WEBVTT 00:00:01.241 --> 00:00:04.570 message that's titled In the Name of Jesus. 00:00:04.570 --> 00:00:08.000 There's something about that name, you know. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.413 We pray in the name of Jesus, pray in Jesus' name, we lay hands in Jesus' name. 00:00:14.413 --> 00:00:14.573 There's. 00:00:14.573 --> 00:00:32.295 The more you say it, the more it can become a word crutch, because people begin to pray and they're saying some stuff in Jesus' name, say some more stuff in Jesus' name, and at some point it kind of becomes like a password or a magic word or a. 00:00:32.295 --> 00:00:40.161 You know, we got to wrap it all up and I got to say Jesus, and it's just part of the equation and I don't want it to. 00:00:40.161 --> 00:00:48.530 I don't want people to take it for granted, I don't want people to underestimate the power of the name of Jesus or what's contained in that. 00:00:48.530 --> 00:00:51.843 And so let me give you some nuggets on that tonight. 00:00:51.843 --> 00:00:53.768 Help your perspective. 00:00:53.829 --> 00:00:59.384 In Philippians, chapter two, I'm going to read out of there, verse five. 00:00:59.384 --> 00:01:03.835 I'm going to read down through about eleven. 00:01:03.835 --> 00:01:16.034 But it's talking about talking about Jesus Christ who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation. 00:01:16.034 --> 00:01:17.117 Remember, he was a human. 00:01:17.117 --> 00:01:20.890 Jesus came in the form of man, so he did not as a man. 00:01:20.890 --> 00:01:27.209 He did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation. 00:01:27.209 --> 00:01:40.570 Taking the form of a bond servant and becoming in the likeness of men and being found in the appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient, to the point of death, even the cross. 00:01:40.570 --> 00:01:46.930 Therefore, god also highly exalted him and gave him the name which is above every name. 00:01:46.930 --> 00:01:52.611 That name wasn't above every name until he went to the cross and conquered. 00:01:52.611 --> 00:02:08.731 And so God highly exalted him and gave him the name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of those in heaven and of those in earth and those under the earth, in other words, every part of all of creation, both the natural and the spiritual. 00:02:08.731 --> 00:02:16.274 Every knee would bow and every tongue would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 00:02:16.274 --> 00:02:20.324 We've been named with that name also. 00:02:20.324 --> 00:02:25.301 We've we're joint heirs with Christ, we've been adopted and we share that name. 00:02:25.301 --> 00:02:31.353 And so let me just walk back to the beginning. 00:02:31.772 --> 00:02:35.306 In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth when he created man. 00:02:35.306 --> 00:02:37.512 He created men in his likeness. 00:02:37.512 --> 00:02:38.743 We're a three-part being. 00:02:38.743 --> 00:02:39.868 We're a three-part being. 00:02:39.868 --> 00:02:41.294 We're spirit, soul and body. 00:02:41.294 --> 00:02:43.002 We live in this body. 00:02:43.002 --> 00:02:46.239 We are a spirit and we have a soul, a mind, a will and intellect. 00:02:46.239 --> 00:02:49.366 That's kind of your personality, the way you think about things. 00:02:50.328 --> 00:02:55.563 And in the beginning there he gave man very specific instructions. 00:02:55.563 --> 00:03:08.514 He told Adam that you should subdue the earth, and that means to conquer, that means to take it by force. 00:03:08.514 --> 00:03:17.903 He gave him instructions to have dominion over the earth, over everything, and he says, to be fruitful and multiply, have dominion over all of it. 00:03:17.903 --> 00:03:21.938 But he did warn him not to eat of a particular tree. 00:03:21.938 --> 00:03:23.322 Don't eat of that tree. 00:03:23.322 --> 00:03:32.063 And so when he disobeyed God, he God didn't curse Adam in that moment, but the curse is there when we disobey. 00:03:32.866 --> 00:03:36.010 The blessing comes in obedience and the curse is just. 00:03:36.010 --> 00:03:38.742 It comes with disobedience. 00:03:38.742 --> 00:03:43.051 God didn't have to institute anything after that and curse Adam. 00:03:43.051 --> 00:03:50.295 He just said because of you you're going to labor, because of you life's going to be hard, because of you you're going to toil the rest of your life. 00:03:50.295 --> 00:03:50.959 And it was just. 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:53.247 The curse came on the earth with disobedience. 00:03:53.247 --> 00:04:12.502 Adam was intended to have dominion, to be somebody, to commune with God, to be able to talk to God, to be able to rule and reign in the way that God told him to here on earth and he lost that and so and so now we fast forward a little bit. 00:04:12.502 --> 00:04:21.165 Jesus came back to win all that back, to take back everything that Adam lost and redistribute that authority to us all over again. 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:34.408 So when Jesus was, when he came on the scene, you know he was a boy. 00:04:34.408 --> 00:04:36.752 He grew up, he became a man. 00:04:36.752 --> 00:04:45.466 He had not yet started his ministry and John the baptizer was baptizing and he was kind of a wild one and people were. 00:04:45.466 --> 00:04:49.182 He was baptizing with water, but he was preparing the way of the Lord. 00:04:49.182 --> 00:04:54.500 And when Jesus walks up on the scene, he said Behold the Lamb of God who comes to take away the sins of the world. 