School of Dying to Self // Session One — Transcript
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- 0:00all right let's Jump In Session One
- 0:02School of dying to
- 0:05self um and again like I said tonight I
- 0:08mainly want
- 0:09to put the
- 0:11significance on the topic before we even
- 0:14go anywhere of like what what do we'
- 0:16been talking about and breaking verses
- 0:18down too
- 0:19deep
- 0:21um but I I have here uh number number
- 0:25one I touched on it a minute ago the
- 0:27world is running full force into the
- 0:29exact opposite Direction with great
- 0:31momentum in this last
- 0:33hour the the total polar opposite of
- 0:36dying to self the world's going for self
- 0:39love self in it for self the reason I do
- 0:42this is for self me my and mine and I
- 0:46want us to know the kingdom if you
- 0:48signed up for
- 0:51Christianity I love this about um this
- 0:55gospel this word this flawless King who
- 0:59lived this life and his whole mission
- 1:00and goal was to get to that
- 1:02cross die and rise again and be seated
- 1:05and then have others take up their and
- 1:07do the same thing you know you have
- 1:09other Twisted religions that are founded
- 1:11in death which is
- 1:13sin and they may give up their life for
- 1:16what they believe in martyrdom but it's
- 1:17a total Twisted it's still for
- 1:19self you know like um certain Muslim
- 1:25extremists the it
- 1:27looks sometimes committed and Brave on
- 1:31paper you know martyrdom but it's unto
- 1:34what's in it from
- 1:36itself and I Love The Gospel the the
- 1:39Living God who you and I
- 1:41serve seen so perfectly through Jesus is
- 1:45why death because true love lays its
- 1:47life down that's why love is the
- 1:50greatest of all and uh and that that's
- 1:53what's under this whole thing Amit so
- 1:56many so much more but um but may we just
- 2:00set that straight right up front the
- 2:01world just fleshly n we were born into
- 2:03sin the Bible says all man has fallen
- 2:05short of the glory of God and so if we
- 2:08don't give oursel over to this book and
- 2:10what Jesus Paid for through the born-
- 2:12again Christian
- 2:13Life you will have a bloud inner
- 2:16bullhorn pulling you just you know
- 2:20coaching you to go after what's you self
- 2:23even relationships because what it makes
- 2:25how it makes me feel and everything's
- 2:27about self in the path Jesus walked
- 2:30that's why he's he's so profound in
- 2:32every way nobody's ever and ever will be
- 2:34like him it's just it's just wild his
- 2:38Playbook no nothing can stand in
- 2:40comparison to Jesus and this life called
- 2:44Christianity if seen truly through this
- 2:46book The Right Way authentic
- 2:49theology TR the true biblical form of of
- 2:52a life lived after God is one of dying
- 2:55to self denying yourself not popular
- 3:00I joked I encourage I want to just
- 3:02encourage if you if you join this school
- 3:03like I'm proud of you but I joked up to
- 3:06the point and we weren't really trying
- 3:08to go out of our way to highly promote
- 3:10it much I was more teasing the other way
- 3:12that many people are you know going to
- 3:14be looking for other type conferences in
- 3:15schools
- 3:16meaning I know this isn't
- 3:19popular but uh we're not we didn't sign
- 3:22up for popular we signed up to marry the
- 3:24bridegroom King and it just so happens
- 3:27that one of the number one plays in his
- 3:29book is death to self deny yourself and
- 3:31follow me and there's such beauty in it
- 3:34it's such life comes out of it um and so
- 3:38just want to uh again 2 Timothy 3 I
- 3:42quoted earlier it says in the last days
- 3:44which we're in and only increasing into
- 3:47there'll be perilous times why Paul
- 3:49because people will be lovers of
- 3:52themselves the Bible says in 1
- 3:54Corinthians 13 love seeks not its
- 3:57own it's not about self
- 4:00and that's where we're trying to go
- 4:01we're trying to get so separate we're
- 4:03not trying to be relevant at all with
- 4:05this world at all not trying to even
- 4:07make sense at all not trying to have
- 4:09everybody understand us no we preach the
- 4:11gospel it's the mystery it's simple to
- 4:14some but it's the power of God we preach
- 4:16the gospel we live life lives laid down
- 4:19unto him we answer to the Lord one day
- 4:21and that's it we fear God we love people
- 4:24we we want to become like people to win
- 4:25them but not for the sake of coming off
- 4:27of this book and for sure sure not
- 4:30leaving the path of dying to self and
- 4:31denying ourselves laying our lives down
- 4:34and that's what these next weeks we'll
- 4:35be we'll be doing together digging
- 4:36throughout the word and I pray the Lord
- 4:38would look at us after a few weeks and
- 4:40be like yes yes yes they're looking so
- 4:42much more like my son there's a dead
- 4:44company arising in the earth you
- 4:47know and um it's so so good but I have
- 4:52here this
- 4:53momentum in in wave if you will that's
- 4:56ever incre and I'm telling you
- 5:01like even Generations
- 5:04ago people weren't as selfish it's wild
- 5:08it's it's the spirit of the age that's
- 5:09creeping in and the Bible it's it makes
- 5:11sense it say in the last days people
- 5:13will be lovers of themselves but even
- 5:15back in the day there's there was still
- 5:17a little bit even if you weren't born
- 5:18again there was still just a little bit
- 5:20more moral hey treat your neighbor right
- 5:24like it may cost you but go out there
- 5:26and help and and just do certain things
- 5:29in life in marriages across the the
- 5:32country the Nations like everything was
- 5:34it's it's increasingly my point going uh
- 5:38the spirit of this age away from this
- 5:40word and Isaiah 60 tells us that clearly
- 5:43that Darkness will cover the the Earth
- 5:45deep Darkness the
- 5:48people and lawlessness will increase see
- 5:51this is Matthew 24 it's just all over
- 5:52the word of God and so with all of this
- 5:56under the umbrella of the school in the
- 5:57context of the school is a massive
- 6:01movement of what's in it for me that's
- 6:04in the earth and only increasing and my
- 6:06next point is also it's creeping into
- 6:09the
- 6:10church um like we've never seen before
- 6:13it's like
- 6:15consumerism you know uh it's and even
- 6:17churches are building their structure
- 6:20around it and it's called self- seek uh
- 6:22Seeker friendly
- 6:23sorry because it's like what's in it for
- 6:26me and in it's you know it's just want
- 6:28to appease everybody be politically
- 6:30correct we're not doing that like this
- 6:32is a separate deal we we are a church
- 6:35for many of you that don't know we're
- 6:36not no that's not us and in Jesus name
- 6:39may we never I don't even want to I
- 6:41don't even want to my pinky toe to touch
- 6:43that water we're good we're good but in
- 6:46in for the sake of the school and a
- 6:49People CU if you sign up for this you're
- 6:51a rare I'm telling you you're rare um
- 6:55and I'm just thankful to be in this with
- 6:57you because I'm going after it myself
- 7:00but
- 7:01uh it's you know it's it's creeping in
- 7:04the church and it's and it's showing
- 7:05itself it'll it'll paint itself in a in
- 7:08wrapping paper that looks Christian but
- 7:11really if you start paying attention
- 7:13closely without a critical spirit no we
- 7:15just want to be like Jesus we never want
- 7:17to step over into criticism becoming
- 7:19cynical pointing the finger and we're
- 7:21and competition and competing um that's
- 7:24never God we want to understand and and
- 7:27and kind of try and put oursel in
- 7:29people's shoes and and relate and see
- 7:31where their background is and things
- 7:32like this but not compromise either when
- 7:34you see full out
- 7:37self-seeking things being done for self
- 7:39and there's just a lot of that so it's
- 7:41creeping into the church my whole point
- 7:43is let's get out if there's anything of
- 7:46it still trying to creep into your home
- 7:48your family your personal life your
- 7:50whatever you're at bless others you
- 7:53can't you can't make people drink you
- 7:55can lead them to the water but look
- 7:56let's let's you and I you can't speak
- 7:58for yourself let's run from this thing
- 8:01and run towards the cross and denying
- 8:04oursel because it is the Jesus way um
- 8:08one
- 8:20second
- 8:28three okay sorry
- 8:30but anyway we want to run from um lovers
- 8:34of self like let's be like oh yeah the
- 8:36Bible's super clear on that uh God's not
- 8:38into that Jesus never was he never put
- 8:41that road map in in our GPS system we're
- 8:44going to denial of self so we want to
- 8:47read through a few foundational passages
- 8:49that we may dig through later in weeks
- 8:50to come but I'm just giving us some
- 8:52infrastructure before we move on Matthew
- 8:5410:
- 8:5838-39 just going to read them
- 9:00quick
- 9:02um and he who does not take his cross
- 9:06this is Jesus talking and follow after
- 9:08me is not worthy of
- 9:11me he who finds his life will lose it
- 9:14and he who loses his life for my sake
- 9:16will find
- 9:18it let me let me do this
- 9:21yeah uh Matthew
- 9:2316:24 then Jesus said to his disciples
- 9:26if anyone desires to come after me let
- 9:29him seek his own no let him deny
- 9:34himself and take up his cross and follow
- 9:37me so this shows you that the the path
- 9:40behind the Lord has nothing to do with
- 9:42you it's not in it's not what's in it
- 9:44for you not what's best for you you're
- 9:46not you're not in the equation I love
- 9:48this and again I know it's not popular
- 9:50but it's so freeing and so like the
- 9:53sun and I can guarantee you the Lord is
- 9:56going to marry someone an equivalent to
- 10:01the road map he laid out meaning
- 10:03somebody that that will take up their
- 10:05crosses well like him the bride my point
- 10:07is going to be a dead company
- 10:10so a lot of us love the intimate
- 10:12intimacy slant the loving of the Lord
- 10:15bridegroom King all of that that goes
- 10:18over real well quite often you start
- 10:20talking about denying yourself and
- 10:21taking up your cross um it's like whoa
- 10:24hold on a second like you know but
- 10:27really it's they're one and the same
- 10:29you you the bridal realm is a she's a
- 10:32dead dead company Matthew
- 10:3616:24 then Jesus said to his disciples
- 10:39if anyone desires to come after me let
- 10:41him deny himself take up his cross and
- 10:43follow me Mark 8:34 through 35 when he
- 10:47had called the people to himself with
- 10:49his disciples also he said to them
- 10:51whoever desires to come after me let him
- 10:54deny himself and take up his cross and
- 10:55follow me for whoever desires to save
- 10:58his life will lose it but whoever loses
- 11:00his life for my sake and the gospels
- 11:03will save it I love this about the Lord
- 11:05too cuz he
- 11:08never like trick like like you know
- 11:12misleads you he never me his words he
- 11:15doesn't like just trick you and fool you
- 11:17along the way and they go surprise I I
- 11:19made you think this is going to be all
- 11:21about you but it's not no step one like
- 11:23you step into the very first day of
- 11:25class with the Lord as like hey I want
- 11:28to be a disciple he goes good day one if
- 11:30you want to even come back tomorrow you
- 11:33it's write this down in bold letters in
- 11:35your little notepad highlight it
- 11:36underlight it everything deny
- 11:39yourself point one you got that okay
- 11:42point two take up your cross and then
