SPEAKER_00: So we are continuing our series on the baptism of discipleship.
SPEAKER_00: We started talking about a biblical understanding of baptism.
SPEAKER_00: We spent a good bit of time digging into that.
SPEAKER_00: And then we began to talk about uh just what what does it mean?
SPEAKER_00: What does baptism mean to Christianity, the biblical understanding of it?
SPEAKER_00: What is it?
SPEAKER_00: We talked about some types and shadows of it even in the Old Testament or the Old Covenant.
SPEAKER_00: You see baptism as a thread throughout Scripture and throughout God's people.
SPEAKER_00: And then obviously in the New Covenant, we see a different version, if you will, of baptism and not just water baptism, but baptism in general, the spiritual element, the spiritual principle of baptism.
SPEAKER_00: There's more than just baptism in water.
SPEAKER_00: It's a spiritual thing.
SPEAKER_00: So we spent time talking about that.
SPEAKER_00: You can go back and listen to those messages.
SPEAKER_00: And then we spent a significant amount of time talking about what does it in the name mean?
SPEAKER_00: What does in the name mean?
SPEAKER_00: So we dove into that, we studied that.
SPEAKER_00: And if you weren't uh here for those messages, I would encourage you.
SPEAKER_00: Those are foundational to these teachings.
SPEAKER_00: They build on each other, and so it's foundational to the understanding of what I'm going to talk about today.
SPEAKER_00: I'll do a short recap, but I don't have enough time to go into depth with it.
SPEAKER_00: So go back and listen to those.
SPEAKER_00: Those are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
SPEAKER_00: But I believe that, and I'll say this over and over because it's one of those things that we have to get, we have to understand it, or a lot of other stuff doesn't make sense.
SPEAKER_00: It's what I call a keystone spiritual biblical principle.
SPEAKER_00: It it it if you don't understand it, you can't understand other things.
SPEAKER_00: And if you understand it, it unlocks other revelation and other things that you can get in the scriptures.
SPEAKER_00: And so we're talking about a baptism of discipleship.
SPEAKER_00: Let's jump into Matthew 28, 18, one of our texts for this entire series.
SPEAKER_00: This is after the resurrection, Jesus comes and appears to his disciples.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 18, he says, I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, in other words, in light of the fact that I have all authority in heaven and on earth, therefore, go, say go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the name of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you and be sure of this.
SPEAKER_00: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
SPEAKER_00: And so one of the things we continue to talk about and dig into and remind ourselves is that Jesus wasn't talking about water baptism in this text.
SPEAKER_00: He wasn't talking about, wasn't in the conversation at all.
SPEAKER_00: So he wasn't giving us language for water baptism.
SPEAKER_00: He wasn't giving us something to tack on to the end of a prayer when we pray for somebody.
SPEAKER_00: He was giving us what I believe is a model of discipleship.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
SPEAKER_00: Father, thank you that we can come to your word and we can ask you to reveal it to us.
SPEAKER_00: So many times we see in scripture where it says, You opened their minds and you helped them understand your word and your teachings.
SPEAKER_00: And we pray that prayer today, that you would open our minds and help us to understand the scriptures.
SPEAKER_00: You, Holy Spirit, teach us, lead us into all truth today.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Every single one of us as Christians is called by the smallest and one of the most powerful words in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: The word go.
SPEAKER_00: Mark 16, verse 15, again, and Jesus told them, Go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone.
SPEAKER_00: I've heard it said like this: without the go in gospel, all you have is a spell.
SPEAKER_00: Everything that Jesus said, did, and is always leads up to this point.
SPEAKER_00: To this moment.
SPEAKER_00: If you are a believer, if you are a follower, if you are a disciple of Jesus, everything that he said and did always leads up to this moment in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Not just in the lives of the disciples that were standing with the resurrected Lord before he ascended into heaven, but with you today.
SPEAKER_00: And the question is this will his work stop with you or accelerate through you?
SPEAKER_00: The disciples had years with Jesus to receive and obtain his love, acceptance, his power, his teaching, his way of life, and his habits.
SPEAKER_00: And now this is his instruction.
SPEAKER_00: Go.
SPEAKER_00: Take the things that you got from me, that you learned from me, that you heard from me, that you saw me do.
