SPEAKER_00: Let's lift our Bibles up and let's say this together.
SPEAKER_00: Say, Heavenly Father, thank you for that realm change.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the reminder of the spirit realm.
SPEAKER_00: And I aim to participate more and more in your guidance for my life.
SPEAKER_00: I want to know everything.
SPEAKER_00: I want to wait on all of your unctions and all of your urges and all of your movements.
SPEAKER_00: I want to obey quickly those things that you bring to my attention.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: Tonight, I thank you that by the word and the Spirit, my life is changing.
SPEAKER_00: From faith to faith, from strength to strength, from glory to glory.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: All right, you can be seated.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 2.
SPEAKER_00: We'll get into the word together.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 2.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I was going to read, start with verse 4, but let me just back up to verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 2, verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: And that's that first few verses is the second part of the Ephesian prayer that started in Ephesians 1, where Paul was praying for the church at Ephesus.
SPEAKER_00: It's a Holy Ghost prayer that we can pray for ourselves, pray for others.
SPEAKER_00: And verse 1 it says, And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses of sin, where in time past you walked, according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation or manner of life in times past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
SPEAKER_00: But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love, not just his love, for his mega love, his great love, wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
SPEAKER_00: By grace are you saved, and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And so in verse 7, I wanted to read that in the amplified.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 7 in the Amplified, that in the ages to come, he might clearly demonstrate the immeasurable, limitless, and surpassing riches of his grace and favor in kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And so tonight I wanted to share a message entitled Demonstrating the Favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: Demonstrating the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: We talked about God cutting the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15.
SPEAKER_00: He swore, he said, I could swear by no higher, so I swore by myself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
SPEAKER_00: And so the basis of our covenant is the Abrahamic covenant.
SPEAKER_00: We've got a better covenant than that, because that was a land covenant.
SPEAKER_00: We've got a better covenant, but it still is described as the Hebrew word or the it's Hesed, which means covenant obligation.
SPEAKER_00: God obligated himself to Abram.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, Look, if I don't perform this, if I don't give you seed, if you're not blessed, if you're not the whole world isn't blessed out of you, then I'll cease to be God, I'll die.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you know God didn't die?
SPEAKER_00: And so he's still alive, and he is good for his word.
SPEAKER_00: And so it's Hesed, it's covenant kindness, it's it's covenant obligation.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, God cannot not bless us.
SPEAKER_00: It's not even up to him.
SPEAKER_00: He already swore.
SPEAKER_00: It's over.
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
SPEAKER_00: He hath past tense blessed us.
SPEAKER_00: The blessing has been already released.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody says the blessing's already been released.
SPEAKER_00: Well, why hadn't it shown up?
SPEAKER_00: Well, because it's might.
SPEAKER_00: When you see the word might, that he might, see, go back to verse 7, you know, that he might, in the in the amplified, uh, that in the ages come he might clearly demonstrate.
SPEAKER_00: He might clearly.
SPEAKER_00: See, the might is not on his side, because he's already done it.
SPEAKER_00: It's on our side.
SPEAKER_00: It's up to us to be the living demonstration of his favor, of his hesed.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all getting this now?
SPEAKER_00: Talking about demonstrating the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: It ought to be evident in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: It ought to be evident in our health.
SPEAKER_00: It ought to be evident in our finances.
SPEAKER_00: It ought to be evident in our ministry, in our marriages, in our homes, our children.
SPEAKER_00: All of that ought to be just filled with this immeasurable, limitless, and surpassing riches of his grace and favor.
SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
SPEAKER_00: So the favor of God is often called kindness, covenant kindness.
SPEAKER_00: And we go back to 1 Samuel chapter 20.
SPEAKER_00: Let's do that real quick.
SPEAKER_00: You know the story.
SPEAKER_00: Saul was jealous of David.
SPEAKER_00: David had been anointed king, but it was in private.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody knew it except Samuel.
SPEAKER_00: And it and really Saul was still still king.
SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, he he killed Goliath and had a lot of notoriety, and Saul couldn't take it.
SPEAKER_00: Saul had heart trouble.
SPEAKER_00: Saul had all kinds of uh character faults and integrity issues, and he had uh, you know, if he wanted to psychoanalyze him, I mean he was just messed up.
SPEAKER_00: Eventually he went over into the occult, started started consulting with wizards and familiar spirits for guidance.
SPEAKER_00: He he he couldn't uh you know, he was just all fouled up.
SPEAKER_00: And uh so uh he started wanting to kill David, but Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David and and and helped him escape.
SPEAKER_00: And so here in uh 1 Samuel chapter 20, uh, verse 14, Jonathan is talking to David, and he said, In verse 14, he's talking to David, and you shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the Lord, that's Hesed.