- 11:46third Point Daily like it it never ends
- 11:49I love this about the Lord see the
- 11:51devil sways the carrot and and and just
- 11:55tricks people in life and and he dangles
- 11:58things along to to just pull people down
- 12:00down deceptive paths the Lord never does
- 12:02that he's he's always very very clear
- 12:04and that's what I want to do I want to
- 12:05make it clear like go ahead and weed out
- 12:08like the people that are all about them
- 12:09or at least help us Lord by your
- 12:12grace get there uh event at least be
- 12:15heading that way you know and so the
- 12:18Lord he he's he's very clear he he
- 12:20doesn't me words Luke 9:23 through
- 12:2324 then he said to them all see in back
- 12:27on Mark 8 he says he called to the
- 12:28people to himself and his disciples and
- 12:30he threw it out to all of them disciples
- 12:31he' already called them he knew like
- 12:33they're going to stick with me Judas I
- 12:34know is going to play a big part in
- 12:36hanging me on the cross let me go just
- 12:37throw the invitation out to all to where
- 12:39it's real clear if you want to follow me
- 12:42your life's over you're to follow Jesus
- 12:45we need to get this to follow Jesus you
- 12:48basically sign a contract that your your
- 12:51life's no longer
- 12:52yours it's it's so beautiful I know it's
- 12:55to flesh it's like wait a minute I want
- 12:58some control still I want some say so I
- 13:00want to be able to kind of still have a
- 13:03foot in what's in it for me or what's it
- 13:06going to look like in 10 years what
- 13:07about my 401k well no I mean the true
- 13:10biblical standard and that's what I I
- 13:11really hope to bring over these next you
- 13:14know several weeks together I want to
- 13:16bring the unadulterated unpolluted raw
- 13:19and let it just land where it will you
- 13:21know and you start to see in time many
- 13:25people can talk but time is a is a good
- 13:29good tester time proves and when you
- 13:32start having your right hand nailed
- 13:33you're like oh that was tough then my
- 13:35left hand I have nothing to grab and
- 13:36then my feet and and you go deeper with
- 13:39the Lord in this in this way um you know
- 13:42some people fall off and and that's okay
- 13:45but may we get the Revelation by the
- 13:47spirit of the word that this is where
- 13:48true life is it's it's the
- 13:51way but to follow Jesus is literally I
- 13:56it's the only it's just crazy and
- 13:59there's nothing else in life like it
- 14:01like you go to sign up for a job and why
- 14:03do you go to get a job to better your
- 14:06stance in life financially and you
- 14:08should that's biblical and Steward and
- 14:09finan and that's good but I'm just
- 14:11saying there's literally
- 14:12nothing you would go to and Life to
- 14:16follow and sign a contract trct on that
- 14:20would
- 14:21erase you and that's what the Lord calls
- 14:24for it's just incredible Luke 9:23
- 14:27through 24 but we're going to see
- 14:29ultimately because this is how he gets
- 14:31full Glory it's the beautiful design and
- 14:33how he set it up he shines most fully
- 14:35through dead
- 14:36vessels as long as any of us is still
- 14:39living that's that's areas Jesus there's
- 14:41like a blockade there the Lord can't get
- 14:42through fully he's in US yes we're saved
- 14:45he loves you but he can shine potently
- 14:48and fully through dead vessels and so
- 14:50that's what he's that's what he's after
- 14:52Luke 9:23 through2
- 14:5324 then he Jesus said to them all if
- 14:57anyone desires to come out after me let
- 14:59him deny himself take up his cross once
- 15:02in a
- 15:03while take up his cross one time and
- 15:07then you're done you you graduated no
- 15:10take up his cross daily well when do the
- 15:13days end they never
- 15:15do there's days in every week and every
- 15:18month and every year and guess how many
- 15:19years there are as many as until the
- 15:21Lord returns and there's still days in
- 15:22that daily and follow me how long until
- 15:26I return or you die and come see me
- 15:29first daily it never ends and it's and
- 15:32if we can learn to get the revelation of
- 15:34like oh my gosh we'll see here in a
- 15:37second if we get that far um
- 15:39tonight that the Lord sees death as an
- 15:44accomplishment one of the greatest
- 15:47rewards you can obtain this side of
- 15:50Heaven because when you get to the
- 15:51Eternal side you're never given this
- 15:52opportunity again that's the other thing
- 15:54this only the only option we have to
- 15:57deny ourself because directly ties into
- 16:00our will our wants our desires um how we
- 16:04want it you know so many
- 16:06things but we only have one opportunity
- 16:09it's this side once you cross over it's
- 16:11it's done and thank the Lord that's the
- 16:14next chapter of overcoming and being one
- 16:16and you know hopefully overcoming being
- 16:18on the throne with the Lord but but this
- 16:20side this is why the Lord HD it over and
- 16:22over and over again it's all throughout
- 16:24the word it it's a it's the greatest
- 16:27reward I outside of loving him but one
- 16:30of the greatest rewards is is dying to
- 16:32to
- 16:36us because of Love lays its life down
- 16:39which is the highest call on life to
- 16:41love him and know him but then also he
- 16:43gets full glory and that's what this
- 16:45really simply put if you just take
- 16:47everything and bring it down to two
- 16:48points in life why am I living to love
- 16:50and know him and to give him glory and
- 16:52you notice both of those have nothing to
- 16:54do with us this is the purest posture
- 16:56you can ever align with and Lord take us
- 16:59there I pray why am I awake and alive
- 17:02today to love him and know him and give
- 17:04him glory from that are there great
- 17:06benefits and blessings and freedom and
- 17:08like oh yeah and healing and divine
- 17:10health and oh yeah thank you Lord
- 17:12because that why because that gives you
- 17:14glory and I'm very thankful I'm very
- 17:16thankful this thing is too good to be
- 17:18true how you set it all up but you can't
- 17:22love him fully and give him glory
- 17:24outside of a dead life you can start to
- 17:28but if the the more living we are and
- 17:32he's so clear here those two aren't
- 17:34going to be lived out to to um to any
- 17:38great
- 17:39extent for whoever desires to save his
- 17:41life will lose it but whoever loses his
- 17:44life for my sake will save it I mean I
- 17:46pray this thing would get on us look I
- 17:48know it's foreign to many movements and
- 17:50crowds and it's not going to be a big
- 17:51shout you down message like this is one
- 17:53you're going to take an offering up on
- 17:55but I pray at least it would get in us
- 17:58and we start to teach our children and
- 18:01and just walk in it because it's the
- 18:03word it's undeniable in the word and
- 18:04you're just going to be
- 18:05different dead people are really hard to
- 18:08reject and hurt they just don't care
- 18:11they're
- 18:12dead they they really don't cow a man
- 18:14because they don't fear man they fear
- 18:16God they're dead to it all the world
- 18:17doesn't attract them they're dead to it
- 18:19all they they're so apt to be one with
- 18:22the lord they're somewhere apt to be
- 18:24sensitive to his voice because they're
- 18:26dead to them and they're very alive to
- 18:28the spirit they sense the slightest
- 18:29wooing and sharp conviction and there's
- 18:32just so so much there but um Luke 14 I
- 18:36love this in 27 Jesus was
- 18:39straightforward don't ever think the
- 18:41Lord Jesus Christ was politically
- 18:44correct and by our definitions he didn't
- 18:46give a rip about any of that often he
- 18:48would say things you wouldn't even
- 18:50understand him and he wouldn't even
- 18:51clear it up I there's a whole another
- 18:53topic U me and some close friends were
- 18:55talking about like there's nonsense in
- 18:58because you know Matthew
- 19:0024 talks
- 19:02about um you know people being easily
- 19:05offended well the Bible talks about that
- 19:07we should not be easily offended but
- 19:08also many will be offended that's
- 19:10another line item with lawlessness will
- 19:12increase and the love of many will grow
- 19:14cold well being offended as another
- 19:15massive one that's hitting the Earth
- 19:16right now Matthew 24 end
- 19:18times so it's just super
- 19:22like everything's getting categorized
- 19:24into a bunch of nonsense that just Jesus
- 19:26and Paul and all of them would be like
- 19:28what are you talking about about like
- 19:30it's spiritual abuse and my my feelings
- 19:32and me and the Lord's like Peter get
- 19:34behind me Satan eat my flesh drink my
- 19:37blood making whips and flipping tables
- 19:38and he you know rich man he said what
- 19:41what must I be do to be born again he
- 19:43says go sell everything you got follow
- 19:45me the dude left sorrowful and Jesus let
- 19:48him let him walk off he didn't plead
- 19:50with him and do a counsel
- 19:51session Grant it now the Lord's very
- 19:53kind and patient and there's that side
- 19:55to him as well but don't I love that
- 19:58about him the Lord's he'll let it be
- 20:00known he'll tell you straight he's not
- 20:02worried about your your poor little
- 20:04feelings a lot of times he'll on purpose
- 20:06hit that like we we got to come out of
- 20:08this whole thing that's another thing
- 20:09again it's a different topic but the
- 20:10spirit of the age is creeping on people
- 20:13and there just if everything isn't so
- 20:16tactfully said and um people are just
- 20:19taking things the wrong way anyway
- 20:21that's my little
- 20:23little holy Soap Box over here but I
- 20:26love this Luke 14:27 help us Lord and
- 20:29whoever does not bear his cross and come
- 20:31after me uh cannot be my
- 20:35disciple like wow the St I mean he set
- 20:39standards super high why because he
- 20:41knows if you'll just obey him he he'll
- 20:43give you the grace to do it and you guys
- 20:46know I always and will continue to
- 20:47through this school underg everything
- 20:50with none of this can be done outside of
- 20:52loving him deeply CU it's by his Spirit
- 20:56not by our own might or strength but by
- 20:57his spirit by his grace but also there's
- 21:00Faith salvation is with Grace and Faith
- 21:04and so I'm hitting both hard but don't
- 21:06ever think I'm meaning to roll up our
- 21:07sleeves and we're just going to do this
- 21:09thing it's by loving him and knowing him
- 21:12and that's why I love the the beauty of
- 21:14this high standard he
- 21:16sets because he he can Empower you to do
- 21:18it he says be perfect as I am perfect
- 21:21and it's like whoa how I I'll Empower
- 21:24you to just obey the book follow me
- 21:28Romans 8 those that are led by the
- 21:30spirit are true sons of God follow the
- 21:31Holy Spirit stay say deep in prayer in
- 21:34my word and um but Luke 14:27 and
- 21:37whoever does not bear his cross and come
- 21:38after me cannot be my disciple period he
- 21:42didn't even kind of give a a loophole in
- 21:45there if you do not bear your cross and
- 21:47come after me and that's that's two-part
- 21:50we'll probably go into it deeper in
- 21:51weeks to come but you can't even be his
- 21:54disciple which means you can't even
- 21:56learn from him
- 21:59that's stage one you're you're not even
- 22:00talking about being used by him in
- 22:03certain ways this is just learning from
