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00:00:00.880What's up, everybody?
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00:00:02.720Welcome back to the Mark Casto program.
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00:00:13.599We're gonna do something different for the next few weeks because I'm going to be recording courses that you will be able to take for absolutely free.
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00:00:33.119And so to give me the capacity to do these courses and everything else that we're doing, um, I felt like the Holy Spirit gave me this idea to go back to some really important messages that I preached during our time, our first time here in Covington with the Shepherd's Tent and reintroduce those messages to you.
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00:00:39.439So today's message is going to come out of this message I did on agreement with God's perspective.
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00:00:46.719Um, but before we do that, I want to tell you a couple things.
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00:00:50.880Number one, we are setting the family table for 2027.
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00:00:58.560You say, Mark, what in the world is that for?
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00:01:10.480Well, we're going to need a salary to give ourselves the time to be able to create these courses, create these resources, write the books, preach the sermons, everything that we need to do to be able to sit still and do that.
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00:01:13.760Secondly, it's going to help us with our relaunch.
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00:01:16.719Guys, we are uh relaunching services here.
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00:01:32.959We're having quarterly gatherings next year, we're hosting pastoral retreats, and we're going to need the resources to be able to book these venues, book these events, book these places, and be able to honor and serve these pastors and leaders that we believe God's opening the door for us to minister to.
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00:01:50.719Maybe you can do a major one-time gift, or how about this?
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00:02:01.040It'll show you how much your giving really impacts what we're doing next year.
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00:02:03.120So we'd love for you to join us in that.
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00:02:16.000Also, coming up here next weekend, my good covenant brother Bryn Waddell is coming for two days, and we are going to experience the presence of God, preach the gospel, and minister to God's people.
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00:02:22.240So, guys, without further ado, I want to thank you for joining me today.
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00:02:24.639I hope you will enjoy this message.
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00:02:27.759I believe it's going to be a great blessing to your life.
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00:02:30.479Romans 8, verse 28, guys.
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00:02:41.759So we're going to read a handful of verses and then we're going to talk about this faith-rest life, but we're going to start here tonight.
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00:03:00.159So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together, listen, to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives.
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00:03:01.520How many are like that?
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00:03:06.639I'm going to make you audience participation tonight, all right?
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00:03:19.520We are convinced, listen, that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God's perfect plan.
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00:03:21.360What's God's perfect plan?
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00:03:24.479Bringing goodness into your life.
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00:03:34.800For we are his lovers, listen, who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.
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00:03:39.840For he knew all about us before we were born.
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00:03:52.879I used to preach a message years ago out of this whole verse, and it says, Let me let me let me go old school on you and give you some KJV so you know I'm real saved.
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00:03:55.280For all my Baptist brother Sean.
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00:04:07.360For whom God did foreknow, these he also predestined to be conformed into the image of his son, that he might become the firstborn among many brethren.
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00:04:16.399And those that he predestined, these he also called, and those that he called, he justified, and those that he justified, these he also glorified.
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00:04:17.680Listen, I love this.
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00:04:20.319This is the one verse I like in KJV.
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00:04:24.480So so then Paul says, So what shall we say to these things?
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00:04:27.439If God be for us, oh my God.
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00:04:34.079Oh, if God be for us, then who can be against us?
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00:04:45.360So God knew us before we were born, and he destined us, listen to this, from the beginning to share in the likeness of his son.
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00:04:51.920So if you want to know what predestination means, let me give it to you like this.
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00:04:58.879You, each and every one of you in the room tonight, have been predestined to be just like Jesus.
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00:05:01.120Hey, listen, listen.
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00:05:03.759It's at the core of your being.
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00:05:08.800Oh, we're gonna slap the lie of total depravity out of this room tonight.
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00:05:13.519I'm gonna smack that Calvinistic taste out of your mouth that you're totally depraved.
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00:05:14.879There's nothing good in you.
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00:05:20.399Listen, if there's nothing good in you, then why is he planning to entrust you with all this goodness?
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00:05:27.920He's destined us from the beginning.
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00:05:29.839Predestined us, what?
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00:05:44.959This means the son, we're gonna keep keep reading, is the oldest among a map a vast family of brothers and sisters who will, listen, be just like him.
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00:05:48.240Verse 30.
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00:06:00.240Having determined our destiny ahead of time, he called us to himself and transferred his perfect righteousness to everyone he called.
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00:06:07.279Listen, and those who possess his perfect righteousness, he co-glorified with his son.
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00:06:11.040You, my friend, are born to be glorious.
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00:06:23.199And when you were born again, that was just awakening you to the plan that's been intact before you were ever conceived in your mother's womb.
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00:06:29.920He didn't plan on making you glorious when you repeated the prayer because the preacher told you what to say at an altar one Sunday.
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00:06:36.800This was his plan before you were ever a twinkle, this is what they used to say, in your daddy's eye.
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00:06:47.040He had a plan for you that was predestined before you ever took your first breath on the planet, and the plan was to make you glorious.
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00:06:53.920Listen, any gospel that does not redeem humanity and make us glorious is not the gospel.
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00:07:01.199Any gospel message that has a low view of humanity is not the gospel.
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00:07:12.079The Father does not need you to feel like snow-covered dung in order to initiate his rescue plan.
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00:07:17.120Oh boy, this could be fun.
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00:07:21.920Granted, I'm looking at a couple of faces that are like, mmm, try me.
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00:07:23.839All right, here we go.
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00:07:34.399So, any gospel preaching, any gospel preaching that keeps a low view of humanity is not the gospel.
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00:07:41.199The gospel, when you hear the real gospel, the gospel brings you into a real humility.
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00:07:42.079You ready?
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00:07:44.480What is kingdom humility?
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00:07:48.319Agreement with God's perspective.
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00:07:53.120So what then is God's perspective of you?
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00:07:54.800No.
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00:08:07.839He has, through the person of Jesus, chosen to exclusively see each and every one of you through the perfect righteousness of his son.
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00:08:11.439And that's before you prayed the sinner's prayer.
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00:08:20.879Before you ever answered the altar call, he saw you exclusively through the lens of Jesus.
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00:08:23.120You say, Mark, I struggle to believe that.
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00:08:26.319Okay, let me let me let me tell you how Paul saw evangelism.
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00:08:29.360Paul saw evangelism in 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
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00:08:33.039You know the verses where he talks about if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
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00:08:34.320Old things have passed away.
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00:08:35.679Behold, all things become new.
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00:08:48.639If you keep reading on down through 2 Corinthians 5, even into the first couple verses of 2 Corinthians chapter 6, you'll hear the Lord say this: I've called each and every one of you as ministers of reconciliation.
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00:08:59.279And your assignment as ministers of reconciliation is to go into the world and tell them that the favor of God is aimed at their life.
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00:09:14.080So, in other words, as a minister of reconciliation, your assignment is to awaken them to their original intent and the DNA that's in them that can only be awakened by way of the gospel.
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00:09:17.600How will they hear without a preacher?
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00:09:20.799A preacher is not somebody with a microphone.
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00:09:27.200A preacher is somebody that's got a story of being hijacked by the goodness of God.
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00:09:34.000I'm feeling a little fiery tonight now.
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00:09:41.840What I'm calling this house to is a call to go deep into Christology.
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00:09:44.559Do you understand what I mean when I say that?
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00:09:49.600Your theology is rooted and grounded in the personhood of Christ.
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00:09:53.279And listen, he fully represents the Father.
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00:09:57.120Listen, this is wild, and fully represents us.
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00:10:02.559He is fully God, and he is fully man.
