WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.200 I'm surprised at how many people showed up with the weather we got going on out there. 00:03.760 --> 00:06.280 That's really good. Thank you. Appreciate that. 00:07.740 --> 00:11.200 If we didn't have weather going on, we'd probably be totally full. 00:11.820 --> 00:15.480 But that's alright. I'm glad you're here because some things 00:15.480 --> 00:19.660 we're not going to be able to livestream this morning. So let me just briefly 00:19.660 --> 00:23.500 explain that. We'll livestream what we can 00:23.500 --> 00:27.000 and then there's some videos and stuff we're going to show that have 00:27.560 --> 00:30.760 it's personal stuff and we're just not going to put it out there. 00:31.920 --> 00:33.540 People find it personal and 00:34.000 --> 00:38.640 it means something to them and we're just not going to put it out so the whole world can see it. 00:40.060 --> 00:42.920 So that part, when we get to that part, we will stop 00:42.920 --> 00:46.480 in the livestream. We may come back half an hour later 00:47.000 --> 00:51.100 for the ending. So you can watch to see if we come back online and if we do 00:51.100 --> 00:54.520 go ahead and join us again. But 00:54.520 --> 00:58.520 we're going to be leaving you out of a certain portion of what's going on 00:58.520 --> 01:02.300 this morning. I was going to be speaking eventually about angels 01:02.300 --> 01:06.480 among us. That's what's on the sign. And we're going to shorten that up 01:06.480 --> 01:10.300 this morning and hold that second part for a different time. So I probably 01:10.300 --> 01:13.800 should rename this 01:15.040 --> 01:18.000 Supernatural Encounters because that's kind of what we're going to be focusing on. 01:18.520 --> 01:21.780 So let's get a running start on it. I'm going to say a few things. 01:21.780 --> 01:25.640 Lay some groundwork. Mary's got a principle she wants to lay out 01:25.640 --> 01:29.240 on encounters with God. And 01:29.780 --> 01:33.640 then at that point we'll probably be stopping the livestream and going into 01:33.640 --> 01:35.660 some other things. But let me briefly 01:37.060 --> 01:37.560 briefly 01:41.020 --> 01:43.220 see if this will work. It's not working for me. 01:46.160 --> 01:47.420 And I need it to work. 01:49.840 --> 01:50.320 Whatever 01:50.980 --> 01:54.200 you did it works. Briefly review. 01:55.100 --> 01:59.260 We talked about last Sunday, we talked about the supernatural some last Sunday 01:59.260 --> 02:03.020 and this is what I had said that in 02:03.020 --> 02:06.100 2004 when we were coming up with the first load, the Lord told us 02:06.860 --> 02:10.780 why we're here. Two reasons. This is for the generations, number one 02:11.440 --> 02:15.040 and number two, the church of Minnesota is to be built on the word and the 02:15.040 --> 02:18.200 supernatural. Hang everything on those two. 02:19.240 --> 02:22.720 Well supernatural can go many different directions 02:22.720 --> 02:26.820 so we talked about it some and 02:26.820 --> 02:29.180 just gave you things that are supernatural. 02:31.160 --> 02:34.980 Things that we don't always look at as being supernatural but they're 02:34.980 --> 02:39.200 supernatural. So the point I want to make is 02:41.340 --> 02:43.020 without the supernatural 02:43.020 --> 02:44.360 we do not have Christianity. 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 Christianity is not a belief system in philosophy. 02:51.920 --> 02:54.660 Christianity is a relationship with Almighty God 02:54.660 --> 02:58.820 and when Almighty God steps into our life, supernatural takes place 02:58.820 --> 03:01.200 because he is a spirit. He is God. 03:02.500 --> 03:06.720 And things that don't normally happen in the natural world take place 03:06.720 --> 03:10.860 like some of them I have listed there and we just talked about these last Sunday. 03:10.860 --> 03:14.900 I want to mention this. None of these, none of some of the things 03:14.900 --> 03:16.700 you're going to see this morning are new. 03:17.960 --> 03:21.960 This is nothing new. This has been around since the book of Acts. 03:22.660 --> 03:26.440 We know that because we can go back into Scripture and find it. 03:26.760 --> 03:29.720 People have been spending hours in worship 03:32.120 --> 03:33.820 since the Old Testament. 03:35.520 --> 03:37.960 This is not something new that all of a sudden 03:37.960 --> 03:41.360 we spent two hours in worship. This is new. This is not new. 03:42.780 --> 03:45.920 All it shows is how cold the church in America 03:45.920 --> 03:50.380 has gotten spiritually. How off we've gotten. 03:52.100 --> 03:54.360 You know, long worship services 03:54.360 --> 03:57.980 having communion with God, dreams, visions 03:57.980 --> 04:01.960 hearing the Word be preached for a long time. 04:02.080 --> 04:05.900 You think I preach long. You know I've heard people say, well I wish 04:05.900 --> 04:09.940 we would see here what they see in Africa and what they see in other parts of the world 04:09.940 --> 04:13.780 the miracles and things that happen there. If we were willing 04:13.780 --> 04:18.220 to engage God to the level they engage Him, we'd see it. 04:20.500 --> 04:21.880 Randy Mitchell shared one time. 04:22.300 --> 04:25.640 He's missionary. He goes over there. He shared one time. He said I wasn't feeling well. 04:26.420 --> 04:29.120 He said I asked the guy and he was over there for a conference. 04:29.420 --> 04:33.840 It was his time to speak. It was morning. I asked the guy, he said how long 04:33.840 --> 04:37.680 do I need to speak? Because he wasn't feeling well. He said we 04:37.680 --> 04:45.860 usually go six to eight hours. He looked at him like 04:46.620 --> 04:50.040 okay then. He said 04:50.040 --> 04:53.680 so I did. He said I spoke for six to eight 04:53.680 --> 04:56.600 hours and nobody left. 05:00.550 --> 05:03.690 See they're willing to engage on a level we're not. 05:05.410 --> 05:06.750 Therefore they get 05:06.750 --> 05:09.890 they get encounters with God 05:10.650 --> 05:11.710 we will never see. 05:14.150 --> 05:18.770 So I just want to point out this stuff is not new. It's the main thing that 05:18.770 --> 05:22.210 sets us apart as Christians from other faiths. 05:22.210 --> 05:25.990 I loved when Pastor Igor was going through the series and going low 05:25.990 --> 05:28.690 and he's been talking about secret place and things like that. 05:30.510 --> 05:34.390 But I was a bit stunned when so many 05:34.390 --> 05:36.970 of us seemed like oh this is revelation knowledge. 05:37.970 --> 05:42.390 It's like really? Spending time alone with 05:42.390 --> 05:46.230 God is revelation knowledge? This has 05:46.230 --> 05:48.670 happened since Abraham and before. 05:50.990 --> 05:53.950 This is a normal progression 05:53.950 --> 05:58.190 of growing spiritually. And again 05:58.190 --> 06:02.410 the question went through my mind. Have we grown that cold 06:02.410 --> 06:05.650 in the church in America that we actually think 06:06.950 --> 06:09.790 wow I didn't know I could spend time with God? 06:10.430 --> 06:14.450 Really? This is nothing 06:14.450 --> 06:18.310 new. Like Mary was 06:18.310 --> 06:21.850 giving an example when the night her 06:22.410 --> 06:26.430 family got saved. They got home. Her brother 06:26.430 --> 06:28.770 got out of the car and started singing in tongues. 06:30.010 --> 06:32.890 He's a Lutheran boy. He got baptized in Holy Spirit and saved 06:32.890 --> 06:36.670 that same night. Never had seen this before, knew nothing 06:36.670 --> 06:38.450 about it. It just bubbled up out of him. 06:41.330 --> 06:44.570 You don't have to be taught some of these 06:44.570 --> 06:48.730 things. You just follow what God's pulling you into. 06:49.070 --> 06:52.610 You spend hours with God. You've heard me talk about it. 06:54.050 --> 06:56.710 I grew up on the farm like Jim. You've heard us both talk about it. 06:57.550 --> 07:00.510 I love to work at night. I don't know, there's just one 07:00.510 --> 07:02.950 there's a number of reasons, but one of the reasons was 07:04.230 --> 07:08.290 there was a connection between me and God when I worked on the field at night 07:09.010 --> 07:12.430 that I didn't have during the day. I don't know if because during the day you're looking around 07:12.430 --> 07:15.430 seeing all kinds of stuff and so forth at night you just see where the lights are shining. 07:17.150 --> 07:20.430 And it like enter into a holy place 07:20.430 --> 07:24.470 with God and spend hours there. Nobody taught me to do that. 07:24.470 --> 07:28.110 That is a natural normal 07:28.110 --> 07:32.650 supernatural occurrence that happens if we 07:32.650 --> 07:36.010 will pursue him. Pursue God. 07:37.490 --> 07:39.610 So scripturally the 07:39.610 --> 07:42.090 supernatural is Christianity. 07:44.350 --> 07:46.210 We're never to seek signs and wonders. 07:47.490 --> 07:52.130 Scripture says a adulterous generation seeks for a sign. 07:52.130 --> 07:56.290 That's what Jesus said. There's a difference between seeking 07:56.290 --> 07:59.850 for a sign and demanding covenant rights. 08:01.150 --> 08:03.990 There's a difference. Why 08:03.990 --> 08:08.250 want miracles to begin to happen? Why? You want a sign so you can believe 08:08.250 --> 08:12.010 or you want miracles to happen because they're 08:12.010 --> 08:16.210 our inheritance. Which one is it? 08:17.330 --> 08:20.310 There's a difference. Wanting 08:20.310 --> 08:22.410 supernatural things to take place 08:23.890 --> 08:27.970 so we see a sign is actually unbelief in action. 08:29.390 --> 08:32.010 Well I'll believe if I see a sign. No you won't. 08:32.110 --> 08:36.310 You'll criticize. You won't. 08:38.230 --> 08:40.550 Demanding our inheritance 08:40.550 --> 08:44.170 and our covenant, the things Jesus bought for us in 08:44.170 --> 08:48.450 covenant to take place. I need 08:48.450 --> 08:52.470 a miracle and I expect it to take place 08:53.210 --> 08:56.350 that's not chasing signs. That's living by faith. 08:58.530 --> 09:00.790 Louie can you share what happened to you real briefly? 09:01.490 --> 09:03.670 He shared it last Sunday with me after service 09:04.330 --> 09:06.690 and I said, why don't you share that? 09:08.270 --> 09:12.430 Well we were rendezvousing and I had trouble with my truck and it's a 09:12.430 --> 09:16.270 long story but I get home and I'm working on it and the same thing happened 09:16.270 --> 09:19.890 again. I was working on the fuel filter which is on the firewall 09:20.910 --> 09:24.130 and I took the banjo bolt out and I 09:24.130 --> 09:28.450 dropped it and I heard it like a pinball go down through the brake lines and all that 09:28.450 --> 09:32.230 and I get a flashlight and I'm looking and I can't find it so I go in the 09:32.230 --> 09:36.270 house and I go in the sewing room and I tell Nancy I said 09:36.270 --> 09:39.250 just kill me now. I said it's starting all over again 09:41.470 --> 09:44.210 and so then I went online to see if 09:44.210 --> 09:48.210 I could buy one and couldn't really buy one so I thought well I can maybe make it 09:48.210 --> 09:52.270 or whatever and so then I went back out and thought well I'm going to tear the rest of it apart and get as 09:52.270 --> 09:56.150 far as I can and I don't know if you're familiar with the Cummins on a dodge but 09:56.570 --> 10:00.170 the fuel filters are on the firewall and there's about a foot between 10:00.170 --> 10:04.110 that and the back of the fuel pump and then the fuel pump's about a foot and a half long 10:04.110 --> 10:08.290 I go out there and flip the hood open and that nut's right on top of the fuel 10:08.290 --> 10:12.090 pump in the front just sitting there on the fuel line. It's like 10:12.090 --> 10:16.070 thank you. And when I went out I was kind of angry with God and said this isn't 10:16.070 --> 10:20.070 funny and I said I really need your help and all that. I can't do it without 10:20.070 --> 10:24.050 you and then I went out and popped the hood and there it was. It's like praise 10:24.050 --> 10:26.750 God. Amen. Amen. 10:29.070 --> 10:31.430 So there's a miracle in everyday life 10:33.090 --> 10:35.010 and in Louie's way 10:35.970 --> 10:39.710 he was asking for it. I need a miracle. I need your help 10:42.440 --> 10:45.060 and all of a sudden the nut that fell down the 10:45.060 --> 10:48.460 back of the engine is sitting at the front of the engine on the top. 10:48.940 --> 10:52.840 How do you think that got there? That's an angel. 