00:04:54.500 --> 00:05:01.778 Up until that point they had only been able to cover their sins with sacrificial animals, sacrificial lamb, and so they covered the sins. 00:05:01.778 --> 00:05:03.041 They had to do that continually. 00:05:03.041 --> 00:05:06.081 But behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. 00:05:06.081 --> 00:05:08.879 So, john the Baptist, he baptizes Jesus. 00:05:10.242 --> 00:05:21.110 After Jesus was baptized in water, john's baptizing in water, the Holy Spirit descended, it says, in bodily form, like a dove from heaven upon Jesus. 00:05:21.110 --> 00:05:26.103 And then there was a voice that was heard from heaven you are my beloved Son and whom I am well pleased. 00:05:26.103 --> 00:05:32.927 And then it says then Jesus, being filled with the Spirit, was led by the Spirit. 00:05:32.927 --> 00:05:37.110 Up until that point nobody had been filled with the Spirit, nobody had been filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:05:37.110 --> 00:05:42.247 The Holy Spirit came and was upon certain people, certain men. 00:05:42.247 --> 00:05:55.444 It was upon the priest, it was upon the prophet and the king, those who were anointed by God to be kind of a liaison between God and everyone else and they could speak for God and they could do things on behalf of God. 00:05:55.444 --> 00:05:56.660 They had an anointing to do that. 00:05:56.660 --> 00:05:58.139 That was the Holy Spirit upon them. 00:05:58.139 --> 00:06:00.399 The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.170 And then it says he was filled. 00:06:03.630 --> 00:06:07.244 Jesus, being filled with the Spirit, was led by the Spirit. 00:06:07.244 --> 00:06:11.927 He was the first Spirit filled person on earth and he was still a person. 00:06:11.927 --> 00:06:14.182 He was not a God, he was not a deity. 00:06:14.182 --> 00:06:18.740 He was here as man, just like we're here and we're filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:06:18.740 --> 00:06:28.800 He was the first one filled with the Spirit and, just like we're supposed to be, spirit led, jesus was Spirit led and so he was led by the Spirit. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:30.019 He went off into the wilderness. 00:06:30.019 --> 00:06:31.137 He was tempted by Satan. 00:06:33.254 --> 00:06:36.740 Brings up a concept here Jesus was tempted by Satan. 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:39.459 So many people in life now will tell you. 00:06:39.459 --> 00:06:43.867 You know, god put these things in front of me, he was trying me, he was tempting me. 00:06:43.867 --> 00:06:46.180 He was, you know, put these challenges in front of me. 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:48.319 God sent the car wreck, he sent cancer. 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:49.860 He's trying to teach me a lesson. 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:51.538 God doesn't do any of that. 00:06:53.095 --> 00:06:54.279 Jesus went out into the wilderness. 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.901 He was led by the Spirit, but he was tempted of Satan. 00:06:56.901 --> 00:07:02.944 There is no temptation, no test, no trial that has taken you but such as is common to man. 00:07:02.944 --> 00:07:08.225 In other words, whatever you're going through is not special all to you. 00:07:08.225 --> 00:07:10.622 You're not a worst case scenario. 00:07:10.622 --> 00:07:15.759 It's just we go through things that are common to all of us, and God doesn't send that. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.221 It just comes with the territory. 00:07:17.221 --> 00:07:18.658 We live in a fallen world. 00:07:18.658 --> 00:07:26.858 This earth is still operating under the curse of disobedience from when Adam lost it and Jesus gave it back. 00:07:26.858 --> 00:07:29.524 And it's up to us to take this place back. 00:07:29.524 --> 00:07:32.461 And so we're kind of in the middle of the job right now. 00:07:35.254 --> 00:07:37.283 Jesus, during that temptation time, he overcame. 00:07:37.283 --> 00:07:44.177 He overcame the temptations the devil threw at him, he overcame the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, and he rebuked the devil. 00:07:44.177 --> 00:07:48.704 And then it says that he returned in the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:07:48.704 --> 00:07:55.485 All this came out of Luke, chapter four, and Claire just referenced that here a little bit earlier. 00:07:55.485 --> 00:07:58.665 And so, luke, chapter four Jesus starts his ministry. 00:07:58.665 --> 00:08:12.122 He's filled with the spirit, he's defeated the devil, the temptation of the devil, he's rebuked the devil and now he's ready to step into his role, the same role that we're supposed to step into. 00:08:12.122 --> 00:08:14.178 Remember, he's our example. 00:08:14.178 --> 00:08:17.422 Whatever Jesus did, we're supposed to do. 00:08:17.422 --> 00:08:23.317 So the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 00:08:23.317 --> 00:08:33.798 He sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them who are oppressed and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. 00:08:35.034 --> 00:08:46.221 And when Jesus said that he closed the book, this is his first preaching gig and he reads this scripture about himself and they're kind of expecting him to say some more about this and he closed the book. 00:08:46.221 --> 00:08:52.825 And then he went and sat down and in the synagogue there there was a chair reserved for the Messiah. 