John Bevere - Catch The Fire Conference 2019 (Friday Morning)

good morning how's everyone doing good you're awake yeah had a good night yeah awesome well for those of you who are from here in Toronto we're gonna have incredible weather today in tomorrow which is amazing summer is lasting a few days longer which is cool for us here and then if you're not from here then you wouldn't know the difference but guys feel free to stand up to your feet we're gonna get started in worship right away I'm excited for today this morning and this evening we have Chris and somewhere Schiele they are worship leaders for katchafire music and they oversee the katchafire music for all of the world and they have like it's it's gonna be good it's gonna be awesome so I'm excited and then we have John Bevere as well with us this morning it's gonna be good yeah you guys ready yeah the cool thing I love about conferences and like events and seminars is that you go home or you go to your meal you come back to the next session and then you pick up where you left off and God takes us on this journey and and so yeah I was just reading this morning and in Hebrews chapter 4 where Jesus is the great high priest who fully empathizes understands us and then it says and therefore you then can now approach the throne of grace and I just for this morning you know we can just come right here this morning and just with your eyes closes picture you running right before like running right up into the throne room you're like I'm approaching the throne because I know I know that I know that I have a high priest who understands me who made away and it's a throne of grace it's a throne of grace God this morning we come before you fully confident in who you are and who we are and who's we are as your kids that we can come running boldly before you saying god we belong here we belong in your presence because of Christ Jesus we love you God we love you and I pray for all of us here in this room we just give you this whole day ever session every meal every break time God come speak to us I speak clarity in all of our lives our emotions our hearts God that you would just open up a whole new level of Revelation in our lives today God we are here for you come and transform our lives come and touch our hearts in Jesus name Amen [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh welcome [Music] Oh [Music] you are the one we want me Jesus shine through all the praise is that wheezing off you for you are the one we want [Music] Jesus shine [Music] all the praises that we see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come [Music] so come and let you [Applause] you are the one we watch me [Music] Jesus shine but all the praise [Music] to come [Music] let's fill this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so we have come we have come to give you high praise Jesus we have come to love you in this place lift up your voices we have come to give you high we have come to love you in this place we're gonna pour it out this morning come on we have come we have come to give you hottest or we have come to love you in this place let it keep rising up we have come to give you we to love we have [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] here we are [Applause] pauley approach your throne sons and daughters now we boldly approach the throne he's giving us access only we come in we come he's so open the doors then he's giving us access [Music] we step in now he's giving me access the son [Music] now he's getting me access [Music] step in he's given us access the bully approaches strong we will the approaches from the spine king of Qi [Music] Oh lived up you saw him this morning [Music] no it's giving the Iceland [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the sound of one set free oh let it rise [Music] the redeemed in the sound of onset free [Music] song the song of the redeemed the sound of us set free it is the song of the redeemed the sound of our suffering can you let her eyes [Music] we just begin to release a roar in the room this morning as a son and as I go [Music] Oh [Music] for you Jesus you are the one who we want Jesus shine [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] be God [Music] beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] so Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Applause] don't [Music] [Music] Oh you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the only one found worthy Jesus [Music] there is no Jesus [Music] there is no I can't Jesus there is no [Music] worthy one worthy one [Music] there is no one like you Jesus there's no [Music] [Music] [Applause] there is no IQ Jesus I can't either there is no iq Jesus [Music] let's just sing that out just the voice there is no [Music] king of and there is no [Music] there is no there is No [Music] there is no [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] give him a song this morning give them a spontaneous ole [Music] dude ever saw sons and daughters built him it off to the smart [Music] my Jesus you are everything for my Jesus my Jesus lift you up my Jesus you are everything to me you are everything to me you are the president you are everything