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Scripture References: Luke 8 2 Corinthians 4: 18 Proverbs 4: 23 Matthew 4: 4 James 1: 21 Mark 7: 13 John 16 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on October 8, 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.
he has so much he wants to tell us he
wants so badly for the opportunity to
unload so much of the things that are on
his heart to a willing
hearer I have so much to say to you but
he adds you cannot bear it now what does
he mean by
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that thank you please
please how many of you were at uh our
Open Heavens conference at all this week
or watched online any of you watched
online such a wonderful time and uh if
you if you uh did not have a chance to
see any of the event I would encourage
you to do so online and bethl TV and
also
um Friday afternoon was an
interview that Eric did with Mike ble
John bav and myself was awesome it was
it was amazing Mike ble is a riot that’s
all I have to say Mike are you here
somewhere he’s around there he is way in
the back bless you I love you we are so
privileged to have Mike here Mike
goodness his wife Diane was here she she
had to go back yesterday but actually
she went to where my wife is in
Washington DC for the call there and
that’s going to be tomorrow so that’ll
be a good thing it’s probably on God I’m
assuming they usually post that stuff so
anyway um tonight’s going to be
outrageous I am so excited we are so
privileged to have Mike ble here it’s
the first time we’ve wanted him for
years and uh it it finally uh it just
finally worked out so I’m a happy camper
and in honor of Mike his favorite story
of all I just found out on the ride over
here is this
one if you’ve already heard it pretend
like you haven’t
our teacher asked us what our favorite
animal was and I said Fried
Chicken she said I wasn’t funny but she
couldn’t have been right cuz everyone
else in the class
laughed my parents told me to always be
truthful and honest and I am fried
chicken is my favorite
animal I told my dad what happened he
said my teacher was probably a member of
pea he said they love animals very much
and I do too especially chicken pork and
be
beef anyway my teacher sent me to the
principal’s office I told him what
happened and he laughed too then he told
me not to do it
again the next day in class My teacher
asked me what my favorite live animal
was I told her it was chicken she asked
me why just like she had asked the other
children I told her it was because you
could make them into Fried
Chicken she sent me back to the
principal’s office he laughed and told
me not to do it
again I don’t understand my parents
taught me to be honest but my teacher
doesn’t like it when I am today my
teacher asked us to tell her what famous
person we admire most I told her Colonel
Sanders guess where I am now
right oh that’s just so
funny
facial recognition software can pick a
person out of a
crowd but the vending machine won’t
work won’t recognize excuse me the
vending machine can’t recognize a dollar
with a bent
Corner have you ever listened to some
folks for a minute and thought their
cornbread ain’t done in the
middle I just think that’s funny all
right
one more one more when I’m sad I sing
because then I realize my voice is worse
than my
problem all right let’s get going here
actually we’ve got
uh we we’ve got a bunch of new stuff
that I think is is gone um actually some
of it um Seth doll helped me with a God
is good book and put it into a
children’s picture book so pretty
excited about that just came out this
week I didn’t even know it was coming
out this week I got to my chair at the
conference and it was sitting there so
anyway this is available uh somewhere in
the bookstore and uh we have another
little book on is God really good this
one’s a little embarrassing the um
publisher made just a a slight little
mistake on the opening page in one of
the introduction says Publishers note
that this is God good I was taken from
an interview that I did with him well
they forgot one of the O’s on the word
good so it says is God
God and there’s already rumors
circulating out there that somebody
started that I don’t believe Jesus Is
God and so I’m glad to be able to
contribute to that controversy we don’t
want that thing dying down cuz then it
won’t be any fun anymore so I my
publisher wrote says I am so sorry it’ll
it’ll work out fine but anyway that’s if
you want one of the error copies they’re
in there the rest of it good I believe
but uh and then finally we have the
first batch actually there’s none left
but just let me show you what you can’t
have the oh there it
is the the bethl edition of the passion
translation New Testament psalms
Proverbs Song of Songs is uh this is the
not leather
and the leather will be here in December
and this one but I tell you what this is
