"Are you a follower, a fan or a disciple?" - Modern Church Pt 4 | Touré Roberts

hey family i'm pt pastor toray roberts i'm the lead pastor of the potter's house at 1la and denver on behalf of my wife pastor sarah myself we want to welcome you to our channel and to this word i cannot wait for you to hear what god has for you in this message i want to tell you a few things really quickly subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel subscribe so that you can be made aware of all of the word that's coming at you week in and week out and also turn on your notifications so you don't miss a morsel that comes forth we're also grateful for you and your partnership if you are so uh it compelled we invite you to support what we're doing not just our church but what our church is doing there are a number of outreaches a number of things critical necessary things that we support and we're able to do it because of your generosity so without further ado let's get right into this word god bless you i'll see you soon god bless you family pastor terre here i'm excited to take us further in our modern church series and i just pray that over the past three weeks now we're in week four that you've been blessed that you've been your eyes the eyes of your understanding have been enlightened that you're growing deeper that you're growing hungrier you know the word of god says blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled and so that's my prayer that that you're being filled more to the overflow that you might become everything that god has created you to be and we're going to go further today you know just to recap you know we talked about the modern church and we talked about the church being a church that is philanthropic that that literally we are anointed to be philanthropic and not just that we give and certainly we give but that but that we have divine strategies that solve problems right and not only that but you know he said i anointed jesus with the holy spirit and with power who went about being philanthropic and healing all manners of sickness and disease it doesn't mean that we're simply philanthropic but it does mean that we lead with love and we leave with grace and the ability to truly solve problems and then in the second week we talked about you know getting with the flow and we talked about how the word of god is a flow and we have to be connected to the flow of god in order to flow with god and then i asked pastor stephanie and she did such a wonderful job last week to to build upon that and she talked about one of the things that stops the flow is our own pride our pride gets in the way and so we dealt with that and today we're going to go a little bit further and uh and i want to draw your attention to to romans chapter 8 uh and we're going to read a couple of verses not in sequence in romans 8 and then we're going to read romans chapter 6 and the first verse which we touched on a couple of weeks ago and just the first part of the first verse and then we'll get into what we're going to get into today so let's look at it let's go right to it romans 8 14 says this you've seen this before for as many as are led by the spirit of god these are the sons of god and then if we jump down to verse 19 it says for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits for the revealing of the sons of god there's that word sons again and then in romans 6 and verse 1 again to grab something that we touched on a couple of weeks ago that stood out to me it says now in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplying we're going to talk about what he means when he says that in just a second but for now i just want you to join me in prayer almighty god we thank you so much for this moment that you've allowed all of us to step into it's a great moment it's a blessed moment we're thankful for being alive and and in our right mind the mind that that is committed to seeking your face the mind that is committed to worship and prayer and to and being built up by the word so we bless you for that i thank you for everyone all of my friends that are here all of my friends that are watching those who are listening to the podcast watching the video at a later time all who are connected together as one in this moment i bless them and i thank you god that this word is going to be rich it's going to be food we know that we don't live by bread alone but we live by the words that come out of your mouth prepare a table for each of us right now that we might dine to the full and be satisfied come to the place of overflow and god i thank you for giving me the spirit of wisdom and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and all of the resources of the holy spirit that i might bring fresh bread fresh power to the point of transformation not just inspiration but transformation because of the incarnation of christ that comes forth when the word is delivered so we love you we thank you we will be better as a result of this meal than we were before we came in jesus name we pray amen amen hallelujah if you just receive already just say amen or put it in the feed or or do something you might be driving at work if you can't do it just lip-sync it just mouth god bless you um love you so much you know there is a there's a conviction in my heart as a man of god that that i can't shake a conviction that that won't leave me and this conviction is that i don't want to be guilty of inspiring but not equipping inspiring you yes i believe the word of god is inspirational i believe that that to know god to have a relationship with god is to be inspired by god i believe in all of that but i don't want to be guilty of leaving you in