SPEAKER_00: Take those things and go and help others.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you know we're called to be rivers, not reservoirs?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't say that out of our bellies would be reservoirs of water.
SPEAKER_00: He said would flow rivers of living water.
SPEAKER_00: And the only difference between the two is that one goes and one sits.
SPEAKER_00: One releases what it has and the other one keeps what it has.
SPEAKER_00: One receives and one receives and doesn't give, and one receives and releases what it has received.
SPEAKER_00: Being a reservoir, listen, is the kingdom of this world's plan for your life, for my life, for our life.
SPEAKER_00: Gathering and not giving, building and not blessing, receiving and not releasing.
SPEAKER_00: That is the kingdom of this world's plan for you.
SPEAKER_00: And remember who rules the kingdom of this world.
SPEAKER_00: Gather, gather, gather, build, build, build, and for what?
SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
SPEAKER_00: If you're not tithing and giving to God what belongs to him, if you're not investing the time and the resources that he has given you, you are failing to recognize that it all comes from him.
SPEAKER_00: It all comes from him.
SPEAKER_00: Everything you have, everything you've produced, everything you are gathering, everything you are building, it all comes from him and belongs to him.
SPEAKER_00: If you're not releasing those things to advance his work, his family, and his kingdom, one day you will stand before God, and everything you spent and the work from every hour that you invested building and building and building is going to burn like wood, hay, and stubble in his presence.
SPEAKER_00: When we take the things that he has given us and we use them for his work and to advance his will in the earth, it attaches eternal significance and value to those otherwise natural things.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
SPEAKER_00: When God invites us to tithe and to give and to serve and to lay our life down and to be about his business, when he invites us into that, that is one of the most powerful and gracious things that he could ever do.
SPEAKER_00: It's one of the greatest opportunities a human being could ever have that I can take these natural things that I'm gathering and building and accomplishing, that I can take these and I can partner with God with it in his work.
SPEAKER_00: Literally redeems all the hours, all the time, all the dollars, all the effort that we spent gathering and building when we bring it to him and we use it, we release it to build and to advance his will in the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what it does.
SPEAKER_00: It supernaturally creates a conversation, a conversion, rather, of what would be wood, hay, and stubble, and it converts it to gold that has been tested and purified that will last not only in this life, but also in the life to come.
SPEAKER_00: It's part of his grace and his kindness to us.
SPEAKER_00: So when he says go, when he says give, when he says be a river, when he says that, when everything that he does leads up to those moments, that is his grace.
SPEAKER_00: If there's conflict in your heart because of that, there's conflict with his grace, there's conflict with his mercy, there's conflict with his love and his ways and his kindness.
SPEAKER_00: He's wanting to bless you.
SPEAKER_00: And remember what Jesus said: if you try to keep your life, if you try to hold on to it, you will lose it.
SPEAKER_00: But if you will lose it, if you will release it, if you will let it go, then you will find it.
SPEAKER_00: When we go and when we give, we store up treasure in heaven that will outlast this earthly life.
SPEAKER_00: When what he gets to us is released through us, listen to me, the river flows, the kingdom grows, and eternal significance becomes our bottom line.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you know if it won't last in eternity, it's not the bottom line.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what your bottom line is in your business or whatever, but if it won't last in eternity, it is not the bottom line.
SPEAKER_00: And however much of your life you spend on the wrong bottom line, you will be disappointed.
SPEAKER_00: Going is the only power needed to turn an ordinary person into an extraordinary hero.
SPEAKER_00: The power of the gospel message, a testimony of a life transformed and changed by the love and acceptance of God through the finished work of Christ and released to change others the way they were changed.
SPEAKER_00: It's the only power needed.
SPEAKER_00: It's such a small word, such a powerful word.
SPEAKER_00: Go, go.
SPEAKER_00: Take all the things that you've received, all the things that you've learned, all the things that you've encountered, and go and let it flow through you like a river into somebody else.
SPEAKER_00: Go, go, go.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, go.
SPEAKER_00: This is the culmination.
SPEAKER_00: It all leads to this.
SPEAKER_00: The disciples gave up everything.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, they gave up businesses, they gave up money, they gave up families, they gave up houses, they gave up careers, they gave their lives, and that is what it all led to.
