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00:00Locate verse 8, Genesis 6, 8, and when you have it, say, I have it.
00:12Oh, y'all don't have it today, huh?
00:17Normally you have it before I tell you what it is.
00:23Genesis 6, 8, are you there?
00:27We're talking about this age of grace that we are living in.
00:35Paul said that the dispensation of grace has been given to him, meaning the administration
00:41of grace, the responsibility of sharing the message of grace with the Gentiles primarily,
00:49but all who would come into the flock of Christ, all who would come into the knowledge of our
00:55Savior and Lord, the administration, the responsibility of dispensing the message of
01:03grace, Paul says, was given to him.
01:09And grace is what we are under.
01:11Grace is what we live under.
01:13Remember, grace isn't about anything we've done.
01:17Grace is all about what God has done.
01:21And we respond to what God has done with our faith.
01:26Faith is our part.
01:27Faith is our responsibility.
01:29Grace is God's part.
01:31It's what He's already done.
01:33Because in God, everything that we need in this life that pertains to life and godliness
01:37has been made available to us.
01:39We just have to access it.
01:41Well, pastor, I can't see it.
01:47Exactly.
01:49By faith, we receive, we believe, until it manifests in this realm in which we can see,
01:58and then we have.
02:00And then it's on to the next thing.
02:04So we're not under law, we are under grace, but in the very beginning, we actually got
02:10a picture of this thing.
02:12We got an image of, of what it means to find grace in the eyes of our God, of our Father.
02:21And that's with a man by the name of Noah.
02:23This is, this is before even the law was given.
02:27This is, this is pre-flood.
02:30And here in Genesis chapter six, verse eight, it simply reads like this, and we know everything
02:37that's led up to this point.
02:40Sons of God and to the daughters of men, giants on the earth, nothing but wickedness, lawlessness.
02:47Every intent of the heart of man was only evil continually.
02:52God's made the decision, now I'm gonna send floodwaters on the earth to destroy all flesh.
03:00And in addition to that, to cleanse, because water is symbolic of cleansing and purifying.
03:08But here in verse eight, it says, but Noah found what?
03:10Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
03:14Noah found grace.
03:16This isn't the dispensation of grace, this isn't the New Testament, the new covenant,
03:22and yet Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
03:27Oh, thank God through Jesus, we have all found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
03:35Remember what grace is and what grace deals with.
03:38Grace is when you get what you don't deserve.
03:41You didn't deserve it, but you got it.
03:45And our God is a mighty God, he's a God of justice, and he's a God of mercy, but thank
03:50God for his grace.
03:56Justice is when you get what you deserve.
04:00And there are times for justice, but also that law of justice means you gonna get what
04:07you deserve.
04:11And what you deserve may not be comfortable, it may not be nice, it may not be good in
04:17your sight.
04:20And mercy, when we don't get what we do deserve, punishment or consequences were due me because
04:28of his mercy.
04:30But the grace of God, when you get what you don't deserve.
04:32We didn't by nature deserve salvation, but thank God for his grace.
04:38God would not see that the whole of his creation would be lost as a result of one man's sin,
04:44trespass and disobedience.
04:47So thank God for the last Adam, for his obedience.
04:50Thank God everywhere the first Adam failed, the last Adam would succeed.
04:55And that would position us and all who would follow.
04:58If we would believe on him, we could enter into the grace of God.
05:02We have found grace in the eyes of the Lord through our Savior, Jesus Christ.
05:09Go to Zechariah chapter 12 and find verse 10, Zechariah chapter 12, find verse 10.
05:23Pause and effect here, and yet we get another preview of this grace.
05:29Y'all know where Zechariah is, right?
05:38Should I start putting a table of contents on the screen?
05:44You all know where Malachi is?
05:46Yeah, that's easy.
05:47That's the last of the old.
05:50Right before Malachi, we have the prophet, Zechariah.
05:58You all are hilarious.
05:59Chapter 12, Zechariah 12, and we're going to find verse 10, and we're going to read
06:12through verse 14, Zechariah 12, 10, which says, and I will pour on the house of David
06:23and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the house of David, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, okay,
06:29Israel, I'll pour on them what the Spirit, that sounds like the Holy Spirit to me, the
06:40Spirit of grace and supplication.
06:45What is supplication?
06:47Supplication is, it can mean fervent, earnest prayer.
06:55Supplication can be for you or for someone else.
07:00I can go to God in supplication and thank Him for favor on my loved ones.
07:09That's supplication.
07:10It says, the Spirit of grace and supplication, then they will look on me whom they pierced.
07:15Oh, this sounds prophetic, doesn't it?
07:18Whom they pierce?
07:19Sound like anyone you know?
07:22It says, yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son and grieve for Him
07:28as one grieves for a firstborn.
07:33This is in that day, there shall be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning
07:38at Hadad Ramon in the plain of Megiddo.
07:42And the land shall mourn every family by itself, the family of the house of David by itself,
07:47and their wives by themselves, the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their
07:51wives by themselves, the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves,
07:57the family of Shammai by itself.
