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The speaker greets the congregation, welcomes visitors and unbelievers, and introduces the sermon title, "Prayer in Christ." He closes with an opening prayer asking for the Holy Spirit's help and blessing over the message.
My name is Milton James.I'm one of the elders here.Uh I thank y'all.Thank y'all.Thank God.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.I have the assignment today to uh continue our series in Christ.I hope it's been blessing y'all.It should be blessing y'all
and encouraging y'all and strengthening y'all.to walk through the letter of Ephesians.Uh I have been given that great honor to stand before you today.Like to welcome our first time visitors here.We welcome you.We thank you for coming.Uh welcome all of our digital disciples from all around the world.We we thank y'all, you know, for uh tuning in in your support, your prayers.Um it means everything.We also want to welcome the unbeliever.Uh the one Yes.Give it up for the unbeliever.And when I say unbeliever, don't take that as a bad term.We all were unbelievers.
And we all was in darkness.
So that when we say that, we see we we don't say that as a derogatory term.We just say it of the reality of where you are spiritually.We pray today that you will come out of that darkness
into his marvelous light.
And as the as the proclamation of the word goes forth, as he beckon you in your soul, like you'll you'll feel a tug in your soul to say yes to him.
I would tell you not turn away from that, not suppress that, just say yes.Amen.
And you you will be blown away what he will do in your life.
We are a house of prayer, presence, and proclamation.And uh we will continue to fight for that.Um this is what took us this far.Prayer unto the Lord Jesus, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the proclamation of his word in its entirety.Not trying to manipulate it or manipulate you.We'd like to honor our lead pastor, Philip Anthony Mitchell.
We thank you, man of God.Thank you for your uh eternal sacrifice.Title of this message today is prayer in Christ.Prayer in Christ.Pray for me as I pray for y'all.
You are so worthy, King.
I am just a a marred piece of clay trying to articulate and proclamate your holy word to your sons and daughters and the unbeliever.I need the power of the Holy Spiritto snatch the unbelief out of darkness into your marvelous light and to fortify your sons and your daughters.Father, have your way in me, in my mind, in my heart.Have your way in your people, Lord.You know what they need.And uh I pray they just they will just be free when they hear the proclamation of your word today that they will they will take it to heart.It will change and rearrange them.That they will walk in the fullness of who you are.God, this is my prayer.We love you, Lord.um even in our flawed state, uh we do our best to honor you, give you all praise, all honor, all glory.
It's in Jesus name I pray.Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
He explains how easy it is to think we know God while still being spiritually blocked by sin and commonness. He introduces Ephesians 1 and prepares the congregation to hear Paul's prayer with spiritual openness.
Beloved family, um, one of the most eyeopening things that I had uh realized as I uh studied these holy scriptures, um, like I really don't know God like I think I know God.Um, it it baffles me that uh we fall into these times where we believe we have reached a apex with God that we know him.Yes, Jesus.
And that is farthest from the truth.
Um, we're still going from glory to glory to glory.
Uh, the reality is I I don't know him.But thanks be to God, he has revealed himself to me and now I'm doing my best to go from glory to glory to glory.And another thing that I have realized is a blockage in you and I that clouds that glory from being manifested in this life.It's like times like like we can talk about State Farm and we can talk about um 80,000 people gathering for prayer and as amazing as it was and as glorious as it was, we still can't really wrap ourour souls and our minds around that.It's like even coming into these gatherings uh just the fact like these are holy gatherings
with the spirit of the lord
in these gatherings but that blockage will come into these holy gatherings we come in and treat them as common
the fact that God gave you breath today
like a lot of people did not wake up today.
And either their their state was sealed in heaven or in hell.
There is no middle ground.
They woke up in the presence of the Lord or in eternal torment.Amen.
And we by the grace of the living God has given us day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year.
And our focus is focused on the things that are going wrong.
It's that it's that it's that eternal in this flesh that blockage
that we can't really grasp the glory of who God is.We can't really grasp the miracles, signs, and wonders.They they just come and go, come and go.
