WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:06.690 The title of my message tonight is with God, you can, you can. 00:00:06.690 --> 00:00:20.304 I have been so inspired in my life by the can-do people that God puts in your life, and sometimes there are people in your life that are not can-do people. 00:00:20.304 --> 00:00:21.731 How many of you just don't say their name. 00:00:21.731 --> 00:00:28.474 But I want you to think about those people and how you can't wait to get away from them. 00:00:28.474 --> 00:00:30.018 Does that happen to you sometimes? 00:00:30.018 --> 00:00:35.774 The people who are complaining a long list of complaints and we love them. 00:00:35.774 --> 00:00:37.801 Hallelujah, we're called to love them. 00:00:37.801 --> 00:00:41.091 And you know what, if God told us to do something, we can. 00:00:41.091 --> 00:00:42.978 With God, we can. 00:00:42.978 --> 00:00:44.142 We can love those people. 00:00:44.142 --> 00:00:52.308 But isn't it nice to be around faith people who see that mountain and say God can move that, and I'm going to move it with my words. 00:00:52.308 --> 00:00:56.841 So I just want to encourage y'all tonight. 00:00:56.860 --> 00:01:03.201 This will probably not be new information for any of you, but let's just start reading right now. 00:01:03.201 --> 00:01:04.483 I've got two scriptures. 00:01:04.483 --> 00:01:08.590 We can start with Acts 1-8,. 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:10.995 But you shall receive. 00:01:10.995 --> 00:01:16.700 This is Jesus talking to the disciples, the post resurrection Jesus appearing to the disciples. 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:21.228 But and he says but you will receive power after that. 00:01:21.228 --> 00:01:26.125 The Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me. 00:01:26.125 --> 00:01:33.224 In Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth, you shall receive power. 00:01:33.224 --> 00:01:42.430 The passion translation says you will be seized with power, or it could also mean you will seize power. 00:01:42.430 --> 00:01:44.695 Isn't that cool? 00:01:44.695 --> 00:01:46.219 You will seize power. 00:01:46.219 --> 00:01:49.466 When the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will seize power. 00:01:49.546 --> 00:01:51.753 No wonder people were so mad at Jesus. 00:01:51.753 --> 00:01:54.189 Political people were always mad at Jesus. 00:01:54.189 --> 00:01:57.462 They thought that he was trying to get in on their game. 00:01:57.462 --> 00:01:59.028 He said he was a king. 00:01:59.028 --> 00:02:00.212 We can't let him. 00:02:00.212 --> 00:02:02.618 We can't let him seize power like that. 00:02:02.618 --> 00:02:04.203 We can't let his people seize power. 00:02:04.203 --> 00:02:16.193 I'm telling you, holy Ghost, people, we can seize power in our own lives, in our families, not for our own self, but for the kingdom of God and on Jesus's behalf. 00:02:16.193 --> 00:02:17.722 We can seize power. 00:02:17.722 --> 00:02:23.913 Hallelujah With the Holy Ghost and in ever concentric circles. 00:02:23.913 --> 00:02:24.473 I mean. 00:02:24.473 --> 00:02:56.068 That's why I believe when we are as a church and now that we have my God votes is our initiative that James and I and Tara has been working with us on that so greatly we have noticed that there are a lot of people now getting into grassroots government, now running for office, or who have run for office and are working toward fixing certain policies in our nation, in our states that are so broken and we've noticed are there. 00:02:56.068 --> 00:03:12.304 You know there are some denominational people working in that world, but the people that God is connecting us with, we are amazed to see how many of them are spirit filled, bible believing, excited, overflowing Holy Spirit Christians and they're motivated to. 00:03:12.304 --> 00:03:14.491 I'm telling you, they're saying I'm going to seize power. 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.090 Jesus said the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force. 00:03:19.090 --> 00:03:22.752 So we are can do people with God, we can do it. 00:03:22.752 --> 00:03:36.004 And then I want to remind you, in Matthew 28, 18, jesus spoke to them and he said all authority or power, all power or authority has been given unto me in heaven and earth. 00:03:36.004 --> 00:03:45.328 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. 00:03:45.328 --> 00:03:51.407 In other words, we're talking about the word here and we're helping people learn how to obey it and apply it in their lives. 00:03:51.407 --> 00:03:53.752 And God gave us that command. 00:03:53.752 --> 00:03:56.847 Jesus gave that to his disciples and everybody say I'm a disciple. 