SPEAKER_00: You can check us out on our website.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get right to it.
SPEAKER_01: If you're going through anything in your life right now, right now's a good time to just release it to God.
SPEAKER_01: And just give it to Him.
SPEAKER_01: We can't hold on to Him any longer.
SPEAKER_01: We can't.
SPEAKER_01: We don't have the power.
SPEAKER_01: We don't have the ability to do it.
SPEAKER_01: But He does.
SPEAKER_01: He can change us.
SPEAKER_01: Just a moment in the presence of God can change our life forever.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
unknown: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: You can be seated this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_01: Can you guys appreciate our worship team?
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_01: How is everybody?
SPEAKER_01: You better be smiling.
SPEAKER_01: You're in the presence of God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen?
SPEAKER_01: You don't have a right to go into his presence without joy.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in his presence is fullness of joy.
SPEAKER_01: So if you've been in the presence of God, you should have a smile on your face and you should be excited about what God is doing.
SPEAKER_01: I've got a message today that I believe can be one of the most transforming messages that you will ever hear.
SPEAKER_01: Now I know I say that a lot, but today it's true.
SPEAKER_01: I mean it, I mean it, I mean it.
SPEAKER_01: Because if you can get a hold of this truth, it can set you apart, and you'll start to see victory all around you.
SPEAKER_01: You see, a lot of the problems in our life is based on perspective.
SPEAKER_01: It's how we see things.
SPEAKER_01: Are you seeing things through the eyes of defeat, or are you seeing things through the eyes of victory in Christ Jesus?
SPEAKER_01: There's a huge difference.
SPEAKER_01: Many people live with the mentality of the glass half empty, you know, that that kind of mentality.
SPEAKER_01: And then we have some that have the glass half full mentality.
SPEAKER_01: But today we're going to talk about something that I believe will take you over instead of keeping you under.
SPEAKER_01: Give you victory.
SPEAKER_01: Give you something that's going to change, I believe, your eternal destiny.
SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
SPEAKER_01: I have fought and fought and fought with this.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, I'm going to have to read a lot of it because if I don't, I don't want to get off target.
SPEAKER_01: So what I've written down, I believe, is in my heart to give to you.
SPEAKER_01: So I would I'll do a little bit of reading in this, but I believe there's some things in this that can take you from the point where you are believing God for something to the point it's manifesting in your life.
SPEAKER_01: There's a part where some of you are dealing with issues in your life and you're like, God, I just wish this would manifest.
SPEAKER_01: I've been believing for years.
SPEAKER_01: This is a message I think will take you to that place where it will be manifested in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 3, verse 5 and 6.
SPEAKER_01: We're going to be reading from the New King James Version.
SPEAKER_01: It says, But seek ye first the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Actually, that's not that's not the verse at all.
SPEAKER_01: It says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your steps.
SPEAKER_01: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
SPEAKER_01: Lean not on your own understanding.
SPEAKER_01: I want to emphasize that, your own understanding.
SPEAKER_01: Make sure if you have the ability to underline in your Bible, underline own understanding, because that's important.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 5, 7 says, we walk by faith and not by sight.
SPEAKER_01: We walk by faith and not by sight.
SPEAKER_01: So this morning I'm going to be teaching about sense knowledge versus revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: Sense knowledge versus revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: There are two ways people gain knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: One of them is sense knowledge, and that is knowledge gained through the five senses.
SPEAKER_01: Seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.
SPEAKER_01: That is how we learn in our sense realm.
SPEAKER_01: That is how we learn in our mental ascent.
SPEAKER_01: That's how we learn from our mind is through these senses.
SPEAKER_01: Revelation knowledge is the other one.
SPEAKER_01: That is knowledge revealed by God through his word and spirit.
SPEAKER_01: The Christian's life is not meant to be lived by senses only, but by revelation that only comes through God.
SPEAKER_01: So when I say there's two senses, there's mental knowledge and there's revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: What is sense knowledge?
SPEAKER_01: Knowledge, it is knowledge gained through human observation, reasoning, and experiences.
SPEAKER_01: And let me say something just to go ahead and make sure you understand.
SPEAKER_01: Many religions, denominations are formed from these three things human observation, reasoning, and experience.
SPEAKER_01: There have been churches created and formed based on an experience.
SPEAKER_01: I've heard many people, well, I never received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, so it must not be God for my life.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm not going to go to a Pentecostal church because that must not be for me.
