Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message.
[00:00:08] Thank you, Holy Ghost, for what you do.
[00:00:12] Thank you, Holy Ghost, for what you do. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Holy Ghost.
[00:00:16] What a wonderful song to finish with.
[00:00:20] Abba, I belong to you.
[00:00:23] Abba, Abba, I belong to you.
[00:00:29] You know, Jesus used the word father.
[00:00:35] It's either 125 or 126 times.
[00:00:41] Every time he said father, he used the word abba.
[00:00:46] It means daddy.
[00:00:50] Except for once when he hung on the cross and he cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
[00:01:03] He used my God, my God, when he was forsaken, he was forsaken for us so we could say, abba, Abba, I belong to you.
[00:01:20] Praise God.
[00:01:26] I don't know where we're going to go today. I really got no idea.
[00:01:30] Except I want to start by talking about the most amazing character in the Bible, John.
[00:01:45] I want to know what it is about John.
[00:01:49] We need to if we can capture the secret John had all 12 apostles were martyred.
[00:02:00] I'm not going to describe the deaths they went through because it's too horrible.
[00:02:09] They were all martyred.
[00:02:12] I wouldn't have been martyred.
[00:02:14] I'd have kept me mouth shut and found a safe place to take my family.
[00:02:20] I don't know where they found that sort of courage from. It must have been from walking with Jesus. It must have been from walking with Jesus and being with him.
[00:02:33] John, though, was martyred three times and then sent to the Isle of Patmos.
[00:02:44] How come the apostles were all martyred and they had to martyr John three times and then gave up?
[00:02:54] Apparently that was the Roman law.
[00:02:59] I can only imagine those Roman soldiers with the job of cutting the head off.
[00:03:10] They would have trained on the many pumpkins or whatever they're training in Title. They knew what to do.
[00:03:19] I wonder what happened.
[00:03:22] Did it hit his neck and nothing happened?
[00:03:26] Did it do what all the bombs that go into Israel do and be heading for their target and then veer off?
[00:03:31] Did it veer off?
[00:03:34] Did he bring the axe back and it ended up in the tree?
[00:03:40] I don't know.
[00:03:42] But whatever happened, can you imagine the Roman soldiers there seeing it happen?
[00:03:50] And he wouldn't have just had the one go, he would have given me that again, right.
[00:03:55] The second time they tried to behead him. I'm sure they would have got the best beheader in all of Rome to come.
[00:04:03] We can't have this embarrassment happen again.
[00:04:09] Then they thought, well, this is terribly embarrassing.
[00:04:15] We'll have to.
[00:04:16] We've only got one chance left so we can't make a mistake.
[00:04:21] Let's get the big vat of boiling oil.
[00:04:24] Nothing can survive the vat of boiling oil.
[00:04:28] And I don't know how it would have gone down but I suppose they would have had a rope or a big stick on that vat so that when the job was done they could push it over so all the oil had come out so they could make sure the job was done. And out he came. Probably had his hands bound with a big smile on his face.
[00:04:45] Boy, this oil's good for your skin.
[00:04:52] What did John have that turned him into superman?
[00:05:05] I don't, I'm probably wrong, but I don't consider the Gospel of John a gospel.
[00:05:14] I consider it the first Epistle.
[00:05:18] The Gospels.
[00:05:19] I didn't know where I was going. I seemed to have settled into sister.
[00:05:23] So the Gospels are a record of the life and teachings of Jesus which incorporate his death and resurrection.
[00:05:37] And I can understand John's first Epistle being considered a gospel in those respects.
[00:05:48] But the Gospel of John is nothing like Matthew, Mark and Luke.
[00:05:53] Bears no resemblance at all.
[00:05:59] Matthew, Mark and Luke are written in the fashion and typology or whatever you call it, the form of scribes carefully recording the events.
[00:06:12] John's nothing like that. His is more like an epistle.
[00:06:17] And they carefully record all of the teachings of Jesus.
[00:06:23] Most of the Gospels are taking up with Jesus teaching. There's 57 parables in the Gospels. Some of the parables are very lengthy.