SPEAKER_00: That moment where Jesus says, go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Teach these disciples to obey all the things that I've commanded you.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, all the things that I've commanded you, that I taught you, that I shared with you, go and teach them to somebody else.
SPEAKER_00: So we understand when Jesus said to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, he wasn't talking about what to say when we water baptized him.
SPEAKER_00: There's deeper, more symbolic meaning to this.
SPEAKER_00: The subject at hand was in the light of all the authority and power that he had been given that we would go.
SPEAKER_00: That we would go.
SPEAKER_00: It's a commission.
SPEAKER_00: You've heard it said as the Great Commission.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I believe Jesus is referring to a discipleship process that is focused on submerging someone into all that God is, all that he has, and all that is his will for our life.
SPEAKER_00: And that's really what we're going to talk about today.
SPEAKER_00: The brief recap.
SPEAKER_00: We talked about what baptism means.
SPEAKER_00: We talked about what the word in my name means.
SPEAKER_00: And here's a summary of it.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so to be baptized in the name means, let's just say this, to be baptized in the name of Jesus means to be fully immersed, submerged under and firmly fixed into Jesus' very own character and nature.
SPEAKER_00: So when you put all of those things together from the from the Hebrew and the Greek there that we studied out, to baptize in the name means to be fully immersed, submerged under and firmly fixed into Jesus' very own authority, character, and nature.
SPEAKER_00: That's what in my name means when he said that.
SPEAKER_00: So then you just take Jesus out and put in the Father, insert the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: It means the same thing, but into the Father, into the Son, into the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: So today what we're going to talk about is in the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Again, he gave those very specific things.
SPEAKER_00: He separated them.
SPEAKER_00: He said, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: So there's a reason that he separated God, if you will, into three parts.
SPEAKER_00: We know that as the Trinity.
SPEAKER_00: We believe we even see that in Genesis when God said, Let us make man in our image.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to look at that here in a minute.
SPEAKER_00: But we see that it's one God, three parts.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say, or one God, three roles.
SPEAKER_00: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: They're all God.
SPEAKER_00: Son is God.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is God.
SPEAKER_00: But they have different roles, different functions in and through our lives and in the earth.
SPEAKER_00: So here's, let's let me break this down.
SPEAKER_00: Father is identity, origin, order, love, belief, repentance.
SPEAKER_00: It's personal.
SPEAKER_00: Say it's personal.
SPEAKER_00: The Son, Jesus, is acceptance, forgiveness, imputed righteousness, the word, truth, it's grafting into family, it's salvation, it's new life, it's discipleship, it's positional.
SPEAKER_00: Say positional.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is power, purpose, health, nurture, emotional health, security, fruit of the Spirit, gifts of the Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: It's powerful, say powerful.
SPEAKER_00: So the Father is about identity, the Son is about acceptance, and the Holy Spirit is about power.
SPEAKER_00: So it's personal, it's positional, and it's powerful.
SPEAKER_00: That is the baptism in the name that we're going to be talking about.
SPEAKER_00: This week we're talking about in the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Next week we'll talk about in the name of the Son.
SPEAKER_00: And then on Easter Sunday, we'll talk about in the name of the Holy Spirit and what that means.
SPEAKER_00: I believe this is a discipleship model.
SPEAKER_00: Let me even say it like this.
SPEAKER_00: I believe this is a therapeutic discipleship model.
SPEAKER_00: I believe this is a model for freedom and deliverance ministry.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's like something separate.
SPEAKER_00: Like making disciples is leading people into all that Jesus did, all that Jesus said, all that Jesus has, all that is his will.
SPEAKER_00: That includes freedom.
SPEAKER_00: That includes forgiveness and salvation.
SPEAKER_00: That includes healing.
SPEAKER_00: That includes deliverance.
SPEAKER_00: That includes all of those things.
SPEAKER_00: It's a therapeutic model of discipleship.
SPEAKER_00: I believe that as we walk through these, I believe some of you are going to get delivered.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to get healed.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to get set free from things that have had you bound for a long time.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Baptism into the Father is focused on the person that you are.
SPEAKER_00: Baptism into the Son is focused on the position that you occupy.
