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00:00 Psalm 133. I'm gonna start with that one guy, Psalm 133, and
00:04 then I'll hit the other ones here and there. Thank you for
00:07 helping me out. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren
00:11 to dwell together in unity. So it's unpleasant if there's
00:17 discord. It's unpleasant if there's discord in a house. It's
00:24 unpleasant if you work in a company where there's a lot of
00:27 discord. It's unpleasant in a church where there's a lot of
00:30 discord. Unpleasant to be on a team where there's a lot of
00:34 discord. But how good and pleasant it is when brethren
00:38 dwell together in unity. Okay? It's like the precious oil upon
00:44 the head running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron. You
00:47 say, "Who in the world is Aaron and what is the oil?" God pulled
00:52 Israel out of Egypt and he used Moses to do that. But you got to
00:56 understand, theologians say that was about 3.5 million people
01:00 living in sand. They had no houses. They had no judicial
01:06 system. They had no emergency system. They had no law system.
01:09 They had no moral code. They didn't know their God. They
01:14 didn't know him. So God gave them 10 commandments to let them
01:17 to know a moral code. Okay, this is a little bit about what I'm
01:21 about. Here's the 10 commandments. Then they start
01:23 setting up Moses being a judge between all the people, this and
01:27 that and other. So then God says, "I want worship. I want
01:30 worship to be established. I want to love on them and I want
01:33 them to love on me." So they needed a priest to lead in
01:36 worship and Aaron was chosen. And when he was anointed, the
01:40 oil run down his head, run down the beard, running to the edge
01:45 of his garment. So what does that mean? In the New Testament
01:49 in our eyes, that's the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
01:52 And that means whatever God is going to do, I'm still in my
01:55 introduction, I'm just reading scripture. Whenever God is going
01:58 to do something, he's going to send it to leadership. And then
02:03 the oil has to flow. Okay? The key is it has to be just the
02:10 same in purity and substance and essence when it hits the edge of
02:14 the garment as it was when it went to the head. Okay? That
02:18 looks good on paper, but ask anybody who runs a corporation
02:20 that's hard to pull off. Very difficult. Still difficult even
02:26 in a church. One thing I can't stand is to be misrepresented.
02:30 That's one thing I teach my staff all the time. This is how
02:35 I treat people. This is how I do things. Have you ever heard me
02:38 holler at anybody? Have you ever heard me smart off anybody? Have
02:42 you ever seen me treat them and know they haven't? Why? Because
02:46 I want the oil of the way I do things to flow all the way down
02:50 to the to the person who just got saved 30 minutes ago.
02:53 That's the edge of the garment. So if God is going to send a
02:57 healing anointing to this church, guess what he's gonna
02:59 do? He's gonna send it to Ron. And then it's not for Ron, it's
03:03 for a flow. And it's supposed to touch everybody under the sound
03:09 of my voice. If God's gonna send a get out of debt anointing,
03:12 guess what, you're gonna have to clap when God gets me out of
03:14 debt. You should want good things to happen to me if this
03:22 is true. Okay? Because when something good happens to me,
03:27 guess what that means? You're next. So anytime anything good
03:32 happens to me, hallelujah, the oil is about to flow. And if
03:35 God's got a freedom anointing, a peace anointing, an out of debt
03:39 anointing, a healing anointing, I don't care what it whatever he
03:42 sends, somebody clap if you know you're next, you're gonna get
03:45 that thing. If God blesses me, you next in line for a blessing.
03:49 If God does something great in my marriage, you're about to
03:52 fall in love with your wife again. Come on somebody,
03:54 whatever it is, you're next. I can tell this is gonna be a good
03:59 one too. Yeah, I can already tell. I was a little worried
04:03 y'all had praised all your energy out but I can tell you
04:05 saved a little something. Running down to the edge of the
04:10 garments. Next verse. It's like the dew of Hermon descending on
04:14 the mountains of Zion. For there, where is there, where the
04:18 brethren dwell together in unity. For there, where? Unity.
04:24 People that are together, people that are unified, thinking the
04:29 same thing, speaking the same thing. That is not a cult. That's
04:33 unity. And they have a purpose and they have a mission. And
04:37 they work at it together. God said there, the Lord commanded
04:41 the blessing. He didn't say I bless them. It's not an action.
