Heavenly plan

We explore the powerful biblical principle from Abraham's life about leaving comfort zones to pursue God's greater purposes and the transformative fire of the Holy Spirit that propels us into our divine calling.

• The significance of Abraham leaving his familiar surroundings for an unknown destination
• How genuine revival always brings change to our lives
• The tendency to remain in comfortable "second team" spiritual environments 
• Why the fire of the Holy Spirit is necessary to break free from what holds us back
• The importance of forgetting what lies behind to strain forward to what lies ahead
• Recognizing when small things become major hindrances to our spiritual growth
• The promise that God rewards what we leave behind with "hundredfold" blessings

If you've been touched by the fire of revival in your life, don't be content with staying where you are. Allow that fire to launch you into God's highest purposes for your life.

Chapters

• 0:00 Abraham's Call to Leave the Familiar
• 3:27 The Fire of the Holy Spirit
• 10:15 Genuine Revival Always Brings Change
• 21:14 Stepping Into New Circles and Purposes
• 33:05 The Cost of Following God's Call
• 42:10 Forgetting What Lies Behind

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:10

Now in Haran, the Lord said to Abram Go for yourself, for your own advantage, away from your country, from your relatives and your father's house, to the land that I will show you. Think about that for a moment. What was the land? If you're familiar with the Old Testament, abraham, isaac, jacob. There was no Isaac at the time. Who was the one who would then actually possess the land. Well, that came later, right. So Abraham never actually saw the fulfillment of what God wanted to do. He was looking for what God was doing, looking into the future.

Speaker 1: 1:16

Hebrews 11 actually mentions Abraham. He was looking for a city whose builder and founder was God. But in verse 2 it says and I will make you a great nation and I will bless you with abundant increase of favors. Who likes the words abundant increase of favors? Amen and make your name famous and distinguished. Amen and make your name famous and distinguished and you will be a blessing dispersing good to others. And I will bless those who bless you, who confer prosperity or happiness upon you, and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you. In you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed, and by you they will bless themselves. What a blessing, and in verse 4 the Bible says so Abram. His name was still Abram at the time. Later, with the covenant terms of God, god changed his name to Abraham, which means father of many nations. If you have no children and your name is father of many nations, that can be troubling. Who's coming on the road? Oh, it's the father of many nations with his zero sons. You could probably get a few jokes coming your way if that would happen to you. So Abram departed as the Lord had directed him, and Lot, his nephew, went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

Speaker 1: 3:15

This became a very significant passage of Scripture because I realized even Jesus said that if you want to get the results that Abraham got, you do the works of Abraham. There is an action that is required that corresponds with the word of the Lord that brings the results, with the word of the Lord that brings the results. And even this summer we're still talking about the fire of the Lord and the Holy Ghost. Fire because John the Baptist said that there's one coming after me, whose sandals I'm not worthy to lose, who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. And the day of Pentecost we got the banners up on the wall too.

Speaker 1: 4:11

Acts chapter 2, first four verses, talks about how the mighty rushing wind came in to the upper room where 120 were gathered together and they were all filled. They were tongues of fire. Flames came on each one of the heads in the upper room and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other languages and that sound was noised abroad. I believe one more time that sound will be noised abroad, in Finland, and people looking at them wondering what's happening here. It's so early in the morning and what is this noise that's coming out? Some people said they must be drinking, but then Peter stood up and said these are not drunken, as you suppose, but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel that it shall come to pass in the last days that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. Hallelujah and the promise of the Father.

Speaker 1: 5:16

The Holy Spirit came and, thank God, he's in the house tonight and you don't have to wait for 50 days. You don't have to wait for 50 days, you don't have to wait for 10 days. You can receive tonight in Jesus' name and in the Old Testament we see many accounts of how the Lord was moving. And while we don't live in the Old Testament times, we can see through those pictures and those steps that God's people took in those times. We can see some heavenly principles. We can see some heavenly insight into many things.

Speaker 1: 5:59

Many people have never even left town. They've always been in the same circles. But whenever the fire of the Holy Spirit begins to burn in your life and your heart, there's always change. Genuine revival always brings change. This is a revival church. You either change or you leave because you don't want to change. Something is going to happen when the fire is burning and if you stop changing. You got to step outside of the door Because you say, lord, I can't take the heat anymore. I got to step outside. But nobody here has that heart. But it's that word that comes to Abram, who became Abraham, that said that it's time for you to leave those circles. It's time for you to leave those things that you're accustomed to. It's time to leave that circle that you used to. And there's such power in our steps of obedience when we follow the Holy Spirit. Without the fire, you may want to consider twice, but when the fire begins to burn and is ignited in you, you realize something is changing in you and you lose the taste for those earthly things that would anchor you into the natural and you step into the plans and the purposes that God has for you. There's something that happens In a heart of an individual when they leave things behind them, when they pursue God's best for their life.