[00:06:33] The Gospel of John, not one parable but the greatest difference and why I consider it an epistle. It's just my own. I'm not saying you should, I'm just saying this is what I consider the greatest difference is this.
[00:06:50] Matthew, Mark and Luke record.
[00:07:00] What happened to to Jesus.
[00:07:05] John records what happened to us in Jesus.
[00:07:14] Abba, I belong to you.
[00:07:18] That was his secret.
[00:07:20] That was his secret somehow, and that's no small thing.
[00:07:30] Those apostles, Paul and the apostles, I mean they're the most amazing men to ever walk the planet.
[00:07:39] But they didn't survive the martyrs. John survived it three times and went onto the isle of Patmos and wrote the book of Revelation.
[00:07:52] It's important to see the difference in John's Gospel and the other Gospels.
[00:08:01] The only record of Jesus washing the disciples feet is in the Book of John.
[00:08:12] The only record of Jesus hanging on the cross and saying it is finished is in the Book of John.
[00:08:24] And this one for me is the most important one.
[00:08:29] And this goes hand in hand with John 4:17.
[00:08:33] For me, the greatest scripture in the Bible, as Jesus is, so are we in this world.
[00:08:42] What a.
[00:08:45] What a place he must have had in his heart to come out with that.
[00:08:51] But for me, the greatest insight into John is in John chapter 17.
[00:09:01] Five times.
[00:09:03] Five times John says, father, I pray that they will be one with us as you and I are one.
[00:09:17] It's that oneness with our Abba Father, our Abba Daddy, that John understood.
[00:09:41] Glory to God. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus.
[00:09:46] Oneness with God.
[00:09:49] Oneness with God.
[00:09:51] We are one with Jesus, just as Jesus and the Father are one.
[00:10:01] We have to understand there's a battle to live in that oneness.
[00:10:09] And the battle is to overcome the grip of the law.
[00:10:15] The grip of the law shines the spotlight on us.
[00:10:23] Oneness with God shines the spotlight on Jesus, on Abba, On Abba.
[00:10:34] The grip of the law is constantly telling us we have to be more holy. We're not holy enough.
[00:10:46] We have to be more worthy. We're not worthy enough.
[00:10:51] The grip of the law sounds so good.
[00:10:56] It seems so reasonable and sensible and right.
[00:11:05] God calls Satan the worthy adversary.
[00:11:13] Make no mistake, the temptation of Jesus was beyond anything we could imagine. It wasn't easy for him, was beyond anything we could imagine.
[00:11:25] Satan is the most.
[00:11:27] Remember, he was designed and made by God to lead heaven, to lead praise and worship. And everybody adored him.
[00:11:41] Not because of his looks or it was his charisma and what exuded from him.
[00:11:48] That's who we're up against.
[00:11:51] That's who leads the department of condemnation that's coming against us all the time with the grip of the law.
[00:11:59] It sounds so reasonable.
[00:12:06] We must learn to always shine the spotlight on Jesus.
[00:12:13] Because Jesus said, I won your holiness, I won your worthiness, I won your justification, I won your salvation. I paid a great price for it on the cross, and I give it to you freely.
[00:12:30] Where Christians get mixed up and caught up in is not differentiating between the flesh and the spirit.
[00:12:39] Our spirit's perfect, our spirit's going to heaven. Our flesh, the body and the soul came from the dust, and the dust it'll return. Only our spirit goes to heaven.
[00:12:51] Most Christians think, oh, we've got to get our soul right because it's got to go to heaven.
[00:12:57] That ain't gonna happen.
[00:13:01] The soul is our central nervous system. See, animals all have souls.
[00:13:06] If you look up any of the Bible dictionaries or the concordances and look up what the soul is, it's the mind will Intellect and emotions is the normal definition.
[00:13:21] Mind, that's the brain. The will, it's the brain, intellect, the brain and emotions. The emotions is the whole central nervous system.
[00:13:33] So that's the.
[00:13:34] Now, personally, I don't think there's any difference between our soul and the soul of an animal.
[00:13:42] I think our ability to think on a level so much higher than the animals is when God breathed his breath. What is it?
[00:13:51] His breath in our lungs. We sung it this morning. His breath in our lungs.
