WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:02.160 Thank you for the question. 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:21.920 So good to be in church this morning. 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.399 Thank you, Brody, for giving me the opportunities. 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.399 I'm just so grateful. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.120 You know, I've really been blessed by our pastor. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.039 You know, I just I'm really blessed, Brody. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:37.119 I just see the anointing of God on you. 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:49.359 I see you stepping up, and uh I want you to know that every Sunday that I'm here, there's something that just hits me that you speak about and that God's putting pouring through you, and I am blessed. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:50.719 I want you to know that. 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:51.520 Amen. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:52.640 Hallelujah. 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.439 It is good to be in the house of the Lord. 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:56.399 Amen. 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:16.239 And this morning, uh, before we go into the word, which uh I've been very passionate about, uh I want to give a little bit of a report on missions because there's been some exciting things that are going on in missions that we don't get to see, feel here. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.640 And so I'm just gonna briefly just zoom through some things. 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.879 I have put out a little newsletter here. 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:32.159 I want one for family because I want you to see on the back where we're going, the numbers and and what your dollars and investment is going into. 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.239 And uh, it's actually exciting. 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:41.200 So we just had uh San Pedro in Mexico, we're very involved in Mexico, actually, quite involved in Mexico. 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:49.280 And uh we just had uh we have three churches San Pedro, Cicatella, and Pinotepa in Mexico, plus the influence that they have. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:54.400 And they just finished San Pedro, just finished a courtyard roof on their building. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:58.879 And uh this church, I'll tell you, it just started underneath a tree. 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:06.239 Uh, probably my guess would be like 20 years ago, 25 years ago, they started underneath a tree. 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:13.599 They actually had their church taken away from them, and uh, we just went, uh-uh-uh-uh, that's not that doesn't happen. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:18.080 So KCC invested into them, they got a property, they built a church. 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:23.520 You don't even see the church, that's just a covering on their patio for uh outdoor fellowship. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.240 So that is a direct result of your giving. 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:31.439 Uh Sicatella just got a new Sunday school uh roof put on their building. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.919 We built their church about four years ago, three years ago. 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:35.199 Beautiful building. 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.280 And uh they just had a next slide. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:45.280 You can see that uh they had a new roof put on their building that used to be a grass roof, but it uh was no longer holding out the rain and much needed. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:48.560 That's a direct result of our giving and our connection to them. 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.280 So just I just want you to know that we're blast. 00:02:51.599 --> 00:03:01.599 41 kids in June just got back from Mexico, and uh, they're from our HCS students, the GCP team, and they had a great time. 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:13.039 And I heard because I seen a newsletter that came out of the people's church that they visited in Nepala, that they ministered to over 800 people in Nepala, over 300 in an elementary school. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:20.560 And in the newsletter they wrote that this team had actually gone into some remote villages where the gospel has never been heard. 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.439 42 kids from Kelowna. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.439 Because of your investment, the gospel has been going out there, and that's exciting. 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.360 That's exciting, right? 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.800 And uh so they also gave a refrigerator and painted and you know, whatever. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:45.840 Andrew and Daphne right now are our administrators, they're riding their bicycles, raising funds for Israel right now. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:54.639 They're going through the through the states because they have a passion to see uh us in uh in God's children into that land. 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:55.520 So that's awesome. 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:57.360 Africa, Larry and Francine. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.960 I don't think they're here this week, but they are coming here, they are in Canada. 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.960 They will be here next Sunday and uh just love on them, and we look forward to hearing what they have to say. 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:17.680 Matt Thompson, he's in Thailand, and he just went over to the University of the Nations in in Hawaii and uh took in a conference on ending Bible poverty in the world. 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.160 Isn't that a great title, right? 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:30.319 When we talk about Bibles, Matt does not want to see anybody go without a Bible, and so he's been uh equipping the church and equipping people over in Thailand with that. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.920 Uh, Brian Thompson, he actually even wrote a newsletter this morning. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:42.560 He's planting gardens over in Haiti and uh hosting teams and uh just part of spreading the gospel, which is absolutely awesome. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:56.160 Pat Guerra is handing out Bibles to kids in Bible camps, and you can see he's not only doing that in Bible camps, I mean, the Thompsons and there's a team here that go down on Sunday and hand out Bibles in the park, and so the word is getting out, right? 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:06.000 And so we just want you to know that your mission dollars are going to work, spreading the gospel in our city, in our province, and in this nation and the world. 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:06.879 Amen. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.240 That's an exciting thing. 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:09.120 Thank you very much. 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:10.480 That's why I put this out. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:12.240 Yeah, give yourself a clap. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:16.000 I put this out. 