sharing
testimony God was committed to duplicate
whatever was talked
about it was so important that he
instructed Israel keep the Commandments
we know what that is we know that’s just
do what he says keep the statutes that’s
the values that God has that’s the the
attitude of heart the values that make
it possible for us to walk in pure
obedience but then there’s a third thing
he said keep the Commandments or excuse
me keep the testimony and keeping the
testimony seems so awkward how do you
keep a
testimony to me it means you hold it so
close to you that you see all present
circumstances
through Humanity’s history with God this
is what he is capable of doing he’s the
same yesterday today forever and he’s no
respective person so that means if he
did it yesterday or 500 years
ago he is the same today and is capable
and Desiring to do it again I I’m not
teaching on that but I guess I just
did so I was I had a group of our
students on the the coast
uh over a Fortuna area a number of years
ago prayed for a little boy who had club
feet the students did and they came
running over to me to announce to me
that he’d just been healed I went over
to him I I talked to them he’s just a
little little guy about this big and
he’s he’s bending over touching the
scabs on the top of his feet they were
on the bottom because he would drag them
but now they’re on top and he’s he’s
touching his own scabs he’s got a little
friend that comes up to him and says run
Chris run’ he takes off running in this
circle he comes running back he’s got
the you know like the largest smile ever
recorded on the face of a child you know
as he comes running back and he comes
running back and he says I can run I can
run oh goodness just mess you up so of
course when I got home I shared with the
church family and there was a woman
visiting here from Montana she had a
little girl in the nursery that uh was
almost two years old her feet turned in
so severe that when she ran she would
trip over her own feet and when she
heard the testimony of this little boy
being healed and she heard the concept
because I shared the concept testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy as
soon as she realized that a testimony
announced to her what God wanted to do
in her own child she said in her heart
I’ll take that for my child when she got
to the nursery her little girl’s feet
were already
straight
I’ll give One More Story there are the
the number of stories are are crazy but
let me just share one more I was sharing
uh that story the little boy and uh and
the little girl in with mahash and Bon
shabda and I was sharing in their in a
conference I was at with them and our
driver was from Brazil and he would
drive us Benny and me to the uh hotel
from the meeting and then back to the
meeting the next day and so after the
meeting’s over we spend a little time
with mahash and bond they have a little
home there where we have something to
eat together and we got back into the
car and they took he took us to the
hotel and he said he said Bill he said I
just got a phone call from my I think it
was his
sister-in-law she has a little girl
beautiful young lady about 10 or 11
years old as I recall and but her feet
are deformed beautiful young girl but
people just stare at the feet and um
she was watching the service tonight
online and she heard the concept of the
testimony of Jesus being the spirit of
Prophecy and she heard the the children
being healed from club feet and turned
in feet so here she’s watching on her
computer and she calls out to her
daughter who’s in the back of the house
calls her name the little girl comes
into the hallway so she can see her
mother she says yes Mommy and the mother
says take off your shoes so she takes
off her shoes she said come here as she
walked towards her mother her feet were
completely
healed
now those stories go on and on and on
but it’s enough to illustrate my point
the point is we’ve heard
testimonies for our entire life never
seeing somebody healed or delivered as a
result of the
testimony but when you discover oh
that’s how God works that shifting in
value that shifting in awareness of
God’s heart and his plan you suddenly
realize that when a testimony is
given that’s his currency being released
into our economy that’s his currency
he’s he’s releasing resource that anyone
in the room can take at any time and so
I we’ve experimented with this for a
number of years and whenever we share
the concept and people become aware of
what’s
available then
they uh they move out of ignorance into
faith in God’s plan and then Miracles
are
released I’m hoping for the same tonight
in a different
subject and it has to do with identity
it has to
do uh I I’m I’m not talking tonight so
much about um you know let’s deal with
the guilt and the shame and all that
stuff that that’s that’s a no-brainer
that’s stuff we have to deal with the
way the Lord describes us the way the
scripture describes us is so far beyond
anything we’ve ever seen or
heard that we’ll never be able to
comprehend what he’s
saying let me rephrase it you can’t wrap
your head around it but you can wrap
your heart around
it you can receive here what he says
when it when it’s beyond your grasp here
and it’s important that we do that it’s
important that when we hear what he has