08:00You all get this.
08:01This is Israel, and their wives by themselves.
08:05All the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
08:10This is the prophet of God under the old covenant, privileged by the Spirit of God to prophesy
08:18about the coming Messiah, and to also see the Spirit of grace poured out on the house
08:24of David, the Spirit of grace.
08:30These previews tell me God's always been a God of grace.
08:36But see, sin required some things.
08:38It wasn't the desire of God, but it happened to be the requirement of God.
08:43Because of sin, sacrifice was required.
08:48Certain things were required for the atonement of sin until the sacrifice, the final offering
08:54was offered.
08:56Okay, look at John.
08:59Go to John's gospel account.
09:07The gospel according to John, find chapter 19, look at verse 37, and let's see if what
09:24we read here sounds like something we've already read.
09:291937, if you still have that 10th verse of Zechariah chapter 12 in your mind, if it's
09:38still fresh, or you can take a quick look back, notice here in verse 37 it says, and
09:43again another scripture says what, they shall look on him whom they pierced.
09:51And we know Jesus was, he was pierced.
09:54He was wounded and bruised for our transgressions and our iniquities.
10:00He was pierced for you and I.
10:04He died, he was crucified, he was flogged, he was shamed for you and I.
10:11He was shamed so that we wouldn't have to live in shame.
10:17You know, shame is something that for a believer, for certain, is a sign of our salvation that
10:24when shame comes as a result of a misdeed or a wrongdoing, we feel shame.
10:33And that's good in the sense that it tells us that something is going against our new
10:37nature.
10:38But shame is not where we should remain.
10:45Shame on you should not be the mantra of our life.
10:51Because shame is the idea that you are something wrong.
10:57Guilt comes, the idea that you did something wrong.
11:00Guilt should come, shame should come when we go against our new nature, but we should
11:04not remain in guilt, we should not remain in shame.
11:09Jesus took all the shame, really took our guilt upon himself as well.
11:15So we shouldn't be living under any of that for any length of time.
11:21There's liberty in Jesus, there's liberty in Christ.
11:25Exodus 33, take a look at Exodus 33.
11:35Chapter 12, Exodus, I mean, chapter 33 verse 12, Exodus 33 and 5 verse 12.
11:55All right, here we go.
11:58Exodus 33, 12, it says, then Moses said to the Lord, the leader of the children of Israel,
12:05Moses said to the Lord, see, you say to me, bring up these people, but you have not let
12:14me know whom you will send with me, yet you have said, I know you by name.
12:20First let's stop there for a second.
12:23God knows you by name.
12:24And think about it, God's got a lot in his mind.
12:31And as much as he, you think about it, some of us, we, maybe this should help us, some
12:38of us with our complaining.
12:43We think about all that we have to do and how taxing life is, and let's just call a
12:48spade a spade.
12:49Life is taxing and fatiguing.
12:51That's why it's important to take breaks and vacations and rest and get away from it all
12:57for a moment.
12:58But, but, but think about all that we have going on in our mind at one time and all that
13:04we have to take care of and all that we have to sustain.
13:09But let me ask you a question.
13:10Do you have a universe to sustain without a part of your, your, your, your daily MO,
13:17a universe and solar systems and stars and galaxies?
13:24And God's sustaining all of that and not forgetting one of our names.
13:32God is focused on all of that and focused on me at the same time.
13:38God knows Fred by name.
13:41And he knows you by name.
13:44Again, Moses said to the Lord, you say to me, bring up this people, but you have not
13:50let me know whom you will send with me, yet you have said, I know you by name and you
13:55also found what?
13:57Grace in my sight.
14:01And listen to me, the grace that Noah found and the grace that Moses found in his sight,
14:11for us, it's better on this side of the cross.
14:16Verse 13, it says, now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in your sight, show
14:21me now your way that I may know you and that I may find grace in your sight and consider
14:29that this nation is your people.
14:33Okay, now, for the sake of our reading, I want us to consider that there is never a
14:46reason for us as Spirit-filled New Covenant believers to cast any kind of doubt.
14:55I'm not saying that that's what Moses specifically was doing, but there's never a time in which
15:01we need to cast doubt on whether or not we found grace in the sight of the Lord.
15:07Matter of fact, there's never a time that we need to cast doubt regarding anything God's
15:14already given us.
15:17If it's been given, it's been given.
15:20It's not a matter of if.
15:23Remember when Peter was on the water, he was, he was, he was, he was in the boat with the
15:28disciples and he said, he said, he said, Lord, if it's you, now, now, wait a minute,
15:33the Lord already told him it was him.
15:37Now there's two ways you could look at it.
15:39You could say Peter was doubting, or, or, or Peter was, but see, even if we look at
15:46it the other way, it's still a smidgen of doubt.
15:49Well, if it's you, bid me to come to you.
15:54Oh, maybe, maybe, maybe because, you know, they thought it was a phantom.
15:57So maybe Peter was testing the spirits to, to, to make sure, but see a counterfeit spirit
16:06would still bid you to come to him.