The blockage in us is is sin.And um we deal with those ramifications.The sin in us, it it sends a shadow to shadow and cover the miraculous and turn it into the mundane.
The same sin that blind the disciples that we beat them, we beat them up bad, too.You know, we put foot them disciples.WHY Y'ALL DIDN'T KNOW that was Jesus?And why y'all didn't?because they they were dealing with the same thing you and I deal with right now.
That blockage of sin
that covers the miraculous.It blinds us from the miraculous.
And where Paul is going next is a prayer in Ephesus chapter 1 verse 15- 23.And it's a it's a it's a continuous prayer.It doesn't have uh verses.I mean, in our book, it has verses, but it was not written in its entirety that way.And like I was trying to figure out like I I I cannot tell you the weight or the gravity or even articulate what we're about to read.It It's by the power of the Holy Spirit.And I pray that your hearts and your minds will be open because this is the only way we're going to get a full revelation of this is by the power of the Holy Spirit.Because I can't I I'm just a man.I don't have the words or or the capacity, the understanding to make y'all understand this.So, the only thing I can do is read these holy scriptures to you.
And and that that I will do.If I don't do nothing else, that I will do.Let's start at Ephesians chapter 1 verse 15.
The sermon walks through Paul's prayer for believers to receive wisdom, revelation, and deeper knowledge of God. The speaker emphasizes that Scripture is meant to transform the reader personally, not serve as a status symbol or merely intellectual exercise.
For this reason, because I've heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints.Now, for this reason is attached to what Paul has already talked about from verse 1 to 14.He already talked to us about our identity and our position in Christ.Do y'all remember this?
He already talked about our divine election in Christ.Like like this blockage I keep talking about like like you're not a mistake.
I don't care how you got here.You're not a mistake.
The Lord thy God from the foundations of the world had you in mind.You're not a mistake sitting in this room.You're not a mistake.This is his divine plan.You are here today.
This is his divine plan.You are in the kingdom.You are not a mistake.
Paul talked about his uh redemption in Christ.He also talked about the Holy Spirit being the guarantee.
You ever bought a ticket somewhere and and you might be in a group of y'all like y'all go to the movie?I know back in the day when I used to go to the movies like it'd be it'd be like 20 of us and we and everybody be like, "You got the ticket?""Yeah, yeah.Yeah."Everybody and then you get to the line and everybody going in and then this last person like, "Bro, you said you had your ticket.We're going to walk in heaven because the the ticket in us is the Holy Spirit.
Nobody is going to stop you from going into heaven.
You're That's why it's a guarantee.
That's why it's a guarantee.You're going to walk right into heaven.Hey, how y'all doing?Y'all good in here?Thanks be to God.I made it.You know, praise God.You know,
but you should already know you're going to make it.You got an inward witness.
Teach you, lead you, guide you, convicts you of your righteousness.
You should know that now.
But the reason uh Paul prayed this, he he he was so he was so overwhelmed by what the scripture say?I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.Paul had already been four years removed from Ephesus when he wrote this letter to them.So as Paul was out on his travels, he's he's hearing people talk about the church that he planted.He's hearing people talk about the faith that they they're talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and their love towards one another.That's so beautiful.Paul just minding his business and people coming up to him and oh I visit Ephesus.Oh, I visit 2819.Oh, I you know, and they have a good report.
So Paul by the by the uncction of the Holy Spirit writes this letter back to them.And and remember this is a prayer that he's praying.
Verse 16, I do not cease to give thanks to for you, remembering you in my prayers.Paul is constantly praying for the churches, praying for the saints, and he's giving thanks for them for all he wrote in verse 1-4 and what God is doing in the church at Ephesus.And that we should have our heart should be the same like like these churches that are exploding all over the world that God is doing.We should be praying for them and we should be thanking God for them.Like cuz in this nation, we got the light.We got the easy task.We're not under persecution of death in this nation yet.Cuz it is coming.
The way we vote, the way we move, the way we allow everything, darkness to take over, it is coming.
It's just a matter of time.
17.