- 22:05him and um and so it's just so good L
- 22:09Lord help us uh so I have here one of
- 22:12the greatest goals of this life prior to
- 22:15crossing over to the Eternal side is the
- 22:17goal of dying to
- 22:19self and I do want to clarify this
- 22:21because we may have some new students in
- 22:22here that like sometimes these terms are
- 22:26you know everybody comes from different
- 22:27backgrounds and different parts of the
- 22:28world world and and it may not always
- 22:30click different languages but for
- 22:32clarity's sake I clearly talking about
- 22:35the biblical view point of this dying to
- 22:39self referred to from none other than
- 22:41Jesus
- 22:43Christ that we just saw in some of our
- 22:45biblical reading I'm by no means uh
- 22:47please hear this because I'll never
- 22:49touch this again as we move on but I
- 22:51just want to get it in there I am by no
- 22:53means implying this notion to a literal
- 22:56or physical dying or even a natural
- 22:58means of inflicting hurt or suffering or
- 23:00death upon ourselves in any way when I
- 23:03talk about dying to self that's not what
- 23:04I'm talking about I'm clearly speaking
- 23:07in reference to the exact same
- 23:09application of the term dying to self
- 23:11that Jesus was referring to and I
- 23:13believe is continuing to as a great cry
- 23:15from Heaven over his bride in
- 23:17preparation for his
- 23:19return so I I'm referring to the
- 23:22terminology Jesus is using and we're
- 23:24clearly going to break it down further
- 23:25as the school continues the does
- 23:29but that Jesus is did call us to in the
- 23:32word but I believe is currently crying
- 23:34out over heaven for his bride to come
- 23:37into this dying to self as well in
- 23:39preparation for his
- 23:42return can that also sometimes look like
- 23:46and result in martyrdom which would be a
- 23:49more literal application of dying for
- 23:51the sake of the Gospel absolutely so we
- 23:54also do include that for sure a life
- 23:57laid down for the gospel goel you know
- 24:00we don't fear man but God who can
- 24:02destroy both the body and soul in hell
- 24:04it's Matthew 10 we don't fear man who
- 24:06can kill the body so that that's
- 24:08martyrdom but more importantly when I'm
- 24:11talking about dying to self a a
- 24:14lifestyle um that Jesus is referring to
- 24:17so because they got some really
- 24:18interesting things in ages old with
- 24:20Mystics and inflicting pain and things
- 24:23and it like it was holy that that's not
- 24:24biblical so just want to make that
- 24:27clear so I have here um dying to self as
- 24:32many of you have heard me mentioned
- 24:33before on multiple occasions is I
- 24:36believe one of the three major keys at
- 24:39the top of the value system for the life
- 24:41of a
- 24:43Believer um I believe that dying to self
- 24:46is like one of the top three major keys
- 24:50if you had you know had to gauge things
- 24:52in a value system of the spirit for a
- 24:54Believer it'd be right up there with
- 24:56loving God number one I do rank that
- 24:58number one for sure nothing close to it
- 25:00loving and knowing him and then two and
- 25:03three I look at them interchangeable the
- 25:06renewal of the mind and dying to self
- 25:08and they they really need to go hand in
- 25:09hand all three you can't do any of them
- 25:12well if one's missing so you know that
- 25:15need to be in
- 25:20place but um number one loving him two
- 25:24and three interchangeable dying to self
- 25:27and the renewal of the Mind my my point
- 25:28is are dying to self is massive like if
- 25:30you had
- 25:32to you know ask
- 25:36me if I had just a few things I could
- 25:39leave with one believer and I'd never
- 25:41see them again and they were about to go
- 25:42through
- 25:44Decades of walking with the Lord until
- 25:46they see him return into whatever it
- 25:49could be whatever topography wherever in
- 25:52the earth geography wherever they were
- 25:53at it could be persecuted times it could
- 25:55be glorious times
- 25:56whatever these three I would highly
- 26:00encourage love God above all first and
- 26:02foremost first and greatest commandment
- 26:05by value
- 26:06too and then the renewal of the mind we
- 26:10just got out of that
- 26:11school and dying to self so just want to
- 26:15encourage you guys the importance if you
- 26:17remove dying to self from the equation
- 26:19of this life called
- 26:21Christianity you have removed such a
- 26:23massive part of the equation that the
- 26:26solution is no longer attainable
- 26:29so Christianity simply put means we're
- 26:31to become like Christ and we're to
- 26:33follow
- 26:34him as we saw earlier you take dying to
- 26:39self out in inequality way and it's it's
- 26:43unattainable you cannot become
- 26:45Christlike it's not going to happen out
- 26:47of the words of the the Lord himself he
- 26:49made that so clear so I pray we'd
- 26:51Embrace this and say you know what yeah
- 26:53it sometimes it
- 26:54hurts um because I want I like me I like
- 26:58the pleasures you know even that's
- 27:00another one that people will be lovers
- 27:02of pleasure rather than lovers of God we
- 27:05got to watch all this stuff and I hope
- 27:06we have time to check it over the next
- 27:08few weeks but God's he loves enjoyment
- 27:11in life but if we're not careful we will
- 27:16our our nature will want to pull towards
- 27:18what's self first and the Lord just
- 27:21checks it at the
- 27:25door I have here um if you are not dying
- 27:29to self you are not a Christian by
- 27:31biblical standards that's just the
- 27:34Bible see a lot well no I'm saved by you
- 27:37know by grace through faith yeah but
- 27:40that faith has works with it and Jesus
- 27:43clearly said if you want to follow me
- 27:44you got to deny yourself and take up
- 27:46your cross and if you don't take up your
- 27:49cross you're not my
- 27:51disciple you know what I mean so you you
- 27:55can dice it up however you like but I I
- 27:57like the biblical way it's very clear um
- 28:00if you are not dying to self you're not
- 28:03a True Believer by Jesus standards see
- 28:06but I do believe the
- 28:09Bible let's just make this clear real
- 28:11quick the Bible when it says
- 28:14believe in your you know if you believe
- 28:16that Jesus Christ that word believe
- 28:18means a life adhered to meaning it's got
- 28:22fruit to back it it's not a phrase It's
- 28:24not a thought it's a lifel lived out
- 28:27there's a a big big difference there
- 28:30there's a big difference there so when
- 28:32you read belief that's faith in James is
- 28:35real clear I love James just pulls the
- 28:37rug out from all from under he says look
- 28:39if you say you have faith I'm telling
- 28:41you I got faith with
- 28:43works so meaning my when I say I believe
- 28:47in the Lord I'm a Believer is because my
- 28:50life actually walks this thing out I'd
- 28:52hear my life to him and he actually told
- 28:54me if I want to continue to walk this
- 28:57thing and follow him
- 28:59I have to deny myself take up my a't is
- 29:02about me so if you see people waving a
- 29:05big Christian flag and even major
- 29:07Ministry title whatever and they ain't
- 29:10going down this path I'm just telling
- 29:11you the Bible's not really highlighting
- 29:13that a whole lot it's is God good does
- 29:16he bless us oh yeah and I preach all of
- 29:18that and we will continue to I'm just
- 29:21saying it's very
- 29:22clear and it'll hopefully become more
- 29:24clear as the weeks preced but um
- 29:29a Believer is is a life adhered to if
- 29:31you are not dying to self you are not a
- 29:34true disciple as we just saw in Luke's
- 29:37gospel right and so let's let's think
- 29:39about that too number one if I'm not
- 29:42sold on this that when I wake up
- 29:45tomorrow Wednesday November
- 29:478th one of my main missions if I'm
- 29:49following Jesus now if I'm following
- 29:51some other ideology system belief
- 29:54religion hey figure that one out but
- 29:57none of them lead lead to Eternity cuz
- 29:59none of their gods are alive even if
- 30:01it's not a religion whatever your your
- 30:02MO is in life but all of us in this
- 30:05school are clearly following Jesus
- 30:07seeking to more if I'm following the
- 30:10Lord I wake up I wake up tomorrow
- 30:12Wednesday November 8th and I'm knowing
- 30:14one of the top modes of operation for me
- 30:18is die to self
- 30:20tomorrow how am I going to take up my
- 30:22cross and follow him and deny
- 30:24me that's one of the the greatest
- 30:28um
- 30:30checkpoints daily we just read it is
- 30:32daily so Thursday that doesn't stop
- 30:34that's on the list every day and that's
- 30:37where life is Jesus
- 30:40says
- 30:43so and and that's what Jesus says
- 30:45equates me to be a disciple and so also
- 30:50we need to think through if we are
- 30:52aspiring to make disciples which Jesus
- 30:54commands us to do go into all the world
- 30:56make disciples many Nation
- 30:59well then let me think what's a disciple
- 31:00again oh yeah whoa I remember Jesus
- 31:03brought that up to me in his word and a
- 31:06disciple is somebody who denies thems
- 31:08yep takes up their cross not monthly
- 31:11daily wow so Sun not even off on Sundays
- 31:15Saturday what about the weekend no daily
- 31:18seven days a week
- 31:20247 and so my whole thing is like hey
- 31:23let's let's go ahead and see it for what
- 31:24it is and it's like it's a great joy Joy
- 31:28it's the pathway to life it's Heaven
- 31:31it's Heaven Divine this is the this is
- 31:33the way it's not something we want to
- 31:34run
- 31:35from um but number one if we're going to
- 31:38be a disciple need to check that off if
- 31:40we're making disciples I want to
- 31:42encourage you our children whoever we
- 31:44are you're discipling somebody whether
- 31:46you think you are or not you're you're
- 31:48impacting somebody you want to ingrain
- 31:50them with this hey not about you so how
- 31:53you kept doing that and you kept
- 31:54fighting for your own because you wanted
- 31:55your rights and you wanted it this way
- 31:56and selfish this and that
- 31:58the whole world systems built around
- 32:00that yet not the kingdom Kingdom's not
- 32:02that way kingdoms that your life is not
- 32:05your
- 32:06own and that's and that's what will be
- 32:09true disciples but if you raise up a
- 32:11bunch of self junkies they're not
- 32:13disciples by Bible standards they but
- 32:15they know a lot of verses they can
- 32:16preach the house down that's great but
- 32:18if they're not about denying them
- 32:19themselves they're not
- 32:21disciples isn't that wow that's like one
- 32:23of the clearest definitions in scripture
- 32:25and I love
- 32:26that so I have here one of the greatest
- 32:29goals of this life to attempt I have it
- 32:33underlined attempt uh pray I pray the
- 32:36Lord will help us to attain either
- 32:39before we go to be with the Lord prior
- 32:41to his return or we see him split the
- 32:43Sky by way of his return is completely
- 32:46dying to self this is one of the
- 32:48greatest goals in life to attempt
- 32:51completely dying to
- 32:52self like literally when we get to
- 32:55heaven one day again whether we see him
- 32:57first or he splits the
- 32:59sky one of my greatest goals and I I I
- 33:02pray for all of us one of our greatest
- 33:03goals is to be like Lord in that day let
- 33:07me be so dead to me because this is such
- 33:12a highlighted emphasis in Scripture that
- 33:14you walked out you literally came to the