you are everything you are everything [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] people all throughout history getting a glimpse of Jesus and you get Moses going to the mountain and he sees this this pavement that's like blue and crystal and then you come hundreds of years later you see Ezekiel he sees his throne moving over the nations and you see in the daniel daniel has this vision where he's like taken up and he sees the Ancient of Days hair white as snow as wool eyes blazing like fire and then you get to the book of Revelation hundreds of years later and John sees the same thing he's like I see him I see him his hairs white as snow as wool eyes blazing like fire feet like bronze burning in the flames and his voice is like rushing waters and I just want to spend another few more minutes this morning and Chris and some are gonna go for it but I just want you guys with your eyes closed just you can boldly run into the throne room before God and Jesus is there and we're gonna give him all of our all of our affection our devotion our hearts our attention our thoughts and we're gonna say Jesus you are so worthy you are beautiful you are worthy you are worth it all and we just want to give you all of ourselves this morning we lay ourselves before you and in the book of Revelation it says the elders are stinger Thrones and to continued cast your Thrones at it's not your throats your crowns at him God is placing a crown on you and you throw the crown when you look at him and he places the crowd on you and then you throw it because you're looking at him but he's place in front of you and you're like I am just so in awe of how beautiful you are Jesus I want to give all of myself to you and God is saying I'm crowning you as glory your hope you're wearing a crown you're my son you're my daughter so just for another few minutes we're just gonna worship everything we have [Music] you are everything mukaddes oh my geez my Jesus [Music] you are everything Oh Margie [Music] my Jesus [Music] my Jesus you are everything ah geez my Jesus Oh My Jesus and you are there every Oh My Jesus Margie's you are the everything [Music] [Music] Jesus [Music] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] we call [Applause] we've gone about before [Music] right now we've gone to bow before you go and lift up your name and [Music] we lived you up in this flange [Music] you are so beautiful God we want to be people that are so in love with Jesus coming back to our first level over and over and over again we love you we love you in your name we pray and all God's people say and they repeat after me god I want to be a lover of your presence I want to be a lover of Jesus I want to always remember my first love Holy Spirit always take me back to that place in Jesus name Amen alright thank you so much Chris and summer we worship was a bit shorter but it's because we're gonna go right back into worship at the end of speaking so on your way back to your seats give a couple hugs to some people around you and say good morning if you're not a hugger you can do some high-fives I'm a hugger so just get filled up with the love of God you can't help but love people all right well who was here last night a lot of you guys were it was amazing it was absolutely incredible we've been praying for all of you for weeks and months leading up to the conference we are so glad you're here you are meant to be here God has something in store and in his plan for you and so this morning we're gonna have another awesome morning with John Bevere he he gave it away what he's gonna speak on this morning last night so if you if you remember then you're in for a treat and if you are those note takers you can take out your notes now he's one of those speakers that you're just gonna be scribbling but you can also watch it back online as well so and welcome to those watching online well feel free to find your seats awesome we're gonna get we're gonna come right back into worship at the end of the speaking it's gonna fit perfectly because it's all about God and fearing God so it's gonna be incredible well John Bevere feel free to come on up to the stage please stand this is John's last session with us it's been an absolute treat having you here thank you it's been a real pleasure good morning I want I want us to stay standing that was amazing worship you know Lisa called me this morning and first question was how'd it go last night and I said Lisa it's so refreshing to walk right into an auditorium and instantly the presence of God is there and I said it was just so wonderful and I said I can't wait to tell her that this morning was even stronger I love morning crowds I don't know what it is about the morning crowds and conferences you know I do the evening services but sometimes I get to do the morning like this and I just find the morning people are so hungry and so I I want to stay in that atmosphere of worship I want us to go right into the Word of God and I I just you know I'm I'm I'm usually not at a loss for words but I am right now after that worship can we just can we just pray and ask the Holy Spirit to to meet us again in the word as he as he did in worship father in Jesus