SPEAKER_00: See, they cut the covenant together.
SPEAKER_00: He said, You know, I'm gonna save you from my father's wrath, but you're gonna do something for me, and he's telling him what he's gonna have to do.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I not only while I live, I want you to show me the kindness of the Lord that I die not, but also you shall not cut off your kindness, your Hesed, your covenant kindness, from my house forever.
SPEAKER_00: No, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David, every one of them from the face of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jonathan was zealous to get his house blessed.
SPEAKER_00: And his house is the house of Saul.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, really, it goes back to his father.
SPEAKER_00: But the only thing is, Saul and David and Jonathan died the same day.
SPEAKER_00: So then that meant that they were gone.
SPEAKER_00: So there he's already, you know, he's already, you know, when when when David was able to take the throne years later, Saul and Jonathan were dead, so let's look over here at uh 2 Samuel chapter 9 and see what his first, one of his first things he did when he became king.
SPEAKER_00: He remembered that covenant.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Samuel chapter 9, verse 1, and David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul that I may show him Hesed?
SPEAKER_00: For Jonathan's sake, I want to know if there's anybody left alive.
SPEAKER_00: Bunch of them died, but I want to know if there's any left alive, and they found a young man named Mephiboshet.
SPEAKER_00: And in fleeing for their lives, when they had all this war between the house of Saul and the house of David, and so forth and so on, all the trouble that his maid dropped him and he was lame on his feet, and now he's living in a place called Lodibar, which means no pasture.
SPEAKER_00: No pasture means famine.
SPEAKER_00: If you live off agriculture and you don't have pasture for your goats, you're gonna be in deep trouble.
SPEAKER_00: And so uh, and he he's just living a poverty lifestyle.
SPEAKER_00: He's the son of a king, grandson, I mean the grandson of King Saul.
SPEAKER_00: He he's royalty in a way, he's royal family, but he's living way down below and he's crippled.
SPEAKER_00: He can't walk.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's this guy named Mephiboshed.
SPEAKER_00: Go get him, bring him here.
SPEAKER_00: And so he brought him uh before him in order to do what?
SPEAKER_00: To show kindness, to show Hesset to him for Jonathan's sake.
SPEAKER_00: He had sworn.
SPEAKER_00: See, God had sworn.
SPEAKER_00: See, this type and shadow of what we have in the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, these things are legal, they are ironclad, and the favor that goes with it is ironclad if we only know it.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to believe it, though.
SPEAKER_00: Got to mix faith with what you hear.
SPEAKER_00: Now notice, now, so here in verse 6, uh 2 Samuel 9, 6.
SPEAKER_00: Now, when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came unto David, he fell on his face and did reverence.
SPEAKER_00: And David said, Mephibosheth, and he answered, Behold, thy servant.
SPEAKER_00: And David said unto him, Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan, thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul, thy father, thy grandfather.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine the kind of wealth he's talking about?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's the king of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: He's got land, he's got vineyards, he's got cattle, he's got riches untold.
SPEAKER_00: That all belongs to David, and he said, No, I'm not taking any of that.
SPEAKER_00: It's all yours.
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm showing you Hesed for Jonathan's sake.
SPEAKER_00: And you shall eat bread at my table continually.
SPEAKER_00: And he bowed himself and said, What is thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
SPEAKER_00: See, that's how he looked at himself.
SPEAKER_00: He thought of himself as a dead dog.
SPEAKER_00: He did not think of himself, Well, I'm the grandson of King Saul.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get mine.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna sue.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get me a lawyer.
SPEAKER_00: No, he's a dead dog as far as he can.
SPEAKER_00: That's really where we were.
SPEAKER_00: That's where we were.
SPEAKER_00: We were lost and undone without God, and God loved us so much he sent his son.
SPEAKER_00: And we don't know, we're not dead dogs.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because we're in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Everything we have is because it's in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he doesn't treat Jesus any any any better than he treats us.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to treat us just like he treats Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all getting this?
SPEAKER_00: I'm just giving you the word.
SPEAKER_00: I I can't believe it for you, but I wish I could.
SPEAKER_00: So Jesus is a type of David, and Mephibosheth is a type of us before we got saved.
SPEAKER_00: And now we've been entered into the king's house.
SPEAKER_00: We eat at the king's table.
SPEAKER_00: And no more peanut butter and jelly unless we just want one.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I eat peanut butter and jelly.
SPEAKER_00: One of the greatest meals I ever had was the third day I was in India, and I was so sick of Indian food.
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry if you're Indian, you like Indian food.
SPEAKER_00: I just, you know, I, after three days of it, man, I'm ready for something else.
SPEAKER_00: And I ordered an order of naan.
SPEAKER_00: That's Indian bread.
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like a flat bread.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it smells so good.