the best notot leather I’ve ever seen
but anyway it’s available in there it
will be next week we don’t have any more
now is is there anyone yeah we they they
all sold sorry so mik Michael told me
that they sold after the first service
so they’re just gone so see this you
can’t have
one let me ask about this is there any
anyone here who’s had a baby in the last
month last month
month come on Merry Christmas there you
go yeah absolutely and then uh anybody
come uh from like Dubai or South Africa
or any place that’s far away like that
for for visiting not student V from from
where where Australia
Russia Argentina
okay oh yeah yeah I wish I could give
you all a copy but I cannot um I was
looking for like South Africa or or
Dubai is there a visitor here from South
Africa you’re next to oh Namibia come
here
Namibia you almost can’t get here from
South
Africa do you fly directly into n
Namibia we had four connecting flights
four connecting flights where do you fly
to from Namibia where do you fly to um
from Namibia Johannesburg Johannes yeah
so you go to South Africa and then here
so you’re farther so we did you deserve
that Bible just take it all right bless
you bless
you I am always impressed by the people
who get here from South Africa every
time I go it’s like it’s a lifestyle
commitment just to get there all the
rest of you guest we’re just thrown that
you’re here um even though you didn’t
get a free Bible sorry about that um
open your bibles if you would please to
Luke chapter 8 Luke chapter
8 the challenge with our
faith is not our inability to hear God’s
voice the challenge of our faith is our
willingness to hear other
voices there are so many opinions ideas
ideologies that are all competing for
our attention and ultimately our
affection whenever the Lord does a
miracle a he healing something
extraordinary in our lives he’s always
trying to Anchor our affections into a
world we cannot
see when you see cause and effect you
see someone’s ear that is deaf somebody
prays something unseen comes and opens
the ear they can now hear what’s
happening the Lord is Awakening our
affection for our world we cannot
see he’s teaching us he’s training us on
the superiority of the UN
seen Paul anchored into that when he
said what you can’t see is eternal what
you can see is
temporal so there’s a constant it
doesn’t have to be a conflict but we
live often times in a conflict between
those two realities when they’re
supposed to be joined together in
Partnership it’s not supposed to be the
natural is an evil commodity and the
Supernatural is great it’s supposed to
be functioning
together it’s supposed to be if I can
use Israel’s analogy ology as they went
into the promised land it’s supposed to
be Israel Works naturally plant crops
God breathes on them and they multiply
in the size of the Harvest the natural
is supposed to cooperate with the
Supernatural and you and I are the
agents that connect the
two both hope and hopeless or
contagious decide what kind of influence
you want to have on the world around
you because both are
contagious faith comes from hearing
God’s voice everybody in the room can
hear God’s voice you you wouldn’t be
saved
otherwise that conviction that draws us
to him where we confess we repent we
turn our lives to him it’s only because
it’s a response to hearing his
voice we unfortunately as a an
achievement sometimes centered people
especially in Western World We emphasize
our ability or in this case
inability and instead of emphasizing our
inability or our weakness in hearing
God’s voice it would be wiser for us to
emphasize his ability to be
heard if you’re talking to some somebody
who has a difficult time hearing you you
raise your voice perhaps you wait till
they’re looking at you you do something
to help to make sure that you are heard
you take on responsibility to be heard
if you and I know how to do that as
people in this human race then certainly
God knows how to do that as our heavenly
father he makes certain that he can be
hurt so the issue is not ability as much
as it is willing
in some ways the greatest enemy of our
heart is
busyness and I don’t mean busyness being
full schedule I mean the busyness of
heart Jesus had probably as full of
schedule as anybody’s ever had he had
people pressing about him constantly
trying to get close trying to draw from
him questions following him anywhere
he’d go they’d follow him out into the
Wilderness where there was no and just
stay there without food and just lose
concern for their own needs to eat and
to drink they just forget about it
they’re with him so if there’s anybody
who knew what it was to have demands put
on him it was Jesus but he maintained
that sense of personal peace if you will
he maintained that peace that that peace
of heart that enabled him to recognize
this still Small
Voice the Lord is obviously able to