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:16.800 Please don't leave. 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.759 Put this on your fridge, take it to prayer because there's there's some key things in here about giving. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:30.000 And I just want to draw your attention to three numbers at the bottom that you'll see on the slide, particularly the middle number in the bottom column. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:37.360 We have this year$263,000 that we're planning to have flow through our missions organization. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.639 That's a lot, that's over a quarter of a million dollars for this church. 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:41.759 That's a lot. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:51.199 Right? 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.480 Our support is$85,000,$86,000. 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:56.959 That's not very much. 00:05:57.839 --> 00:05:58.720 We can do it. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.199 Come on, would you say that we can do it? 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:02.560 Right? 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:08.480 Now, one of you can write a check for$85,000, but that wouldn't be fun because you'd let everybody else off the hook of their blessing. 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:09.360 Right? 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.319 So you can still give your$85,000 and everybody else can contribute, contribute too. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:25.120 I'm just saying this because um to reach$90,000, if every one of us gave$50 a month, we would easily reach$90,000 in a year. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:26.079 How much a month? 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:27.279 $50 a month. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:33.600 If everyone gave to General Missions$50, one$50 a month, we could each easily reach$90,000. 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:35.519 Now I know that some of you can't do that. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.079 We're well aware of it, but some of you can do more. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:40.959 So it's the it's I love what Brody said last week. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:46.319 It's what we have in common, what we can do together, that actually makes us powerful. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:46.800 Yeah. 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:47.600 Right? 00:06:47.839 --> 00:07:02.560 So just wanted to put that little report uh in your hand and just say thank you so much for your prayer and for your contributions to the gospel and advancing the kingdom in the world today from this place. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:03.759 Hallelujah. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.439 Yes. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.199 People always ask me, what have you been up to, Ed? 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:14.000 Right? 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:16.639 Renoing. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:27.279 But we uh Lisa and I did get a chance to go salmon fishing on the west coast of Vancouver Island to a little remote place between Gold River and Tassus. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:34.560 And it's one of our favorite spots that some of you have had the privilege to join us, and we had a beautiful time. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.759 We had a campsite right on the ocean. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.600 Just look out our camper, and there is the deep blue sea. 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.319 It's just gorgeous, wonderful time. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.519 We actually even had somebody from the church come and visit us. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.120 You'll see on the next slide. 00:07:53.519 --> 00:08:00.959 So uh Rhea said to me, Ed, we've or said to us, Ed, I've never I've spent a hundred hours fishing with my dad and I've never caught a salmon. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.319 I said, Well, you better come. 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.199 Lisa said, You better come down and drop a line in the water. 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:08.000 And so there's Rhea's first salmon. 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.040 Everybody give her a hand. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:09.920 She's not here today. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:14.800 Had a great time. 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:16.079 Do you know? 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:21.759 While we were there, I've experienced something I've never experienced before. 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:22.639 We had fog. 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.319 So Lisa and I went out fishing in the fog, and this is what it looked like. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.079 That's us fishing. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:38.960 We were out in the open ocean with my 18 and a half foot boat in waves this high, and you couldn't see where you were going. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.159 You couldn't see a hundred feet off of your boat. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.399 And uh we had Jeff and uh his boys with us. 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.080 And you know, to be in the fog is an amazing thing. 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.080 It takes away your vision. 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:57.200 You can't see, you lose orientation, you become disoriented. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:03.519 So I'm not talking about a river where I could see the banks, I'm not talking about you know the lake where we could see. 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:08.720 No, I'm talking about open ocean and you don't know where you're going. 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:13.200 You Japan was over there, and we're in the fog and we're fishing. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.480 It's not very good fishing in the fog because your lure doesn't catch the light of the sun, right? 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:29.600 But it was amazing what started to go on in my heart because fear could very easily creep in. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.000 At one point, we had 10 boats come zooming up to us. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.039 We were one of the first ones out. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:43.120 We had 10 boats come and zooming up to us, and all of a sudden they were there because you could hear them coming, but all of a sudden they're there, and they're like, whoa, there's a boat there, right? 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:44.720 So it was crazy. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:45.519 But you know what? 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.919 One of the things that was really key to our trip is I had a GPS. 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:59.840 And even though I couldn't see where I was going, I could actually turn on my GPS and know exactly where I was. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.080 A GPS actually gets a signal from above the fog. 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:11.759 A GPS actually orientates yourself so that you know where to go and what to do. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:18.559 And, you know, I was thinking about this in my in my devotion and in my preparation for this morning. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.200 I thought, you know, oftentimes we as a church, as a church, we're in the fog. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.679 We don't see, we can't see what's going on. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:34.080 And a whole bunch of things are coming at us, right? 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.200 And we're disoriented. 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.360 And God wants to give us clarity. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:51.919 And He He we were singing it this morning that there's a signal that comes from above the fog that comes and invades our space, that lets us know who we are and where we are. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:59.840 And that that signal, do you know that it's fascinating because a GPS has to work on three satellites. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.600 So there's three orientation points for that GPS to work. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:12.960 Our spiritual life has to work on more than one orientation point: God, his word, right? 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:14.399 Worship. 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:25.919 There's there's things that help us get oriented in the middle of the fog that I believe are so key to keeping us moving away from fear. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:35.279 This morning I want to read uh a scripture, and this is this comes more out of my heart, out of devotion, than it does just out of a message prep. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:41.759 Um and the scripture is in Psalm chapter 2, and uh I'm going to read it. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:48.799 It says, Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? 00:11:49.039 --> 00:12:03.600 The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:04.879 This is David. 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:16.639 He's he's contemplating, he's he's sitting there asking, like, why is it does it seem like everything is against me or against the Lord, right? 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.480 Or against Israel. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:25.759 Then he says, He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.519 What a shift. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:33.120 Right? 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:34.399 The GPS. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.960 The GPS is higher, it knows something differently than what the fog knows. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:53.120 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall hold them in derision, then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.240 Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:05.279 I will declare the degree to decree, the Lord has said to me, You are my son. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:08.480 Today I have begotten you. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:16.720 Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:22.799 You will break them with a rod of iron, you will dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:28.320 Now therefore be wise, O kings, be instructed, you judges of the earth. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:39.039 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling, kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.360 Blessed are all those who put their trust in him. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.159 Fascinating, fascinating scripture. 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:58.559 I want to bring out, I mean, we could preach a month on this, but I want to bring out three three thoughts this morning that I think are really key to us as a church. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:04.080 And the first question I have is why do the nations rage? 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.360 Why, like, what is going on? 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:16.720 How many of you, how many of you have ever felt like your your faith is under attack, that you are under attack, that you you cannot liberally speak? 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:28.799 Uh you feel that every time you feel like you're making progress with your faith and and something is coming against you and uh restraining your this this pressure against you. 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.120 How many of you have ever felt like that? 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:33.200 Yeah. 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.200 Who are the kings? 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.879 Who are the rulers? 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:41.600 Who are they? 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.000 Have you ever heard of drug lords? 00:14:51.200 --> 00:15:00.879 How many people are held in bondage to drugs in our community, in our world? 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:10.399 Who is sitting at a table and making plans, devising plans against the kingdom of God to hold people in our city captive? 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:17.440 Religion. 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:26.240 Last night I was I caught a bit of a program on a sect of I won't even say the sect, but religion. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.399 Religion is holding people captive. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:46.960 Who sits at a table planning on how to make sure that nobody leaves that sect or how that so we we we put up rules and regulations to restrain and conflict people while in ourselves we're in turmoil because there is no boundary to the sins that we commit. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:50.720 Come on. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.480 Who's ruling? 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.039 Who's ruling North Korea? 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.519 Who's ruling people that are held in bondage? 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:09.840 See, the world right now is under the sway of the evil one. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:22.559 And there's principalities and powers, regulations, governments that are against the liberty and freedom in Christ and the Word of God. 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:24.240 And we feel that. 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.600 If you don't feel that, we're numb, we're sleeping, we're in the fog. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:30.240 We feel that. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:40.559 And when I hear conversation, when I talk to people over coffee, for some people there's fear, for some people, there's concern. 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.600 I hear people say, I don't even want to raise kids in this generation. 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:49.200 When kids are such a blessing, they're a gift to us from God. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.279 Right? 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:55.039 And so we ask the question, why? 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:56.559 Why is this happening? 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:05.759 And I think it's happening because the world does not know the love that we were singing about this morning of the true God. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:07.680 It's broken. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:19.200 And when your obsession for something is greater than your desire to know God, let me say this again. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:30.079 When your obsession for something is greater than your desire to know God and his ways, you'll use whatever means to get what you want. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:37.359 You'll use oppression, bondage, slavery, war, killing, anger, manipulation. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:46.559 When our obsession, James puts it this way, when our desire is conceived and it is born in us, right? 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.519 And is different than the desire that God puts in us. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:18:03.200 When our desire for things is greater than our love for God and love for people, we we do all kinds of controlling, manipulative things that brings destruction. 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:05.440 Are you with me? 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:28.000 When your love for God and people is greater than anything that you want, when your obsession is for God, right, you will strive to see people set free rather than pursue that thing that you want. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:32.319 I'm not only talking about nations here, because it is very active in our world today. 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:40.480 All the kingdoms of this world are built on lust and obsession for things that they want more than God. 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.720 And we have it, I'm gonna say this, we have it in our families. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:19:03.359 Sometimes the breakdown in our marriage is often because somebody in our marriage wants more or is obsessed to have something that they'll use, they'll connive, they'll they'll sit at this table that we're talking about and plan against the anointed. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:19.920 Rather than to live out an extravagant life under the blessing and the anointing and the presence and power of God, to set people free. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:21.759 Amen. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:24.319 This is it's our noble call, church. 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:26.720 It's our noble call. 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:35.039 I think the second reason why this is going on is first is they don't know the true God. 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:50.160 Second, is because I think that God, in His in His infinite wisdom, wants to put on display in the world stage the evil imaginations and thoughts of our heart and let us see the end result of our conniving. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:56.640 Because if there isn't a manifestation of sin, we'll cover it up and say it doesn't exist. 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.000 But now, are you are you with me? 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:11.440 The evil intentions and imaginations of men's heart are now manifest on the world stage, and if you're a son of God, you're getting tired of it. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:22.480 It does something to our heart, it wakens us up, it hurts, but it also, I'm telling you, it solidifies your faith. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.400 It starts to strengthen you because you actually get resolve. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.640 I part of my life I learned what I learned by example. 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.799 Another part of my life I learned what I learned by example. 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:44.960 I followed the things that I like, but I saw things I didn't like, and I applied those things to my life because I knew that they would be destructive and painful. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:59.680 So we learn by example, and on the world stage, we have lots of examples of the evil intentions of man's heart, and we go in our heart that doesn't align ourselves with what God has birthed in me, and therefore I don't want anything like that. 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:07.119 So these things are training us as believers for what we want and what we don't want. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:13.039 So we need to be awake, we need to be aware of what's going on around us. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:14.240 Are we okay? 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:22.960 So need to know fact number one the earth is the Lord's in all its fullness. 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:30.160 David said that the earth is the Lord's in all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.799 The earth does not belong to oppressive rulers. 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.400 Okay, they're squatters. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:43.119 It's temporary. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:50.240 Now you may, I know I watch the news, you know, I know it's a big job. 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:55.920 I know that it's overwhelming at times, and if I'm just baking bread, what do I care about what's going on in North Korea? 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:57.599 I know it's a big thing, right? 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:58.960 What we're talking about. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.559 I'm telling you, it doesn't belong to them. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:09.680 The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:11.200 Come on. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:14.400 This is a need-to-know fact. 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:16.000 Who's the owner? 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:18.480 Come on. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:23.839 The earth does not belong to oppressive rulers. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.319 He has this thing under control. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:28.240 He is on the throne. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:32.079 He is still king of kings and he knows what is going on. 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:33.039 Alright? 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.839 So he sits in the heavens and laughs. 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:37.759 Now he's not laughing at our pain. 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.839 He's not laughing at our our our struggles. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.240 He's laughing at the pride and the arrogance of this conniving that's going on to hold oppression in the world. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:54.400 He says, You think that you can do this, but your time is almost up. 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:56.480 Come on. 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:58.720 And he sits in the in the heavens. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:04.000 I believe that God is just sitting there waiting to flex his muscles. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:06.960 Come on. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.599 Do you know when he was on the cross? 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.960 He could have flexed his muscles and blew the nails out of the wood. 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.079 He could have just, all the soldiers could have fell down dead. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:24.799 He could have come into the temple and you know shook his finger at those religious leaders. 