name I'm so grateful so grateful for what you're doing here what you're doing around the world because of what you've done here it's not by my it's not by power but it's by your spirit and I'm so thankful to you Holy Spirit you love to glorify Jesus we love to see you glorify Jesus because we love Jesus so much I'm asking once again that you would speak through me I am completely and utterly dependent upon you I'm believing you for every word and I'm also asking Lord that it would continue even after the Word of God is spoken then we can even go to a higher level of worship so father may we go from glory to glory from faith to faith from strength to strength frye decree your kingdom has come within us you will shall be done in this place on earth as it is in heaven and for this we give you all the honor the praise the glory in Jesus name and everybody that agrees shouts come on thank him thank him amen amen you can be seated one of my favorite scriptures in the Bible James chapter 4 verse 8 everybody in here should know it if you've been saved more than a month if you don't memorize it draw near to God and He will draw near to you okay now look at this verse on the board who draws first come on say it what we do there's something that we do we initiated that will literally cause the one to put the stars in the universe with his fingers and called every one of them by name to come near me I don't know about you but that really excites me so what James is saying here about the Spirit of God is simply this you are the one that determines the level of your relationship with God not God let me say it one more time you not God are the one that determines how close you're going to be to him I think there's a lot of Christians that have this mindset that there are certain people that were born with like stars over their cribs John are not Oral Roberts John's probably RV told you that didn't happen or Roberts mother Theresa these people are closed because they chose to be close can I tell you in my 35 years of ministry some of the people that walk the closest with the Lord are people you're not going to see in pulpits they're closed because they've chosen to me and let me say this God is more passionate about being close with you than you are with him Wendy say that again God is more passionate about being intimately close with you than you are with him because look at verse 5 James makes the statement do you not know that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously now what does the word urine mean that's not a word we use on the streets Millennials don't use that at all so what in the world does the word urine mean it means to long for intensely and consistently okay he longs for us intensely and consistent I love the consistently part because you know there's nobody closer to me on this earth than my wife but I've learned that at two o'clock in the morning if I wake her up she's not yearning for me but I have gotten up at 2:00 in the Holy Spirit's right there I mean it's amazing when I think of God yearning for us I think of what David said in Psalm 139 he David said Lord if I consider the thoughts that you have about me personally this is not the church collectively this is me personally he said if I was able to number those thoughts they would outnumber every grain of sand that's on this planet would you stop and think about every grain of sand it's on this planet every beach every desert every golf course that's a lot of sand now when I think about how much I love my wife if I added up all the thoughts I've had about her in the last 37 years I don't think I get a shoebox full and I'm doing pretty good because you know what scientists tell us one cubic foot one cubic foot of beach has 1.8 billion grains of sand okay now how many of you know God cannot exaggerate hey I caught a fish this big it was this big you just held it out real far that's a lie God can't lie so when God says my thoughts about you outnumber every grain of sand us on this planet you understand how much he thinks about you how many you know you don't think a lot about somebody you don't want to be closer with come on man now why are some people not experiencing intimacy with God well there's something I've learned there has to be a foundation in our life for us to have this intimacy it doesn't matter how much God wants to be close to us or how much we want to be close to him if this foundations not there you can't have intimacy with God and that intimacy is seen in a verse of scripture in Psalms in a psalm 89 verse 7 where the psalmist makes this statement look at this God is greatly to be feared are you seeing this God is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of the Saints now look at this and to be held in reverence by all those around him look at the second statement he is to be held in reverence by all those who surround him you will never find God in an atmosphere that he's not held with the utmost of respect let me tell you when I first learned this back in 1996 I was asked to the nation of Brazil for the first time to do a national conference in the capital of Brasilia I was so excited first time in Brazil I flew down in 1996 I remember