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he wants you thinking spiritually you’re
sitting next to Jesus and you got to
picture that in your mind you’ve been
given an all access pass to Heaven which
gives you access pass to his veto
Authority that’s why Romans chapter 16
verse 20 says and he will crush Satan
under your feet my feet our
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feet
far too many Christians are living with
a distorted
view far too many of
us have gotten so used to
Earth that we’ve lost the picture of
Heaven our Focus has
been
dimmed because we’ve gotten so used to
not seeing
clearly that we’ve accepted distortion
as
normal and so Earth’s views go
unchallenged cuz that’s what everybody
else is seeing
too our series is
called developing Kingdom
Vision I’m trying to help me and US
learn to see through God’s
eyes and interpret the physical world
through his spiritual lens but if you
don’t put on those
glasses if you don’t put on your kingdom
bifocals if you don’t put on your
kingdom
lenses then all you see is what you see
and if all you see is what you see you
do not see all there is to be
seen because we are looking with a
distorted view today I want
to help all of us
to look a little
clearer to be able to be more precise in
our perspective to put
on the set of glasses that
will help us to see with new eyes that’s
why I’m calling this I want you to see
me to see and collectively us to see
with new
eyes so I want to
change your
prescription on your spiritual
glasses so that you we us see more
clearly in our day-to-day
lives Paul says in Ephesians chap
1 verse
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart
may be in enlightened you see that he
says I pray that you’ll start
seeing that the eyes of your heart may
be enlightened so he’s not talking about
your physical eyes he’s talking about
the eyes of your heart so he’s still
talking about sight CU he’s talking
about your eyes so he’s suggesting that
your heart has
lenses I pray that you will see with
your heart and that you you will be
enlightened things will get more in
Focus things will become clearer and I’m
praying
this as the psalmist says in Psalm 119
Verse
18 He says Lord
open my eyes that I might
see now Paul is writing to Christians
he’s not writing to
non-christians he says I pray that the
the eyes of your heart may be
enlightened so therefore it is possible
to be a Christian and be spiritually
blind and not see
clearly because the lenses we are using
are secular lenses secular bifocals
and cultural
context he says I’m going to pray to the
in and one of the things that you do
with prayer is ask God to help you see
what’s really going
on because all of us have been in
circumstances where what we thought was
happening really wasn’t happening the
way we thought it was happening when we
looked at
it the beautiful thing about spiritual
eyeglasses is that you can see deeper
because you’re seeing the heart of the
matter open my eyes that we might see
every time you are confronted with
something you whisper a prayer to God
help me to
see the reality not just what I’m
looking at open up my heart so that I
can grasp it what my eyes are seeing
give me give me the backstory give me
the real deal about what I’m looking at
so that I can apprehend it grab it grasp
it
he says I want you to see in verse
18 what is the hope of his calling the
riches of the glory of his inheritance
of the
Saints he says I want you to
see what you already
possess as part of the family of
God there are certain rights and
privileges if you are a
Christian that God God has provided for
you as part of his family he calls it
the hope of his calling he calls it the
riches in verse 18 of his inheritance
you have I have we have
inherited some
benefits that are to us that you may not
automatically know about or be
utilizing did you know some of the
things you’re looking for you already
have you just may not know
it Paul says I pray that you will
apprehend God’s
purposes and God’s wealth talk about
that in a moment that he has provided
that he has Beque to every believer
because it belongs to the
Saints if you are a believer in
Christ God wants you and me to see
our purpose he wants us to see his
Direction he wants us to understand what
he’s doing as he unveils
it see a lot of folk follow Jesus for
the
perks they want the big
stuff but they may miss out on many of
the key things that are life altering
things it may not look like much
now I pray that you your eyes might be
enlightened that you
might
understand all that God has provided as
part of your relationship your
inheritance your salvation I love the
word he uses here because he uses the
word in verse 18 the
riches this word riches is used over and
over again let me show you what I mean
in chapter 1 verse vers s in him we have
Redemption through the blood the
Forgiveness of trespasses according to
the riches of his grace so first of all
you are rich in
Grace you know what Grace does Grace
does for you what you can’t do for
yourself and guess what he says you got
some riches in
Grace notice what he says in verse 8
which he lavished on on us the word
lavish is the same concept of riches in
other words he got so much grace you
can’t get to it
amen in chapter 2 verse 7 let me show
you how much grace you’ve got so that in
the ages to come he might show The
surpassing Riches of his grace and
kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus let me tell you how much grace is
there it’ll take eternity to run out of
it let me put it this way you ain’t seen
nothing yet but you don’t have to wait
till eternity cuz he says it’s
bequeathed
now he says in chapter 3 verse
8 to me the very least of the saint this
Grace was given to preach to the
Gentiles the unfathomable Riches of