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00:10:12.320He is the only being that's able to show you the complete image of the Father and at the same time show you how you were destined to really live.
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00:10:17.600You were born to be just like Him.
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00:10:19.759Let me take it.
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00:10:24.960People were struggling tonight when Olivia started singing, You're my equal.
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00:10:27.039Well, first of all, that's in the Bible.
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00:10:34.559It's called the Song of Solomon, which is which is an allegory of the bride and Jesus, the bridegroom king.
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00:10:39.440That's how all devotional writers throughout church history have seen the book of Song of Solomon.
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00:10:47.039Song of Solomon was not supposed to be a cool sex series for your favorite preacher on Facebook.
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00:10:56.080Song of Solomon was, don't please don't make it that shallow to use it as a Christian erotica book.
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00:11:00.799Please hear the revelation in this and go a little bit deeper.
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00:11:01.840Come on.
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00:11:05.759Than your favorite preacher on social media.
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00:11:17.279And let's take it back to 2,000 years of Orthodox Christianity and recognize that the Song of Solomon was written from a perspective of understanding who you are as the bride of Christ.
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00:11:25.759And he says to the bride, you are my one and my only, my equal, my dove.
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00:11:37.360Meaning that the greatest compliment that you could give to Jesus is to recognize I'm his equal.
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00:11:56.240Glad you said that.
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00:12:01.120How about the New Testament, meaning that we are not no longer another?
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00:12:05.039We now have been made one with the Christ.
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00:12:11.840I share his name, which is why he said, if you ask anything in my name, I'll do it.
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00:12:12.240Why?
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00:12:15.360Because he wasn't talking about works, he was talking about marriage.
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00:12:19.360My wife doesn't have to do anything to earn my resources.
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00:12:24.320She has access to my resources based upon her commitment to a covenant.
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00:12:35.600She didn't have to do anything to earn those resources at all.
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00:12:42.879All she had to do was say yes to the affection that I aimed at her.
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00:12:49.600And because she yielded to my affection, she now has every right to all my resources.
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00:12:58.559If you're not flowing in the resources, you've not surrendered to his affection yet.
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00:13:06.639And my friend, he will withhold until you fully surrender to his wooing.
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00:13:14.559Because the goal was not to give you the Bible and a set of rules for you to live by and perfect church attendance on Sunday.
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00:13:20.080He awakened you for bedroom intimacy, friend.
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00:13:30.559For you to know his eyes, for you to know his whisper, for you to know his voice, for you to know his breath on your neck and say he's in the room.
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00:13:34.480You were born for this, man.
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00:13:43.279Jesus fully represents the Father, Jesus fully represents us.
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00:13:45.279Listen, to the Father.
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00:13:48.960Why are these truths important?
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00:13:51.440I'm gonna just read some stuff I wrote today.
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00:14:12.720Because if we are genuinely being invited into the faith-rest life, and we are warned in that same invitation, this would be in Hebrews 4, and we're warned in that same invitation not to respond to it the same way Israel did when they were invited into their inheritance, then we must recognize what kept them out of the promise.
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00:14:25.200Come on, if you've been trekking with us here at the Shepherd's Tent, you know that we've been in Hebrews 3 and 4, and be and us being invited into the faith-rest life, the realm of confident trust.
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00:14:26.000Okay?
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00:14:35.279And so this is a word we're stewarding as a family, not only here, but as a family at large, our kingdom families all over.
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00:14:45.120And we're being called into this faith-rest life, and and and we're warned in that not to act in unbelief like Israel did.
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00:14:46.240Here's the deal.
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00:14:59.2791 Corinthians, I believe it's chapter 10, verse 6, tells us that the reason why the story of Israel was written, it was written for our example so that you and I could learn from their walk with the Lord.
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00:14:59.759Okay?
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00:15:01.120Let me read it to you.
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00:15:15.039Now, all these things, 1 Corinthians 10, 6, now all these things serve as types and pictures for us, lessons that teach us not to fail in the same way by callously craving, listen to this, worthless things.
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00:15:21.039Which means practicing idolatry.
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00:15:23.600Let me define idolatry for you.
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00:15:29.679Any idea you have about him or yourself that's not in agreement with the person of Jesus.
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00:15:36.320So you think idolatry is you binge watching Netflix and forgetting to pray.
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00:15:39.039Might be a problem.
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00:15:41.519Might be a problem.
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00:15:45.120But let's get down to the root of where idolatry comes from.
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00:15:49.840Any idea about him or yourself that doesn't align with the person of Jesus.
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00:15:56.879See, people ask me all the time, Mark, why don't you preach on sin anymore?
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00:15:59.360Because it's a non-issue for kingdom people.
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00:16:02.399And you ready?
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00:16:05.279These corporate gatherings are not for sinners.
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00:16:09.039What a novel thought.
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00:16:12.960That the corporate gatherings not, why did they gather in the early church?
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00:16:18.480To throw out the evangelistic net because they didn't have real disciples who knew how to witness with their story?
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00:16:40.720And so what happened is now that we've created a safe version of Christianity, you can come, let the guy with the microphone share his story, or for some of you, he'll share your story publicly to bring other people in, and we let the church cast the net.
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00:16:55.679The problem is they're not really casting his net, they're casting their brand, pulling them into church life, and then when they actually meet Jesus, they get pulled out of that brand because that brand will no longer work for them.
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00:17:01.519And then they find places like this that are popping up all over the country and say, where in the world has this place been?
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00:17:06.000Oh my God.
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00:17:10.559And the sad part is you had to go through a ton of deconstruction just to find it.
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00:17:16.240Lord help me tonight.
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00:17:17.680I'm feeling honoring.
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00:17:18.160Okay.
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00:17:35.039So practicing or chasing worthless things was the verse that I shared with you, which is practicing idolatry, and idolatry is any idea you have about the person of God or yourself that's outside of the lens of Jesus.
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00:17:35.920My God.
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00:17:44.720What we've discovered about Israel in this journey, friend, just doing a little review, was that they failed to enter into the promise because of their unbelief.
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00:17:54.480Now, listen, still, if you dig deeper into what their unbelief was about, it was not their unbelief concerning if God could give them the promised land.
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00:18:03.039It was not, they didn't have unbelief concerning the nature of God, and they didn't even have unbelief concerning the nature of the promise.
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00:18:05.599They carried the grapes, they looked inside the land.
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00:18:08.319It was exactly the way God said it was.
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00:18:13.680What they missed in this was having a low view of themselves.
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00:18:16.880So go back and read the story.
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00:18:23.519When Moses sends in the 12 spies to look into the promised land, listen.
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00:18:44.240They come back, ten of them come back with an evil report and say to Moses, It's exactly the way God said it, but we saw giants in there, and we know that they saw us and we saw ourselves as grasshoppers in their sight.
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00:18:46.000Here's the deal, friend.
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00:18:49.279Did they have a conversation with any giant?
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00:18:59.839They didn't talk to a single person, which means the real problem was their insecurities about themselves that they projected onto their enemies.
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00:19:09.680And had they walked in and actually had a conversation like the two men did under Joshua, they would have walked into Rahab's house and found out this.
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00:19:18.640Rahab said, From the very moment that we found out you are outside of our city walls, we've all been living in fear because we know God's already given you this land.
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00:19:22.720Isn't it sad when the enemy has to tell you the truth about you?
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00:19:25.519Let me tell you something.
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00:19:36.000Some of you that are going through stuff, please don't see it as an attack, see it as a compliment because he's come, he's coming after something that's prophesying about who you really are.
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00:19:40.160God Almighty, I feel like throwing something.
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00:19:42.079Take it as a compliment.