00:03:56.847 --> 00:04:00.253 So that means you can do that. 00:04:00.253 --> 00:04:08.584 And if he told you to do it, then you can do it and it says I am with you always, even to the end of the age, with God. 00:04:08.584 --> 00:04:12.536 He's with Jesus, is with us, he's given us his, his. 00:04:12.536 --> 00:04:13.038 Now. 00:04:13.038 --> 00:04:15.807 He said that he started out all authority has been given unto me. 00:04:15.807 --> 00:04:18.399 So this is where I want to break this down Again. 00:04:18.420 --> 00:04:34.567 I I just want this is a primer for those of us who might be new, because my dad teaches so much about power and authority in the New Testament, and I know that he assumes that sometimes we know these things, but there are many words. 00:04:34.567 --> 00:04:47.689 You know the New Testament is what was written in Greek, and when the and in the Greek language, there are many different Greek word that all get translated to the word one word power in English. 00:04:47.689 --> 00:04:53.430 So when we read about the power of God in the Bible, we are reading wow, his power, his power, his power. 00:04:53.430 --> 00:04:59.329 Well, there are actually about seven different words that are translated power, but we're going to talk about two or maybe three. 00:04:59.329 --> 00:05:04.456 We might get to three of them tonight, and those two main words, though, that I want to get to for sure. 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.252 We just read about the power that comes on us with the Holy Spirit. 00:05:09.252 --> 00:05:10.958 What kind of power is that? 00:05:10.958 --> 00:05:13.163 That's the Greek word doonimus. 00:05:13.163 --> 00:05:17.952 It's actually we say it doonimus, but it looks like dynamus with it. 00:05:17.952 --> 00:05:25.312 Why, I don't understand Greek, but that's the way it's spelled, and it is where we get our word dynamite. 00:05:25.312 --> 00:05:27.142 It's the kaboom of God. 00:05:27.142 --> 00:05:32.531 You shall receive kaboom when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. 00:05:32.531 --> 00:05:39.151 You shall seize it and use it for his glory, amen, and that. 00:05:39.151 --> 00:05:43.500 So the source of that kaboom power working in us is the Holy Ghost. 00:05:45.605 --> 00:05:54.872 And then there's the other word that we want to get to tonight exosia, which is also translated authority, and that's the one we just read about in Matthew 28, 18. 00:05:54.872 --> 00:06:00.370 All authority is given unto me and I want you to take my authority. 00:06:00.370 --> 00:06:11.584 Jesus said take his authority, and with that the source of that power that we all have as Christians, the source of that authority, whose authority are we operating under? 00:06:11.584 --> 00:06:13.468 Jesus authority? 00:06:13.468 --> 00:06:25.446 It comes from the name of Jesus, and you got that authority the minute you profess Jesus as your savior, the minute you stepped out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light. 00:06:25.446 --> 00:06:39.805 You are now in the family of God, you carry the family name, you are Jesus's ambassador, representative on this earth, and you get to use his authority and there's power in that. 00:06:39.805 --> 00:06:46.502 So let's start there and just go and dig in to Jesus. 00:06:47.122 --> 00:06:47.625 Sends out. 00:06:47.625 --> 00:06:53.545 He's got his disciples and there is not even possible for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit yet. 00:06:53.545 --> 00:06:58.341 They just get to spend a lot of time one on one with Jesus and he's been pouring into them. 00:06:58.341 --> 00:07:02.249 And so then, in Luke 10, he sends them out. 00:07:02.249 --> 00:07:09.249 After these things, the Lord appointed 70 others also and sent them two by two. 00:07:09.249 --> 00:07:10.271 Did not send them alone. 00:07:10.271 --> 00:07:10.771 Notice that. 00:07:10.771 --> 00:07:12.482 He did not send them alone. 00:07:12.482 --> 00:07:17.295 He wanted them to have because there's power in numbers, right. 00:07:17.295 --> 00:07:26.281 He sent them two by two, before his face, into every city in place where he himself was about to go, and so they were his. 00:07:26.281 --> 00:07:30.110 So we see all the places Jesus went and the miracles that he did. 00:07:30.110 --> 00:07:31.793 But he had a warm-up team. 00:07:31.793 --> 00:07:35.504 He had an awesome warm-up team, and that's what we are. 00:07:35.504 --> 00:07:38.822 We're warming up the world right now for his second coming. 00:07:38.822 --> 00:07:40.809 Hallelujah, all right. 00:07:40.908 --> 00:07:48.533 And in that we have a certain and he gave them very specific instructions about what he wanted them to take. 00:07:48.533 --> 00:07:53.689 He said first of all, he said the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. 