[00:13:56] That's when we were birthed. When God breathed his breath of life into man, that's when we became the children of God. That's why Jesus was able to say, when you pray, pray. Abba, Abba. Our Father who art in heaven. Jesus gave that in Luke 11, where the disciple comes and asks him how to pray and he begins with our Father. Abba, Abba, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Jesus is teaching us the first thing we do when we come to him in prayer. Abba. I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I'm a child of God. Abba, Abba. That's what we're saying when we say abba.
[00:14:41] So we need to. That's why I've got this. I've got a little book I wrote last year and I've put a few down the back there. It's this little $16 book. They're $5 today.
[00:14:56] I'm just giving them to the church there. So if you want one, if you haven't got $5 on you and you want one, just take one. But please, only take one. And if we need any more, I'll bring them up. But this is really important because what we have to feed ourselves if we're going to overcome the grip of the law.
[00:15:12] We're going to start shining the spotlight on Jesus and not on ourselves.
[00:15:19] Then we have to make sure that's what's going into us is new wine.
[00:15:25] I hate to say this, but nearly every church, and I've been to a lot of churches, they're putting old wine into their people.
[00:15:36] Old wine?
[00:15:38] Old wine is anything that requires you to do something.
[00:15:43] It's shining the light on us.
[00:15:46] Jesus doesn't want us to shine the light on ourselves. He wants us to shine the light on him and what he's done, what he's given us.
[00:15:55] It's really hard to accept what he's done for us.
[00:16:02] He's given us sin immunity, total sin immunity for our spirit.
[00:16:13] That sounds outrageous.
[00:16:16] That's why most churches won't go there.
[00:16:22] Romans 5:13 is the introductory scripture. There's two introductory scriptures to the great gospel passage.
[00:16:32] The book of Romans, as we know, has the fantastic title of the Book of Righteousness.
[00:16:40] It's like the standout book in the New Testament. Just like Proverbs is known as the book of wisdom, it's like the standout.
[00:16:49] So the book of righteousness. And the reason the book of Romans is known as the Book of Righteousness is because of Romans chapter six and seven. And what Romans chapters six and seven are doing.
[00:17:01] Chapter eight. Most people would go to chapter eight and think, that's the greatest. But it's a celebration of what's taught in 6 and 7.
[00:17:11] Romans chapter 6 and 7, they lay out an explanation of the truth of the Gospel. The truth of the Gospel is the last seven verses of Romans chapter five.
[00:17:24] Seven times in seven consecutive verses. The last seven verses of Romans Chapter five, we see the great exchange laid out.
[00:17:32] It's what happened in Adam? What happened in Jesus. Next verse, what happened in Adam? What happened in Jesus next to us? What happened in Adam? Seven verses in a row. The seven most powerful gospel paraphrases in the entire Bible in seven consecutive verses. Those numbers are not mistakes. Seven times seven.
[00:17:49] And then we have Romans chapter six, and Romans chapter six starts with the most unusual verse to begin to explain the truth of the Gospel. It says, does this mean we can just go out and sin, that grace may abound?
[00:18:09] Now, the grip of the law loves to get over that. Oh, no, we've got to get over sin. Oh, no, we've got to not sin.
[00:18:15] That's the grip of the law.
[00:18:17] What Paul is saying is we have this incredible immunity to sin.
[00:18:24] We can go out and sin and we still get to heaven.
[00:18:28] But should we go out and sin so that grace may abound?
[00:18:32] Now, you might think that's stretching it. No, it's stretching it if you don't take it in context.
[00:18:39] Context is what gives us the true interpretation. Because we can take that verse and we can say what we think or what it shouldn't mean, but the context tells us what it means.
[00:18:55] So the next.
[00:18:57] The next four verses after asking that question, the next four, sorry, right down to verse 14, explains that question. But the next four verses, and we know that because verse 15 asks the same question again, does that mean we can go out and sin so that grace may abound? He does it twice in the one. It's only 23 verses. In Romans chapter six, he asks that question in verse one.
[00:19:22] I mean, that's where you put the theme and the central purpose for the teaching.