10:53.980 --> 10:57.000 I have stories like that. I don't have time to share them but 10:57.000 --> 11:01.280 I thought there's a difference between oh God just give me a sign 11:01.280 --> 11:04.920 do something versus I'm in covenant with you 11:04.920 --> 11:09.300 I need help. I'm expecting an answer here and demanding 11:09.300 --> 11:13.200 our rights. So I gave you the timeline of how this played out 11:13.200 --> 11:17.620 and through the reading of what the one guy had seen about the angels 11:17.620 --> 11:21.500 and so forth. So that's where we're going to pick it up. Not going to go back and rehearse that. That's in last Sunday. 11:22.520 --> 11:25.260 But when we seek God and we want 11:25.260 --> 11:27.340 more of him, which should be always 11:28.400 --> 11:32.540 do you realize coming to a place of I'm good 11:33.220 --> 11:35.900 I think I'm good where I'm at is lukewarm. 11:37.880 --> 11:38.980 That is 11:40.460 --> 11:42.960 one of the best definitions of lukewarm. 11:43.860 --> 11:46.500 I'm good. I'm okay right where I'm at. 11:47.650 --> 11:51.860 We are never okay right where we're at. He always wants 11:51.860 --> 11:55.700 us to keep growing from glory to glory to glory to glory. 11:56.020 --> 12:00.160 And when we pick up the attitude of I'm okay, which is the Laodicean 12:00.160 --> 12:02.540 church attitude, our age church attitude. 12:03.380 --> 12:05.560 When we pick that up what did Jesus say? 12:07.780 --> 12:10.200 I wish you were either hot 12:10.800 --> 12:14.600 or cold. Now the reason for that is he wants us all hot. 12:15.620 --> 12:18.460 But the lukewarm thing, he doesn't want that 12:18.460 --> 12:22.480 because there's deception in that. We think we're good 12:22.480 --> 12:26.660 and he's saying you're not. So if you were cold you would know you're not 12:26.660 --> 12:30.500 good. Now you think you're good and you're not. And he said if you stay there 12:30.500 --> 12:32.460 I'm going to spit you out of my mouth. I want nothing to do with you. 12:33.820 --> 12:35.680 Oh, but we're all going to heaven. No we're not. 12:37.880 --> 12:42.100 Do you think someone that he literally spit out of his mouth because he was 12:42.100 --> 12:46.020 disgusted with their attitude towards him. He's going to welcome at the gates. 12:46.180 --> 12:53.490 Oh, thank you. Come home. I mean, come on people. We got to become 12:53.490 --> 12:56.010 adults and start thinking beyond some things here. 12:57.850 --> 13:01.430 You say, but we get into heaven by believing. We get into the kingdom 13:01.430 --> 13:04.170 by believing. John chapter 3, 13:05.350 --> 13:09.350 we believe we get in. Romans chapter 10, believe we get in. 13:10.550 --> 13:13.530 We don't inherit the kingdom 13:13.530 --> 13:20.340 by just believing. I don't know why I'm on 13:20.340 --> 13:23.820 this, but let me hit it quick. I'm burning daylight here. 13:25.380 --> 13:27.440 Let me read this to you quick. 13:28.820 --> 13:32.100 There is something that is required of 13:32.100 --> 13:36.180 us. Once we're saved, that is way beyond 13:36.960 --> 13:41.730 believing. Belief 13:41.730 --> 13:45.990 always has to be there. But if belief was everything, 13:46.190 --> 13:49.350 why aren't the demons saved? They believe. 13:49.910 --> 13:53.650 Same Greek word in James as it is in John chapter 13:53.650 --> 13:57.490 3. Same word. Same Greek word as it is in Romans 10. 13:58.570 --> 14:00.750 We get in by believing 14:02.670 --> 14:04.770 but then there is something 14:04.770 --> 14:08.830 we need to grow a little bit. We need to do, we need 14:08.830 --> 14:15.350 to grow. You can look it up, Galatians 5, 19 14:15.350 --> 14:19.530 through 21. Now the works of the flesh are 14:19.530 --> 14:22.770 evident, adultery, fornication, lewdness, hatred, 14:23.430 --> 14:27.610 jealousies, selfish ambitions, murders, drunkenness, 14:28.350 --> 14:30.350 revelries, and the like, verse 21. 14:30.350 --> 14:32.990 He said it's not a full list, it's just that kind of thing. 14:33.470 --> 14:36.770 Of which I've talked to you about beforehand, just as I told you in the past. 14:37.730 --> 14:41.810 Listen to the last line. Those who practice such things 14:41.810 --> 14:43.950 will not inherit the kingdom of God. 14:48.050 --> 14:50.490 You can't live like that and go to heaven. 14:51.290 --> 14:54.670 Oh, but I believe he's God, so the demons who are helping you live like that. 14:58.120 --> 15:01.640 He expects us to be conformed, 15:02.480 --> 15:05.340 transformed to the image of Jesus 15:05.340 --> 15:09.600 on an ongoing daily basis. And when we 15:09.600 --> 15:13.400 don't follow in with that, he starts talking to us about it. 15:13.520 --> 15:17.500 And when we refuse him and refuse him and refuse him until it 15:17.500 --> 15:21.300 actually leaves. He's not talking to us about it anymore as far as we know. 15:22.100 --> 15:25.080 He still is. It's just we've gotten that hard in our heart, we're not hearing him. 15:26.680 --> 15:29.600 Now, I'm not the judge, but now in my mind, you're on 15:29.600 --> 15:33.380 really thin ice with your salvation because you cannot 15:34.120 --> 15:37.240 Scripture says you cannot continually refuse God 15:38.560 --> 15:40.460 and be okay with God. 15:41.800 --> 15:45.180 Can't do it. This whole 15:45.180 --> 15:49.560 doctrine of all you have to do is at eight years old just believe there 15:49.560 --> 15:53.380 is a God. And now you're good for the rest of your life. No matter what you live like, act like, or do, 15:53.800 --> 15:57.360 you'll get to heaven in the end. This is a demonic doctrine that's gotten 15:57.360 --> 16:01.180 to the church because it's comfortable and it's easy and it gives us 16:01.180 --> 16:05.440 false peace. You can't find it in Scripture 16:06.480 --> 16:08.440 if you read the whole thing. 16:09.520 --> 16:12.900 New Testament. But anyway, let's get back to this story. 16:13.640 --> 16:17.360 When we seek God and want more of him, we will have encounters with 16:17.360 --> 16:20.680 him. Now, like I said, I grew up in a church that had some of this 16:21.920 --> 16:25.380 not a lot, but there was enough that when I went into the ministry, I didn't 16:25.380 --> 16:29.000 go in totally ignorant. I knew that God did some stuff. 16:29.800 --> 16:32.920 I had a cousin. He was older than me. 16:34.420 --> 16:37.720 One service. The Holy Spirit just kind of poked in. God poked 16:37.720 --> 16:41.400 in and said, hey, let's do some things here. And there were 16:41.400 --> 16:43.900 people praying at the altar and he came up, he was standing there. 16:44.940 --> 16:49.640 And apparently, he went into a trance while he was standing. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.340 Because he was just standing there with his eyes closed 16:53.340 --> 16:56.860 and all of a sudden, he fell over forward. 16:57.920 --> 17:00.160 They were afraid he took teeth and everything out. 17:00.840 --> 17:05.240 He fell over forward without catching himself at all. Just straight 17:05.240 --> 17:07.360 bam on his face. 17:08.680 --> 17:10.560 He stayed there for about an hour. 17:12.720 --> 17:17.200 And Jesus met with him. He was in a trance and Jesus called him to be a missionary in 17:17.200 --> 17:20.920 Australia, showed him things he wanted him to do that whole realm. 17:20.920 --> 17:22.300 He was a teenager at that point. 17:24.560 --> 17:29.160 You say, but that's not Scripture? Well, I don't know. Peter fell into a trance. 17:30.580 --> 17:33.320 So I think it does happen. He's just one of them. 17:37.080 --> 17:38.500 So I started seeing 17:38.500 --> 17:41.140 there were some things that would happen in junior high and high school 17:41.140 --> 17:44.940 and so forth. I started having visions and demonic stuff and so forth. 17:45.200 --> 17:49.260 I was in college. We had a group from college come to the church 17:49.260 --> 17:51.820 for a service. It was a Sunday night 17:54.860 --> 17:57.000 and there's two sections. 17:57.260 --> 18:01.320 I'm sitting over, or Kevin's sitting, and the 18:01.320 --> 18:04.920 teacher from college who understood the move of the Spirit, he was up speaking. 18:05.700 --> 18:08.200 And we're all just sitting and listening and all of a sudden I start 18:09.360 --> 18:13.480 feeling God. It's like, what is this? 18:14.800 --> 18:16.100 And I started shaking. 18:18.420 --> 18:20.940 I'm just sitting by in my own business listening to him speak. 18:21.740 --> 18:22.880 And I started shaking. 18:25.240 --> 18:26.700 And I started weeping. 18:29.940 --> 18:33.180 He was smart enough to know that's God. 18:34.320 --> 18:37.220 And he stopped and he said, what's going on with you? I said, I don't know. 18:37.460 --> 18:39.280 Never had this before. It was brand new to me. 18:40.620 --> 18:45.420 He said, come up here. So I got up on the platform. I stood there just like this. 18:45.420 --> 18:49.380 Just weeping. He said, what's happening? I said, I don't know. 18:50.240 --> 18:52.840 He said, what's obviously God? He said, 18:53.160 --> 18:56.840 what is continually cycling through your mind right now? 19:00.540 --> 19:03.200 At that point, I 19:03.740 --> 19:05.780 started to speak for the Holy Spirit. 19:06.900 --> 19:11.640 And I had one little message. God wants us to 19:11.640 --> 19:14.300 stop fighting in this church. 19:16.720 --> 19:17.840 Quit fighting 19:17.840 --> 19:21.960 with each other. Lay our differences 19:21.960 --> 19:25.080 aside and seek Him. It's all came out. 19:27.220 --> 19:29.940 Okay? One guy 19:29.940 --> 19:32.400 sitting second row right there. 19:34.040 --> 19:37.020 See, there's good to having relatives in a church and there's bad. 19:42.800 --> 19:45.620 And sometimes I think it's more bad than good. 19:45.620 --> 19:48.860 Because they bring into church all their 19:49.440 --> 19:53.100 eddy, pity squabbles with each other as family. 19:53.540 --> 19:54.980 They'll bring that into church. 19:56.600 --> 20:01.220 I'm standing here, the brother Garrison, 20:01.220 --> 20:04.460 he was standing beside me, the guy who was speaking that night. 20:05.440 --> 20:06.880 Guy in the second row is my uncle. 20:09.040 --> 20:15.920 He's sitting there with everything I was saying. 20:20.380 --> 20:21.700 Looking that way. 20:23.160 --> 20:26.540 Wouldn't look at me. You know what he was doing? 20:27.840 --> 20:29.300 He was dissing on the whole thing. 