16:09There is a, there is a comfort.
16:11There is a, you, you listen, when you've been walking with the Lord long enough, you know
16:15how to make a distinction between the presence of the Lord and the presence of the adversary.
16:19You know the difference between the two.
16:22There's a peace.
16:23There's a comfort.
16:25There's a calming that comes with the presence of the Lord.
16:30So the moment Jesus on the water said, it's me, that should have been enough.
16:36It's him.
16:39Moses says what?
16:40Look at the latter part of verse 12 again.
16:43You have not let me know whom you will send with me, yet you have said, how many of you
16:47know that if God has said it, it's settled, it's fixed, it's unchangeable.
16:54So Moses has already said here what?
16:57You said that I found grace in your sight.
17:01You said it.
17:03But then in verse 13, he says what?
17:05Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in your sight, now there's nothing wrong with
17:09that, because Moses is saying, okay, if what you're saying is true, then, what does he
17:14say after that?
17:16Show me your way that I may know you and that I may find, Moses, you already found
17:20grace in his sight.
17:25But I somewhat get it.
17:27This is the Old Testament, and they lived externally.
17:30They lived by the external and not the internal.
17:33See, the law was all about the external things that needed to be done to be righteous before
17:38God.
17:40Under the New Testament, it's about the internal, which has changed when I believe on the Savior.
17:45He says, I consider that this nation is your people.
17:51Okay, on behalf of Israel, verse 14, and he said, my presence will go with you, and I'll
17:57give you rest.
17:58Verse 15, then he said to him, if your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from
18:05here.
18:07That another if?
18:11For how then will it be known that your people and I have found grace in your sight, except
18:16you go with us?
18:18See, again, when I'm reading this, I have a different set of glasses on.
18:22I have New Testament lenses on.
18:27So when I read this, again, it's never about if.
18:30And I don't need a sign that tells me he's with me.
18:35His word says he's with me.
18:38If I get a sign, great.
18:40That's just more confirmation, but he said he's with me.
18:45Again, if his word says it, that's him saying it, and it's a settled thing.
18:53Verse 15 again, then he said to him, if your presence does not go with us, do not bring
18:56us up from here.
18:57For how then will it be known that your people and I have found grace in your sight, except
19:01you go with us?
19:03So we shall be separate, your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face
19:06of the earth.
19:09So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you have spoken, for you have
19:13found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.
19:22Now he's interceding on behalf of the people, again, and this is the Old Testament, again,
19:27and everything is on the outside.
19:28It is external, again, but because of that external relationship, what they were privileged
19:39to see, and you would think that would be enough.
19:42I mean, the God who parted the Red Sea, that's all I would need to see.
19:49I would never have to question God ever again.
19:58Verse 18, and he said, please show me your glory.
20:01Then he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name
20:08of the Lord before you.
20:10I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will
20:15have compassion.
20:16I like that first part of that 19th verse, I'll make all my goodness pass before you.
20:24It sounds to me like that then I'm surrounded by goodness.
20:29The reason why I'm surrounded by goodness is because here, God's telling Moses, I'll
20:34make my goodness pass before you, and it was the psalmist who said goodness and mercy will
20:38follow me all the days of my life.
20:42So I got goodness passing me, and I got goodness following me.
20:49Verse 20, he said, but you can't see my face, why?
20:54And I'm going to show you all the privilege that we now have under this dispensation of
20:59grace.
21:00So what he says here, he says, he said, you can't see my face for no man shall see me
21:05and live.
21:08How come no man during this time, how come no man could look at the face of God and live?
21:15Well, they were robed in sin, and God is holy.
21:23Sin cannot stare holiness in the face.
21:28So he says, you can't see my face because no man who looks at me will live.
21:36But wait a minute, let me show you how active Christ was in the old covenant, and how active
21:43even the grace of God was.
21:46Now this is Exodus 33.
21:50If you were to go back, we won't actually go there, but if you were to go back 30 chapters
21:55to Exodus chapter three, you may recall an account of a burning bush that was not consumed
22:01by the flame.
22:05And what's interesting about this, the first six verses, let me start with the sixth verse.
22:12The sixth verse is where, is where God says, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
22:23God tells Moses what?
22:24God tells Moses, he says, take, take your sandals off your feet because where you stand
22:29is what?
22:30Is holy, is holy ground.
22:34As a matter of fact, right before that, or after Moses hears that this is the God of
22:43Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob speaking, Moses hides his face.
22:48Why does Moses hide his face?
22:50Because Moses knows that no man can see the face of God and live.
22:55But wait a minute, wait a minute.
22:57The scripture tells us, the scripture tells us in the first two verses, that from the
23:02midst of the fiery bush that was not consumed by the flame was the angel of the Lord.
23:10And Moses was looking at the bush.
23:14He was looking at it.
23:16The angel of the Lord then begins to speak, except when the angel of the Lord speaks,
23:21it's God speaking.
23:22Now, now we know that no angel can speak as if they are God.