I was speaking Friday night I got there early because the flights get in early and I spent the day praying in the hotel room they drove me to the conference that night I remember we were still blocks away from the auditorium there were cars everywhere there was no place to park and I remember them pulling me in jam-packed parking lot I get out of the car it's a massive arena but down there what they do is they put a five foot gap between the ceiling and the upper wall of the arena all the way around you understand what I'm saying because it creates air ventilation and so they walk me into the building so I could hear the praise coming from the inside of the building and I'm so excited I mean this is National Conference it's a believers conference that's in Brazil and they walk me in and they put me on the platform they used to do that back then okay oh gosh I'm so glad we don't do that anymore and I'm on the platform during worship thousands of Brazilians there's not an empty seat in the place and the presence of God is nowhere now let me make this really clear there's two types of the presence of God the Bible talks about one is this omnipresence okay david says if i go to the highest mountain you're there if i go to the lowest value there that is the presence of God that says I will never leave you nor forsake you that's the omnipresence the other type is the manifest presence now you guys understand that around here manifest is to bring from the unseen to the seen the unheard into the heard the unknown into the known is when God reveals himself to your senses jesus said I will manifest myself to you that is a very valid experience in Christianity that presence which is here in this auditorium was completely absent in that auditorium and so under my breath and because I'm baffled these the put you know there should be energy in the room right because it's thousands of Brazilians right you got the best worship team and I under my brother I went Lord where's your presence and all of a sudden God opened my eyes and I saw people you know walking around during the worship I saw them folding her arms looking like this others had their hands in their pocket looking around others were whispering to each other I see people fumbling through their foot purses and I'm like wow this is hopefully this will stop but it doesn't they go didn't they go into all the worship set the praise and the worship set the leader gets up and starts reading out of the Bible and I'm still hearing people whispering to one another I'm still seeing people walking around like it's some kind of event I'm still I'm still seeing people sitting there and looking around like this so now I'm getting angry okay so by the time they introduced me I'm really angry okay I just have no other way to describe this and I remember walking up to the pulpit whenever I have a translator I'm usually on the left side so I just leaned my left arm on the pulpit my translators over here I just stared at him he didn't say a word and we knew the guest speaker for the Friday night meeting National Conference and you're not saying a word for like 45 seconds and you're just glaring at him that will get their attention all of a sudden I really stopped looking around everybody stop walking around everybody stop fumbling through the purses stop whispering and they all looked at me like what are you doing and when I went when I knew I had every eye on me in the place this is this is the first words I ever spoke in Brazil in public I didn't say hi nice to be here thank you for having me no no that I said I have two questions it's a question number one you're sitting across the table talking to somebody the whole time you talk to them they got their arms folded looking around like this or the whispering to the person sitting next to them so will you continue to talk to them they said no they have another question what if every time you go to somebody's house you knock on the door they opened the door and they go oh it's you come on in I said will you continue you go they said not I said I've been in this auditorium for two hours and I said there's not announced the presence of God in here that's because God will never come into an atmosphere where he's not held with the utmost of respect I said if your president would have walked on this platform tonight he would have gotten ten times the respect you gave the Holy Spirit I said if Pele would have walked on this platform you would have been the greatest soccer player in Brazil's history I said you would have been on the edge of your seat so excited anticipating every word I said you've given no respect to the Spirit of God and next 75 minutes I preached them on the fear of the Lord at the end of the 75 minutes I said okay use your boot this is a believers conference you say your believer you say you believe in Jesus you're a Christian but you lack the fear of God and you're willing to repent stand up 75% of the auditorium stands now just like that as soon as they do the presence of God falls okay people start weeping weeping weeping okay it lasts two or three four minutes ellipse God says lead him into prayer of repentance let him in a prayer repentance