said that from our heart of hearts we
say Amen we sang tonight a number of
times amen amen it’s coming into
agreement with God so we’re going to
read um oh I don’t know maybe just this
one then we’ll get to the Gospel of John
let’s see how this works here all right
uh Paul verse one of chapter one of
Ephesians are you still there did you
get tired and close your Bibles yeah all
right excuse
me Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God to the Saints who are in
Ephesus and faithful in Christ I have in
my Bible I wrote down those are two two
addresses in Ephesus and in
Christ where is
Jesus it’s not a trick question
where he’s sitting down
where the right hand of the father and
you are in Christ at the right hand of
the Father Paul describes us as being
seated in Heavenly places in
Christ verse three is the one I want
blessed be the God and father of our
Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us
with every spiritual blessing in the
Heavenly places in Christ okay I want
you to look at it
Ephesians
1:3 blessed be the God and father of our
Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us
with every spiritual
blessing in Heavenly places in
Christ you know I’d like to be able to
give you an
assignment find the things that hurt
your
brain find the Concepts the truths the
promises that are so large that we
honestly read over them with very little
consideration I don’t know if you
realize what we just read but it says
every spiritual blessing that would ever
be needed throughout all of eternity has
already been purchased put in your
account and it’s in Christ it’s already
been given to
you what the life of faith is is it’s
the life of learning learning how to
make withdrawals on what’s in our
account it’s true it’s all in our
account but it’s not all in our
possession why don’t you look at 1
Corinthians
2
actually 1 Corinthians
3 how many of you have heard the phrase
Kingdom now but not
yet I love that I love that phrase it
helped me uh you know 30 years ago when
I was starting to learn about this this
that we teach teach and
practice but the frustration of that
phrase for me right now Kingdom now but
not yet not yet is now emphasized to
tell me what I can’t
have and I want to encourage you don’t
let the not yet be the hiding place of
unbelief amen bill that was a good point
amen
don’t don’t hide don’t hide
there and become
satisfied there’s a very fine line
between eternity and time you might be
amazed at what you can taste of
Now 1 Corinthians 3:
21 therefore let no one boast in men for
all things are
yours say this with me all things are
mine say it again all things are mine
what I’m not trying to do is heighten an
awareness of personal significance that
ends up in arrogance and Independence
what I’m trying to do is when the elder
child in a home in Jewish uh culture the
eldest was given a double portion of the
inheritance over the rest of the
children but it wasn’t because they were
preferred it was because they were
responsible and with the double portion
they were now position to take care of
the rest of the
family when the Lord reveals to you
what’s in your account it’s only to
increase awareness of responsibility
because to whom much is given much is
required the Lord wants to increase our
our awareness of what is in our account
but he W doesn’t want to take us beyond
what we’re willing to
obey are you alive like are you
breathing is there actually oxygen
passing into those lungs and
everything’s good all right all right
sorry for the offensive question I was
just
wondering therefore let no one boast in
men for all things are yours whether
Paul or Apollo or those are the gifts of
Christ or the world there’s a minor
inheritance the world’s
yours life and death that’s realities
they belong to
you things
present things to come they’re all yours
how can you own now what is not
yet I don’t have an answer it’s just in
the book
I’m just
saying in the same way that the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
Prophecy opened people up to link into
God’s resource economy that Miracles
took place at the mention of a story in
the same way we’ve just been given
insight as to what God has put into our
account he didn’t mention it to
entertain
us he didn’t mention just to somehow
make us more wowed by you know Kingdom
theology why would God give
everything to his
children because he’s not a foolish
father we see in present day where very
wealthy people will leave large amounts
of money to their children and watches
it it just gets it just messes up the
their lives they lose it all they spend
it carelessly and in no time at all
lottery winners are famous for this
getting a large amount of money and
within three years it’s gone so God’s
not a foolish father that gives us more
than we can handle so what does he do he
announces to us the entire thing is
yours here’s what I’m going to allow you
to work with what you work with will
give you access to the more why would he
give us everything it’s because of the
size of our assign
because he’s not
wasteful we have to come to the
conclusion that everything will be
needed to complete our
assignment whether Paul or paollo sephus
or the world or life or death or things
present or things to come all are yours
and you are Christ in Christ