Christ he says again in verse 16 of
chapter 3 that he would Grant you
according to the riches of his glory to
be strengthened with power through his
spirit in the Inner
Man so he goes deeper with this concept
of new eyes he wants us to look at
things differently and more
deeply
verse 19 says and what is the surpassing
greatness of his power toward us who
believe
these are in accordance with the working
of the strength of his
might which he brought about in Christ
when he raised him from the dead and
seated him at the right hand in Heavenly
places far above all rule Authority
power and Dominion every name that is
named not only in this age but in the
one to
come he wants to now tell you
about what these new bifocals glasses
spiritual
perspectives do they are power
lenses he says these lenses if you will
put them on a
Divine god- centered perspective that
you pray down CU he says I pray for
them he says that God will grant you
power how do you know that you’re
looking through God’s glasses because
you’re seeing his work his power his
activity his energy his engagement his
involvement you are
seeing things Trump
Earth if all you wear are Earth glasses
you’ll only see Earth
results what kingdom Glasses do
is it gives you the ability to see God
at work at another level in your
circumstances chapter 1 verse
10 with a view to an
Administration suitable to the fullness
of
times that is the summing up of all
things in Christ things in the heavens
and things
on the
earth it’s all in
him to an Administration
okay God says he has an
Administration and the administration
stay with me here is to be summed up in
Jesus Christ God’s Administration is
summed up in Jesus Christ I need to say
that again God
administers what he’s going to do
through Jesus Christ now why do you need
to know that because it is your
relationship with Christ that will
determine how much power you experience
amen not merely your belief in
God now we’ve said that many times but I
don’t want you to miss this sure you
must believe in God but when it comes to
history all Authority has been given to
Jesus Christ and he administers that’s
why we end our prayer in jesus’ name in
Jesus name that is I want this prayer
answered by virtue of his administrative
responsibility so you will not see what
he’s up to you will not understand see
understand perceive what he’s doing if
you skip him in the
process and that’s why he says iay pray
that you will recognize
him let’s go a little
deeper he says which he brought about
verse 20 in Christ when he raised him
from the dead and seated him at the
right hand in the Heavenly places far
above all Rule and Authority this is so
rich when he raised him from the dead
now now
now how could such a thing
happen there’s only one way that can
happen and that is the natural order of
things were
overridden other words if somebody rises
from the dead who’s died that means the
natural order has been skipped
over it’s been
trumped
by
Resurrection here’s why
you need to have spiritual
eyes so you’re not limited to Earth’s
conclusion see when a person dies that’s
Earth’s conclusion that’s the conclusion
of the physical life so you’re limited
to Earth’s conclusion but he says if you
get new
eyes then you can see beyond what Earth
has
concluded and that’s why there’s nothing
like a testimony when a person said this
is what what everybody else said but let
me tell you what God did he trumped
Earth I don’t know how many people have
ever seen God Trump a boss God Trump a
situation Trump a sickness Trump a
scenario the reason you want spiritual
glasses is so that you can Trump the
natural
order the natural processes when it’s
God’s will but if you don’t know that’s
what he wants to do then you’ll just
react to the Earthly situations that you
find yourself in he
says according to the power of His might
when he raised him from the dead and he
set him at the right
hand right now Jesus Christ is seated at
the right hand of the
father this chair is on the right hand
side of the
Father the right hand side of the father
is his power location
Hebrews chap 1 puts it this way verse
two in these last days has spoken to us
in his son whom he appointed heir of all
things through whom also he made the
world he made the world through his
administrator Jesus Christ so God made
the world but he did it through his
administrator Jesus Christ that’s
because Jesus Christ of course is God
and he is the radiance of his glory
Jesus is the radiance of the father’s
glory and the ex exact representation of
his nature all that makes God God makes
Jesus Jesus and upholds all things by
the word of his power God upholds all
things through the word of Jesus’s power
when he had M purification for sins he
sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on
high notice what he says in Ephesians 1
verse 20 far above all rule Authority
and power and and Dominion in every name
that is name let me explain something
Jesus has veto power amen he can
overrule why cuz he sits on the right
hand side of the father and I love this
far
above all Rule and Authority okay let me
tell you how much Rule and Authority
Hebrews chap 2:14 here’s what it says
therefore since the children share in
flesh and blood he himself likewise also
partook of the same Jesus became a man
and through death he might render
powerless him who has the power of death
that is the
devil Jesus is invo
power over everything
human and over everything
spiritual including the devil you’re
going to see what that means next week
but including the devil so even
hell does not have the last word over
your
situation cuz he’s far above even the
devil he not even close he’s far above
that means if you have eyes to
see you have connection with somebody
who can say I overrule you chapter 2:4