SPEAKER_01: Because they didn't experience something, they just chalked it up as it must not be God's will for my life.
SPEAKER_01: When the word of God is true, the word of God doesn't bend its knee to human experience.
SPEAKER_01: That was better preaching than your amen.
SPEAKER_01: The word of God will not change based on your human experience, based on your circumstances, based on what you've experienced in your past.
SPEAKER_01: The word of God is true.
SPEAKER_01: And if you want a revelation that will take you over, it comes from the word of God.
SPEAKER_01: Ecclesiastes 1.13 says that Solomon gave his heart to search out wisdom.
SPEAKER_01: But as you know when you read the book of Ecclesiastes, it wasn't God's wisdom he was looking for.
SPEAKER_01: He was looking for human wisdom.
SPEAKER_01: It was almost as if Solomon just got tired of all the wisdom and knowledge he got from God and decided, I'm going to search out the worldly wisdom.
SPEAKER_01: Like he was bored.
SPEAKER_01: He needed more to do, right?
SPEAKER_01: So he needed to understand man's condition and what drives a man and what so Ecclesiastes was all about that.
SPEAKER_01: And at the end of it, it says, I've come to this conclusion.
SPEAKER_01: There's only one thing important, and that's the fear of God.
SPEAKER_01: That is the beginning of knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: Now, 1 Corinthians 2, 14, but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness in him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.
SPEAKER_01: The things of God are spiritually discerned.
SPEAKER_01: That means that you can't just get them by reading a book.
SPEAKER_01: You can't just get them by watching a show or watching National Geographics, or and for some people that say, you know, my God is being out there on the lake on Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_01: You can't get it by being on a lake on Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_01: They are spiritually discerned.
SPEAKER_01: We do not worship God in our mind.
SPEAKER_01: God is not a mind.
SPEAKER_01: What is God?
SPEAKER_01: He's a spirit.
SPEAKER_01: We worship God out of our spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Everything we do in our Christian faith that separates us from the world is spiritual.
SPEAKER_01: If we're not doing things out of the spirit, God doesn't receive them.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't approve of them.
SPEAKER_01: It's not good.
SPEAKER_01: So this self-help, the self-help books that can have good things in them, but they can't take you to victory.
SPEAKER_01: Because that is only done in the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: You see, what changes your life is when things spiritual take place and you discern the spirit and you line up to what the spirit is doing and you yield to the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: That's what changes your life.
SPEAKER_01: You can read the Bible through and through.
SPEAKER_01: There is many people that are atheists that know the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: But they fail to realize that God must be revealed through faith and trusted through faith.
SPEAKER_01: Faith is the substance of things you cannot see.
SPEAKER_01: And if they can't see it, taste it, hear it, smell it, or it can't be backed up by science, they don't believe it.
SPEAKER_01: But we don't operate by science.
SPEAKER_01: We operate by faith.
SPEAKER_01: We operate by revelation, knowledge of God.
SPEAKER_01: Because if you're looking for science to back it up before you believe you're too late.
SPEAKER_01: You see, faith is the thing that will take you to victory.
SPEAKER_01: Faith is the thing that will take you from the point of where you need a miracle to the point you have it.
SPEAKER_01: Many people live based on what they can see and measure.
SPEAKER_01: They're limited through human understanding, and it often leads them to fear, doubt, and unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: There's so many people out in the world today that are full of fear.
SPEAKER_01: If you talk to someone for more than five minutes, you can locate them.
SPEAKER_01: It's so easy.
SPEAKER_01: You see, we don't operate in fear.
SPEAKER_01: We don't operate in doubt.
SPEAKER_01: We don't operate with our own human intellect and our own human knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: We operate by the Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_01: That's why it's so important in these days to be walking in the Spirit, to be walking according to what the Bible says and not according to what the government says.
SPEAKER_01: I should get a better amen for that one.
SPEAKER_01: You see, what's happening in our government, there's all kinds of instability.
SPEAKER_01: There's all kinds of shaking going on.
SPEAKER_01: If y'all haven't noticed that, if things aren't shaking around you, uh you're you must just be staying in bed all day long.
SPEAKER_01: Things are just happening all over the place.