SPEAKER_00: And baptism in the Holy Spirit is focused on the power that you have.
SPEAKER_00: So what does this look like?
SPEAKER_00: God exists as a family, and becoming a disciple is at its core a baptism into the family of God.
SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about Father.
SPEAKER_00: I said that that's identity, and then I listed some of those things that that includes.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's origin, it's order, it's love, it's belief, it's repentance.
SPEAKER_00: It's essentially a baptism into your origin story.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you like a good origin story?
SPEAKER_00: It's a baptism into your origin story.
SPEAKER_00: You can't accurately know who you are until you know whose you are.
SPEAKER_00: You can't accurately find where you're going without knowing where you came from.
SPEAKER_00: This is where becoming a disciple starts with personal belief and identity.
SPEAKER_00: It's a baptism into the Father where we learn who we are, what we are, why we exist, and what our purpose is.
SPEAKER_00: It's vital to our flourishing and thriving.
SPEAKER_00: This is where we find answers to the questions like who am I?
SPEAKER_00: Where did I come from?
SPEAKER_00: Why do I exist?
SPEAKER_00: Am I loved?
SPEAKER_00: Am I valued?
SPEAKER_00: Do I have worth?
SPEAKER_00: This is where we find the answers to those questions.
SPEAKER_00: Have you know that's that's that's that's probably most of the reasons people are traumatized and have soul wounds and issues and are in counseling.
SPEAKER_00: It's those things.
SPEAKER_00: This is this is a model that could put counselors out of business.
SPEAKER_00: And I am a counselor.
SPEAKER_00: I'm a licensed Christian counselor, and I would love to be put out of business because we just make disciples and they're just all the trauma, all the issues, all the freedom, all the healing, all the deliverance, like it's gone.
SPEAKER_00: And and they're flourishing and thriving and living the abundant life that Jesus died and was buried and raised from the dead so that we could have access to.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis 1.26.
SPEAKER_00: This is our origin story.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, read Genesis chapter 1, 2, and 3.
SPEAKER_00: Read it, know it, read it all the time, read it over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_00: It is your Genesis story.
SPEAKER_00: It will bring so much truth and so much healing into your life.
SPEAKER_00: We got to be baptized into this.
SPEAKER_00: And then God said, Let us make human beings in our image to be like us.
SPEAKER_00: They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on earth, and all the small animals that scurry along the ground.
SPEAKER_00: So God created human beings in his own image.
SPEAKER_00: In the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them.
SPEAKER_00: Now, listen to me.
SPEAKER_00: God's saying to himself, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, family, let's procreate.
SPEAKER_00: Let's have some kids.
SPEAKER_00: Let's make man and woman.
SPEAKER_00: Let's make mankind in our image.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say that about the fish, he didn't say that about the birds.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say that about the animals.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say that about the animals that scurry along the ground.
SPEAKER_00: He said, No, we're gonna make man.
SPEAKER_00: We create, he created all this stuff, he made all this stuff, and then he says, We're gonna make man in our image to be like us, and they will rule over all the other created things.
SPEAKER_00: That's why I believe one of the ways you can tell that someone is influenced or maybe even completely controlled by demons is that his goal is to make them look like, act like animals.
SPEAKER_00: It's one of the distinguishing factors.
SPEAKER_00: The distinguishing factor of a human being from animals is that we're made in the image of God.
SPEAKER_00: And so if you look at every sin that you can get in bondage to, it always leads to making us act like animals.
SPEAKER_00: Unthinking animals is what the Bible calls it.
SPEAKER_00: Like unthinking animals.
SPEAKER_00: They did whatever sinful, degrading thing that they desired.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: Talks about all of those things.
SPEAKER_00: Trading the image of God, the truth of God for a lie.
SPEAKER_00: Made to look like the things He created, the animals.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: It's one of those things which if it's if it looks animalistic, it's because it is.
SPEAKER_00: And I think that one of the things Satan is trying to do is take the glory, the crown jewel of God's creation, and reduce it to an animal.
SPEAKER_00: An unthinking animal.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta be baptized into this origin.
SPEAKER_00: You have to know whose you are and where you came from and what you were created to be and do.