20:32.240 --> 20:35.520 God knocked on the church door with an 20:35.520 --> 20:39.940 encounter and said, let me in. There's bigger things 20:39.940 --> 20:43.020 that can happen here. Your division is stopping it. 20:45.200 --> 20:47.800 And one of the people who was responsible 20:47.800 --> 20:51.180 for the division wouldn't even acknowledge it was God. 20:58.400 --> 21:01.620 One more example. Why in the old 21:01.620 --> 21:05.120 revivals, the old towns, the old neighborhoods 21:06.680 --> 21:09.360 Ireland, Scotland, Europe, 21:09.540 --> 21:13.380 Jim's got stories he can share on that. Why is it when some of these 21:13.380 --> 21:17.060 revivals would spread through and everybody in the town 21:17.060 --> 21:20.060 was saved? Everybody got saved. 21:21.100 --> 21:22.920 Everybody in the community got saved. 21:24.320 --> 21:28.160 Why is it that the bars ended up 21:28.160 --> 21:33.540 closing? Nobody told them they couldn't go. 21:35.120 --> 21:36.320 The town drunk got saved. 21:40.940 --> 21:44.540 They wouldn't go back. They just had no desire 21:44.540 --> 21:48.480 or need for it. That's supernatural. 21:50.720 --> 21:52.840 You know how cold the church in America has gotten? 21:53.840 --> 21:56.800 We now fight for the right to go to the bar. 21:58.120 --> 21:59.380 It's because I'm a Christian. 22:01.720 --> 22:05.000 When you get a true encounter with God, 22:05.380 --> 22:07.840 he backs you up and says you don't need that anymore. 22:08.680 --> 22:12.740 Leave it alone. We've gotten that cold. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.760 Without encounters with God, we are 22:16.760 --> 22:19.320 nothing more than baby philosophers. 22:20.880 --> 22:22.200 Philosophizing our beliefs. 22:22.660 --> 22:27.160 I believe this and I believe that. I don't agree with you. I think it's this way. 22:27.720 --> 22:30.120 All we have is talk. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.900 What did Paul say? I didn't come to you with 22:34.900 --> 22:38.840 mere talk. I came with 22:38.840 --> 22:42.740 a demonstration of the power of the Spirit of God. 22:43.920 --> 22:45.920 That's what the American church is missing. 22:47.440 --> 22:49.580 So we had two questions come in from the Sunday 22:49.580 --> 22:52.560 when I was talking about why do people fall down when they get prayed for. 22:53.440 --> 22:58.400 The two questions were about the Holy Spirit and laughter. Holy Spirit inspired laughter. 22:58.980 --> 23:00.260 And being drunk in the Spirit. 23:01.260 --> 23:05.900 And there's numerous scriptures that we could talk about. I will just give you one concerning 23:05.900 --> 23:08.240 them. Both of them are answered right here. 23:10.040 --> 23:13.820 And all were beside themselves with amazement and were puzzled and bewildered 23:13.820 --> 23:17.900 saying to one another, what could this mean? This is the day of Pentecost. This is when they got baptized 23:17.900 --> 23:21.180 in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues and so forth. 23:21.900 --> 23:25.880 So they're wondering what in the world is going on? You have to read the whole context to see exactly 23:25.880 --> 23:29.340 what they're referring to. But verse 13, but others made a joke of it 23:29.340 --> 23:32.620 and derisively or dividedly 23:33.820 --> 23:37.860 causing division said, they are simply drunk 23:37.860 --> 23:41.240 and full of intoxicating, sweet intoxicating wine. 23:42.580 --> 23:45.580 They're just drunk. Now where would have they gotten the idea 23:45.580 --> 23:49.440 that they were drunk? By listening to them. 23:51.960 --> 23:53.780 Okay, so now let me ask you this. 23:55.080 --> 23:57.160 What is the atmosphere in a bar like? 23:59.360 --> 24:00.500 Where people are drunk? 24:01.740 --> 24:03.320 Give me a few, yet we don't know. 24:08.380 --> 24:09.100 That's funny. 24:12.180 --> 24:14.360 For those of you who have had 24:14.360 --> 24:15.840 experience with that, 24:18.200 --> 24:22.280 you can do it in, you can be at a party at someone's home 24:22.280 --> 24:25.240 and once people start getting drunk, all the same characteristics show up. 24:26.220 --> 24:28.200 What are they? Loud? 24:30.500 --> 24:33.280 Obnoxious? Sexual? 24:34.580 --> 24:37.840 And there's one more. There is a lot of 24:37.840 --> 24:40.200 laughing going on. 24:41.820 --> 24:46.200 So they hear these people in the upper room, they're loud, 24:46.720 --> 24:48.920 they're speaking in different languages. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.120 What's going on? Well, they're drunk. 24:53.680 --> 24:57.140 They were probably drunk in the spirit 24:57.840 --> 24:59.940 just laughing their heads off. 25:00.540 --> 25:03.620 Because that's what happens when people are drunk. 25:08.350 --> 25:10.370 So that's just one scripture. There's a lot of them. 25:10.430 --> 25:14.310 But that's just one scripture. You're going to see some of that in some of the clips today. 25:15.470 --> 25:18.630 Why are we going to show some of these clips? Because many of us 25:18.630 --> 25:21.530 have never experienced an encounter with God. 25:21.970 --> 25:26.330 We've never seen an encounter with God. We don't understand what happens 25:26.330 --> 25:27.830 when God encounters us. 25:30.610 --> 25:34.270 And it's not to our benefit 25:34.270 --> 25:37.790 to stay ignorant to these things. Now I'll say right up front 25:37.790 --> 25:41.930 because the main reason people don't like to encounter God is fear. 25:42.890 --> 25:45.410 That is the main reason. It's fear. 25:46.090 --> 25:48.730 Whether it comes out of doctrine or whatever, but it's fear. 25:50.770 --> 25:54.250 And Mary and I were talking about it. She said, yeah, it's fear of losing control. 25:55.610 --> 25:57.590 Well, when you encounter God 25:59.590 --> 26:01.110 just speaking in tongues 26:02.290 --> 26:05.110 you don't control that. I mean you don't 26:05.110 --> 26:08.470 make up the words. That's what I mean by control. You can start it and stop it at any point. 26:09.170 --> 26:13.190 But you don't make up the words. He's in control of that. Anytime you 26:13.190 --> 26:16.990 encounter God, whether it's a mild 26:16.990 --> 26:20.670 thing of you're just sitting there and all of a sudden you get goosebumps all over 26:20.670 --> 26:24.610 and your hair on your arms stand up, you just encounter God. 26:25.970 --> 26:27.810 Or some of the things you'll see this morning. 26:28.990 --> 26:31.770 We have to understand God will encounter people 26:31.770 --> 26:35.070 and people will say, well, I don't want to do that. You don't have to do that. God's a gentleman. 26:35.270 --> 26:38.690 He's not going to make you do anything. But if you're hungry for more of God, 26:38.990 --> 26:42.850 He's going to bring you into things to get you out of your 26:43.810 --> 26:45.770 religious, traditional, fleshly ways. 26:47.230 --> 26:51.190 And move you closer into the spirit. And you'll see some of that this morning. 26:51.290 --> 26:53.730 And the whole point is to expose us to it. 26:54.290 --> 26:57.210 Not to, okay, this is what we're all going to do now. No. 26:57.750 --> 27:01.190 That's flesh. You never work it up. 27:02.110 --> 27:04.730 You wait for God to do whatever He's going to do. 27:05.690 --> 27:09.550 Like when I was shaking. I didn't think, you know, I'd like to tell this 27:09.550 --> 27:13.790 congregation something. So I'm going to sit here and start 27:13.790 --> 27:17.850 shaking. And maybe it'll get somebody's attention. And I can get up 27:17.850 --> 27:20.110 on the platform and say something. That's all flesh. 27:21.370 --> 27:23.770 God doesn't respect that at all. 27:24.410 --> 27:27.670 When you're sitting there minding your own business and all of a sudden He nails you. 27:28.290 --> 27:31.990 Well, that's different. You're going to see things that 27:31.990 --> 27:36.130 happened with the whole congregation. Not everybody in the 27:36.130 --> 27:40.110 congregation was involved. Certain people who 27:40.110 --> 27:44.050 were more hungry after God. And don't be insulted 27:44.050 --> 27:50.440 by that. But I can't... 27:50.440 --> 27:53.140 They, that hunger and thirst 27:54.060 --> 27:57.920 for righteousness will be filled. People 27:57.920 --> 28:01.220 who don't hunger rarely encounter God. 28:04.780 --> 28:07.800 It's the hungry who He meets. 28:08.920 --> 28:11.920 Seek me with all your heart, He said. 28:12.800 --> 28:16.160 And you will find me. So there's things that happened 28:16.160 --> 28:20.160 to individuals. It was more of like a whole congregational 28:20.160 --> 28:24.020 thing. So it's kind of like a visitation of the Spirit. But individuals had some encounters. 28:25.640 --> 28:27.960 These things have been happening since the beginning. 28:28.480 --> 28:31.280 And I've had people say, well, why don't we see it in more churches? 28:33.920 --> 28:35.780 Well, I'm going to answer that question for you. But 28:37.160 --> 28:40.180 I had one person say, well, I think that word of life 28:40.180 --> 28:42.900 is a cult. Because it's the only church that this stuff happens at. 28:44.880 --> 28:46.020 Which is really sad. 28:47.760 --> 28:50.020 But I think they're a cult because there's 28:50.020 --> 28:52.040 no other churches that have this happen. 28:53.760 --> 28:57.640 So I don't think it happens other places. Well, you just don't know your church history. 28:58.940 --> 29:01.720 Have any of you ever...let's just go back a little over 100 years. 29:02.420 --> 29:05.700 Have any of you ever read or studied the 29:05.700 --> 29:08.880 Azusa Street Revival, 1904-05? How many did have? 29:10.960 --> 29:13.640 These people had some encounters with God. 29:16.540 --> 29:18.220 Just crazy stuff 29:18.220 --> 29:21.780 happened. The latter reign in the 40s. Same thing. 29:22.860 --> 29:25.560 Kenneth Hagin when he was traveling and even at Rema. 29:26.360 --> 29:29.580 Same thing. How many of you have heard of 29:29.580 --> 29:30.680 Amy Simple McPherson? 29:33.460 --> 29:37.020 Same thing. Huge, 29:37.780 --> 29:41.800 huge encounters with God. I mean, that is worth your time to just 29:42.340 --> 29:44.360 read up on her. Catherine Coleman. 29:45.880 --> 29:49.360 Same thing. Toronto Blessing. 29:50.900 --> 29:52.980 Smithden Outpouring. Missouri. 29:54.260 --> 29:57.620 Same thing. Many churches, many, many 29:57.620 --> 30:01.880 churches, including two in this area, have experienced it. I'm not going to talk about that, 30:01.920 --> 30:05.160 but from what I've been told, two in this area have experienced them encounter stuff with God. 30:06.600 --> 30:08.680 The Rain Ministerial Organization. 30:09.340 --> 30:10.880 Which is a local organization. 30:12.720 --> 30:16.960 Absolutely they have encounters with God. Rodney Hard Brown. 30:20.490 --> 30:22.310 When I was 24, I got into 30:22.310 --> 30:26.370 my first pastorate. And we had an encounter 30:26.370 --> 30:29.370 with God. We had our first open heavens meeting. I felt like 30:29.370 --> 30:34.050 I got voted in in August and I felt like in January we were supposed to have a week of meetings 30:34.050 --> 30:37.010 beginning of the year. We did. God showed up. 30:39.010 --> 30:40.570 The emphasis there was 30:40.570 --> 30:44.670 salvation and deliverance. Different moves have different emphasis. 30:45.550 --> 30:47.330 That one was salvation and deliverance. 30:49.150 --> 30:52.730 We were accused of feeding gas into the 30:52.730 --> 30:59.600 sanctuary through the vents. Because of 30:59.600 --> 31:00.920 some of the things that were happening. 31:05.690 --> 31:09.430 I don't have time to go into them, but I could just list them. They're all scriptural. Trances. 