SPEAKER_01: But for the Christian, this should get us so motivated and so excited that all these things are happening.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because our Jesus, the one we worship, the one we follow, the one we trust, is coming back soon and very soon.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And we're not supposed to be coward, cowarding back and holding our head, putting it in the sand.
SPEAKER_01: We're supposed to be looking up for our redemption, draws eye.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This is the time for us to walk in victory.
SPEAKER_01: This is the time for light to shine brighter and brighter and brighter.
SPEAKER_01: When the world gets darker, we get brighter.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: When everyone else is going under, we rise higher.
SPEAKER_01: You see, the thing that separated all the saints of old is that when everything else was going on and the natural realm was a disgrace and things were just destroying lives, they rose above it and they saw things from a different point of view.
SPEAKER_01: They had revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: Revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Think about Peter.
SPEAKER_01: When the winds and the waves were boisterous and things around him looked bad, he was walking on the water, which is a step of faith.
SPEAKER_01: How many of you all have ever walked on water?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: I've tried and it didn't work out.
SPEAKER_01: It worked out about the same as I thought it would.
SPEAKER_01: But Peter was actually walking on the water.
SPEAKER_01: But he got his eyes off of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: He started focusing on the winds and the waves.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says he began to sink.
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you weren't here Wednesday, we talked about that.
SPEAKER_01: You don't just begin to sink.
SPEAKER_01: That's not how it works.
SPEAKER_01: Gravity is still on this earth.
SPEAKER_01: And when you step onto something that can't hold your weight, guess what's going to happen?
SPEAKER_01: You're going to fall straight down, right?
SPEAKER_01: You see, when we get our eyes off of Jesus, we begin to sink.
SPEAKER_01: That is his mercy and his grace to give us the opportunity to get our eyes back on him before we go under.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And he gave Peter that opportunity to look back to him, and as soon as he did, Jesus reached down and picked him up.
SPEAKER_01: Get your eyes off of the world and get your eyes back on Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: That is our call.
SPEAKER_01: The other one I want to give another example is the ten spies.
SPEAKER_01: They went into the land to spy it out.
SPEAKER_01: They were going to find out if they could take the land and they go into the land, and guess what happens?
SPEAKER_01: They come back with what?
SPEAKER_01: An evil report.
SPEAKER_01: An evil report is one who is looking at your capabilities and not in faith in God.
SPEAKER_01: It's looking at your own ability, not at the one who called you to go and take the land.
SPEAKER_01: There's some in here today who have a desire to start a business, but you're not doing it because you're fearful.
SPEAKER_01: What if it falls?
SPEAKER_01: What if it doesn't work out?
SPEAKER_01: What if I lose money?
SPEAKER_01: What if?
SPEAKER_01: What if, what if?
SPEAKER_01: What if God called you to do it?
SPEAKER_01: What if you do it and things are successful?
SPEAKER_01: What if you do it and it starts to just increase and grow?
SPEAKER_01: You see, we can spend our entire life wondering, what if, or we can just say, I trust you, God.
SPEAKER_01: Because ultimately, most of us in here, we want to live a life that is fulfilling and know that I did something for God.
SPEAKER_01: I've talked to many people who they say, I'm just, I feel like I'm just on a spinning wheel running in circles, around and around and around and around.
SPEAKER_01: You see, we need to get off that will and we need to just trust God.
SPEAKER_01: We need to step off the will and trust God.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you in here today have even said that.
SPEAKER_01: I just feel like my life just, I'm just life is just going and I'm just watching.
SPEAKER_01: It's just I'm gonna tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: If you put your confidence in your ability, you're gonna stay on that will.
SPEAKER_01: You see, you need to put your confidence and faith in God and his word.
SPEAKER_01: Because when you do that, you step off the will and into the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: You step off of your own human inadequacies, and you step in to the God who is more than enough.
SPEAKER_01: If he called you, he will provide.
SPEAKER_01: He is for the vision that he has given you.
SPEAKER_01: So he is provision.
SPEAKER_01: That was free.
SPEAKER_01: When we live by sense knowledge, circumstances become bigger than God.
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever been in that position where things just seem bigger than God?
SPEAKER_01: The things I'm going through, they're just, they're just they're consuming me.
SPEAKER_01: You see, we have to get out of that realm of everything else consuming you and make a practical approach of just grabbing this Bible and not letting it go and consuming this word until it becomes alive.
SPEAKER_01: You see, these are practical things.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's gonna teach you, the world is not gonna teach you to go to God with your problems.