00:08:52.825 --> 00:08:56.600 They're waiting for the return of the Messiah, and so they have a Messiah's chair. 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:57.582 It's got his name on it. 00:08:57.582 --> 00:09:00.539 It says Messiah right there, and he went and sat down in that chair. 00:09:00.539 --> 00:09:24.946 In other words, he just proclaimed himself I am he who was promised, I am the one, I'm the Messiah, here I am, and so that was the launch of his ministry, our purpose in this world, and I'm just going to kind of run through some high points on this because I want to keep this short, but there are some important nuggets in here. 00:09:25.095 --> 00:09:29.566 In Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 10, this describes our purpose. 00:09:29.566 --> 00:09:40.902 It says for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God ordained beforehand that we should walk in them. 00:09:40.902 --> 00:09:46.984 Our purpose is to do good works. 00:09:46.984 --> 00:09:49.128 That's simple. 00:09:49.128 --> 00:09:50.835 That's the simple purpose. 00:09:50.835 --> 00:09:51.658 That's why we're here. 00:09:51.658 --> 00:10:01.162 Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit whom you have from God and you're not your own but you're bought with a price? 00:10:01.162 --> 00:10:05.820 Or glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are God's. 00:10:09.888 --> 00:10:17.630 When Jesus was talking to his disciples in John, chapter 14, this is just before Jesus was going to leave his disciples. 00:10:17.630 --> 00:10:24.136 He's preparing them for his departure and they're getting a little bit nervous about it. 00:10:24.136 --> 00:10:30.697 And you know and I'm going to flip over there because I'm going to read some high points here. 00:10:30.697 --> 00:10:35.386 In the beginning of that scripture of John, chapter 14, it says Let not your heart be troubled. 00:10:35.386 --> 00:10:38.712 You believe in God, believe also in me. 00:10:38.712 --> 00:10:40.870 And he says I go to prepare a place for you. 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:42.428 I'm coming back for you. 00:10:42.428 --> 00:10:44.288 Where I am, you may be also. 00:10:44.288 --> 00:10:46.014 I'm the way, the truth and the life. 00:10:46.164 --> 00:10:47.789 No one comes into the Father except by me. 00:10:47.789 --> 00:10:56.717 And he says in verse 7, if you had known me, you would know my Father also. 00:10:56.717 --> 00:11:02.636 Because they're like starting to get really confused here about who he is and who the Father is. 00:11:02.636 --> 00:11:05.293 I mean, he's kind of turning some things upside down for him. 00:11:05.293 --> 00:11:11.894 He said If you'd known me, you would know who my Father is and you would know my Father also. 00:11:11.894 --> 00:11:14.572 And from now on, you know him and have seen him. 00:11:14.572 --> 00:11:19.875 And Philip said to him Lord, show us the Father, and then it will be sufficient for us. 00:11:19.875 --> 00:11:24.033 And Jesus said have I been with you so long and yet you have not known me, philip? 00:11:24.033 --> 00:11:28.833 He said he who has seen me has seen the Father. 00:11:28.833 --> 00:11:32.629 So how can you say show us the Father If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. 00:11:34.044 --> 00:11:41.248 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me, the words that I speak to you. 00:11:41.248 --> 00:11:51.071 I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me, who does the works, and so there is no difference. 00:11:51.071 --> 00:11:55.330 I mean, god is God, but he's a three-part being. 00:11:55.330 --> 00:12:06.495 He's God the Father, god the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but every one of those parts is God, and so he's saying there's no difference between me and my Father. 00:12:06.495 --> 00:12:14.231 I'm in my Father, my Father is in me, the Holy Spirit's on the inside of me, and the Spirit is the one who does the works. 00:12:14.231 --> 00:12:20.750 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves. 00:12:20.750 --> 00:12:21.889 You've seen these works. 00:12:21.889 --> 00:12:23.710 There's no other explanation. 00:12:23.710 --> 00:12:30.091 Either believe what I'm telling you or, at least for the sake of the works that you've seen, believe what I'm telling you now. 00:12:31.904 --> 00:12:47.937 And so, in verse 12, most assuredly, I say to you he who believes in me and the works that I do, he will do greater works than these, because I go to my Father and whatever you ask in my name that I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 00:12:47.937 --> 00:12:50.351 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 00:12:50.351 --> 00:12:57.610 I mean that kind of takes the limits right off right there, sort of If you ask anything in my name. 00:12:57.610 --> 00:13:06.073 So Jesus said I don't do anything out from under the authority of my Father, again being the example, I only do those things that my Father shows or tells me to do. 00:13:06.073 --> 00:13:14.090 Whatever my Father's telling me, I'm sharing with you, my disciples, and so it's not anything. 00:13:16.085 --> 00:13:35.553 Jesus was filled with the Spirit and then led by the Spirit, and so if we're filled with the same Spirit and led by the Spirit, whatever we need, whatever the Spirit shows us, whatever God shows us through the Holy Spirit and he talks to our Spirit, whatever God is showing us, we can have anything that we need. 00:13:35.553 --> 00:13:41.488 It's not anything that our flesh wants or our brain wants, but our Spirit, who's connected with the Holy Spirit. 