Speaker 1: 7:46

When you talk to people as a pastor, it's amazing what you find out. When you just hear what people say, you don't even need to say anything. You just sit there and they talk and they'll tell you everything. And then, most of the time, when you're dealing with the Spirit-filled people, they'll actually talk themselves into the answer Because they have the holy spirit in them. And then they just start to and they just needed the right environment. And then they're like yeah, thanks for helping me. Like I didn't say holy spirit in you talking and you understand what I mean.

Speaker 1: 8:26

But when you hear what's in people's hearts sometimes because you can't make decisions for people, young people that are just set on going to the wrong direction, there's nothing you can do about it Are you with me? Like I'm going to go my way, I want to do this, I want to have this, and there's such precious rewards that come with God's heavenly calling. That's why I'm so Like that Friday morning of the camp meeting with the graduation. It is so precious, that's why it's valuable. When it's costly, when people die too early, because people carry in them the very purpose and the plan of heaven and if they are gone too soon there's something that will not be brought through them, through them that god had intended. Are you with me? And it's like it's such a small little things that can keep people like you know they just like this or they just like that that in the light of eternity has no significance whatsoever. But when that fire begins to burn and I believe many of you are here tonight because that fire was burning in your heart night after night and day after day during the camp meeting and that same presence of the holy spirit is from the moment that we, we began the service. Tonight I'm telling you the lord is doing a work, he wants to continue that work and a lot of it has to do with your expectancy that you, you don't come just. Oh, I'm gonna just go there for night service. No, you come with expectancy. You want to see god's best, you want to see god's plans. Lord, I've come hungry again to receive from your hand. I want to see the best that you have for me. I want to see heaven's purpose come through me. And then there are almost like choices that God leads us into Do you want to go this way or do you want to go this way For us first year?

Speaker 1: 10:42

We got married in year 2000. I figured that's a great year because it's very easy to remember how many years you've been married as a man. It helps. You don't have to think long, you just take the 20 away from the current year and that's how you know how many years you've been married. It helps. It's just a funny thing to say. You don't need to be so serious. So we received some help and guidance. It's not a good idea to get too busy in the first year of marriage. So we kind of took it easy. My wife was doing some studies, I was working, so that first year.

Speaker 1: 11:23

But we had a desire and we were involved in a local church, serving in the area of youth and organizing all kinds of things, and we were like excited about all kinds of things. We were. We set up a few concerts, we did evangelism thing in the schools and and we did outreaches in the neighborhood where we lived in because we wanted to be good christians. So we moved to the worst neighborhood in the city because we figured that's the way to do it. You know, others are going to the area where there's like houses and saunas and things. We're like let's go to the roughest neighborhood. You know, I may have had a bit of lack in the whole understanding of prosperity at the time but nonetheless, you know we, we were wanting to whatever needed to be done, we wanted to be involved and and lord was lord, helped us, us and blessed us in that way. But then after that first year, through many miraculous things, really, lord led us to go to the other side of the world to go to Bible school. So that was in a way leaving a lot of things behind.

Speaker 1: 12:30

When you're going to the other side of the world and you're stepping into a culture that you don't understand All the Finns think, especially the young ones, you know, because we were 20-something when we went there and you know you think you speak good English or whatever, and then you realize that you don't really know language at all and then with the new country there's always challenges like you may not be understood and then people may not understand you. One of the funny examples that I tell is that one time we were after the service, a couple of guys came to us and says, hey, let's go eat after the service. And we're like finally somebody's talking to us because we were like she's always been outgoing, but I was like you know a fin, so even more than I'm now. So I'm like they're coming to us and they're like you know some cool kids. Everybody wants to know the cool kids. So they're like, hey, we're going to go eat afterwards, let's go to the restaurant. And I'm like, okay. And I'm like, where is it? It's just down the road.