- 33:18Earth for that moment you were crucified
- 33:22before the foundations of the
- 33:23earth and then you declare it clearly to
- 33:26anybody that wants to follow you take up
- 33:28the same deal daily and your cross and
- 33:29deny yourself and so I want to propose
- 33:32again with great emphasis on this first
- 33:34session the importance of denying to
- 33:36self and that this would be one of our
- 33:37greatest goals like Lord tomorrow let me
- 33:39be more dead than I was today Thursday
- 33:42let me be more dead than I was Wednesday
- 33:44please Lord help me in this area don't
- 33:46let me start taking steps back the other
- 33:48way don't let me go backwards and start
- 33:51seeking my own that's not love um I I
- 33:55got to lay my life down don't let me
- 33:57start fighting for my rights and getting
- 33:58offended because dead people don't do
- 34:00that's that's not in your
- 34:03company I need to be more dead each day
- 34:05and so I I want to encourage us that
- 34:08like we would see this
- 34:09life
- 34:11as a a race to who can die first and not
- 34:16a race against each other we never want
- 34:18to compete in that way but a race unto
- 34:21his glory because it's it's how he set
- 34:23it up a a race to end well
- 34:28and obtain the crown that he meant for
- 34:30us to wear why so we can throw it at his
- 34:32feet for his glory see this thing is
- 34:33about us but this is one of the
- 34:38greatest Pursuits and goals we should
- 34:41have as Believers and true disciples
- 34:42this out of Heaven is like oh yeah no
- 34:44this thing is not about me how can I lay
- 34:46my life down and I don't mean getting
- 34:48into works and getting outside of the
- 34:50spirit either because sometimes you can
- 34:51start to get outside of the Holy Spirit
- 34:52you're trying to do a bunch of stuff
- 34:54because you're denying yourself and
- 34:55God's not in it I'm meaning following
- 34:58him loving him in relationship with him
- 35:01but in that in following him we're like
- 35:03oh yeah he says deny yourself take up
- 35:04your cross and follow
- 35:06me but
- 35:08um may we daily have these three things
- 35:11on the Forefront of our minds so again
- 35:12tomorrow November 8th Wednesday maybe
- 35:14wake up like oh my gosh what are like
- 35:16three of the main points since I'm a
- 35:20Believer I should live by love God I
- 35:23need to do that in such a quality way
- 35:25tomorrow not to check off my box not
- 35:28legalism and works but I need him like I
- 35:30was made to love him and he clearly
- 35:33states it in his scripture that this is
- 35:35the greatest commandment from Heaven
- 35:37given to mankind is to love him Above
- 35:40All by value and uh in in place and
- 35:44everything love love
- 35:47God secondly third interchangeable
- 35:50however you want to do it die to me this
- 35:51thing's not about me I'm not trying to
- 35:54fight for I don't care I need the Lord
- 35:56glorified die to self
- 35:58and then the renewal of the mind that
- 35:59happens through the
- 36:01word and
- 36:04um I have here uh dying to self by Jesus
- 36:09standards is a far greater achievement
- 36:13than becoming somebody in the name of
- 36:15the
- 36:16Lord or doing something great or
- 36:19accomplishing this or
- 36:21that dead people are what stand out in
- 36:26heaven how you win the race here by
- 36:28Heaven's standards is by dying to you I
- 36:32can promise you when this thing all said
- 36:35and done the Lord is going who's going
- 36:38to stand out in heaven or dead ones not
- 36:41amazing ones will dead ones do amazing
- 36:44things oh yeah but dead ones dead
- 36:47vessels that's how the Lord shines
- 36:49through and we'll keep getting there go
- 36:51over into Galatians and certain there's
- 36:52verses that back all this that I'm
- 36:54saying but um
- 36:57you know you see in Matthew 7 I bring
- 36:59them up often it's just such a perfect
- 37:02picture the these boys were top-notch
- 37:04Elite preachers I mean Mighty exploit
- 37:06they were profound in in resume casting
- 37:09out Devil's prophecy Mighty exploits but
- 37:12they weren't dead to
- 37:14them the Lord says you workers of
- 37:16lawlessness I don't even know you first
- 37:19love was not a thing you clearly knew
- 37:22well because I don't know you I never
- 37:23knew you intimately don't know you so in
- 37:26from first love you clearly
- 37:28weren't dying to you and denying
- 37:29yourself you were just doing a lot of
- 37:31the works that I do anyway I do all that
- 37:34I cast out
- 37:35devils and so dead people are going to
- 37:39stand out far greater on that side
- 37:42versus
- 37:43um you know phenomenal ones I have here
- 37:47death is always what he shines most
- 37:49fully
- 37:50through not Talent not gifts not
- 37:54Charisma please hear this part though uh
- 37:57although the these things are great when
- 38:00enveloped in death so we love talents
- 38:03gifts Charisma love it all but I'll say
- 38:06that again death is always what he
- 38:08shines most fully through dead
- 38:11vessels not Talent not gifts nor
- 38:13Charisma although these things are great
- 38:16they're amazing when enveloped in death
- 38:20you take talents gifts from God anyway
- 38:23in Charisma and you pull them out of
- 38:25outside of the envelope of death and
- 38:27it's you still have a life is about it
- 38:30not good train wreck waiting to happen
- 38:32talents gifts from God and Charisma that
- 38:35are enveloped by death powerful the Lord
- 38:39can shine through that um in full Glory
- 38:42I have here where death is
- 38:45void Christ glory is
- 38:49absent please hear these next where
- 38:51death is
- 38:52void Christ's glory is
- 38:55absent where death is with
- 38:58drawn Christ nature is missing I'm tell
- 39:02he just he abides resides and shines
- 39:04through dead vessels like help us get
- 39:07over it all Lord help us die
- 39:09quickly uh that you may get Glory
- 39:11because this is just your
- 39:13way where death is withdrawn Christ's
- 39:15nature is missing where death is
- 39:18vacant Christ's Reign is
- 39:23nullified death is the key to power and
- 39:27life in
- 39:28Christ dead ones death is the key to
- 39:32power and life in
- 39:34Christ
- 39:35[Music]
- 39:40um I was going to bring hopefully I give
- 39:43you a visual um an electrical cord for a
- 39:46prop I was actually working at the house
- 39:48anyway doing some electrical working and
- 39:51hopefully you can visualize it but many
- 39:53of you will know with just an electrical
- 39:55wire typical
- 39:57you know um electrical
- 40:00wire especially residential you you'll
- 40:03have a um a neutral wire three wires in
- 40:06each
- 40:07neutral uh positive or hot and a ground
- 40:11right white typically black and green
- 40:15any of you that have done any work
- 40:19and and what the visual I wanted to give
- 40:21you was connecting us to God fully in
- 40:24the context of these top three
- 40:27that I've been talking about for quite
- 40:29some time of intimacy the renewal of the
- 40:31Mind death to self which is this school
- 40:34but let's imagine this being you and I
- 40:36in this
- 40:38God in the electrical current of love in
- 40:41the fullness of God his nature and His
- 40:43glory and all that flowing fully through
- 40:45us and us to him becoming one with him
- 40:48you know to know him be like him
- 40:51represent him in the earth and he gets
- 40:53full Glory well the white wire the
- 40:55neutral I like to imagine it as the
- 40:59intimacy
- 41:01cord all right so and if just so you
- 41:04know if any of these are not connected
- 41:05it's not good uh and you definitely
- 41:08white or black aren't connected you're
- 41:09not even getting power but the ground
- 41:12that I like to look at the um renewed
- 41:14mind is where you can have problems if
- 41:17that isn't connected but anyway white
- 41:19one neutral it simply put uh allows the
- 41:23the the electrical current to kind of go
- 41:25back to the source let's just say that's
- 41:28god um whereas the black positive or
- 41:31hotline gets power to the source so if
- 41:35you had power coming from like a battery
- 41:37to a light bulb the the black
- 41:40line so it's called White intimacy
- 41:43because it it almost circulates anyway
- 41:45in in loving God and him loving us and
- 41:47keeping the current going positive black
- 41:51um the I look at the in black wire dying
- 41:54to
- 41:55self we've got to have this connected
- 41:58that death to us in Christ allows his
- 42:02glory his resurrection power to
- 42:04flow and so you have your white intimacy
- 42:07has to be connected death to self has to
- 42:09be connected and then the green ground
- 42:13wire you know say electric you know
- 42:15lightning bolt or something hits and it
- 42:17can fry out some of your electronics
- 42:18that's why that wire is so key it's
- 42:20grounded and I love the the word play
- 42:22because the green chord I see is the
- 42:25renewal of the mind and it keeps us
- 42:26grounded
- 42:27stabilize in the word and what in what
- 42:29the Lord's fully paid for and the enemy
- 42:31comes in and he just can't get in he
- 42:33can't th the connection to God in all
- 42:37that the Lord's paid for and there's so
- 42:38much more there's a very simple analogy
- 42:40but I just wanted us to give a visual um
- 42:42I was going to bring them but and like
- 42:45wire tie them together and let you see
- 42:47but may we look at that in life because
- 42:51look you have intimacy awesome there's
- 42:53going to be some current flowing praise
- 42:55God well it has to be the like to but if
- 42:58you disconnect dying to self you're just
- 43:01not going to go very far there's going
- 43:02to be a disconnect nothing's going to
- 43:04flow and work because like I love you
- 43:06Lord I worship you you're amazing your
- 43:08presence thank you for saving me you're
- 43:09my good shepherd oh oh Shepherd Lead Me
- 43:12by The Still Waters he's like okay but
- 43:14I'm going to lead you but don't you
- 43:16remember if you're going to follow me
- 43:17you got to deny yourself wait I don't
- 43:19know about that part can we wi that one
- 43:21out Lord he's like no no that's the
- 43:24black cord that's death to you but
- 43:27you're my good shepherd You Lead Me by
- 43:29Still Waters you make me lie down in
- 43:31Green Pastures he's like you know I do
- 43:33but the only way we're going to get
- 43:34there is if you follow me and I already
- 43:36told you if you follow me you have to
- 43:38deny you the only way you get to Still
- 43:40Waters and where I make you lay down in
- 43:42Green Pastures is dying to you see and
- 43:45this is what we don't get so a lot of
- 43:46times we disconnect that black wire of
- 43:47death and we no there's no power
- 43:49nothing's
- 43:50working you see or sometimes we get
- 43:54really good at like we just got this
- 43:55martyrdom mentality I'm ready to let my
- 43:57down for the gospel I'll sacrifice very
- 43:59sacrificial I'm going to die to self but
- 44:01you come off the intimacy slant and then
- 44:04the the extra electricity from the black
- 44:06can't it can't Circle back like you you
- 44:08don't have your neutral connected
- 44:11there's no intimacy to keep it going and
- 44:13it's it's going to cut it all off it
- 44:14won't work either sometimes intimacy
- 44:17strong death to self we're loving it
- 44:19we're following the Lord but we're not
- 44:21really grounded in the word and some
- 44:24demonic Doctrine comes in and twisted