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna teach you, you need to go to a psychiatrist, you need to go to the doctor, you need to get medicine, you need to do all these things.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not against these people, but I'm gonna tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: Going to a psychiatrist will not help a spiritual problem.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say this again.
SPEAKER_01: Going to a psychiatrist will not solve a spiritual problem.
SPEAKER_01: They deal with the mind.
SPEAKER_01: God deals with the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So no matter what they say, do this, do this, do this.
SPEAKER_01: You will leave and you will be empty.
SPEAKER_01: And it will never take care of what needs to be done in your spirit.
SPEAKER_01: I got a ladybug up here.
SPEAKER_01: Goodbye.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I'll do it.
SPEAKER_01: I gotta say this because I did promise the Lord I would always say what I'm supposed to say.
SPEAKER_01: So this is gonna go against some people's.
SPEAKER_01: Are you guys okay?
SPEAKER_01: Give me just a moment.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I got something to say, and it's not gonna be a popular statement for some people.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
SPEAKER_01: I love you guys too.
SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm I'm very serious about this.
SPEAKER_01: There's some things that people are practicing even in here today, or maybe you've practiced in your past, and it has caused spiritual things to take place in your life that's driving you further and further away from God.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to bring up a few of them.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not some I'm not a don't hear me ever be a doomsday preacher or a clothesline preacher, someone that is just consumed in this type of stuff because I'm not, but there's a reason why God, when I'm studying and praying and seeking God, there's a reason why some of these things are brought up.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna bring them up and I want you to hear me.
SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 18, verse 10 through 12 talks about how God forbids sorcery, divination, and consulting spirits.
SPEAKER_01: Examples would be Ouija boards.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you have messed with Ouija boards in your past.
SPEAKER_01: Those are conjuring up familiar spirits.
SPEAKER_01: Tarot cards.
SPEAKER_01: Consulting mediums.
SPEAKER_01: Spirit boards.
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know what that is.
SPEAKER_01: And objects used for divination.
SPEAKER_01: They're seeking supernatural knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: They're seeking supernatural revelation that does not come from the Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_01: We're talking about revelation, but I as I was studying this, the Lord just kept running over my heart.
SPEAKER_01: There's some people in here have been that have been dabbling in crystals.
SPEAKER_01: And some of you all might even have dreamcatchers hanging up in your rooms.
SPEAKER_01: These are not objects that are meant to give God's spirit access into your life, but this is to resist God and to allow evil spirits into your heart.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you all have dealt with this type of stuff.
SPEAKER_01: But these are very serious matters.
SPEAKER_01: One of them is sage that's used for spiritual cleansing.
SPEAKER_01: Guys, that's that's that's demonic.
SPEAKER_01: When the Spirit of God comes in, you don't have to be cleansing the atmosphere of all kinds of spirits.
SPEAKER_01: This is not mystical, magical stuff.
SPEAKER_01: This is revelation knowledge of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And if his power is not enough to save your life, we all are doomed.
SPEAKER_01: It's either God is real or he's not.
SPEAKER_01: And we're not going to fool around with these demonic things that tried to give us revelation in the spirit world to give us access into other people's lives.
SPEAKER_01: You know what that is?
SPEAKER_01: That is witchcraft.
SPEAKER_01: Witchcraft.
SPEAKER_01: And there's some of you, did you know the word witchcraft in the Greek is the word pharmacia?
SPEAKER_01: Where we get our word pharmacy.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you all are into drugs.
SPEAKER_01: And you've let drugs, and I'm not talking necessarily about any hardcore drugs, I'm talking about drugs over the counter.
SPEAKER_01: Drugs that you can get that you're just consumed in, that you can't put down.
SPEAKER_01: You're addicted to drugs.
SPEAKER_01: Doctor prescribed drugs.
SPEAKER_01: You might be addicted to them.
SPEAKER_01: And don't get mad at me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to help you.
SPEAKER_01: Anything that alters your mind and controls your mind is demonic and not of God.
SPEAKER_01: And will allow familiar spirits access into your life.
SPEAKER_01: I said what I had to say about that.
SPEAKER_01: So we don't allow these things into our life to gain knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: And we don't, thank you, Lord, we don't need to be reading books about other religions to gain knowledge about other religions.
SPEAKER_01: When you got the real thing right here in front of you, amen.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need to be studying the false because we got the real.