speak dramatically through circumstances
I’ve seen it circumstances unusual uh
coincidences there so many ways that he
talks and sometimes he uses
words but he speaks and often times it’s
that still small
voice and it doesn’t mean if it’s loud
around you you can’t hear the still
Small Voice it just can’t be loud inside
of
you maintaining protecting
peace one of my perhaps my greatest life
verse was given to me by a friend 45
years ago and it was out of Isaiah 4
excuse me out of Proverbs chapter 4
where he says watch over your heart with
all diligence because from it flow the
issues of Life watch over your
heart we use that as a model Benny and I
did in raising our children because we
would actually bring correction in
response to attitude instead of just
Behavior because if you can catch some
things in Attitude form you can actually
prevent the wrong
behavior and so the Lord’s inviting us
into that kind of self-examination in a
healthy way watch over your heart with
all diligence from it flow the issues of
life making sure that I maintain not
just right attitudes but I maintain I
protect that peace I protect the peace
that seems to welcome and respond to the
slightest nudge the slightest uh um
movement of the Holy Spirit where he
speaks to
me our life depends on his
voice now I want to emphasize for those
who may not know us well enough his
voice will never contradict his
word but his voice is what makes this
come alive we need the voice of God
that’s where he activates what’s on the
page into becoming flesh in us we need
that activation of his voice
man should not live by bread alone but
by
every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of God the voice we live literally
by the voice of God everything is upheld
by his voice by his
word our need to hear from him is an
ongoing continual thing and protecting
that peace is what insures that we will
always be a hearer of his
voice lastly before we get into uh Luke
chapter 8
here we know that faith comes from
hearing and hearing by the word of God
faith comes from hearing hearing by the
word of God anyone who doesn’t have
Devotion to
this will sometimes be misled by what
they
hear because there are other
voices
and as I said to start with today our
issue in building faith and being people
of faith is not so much our inability to
hear from God it’s our willingness to
hear other
voices so that’s what I want to talk to
you about we’re going to look at a
parable and I’m uh I don’t think I’ve
ever taken just one verse to study out
of this Parable I always read the whole
thing I like studying the whole thing
we’re not going to today it’s recorded
here I think a more complete version is
in Matthew 13 it’s the parable of the
seed and the
sewer it is the Cornerstone Parable it’s
like if you get this one everything else
falls into
place and in this story there is uh
Jesus uses an illustration of seed a
sewer and
soil the seed is God’s word now just
think with me the seed
is what God says to you and me that seed
if you take a kernel of corn it
carries uh excuse me when you plant it
into the ground and it grows an ear of
corn every kernel on that ear of corn
has the exact same DNA as the colonel
that died in the ground same DNA so the
Lord died that you and I might have life
and whenever he speaks to us he actually
gives to us a seed that carries his
entire full DNA the DNA of God is in the
seed of whatever he
says so when he speaks to us he’s
actually
depositing something that has the
capacity to bring absolute complete
Total Transformation to our lives uh
James put it this way he said in
humility receive the word implanted so
humility is the condition of the soil in
humility received the word implanted and
then it says which is able to save your
souls so the the ability to save uh
you’re already born again the people he
wrote that to were already saved so he’s
talking about the ongoing transformation
of Life the power for that
transformation is in the seed that was
received take an acorn there’s a billion
oak trees in that
Acorn and
more you plant the acorn you get an oak
tree that gives many more acorns you
plant these those acorns you can see how
the cycle goes when God speaks to us he
often times speaks to us in seed form
he’s just looking for soil that will
Steward what he has
said and often times because we don’t
get the full thing that we prayed for we
actually abort the power of the seed
because we were disappointed in not
getting the full measure of promise that
we had prayed for because we actually
didn’t realize that what God spoke to us
was a seed that carried the capacity for
the full answer if it’s stewarded
well good so in the parable of the seed
and the so we have the seed which is
God’s word that carries his DNA the soil
is the condition of the heart the holy
spirit is the one who takes the seed