00:07:53.689 --> 00:07:55.656 So I want you to pray. 00:07:55.656 --> 00:08:03.103 The Lord of the harvest will send laborers into the harvest, and I want you to go your way, and you're going to be like lambs among wolves. 00:08:03.103 --> 00:08:11.906 And so he wanted them to be very peaceful, he wanted them to be very, and he wanted them to depend on God for their supply. 00:08:11.906 --> 00:08:14.452 And then he told them to heal the sick. 00:08:14.452 --> 00:08:17.687 The kingdom of God has come near to you. 00:08:18.009 --> 00:08:27.603 And so they went and they did that, and in verse 17, they came back with joy saying Lord, even the demons are subject to us, in your name, in your name. 00:08:27.603 --> 00:08:32.635 And he said to them I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 00:08:32.635 --> 00:08:35.705 Oh, demons, shmemons, I, they're already defeated. 00:08:35.705 --> 00:08:46.936 Jesus is saying they are already defeated, but hold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 00:08:46.936 --> 00:08:53.591 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this if the spirits are subject to you, but rather than rejoice that your names are written in heaven. 00:08:53.591 --> 00:08:57.451 And so to Jesus. 00:08:57.451 --> 00:08:59.956 It was no big deal to have authority over demons. 00:08:59.956 --> 00:09:02.451 Of course you have authority over demons. 00:09:02.451 --> 00:09:04.808 Satan fell, I saw it. 00:09:05.945 --> 00:09:09.414 We make a big deal out of deliverance ministries, make a big deal. 00:09:09.414 --> 00:09:13.115 Oh, there's a devil on her and him or whatever. 00:09:13.115 --> 00:09:15.452 Oh, they're the devil who can't. 00:09:15.452 --> 00:09:18.312 Jesus' name is so powerful. 00:09:18.312 --> 00:09:20.591 We make such a big deal out of the other side. 00:09:20.591 --> 00:09:22.828 Let's make a big deal out of Jesus. 00:09:22.828 --> 00:09:25.996 And he said don't worry about it. 00:09:26.504 --> 00:09:31.417 And this is interesting because we just talked about Dunamis and exosia, right? 00:09:31.417 --> 00:09:33.269 So this is interesting. 00:09:33.269 --> 00:09:37.024 I give you a look at 19 again. 00:09:37.024 --> 00:09:38.831 Behold, I give you the authority. 00:09:38.831 --> 00:09:42.947 So I given you the exosia and exosia. 00:09:42.947 --> 00:09:46.956 The authority is like the police badge or like the king's crown. 00:09:46.956 --> 00:09:52.794 You have a crown of righteousness that fades, not away. 00:09:52.794 --> 00:09:57.674 Right, you have the crown, and the crown means you can make decrees. 00:09:57.674 --> 00:10:08.255 And so it says I'll give you authority to trample on the serpents and scorpions and over all the dunamis of the enemy. 00:10:08.255 --> 00:10:11.192 You know, the enemy also has explosive power. 00:10:11.192 --> 00:10:13.708 The enemy does have it. 00:10:13.708 --> 00:10:14.707 It's no big deal. 00:10:14.707 --> 00:10:19.548 Jesus said you ought to be trampling on it, and that's the word used. 00:10:19.548 --> 00:10:22.654 The same word, dunamis, is used here for the enemy's power. 00:10:22.654 --> 00:10:40.355 And so I just wanted to point that out, that we better have an equal and greater force of good and of the Holy Spirit than the world has on us. 00:10:40.355 --> 00:10:40.797 Amen. 00:10:41.684 --> 00:10:43.673 So that's why he gave us his dunamis. 00:10:43.673 --> 00:10:44.870 We need to be walking in it. 00:10:44.870 --> 00:10:46.349 We can't leave it to the side. 00:10:46.349 --> 00:10:52.817 You know, we see that when we get saved, we have the authority and it works. 00:10:52.817 --> 00:11:02.630 The disciples were able, just using the authority of the name of Jesus, they were able to do mighty wonders and it was exciting and the demons listened to them. 00:11:02.630 --> 00:11:05.190 But I think we have demons today. 00:11:05.190 --> 00:11:06.273 Sometimes they don't listen. 00:11:06.865 --> 00:11:19.873 Have you all noticed that we are wearing our crown of righteousness, we are operating in the authority of the name of Jesus, but the devil is a lawbreaker and he and we have lawbreakers in our society that are. 00:11:19.873 --> 00:11:21.336 We have people lawbreakers. 00:11:21.336 --> 00:11:23.350 We have demonic powers that are breaking laws. 00:11:23.350 --> 00:11:25.688 The people are just out. 00:11:25.688 --> 00:11:27.153 That's an outcropping. 00:11:27.153 --> 00:11:32.976 The lawlessness of our society is an outcropping of the lawless spirit in our world. 