SPEAKER_01: Because when you start studying those things, the Bible says faith comes by hearing.
SPEAKER_01: And hearing, and that's a principle that goes beyond just Christians.
SPEAKER_01: This is in every denomination, every religion, every tradition out there, that you gain your faith through constant meditation on the things you put in front of you.
SPEAKER_01: So we don't need to be studying the Quran.
SPEAKER_01: We don't, well, I'm just doing it because I want to know what I'm talking about when I'm talking to someone that know.
SPEAKER_01: They don't need to know.
SPEAKER_01: They already know what they believe.
SPEAKER_01: They need to know what you believe.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: These are things that people are doing that's causing demonic spirits to enter into their life, and it's preventing them from getting revelation of God.
SPEAKER_01: I'm getting right down to your pudding right now, man.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm making y'all, I'm making some of y'all that sleep wake up.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not talking about any familiar, I'm not talking about any person.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna look up.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't know how much I love these people.
SPEAKER_01: And they give it right back to me.
SPEAKER_01: Matthew 16, verse 16 and 17.
SPEAKER_01: Peter got a revelation.
SPEAKER_01: A revelation.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Jesus said, Who do man say that I am?
SPEAKER_01: What did he say?
SPEAKER_01: Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
SPEAKER_01: You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus answered him and said, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: What was the separation?
SPEAKER_01: Who did a man say that I am?
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't you're a good man, you're one of, you know, you're like a prophet, you're, you know, you're my bro, you're you know, whatever.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't any of that.
SPEAKER_01: The father had to reveal who Jesus was to Peter, or Peter would have had no clue.
SPEAKER_01: So there's a disconnect sometimes in our faith where we need to get a revelation of what the father says about something before we ever address it.
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of people that go and they confess, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, but they don't get a revelation of who the Father is and how He's already made them whole.
SPEAKER_01: By Him stripes, I'm healed, by Him stripes, and they're straining and they're trying, they're striving.
SPEAKER_01: But healing is by revelation.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: Does the dots start to connect?
SPEAKER_01: You can't be healed just because you say a scripture.
SPEAKER_01: That goes against a lot of word of faith preachers.
SPEAKER_01: It's not putting a penny in a slot machine and pulling it and hoping, whoop, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I missed it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm there though.
SPEAKER_01: The person behind you sitting there waiting to get in line to go pull that lever right after your move.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all that gamble know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, by the way, that's not good either.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm not going there though.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all like Saturday night slots.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Bingo night at the I'm just I'm messing with you.
SPEAKER_01: Um, but see, you can't be healed based on human intellect.
SPEAKER_01: You can try your entire life to receive healing, provision, or whatever through you just gaining knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, miracles don't happen by knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: Miracles happen because you get a revelation of Almighty God and the goodness of God.
SPEAKER_01: You get so fired up and so consumed in his revelation of who he is.
SPEAKER_01: He is the healer.
SPEAKER_01: We're not trying to get healed.
SPEAKER_01: We have the healer in us.
SPEAKER_01: We're not looking for a healing, we're looking for Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We're looking to him, the author and the finisher of our faith.
SPEAKER_01: We're getting our eyes off of our healing and getting our eyes on our Savior.
SPEAKER_01: You're consumed in wanting to be healed, and you've got your eyes off of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Glory.
SPEAKER_01: See, there is so much that we're missing out on because we're searching after the gifts and we're missing out on the giver of the gifts.
SPEAKER_01: See, we need a revelation of who he is.
SPEAKER_01: Thou art the Christ, the anointed one, the son of the living God.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, flesh and blood could not reveal this to you.
SPEAKER_01: That had to come from the Father.
SPEAKER_01: So that is how healing will manifest in your life.
SPEAKER_01: It has to come through revelation knowledge of the Father.
SPEAKER_01: And when he drops healing on the inside of you, you just healing just consumes you.
SPEAKER_01: It comes on you and you can't take it off of you.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: It comes through revelation knowledge of who God is and his greatness and his power and his strength.
SPEAKER_01: We're not looking to be victorious.
SPEAKER_01: We have the victory in us.
SPEAKER_01: We have to see Him through revelation knowledge of how good our God is.
SPEAKER_01: And that comes, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you, there's a few things in my life that changed my life.
SPEAKER_01: These revelations have changed my life, and there's a few of them I want to bring out.