Now, this is, like I said, this is a prayer and I'm going to be jumping back and forth uh from a scripture I already read to the next scripture because it's a prayer and it's continuous.I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the Lord, I mean, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and ofrevelation and the knowledge of him.Yes.Say that again.Yeah.Paul's central request is that we know God more.
Wisdom and revelation is not to be presented as spiritual status symbols
like men that can articulate well and have good knowledge of the scriptures.That's should never be the motivation when you read these holy texts.It should be for me to learn and know who God is more
to go from glory to glory to glory with him.The most dangerous thing is for somebody like me to always pick up these scriptures just to teach teach.
Look at the Pharisees.The Pharisees, they knew the Torah backwards and forwards and could recite it to you.
But then when the Christ comes, they don't recognize him.
Why?Because they they've been teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching.That's why it's so dangerous not to apply the scriptures for yourself.
You apply them for yourself.So what?So I can know who God is for me.
Not for the person.I know.I used to do it too.I used to sit in the seat and be like, "Man, I wish such and such was here.They need to hear this."
No, not for them.No, for for for me.So I even me and the elder talk about we have to fight against that.
Like every time I pick up the Bible, it is not for me to oh put my sermon together and and and and get some good points in there and No, no, no, no.It's for me to know God.
It is not a spiritual status symbol or a fascination with hidden information cuz some people just like to use the principles
and they think they know God.
They think they know God.No, no, you don't know him.It's like it's like the women with the issue of blood walking and and and and and the crowd is around him and uh uh Jesus said uh who touched me?And Peter said, "Man, it's a crowd around you.Everybody touching you.What you talking about?"See, the woman with the issue of blood knew him.
It's a lot of us in the crowd and we see Jesus and we think and this is the blockage I'm talking about.We think we know him
just like I'll meet people they be like, "Hey, Elder Elder Milton."And I'll be I'll introduce myself.I say, "Hey, my name is Milton."They say, "Oh, I know you."I said, "No, you don't know me.you know of me.
And that's the same way we do Jesus.
But these scriptures are designed
for us to know him
like intimately, personally.
This prayer for wisdom and revelation is not for human cleverness.just it's not because to make you smart to make me smart.
It is to know the Lord thy God.So whenever you you you you you open this these holy texts, that should be your motive.Lord, show me you more.
Lead me, Holy Spirit.Reveal to me with wisdom and revelation who you are.
Using Colossians and Ephesians, he describes the believer's calling, hope, and inheritance in Christ. He stresses that God's plan was set from the foundation of the world and that believers should live with eternity in view.
Colossians chapter 1 verse 9-10
Colossians chapter 1.
And so from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.How much?All spiritual wisdom and understanding.Why?Why do we need spiritual wisdom and understanding?so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.Fully pleasing him.
Fully pleasing him.Bearing fruit in every good works and increasing in the what?
This has got to be our heart posture.I want to know you more.Paul is praying this not just for the church of Ephesus but for future churches.
Verse 18, Ephesians 1 verse 18.
Sohaving the eyes of your hearts enlightened.
Why?that you may know what is the hope to which he called you.What are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints?Why do we need our hearts enlightened?That you may know the hope of God's calling.Like all of that he preached and taught from verse 1 to 14, you need to that needs to be embedded in you.Like really go back and listen to the message.Read the scriptures.Ask the Holy Spirit.You have to know this.Sons and daughters.It just can't stop at, oh, I'm a son.I'm a daughter.
You have to be enlightened that you may know.Cuz if you don't if if we don't understand that we God has called you from the foundation of the world.Everybody.Everybody.He said he he chooses that no man perish.
So everybody had a divine purpose.You have a divine purpose.He's trying to reveal that to you.a divine purpose in the earth and a divine purpose when you get to glory.Like it's it's when we die.It's not the end.
It's like we have eternity to live.
But he has orchestrated this from the foundation of the world for each and every one of you.The next the next he says the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.He has coordinated all of this for you.Hung on the cross, died, shed blood, raised from the dead, sitting at the right hand of the father.call to orchestrate to get to you that you will understand and go from what I've called you to to us being in glory.This is his
God's heart.
And we treat our lives like so mundane.