Speaker 1: 13:44

How many of you know what down the road means? I thought that down the road means down the road. That means that you follow the road and you're there. I didn't know the neighborhood. So after the service we went down the road but we couldn't find the place. And then the next day is like where did you guys go? And we were like we went down the road but we couldn't find you. And what down the road? But we can find you. And what down the road actually meant is to get on the highway from the entrance ramp, then take two exits south, then take east, then go two traffic lights forward and the restaurant will be on the left. Okay, that's what down the road. I didn't know what down the I was supposed to ask can you give me the address? But I didn't know. I thought it was just down the road, you know. So you know like you have situations like that day after day. You know, it's like you know, and then you're beating yourself up. It's like why didn't I do that? You know and you know, but it was a very exciting time, but it's like you know. You're learning again.

Speaker 1: 14:52

You have to go to the driver's license office, which is very interesting. If you've ever been at the DMV in America, it's very exciting. You stand in the line and then they call your name and then you have to pass the test. You study for the test, then you take the driving exam, which is five minutes, in the parking lot where you park between the two cones. You can't knock the cones down because otherwise that means you killed somebody, so they won't give you and then you park there and then you give them $20 and from the machine comes the driver's license and you walk off and I thought that I just robbed the place. They must have done something wrong, because when I was in Finland, it cost me thousand euros and it took me a half a year to get a driver's license and it came from the machine while I was at the office. They took a picture right there and anyways. So there was a Estimated my height wrong. I didn't know how tall I was in feet and inches, I didn't know what those dimensions were, but they just guessed my height and put it permanently on my driver's license.

Speaker 1: 16:01

You know it's a little different than the Finnish system, you know Nonetheless, but it's like you're learning everything again. You're learning a new way to communicate. You say something, but people don't understand it. They're like yeah, yeah, yeah, but they didn't understand anything you said and you didn't they. You didn't understand them and they didn't understand you. How many of you felt like that? You've come from outside to Finland, or you know, you just you try to communicate, but then it's takes a while, like it takes a while.

Speaker 1: 16:31

What huh means you? Uh-huh, hmm, you know, hmm. Or you know. That can mean kind of like noni. That can mean a whole array of things. You know in Finland noni, noni, noni. That gives me a whole array of things you know in Finland Noni, noni, noni. So you never know, you never know. It takes years of studying the Finnish culture to find out which noni it actually is and understand what's actually being said, because we try to save our words here, we don't want to say too many, which, of course, when it comes to the word of god, you you're always good in confessing the word of god. Even if you were a man or a woman of few words, it's good to keep talking the word of God, amen.

Speaker 1: 17:32

So there was like a whole array of things that had to do with going to A new place, a new things, but in a way, when the touch of the Lord comes, it's a heavenly thing and that heavenly fire, that heavenly presence, will lead you into new things and you can limit yourself by deciding that I'm going to be stuck here. I think most of you here are here, and this is not a problem for you, because many of you have left things and you've come and you're here on a sunday night, a beautiful day in the month of july, but there may be few or few watching at home that there are certain things in your life that, even though the presence of the lord has come upon you, you're not willing to let go of those things. And the blessing is when you leave things behind. The blessing comes when you are willing to walk away from some things, because what god has for you is always better and the return is always multiplied. I hope you get this Like I didn't know fully what was happening, or I didn't know what God had for us.

Speaker 1: 18:57

But I begin to understand, as I started to take those steps with my wife, that it was more than I could imagine. Lord, the word began to work in us and that word began to work in us and that word began to grow in our hearts. And like bro se kera basa, I didn't know. See, sometimes we think so small. We have a small head. You know, your brain is so small, even though it may be magnificent. You may have the best brain in all of Finland but it is so small if you compare it to the universe and everything. And yet we live life like we have it all figured out between here. And do use your brain. We want you to use your brain. You have it for a reason. Activate it, think, amen. It's good to think. But when it comes to the things of God, the word God is download.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Biblical faith is a heart faith and Lord speaks to us and he guides us and we gotta go with the Holy Ghost. I couldn't picture my thinking was so limited at the time, already 20 years ago. Lord, have mercy. If I would have just reasoned it out, there would have been so many other things that would have made sense. But that calling and that when the Lord begins to move in your heart and you're willing to say I'm willing to leave things behind and I'm willing to step into what Lord has for me. Sometimes it's the way that we've learned to live, because of our culture, because of our family tradition. Sometimes it's the circles that we're in, the friendship, the things.