plants it into our heart so the
condition of the heart is the soil now
the seed has absolute capacity to
reproduce the the likeness the power the
nature of God anywhere it’s planted
would you agree with me on that the seed
has the power what is the limiting
factor is the condition of the
soil so when God speaks to you speaks to
me he’s depositing something that has
absolute Eternal significance every time
he every time he opens his mouth he says
something that has an impact on our
lives directly and on eternity
itself the only
limiter in the equation is the condition
of the
soil all right
that seemed to go over pretty good let’s
go right here
and let’s go right
here let’s go right into this Parable
and I think I’ve already stated it I’m
only going to read one verse although
the whole Parable is certainly worth
studying one verse verse 14 now the ones
that fell among Thorns are those who
when they have heard go out and are
choked with cares riches and pleasures
of life and bring no fruit to
maturity okay look at it again the ones
the ones being seeds Okay so let’s
change the word to seed the seed that
fell among Thorns are those who when
they have heard they go out and they’re
choked with cares riches and pleasures
of life and they bring no fruit to
maturity
this is not describing a hard
heart that’s dealt with earlier in the
parable hard heart would be the hard
soil this is talking about soil that
receives many
seeds take let’s just say it’s corn you
put in corn but next to it is Thorns
what is that that’s the product of
another
seed so here I’ve I’ve received what God
is saying planted into my heart but I’ve
also
received this other idea and this backup
idea in case this doesn’t work and this
other perspective because you know I’ve
seen others who had that promise and God
didn’t fulfill it in their life
so so what happens is it’s not we don’t
have a problem with hearing God’s voice
we have a problem by giving ourselves to
other things that are not the result of
God’s word God’s voice to us and so what
happens is we end up entertaining ideas
thoughts that become planted in us who
rob from the soil what my what the word
of God needs to draw from if you will
the nutrients that seeds draw from it’s
robbing from that and then it grows up
and it competes for sunlight and it
chokes the seed of what God has
said
the potential was there to produce the
likeness the nature of God the
atmosphere of Heaven itself through the
development of that seed that which God
had
spoken but as soon as I be to entertain
if you can picture Peter on the water
walking towards Jesus then what did he
do he began to concern himself with the
waves which all of us have done in fact
most of us never got out of the
boat but he’s walking and what does he
do he begins to consider other issues
other problems what are those those are
rapid Growing Seeds that create Thorns
that choke the promise of the word that
God said Jesus looked at Peter and said
come that was the
word saw the waves that was another
word is is the picture clear all
right so here this
says uh that the the uh the Thorns the
um they are choked with cares riches and
pleasures and they bring no fruit to
maturity take those three things cares
riches and treasures the word cares here
I I didn’t know until actually today
this word cares means divided
mind divided
mind in The Sermon on the Mount in
Matthew 5 Jesus talked about he said
whoever’s eye is single I mean know he
wasn’t talking about having one eye in
the middle of your forehead is whoever’s
eye is single their body will be full of
light I I have this hunch that there’s
Revelation in that thought about Divine
Health but uh let’s just leave that
aside for a moment just take the concept
so he says whoever’s eye is single your
body will be full of light look at it
this way the word single here means it
it’s two words words it’s the number one
and it’s the word
Voyage whoever’s eyes of their heart are
set on one Voyage I am alive for one
reason everything about them will be
enlightened by God’s own personal
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presence there’ll be no Shadows no Dark
Places one
Voyage the word cares means what divided
mind it goes on and he says uh now the
fruit of these Thorns if you will we’ve
got the word of God planted we have
thorns and the fruit that these Thorns
create that actually take the life of
God’s word his seed the fruit is cares
divided mind riches and pleasures of
life God is the king of pleasures of
life he himself is undistracted and is
quite
wealthy fairly wealthy
yes the problem isn’t the pleasure the
problem isn’t the riches or the
provision the abundance of God’s
blessing that’s never the issue the
issue is the place it has in my
heart and this is what happens when
ever whenever my attention is turned
from seeking first the kingdom to the
reward of breakthrough and I and I take