SPEAKER_01: One of them was the revelation of Jesus being the Son of God.
SPEAKER_01: You see, a lot of people need a revelation of that.
SPEAKER_01: Because when you see that, guess what happens?
SPEAKER_01: You realize I'm not God, He is.
SPEAKER_01: And you turn from your sin and you turn to Him and He becomes your Lord and your Savior.
SPEAKER_01: You see, being born again only comes by being led by the Spirit, drawn by the Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see how that happened?
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember the day you were born again?
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember the moment when the preacher was preaching or the person was preaching the word to you, and something on the inside of you just came alive, and you realized my condition and you realized I needed a Savior.
SPEAKER_01: And what did you do?
SPEAKER_01: You responded accordingly, and you confessed Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: With the heart, you get a revelation.
SPEAKER_01: With the mouth, you speak.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So being born again, that came by revelation.
SPEAKER_01: That was the greatest revelation that ever got.
SPEAKER_01: Now there was a lot that came after that.
SPEAKER_01: A revelation of the righteousness of God.
SPEAKER_01: That is not something that comes by just studying books or studying pages on an essay.
SPEAKER_01: This is something that only comes by revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: That I'm not trying to gain my righteousness, but I am righteous in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: He became my sin so that I might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That comes through revelation.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you all have got a hold of that.
SPEAKER_01: And then there was one about the authority of the believer.
SPEAKER_01: Y'all remember getting a revelation about that?
SPEAKER_01: To understand that God, through Jesus Christ, has delegated his authority to you that you can go into all the world and preach the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: That comes by revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_01: He's called you to be one who has authority over demonic spirits and over anything that would try to exalt itself over the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: You have the power within you over demonic spirits.
SPEAKER_01: Not to be weird or flaky or out there, but to be established in the faith and not allow anything to come between your relationship with Jesus and you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I'm ahead of myself now, so there's a lot more that goes into this.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to come and start, I'm going to start wrapping it up here.
SPEAKER_01: Victory comes when revelation knowledge becomes stronger than our senses.
SPEAKER_01: When you start to declare who you are in Christ Jesus, rather than always talking about what problems you have in life.
SPEAKER_01: You can locate people so fast.
SPEAKER_01: You go to Walmart and talk to somebody for five minutes, man.
SPEAKER_01: They're talking about their problems.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you you go anywhere, it doesn't take a moment.
SPEAKER_01: How you doing?
SPEAKER_01: I'm good, other than the stinking gas prices out here.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, everything in this world is going to hell in a handbasket, you know.
SPEAKER_01: And just people are just that's just their attitudes right now.
SPEAKER_01: That's just the government, man.
SPEAKER_01: I just I just can't stand our governor of Illinois, you know.
SPEAKER_01: He's just horrible.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay, so we know where your faith is lying.
SPEAKER_01: Our faith is not in Governor Pritzker.
SPEAKER_01: I should get a real good amen out of that.
SPEAKER_01: Our faith is not in a politician, our faith is not in the the amount it costs to get gas.
SPEAKER_01: If gas prices go up to$7.50 a gallon, we're not looking into the world.
SPEAKER_01: We're not looking under gas prices.
SPEAKER_01: If it goes up that high, guess what?
SPEAKER_01: Jimmy will be riding a horse.
SPEAKER_01: Janie will get a horse.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That comes by revelation.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: She's getting resistance.
SPEAKER_01: We got to find out how to get this thing to manifest, right?
SPEAKER_01: Um, it doesn't matter what happens.
SPEAKER_01: When God has been established in your life and you've got a revelation of it, nothing can shake you.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible calls Jesus the rock of our salvation.
SPEAKER_01: It's the rock that the builders rejected.
SPEAKER_01: It's the rock that is the chief cornerstone.
SPEAKER_01: It's the rock when everything else crumbles, that rock will still stand.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That rock will be there when we're long gone.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing I nothing can take and move this rock.
SPEAKER_01: It's a foundation that cannot be moved.
SPEAKER_01: When you get a revelation, the revelation is of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And He is that rock.
SPEAKER_01: So guess what?
SPEAKER_01: When you get a revelation, it cannot be moved.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot shake it.
SPEAKER_01: It won't change based on circumstances.
SPEAKER_01: You will not be up and down, up and down, up and down, in and out, in and out.
SPEAKER_01: You and your life will be stable and built on Jesus Christ, the rock of our salvation.