SPEAKER_00: It came in the room, it was hot, and I had a big old jar of peanut butter that I had stashed in my in my bag, and boy, I slathered that peanut butter on that.
SPEAKER_00: It's like a thick, kind of an airy flower tortilla, but it's thick, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was so good.
SPEAKER_00: But other than that, no, we're eating at the king's table.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: God wants to demonstrate his favor toward us.
SPEAKER_00: That's what exactly what David did.
SPEAKER_00: David demonstrated the covenant, the favor, the covenant obligation, the covenant kindness in front of everybody.
SPEAKER_00: And he ordered Zeba Saul's servant.
SPEAKER_00: Let's keep doing here.
SPEAKER_00: The king called to Zeba Saul's servant.
SPEAKER_00: He hadn't died either.
SPEAKER_00: And said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
SPEAKER_00: Thou, therefore, and thy sons and thy servants shall till the land for him, and you shall bring in the fruits, that your master's son may have food to eat, but Mephibosheth, thy master's son, shall eat bread always at my table.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, he's not going to have to eat that food.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to eat my food, but you bring it anyhow.
SPEAKER_00: And Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
SPEAKER_00: How about that for an agricultural enterprise?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you talk about tilling some land and getting some crops in and growing some cattle.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that man had a prosperous enterprise instantly, as soon as he had that covenant demonstration, the demonstration of the favor.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, let's just lift our hands right now.
SPEAKER_00: That's our state.
SPEAKER_00: I mentioned it this morning, but in one, you know, God did an accounting procedure and we're blessed.
SPEAKER_00: We were cursed, but now we're blessed.
SPEAKER_00: We were dead dogs, and now we're in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Pointing God.
SPEAKER_00: So that word might, though, get back to the word might, that he might demonstrate the immeasurable, limitless, and surpassing uh riches of his grace and favor upon us, is according to our faith.
SPEAKER_00: Do we believe it and do we act on it and act like it?
SPEAKER_00: Are we blessed with a blessing?
SPEAKER_00: I'm curious about Mephiboshev with all that sudden wealth.
SPEAKER_00: He he lived most of his life in poverty because he was a little kid when he got dropped, and now he's a young man, and he's lived in poverty.
SPEAKER_00: He hadn't really known much about riches, and now suddenly he's a rich guy, man.
SPEAKER_00: He's in the king's house.
SPEAKER_00: Did you see that table that Trump ate at with King Charles and uh in the castle back a couple of months ago when he when he traveled to London?
SPEAKER_00: Did you see that table?
SPEAKER_00: It's about, I don't know how long.
SPEAKER_00: It's got a hundred and some odd seats at it, you know?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's I mean, the grandiose, we're not, we're not a we're not accustomed to the grandiose of all the rest of the world.
SPEAKER_00: And all these crazy Democrats are mad that that Trump is building a ballroom and turning something that we ought to have.
SPEAKER_00: This country ought to have the finest of the finest.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't care about living in a 300-year-old house.
SPEAKER_00: I think the whole thing ought to be mowed down and start over.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's an old house.
SPEAKER_00: It's falling apart.
SPEAKER_00: And they're all just, oh, he remembered the East Wing.
SPEAKER_00: Well, the East Wing was a dump.
SPEAKER_00: It's been built.
SPEAKER_00: Who built it?
SPEAKER_00: Uh, somebody way back.
SPEAKER_00: It's old, musty, dusty, and not big enough for anything.
SPEAKER_00: The women with their high heels would go outside and they would sink down in the grass.
SPEAKER_00: So he covered that all with marble.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they had a fit.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I like nice stuff.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: If it's a thousand-seat ballroom.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not a dancer, but I think we ought to have a ballroom.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to have a ballroom.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to name it after himself.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think he's going to name it Trump Ballroom.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think he will.
SPEAKER_00: He's got his name everywhere.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think he'd put it on the White House.
SPEAKER_00: I really don't.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing riches of his bias and partiality.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's another word for favor, bias and partiality.
SPEAKER_00: Let me let me read about favor.
SPEAKER_00: Favor, favor is friendly regard.
SPEAKER_00: Friendly regard.
SPEAKER_00: See, you know, Saul was an enemy of David, but his grandson, he's got friendly regard for.
SPEAKER_00: There's no grudges.
SPEAKER_00: I'll fix him.
SPEAKER_00: I'll roast him over an open fire.
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to feed him at my table.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to give him an agricultural enterprise unlike anybody.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to get blessed.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to have his, he don't need any socks because he's crippled, but anyway, bless his socks off.
SPEAKER_00: Favor means friendly regard.
SPEAKER_00: It means preferential treatment.
SPEAKER_00: It means preferential treatment tending to promotion.
SPEAKER_00: I was talking to Joseph about uh Flora.