the blessing and make that my
goal I have actually swn into that which
will now choke the word for the next
season and I’ve chosen where I’m going
to level
off did that make sense the seed of
God’s word is planted I feed these other
things by what suddenly the cares of
life I’m anxious why I’m anxious for
this I need to buy that I need to
purchase this I need to make this
decision I live with this tension this
anxiety in
life I’ve got the rich I need more of
this and I’ve got to have that and the
pleasures of life that’s a real Focus
got to make sure that we have this in
our life and that anxiety that stress of
life actually deadens my sensitivity to
the voice but it also is me shifting my
focus from being a Kingdom oriented
person with an appetite and a hunger an
affection for the
Unseen I am now prioritizing what I can
see when I do that the scripture says
that fruit actually competes with God’s
word and chokes
it chokes God’s word it’s amazing
because God’s word is the most powerful
thing in the universe and the but the
Lord for a season M uh Mark chapter 7
says through your tra traditions you
make the word of God of no
effect means you render powerless the
most powerful thing in the universe so
God for a season has allowed us to have
a voice in the effect of that
seed so in this case he says all right
now suddenly what you’ve been
entertaining the anxieties the stresses
the all these issues of Life they now
have fruit in your life and that fruit
is pleasure riches these other things
that now draw you away from your
Devotion to what you can’t
see
amen Verse 18 says take heed how you
hear Whoever has to him uh to him more
will be given whoever does not have even
what he seems to have will be taken away
look at it again Verse 18 of Luke 8
therefore take heed how you hear for
whoever has
to him more will be given that’s
implying that we obtain increase through
hearing remember this is in the context
of the voice of God him speaking into
our lives he says all right Whoever
has take heed how you hear it’s about
hearing Whoever has to him Mor will be
given whoever doesn’t have even what he
seems to have will be taken
away anything that you value and Steward
well will
attract the same more of the same into
your
life if you value testimony I mean in
your heart not just as a value you know
a mental thing but truly in your heart
of hearts you love to hear what God is
doing you will actually attract to you
people with
stories in the negative if you value
gossip slander people who gossip will
find you it’s an unseen thing but
they’re attracted to you that that you
carry they they recognize subconsciously
on you and they will be drawn to you a
person who likes foul language or dirty
jokes they attract you put them in the
middle of any business within a week the
people that are there that like to tell
those kinds of stories will be attracted
to that
individual because like attracts like
but this also pertains to the kingdom
those who value words of promise those
who value that that that tenderness of
what God is saying into a given
situation they actually attract that and
here’s the thing that I’ve been watching
in my own life for a number of years
now Revelation tracks attracts
Revelation Insight that is steed well
actually attracts more and there are
certain environments that are so
pregnant with with Revelation now
Revelation for those who may not know us
well I don’t mean in addition to
scripture I mean where God highlights
and gives us insight to what’s imprint
this here is Jesus
imprint don’t tell me you love Jesus
there if you don’t love him
here show me your love for Jesus by your
lip for this he said well I don’t
understand it I don’t understand him
either he’s Way Beyond what I could
understand well I don’t remember what I
read I don’t remember what I had for
breakfast last week either but but it
still nourished
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me I don’t remember what I read well I
don’t remember what I had for breakfast
last week either but it still nourished
me people said well I pray I fall asleep
I never got mad at my kids for falling
asleep in my
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arms if you can picture the foundation
of a house has been laid it’s all set
the flooring is there there’s no walls
roof wall Windows nothing else just the
flooring if you could sum up if I was
able to do a cartoon I could show you
that Revelation is when you establish
the foundational principles of God’s
kingdom deep into your heart and you
live them it attracts the walls the
windows the ceiling the carpet the
paneling it actually attracts it it
draws it that’s what he’s saying Whoever
has more will be given besides you will
actually attract what you value into
your life so good
now take a quick look with me at John 16
and we’ll