00:13:41.488 --> 00:13:48.336 We can have that, whatever our Spirit determines, because we're being led by the Holy Spirit. 00:13:48.336 --> 00:13:50.909 So don't confuse who you are. 00:13:50.909 --> 00:13:52.134 You're not that flesh. 00:13:52.134 --> 00:13:54.072 My flesh wants to go do that over there. 00:13:54.072 --> 00:13:57.528 I want that boat, I really want a boat. 00:13:57.528 --> 00:14:03.695 So I'm going to just say God, give me a boat Now. 00:14:03.695 --> 00:14:04.356 He's got to do it. 00:14:04.356 --> 00:14:05.710 Now I've obligated God. 00:14:05.710 --> 00:14:12.138 Well, not really because my flesh wanted that, but that wasn't asking according to the Spirit. 00:14:12.138 --> 00:14:13.811 So there are some limits on this here. 00:14:13.811 --> 00:14:17.947 But anything that the Spirit agrees with you can have. 00:14:17.947 --> 00:14:19.647 Is that clear? 00:14:20.825 --> 00:14:34.918 So in my name, whatsoever you ask in my name, in the name of Jesus, that word right there in my name, my name is the Greek word anoma and it means one of two things. 00:14:34.918 --> 00:14:37.451 Literally it's a name, like my name is James. 00:14:37.451 --> 00:14:40.893 These are the names of those that were called. 00:14:40.893 --> 00:14:45.553 It's literally names, but in this particular case it is authority. 00:14:45.553 --> 00:14:55.424 So it's whatsoever you ask in my authority, I will do so. 00:14:55.424 --> 00:14:58.494 Now we've got to, we're authorized to do something. 00:14:58.494 --> 00:15:03.254 We got to live our lives under the authority of His word. 00:15:03.254 --> 00:15:09.855 But whatever's in that word, we're authorized to proclaim, to ask, to declare, to make it happen. 00:15:09.855 --> 00:15:13.835 And so the name of Jesus. 00:15:13.835 --> 00:15:35.711 When you say I'm praying in the name of Jesus, I'm praying in the authority of Jesus, and I want you to remember that when you do things in the name of Jesus, when you lay hands on somebody in the name of Jesus, it's not a thing you're saying, it's not a password, it's not a magic word, it's not the word that makes it all happen, it's you're declaring on the authority of Jesus. 00:15:35.711 --> 00:15:38.028 He has another way to say. 00:15:38.028 --> 00:15:45.413 That is, I am authorized to do this and the spirit on the inside of me is doing the works. 00:15:45.413 --> 00:15:48.110 I don't have to do this. 00:15:48.110 --> 00:15:49.510 I don't have to do the hard part. 00:15:49.510 --> 00:15:54.496 What I do is I speak His word and put that on the line, but I'm authorized to do that. 00:15:54.496 --> 00:15:58.052 So the name of Jesus is the authority of Jesus. 00:16:00.985 --> 00:16:04.072 Jesus taught His disciples about authority. 00:16:04.072 --> 00:16:14.770 He was telling them about the Holy Spirit that was going to become, and Jesus was telling them I'm about to leave, but don't worry, I'm not going to leave you, orphans, I will send you the comforter. 00:16:14.770 --> 00:16:18.754 He will dwell with you and be in you always. 00:16:18.754 --> 00:16:20.869 They had not yet experienced that. 00:16:20.869 --> 00:16:27.812 So Jesus is the only one who had the Holy Spirit on the inside of them, but they had the promise of the Holy Spirit that was coming soon. 00:16:27.812 --> 00:16:35.455 There's a lot you can do on the authority of Jesus. 00:16:35.455 --> 00:16:52.410 There's more you can do with the power of the Holy Spirit, and we've got much of the church out there doing things, saying things on the authority of Jesus, but not operating with the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside, and they need the power to go with the authority. 00:16:52.410 --> 00:17:01.976 It's not that the Holy Spirit doesn't dwell on the inside of them, it's that they're not filled up with the Holy Spirit and they're not operating on that power. 00:17:02.585 --> 00:17:04.090 So let's talk about the disciples here. 00:17:04.090 --> 00:17:11.626 Jesus was training them up and he's given them opportunities to go out and do so. 00:17:11.626 --> 00:17:19.501 He sent them out with this understanding. 00:17:19.501 --> 00:17:25.616 In Mark, chapter 6, verse 7, I think this is where he's sending out the seventy. 00:17:25.616 --> 00:17:29.467 And he sent them out two by two and gave them power over unclean spirits. 00:17:29.467 --> 00:17:36.208 So he gave them some authority to handle the unclean spirits and he said whoever will not receive you, you depart from there. 00:17:36.208 --> 00:17:37.414 Shake off the dust of your feet. 00:17:37.414 --> 00:17:39.061 It will be a testimony against them. 00:17:39.061 --> 00:17:44.106 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day than it will in the day of judgment. 00:17:44.106 --> 00:17:46.301 So don't worry about those who reject you. 00:17:46.301 --> 00:17:56.567 It's kind of a new thing disciples going out there and they're starting to heal people or cast out devils or do whatever Jesus told them to do, and so certainly there's going to be some who reject. 00:17:56.567 --> 00:17:58.982 He said don't worry about those, just shake the dust off your feet. 00:17:59.134 --> 00:18:09.507 So as they went out and preached that the people should repent, they cast out demonic spirits and anointed many with oil who were sick and healed them. 00:18:09.507 --> 00:18:10.921 So they had some successes. 00:18:10.921 --> 00:18:12.882 They were like, whoa, this stuff works. 