The sin that so easily trips us up.It put blinders on us.The ramifications of this flesh and we cannot see our divine calling.This is what Paul is praying over them.And the hope Paul is talking about.It's not the hope that we have in like human being hope.It's a hope.It's a guarantee like these scriptures are guaranteed.That's where our hope should lie.That we know whatever he conducted from the foundation of the world into eternity is for you.Like we not just up here trying to cheerlead you on.This is not a cheerleader or pep talk.This is God's word for you.
The speaker develops the theme of resurrection power through 1 Peter, Ephesians, and Philippians. He explains Christ's immeasurable power, his exaltation above all authority, and the believer's confidence in that power.
First Peter chapter 1 verse 30 verse 3 and 4.
First Peter
chapter 1 verse 3 and 4.
Boy, them pages sound like just wind blowing.Like y'all might be like like me.Like I can't I hate when it's switch, you know, the season switch cuz I like hearing the fan blow and you be you be freezing.The fan be blowing.You be up there freezing.That's what those pages sound like.It's sound like just just fresh wind.
1 Peter verse 3 and 4.Blessed be the God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ.According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again.Like this is just what I was telling with with the unbeliever like like he is it's like the slightest like he said the faith of a mustard seed like if you have a little bit of faith he hegoing to punch he going to kick the door down.
He's going to cause you to be born again.He's going to harass you and make you be born again.Just a mustard seed faith.Just believe in the resurrection just a little bit.He says he's going to cause us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance that is imperishable undefiled and unfading.
Kept where?
For who?
Ah, come on now.Y'all got to start.It's got to start stirring your soul.Like I said, the these are not just pep talks.
This is your reality.
Because you you would be so happy if one of one of your parents left a will and passed away and they left all this money to you.You'd be you'd be so happy.We have so much greater
We have so much greater.We going to live forever.We going to be with Jesus.We going to
You're going to live out your divine purpose.And look, no sickness, no disease, no hurt, no harm, no fussing, no fighting.Like, this is your inheritance.This is what he's This is what he's trying to get to y'all.Yeah,
this is what Paul keeps praying about
and letting y'all know God has orchestrated this.
Like somebody did die for this inheritance.
He did die to get this to you.
He did die.
And one day like this blockage,
we're going to really enjoy it.
See, right now we got to pull and pride and pull and and try to get you to understand and Holy Spirit do his work and he got to fight.But one day, one day going to walk on them streets of gold.I'm going go to my mansion.I'm going to kick my feet up and I'm going to do this ETERNAL WORK.WHATEVER HE HAS for me in glory.
Like, why what why do y'all think it's going it's it's a galaxy out there?
Like, it's a it's trillions and billions of planets.You don't think we going to be taking over trillions and billions of planets in eternity?
The work that was deadened in the garden, it's going to just start.
See, y'all don't even y'all don't even be thinking about stuff like that.Don't even be imagining what's what's going to happen on the other side.
Taking over planets and galaxies, snap our fingers, and be on Earth.
Hey Lord, how you doing today?Y'all good up in here?Oh, let me go back to Mars.I see y'all.
That glorified body.Come on.
Jesus just appeared in rooms.
Greetings.Oh, where' you come from?
The door was locked.
How'd you get in here?
That's our inheritance.
Start thinking about that like walking the streets of gold with the Lord.
like the city that's going to come down.
He said there will be no need for the sun cuz it's glory.
Like how we in here sweating.No more sweating.
No more sweating.Perfect temperature all the time.edifying conversations all the time.
Like wherever you go, you see a group of people talking, you just jump in and man, that was good.YOU SEE ANOTHER GROUP, MAN, THAT WAS GOOD.Like everything,
oh, y'all starting to come around.I I feel y'all.It's okay.Better late than never.Verse 19.Ephesians
verse 19.
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his great might.I'm going to read uh 20 with it because they just they just really go together.that he worked in Christ when he was raised from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.Read it one more time.I'mma read it slow because I I need to get this.I don't know.I I know y'all theologians.I I need to get this.And what and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe?Like this is what I was telling y'all.I can't I can't I can't figure that out.I measurable.Like there is no limit to his power.