[00:19:27] And then he asks it again in verse 15. But the context to get what that means, you look at what he says immediately afterwards. And what he says is, don't you know that when Jesus died, we died with him?
[00:19:42] When he rose, don't you know, we rose with him in newness of life, Right? Our spirit man was born again.
[00:19:56] Oh, you've got that up there.
[00:19:59] Beautiful.
[00:20:02] Bring up while you're there. Put six and seven up there. Six and seven. Because after he finishes with don't you know, don't you understand your new life in Christ?
[00:20:15] Now look at this. Knowing this, that, that our old man is crucified with him, which is what he just said in the previous verses, that the body of sin might be destroyed.
[00:20:26] Jesus destroyed sin.
[00:20:28] He destroyed it concerning our spirit man, our eternal man, the real us, the eternal us. You know, if we go out and sin, we're going to reap the consequences of it in the natural.
[00:20:42] And, and it's not a wise thing to do in one verse in Romans it says we can sin, but it's not profitable.
[00:20:51] See, it's very important how we arrive in heaven. We don't arrive there as wood, hay and stubble. We want to arrive there as gold, silver and precious stones.
[00:21:02] And while I'm there, before I go to verse seven there, I don't think like most people think, I think the gold, I think the gold is how close we walk with God and how well we look after those in our care.
[00:21:22] I think salvations are the silver.
[00:21:28] I think a lot of people would have a lot of trouble with that.
[00:21:32] And they have trouble with it because at the grip of the law makes them think that works, works are important.
[00:21:42] Right?
[00:21:44] We must understand how to shine the light on Jesus, what he did and his finished work and not on ourselves and on what we think we should do.
[00:21:57] So this book is all about shining the light on Jesus on his finished work. And I love this book because, and it's been incredibly popular because it's only a 25, 30 minute read, not a four hour read like my previous one. Four or five hour read. And people don't want, we live in the instant world now. People want grabs.
[00:22:20] So this will give you a terrific grab. The first chapter is all about shining the light on Jesus and not on ourselves and how that works, how the new wine works.
[00:22:29] The second chapter, there's only two chapters in it, is about how to pray.
[00:22:34] How to pray is so important. Let's finish here, verse seven. So we're on. We're immune to sin, Right? We're immune to sin.
[00:22:45] Now, I don't know why the church has so much trouble with immunity to sin that we can't sin. Our spirit. Man can't sin. Experiment's recreated in Christ Jesus for eternity. It's overcome sin in the grave. We have immunity to sin. I don't know why the church has so much trouble with engaging with that.
[00:23:08] Because the new covenant is described for us in Hebrews 8 and Hebrews 10.
[00:23:17] I think it's Hebrews 8 12. God says, I will be there. I make a new covenant with my people.
[00:23:23] I will be their God and they will be my people, and I will remember their sins no more.
[00:23:32] And it says, jesus was made a once and for all sacrifice.
[00:23:42] It's so liberating.
[00:23:45] I call the book a License to Pray.
[00:23:49] Because the first two, as I mentioned last time when I spoke the first two verses of the Truth of the Gospel, those seven verses, the first one's Romans 5:15 and then Romans 5:16. Romans 5:15 says, We've received the free gift of salvation. Romans 5:16 says, We've received the free gift of justification.
[00:24:12] Justification means there's nothing standing between God and us to have our prayers met. Free gift to justification. Goodness me.
[00:24:21] No matter how bad our behavior's been, God hears our prayers the same on our worst day as a Christian as he does on our best day as a Christian. My goodness. The church has some trouble with it. The church has trouble with the.
[00:24:34] So the new covenant that we have with God, this covenant of grace, it's not a license to sin, it's a license to pray.
[00:24:43] There's nothing between us and God.
[00:24:46] Nothing between us and God.
[00:24:50] But if you just take that as a license to sin and go out and sin, you'll still get to heaven. But you're being an absolute fool because you're going to get there as wood, hay and stubble.
[00:25:02] You get to heaven and think, oh, my goodness, what can I do to get one of those. What can I do to live in one of them houses? What can I do to.
[00:25:11] No, it was all. It's all done down there.
[00:25:15] It's all finished now.