and another wave of his presence right now they're weeping stronger you can hear the sobs from all over last three or four minutes at lips the Holy Spirit speaks to me and he said I'm coming one more time now I have no way of describing this and I can never do this justice I heard about this twenty years after it happened okay this is how profound this was the only way I know how to describe is you're standing at the end of the runway over here at Toronto and a Boeing jet takes off in front of you that kind of a violent wind came blowing into that auditorium okay when it did the people started screaming now can you imagine thousands of Latinos screaming how loud that would be okay the wind was louder okay and I'm on the platform and I'm frozen I'm literally frozen and all it's coming out of my mouth is oh my god oh my god and I'm like what do I do and I mean there's like goose bumps on my goose bumps because let me let me tell you something I said this last night daddy didn't come in the king came in and I'm gonna go one step further I'm standing on that platform and this thought goes through me Bevier you say one wrong word you make one wrong move you're dead okay now would that have happened I don't know but it happened with a guy named Ananias in a New Testament when he brought up an offering he made a wrong move in that kind of a presence because you got to realize that presence Peter walks out of that room and they put the people on the streets and they're healed see this is the presents we want but are we ready for it they thought they were drunk on the day of Pentecost they were obviously laughing in the power of the Spirit but in acts 5 somebody makes a wrong move when that kind of presence is in there and you know what the Bible says in acts 5 go read it 5:11 when Ananias and his wife fall over dead the Bible says great fear came upon the church and I'm sitting there going what do I do and I'm just I'm very cautiously walking back and forth I stop I'm frozen the wind lasts for about 90 seconds and it gradually subsides it just and it leaves in its wake people collapsed weeping crying all over the auditorium and now I'm going what do I do and the Holy Spirit said I'm finished with you so I turned to leader I said it's all yours so they they walk me out of it they put me in the car and the national the girl that was chosen to sing that night right she and her husband get in the car and she screams she goes and I said oh I was probably a jet airplane flying over the top of the building because I I still I was like how could this ever happen and she got mad at me oh my gosh she goes you know she was right like I'm like and her husband quiets her down he's a little bit more calm right and he goes sir that wasn't a jet airplane above the building I said how do you know he said because there were security and policemen all around the outside of the auditorium he said most of them aren't even saved he said when the winds start blowing they came running in to see what was going on because they heard it from the inside of the building the auditorium I should say and he said I'm at the soundboard because I got to make sure my wife's levels are right for singing and he said our decimal meters were at zero he's John not one ounce of the sound of the wind came through the sound system so my god take me in my hotel room and I remember I just on the balcony that night just I could do is worship till 1:30 in the morning the next morning because I spoke Saturday morning was is like this Friday night Saturday morning that's usually the way you're asked to speak you cannot believe that deliverances the healings the salvations that occurred just because of one word reverence I've learned something in my personal prayer time it used to used to be really hard for me to get in the presence of God I'd get up in the morning I pray a prayer pray and then I started doing something III wouldn't pray I wouldn't sing I wouldn't do anything I just think about the awesomeness of my father and all of a sudden his presence would manifest I'm like why is this so easy and one day the Holy Spirit said to me what did because I asked him I said why is it so easy he said how did Jesus teach his disciples to pray I said our Father which art in heaven how Hollywood be thy name there it is Jesus taught his disciples you can't come into the presence of God without reverential fear so what is the fear of the Lord what is it first of all let me say this it is not to be scared of God how can you have intimacy with somebody you're scared of it's not to be scared of God I would like to say it like this it's terrified and I'm using that word carefully it's terrified to be away from him that's the fear of the Lord okay Moses makes this statement do you remember when he brought Israel out of Egypt to meet with God I mean I asked people all the time where it was Moses bringing the people when he brought him out of Egypt and almost all the time people say the Promised Land I'm like are you kidding me no wouldn't he say to Pharaoh like five times thus saith the Lord let my people go that they might worship me in the desert what does Moses want to bring him to the promised land