04:46 It's a thing. He said, I will put a thing on that group of
04:51 people that know how to function as a united people. Good God
04:57 Almighty. So Lord bless the reading of your word in Jesus
05:00 name and everybody said amen. A lot of a lot of times I don't
05:13 ever want to go back to being where Hope and I were. Hope was
05:20 in a little bit better situation where she was raised in than I
05:23 was. She's still raising Southern small town America. But
05:28 her mom and dad did well for where they were at. We were
05:31 people of very, very modest means and I'm just, I'll leave
05:34 it at that because I hate these stories where everybody tries to
05:36 find out who's the poorest. But there's something that I think
05:46 having great resources sometimes will rob you of. Sometimes when
05:52 you have great resources, it robs you of little
05:55 opportunities to believe God. Some people really wonder like,
06:02 man, you're in your fifties and you're up there and you're
06:04 acting like a kid and you sweat and you jump and you run and
06:08 you're passionate and you cry and you holler and you, and why?
06:11 You know, pastor, does it really take all that? Absolutely. It
06:14 takes all that and it takes more. Why? Because I've seen too
06:18 much and you don't have a book or a theology that can talk me
06:25 out of what I experienced. Your experience will never bow to
06:31 someone else's argument ever. I have seen hoping myself hungry
06:41 in a little beat up rundown, what you would call ghetto home.
06:47 I have seen a little bit of a ghetto home with no heat in the
06:51 winter, not California winters, winter winters with nothing to
06:58 eat and us grab hands in the floor and believe God for
07:02 groceries and go open the front door and there's a bag of
07:05 groceries on the front porch. So I'm sorry, but I'm not going to
07:12 eat it. I'm just going, she's not either. Hallelujah. Do you
07:18 see what I'm talking about? I've seen, we didn't have insurance
07:23 and the bill was so high at the Minute Clinic for all the times
07:27 we didn't pay where my kid was burning up with a fever of 104
07:30 and they wouldn't see him and she brought him back home and we
07:34 had no other, God had to break the fever. We didn't have any
07:40 insurance. No doctor would see us. We had God and sometimes
07:48 it's easier to just pop two Tylenol than to believe God to
07:51 heal your headache.
07:54 Sometimes it's easier to pull out your American Express than
07:58 it is to believe God for the money.
08:03 You're feeling good today. It's not a sin. It's not wrong, but
08:10 just some just robs you sometime of the small
08:12 opportunities to just see God. God loves doing that kind of
08:16 stuff for you. He loves it. God is, you got to understand God
08:20 is a major, major show off and he loves to show you his
08:26 kindness and his goodness and what he can do and so we've had
08:31 experiences that have led us to believe God on a large level
08:36 like we do today. I've said all that to say this. I went over
08:41 these scriptures last week. I'm going to bear down here again.
08:43 It's not because I don't have anything to say. I want to
08:46 connect last week and this week together because it is very
08:49 powerful in its essence. If you can grasp everything that I'm
08:53 trying to put together, a lot of people ask me to say, "Pastor,
08:56 why don't we see miracles and why don't we see signs and
09:01 wonders and see God do all these crazy unexplainable
09:04 things like we see in the Bible, like we see Jesus did,
09:07 like we see in the book of Acts that the early church did and
09:10 we just don't see those things anymore and I agree with you.
09:14 I agree with you. We've made church so corporate and so
09:18 entertainment driven that most church people would not know if
09:22 God's in the building or not. One of the scariest verses in
09:27 the Bible was Samson. Samson kept playing with God and he
09:32 said, "I'll snap these cords as I did before." And then the last
09:35 time it said, "And the glory of God had departed and he didn't
09:38 even know it and he went to pull those cords and they didn't
09:42 break and the glory had left him." He didn't even know the
09:47 glory had left him. I think the glory has left a lot of
09:50 churches, but they got enough lights and smoke. They can keep
09:53 the show going and they don't even know God's not there. You
09:57 know God's in a place because the anointing destroys the yoke
10:00 and removes the burden. If people come here every single
10:03 week and leave the exact same way they came and they don't
10:08 grow and they don't increase and they don't fall in love and
10:11 they're not a little bit freer and they're not a little bit
10:13 wiser and they haven't grown a little bit more, then
10:15 something is bad missing in the church. I've seen signs. I've
10:20 seen wonders. I've seen miracles. I remember my father.