00:11:32.976 --> 00:11:35.130 Right, but we have authority over that. 00:11:35.130 --> 00:11:41.254 But when the devil does not listen to the authority of the name of Jesus, he has to bow his knee. 00:11:41.254 --> 00:11:41.576 He has to. 00:11:41.576 --> 00:11:56.597 But there are just powers that work against us and we've got to then pull out the dunamis of God, we've got to pull out the Holy Spirit, we've got to use all the weaponry at our disposal to defeat him, and we have the authority and the power to do it. 00:11:56.597 --> 00:11:59.251 We have, there's no excuse to fail. 00:11:59.251 --> 00:12:03.955 We have, and we really don't even have an excuse to complain. 00:12:03.955 --> 00:12:12.835 I'm preaching to myself, I'm telling you so the let's talk about the exosia. 00:12:12.835 --> 00:12:21.767 So back to that, philippians 2-8,. 00:12:21.826 --> 00:12:30.113 Being found in appearance as a man, jesus humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 00:12:30.113 --> 00:12:36.076 Therefore, god has also highly exalted him, highly exalted. 00:12:36.076 --> 00:12:38.568 How did he get highly exalted? 00:12:38.568 --> 00:12:56.216 By completely getting the lowest of any human being ever has gotten, to be completely humiliated, to lay down all of his pride and human dignity, to be crucified as a criminal and executed in the worst manner. 00:12:56.216 --> 00:13:02.297 And so he and he took on that suffering as a redemption for us. 00:13:02.297 --> 00:13:06.815 And because of that, god made sure that he was not going to stay there. 00:13:06.815 --> 00:13:28.102 Instead, he highly exalted him and gave him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every, everyone say every knee, every knee should bow those in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, three regions of authority. 00:13:28.102 --> 00:13:52.489 For the name of Jesus, everybody, everyone on earth, every demon under the earth, the devil himself, every angel, every person who's ever lived on the face of the earth, they all bow their knee at his name, so we ought to use his name and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 00:13:55.865 --> 00:14:03.238 You know, in public, when we're asked to pray and praise God. 00:14:03.238 --> 00:14:04.399 My kids go to Christian school. 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:10.833 I've heard lots of different people, wonderful people with so sweet, their hearts are so sweet and they pray, and they pray in his name. 00:14:10.833 --> 00:14:16.837 They pray, oh yes, in the Lord's name, in Christ's name. 00:14:16.837 --> 00:14:23.547 No, we pray the name of Jesus because there's it's not a magic word, it is. 00:14:23.547 --> 00:14:30.952 It is us tapping into, it's us knowing the authority in it, stepping back into his authority of his name and using that authority. 00:14:30.952 --> 00:14:33.173 We have that authority and so we should use it. 00:14:33.173 --> 00:14:35.370 We should pray in the name of Jesus. 00:14:38.404 --> 00:14:41.033 Sometimes people get really bad when you use the name of Jesus. 00:14:41.033 --> 00:14:45.308 That's why I like to work it in In every, every chance I get. 00:14:45.308 --> 00:14:48.615 I like to work in not just Christ, not just. 00:14:48.615 --> 00:14:50.139 Isn't God good? 00:14:50.139 --> 00:14:51.288 I remember I was. 00:14:51.467 --> 00:14:53.674 I was just writing out my testimony the other day. 00:14:53.674 --> 00:15:03.053 I knew I was going to make a Facebook post about my recent testimony, about how God saved my child, and I got to reading about how I just kept saying God is faithful. 00:15:03.053 --> 00:15:03.554 God is faithful. 00:15:03.554 --> 00:15:06.033 I said, look, I never worked Jesus into this whole thing. 00:15:06.033 --> 00:15:08.432 I wrote my testimony and I found a way. 00:15:08.432 --> 00:15:15.294 I went back and made sure Did I talk about the redemptive suffering of Jesus that paid for her protection? 00:15:15.294 --> 00:15:16.557 Hallelujah, I did. 00:15:16.557 --> 00:15:18.628 I'm not sure I'm going to add that back in. 00:15:18.687 --> 00:15:22.465 Jesus, you are not an afterthought, you are first and. 00:15:22.465 --> 00:15:33.154 But let's make sure that we give Jesus and the name of Jesus that preeminence, that first place, amen, and then, and so we have that name to use it. 00:15:33.154 --> 00:15:36.634 We should never, never fail to use it and it will work. 00:15:36.634 --> 00:15:37.950 It worked for the disciples. 00:15:37.950 --> 00:15:41.491 That was before Jesus had already beaten death. 00:15:41.491 --> 00:15:47.241 To think about it, it was before Jesus had gone to the cross, before he rose from the dead. 00:15:47.241 --> 00:15:51.754 Now that he has risen from the dead, his name there's nowhere. 00:15:51.754 --> 00:15:54.508 It doesn't reach To the highest mountain. 00:15:54.508 --> 00:15:55.009 Sing it, carol. 00:15:55.009 --> 00:15:57.650 Sing an agent A To the lowest valley. 00:15:58.384 --> 00:15:59.671 We were singing that song this morning. 00:15:59.671 --> 00:16:03.052 There's nothing that our God can do, there's no power like the power of Jesus. 