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00:19:47.599If you're going through warfare, the enemy's nervous about something that you're about to be awakened to.
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00:19:53.359Oh man.
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00:19:57.519Okay, here we go.
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00:20:00.160So, what kept them out of the promise?
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00:20:02.640What keeps us out of the faith the rest of life?
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00:20:08.240Our perspectives of ourself that are not in agreement with who Jesus says we are.
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00:20:21.039This is why the doctrine of total depravity, which, for it, friend, for those of you that want a little church history lesson, the doctrine of total depravity did not exist till 500 years past Christ.
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00:20:38.880Which, if you want to go a little bit deeper, the doctrine of original sin and total depravity was not taught until 500 years after Christ, created by a man who took one verse that was mistranslated from the Latin Vulgate to create this idea.
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00:20:45.680So the lie of original sin and total depravity is based off of a mistranslation of the Bible.
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00:20:48.640Don't take my word for it, go figure it out for yourself.
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00:20:49.359Go find it.
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00:20:51.759You can research it, you'll find it that it's all there.
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00:20:57.759But we have lived under the communist thumb of Calvinism.
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00:21:02.960Oh, it just sounds good to say it.
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00:21:10.640Put you under the thumb of an idea that at best at your core, you're nothing but snow-covered dung.
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00:21:11.680Here's a little review.
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00:21:13.440What's my revelation of that?
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00:21:15.519Snow covered dung?
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00:21:22.559You no longer stink, but you're still a turd.
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00:21:26.559That's what he was saying.
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00:21:29.359You are nothing more than snow-covered dung.
00:21:29.440 -->
00:21:31.279That's Calvinistic thinking.
00:21:31.519 -->
00:21:44.960But what Jesus comes to say to you is I so value who you are in humanity that I was willing to put you on to fully represent you and bring this whole thing back together.
00:21:49.359 -->
00:21:55.039So the doctrine of total depravity is a doctrine of demons.
00:21:55.920 -->
00:21:59.759Couple that with the doctrine of double predestination and Calvinistic.
00:22:00.319 -->
00:22:00.799Thinking.
00:22:00.960 -->
00:22:02.160Listen to me.
00:22:02.559 -->
00:22:09.200And you have now theologically put people who struggle in the category of those predestined for hell.
00:22:12.640 -->
00:22:14.240We first got this place.
00:22:15.119 -->
00:22:17.039We first got access to this building.
00:22:17.119 -->
00:22:18.960This building wasn't even for rent.
00:22:19.680 -->
00:22:25.519I'll spare you a long story to just say God gave us incredible favor, and the owners of this place called us.
00:22:25.680 -->
00:22:29.680We met them on a Monday at 6 o'clock, and at
8:30, we walked out with the keys.
00:22:29.839 -->
00:22:31.200No contract, no anything.
00:22:31.359 -->
00:22:34.000But here was the owner's wife's one question.
00:22:34.240 -->
00:22:37.519She said, I want to know, are you Calvinist?
00:22:38.480 -->
00:22:45.119I said, Oh, I started, I don't know if I did this or not, but I could see myself doing this in the spirit.
00:22:45.359 -->
00:22:46.640I said, No, ma'am, we're not.
00:22:46.720 -->
00:22:50.480And when somebody asks you a question like that, it's a 50-50.
00:22:50.799 -->
00:22:55.759So my answer is going to determine how the rest of this meeting is going to go.
00:22:55.839 -->
00:22:58.000And I felt the Holy Ghost rise up in me.
00:22:58.079 -->
00:22:59.039I said, no, ma'am, we're not.
00:22:59.119 -->
00:23:04.160We're a Holy Ghost people, and we're believing God to pour out his spirit and revival all over the city.
00:23:04.319 -->
00:23:05.359She said, Good.
00:23:05.599 -->
00:23:11.920I've been praying for a revival family to come in this city and drive all that Calvinistic thinking out of our town.
00:23:14.160 -->
00:23:15.839And here's what she said.
00:23:16.160 -->
00:23:30.319Because I heard that there were churches in this town teaching kids as little as four and five years old that there are some people that are born and predestined for heaven and some that are predestined for hell.
00:23:32.559 -->
00:23:36.880Now let's get into the reality of Calvinistic damnation.
00:23:38.319 -->
00:23:41.440Everybody carries a measure of truth, right?
00:23:42.640 -->
00:23:47.920But put yourself in that theological tank, if you will, for a minute.
00:23:48.160 -->
00:23:55.680And think about a kid that's learned this, that there are some people predestined for heaven, some people that are predestined for hell.
00:23:55.839 -->
00:24:04.319And when he reaches about 15 and he has not yet learned, I know some of y'all don't even know what I'm talking about because you got your halos on tonight.
00:24:04.559 -->
00:24:35.440When you get about 13, 14, 15, and a little thing called hormones starts talking, and you're trying to learn how to navigate all of that, and you find yourself struggling, and you don't have the gospel like we're learning the gospel, and all of a sudden you find yourself constantly struggling, constantly finding yourself like you're displeasing to the Lord, and eventually you get so sick of being displeasing to the Lord that you eventually give up, and you, because of your theological training, say, Well, I must be one who's predestined for hell.
00:24:36.640 -->
00:24:39.839That's why it's demons doctrine.
00:24:40.640 -->
00:24:45.519Because any idea, oh man, let me remind you of worship tonight.
00:24:45.759 -->
00:24:48.319Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
00:24:48.480 -->
00:24:48.880You ready?
00:24:48.960 -->
00:24:50.720I'm gonna say something tonight, it's gonna mess with you.
00:24:50.880 -->
00:24:55.519The whole world saved, they just don't know it yet.
00:24:56.160 -->
00:25:00.319The whole world belongs to this family and they just don't know it yet.
00:25:00.480 -->
00:25:10.480They need somebody with enough beloved identity in their eyes and enough of the story of the goodness of God to walk in their world and say, I was jacked up just like you.
00:25:10.640 -->
00:25:23.119But God, who is rich in mercy, came and rescued me out of that horrible pit, lifted me up out of the Murray Clay, set my feet on a rock, and if anything good's happening in my life, it's because of his faithfulness, not mine.
00:25:25.200 -->
00:25:31.759And the goodness of God come crashing in, and all of a sudden they are awakened to what's been true about them the whole time.
00:25:33.039 -->
00:25:40.000All people need is somebody to tell their mind what their spirit man already knows is true.
00:25:40.720 -->
00:25:43.039And the truth is you're whole.
00:25:50.240 -->
00:25:50.799Ready?
00:25:51.039 -->
00:25:55.039The truth is you can do the same works he did and greater.
00:25:55.680 -->
00:25:58.880It isn't a compliment for you to outdo Jesus.
00:26:02.000 -->
00:26:05.920He's not insecure like the pastors you've set under most of your life.
00:26:06.160 -->
00:26:15.759He doesn't mind that when greatness starts to shine on your life, he doesn't have to use religion to slap you down and remind you that you're a good soldier in the army of the Lord.
00:26:16.880 -->
00:26:27.119You're a son and you're a daughter, and any father that would look at his children and try to suppress the greatness of who that son or daughter is is no father at all.
00:26:29.680 -->
00:26:40.319So I want to deal tonight with that lying voice of accusation that keeps us with a low view of humanity.
00:26:41.359 -->
00:26:43.599Let me tell you how poor our theology is.
00:26:43.920 -->
00:26:50.720We have actually created an eschatology in our day that gives us permission to hate other nations.
00:26:54.079 -->
00:27:00.000In the name of the rapture, you've been given permission to hate every Muslim on the planet.