inspiration and not equipping you for the times and the seasons that we are undeniably in i want i want you to be ready i want you to be strong i want you to be built up because the difference in you between whether or not i inspire you or or equip you will be the difference between you becoming a follower a fan or truly a disciple it's it's literally up to me because if all i do is inspire you but i don't feed you and i don't teach you and give you a broader understanding of what this thing is about if i just inspire you you're going to be attracted to me man every time i come around him i'm inspired and that's wonderful but that won't get you ready for not just the moment that we're in but the moments that i believe that that we're headed towards uh to be honest not gloom and doom this is just a reality all you got to do is look around family you got to be strong and so and so i want you to be this disciple if we look at romans chapter six and verse one what's powerful about that verse is it's talking about the church right the beginning of the church the church the fresh church it was fresh it was modern it wasn't old they were moving in a new thing and it doesn't say that church members were multiplying it says and when the number of disciples multiplied and all this movement was taking place and people were being healed and there was great philanthropy taking place and and miracle signs and wonders were happening and all of this was happening not in the environment of simply church membership this was happening in the environment of discipleship of disciples being off phil the lord disciples being multiplied in other words i can do more with a few disciples than i can do with millions of members now i'm not knocking membership membership is great membership basically says that this place this leadership this operation is the place where i am going to grow and develop and use my gifts and my talents and my resources to build the vision there's nothing wrong with membership but in the process of that if i do not become a disciple something was missed are we tracking together just say i'm a disciple put it put put it in the feed i'm i'm a disciple i'm a disciple so so what is let's talk about that what is a disciple a disciple simply put is one who is growing in the disciplines of their teacher say it again pretty simple disciple is one who is growing in the disciplines of their teacher and what we know about disciplines is your disciplines will shape your life and not only will they shape your life they will shape who you are in life our lives are formed by what we are disciplined to attend to consistently oh i feel the spirit you got to catch that you you show me a person's life and i will show you their disciplines yeah that's how powerful disciplines are and so when you think about it jesus what did he do he pulled men and women close to him so that they could learn and observe so that they can observe and learn his disciplines watch how i do it right what did jesus say in another place jesus was his father's disciple and jesus says i only do what i see my father do in other words i am connected to the disciplines of my father and that is why i look like him oh hallelujah so if we are disciples of jesus then we ultimately will begin to look like jesus and that's why relationship is so important jesus had to pull them close because i want you to see how i do it and sometimes he showed them watch this by his absence here's what i mean they'd be looking for him and he'd get up early in the morning and where would he be he would be on a mountain or in a secret place praying what was he doing i'm trying to show you how to do this thing you're looking at me but even i go to the secret place even i go and get away even i go and get steal i need you to follow my disciplines i need you to see how i handle people you consistently see me loving people you consistently see me not compromising you consistently see me talking about the kingdom that's all that jesus taught that's all that he preached he preached and taught one thing it was the gospel of the kingdom i need you to see what i am consistently doing that's why i'm so excited about the model that we're putting together where we're really going to dig deep into these small group models and these leadership training models why because we have to be close enough have a close enough proximity to leadership so that they can get a peek into our disciplines so that they can be discipled are you tracking with me if you're tracking with me just put it right there in the feed or say it just say i'm tracking with you pt i'm tracking i'm tracking with you yeah a church member or a person who's a church member only or or the fan watches the fan of a leader watch this won't be able to handle the heat when it comes oh god i feel the holy spirit see we're moving into a time and quite frankly we're already there there all you gotta do is look around where you're gonna have to be more than a fan of a church you're gonna have to be more than a fan of a great communicator and a great speaker you're gonna have to be more than you're gonna have to be a disciple because like i said a when the heat comes you're not gonna be able to handle it and two watch this a fan cannot multiply you know this thing is all about multiplication from the very beginning the lord said be fruitful and multiply this thing his whole vision his own strategy is about multiplication a fan cannot multiply because they have not become they're just in awe oh so and so speaking here i better go stone start speaking there i better go and we become religious fans and our lives are never changing can i talk to some real people here