31:09.430 --> 31:12.930 Visions. I mean, all kinds of demons manifesting. 31:13.190 --> 31:15.550 Kind of like last night TBO kind of stuff. 31:16.390 --> 31:19.470 We started that meeting with about 180 people. 31:20.730 --> 31:23.370 Of which about 50 showed up for these meetings. 31:24.690 --> 31:28.970 We thought we were doing pretty good. Because most of the time during the week, if it's not Sunday morning 31:28.970 --> 31:31.030 the lukewarm christian stays home. 31:34.670 --> 31:36.710 It's a good place to either say ouch or amen. 31:38.310 --> 31:41.630 If it's not Sunday morning the lukewarm christian 31:41.630 --> 31:45.270 is not interested. Why? I'm good. I don't need that. 31:47.350 --> 31:50.550 That is the definition of lukewarm. 31:51.770 --> 31:53.730 So we had about 50 people show up. 31:54.130 --> 31:56.050 That week it just broke loose. 31:57.270 --> 32:01.230 Over the next three months we had about 125 people saved. 32:02.730 --> 32:05.270 Over 100 of them were baptized in the Holy Spirit. 32:05.270 --> 32:06.250 We're speaking in tongues. 32:09.750 --> 32:13.490 Some place, depending upon what level of ministry you're looking at 32:13.490 --> 32:16.890 some place between 14 and 25 people went into ministry. 32:17.890 --> 32:20.790 Out of that, what God did. 32:22.490 --> 32:24.950 I had no clue what was happening. 32:27.110 --> 32:28.630 I'm 24 years old. 32:29.390 --> 32:31.070 I haven't seen nothing yet. 32:34.920 --> 32:37.780 But God threw me into it and said I'll learn how to steward that. 32:39.560 --> 32:41.400 You got to stay and control that. 32:41.520 --> 32:44.160 You watch over that. You're the shepherd here. Learn how to steward that. 32:45.060 --> 32:47.080 You said, why doesn't it happen in most churches? 32:48.560 --> 32:50.560 Why aren't people being healed in most churches? 32:51.800 --> 32:54.140 Why aren't demons being cast out in most churches? 32:55.640 --> 32:58.560 Why is it most churches no longer believe in dreams and visions 32:58.560 --> 33:02.320 when Acts chapter 2 says both of those are actually last days 33:02.320 --> 33:05.040 languages that we're living in the last days? 33:07.080 --> 33:09.580 Why speaking in tongues doesn't happen in most churches? 33:09.760 --> 33:13.780 Miracles, signs, wonders, gifts of the Spirit. Why does this stuff not happen in most churches? 33:14.580 --> 33:17.540 The answer is the same for all of it. 33:18.860 --> 33:21.360 Fear, unbelief, bad doctrine, religion. 33:23.580 --> 33:27.060 It's the same for all of it. That's why it's not happening. 33:29.060 --> 33:32.040 So my request, Mary's going to come speak here for a few minutes. 33:32.340 --> 33:36.040 We've got about 30 minutes worth of video and then we're going to open 33:36.040 --> 33:38.800 for questions and answers. So keep them in mind. 33:39.440 --> 33:42.780 We have hours and hours and hours of video. 33:42.880 --> 33:44.580 We just pulled some slices. 33:47.480 --> 33:50.200 So there will be question and answer time at the end. 33:50.620 --> 33:52.040 My request is this. 33:54.360 --> 33:56.080 If you understand it 33:56.080 --> 33:59.820 and you see it, that's fine. If you've never heard or seen of anything like this before 33:59.820 --> 34:02.460 while you were in my boat when some of this started happening. 34:03.900 --> 34:07.100 Just try to keep an open mind. Let's talk about it 34:07.700 --> 34:11.880 and give you some keys how to look at it. And the other thing 34:11.880 --> 34:15.780 is we must realize the age we're 34:15.780 --> 34:16.540 living in. 34:18.660 --> 34:20.200 We are living in the 34:20.200 --> 34:24.780 Laodicean church age where I'm good enough. I'm fine. 34:24.920 --> 34:27.660 I'm saved. I know Jesus. I'm fine. 34:29.520 --> 34:32.760 And we're living in the time where the rise of the antichrist 34:32.760 --> 34:36.700 power is taking place. It's not 34:36.700 --> 34:40.720 anti-healing. It's not anti-miracles. 34:41.640 --> 34:44.540 It's not anti... 34:44.540 --> 34:48.540 You fill in the blank. Do you know what it's called? Anti- 34:49.220 --> 34:52.380 Christ power. What is 34:52.380 --> 34:55.640 Christ? The first definition, the Messiah. 34:56.720 --> 35:00.340 Second definition, the anointed one with his anointing. 35:01.820 --> 35:03.880 It's not anti-church anointing. 35:04.800 --> 35:08.500 Satan don't care if you go to church. He just don't want you to get 35:08.500 --> 35:12.660 touched by the anointing. If you get touched by the anointing, he's lost you. 35:13.960 --> 35:16.680 Everything goes sideways when people get touched by the 35:16.680 --> 35:19.220 anointing as far as the kingdom of darkness is concerned. 35:20.440 --> 35:24.560 The whole last days movement of which the spirit of that 35:24.560 --> 35:29.020 is growing around us right now is anti-anointing. 35:30.080 --> 35:32.780 We don't want the anointing to get strong 35:32.780 --> 35:35.740 because the anointing is what breaks the oak. 35:37.080 --> 35:40.340 So the things we're going to see, we've seen here not. 35:40.340 --> 35:43.980 This was like a visitation for the whole church. We see them 35:44.680 --> 35:48.000 ongoingly, regularly, here, 35:48.340 --> 35:49.320 TBO, so forth. 35:52.420 --> 35:56.240 So it's not like this doesn't happen anymore. But when you hear us talk 35:56.240 --> 35:59.860 about the modular, what happened in the modular, it was on such a wide scale 36:00.360 --> 36:04.280 now we're going to give you an idea of what that's about. But before we do that, I want Mary 36:04.280 --> 36:08.200 to come and share. God showed her an awesome principle 36:08.200 --> 36:10.100 I want her to share before we do this. 36:14.830 --> 36:17.910 First I have to say during worship this morning, 36:19.150 --> 36:23.510 Sally came up and shared something. And we'll revisit that later 36:23.510 --> 36:25.890 because that has to do with Isaiah 54. 36:27.250 --> 36:29.750 But I sitting over there and it is the 36:31.810 --> 36:34.390 apostolic, prophetic anointing. I could feel it. 36:35.410 --> 36:38.290 And the Lord said something very simple, but it's very deep. 36:38.290 --> 36:41.930 We talked about this in prayer. For those of you who attend the morning 36:41.930 --> 36:45.930 service in prayer, we talked about this quite a while ago. But 36:45.930 --> 36:49.810 he reminded me of how we've said from the beginning 36:49.810 --> 36:54.030 this move of God, these things that we go through are for the generation. So we 36:54.030 --> 36:58.270 usually focus on the next generation. But you will see 36:58.270 --> 37:01.450 that it's a twofold thing of anointing the God 37:02.050 --> 37:05.910 of assignment, of mandate that he's given us. And that is 37:06.630 --> 37:09.770 for the next generation, but it's for the sake 37:09.770 --> 37:13.630 of the generations. Which is the two family lines 37:13.630 --> 37:17.370 that created you. You come from something, 37:18.110 --> 37:21.050 right? And we might not like what we came from, 37:21.850 --> 37:25.590 but God never created that family line for no purpose. 37:26.230 --> 37:29.890 Right? And so the things that have gotten in, that have 37:29.890 --> 37:33.430 jacked it over, that have messed it up, it's to 37:33.430 --> 37:37.430 prevent the anointing that's on that family line. And 37:37.430 --> 37:41.130 then when you take those two family lines and you combine them, it's supposed 37:41.130 --> 37:45.410 to be explosive for the purpose of those two family lines to be 37:45.410 --> 37:49.310 fulfilled. So part of what he's speaking into when he speaks 37:49.310 --> 37:53.530 into us, when he gives us an encounter, is to heal the family line. 37:54.310 --> 37:56.650 Because in the family line is your destiny. 37:57.330 --> 38:01.470 You're next in line. Right? And then we catch that vision of the 38:01.470 --> 38:05.830 bigger picture. Then we turn and go, and I got to make sure I cover the next generation. 38:06.850 --> 38:09.550 See? So he's healing the generations 38:09.550 --> 38:13.630 but this is what he said prophetically. He said to heal the generations 38:13.630 --> 38:17.410 we have to go back and dig up wells. So in some 38:17.410 --> 38:20.770 sense we're digging up a well that was dug 38:21.390 --> 38:25.270 on our property in the modular. But the wells 38:25.270 --> 38:29.150 that have been covered over, that we talked about in prayer, like 38:29.150 --> 38:33.310 Abraham, he dug wells under the anointing, under the covenant 38:33.310 --> 38:37.250 of God, under the leadership of God, where he was 38:37.250 --> 38:40.050 to go. Then he'd dig a well. Well the anatomy would come 38:40.050 --> 38:44.990 and bury it. And God is saying that we need to 38:44.990 --> 38:48.470 cross generations. It's about the next generation. 38:48.690 --> 38:53.090 But the next generation also has to go back and visit the generations 38:53.090 --> 38:57.050 before. Same way you would visit your family line and say 38:57.050 --> 39:01.130 where did I come from and what is my purpose. So to dig 39:01.130 --> 39:04.910 up a well, we have to go back. We have to visit the 39:04.910 --> 39:08.750 fact that this church is under Smith Wigglesworth 39:09.550 --> 39:13.030 who then was Kenneth Hagen was under him. Then 39:13.030 --> 39:16.290 the next one down was Jim Caseman. And now here we are. 39:16.970 --> 39:19.250 That's our family line of assignment. 39:20.690 --> 39:24.970 But if we go back and go like Smith Wigglesworth, I've read some of that stuff. God's not 39:24.970 --> 39:28.970 doing that. He's doing a new move. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 39:29.390 --> 39:31.610 Anything you think is new is not new. 39:32.930 --> 39:36.750 It's just new to you. So it's kind of like what Pastor was talking about. 39:36.930 --> 39:40.530 We have to keep in mind. We have to pull from what has been. 39:41.010 --> 39:43.970 Go back and dig up those wells. Honor those wells. 39:44.850 --> 39:48.250 Now you'll see it online more than ever is there's criticism 39:48.890 --> 39:52.630 to the old wells. That buried that. That wasn't even of God. I think that's 39:52.630 --> 39:56.670 funky. That's freaky. All this stuff. It's constant. Was there weird 39:56.670 --> 39:59.890 stuff? Yes. Is there weird stuff now in the church? Absolutely. 40:01.910 --> 40:04.290 We have to go back and dig up what was God 40:05.970 --> 40:07.550 and bring that forward 40:08.250 --> 40:11.530 because he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 40:11.950 --> 40:15.210 So if laughter is for today, it was in acts. 40:15.870 --> 40:19.990 Right? People were healed. 40:19.990 --> 40:22.950 There was all these different things. So he said this morning to 40:23.730 --> 40:27.350 represent or represent, when you represent the kingdom of God. 40:27.630 --> 40:31.970 Kingdom of God is representing the kingdom of heaven. And there is a display 40:31.970 --> 40:35.830 to represent something. You're not talking about what's going on 40:35.830 --> 40:39.830 presently. You are talking about what was. And now we're going to present that 40:39.830 --> 40:44.010 again and see what God does now. But if our faith is 40:44.010 --> 40:47.830 only for what we think is going on now, we have actually 40:47.830 --> 40:51.970 pushed the rest of the gospel away. We buried 40:51.970 --> 40:55.390 the wells. He wants us to dig up 40:55.850 --> 40:59.510 the ancient wells and see the full picture of God. 41:01.250 --> 41:03.630 Amen. And I 41:03.630 --> 41:07.510 remember, I'm trying to think of his name for some reason. I can't, Felicia, do you know 41:08.190 --> 41:11.610 it was the man who said, when God came down, we used to 41:11.610 --> 41:15.550 imitate that in the video. Do you remember who he was? Ah, if I said it, 41:15.550 --> 41:19.390 everyone would know. But it was the revival that 41:19.390 --> 41:22.930 happened in Wales in places like that, that he was a part of. 41:23.190 --> 41:26.950 And he was describing what happened. It was an old 41:27.470 --> 41:29.770 recording of him. We played that in the modular. 