uh wrap this up in the next 13 minutes
and 15
seconds John
16 the reason I I wanted
to share this particular passage with
you which we’ve studied before it’s been
a
while is because of this first verse
verse
12 he says I still have many things to
say to you but you cannot bear them now
I uh that messes me up I I want you to
see it in this
way the of course this is addressed to
the disciples the disciples have spent
time with him now three and a half years
he’s about to die be crucified he’s with
them and he
says he says I’ve got so much I want to
tell
you here’s the here’s the deal God has
so much to say to you he has so much he
wants to tell us he wants so badly for
the opportunity to
unload so much of the things that are on
his heart to a willing
hearer I have so much to say to you but
he adds you cannot bear it now what does
he mean by
that do you remember the cares of this
world The Divided mind what happens if
you put the weightiness of God’s
revelation on a divided mind a fracture
gets
worse I like to put it this way whenever
God speaks he creates the reality of his
kingdom is released whenever he talks
his voice is
always creative and whenever he speaks
to us he’s looking for people that have
the weight caring capacity for what he
wants to say when he says I I have so
many things to say to you but you can’t
bear it now he’s talking about weight
carrying capacity you don’t have the
capacity to carry what I would release
over you if I were to tell you all that
was in my
heart the it’s not punishment it’s
protection the the word
Glory the word glory is a word that
means weight or
heavy weightiness
so whenever God speaks words become
Spirit John chapter 6 so the Holy Spirit
actually is released into the atmosphere
every time Jesus
spoke remember word of God made flesh
John 1:14 word of God made flesh but
whenever Jesus spoke the word of God was
made
spirit that Holy Spirit contains the
Full realm and measure of the kingdom of
God just just work with me here so
whenever he spoke the reality of
presence and Kingdom became manifest in
that crowd that’s why he could say
change your way of
thinking the kingdom is Within Reach I
just released it it’s over you it’s
there
now
every time he speaks there’s a
weightiness of presence released I like
to put it this way the glory of God the
weightiness of God’s world his word his
promise his presence his person the
weightiness of
Glory establishes a Sanctified life but
it crushes the unsanctified
life if I could use the example of the
single eye versus the life filled with
cares the fractures The Divided mind you
put the weightiness on a divided mind
and the division gets worse does that
make sense you put more weight where
there’s a fracture the fracture
increases but you put the weightiness of
God upon the
one the single Focus the one Voyage
something becomes established purpose is
enhanced so when Jesus withholds a word
it’s never punishment he’s never silent
out of punishment he’s never silent out
of
punishment he either is wanting us to
get prepared or positioned to hear what
he has to say and or he has already told
us what we needed to hear and he wants
us to review the
catalog to see if maybe there’s
something he gave me six months ago that
I’m not living
in the Rich Young Ruler came to Jesus
how do I Eternal how do I inherit
eternal life
Jesus quoted a few
commands and or actually excuse me in
another case he asked him Jesus asked
him what does the law say to you and the
guy quoted a few commands and Jesus said
do that you’ll be
fine what’s the point here’s the great
opportunity to unload the purpose of God
for this guy’s life and Jesus doesn’t
give him anything he wasn’t being cruel
it just the guy wasn’t living in what he
already knew so Jesus in his Mercy
instead of adding to his responsibility
by increasing Revelation he points him
back to what he already knows that he’s
not living
in I still have many things to say to
you verse 12 verse 133 however when he
the spirit of Truth has come he will
guide you into all truth he will not
speak on his own authority whatever he
hears he will speak that’s just like
Jesus did he will tell you things to
come he will glorify me for he will take
of what is mine and declare it to you
all things the father has are mine
therefore I said he will take of mine
and declare it to
you I I remember the experience I had
when I saw this
passage for at least at the measure that
I understand it now it so pierced my
heart here’s Jesus saying I’ve got so
much to tell you and then he moves on he
says everything’s mine
it’s all my now that wouldn’t be news
for us as as God because Jesus the
Eternal Son of God already owned
everything but would it make sense to
you that he forfeited his right to
everything by becoming a
man and he then
an he forfeits everything now
reinherz it’s all
mine and this holy spirit is going to