Speaker 1: 20:38

Right now online there's all kinds of things. Some of you may have to leave the metaverse behind. You just build a beautiful house and the Lord is saying put your VR glasses into the offering bucket. Lord, I'll never see my house again. It did not exist in the first place. But, pastor, I got an NFT. I paid 5,000 for an invisible brick. Those of you who don't understand what I'm talking about, don't worry about it. You're not missing much. People are paying thousands for an invisible brick. I just thought that's very funny, but it perfectly explains. You know, it's true, people are living a virtual life right now and they are heavily invested into that realm, in their virtual you know, like ladies who have Instagram pages with tens of thousands of followers. It's a radical thing to say I'm going to shut this page down because it's not benefiting the human race. I'm not trying to be mean, you know, but you know that's something Some people have built, built, established a social media press. That's their whole life, it's it's, it's, it's it, it.

Speaker 1: 22:19

It hurts to walk out of something you invested years into, but when the lord begins to move in your heart, that fire begins to burn in you. You know that god has something better for you and he has something that's precious, something that's so valuable. Like I was saying about that friday morning when I saw all the graduates first year, second year, third year. You know, and you know I understand from a pastoral standpoint Many people still have steps to walk into, but the reality of the callings of God in that room was so precious, that is so valuable. When somebody says yes, when the hand of the Lord is on them. It's like the most precious thing and I recognize it as a pastor.

Speaker 1: 23:13

I don't want to mess with that. I want to put the word in. I want to see people like that raised up and then released, because if I hold People with the calling of God as hostage, I'm going to be held accountable For not releasing them. Does that make sense to you? Like you know, we have a vision for the house here and there are people that God raises up To support our hands and to see the plan of God Come to pass in this local church and the Bible school and the ministry we have for Finland as we go out and you know all that stuff. But there are people that out, and you know all that stuff. But there are people that God is raising up in the Bible school that will be released to the nations. That fire that is ignited in your heart is going to send you out.

Speaker 1: 24:03

We knew we had to leave the old behind us, just like Abraham didn't know where he was going specifically. He didn't know. He just said hey, god said I got to get out and I got to follow the plan. And God said he's going to bless me. So I'm going to rest my life on the word of God. I'm going to step out and I'm going to follow the plan and purpose of God for my life. Hallelujah. And he became the father of our faith. Amen. Amen, giving us an example that it was counted to him as righteousness when he believed what God said. When you act on God's word, when you act on God's word, you say I'm going to see God's plan, see. That's what makes this place somewhat unique, in a way, because there are people here that are being raised up for the eternal purpose.

Speaker 1: 25:09

I think one of the worst things to happen to me would be that if Jesus Terry is 20 years ago, I'd be here, and then you guys would be here, still the same group, in the same Sunday night service, except you'd be 20 years older. Some of you would be with the walker and you would come in and say, hey, pastor, and you would be same, in the same condition that you are tonight, and he's like we're just faithfully sticking with you here. That would be the worst thing. Now, some of you maybe, if jesus terry is here 20 years from now and you actually love people, you don't want people to leave. You know. I'm not saying that because I want all of you to leave. But I'm saying that it is a heavenly thing that god puts that heavenly fire and his presence on the inside of you and you begin to be blessed and you begin to multiply and you begin to prosper and you're not going to remain the same like on your left side and on your right side before this year is out. Somebody's going to be there that you brought to the to the church. Somebody's going to be there that you brought to the church and you help them grow in the things of god, and now they're in the plan of god and they can take the same steps you've taken. And then it's going to be great hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 26:36

You tell somebody come and see, I don't know, why are you so happy? Come and see, I don't know, why are you so happy? Well, come and see, we're happy Christians. We're not angry Christians, amen. We do have few people that are excessively happy. Even on a Sunday night service in July we do have that. But you know, we're people, but we're people, but we love God and we're not ashamed of the Holy Ghost. Amen. And when that fire gets to do a work in you, you'll be full of joy too. Amen, he'll burn that grumpiness out of you. Amen, amen, sabar Rabah, amen, hallelujah. Thank you, lord Jesus, and you'll be happy to go. It won't be like pulling teeth at the dentist's chair. I have one story about that. Oh my goodness. I have one dentist story that lasted for 35 years. It began on like the fourth grade and it just got concluded last year. But I don't know if I want to tell that story tonight. It may be too much, but I have some dentist stories.