SPEAKER_00: It's a baptism into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: All that the Father is, all of his character, his nature, and his authority.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis 2, 7 says, the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground, and he breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
SPEAKER_00: That was something the animals did not get.
SPEAKER_00: I say it like this: God created some things, and other things he made.
SPEAKER_00: So existence, our very existence, comes from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Identity comes from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Love, worth, and value comes from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: And if you disconnect yourself from these truths and from these things, you're gonna have issues in all of those areas.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have identity issues, you're gonna have love issues, you're gonna have self-image issues, you're gonna have worth and value issues if you're detached from what it means to be in the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: You came from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: You were not just created by God, you were made from God.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to that.
SPEAKER_00: That's important.
SPEAKER_00: You were not just created by God like all the rest of the earth and the animals and the trees and the fish.
SPEAKER_00: You weren't just created by God.
SPEAKER_00: You were made from God.
SPEAKER_00: There's a huge difference, a huge difference.
SPEAKER_00: And the difference is important because it determines our ultimate destination.
SPEAKER_00: God created the heavens and the earth, and then it introduces another element of creation where it says He made things from what He created.
SPEAKER_00: So He began to speak to the sea to bring forth fish.
SPEAKER_00: He began to speak to the earth to bring forth plants and seed-bearing trees and all of those things.
SPEAKER_00: So he created stuff and then he made stuff from the stuff that he created.
SPEAKER_00: Some things were created from nothing, and others were made from what was created.
SPEAKER_00: Some things God created and some things God made.
SPEAKER_00: Something that's made comes from the thing that made it, is sustained by the thing that made it, and then goes back to the thing that made it when it dies.
SPEAKER_00: So think about that in the natural, right?
SPEAKER_00: A tree.
SPEAKER_00: A tree comes from the earth, is sustained by the earth, and goes back into the earth when it dies.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: A fish comes from the sea or the lake or the pond, the river, is sustained by the river and goes back into the river when it dies, right?
SPEAKER_00: Animals come from the earth.
SPEAKER_00: They're sustained by the earth.
SPEAKER_00: They go back into the earth when they die.
SPEAKER_00: You came from God.
SPEAKER_00: Your spirit and your soul came from God.
SPEAKER_00: It's made from Him in His image, male and female.
SPEAKER_00: You came from God, you are sustained by God, and when you die, you're going back to God.
SPEAKER_00: It matters where you came from because that's where you're going.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're going.
SPEAKER_00: You won't know what to do with your life on earth if you don't know where you came from.
SPEAKER_00: If you don't know who you are and whose you are, it's massively important.
SPEAKER_00: This baptism into the name of the Father is a big deal.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just language, it's a whole process that we have to live out.
SPEAKER_00: That we submerge.
SPEAKER_00: Remember the word baptized means to overwhelm, to submerge, to be under.
SPEAKER_00: Immersion.
SPEAKER_00: We need to be immersed into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: So that our identity is based on truth.
SPEAKER_00: Our His love permeates our being.
SPEAKER_00: So He created our so He made our soul and our spirit, right?
SPEAKER_00: He breathed it.
SPEAKER_00: And then He made our physical bodies from what?
SPEAKER_00: From the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And what is our physical body sustained by?
SPEAKER_00: And where is it going to go when we die?
SPEAKER_00: Back to the earth.
SPEAKER_00: But not your soul and not your spirit.
SPEAKER_00: When it says that he breathed and that man became a living being, that is something completely different than what the animals got and what the birds got and what the fish got.
SPEAKER_00: Completely different.
SPEAKER_00: They don't have that.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry to tell you that.
SPEAKER_00: Your precious little puppy or cat.
SPEAKER_00: You know.
SPEAKER_00: They don't have a soul or a spirit.
SPEAKER_00: So listen to me, I'm going to shift gears here.
SPEAKER_00: Even in the natural family unit, we know psychologically that a mother and a father have unique roles that they play in the development of a human being.
SPEAKER_00: In the physical development, the sociological development, the psychological development.
SPEAKER_00: The role of father has very specific things that it accomplishes.
SPEAKER_00: The role of mother has very specific things that it accomplishes.
SPEAKER_00: And those things matter.
SPEAKER_00: That's why the nuclear biblical family matters.
SPEAKER_00: It matters.