00:16:03.052 --> 00:16:04.469 I got to meditating on that. 00:16:04.469 --> 00:16:07.226 Nothing can compare. 00:16:07.226 --> 00:16:15.408 And so there's but this we can all say that we can all sing that song, Don't we sing it? 00:16:15.408 --> 00:16:17.128 We sing it real loud. 00:16:17.128 --> 00:16:27.152 But then Monday we check our mailbox and there's a bill that it looks too big to pay or name it. 00:16:27.152 --> 00:16:30.518 We get a phone call from a relative that annoys us. 00:16:30.518 --> 00:16:32.509 Oh, that prayer we just. 00:16:32.509 --> 00:16:34.533 And we say, oh, I just can't with her. 00:16:34.673 --> 00:16:53.409 Today, when we use that phrase I can't, I can't do, I can't afford, we say that I want to rethink the things that we say we can't do. 00:16:53.409 --> 00:16:59.730 There's such a power in the name of Jesus. 00:16:59.730 --> 00:17:02.648 There's such a. 00:17:02.648 --> 00:17:03.870 We haven't even tapped it. 00:17:03.870 --> 00:17:09.769 We should never say I can't, we should never. 00:17:10.404 --> 00:17:12.112 You know, about affording, I get it. 00:17:12.112 --> 00:17:18.278 We have certain limits and sometimes it's not wise to go out and just buy any old thing. 00:17:18.278 --> 00:17:19.209 I am not for that. 00:17:19.209 --> 00:17:23.047 I'm not for walking in rank materialism, I'm not for that. 00:17:23.047 --> 00:17:29.556 But instead of I can't afford that, that's too much for me. 00:17:29.556 --> 00:17:31.592 You people over there, you're the rich people. 00:17:31.592 --> 00:17:32.386 You just go. 00:17:32.386 --> 00:17:34.554 I can't afford to go on vacation. 00:17:34.554 --> 00:17:36.968 We just, we're just going to sit at home. 00:17:36.968 --> 00:17:38.970 We're just going to sit at home. 00:17:39.130 --> 00:17:43.421 What about what if it's not wise for me to spend my money on that right now? 00:17:43.421 --> 00:17:48.133 But there's a desire in my heart to go on vacation and I'm going to start believing God for that I believe he. 00:17:48.133 --> 00:17:49.959 I'm going to pray about that. 00:17:49.959 --> 00:18:02.829 I'm going to use my faith, I'm going to begin to work and see what I can do with me and God to work against that, that, that thing, or to work for this desire that I have, that God put in my heart. 00:18:02.829 --> 00:18:07.999 It's good to go on vacation, and so I'm not going to say I can't afford it. 00:18:07.999 --> 00:18:09.910 I'm going to say what can I do? 00:18:09.910 --> 00:18:11.375 What can me and God? 00:18:11.375 --> 00:18:14.648 What has he already bought and paid for in life for me to have? 00:18:14.648 --> 00:18:14.930 What is it? 00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:17.130 What is he wants for me? 00:18:17.130 --> 00:18:21.057 Because if I know he wants that for me, then he'll make he will. 00:18:21.057 --> 00:18:23.644 He and me together, we can make that happen. 00:18:26.030 --> 00:18:30.261 Um, where there is a will, this is not in the Bible. 00:18:30.261 --> 00:18:36.284 I'm just going to say that right now, a lot of people use old wives' tales and everything. 00:18:36.284 --> 00:18:50.884 But I do, I, we the violent, take it by forces in the Bible, and when we want something or when we know God, more importantly, when we know God wants something, then we should never give up on that thing. 00:18:50.884 --> 00:18:57.721 He wants that for you and even if it looks selfish on the out, do you know he wants you to prosper. 00:18:57.721 --> 00:19:01.214 He wants that for you. 00:19:01.214 --> 00:19:02.298 Oh, but clear. 00:19:02.298 --> 00:19:05.616 So it seems so selfish for me to believe God for a vac. 00:19:05.636 --> 00:19:12.517 I mean, use vacation as an idea, you know, because I'm just going to ride that horse, but it seems so selfish. 00:19:12.517 --> 00:19:13.652 What, what? 00:19:13.652 --> 00:19:16.259 How does it make the world better for me to have a vacation? 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:19.019 Well, it builds memories with your kids. 00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:21.337 It makes you in a better mood when you get back. 00:19:21.337 --> 00:19:28.044 It makes you more attractive to the world because they see your life and they're looking to you and they want a certain level of success. 00:19:28.044 --> 00:19:33.759 It's restful, it's wonderful to get away and serve God and and and he can put. 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:35.362 There's all kinds of reasons why. 00:19:35.402 --> 00:19:38.588 But he wants you to rest and he wants that for you. 00:19:38.588 --> 00:19:40.554 I know that it's a good thing and he went. 00:19:40.554 --> 00:19:43.401 He would know good thing with he. 00:19:43.401 --> 00:19:44.282 Will he withhold? 