today i just want to tell the truth because i have a conviction you've got to be ready and if a fan does multiply all he or she will multiply are other fans and so now we have a movement that is a mile wide but only an inch deep and that can easily happen and it seems fun and it watches and it works until the heat comes it works until the shaking comes because if you're not deep when the shaking comes you can easily be uprooted confused and now you're going with any wind of doctrine with anything anything that somebody brings to you that sounds good oh i'm off to that [Applause] disciples are rooted and they're grounded and if we don't move from followership and fanship to discipleship the church will not reach her fullness the fullness of her potential to impact and transform the world which is the mission of the church are you tracking with me still just putting the feed still tracking pt still tracking still tracking now i want to take this thing a little deeper because i don't even think that the end goal is discipleship i'm going to take you a little deeper i believe that disciples are actually in training to become sons uh here we go here we go and the women and the these women with sons what let me just let me just dispel this right now let me just spell this right now it has absolutely nothing to do with gender we are arguing we have so many arguments going on right now about gender i mean everybody just arguing gender and now it's fluid now all these and it's just it's just we just gender just bruises out there and i get that we need to have some conversations i get that but in the kingdom it is irrelevant so we're having in many contexts irrelevant conversations about gender when it doesn't even matter when it pertains to the kingdom because it is not about sex it ain't even about sexuality oh i don't have my wife here to pull me in but i'm talking the truth that is irrelevant to the kingdom we're having earthly carnal low-level conversations that's why the word of god says that since we have been raised with christ seek those things which are above we're over here bickering down here on things that have no relevance up here so when i say sonship i'm not talking about male or female or anything that somebody might feel is in between i'm not say it's not even about that it's a higher level conversation watch this about identity a spiritual identity spiritual identity and it's the identity of sonship can i teach today okay and so and so disciples or believers our son our sons positionally but need to be discipled to become sons pragmatically so position so when i talk about position what am i what do i mean i'm talking about our position in christ right when we accept christ when we embrace christ we become sons the only thing is we don't know what that means so we have to be discipled in other words we got power that we don't even know we have we've got authority that we don't even know we have we've got access that we don't even know we have we have insight that we don't even know we have the bible says that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge it doesn't even say a lack of resource it does something i can be resourced to win but live like a loser because i haven't been discipled i haven't been taught what did i get when i got jesus you you can only function in what you have been taught so if all you think that you got when you got jesus was forgiveness of your sins all you will have is forgiveness of your sins if all you think that you got when you got jesus is that you're not going to hell but you're going to heaven all you will be stuck with is the comfort of believing that you're not going to hell or whatever that that means right but when you realize that no when i got jesus i got authority over sickness when i got jesus i got authority over wickedness when i got jesus i got authority over principalities and power when i got jesus i got authority over my flesh when i got jesus i got authority over everything that comes against me when i recognize that i can walk in that but the only way that you're going to get that is discipleship jesus brought the disciples close and as they were closed they saw him casting out devils and it was like whoa gosh everything is so who is this man what manner of authority what he was what was he doing he was bringing them close so that they could see his disciplines to show them and then what did he do he turned over the keys right away he said now you go do that i mean he's moving he's casting out devils he's healing the sick he's opening blind eyes right he brings them close shows them that and it says now go and do it you've been with me long enough and you've been watching me long enough you've been discipled by me long enough to move in these things so in other words you just thought that you were watching me you just thought you were my fan you just thought that you were my follower but really what i was doing was i was handing you over the keys now i'm telling you to move and i'ma walk away what if what if all the while we have been fanning and following and gawking over our celebrity ministers the whole time those ministers have been waiting for you to step into yours what if the proximity that you have to greatness and now because of the internet and technology we all have proximity to greatness what if that proximity to greatness was not for us to sit there and be a fan but what it but what if it was to expedite discipleship and accelerate discipleship that would create action in and through our own lives are we still together and so let's talk about what sons are sons simply put are the spiritual offspring of jesus that's who we are the spiritual the