00:18:12.882 --> 00:18:15.221 We're doing stuff in Jesus' name. 00:18:15.221 --> 00:18:18.384 Hey, we've got the authority of Jesus and we can do some stuff. 00:18:18.384 --> 00:18:21.020 And so he sent out the 70. 00:18:21.020 --> 00:18:37.417 They were so surprised at their success and they said Jesus, even the—and he sent out the 12, and they said Jesus, even the demonic spirits are subject to us, in your name, in the authority you've given us. 00:18:37.417 --> 00:18:38.942 And he was happy for them. 00:18:38.942 --> 00:18:44.083 But he said don't rejoice in that, just rejoice that your names are written in the book. 00:18:44.083 --> 00:18:48.144 The bigger deal is that your names are marked for life in heaven. 00:18:48.144 --> 00:18:52.025 It's not a big deal that demonic powers are subject to you in my name. 00:18:52.025 --> 00:18:53.159 That's a little thing. 00:18:53.159 --> 00:18:56.338 Sickness bends its knee, those are little things. 00:18:56.338 --> 00:19:02.336 The miracle is that you guys are written in heaven and so that's part of your future right there. 00:19:05.935 --> 00:19:08.763 And he warned them about persecutions Not everybody. 00:19:08.763 --> 00:19:16.281 We're carrying a message that's not always a popular one and in some of the places we go it is rejected. 00:19:16.281 --> 00:19:19.563 But I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 00:19:19.563 --> 00:19:22.763 It is the power of God unto salvation. 00:19:22.763 --> 00:19:26.343 We are supposed to go out there and do this. 00:19:26.343 --> 00:19:32.125 And so at this point his disciples have gone and done things on his authority. 00:19:32.125 --> 00:19:40.644 And at the end of, let's go over to Mark, chapter 16. 00:19:40.644 --> 00:19:47.299 So this is the great commission here. 00:19:47.299 --> 00:19:52.416 It's also in Matthew, but we're going to read this one out of Mark Mark, chapter 15,. 00:19:52.457 --> 00:20:01.997 And he said to them go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and he who believes in his baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. 00:20:01.997 --> 00:20:04.323 And these signs will follow them. 00:20:04.323 --> 00:20:17.119 Who believe In my name, they'll cast out demons, they'll speak with new tongues, they'll take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it will by no means hurt them, and they'll lay hands on the sick and they will recover. 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.721 In my name, you're going to do these things. 00:20:20.721 --> 00:20:24.323 And so right here in verse 19,. 00:20:24.323 --> 00:20:31.806 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, where he still is today. 00:20:33.357 --> 00:20:35.242 Now just let's clarify some stuff here. 00:20:35.242 --> 00:20:40.742 Jesus does not live on the inside of us, he's seated at the right hand of the heavenly Father. 00:20:40.742 --> 00:20:45.720 He sent the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who dwells with us always, and so we have the Holy Spirit on the inside of us. 00:20:45.720 --> 00:21:00.880 Jesus is up there and it says and they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them or the Holy Spirit working with them, confirming the word with accompanying signs. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:02.521 And so they preached everywhere. 00:21:02.521 --> 00:21:06.903 They preached this gospel, they preached the truth, and the Holy Spirit did the working. 00:21:06.903 --> 00:21:13.765 He worked with them, they went in the authority and the Holy Spirit went in the power and did the working. 00:21:15.055 --> 00:21:18.380 And so I'm going to turn over to Acts. 00:21:18.380 --> 00:21:26.220 Why didn't you put markers in your Bible? 00:21:26.220 --> 00:21:27.865 I did, I just didn't have enough markers. 00:21:27.865 --> 00:21:29.336 They're starting to fall out of other places. 00:21:29.336 --> 00:21:53.323 So in Acts, in Acts, chapter 1, this is where it picks up, right at the end of Mark, jesus leaves and the Lord working with them. 00:21:53.323 --> 00:21:55.058 So here is the Lord working with them. 00:21:55.058 --> 00:21:59.135 They did not. 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:06.909 Just before the verses in Mark, chapter 16, jesus was beginning to appear to the disciples. 00:22:06.909 --> 00:22:08.279 He risen from the dead. 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:21.321 He's risen from the grave, and he had multiple appearance to his disciples and some believed and some didn't, and he had to rebuke the hardness of heart, and then he gave them the great commission and then he ascended up into heaven. 00:22:21.321 --> 00:22:24.022 And so here we are in Acts, chapter 1. 00:22:24.022 --> 00:22:31.241 And so here's what you look at in Micah, at Mark, chapter 2, the Bible on faith and being assembled together with them. 00:22:31.241 --> 00:22:39.526 He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said you have heard from me". 00:22:39.526 --> 00:22:42.060 So we're kind of in the same time zone. 00:22:42.101 --> 00:22:50.660 Right here, mark, chapter 16, is Acts chapter 1, in this little segment, right here, for John's really baptized with water. 00:22:50.660 --> 00:23:01.127 But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now or when they come together and asked him saying, lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel? 00:23:01.127 --> 00:23:16.065 And he said to them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth. 00:23:16.065 --> 00:23:19.843 And so here it's, just before they've received power. 