- 44:25nonsense on warfare and gets us all into
- 44:28this swirl that has nothing to do with
- 44:30the word of God and a lightning bolt
- 44:32comes in a fiery Arrow from the enemy
- 44:35like Ephesians 6 comes in and our Shield
- 44:36of Faith's gone and we get blasted and
- 44:39it blows everything off anyway so
- 44:41they're all super key of course we're
- 44:43talking about dying to self in this
- 44:45one and it's it's so it's that massive
- 44:48it's huge because a lot of us love Jesus
- 44:51his presence even like this weekend the
- 44:53glory of God we love the glory of God
- 44:57but when it starts costing us and he
- 44:59starts turning around to you and saying
- 45:01hey if you love your family more than me
- 45:03you're not worthy of where I'm going see
- 45:06this is where the cost it is already by
- 45:08scripture but it's going higher on the
- 45:10bride in this last hour and when when
- 45:11the heat turns up on on persecution and
- 45:14things like this I I'll share this fast
- 45:16I shared it with my kids the other day
- 45:17something I heard in prayer was Dura it
- 45:20was a word play on
- 45:21battery and he broke the words down I
- 45:24heard Dura cell and I knew it was a cell
- 45:27like a prison and then the L on the cell
- 45:29stuck out which I've known this for
- 45:31years through the prophetic L is 12th
- 45:33letter of the alphabet it's it's the
- 45:34apostolic and the Lord I I believe he
- 45:37was telling me clearly that true
- 45:39Apostles the apostolic ones that preach
- 45:41this word and don't come off of it
- 45:42they're a Time's coming and I think it's
- 45:44not as far out as we think well they're
- 45:46going to have to Dura you know Dura sell
- 45:49the battery hopefully you guys it's like
- 45:50one of the top ones I think it's the
- 45:52copper and black one Energizer is the
- 45:55other one but they're going have to
- 45:57endure us short for
- 45:59endurance a cell like a prison cell
- 46:01they're have they're going to have to
- 46:02endure the cell locked up for the gospel
- 46:05I mean these times are coming and
- 46:08everybody can talk big till you get
- 46:10locked up away from family you don't
- 46:12have your Kumbaya guitar and your your
- 46:14latest playlist you can play to the Lord
- 46:16do you know him then when you're sitting
- 46:17on a cold concrete floor baloney
- 46:19sandwiches if that you know uh whoever's
- 46:22mate you're with if not whatever pen
- 46:24you're in we got to know God we have to
- 46:27he's got to be our everything we have to
- 46:29know Jesus we have to know him but
- 46:33that's a whole another thing but
- 46:34persecution and things are coming and
- 46:37and uh and it'll be good may may he'll
- 46:39give us Grace but we this whole dying to
- 46:42self of the Lord turns and starts laying
- 46:45out C says you got to eat my flesh and
- 46:47drink my blood I mean they were talking
- 46:48thought he was talking about cannibal
- 46:49cannibalism in the word take up your
- 46:52cross deny me and things like
- 46:54this we we got to get over for us and
- 46:57it's so good but anyway um let me move
- 47:00let's look further now this is good I
- 47:02don't know if I'll get through all of it
- 47:03but we'll
- 47:04start let's um look further into how
- 47:07significant a life laid down yeah is in
- 47:10regards to scripture so this is
- 47:13powerful we'll start off with the Lord
- 47:16himself but you'll you'll see in
- 47:19Scripture that literally Jesus Earthly
- 47:23Ministry we all know from history and in
- 47:27just records he he lived probably around
- 47:2833 years 30 years into the Earth and
- 47:32three years of ministry
- 47:34Ballpark and in his entire life Jesus
- 47:39Christ the Flawless Lamb of God in the
- 47:43earth his entire Ministry
- 47:46life God from Heaven his father only
- 47:52spoke three times audibly over his life
- 47:56the this is
- 47:57powerful and you'll notice in scripture
- 48:00the only time his father split the sky
- 48:03and spoke audibly for all to hear over
- 48:06his
- 48:06son every time only three times every
- 48:10time he spoke it was in the context of
- 48:12death to Jesus death to self I just hope
- 48:16we see it in this way it's so it's so on
- 48:19the God's heart it's so his way out of
- 48:23all the times he could have spoke over
- 48:24his son and needed to probably it's his
- 48:28son what what triggered him to not only
- 48:33speak audibly in such a notable way
- 48:36every time was in the context of
- 48:39death meaning this this whole death to
- 48:42self is so powerful means so much it's
- 48:43his way it's his plan and we want to be
- 48:45about it so um I I have here it wasn't
- 48:50when God spoke audibly over the son I
- 48:53mean the father this is crazy the father
- 48:55God of all creation spoke audibly over
- 48:58his
- 48:59son right it's one thing for ministers
- 49:02to have heard the go the voice of God
- 49:03audibly and plenty of had throughout
- 49:05history but when God speaks audibly over
- 49:09God there there's something going on
- 49:11there you got to look at hold on why
- 49:13number one he only did it three times
- 49:15but every time he did it what was going
- 49:17on it's like oh my gosh death it was the
- 49:20context of death to self was present and
- 49:23it causes God to split the sky and say
- 49:25hey this is my son
- 49:27this is my
- 49:28son it it wasn't around healings God
- 49:32never spoke audibly
- 49:34Miracles multiplying food Devils being
- 49:38cast out raising the dead even You' have
- 49:42thought Lazarus after four days God
- 49:44would have certainly said hey now I need
- 49:45to be heard on this one too this is
- 49:46crazy amaz you know my will be done or
- 49:49something no God was silent all the
- 49:52years and the only three times he spoke
- 49:55over God the only three times God spoke
- 49:57over God in the temporal world for the
- 50:01perfect model for us as humans to walk
- 50:03out as Christians and Believers was in
- 50:05the context of dying to self- dying is
- 50:10powerful not listen to this God didn't
- 50:12even speak audibly when Jesus finally
- 50:16floated Into The Cloud of Glory as he
- 50:18returned to be seated with the father in
- 50:20Acts
- 50:21one9 uh This is Wild like Jesus left
- 50:25heaven to to be born of a virgin and
- 50:28walk in the Earth for 33 years in
- 50:31physical
- 50:33form right he's finally after all that
- 50:36time and successfully lived with no sin
- 50:38and was
- 50:39crucified and now going to get
- 50:41resurrected in beeded with his father
- 50:44the joining again together theyve
- 50:46they've been with each other since the
- 50:48from be uh from the beginning of all
- 50:50time and even then you'd think man he
- 50:54his final welcome back home to be seated
- 50:57with the father certainly the father
- 50:59would speak audibly at that moment when
- 51:00he gets ascended and caught into a cloud
- 51:03no silent the only time God spoke was in
- 51:06the context of death it's powerful God
- 51:09sees it it's his way Isaiah 53 says it
- 51:12pleased God to crush his son I know it
- 51:15sounds backwards to us it's just the
- 51:16heaven way it's the heaven way he's
- 51:18looking for dead people it's how he
- 51:20shines he just trust him in his word get
- 51:22let's get over us and trust him in his
- 51:24word and his way in the perfect model
- 51:26walked out through Jesus Christ who
- 51:28stood here and he wouldn't finish till
- 51:30he went to a
- 51:31cross his whole his whole life was to to
- 51:34end up in death how can I so die to me
- 51:38till I finally give it all up that's
- 51:40what this thing is Will some ultimately
- 51:43be martyred for the gospel oh you but
- 51:45nevertheless if we aren't may we be on
- 51:47this road to like how can
- 51:49I be fully dead then when I see him be
- 51:53more dead to me CU that's where he can
- 51:55shine fully that's where I'm most free
- 51:57it's it's the perfect design of of the
- 51:59Christian
- 52:01life so anyway
- 52:06um ah oh yeah also this this is powerful
- 52:10just looking back when the when God
- 52:12ripped the heavens open open and spoke
- 52:14over God only three times and all of it
- 52:17was around the context or imagery or
- 52:20symbolism of
- 52:21death also God didn't even speak while
- 52:24Jesus was on the cross you would have
- 52:26thought like okay here is the time where
- 52:29he's fulfilling it at least like this
- 52:31would be a powerful time for God to
- 52:32speak and make a real resounding amen
- 52:36something something of notoriety from
- 52:39heaven but we know this was the time and
- 52:42the only time that the father actually
- 52:45forsook him that he might become sin for
- 52:48us even though he never knew sin so
- 52:52that's another reason why God didn't
- 52:53speak at that moment of the cross that
- 52:55was the Pinnacle
- 52:57because he had to forsake Him that was
- 52:59the moment he he who knew no sin had to
- 53:01become sin and and he said why have you
- 53:03forsaken me so God surely he wasn't
- 53:06going to speak then but the three times
- 53:08prior around death this is so big may
- 53:11God be booming his voice out over us
- 53:13figuratively speaking because we're
- 53:15we're walking like Jesus and giving our
- 53:16life up for him and others in this
- 53:20gospel
- 53:23um but yeah I touched on this earlier
- 53:26many reasons why dying to self is so
- 53:28critical but the number one reason is
- 53:30because it is what real love looks like
- 53:32true love is to lay its life down for
- 53:35another you say why die to self main one
- 53:38love and again there's many other um
- 53:42reasons loving him and others is the
- 53:44highest goal and this is not attainable
- 53:46outside of us not dying love seeks not
- 53:48its own TR truly loving God and Tru
- 53:51loving truly loving others is not
- 53:54attainable outside of um dying to self
- 53:57becoming a dead
- 53:58vessel that's why marriages work
- 54:01beautifully if you got two dead vessels
- 54:03you can become one
- 54:05finally marriages that and again I'm
- 54:09just using that because that would be
- 54:10like the climatic Rel
- 54:12relational imagery outside of us as a
- 54:16bride to the
- 54:18Lord but a lot the the main reason
- 54:20marriages don't work is because one or
- 54:23both won't die that's what it is
- 54:27at the end of the day and a lot of times
- 54:29why they won't die is cuz they don't
- 54:30have that white cord plugged in real
- 54:31tight either which is intimacy that
- 54:32fuels the ability to die and then
- 54:34something's off with the ground wire the
- 54:36renewal of the mind all three of those
- 54:37something's going on typically typically
- 54:39you can go right there the devil's not
- 54:41the issue you can buy and rebuke all you
- 54:43want typically we won't die we're
- 54:45selfish we want it our way we're full of
- 54:47Pride which is totally self selfish and
- 54:50pride are best friends they're they're
- 54:53like two cords in the same braid that
- 54:55they they run together peanut butter and
- 54:57jelly selfishness and
- 54:59pride and um cuz why would I I Know It
- 55:03All Me self why would I Repent because I
- 55:06may look bad I care more about me than
- 55:08being truthful where freedom is and
- 55:10laying my and humbl on myself and so
- 55:12there's just so much to
- 55:14it um but anyway let's first look at the
- 55:17uh first time God spoke audibly Mark 1:
- 55:209- 11 please Mark
- 55:231 9-1
- 55:29[Music]
- 55:40this is kind of good because I can teach
- 55:42longer um but if I'm I'm going too much