true spiritual sheba the true spiritual offspring of jesus see you have the religious offspring of jesus and you have the true spiritual god-born offspring of jesus when you have a relationship with jesus a spiritual powerful relationship with jesus watch this he cannot help to produce himself within you when you truly have a connection that word it says for whom he foreknew back in romans 8 29 it says for whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son so we've seen a couple of words paul use a couple of words in the new testament about transformation one of them is transform the other one is conform right and transform has to do with a metamorphosis conform has to do with a metamorphosis but this metamorphosis only takes place when two things come together with conform i i didn't just change by myself i changed because i was connected to something and because i joined myself to something i begin to take on the form and the shape of that thing and that's how i got transformed and so when when relationship with jesus what happens in that is that jesus begins to produce things something watches jesus begins to implant himself in me until i birth me that looks like him i wish i could say that better i i the rebirth is i i i'm born again but i'm born again through the spirit of jesus that i have connected with and i thought that i was just connecting with him but i was really becoming one with him and we got together and made a baby called me the new me are you tracking with me that's how this thing works and that's how i become a son i am a spiritual offspring see my connection with jesus ought to produce a different me not just to me that don't cuss no more and that's wonderful you know still might a little bit i know i do just a little bit every once in a while sometimes there's only a way to say it the only way to say it right anyway i just hey man i just let let that go because that'll get me judged real good today but that's all right lord is good people need to stop lying you know i mean cause sometimes just slip out by golly but it don't be by golly gosh nab sometimes gosh nab just will not okay i need i need i need to move on sons are the spiritual offspring of jesus i talked about they have authority they have access right i love that how jesus had crazy access remember when uh when he needed to get that cult and and he told his disciples to go and get him this cult donkey not a coat but a cult donkey uh and and he he said you know and the disciples didn't have no money like what are they what are we gonna say we're gonna steal it what you what jesus come on and they're like no just just tell them the lord has needed it right and guess what they came back riding on that coat right so they have authority sons have authority they have access they have insight right the sons of issachar remember them and they understood times and seasons and what israel ought to do they had insights sons have ridiculous favor like like crazy favor crazy mercy crazy grave grace because god highlights sons oh god i can't wait to go further he highlights sons and then sons have power they are the spiritual offspring of jesus they look like jesus if you know with sons if you want to see what a son looks like look at jesus study jesus again come close guys look at me i want to show you something because watch this these works i do what did jesus say and greater works you will do because i'm going to the father in other words i've got a short life but you're going to do greater works because you're going to live a long life and then you're going to multiply so so watch what i'm doing pay attention to what greater works you were going to do and that's what brings us into romans 8 to the scriptures that i alluded to earlier and so if i were to give you a few things about son i think the romans 8 first of all if you want to learn about sonship study the book of romans especially romans 6 through 8 but romans eight when i first gave my life to the lord and like really was serious and intentional about walking with god i don't think that there is any passage of scripture that changed my life and helped me to recognize and understand who i am and what i possess quite like romans chapter 8. that romans chapter 8 will get you right it says all kind of things first it starts off by saying there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus who walk in the spirit and not the flesh i mean it just starts there like condemnation get up out of here then it talks about how you cannot walk in the flesh but you can walk in the spirit there's so many things in there it talks about how you can put to death the deeds of the body by the spirit so you thought that you were stuck in your body and says god says no i got a secret weapon i got a secret weapon against your flesh i got a secret weapon against that thing that you think you can't shake it's called the holy ghost it's called the spirit watch this and the spirit will not just give you the strength to deal with your external enemies it will allow you to deal with the enemy that is within me the power of the spirit of god there's no passage of scripture that gives that insight and that practical teaching like romans 8. in fact i want to pray if you have not studied romans 8 i want to i beseech you i urge you to read it pray through it read it again until you understand it until you walk away from romans chapter 8 with power and authority over your flesh like you have never had before in fact i want to pray that into existence right now i pray in the name of jesus that every person who's watching every person who's listening every person who's connected to this message would get a revelation