WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.400 Hi, my name is Michelle Steele. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:10.240 Pastor Phillip and I want to thank you for listening to this message from Life of Faith Church. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:16.800 We have more resources available to help you build your faith and bring your world by the Word of God. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.800 From our website, lifeofffaith.net, you can connect to our YouTube channel. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.320 Watch the live stream feed from our church services. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.600 Access books and downloads in our web store. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.439 And discover more about Life of Faith Church. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.799 Producing life city, state, nation, and world. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.759 Visit lifeoffaith.net today. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:45.920 Matthew 26. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.759 Living and Resurrection Power. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:59.840 And this is the Last Supper, as it's called. 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:07.680 The meal, of course, that Jesus ate before his crucifixion and uh his physical death. 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:20.480 And it says, as they, Matthew 26, verse 26, as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave to the disciples, and said, Take ye, this is my body. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:30.159 And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it, for this is my blood. 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:42.959 Notice the word of the New Testament or of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin. 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:55.040 And then in Mark 14, we'll look very quickly at all three of these accounts. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.159 Mark 14, verse 22. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:14.479 And it says, As they did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed and break it, and gave to them and said, Take ye, this is my body. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.479 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.439 And he said unto them, This is my blood. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:29.520 And he used this word again, of the new covenant or the new testament, which is shed for many. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:48.080 Then in Luke 22, and verse 17, it says, He took the cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.800 For I say to you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come. 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:03.840 And he took bread and gave thanks and break it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of me. 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.039 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New Testament. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:13.199 Notice, in my blood, which is shed for you. 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:18.400 So the first two accounts, he says, the blood of the new covenant. 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:23.439 Then in Luke, he says, It is the new covenant in my blood. 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.199 So here we see the blood of the new covenant. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:34.800 The blood of the old covenant obviously was the blood of animals, the blood of bulls and goats. 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:52.879 And through this blood was the possibility, this blood of Jesus, through this blood was the blood, the blood of Christ was the possibility of man coming into union with God. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:04:00.240 The resurrection was so vital because of the power that it produced. 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:13.520 It not only produced power to live a life above sin, the Bible says that it produced a power that made us able to become sons of God. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:26.240 Something so radical was released in the resurrection of Christ that it changed the spiritual DNA of every person that would receive the blood of Jesus. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:44.319 So when we think of salvation, it was not just a saving from sin, it was a saving out of sin, and it was a salvation that produced in me the nature of God so that I'm no longer a sinner, I am truly a saint born of God. 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:46.639 Hallelujah. 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:55.040 Now, when we think saint, of course, people think of somebody that, you know, is perfect and never makes a mistake and never does anything wrong. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.360 The Bible calls us saints because that's set apart once. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:15.519 And so this blood of Christ gave the possibility of man coming into union with God through a common life, which is oneness of blood. 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.319 A common life. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.560 If you remember the high priest, he did not know he was prophesying. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:33.279 The Bible says he didn't know he was prophesying, but he told the people that were conspiring against Jesus, he said, You don't understand anything. 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:38.720 He said, It's better that one man give his life for everybody. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.360 And the Bible says he didn't know he prophesied. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:51.199 He didn't know he was saying the whole reason that Jesus came was for one to give his life for the many. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:52.240 Hallelujah. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:06:01.120 Now here's the thing: the one gave his life, his spiritual life, his life, his natural life, his blood for the many. 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:07.519 And whoever partook of that life partook of the life of God. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.120 Hallelujah. 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:18.639 So the one who could speak to God offered his blood to make those that he loved of the same nature with himself. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.079 Hallelujah. 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:24.720 And the same nature with God. 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:31.279 In order to bring them into blood friendship with God, he offered his own body. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.000 I had to be brought into blood friendship with God. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:41.279 You cannot be a friend of God without partaking of the nature of God. 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:42.720 Hallelujah. 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:44.959 Look at John chapter 15. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:07:00.639 See, when you understand this, you understand that the Bible says, every person that's not born again, he said, their father is the devil. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.639 The God of this world is their God. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.319 And there are people that are not born again, and they'll say, Well, the devil's not my God. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.920 Scripture says he is. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.000 He's my ruler. 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:13.439 Well, the devil's not my father. 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.040 Scripture says he is. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:22.480 Because if I have not received the new nature of God, I have retained the old nature of sin. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:27.199 The only way it can be broken is by receiving his nature. 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:28.800 Amen. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:37.920 And when I receive his nature, I receive the nature of one who never sinned, one who was never tempted by sin. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.920 And I can walk in the victory over sin. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:49.920 When you hear people talking and telling how hard it is to live above sin, I question whether their nature has been changed. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:57.439 When I got born again, and I know many of you in here, when you got born again, there were things that immediately dropped out of your life. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.839 There were things that you immediately quit doing. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.360 There were other things that I had to grow into and I had to mature in. 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:09.600 But I can stand up here without, without hesitation and tell you there's nothing in me that wants to sin. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:14.720 There's nothing in me that wants to do anything contrary to what God wants with my life. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:15.279 Why? 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:25.279 My nature has been changed because I've become a partaker of the blood of Jesus and I've come into close kinship with God. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.759 God is not someone afar off. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.160 God is someone on the inside of me. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.279 God is not someone that holds me at arm's length. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.679 God is someone that says, You're my child. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:44.879 Come boldly into the throne room and ask me for whatever you need, and I'll give it to you because you are part of the family of God. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.840 Oh, hallelujah. 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:49.279 Amen. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:51.600 Do you see that? 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:53.360 Glory. 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.480 And it goes even farther than just sin. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.440 And I don't have time to get into it. 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.039 It goes into our standing. 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:09.200 When I partake of the blood of Jesus Christ, I'm immediately made righteous. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.960 I'm immediately made holy. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.759 I'm immediately made right in God's sight. 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.720 There's nothing I have to do to try to achieve holiness. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.759 There's nothing I have to do to try to achieve righteousness. 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.360 I was made that way. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.440 I was created that way. 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:29.120 See, at conception, the blood of that child shows up. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.919 And we know that it's the blood of the Father that gives life to the child. 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:35.519 The blood of the Father. 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:43.440 When the blood of the Father came into our lives, we immediately became of the nature of God. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:46.879 Hallelujah. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:55.519 Christians have to be taught to struggle because they're born overcomers. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.279 I have to be taught to struggle. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.519 I have to be taught that I'm just an old sinner saved by grace. 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.120 Now that's not true, but you understand, I have to be taught that. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:12.720 You have to be taught that the devil's such a foe that you can't hardly ever win a victory over him. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:21.440 And somehow, somehow, by the skin of your teeth, and your teeth don't even have any skin on them, by the skin of your teeth, that you're gonna figure out how to do this. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.960 No, I was born with victory over the devil. 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:32.000 The moment I was born again, Jesus said the moment you're born again, you can go cast out devils. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:41.679 Hallelujah. 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:54.480 I was listening to a minister the other day, and I don't listen a lot, and when I say what I say, you understand why I don't listen a lot. 00:10:54.879 --> 00:11:05.120 And he said, you know, when you're a pastor in a church, you have to remind people all the time that they're sinners, and that they're debased in their nature. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.440 And I thought, well, dear God, how does anybody walk in victory in your church? 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.000 How does anybody walk in victory? 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:15.519 What does sin bring? 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:16.720 Condemnation. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:17.440 Guilt. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.399 What does condemnation and sin and guilt bring? 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:21.519 Weakness. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:23.919 Inability to win. 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:25.200 Right? 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:42.320 Part of the reason why you're such a conqueror in Christ is because you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and you stand before God with no fear, and you stand in the presence of God with absolutely no fear about anything because you're right in his sight. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.519 Oh, hallelujah. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:47.200 Do you see this? 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:54.399 And and and and when people are not aware, I've had people say to me, Well, you you're just talking like you're God. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.159 No, but I'm God's son. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:57.600 Oh, I wouldn't say that. 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.519 Well, God said it about us. 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:01.759 I'll just say what he said. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.200 You believe what you want, I'll just believe what he said. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:08.559 Right? 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:10.639 Amen. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.000 Listen, my youngest son, he walks in the room. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.440 There's no question who his father is. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:20.399 None. 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.759 That boy is still through and through. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.840 They sent me a picture of my youngest grandson today. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:33.600 And I thought, well, dear Lord, poor boy, he looks just like me when I was that age. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:34.960 I sent my sister the picture. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.559 I said, Is this me or what? 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:37.759 And she said, Oh Lord. 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.360 I thought, wait, there it is. 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:40.320 Right? 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.080 Hallelujah. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:43.679 Right? 