It's immeasurable.I can't figure it out.Not going to try.
Just like he told Job, uh, where was you when I created the sun, the moon, the stars?
You have all We have We We do it all the time.We have all Well, Lord, why'd you do this and why'd you His his His power is irmeable.
His knowledge is immeasurable.Yeah.
Like atoms and chromosomes and DNA.He put all that together.
He gave that knowledge to man.
But he orchestrated it.
But what is this immeasurable power for?immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe according this is what the this is what the immeasurable power is attached to according to the workings of his great might.What is the great might?That he worked in Christ who was what?
and seated at the right hand of the father.
Resurrection power
that's in you.
Great might, unmeasurable power, the resurrection.
This is a display of his power and then him ascending and being with the father sitting at the right hand.
Yes.Like there is no Matthew 28:19 without Matthew 28:18.All authority,
all authority
has been given to whom?
Christ
on heaven
and in earth.Yeah.
There there is no church without all authority,
irre measurable power,
resurrection power.
There is no church.Himm's coming to the throne, sitting down at the right hand of the father.There is no church and there is no hope.
He continues unpacking Christ's supremacy through Philippians, Romans, and 1 Peter, stressing that Jesus reigns over every name, power, and authority. The message turns toward the certainty of judgment and the believer's need to be secure in Christ now.
Philippians chapter 3.
Chapter 3 verse 20 and 21.
We're But our citizenship is in Our
citizenship is in heaven and from it we await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who will do what?
Transform this
to be like what?
That's what I was talking about.I'm going to be able to be on earth and snap myself to Mars cuz I'mma be in this glory body
who will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body by the what?The power
that enables him even to subject subject all things to him.That's crazy.It says by the power that enables him even to subject all things to him.Like his power makes everything come to him.
His power draws everything to him.
Like it has no choice.Like I told the first gathering, see, we think when Christ return, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess.We think we going to have a choice.Like we think we going to stand in his presence and oh I should I bow my knee?No.The power
YOU ARE LORD.YOU ARE LORD.
Oh my goodness.
My God in heaven.
See, cuz we don't know him.
The power of his glory is going to.
You can fight it all you want.
You're going to buckle under the weight
of that power.
And you going to know.You're going to know Jesus, YOU ARE LORD.
YOU ARE LORD.
Talk about resurrection power.
The power that raised Christ from the dead.
The power that is sitting at the right hand of the father.
Romans chapter 8 verse 9 and 11.Resurrection power
Romans chapter 8 verse 9.You h however are not in the flesh but in the spirit.If in fact the spirit of God dwells in you, you must be born again.
You must surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.You must be filled with his spirit, transformed and renewed.Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
But if Christ is in you, oh God, I didn't hear it.But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit of life because of righteousness.
If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to this mortal body through his spirit who dwells in you.This is your inheritance.
Glorified body with Christ.resurrection power.Like this is this is real dunamis power.
Like the only thing we can see is like lightning bolts and and volcanoes and that it it does not compare.
Supreme demonstration of his power is raising Christ from the dead and now seated at the right hand of the father.And even in in that power, Ephesians uh 21.
Bless you.
Like like for real like like Nothing nothing is going to dominate the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nothing's going to
it's immeasurable.
The resurrection is the time that he shows us supreme power over all things.You're not going to escape him.
No president, no general, no no pastor, no elder.
Everyone will have to stand before him.
And see, like I said, see, we're so we're so we're dealing with the ramifications of this so bad.We feel like we're gonna stand in his presence and and talk our way out.
We're going to be able to to to uh uh debate with the Lord Jesus Christ.No, no, no, no, no, no debating.Cuz see, when you get in his presence, you going to know
when that when that when that glory and that power hits your physical body, you going to know like Oh Lord, I am in trouble.It's not going to be a guest.That's why you accept him now on this side.
You believe in him now on this side because you don't want to see him on the other side thinking you going to debate with him.But Lord, I did this and I did that and I served and I I gave to the homeless and I He don't care about none of that.
He don't care about none of that.
