WEBVTT 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:16.320 Isn't it amazing how God always just weaves revelation together? 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:23.519 And um, and I'm speaking on the supremacy of Christ today, but actually everything's been about that. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:58.240 Um, the wonder of God, the beauty of God, right from um Tanya's introduction of just enlarge our vision, this call to enlarge our perception of his greatness, and and then um praying for Israel through thinking about God's weaving of them through his purpose of redemption on the earth and and Warren's communion and the worship, like it just all just knits together, and it's it's always so wondrous to me. 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:06.719 And um, so Father, we ask again now that for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to be upon us. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:28.159 Lord, we want to see you in your glory, we want to see you in your greatness, we want every limitation of our thinking, every limitation of our expectation blown away by the power of your spirit and the power of truth to unlock and bring freedom in who you are. 00:01:30.159 --> 00:02:12.080 Lord, I ask that every limitation every single one of us has in different ways, different experiences, different judgments, different upbringings, whatever it is, Lord, any place that we limit you, Lord, we give you permission to remove it that we may see clearly and know more fully and love more deeply and follow more closely and reflect you more truly when we were worshiping. 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:22.319 I just um I just I just had my hands up wanting to just worship and honor God. 00:02:23.520 --> 00:03:23.039 But as I had my hands up, it was like the Lord came and stood in front of me, and I pressed my hands into his hands, still pierced the work of the cross that made it all possible, and as I pressed my hands into his, it was like his glory was free to flow and come out like lightning out of me, and it's not about me, it's about what's possible in him, in that place of worship, in that place of pressing in against the supremacy of the cross and the supremacy of Christ, that his glory would come like lightning out of our lives. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:41.759 You know, we are meant to be to live stunned by the magnificence of Jesus. 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:54.319 We were designed for this, we were designed to be overwhelmed with who God will is and was and will be every day. 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:02.719 And anything less than this, you'll find you deep down are bored and discontent. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.319 And in that situation, we become critical. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:21.519 I would say nearly every time I myself or anyone forms falls into kind of just being critical and negative about people, about situations, it's because they've walked away from the magnificence of Jesus. 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.800 They're not stunned by him at that time. 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:35.199 And the disciples lived stunned by the magnificence of Jesus. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:44.480 Not just when he was walking amongst them as fully man, but right through their lives, right through the whole New Testament. 00:04:44.720 --> 00:05:09.360 It's like what they say, how they lived, what they write, what they expect, what they talk about, what they focus on, how they live is in response to this unongoing and unfolding revelation of the beauty and the wisdom and the glory and the redemption and the wonder and the power and the love and the perfections of Christ. 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.680 It's what they thought about. 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:17.360 It's what they thought about in prison, and it's what they thought about when they were preaching. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:24.319 It's what they thought about when they were shipwrecked, and what they thought about when crowds were listening to them. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.839 It didn't, it wasn't circumstantial. 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:34.720 It was a life fixed on discovery of the magnificence of his glory. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:56.399 It meant that they weren't caught up if someone didn't recognize them, if circumstances were difficult, if something was unjust, if persecution came, if people rose against them, if it was difficult circumstances, if there were problems. 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:17.439 Because when you're overwhelmed with the majesty of Jesus, nothing can overwhelm you on the earth. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:22.879 No problem is stunning to you. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:38.879 No injustice, no weakness, no negativity from someone else, it barely registers on the radar when we are infused in that gaze. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:07:00.399 Because if your mind's enthralled and captivated and filled and nourished and overwhelmed by the magnificence of Christ, the supremacy of Jesus over everything, then the opinions of man, Peter calls them light and momentary troubles. 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.639 I mean, he's been in prison, he's been beaten. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:12.240 To him, it's just light and momentary compared to this eternal weight of glory that he's entering into. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:24.000 In fact, the apostles saw every difficulty, every problem, every criticism, every all of this. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.199 It was just fuel to go deeper. 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.160 It was just fuel to reach higher. 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:35.199 It was just fuel to see another breakthrough, see another miracle. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:54.879 But one of the difficulties, if we don't set ourselves for that, is that the Father has encased the glory of the Son in the very same person who calls us friend. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:06.959 Jesus was the one that walked from assignment to assignment on dusty sheets, uh dusty streets. 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.360 He wasn't transported in a golden chariot. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.360 He was the one who was at times hungry. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.360 He was the one that got tired. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.399 He was often misunderstood. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:35.039 He was the one that refused to put on shows, but found the one person that the father was healing or speaking forgiveness to. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:21.519 And yet the wonder of it is that this band of disciples never became over-familiar with him. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:29.120 He was their beloved friend, but he was never just a mate. 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.440 He spoke and they acted, or they knew they disobeyed God. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.759 They understood that his words were spirit and they were life. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.879 They understood he was friend, but also master. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.919 He knew they knew he was their Lord. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:54.639 And it's one of the things that the church wrestles with, especially in this age. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:00.240 Familiarity without an ongoing revelation of his glory. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.639 It's easy to love the friendship of Jesus. 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.720 And it is magnificent. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:17.679 A friend who is always there for us, understands us like no other, the one who runs to us, who comforts us, who holds us, the one who listens and understands. 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.039 That is what the angels sang about Emmanuel. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:22.960 God with us. 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:39.919 But we live in a culture that is constantly trying to teach us how to be entitled, how to be critical of others, but self-justified in all we do. 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:47.759 It's yelling at us, it is shaping, it's constantly trying to mold us into that. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:57.440 It's profoundly humanistic where we decide what is truth, we decide what we'll believe, we decide whether something's real or not. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:02.559 And so it's easy to transfer that into relationship with God. 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.399 It's if you are neutral on it, it will mold you. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.759 That's why Paul says, be in the world, not of it. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.200 You have to intentionally be not of it. 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:23.279 And so it's easy to transfer it. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:28.000 It's easy to get steeped in familiarity of Jesus. 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.240 Just turn to Him whenever you want. 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.159 And lose glory. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.600 People end up not wanting to be told what to do by God. 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:44.320 They don't want to be rebuked. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.399 They don't want to be convicted. 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.519 They don't want to stop criticizing and judging other people. 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:59.360 They want to decide whether the things the Lord says, what the Bible says, whether they that's going to be true for them or not. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.879 This is that molding of culture that we have to war against. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.960 It doesn't work that way. 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.159 We receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.960 You walk with Him as friend and master. 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.600 You hear Him as the leader of your life as well as comforter and counselor. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.480 So the question is, how did the disciples do it? 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:23.200 How did they? 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.960 John laid his head on his chest. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.039 They passed bread to him. 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.240 They saw him at the end of the day. 00:12:41.759 --> 00:13:01.039 I believe they maintained this world-changing, powerful, beautiful relationship with Jesus that involved both profound friendship and closeness in perfect union with his lordship and glory because they lived in constant revelation of his supremacy. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:08.720 Jesus didn't let them go days without seeing his supremacy. 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.080 They had deep personal conversations. 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.639 They also had mundane walks between cities. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.759 They handed bread amongst themselves. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.320 They saw each other tired from the day. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.399 But they also saw those hands cleanse lepers. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.639 Those words raise the dead. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:40.559 They saw those words rebuke storms that were about to kill them. 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.320 They saw the giving of thanks multiply food. 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:55.919 They were brought again and again and again into the supremacy of Christ over sin, over death, over nature, over the demonic, over sickness, over lack. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.919 They saw again and again Jesus is supreme. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.639 Jesus triumphs. 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.840 Some of them saw the transfiguration. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.519 So completely transformed themselves in that moment. 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:19.120 And they all saw Jesus risen from the dead, appear, break bread, eat, walk through walls. 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.240 They were stunned again and again. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:29.919 And you can't become over-familiar with Jesus when you're constantly being confronted by his majesty. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.759 Can't just be like, oh well, it's just Jesus. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.039 When he just called forth a dead man. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:41.759 It's not possible. 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:51.360 Bobby Connor says this the church is way too familiar with a God they barely know. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.480 I don't want that set of us. 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.639 I want intimacy, not familiarity. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:12.240 I want deep, deep, clotent closeness, steeped in glory and reverence. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:23.120 John 1 14, this is what John said, kind of summarizing the whole deal. 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:36.240 And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:40.000 They knew that fullness of grace for their lives. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:41.600 They knew the forgiveness. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.279 They knew the embrace. 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.360 They knew the entering in. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.720 But they also beheld his glory. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.960 They experienced Jesus dwelling among them. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.120 And they beheld his glory. 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:15.440 And so that is why the entire rest of the New Testament after the Gospels is spent balancing friendship and closeness to God with the supremacy of Christ, the majesty of the Godhead, and obedience and response to that. 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:29.120 It's why they insisted that the gospel be preached and demonstrated, that others would enter into what they had seen and heard and felt and touched. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:41.919 Friendship and glory, forgiveness and majesty, a mystery unfolding of truth and intimacy of the miraculous and wonder. 