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:50.879 When people look at you, when people are around you, they know it's God that they're around. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.799 Now, understand why I'm saying that. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:54.320 The presence of God is there. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.840 Why is in me? 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:57.519 He's my father. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:58.799 Amen. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.720 Say it out loud: God's my father. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.200 I have the nature of God. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:05.600 Hallelujah. 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:10.879 And so it's not just this ability to overcome sin. 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.440 You know, overcoming sin is very elementary. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.279 Overcoming sin is the first thing you start doing. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:19.679 Growing in your walk with God. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.720 You were born with victory over sin. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.840 You were born with victory over the devil. 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.559 I've got to learn to live in that victory. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:38.399 In John 15, verse 13, it says, Greater love has no man than this, than he lay down his life for his friends. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:44.080 Notice, you are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:51.840 Now, John 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 were all the upper room. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.159 That was all in the upper room. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.559 Jesus said all of those things in the upper room. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:07.919 Now, I don't know how long the conversation was or how long they were there, but just speaking in what we know, I think it would take a while to say four chapters out of the Bible. 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:11.679 But he's in the upper room, and notice what he says. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.000 He says, You are my friends. 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.000 Hallelujah. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.960 No longer servants, but friends. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:31.840 Through the blood of the new covenant, we were brought into a blood friendship. 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:33.600 Through what? 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.679 The blood of the new covenant. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:44.879 So when you say something like, as a believer, there's blood between you and God, that means blood seals this relationship. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:47.200 Right? 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.480 We use the phrase this, and I know you've used it. 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.399 No, we're blood kin. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:54.240 Right? 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:55.039 What does that mean? 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:56.399 There's blood between us. 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.159 There's a bond here. 00:14:58.960 --> 00:14:59.279 Right? 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:00.399 We're blood. 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.080 We're not just friends. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:03.679 We're blood friends. 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.519 We're blood kin. 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:06.720 Right? 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.240 You know, there are people who say, well, he's almost like a brother to me. 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.840 There's a difference between almost like a brother and a blood brother. 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:15.440 There's a difference. 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:16.559 Amen. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.480 The Bible says that all of us, that we're brothers and sisters in Christ. 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:20.960 Why? 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:21.919 Common blood. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:22.960 Same blood. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:24.399 Same father. 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:26.879 Hallelujah. 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:32.080 And so it doesn't matter what your age is or your gender is, out of the two, male or female. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.519 It doesn't matter what your race is, the color of your skin. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.440 It doesn't matter where you come from. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.600 It doesn't matter what you used to be. 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.679 When you received that covenant blood, you received the nature of God. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.879 You came into the family of God, and we're kin. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.440 Hallelujah. 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:57.279 And Jesus, at this time, the only begotten Son of God, says, I don't call you servants. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.519 I call you friends. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.559 Why? 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.720 Blood friendship. 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.879 Oh, hallelujah. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.960 See, as the family of God, as children of God, we serve God. 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:10.480 That's what we do. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.159 But we're not servants. 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.720 We're family. 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:16.080 Amen. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:35.519 In verse 7 of the same, or actually John 15, verse 7, it says, if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you'll ask what you will, and it shall be done on you to you. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.000 This is the scope of this blood covenant. 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:43.519 This makes it possible. 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.279 Blood friends withhold nothing from each other. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.120 That's covenant. 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.519 They withhold nothing from each other. 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.399 I have friends, I'm sure you have friends. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:17:00.399 All they've got to do is pick up the phone or come to my house and tell me they have a need, and it's done. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.639 Because they're my friend. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.640 We're in covenant. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:05.680 Amen. 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:07.440 I have a guy, he's my best friend. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.880 I would do anything for him. 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.160 He does, listen, all he's got to do is call me and ask. 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:12.640 That's it. 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:14.960 As far as I'm concerned, it's finished. 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:15.599 Why? 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.359 Because we're friends. 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:22.079 We're as close to blood as you can be without blood. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.319 But there is blood between us because there's the blood of Jesus between us. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:32.400 And so notice, he says, the blood of the new covenant makes this possible. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.480 Ask and it will be given to you. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.559 Amen. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:43.279 And notice what he said: Ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.240 Now, religion tries to temper that down. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:50.400 But I believe he said whatever it is to ask. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:51.920 Why? 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.480 He's showing you the scope of the covenant. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.920 The issue with the covenant was this. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:12.000 That when that covenant is entered into, there's nothing in the physical realm that it doesn't cover. 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:15.680 Because we're in covenant. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:23.440 And so if me and this young man right here enter into covenant, then we go over and we enter into covenant. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.599 Anything you need, I'll give you. 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.000 Anything I need, you'll give me. 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:31.759 I don't have to beg, I don't have to plead. 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.799 So he has a bill come due, and maybe he doesn't have the money. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.200 So he comes to me and he says, Pastor, I need your wallet. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:43.759 Covenant. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:46.400 Here you go. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:48.720 Covenant. 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.359 There's a covenant between us. 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.480 I have vowed that I'll take care of him. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:56.480 Right? 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:01.680 If I hit a situation and I need something, I go to him and I say, I need your checkbook. 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:03.440 See? 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:06.400 Well, you learn fast. 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:09.119 Really? 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:11.680 No, I'm I'm joking. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:13.119 Right? 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:15.119 Well, why is this so important? 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.680 Because it gives us this understanding. 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:21.920 We have all these ideas about when we pray and what we do. 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.240 You know, an acronym for prayer, P-U-S-H, pray until something happens. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.480 Listen, the moment you pray, you're not praying until something happens. 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:35.440 In this case that we're talking about, you're going boldly into the throne room. 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:44.240 You're approaching your father, God, not some austere being that keeps you at arm's length, right, and makes you grovel and beg. 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:53.200 You're going in as a covenant son or daughter of God, and you're saying, Father, I have need of this, I have need of this situation, I have need of this thing. 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.200 And he says, Give it to him. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:09.039 So what has to happen is your faith has to be built in the ease of receiving because you've received the nature and the blood of God on the inside of you. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:11.759 Oh, hallelujah. 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:13.440 Amen. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:24.480 I remember one time praying with a minister, and this is not a criticism, but I was praying with them at prayer meeting, not here in another church, and uh we were praying on the front row. 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:35.759 And so we're we're on our knees and we're praying, and all of a sudden he started, oh God, somehow, somehow, somehow, God, oh God, if you can. 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:40.160 Show up if you will, show up, oh God, if you could. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.440 Man, I thought I got to get away from this unbelief, or I'll never get any praying done. 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.240 So I got up and walked on the other side of the church and prayed. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:49.759 I could hear him all the way over there. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.319 That would, that's their idea of praying. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:21:01.440 Pray until finally, somehow, you wear God down to the point that he'll finally give it to you. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.599 Jesus said, now notice, this is part of the resurrection. 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:11.599 Jesus said, notice, he said, whatever you ask, I'll do it. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:19.279 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you'll ask what you will, and it shall be. 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:24.799 Shall is the strongest affirmation of truth found in the entire Bible. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:28.000 Without question, it shall be done. 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:31.759 So when someone tells me they say, Well, I've asked, but I haven't seen anything yet. 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.839 And I went, well, but did you ask? 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:34.960 Did you ask? 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:36.319 It's on the way. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.559 I say it's on the way. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:46.799 If you bought something online yesterday and you didn't see it yesterday, is it on the way? 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:48.319 How do you know it's on the way? 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:49.839 Because they said it would be shift. 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:55.359 Okay, have as much or more confidence in God as you do in Amazon. 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.200 He said, if you ask, I'll do it. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.680 Because there's something strong between you and God. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.440 It is not a stranger asking God. 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.319 It is God's child asking God. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:15.440 The resurrection made it possible for you and I to be children of God. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:18.720 Hallelujah. 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.200 Glory to God. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:22.319 I've done it. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:24.319 I've preached myself happy. 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.279 Verse 23 of John chapter 17. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.279 Oh, glory to God. 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:33.680 Are you glad you came to church today? 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.519 John 17, verse 23. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:49.680 He says, I in them and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one or perfectly one, and that the world may know that you have sent me. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.160 Notice, and have loved them as you have loved me. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:59.359 This is the scope of the blood covenant, the new covenant. 