00:19:44.282 --> 00:19:46.232 No good thing. 00:19:46.232 --> 00:19:48.377 Will he withhold to those who walk up? 00:19:48.377 --> 00:19:50.083 Rightly, that's in the word, that's in Psalms. 00:19:50.083 --> 00:19:53.630 No good thing will he withhold from those who walk up. 00:19:53.630 --> 00:19:55.996 So he wants you to have certain things. 00:19:55.996 --> 00:19:57.780 He will definitely want you to have healing. 00:19:57.780 --> 00:19:59.213 That's definitely in the Bible. 00:19:59.213 --> 00:20:01.140 Do we hit that? 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:06.634 I think we hit that a lot here in the church, but he definitely wants you to have that, and so don't give up. 00:20:06.634 --> 00:20:07.878 I love it. 00:20:07.950 --> 00:20:15.454 Miss, miss Gertrude, your sight, miss May, your sight is not your natural strength is not a beta, your eye is not dim. 00:20:15.454 --> 00:20:17.476 Moses was 120. 00:20:17.476 --> 00:20:19.939 He climbed that mountain at 120. 00:20:19.939 --> 00:20:24.195 He climbed a mountain and his natural strength was not abated and his eye was not dim. 00:20:24.195 --> 00:20:29.410 So we know we have healing, we know we have prosperity. 00:20:29.410 --> 00:20:31.176 That's what God wants for us. 00:20:31.176 --> 00:20:33.998 He wants you to look like you're his kid. 00:20:33.998 --> 00:20:37.920 He wants your life to smell like that, to look like that. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:39.015 He wants that for you. 00:20:39.015 --> 00:20:40.817 So do not give up on it. 00:20:40.817 --> 00:20:42.413 Use his authority. 00:20:42.413 --> 00:20:45.801 Hallelujah, all right. 00:20:45.910 --> 00:20:54.282 And then use his dunamis, use his power, apply the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:20:54.282 --> 00:21:00.201 It's not by might, it's not by your own power, but it's by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 00:21:00.201 --> 00:21:05.082 You can do with man is impossible, but with God all things are possible. 00:21:05.082 --> 00:21:07.577 All things are possible to him who believes. 00:21:07.577 --> 00:21:12.840 And so we have to stop saying it's not possible, I can't. 00:21:12.840 --> 00:21:14.576 I just want to banish that. 00:21:14.576 --> 00:21:15.357 We can. 00:21:15.357 --> 00:21:27.329 We have the Holy Spirit power, though God, who created the entire universe out of nothing, is living, literally living the whole in the form of the Holy Spirit. 00:21:27.329 --> 00:21:28.856 He lives in us. 00:21:28.856 --> 00:21:38.005 Not only that, but Jesus ever lives to make intercession for you. 00:21:38.005 --> 00:21:49.378 Jesus himself is praying for you and the Holy Spirit is praying for you in Romans eight, with groanings which cannot be uttered. 00:21:49.378 --> 00:21:52.439 We don't know how to pray, but the Holy Spirit is praying. 00:21:52.439 --> 00:22:04.362 We've got it is like I read this today is like remember in that battle, when Moses, as long as his arms were lifted up, the Israelites were defeating the enemy. 00:22:04.630 --> 00:22:08.482 But when his arms fell down, and who held up his arms? 00:22:08.482 --> 00:22:10.609 Who are the two people that held up his arms? 00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:15.690 Y'all remember the two people Aaron on one side and her on the other side. 00:22:15.690 --> 00:22:17.249 Well, aaron, who was he? 00:22:17.249 --> 00:22:18.556 He was the high priest. 00:22:18.556 --> 00:22:22.529 He was the high priest. 00:22:22.529 --> 00:22:24.116 So Jesus is our high priest. 00:22:24.116 --> 00:22:25.739 He's holding up our one arm. 00:22:25.739 --> 00:22:26.884 And you got her. 00:22:26.884 --> 00:22:27.710 I just learned this today. 00:22:27.710 --> 00:22:29.277 Her means light. 00:22:29.277 --> 00:22:32.900 He is a symbol of the Holy Spirit holding up the other arm. 00:22:33.549 --> 00:22:34.655 We cannot fail. 00:22:34.655 --> 00:22:42.797 Our arms are lifted by the Godhead and the Father, God is in charge of all of it and we cannot fail. 00:22:42.797 --> 00:22:46.134 They are holding us up, they are praying for us. 00:22:46.134 --> 00:22:46.656 They are. 00:22:46.656 --> 00:22:56.494 We cannot, we cannot, not, we can't, can't this too important? 00:22:56.494 --> 00:22:57.955 This is the last days. 00:22:57.955 --> 00:23:04.603 We do not have time to fail anymore or to say I can't, or to be sad or defeated. 00:23:04.603 --> 00:23:11.102 Whatever it is is in the past and God has a glorious future to us. 00:23:11.102 --> 00:23:14.237 Stop looking at the past, but press forward. 00:23:14.237 --> 00:23:17.173 Philippians three to the prize of the high calling of God. 00:23:17.173 --> 00:23:20.616 He is so good, so use the power that he gave you. 00:23:20.616 --> 00:23:25.862 Oh, so this is just a few of the words, uh, the the dunamis words of the New Testament. 