00:27:05.200 -->
00:27:06.640Oh Jesus.
00:27:07.680 -->
00:27:08.720Looking for my friends.
00:27:08.799 -->
00:27:11.519If I only have one, I'm good.
00:27:12.079 -->
00:27:12.720All right.
00:27:14.240 -->
00:27:43.039But we listen, any any message that gives you permission to hate another facet of his nature represented in another nationality, skin color, culture, whatever it is, any message that gives you permission to be racist or prejudiced outside of Israel in America is not the kingdom.
00:27:46.640 -->
00:28:02.160If you can justify the torment of Palestinians because they're not real Jews, my friend, you need an encounter with Jesus.
00:28:07.119 -->
00:28:09.359And let me let me let me just say this.
00:28:10.000 -->
00:28:20.880And this idea that's promoted in American white culture that Jesus is colorblind, he's not colorblind, he's learned how to honor every facet of his nature.
00:28:24.799 -->
00:28:27.680I'm not asking my congregation to be colorblind.
00:28:27.759 -->
00:28:31.359I'm asking you to raise your honor level above the culture you were raised in.
00:28:31.440 -->
00:28:34.640And I'm talking to white folk, black folk, Asian folk, Hispanic folk.
00:28:34.720 -->
00:28:38.000I'm not just talking, hey, listen, white people aren't the only one racist, friend.
00:28:38.160 -->
00:28:47.599I've experienced it since I've moved to Atlanta, and I want to let you know it has never been in the heart of the king for there to be any divide based on something as simple as melanin.
00:28:51.599 -->
00:28:54.319I don't know who that was for, but have at it.
00:28:55.440 -->
00:28:56.720Because guess what?
00:28:56.960 -->
00:28:57.680Guess what?
00:28:57.839 -->
00:29:08.319This man's gonna stand in this platform, stand in this building, and I'm gonna raise up Mexican sons, and I'm gonna raise up, I should say, Hispanic sons, Puerto Ricans too, right?
00:29:08.799 -->
00:29:10.240We got all the flavors in here.
00:29:10.480 -->
00:29:11.680Indian sons.
00:29:13.519 -->
00:29:17.920Listen, Joel bought me a hat not too long ago.
00:29:19.599 -->
00:29:27.039And I have learned wisdom over the years that you don't just wear stuff before you check out what you're wearing.
00:29:27.279 -->
00:29:30.960I didn't feel like Joel was gonna set me up, but I just felt like I had to know.
00:29:34.240 -->
00:29:38.720Joel bought me a pair of shoes one time and I was like, buddy, he was like, you need to wear them things.
00:29:38.799 -->
00:29:42.960And I'm like, and get beat up and have to walk home without shoes.
00:29:43.119 -->
00:29:43.440Okay?
00:29:43.839 -->
00:29:46.640So but he bought me this hat.
00:29:47.839 -->
00:29:56.640And and this hat is it represents a nonprofit that's for black fathers.
00:29:57.359 -->
00:30:10.480And and he bought this hat from me, and so I go do the research about where this hat comes from, and it's it's a hat that's supposed to help recognize the power and the responsibility of black fathers.
00:30:10.559 -->
00:30:12.880And I've said, Lord, why would he buy that hat for me?
00:30:13.039 -->
00:30:22.000And he said, Because you've learned to love them just like your own, and you're actually going to ensure that black fathers carry on generational legacy for generations to come.
00:30:22.160 -->
00:30:27.759See, because the kingdom doesn't look at this to say, are you doing something right for a race of people?
00:30:27.920 -->
00:30:33.599Listen, we are now a new race of people, we just happen to be multicolored.
00:30:37.599 -->
00:30:44.319And how many more guns and stab wounds are we gonna have to find out that we all bleed the same blood?
00:30:46.720 -->
00:30:51.279All right, I don't talk about this stuff, but tonight I am being provoked by the Holy Ghost.
00:30:51.359 -->
00:30:56.559You need to wake up because if your kingdom only represents one color, you don't have the kingdom.
00:30:56.880 -->
00:30:59.039Alright, moving right along.
00:31:02.160 -->
00:31:05.839So, why is it important to talk about a low view of humanity?
00:31:05.920 -->
00:31:11.680Because how you feel about yourself directly comes from the result of how you feel Abba thinks about you.
00:31:14.960 -->
00:31:21.920How you think about yourself is directly connected with how you feel like Abba sees you.
00:31:22.720 -->
00:31:25.119Okay, can I can I share with you something?
00:31:27.039 -->
00:31:31.680How you worship tells me how you see him.
00:31:33.440 -->
00:31:45.519And so tonight, when we start singing about the joy of the Lord, many of you don't know how to relate with that because you see him as stoic, seated, austere, right?
00:31:46.319 -->
00:31:47.279Royal.
00:31:48.240 -->
00:31:59.279And Zephaniah had an encounter with God one time, and he goes into a vision and he sees God dancing, spinning, singing over his children, and then looks at Israel and says, Why don't you join him?
00:32:00.319 -->
00:32:05.440Because you will only be able to worship him based upon the revelation that you have of him.
00:32:05.759 -->
00:32:11.839So if you see him as stoic, you'll be a good little Baptist, Methodist, whatever, whatever.
00:32:12.000 -->
00:32:14.160You'll be a good little church attender.
00:32:14.319 -->
00:32:20.640But if you ever see the real him, there ain't enough room in here for you to release that level of extravagance.
00:32:23.039 -->
00:32:24.240That felt good to say.
00:32:24.480 -->
00:32:25.039All right.
00:32:25.680 -->
00:32:28.240So, what do we say around here?
00:32:28.400 -->
00:32:30.720Religion is nothing more than what?
00:32:31.039 -->
00:32:32.079Self-hate.
00:32:34.559 -->
00:32:37.039Religion is nothing more than self-hate.
00:32:37.359 -->
00:32:44.880Hating ourselves, our flesh, we have believed for years that's agreement with God's perspective.
00:32:46.240 -->
00:32:51.519But God loves human flesh so much that he put it on himself.
00:32:55.039 -->
00:32:58.799Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost when I say that.
00:32:59.119 -->
00:33:12.079Oh, not only have many of you grown up under the damning lies of religion, but they were reinforced by the lies we told ourselves or other, listen, hurt other things hurting people said about us.
00:33:15.599 -->
00:33:18.799You're worthless, you're stupid.
00:33:19.759 -->
00:33:21.680How dumb could you be?
00:33:21.920 -->
00:33:26.000Come on, some of you, when I say that, you can hear your father's voice in that.
00:33:26.960 -->
00:33:27.839You've heard it.
00:33:28.000 -->
00:33:30.559You're worthless, you're a piece of trash.
00:33:30.880 -->
00:33:33.440You will never be like us.
00:33:34.720 -->
00:33:38.880You hear the sound of your trash, you're a burden.
00:33:39.599 -->
00:33:42.799Even the way you were punished as a kid, can you hear it?
00:33:42.960 -->
00:33:46.799I can, oh man, Abba made me stare at this for two days.
00:33:46.960 -->
00:33:57.359And and this at the sound of when I was a young boy and my father cracking his belt on my backside, and I screamed, I promise I'll be good.
00:33:57.519 -->
00:33:59.279I'll be good, Dad, I'll be good.
00:33:59.440 -->
00:34:07.680And what I'm decreeing out of my mouth because of my religious upbringing is when I'm saying I'll be good, what I'm really saying is I'm not good.
00:34:09.039 -->
00:34:14.159Guys, that's a universal lie that many of you have an experience with, just like me.
00:34:14.320 -->
00:34:24.480My father didn't beat me, but my father, he was a disciplinary, like many of your fathers were that used the belt, used whatever was close.