What he cares about if you have his spirit in him
in you.That's what he care the guarantee.Because when we walk up there,
I'm going to be at peace.I want each and every one of y'all to be at peace
with no doubt.Like this is what the scriptures are for
to destroy doubt.This is the power of the Holy Spirit to destroy doubt in you.You can't be cowarding around a holy God, the one that's called you, put his spirit in you and calling you higher.This is not condemnation.This is the call you hire to know who you are in Christ.
You got to believe.Must see faith.He'll walk you through the rest.
Ephesians 21.And this power is what?far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named.Not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Like did did he miss anything?Far above
where sin abounds, grace isFAR ABOVE ALL rule and authority.
You're not going to over outrank him.
You're not see this this life is so deceiving because we you think you we done all this good stuff.We we we cast out demons and we prayed and da da da and you have not bowed your knee to the the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ
and cuz he has all power and dominion and above every name like his name's going to be to the end of time name after name after name.He is the only progenitor.I am the way.I am the truth.I am the life.No man,
no man, like who?Come on, man.Who can really make this kind of statement?No man comes to the father
but through me,
far above all rule
and authority and power and dominion.and above every name that is named, not only in this age,but also in the age to come.Paul emphasizes the comprehensive scope of the Lord Jesus supremacy.Like it's it's it's it's unfathomable.It's immeasurable.All you have to do is look to your left and look to your right and you can see the power of God as he created you.Like we don't know what's going on in the inside of us.Like I can't right now blood is flowing, heart is pumping, oxygen is going in and out.I'm not doing any of that.
You aren't either.It's it's divine resurrection power
keeping your cells together.
When you get sick, white blood cells,
human beings are catching up, learning.
That's right.
Divine resurrection power is in you.It's for you, the church.
Yes.Thank him.The church.There is no church without the Lord Jesus Christ.
The highest entity in this life is the church.
But we're so dull and sin has blocked us so much.We can't see his divine power that works and moves and breathes in the church.
Christ's authorityunfathomable.First Peter chapter 3 verse 22.
First Peter chapter 3
verse 22
saywhy what this but this is Paul's prayer to the church Paul understood this a man cannot write this and not have some form of understanding of the power of of the Lord Jesus Christ, his death, burial, his resurrection,his ascension, sitting at the right hand of the father.First Peter verse chapter 3 verse 22.
Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God?Who claiming this?Where have you ever heard a man claim that I am I am going to heaven to sit at the right hand of God.Like Pastor Phillip said, if a man rose from the dead and walked in here, we all would be asking him questions
and we would believe him.
No progenitor has ever returned from the grave.No progenitor has ever claimed to sit at the right hand of God.
And with that with angels, authorities and powers have been subjected to him.There is no escaping divine power,divine authority, divine rule.
The sermon moves into Revelation 19, describing Christ's return, the defeat of the beast and false prophet, and the armies of heaven. The speaker celebrates the final overthrow of evil and urges believers to love Jesus so they will not be deceived.
Ephesians
chapter 1 verse 22.
and he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church.
Let me read 21 and 22 together.Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the age to come ties together.And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church.
Revelations 19.
Revelation 19 vers 11 and 21.Because we we
power like real power.
You should walk out of here stepping a little different.Like when you when you go to Walmart, you shouldn't have to be worried about no demons.Like power is in me.
You ever had people come walking to you looking crazy and they'll turn around and walk away?Why?Resurrection power is on the inside of you.
We think all the time we got to perform.No, you have resurrection power in you.Wherever your feet tread,
there's power.
Revelations verse 19.Chapter 19 verse 11- 21.Then I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse,the one sitting on it called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judge and does what?
You're not going to escape.
No one escapes.
That's why you can't That's why we can't stay focused on all the things that's going wrong.Listen, Christ is going to deal with it.
No one escapes.
Verse 12,his eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.Verse 13, he is clothed in a robe dipped in blood.And the name by which he is called is the what?
You got to get to know him.
You got to get to know him.
Hallelujah.
Verse 14.
And the armies of heaven arign in fine linen, white and pure.Where is this army coming from?Come on.