SPEAKER_00: So we see this in psychology that a mother and a father have very different, distinct, and vital roles and contributions in the life, development, and health of a child.
SPEAKER_00: In general, we get our sense of well-being, emotional stability, nurture, sensitivity, mood regulation, how you handle stress, how you approach relationships, conscious inner self-talk and thoughts from your mom.
SPEAKER_00: That primarily, not exclusively, but primarily is a deposit from the mom.
SPEAKER_00: Good or bad?
SPEAKER_00: Good or bad.
SPEAKER_00: If your mom was calm and responsive and engaged and nurturing and involved and present, you're more likely to feel emotionally stable.
SPEAKER_00: If she was over-emotional, emotionally unstable, inconsistent, distant, you may struggle with emotional health issues, anxiety, or trust.
SPEAKER_00: We'll talk more in depth about that on Easter when we talk about in the name of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Likewise, in the world of psychology, it's observed that in general we get our identity, self-worth, sense of confidence, and healthy self-image from our father.
SPEAKER_00: So what I see and what we see as pastors and counselors who deal with people's issues, problems, and dysfunction is interesting.
SPEAKER_00: Someone who had father issues generally struggles in the area of identity.
SPEAKER_00: And those with mother issues generally struggle with emotional health.
SPEAKER_00: And if you had both of those issues with parents, unfortunately, your struggle in all those areas.
SPEAKER_00: But, but be of good cheer.
SPEAKER_00: Take hope.
SPEAKER_00: God has an answer for it.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: God has an answer for it.
SPEAKER_00: It's called be baptized in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And it will supersede and transcend every single father and mother issue you may have had.
SPEAKER_00: Every bad thing that happened to you in your life, every good thing that didn't happen to you in the formation of your life, there is a remedy.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: Be baptized.
SPEAKER_00: I believe one of the greatest crises that we have in our country is largely an identity crisis, which is largely due to fatherlessness and irresponsible, unhealthy men who have children.
SPEAKER_00: After his baptism, Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.
SPEAKER_00: And a voice from heaven said, This is my dearly loved Son who brings me great joy.
SPEAKER_00: Now this is a rare picture, amazing picture in the baptism of Jesus, where we see all in one place on earth the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And the Father's voice comes over the PA system of heaven, and he leans over the balcony of heaven and he says, That's my boy, in whom I am well pleased.
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
SPEAKER_00: Identity and affirmation.
SPEAKER_00: That's what comes from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't have that, you have an identity crisis and a value and a worth deficit.
SPEAKER_00: And you cannot flourish and thrive in life with that.
SPEAKER_00: You can't.
SPEAKER_00: It's handicapping, it's crippling, but it's something that Jesus came to fix.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: It's part of the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew 17, 5.
SPEAKER_00: This is another occasion where Jesus, we know this as the uh when Jesus transcended the transfiguration on the mountain, and he appeared, it says in verse 5, but even as he spoke, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is my dearly loved son who brings me great joy.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to him.
SPEAKER_00: Now you have a second time that God audibly spoke from heaven, and other human beings heard it and saw the manifestation.
SPEAKER_00: And what did he say?
SPEAKER_00: Identity and affirmation, worth, value, significance, legitimacy.
SPEAKER_00: This is my son in whom I am well pleased, who brings me great joy.
SPEAKER_00: And then he's like this listen to him.
SPEAKER_00: Peter and John were there that day, and Peter was so excited, he's like, Moses and Elijah were there too, which is crazy.
SPEAKER_00: Read that story, it's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: Moses and Elijah were there.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus and James and John and God shows up, not uh uh Peter and John, and God shows up, and again, the father speaks affirmation and identity.
SPEAKER_00: Love it.
SPEAKER_00: This is such an amazing baptism because it literally has the power to transcend and heal every single father wound, every identity issue, every single insecurity and inadequacy that you have.
SPEAKER_00: It's a baptism of identity and absolute assurance that you know who you are, that you know whose you are, and that you are a beloved son or daughter of Father Creator God.
SPEAKER_00: John 17.
SPEAKER_00: Now, I only pulled an excerpt of this out because there's so much.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to tell you this.
SPEAKER_00: Read Genesis 1, 2, and 3.
SPEAKER_00: Read John, the book of John.