10:23 My father's daddy was just a bunch of, I don't know how to
10:26 say it, just a bunch of drunks. Everybody was 24 hour a day
10:29 drunks. That's what they were. My dad was playing in a rock
10:33 band as a teenager. He got saved while he was playing in
10:36 that rock band. How many of you have ever heard of Ole
10:38 Roberts? You ever heard of Ole Roberts? Ole Roberts took God
10:42 and put him on TV. I mean, he took miracles and put miracles
10:46 right in front of everybody on TV and he was way, way, way,
10:50 way ahead of his time. My dad said, "I got saved." He said, "I
10:55 didn't know really a lot about God or about church because
10:58 everybody in his family was just like heathens." He said, "I
11:02 heard about this Ole Roberts, this guy who had this healing
11:05 ministry. He was coming and doing a crusade." He said, "So I
11:07 went down there and volunteered to help out for the crusade."
11:10 Ole Roberts had this tent that he would bring in semi trucks
11:14 and they held 10,000 people. He had this big tent he would set
11:17 up in these cities that held 10,000 people. He would sit on
11:20 this platform in a chair and sick people would line up for
11:24 hours and one by one they would come and he would pray for them
11:27 and God would do miracles. My dad said, "Well, when I
11:29 volunteered, they stationed me right at the foot of the stage
11:33 right where his chair was." He said, "So I've been saved about
11:36 a week." And he said, "Ole Roberts is sitting right here so
11:41 I could reach up and touch him." He said, "I remember one
11:47 lady walking up with a gorter on her neck so big that it pushed
11:51 her head to the side." He said, "And she walked up to be prayed
11:54 for." He said, "He took his hand and slapped it on her neck." He
11:58 said, "And that tumor fell off her neck and fell right down at
12:01 my feet." He said, "And I looked up at her neck and the flesh
12:05 was closed and it was perfect." And look, nobody went crazy and
12:09 ran laps and everything. Why? Because it was expected. It was
12:16 expected. If it happened to somebody in here, we'd be in
12:21 church seven hours because we'd be rejoicing so much. Why?
12:26 Because it would be so uncommon. But it was expected. Ole
12:31 Roberts didn't sit there and grab the mic and tell everybody
12:33 to praise God. You know what he said? "Next." Next. Because when
12:40 he laid hands on the woman, he expected the tumor to leave by
12:44 the power of God. If Hollywood can talk about the power of
12:50 demons in every movie, can the church not invite the Holy
12:54 Ghost back into the building and say, "Maybe God might want to
12:59 heal, deliver, set free somebody. Maybe you don't need
13:03 to go to counsel in two years. Maybe somebody can touch you
13:06 one time and you'll never do those drugs again." One time.
13:12 There's some anointing so powerful that if they touch you
13:15 one time, you will never be the same. Somebody that believes in
13:19 a church like that, give God five seconds of praise because
13:22 I prophesy not only can it happen, we will be that church.
13:27 Somebody shout hallelujah. High five your neighbor and say,
13:32 "That's us. That's us. That's us."
13:39 Now, the Bible said that Jesus at age 30 was filled with the
13:48 Holy Spirit and he functioned, remember last week, in the Holy
13:53 Spirit without measure. So when you read Matthew, Mark, Luke,
13:59 and John, for those of you that are new to your Christian faith,
14:03 those are the four books of the Bible that chronicle the life
14:05 and the teachings of Jesus. When you read those four
14:10 Bibles, it is nothing but full, chock-full miracles. Going from
14:15 one miracle to the next miracle. Because that's what
14:20 somebody full of the Holy Spirit did.
14:24 The Bible says he went into towns, listen,
14:30 healing all that were sick and afflicted of the devil.
14:36 Every insane asylum, their minds were made right.
14:41 Every person sick, their bodies were made whole.
14:44 Every person that was in any way embodied, they would take people that they
14:49 deemed to be mentally insane or that many times they thought were demon
14:52 possessed, they would exile them to islands and chain them because they
14:56 couldn't control them. And Jesus would leave the crowds and go
14:59 to the alley. And they would cry out when they saw him
15:03 coming. And Jesus would go there and set the
15:07 demoniacs free. And the Bible say, and they would come
15:10 up in their right mind. Good God, hallelujah.