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.919 And this has to be contended for in our lives. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.519 It's not enough to just say, yeah, I've received Jesus. 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:50.240 I love that. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.679 I love his goodness. 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:53.519 I love his blessing. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:17:00.320 We are to contend like the early church did to demonstrate the supremacy of Christ. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.279 So other people behold his glory. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:19.599 Other people enter in and see the miracles, see the wonders, see his supremacy over sin and sickness and death and lack. 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:29.839 And I just want to just run through some of the dimensions of the supremacy of Christ. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:49.039 It's not things you haven't heard before, but I want to awaken a hunger, a new measure of hunger, to a yearning to live in that supremacy, to understand it, to lay hold of it, to let it flow through our lives that others can see it. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:55.119 This is who you're walking with and worshiping. 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:01.519 So the first thing is the supremacy of Christ in creation. 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.240 This is who everything was created by. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:08.640 John 1 1 to 4. 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.119 In the beginning was the word. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.799 And the word was with God, and the word was God. 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.880 He was in the beginning with God. 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.519 All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made. 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.960 That was made in him was life. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:34.559 Colossians 1 16, for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth. 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:48.640 Visible, invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through him and for him, and he is before all things, and in him all things consist. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:57.440 Do you know every spiritual being was created by him and for him and through him. 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:05.519 Everything that exists was created by him and through him and for him. 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:10.160 Everything is resounding to Jesus. 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:27.759 Hebrews 1, verse 2 and 3, God has spoken to us by his son, whom he is appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds, upholding all things by the word of his power. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.680 Have you meditated on this? 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.799 I meditated on this once for like weeks. 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:41.200 That everything, the sun is only burning because the word of Christ is upholding it. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:52.480 Galaxies are only moving in their positions, in their assignment, because the word of Christ is holding them. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.599 Your heart is beating because it is upheld by the word of Christ. 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.880 This is glory upon your life. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.920 You are breathing by the word of Christ. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:11.440 The mind you have, the personality you have, it is upheld by his word. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.599 It's not some accident, it's not some chance. 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:17.599 You just ended up like you are. 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:22.559 You were designed and upheld by a word from the mouth of Christ. 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.839 1 Corinthians 8, verse 6. 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:39.119 There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things and through whom we live. 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.119 You don't get to breathe outside of Jesus. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.880 It shows you the self-control and mercy of God. 00:20:53.200 --> 00:21:05.279 The people that reject him, deny him, and he's upholding them by his word, looking for redemption, looking for a change of heart, going after the lost sheep. 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.720 Meditate on these things. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:14.319 We need wonder back in our lives. 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:21.519 Western society is trying to squash wonder out of your life. 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:26.559 I'm telling you, you don't function without wonder because you were designed for wonder. 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:33.200 If you can explain everything going on in your life, you are living way below what's possible. 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:39.279 If you can, you know, okay, this is going to happen. 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:46.720 This is this is how we're managing this, this is what we're doing about this, you are living way below par of a son or daughter of God. 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:57.440 Because you are designed for wonder and miracles and the supremacy of Jesus doing only what he can do. 00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:59.759 Go and gaze at the stars. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.640 Upheld by the word of his power. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:08.960 The detail of the biochemistry of every cell created by his word. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.799 Look up, look up a cell. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:21.680 Look up what is going on in every single of the trillions of cells in your body, all upheld by that word of glory. 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:35.920 He understands every process of life, every formation, every solar storm, every weather pattern, every geological facet. 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:38.640 This is Jesus. 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:42.559 Sometimes we just reduce him to a man. 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:48.799 We just treat him as if he, you know, didn't doesn't really know the problem we're dealing with. 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:55.920 His word is resounding through the universe, sustaining life. 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:02.880 And when he's ready, Hebrew says he will wrap it up like a cloak. 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.759 He will just take the entire universe and wrap it up. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:14.559 That's who you're walking with. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.799 Second thing, he's the express image of the Father. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:44.079 Hebrews 1 verse 3 says, Jesus, his son, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, the exact expression of the Father. 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:56.960 John 1 verse 14 says, We beheld his glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father, the only one that looked like God, the Father. 