Speaker 1: 28:01

But when you are so saturated with the things of heaven and the plans of heaven, you'll actually be happy to go, because the things that used to mean a lot to you don't mean the same way to you anymore, hallelujah. But there are personal choices here. You can't force somebody to leave things behind. I can preach. I can do my best to preach you hungry. I can do my best to preach you hungry. I can do my best to paint the picture by the help of the Holy Ghost, with the word of God Into your heart, so you begin to see things from eternal perspective. But it's us individually that have to come to that place, that we let go of some things in order to step into the new, because you'll just get frustrated with people who just are interested about other things. And I actually see things this way, that I believe god loves us so much that God will bless you, even if you choose to do something less Like, kind of like a father loves the children. God loves you, so he wants to bless you. But when you want to have his best, when you want to have his best, there are moments when you are letting go.

Speaker 1: 29:48

When you're letting go, sometimes it means to let go of your old identity that you have developed with your parents for a long time. This is the way I am. Oh, crumpy me. It can have to do with your culture, religious traditions, where you just learn some habits. You know, you can learn habits even at the river. Here they won't be angry habits, they'll be like you learn to smile, learn to raise your hands. But God looks at the heart that you are in that place, that you're willing to allow the Holy Spirit to do what he wants to do. Amen, and there's good things that God has in store for us. But there's a hunger, there's a thirst, a desire. Oh, lord, hallelujah, everything that he's done up to now has been just preparation, and now we're stepping into some things that heaven has for us, hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 31:16

When I was in the lower grades in school, I liked to play hockey. I didn't play in a team or anything, but when we played in school I liked to play it, and usually in our sports class we had three teams. First team was the guys that were the best. Some of them were in a team in our city. They were just good, good players. The second one was the active people who were pretty good Not super good, but pretty good. I was usually in that team. And then there were the musicians. Musicians, you know, their skill was elsewhere. So generally they just skated around and laughing and you know, some of them never put skates on, they just walked with the stick on their eyes, you know. So you got three teams. So, in a way, if you wanted to improve your game, you wanted to get to the first team, because those were the best ones. But if you just wanted to, like I was, I didn't want to be made fools of, I didn't want to look bad, because in that team I would look pretty bad Because I wasn't at their level. So I would like to play in the second team their level. So I would like to play in the second team.

Speaker 1: 32:43

So there is even in the Christian circles. There are people who have gotten touched by the fire, but they like to just coast along in some safe areas where people will say, oh, you're so spiritual, oh, you're so spiritual, oh you, you're so gifted, oh, you got the gift of healing. Praise the lord. Would you come to speak at our home group meeting in the this in this city? And then you, yes, I would like to do that. And is there anything wrong with that? Not necessarily, but if god has some big things for you and you are just settling in in just circling in circles that are not really going to launch you into what heaven has for you, see, there's also a price to pay, especially speaking today to those that are in a third year in school or just graduated there's a price to pay and fire needed to launch you into a full-time to what God has for you. And it is a costly thing. It is a costly thing in Finland to be launched into a full-time ministry that you're not doing anything else but just ministering. If you think about it quickly, how many people in Finland today are in full-time five-fold ministry If you were raised up like I was, there may have been one worker at the church, but most of the time even the pastor's wife was the one who brought in the money. Are you with me? Like most pastor's wives in the circles that I was in were doctors, so they made a lot of money so they could supplement the income because the pastor was not making much. So that was the standard for decades.

Speaker 1: 34:38

Okay, so now we're in the midst. This is like a new generation right now, and the nation is so thirsty for the fires of revival, but it takes something for you to break through. Like a rocket launches into space with fire. Why is the fire needed with fire? Why is the fire needed? Because there is a gravitational pull of the earth that has to be broken by the fire so that the shuttle can be released to circle the earth or launch into where.

Speaker 1: 35:16

I think they're talking about going back on the moon. Whatever Mars Shuttle to visit, whatever, I think there's plenty to observe here on the earth. We don't need to go to Mars. I think there's a few things we need to discover still here, and then, as far as I'm concerned, I want to reach all the people. I don't want to run away from them into another planet. Sometimes you may feel like that when you're dealing with people I'm going to fly to Mars. But that's not God's plan for you, amen. But that fire is needed to launch you out.

Speaker 1: 35:58

And it's the time of preparation where a lot of things are going to be dealt with and unless those things are dealt with, you're not going to be dealt with. And unless those things are dealt with, you're not going to be able to break free. In those things, amen. There's a price to pay and there's things to leave behind. But God is not going to owe you anything in the end. Peter said we've given up all to follow you. Jesus said in this time you'll get hundredfold anything you've given and in the time to come, eternal life. Amen.