15:14 This was common. Not common in insignificant,
15:22 but it was an expected part of the Holy Spirit filled Jesus without
15:27 measure ministry. Now this gets into the guts of last
15:32 week's teaching. Let me bog down right here. Are we still
15:35 together? Wait.
15:38 The Bible says that we have a measure.
15:43 Okay. That's the problem. We getting in services where there are
15:51 small measures. So we see a little bit done.
15:55 I have a measure. You have a measure. You have a measure. You have a measure. You
16:01 have a measure. You have a measure, but nobody in here has
16:04 the full measure.
16:07 Bible says we have a measure of faith. That's just off top of my head.
16:11 We don't all have the same faith. I told you last week, the analogy of my wife. My
16:15 wife has a great, great measure of faith. She just has the
16:18 ability to believe God. It's really inspirational.
16:21 I tend to struggle because I want to figure it out.
16:25 The Bible doesn't say figure it out. It said all things are possible to him that
16:28 believes. God didn't say to all him that can figure
16:31 out how I'm going to do it. He just said believe him. And she has
16:35 really tapped into that. And I've seen great things come to our family, not
16:39 because of my faith, but because of hers. We have a measure of faith. There's some
16:43 people that can believe God for great things. There's some people that struggle
16:46 to get there because there are measures of faith.
16:48 The Bible says we have measures of talent.
16:53 There is the possibility of equality, but there will never be the
16:57 possibility of being identical. We do not have the same stuff,
17:04 period. We just don't have it. I told Hope, I said, "I wanted to break out in a
17:09 song so bad during that worship." She said, "Why didn't you?" I said, "Because
17:13 I didn't know if my voice would do it."
17:16 I mean, I just wanted to open my mouth wide and just reach for something.
17:21 But the problem is you would have had to endure it to see if I could make it
17:24 happen.
17:27 I don't have Lizzie's measure. To one, he gave five talents. To one, he gave two.
17:33 To one, he gave one. I don't understand why he does it that way.
17:36 And the Bible says this, says he distributes it as he wills.
17:41 That's why I hate it when you go to a motivational speakers conference
17:45 and I got this jet and you can have one too. No, everybody's not going to have a
17:49 jet. It's a lie. I'm going to save you your $10,000.
17:53 It's a lie. Everybody does not have the same stuff.
17:58 Bible says we have measures of grace.
18:01 Has something crushed you? It means you didn't have the grace for it.
18:09 I want to start my own business. Well, okay. Do you have the grace for it?
18:15 It's on his back now. What if they take all of it and throw it on your back?
18:20 Are you graceful? There's things that one person stood under that wiped somebody
18:23 else out, the very same thing, because they had different measures of
18:27 grace. I am.
18:32 Different measures of grace. Well, I want to marry him, Mom. I know he's
18:37 kind of a project. Well, do you have the grace
18:41 for the project? Men go into marriage, women go into marriage saying, "I can
18:47 change him." Men go into marriage, scared to death she's going to change.
18:52 Come to the marriage conference. Hallelujah.
18:58 Different measures of grace. The Bible says we have different measures of gift.
19:05 There's five. I got four of them off the top of my head.
19:08 Measures. I don't have it without measure. I have a limit. In all those areas, I have
19:15 a limit. I try not to ever get out of my grace.
19:19 "Pastor, you need to start another one of these in San Francisco and LA."
19:24 And I'm like, "No, I need to build the one I have now."
19:29 You see what I'm talking about? Why? Can it be done? Possibly.
19:33 But right now, that would be above my grace. My hands are full right now.
19:38 So we have a measure. Now, go to 1 Corinthians 12, and I think it's verse 12.
19:46 1 Corinthians 12, verse 12. "For as the body is one and has many members,
19:55 but all the members of that one body being many are one body, so also is not Jesus,
20:08 but Christ." Don't want to insult your intelligence.
20:13 Remember, I told you Christ is not Jesus' last name. Christ is descriptive of his function.
20:19 He is Jesus the Christ. The Christ means the anointing, which means full of the Holy Spirit.
20:27 He is Jesus, the man that will walk in the earth full of the Holy Spirit of God.