before he first brings him to the promised ER I mean Moses is raised in the most beautiful home in the world but he wants nothing to do with it anymore because he has one encounter with the presence of God at the bush the people they had their chance because God said to Moses when he brought him straight to that mountain out of Egypt God said man I'm so excited to meet my kids I've been waiting for this for 430 years tell mom we'll come down to the mountain I'm going or do some myself to him right God comes down the mountain they all run away and they say to Moses you talk to God tell us whatever he says we'll hear and do it and Moses can you imagine how devastated he is he looks at the people he makes the statement look at this statement Moses said to the people do not fear everybody say do not fear because gods come to test you what's the test that his fear might be in you so that you may not sin wait a minute do not fear because gods come to see if his fears in you it sounds like he's contradicting himself he's not he is differentiating between the fear of the Lord excuse me between being scared of God and the fear of the Lord there's a difference the person who is scared of God is something to hide what does Adam do as soon as he disobeys God he hides from the presence of the Lord person who fears God he's got nothing to hide matter of fact hmm he doesn't say how close can I get to the line of disobedience and not fall in he says I was so far from that line I can't even see it that's the fear of the Lord because he's terrified to be away from God so what is the fear of the Lord it's to venerate him that's a big word we don't use very much either so what does that mean means the honor respect esteem value reverence and stand in awe of him more than anything or anyone else when you when you do this you now you now have this heart that you love what he loves and you hate what he hates did you notice I said hate you hate what he hates somebody does not fear God that's what I hate those people over there there's such sinners now you don't fear God at all because he loves those people he died for those people you don't love you you hate what he loves he hates the sin that's breaking those people but he doesn't hate those people so you don't even don't even shame the fear of the Lord by saying you fear God you don't good preaching John thank you so much what is important to him becomes important to us what is not so important to him is not so important to us we literally take on his heart so the fear of the Lord is to hate evil that's what proverbs says now I'm no notice the word hate now everybody look at me I want you to put your eyes on me right now back in the remember back of that time period like late 80s early 90s I'm praying two hours every day right hour and a half to two hours every day I get up to preach and my words like moo-moo-moo-moo moo-moo-moo-moo they're so weak no anointing one day I'm frustrated I said God I don't get it I pray I study the word there's jointing on me is not strong why and the Holy Spirit said because you tolerate sin what now do you remember when Jesus was raised from the dead remember this on Inauguration Day Hebrews 1 is the inauguration of Jesus as Lord king over the whole universe right God the Father looks at Jesus on inauguration day after he's been raised from the dead you know God says to him he says because now look at this because you have loved righteousness and the Holy Spirit said stop every Christian loves righteousness he said but I didn't stop there because you've loved righteousness and hated sin therefore God even your God has anointed you more than your companions he said son learn to hate sin the way I hate sin and you'll see the anointing we gotta increase upon in your life see too many Christians dislike what God hates and too many Christians dislike what God loves quiet here okay you know I was in Malaysia and another one of those manifestations happened that I described to you right in Brazil again this one was probably more powerful than Brazil and I remember oh my gosh because it lasted like ten minutes not one and a half minutes and you know people the auditorium again was filled people from all over the Western or that eastern hemisphere and when that manifestation was over that service was over I'm walking out in this Indian Couple they're from India they look at me and go we feel so clean I said yeah that describes it I feel so clean that's it so the next morning I'm in prayer and the Holy Spirit speaks to me I'm in the Malaysia hotel the Holy Spirit said read Psalm 19 so I go over to Psalm 19 I have no idea what I'm going to read and I read this in verse 9 the fear of the Lord come on it's clean enduring forever look at the words enduring forever you know then the Holy Spirit speaks to me in a hotel room he said hey son Lucifer lead worship in heaven hey these guys were good this morning this husband and wife oh my gosh I'd like to package them up and take them to Colorado Springs no I would I wouldn't I would never do that because I I respect we're all doing the same Kingdom I'm just saying I wish Colorado Springs had worship like this okay please understand I wouldn't do