23:29Angels are messengers, so they speak on behalf of God.
23:33But in the Old Testament, in certain accounts, we have this, this angel of the Lord.
23:41If you have a New King James version, you'll, you'll often see the, the, the A is a, is
23:46a capital A. And it is distinctly different from another angel of the Lord that we encounter
23:52in the Old Covenant, in which the A is lowercase.
23:55Now what would be the difference between the two?
23:57Well, all you have to do is look at the, the, the behavior.
24:00Look, look at, look at the, the, the, the nature of both of these angels of the Lord.
24:07Lowercase A normally doesn't say anything.
24:11May deliver a message or may do a work.
24:13One of the best examples that we have is 2 Kings chapter 19, verse 35.
24:17It says the angel of the Lord.
24:19What did the angel of the Lord do?
24:21The angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers.
24:27Didn't say a word, just killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers.
24:34And the scripture reads, it was the angel of the Lord that did it.
24:36Yet we also read in Exodus chapter 3, verse 1 and 2, that it was the angel of the Lord
24:41in the midst of the bush, in which the bush was burning, but it was not consumed by the
24:47fire.
24:50And from the bush, the angel of the Lord speaks.
24:55And it's the angel of the Lord who says, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25:02Now, now either we have a problem here or this angel is a very unique angel.
25:12Either we have a problem and God has another angel trying to rebel, making themselves God,
25:20or this angel had the authority to speak as if he was God because he was God.
25:31Who was this angel of the Lord?
25:34Pre-incarnate Christ, Christ before the gospel accounts, Christ before the womb of Mary.
25:41Remember, the logos has always been here.
25:44In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God, and if the
25:50word was God, then the word is God.
25:52Okay, well what was the word doing up until the womb of Mary?
25:58Absolutely nothing, absolutely not.
26:02The logos, Christ in eternity past, was very active.
26:07As a matter of fact, we know he was very active because he's the word of God.
26:12And so, and so, in this bush is the voice of the angel of the Lord.
26:19And Moses was looking at this bush, but then hides his face when the voice says what?
26:25I am the God of, but wait a minute, Moses, you are actually already looking at the face
26:28of God.
26:30And you didn't die.
26:31So how is it then that you could look at the bush in which a voice said, I am the God of
26:36Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you hide your face after you already looked, which means
26:40you should have already been dead, yet you didn't die.
26:44But here I'm reading God saying, you cannot see my face for no man shall see me and live.
26:49Now it's time to get into the specifics of this concept that we call the Trinity.
26:56Many of us believe in the Trinity.
27:00Not too many can explain the Trinity.
27:04There are aspects of the Trinity that no one can explain.
27:07You just can't explain it.
27:09It just is.
27:11You can't try and figure it out.
27:14You can't try to process with your finite mind how three are one.
27:20But because we see it in scripture, we can see different functionality.
27:25Here's what the father does.
27:27Here's what the son does.
27:29Here's what the spirit does.
27:30Let me give you a couple of examples.
27:34For example, Jesus was very clear.
27:36He said, you'll go to the father in my name.
27:40So when I'm praying, for example, I'm praying to the father in the name of the son.
27:48You technically don't see anywhere in scripture where anyone is praying to the son.
27:54But the son is God, isn't he?
27:57We're talking about function.
28:01You have to know the difference between function.
28:05You got to know the difference between function and identification.
28:08You got to know the difference between function and oneness.
28:11They are one, but they serve different functions.
28:13The father or the spirit did not die on the cross.
28:18But wasn't that God on the cross?
28:22How do we explain it?
28:23Ultimately, we can't.
28:25But we accept it by faith and try to gain the best understanding we can of their functionality.
28:33So I go to the father in the name of the son.
28:40Jesus said, the words that I speak are my father's words.
28:47But he also said, when the spirit of God comes, he will bring to your remembrance my words.
28:54So look at how the Holy Spirit speaks the words of the son, and the son speaks the words
28:59of the father, which means the spirit is speaking the words of the father.
29:05But there's function.
29:08We who are charismatic individuals, we believe in being filled with the spirit.
29:12We see that as a separate spiritual transaction than being saved.
29:16We understand that when we're saved, we're born of the spirit.
29:19But we know that there is more of the spirit for us in the earth realm.
29:23We understand that we must be filled with the spirit in order to be a witness.
29:28We see that in Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through 4.
29:32We see that in Acts chapter 1, verse 8, where Jesus said, you will receive power when the
29:38spirit of God has come upon you.
29:40Why not, wait a minute, I'm going to receive power when the spirit has come upon me?
29:44I thought I already had power.
29:46You did have power when you got born again.
29:48You got authority.
29:50But when you get filled with the spirit, you get ability.
29:53You need both to live this kingdom life.
29:57You don't need to be filled with the spirit to be saved, but you need to be filled with
30:00the spirit to preach the gospel.
30:04Can you preach the gospel without being filled?
30:06Sure you can.
30:07You have the ability to do it, but it's technically unauthorized.