20:34 That is what Jesus Christ is. The man Jesus died, went back to heaven,
20:39 and he sits at the right hand of the Father. Christ, the anointing, never left the earth.
20:44 The anointing is still in the earth. The problem is at one time it sat on the physical body of Jesus,
20:54 and Jesus functioned in the Holy Spirit without measure. And signs, wonders,
20:59 and miracles were every chapter in that Bible. But now it has moved, because Jesus no longer has
21:08 a physical body here. He has his spiritual body. The Bible says, "We are the body of Christ,
21:15 and that body having many members is one body." So just like my body has many members,
21:22 but it makes up the person called Ron, we have many members of the body of Christ,
21:27 but it makes up one body. Herein is why I believe we don't see things we used to see, Ephesians 4.
21:35 Ephesians 4, put that on there if you would. I think it's around verse 11. "And he himself
21:45 gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and some teachers."
21:52 Now, verse 10 before that says, "He who descended," talking about Jesus, "when he died," the Bible
21:59 says, "he descended into the depths of the earth." I preached that last Easter. A lot of stuff took
22:04 place those three days Jesus was dead. And the Bible says, "When he ascended," he descended,
22:11 "and when he ascended, he gave gifts to men." He gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors,
22:16 and teachers. Why? For the equipping of the saints. Saints, somebody say, "That's me."
22:23 That's me. Okay? So there's something God wants to do with his people. He left these five gifts to
22:33 do it. They are for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry. See, that messes with
22:41 us right there. Just that. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I thought we give offerings
22:48 so that we can pay professional ministries who've been to seminaries to do ministry.
22:53 My job is not to do all the ministry. If I did, this church would have 30 people.
22:59 My job is to equip people to understand the power you have and you're not using right now.
23:09 Walking around with dormant gifts on the inside of you that have never been activated.
23:13 You are a walking nuclear power plant and nobody's even told you.
23:18 Nobody's ever laid hands on you. Nobody's ever activated. You got stuff in you that if you made
23:25 a demand on it would come out of you, you wouldn't believe. But you just haven't been around the
23:30 right people. You haven't been around in the room. You haven't heard the right teachers and you
23:34 haven't been in the right environment. And all that can change your life radically.
23:39 Equipping of the saints for the edifying of the body of the anointing.
23:47 Edifying, building an edifice, building a building. It's a bunch of scattered people
23:57 and I gave these five gifts. Why? Because how good and pleasant it is when they dwell together
24:02 in unity and the oil flows. So they're not together right now, so I'm leaving these five
24:08 gifts to build this edifice called the body of the anointing.
24:12 Till we all come to, there it is again, unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God
24:24 to a perfect man. That don't mean without flaws, it means mature. To a mature man, to the measure
24:31 of the stature of the fullness of the anointing. I have a measure, you have a measure,
24:42 but when we come into unity and we become one, we operate in the full measure,
24:52 just like the man Jesus when he walked the earth.
24:57 I took 20 minutes to relay that foundation. Please clap if you got it.
25:02 It's very important that you just got what I said.
25:04 And that right there. And let me tell you how I know God is doing something unifying in this
25:18 room, because I feel the intensity of spiritual pressure going up every time we come in here.
25:25 What is it we are after? When this becomes the body of the anointing,
25:31 there's no one in particular that's got to touch you for anything to happen.
25:34 People can just come sit beside you. I mean, the same anointing on you is on me.
25:44 The same anointing on me is on you. And you say, "Yeah, but man, I deliver mail by eight hours a
25:51 day. I mean, I ain't never been…" It don't have nothing to do with Bible school and cemetery.
25:54 It has to do with being a part of an anointed body of Christ.
26:02 It has something to do with understanding that God can create an atmosphere. That's why this
26:08 praise and worship thing I'm doing the first of the year, when we get the protocols of praise
26:12 down and you understand what's happening, why you think it looks foolish when I tell you what's
26:17 really happening, and when you get the protocols of worship down, and then all of a sudden we
26:21 understand we are the body of Christ, and we get to functioning with the understanding all at the
26:26 same time, and we become mature people, and God has unified us, and then all of a sudden that
26:31 measure starts increasing. All of a sudden, what's going to happen? People are going to come running,
26:37 because you ain't got to touch Ron. You ain't got to come to an altar. Nobody's got to pour
26:41 olive oil on you. All you got to do is get in the room, and your son can be free from drug addiction.