SPEAKER_01: You will not be moved.
SPEAKER_01: When someone says, How are you doing?
SPEAKER_01: I'm on the rock.
SPEAKER_01: I'm fine.
SPEAKER_01: My life is stable.
SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, he is the Son of God, and I have him dwelling on the inside of me, and greater is he who is in me than he who is in this world, and nothing shall by any mean any ways or any means move me.
SPEAKER_01: My life is established.
SPEAKER_01: You see, you can smile and everybody else is frowning.
SPEAKER_01: You can dance when everybody else is standing still.
SPEAKER_01: One thing I used to love about dances, and I used to like to dance, don't judge me.
SPEAKER_01: I'd go to dance, I'd just dance club on a Wednesday night.
SPEAKER_01: We didn't have a youth group at the time, so we'd go to the dance club.
SPEAKER_01: We'd dance for ourselves and for, you know, just to have fun.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't, I'm not against dancing.
SPEAKER_01: If you want to dance, go ahead and dance.
SPEAKER_01: Anybody in here want to go ahead and dance?
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not against dancing, shouting, running.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's great.
SPEAKER_01: But see, the reason why you can dance and shout and run and kick and buck and hang from the rafters and all these things is because of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Not because it feels good.
SPEAKER_01: Not because it makes you look spiritual.
SPEAKER_01: You know, if all you're doing is running and dancing and shouting and screaming and all these things, all you're doing is getting a good exercise.
SPEAKER_01: You can look at your watch and say, I got my 10,000 steps in today.
SPEAKER_01: Does you no good.
SPEAKER_01: Bodily exercise profits you what?
SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
SPEAKER_01: What is important?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: What is the most important thing in your life as a young person?
SPEAKER_01: It's Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody else is going to say, get in education, it's so important.
SPEAKER_01: And it is.
SPEAKER_01: Parents don't ever hear me knocking education.
SPEAKER_01: It's important.
SPEAKER_01: And if I was to say it wasn't, I've got teachers and superintendents in this church, and I'm sure they'd have a problem with that.
SPEAKER_01: I would have a problem.
SPEAKER_01: Education is a good thing, don't get me wrong.
SPEAKER_01: You need to be as smart as you can be.
SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't take the place of revelation knowledge of who Jesus Christ is.
SPEAKER_01: And the moment you elevate school and doing good things above God is the moment you're building your life on the sand and your life will begin to sink.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot stand on sand.
SPEAKER_01: You've got to put your faith in Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: So if you go to college and your faith is on the rock that cannot be moved, then you can go to college and you can be successful.
SPEAKER_01: You can grow, you can learn, and you can become a doctor, lawyer, or teacher, or whatever you have a calling to do in your life, and it will not affect you spiritually.
SPEAKER_01: But there's too many kids out there today that are not founded on the rock.
SPEAKER_01: And when they go to school, they go to college, and they come out an atheist.
SPEAKER_01: They come out not believing there's a God.
SPEAKER_01: You see, right now is the time to get the word of God in our children.
SPEAKER_01: That's why it's so important about what we're about to do out here.
SPEAKER_01: We're going to capture as many teenagers as we can get out of the grip of hell.
SPEAKER_01: We're going to take them and give them revelation knowledge of who Jesus is.
SPEAKER_01: So their life will be built on the rock.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're looking to be healed today, don't look to a preacher.
SPEAKER_01: Don't look to a TV preacher.
SPEAKER_01: Don't look to an anointing oil.
SPEAKER_01: Although these things are good, don't get me wrong.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that God can't use these things, but your attention shouldn't be on those elements.
SPEAKER_01: Your attention has got to be on Christ is the healer.
SPEAKER_01: He is my healer and he indwells me.
SPEAKER_01: And if the healer's in me, I'm not looking to be healed.
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking to Jesus because I am healed.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: It's a new way to look.
SPEAKER_01: A new way to look.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all stand up.
SPEAKER_01: I've got, I've got like, I went through like two pages.
SPEAKER_01: I've got six, so I can't do that to you, though.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to come back.
SPEAKER_01: I'll hear some, all you just keep on preaching.
SPEAKER_01: And some of y'all really mean that.
SPEAKER_01: And I thank you for that, but I'm not buying it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not buying it.
SPEAKER_01: First of all, I want you to know everyone in here today.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here, I want you to look at me for a moment.