00:23:19.843 --> 00:23:29.317 You know the story in the upper room, they were all in one accord the Holy Spirit comes blowing through there as a mighty rushing wind. 00:23:29.317 --> 00:23:35.078 They spoke with other tongues and the Lord worked with them. 00:23:35.078 --> 00:23:39.400 They preached, the Lord worked with them doing the works. 00:23:46.256 --> 00:23:54.150 And so in Acts, chapter 3, verse well, in verse 1, the lame man was healed. 00:23:54.150 --> 00:23:59.965 So now Peter and John went up to the temple at about the ninth hour there was a certain lame man. 00:23:59.965 --> 00:24:00.826 You know the story there. 00:24:00.826 --> 00:24:02.877 The lame man's been there, everybody knows he's a lame man. 00:24:02.877 --> 00:24:06.041 Peter and John approached him and the man's begging. 00:24:06.041 --> 00:24:08.479 And Peter and John say silver and gold have I? 00:24:08.479 --> 00:24:13.519 None, but such as I have, give I the in the name of Jesus. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:17.924 On the authority of Jesus, rise up and walk. 00:24:17.924 --> 00:24:21.403 But they also had the power of the Holy Spirit that worked with them. 00:24:21.403 --> 00:24:26.345 So, on the authority of Jesus, rise up and walk. 00:24:26.345 --> 00:24:27.468 And they had an act of faith. 00:24:27.468 --> 00:24:34.300 They grabbed the lame man by the hand and they yanked him up and immediately his ankle bones received strength and he went walking and leaping and praising God. 00:24:34.300 --> 00:24:42.423 And then they had to explain this, because people are looking at Peter and John like their gods and they're shocked. 00:24:42.423 --> 00:24:45.535 They've never seen this before. 00:24:45.535 --> 00:24:54.986 And so in verse 12, it says men of Israel, why do you marvel at this or look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 00:24:56.194 --> 00:25:10.265 The God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 00:25:10.265 --> 00:25:11.440 But you denied the Holy One. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:16.145 So he's accusing them now of crucifying the One that came to save him. 00:25:16.145 --> 00:25:27.263 But the point I want to make here is he didn't call him Jesus, because well, he did, but he said the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob. 00:25:27.263 --> 00:25:30.978 And so there's power in a name and what is wrapped up in the? 00:25:30.978 --> 00:25:35.887 He didn't just say God, he said the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob. 00:25:35.887 --> 00:25:38.422 Why did he say it that way? 00:25:38.422 --> 00:25:41.201 Because they're familiar with the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob. 00:25:41.201 --> 00:25:42.285 Number one, but two. 00:25:42.365 --> 00:25:48.118 There is a whole covenant wrapped up in those three names the God of Abraham. 00:25:48.118 --> 00:25:53.003 Abraham was God's friend and God made Abraham a promise. 00:25:53.003 --> 00:26:03.803 In fact, he cut a covenant with Abraham, and so you've got Abraham, the father, the God of Abraham, then Isaac, the God of Isaac. 00:26:03.803 --> 00:26:12.641 Isaac was the promised son to Abraham, but he was also the provision of the covenant that God cut with Abraham. 00:26:12.641 --> 00:26:19.548 So wrapped up in that is the promise and the covenant and the fulfillment of that covenant. 00:26:19.548 --> 00:26:26.087 Jacob, who was later named Israel, where the nation of Israel and the rest of the world. 00:26:26.087 --> 00:26:29.135 The promise would be fulfilled, god fulfilled. 00:26:29.135 --> 00:26:32.682 So God fulfilled his promise of Abraham. 00:26:32.682 --> 00:26:38.481 The covenant was cut, it was provided and fulfilled in those three names. 00:26:38.654 --> 00:26:49.859 And so there is so much wrapped up in the name of the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, and there's so much wrapped up in the name of Jesus, which was the fulfillment of the promise of God, the fulfillment of the law. 00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:54.480 The law's been fulfilled. 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.461 We don't live under the curse of the law. 00:26:57.461 --> 00:27:01.582 We don't live under the curse of sin and death. 00:27:01.582 --> 00:27:06.625 We have the promise, through Jesus, of everything that he bought and paid for. 00:27:06.625 --> 00:27:17.401 We have His authority and we have the promise of the Holy Spirit who now dwells on the inside of us so that when we go and preach, the Lord works with us with signs and wonders and miracles, with accompanying signs. 00:27:17.401 --> 00:27:19.941 He confirms His word as we go and do. 00:27:19.941 --> 00:27:22.165 And not everybody's going to hear it, and that's okay. 00:27:22.165 --> 00:27:25.542 We can read off and move on to the next one, but he's going to. 00:27:26.115 --> 00:27:29.223 So wrapped up in that name is more than just the authority. 00:27:29.223 --> 00:27:36.446 It's the whole covenant, the promise, the fulfillment, and what Adam lost has been restored to us. 00:27:36.446 --> 00:27:39.220 We have dominion again. 00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:42.825 We have authority to speak and things should happen. 00:27:42.825 --> 00:27:48.057 We have the authority to rule and reign over all of creation, the same way God intended Adam to do. 00:27:48.057 --> 00:27:50.180 It it's all wrapped up in the name of Jesus. 