SPEAKER_00: She just got back from Israel the other day.
SPEAKER_00: She made a trip with her top donor, and the donor wanted to see where her money was going and wanted to see, and they went to the bomb shelter, one of the bomb shelters she'd paid for.
SPEAKER_00: And we had a few pictures, I'm sure we'll know more about it, but they got the royal welcome when they landed there.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, not everybody gets to go into Israel right now.
SPEAKER_00: It's restricted.
SPEAKER_00: You can't get in there unless you're something special.
SPEAKER_00: And the International Federation of Christians and Jews is a special.
SPEAKER_00: And they, I mean, had somebody meet them at the plane, escorted them through the airport, past all the lines and past all the security, and right through the airport.
SPEAKER_00: And everybody's going, Who are you?
SPEAKER_00: See, that kind of favor.
SPEAKER_00: That kind of favor.
SPEAKER_00: Endowed with special advantage for success.
SPEAKER_00: Kindness beyond what is due.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's a picture of Mephibosheth.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he didn't have to have him eat at his own table.
SPEAKER_00: He could have had his own table in his own house, but no, he wanted him right there, like a family member.
SPEAKER_00: Kindness beyond what's due.
SPEAKER_00: Bias, partiality, unfair treatment.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the favor of God will make people jealous of you.
SPEAKER_00: Can you stand it?
SPEAKER_00: Are you going to try to add to that and try to be hoity about it?
SPEAKER_00: And forget who's the one that gave you the favor and act like you're the one because you deserve it?
SPEAKER_00: Because you don't.
SPEAKER_00: None of us deserve what we're going to get.
SPEAKER_00: Mephibosheth didn't deserve it, but he got it anyway.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because he had a covenant.
SPEAKER_00: We don't deserve it, but we get it because we have a covenant, but we need to believe it and we need to speak it and we need to receive it.
SPEAKER_00: And not act like we don't have it.
SPEAKER_00: And act like that is holy.
SPEAKER_00: Well, brother, no, I don't want anything too fancy.
SPEAKER_00: Just give me some rags.
SPEAKER_00: The immeasurable, everybody say, the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing riches of his grace and favor.
SPEAKER_00: Now, in the ages to come, he said, in the ages to come, he was going to do that.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Pastor, I do believe everything you're preaching.
SPEAKER_00: I think that's going to be coming down the pike.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I got news for you that ages to come have come.
SPEAKER_00: The ages have come.
SPEAKER_00: We're not waiting for the millennium for this to happen.
SPEAKER_00: Let's look at Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about demonstrating the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: And if and God wants to demonstrate it, but He's got a the might is hooks it to our believing because we don't believe it, it will not be demonstrated in our particular life.
SPEAKER_00: I've seen, you know, people that this started operating in and they got blessed beyond measure.
SPEAKER_00: And then people around them, I mean, mostly church people, get jealous, jealous of their car, jealous of their clothes, jealous of their house, jealous.
SPEAKER_00: I've had a little of that myself.
SPEAKER_00: Like I, you know, I mean, I'm not anything to be jealous about, but I I remember rolling up in my 1991 Infinity Q45, back when Infinity was running a race with Lexus to be the Japanese luxury car.
SPEAKER_00: Infinity lost Lexus 1.
SPEAKER_00: But at that time, Infinity had a really fine car.
SPEAKER_00: It was a full-size car, had a big V8 in it, and it was that uh iridescent white metallic.
SPEAKER_00: But this is 95, and my car was a 91.
SPEAKER_00: It's four years old, it's got 32,000 miles.
SPEAKER_00: It's a used car, folks.
SPEAKER_00: And I traded in my Mercedes, which barely would run.
SPEAKER_00: I had to explode it.
SPEAKER_00: I had to put a bomb in it every night to explode.
SPEAKER_00: I sprayed ether down the intake.
SPEAKER_00: Shh, like that.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody left the church.
SPEAKER_00: It's cold.
SPEAKER_00: It's January, February, March.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm the last to leave the church, the first building up there on 1960.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't want anybody to witness my car.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't want them to see it.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a wreck.
SPEAKER_00: It smoked so bad I got a letter from the state saying to do something about my car.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not joking.
SPEAKER_00: They wrote me a letter.
SPEAKER_00: They got my license, but your car was observed on 610 East, emitting a rap, a massive amount of smoke.
SPEAKER_00: Get your car service, sir.
SPEAKER_00: Or well, or what?
SPEAKER_00: Or else what?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, what are you gonna do about it?
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna arrest me?
SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: I fixed it by trading it in.
SPEAKER_00: They gave me a thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_00: It was a piece of junk.
SPEAKER_00: It's a boat anchor.
SPEAKER_00: Just sink it out in the jetties, sink it out in the gulf and turn it into a uh coral reef or something.