Oh, y'all not excited enough for me.Where is this army?
This army right here is you and I.Like we're going to be arraigned and fine linen, white and pure.We going to be on our own horses following the Lord Jesus as he AS HE COMES BACK TO TAKE TERRITORY AND MAKE WAR.NOBODY GETS AWAY WITH NOTHING CUZ HE GOT ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY.A TIME IS COMING.NOBODY GETS AWAY WITH ANYTHING.
He's coming to make war.And we going to be with him.
We going to be with them.
That's why you hear us sing.I hear the sounds of an army arising.I hear the sounds of an army arising.I hear the sounds.
That's why cuz we coming with them and we coming to make war.
Like this is the this is the time like right here.This is the time you get your lick back.
Hey, this is the time.THIS IS THE TIME YOU GET LIKE ALL YOUR PAIN, all the shortcomings, all the hurt.This is the time you get your lick back.Christ said Christ said, "COME ON, ARMY.GET YOUR LICK BACK.Come on and get your lick back.
Cuz you know what?I was I was I was I was trying to wonder why Christ led this army.
I was like why?Christ has all power, all authority.Like like why did Oh, he want us to get our lick back.
Yeah.It It wasn't for him.It was for us.Like you get the you get the
like like I know some of y'all be talking about smacking Adam and Eve.You ain't got to smack them.It's going it's going when when you when we are when the armies of heaven arign and fine linen white and pure.We're following him on white horses.We going to get our lick back y'all.And hey, I'm ready too.I'M READY TO PACK IS going
throwing haymakers at all of them
and then we can be like, "Woo!
Finally got that all my chest.
Stop trying to get it off your chest."Now,
the time is coming for you to get that all off your chest.
Verse uh 15.From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations.And he will rule them with a rod of iron.He will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.Verse 16.On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written,
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.King of Kings and Lord of Lords.So when you get your lick back, he going to let he gonna let them know who.This is who you getting your lick back.Go get your lick back.I'm the King of Kings, Lord of Lords.They ain't going to do nothing to you.Get your lick back.Go you.You got a problem with Go get your lick back.Go get Cuz he's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.Verse 17.Then I saw an angel standing in the sun and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead.I know we I I just I just swooshed by that.But that's that's crazy.I saw angels standing in the sun.
And with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come gather for the great supper of God."Verse 18.to eat the flesh of the kings, the flesh of captains, all power over the flesh of mighty men.All power over the flesh of horses and their riders, he got all power over all of them.And the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.Whoever you think you are,
whoever you think you are in this life, you have no power.
Christ has all power.
Verse 19.And I saw the beast, the antichrist, and the kings of the earth with their armies gathering to make war against him.I told the first gathering, I said, Christ,
I know Christ sitting back like like Satan and his minions, they are he is uh the king of deceivers.They have to be deceived.
You are going against somebody that you cannot beat.
Like you tried to beat him once, he got kicked out of heaven.
Like you didn't get the memo like you're not going to win.
Like that's that's But see, that's that's the great deception.
You think if you if you join Satan's crew, you going to win.
beast and the king of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.
Verse 20.
And the beast was captured.It don't even tell you.
Christ kicked butt so fast it didn't even tell.Y'all got your lick back so fast it don't even tell you.
It don't even tell you.It just tell them they lost.
That's all it say.And the beast was captured.
Believe me, y'all got your lick back.
Cuz we we we we riding with the all powerful one.You ever be like, you ever had a real big brother like like you was like five years apart and he was that thug dude on the block and you walked with him?You was like, "Oh, I ain't no ain't nothing gonna happen to me.I'm walking."Like Christ is that he is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.He's the one that is walking that we have no fear.Like he's going to handle even if one of y'all think y'all might be struggling.Christ said,
"Come on,
and the beast was captured, and with it was the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived
Good God,
he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image.
This is all we trying to do.It's like lead y'all to these scriptures.Love the Lord Jesus Christ so you won't end up deceived.
Verse 21.