is
God’s now let’s go to my passage that I
wanted these were just
warm-ups John chapter
7 verse
7 on the last day that day that great
day of the feast Jesus stood and cried
out saying if anyone thirsts let him
come to me and drink he who believes in
me as the scripture has said out of his
heart will flow rivers of Living Water
okay stop right there this is a really
strange
picture because here the Lord
says come to me anyone who’s thirsty
come to me and
drink and out of his innermost being
will come
Rivers a drink becomes a
river a
drink receiving of him creates a river
see when light touches you you become
light not the origin of light Jesus is
the origin of light he is the light of
the world but before he left he said
you’re the light of the world when light
touches you it changes your capacity to
function it changes not only the
resource that you have access to it
changes your very nature from a child of
Darkness to now you’re a Child of Light
why because light touched you you took a
drink of Living Water and you now have a
river flowing from you it changes our
capacity everything all experiences in
God rewrite our
DNA they change our capacity to
function that’s why no experience is to
be taken lightly whether it’s the Quiet
Moments at the end of
worship or it’s just that that moment
maybe somebody’s sharing a concept about
an offering
and you get this thought that inspired
thought from the Lord treasure those
moments because he’s talking and he’s
he’s he’s depositing things in us every
time he talks he deposits he takes from
his account and puts into ours so it’s
here’s this picture of God putting
deposit in us into our our repertoire
into our
resource and so here we have this
passage he says come to me and drink he
who believes in me as the scripture has
said out of his heart will flow rivers
of Living Water but this he spoke
concerning the
spirit out of your heart will flow
Rivers but this he spoke concerning the
spirit out of your heart will flow
Rivers
but this he spoke of concerning the
spirit who now dwells in you so the
river is the
spirit this he spoke of concerning the
spirit whom those believing in him would
receive so he’s talking about in the
future from this present
moment John 14 Jesus spoke to his own
disciples and he said the spirit who is
with you will be in
you so you understand the SP Holy Spirit
was present but he was not resident in
them he was not a river in them
yet he was present because he was Upon
Jesus right
this he spoke verse 39 concerning the
spirit whom those believing in him would
receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet
glorified wow this is a very important
verse very important concept here I
don’t know about you I I know in reading
the gospels especially in younger years
I would look at the disciples and how
often they messed it up often they got
it wrong and I I would I would think
often boy they sure sure could have used
the Holy Spirit living in them because
they wouldn’t have blown it near as
often you it doesn’t prevent them from
missing it but you know when you have
the spirit of God living in you there’s
just that internal witness of right of
wrong of Direction and they just didn’t
have that they didn’t have access to the
baptism in the Holy Spirit and I I
thought a number of times man they just
really could have us use that it’s too
bad they didn’t get it till after Jesus
left so picture this now Jesus
says says the uh he spoke concerning the
spirit whom those believing in him would
would receive for the Holy Spirit was
not yet given because Jesus was not yet
glorified right now we’ve got to we’ve
got to
uh emphasize something here let’s say
that I’m an artist let’s say that I am
um I’m an artist and I am making a
sculpture of this water bot and so I’ll
let’s do painting since painting would
be a little more challenging for
me so I’m I’m I’ve got this bottle here
and I’m picking the right make sure I
have the right color of green and I’m
I’m constantly checking what I have here
with that
and making sure I’ve got the label right
the right colors there is blue there’s
some kind of a pinkish red there so I’ve
get all my colors laid out and I began
to paint this water bottle
because I want to get it
exact the holy spirit’s primary job is
to make us like
Jesus he directs us he leads us he
empowers us he does all of that but
really the bottom line all of it is to
make us like
Jesus and this scripture says the Holy
Spirit was not yet given because Jesus
was not yet
glorified here’s the deal
the Holy Spirit wasn’t given before
Jesus was glorified because then the
Holy Spirit would have had to made us
like the Jesus headed to the cross and
not the Jesus resurrected ascended and
glorified when Jesus said it is to your
advantage that I go he actually meant
that this is to your advantage God
because if I send him to you now his
work will be to conform you like me on
my way to the cross and that’s not who
you
are in 1
John 4:17 in fact Tom quoted this
tonight earlier 1
John
4:17 says love has been perfected Among
Us in this that we may have boldness in
a day of judgment that’s a statement
right
there and here’s the last part of the
verse because as he is so are we in this
world as he is now think about
this this was written by