[00:25:19] I mean, if I get there as woodheyn stubble, I'll be celebrating. Make no mistake.
[00:25:28] I hope there's a few other threes up there, but.
[00:25:34] Okay, let's go back to the Romans. Romans, Romans 6 and 7.
[00:25:42] Okay, so sin has been destroyed. Romans 6. 6, Romans 67 then says, we have been freed from sin, For he that is dead Remember verse three, if you've died with Christ, he that is dead is freed from sin.
[00:26:10] Freed from sin.
[00:26:12] Freed isn't sort of a partial term.
[00:26:16] It's not an almost term.
[00:26:18] It's not an if you do this or whatever term the Son flits free is free indeed. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Whoo.
[00:26:31] Glory to God.
[00:26:34] So let's bring up Romans, chapter 5, verse 1 and 2.
[00:26:43] Romans, chapter five, verse one and two is where.
[00:26:47] I thought I brought my phone up so I knew what the time was.
[00:26:52] Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:26:58] We activate grace through faith.
[00:27:03] Grace has to be activated.
[00:27:05] Grace is freely ours. Grace is there to do everything for us, but it has to be activated by faith.
[00:27:13] Now, the church likes to major on faith. The noun Jesus majors on faith. The verb.
[00:27:22] The church likes to say, oh, we're the people of faith. Which means nothing much, right?
[00:27:28] Because Jesus didn't say in that famous quote, when the Son of man returns, will he find believers on the earth? He said, when the Son of man returns, will he find faith on earth? The earth.
[00:27:44] There'll be no lack of believers.
[00:27:48] There'll be a lack of faith.
[00:27:52] And it's the grip of the law that puts a veil over that in our lives.
[00:27:58] We've got to understand how to overcome the grip of the law.
[00:28:06] The see 1st Corinthians 4:13 describes how faith works.
[00:28:18] The spirit of faith believes and therefore speaks as it is written.
[00:28:27] We have heard, and therefore we have spoken.
[00:28:32] The spirit of faith believes and speaks.
[00:28:36] We hear it, we read it in the word of God. We hear it from the preacher. We study it, we meditate it, we discuss it with other brothers. Why? So we know what to say.
[00:28:47] The spirit of faith believes and therefore speaks. We have heard, and therefore we have spoken.
[00:28:53] It starts as belief, but if it doesn't come out our mouth, it stays in belief. And belief never moved a mountain.
[00:29:02] Belief never, you know, we believe and therefore we speak.
[00:29:08] So we activate grace by faith, believing and speaking.
[00:29:13] Right.
[00:29:14] And then he confirms that in the next, the end of that verse, and rejoicing in hope. How do we rejoice in hope? We're thanking God and rejoicing for what we've heard and what we're speaking.
[00:29:30] We hear it, we speak it. So just on the practical, I like to be practical.
[00:29:36] When we pray, there's three things we're to pray for. I've done this for many decades, prayed in this exact way.
[00:29:45] And only when I was writing this book, I realized that's exactly how Jesus taught us how to pray.
[00:29:51] So Holy Ghost led me into doing it right in the first place. Thank you Holy Ghost.
[00:29:56] And he always will if we put him central place in our lives.
[00:30:01] When we pray, there's three things we need to pray for. The first thing is our natural needs met. That's the blessing, right?
[00:30:12] All our earthly needs met. That's the blessing.
[00:30:15] Then we need the Holy Spirit so we can fulfill all of our good works. So we get to heaven as gold, silver and precious stones, not as wood honed stubble.
[00:30:23] That's the anointing.
[00:30:25] And then there's an enemy that's planning against us non stop.
[00:30:30] I call them the department of condemnation, coming at us with the grip of the law.
[00:30:37] So we need protection.
[00:30:39] So when we pray, I always begin my prayer like this.
[00:30:44] I rejoice and thank you Father for the blessing, the anointing and the protection of the precious blood of Jesus.
[00:30:59] And then I say over.
[00:31:01] And then I name all the people that I'm praying for.
[00:31:04] Right?
[00:31:06] That includes my pastors and a lot of people who've asked me to pray over the years.
[00:31:13] They got no idea. I've been praying ever since they asked me.