41:31.030 --> 41:35.210 Around the time revival broke out. What we were doing, and we didn't even know it, 41:35.270 --> 41:37.790 is we went back and we visited the ancient wells. 41:38.770 --> 41:41.210 We were digging something up that we didn't know nothing of. 41:42.370 --> 41:45.350 Right? And that God manifested similar 41:46.390 --> 41:49.290 but in the now. But because 41:49.290 --> 41:53.330 we honored who he was as a whole. Not who 41:53.330 --> 41:57.410 we think he is today. And there is such a move of saying 41:57.410 --> 42:01.250 what can't happen anymore. In order to say that 42:01.250 --> 42:05.210 you have to be an unbelief that those things ever happened. 42:05.510 --> 42:09.030 Or that was crazy just for that time. God has not changed. 42:10.430 --> 42:12.390 He's not changed nor have we arrived. 42:12.810 --> 42:16.590 Okay, so that's what he wanted me to say. Turn your Bibles and 42:16.590 --> 42:20.710 let's... I'm just going to mention if you guys could go to on the 42:20.710 --> 42:23.770 media. Luke chapter one in 42:23.770 --> 42:27.850 the Amplified. I'll be reading. Luke chapter one. 42:30.510 --> 42:32.370 This is the story of 42:32.890 --> 42:36.230 Mary and the story of Elizabeth. And 42:36.230 --> 42:39.370 how the babies came to be and all of that. 42:40.070 --> 42:44.430 But the Lord had pointed this out to me as a type 42:44.430 --> 42:48.370 of how encounters work. In order for us 42:48.370 --> 42:52.170 to stay on the straight and narrow so we don't get jiggy and weird. 42:53.010 --> 42:56.310 We have to look back. Like we're looking back old testament. We're looking back 42:56.310 --> 43:00.610 in New Testament. Find out how did he encounter people? What was their reaction? 43:00.870 --> 43:04.250 What was their thing? How did they follow through on after 43:04.250 --> 43:08.250 the encounter happened? Because we got a lot going on now where people 43:08.250 --> 43:12.170 were like, I just encountered God. I fell over. I laughed or whatever. Okay, 43:12.190 --> 43:16.310 what happened after that? What do you mean? They just go back 43:16.310 --> 43:20.270 for the treat of it. That's not how encounters work. 43:20.370 --> 43:23.590 And we're going to see how that works here. So same thing, what's 43:24.030 --> 43:28.390 Freaky is the same thing. The relatives and same thing happens to both of them. 43:28.730 --> 43:31.590 You know, similar. Anyway, so Luke chapter 43:34.010 --> 43:35.670 1, we'll just start on 43:35.670 --> 43:39.670 verse 11. And an angel of the Lord appeared to him standing to the right 43:39.670 --> 43:43.430 of the altar of incense. When Zacharias saw the angel, he was troubled 43:43.430 --> 43:47.550 and overcome with fear. So the first thing that happens when there's an encounter with 43:47.550 --> 43:49.090 God is your flesh will fear. 43:51.430 --> 43:55.350 It should be an awe and respect of him, but most of the time it's just a freaking out of him. 43:56.790 --> 43:58.590 Because of the reasons that pastor 44:00.430 --> 44:02.610 said. And even if you're standing next 44:02.610 --> 44:06.170 to somebody who's having an encounter and you're not, fear. 44:07.270 --> 44:10.670 Right? But the angel said to him, do not be afraid Zacharias, because 44:10.670 --> 44:14.590 your petition in prayer, this is what we're doing weeks before 44:15.290 --> 44:18.650 you know, open heavens. We're bringing this 44:18.650 --> 44:22.770 year before him. And our petitions in prayer was heard. And your wife Elizabeth 44:22.770 --> 44:26.530 will bear you a son and you will name him John. You will have a great joy 44:27.310 --> 44:30.070 and delight. And many will rejoice over his birth, for 44:30.070 --> 44:32.750 he will be great. It goes on and describes 44:33.690 --> 44:37.010 what he's going to be doing. It gives his mandate. 44:38.010 --> 44:41.610 Like here's the purpose that you're encountering me right now. 44:42.210 --> 44:44.970 Your assignment is to carry this purpose. 44:46.010 --> 44:50.110 Right? And so it says verse 16, he's going to turn many of the sons of 44:50.110 --> 44:53.410 Israel back from sin to love and serve the Lord their God. 44:53.410 --> 44:57.490 It is he who will go as a forerunner before him in the spirit and 44:57.490 --> 45:01.290 power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children 45:01.290 --> 45:05.210 and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, which is to seek and 45:05.210 --> 45:09.190 submit to the will of God in order to make a ready people perfectly 45:09.190 --> 45:13.450 prepared spiritually and morally for the Lord. That's a pretty big 45:13.450 --> 45:17.550 mandate. And to find out as a woman you're like, yep, you're carrying that. 45:18.530 --> 45:21.470 Well, that's the awe and respect that we have when we have an encounter 45:21.470 --> 45:24.990 with God and he gives us a mandate. This is your purpose. 45:26.250 --> 45:29.330 Right? It should be like, oh my. And Zacharias 45:29.330 --> 45:33.550 said to the angel, how will I be certain of this for I'm an old man and my wife 45:33.550 --> 45:37.050 is advanced in age? The angel replied and said to him, I am Gabriel. 45:37.410 --> 45:41.470 I stand and minister in the very presence of God and I have been sent by him to speak 45:41.470 --> 45:43.810 to you and to bring you good news. 45:45.730 --> 45:48.910 So the next step that really happens is we'll get this 45:48.910 --> 45:52.150 this encounter with God and be overcome with fear. 45:52.550 --> 45:56.330 And then we start asking questions. This is so how it works, right? You're standing 45:56.330 --> 46:00.590 when these experiences happen. And then it says that 46:01.690 --> 46:04.650 here's the mandate the Lord has for you. And the first 46:04.650 --> 46:08.950 response our flesh will give is, how's this? 46:09.070 --> 46:12.590 Are you sure? Are you talking to me? Are you sure this is going to work out? 46:12.690 --> 46:16.930 Because like I'm an old man. And we will pick out 46:16.930 --> 46:20.930 our weakness and shove it before the Lord when 46:20.930 --> 46:25.010 we're in the middle of a mandate. We encounter him and 46:25.010 --> 46:28.430 we're like, oh, this is the presence of God. And then he downloads to us. 46:28.850 --> 46:32.630 This is what I want you to do. This is what you're carrying. This is what your family line 46:32.630 --> 46:36.530 was for. Right? Think about that. 46:37.030 --> 46:40.850 That's the point of the mandate. This is what your family line was for. And then 46:40.850 --> 46:44.570 our first reactions are fleshly. I'm not very smart in that area. 46:44.570 --> 46:47.850 Moses, I can't talk well. Right? 46:48.350 --> 46:52.290 I could keep naming everyone's excuses and my own. 46:53.130 --> 46:55.870 When he's given me, how will I afford that? Usually it's mine. 46:56.890 --> 47:00.250 How are we going to afford that? He's a weakness. 47:00.870 --> 47:04.430 And that weakness comes up and it's revealed and you're actually challenging 47:04.430 --> 47:08.330 it like God hasn't thought this through. You know, he's like, I 47:08.330 --> 47:12.690 forgot about that. I didn't know you were weak in that area. Yeah, well, you should consider that 47:12.690 --> 47:16.290 next time you asked me to do something. You know what I mean? It's like that. The angel 47:16.290 --> 47:20.570 replied and said to him, I am Gabriel. So he fortifies the fact I'm speaking 47:20.570 --> 47:24.650 on God's behalf. Even the name Gabriel means God is 47:24.650 --> 47:28.210 my strength. He's there in strength and power to 47:28.210 --> 47:32.690 display and speak on God's behalf. So it was an angel, but for us it's God. 47:33.170 --> 47:35.990 It's Holy Spirit. Listen carefully. You will 47:36.470 --> 47:39.390 be continually silent. So because he questioned 47:39.390 --> 47:43.590 and he's a priest. See, I think he was held a little bit more 47:43.590 --> 47:47.410 accountable here because he was a priest. And because he questioned it, he's like, 47:47.450 --> 47:51.470 well, you know what's going to happen? You will be continually silent and unable to speak until the 47:51.470 --> 47:55.650 day when these things take place. You ever have an encounter with God, you question 47:55.650 --> 47:59.630 or whatever, it gets rough after that? He's like, oh, we're going to pause 47:59.630 --> 48:03.390 on some of these things. You have a lesson you need to learn while we're moving ahead on this. 48:04.410 --> 48:06.930 I've had that. Right? 48:06.930 --> 48:10.830 And so you know if that was happening to me because I have a hard time 48:10.830 --> 48:13.730 shutting up. You'd be like, something definitely happened to Mary. 48:14.550 --> 48:18.930 But in any case, listen carefully. You'll be continually silent and unable to speak 48:18.930 --> 48:22.950 until the day when these things take place because you did not believe. Because you did 48:22.950 --> 48:26.870 not believe what I told you. But my words will be fulfilled at their 48:26.870 --> 48:30.910 proper time. That's a key to the mandate 48:30.910 --> 48:34.870 he's given you. It's going to be at the proper time. And 48:34.870 --> 48:38.730 it comes by the word he told you. The people outside in the court were waiting for Zacharias 48:38.730 --> 48:42.710 and were wondering about this long delay in the temple. But when he did come out 48:42.710 --> 48:46.190 he was unable to speak to them. And it goes on and talks about that. 48:46.790 --> 48:50.790 Now in the sixth month, verse 26, of Elizabeth's 48:50.790 --> 48:54.430 pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city 48:54.430 --> 48:58.750 in Galilee of Nazareth to a virgin betrothed 48:58.750 --> 49:02.690 or engaged to a man whose name was Joseph 49:02.690 --> 49:06.570 and a descendant of the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary. Now 49:06.570 --> 49:10.750 what's really interesting is we don't always include where people 49:10.750 --> 49:14.330 are from. Like if I was telling you a story about Paul it wouldn't be like, well, you know, and he lives. 49:14.530 --> 49:18.430 You don't always include all that. But in the Bible it's very important what 49:18.430 --> 49:22.150 line they're talking about. The begats are hugely important. 49:22.570 --> 49:26.330 Who were you born of? Who was your father? What was their purpose? 49:26.870 --> 49:30.230 Right? And sometimes that's how they greeted each other and everything. It's like 49:30.230 --> 49:34.190 you know, I'm a descendant of the house of David. And the virgin's name was 49:34.190 --> 49:37.650 Mary. And coming to her the angel said, greetings favored one. 49:38.450 --> 49:42.230 Similar thing. Right? He's calling her who 49:42.230 --> 49:44.970 she is to God. Your favorite of God. 49:45.970 --> 49:48.730 That's why I'm here. The Lord is with you. 49:49.790 --> 49:53.630 They didn't even get into it yet and he's got a reminder. The Lord is with you. 49:53.830 --> 49:58.230 But she was greatly perplexed at what he said and kept carefully considering what kind of 49:58.230 --> 50:02.070 reading this was. So she's kind of like, okay, you know, 50:02.250 --> 50:05.670 and she's considering this whole thing. But he called her favorite of God 50:06.000 --> 50:09.910 and he announced to her, the Lord is with you. So his presence 50:09.910 --> 50:14.210 was there. Amen? The angel said 50:14.210 --> 50:18.210 to her, she's having an encounter. The angel said to her, do not be afraid. 