John John is the the guy sitting next to
Jesus at the Last
Supper he’s got his head on Jesus’s
chest he was there for the
crucifixion he saw him in in this time
of morning where he is about to be
betrayed where he led the guys in this
meal he sees him in the garden sweating
drops of
blood he walks through this whole thing
he sees him on the cross he has seen him
in his moments of great Triumph and
victory the Miracles the walking on
water he has seen him when the food has
been multiplied he’s experienced all of
these things and then we go to
Revelation chapter 1 where he sees Jesus
again but this time he sees Jesus
completely different than he remembered
him last see he remembered him last at
the last Last Supper he remembered him
last hanging on that cross he remembered
him last in those very brutal brutal uh
situations and yet when he writes of
Jesus the next time he sees
him or in the revelation of his
glorified body
he says this of
him I was in the spirit on the Lord’s
day I heard a voice behind me a loud
voice as of a
trumpet interesting that trumpets are
often associated with voices in the
scripture I heard heard a loud voice
like the sound of a trumpet but it was
talking saying I am the alpha the Omega
the first the last what you see right in
a book send it to the seven churches or
in Asia to Ephesus Smyrna pergamus thyro
Sardis Philadelphia Le to seea then I
turn to see the
voice don’t skip over this stuff I
turned to see a
voice
Jesus is the word of
God this is Jesus imprint don’t tell me
you love Jesus and you don’t love Jesus
in
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print I turned to see the voice that
spoke with me and having turned I saw
seven golden lampstands in the midst of
the seven lampstands one like the son of
man clothed with a garment down to the
feet girded about the chest with a
golden band his head his hair were white
like wool white as snow his eyes like a
flame of fire his feet were like fine
brass as if refined in a furnace and his
voice is the sound of many
Waters he had in his right hand Seven
Stars out of his mouth went a sharp
two-edged sword and his countenance was
like the sun shining in strength John
who saw that wrote as he
is so are we in this
world you might swe I’m just trying to
believe God for rent for next
month I’ve got this ingrown toenail that
boy I wish God would heal you know we’ve
we’ve got this stuff going on and here
what what is he doing he’s talking he’s
talking
otherworldly in a way that’s not about
eternity it’s about
now do you know the scripture says that
his people will be appraise in the
earth Jesus himself said let your light
shine before men in such a way that they
see your good works and glorify your
father which is in
heaven imagine the daily lifestyle of
every person in this room causing others
to turn their attention towards God and
giving him thanks they’re not even born
again yet but they engage in worship
because they’ve seen how you do
life that people would
come come to discover Eric mentioned one
of my favorite verses this morning how
people held them in high esteem but none
would dare join them
carelessly I’m not talking
about you know becoming people
that you know somehow people you know
just worship or glorify or not talking
about that I’m just talking about living
in such a way
the people’s hearts are directed to the
father they see you and they think oh
this is amazing I can’t miss out on this
I know that if he did it for that guy or
for that girl he would do that for
me and it’s changing our
awareness of who we are and what God has
resourced us with it’s
shifting Consciousness from from all the
things that that haven’t worked that
we’ve tried so hard on and we shift our
awareness to the fact that the holy
spirit in us has actually is actually
conforming us into the image of this one
who is raised from the dead ascended to
the right hand of the father and is
glorified that glorified Christ is the
image that the artist is painting in
your life that you would would be a
right now living representative of that
reality that’s the purpose and plan of
God whenever we worry and become anxious
we’re being drawn into a faith in the
inferior the enemy is trying to lessen
our awareness of significance again I’m
not talking about self- worship or
anything that nonsense I’m just talking
about you know you get the knock on the
door from that lawyer and you find out
you now own this Great Estate and you
have $10 million in the bank even though
you have not yet eaten a meal from your
new newly discovered resources you walk
out of that apartment with a different
attitude you’re conscious of something
you had no awareness of moments earlier
and yet it’s been in that account for
you for months they’ve been looking and
looking and looking for you you’ve had
their resources all this time but lived
completely unaware of it when you live
aware of the significance of the moment
you’re in the significance of the
investment of God putting the holy
spirit in you what did Jesus say you can
blaspheme the father you can blaspheme
the Sun but don’t blashe the Holy Spirit
what is he what is he doing he’s
describing to us the the tenderness The
Fragile nature I’m probably not saying
any of that right but you get the point
of the Holy Spirit and and that’s the