These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.Verse 21, I'm sorry.And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse.And all the birds gorge with their flesh like Jesus grabbed just grabbed them.Just manhandle them.The false prophet and the beast and just toss them.Get out of here.Just manhandle them.Power.And they up there fighting.Fighting.He just manhandled.That's Look, y'all got to use your imagination, man.Power
like he man.Get over here.
Y'all time is Get over here.
Like he he not playing.
He not playing.
So the antichrist and the and the uh false prophet he man get out of here.Revelation 20 verse 7 and 10.
He finishes the Revelation imagery by describing Satan's final judgment and then returns to Ephesians 1. The emphasis is on Christ as head of the church and the believer's participation in resurrection power flowing from him.
So what are you going to do to Satan?
And when the thousand years has ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to
deceive like this.I mean, we living in it right now.You see the deception?
Like people think we up here just I don't know what they I don't know what they thinking.I really don't.It's just it's it's just deception
to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle.Here they go again.Their numbers is like the sand of the sea.Like they mobbing for real, like they coming for the Lord Jesus.He said, "Like the sands of the sea."Watch what all power do.
And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city.But fire
but fire.Ain't no ain't no Listen, that's why I said that's why I said before.The Lord just he just came like that because he wanted to wanted to flex a little bit.He just wanted to flex.He wanted y'all to get y'all lick back because right here it's just but fire.
Camp City fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
Who?This great sea, this great army that's supposed to take down the Lord Jesus Christ and his people.This great army.That's why we can't be shook right now when we see great armies.Cuz we got we got a general that is above all generals.
And he's a commander over all commanders.
And he has all power and all authority.
And the devil who was deceiving them was thrown into the lake of fire
and sofa where the beast and the false prophet were and they will be tormented day and night.
So what do you do with Satan?Get you.Get you.Get you.Get you.Ah.Get your power.He up here fighting and squirming.Get you
power,
resurrection power,
sitting at the right hand of the father.Power.
But wait, it don't stop there.
Ephesians, let's go back to Ephesians 23.Yeah.Don't stop.
I'mma read 22, then we going to go on to 23.And he put all things under his feet.And I was thinking about just like how Elder was talking about with that with that leash.He was talking about with that leash with your sin.See how we got to we got to we got to fight to get that sin to bow.Nah.
the Lord Jesus.He got all three of them on a leash and he just put his foot down like power.Like they they struggling.He's not struggling with them.They can try to run, squirm.He just got his foot on them.He he just he just got his foot on them and they just they just down there.
Power.Y'all need to walk out of here with your chest sticking out like I'm a part of the Lord Jesus.I got resurrection power on the inside of me.
Let me read this uh verse oh crap.Let me read this.Verse 22 and 23.And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him who fills all and in all.
The speaker concludes by summarizing the sermon: believers should see God's supreme power, resist sin, and walk in confidence. He ends with a prayer for the church and for unbelievers to be brought into God's kingdom.
We are participants in that power
and we got to know that the church is not mere merely a organization and Jesus is just a part of it like like the church is here and Jesus is no no no no no no he is thehead of the church it is connected if we chop your head off you're dead no more Livingpower flows from the head
down in the body.
You are a part of the body.
You have resurrection power on the inside of you.
Christ fills the church with his fullness by power of the spirit.Closing.Frank.
Paul prays that believers will see more clearly who God is.I pray that y'all have seen more of who God is, what he has called us to, how richly we belong to him, and how complete the resurrection and his ascension to give him power over all things.
Holy Father, I pray your sons and daughters eyes have been open to your supreme power, revelation, knowledge, and in wisdom to know who you are.Open our eyes, Lord.Let us not be so easily tripped up by the ramifications of sin that dwells in us.Let us always turn that you have divine power over all things.I ask that you would just do a mighty work in us, Lord, as we come into the knowledge of that revelation that we will walk with our chest out and not afraid of anything in this life, no circumstance,no situation, no ideology, no demonic forces, not even our own sin.You have authority even over that.
Father, bless your sons and daughters in the knowledge of the truth of your word and bring the unbeliever into your kingdom.We love you.We honor you.Thank you Lord for this time to minister to your sons and daughters.It's in Jesus name.Amen.