30:14Because the church, those who walked with Jesus, the Jerusalem saints who saw more of
30:19Jesus than any one of us in the earth today, those individuals were told by Jesus not to
30:26go forth until the spirit of God came upon them and filled them.
30:35So there are different functions.
30:39The spirit of God right now is on the inside of us here in the earth realm.
30:43Jesus is in heaven at the right hand of the Father.
30:46Both are making intercession for us, the Bible tells us.
30:49The Holy Spirit here, the Son of God in heaven.
30:55So again, it's important to understand functionality, but also equally important to understand that
31:04Father, Son, and Spirit are God.
31:08Our God is one who has chosen, because he's God, to manifest himself in three persons.
31:16So there are three persons that make up the God who is one that we serve.
31:21Again, it's an essential part of the faith.
31:25It comes with believing in God.
31:28You don't have to understand it because you can't really in the first place.
31:34Now watch this, watch this.
31:37God tells Moses, any man that sees me is a dead man.
31:43But again, Moses was looking at the bush not consumed by the fire.
31:50And when he heard the voice from that bush, which the scripture identified as the angel
31:57of the Lord, and yet it was the angel of the Lord saying, I am the God.
32:02Wait a minute, angels aren't gods.
32:05So how can this angel of the Lord be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
32:10And when Moses hears this, he turns his face.
32:13Why?
32:14Because he doesn't want to die.
32:16But wait, Moses, you are already looking.
32:18Why didn't you die?
32:21And it's very simple.
32:23We get the answer from Jesus in the gospel account of John, in which Jesus makes a very
32:30powerful statement.
32:31He says, if you've seen me, you've seen the father.
32:36So when I look at the son, I see the father.
32:41Well, guess what?
32:43Saints, sinners are supposed to be able to look at you and see the father.
32:49You want to know how I know that?
32:51Here's how I know that.
32:52Hebrews chapter one, verses one through four tells us this, that Jesus is the express image
32:59of the person of God.
33:02He's the express image of the person of God.
33:05Meaning what?
33:06Jesus is the perfect image of father God.
33:10Now we know image is very important in scripture because in the very beginning, God said, let
33:15us what?
33:16Make man in our image according to our likeness.
33:21What did sin do to the image of God in the earth realm?
33:25It scarred it.
33:27It marred it.
33:30It desecrated the image of God in the earth realm because man became robed in sin.
33:38And how can sin be the image of God?
33:41So the image of God was, it was, it was, it was ruined.
33:47It wasn't done away with, but it was ruined.
33:49Okay.
33:50Wait a minute now.
33:51Hebrews says Jesus is the express image of the person of God and, and, and Colossians
33:57one 13 or one seven through through 16 tells us that, that, that Jesus is the image of
34:05the invisible God.
34:08So if I see Jesus, I see God.
34:11Well, well, when you and I got born again, the Bible tells us in Romans 8 29 that we've
34:17been conformed to the image of the sun.
34:20So if Jesus is the express image of God and I've been conformed to the image of the son,
34:26who do I look like?
34:28I look like the father because I've been conformed to the express image of God.
34:33I've been conformed to the perfect image of God.
34:36That is the son.
34:37So that's why Jesus could say, if you've seen me, you've seen the father.
34:41And that's how Moses could look at a bush, hear the voice of God, but see the son and
34:48still live, still have breath in his body.
34:52The technical term is called a, it's a theophany, a Theo or Theo in the first part of that word.
35:00That's the Greek word for God.
35:02What's the theophany?
35:03It's a divine manifestation of God to man.
35:06So what's Jesus, a Christophany, a divine manifestation of Christ to man.
35:11That's what Moses saw.
35:13But here in Exodus 33 20, we know this is God.
35:17How do we know it?
35:18Let's keep reading.
35:19Verse 20, but he said, you cannot see my face for no man shall see me and live.
35:24And the Lord said, here is a place by me.
35:27You shall stand on the rock.
35:28So it shall be while my glory passes that I'll put you in the cleft of the rock and
35:33I'll cover you with my hand while I pass by.
35:38Then I will take away my hand and you shall what?
35:41See my back, but my face shall not be seen.
35:46This appears to be God, the father in the earth.
35:51And where were they?
35:53Were they on the mountain top?
35:58Moses spent so much time with God on the mountain that it changed his physical makeup.
36:07It changed his physical makeup.
36:11One of the mysteries of the Bible that I'm still baffled by, but every time I study it,
36:16I get kind of an excitement.
36:18I try to picture it.
36:19I try to imagine it.
36:21Anything about the word that I can't figure out just causes me to be in awe of God that
36:27much more.
36:30Like just when I think I have something figured out, here comes something else that befuddles
36:36me, but I'm so intrigued by the confusion.
36:42In other words, God, how, God, why, God, when?
36:49I ask these questions all the time and I look at a man like Moses.
36:52Just think about it.
36:53Use a little common sense.
36:54If you spent as much time on the top of the mountain where the glory of God was as Moses
37:00did, don't you think that glory would get in his cellular makeup?