- 55:44for you all I me we will have the
- 55:47archive and you could give me a little
- 55:48feedback maybe at some point I can talk
- 55:49to you guys maybe in church or something
- 55:51but I can definitely keep it still to an
- 55:53hour what's cool is without the dreams
- 55:55and visions and all that on the back end
- 55:56I can teach longer so I don't know how
- 55:58it's going on your guys
- 56:00end um but uh Mark 1 9 through
- 56:0511 uh it came to pass in those days that
- 56:08Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and
- 56:11was baptized by John what is baptism
- 56:14symbolism of
- 56:15death which we're doing Saturday night
- 56:18is going to be powerful I think like 30
- 56:19some odd people are going to die in
- 56:22Christ and come alive
- 56:25new um
- 56:27and was baptized by John in the Jordan
- 56:29and immediately coming up from the water
- 56:31he saw the heavens parting and the
- 56:32spirit descending upon him like a dove
- 56:34then a voice Came From Heaven you are my
- 56:35beloved Son in whom I well pleased see
- 56:38Jesus boom he who knew no sin he still
- 56:41he models it for us the life of dying so
- 56:44you can come alive in Christ Heaven
- 56:47split God
- 56:48speaks it's like wow like you know what
- 56:52I mean you start to realize every time
- 56:54God gets excited splits lits the sky and
- 56:57makes sure his voice is heard audibly
- 56:59where God speaks over God it's only
- 57:01around death it's wild it's wild but you
- 57:06are my beloved Son in whom I'm well
- 57:08pleased what pleases God a life laid
- 57:13down how do we align as true Sons and
- 57:16Daughters to our father lay our lives
- 57:20down how do I become a son of my Father
- 57:23in Heaven I know I know I am on paper
- 57:26I I know technically I'm the son and
- 57:29he's my father but how do I align to it
- 57:31relationally on my end to where his
- 57:34voice booms in a sense from Heaven over
- 57:37me you are my son you just came under my
- 57:41true
- 57:43fathership what did you do in the earth
- 57:45that brought you into alignment as my
- 57:48son that's a better way to look at it I
- 57:49know on paper he's our he's God the
- 57:52Father we're Sons and Daughters of God
- 57:55but what triggered it in the Earth for
- 57:58God to split the sky with his Audible
- 58:01Voice and say yep you are my son you are
- 58:03my daughter and also furthermore I'm
- 58:05well pleased with you oh you're dying to
- 58:08you death to baptism that's what it is a
- 58:11symbolism of death to come alive in God
- 58:16and so and I want to hit these three
- 58:18points that I believe we can apply
- 58:19personally to make them more personal in
- 58:22stages of like deeper
- 58:25death and and the beauty in it you know
- 58:27I just want to remove the whole like any
- 58:30negative connotation or upon it because
- 58:32this is the Glorious way it's it's like
- 58:34the greatest accomplishment of all is to
- 58:36become a dead company it's really
- 58:39beautiful but um I I see it is is going
- 58:42deep you know Jesus modeled it for you
- 58:44and I that we're stepping into deeper
- 58:47stages of death until the final one the
- 58:50cross which you take up your cross daily
- 58:53then there's a new one next month you
- 58:55know and it's just it's glor
- 58:56thank God they never end CU we we don't
- 58:59ever want to get off this track of dying
- 59:01to self it's the it's the Glorious
- 59:04way but anyway first one
- 59:07um first time God speaks audibly and I
- 59:11want us to see it like this in in the
- 59:13Journey of the Lord through his Earthly
- 59:15Ministry it happened three
- 59:17times and each stage let's look look at
- 59:21them as phases of of maturing by way of
- 59:24deeper death and you'll see they
- 59:26literally trigger God's voice and de his
- 59:28voice deepens with meaning and reason
- 59:31and I believe we can apply it personally
- 59:33by watching Jesus as the model the
- 59:35greater you and I will lay our life down
- 59:37into this thing called denying or dying
- 59:40to self I believe you you truly hit
- 59:43deeper stages of triggering God's
- 59:47audible some of you will have God speak
- 59:49audibly but you know what I'm saying um
- 59:50figurative God's voice essentially
- 59:54speaking over you and backing you in a
- 59:56deeper way because you're aligning with
- 59:58his perfect way which is dying to
- 1:00:00self but um the first one when we align
- 1:00:04ourselves with death which is exactly
- 1:00:07and precisely what baptism is we align
- 1:00:10ourselves into sunship and the pleasing
- 1:00:12of God
- 1:00:14himself so it really pleases God and
- 1:00:16aligns us to as Sons and Daughters
- 1:00:19relationally we know again contractually
- 1:00:22we are but when we choose death to self
- 1:00:25it triggers sunship and God being well
- 1:00:28pleased it aligns us to God truly as our
- 1:00:32father a better way to put it it allow
- 1:00:35it aligns us to allow him to really be
- 1:00:37that father it's a better way to look at
- 1:00:40it by dying to when we don't want to die
- 1:00:42to oursel he he's our father he loves us
- 1:00:45he doesn't move he he's the same he
- 1:00:46doesn't change he's no he's no shifting
- 1:00:48Shadow
- 1:00:49nothing but when we choose death to self
- 1:00:52in this earth we align under him as our
- 1:00:54father and not only that he says I'm
- 1:00:56well pleased he goes now you're my son I
- 1:00:59know we know you're my son over there my
- 1:01:02daughter but you truly didn't activate
- 1:01:04this relational father to son or father
- 1:01:06to daughter till you chose dying to self
- 1:01:08and now you got in a line and I can
- 1:01:10truly be a father and you you'll see it
- 1:01:12unlock in a whole new way and also
- 1:01:15furthermore just you know I'm very well
- 1:01:17pleased very well pleased with
- 1:01:21you when we choose dying to I'm telling
- 1:01:23you it triggers something on the
- 1:01:24heavenly side is powerful it is
- 1:01:26almost see like the father standing up
- 1:01:29and he can't hold it back anymore he's
- 1:01:30not silent
- 1:01:32anymore so much so that his his voice
- 1:01:35audibly reverberates through from the
- 1:01:37Eternal and breaks open into the
- 1:01:39temporal it's a big
- 1:01:42deal but uh it it aligns us to God truly
- 1:01:46as our father us as his beloved sons and
- 1:01:48daughters and his simultaneously well
- 1:01:50pleasing to God so that's the first
- 1:01:52phase it aligns us to our father the way
- 1:01:55we should be and he's very well
- 1:01:57pleased um second one Luke 9: 23- 24
- 1:02:02let's read that
- 1:02:05together Luke chapter 9: 23-
- 1:02:0924 through 34 I'm sorry 23 through
- 1:02:1734 um then he said to them all and watch
- 1:02:21this this is powerful what Jesus is
- 1:02:22doing here then he said to them all if
- 1:02:26anyone desires to come after me let him
- 1:02:29deny himself and take up his cross daily
- 1:02:31and follow
- 1:02:32me for whoever desires to save his life
- 1:02:35will lose it listen to the context he's
- 1:02:37totally talking about denying yourself
- 1:02:39if you want to keep your life you'll
- 1:02:40lose it but if you lose your life you'll
- 1:02:41gain it whoever wants to follow me take
- 1:02:44up your cross daily you can hear the
- 1:02:45context of everything he's talking
- 1:02:47about 24 for whoever Desir to save his
- 1:02:50life will lose it whoever loses his life
- 1:02:51for my sake will save it verse 25 for
- 1:02:53what profit is it to a man if he gains
- 1:02:55the whole world world and himself
- 1:02:56destroyed or
- 1:02:58lost verse 26 here's another one where
- 1:03:00Jesus does not me words though he's not
- 1:03:02trying to go seek or friendly for
- 1:03:04whoever is ashamed of me and my words of
- 1:03:06him the son of man will be ashamed I'll
- 1:03:08be ashamed of you he says but all my
- 1:03:10feelings Lord no you're ashamed of me
- 1:03:12guess what I'm ashamed of you not only
- 1:03:14that before my father and the angels he
- 1:03:16goes on to say but doesn't that my poor
- 1:03:19little emotional
- 1:03:21state I'm telling you I I love this
- 1:03:24about God may may he call us
- 1:03:26higher you know in love and patience and
- 1:03:29kindness I hate all this all the time
- 1:03:31but also we need to know like read the
- 1:03:33words for how they are the Lord read
- 1:03:34letters he did not soften that blow at
- 1:03:38all or candy coat that at all he go I'm
- 1:03:40telling you right now if you're ashamed
- 1:03:42of me in this world and my words on that
- 1:03:44day I will be ashamed of you he's
- 1:03:47basically saying shame on you you know
- 1:03:49what I'm saying anyway um for whoever is
- 1:03:53ashamed of me and my words of him the
- 1:03:55son of man will be ashamed when he comes
- 1:03:56in his own glory and his fathers and of
- 1:03:58the Holy Angels not the Angels the Holy
- 1:04:02Angels um verse 27 but I tell you truly
- 1:04:05there are some standing here who shall
- 1:04:07not taste death till they see the
- 1:04:08kingdom of God well remember that please
- 1:04:11because we're really going into it now
- 1:04:12where God audibly spoke but remember
- 1:04:15that right whoever wants to follow me
- 1:04:17take up your cross daily if you try and
- 1:04:19keep your life you lose it but you give
- 1:04:20it up you'll gain it follow me deny
- 1:04:24yourself you know um um don't be ashamed
- 1:04:27of me here like don't fear man fear God
- 1:04:29I'll be ashamed of you so this is the
- 1:04:31context of what he's talking about now
- 1:04:32watch verse
- 1:04:3428 now it came to pa uh to pass about 8
- 1:04:38days after these sayings you can
- 1:04:41underline that highlight that if you
- 1:04:42want after what after these
- 1:04:46sayings came to eight days pass but it
- 1:04:48was after these
- 1:04:50sayings of deny yourself take up your
- 1:04:52cross daily lose your life so you can
- 1:04:55gain it here in the Earth right that he
- 1:04:59took Peter John and James and went up on
- 1:05:01the mountain to pray as he prayed verse
- 1:05:0429 the appearance of his face was
- 1:05:06altered and his robe became White and
- 1:05:07glistening verse 30 and behold two men
- 1:05:09talked with him who were Moses and
- 1:05:11Elijah who appeared in glory and spoke
- 1:05:15of his
- 1:05:17decease which he was about to accomplish
- 1:05:22at Jerusalem this we've got this thing
- 1:05:24so backwards in the Earth
- 1:05:26Heaven sees dying to you as an
- 1:05:30accomplishment not his decease which he
- 1:05:33was about to undergo at Jerusalem no
- 1:05:35accomplish complete make full if you if
- 1:05:38you study that word out it's like an
- 1:05:41incredible accomplishment feature feat
- 1:05:45winning fully bringing into full
- 1:05:49fruition but but more importantly
- 1:05:52backing up I love that Luke's gospel
- 1:05:54gives us the most detailed t on if it's
- 1:05:56cuz he was a doctor and he hears death
- 1:05:57and it just you know once it later was
- 1:05:59broke
- 1:06:00down this same account in other ones it
- 1:06:03doesn't say what Moses and Elijah came
- 1:06:04to actually talk to him about and so we
- 1:06:07get caught up and we should and I love
- 1:06:08it into the glistening face and the
- 1:06:10glory of Moses and Elijah and Peter
- 1:06:12talking about making tents but you have
- 1:06:13to sit back and look at why did this
- 1:06:16happen why did they show up on the
- 1:06:18mountain why was he in prayer oh yeah it
- 1:06:21was after these
- 1:06:23sayings about dying to setting the