00:23:25.930 --> 00:23:28.558 When you read about dunamis, these are a few things dunamis did. 00:23:28.558 --> 00:23:32.078 My dad mentioned this this morning the woman with the issue of blood. 00:23:32.078 --> 00:23:37.102 Remember what did Jesus feel when she touched his garment? 00:23:37.102 --> 00:23:38.434 He felt something. 00:23:38.434 --> 00:23:40.174 What did he feel flow out? 00:23:40.174 --> 00:23:42.835 He felt power. 00:23:42.835 --> 00:23:44.797 Sometimes it says virtue. 00:23:44.797 --> 00:23:46.436 I felt virtue flow out. 00:23:46.436 --> 00:23:47.794 It's the word dunamis. 00:23:47.794 --> 00:23:51.895 Boom, it connected and the power of God flowed. 00:23:51.895 --> 00:23:54.801 The power that dunamis power is there to heal. 00:23:54.801 --> 00:23:57.175 It will heal you. 00:23:57.175 --> 00:24:00.579 It will heal other people who come in proximity to you. 00:24:00.579 --> 00:24:06.315 Dunamis heels, Dunamis. 00:24:09.105 --> 00:24:10.087 Luke one 35. 00:24:10.087 --> 00:24:10.529 Listen to this. 00:24:10.529 --> 00:24:14.073 The angel, the Lord, answered a just cause, mary, remember. 00:24:14.073 --> 00:24:16.140 The angel told Mary you're going to be pregnant. 00:24:16.140 --> 00:24:18.337 God has a plan. 00:24:18.337 --> 00:24:20.695 It's a. 00:24:20.695 --> 00:24:22.446 It's a scary plan. 00:24:22.528 --> 00:24:31.630 In the natural, mary did not want to be pregnant, yet it looked really bad and embarrassing for her entire family. 00:24:31.630 --> 00:24:35.721 The mosaic law said that she could be stoned with stones. 00:24:35.721 --> 00:24:42.759 It's not just embarrassing, it's kind of a life or death situation. 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:46.378 But God had a plan. 00:24:46.378 --> 00:24:47.910 How shall these things be? 00:24:47.910 --> 00:24:49.873 The angel answered into her. 00:24:49.873 --> 00:25:00.029 The Holy Ghost shall call upon the and the power of the highest, the power, the dunamis power of the highest shall overshadow the. 00:25:00.029 --> 00:25:05.262 Therefore, that Holy thing which shall be born of these shall be called the Son of God. 00:25:05.262 --> 00:25:14.684 When God birthed a new thing in the earth, he does it through his people and he does it with his dunamis power. 00:25:14.684 --> 00:25:20.630 So the dunamis power working in you will birth a new thing in your life. 00:25:20.630 --> 00:25:22.930 It will birth a new thing in your family. 00:25:22.930 --> 00:25:25.449 It will birth a new thing in this church and the ministry. 00:25:25.449 --> 00:25:27.730 It will birth a new thing on the whole earth. 00:25:27.730 --> 00:25:34.710 Anything God does in the earth, he does it through his people, through you, and you have his power. 00:25:34.710 --> 00:25:38.029 So we're going to start to see I believe it's the last days. 00:25:38.029 --> 00:25:47.950 If God worked through Mary to bring Jesus into the earth the first time, he's working through Theresa and Tom and all of us and Rachel. 00:25:47.950 --> 00:25:49.430 He's working through Ms Irma. 00:25:49.430 --> 00:25:54.240 He's working through all of us to bring God's power to the earth. 00:25:54.240 --> 00:26:03.179 The second time might not look the same, but he's working to bring his power in the earth. 00:26:03.179 --> 00:26:05.683 And this is interesting. 00:26:06.009 --> 00:26:07.472 Matthew 25-14,. 00:26:07.472 --> 00:26:09.896 Jesus is given the parable of the talents. 00:26:09.896 --> 00:26:10.597 Let's turn there. 00:26:10.597 --> 00:26:14.184 Matthew 25-14,. 00:26:14.184 --> 00:26:30.174 I did not know that Dunamis was used here until I studied the cell, for the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 00:26:30.174 --> 00:26:32.159 We have Jesus's goods. 00:26:32.159 --> 00:26:32.680 Amen. 00:26:33.161 --> 00:26:33.561 Everybody say. 00:26:33.561 --> 00:26:34.203 I have a supply. 00:26:34.203 --> 00:26:46.057 Jesus gave me his goods, okay, and to one he gave five talents and to another two and to another one, to each according to his own ability. 00:26:46.057 --> 00:26:47.640 That word ability is Dunamis. 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:57.926 So you have Dunamis to manage money, if you have anything at all, if God has given you anything at all. 00:26:57.926 --> 00:27:01.115 Talents were actually not physical. 00:27:01.115 --> 00:27:05.050 You know like I can play an instrument or something, I can sing real pretty, I can draw. 00:27:05.050 --> 00:27:06.094 No, no, no. 00:27:06.094 --> 00:27:07.395 Talents were actually money. 00:27:07.395 --> 00:27:08.419 It was a unit of money. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:30.011 If you have any money at all, it is because God gave you that and he would, and it is because you have some level of Dunamis there to manage it and to gain by trading and to grow that money you have and that comes from the Holy Spirit. 00:27:30.011 --> 00:28:00.530 So if God has given us, that means we can pray for a greater measure of that and instead of saying I can't afford it, we can say I can make a wise choice in the Dunamis God gave me in managing money and I can grow this money that God gave me and made me a steward of, and I can grow it and as I grow it, he's a rewarder and he'll let me keep some of it and I'll get to sow a ton of it into the kingdom of God and I'll get to see his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:28:00.530 --> 00:28:01.153 Amen. 00:28:01.153 --> 00:28:03.898 So that's Dunamis power. 00:28:03.898 --> 00:28:05.784 Dunamis is so it's. 00:28:05.784 --> 00:28:08.369 So listen to what the some of the things. 00:28:08.369 --> 00:28:22.366 It means Okay well, it means okay well. 00:28:22.366 --> 00:28:26.953 I did not even put it down here, it did not print my picture, but it means power. 00:28:26.953 --> 00:28:34.811 It means it does mean provision and wealth, and it is often translated mighty works. 00:28:34.811 --> 00:28:46.452 And it can also be translated passion Without when we have the Holy Spirit working on the inside of us. 00:28:46.452 --> 00:28:53.980 There's a passion that we have and it plays out in different people's personalities a little differently, but we ought to have some fire when we worship God. 00:28:54.651 --> 00:28:59.545 When I was growing up, I had a youth pastor and we got in trouble. 00:28:59.545 --> 00:29:10.778 If we, if during the worship service in youth, if we put our hands in our pockets, there was a cry that went out get your hands out and we are worshiping the Most High God. 00:29:10.778 --> 00:29:16.221 I want to see your hands up and you can say well, you know, that's kind of telling you how to worship God. 00:29:16.221 --> 00:29:21.721 Well, yeah, he was modeling that for a bunch of teenagers that were disconnected. 00:29:21.721 --> 00:29:30.826 He showed us how to honor the presence of God and you will not put your hands in your pockets during worship, no, and so I'm thankful for that. 00:29:30.826 --> 00:29:34.219 There should be passion when we worship God. 00:29:34.219 --> 00:29:36.429 There should be passion when we talk about the word. 00:29:36.429 --> 00:29:40.079 There should be passion when we have fellowship of the communion of the saints. 00:29:41.525 --> 00:29:46.180 I mean, I want to have passion about my everyday life, about my family, about my kids. 00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:50.053 If I do something, I want to do all to the glory of God. 00:29:50.053 --> 00:29:52.961 I don't want to just do something because I feel obligated. 00:29:52.961 --> 00:29:54.907 I couldn't say no. 00:29:54.907 --> 00:29:56.634 Well, I could no. 00:29:56.634 --> 00:30:08.132 If I'm going, if I've decided to spend my time on that thing, then I want to be able to have passion about it, and it makes a difference in different personalities, though it does come out differently. 00:30:08.874 --> 00:30:13.248 You know, if you talk to James, he is probably not going to make any. 00:30:13.248 --> 00:30:15.272 You know he's not going to be all way correct. 00:30:15.272 --> 00:30:22.311 You know he he's not demonstrative in his worship he's not, but then he's very. 00:30:22.311 --> 00:30:27.060 But he does what he says he's going to do and he is very. 00:30:27.060 --> 00:30:32.463 He's excited about doing all the plan of God and not leaving anything behind. 00:30:32.463 --> 00:30:34.711 And he's a right fighter If he thinks something is right. 00:30:35.011 --> 00:30:40.050 Well, we were sitting yesterday buying a used car, haggling with the used car salesman. 00:30:40.050 --> 00:30:44.420 How many of y'all have ever struggled with a used car salesman? 00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:46.044 James is a good haggler. 00:30:46.044 --> 00:30:53.682 I would rather have you on my side when shopping for used cars than anyone else in the whole world. 00:30:53.682 --> 00:30:58.484 But he kept going back to what's right, what's right here. 00:30:58.484 --> 00:31:05.878 I'm not trying to get more than what's right, but there's something that's happened and it looks like it costs us some money and, as he, you guys can make this right. 00:31:05.878 --> 00:31:06.903 How can you make it right? 00:31:06.903 --> 00:31:08.771 And he kept appealing to how can you make it right? 00:31:08.771 --> 00:31:10.037 And he had a passion. 00:31:10.037 --> 00:31:18.917 It wasn't loud, it wasn't demonstrative, but he had a passion for what was right and he stuck to guns until we got what was right Praise God. 00:31:22.763 --> 00:31:33.392