00:34:25.119 -->
00:34:28.719I got whipped with a cereal box, I got whipped with a coat hanger.
00:34:29.360 -->
00:34:33.679Come on, you you have one of them parents where they just grabbed and growled, grab and growl.
00:34:33.840 -->
00:34:38.159Pow! Don't this hurts me more than it hurts you.
00:34:38.239 -->
00:34:39.840The hell it does.
00:34:41.760 -->
00:34:47.840That is continuing the lie, this hurts me and not you.
00:34:50.960 -->
00:35:05.679I know I'm making light of it, but I want you to hear the seriousness of the lies we've been telling ourselves because while we were getting whipped, it beat the heart of religion right out of us to say, I will be good, I'll be good, I promise I'll be good.
00:35:05.760 -->
00:35:12.880And what we don't realize we're decreeing is I see something in me that's not good, so I'm gonna try better the next time.
00:35:13.760 -->
00:35:16.880And the moment you try, you failed.
00:35:18.639 -->
00:35:27.920What I've come to tell you is every lash you took that screamed from the end, that made you scream from the inside, I'll be good.
00:35:28.079 -->
00:35:31.760I heard the voice of Abba say, You have always been good.
00:35:39.519 -->
00:35:48.960I feel like Yahweh has anointed me tonight to break off these lies and to reveal the truth about who you are.
00:35:49.280 -->
00:35:55.199When he looked at humanity, he said, It is good.
00:35:55.679 -->
00:35:57.519Let me go a step further for the ladies.
00:35:57.599 -->
00:36:05.119And when he created you, Adam joined in with him, saying, And you are very where's my wife at?
00:36:05.360 -->
00:36:06.719She's very good.
00:36:07.280 -->
00:36:16.639Yahweh looked at the creation and he looked at us in our humanity and declared over you and I, you are good.
00:36:17.599 -->
00:36:27.280And nowhere throughout the old covenant, even the old covenant or the new, has he ever looked at humanity and declared us anything different?
00:36:28.159 -->
00:36:30.480You have always been good.
00:36:31.519 -->
00:36:37.039And when Adam fell, God didn't come into the garden and say, Adam, what did you do?
00:36:39.039 -->
00:36:41.519Did you eat of that tree like I told you not to?
00:36:41.760 -->
00:36:42.000No.
00:36:42.159 -->
00:36:44.320The question was, Adam, where are you?
00:36:44.800 -->
00:36:48.800What would have happened if Adam wouldn't have clothed himself in fig leaves and ran?
00:36:48.960 -->
00:36:58.960What if he would have known that the whole time the goodness of Abba, I don't know, we would have might have had a whole different experience of humanity if he would have truly believed in the goodness of Abba.
00:36:59.119 -->
00:37:05.679And instead of running, he would have showed up and said, Thank you, Dad, that you didn't not show up because you saw what I did.
00:37:05.840 -->
00:37:09.440No, when he fell in the garden, God didn't keep his distance.
00:37:09.519 -->
00:37:11.519He walked back into the garden to find out.
00:37:11.679 -->
00:37:15.039Adam, I know where you are, but I'm asking you, do you?
00:37:19.599 -->
00:37:24.639And in that fall of Adam came the grand delusion.
00:37:27.360 -->
00:37:31.280That was the moment that the lie of separation came.
00:37:31.360 -->
00:37:36.960And I'm here to tell you, friend, there is no sign of separation anywhere in the scripture.
00:37:37.199 -->
00:37:39.519You have always been one with him.
00:37:42.320 -->
00:37:43.920See, religion won't let you go here.
00:37:44.000 -->
00:37:48.880Religion won't let you talk about this because religion likes their version of interpretation of the Bible.
00:37:49.039 -->
00:37:52.320But if you ever meet him, you'll find out what the Bible really says.
00:37:55.519 -->
00:38:01.599No one who has liked an encounter with Jesus should ever be able to interpret the scripture.
00:38:12.159 -->
00:38:13.920Can I say something to you?
00:38:15.119 -->
00:38:16.400I'm gonna say it.
00:38:20.880 -->
00:38:26.880You have inherent value because you were made in the image of God.
00:38:27.840 -->
00:38:28.480Period.
00:38:28.719 -->
00:38:29.519And guess what?
00:38:29.679 -->
00:38:31.760That means Muslims do too.
00:38:33.840 -->
00:38:35.840Hey, hey, can I can I go a step further?
00:38:36.000 -->
00:38:43.599Because maybe you grew up like me with eschatology that gave me permission to hate ten nations in the Middle East because they were Muslims.
00:38:45.199 -->
00:38:46.880Let me give you a little revelation here.
00:38:47.119 -->
00:38:55.519If you would upgrade your theology, you would realize that when Ishmael got kicked out of the camp, God didn't just let him walk into the desert presenceless.
00:38:55.840 -->
00:39:07.920No, God came into the wilderness and found Ishmael and his mother crying, Hagar crying because they had been kicked out of the house.
00:39:08.159 -->
00:39:11.039And God comes find Ishmael.
00:39:11.440 -->
00:39:14.239And Islam are the sons of Ishmael.
00:39:14.320 -->
00:39:16.880And you know why they're filling the earth?
00:39:17.119 -->
00:39:19.440Because God made a covenant with them too.
00:39:23.760 -->
00:39:31.599And we're not going to win them calling them the Antichrist or the nations of the beast.
00:39:34.639 -->
00:39:36.239No, don't get me started.
00:39:36.400 -->
00:39:40.320That laugh almost provokes me to do a whole thing on eschatology right now.
00:39:40.559 -->
00:39:48.000But I'm here to tell you: any message that gives you permission to hate another group of people, you've not met him yet.
00:39:49.119 -->
00:39:56.719Because when I look into the Middle East, I start hearing things in prayer like Iran is getting their prophets.
00:39:57.599 -->
00:40:03.360Iran is going to see an apostolic revival culture raised up in their midst.
00:40:03.519 -->
00:40:07.599And very soon they won't have to baptize privately in bathtubs.
00:40:07.760 -->
00:40:18.400Oh man, friend, I've seen the pictures of the Iranian people that when they hear the gospel, they sneak them into houses and baptize them in bathtubs in the privacy of people's homes.
00:40:18.480 -->
00:40:29.039But I'm here to tell you, all the way from the Ted leader, all the way down to the least of these in that nation, they are going to know Jesus because they belong to him.
00:40:30.400 -->
00:40:32.880Sons of Ishmael belong to him too.
00:40:37.599 -->
00:40:45.199So we as humanity have inherent value because we are all created in the image of God.
00:40:45.360 -->
00:40:47.440But we here's what religion loves to do.
00:40:47.599 -->
00:40:51.840We like to take verses like this Jeremiah
7:9, 17, 9.
00:40:52.480 -->
00:40:55.440The heart is deceitfully wicked, brother.
00:40:56.239 -->
00:40:57.679Who can know it?
00:40:59.679 -->
00:41:04.480And they've used that verse to scare us into a low view of humanity.
00:41:04.639 -->
00:41:05.119Watch this.
00:41:05.280 -->
00:41:12.719That if you take that thought all the way down to what it what we think it means, you'll never be able to trust your heart on this side of Christ.
00:41:13.760 -->
00:41:14.960You ever heard somebody?
00:41:15.360 -->
00:41:17.440This is the way I was a disciple as a kid.
00:41:17.599 -->
00:41:25.519Not only did I become a target of the devil the moment I got saved, but but also they would tell me this verse, Jeremiah 17, 9.