- 1:06:27precedent on don't don't don't save your
- 1:06:29life here I'm telling you lose it here
- 1:06:31so you can gain it deny yourself take up
- 1:06:34your cross daily then eight days later
- 1:06:36after these sayings he goes to the top
- 1:06:39why Moses and Elijah come what's this
- 1:06:41whole meeting about
- 1:06:44oh to talk with him about his
- 1:06:49decease his death which he was about to
- 1:06:52accomplish at
- 1:06:54Jerusalem so this is why Moses and
- 1:06:56Elijah came they came to talk to him
- 1:06:58about the the most profound thing he was
- 1:07:00ever going to accomplish of course with
- 1:07:03the resurrection and all of it but his
- 1:07:05decease his departing his death and then
- 1:07:08we read
- 1:07:09further Peter wakes up from asleep wow
- 1:07:13let me make tents this is crazy you know
- 1:07:16verse 33 then it happened as they were
- 1:07:17parting from him that Peter said to
- 1:07:18Jesus Master it's good for us to be here
- 1:07:20let us make three Tabernacles one for
- 1:07:21you one for Moses dot do da verse 34
- 1:07:24while he was saying this a cloud came
- 1:07:27overshadowed them and they were fearful
- 1:07:29it's the fear of
- 1:07:31God Cloud of Glory came and they weren't
- 1:07:34like Wow Let's play in it no the fear of
- 1:07:35the Lord hit them that's another
- 1:07:37teaching as they entered the cloud but
- 1:07:39watch verse 35 and a voice came out of
- 1:07:41the
- 1:07:42cloud saying this is my beloved Son hear
- 1:07:47him when the voice had ceased Jesus was
- 1:07:50found
- 1:07:51alone that that whole thing so it's wild
- 1:07:54but um but here it is again wait a
- 1:07:57minute why is God all of a sudden
- 1:08:00standing up out of heaven and he can't
- 1:08:01contain himself his voice must boom from
- 1:08:04Eternal and break through into the
- 1:08:05temporal and be heard
- 1:08:06audibly for all to hear oh it's around a
- 1:08:10powwow meeting on the top of the
- 1:08:12mountain talking about Jesus's death and
- 1:08:14what he was about to accomplish in his
- 1:08:16death right his deceased after what
- 1:08:19sayings oh yeah everything about
- 1:08:22death 8 days after these sayings death
- 1:08:25death deny yourself lose your life so we
- 1:08:28may you know you may gain it and after
- 1:08:30these saying he goes you know what let
- 1:08:31me go ahead and finalize my heavenly con
- 1:08:35conversation with the two witnesses from
- 1:08:38Revelation and they're going to talk to
- 1:08:40me about what my death my deceased
- 1:08:42coming and once again here comes God he
- 1:08:45can't contain himself the excitement
- 1:08:46almost the pleasure the affirming in
- 1:08:51this he breaks he breaks open interrupts
- 1:08:54the whole meeting again while Peter's
- 1:08:55just just doesn't know what's going on
- 1:08:56he comes he wakes up on the back end of
- 1:08:57it all and he says this is my beloved
- 1:09:00Son hear
- 1:09:02him and so I want to stop here again I
- 1:09:05look at this as deeper phases of walking
- 1:09:08in God and following the Lord as we deny
- 1:09:10oursel and I'm so thankful um because I
- 1:09:14look at like now and he's so crucified
- 1:09:17me and life has in so many ways like the
- 1:09:19the greater death that he's teaching me
- 1:09:22to walk in now and I've got so far to go
- 1:09:25but and many of you can relate but if
- 1:09:29we'll allow him to take us
- 1:09:31deeper into denying ourself and taking
- 1:09:34up our cross and just dying you you go
- 1:09:36into these deeper phases where
- 1:09:39now God not only says look you're my
- 1:09:43beloved Son whom I'm well pleased he re
- 1:09:45he re he re reiterates that sorry again
- 1:09:48says my beloved Son but now he says hear
- 1:09:52him it it cranks up a notch see at first
- 1:09:56baptism the symbolism of it all and he's
- 1:09:59not quite to it it's
- 1:10:01like you know it it
- 1:10:04goes and he he affirms him as my beloved
- 1:10:08Son and I'm well pleased with
- 1:10:11you but the deeper we go in death it it
- 1:10:14turns into not only God being well
- 1:10:16pleased but now him declaring hear him
- 1:10:19hear her listen to an extra backing
- 1:10:22comes upon what's on your life it just
- 1:10:26and when God does that nobody can stop
- 1:10:28it and and I'm I'm telling you I'm
- 1:10:29convinced that many
- 1:10:31people aren't there yet in death and
- 1:10:33that's okay I just said I've got a long
- 1:10:35way to
- 1:10:36go but a lot of us because of what we've
- 1:10:39seen in God and what we know and I've
- 1:10:40been here plenty and we think we need to
- 1:10:42be heard but we're not dead enough yet
- 1:10:46and so until God from Heaven is saying
- 1:10:48hear him hear her you're you're spinning
- 1:10:50your wheels you can get all your
- 1:10:52websites and do all your clickbait stuff
- 1:10:55and networking and get your Social Media
- 1:10:57stuff rocking do whatever you want to
- 1:10:58try and be heard and you may get some
- 1:11:01stuff going that that could be woodh and
- 1:11:04stubble but until God from Earth uh from
- 1:11:07Heaven sorry says hear him or hear her
- 1:11:10in heaven backs you in that way
- 1:11:13typically you you won't have much of of
- 1:11:16um you won't be heard I mean simply
- 1:11:20put and so I I love this deeper to look
- 1:11:23at it in this way this deeper stage of
- 1:11:24death
- 1:11:26it literally causes God to not only go
- 1:11:28from the first one of well pleased
- 1:11:30you're my son you're my daughter I'm
- 1:11:32very well pleased with that but now
- 1:11:34you're my son and daughter I'm well
- 1:11:35pleased but listen Earth hear him hear
- 1:11:39her because I shine I shine more fully
- 1:11:43through dead
- 1:11:44vessels and the the deeper we walk in
- 1:11:47death it it triggers Heaven's backing
- 1:11:50more and this I believe is where a lot
- 1:11:52of people end up getting called and
- 1:11:54commissioned because when When Heaven
- 1:11:56says hear him or hear her you can't stop
- 1:11:59it it's going to happen when Heaven
- 1:12:01backs it you can't stop you don't need
- 1:12:02to start your own thing Heaven sends you
- 1:12:05he booms from the Eternal realm hear him
- 1:12:08hear her and and when God does that you
- 1:12:12don't have to work it and do it he does
- 1:12:15it and so I I just think often a lot of
- 1:12:18us the Revelation may be there the
- 1:12:21walking and knowing with God but the
- 1:12:22death is not there yet deep enough for
- 1:12:25having to say hear him hear her and so
- 1:12:28often you'll feel not heard that's my
- 1:12:30whole point and I've been there I I get
- 1:12:31it and you feel like man people have no
- 1:12:33clue what all I carry and what all
- 1:12:35that's great but you may want to pray
- 1:12:37about dying to self more because that's
- 1:12:39what God's looking for that's what
- 1:12:41causes him to split the sky and speak
- 1:12:42over his
- 1:12:44children not amazing feats and talents
- 1:12:47and crismas that he gives you and
- 1:12:48they're amazing to you and once
- 1:12:49enveloped in death but dead people he
- 1:12:52gets you can see it he gets excited
- 1:12:53about it he backs it
- 1:12:56CU it's his perfect
- 1:12:58way and
- 1:13:00um but it's like this deeper phase it
- 1:13:03triggers heaven to say hear him hear her
- 1:13:05and then you're like you're trying to
- 1:13:07slow it down because you're like wait
- 1:13:08what happened I'm not doing much
- 1:13:09different and God's like oh yeah you
- 1:13:11died differently you died more you
- 1:13:13finally got over you this is a lot of
- 1:13:15times too our certain stages we just
- 1:13:17fight fight fight to make this work and
- 1:13:18that and he's just waiting for us to die
- 1:13:20and get over it all and then when that
- 1:13:22happens he's like finally hear him hear
- 1:13:24her
- 1:13:25and it doesn't even have to be from a
- 1:13:27ministerial standpoint it's just
- 1:13:28whatever the call is it triggers a
- 1:13:29deeper backing from God is my point it's
- 1:13:34incredible sorry if that was
- 1:13:38loud so um so I love this man it's just
- 1:13:41incredible so the second time God speaks
- 1:13:44he's like wait a minute hold on are they
- 1:13:46yep of course he knew but I'm I'm trying
- 1:13:48to just build it for like more of a
- 1:13:50story type
- 1:13:51setting are they Moses and Elijah they
- 1:13:54came now yeah and he was just talking
- 1:13:56about these saying
- 1:13:58death good job son that's disciples and
- 1:14:02if they stick to it they'll make
- 1:14:03disciples of many nations yep deny
- 1:14:06yourself that's right lose it listen I
- 1:14:08know it makes no sense I know the world
- 1:14:09s everything else but but this is my
- 1:14:12way this is my way I didn't send my son
- 1:14:16to go in there and be some champion in
- 1:14:17the earth I sent him to go all the way
- 1:14:20to the end ride a cult that nobody ever
- 1:14:22rode a mule and die this is my way look
- 1:14:26at my son so phase one if we align with
- 1:14:30death it triggers God's pleasure and
- 1:14:33fatherhood like you've never known in
- 1:14:35your alignment as a son or a daughter
- 1:14:37that identity is aligned with in death a
- 1:14:40lot of us know the verses and We Know It
- 1:14:43by head knowledge our identity and we'll
- 1:14:45quote it and say it but until you die
- 1:14:47you don't really align with it in
- 1:14:49relational way so you won't feel the the
- 1:14:51of the unction the flow of a true father
- 1:14:54and a son or daughter cu true Sons and
- 1:14:55Daughters of God they die and he goes
- 1:14:57well pleased got it well pleased phase
- 1:15:00two Moses and Elijah come in he goes Yep
- 1:15:03this I've been waiting for this moment I
- 1:15:04had said nothing in like a year and a
- 1:15:06half there they go Yep they're talking
- 1:15:09about his deceased that he will
- 1:15:12accomplish yeah not have to undergo
- 1:15:14accomplish champion
- 1:15:19champion and then he couldn't Peter
- 1:15:22jumped in for a little bit and God
- 1:15:23couldn't withhold himself he had a boom
- 1:15:26my beloved Son hear him listen to him
- 1:15:30because of death he he booms the voice
- 1:15:32again secondly over death last
- 1:15:33one
- 1:15:47John yeah his glory can only shine in a
- 1:15:50quality way through dead vessels I'm
- 1:15:52skipping a bunch of notes here just from
- 1:15:53what's in me but
- 1:15:58um yeah I have here from from before
- 1:16:01that second phase of hear him a lot of
- 1:16:03times it's it's don't hear him or heard
- 1:16:05just yet there's still much of them in
- 1:16:06the way I can't use living vessels my
- 1:16:10glory can only shine in a quality way
- 1:16:12through dead
- 1:16:13vessels but when we get closer to that
- 1:16:16fulfillment of death in a deeper way you
- 1:16:18start talking to Saints from the other
- 1:16:20side about the accomplished decease
- 1:16:22you're about to step into he's like hear
- 1:16:24him listen to them now I've got a vessel
- 1:16:27I can flow through uh lastly John
- 1:16:3312 um verse verses 23- 28 and we'll land
- 1:16:51it so good so good
- 1:16:55John 12:
- 1:16:5723-28 but Jesus answered them saying the
- 1:17:00hour has come that the son of man should
- 1:17:02be glorified he's right towards the end
- 1:17:04now and he's about to yeah give up the
- 1:17:08the ghost as the King James would say
- 1:17:11most assuredly I say to you and listen
- 1:17:13to what he's talking about again we're
- 1:17:14leading into the third time the father
- 1:17:17booms his voice out of heaven and look
- 1:17:20what's the Lord talking about oh yeah
- 1:17:21dying to you dying to so verse 24 for