[00:31:17] And I can name all the people I've been praying for. I used to pray for the Achesons for many years, but they don't need them. I haven't prayed with them for ages.
[00:31:27] And I'm not saying that so you'll pray for me. I'm just saying so.
[00:31:34] I rejoice and thank you Father, for the blessing, the anointing and the protection of the precious blood of Jesus. Over. Over. And I name my wife Tracy and myself and our children and grandchildren. I name all the people I'm praying for.
[00:31:51] And then I say once I've named everybody. I rejoice and thank you Father that we are your righteousness, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I begin to rejoice in hope.
[00:32:04] I rejoice and thank you Father, that by Christ's stripes we're healed and walk in perfect health. Your word is life to us and health to our bones. Your word quickens and makes alive immortal bodies. Healing is our daily bread. I think that's enough for healing.
[00:32:16] And I rejoice and thank you Father, that you meet all our needs according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And I rejoice and thank you Father, that we are protected, blessed and anointed in Jesus name. And then I'll just throw in some prayers like I thank youk, Father that all our children marry the right perfect spouses. Throw that in every now and then, any blessing and promise of God that's in the word of God, you can throw it in as it comes up.
[00:32:45] And I'll finish with this.
[00:32:48] There's two forms of prayer, but they're really the one form of prayer.
[00:32:55] What I'm doing when I pray, as I just alluded to then and gave the example of, I'm confessing the word of God. They're all scriptures, my core scripture. And I pray this every day is. And I rejoice and thank you Father, that we love you with all of our hearts. We only think good thoughts. We only, we cast down every evil imagination and we fulfill every good work you ever ordained for us that we should walk in in Jesus name five scriptures.
[00:33:28] I'm confessing the word of God, Hebrews 3:1. Jesus is high priest of our confession. We are engaging the high priest of our confession. He watches over his word to perform it.
[00:33:40] The other thing is pray in tongues.
[00:33:44] I remember I had a really big need. I won't go into it because I'm getting the wind up over here.
[00:33:55] Really, really.
[00:33:56] I had a really big thing to pray for and I, it was, it was, I mean, really big. I started to cry, it was so bad.
[00:34:09] And I remember crying out and saying, holy Ghost, what do I do?
[00:34:16] And all I got was pray in tongues.
[00:34:20] So I thought, okay, didn't say for how long, didn't say how many days or how long, nothing.
[00:34:26] So I just felt next day I got up an hour early and prayed in tongues for an hour.
[00:34:31] And the next day I got up every day that week I got up an hour and prayed in tongues for the hour.
[00:34:37] And if you prayed in tongues a lot, you realise when you get into it, it's very addictive.
[00:34:44] So after a couple of weeks of praying an hour, I started doing two hours.
[00:34:48] And once you prime the pump with a significant amount of time in something like tongues, you turn the tap on.
[00:34:59] So then all during the day.
[00:35:04] And you think, hang on, when did I start praying in tongues? You're just doing it all the time.
[00:35:10] So for that year I prayed in tongues more than I spoke in English for that year.
[00:35:15] And he didn't say, yeah, I just did it.
[00:35:19] And the most incredible, miraculous, amazing things happened that year.
[00:35:27] Many years later something else happened and I did the same thing. And the most amazing, miraculous things happened.
[00:35:35] And my lightning fast mind thought, why don't I do this all the time?
[00:35:45] The Holy Ghost wasn't given to us to be kept for special occasions or to be left in the Cupboard so he doesn't embarrass us.
[00:36:00] And if you've never prayed in tongues, let's do that now.
[00:36:11] You don't need a man of God. This was the most frustrating thing coming up through the Catholic Charismatics and then coming into the early days of the Pentecostal churches many years ago.
[00:36:26] It was all like, oh, if I can just get the right formula, if I can just know the right prayers, if I can. You don't need any of that God.
[00:36:34] Like that scripture we used the other night, Jeremy.
[00:36:38] Psalm 2. 4. God sits in the heavens and laughs.
[00:36:45] Hey, that's a good scripture. Do you know those first four verses of Psalm 2?
[00:36:55] It talks about the world systems and the world governments and the kings and leaders of the world and those in power and influence and if they, and they, they come against God.