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:25.759 Right? 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:27.519 All they had to do was sneeze. 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:31.119 All he had to do was say Father. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.680 But he knew the will of the Father. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:43.839 He knew that he wanted to show the tragedy of sin and the greatness of his love in one moment. 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:54.319 Thought number two, who is the anointed? 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:01.920 The Hebrew word for anointed one in this psalm and in scripture is messiah. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:12.720 Messiah is an interesting word because there is the messiah, there is the anointed one, and then there is anointed ones or messiahs. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:20.079 Because we don't speak Hebrew, we don't call them messiahs, but there's messiahs in scripture, right? 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:21.839 That are anointed ones. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:28.240 It comes from the idea, Messiah comes from the idea of being rubbed with oil. 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.920 Rubbed with oil. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:39.440 Remember when Pastor Dave prayed for Sean, he didn't just put a drop on him, he poured the whole bottle on him. 00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:44.559 Rubbed with oil. 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:52.480 Psalm 133 says that the oil flows down like on Mount Hebron. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:56.400 You know that when brethren dwell together in unity, there is blessing. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:02.720 It's like the oil, it's like the dew on Mount Herban and the oil that flows down from the beard to the hem of the garment. 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.799 The whole body is anointed. 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:07.920 There's enough oil to cover the whole body. 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:11.599 Rubbed with oil. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:14.799 The oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:23.519 And it is the Holy Spirit, it's Jesus' relationship to the Holy Spirit that manifested him as Christ on the earth. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.079 Come on. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:35.039 It's his relationship to the Holy Spirit that elevated him and made him powerful, even though he was powerful. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:44.000 For 30 years Jesus did nothing but learned who he was. 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.039 Come on. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:52.799 For three years he did something, but only as a result of who he was in relationship to the Holy Spirit. 00:25:53.920 --> 00:26:01.440 We need the Holy Spirit in this day and age to navigate and make a difference in the world. 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:03.039 Come on. 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:11.519 An anointed one is usually a person set apart or set aside to be king, priest, or saint. 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:16.480 It's a word given to Jesus Christ, and it's also a word given to Christ's body. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:26.160 In this psalm, when David is meditating on this and talking, he says, you know, that they rage against the anointed, against the anointed of the Lord. 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:28.079 He's talking about Himself as King. 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:31.440 He's talking about the children of Israel as the anointed one. 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:35.119 He's talking about the King, Jesus Christ, the anointed one. 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:42.160 So there's a plot in the world to hold you restrained from what God has put in your heart. 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.200 How many of you have desire that's bigger in your heart than what actually can be manifest? 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:48.960 Come on. 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:55.519 If you have that in you, I believe the day is coming where you're going to bust open and that's going to be released. 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:57.599 Come on. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:02.240 Do you know that that 27% of Scripture is prophecy? 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:16.240 27% of Scripture takes us and holds the future ahead of us so that while we're in the storm, we can see something greater and hope fills our heart that we can move towards it, believing that it will happen in spite of what we see. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:21.920 We need to have a vision. 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.079 We need to see what God sees. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:25.599 We need to see what's in his heart. 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:29.279 We need to see what that's why I love this song. 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.119 This is talking about the anointed one. 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:44.720 I love the scripture that our church is birthed on, that the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and He has anointed me. 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.000 Would you say that? 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.319 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:55.839 You are the anointed ones. 00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:58.400 You are the anointed ones. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.519 You are the chosen. 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:03.200 God has selected you because you have his presence. 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.279 You have relationship. 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:07.279 You already have the words. 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.279 You already know it's in you. 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:15.039 And we need to know who we are in the middle of the fog. 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.720 You're children of the most high God. 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:29.200 Acts 2 says that you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:31.759 I love this in Colossians. 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:48.559 There's a couple scriptures in Colossians that says, To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:51.440 What is that? 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:57.359 That means that Christ is in me, and it's the hope of glory. 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:07.680 So something that's going to come out of me, something that's going to be revealed in me, is the most glorious thing that could ever happen, and that's Christ. 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.759 You are the manifestation of Christ on the earth today. 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:14.880 Come on. 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:21.920 We're not Christians, adding Christian or church to our lifestyle, our identity is Christ. 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.880 The very person of Christ is in me. 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:34.559 And when the very person of Christ is in me, I'm seated at the right hand of God, seated in heavenly places with him. 