37:06I mean, isn't it a fact that if we're exposed to high amounts or a high concentration of
37:15radiation, not necessarily even for a long period of time, but just imagine if it was
37:20for a long period of time.
37:22I mean, can't we get radiation poisoning from that?
37:25I mean, aren't there things that if we expose ourselves to for a long time, it can affect
37:30our physical body.
37:32Well, what happens if you get infected with the glory of God?
37:36What happens if you are in the presence of God for so long and we know it to be true?
37:43Why?
37:44Because when Moses would come down the mountain, he'd have to put a veil on his face because
37:49the children of Israel couldn't look.
37:54In addition to that, when he died, the Bible says he didn't look like a dead man.
38:00He still had vigor in his face.
38:03He didn't look old and dilapidated.
38:06Matter of fact, Moses, whose cellular makeup was so affected by the glory of God, had to
38:14be buried by God himself.
38:19Read Deuteronomy 34 and you'll see there was no man or no family member or no Israelite
38:24that buried Moses.
38:26God did because of the glory that had completely affected him on an atomic level.
38:43But here, in this 20th verse through 23, we're seeing God in the earth, says, you can't see
38:49my face.
38:50You can only see my back parts.
38:53And then here's what's amazing.
38:55This is how I have, when I used to debate all the time on social media with idiots,
39:00when I used to do it all the time, and then I realized I'm the idiot for continuing to
39:05do this, but when I used to do it, oh my, I mean, listen, I debated people in the faith,
39:14other orientations.
39:15I debated agnostics, atheists, Muslims on Twitter.
39:18How are you going to debate somebody with 140 characters?
39:20How does that even work?
39:24That's all you got at your disposal.
39:27And when you want to make a point, you got to send 17 tweets to make your point.
39:31And y'all know how wordy I am when it comes to the word.
39:33So imagine how many tweets I would use just to drive one point home.
39:40And I remember someone trying to call out the contradictions of the Bible.
39:43Your Bible says that no man can look at God in his face and live, and yet your same Bible
39:49says the Lord spoke to so-and-so face-to-face.
39:52Well, on the surface, that could sound like a contradiction, but when you understand that
39:57if you've seen the Son, you've seen the Father, that means whenever someone spoke to the Lord
40:01face-to-face, they spoke to the Lord Jesus.
40:13Now someone that doesn't subscribe to what you and I subscribe to and who doesn't have
40:20the faith that we have, they're not going to understand that.
40:23But now watch this.
40:25This is old covenant.
40:28We live under the new banner, the New Testament.
40:30In Hebrews, it's the Word of God that says, in Hebrews chapter 8, that the New Testament
40:35is a better testament established on better promises.
40:43And of course, Christ is better than anything else.
40:48So here you and I are, we're on this side of the cross, this side of Calvary, under
40:54the New Testament, under the dispensation of grace.
40:59Now that I've been robed in righteousness as a result of believing on the Son, I submit
41:05to you that I can look at God directly in his face.
41:10Now again, we're talking spiritually.
41:16We'll see it in these two scriptures.
41:17We actually read them, I believe, last week, but now we're going to put a greater emphasis
41:22on them.
41:23Ephesians 3, we're just going to look at the 12th verse now.
41:28We read verses 1 through 13 last week, but we're just going to focus on the 12th verse,
41:31Ephesians 3, verse 12.
41:39Which says, which says, in whom?
41:42Now, now who's the whom?
41:44Well if you read the 11th verse, you see it's talking about Jesus.
41:49So how does the 11th verse end?
41:50The 11th verse ends with Jesus our Lord.
41:55That's how the 11th verse ends.
41:57Jesus our Lord.
41:59How does the 12th verse begin?
42:01In whom?
42:03Who's the whom?
42:04Jesus our Lord.
42:06So Jesus our Lord, in whom we have something.
42:12Let's talk about the boldness.
42:14We have boldness.
42:17What is boldness?
42:18Well, well, you know what boldness means, but let's, let's read the Greek definition
42:24of it.
42:25First, it means confidence.
42:30So if you have boldness, you have confidence.
42:33But then the word also means openly and plainly.
42:38Openly and plainly.
42:40It means freedom in speaking.
42:46It means unreserved speech.
42:50It means openly, frankly, and without concealment.
42:57Without ambiguity.
43:01Without the use of some kind of symbol or icon.
43:10Free and fearless, cheerful, and assurance.
43:15That's what this word, ambiguity, that is, I mentioned earlier.
43:21It means again, let's go with confidence.
43:26In whom we have boldness and, and confidence.
43:31Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness.
43:34Jesus our Lord, in whom we have confidence, right?
43:37Jesus, watch this, Jesus our Lord, in whom we have freedom of speech.
43:44Jesus our Lord, in whom we have openness and frankness.
43:51Jesus our Lord, in whom we have unreserved speech.
43:58And then it says, not just boldness, but and what?
44:02And access.
44:05Jesus our Lord, in whom we, we also have access.
44:10Which is admission.
44:12And it's free.
44:15It is the act of bringing to.