[00:37:15] Sounds like a time we're living in now, doesn't it?
[00:37:19] And what does it say?
[00:37:21] God sits in the heavens and laughs and holds them in derision.
[00:37:28] That's our Abba, Daddy. That's who we serve.
[00:37:33] He loves us so much.
[00:37:37] He's given us the greatest gift that we could ever imagine.
[00:37:45] Total forgiveness of sins to the point that he will remember them no more.
[00:37:55] Last thing I'll say In Romans chapter 7 it tells us that all sin is of the flesh.
[00:38:09] Our spirit can't sin.
[00:38:11] That's why there's constant warfare between the soul and the spirit.
[00:38:16] And it goes on to describe the spirit hungers for the things of God and the soul is just default setting of sin.
[00:38:28] So there's constant opposition between the two.
[00:38:32] Here's the wonderful thing I'll leave you with today.
[00:38:38] If all sin is of the flesh and the flesh was made from the dust and to the dust it returns and our spirit man is made perfect. It's the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and cannot sin.
[00:38:55] Then when we get to heaven, not only will God not remember our sins, neither will we.
[00:39:04] They died with the flesh.
[00:39:09] If I was sitting down there, I'd be clapping and cheering right there.
[00:39:16] And I'm probably going a little bit long, but I'm going to finish with this. I have to.
[00:39:25] I want to illustrate the grip of the law.
[00:39:29] If there's anything the church should be expert at, it's knowing the greatest commandment, which is to love God with all your heart, soul and strength and to love your neighbour as you love yourself.
[00:39:43] Let me illustrate the extent for the grip of the law and why it's so important to understand. New wine.
[00:39:54] Jesus is confronted by it, says a lawyer and he asks him, how do I inherit eternal life? And he says, well, what's your reading on it? What's your understanding of it? And he says, well, the Scripture says to love God with all your heart, soul and strength and to love your neighbour as you love yourself. And Jesus said, that's right.
[00:40:14] And the Teacher of the law knew. He saw something we don't see.
[00:40:19] He saw that to love someone as I love myself, I've got to make sure they eat as well as we do their children as educators, as well as my children, I gotta love them as I love myself, right?
[00:40:29] That's a serious issue.
[00:40:31] So he says, jesus, who's my neighbour, who's the person I'm to love as I love myself?
[00:40:39] Jesus gives the parable of the Good Samaritan.
[00:40:44] But here's the thing. If you ask a hundred Christians, who's the neighbour I'm to love as I love myself? They'll all say, everyone.
[00:40:52] All hundred Christians. You ask them. Any hundred Christians, ask them, who's the neighbour I'm to love as I love myself? They'll all say, everyone.
[00:41:00] Jesus does not identify the half dead, stripped, dying man on the road as the neighbourhood.
[00:41:11] Bring up Luke 10, 6, I think 36. I think it's my last scripture.
[00:41:16] He identifies the Good Samaritan as the man we're to love as we love ourselves.
[00:41:25] So which of these three do you think was neighbour to him who fell among the thieves?
[00:41:35] Jesus was always incredibly confrontational.
[00:41:39] He just said it was. It is.
[00:41:42] The first two examples he gives were the priest.
[00:41:46] Apparently we're not to love the priest as we love ourselves.
[00:41:51] He's not the neighbour.
[00:41:54] He represents the guy here where I am today.
[00:41:57] The Levite represents the guy on the front row. Simon, it's only the Samaritan.
[00:42:06] So what Jesus is saying there is judge people by their fruit, not their title.
[00:42:20] Isn't that amazing? The person we're to love as we love ourselves is the Good Samaritan.
[00:42:27] The one who's out there ministering to people when no one's looking. Now, here's the teaching in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Here's the teaching.
[00:42:38] The half dead, stripped, robbed man dying on the side of the road, represents humanity, represents you and me.
[00:42:51] The Good Samaritan who comes and picks dying man up and takes him to the inn and saves him, represents Jesus.
[00:43:06] The inn represents the promised land.
[00:43:12] I'll feed him, heal him, there's the money, look after him, house him, give him whatever he needs and I'll pay for it above and beyond what's necessary.