50:18.550 --> 50:20.970 There we go again. It's the first thing. 50:21.970 --> 50:26.110 It's the first thing. I like the story where they're going across 50:26.110 --> 50:29.890 in the boat and the storm was happening. New Testament Jesus, right? They're going to 50:29.890 --> 50:33.990 cross over. They're headed somewhere to deal with the demonic. And they're all freaking 50:33.990 --> 50:37.930 out and he's sleeping. What was the first thing he said to them when they woke him up? 50:38.970 --> 50:40.150 Why are you so afraid? 50:41.810 --> 50:45.970 Like, what's the deal? Right? So he always deals with 50:45.970 --> 50:49.750 the unbelief that's in us. So when you have an encounter of God, you'll know it. It's not a feeling 50:49.750 --> 50:52.930 where you fall down on the floor and you laugh a little and you're like, wasn't that fun? 50:53.850 --> 50:57.150 It's like, whew, I can feel your presence. But always 50:57.150 --> 51:00.950 following it, your flesh will challenge that somewhere in there. 51:01.090 --> 51:03.950 And you have to settle something to keep going with God. 51:04.930 --> 51:07.870 Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 51:09.050 --> 51:11.750 Grace and favor are the same thing. Have you found grace? 51:13.290 --> 51:16.670 Are you under grace? You found that with God? 51:17.470 --> 51:18.750 Then he has a mandate for you. 51:21.350 --> 51:22.150 Listen carefully. 51:23.050 --> 51:26.850 That's where we pay attention to prophetic words. We pay attention to whatever he said. 51:26.930 --> 51:30.890 You write it in your Bible. You put a date next to it. You don't play around with stuff like that. 51:30.990 --> 51:34.690 You have a dream from him, whatever it is. You write it out and you hold on to that. 51:35.310 --> 51:38.790 Listen carefully. You will conceive in your womb and give birth to a 51:38.790 --> 51:42.750 son and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and eminent and will be 51:42.750 --> 51:46.730 called the son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne 51:46.730 --> 51:49.770 of his father, David, announcing the family line. 51:52.640 --> 51:55.880 Amen. And he will reign over the house of 51:55.880 --> 51:59.900 Jacob. So here's the mandates coming forth. This is what you're carrying 51:59.900 --> 52:03.080 and this is what's going to come out of what you're carrying. 52:03.720 --> 52:07.800 And he will reign over the house of Jacob, Israel forever and of his kingdom. There shall be 52:07.800 --> 52:11.800 no end. Mary said to the angel, here we go, same thing, right. 52:12.980 --> 52:15.480 How will this be? Since I'm a virgin 52:15.480 --> 52:19.340 and I have no intimacy with any man. So you pick out the thing that might be 52:19.340 --> 52:23.220 obvious, but it's also the thing of like, there's a weak point here. I don't know why you're thinking 52:23.220 --> 52:27.760 I'm going to do this. Right? Then the 52:27.760 --> 52:31.460 angel replied to her, the Holy Spirit will come up on you and the power of the 52:31.460 --> 52:35.340 Most High will overshadow you. Where does it say that he's going to do 52:35.340 --> 52:38.260 that with us? Acts chapter one and two. 52:39.380 --> 52:43.260 When the Holy Spirit comes up on you, it's not just upon, right? 52:43.260 --> 52:46.220 Because we see that different. He comes up on you. 52:47.400 --> 52:49.000 You'll be filled with fire. 52:51.720 --> 52:55.620 Dynamite power. Isn't that cool? But for what? For your mandate. 52:58.520 --> 52:59.320 It isn't 52:59.320 --> 53:02.920 what we see where a lot of places that have moves of God. 53:03.360 --> 53:07.340 That's all the farther they get is, you know, they had a little feeling. They got 53:07.340 --> 53:11.280 the goosebumps. They had something. Wasn't that fun or whatever? Where's the mandate? Where's the 53:11.280 --> 53:15.720 thing you're carrying? What is the thing that's being restored from the generations 53:15.720 --> 53:19.360 that you are now through this encounter with God? 53:19.760 --> 53:23.440 It's relit inside of you and you're like, Lord, Lord. First thing 53:23.440 --> 53:26.360 comes up. Why would you choose me? You're from this generation. 53:27.320 --> 53:30.560 You're from this family line. This is what I'm asking. 53:31.900 --> 53:35.260 The gifting you have comes through your family line. He put 53:35.260 --> 53:36.780 it into you when you were being formed. 53:40.200 --> 53:40.760 You can 53:40.760 --> 53:42.680 hate the people before you, but you like them. 53:45.810 --> 53:50.150 You like them. For a long time I was, me and my dad were just 53:53.150 --> 53:54.830 I'm so much like them it's not even funny. 53:55.270 --> 53:58.230 Even how I'm standing right now. I just cocked my head about to the... 53:58.230 --> 54:00.310 That's how he stands. You know? 54:02.310 --> 54:06.230 But I'm like him, right? I see things like 54:06.230 --> 54:09.770 he sees them. Now, if he was lit by the Spirit, that'd be a whoo. 54:09.770 --> 54:14.310 He'd be something else. So anyway, so we see that we 54:14.310 --> 54:18.210 get the mandate. There's usually a question you go through. Hopefully the questioning 54:18.210 --> 54:22.210 time is short. When I started out and God gave me a 54:22.210 --> 54:26.210 mandate on something, I had to pray about it for months and all this kind 54:26.210 --> 54:30.530 of stuff. It's like, why can't we just go, I don't know how you're going to use me, but yeah, sure. 54:31.470 --> 54:34.290 You know what I mean? It's like, you're the one who asked 54:34.290 --> 54:38.430 me, so you know what you're dealing with already. Right? So it ain't my fault if it doesn't 54:38.430 --> 54:42.250 work out. I mean, why can't we just, we don't though. Our flesh will do that thing. 54:43.030 --> 54:46.010 And he's telling her the purpose 54:46.010 --> 54:50.290 that's going to be fulfilled so she knows the protection she has. She's 54:50.290 --> 54:54.230 caring. She has to protect this. Then the angel replied to her, the Holy Spirit will come up 54:54.230 --> 54:58.410 on you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you like a cloud. For that 54:58.410 --> 55:02.030 reason, the holy, pure, sinless child shall be called the Son of God. 55:03.150 --> 55:05.490 Whatever you are carrying as a mandate 55:06.030 --> 55:09.330 from God, he will overshadow you. 55:13.520 --> 55:16.360 Sometimes you have another encounter and it's all about 55:16.360 --> 55:20.360 just more of his anointing. And the reason is 55:20.360 --> 55:23.540 you can get back up again and keep heading toward the thing he told you to carry. 55:24.200 --> 55:27.720 And listen, even your relatives, so then in this part 55:28.100 --> 55:32.060 he shares a testimony with her. And listen, even your relative Elizabeth 55:32.060 --> 55:36.020 has also conceived a son in her old age. And she, and she who was called 55:36.020 --> 55:40.060 barren, which that's what we are before we know Christ. We're not producing 55:40.060 --> 55:44.120 no good for nothing. We're barren 55:44.120 --> 55:47.680 of the things of God. And so then we come to know him. 55:47.940 --> 55:52.360 We have an encounter with him. And yet she was called barren. 55:52.480 --> 55:56.360 She's now in her sixth month. I was called barren 55:56.360 --> 55:59.100 for the things of God. Condemned. 56:00.000 --> 56:03.020 Damned to hell. And when his spirit came 56:03.020 --> 56:06.540 upon me and I encountered him, everything changed. 56:07.120 --> 56:10.860 The mandate of the generations lit up inside of me, I could see it. 56:11.100 --> 56:15.020 I could see my grandmother and her one little prayer and I could see, I could go 56:15.020 --> 56:18.540 back as far as I, and I wanted to dig into it, find out who are these people 56:18.540 --> 56:22.900 that I thought I knew? What are they carrying? But see 56:22.900 --> 56:26.760 if we do now what I spoke before, if we do now we're like, 56:26.760 --> 56:30.520 nah that's a well that needs to be covered. Go ahead and just start with me, God. 56:31.620 --> 56:33.620 Do something new with me. You came from somewhere. 56:35.340 --> 56:38.160 And you have to acknowledge that. So anyway, and he said, 56:38.680 --> 56:42.760 and listen, he testifies to her that Elizabeth is pregnant 56:42.760 --> 56:46.980 and then he says why in verse 37 that this can be possible 56:46.980 --> 56:50.680 for with God nothing is or ever shall 56:50.680 --> 56:54.080 be impossible. This is all 56:54.080 --> 56:58.140 still part of the same encounter. The Mary said 56:58.140 --> 57:02.020 this is when she accepted. Sometimes it takes us 57:02.020 --> 57:05.820 longer. It hit her and she accepted it. She went through the questioning. 57:06.320 --> 57:09.740 She went through what are we doing? She went through all that and then she said, 57:09.840 --> 57:13.420 behold I am the servant of the Lord. 57:13.960 --> 57:17.740 May it be done to me according to your word. 57:19.840 --> 57:22.080 A mandate from God and 57:22.080 --> 57:25.980 inter with God will always bring you to a point where you have to 57:25.980 --> 57:29.760 settle it on your altar. We've to die to yourself 57:29.760 --> 57:32.620 and say, so be it. 57:33.780 --> 57:38.100 I don't know how this is going to work. I don't know Lord God, but I just slay my life into you. 57:39.080 --> 57:41.900 You're the one who is lighting me up. You're the one who's going to over 57:41.900 --> 57:45.960 shadow me when I'm weak. You're the one who's going to carry this. You're the one who gave the 57:45.960 --> 57:48.200 mandate. I did not. I'm not in charge. 57:49.760 --> 57:50.960 That's part of going low. 57:52.240 --> 57:55.780 See Mary went low right then and she said, well behold 57:56.320 --> 57:57.740 I am the servant of the Lord. 57:58.860 --> 58:04.360 In other words, she just said, I will serve what you just said and I'll be faithful to your 58:04.360 --> 58:07.200 word. In the American church 58:08.240 --> 58:11.940 and church in general, there's been so many mandates that have been 58:11.940 --> 58:15.780 given out, so many encounters, you know, so many promises made 58:15.780 --> 58:19.820 and part of the sin that's on the church is we did not 58:19.820 --> 58:23.840 carry it out. Cause think about it, 58:23.880 --> 58:27.940 she got a mandate to carry the Son of God and Elizabeth 58:27.940 --> 58:31.800 the forerunner to the Son of God. You don't think 58:31.800 --> 58:35.660 they went through stuff after that? Everything 58:35.660 --> 58:39.800 was rough. She's on a donkey all the way to the place she had to give birth. 