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.079 It's not an additive, it's an identity. 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.119 It's what you're born again with. 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:50.000 Hallelujah. 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:50.880 Wow. 00:29:52.880 --> 00:30:02.000 Colossians 3, 4 says, When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:04.400 Think about that. 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.240 How many of you are waiting for the second return of Christ? 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.960 Do we think about it? 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:13.119 Or is there too much fog? 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:33.119 Is there an anticipation in our heart for something that's going to happen on the global world universal scene that's going to rend the heavens and the hell and the hills will melt like wax, and his appearance is going to just shatter every king that opposes itself against his kingdom. 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:39.519 And when he appears at that moment, we're going to appear with him. 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.000 Ta-da! Here we are. 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:43.359 Look at me. 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.519 Not feeble, not weak, not wishful thinking, but in our glory. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:31:01.200 In the glory that he has invested in us and put in us to show the world the greatness of his desire for humanity. 00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:05.200 To show, you know, last night I was I was working on my message. 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.480 I came in the house and Lisa was watching Iron Man. 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:21.440 And I'm thinking, yeah, go! You know, like there's got to be something that rises up in our heart when there's a villain there that's trying to hold people captive, and somebody just longs to see people set free. 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:22.559 Come on. 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.000 I was inspired by Iron Man. 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:32.640 I was already inspired by the scripture, so they must have been watching the scripture or reading the scripture. 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:36.400 So need to know fact number two: you are the anointed ones. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:47.839 And Romans 8 says that all creation, Paul says in Romans 8 that all creation is waiting for your arrival. 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:50.400 Come on. 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.200 They don't even know it. 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:55.599 So this is a top secret meeting. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.319 This is called the mystery of Christ. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:15.279 They don't know what's gonna happen, but on one day the world is going to see the manifestation of Christ in you, and he's going to establish you in your rightful place to bring government, healing, and wholeness to the earth. 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:16.799 Come on. 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:25.920 I know it's hard when we're babysitting, and our world is just looking after this little child, and we're like, holy smokes, I don't think I can rule a nation. 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:27.119 I get it. 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.359 I get it. 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:38.960 You know, I'm swinging my hammer and building something, and I'm like, the world's going to hell in the handbasket, and here I am hitting nails on the roof, and what am I gonna do? 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:42.240 I don't feel like I have the influence. 00:32:43.359 --> 00:33:06.319 But inside of me there's a zip file that's loaded with all kinds of stuff that's just waiting to be opened up and unpackaged so that we can see this global world come underneath the kingdom of our Lord and Savior, and that his government will flow from sea to sea. 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:07.039 Come on. 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:09.119 Hallelujah. 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:10.400 Why am I saying this? 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.960 I want us to know where we are in the fog. 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:14.000 Right? 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:17.680 I want us to know who we are, where we are, and what God sees. 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:18.160 Right? 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:25.200 The anointed one is a man that becomes elevated or raised up to do supernatural things in relationship to the Holy Spirit. 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:34.079 Moses, raised uh in Egypt, encounters God with the anointing and demonstrates his power and might to Pharaoh. 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:35.200 Right? 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:40.960 David, a shepherd boy, you know, we're just working in the kitchen or looking after the sheep or whatever. 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.559 It doesn't matter. 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:48.880 I know that we don't know how to rule nations. 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:49.839 I get it. 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:50.400 Okay? 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:51.759 I've thought long and hard. 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.519 Like, Lord, you're gonna have to do something really hard. 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.359 Right? 00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.759 Is he gonna put us on a board? 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:00.960 Right? 00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:07.359 Is he gonna put us on a sitting in some building at the top and giving orders? 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:08.000 No. 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:16.880 I actually believe that the deposit of the Holy Spirit and Christ in you is something that somebody is going to need and they're gonna come to you. 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.440 It doesn't matter if you're baking bread, babysitting, or swinging a hammer. 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:23.679 You're gonna have what God has. 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:32.559 You're gonna be who God is to the world, and every person in this world is gonna desperately need and want what you have. 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:35.599 You won't even have to go learn how to do it. 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.280 They'll come tracking you down. 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:45.119 They'll come underneath the peace and the love and the righteousness of what's going on in your household and in your business and in your kingdom. 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:47.679 Because you got the goods. 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.079 We got the goods? 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.599 We got the goods. 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:54.719 Hallelujah. 00:34:56.960 --> 00:35:02.320 So what does God see? 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:10.159