00:41:25.679 -->
00:41:26.639Now listen.
00:41:27.760 -->
00:41:33.280Now you need us in your life because your heart's deceitfully wicked now.
00:41:33.519 -->
00:41:39.280And sometimes you might think it's the Holy Spirit, but it may be you talking and you can't trust yourself.
00:41:39.519 -->
00:41:40.559Anybody heard that one?
00:41:41.280 -->
00:41:42.719You can't trust yourself.
00:41:43.440 -->
00:41:44.159Yeah, yeah.
00:41:44.400 -->
00:41:51.119Just because you can't, because you didn't actually surrender to the gospel doesn't mean I can't.
00:41:52.559 -->
00:42:00.079Just because you don't trust yourself, because you were raised under perverted pastors, doesn't mean you can't trust yourself.
00:42:02.639 -->
00:42:07.679Just hey, listen, because I've got better news than that.
00:42:08.000 -->
00:42:11.119He didn't save me so I could go to your church.
00:42:11.440 -->
00:42:14.400He saved me so that I could become just like him.
00:42:14.800 -->
00:42:20.639And now that I'm just like him, I don't have to worry about the foolishness that religion said I have to worry about.
00:42:20.880 -->
00:42:26.239You can't trust your heart because your heart's deceitfully wicked.
00:42:26.480 -->
00:42:26.800Okay.
00:42:27.440 -->
00:42:29.280Jeremiah 17, 9.
00:42:29.440 -->
00:42:35.039You're going to find out the Bible, for all you KJV people, can I remind you?
00:42:35.360 -->
00:42:43.199King James was a pervert, alcoholic, owned slaves.
00:42:44.320 -->
00:42:45.599You want me to keep going?
00:42:46.480 -->
00:42:50.800Like little boys, but bless God, I'm KJV only.
00:42:55.920 -->
00:42:57.280I love saying stuff like this.
00:42:57.599 -->
00:42:59.920People say, it's KJV, the only way to God.
00:43:00.079 -->
00:43:02.000I'm like, well, what do the Indians do?
00:43:02.400 -->
00:43:04.800They speak Tamil and don't know English at all.
00:43:04.960 -->
00:43:08.400If they can't read the King James Version of the Bible, are they going to hell?
00:43:08.559 -->
00:43:10.159What about the Spanish people?
00:43:13.920 -->
00:43:14.800We're so ridiculous.
00:43:14.960 -->
00:43:16.400Religion makes us stupid.
00:43:20.480 -->
00:43:22.320I don't know what you said, but I agree.
00:43:22.639 -->
00:43:24.000Religion makes you dumb.
00:43:24.239 -->
00:43:25.519It dumbs us down.
00:43:25.679 -->
00:43:28.320It doesn't allow us to use our brain.
00:43:29.199 -->
00:43:32.639But when you find out Jeremiah 17, verse 9, you ready for this?
00:43:32.800 -->
00:43:34.239The heart's deceitfully wicked.
00:43:34.320 -->
00:43:35.119Who could know it?
00:43:35.280 -->
00:43:40.559That was translated in the days prior to the Great Reformation and in the Great Reformation.
00:43:40.719 -->
00:43:46.960So KJV, NIV, all of our brothers and sisters in Calvinism helped us screw this one up too.
00:43:47.199 -->
00:43:51.920Because their lens of interpretation has a very low view of humanity.
00:43:52.000 -->
00:43:52.880Let me prove it to you.
00:43:53.039 -->
00:43:58.559In Romans 8, verse 1, this is the way King James Version translated the Bible.
00:43:58.719 -->
00:43:59.840There is now therefore no conversation.
00:44:00.159 -->
00:44:04.559Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
00:44:04.639 -->
00:44:05.360You ready?
00:44:06.079 -->
00:44:18.079That last part, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit, that was added in there because they were scared that you might think that if there's now therefore no condemnation, you would live however else you wanted to.
00:44:18.239 -->
00:44:21.599Because religion only knows how to add things in to control you.
00:44:23.679 -->
00:44:28.559So there's now therefore no condemnation as long as you follow the spirit and not the flesh.
00:44:28.880 -->
00:44:29.519No, no, no.
00:44:29.599 -->
00:44:30.639Let me correct that for you.
00:44:30.800 -->
00:44:34.559There is now therefore no condemnation, period.
00:44:37.599 -->
00:44:40.880But if that's not true, then you have to throw out Romans 4, too.
00:44:41.519 -->
00:44:48.559Because Romans 4 says when you hear the powerful declaration of your life, he says, I will never hold your sins against you.
00:44:50.719 -->
00:44:54.960Friend, you're gonna have to choose what version of the Bible you're gonna believe.
00:44:56.719 -->
00:45:06.880So King James Version comes and their low view of humanity, where we're totally deprived, we're debauched people, nothing more than worms, snow-covered dung.
00:45:06.960 -->
00:45:11.440But listen, friend, go back to the ancient subtuagent text of the scripture.
00:45:11.599 -->
00:45:19.599That's an early Orthodox version of the Bible, the most credible original translation of the Bible.
00:45:19.679 -->
00:45:27.119Here's how Jeremiah 17, 9 reads The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man.
00:45:28.719 -->
00:45:32.960Nothing about that says that we are deceitfully wicked.
00:45:33.119 -->
00:45:38.000It says we are deep and complex people because we were made in the image of God.
00:45:38.159 -->
00:45:41.760That's why the scripture says deep calls unto deep.
00:45:44.639 -->
00:45:46.800You are a deep well.
00:45:47.119 -->
00:45:57.360And listen, when Jesus awakens the depths of who you are, you can trust that nothing deceitful would ever come out of that well.
00:46:00.159 -->
00:46:06.159You can drop that bucket as far as you go, and you'll never bring up deceitfulness because he that is in Christ.
00:46:07.360 -->
00:46:09.920So you know what I what I want to say to some of you?
00:46:10.239 -->
00:46:12.239You can trust you again.
00:46:16.079 -->
00:46:22.239All those whispers that you let religion talk you in out of, listen, the Holy Ghost is going to talk you back into them.
00:46:22.639 -->
00:46:26.639Because religion will teach you even how to crucify the resurrected you.
00:46:28.880 -->
00:46:34.800See, some of us have become so proficient in religion that when stuff starts to come alive, we'll crucify it too.
00:46:36.079 -->
00:46:43.920Yahweh told me after four hellacious years of learning to die in South Carolina, he said, when you get to Covington, he said, those dying days are over.
00:46:44.079 -->
00:46:45.760It's time for resurrection.
00:46:46.960 -->
00:46:47.840Let me tell you something.
00:46:48.000 -->
00:46:52.400Any gospel that keeps calling you to death is no gospel at all.
00:46:53.360 -->
00:46:57.119Death was the quickest process of the gospel.
00:46:58.320 -->
00:47:07.280And the only people that are continually in a posture of having to die to their flesh are people who still try to wiggle their way on the cross.
00:47:10.159 -->
00:47:12.800Dying should be the quickest part.
00:47:14.079 -->
00:47:14.719Why?
00:47:14.960 -->
00:47:18.079Because you know what's on the other side of the exchange.
00:47:19.679 -->
00:47:21.840People are like, it's just so hard to live in the flesh.
00:47:22.159 -->
00:47:22.880Or no, no, no.
00:47:22.960 -->
00:47:25.519They say it's just so hard to live for God.
00:47:26.960 -->
00:47:32.079Oh, let me let me get He exchanges your depression for his joy.
00:47:32.239 -->
00:47:33.599Sounds terrible to me.
00:47:37.039 -->
00:47:41.440No, the reason why we hated it is they came up with stupid rules about following God.