of romans 8 revelation about the power of the spirit that they might walk in the power therein in jesus name amen amen if you receive it put it in the feed right there or just tell somebody or just right there in your car wherever you are just receive that right now because it's going to change your life the same way it changed mine and so that whole chapter romans 8 it has a lot to say about sons but i want to point out just a few things first of all and this is what romans 8 14 says that we alluded to it says that sons are led by the spirit of god it says that those who are led by the spirit of god these are the sons of god being led by the spirit of god yes it takes surrender it takes discipline but there's nothing like it because he will not lead you into a path that will not ultimately bring you success in victory being led by the spirit of god being led being led you know when i pray the model prayer daily our father who art in heaven holy is your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread watch this and lead us not into temptation for me it is me not i don't just receive it as lead me not into temptation that's great right but the way that i know that you will not lead me to the place that i will fall to temptation is if you lead me by the spirit in other words i don't want to just be red led randomly throughout my day i want to be led by the spirit because the spirit has an agenda the spirit has a direction the spirit has power the spirit knows my future the spirit knows my destiny the spirit knows what i can handle the spirit knows what i can't handle the spirit knows all of that so i cannot live on cruise control i want to be led by the spirit and it says that sons are led by the spirit the mark of a son is that he or she they are led by the spirit right that's one of the things it says about them and then in another place in romans chapter 8 19 that we looked at it says that they are also revealed so sons are led by the spirit but sons are also revealed and that takes time i let up there's some man you've been hidden see god if if it means if he's saying that the sons are revealed it means that they're hidden and sometimes the whole experience of your life has to do with god hiding you for a season i feel the holy ghost him him developing you i can't reveal you yet not too soon because if i reveal you too early the enemy will you you you won't be able to handle it so what i'm gonna do is come on david what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna have you tending to the sheep i feel god i'm gonna have you in the backside and you want to be prominent and i hear god saying not yet when it's time you will be prominent but one of the things that i got to kill is your need to be prominent yeah because your need to be prominent says you're not ready and so i'm going to keep you in obscurity for a season come on david with the sheep and then even when david was anointed he still was kept in obscurity for a season come on somebody he had conquered goliath right had a flash moment but then went right back into security hiding from saul until the time was right are you tracking with me moses was in obscurity he was on the backside of the desert right so sons have to be revealed i feel the holy spirit there's some people that i'm talking to right now and you have no idea who you are and the enemy is trying to make you quit in the wilderness he's trying to make you give up in the fight but i hear god say if you will not quit if you will not get weary in your well-doing but you will continue to allow god to develop you on the back side of the mountain when he reveals you you will be ready and the glory that will emanate from your essence will be earth shattering if that is your word say i hear you pt and i receive it just put it right there in the feed i hear you and i receive it so these sons they're led by the spirit of god too they are revealed how are they revealed what takes place they're revealed through inner surrender they're revealed through their surrender because you can't be a son watch this you can't be as oh this is gonna oh we gotta go deep here you can't be a son being a son is also a decision you know we have these talks and people you know i want you to be my spiritual father i don't have any problem being your spiritual father but can you be a son that's actually the more difficult question can you be a son are you whole and healthy enough and not reject it so rejected that i can't even father you that's the better question will you be my father i don't know can you be a son can you handle correction what if i don't agree with everything what if you come saying oh this is so great and i say it's good but if you do this that and this and that it will be great without you pouting and saying and calling me saul calling me your saul you know what i'm saying so so so in order to be a son and for that sonship to be revealed it's revealed through surrender sons are also revealed to their endurance like i talked about you you go the sons in order to be revealed you got to go through you got to endure some stuff you got to take a licking and keep on ticking are you tracking with me you can't quit you can't do you know how many times i have wanted to quit but never did in fact i think it's okay to okay to want to quit as long as you don't in fact if you haven't done anything or aren't moving in such a way and have experienced the friction of the warfare that you started to the point to where you wanted to quit you haven't even got started yet i think the true mark of a leader is to be brought to the brink of man i want to just throw all this thing away but you don't that's when you know you're