one God TR trusts us with he’s so
confident of his work in us that he put
the holy spirit in
US you can tell how much somebody trusts
you by what they entrust to
you and so when the Holy Spirit is given
to us to make us into the image of this
one who is glorified at the right hand
of the father there is a purpose in the
assignment and it’s more than singing
songs on a Sunday night it’s more than
going to work tomorrow and just making a
wage and paying your rent and eating
it’s more than that it’s the it’s the
effect that your awareness of his
assignment over you it’s the effect that
has on how you carry
yourself it’s again it’s not a self-
serving it’s not trying to attract
people to somehow worship or glorify or
do that nonsense I don’t like that at
all but it does say AR rise and shine
get up in other words stop sitting there
waiting for something else to happen you
don’t need five more prophetic words to
act on what God’s already said get up
shine he didn’t say he didn’t say arise
and
reflect he said shine because light is
within you well I don’t know what that
means well then figure it
out figure it out don’t sit there
ignorant when he’s given us a resource
manual that instructs us on how to do
life I can tell you number one righteous
acts of the Saints is the righteous
clothing and it is the radiance of God
himself that shines into the lives of
humanity so it’s shifting from a
self-serving lifestyle into a
servanthood lifestyle where we live
aware we have all the resources needed
to be effective in our serving of
humanity of people around
us
God’s the one who takes the simple Act
of the cash that you give to the guy on
the outside of
Safeway who hasn’t
eaten he takes that act he takes the
visit that you do to your neighbor who’s
been
sick he takes those simple acts the
phone call of a friend that you haven’t
seen for years and they keep coming to
mind and you just step out of what’s
convenient and you make that call a
friendship we often times think in terms
of having unlimited Financial Resources
in our possession so that we can do
great things for
God when he’s the one who breathes on
the simple things that we’re capable of
doing and makes them supernaturally
effective fear anxiety
and busyness deadens our awareness to
who he says we
are I’m not opposed at all to a busy
lifestyle I live one but what I don’t
like is when I I
feel
um things robbing me of my
peace in fact Let me let me put it in
two different ways I’m going to call
this two sides of the same coin the
peace but also it’s my adoration for
him the Adoration my my adoration my my
times of really not saying a whole lot
in prayer but being in those moments
engaged in deep Adoration of
him that’s that’s the strength of my
prayer life that is the
anchor it
is I I believe in prayer I believe in
contending I believe in all all the
stuff and I do it and I love to spend
the time but you know the Adoration It’s
the affection for him that does more to
change my awareness of of of his
presence of his purpose of who he’s made
me to be everything shifts in that in
that tender place of adoration it’s that
deep place of affection for him and I
whenever I I seem to lose my peace it’s
because I’ve lost my
adoration
I I’m I’m no longer
AED what happens in fear we see a
problem and we become
OD you can’t awe two Gods at the same
time only
one can be in the position to affect how
I think what I value how I
reason how I anticipate
my awareness of purpose all those things
are defined by where my affection Is
Anchored in those moments where I lose
my
peace I have to find out where I left
it for me I I’ll I’ll stop and think man
I feel so anxious what what happened to
my piece where did I leave it cuz I I
left it somewhere it is mine it’s my
possession so it’s like my phone I can
lay it down if I want
to said where did I leave it where is
that where is that piece of
mine I oh I remember it was when I got
that phone
call instead of moving into trust I
moved into fear and when I did I
received fear and I exchanged it for my
peace so you don’t go and just pick it
up you actually repent your way back to
finding
it God I I actually feared something
above
you I wasn’t aware of it I just I just
got
stupid forgive me for becoming anxious
actually exalting a problem over my
awareness of your
promise and in those moments you become
re-engaged Eng with peace the atmosphere
of Heaven
itself in those moments the affection of
your heart becomes ignited for the one
who you will never be able to exhaust
the resource of adoration in your
soul because every
time every time you turn your heart
towards him he just
he just moves ever so slightly and you
see something brand new about him and
you’re locked into that place of
adoration again I’ve heard people say I
heard uh one Bible teacher I’ve have
great respect for he said in
uh in the Book of Revelation it talks
about the the Beast or the the angels
that are around the throne that say holy
holy holy
247 they never leave that
place this Bible teacher said nobody
makes them
stay it’s just the Eternal one all he
has to do is just turn ever so slightly
and they see see a whole new wave of
holy holy holy holy and it’s an
eternal increasing the glimpse into who
he is and a whole new round of holy holy
holy
there’s more possible In Our Lifetime