[00:43:25] The inn represents the promised land.
[00:43:29] Our Abba Daddy has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness. And we walk in it and live in it as we shine the light on Jesus and what he has done for us.
[00:43:44] And we avoid all things that pertain to life and godliness. We miss them when. When we shine the light on us and our performance.
[00:43:55] All right, everybody, please just stand up.
[00:43:58] Before I go.
[00:44:01] The greatest thing you can do is pray in tongues.
[00:44:04] Let me tell you why.
[00:44:06] 1 Corinthians 14:2 says, When a man prays in tongues, his mind is unfruitful and he speaks mysteries to God.
[00:44:19] In other words, the mysteries. If we go to First Corinthians 2, verses 7 and 8, it says what the mysteries are of everything that happened on the cross. Everything that happened on that cruel cross that was won for us on that cruel cross. The mysteries.
[00:44:32] So when we are praying in tongues, we are confessing the Word not in our understanding. That's what tongues is.
[00:44:43] We confess the Word in our understanding to activate the intercession of Jesus in our lives. And we confess the Word not in our understanding, which activates the intercession of Jesus on our behalf when we pray in tongues. But when we pray in tongues. My favourite scripture on tongues is in Ephesians 6.
[00:45:03] It says, when we're praying in tongues, pray in the Spirit. Let your prayers and supplications be in the Spirit so that you are praying for the saints.
[00:45:13] And I had a glimpse of this once when I was praying in tongues. And whenever I start praying in tongues, I always say, thank you, Holy Ghost, that as I pray with you, you teach me, you counsel me, you comfort me, you guide me, and as you teach me, I abide in Jesus.
[00:45:30] I remember. And I was praying in tongues and I got this glimpse.
[00:45:36] And there's a dirt road in a third World country and there's this little girl skipping down the road, and this evil, hairy guy comes out of the side and sees the little girl and he's looking around like this, right? Starts getting close to the girl, and this big guy in overalls walks out in between the guy and the girl, and the guy goes off.
[00:45:58] And I thought, my God, what's happening when I'm praying in tongues?
[00:46:04] It's a ministry all of its own.
[00:46:07] And the good thing is, I'll often get an email or a text message from someone. Can you pray for me, Tony? And they tell me what it is.
[00:46:17] I don't need to pray. I've Already been praying in tongues. The Holy Ghost knew before the day started that person was going to contact me. Everything was done before they even called me.
[00:46:29] So I encourage you, pray in tongues, even if it's just for 30 seconds, 10 or 20. 30 seconds. If I can pray a good prayer in 30 seconds in my understanding, what do you think the Holy Ghost can do in 30 seconds?
[00:46:45] So I encourage you. And when you do start to pray in tongues, pretty much everybody hears this.
[00:46:52] We believe in tongues too. Tongues is the most powerful thing you can do. But what you're doing is not praying in tongues. That's the ministry of condemnation.
[00:47:00] You know, just laugh and say, so we're just going to pray in tongues. If you've never prayed in tongues before, all tongues is this right? All tongues is.
[00:47:15] We're giving our authority for the Holy Ghost to pray through us.
[00:47:21] That's why we give the utterance. We give the utterance. We just say the words and the Holy Ghost takes that and does amazing things with it. Right?
[00:47:30] So just the first things that come out of your mouth. We thank youk, Holy Ghost that as we pray with youh, you teach us, you counsel us, you comfort us, you guide us. And as yous teach us, we abide in Jesus. I just encourage you, just quietly, just quietly, even so that only you can hear it. Or louder if you want to. Just begin to let the Holy Spirit pray for you. Let him pray for you. Let him pray for your spouse. Let him pray for your family. Let him pray for your career. Let him pray for your life. Let him pray for those around you. Let him pray for the people in your church. Let him pray for your brothers and sisters all over the world. As you're praying in tongues, the Holy Spirit is meeting needs we will never be aware of until we get to glory.
[00:48:19] And the most amazing, miraculous things will happen in your life.
[00:48:23] Just begin to give the utterance. Send them whatever comes out your mouth. If it's da da, da, da da da da, that's fine.
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