that I want to calm all fears okay okay okay they're good but Lucifer led worship in heaven okay do you understand are you getting or getting your head around that one but God said to me he didn't endure he was anointed he didn't endure because he didn't fear me a third of the Angels worshiped at my throne God spoke to me that morning he said they didn't endure forever because they didn't fear me he said Adam and Eve walked in my presence they didn't endure in the garden because they didn't fear me he said son every creative being who surrounds my throne for eternity will be untested in the fear of the Lord still with me so what is the evidence the manifestation of somebody who fears God do you know what I mean evidence I shared it with you last night what do you see outwardly if somebody really fears God number one they'll obey God instantly you ever hear somebody say yeah the Lord's been dealing with me and back that now for several months hahaha you just laughing about your lack of the fear of God you'll obey him instantly number two you'll obey Him when it doesn't make sense it's got ever told you to do anything that didn't make sense I'm sure this crowd knows yeah right number three to obey Him even if it hurts number four you'll obey Him when you don't see a benefit now is there a benefit in obeying God you better believe it but if you don't see it some people don't obey Him if you give God will do this oh therefore I'll give will God do this will you multiply your seed son yeah but if you're given because you only see the benefit lack of the fear of God number five you'll obey Him to completion Saul did 99.9 percent of what God told him to do God said you've rebelled against me come on he killed probably 99,999 Amalekites he just spared one sure it's quiet okay I have been journeying this morning to get to this one scriptures my favorite scripture in a bottle already well this in Jude 24 25 two favors it's my Old Testament favorite Scripture Psalm 25 verse 14 look at this look at this guy's friendship look at this friendship with the Lord stop right there Wow friendship with the Lord is reserved for those who fear Him with them he shares the secrets whoa okay greatest promise in the Bible I'm sorry I I mean just I'm like wow so you know God's saying they're not everybody's my friend let me get a little more specific God is saying not everybody in the church is my friend look they're two men they're two men in the Bible in the Old Testament they were called the Friends of God who are they come on talk Abraham Moses right right why is Abraham the friend of God now let me just make this statement there were other Friends of God but these two men's lives exemplify what it takes to have a relationship of friendship day IIIi believe Joseph was the friend of God Daniel was the friend of God I could go all right why Dave is a friend of God why is why is these two guys exempt five guys look at Abraham when he's old God comes to him one night says Abe yes yes Lord you know your son who you love so much he waited for for 25 years I want you to go on a 3-day journey and kill him for me what now God doesn't give them a reason isn't safe you go kill your son then I will offer up my son God didn't say that he doesn't go kill him doesn't give no reason so you know my Bible says early the next morning again all the Lord's been dealing with me about this gnat for several months now early the next morning Abraham is on his way okay now God gives them a three-day journey because why it's easier when you heard the booming voice of God the night before what about two and a half days later when you haven't heard a word from heaven and you're looking at the mountain you're gonna put the most important person or thing to death in your life just because God said do it and doesn't even give you a reason so Abraham goes the mound builders the altar ties Isaac God leads up the knife's ready to put the most important person or thing to death in his life just because God says do it and doesn't give my reason and right when he's ready to thrust the knife the angel Lord says Abraham stop now look look with it look with the Abraham literally what the angel says Abraham told lay your hands on him or do anything Jim because now I know now I know you fear God how did the angel know Abraham feared God because he obeyed instantly because he obeyed when it didn't make sense because he obeyed when it hurt because the Eagle bade when he didn't see a benefit because he obeyed the completion abraham puts down the knife unties isaac lifts up his eyes was a ram and out of his spirit listen this is where it gets good comes jehovah jireh god just revealed himself a facet of his personality to abraham nobody had ever known before because he's my friend some of you are giving this okay you all know me as John Bevere speaker this morning many of you know meas John Bevere author but there is a lady in whoa she is a lady Lisa she knows me as John Bevere husband she knows me he's John Bevere best friend she knows me as John Bevere G daddy she knows me as John Bevere athlete she knows me as John Bevere lover can I say this none of you well ever know me as John Bevere lover that is a