00:27:50.180 --> 00:27:58.682 And so for these Israelites here who were just shocked at what Peter and John had just done, he said why do you look at me this way? 00:27:58.682 --> 00:28:06.429 The God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob has glorified His servant, jesus. 00:28:06.429 --> 00:28:16.358 And so in verse 16, it says and His name through faith in His name, through two things in His name and faith in that name. 00:28:16.358 --> 00:28:19.905 This man has been made strong, whom you see now. 00:28:19.905 --> 00:28:28.278 In that name, in the covenant, promises, the fulfillment of it, the dominion, everything wrapped up in that name. 00:28:28.278 --> 00:28:29.662 And faith in that name. 00:28:29.662 --> 00:28:33.009 This man whom you see today is made whole. 00:28:33.009 --> 00:28:37.403 And so there is a lot in that name. 00:28:37.403 --> 00:28:39.623 I don't want you to just flippantly say that name. 00:28:39.623 --> 00:28:42.461 We're praying, we'll pray a neat prayer in Jesus' name. 00:28:42.461 --> 00:28:50.400 Let that wash over you the significance of that name and what's wrapped up in that and what you have in that name. 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:59.246 And then, when you've just prayed, because your spirit led and you prayed according to the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, you prayed a Holy Spirit prayer, one that he can agree with. 00:28:59.246 --> 00:29:03.763 You don't have to do the work, because the Holy Spirit will work with you. 00:29:05.095 --> 00:29:09.023 Now some people try to do this stuff and they're not authorized to do this. 00:29:09.023 --> 00:29:24.863 In Matthew, chapter 7, it says that you will know them by their fruits, and in verse 21 it says Not everyone who says to me, lord, lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. 00:29:24.863 --> 00:29:32.900 Many of you will say in that day Lord, lord, we have prophesied in your name, we've cast out devils in your name, we've done many wonders of your name. 00:29:32.900 --> 00:29:35.958 And then I will declare to them I never knew you depart from me. 00:29:35.958 --> 00:29:49.468 So there are pretenders out there that will do some stuff and say in the name of Jesus, but they're not authorized because they're not adopted yet, they're not born again. 00:29:49.468 --> 00:29:55.661 They're either pretending, or they're charlatans, or they just don't know and they haven't got things in the right order yet. 00:29:55.661 --> 00:30:01.155 But either way, they're not authorized to do this until they receive what Jesus has done. 00:30:02.535 --> 00:30:09.429 In Acts, chapter 19, it talks about the seven sons of Sceva who tried to do some stuff in the name of Jesus. 00:30:09.429 --> 00:30:13.465 In fact, they didn't really even know what the significance of the name of Jesus was. 00:30:13.465 --> 00:30:14.096 They just had. 00:30:14.096 --> 00:30:20.692 They knew Paul was significant, and so they said you know when the demonic powers are addressing them? 00:30:20.692 --> 00:30:24.701 They said we adjure you by the name of Jesus that Paul preaches. 00:30:24.701 --> 00:30:32.126 You know Paul's doing some stuff, and then they hear Paul's doing some great things in Jesus' name. 00:30:32.126 --> 00:30:33.800 Okay, well, we can copy that. 00:30:33.800 --> 00:30:35.359 And so they try to copy that. 00:30:35.414 --> 00:30:41.967 And the evil spirit answered, saying we know Jesus and we even know Paul, but who are you? 00:30:41.967 --> 00:30:47.266 And I don't recognize your authority to use that name. 00:30:47.266 --> 00:30:47.715 You're not. 00:30:47.715 --> 00:30:54.017 I know that you don't have that authority and I don't see any power with what you're doing and saying, in fact. 00:30:54.017 --> 00:30:59.498 And so the demons leapt on them and stripped them naked and beat them, left them bleeding and bruised. 00:30:59.498 --> 00:31:08.204 It's dangerous to try to do things that you're not authorized to do, and so let's work within the things that we're authorized for. 00:31:08.375 --> 00:31:09.738 So Adam lost it and God. 00:31:09.738 --> 00:31:12.104 Adam lost what God gave him. 00:31:12.104 --> 00:31:15.000 Jesus paid the penalty and brought it back. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.181 We're not our own, we're bought with a price. 00:31:17.181 --> 00:31:21.265 We were once a puppet for the God of this world, but not anymore. 00:31:21.265 --> 00:31:30.220 And our purpose, the purpose of our life, is for good works and when we speak, some people are going to want more and be drawn to that and attracted to that, and others are going to reject. 00:31:31.214 --> 00:31:32.560 Let's go after the low hanging fruit. 00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:36.385 Let's go after the ones who are hungry, who are seeking after God. 00:31:36.385 --> 00:31:42.798 Let's make sure that when people come looking for water, that they find water and we help people along the way. 00:31:42.798 --> 00:31:43.656 Those who reject. 00:31:43.656 --> 00:31:47.116 Maybe they'll have another chance, maybe they won't, I don't know. 00:31:47.116 --> 00:31:57.567 But let's not waste our time arguing with people who are nuts, arguing with people who have no interest in knowing what the name of Jesus is all about. 