58:40.360 --> 58:43.840 People are chasing them trying to kill. Persecution, persecution, but 58:43.840 --> 58:47.580 she held on to the mandate of God. That came 58:47.580 --> 58:51.400 because she had an encounter. You come up with a nice idea 58:51.400 --> 58:55.860 of, you know, something that might be, well this, I think God would appreciate if I did this or whatever 58:55.860 --> 59:00.060 you won't carry it. You'll never make it. For sure. 59:00.760 --> 59:03.420 You have an encounter with him, you have to rebel 59:03.420 --> 59:07.820 against him. Because it ain't your idea. You have to say 59:07.820 --> 59:11.980 I don't want to serve you anymore. That's how danger it is 59:11.980 --> 59:14.700 to come to church and have an encounter with God. 59:17.760 --> 59:20.840 That's why people don't push in to have an encounter with God. 59:21.000 --> 59:25.280 Because the flesh already knows he's going to have me carry something. 59:27.820 --> 59:29.320 And I don't believe 59:29.320 --> 59:32.900 see. She said I'm a virgin. 59:33.380 --> 59:37.360 He said he was old. You said you were dumb. You said I can't speak. 59:37.820 --> 59:40.180 You said I don't have enough money. You said all that stuff. 59:40.180 --> 59:43.680 And it's a mandate from God. And he said 59:43.680 --> 59:46.880 he will send the Holy Spirit to overshadow you 59:47.680 --> 59:51.020 to come up on you. You'll be fine. 59:51.940 --> 59:55.800 Don't worry about it. But know when you step into it 59:55.800 --> 59:59.660 the demonic realm knows, oh now you're messing with the generations. 01:00:01.020 --> 01:00:03.420 Now we're going to make it a little rougher for you. 01:00:04.140 --> 01:00:07.460 Well did you hear from God or not? Amen? 01:00:08.600 --> 01:00:11.080 So as we look at some of the things 01:00:11.540 --> 01:00:15.260 here this morning just remember that things 01:00:15.260 --> 01:00:18.960 that happen to us like laughter and stuff. I think the fear, one of the fear is like 01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:23.580 what was the purpose of that? People are laying down on the floor laughing their head off. There should be a purpose. 01:00:26.140 --> 01:00:27.580 Right? If there's not a purpose 01:00:27.580 --> 01:00:31.300 you're in the flesh. And so it's going to add to your mandate 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:34.840 or you know like me something's happening in my 01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:38.400 I had a service where someone else is ministering. I'm not stepping into something 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:41.560 I know it's going to add to my mandate and help to carry me. 01:00:42.040 --> 01:00:46.300 You ain't laying hands on me. We're not doing that. I'm not laying on the floor doing whatever 01:00:46.300 --> 01:00:50.240 everyone else is doing. I'm looking for God 01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:53.820 to move on my life. And so I wanted to say this first 01:00:53.820 --> 01:00:57.500 so you know the steps that it carries out 01:00:58.080 --> 01:01:01.440 in everyone's life the same way it did with Mary. Amen? 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:08.900 All right. Let me limp my way 01:01:08.900 --> 01:01:12.940 up here. Feels better when I'm not 01:01:12.940 --> 01:01:14.420 standing on it. 01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:20.800 At this point we're going to have to 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:24.960 well let me say this before we let the live stream go. The difference between 01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:28.900 seeking signs and wonders and demanding covenant rights you will see in the first 01:01:28.900 --> 01:01:32.480 video we show. Seeking signs and wonders 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:36.720 is I'd like to experience that. I wonder what that's like. I would 01:01:36.720 --> 01:01:40.660 like that. Versus demanding covenant 01:01:40.660 --> 01:01:44.420 rights, God you made promises to me. 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:47.340 Now I am coming 01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:52.540 before your throne of grace with everything 01:01:52.540 --> 01:01:56.140 within me to obtain those promises. 01:01:57.240 --> 01:02:00.440 That's the difference between seeking signs and demanding covenant 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.540 rights. So sorry for those of you who are watching 01:02:04.540 --> 01:02:07.900 online. Here's where we leave you and 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.220 I think we will be back in about a half an hour for 01:02:12.220 --> 01:02:16.780 the ending. If you could give me the PowerPoint back I'm going to share a couple 01:02:16.780 --> 01:02:18.740 things. Mary you can share what you have here. 01:02:22.420 --> 01:02:24.740 Let me just finish this. 01:02:26.800 --> 01:02:28.560 I'll need to go down kind of 01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:29.500 towards the end. 01:02:33.160 --> 01:02:36.260 There was so much that happened we just didn't have room for 01:02:36.260 --> 01:02:41.040 there was fragrances that would show up. When heaven opens 01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:44.580 you begin to, sometimes you'll let you smell what it smells like 01:02:44.580 --> 01:02:48.160 there. When angels come you can sometimes smell them 01:02:48.160 --> 01:02:52.260 and they are the exact opposite of what Jesus called unclean 01:02:52.260 --> 01:02:55.960 spirits or demonic evil spirits. 01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:59.900 They have a stench about them that usually reminds a person of 01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:02.160 sulfur. You've smelled it haven't you? Yeah. 01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:07.740 This was like the most beautiful flower garden 01:03:07.740 --> 01:03:11.860 you could ever smell. And it appeared at different times. There was people who 01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:15.140 they come in, it's 20 below, it's in January. 01:03:15.680 --> 01:03:19.860 And they come into the building and they say, did you smell the flowers in the 01:03:19.860 --> 01:03:22.000 parking lot? So everybody out. 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.960 And it's like what? And it just smelled like you were in the middle 01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:29.260 of a rose garden. Just so good. I mean there was just 01:03:29.810 --> 01:03:34.080 numerous examples and stories of that. The glory dust 01:03:34.080 --> 01:03:37.960 thing, so forth. I just want to warn us, can you 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:41.840 jump down? I think it's the second to last, well no, this goes 01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:45.340 into the angels, this power point. 01:03:46.300 --> 01:03:50.220 It's, if you can find it, it says the danger to fold. 01:03:50.220 --> 01:03:53.640 It's in maybe half way, there it is. 01:03:54.600 --> 01:03:56.320 Here's the thing I want to warn us of. 01:03:58.040 --> 01:04:00.000 Mary touched it already, I want to hit it again. 01:04:01.940 --> 01:04:06.400 The danger is we separate ourself from the past. 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:11.540 We hold on 01:04:12.240 --> 01:04:15.960 too tightly to 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:17.280 the now. 01:04:19.560 --> 01:04:20.880 God will do 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:23.220 different emphasis of things 01:04:25.300 --> 01:04:27.860 but what he did in the book of Acts 01:04:28.780 --> 01:04:33.160 still happens now and it still pertains. What he did at 01:04:33.160 --> 01:04:37.420 Asusa Street, he will still do now. We haven't changed covenants. 01:04:37.780 --> 01:04:41.360 We're in the same covenant, we're in the same duration of time, the last days. 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.760 What he did throughout things 01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:48.840 is still pertinent and he 01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:51.500 will emphasize it the way he wants to emphasize it. 01:04:52.200 --> 01:04:56.060 When we get in the teenage flesh mode spiritually 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:00.780 and this is the only way I can explain it, I went through it. 01:05:01.240 --> 01:05:04.480 I think most of us do. What happened 01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.180 with our parents or our grandparents or back 01:05:09.620 --> 01:05:12.540 don't need that. We're just going to 01:05:12.540 --> 01:05:16.120 concentrate on what God's doing now. You know what we're saying? 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:20.720 God, what you did back there, irrelevant. We're smarter 01:05:20.720 --> 01:05:23.780 than they were. It's a rebellious teenager. 01:05:24.620 --> 01:05:27.800 Saying I don't care what my parents know, I 01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:32.640 going to concentrate on this. And we hold on so tightly 01:05:33.420 --> 01:05:36.560 to this, we negate that. 01:05:37.500 --> 01:05:39.600 That's younger generation, pay attention. 01:05:39.600 --> 01:05:43.540 What God did there, he still does. 01:05:46.550 --> 01:05:48.770 But he also emphasizes 01:05:48.770 --> 01:05:53.270 new things. For the older generation, don't hold on 01:05:53.270 --> 01:05:57.030 so tightly to what he did that we don't accept what he's doing now. 01:05:58.310 --> 01:06:01.130 What's got to look just like it happened at the modular 01:06:01.130 --> 01:06:04.550 never will. Whenever God does, he 01:06:04.850 --> 01:06:08.930 custom builds everything. He doesn't duplicate like 01:06:08.930 --> 01:06:12.950 humans do. We will never experience that just like 01:06:12.950 --> 01:06:15.910 that again. He's going to do something 01:06:17.050 --> 01:06:20.930 but we as the older generation can't hold on so tight 01:06:20.930 --> 01:06:24.690 to something God did that we don't leave room for 01:06:24.690 --> 01:06:29.010 what he wants to do. And the younger 01:06:29.010 --> 01:06:32.110 ones can't get so focused on what he's doing here 01:06:32.630 --> 01:06:36.390 that you cover up the well that was 01:06:36.390 --> 01:06:39.830 a well of God. You're actually insulting God when you say 01:06:39.830 --> 01:06:43.830 don't need that. We're here now. If you didn't need that, 01:06:44.030 --> 01:06:47.470 he wouldn't have done it back there. It still pertains. 01:06:47.830 --> 01:06:51.530 It still applies. Here's a scripture for it. 01:06:53.230 --> 01:06:56.170 He said to them, therefore every teacher and interpreter of the sacred writings 01:06:56.170 --> 01:06:59.630 who has been instructed about and trained for the kingdom of heaven 01:06:59.630 --> 01:07:04.270 has become a new disciple is like a householder. So this is what a teacher 01:07:04.270 --> 01:07:07.890 and interpreter of scriptures who's been trained by the kingdom 01:07:07.890 --> 01:07:12.010 for the kingdom. This is what he's like. They're like a householder 01:07:12.010 --> 01:07:16.050 who brings forth out of his storehouse, treasure that is 01:07:16.050 --> 01:07:19.830 new and treasure that is 01:07:19.830 --> 01:07:23.810 old. The fresh 01:07:23.810 --> 01:07:26.670 as well as the familiar. 01:07:28.830 --> 01:07:32.210 We can't get caught in either one. Or we'll miss God. 01:07:33.330 --> 01:07:36.210 Mary, you have anything you want to speak into this before? 01:07:37.850 --> 01:07:38.570 You want to come pray? 01:07:40.010 --> 01:07:44.250 I was going to do that, but if it's on your heart, I'll be glad to let 01:07:44.250 --> 01:07:48.130 you do it. So we're going to have Mary pray. I'll make 01:07:48.130 --> 01:07:51.090 that announcement after she's done praying. You got to hit the mic button. 