00:47:41.920 -->
00:47:42.400Hallelujah.
00:47:42.639 -->
00:47:46.079Brother, listen, now that you're saved, you're gonna have to shut that money night football off.
00:47:46.480 -->
00:47:47.280I'm serious.
00:47:47.440 -->
00:47:48.719You think I'm kidding?
00:47:49.039 -->
00:47:49.920You think I'm kidding?
00:47:50.079 -->
00:47:56.559I grew up, if they thought any form of something was idolatry in your life, you better shut it off and you better make sure God's first.
00:48:01.119 -->
00:48:09.599I had someone tell me that they had a pastor in their life one time that before they got behind the pulpit asked if they had intercourse with their husband before they could minister.
00:48:10.880 -->
00:48:13.199Because that could taint the anointing.
00:48:13.599 -->
00:48:14.719Why am I saying all this?
00:48:14.880 -->
00:48:17.280Because you need to know how stupid religion is.
00:48:19.599 -->
00:48:22.960God created all these things that we've made rules against.
00:48:23.519 -->
00:48:28.400Tell me that being intimate with your spouse is going to take the anointing from you.
00:48:29.280 -->
00:48:30.559Give me a break, man.
00:48:30.800 -->
00:48:33.760As if your behavior determines the anointing.
00:48:34.880 -->
00:48:37.280You're either one with Christ or you're not.
00:48:38.559 -->
00:48:50.159These religious views of our humanity keeps us from trusting that the gospel can actually transform our deep and complex hearts.
00:48:51.119 -->
00:48:57.039My question is, does anything that is not good originate in God?
00:48:59.280 -->
00:48:59.599No.
00:49:02.320 -->
00:49:05.760Are we still image bears made in the image of God?
00:49:06.159 -->
00:49:07.360Yes, we are.
00:49:08.800 -->
00:49:18.880Listen, and I may have struggled, listen, because of my, listen to this, unlightened parts of my mind.
00:49:19.760 -->
00:49:23.840But at the core of who I am, I am good.
00:49:26.960 -->
00:49:28.559Let me say it to you.
00:49:29.280 -->
00:49:35.599You may have struggled in areas of your life because of the unenlightened parts of your mind.
00:49:37.760 -->
00:49:44.079But listen, at the core of who you are is nothing but good.
00:49:46.480 -->
00:49:47.440Can I tell you?
00:49:47.679 -->
00:49:54.159The reason why you think you have a good side and a bad side is because you think that about him too.
00:49:57.280 -->
00:50:05.840See, the reason why you have battles inside yourself of dueling natures is because you believe the father and the son are not the same.
00:50:06.719 -->
00:50:10.880And you think the son is the good side of God and the father's the bad side of God.
00:50:10.960 -->
00:50:15.199And I'm here to tell you, why don't you listen to the four burning ones that fly around the throne?
00:50:15.360 -->
00:50:17.679Even on the backside they cry holy.
00:50:18.079 -->
00:50:21.119Which means he's good all the way around.
00:50:24.159 -->
00:50:26.800He's good all the way around, friend.
00:50:28.000 -->
00:50:30.800You can travel front to front side, backside.
00:50:30.880 -->
00:50:35.119You're only going to find one bit of his nature, and he's good, and he's all love.
00:50:36.079 -->
00:50:36.719Ready?
00:50:37.679 -->
00:50:39.760And you're created in his image.
00:50:40.239 -->
00:50:41.199Which means what?
00:50:41.519 -->
00:50:46.000At the core of who you are, you are absolutely good.
00:50:47.840 -->
00:50:48.880I'm almost finished.
00:50:48.960 -->
00:50:50.400I'm almost finished.
00:50:51.440 -->
00:50:52.559Oh man.
00:50:54.960 -->
00:50:59.920You may be unenlightened, but you are not depraved.
00:51:01.760 -->
00:51:03.519I'm going to declare some things over you.
00:51:03.760 -->
00:51:06.079You might be unenlightened.
00:51:06.480 -->
00:51:08.880See, you say, what do you mean by unenlightened?
00:51:08.960 -->
00:51:10.159That sounds like a New Age term.
00:51:10.239 -->
00:51:11.920No, it's very much a biblical term.
00:51:12.000 -->
00:51:23.840And that's why Paul prayed in Ephesians 1 that God would enlighten you, open up your eyes with the spirit of wisdom and revelation and enlighten you.
00:51:25.360 -->
00:51:26.239You ready?
00:51:27.039 -->
00:51:33.360The scripture, when it talks about darkness in the New Testament, it's not talking about evil.
00:51:34.639 -->
00:51:37.519Darkness in the New Testament is ignorance.
00:51:39.360 -->
00:51:42.800So listen, your battle's not even with the devil.
00:51:50.480 -->
00:51:52.320Did you hear what I just said?
00:51:53.440 -->
00:51:58.320Your battle's not even with the devil because God silenced him 2,000 years ago.
00:51:58.880 -->
00:52:01.920Your battle is with ignorance.
00:52:02.239 -->
00:52:19.039And once you get enlightened, and once you get enlightened, all of a sudden, the goodness that's already been in you by the revelation of Jesus starts pouring out of you.
00:52:20.079 -->
00:52:24.400Jesus does not need you to feel like a turd in order to be saved.
00:52:26.960 -->
00:52:30.639He didn't win you as a turd, he won you as a bride.
00:52:31.199 -->
00:52:32.159Tweet that.
00:52:38.000 -->
00:52:39.440Can I remind you what the scripture says?
00:52:39.599 -->
00:52:43.519It's the goodness of God that leads men to change the way that they think.
00:52:44.239 -->
00:52:52.400He didn't need, tell me, tell me, if your husband would have came to you and pointed out all your flaws, you're like, sign me up.
00:52:52.480 -->
00:52:55.119I'm ready to be married to him the rest of my life.
00:52:56.960 -->
00:52:57.840No, no, no.
00:52:58.000 -->
00:53:03.119What made you fall in love with your spouse is they could look past your dirt and see the real you.
00:53:03.920 -->
00:53:15.199And that's how Jesus woos his bride is he does not, he does not judge you based upon the dirt he finds on you.
00:53:15.360 -->
00:53:19.039He's able to look past all of that and find original intent.
00:53:19.199 -->
00:53:25.760And at the original intent, at the depths of who you are, he sees nothing but good.
00:53:25.920 -->
00:53:27.199Okay, listen.
00:53:31.199 -->
00:53:32.079Last statement.
00:53:32.880 -->
00:53:42.960Remember that God cannot become anything that is evil or inherently bad, right?
00:53:43.519 -->
00:53:44.159We all agree.
00:53:45.199 -->
00:53:49.679God cannot become anything that is evil or inherently bad.
00:53:50.000 -->
00:53:50.559Ready?
00:53:51.199 -->
00:53:52.880And God became a man.
00:53:58.639 -->
00:54:00.239I feel it in the Holy.
00:54:00.639 -->
00:54:01.920I'm telling y'all.
00:54:06.480 -->
00:54:07.519You're good.
00:54:10.400 -->
00:54:12.320I feel the Holy Ghost right now.
00:54:12.480 -->
00:54:17.679Because something on the inside is waking up and you're you're become you're beginning to be enlightened.
00:54:17.760 -->
00:54:21.039And that's called the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
00:54:21.119 -->
00:54:24.239And you're gonna walk out of this room, not as snow-covered dunk.
00:54:25.039 -->
00:54:29.679Awaken to the goodness that was placed in you before you were ever formed in your mother's womb.