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:07.200 John 18, verse 18, no one, no, it must be John 1, verse 18, sorry, no one has seen God at any time. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:13.839 The only begotten Son who is in the embrace of the Father, he has declared him. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.440 No one's seen God. 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.160 But the Son revealed him. 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:29.759 John 14, verse 8 to 10. 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:34.880 Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:41.920 Then Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip? 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.599 He who has seen me has seen the Father. 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:48.240 So how can you say, Show us the Father? 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.240 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? 00:24:54.400 --> 00:25:03.279 Colossians 1 15, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:06.559 This is Jesus. 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:14.480 Nothing, nobody could show us the Father apart from the Son. 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:23.759 The law, in all its wisdom, in all its depth, was just a shadow. 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:40.240 All the prophets through history could only, these were anointed people who could call down fire, predict things thousands of years in advance, but they could only give tiny fragments. 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:43.359 It was Jesus who could reveal him. 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:48.000 It was Jesus who said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.680 It's the beloved Son that declared him. 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:04.640 The third thing, the supremacy of Jesus over all spiritual beings. 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.720 You know, we need to stop thinking of the enemy as so big. 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.519 Jesus is supreme. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:18.400 Hebrews 1 4. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:28.480 He being so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:34.799 For to which of the angels did he ever say, You are my son, today I have begotten you. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:47.599 Colossians 1, verse 16, for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:51.039 I've seen some principalities at work. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.000 I've seen some demonic power at work. 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:06.880 They were created by him, for him, and are subject to him. 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:15.839 He is superior to all of them put together by a long way. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.039 Colossians 2, verse 10. 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.400 This is who you are. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:26.640 You are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:31.359 You are in him as the head over all of that. 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:36.079 You are not subject to all of that. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.680 You are complete in him who is the head. 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:50.880 Ephesians 1, verse 20 to 21. 00:27:51.200 --> 00:28:09.599 His mighty power, which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that's named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:23.279 He is superior from every name, every disease, every problem, every demonic thing. 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.960 He is superior in every way. 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:32.880 There is nothing that the enemy does that the Lord is surprised with. 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:34.960 Nothing. 00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:40.319 There is nothing that the Lord's taken aback with, caught off guard. 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:41.519 Nothing. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.680 This is who you are worshiping and walking with. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:53.599 There is no principality or power that does not have to fall at the name of Jesus. 00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.039 Nothing. 00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.200 Our God is too small. 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.160 Our revelation is too small. 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:08.079 Everything has to bow at the name of Jesus. 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:17.759 There is no work of darkness that cannot be stopped with one word from the Lord, one gesture from the Lord, and it's over. 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.559 Jesus said, Don't you know? 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:28.240 I only have to say one word, and God will get me off this cross. 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:45.200 Colossians 2, verse 15 says this: having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them. 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:49.279 Do you believe that? 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.400 They only have as much authority as we give them. 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:56.480 They have been disarmed. 00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:59.359 Dismembered. 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.720 Jesus made a public spectacle of the enemy. 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.160 It's not that I want you to treat the enemy lightly. 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.079 He comes to kill, destroy, rob. 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:19.519 It's real. 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:24.640 He can wreak havoc. 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:30.799 I'm not, I don't want you to just Christians who just like, oh, the enemy's nothing, that's foolish. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:37.759 He is a powerful being. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:48.640 It's just that there's one who is far superior in power and love and wisdom and glory and understanding and authority. 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.720 And that is where our eyes are. 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:58.480 His supremacy is not challenged by all the evil in the world. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:01.200 Not for a moment. 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:09.359 He is choosing to reveal the power of his redemption by raising up the church to challenge it. 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:14.240 In one second, he could remove every principality and power on the earth. 00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:18.640 Only has to say the word. 00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:28.799 He is choosing a story of redemption in partnership with people who learn his supremacy. 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.440 The supremacy of Christ over sickness and disease. 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:39.599 I think this is number four. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.640 I don't know. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.200 Acts 3, verse 16. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:51.599 This is when Peter and John have spoken to someone who has been lame for decades. 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.200 There is no hope, there is no possibility. 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:57.039 There is nothing that can be done. 00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.680 That was all tried a long time ago. 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.480 And they say, in the name of Jesus, get up and walk. 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:11.279 And this is Peter's response to the crowds. 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:21.759 Acts 3, 16, and his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know. 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.680 Just the name of Jesus. 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.759 Just the name of Jesus. 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.880 Just through faith in his name. 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.480 Bodies are made whole. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:58.960 Acts 4, verse 10, let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands here before you whole. 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.000 Matthew 4, 23. 00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:16.559 Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of disease among the people. 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:31.599 Acts 10 38, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:34.160 There's a million verses. 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:36.160 I've just picked a few. 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:38.799 He is supreme. 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.200 He is supreme over sickness and disease. 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.440 His name is sufficient. 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:53.839 You don't need anything but to listen to him and eyes on him. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:09.920 Demonstrating that he was superior over sickness and disease. 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:17.599 The apostles went about, the early church went about demonstrating the supremacy of Christ. 00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:21.760 It's why healing must be contended for. 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:33.039 You must fight, you must seek to the point where you lay hands on the sick and they are made well. 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:39.840 That is our inheritance to demonstrate his supremacy. 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.480 Number five, the supremacy of Christ over sin. 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:49.920 Hebrews 1, verse 3. 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:58.639 He had by himself purged our sins and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.000 By himself. 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:05.199 You did nothing that could deal with your sin. 00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.239 You can do nothing that can deal with your sin. 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.119 Jesus purged it, and we receive it. 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:20.320 And he did it and sat down because it's done once and for all. 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.000 The cross is perfection. 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:25.920 It is finished. 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.760 Ephesians 2, verse 1 and 2. 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:39.840 You he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of the world. 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:41.920 You were dead in sin. 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.320 You couldn't do anything about it. 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:45.760 It was bigger than you. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.840 It was supreme over you. 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.880 And he made you alive. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.679 He made you alive. 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:03.920 He made you resound with life, his life. 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:09.119 He didn't just kind of let you kind of sit in the mud, but now you can breathe. 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.559 That's not what he did. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.079 That is what the cross did. 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:34.559 Acts 4, verse 12, nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.480 Colossians 2, verse 13, you being dead in sin. 00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:52.719 He is made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us and was contrary to us. 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.039 And he has taken it out of the way and nailed it to the cross. 00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:05.679 If you are looking at a list of things you've done wrong, if you are just constantly seeing what's wrong with you, it is a lie. 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.239 It has been taken out of the way. 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:12.159 It was nailed on a cross thousands of years ago. 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:16.480 And you have been made alive, and that is truth. 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:19.519 He has made you alive. 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.000 It's past tense. 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:38.159 Not some of them, and then the others he'll keep reminding you of. 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:40.239 Forgiven. 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:55.519 He took everything that was contrary to us, everything that made us feel less, everything that reduced us to this broken, sinful person. 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:01.280 He took it, he snatched it out of our hands and nailed it to the cross. 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.320 It's taken out of the way. 00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:11.119 So we can look face to face, so we can come close. 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:14.239 So we can see the glory that's on him. 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:29.440 The supremacy of Jesus over every division and the restorer of all things. 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:34.400 And we need to understand this. 00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:37.440 This is part of the supremacy of Christ. 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:54.719 Ephesians 1, verse 12 says this at that time you were without Christ, strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:02.320 But now in Christ, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:18.079 Every division that separated you from God, everything, everything has been removed. 00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:21.360 And you have been brought near. 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:30.960 And when you are near, when you're brought near to the Father, you don't need anything else. 00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:40.400 Before that, we were without hope. 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:42.719 And without God. 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.320 This is the state of people without Christ. 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:52.880 They may look okay, but you don't have to scratch too far the surface. 