- 1:17:25most ass surely I say to you unless a
- 1:17:26grain of wheat falls into the ground and
- 1:17:28dies it remains alone but if it dies it
- 1:17:31produces much
- 1:17:32grain he who loves his life will lose it
- 1:17:35and he who hates his life in this world
- 1:17:37will keep it for eternal life the world
- 1:17:39will not tell you that get you and yours
- 1:17:41as quick as you can it's all about you
- 1:17:44do what you what feels right do what's
- 1:17:46best for you this ain't the book this is
- 1:17:48not the god way this is not Jesus Jesus
- 1:17:50is this right
- 1:17:53here he who loves his life will lose it
- 1:17:56he he'll tell you right now the world's
- 1:17:57where you're going to lose it but if you
- 1:17:59hate your life in this world you'll keep
- 1:18:01it for eternal life it's awesome it's so
- 1:18:04powerful verse 26 if anyone serves me
- 1:18:06let him follow me and where I am there
- 1:18:08my servant will be also if anyone serves
- 1:18:10me uh him my father will
- 1:18:12honor verse 27 watch this closely now my
- 1:18:17soul is troubled and what shall I
- 1:18:20say father save me from this
- 1:18:23hour that's it's a question though
- 1:18:25listen to this it's really really
- 1:18:26powerful you read read it slow father
- 1:18:29save me from this hour it's a question
- 1:18:31he's he's
- 1:18:33praying now my soul is troubled and what
- 1:18:35shall I say father save me from from
- 1:18:37this hour question that wasn't a
- 1:18:39statement he he's kind of asking the
- 1:18:41father but then he hurries up because
- 1:18:43the father doesn't answer that father
- 1:18:45doesn't speak over that he speaks over
- 1:18:46death but for now he makes a statement
- 1:18:49and he he says to God he asks God save
- 1:18:51me from this hour and then he catches
- 1:18:54himself that way the humanity side he
- 1:18:55was 100% man 100% God but he catches
- 1:18:59himself and makes a statement to God
- 1:19:01that's a prayer but for this purpose I
- 1:19:03came to this
- 1:19:05hour father glorify your
- 1:19:08name then a voice Came From Heaven
- 1:19:10saying I have both glorified it and will
- 1:19:12glorify it
- 1:19:14again this this third and final stage of
- 1:19:17death right up to death's door where we
- 1:19:19can fully just die to it all deny
- 1:19:21ourself and die die to
- 1:19:23oursel is is where God fully gets Glory
- 1:19:26through you he glor he gets Glory
- 1:19:29through you and from you his name gets
- 1:19:32glorified so it's the well pleased
- 1:19:35father to son and father to
- 1:19:38daughter alignment stage one deeper
- 1:19:41phase father son alignment well pleased
- 1:19:45my beloved hear them third and final he
- 1:19:50gets full Glory through through the the
- 1:19:53complete dead vessel
- 1:19:55and may we be it over and over and over
- 1:19:57again in this this life before we step
- 1:19:58over there's our only chance we got we
- 1:20:00have to die to us when we fully die he
- 1:20:04gets full glory and his name gets full
- 1:20:06Glory he gets glorified through dead
- 1:20:09vessels and from dead vessels his name
- 1:20:11gets
- 1:20:12glory and so I love this he's like
- 1:20:15Father save me from this save me from
- 1:20:16this hour like he's asking and then he
- 1:20:19catches himself and he says no but for
- 1:20:21this purpose I
- 1:20:23came Why is my so troubled to die but
- 1:20:27for this purpose I came and then he
- 1:20:28sealed it and this is what the father
- 1:20:30was waiting for he hadn't spoke since
- 1:20:31the last time the father's waiting and
- 1:20:34Jesus sealed it right here he he could
- 1:20:36have stopped father save me from this
- 1:20:38hour and just waited and who knows what
- 1:20:41what would have
- 1:20:42transpired but God knew he was going to
- 1:20:44walk it out perfectly he was crucified
- 1:20:46before the foundations of the Earth but
- 1:20:47he goes but for this purpose I came to
- 1:20:50this hour and he right when he said
- 1:20:52these words it was done
- 1:20:55way before chapter 13 and everything
- 1:20:58precedes right when he said these words
- 1:21:01in verse 20 28 it's sealed all of Heaven
- 1:21:03for the purpose to be complete there's
- 1:21:05no backing out now father glor he prayed
- 1:21:08it father glorify your name he prayed it
- 1:21:12by statement form then a voice split the
- 1:21:15sky again from Heaven saying I have both
- 1:21:17glorified it and will glorify it
- 1:21:20again so I love this it's so beautiful
- 1:21:24just to start session one with like oh
- 1:21:26my gosh the only three times God the
- 1:21:29Father spoke over God the son was such
- 1:21:33excitement affirmation and backing in
- 1:21:35every time it was in through and around
- 1:21:39death because it's God's way Isaiah 53
- 1:21:42it pleased him to crush his
- 1:21:44son because he's some morbid strain no
- 1:21:47because it's love it's what love does it
- 1:21:49lays its life down this Kingdom we serve
- 1:21:53this this Jesus we follow is so
- 1:21:55backwards and that's what's incredible
- 1:21:56there's nothing like him nothing like
- 1:21:58the father nothing like the
- 1:22:01spirit this this the the best way to
- 1:22:05give him glory and find life is to lose
- 1:22:08ours like help us Lord get over us in
- 1:22:11every
- 1:22:12way and we're going to go deeper in into
- 1:22:15it in the next few weeks but um but
- 1:22:17again to recap I look at it as deeper
- 1:22:20stages like I said of death and maybe we
- 1:22:22go deeper into it I feel like some of us
- 1:22:23are through the first two right where
- 1:22:27we've aligned properly as Sons and
- 1:22:30Daughters to Our Father who who's sees
- 1:22:32us as his beloved and he's well pleased
- 1:22:36and we've walked through life and
- 1:22:37embraced the cross and taken it up and
- 1:22:39denied oursel daily and got to the
- 1:22:41second phase of deeper where he says oh
- 1:22:43yeah not only am I well pleased and
- 1:22:45you're aligned properly as a son and
- 1:22:46daughter to me as your father you are
- 1:22:49are my beloved but take notice Earth
- 1:22:52hear him hear her
- 1:22:54and this is where things shift that
- 1:22:56second one things shift when when God
- 1:22:59from Heaven essentially it doesn't have
- 1:23:00to be audibly when he starts saying hear
- 1:23:02him hear her things change in the earth
- 1:23:05I'm telling you get ready because you
- 1:23:06can't SE Bel that you can't stop it it
- 1:23:10God will God will not only find you but
- 1:23:13make you be found you don't have to have
- 1:23:15all the network employees the next next
- 1:23:18uh next best sorry networking gimmick
- 1:23:21gimmickry no God can have you be found
- 1:23:23out trust me
- 1:23:25he he's got his he's got ways he can
- 1:23:27start an Asberry that nobody has a clue
- 1:23:29on the Backwoods of some podon town you
- 1:23:32know for lack of better terms I'm just
- 1:23:34trying to in a good way I'm sure it's an
- 1:23:36amazing town but you know what I mean
- 1:23:37like it's a little in the middle of
- 1:23:39nowhere God does
- 1:23:42this and so he he can make it come about
- 1:23:46but I feel like many of us are even
- 1:23:47through those second first phase second
- 1:23:50phase but the last and final one is
- 1:23:53where he gets full Glory through you and
- 1:23:58from you because his name gets Glory
- 1:24:01Jesus says glorify your name if that is
- 1:24:04the complete climax of all death he's
- 1:24:06like this is the reason I came to give
- 1:24:07up my life for me no that you your name
- 1:24:11get Glory it's all about God loving him
- 1:24:15giving him
- 1:24:19glory and so so yeah do it in US Lord I
- 1:24:23pray that he take us through these
- 1:24:25deeper phases and you you know what when
- 1:24:26you hit that third one it's like the
- 1:24:28chapter of Destiny changes and you start
- 1:24:30all over again it's beautiful and he's
- 1:24:32like you're like didn't we already is
- 1:24:34this Crown Hog Day didn't we do this
- 1:24:35already he's like yeah you're like you
- 1:24:37start to learn like oh thank you Lord
- 1:24:39help me pull another layer back and help
- 1:24:41me die deeper that I can line deeper
- 1:24:43into this new chapter of you being my
- 1:24:45father that I never knew that you're
- 1:24:47even more well pleased with and I'm your
- 1:24:49beloved son or
- 1:24:50daughter and then hear him or hear her
- 1:24:54and then get full glory and we just
- 1:24:56never arrive and I and I feel like
- 1:24:58sometimes if we want to if we ever want
- 1:25:00to stop put it in park or neutral and
- 1:25:02just pump the brakes on it all he's okay
- 1:25:03with that too he loves you but we may
- 1:25:05get to heaven one day and he be like hey
- 1:25:07you had about 20 chapters left of
- 1:25:09repeating that cross daily and I was
- 1:25:11trying to take you here and get Glory
- 1:25:13this way it's okay I love you you did
- 1:25:15amazing way better than most but I pray
- 1:25:18I was having this chat with my kids the
- 1:25:19other day over
- 1:25:21dinner let's never start to think we
- 1:25:24we're clicking on all cylinders not in a
- 1:25:27introspective condemning thing but I
- 1:25:29just think sometimes we think far too B
- 1:25:31of ourselves or that we're farther up
- 1:25:32the way I don't want to think that
- 1:25:34way um I just want to think truthful
- 1:25:37that's a better way to put it truthfully
- 1:25:39real assessment like Lord don't let me
- 1:25:42miss you getting full glory and me being
- 1:25:45in step with where I'm supposed to be
- 1:25:47For Your Glory say the thing ain't about
- 1:25:49me I need to obey you and you have got
- 1:25:52to get full Glory
- 1:25:54but Lord please take us through those
- 1:25:56deeper stages of death and you get to
- 1:25:58that final one and the Lord's like hey
- 1:26:01um Can father can you save me he goes
- 1:26:05nah this is the whole reason I came
- 1:26:08glorify your name father glorify your
- 1:26:11name right when he prayed that a pact
- 1:26:13was made father the father opened the
- 1:26:15heavens he says there it is there it is
- 1:26:16again that sweet Aroma of death that
- 1:26:18comes up that's what I look for that's
- 1:26:20why I split the heavens the other two
- 1:26:22times and spoke that's the only thing I
- 1:26:23speak over really
- 1:26:24would have spoken over the cross cuz
- 1:26:26that was it that I was looking for but I
- 1:26:29had to forsake you cuz you had to become
- 1:26:33sin it's just
- 1:26:36man this whole mystery of it all is just
- 1:26:38too powerful hemmed up in in Jesus
- 1:26:40Christ but um but I'm going to pray
- 1:26:43we'll take communion together but I pray
- 1:26:45the Lord would start off this first
- 1:26:47session I just giving giving us a fresh
- 1:26:49excitement Revelation for like oh yeah
- 1:26:51this thing's for real and I I don't know
- 1:26:54that I'm going to run into a lot of
- 1:26:56people out in the workplace or even in
- 1:26:58other Christian circles and that's okay
- 1:27:01that are really excited about this and
- 1:27:02talk about it a whole
- 1:27:04lot but I can see pretty clearly in in
- 1:27:07the word this is the Jesus way and he
- 1:27:09went out of its way to make it so clear
- 1:27:11and so did his
- 1:27:13father out of 33 years in the earth he
- 1:27:16only spoke three times out out of out of
- 1:27:18heaven audibly and every time it was it
- 1:27:21was on in and around and on uh through
- 1:27:24the context of death
- 1:27:26bam it's his way it's his way and may we
- 1:27:30follow follow suit
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