00:54:29.840 -->
00:54:42.400And why don't you just go ahead and take a leap further past your birth and read Psalm 139, where you and God, you were inside of God having conversations about what you would do with the greatness he put in you before you ever got here.
00:54:42.719 -->
00:54:48.320When he sent you here, he sent you as a word that was birthed out of that conversation.
00:54:50.239 -->
00:54:53.199That's why I read to you Romans 8.
00:54:53.599 -->
00:54:56.719He knew you before you ever formed in your mother's womb.
00:54:56.960 -->
00:55:02.559Listen, you are more than your body, you are a spirit being.
00:55:04.559 -->
00:55:07.280This is why I don't believe in dating as teenagers.
00:55:07.599 -->
00:55:11.440Which I'm increasing that with how immature most 30-year-olds are.
00:55:42.960 -->
00:55:49.679And so what I tell people is you may enjoy each other's body as teenagers.
00:55:49.920 -->
00:55:56.800But when you get enlightened, something may awaken in you that's an entirely different person than the one you slept with as a teenager.
00:55:58.400 -->
00:56:09.599So why don't you quit just I'm talking to somebody tonight, why don't you quit giving your body away until you find out who you are and you'll give it to someone that deserves it?
00:56:11.760 -->
00:56:16.880And if he, oh Jesus, I feel I'll slap a man right now.
00:56:17.039 -->
00:56:25.119I feel it, I feel it in the Holy Ghost because you've believed a lie about yourself that the only value you can bring is your body.
00:56:26.480 -->
00:56:32.000And I'm telling you, if he knew you before you had a body, that means you're bigger than your body.
00:56:32.880 -->
00:56:46.000You're a spirit being full of the goodness of God, greatness on the inside of you, and you certainly don't need to reduce yourself to something that is temporary and give it to somebody for the rest of their oh Jesus, for the rest of your life.
00:56:46.079 -->
00:56:48.559You're more than that, you're bigger than that, you're better than that.
00:56:48.639 -->
00:56:54.639You've got goodness all on the inside, and you don't have to continue the curse your friends have cycled through so many times.
00:56:54.800 -->
00:57:01.840You tonight can step into an enlightened place in Christ and realize I am good and I'm bigger than my body.
00:57:06.239 -->
00:57:12.400He knew me before I was conceived in my mother's womb.
00:57:12.639 -->
00:57:13.920I opened my notebook up.
00:57:14.800 -->
00:57:15.360Don't worry.
00:57:15.519 -->
00:57:17.280I'm gonna just say something to you.
00:57:18.159 -->
00:57:23.840I felt I felt to write this earlier today.
00:57:25.440 -->
00:57:33.360Because of our low view of ourselves, we are attracted to religion because it offers us a way to please God with our efforts.
00:57:35.920 -->
00:57:41.840And when you learn how to please God with your efforts, it doesn't require you to trust.
00:57:49.119 -->
00:57:55.119This is about you learning to trust the wild nature of the whispers of God.
00:57:56.159 -->
00:58:11.599And the reason why some of you are staying at a low frequency of yourself is because of a low view of yourself, and you're bored because you were meant to risk it all on the wildness of a relationship with Abba.
00:58:14.239 -->
00:58:15.840Listen to me, friend.
00:58:16.159 -->
00:58:25.039And when you learn religion and efforts to please God, it doesn't require trust in how Abba feels about you.
00:58:25.360 -->
00:58:32.320Listen, and your works demand a verdict that I am loved by God because I did this.
00:58:34.559 -->
00:58:40.880However, Paul makes it clear, the love of Abba was aimed at you before you were even saved.
00:58:42.719 -->
00:58:48.480Let me say it this way: the the the love of God was aimed at you before you were saved.
00:58:55.119 -->
00:58:56.239How do you know?
00:58:56.559 -->
00:59:01.760While we were yet sinners, Christ died.
00:59:20.159 -->
00:59:25.679Because you're trying to do something that is already true about you.
00:59:25.920 -->
00:59:28.239He is already pleased with you.
00:59:30.000 -->
00:59:31.519Hey, you ready?
00:59:31.760 -->
00:59:36.320And you don't need me to approve of that for you to believe it.
00:59:38.159 -->
00:59:39.119Can I tell some of you?
00:59:39.199 -->
00:59:41.440Because I feel it in the room for some people.
00:59:44.079 -->
00:59:50.719Yahweh won't allow me to affirm you until you accept his affirmation first.
00:59:55.039 -->
00:59:56.000Here's why.
00:59:56.239 -->
01:00:02.000Because if I affirm you before he does, then you'll live and die by my opinion of you.
01:00:02.559 -->
01:00:07.119But once you know you're loved, oh man.
01:00:08.480 -->
01:00:11.199You know who the easiest people are to love?
01:00:11.599 -->
01:00:13.519People who believe they're loved.
01:00:15.599 -->
01:00:17.920You know the hardest people to love?
01:00:18.159 -->
01:00:20.880The people who believe they're the hardest people to love.
01:00:21.039 -->
01:00:21.599Here's why.
01:00:21.760 -->
01:00:31.280Not because you did anything wrong, but because you project your insecurities onto them and make yourself feel that they think about you the same way you do.
01:00:32.880 -->
01:00:34.719I'm helping you tonight.
01:00:35.760 -->
01:00:56.400You literally, those of you that have not learned to be loved, the reason why it's so hard for you to receive love is because you take your insecurities, the feelings you have about yourself, and you project them onto other people and convince yourself that they believe the same lies you believe about yourself.
01:00:58.559 -->
01:01:05.280And if I affirm you before he does, you'll get the order of fathering wrong.
01:01:05.599 -->
01:01:07.519Because I am not the father.
01:01:07.679 -->
01:01:12.079I'm just a father to bear witness to the father about how he feels about you.
01:01:12.239 -->
01:01:24.320And if you ever get that order flipped, I promise you, you'll withhold that relationship until you find your affirmation in only him.
01:01:36.880 -->
01:01:39.119You were born to be loved.
01:01:40.159 -->
01:01:41.119You belong.
01:01:42.320 -->
01:01:43.280I see you.
01:01:43.760 -->
01:01:44.480I hear you.
01:01:44.559 -->
01:01:46.159Oh, I felt this last week.
01:01:46.320 -->
01:01:49.760I see you, I hear you, you belong.
01:01:50.239 -->
01:01:51.760You're loved, man.
01:01:52.159 -->
01:02:00.480And God doesn't struggle to love you, and he doesn't need your ministry to love you.
01:02:00.800 -->
01:02:02.000Let me prove it to you.
01:02:02.159 -->
01:02:16.480Before his son ever started his public ministry, before a miracle, before the multitude of fishes were created, before he ever walked on water, before he ever raised the dead, he has not done a thing but walk out and be baptized by John the Baptist.
01:02:16.559 -->
01:02:21.360And the voice of heaven cracks the clouds open, a dove descends.
01:02:21.440 -->
01:02:23.440And what does the voice of God say?
01:02:23.679 -->
01:02:26.639This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
01:02:26.800 -->
01:02:27.199Why?
01:02:27.440 -->
01:02:31.360Because he found goodness in who he was, not what he did.
01:02:33.519 -->
01:02:40.400My friend, I'm asking you tonight, surrender to what love already says about you.
01:02:40.559 -->
01:02:43.119And my friend, that's the gospel.
01:02:44.239 -->
01:02:48.800The gospel is you don't have to earn a thing.
01:02:48.960 -->
01:02:59.280You're already loved, you're already accepted, and all you have to do is trust that feeling, that reality that He has for you.
01:02:59.360 -->
01:03:01.199So tonight I want you to stand on your feet.