come and he’s going to take what’s mine
and he’s going to declare it to
you now remember this is all set up so
that you could step fully into the
inheritance God has prepared for us so
he said God’s the holy spirit is going
to take what’s mine he going to declare
it picture it this way if this stage
could somehow represent everything that
exists every Power every Authority every
realm every possession every planet
every un everything everything’s
represented on this stage and it all
belongs to Jesus it was all the fathers
and he gave it to Jesus the son of
man and now Jesus the son of man says
early earlier in the chapter he says it
really is to your advantage that I go
because if I go I will send the Holy
Spirit otherwise he won’t come he won’t
come unless I send him so he goes back
and he releases the holy spirit so he
says the holy spirit is going to take
what’s mine declared to you picture it
this way everything in existence is here
the Holy Spirit comes and he takes what
belongs to
Jesus and he comes to you and me and he
declares what that is what is he doing
he’s transferring from that account to
yours
on every time he talks he’s transferring
resource of another world into our
lives the reason we protect her heart to
hear is because every time he speaks he
transfers is going to take what is
mine and he’s going to declare it to
you the seed that
creates the oak tree that creates more
seed more acorns that creates more Oak
every time he speaks he carries the
Eternal DNA of God into every word that
he
says that’s what makes that’s what makes
it
catastrophic when I entertain all these
other voices in the name of
objectivity because I actually invite
and worship
I
Empower inferior seed to compete with
the
Eternal amen I should just about do
it why you stand up
pretty graceful
ending feel like our plane just flew
into the side of a mountain you
know sometimes you land well sometimes
you just don’t you land
yeah I don’t know if you’ve ever been in
a plane when uh when they were L they
were flying so fast it didn’t feel like
the right speed to land a plane in oh
that’s not fun at all I’m thinking oh I
should never fly in this country
again their approach to safety is a
little
different thank you thank you I receive
that blessing I just I accept all the
blessings I can get amen thank
you whenever we come
together with such a great number of
people there’s always such a high
probability that we have people here who
have
never we would say surrendered their
life give their
life to the Lord Jesus Christ the Bible
calls it born again it’s it’s where God
actually forgives us and brings us into
into his family is where we leave that
life and we come entirely to him and
everybody most everybody in this room
has made that decision if you will God
spoke we heard we there was sorrow for
our sin we turned from that we came to
God we said God we want what you have
for us we want you to forgive us we
receive you as our father and that
opportunity is made available every time
we come together and I want to do this
before we do anything else this morning
if there’s anyone here that would just
say Bill I don’t want to leave the
building until I know I’m at peace with
God till I know I’ve been forgiven of
sin until I know he’s actually adopted
me brought me into his
family if that’s you then right where
you’re at I just want you to put a hand
up just say that’s me I don’t want to
leave until I know that right here
anybody else real quick another one
right here right down here is another
one
beautiful wonderful thank you Lord
anybody else wave your hand at me if I
missed you W all right we’ve got at
least
three that’s so beautiful here’s what
I’m going to ask the three of you that
put your hands up we’ve got a team right
over here uh maybe you get somebody get
that banner up for me so kind of creates
a marker with somebody put the banner
the banner the banner the banner Banner
Banner that one thank
you
receive wow
there were eight people that received
Christ during communion today
wonderful
now what I’m going to ask is the three
that just raised their hand and the
eight I want you to come over to this
side and I have a team of people here
trusted friends that I want to talk and
pray with you it has nothing to do with
church membership has nothing to do
anything of that nature that’s of no
concern all we want is for you to have a
very healthy Fresh Start in your
relationship with God so I’m going to
ask those who responded to the Lord that
way this morning I want you to make your
way right over here to my right and at
the same time I want to ask your
ministry team come on down to the front
real quickly come on down and those who
raised your hand just come on down over
here to my right we have a team of
people that are ready here for you come
on down Church bless them as they come
this is absolutely
wonderful