onto something i remember i'd tell you all kind of stories we have a bunch of time but i remember i wanted to quit one day this is that and i pulled them along alongside of this this this car i was getting off the freeway in coldwater canyon and and i was you know i'm gonna figure out a way to quit quit i put alongside this car and there was a little girl in the back of the car and she was like she maybe was eight years old or something like that and uh and she was staring at me and i was just oh he is so cute or whatever you just waved at her and she just stared at me i was like i'm doing the clown thing yeah and she just stared at me and then the car was making a left and it pulled off and she just kept and she just looked at me and my heart got convicted and i heard the voice of the lord say but who's going to look out for them i'll never forget that and it was god saying so so it's almost like he'll allow you to entertain quitting but at the end of the day when you're the real thing you can't quit and you're the real thing how do i know because you're watching this i think the only the real thing i think the people that are really serious about doing this thing right are the only time people are attracted to this ministry i believe that and so and so sons have to be led they have to be revealed through their surrender their endurance their commitment their test right the tests that they endure they're unwavering for love the unwavering love for jesus and for the kingdom like unwavering like you you can't shake me from that like even when i when i i have a selfish moment i'm always gonna come back to your kingdom come your will be done those are sons they're tried they're the ones that embrace the psalm 27 and 4 testimony the one thing that i desire that will i seek after is you to dwell in your house they're the ones where when peter when jesus tries to give peter a way out and he tells his disciples when things start getting rough and things start getting difficult he says hey look you know you can go and peter says and go where and go where sir you have the words of eternal life i ain't going nowhere and he you know what he actually did go somewhere for a minute but guess what he turned around and he came right back and some of you life has to show you that you're truly a son through what you overcome through what you endure and watch this sometimes even through what you bounce back from you are a son you are a son failure can't even keep you from being a son setbacks can't even keep you from being a son mistakes can't even keep you from being a son nothing can keep you from being a son when you're truly a son are you tracking with me do me a favor put it right there in the thief i'm a son i'm a son i'm a son i'm a son and the last thing that we need to know about sons and it's right there in rome is 8 19 and of course we'll talk more about this but it says for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of sons sons are respected and celebrated by the creation the creation for me is the universe the universe for me is not god the universe is everything that god has created right and there is a respect in the universe for sons oh i feel the holy ghost you are you're connected you're you're one there is a you know you know the ocean has to obey you fill the holy spirit stuff has to obey you there was a the sun stood still for joshua because he was a son he was committed he was a laid down lover of jesus his life was completely laid down and sometimes i'll be places man and i'll just feel like like i'm a son you know what i mean i haven't done it yet but i want to just get out the boat stop walking you know man i had that anointing yet but but i'm telling you but but i feel i but if he had to do that to teach me he would but i feel you can just feel you go places and i'm on planes people are worried i'm like look this thing ain't going out cause i'm on it hello somebody you are safer to shoot but they're respected they're the whole all of creation everything that has been created is waiting for the revealing of your sonship and discipleship is the pathway to sonship i believe with all of my heart that the modern church the church of the lord is the answer i believe that we're the answer through philanthropy and through our transformative power to change lives and appropriate the kingdom i believe that we're the answer to every problem it says all of creation is eagerly waiting watch this not for for the correction of climate change god bless it and we'll do our part to reduce our carbon footprint and all that kind of stuff listen i'm all about being responsible but at the end of the day what my bible tells me is that we're it that we're up and i believe the modern church is not the church filled with with members and fans it's the church that produces and multiplies sons and those sons shake the earth and so i want to pray for you i want i want wherever you are in your journey with the lord i want you to ask yourself the question am i a follower am i a fan or am i a disciple do i have a close enough relationship with jesus to perceive the disciplines of jesus as jesus said i only do if i might translate this in the context of our conversations i only do i only mimic the disciplines of my father [Music] do you have a close enough relationship with jesus to perceive his disciplines so much so that you can mimic them and not just mimic them as a spectator outside of that connection but to do those things through your connection with jesus the reason why he called you yes was to save you yes was to bless you yes was to bring you into the reality of forgiveness and grace that is beyond amazing i mean grace that chases