than we’ve ever
imagined and you’ll we’ll never be able
to equal God’s purpose and plan with our
imagination he doesn’t expect us to but
he does expect us to lean in the right
direction he does expect us to
anticipate and lean into what he says
about us what does he say about you he
says as he
is so are you in this
world that’s what he says he says it’s
all yours the world today tomorrow Life
Death it’s all in your
account that story I told you about the
lawyer knocking on your
door telling you about your inheritance
the estate the Money in the Bank that’s
what just happened tonight I’m the
lawyer why don’t you stand
up out of his heart will flow rivers of
Living
Water this he spoke concerning the
spirit
whom those believing in him would
receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet
glorified but now he’s
glorified and the Holy Spirit lives
inside you inside me for this purpose
that the glorified resurrected Christ
would be discovered realized and
witnessed all through the Earth that’s
who you
are all right you
ready very confident
response filled with
faith we’re going to pray for each other
in just a moment the best thing that
could happen right now is that anybody
in the room who has no personal
relationship with Jesus you don’t know
what it is to be born again you’ve never
asked him to forgive you believed in him
to forgive you of all
sin make you different from the inside
adopt you bring in you into his
family it’s never happened to you but
yet you found yourself here with us
tonight and the greatest thing in the
world would be for you to realize why
God brought you here and to say I really
really really want to give my life
entirely to
Jesus and if that’s you I just want you
to put a hand up right where you are
just put a hand up real high and I’ll
just make agreement with you that Jesus
was Jesus would so fill your life with
his peace his forgiveness his order
church let me tell you in these
moments and we’re going to be we’re
going to be hitting this week after week
after week as soon as you see that any
one of us are going to talk to bring
people into the kingdom start praying
start praying because it is the heart of
God God that everybody in this room know
what it is to know
Jesus we had one of our teams down in
San Francisco some time ago and one of
our little 14-year-old girls was
witnessing on the streets and there was
an elderly man literally sitting on the
curb of a street corner she sat down
next to him shared the love of God with
him and he received Jesus right there
right on the corner in San
Francisco
he was so overjoyed and so thrilled with
this this that God had done for him she
went on was in other parts of that City
and she heard an
ambulance there she ran to see what had
happened and that man that she had just
led to Christ just passed
away sounds like something you’d put
into a book but it actually happened and
he in eternity because a 14-year-old
girl
took a moment to
share there’s anyone here that needs to
get right with God you just say Bill I
don’t want to leave till I know I’m
right with God put a hand
on okay I’m going to assume you’re all
in put a hand on the shoulder of
somebody next to
you
I want you to pray for them several
things I want you to pray that they
would discover new ways to walk in
peace that they the affection of their
heart would burn for him that there
would be a connection to the presence of
God that is
new pray that for them then I’ll give
you another Direction in a moment just
pray those two things
fill them with peace God the Shalom of
Heaven fill them with
peace
now I’m going to have you pray for a big
one I want you to pray that God would
give them re Revelation Insight
perspective on the glorified
Christ
wonderful wonderful
Jesus open our eyes just just pray
Earnest earnestly that the Lord would
allow them to
see the glorified
Christ because as we see him we become
like
him
put your hand on your own heart pray the
same prayer God open my eyes to
see open my eyes to see I want to see
God I want to see more than I’ve ever
seen come to him right now with a heart
of absolute
surrender you actually have to say yes
before he gives the
direction
open my eyes to see Lord open my eyes to
see now I just pray one more thing I
want you to
pray that the
church not institutions not buildings
the people the church would be a praise
in the
earth that something about our lives
would cause people to become just
connected to the father they would see
our good works but glorify the father
who’s in heaven just lift your voices
pray for that right now just contend for
that it’s got to happen it has to
happen thank you
God thank you
God father I ask that you would stir up
deep deep deep affection in US
for you it’s only normal it’s normal
that we see you we desire we long for
you we adore you we stand in awe of you
we are in awe we’re just absolute wonder
about
you so I I pray that you’d restore Us in
every way to
normal that throughout the day we’d be
captivated by your Wonder we’d be
captivated over and over
again restored to all
and let our
countenance reflect you as we live in
awe let there be a city come under the
influence of your glorious presence the
glorified Christ as we live in all of
you I ask this in Jesus name
amen amen
amen