26:48 Get in the room, and the tumor will shrink. Get in the room, and the marriage can be restored.
26:54 Get in the room, and everybody lost will get saved. Now, you may not believe that there can
26:59 be a church like that, but I am here because I believe God has called us to be a church like
27:06 that, where people say, "All I gotta do, if I could just get there. I know we're going to drive five
27:11 hours, but honey, if I could just get you there, you can pull those things out your nose, and get
27:16 that stuff out of your vein, and God will heal your body." If you have the faith to believe God can do
27:22 it right here with us, somebody take five seconds and shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. One more time,
27:31 shout hallelujah. Tell them again, say, "That's us." Say it another, "That's us."
27:38 Hey. Hey.
27:45 Don't you do that.
27:58 Hey. Thank you, Lord. Let the full measure begin. Let the full measure begin. You want to praise
28:13 them? Come on. Hey. Just give them a praise. I know you got one in you. Give them some glory.
28:21 You got to get it out quick. I got to hurry. Come on! Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him. Look at me. Praise Him. Four, three, two, one!
28:44 Y'all got to stand up. I got the finish. I got the finish. Now, alright. I was going
29:06 to use my little dry erase board. We got it all shined up. But I'm not. I just need
29:12 you to follow me. Jesus, the anointing without measure, the body of Christ collectively,
29:25 the fullness of His measure. So you now have the anointing on Jesus. You have the corporate
29:32 anointing. The corporate anointing has two arms. Revelation 1, please. Verse 5 and 6.
29:46 Revelation 1. Revelation is not a book. I don't preach from it a lot because you can
29:58 spend your whole life trying to learn this one book. And I'm not an end time specialist.
30:06 But Revelation is not a book. It was a vision. John said he was called into the third heaven.
30:12 There are three heavens. The third one is the abode of God. He said he was called up
30:15 and then he said, "Write down what you see." So Revelation is a vision and John wrote it
30:21 down. From Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler over
30:28 all the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own
30:33 blood and has made us kings and priests. Jesus, the anointing without measure, the corporate
30:48 anointing, the fullness of that measure, the kingly and the priestly anointing. I'll land
31:00 this plane in just a second. John the Baptist and Jesus were connected in ministry. They
31:17 were even connected at birth. They were cousins. When Mary and Joseph left in fear for the
31:25 child's life in her womb, she went to see Elizabeth who was carrying John the Baptist,
31:32 who would be Jesus's cousin. And I love this. I might preach it during Christmas. And the
31:37 Bible says when Mary and Elizabeth came within distance of each other, their babies leapt
31:43 in their wombs. I want to be around people that make my baby jump. If you can't make
31:53 my baby jump, I'm going to get in another room. Okay. John the Baptist, now we flip
32:07 to 30 years old. He is the man. He's a little on the wild side. He lives out in the wilderness.
32:13 The Bible says he eats locusts and wild honey. I wouldn't want that diet. But the Bible said
32:19 people would run to hear him. The magnitude of the way God was using him was so powerful,
32:25 people did whatever they had to get around him. But he would often say, "I'm not the
32:33 one. I'm predicting the one. I'm prophesying the one." He said, "There's one coming after
32:39 me, the thongs of his sandals I am not worthy to untie." And then when Jesus came, he pointed
32:47 him out and said, "Behold, look, don't look, quit looking at me, look at him, the lamb
32:51 that takes away the sins of the world. He must increase, I must decrease." Okay. John
33:03 the Baptist was raised in the home of a priest. Okay. What did John the Baptist do? He couldn't
33:14 bring the revival. All he could say, "It's coming. It's coming. Get ready. Repent. The
33:21 kingdom is at hand. Prepare yourself. Prepare the way." That's all he could do. Because
33:28 that is the priestly anointing. I carry a priestly anointing. Some of you may think,
33:34 "Man, we need some more guys like Ron Carpenter right here and really bring revival to California
33:39 and really bring revival to this coast and really bring revival to the Southern region
33:43 and really bring..." You got it all backwards. All I can do is say, "It's coming." That's
33:51 all I can do. Jesus was not raised in the home of a preacher. Jesus was raised in the
33:58 home of a businessman. Jesus didn't work in church. Jesus worked in the marketplace. John
34:14 the Baptist said, "It's coming." Jesus brought it. The priestly announces, the kingly brings
34:25 it. You have it all wrong who's the really powerful one in this building. I'm anointed
34:39 to say, "It's coming." You're anointed to bring it. You're anointed to bring it. Somebody
34:52 that knows you're anointed to bring it, clap louder. You are anointed to bring it. You
34:58 have a kingly anointing. The corporate anointing is made up of kings and priests. I am a priest
35:06 and I prophesy, "It's coming, it's coming, it's coming." But I got to have some people
35:10 that when you walk out that back door, you believe, "I'm going to bring it back in here
35:14 with me." Shout amen, amen, and amen. I'm trying to finish. I know the game started.