you the bible says that goodness and mercy follows us all the days of our life his grace is absolutely amazing because my grace would stop it just forgiving you that that's about all i got i'll forgive you but his grace not only forgives us but his grace produces for us as if we had never done it my grace would forgive you but i won't i won't really fool with you too much you know what i mean to be honest i'm still working on me right i'm working on that discipline [Music] but his grace is not only will i forgive you but i'm going to bring you into close proximity to me right when someone hurts us we don't let them in close anymore we we i'll let you in but you hang out right over there see that line and he's like no no i'm gonna forgive you and i want to draw you close enough to be my disciple and i want to use you greatly because jesus says i see you i see the real you don't even see the real you that's why you do what you do is because you don't really know who you are but jesus says i see you because i made you you are my offspring and regardless of who you are being in your own flesh and in your own way of thinking i know who you are as a son and so i want to extend an invitation to you you're watching right now and maybe you maybe you're a fan of mine or a fan of pastor sarah or a fan of pastor stephanie or a fan of one or the potter's house or whatever maybe you've been a fan you've been you know more of a spectator and i get that we all got to start somewhere right but i believe that you're hearing this message because god is drawing you closer because you're going to need it you're going to need more of him and you're going to need to be a disciple to withstand the heat of the times that we are in yeah you know what's interesting i'm reminded of a story when when it was uh daniel it's in the book of daniel and it was when the three little hebrew boys were thrown in the fire and it says that the adversary made the fire seven times hotter than what it normally was and of course if you play the story out you know that the fire didn't consume them in fact jesus or a man like the son of man the son of god rather was in the fire with them so that was he was the fourth person but what i'm getting at is it didn't matter how hot it was because the lord was with him and so you don't have to worry about what will come and and i can't guarantee you that more challenging days are not on the horizon but what i can guarantee you is that if you are a disciple if you are a child of god if you are a son of god it doesn't matter how hot it comes it doesn't matter if it turns up seven times you're going to be able to withstand it because you won't be alone and so if that's you and you're watching or you're listening and you say pt i don't want to just be a follower i don't want to just be a fan i don't want to just be a spectator but i want to open up my heart to jesus i want to be a disciple of jesus so that i can be on my pathway to sonship which is the ultimate if that's you and you say pastor that's what i want i want you to just put it right there in the feed i just want you to put it there and just just just say that's me pt that that's me i i i receive i receive christ that's me that's me i'm a disciple just put it in there respond if you're watching via live stream if you're watching right now there is a link that you can click us right there you can connect with our pastoral team our pastoral staff they will answer any questions that you might have they'll connect with you our prayer team is there we're there to pray with you we love you we're for you and we're committed to your journey from being a fan or a follower or a spectator one who is just enamored by the gifted people that are part of this movement the music and everything but you want to get past that and beyond that and you say no no no no i want to get to discipleship because i must realize the revealing of my sonship we're going to help you with that process so we love you and we thank you i and i just want you to just i just want you to to make a declaration right now if you're at home and you're by yourself or you're listening to this via pocket you're in the car just receive it just make a declaration tell god right now on this moment right now in this moment i'm your disciple and i just want to pray for you father thank you for this moment that we've had together to share with you to look into your word to consider where we are father and and i just thank you for these precious sons and daughters god these precious people who are saying yes to you right now in this moment yes in a way that they have never said yes before maybe understanding things that they have had understood before and really getting a revelation about what this is truly about and father i thank you that you're touching them and you're drawing them in you said behold i stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door i will come in and sup with them and they with me in other words i will come in and have an exchange an intimate exchange just as intimate as a private dinner one-on-one with no pretension just love and the promise of transformation i thank you god and i want to seal this moment in prayer that this moment will not be lost and the ground that we have taken today the forward progress that we have realized today will not be lost but from here we'll go from level to level and from glory to glory seal it right now in the precious name of jesus amen

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

Views: 16,559

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Id: upOH7rz45l4

Length: 46min 17sec (2777 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 23 2021