SPEAKER_00: That's about all it's good for.
SPEAKER_00: But too much oil, so you'd have an oil slick above it.
SPEAKER_00: The EPA condemned my parking space at Lakewood.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they came out and cordoned it off with yellow tape, said, do not park here for 10 years.
SPEAKER_00: That's not true.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, I get carried away.
SPEAKER_00: But there, you know, I saw people with their noses pressed against the glass and they were frowning when I drove up in this used car.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor's got a new car.
SPEAKER_00: He went and bought a new car.
SPEAKER_00: They begrudged me a new car.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be like that.
SPEAKER_00: You've got access to the you've got access to everything.
SPEAKER_00: It's on the table.
SPEAKER_00: Everything, everything is on the table.
SPEAKER_00: You've got immeasurable, surpassing favor with God.
SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 2, verse 46.
SPEAKER_00: And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor, everybody shout favor.
SPEAKER_00: Having favor with all the people, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Who gave them the favor?
SPEAKER_00: This is the same crowd that said, crucify him, crucify him.
SPEAKER_00: This is the same crowd that didn't believe him when he was preaching on the shores of Galilee.
SPEAKER_00: Just would not hear him, would not believe him.
SPEAKER_00: And yet God gave him favor.
SPEAKER_00: See, God released this favor.
SPEAKER_00: It was already happening.
SPEAKER_00: See, this time of fulfillment has already, it's here now.
SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna come, it's now.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say it's now.
SPEAKER_00: Don't put it off.
SPEAKER_00: Luke 4.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is preaching in his own hometown.
SPEAKER_00: He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
SPEAKER_00: Notice the first one on the list is poor.
SPEAKER_00: He's anointed me.
SPEAKER_00: Preach the gospel to the poor.
SPEAKER_00: He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: The amplified.
SPEAKER_00: Let's put it in the amplified, that last verse, verse 19.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody up there to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.
SPEAKER_00: That's now.
SPEAKER_00: We ought to be preaching.
SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_00: I'm preaching that.
SPEAKER_00: I'm preaching what Jesus preached.
SPEAKER_00: I'm preaching it right now.
SPEAKER_00: The time of fulfillment is not later.
SPEAKER_00: It's not down the road.
SPEAKER_00: It's now.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say it's now.
SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
SPEAKER_00: So it was prophesied by David.
SPEAKER_00: Let's turn back to Psalm 102.
SPEAKER_00: I want to get this in you because this is milestone year.
SPEAKER_00: And you're going to need this favor, this has said to kick in for you.
SPEAKER_00: It's part and parcel of your milestone.
SPEAKER_00: It's coming up.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 102, I say.
SPEAKER_00: I think 102, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 13.
SPEAKER_00: Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come.
SPEAKER_00: The word set time there is the Hebrew word Moed.
SPEAKER_00: It means appointed time.
SPEAKER_00: There's everything that God does.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't do random.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just, you know, just like a whim.
SPEAKER_00: No, it's all, you know, the Hebrew language was numerical.
SPEAKER_00: It's down to the very date and date and hour.
SPEAKER_00: Everything that God does is precise.
SPEAKER_00: Look at the universe.
SPEAKER_00: If it wasn't precise, all of these galaxies would collide.
SPEAKER_00: You'd have chaos in the heavens.
SPEAKER_00: No, they're all in perfect timing, perfect rotation, so that you can actually navigate the seas.
SPEAKER_00: That's what the old timers used to do.
SPEAKER_00: They'd look at the stars and and be able to chart their course.
SPEAKER_00: They couldn't have done that if God was just random.
SPEAKER_00: If the north star wasn't north.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So the appointed time in the New Testament, in the Greek, it's Kairos, a Kairos moment.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say appointed time.
SPEAKER_00: And then he goes on in verse 15, he gets a glimpse of the last days.
SPEAKER_00: For the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Notice what that says.
SPEAKER_00: The heathen shall fear the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Well, has that been, has that happened yet?
SPEAKER_00: No, but it's gonna.
SPEAKER_00: And it's going to, and when the glory hits, I mean the glorious church will be alive and well.
SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 18, this shall be written for the generation to come.
SPEAKER_00: And the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: See, he's talking about us.
SPEAKER_00: He's talking about us.
SPEAKER_00: We're the generation, I call this generation the terminal generation.
SPEAKER_00: I just believe this is the generation that's going to see the Lord come back to earth.
SPEAKER_00: What if I'm wrong?
SPEAKER_00: What if I'm right?
SPEAKER_00: If I'm wrong, we'll talk about it in heaven, and nobody will remember that I preached it.
SPEAKER_00: We'll have too many other glorious people to and people to listen to, they'll forget all about me.
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
SPEAKER_00: When I'm wrong, I mean, you know.