Speaker 1: 36:36

Mark 10. Matthew 19 amen, amen. So god's not gonna owe you something in the end. He is the rewarder. You're not going to stand before the throne of God and say Look at me, I did so good. You'll just weep and fall on your face and say Thank you for your grace. You see that. But there are things we got to be leaving behind in order. Then, here in the presence of the Lord tonight, I just got stirred up by that that if you're willing to leave those things behind, god is going to bring the blessing. Amen, and everything that has held you back in the past, that would hold you hostage or hold you in captivity and not allow you to be launched in, can be dealt with in Jesus' name.

Speaker 1: 37:34

Let me read to you one more, two more verses from Philippians 3, and then we pray Philippians 3, and then we pray If you got your Bible, go there with me. Philippians 3, and we pray If you got your Bible, go there with me. Philippians 3 and verse 13. This is Apostle Paul, already well into his ministry. So he would have had a lot of reasons to say look at me, guys, I'm doing well, I'm going to take a sabbatical. I don't believe in sabbaticals. True story. Philippians 3 and 13.

Speaker 1: 38:12

I do not consider brethren that I have captured and made it my own yet, but one thing I do. But one thing I do. It is my one aspiration forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. Amen. Forgetting what's behind, forgetting what's behind. Forgetting what's behind, hallelujah. You know we can have testimonies. You know I share things to open up the truth of the Word of God that work Because when you share just like Jesus, he was sharing parables they open. Like when you share something, that is a testimony that opens up and people can see themselves in that same thing and it's like, hey, that works. So it opens your eyes.

Speaker 1: 39:17

But forgetting the things that are behind, we can't live in the past. We're here right now. God's got something for us. Now god's got. He's been developing you, he's been molding you and now you're here tonight. But there's a there's a forgetting that needs to take place. In order to get to the new, abram had to leave the old behind and and he was recorded in Hebrews 11 in the great faith chapter as one of the giants of faith, because he was looking for that city. There is a heavenly building, there's a heavenly plan that God has for us, but it takes leaving things behind to step into it. Like I've been talking to people and there is something that connects them into the past and you try to encourage them, you try to talk to them. If you come, help us make some RBI calls in the next few weeks. When we call people and say, hey, you, you signed up and you're coming in on august, then you usually hear some stories you say.

Speaker 1: 40:36

I think one of my favorites was that I have two dogs and if I come to bible school nobody will take care of them for those hours. The dogs don't manage. So basically, on the day you know, bible speaks of the judgment seat of Christ. That's not the white throne judgment where the wicked are judged, but the judgment seat of Christ means that the place where our works are proven and tried by fire. You with me. So when you're standing before your Lord to give an account, you will tell the Lord I had two dogs. I would have done, lord, what you had for me, but two dogs. Somebody has a cat, somebody has one dog, not two dogs. One dog. Somebody has a house, somebody has a business, somebody has a family, somebody has busy schedule things to do. Know anything can become a hindrance. So there is a moving and work of the Lord that you know.

Speaker 1: 41:55

Like the old song says that the things of the earth will go strangely dim. Amen Will go strangely dim, amen In his glory. The things of the earth, things of this world, they get dim. They're not the stuff that you were running after before, it's not that, it's not that weighty In a scale of things in your life anymore, so you're forgetting the things of the past, forgetting the things of the past. That is a sign that the fire is burning, that you're willing to leave things behind and you're willing to step into what God has.

Speaker 1: 42:46

And verse 14. We're in Philippians 3. I press on towards the goal To win the supreme and heavenly prize To which God in Christ Jesus is calling us. Upward. Amen, like the Amplified Classic there, say this with me Upward, he's calling us, upward, hallelujah. I believe you can make a choice that you want all the heavenly, all the heavenly rewards. You want all the crowns. I think there's four crowns in the Bible that I mentioned. You say, pastor, what do you do with the crowns? I think there's four crowns in the Bible that I mentioned. You say, pastor, what do you do with the crowns when you get to heaven? Why would you need four? Can't you just have one? You can worship the Lord and put them at the feet of Jesus. Amen. But the truth is, you're on the winner's side. Greater one lives on. The truth is you're on the winner's side, the greater one lives on the inside.