00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:59.599 They can't do anything about all the issues. 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:03.039 There's no one to go to about all the issues. 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:06.880 But in Christ, we're brought near. 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.639 But it's more than that. 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:17.280 He brings us, he's removed every division between us and him. 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:23.199 He also is in the process of removing every division from us and each other. 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:33.039 Every need you have, every strength you need, every bit of grace you need to forgive people around you, it's in Christ. 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.119 This is part of his supremacy. 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:46.159 It's not just his forgiveness of us, it's what he does within us to heal relationship and restore oneness. 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.320 Ephesians 1, verse 14 to 17 says this. 00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:00.639 Paul's talking about the division between Jews and Gentiles. 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:08.559 And if you know about that at the time, it was unfathomable there would ever be any union. 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:23.519 It would be like saying, you know, one day Iran and Israel, like they're just going to be the best of friends, they're going to be just sharing resources. 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:38.079 You think about it would be like saying, you know, Russia and Ukraine, they're just going to end up like being partners in world peace. 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.000 Okay, this is what we're talking about. 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:52.639 There was thousands of years of division, not just in war and trauma, in theological, we are not you. 00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:01.679 And this is the supremacy of Christ that Paul's talking about. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:10.000 He has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation. 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.920 He has abolished in his flesh the hatred. 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:22.880 Do you understand that in Christ's flesh, he removes hatred between people? 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:30.000 There is no solution for world peace apart from Christ. 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.960 He's the only one that can abolish hatred. 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:34.960 Man's ideas don't work. 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.119 We've tried them for a few thousand years now. 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.559 They don't work because you need someone that can abolish hatred. 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:45.679 It's Christ. 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:53.679 The answer for people who've been profoundly wounded, traumatized, victims of something. 00:42:53.920 --> 00:43:02.960 The only answer is Christ, because he can take the hatred within his own flesh and restore that person. 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:22.719 So as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, therefore putting to death enmity. 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:29.360 And he came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:36.079 For through him we both have access by one spirit to the Father. 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:49.599 And if we ask him, he will come and preach peace to those who are far off from the church and to those who are near. 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:54.159 If we will believe the power of Christ. 00:43:56.480 --> 00:44:12.639 Galatians 1, verse 28, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus and is according to promise. 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:18.559 What's Paul saying in the supremacy of Christ to reconcile? 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:25.440 He can reconcile gender divide, gender hurt, gender division. 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:32.880 He can reconcile ethnic division and hurt and pain and brokenness and misunderstanding. 00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:37.760 He can divide economic brokenness in societies in him. 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.760 He can even bring union between the slaves and the owners. 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.920 That's what the early church had. 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:50.320 They had the slaves and the masters worshiping together. 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.920 This is the supremacy of Christ over these real problems that we face. 00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:07.679 And yet we're happy to go, we don't know what to do about this and that in our society. 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.079 We don't know how to bring reconciliation. 00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:12.320 We don't, you we do know. 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:18.000 There's one name, there's one way, there's one person. 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:23.760 And the church is stewarding that revelation for the world. 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:32.960 And there is a restoration of all things that will happen. 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:41.920 It says in Revelation that the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of the Lord and Christ. 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:50.719 We're not, the world isn't going to rubbish, and somehow we're just going to be rescued. 00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:53.840 That is not the redemption story. 00:45:56.079 --> 00:46:02.320 If it looks like the enemy wins, it's not the end of the story in your life or any situation. 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:11.440 If it looks like the enemy triumphed, pray again. 00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:23.199 Acts 4 21. 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:24.639 Peter preaches about it. 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:32.159 Jesus Christ, whom heaven must receive until the time of restoration of all things. 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:33.519 What things? 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:36.239 All things. 00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:39.440 All things. 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:44.400 All things are going to be brought into worship and submission to Christ. 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:50.480 The nations are going to be steeped in the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.840 That is said again and again in Scripture. 00:46:54.480 --> 00:47:02.320 And when we arise into that understanding, when we actually believe, we're not just waiting for the enemy to just create more and more mess. 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:10.400 When the church arises and goes, No, the supremacy of Jesus can resolve this. 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:18.639 Then we will move towards the restoration of all things. 00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:29.039 The supremacy of Christ in compassion to you. 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:34.960