SPEAKER_00: But if I'm right, we've got some things that are ahead of us that we need to be prepared for.
SPEAKER_00: We want to be able to demonstrate the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: So God always saves the best for last.
SPEAKER_00: That's just that's just one of those things that God does.
SPEAKER_00: He always saves the best till last.
SPEAKER_00: The last shall be first, the first last.
SPEAKER_00: There's just no substitute for the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 22 says this.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you believe the Proverbs?
SPEAKER_00: How many of you read the Proverbs?
SPEAKER_00: Then you've read this.
SPEAKER_00: 22nd of this November we'll read it.
SPEAKER_00: Verse uh 1, Proverbs 22, 1.
SPEAKER_00: The king's heart.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's 21.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
SPEAKER_00: And loving favor rather than silver and gold.
SPEAKER_00: So you ought to choose loving favor more than silver and gold.
SPEAKER_00: Money can't buy favor.
SPEAKER_00: The counterfeit of favor is bribery.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we have going in politics.
SPEAKER_00: We have bribery, plain and simple.
SPEAKER_00: People go to Washington, people go to Austin, people go to the state capitals, the lobbyists come with money, and they bribe people that have been elected.
SPEAKER_00: To do certain things, and the next thing you know, they're doing what?
SPEAKER_00: The money tells them to do.
SPEAKER_00: They do you want to be effective?
SPEAKER_00: Well, then you need to vote for this bill.
SPEAKER_00: And this bill is antichrist.
SPEAKER_00: This bill is against what they were sent there to do.
SPEAKER_00: And many, many, many of them succumb.
SPEAKER_00: They go with the right attitude and the right intention, but somehow they get polluted.
SPEAKER_00: And why is that?
SPEAKER_00: Because the church has not been there looking over their shoulder and telling them what's going to happen to them if they do that.
SPEAKER_00: And more and more we're able to whisper to candidates before they even get elected and ask them hard questions.
SPEAKER_00: And then when their answers are wrong, we say, wrong answer.
SPEAKER_00: And then when we give them God's perspective, they say, man, I've never heard it put like that.
SPEAKER_00: It's pathetic.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's pathetic what the church has turned out.
SPEAKER_00: These are church people.
SPEAKER_00: These are people that go to church on a regular basis and they don't know the word.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to know the word and you're going to know it backwards and forwards.
SPEAKER_00: You can hold people accountable.
SPEAKER_00: So favor is more valuable than money.
SPEAKER_00: Bribery is the devil's counterfeit.
SPEAKER_00: Favor does what money can't do.
SPEAKER_00: Really, favor is an outgrowth of apostolic.
SPEAKER_00: Because the apostolic, and I preach much about the apostolic, and really this whole message has to do with the apostolic, because the apostolic is all about gathering and distributing.
SPEAKER_00: It's all about that.
SPEAKER_00: It's all about procuring.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to be procuring all the necessary needs that the harvest has.
SPEAKER_00: The harvest has got huge needs, not only of money, but of manpower.
SPEAKER_00: And this church is on the forefront of that.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I'm part of something bigger than myself.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I mentioned this this morning, but in Genesis 15, when Abraham asked God, how do I know you're going to do what you told me to do?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, this is too fantastic for me to take in, and here I am this age, and I haven't got any.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, I'm blessed and everything financially, but I don't have a kid, and you keep talking, and my wife is, you know, she's already old, and he's old, and he's beginning to doubt.
SPEAKER_00: How do I know?
SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, get me a heifer.
SPEAKER_00: He split the heifer open and cut the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: And then he began to prophesy.
SPEAKER_00: He said, in the last, in the in after 400 years, they're going to come back to this land.
SPEAKER_00: And then I will deliver them from the land where they were enslaved, and they will come out with great substance.
SPEAKER_00: God told them ahead of time, 400 years before it happened.
SPEAKER_00: He said, they're going to come out of Egypt with great substance.
SPEAKER_00: How do slaves who can't even fight, really?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're not warriors, they're farmers.
SPEAKER_00: And yet they came out with great substance.
SPEAKER_00: What happened?
SPEAKER_00: God gave them favor.
SPEAKER_00: And so that, what do you mean, favor?
SPEAKER_00: Look at Exodus 3.
SPEAKER_00: This is when they're when uh Moses is talking to God about being the deliverer, you know, and you know, God, why do you think they're gonna listen to me?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they don't, they're gonna say, who sent you?
SPEAKER_00: And all of that.
SPEAKER_00: They're not gonna listen to me.
SPEAKER_00: They don't know me.
SPEAKER_00: They don't, you know, he was arguing with God about being the one that God chose.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you know God won the argument?
SPEAKER_00: And God, in Exodus 3, verse 21, he told Moses, and I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to pass that when you go, you shall not go empty.