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.480 The Father loves us as much as he loves Jesus. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:04.640 That's the scope. 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:06.799 That's how far it goes. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:15.920 You know, God has always loved the world, but he could never have, until the blood of Christ, the world could not be his family. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.160 Because they were not partakers of the life of God. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:25.920 After the blood of Jesus, everybody in the world has the opportunity to be in the family of God. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:28.720 They just have to choose to become part of it. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:34.720 So how much does God love you just as much as he loves Jesus? 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:40.559 And you would fail to put into words how much the Father loves Jesus. 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:44.240 So that means you can fail to put into words how much God loves you. 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:55.920 So how could anybody think, knowing now that God loves them as much as he loves Jesus, how could anybody think God's withholding, God's not doing something, God is holding something back? 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:58.000 Cannot be. 00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:59.680 It cannot be. 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:03.440 It can be because I'm shrinking back. 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:04.880 Maybe I'm not asking. 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:07.039 Maybe I don't see myself as righteous. 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.440 Maybe I don't see myself the way I should. 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:14.319 Listen, a failure to receive from God is never on the part of God. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.799 It's always on the part of the receiver. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:19.680 There's something that I'm withdrawing my hand. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:21.759 I'm not doing something. 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:23.440 Oh, hallelujah. 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:25.519 Do you see that? 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:26.880 Well, Pastor, that's strong. 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:28.240 I know, but it's right. 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:32.640 Because he said, Whatever you ask, I'll give it to you. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:33.920 What did James say? 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.279 He said you don't have because you don't ask. 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.279 Why don't people have? 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:42.480 Say it one more time. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:43.519 Why don't people have? 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:44.400 They don't ask. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:45.200 They don't ask. 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:45.440 Why? 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:47.119 They have a covenant with God. 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:52.480 Now the world without a covenant can ask God all they want and nothing's coming. 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:54.799 Because they don't have a covenant. 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.000 Amen. 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:01.680 The prayer God hears from the sinner is forgive me. 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:03.279 I repent. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:04.799 Save me. 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.079 And then everything's wide open to him. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:09.359 This is important. 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:11.680 If you need, ask why. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:17.440 Jesus died, was buried, and rose again so you could go ask the Father. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:20.960 Remember what he said in John? 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:24.480 He said, In that day you'll ask in my name. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:28.160 He said, I'm not saying I'm going to ask the Father for you. 00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:32.000 He said, you'll ask, and he'll do whatever you ask. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:35.839 Amen. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.000 Here's a question to think about. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:41.119 Should I pick on you again? 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:42.240 That's all right. 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:46.960 So you think if Jesus went to the Father and asked him for something for you, would God do it? 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:48.880 If Jesus asked? 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:51.279 Anybody, everybody agree with that? 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.119 Well, Jesus said, I'm not asking. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:59.839 In that day, the day we live in, he said, I'm not asking. 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:02.799 You're going to go ask in my name. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:04.160 And what did he say? 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:06.079 The Father will do it for you. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.359 So, yeah, he'll do it if Jesus asked, but he said, here's how it's going to be. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:13.359 He'll do it because you ask. 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:16.400 Amen. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:18.559 The resurrection sealed that. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:20.799 I have a right to ask God for what? 00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:22.240 Not just whatever I need. 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:24.160 He said, whatever you will. 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:26.880 Oh, hallelujah. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.920 Look at 2 Timothy 1. 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.359 We got a few verses today. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:43.599 2 Timothy 1 and verse 10. 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:55.200 It says, but it is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:04.240 Notice this, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:13.440 So the appearing of Christ abolished death and brought life through the gospel of his blood covenant. 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:20.640 The covenant could not come into effect without the blood of the initiating partner. 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:29.119 He had to initiate the covenant and bring the blood into it. 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:30.799 Look at Hebrews 9. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.279 And verse 16. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:50.960 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 00:27:51.839 --> 00:28:03.839 For a testament or covenant or an agreement is a force after men are dead, otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives. 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:10.000 Where a testament is, there must be the death of the testator. 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:20.799 So to receive the inheritance in a will, the one who initiated the will and put it into place must pass away. 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:25.759 So that I can receive what's mine in the inheritance. 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.599 And he says, notice, now he's talking about naturally. 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:37.039