but God being rich in Mercy because of
his great love with which he loved us
even when we were dead in our
transgressions made us alive together
with Christ by Grace you have been saved
and raised us up with him and seated us
with him in the Heavenly places in
Christ Jesus so let me Define Heavenly
places Heavenly places means the
spiritual
realm different from the physical
world right now we are seated in Earthly
places we’re seated in the Physical
Realm Earth
but once you come to Christ you go
through a relocation
process okay every
Christian should be functioning in two
places at one
time God doesn’t expect you to be so
Heavenly minded you’re no earthly
good he doesn’t expect you to be so
Earthly minded you’re no Heavenly good
amen
he expects you to be Heavenly minded for
Earthly
help so while you are seated on Earth
you’re supposed to be interacting with
heaven so that you know what to do on
Earth but if you do not operate with
that view in mind he says you are seated
with
him that means you’re not just here
you’re here and there you’re here
physically there
spiritually he wants you thinking
spiritually you’re sitting next to Jesus
and you got to picture that in your mind
cuz it’s real but it’s spiritual so you
don’t you don’t physically see it but
nevertheless it is a reality you’ve been
given an all access pass to Heaven which
gives you access path to his veto
Authority that’s why Romans chap 16
verse 20 says and he will crush Satan
under your feet am my feet our
feet okay so now he brings this
home watch this these are two of my
favorite verses in the book of Ephesians
verse 22 and
23 and he
God put all things in subjection under
his Jesus
feet and he God put all things in
subjection under his Jesus’s
feet and gave him Jesus as head over all
things to the
church which is his
body the fullness of him who fills all
in
all
okay please notice the word
all and how often it is repeated in
those two
verses all all all all things have been
placed under the feet of which means
under the authority of Jesus Christ that
goes back to the
administration all things so you you
best get Jesus on board
cuz he’s the administrator so you best
get Jesus on board all things have been
placed under Jesus’s feet okay but
here’s the
trick and gave him as head he’s in
charge over all things to the church
okay wait a
minute Jesus is over all
things but the all things he’s over
don’t know
it only one group knows it he’s given
him as over all things but only to the
church he’s only been given to the
church now wa a minute it says the
church which means Christians which is
his
body now last time I check the job of a
body is to carry out the dictations of
the
brain the problem is the body doesn’t
want to do what the head
says the body body wants to do his own
thing and when the body does its own
thing here it is when you and I do our
own thing apart from
Christ we go
blind we go spiritually blind and once
you’re spiritually blind you can pray
that you bleue in the face but God won’t
administer that cuz he’s only
administering that with Christ as the
head which means if you don’t solve the
lordship of Jesus Christ meaning he can
overrule you if you are a Christian that
God can’t overrule then you are a
Christian that’s
got
cacks and
glaucoma you won’t see clearly you will
live life with a disport distorted
view so what Jesus is offering us all of
us as
Believers is the opportunity to see
differently to see with new eyes how do
you do that simply you invite God’s
perspective into decision making okay
and he’s got plenty of Grace he he he
lavishes it he wants to be utilized in
this fashion it can be Financial but not
limited to that it’s relational it’s
this it’s it’s circumstantial it’s
career it’s it’s uh do I move here do I
go
there he can he can let you know things
that you would not have normally thought
of he can bring a person into your life
to say something that will totally
change your
mind he can bring thoughts to you
because he’s enlightening the
heart whoever got the son got everything
else whoever got the son got access to
everything else so if you don’t want the
son you don’t get access to everything
else Jesus Christ wants you to know if
you grab the sun you have access to
Lavish Grace to overruling power to his
Supernatural presence because you’re
wearing glasses that can see the
spiritual realm and be transformed by
it Jesus is the
administrator
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being in the midst of The Magnificent
beauty of the Rocky Mountains has given
me a a more excellent perspective on
God’s creative order it helps me to see
nature a lot clearer in the hustle and
bustle of everyday life with modern man
doing
thing the awesome creative genius of God
can easily be
obscured but what God wants us to do is
to be able to look at him and life
through his eyes so that we see what he
sees untampered with by the things that
men have put up that has destroyed his
presence his power and his purpose and
that means we must live life with the
spirit
perspective not a worldly
secular point of view when you put on
worldly eyeglasses everything is going
to be cloudy and confusing but when you
put on uh the lenses of Glory the
perspective of God the guidance of the
spirit you will see things as they were
really created to be seen which means
you’ll see them correctly let’s not live
our lives with blinders on not really
seeing what God had in mind when he
created us and when he has set forth his
purpose for us let’s begin to look at
things based on his word from his spirit
and consistent with his character and
then we will not be blind as we live our
lives we will live our lives with Clear
Sight lines before
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