SPEAKER_00: For every woman shall borrow of his neighbor and of her that sojourneth in her house.
SPEAKER_00: And what shall she borrow?
SPEAKER_00: The word borrow doesn't mean borrow and have to pay back, it means appropriate.
SPEAKER_00: It means take.
SPEAKER_00: She will take what?
SPEAKER_00: Jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and you shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters, and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
SPEAKER_00: Type and shadow of the last days.
SPEAKER_00: Before we're out of here, we're going to spoil this world.
SPEAKER_00: We are going to get great substance out of it to pay for the end time harvest.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: That's part of demonstrating the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: It's all about his covenant.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to demonstrate.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to show off his children.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to show off.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to be very showy about the gold and the silver.
SPEAKER_00: The gold and the silver are not for the devil's kids, it's for us.
SPEAKER_00: God owns all the gold and all the silver anyway.
SPEAKER_00: It's his.
SPEAKER_00: And it's ours by the fact that we're joint heirs of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: James chapter 5.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all get anything out of this?
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at the clock, but I'm not in a hurry.
SPEAKER_00: James is an end-time book, and so he talks about in chapter 1, chapter 5, verse 1, go to now, which really means come now, ye rich men, weep and howl.
SPEAKER_00: Rich means the unrighteous rich.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean us, it means the unrighteous rich.
SPEAKER_00: Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
SPEAKER_00: Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
SPEAKER_00: Your yachts are sinking.
SPEAKER_00: Your libraries are an abomination.
SPEAKER_00: Have you seen Obama's library?
SPEAKER_00: It's out of money.
SPEAKER_00: They're bankrupt.
SPEAKER_00: They spent, I don't know how many,$900 and something million dollars.
SPEAKER_00: It looks horrible.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody in Chicago hates it.
SPEAKER_00: It just is an eyesore.
SPEAKER_00: Have you seen a it's horrible looking?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, who dreamed that thing up?
SPEAKER_00: It was a DEI project.
SPEAKER_00: It was.
SPEAKER_00: No, I'm I'm not trying me.
SPEAKER_00: He hired people that don't know anything about architecture.
SPEAKER_00: He hired people that don't have any kind of imagination.
SPEAKER_00: They've never done anything like that before.
SPEAKER_00: But they're a woman.
SPEAKER_00: They're a gay woman.
SPEAKER_00: Lesbian woman did it.
SPEAKER_00: Or trans or something, you know, DEI, that's what that means.
SPEAKER_00: They're all focused on the race, the gender, and the sexual preference of the person rather than their qualifications.
SPEAKER_00: Sounds like disaster, and that's what that thing looks like.
SPEAKER_00: Woo! He said, Rich men, come now.
SPEAKER_00: Miseries that will come upon you, riches are corrupted, your garments are wealthy, your gold and silver is cankered.
SPEAKER_00: The rest of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
SPEAKER_00: You have heaped treasure together for what?
SPEAKER_00: For what?
SPEAKER_00: The last days.
SPEAKER_00: You've heaped treasure for the last days.
SPEAKER_00: They've collected, they've done a great job of increasing their wealth, and we're about to take it from them.
SPEAKER_00: God is going to take it from them.
SPEAKER_00: God is going to anoint us to take it.
SPEAKER_00: And we're not going to steal it.
SPEAKER_00: We're not going to, we're not going to we're not going to be bribed by it, but we're going to take control of it.
SPEAKER_00: How do you, how do you, how is that going to happen?
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm not here to tell you how, I'm telling you who.
SPEAKER_00: God said, Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth.
SPEAKER_00: And the cries of them that have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the Sabbath, the Lord of the armies of heaven.
SPEAKER_00: You know, in the law, when you didn't pay your laborer, wages were usually paid at sundown.
SPEAKER_00: They paid them day by day because the people that did the work, you know, they needed to be paid.
SPEAKER_00: They couldn't last a week.
SPEAKER_00: They couldn't last a month.
SPEAKER_00: They had to be paid.
SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't pay them, you say, now, you know, come back tomorrow, and then you brought a curse on you.
SPEAKER_00: You better make sure you pay the right wage and you better pay it on time.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't pay your laborers, you are cursed with a curse.
SPEAKER_00: That's in Leviticus.
SPEAKER_00: So these people, and we see in it now, see, they have they have cheated the working class.
SPEAKER_00: The main street of this nation has been has been robbed of its resources since for the last 60, at least 60 or 70 years.
SPEAKER_00: And it's all been flowing to Wall Street.
SPEAKER_00: These people are fat and sassy, and they don't know anything about anything.
SPEAKER_00: They don't, nothing they do is profitable.
SPEAKER_00: They don't know anything what they're doing.
SPEAKER_00: And they get billions of dollars coming in.