44:19But I don't need anyone to bring me to.
44:22I can go to.
44:25Now this is all because of what Jesus did.
44:27It's not because of anything that I did.
44:29It's not because of anything any Old Testament prophet or patriarch did.
44:33It's because of what Jesus did.
44:35Because of what Jesus did, I have boldness and I have admission.
44:44I have approach.
44:46That's what I have.
44:47I have approach.
44:50This word, this word access means that as far as my relationship with God goes, I am
44:59acceptable to him and have assurance that he is favorable towards me.
45:07He's favorable towards me.
45:09Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence.
45:14Wait a minute.
45:15Boldness means confidence.
45:17So what's this confidence that we also have?
45:21As a matter of fact, why do I have confidence if I already have confidence?
45:27Because one of the meanings of boldness is confidence.
45:30So what does this word confidence mean?
45:33Trust and reliance.
45:37Trust and reliance.
45:39So, so boldness and confidence can be synonymous with each other.
45:43This confidence here that we see after we read about the boldness and the access is
45:48trust and reliance.
45:50Okay.
45:51So I have, I have, I have freedom of speech and admission with trust.
45:59Okay.
46:03Through faith in him.
46:06Through faith in him.
46:07Look at Hebrews 4.
46:16Verse 16.
46:20Now let me preface it.
46:26In beginning with verse 11, we read about the Word of God and we read that the Word
46:32of God is a discerner and nothing is hidden from his sight.
46:39So it's talking about Jesus, because Jesus is the Word of God.
46:44In Revelation 19, 11 through 16, we're told his name is called the Word of God.
46:50The Greek word is logos.
46:51It's the same word we read about in John chapter one, where it says the Word became flesh.
46:55So anytime I see logos, that's Jesus, it's talking about Jesus, the Word of God.
47:02Jesus and the Word of God are synonymous.
47:04If the Word of God is saying it, Jesus is saying it.
47:08Okay.
47:09So we learn that the Word of God is a discerner, that it's living, that it's powerful, that
47:13it's sharper than any two-edged sword, and that nothing is hidden from his sight.
47:21And then we read about, in verse 14 and 15, that he's a high priest.
47:27And he's not some high priest that we can't relate to.
47:30He sympathizes because he, too, was tempted in all points, yet without sin.
47:36Now what does tempted in all points mean?
47:38Tempted in all points, which, by the way, if you're tempted, it's something you can
47:45yield to.
47:48All points means what?
47:49Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life.
47:53All sin can be found in one of those three categories.
47:56Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life.
48:00The same three areas in which Adam was tempted in, he fails, Jesus was tempted in the same
48:07three areas, he succeeds because he responds to the temptation with the Word of God.
48:14When the tempter came, he said, it has been written.
48:18It has been said.
48:22You don't have to give the devil your words, you give him God's words.
48:28So then we get to verse 16, and we read this, let us therefore, let us therefore come, how?
48:39Boldly.
48:41Let us come boldly to where?
48:45The throne of grace.
48:48Now again, I'm here, I'm in the earth, how can I go to the throne of grace?
48:55It's the same way in which we read that we're seated with him in heavenly places.
49:00You're seated right here in this faith dome, and yet the Bible says you're seated in heavenly
49:03places.
49:04What's that referring to?
49:06The realest part of you.
49:07Spiritually speaking, identification-wise, I'm seated with him.
49:12And so if I'm seated with him, where is he seated?
49:14He's seated at the right hand of the Father.
49:18So when God looks at his son, who's the head of the church, well, he sees the body.
49:26He looks at the body through the head.
49:30He looks at the church through the head of the church.
49:33He looks at his children through his son.
49:37We are seated in heavenly places.
49:39Well, okay, the scripture says that I can go boldly to the throne of grace, and what
49:44can I do?
49:45I can obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
49:53So there are times when I'm gonna need mercy, but more than that, I'm gonna need grace.
50:01And I just read that in Christ, I have the access and the boldness with the confidence.
50:06I have the confidence and the admission with the reliance, with the trust.
50:14So I can trust that I can go to God, say to God what I need to say to God.
50:21Not only will he hear me, he'll respond.
50:24And when I'm in need of grace, I can approach that same throne and obtain that grace in
50:30time of need.
50:32Now again, my spirit is housed in this flesh here in the earth realm.
50:36How can I go to the throne of grace?
50:38In prayer.
50:40In supplication.
50:42In intercession.
50:44What is intercession?
50:46Intercession is standing in the gap for.
50:51When I'm interceding for my dear brother or sister in the Lord, and I'm standing in the
50:56gap for them, what am I praying?
50:58Well, I could be praying about what I know they need me to pray about.
51:05But when I don't know what to pray about, I've been given the highest form of intercession.
51:12I don't know what to pray about.
51:14I don't know who to pray about.
51:16I don't know what to pray about, about who to pray about.
51:20I can begin to go in tongues.
51:21I can begin to pray in the spirit.
51:24And I'm praying God's perfect will.
51:26And I know he hears me because the Bible says, he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to
51:31men but to God.