35:26 I'm doing my best y'all, I really am. Pastor, what am I bringing? Three things. There is
35:46 supposed to be a transfer in the earth before the second return of Christ. All of the people
35:54 who study prophetic literature, they look at what's going on in the world. I look at
35:58 what's going on in the church. And there are things that have to happen in the church before
36:04 Jesus returns. That's why I do not believe he's coming back tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
36:17 The first thing is there has to be a transfer of systems. Revelation 1 please. Or maybe
36:25 it's the other revelation. Hit it guys, whichever one it is y'all. Revelation 11, I'm sorry.
36:33 The seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven saying, "The kingdoms of
36:37 this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord," that's Jesus, "and of his Christ, his
36:45 anointed." Who is that now? The kingdoms of this world have shifted and are now under
36:56 the dominion of the Lord and his people. Remember I told you way back, there's a difference
37:05 between the earth and the world. The earth is a planet, the world is systems. There has
37:14 to be a shift in the governance of the system. That's what you bring. I can't do it. Well,
37:24 Ron won't you run for governor? I don't want to. You do it.
37:34 Proverbs 13, throw that up there guys if you can. "A good man leaves an inheritance to
37:39 the children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous." Those of
37:50 you that don't like being generous, you're going to have a lid on your life because God
37:57 has anointed you to go out there and make a wealth transfer and put it in your hands.
38:06 In fact, he said in James chapter one, "Don't worry about the wealth increasing with the
38:13 sinners." He said, "I'm letting them heap it up just so it is transferred into the hands
38:18 of the righteous." Somebody ought to be throwing chairs and running around this building right
38:22 now. I can't bring that. Then the third one of course is people. From the corporate anointing,
38:40 there's a kingly and a priestly. I announce what God wants to do and you're anointed to
38:46 do it. Folks, play something if you would. Is it really? Is it all right? Play something.
39:00 The Bible says, I'll tell you what, go ahead and stand up with me. Go ahead and stand up.
39:03 I'm going to get you out of here. If you can give me 90 more seconds. The Bible says that
39:18 in the fullness of time, Jesus was born. We're coming up on that season. That word fullness
39:23 of time means a strategic time. Jesus was born at just the right time. If you study
39:30 history, there's been many empires. Jesus was born specifically during the Roman Empire.
39:38 Because the Roman Empire was the greatest physical demonstration of what his kingdom
39:43 would operate like. That's why the Roman centurion called on the fastest. He said, "Oh, I know
39:50 what's going on here. You ain't got to come to my house. Just speak a word." He looked
39:54 at the Roman centurion and looked at us. He said, "I ain't seen faith like this in none
39:58 of y'all." He called on to it fast because of their similarities. Caesar, the emperor
40:07 of Rome, had a meeting of all the governors once a year. Remember Pontius Pilate? He was
40:15 a governor. Those are regional magistrates. One time a year, all of the regional magistrates
40:22 and governors had to come to a meeting called by Caesar in Rome. Do you know what that meeting
40:28 was called? It was called this in the Greek, ecclesia. Do you know what the Greek word
40:35 for ecclesia is? Church. He had a meeting of all of his rulers and called it church.
40:51 Because church is and is always supposed to have been a gathering of rulers. That's why
41:03 Jesus is the king of kings. There's many kings, but he's the king of all the kings. Hallelujah.
41:19 May the Lord bless you and keep you and make his face shine upon you. May he establish
41:23 you and give you peace and give you the greatest week you've ever had. God bless you. Enjoy
41:27 your day. Thank you for being patient with me. We'll see you next week.
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