SPEAKER_00: And here we are working, working, working.
SPEAKER_00: The next thing you know, we get laid off.
SPEAKER_00: The next thing you know, you know, our company is swallowed up by another company, and we're not going to need you any longer.
SPEAKER_00: I've known so many people that just, you know, we're professional people.
SPEAKER_00: We've got a milestone.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to get to hear what God did for one of our businessmen.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's it's an amazing testimony.
SPEAKER_00: But he went through hell.
SPEAKER_00: He went through a lot of dishonor for nothing.
SPEAKER_00: But oh, they're paying it back now.
SPEAKER_00: They're paying it back.
SPEAKER_00: It's everybody say it's payback time.
SPEAKER_00: Now we're not mad and we're not angry.
SPEAKER_00: We're just, look, we see this playing out right now for the first time.
SPEAKER_00: For the first time, I see, I see some things move in the other direction, and now all of a sudden it's come out that the Democrats are really the party of the billionaires.
SPEAKER_00: All the billionaires are Democrats.
SPEAKER_00: And now the labor unions are switching over to the Republicans because they see Trump and the Republicans are trying to work to keep people working and get people, you know, back on their feet financially.
SPEAKER_00: Trying to take care of this horrible stuff that we've been through, starting with COVID and all the other crazy stuff that the Democrats have done for the last many years.
SPEAKER_00: You have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wanting.
SPEAKER_00: You have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter.
SPEAKER_00: You have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you.
SPEAKER_00: This is God's condemnation of the people we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00: They're evil.
SPEAKER_00: The Bill Gates, the George Sorces, all these billionaires, all these Obamas, all these people are fake and frauds.
SPEAKER_00: They are not anything like what they've seen.
SPEAKER_00: They've been propped up by an illegitimate news media and by a ruling class.
SPEAKER_00: They're the ruling class, and we as the serfs might as well be slaves.
SPEAKER_00: No, that's changing.
SPEAKER_00: Here it is in the word, folks.
SPEAKER_00: I want to get you in a position where you're going to believe God's word about this thing.
SPEAKER_00: I've been preaching this a long time.
SPEAKER_00: And now we're actually beginning to see it come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hands right now.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, you're demonstrating your favor among your people, the favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: It's it's, I mean, Lord, it's preferential treatment.
SPEAKER_00: It's not even fair.
SPEAKER_00: What we're gonna have is not even fair.
SPEAKER_00: They're gonna say, it's not fair.
SPEAKER_00: It's not fair.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_00: God said it's fair.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: So for the immiserable, limitless, and surpassing favor of God, it's through faith.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's through faith that we're gonna spoil those who oppressed us.
SPEAKER_00: It happened with Egypt that the children of Israel spoiled them.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have favor with the ones that have oppressed us, and we're gonna have that God's gonna shake them, and all that wealth is coming our way.
SPEAKER_00: But there's four things.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, we have to believe and receive it.
SPEAKER_00: It's through faith.
SPEAKER_00: You have to believe and receive it.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I got my receiver out.
SPEAKER_00: You have to think favor.
SPEAKER_00: Think favor all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Don't ever, don't ever accept thoughts of victimhood.
SPEAKER_00: No, I've got favor, man.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God I have favor.
SPEAKER_00: God gives me favor.
SPEAKER_00: Celebrate favor, number three.
SPEAKER_00: Celebrate it.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God for it.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be embarrassed for favor.
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you're not careful, you look at people's reaction and you can feel embarrassed that you're successful.
SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I wouldn't allow people to begrudge me of a car, and I kind of, you know, I just stood up and told them the whole thing and how God blessed me with a good car.
SPEAKER_00: It smelled new inside, even though it had 32,000 miles.
SPEAKER_00: That was a nice car for me.
SPEAKER_00: It lasted me a while, but I don't care.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm gonna buy what I want.
SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
SPEAKER_00: If you don't like it, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna buy what I like.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna be governed by your attitude about it.
SPEAKER_00: So, see, the best thing is just to be glad when people of God get blessed.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Celebrate favor and then demonstrate favor.
SPEAKER_00: How do you demonstrate it?
SPEAKER_00: By living it and allowing God to give you this immeasurable, unsurpassing, limitless favor of God.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hands and receive.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We're so grateful for your favor.
SPEAKER_00: We're so grateful that we're walking in this favor for the purposes of final harvest.
SPEAKER_00: That's the other thing I wanted to say.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just for us, it's so we can fund this end time harvest.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna take billions and billions, maybe even trillions of dollars.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, seven billion people on the face of the earth, a lot of them haven't heard uh the gospel, and we're gonna have to get out there and reap that harvest.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Did you get anything out of this tonight?
SPEAKER_00: Well, come on, let's rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Father, for the word.