SPEAKER_00: John had special revelation into this thing.
SPEAKER_00: This concept of in the name, this concept of in and abiding.
SPEAKER_00: John had special revelation.
SPEAKER_00: So much of his book and also 1 John.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so the Gospel of John and then 1 John, they start out the same.
SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, God created origin.
SPEAKER_00: And then all throughout John, this is actually an excerpt from a prayer of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I would encourage you to go back and read the whole chapter as a prayer.
SPEAKER_00: And in the prayer and in the teachings of Jesus, he echoes this all the time.
SPEAKER_00: One of the things I love about this series is it's teaching us things that we will begin to see all throughout Scripture when you read the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: And you'll go, oh, I know what that means.
SPEAKER_00: That's significant.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to this.
SPEAKER_00: They do not belong to this world any more than I do.
SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the disciples, he's praying to God out loud in front of the disciples, and he's talking about them to God.
SPEAKER_00: Make them holy by your truth.
SPEAKER_00: Teach them your word, which is truth.
SPEAKER_00: Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.
SPEAKER_00: So what is the Father sent Jesus, and he's saying, Just as you sent me, I am sending them.
SPEAKER_00: Was that?
SPEAKER_00: That's authority.
SPEAKER_00: Passed down.
SPEAKER_00: Submission to authority, passed down.
SPEAKER_00: And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so that they can be made holy by your truth.
SPEAKER_00: I am praying not only for these disciples, but for all who will ever believe in me through their message.
SPEAKER_00: So who's it up to?
SPEAKER_00: Who's the salvation of the whole world?
SPEAKER_00: All who will ever believe after this prayer was prayed, who's it up to?
SPEAKER_00: Those who go.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what he says.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one, as you are in me, Father, and I am in you.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was perfectly in the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: Perfectly in the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: That's why he was the most confident person that's ever walked the face of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: He was the most secure person that ever walked the face of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: I believe the reason he was able to be sinless is because he knew who he was, he knew whose he was, he knew what he had.
SPEAKER_00: He was firmly baptized into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: He was the manifestation of what it means to be perfectly baptized into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: No insecurities.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what he says.
SPEAKER_00: He goes on.
SPEAKER_00: And may they be, listen, and may they be in us, so that the world will believe you sent me.
SPEAKER_00: I have given them the glory that you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.
SPEAKER_00: I am in them and you are in me.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to all this.
SPEAKER_00: You know what this means now.
SPEAKER_00: When you read this, you kind of think like, that's just weird.
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what.
SPEAKER_00: No, no.
SPEAKER_00: We know what this means.
SPEAKER_00: May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, baptism into the name of the Father is a baptism into love.
SPEAKER_00: It is a baptism into perfect love that will change your life regardless of where you are in your life.
SPEAKER_00: John had such a revelation of this when you read, I would encourage you, read Genesis 1, 2, and 3, read John, read 1 John, read it.
SPEAKER_00: And what I'm saying is, I want us all to be baptized into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: I want us all to receive the perfect identity that we have in Him, the perfect love that we have from the Father.
SPEAKER_00: I want us to be baptized into our origin, that we know whose we are, we know why we were created, we know what we were created to be and do.
SPEAKER_00: And I pray that as we do this, Pastor Jamie, you guys can come back.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that as we do this, it brings so much healing.
SPEAKER_00: It brings so much freedom, so much truth, as our identities get solidified in the Father, that we would begin to be unmoved by the attacks of the enemy against our identity.
SPEAKER_00: That when anything disagrees with who God says we are and where he says we came from and how we were created, anything that disagrees immediately is slapped down.
SPEAKER_00: We don't entertain it for a second because we have confidence in who we are, in whose we are, in where we came from, and what we were created to do.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And so let's stand together.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have a specific invitation or or uh you know response, call to response.
SPEAKER_00: I just, as we go back into worship, I want your mind fixed on this baptism into the name of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: We all need this.
SPEAKER_00: I need this, you need this.
SPEAKER_00: We all need this.
SPEAKER_00: And so this week, one way you can respond is this week, just to read those scriptures and pray.
SPEAKER_00: I want to be baptized into the name.
SPEAKER_00: Part of being a disciple is being baptized into the name of the Father.