00:31:57.567 --> 00:32:05.702 You start arguing with these people and really you can't tell the difference between you and them because you're arguing with somebody who's just a fool. 00:32:05.702 --> 00:32:07.657 Don't argue with a fool. 00:32:07.657 --> 00:32:09.355 Let's move on. 00:32:14.095 --> 00:32:15.700 In the threat of rejection, big deal. 00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:31.778 I know it can come from family, it can come from friends, people you've been close to, but in the big scheme of things, we're planting seeds along the way and if enough seeds are put out there, hopefully some of the seed is going to take root in some of these people. 00:32:31.778 --> 00:32:34.002 These relationships we have with family. 00:32:34.002 --> 00:32:36.896 We ought not relate to family above the blood of Jesus. 00:32:36.896 --> 00:32:39.436 You're my family. 00:32:39.436 --> 00:32:53.481 I relate to you a lot more closely than I do some of my own blood family members who are not born again, because I don't have anything in common with them, and so I have all things in common to you. 00:32:54.015 --> 00:32:54.837 Fear God, not man. 00:32:54.837 --> 00:32:57.259 Don't be ashamed of the gospel. 00:32:57.259 --> 00:32:59.982 We need to be spreading this stuff every opportunity we have. 00:32:59.982 --> 00:33:04.143 We have authority to do all the things that Jesus taught and did. 00:33:04.143 --> 00:33:06.375 Everything. 00:33:06.375 --> 00:33:08.580 Jesus did everything God did in Jesus. 00:33:08.580 --> 00:33:12.538 He wants to do in us Everything Jesus did. 00:33:12.538 --> 00:33:13.963 He wants us to do. 00:33:13.963 --> 00:33:16.700 In fact, he wants us to do the greater works. 00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:18.826 What does that mean greater? 00:33:18.826 --> 00:33:24.656 Well, jesus was on this earth for a short period of time before he delegated his authority to us. 00:33:24.656 --> 00:33:33.846 There was one Jesus and there's a lot of us, and so if you look at the multiplication factor, it's greater in number. 00:33:34.654 --> 00:33:42.702 The miracles that can be done by us in the name of Jesus, where the power of the Holy Ghost goes to work and does the work, those are greater works. 00:33:42.702 --> 00:33:45.298 In my name they shall. 00:33:45.298 --> 00:33:47.424 We're supposed to raise the dead. 00:33:47.424 --> 00:33:48.719 We're supposed to raise dead people. 00:33:48.719 --> 00:33:54.140 We're supposed to raise dead people. 00:33:54.140 --> 00:34:02.364 There's people walking around in this world, out there, and they're dead, and we're supposed to raise them up and bring them into God's kingdom. 00:34:02.364 --> 00:34:06.519 So, sadly, not every Christian walks in this authority. 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.065 Instead, they walk in excuses. 00:34:09.065 --> 00:34:17.561 We've talked about the disciples and Jesus was training them and he pulled the training wheels off and they got to do a little bit more. 00:34:17.561 --> 00:34:22.246 And then Jesus completed the work and he gave us the authority and power we can do this. 00:34:22.246 --> 00:34:29.706 We've got pretenders out there and we've got people who don't know that they have this authority and they walk in excuses and they blame God. 00:34:29.706 --> 00:34:31.981 They're trying to justify this doctrine that they have. 00:34:31.981 --> 00:34:37.204 They believe that God sends the trouble and is trying to teach them a lesson. 00:34:37.204 --> 00:34:41.119 And you've got. 00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:52.697 There have been several people who have left this life and gone into eternity, and the death of those people have been blamed on God by their loved ones, and it's just so much. 00:34:52.697 --> 00:35:11.942 More recently and I've tried to one I'm thinking of in particular, when I I tried to talk to him about the name of Jesus oh, thank God that ailment has a name, because the name of Jesus is above that name he said no, god gave her this. 00:35:11.942 --> 00:35:16.601 God does not give people cancer. 00:35:16.601 --> 00:35:20.264 Yes, but look at the lives whom she's been able to touch. 00:35:20.264 --> 00:35:28.244 She goes to the hospital every week and she's getting these treatments and she gets to go in there and just preach God's word and she's I'm glad God's redeeming that. 00:35:28.244 --> 00:35:29.568 But God didn't give her the trouble. 00:35:29.568 --> 00:35:32.744 God had gone in the hospital and preached salvation anyway. 00:35:32.744 --> 00:35:35.300 You don't need cancer to go into hospital and preach. 00:35:37.795 --> 00:35:42.746 And yet people hold on to that and they think that God gave it to them. 00:35:42.746 --> 00:35:55.157 And yet so if God gives somebody cancer, if he says here's cancer, here's a gift for you, there's cancer, now you can go do my work, then why are you trying so desperately to get rid of it? 00:35:55.157 --> 00:35:57.039 Why go through chemo? 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.480 Why go through radiation? 00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.577 Why fight like? 00:35:59.577 --> 00:36:02.583 Why the fight against the thing that I gave? 00:36:02.583 --> 00:36:03.565 It makes no sense. 00:36:04.594 --> 00:36:06.603 But they don't understand the authority of the believer. 00:36:06.603 --> 00:36:12.407 They don't understand that Jesus took this on the cross so that they don't have to have it. 00:36:12.407 --> 00:36:20.284 They can't reconcile that there because they don't recognize that they have authority against sickness, that believers lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. 00:36:20.284 --> 00:36:28.965