51:35No one understands him.
51:37Well, then no one couldn't include God because the Bible says when I'm praying in the spirit,
51:42I'm speaking to God.
51:44So it means no one outside of God understands him.
51:48And that includes you, and that includes the enemy.
51:54He doesn't know what you're saying.
51:57I had a friend of mine who has a bit of sensitivity to the spirit room.
52:01You gotta know the right time to pray in the spirit and the right time to use the name
52:05of Jesus.
52:06Has a sensitivity to the spirit room.
52:09And oftentimes, and maybe some of you have experienced this, there is a technical term
52:13for it.
52:14There is a sense realm term for it.
52:16It might be, you know, sleep paralysis.
52:19But some of you have experienced that pressure on your chest when you can't move and you
52:26can't speak.
52:28Ultimately, say ultimately, that is a demonic attack.
52:35Ultimately.
52:38Because for all, any kind, anything that can disable your body, who do you think is behind
52:45it?
52:46Yeah, there may be a natural explanation for it, but in the realm, we can't see who's working
52:52behind the scenes to debilitate us, to impair us.
52:56It's not God.
52:59Anyway, he would have numerous accounts like this.
53:02At one time, he started to pray in the spirit because he was finally able to get his lips
53:06to move.
53:07He started praying in the spirit.
53:08You know what the demon did?
53:10The demon started squeezing him harder.
53:13Why?
53:16Because the demon don't know what he's saying.
53:20And as powerful as praying in the spirit is, you should pray in the spirit when you don't
53:26know what to pray for or what you ought to pray for.
53:30But when you do know what to pray for, pray for what you know.
53:34Pray in your known tongue and declare the name of Jesus.
53:36Said as soon as he said the name of Jesus, that demon released him.
53:43So in prayer, I access the throne of grace.
53:47I come, but see, you can only come boldly to the throne if you're praying in boldness
53:53and praying with confidence.
53:56You can't go to the Father in a state of, when it comes to petitioning and praying and
54:05when it comes to making requests, you can't be in this state of wonder or curiosity.
54:12You have to know.
54:16And the Bible says that if I do, see, that's the condition, says if I pray according to
54:20his will, if I do it, he hears me.
54:26Did you hear what I said?
54:27That if you pray according to the will of God, he hears you.
54:30So I don't have to wonder if he heard me.
54:32I don't have to doubt that he heard me.
54:34I know he heard me because I prayed according to his will.
54:38Now the only way you're going to pray according to his will, you're going to have to get into
54:41his will.
54:42You're going to have to learn his will.
54:43You're going to have to come to know his will so you can pray according to his will.
54:47When you know that will and you start praying according to his will, my dad used to say
54:50this and people just, they would tell him that he was arrogant, that he was conceited
54:57because he would make statements like, all my prayers get answered.
55:04Now daddy didn't always need to qualify everything he said.
55:07If you spent enough time with him, you would know what he was talking about.
55:10He would say all my prayers get answered.
55:13What was he talking about?
55:14He was talking about the petition prayer because that's the prayer when you make a request.
55:17He said and that petition would get answered.
55:19Why?
55:20Because I prayed according to the will of God.
55:22Do you understand what the scripture says?
55:23If I pray according to his, we're not talking about if we don't know the will of God, that's
55:27a different kind of prayer.
55:30You don't pray to prayer of faith when you don't know the will of God.
55:34But when you know the will of God, you go to him in faith and faith isn't hoping God
55:39might or hoping God can is knowing that he will.
55:44So if I pray according to his will, praying with boldness and confidence, approaching
55:53the throne with boldness and confidence, the Bible says this is the confidence or the boldness
55:58that we have.
55:59If we pray according to his will, he hears us.
56:03What does this say right after that?
56:05It doesn't say, and if we hope he heard us, no, it says, and if we know he heard us, then
56:13we know we have the petitions we've asked of him.
56:16Why do I know I have the petitions that I've asked of him?
56:19Because whatever I asked of him was according to his will.
56:24I'm only going to ask for things according to his will.
56:27Now if it is something that I want and it's not according to his will, then I'll ask if
56:33it be thy will or not my will, but your will be done.
56:38But I'm only praying that when I don't know his will.
56:41I'm not praying that when I do know his will.
56:43When I know his will, I'm going with boldness.
56:46I'm going with confidence because I know I have freedom of speech before my God.
56:51I know I got free admission and I can trust and I can rely on that fact.
56:57This is the confidence that we have that if we pray anything according to his will, he
57:01hears us, and if we know he hears us, then we know we have the petitions that we've asked
57:06of him.
57:08There's no hoping, there's no wishing, there's no wondering.
57:11It's only knowing.
57:13Amen.
57:14Father, we thank you for your word.
57:15It's life and truth.
57:16It will not, cannot return to you void, empty, futile, vain, useless, but it will accomplish
57:23what it set out to accomplish.
57:27It'll prosper where it's sent.
57:28I thank you that the seed of the word has gone forth, has been planted into the hearts
57:32of all.