SPEAKER_01: If I could look everybody in the eye right now, I want to do it.
SPEAKER_01: I want to say this to you.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: Hear me?
SPEAKER_01: God is not mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: Get that revelation in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: God is not disappointed in you.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to point to yourself right now, everybody.
SPEAKER_01: Just point to yourself.
SPEAKER_01: And I want you to repeat this with me.
SPEAKER_01: Say, God is not mad at me.
SPEAKER_01: He's not disappointed in me.
SPEAKER_01: He knows what I've done and still loves me.
SPEAKER_01: And he still chose me.
SPEAKER_01: And I still have a call.
SPEAKER_01: I still have a purpose.
SPEAKER_01: And I still have a plan.
SPEAKER_01: And he is in me.
SPEAKER_01: He is the rock.
SPEAKER_01: That I'm standing on.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I want you to point your finger to the person beside you.
SPEAKER_01: Point two fingers if you're in the middle.
SPEAKER_01: Say, stop letting the devil convince you that God is mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: He loves you with an everlasting love.
SPEAKER_01: So quit it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Alright, now if you're in here and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, this is a great time for you to just slip out from where you are.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to come up here.
SPEAKER_01: I want to lead you to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: So if you if you've never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, the Bible says that for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_01: Everyone in here, if you're not a believer, guess what?
SPEAKER_01: We've all sinned.
SPEAKER_01: Can I see the hands of everyone in here that's made a sin mistake in their life?
SPEAKER_01: So you're not by yourself.
SPEAKER_01: We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_01: But the Bible also says in Romans 5a, but God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were sinners, Christ died.
SPEAKER_01: Do you get a revelation?
SPEAKER_01: While we were sinners, he died.
SPEAKER_01: While we were a mess, he died.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't love you just because you're good.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't love you just because you're lovely.
SPEAKER_01: He loves you based on who he is.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says God is love.
SPEAKER_01: He's not going to change.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here today and you want to experience that love and you need a relationship with Jesus, one that's unshakable, one that's unbreakable, one that can't be moved, if you need a revelation of who he is and you want to receive Jesus for the first time in your life, because I'm telling you, without Jesus Christ in your life, your life will sink and ultimately you will fall to hell.
SPEAKER_01: And that sounds horrible, but I'm telling you, you don't want to go to this place called hell.
SPEAKER_01: But if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, that's exactly where you're going.
SPEAKER_01: Not because God is mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: God loves you.
SPEAKER_01: But he will allow you to make the decision to reject him.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here, don't reject him.
SPEAKER_01: Come to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
SPEAKER_01: So one more thing.
SPEAKER_01: And we'll close.
SPEAKER_01: I am I'm gonna start having eventually we're gonna have a prayer team that's gonna come up to the front to be here to pray with people if they need prayer.
SPEAKER_01: But I want you to understand something.
SPEAKER_01: You're not allowed to come to be prayed for if it's all just mental.
SPEAKER_01: As far as if you're coming up here just trying to get a quick fix, and you're not willing to change.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's too many people that come up to get prayed for, but they are not willing to change.
SPEAKER_01: And they leave and they say, Well, it just didn't work.
SPEAKER_01: You're trying to get God to control your will.
SPEAKER_01: God will never control your will.
SPEAKER_01: You've got to release your will to God.
SPEAKER_01: Some people are not receiving healing in their bodies, in their minds, is because they haven't really released their will to God and said, You have my will and my life.
SPEAKER_01: You're still holding on to how you want to do life and what you want.
SPEAKER_01: And God is trying to say to you, I've called you, but you have to answer the call.
SPEAKER_01: So I don't even I think that might have been for someone in here, but all right.
SPEAKER_01: So let's pray right now.
SPEAKER_01: Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you so much for this word today.
SPEAKER_01: I pray that it penetrates the hearts of the people here that they'll get a revelation of who you are.
SPEAKER_01: That we're not looking to try to be healed because we already are healed.
SPEAKER_01: We're looking to you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need a healing, we need a revelation.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need prosperity, we need a revelation.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need man's idea of peace, we need a revelation of who you are, God.
SPEAKER_01: Because when we get a revelation of you, all those things are just natural byproducts.
SPEAKER_01: So, Lord, we receive everything you've provided.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank you.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00: We hope that this message helps you draw closer to God as you walk out your faith.
SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week.