01:07:53.550 --> 01:07:54.230 Let's stand. 01:08:00.050 --> 01:08:04.330 I'm glad there wasn't a overall weird feeling 01:08:04.330 --> 01:08:07.910 in just watching those videos because if you hadn't had this experience, you weren't there. 01:08:08.430 --> 01:08:11.870 It is hard to grasp it. But one of the 01:08:11.870 --> 01:08:16.050 warnings that I gave in the stories, God 01:08:16.050 --> 01:08:19.610 gives somebody like Mary or Elizabeth or yourself a mandate. 01:08:21.270 --> 01:08:24.070 You have to say, I'm the servant. 01:08:24.630 --> 01:08:27.110 I receive that. That's your word over me, right? 01:08:28.130 --> 01:08:31.910 There were so many mandates that came out of that. That wasn't just for kicks and 01:08:31.910 --> 01:08:35.790 balls. There was mandates. I mean, there were people going to the mission 01:08:35.790 --> 01:08:39.670 field that would have never gone, things like that. And they were the ones laughing 01:08:39.670 --> 01:08:43.790 on the floor going, what is happening to me? I mean, I could share so many stories. 01:08:44.270 --> 01:08:47.710 That's what happens in revival. He equips us and then 01:08:47.710 --> 01:08:50.230 he gives us mandates. So part of 01:08:51.610 --> 01:08:55.670 I don't know if I want to use the word danger in it, but part of the thing 01:08:55.670 --> 01:08:59.170 to watch for, to give a holy respect, is 01:08:59.690 --> 01:09:02.690 it's a call to the narrow way. Whatever it is he 01:09:03.290 --> 01:09:07.170 imparts to you when you're having an experience with him, he's 01:09:07.170 --> 01:09:11.250 calling you to a different way of thinking. You can't think like you normally do 01:09:11.250 --> 01:09:15.270 to do the thing he asked you to do. So you're going to end up in the narrow way. 01:09:15.870 --> 01:09:19.310 And we've seen, like looking at the video, I just get so excited, 01:09:19.790 --> 01:09:23.210 but I also have grief. Because 01:09:23.210 --> 01:09:26.850 there's people who have turned totally away from that experience and deny it. 01:09:26.850 --> 01:09:30.890 There are people who knew and they said it. This is what 01:09:30.890 --> 01:09:34.630 God called me to do. And now they're nowhere near what God 01:09:34.630 --> 01:09:38.930 called them to do. And there are those who heard the call 01:09:38.930 --> 01:09:42.950 and are presently doing it. That happens in every form of 01:09:42.950 --> 01:09:46.730 revival and anytime God moves, it's like, oh, I hate the 01:09:46.730 --> 01:09:49.710 sorting part. I don't sort it. It's their own heart. 01:09:50.370 --> 01:09:54.610 Where they sort it out. Then there are people that God's bringing back around. 01:09:54.610 --> 01:09:58.650 It's the craziest thing in the last two years. People have come back around 01:09:58.650 --> 01:10:02.730 and they're like, you know what? I knew that that was God, but I'm so sorry, whatever. 01:10:03.190 --> 01:10:06.530 And I'm like, don't apologize to me. This is whatever he said to you, 01:10:06.670 --> 01:10:09.990 you got to answer to him for whatever was going on there. But yeah, 01:10:10.790 --> 01:10:14.290 yeah, let's go, right? And so just to know 01:10:14.290 --> 01:10:18.610 that that's a process, it's not just a show 01:10:18.610 --> 01:10:21.910 of his power. He shows himself strong 01:10:22.690 --> 01:10:24.590 to restore the generations. Yes. 01:10:25.650 --> 01:10:29.430 That's the whole reason to save your king. There's a purpose. There's always a purpose. 01:10:29.650 --> 01:10:33.850 You get caught up in services somewhere else or whatever, where it's always just like, I don't know, 01:10:34.010 --> 01:10:37.550 a show of power, a show of power. Where's the change? Where's the mandate? Where are we going? 01:10:37.810 --> 01:10:40.550 I'd get out of there. Yeah. I'd get out. 01:10:42.270 --> 01:10:45.750 So at the same time, we have to revisit and say, what is he 01:10:45.750 --> 01:10:49.330 already told me to do that I'm not doing? You've heard us say this so many times. 01:10:50.290 --> 01:10:53.290 And go back and visit that as we go into those 01:10:53.290 --> 01:10:56.530 prayer times for open heavens. What did he already call to you 01:10:56.530 --> 01:11:01.250 to do that you know you're carrying that you've been wrestling with 01:11:01.250 --> 01:11:05.530 and you're not doing it, right? Because you're either missing things 01:11:05.530 --> 01:11:09.370 on the front end or you're missing it now, right? So this is all part of going 01:11:09.370 --> 01:11:13.490 into open heavens. We're receiving how that next thing 01:11:13.490 --> 01:11:17.510 is going to happen this coming year. This is not just to show 01:11:17.510 --> 01:11:21.190 up to see what God's going to do. Is he going to get crazy up in this house? 01:11:22.270 --> 01:11:25.430 It's going to be, Laura, it's sovereign. It's 01:11:25.430 --> 01:11:29.390 so holy. We want to hear from you. And I think it's 01:11:29.390 --> 01:11:32.830 not coincidence that most of the team that are coming in are prophets. 01:11:34.490 --> 01:11:36.530 For the open heaven means. For the open heaven means. 01:11:36.970 --> 01:11:41.330 Most of the team are prophets. And so we better 01:11:41.330 --> 01:11:44.810 come ready for that. Ready for that. We can't predict. 01:11:44.810 --> 01:11:48.730 Nothing like this may happen. But what is going to 01:11:48.730 --> 01:11:52.590 happen, we have to be ready to receive. Amen. So that's what I 01:11:52.590 --> 01:11:57.070 want to pray now. And forgive us, Lord, right up front 01:11:57.070 --> 01:12:00.770 for any wells that we've covered over. Even the wells of 01:12:00.770 --> 01:12:06.840 our ancestors. I have to say this. 01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:08.160 I 01:12:10.860 --> 01:12:14.780 know that my father was persecuted. Not 01:12:14.780 --> 01:12:18.180 for Jesus, but he was picked up for being dark 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:19.880 and part native. 01:12:22.100 --> 01:12:26.960 They called him some pretty wicked stuff as he was growing up. Because it was 01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:30.200 mostly light colors. People around, right? 01:12:32.900 --> 01:12:34.540 And so in that 01:12:34.540 --> 01:12:38.780 I identified with him in that, at school and things. I mean, I was like 01:12:38.780 --> 01:12:42.920 why is this here? What's the deal? Now I'm just telling you about my generations. 01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:46.440 Right? And my dad's a rough man. 01:12:46.860 --> 01:12:50.200 But he's gifted. He has things. 01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:54.180 I have to look back and go, I came from that. Why? 01:12:54.620 --> 01:12:58.820 Why didn't I come from this over here? I came from that. Why? And so the restoration of 01:12:58.820 --> 01:13:02.560 generations, it's so interesting. He's tracked 01:13:03.180 --> 01:13:06.300 where the Blackfoot tribe was. 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:10.420 I've tracked it, you know, Montana and just north of 01:13:10.420 --> 01:13:13.280 Wisconsin, up in Canada, right? 01:13:14.040 --> 01:13:17.860 So, crazy thing. I've always been called to 01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:22.480 minister to native people, First Nation people. I'm like all over 01:13:22.480 --> 01:13:26.240 like white on rice. And I'm not full blood, but 01:13:27.200 --> 01:13:30.620 right? There's something there. So I'm sitting in the sanctuary 01:13:30.620 --> 01:13:34.460 at Chief Cornerstone, a big tall man, big man 01:13:35.740 --> 01:13:38.660 sitting there with his son. And he was telling me about his son 01:13:38.660 --> 01:13:41.840 and I said, 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:45.100 what is your name, sir? And he said it in 01:13:46.940 --> 01:13:49.980 Blackfoot, and he said it is similar to Ojibwe 01:13:50.660 --> 01:13:54.900 and it meant Big Bear, right? And I said, 01:13:54.940 --> 01:13:58.240 what is your last name? He said, well, my last name is Dijareli. 01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:02.580 Well, that just happened to be my grandmother's name. 01:14:05.020 --> 01:14:06.480 Right? That was native 01:14:06.480 --> 01:14:09.580 who lived and he said, we're originally from 01:14:10.760 --> 01:14:13.380 right? And he says the same spot 01:14:15.740 --> 01:14:18.340 and it was like that moment. It was like 01:14:18.340 --> 01:14:21.960 everything slowed down. I felt like his face was talking to me 01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:26.220 in slow motion because it was a God moment where it was like the generations 01:14:26.220 --> 01:14:30.440 have just connected. You see, he'll do that. He'll show you 01:14:30.440 --> 01:14:34.280 that. And that's what he did that day. So 01:14:34.280 --> 01:14:38.120 there is things in your family line that you can't stand 01:14:38.120 --> 01:14:41.980 but God's about to restore and renew and make 01:14:41.980 --> 01:14:45.880 brand new. Some of you never even seen before that 01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:50.380 currently belongs to you. It's in your DNA and you're missing out on it. 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:54.180 He's going to do that throughout open heavens 01:14:54.180 --> 01:14:58.280 and for the times to come we just have to set our faith. So father 01:14:58.280 --> 01:15:01.300 we come before you in the mighty name of Jesus. 01:15:02.060 --> 01:15:05.240 We thank you Lord God. You are 01:15:05.240 --> 01:15:09.120 fire. Amen. We thank you that you are wind that you blow 01:15:09.120 --> 01:15:13.000 through us. And you just go through our soul 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:17.260 and blow out the things that don't belong there. You are fire that you burn 01:15:17.260 --> 01:15:21.140 out all impure thoughts and the intent of our heart would be made 01:15:21.140 --> 01:15:25.160 right when it comes to open heavens and when it comes to just encounters 01:15:25.160 --> 01:15:28.580 with you. That you would bring us to a place where we are made right 01:15:28.580 --> 01:15:32.120 before you with the right intention 01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:35.480 no selfishness, no antichrist 01:15:36.780 --> 01:15:40.680 that will be right in your heart. And Lord that we will be able to forgive 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:44.440 where we came from and receive the good 01:15:44.440 --> 01:15:48.240 that was there. Light it up in us. 01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:52.500 Light up the giftings, light up the scenes, light up the 01:15:52.500 --> 01:15:56.480 purpose of where we came from and where we are presently and where 01:15:56.480 --> 01:16:00.260 we are going. That's what the prophetic does. It shows you big picture. 01:16:02.060 --> 01:16:04.780 Give us the strength to move into detail 01:16:04.780 --> 01:16:06.720 to detail to get to that big picture. 01:16:08.220 --> 01:16:12.640 And anything we're going through now just remember Mary went through it too 01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:16.000 right after her mandate. Mary went through it. 01:16:18.140 --> 01:16:20.420 Thank you Lord God that you are bringing us through 01:16:20.420 --> 01:16:23.780 how when the Holy Spirit comes up on us 01:16:23.780 --> 01:16:27.180 we receive that now in Jesus name.