facet of my personality to reserve for the person who is closest to me on the earth God just revealed a festive is a person I date Ram nobody had ever known before because he's my friend now look at the relationship between God and Abraham it is amazing one day God says should we do to Sodom and Gomorrah what we're planning on doing without talking our friend Abraham so God comes down Terra betrays Abe hey hey Lord Abe we're thinking about blowing up these two cities what do you think and it goes Sodom and the Lord goes yeah yeah yeah Gomorrah - what do you think goes oh my gosh my nephew's over there think think think think think think okay God you wouldn't like blow up those cities if there was fifty righteous people the Lord goes excellent idea excellent idea okay we will not blow up the cities if they're fifty righteous people glad we talked to our friend Abraham Abraham goes what if there's in 50 Abraham goes okay what about forty five and the Lord goes another good idea right so Abraham talks him all the way down to ten cuz he figures there's got to be ten well that's one all I needs nine other people but you know what there wasn't now here listen listen listen the Bible says Sodom and Gomorrah are buying selling trading planting harvesting marrying and giving in marriage what's all that mean it means I'm gonna put it in today's vernacular means life is great phenomenal life is going so good the economy is booming and if there's a God he doesn't mind our lifestyle there twenty four hours away from being obliterated and they're clueless okay stop that's not what's scary this is what's scary locked everybody say lock who the Bible calls righteous okay let me put it today's vernacular born-again Christian conference at tender he's twenty four hours away from being annihilated and he's as clueless as Sodom is takes two messengers of mercy two angels because Abraham prayed thank God Abraham prayed to get him out and his wife was a little too attached that's why Jesus said remember Lot's wife now here's two i'm gonna modernize it two born again man two righteous men two Christians one born again righteous man knows what God's gonna do before he does it helps God decide how he's going to do it the other right just godly born again man I should say the other righteous born again man is as clueless as the world so this righteous bored again man knows the secrets of God this one does not even though they're both born again why why does he know the secrets and he doesn't because he fears God and he doesn't Moses Moses is called the friend of God Bible says Moses knew his ways Israel knew God by his acts what does it mean Israel knew God by his acts they knew God by how we answered their prayers you how many people in the church their relationship to God is limited to how God answered my prayers or how God touched me Israel God touched his wrote got bread from heaven but Moses knew what God was gonna do before he did it and twice he changed God's mind from doing something two times God said I relent from what I was gonna do because of what my friend said to me now you want to see this in the New Testament no okay bye and where I come from it's rude not to answer a question of your ass same in Canada maybe we have big culture difference between the United States and Canada you want to see it in the New Testament that's better okay I'm just having fun with you see some people have said that I'm like they get the gods place on my life for you it's not for me it's for you I'm like a fire hydrant and they said you got to let us breathe okay so that's why I try to say stupid little funny comments to get you breathing a little because I don't want you all to fall over dead okay John go to the Gospel of John right okay Jesus makes this statement now the eleven around the table Judas is gone so Jesus says to these eleven no longer do I call you servants stop right there the mere fact that Jesus says these guys no longer do I call you servants means at one time they were looked at and merely regarded as servants that's not a revelation that's an English lesson why does God do that what does God keep us at a level of a servant even though we're sons and daughters okay Paul says long is the child long as the heir is a child he differs nothing from the servant why does God do that to protect us because he doesn't want more incidences like Ananias and Sapphira he doesn't delight in that so God says I gotta keep you at a distance because I don't want you falling over dead let me give you an example this week but it works I work for two major ministries one had a staff of 450 other one has staff of 150 and after seven years of this working on these two ministry staffs in the 1980s when our pastor laid hands on us and launched us to birth messenger International I had this new philosophy Mel you know what my philosophy was I'm gonna be every employees best friend I'm gonna be their best buddy okay now some of you know the stupidity of that already so hire my first guy best friend we're playing basketball together he comes over watch videos we Thanksgiving together me you know just desperate it was great for the first year I mean have an employee who is your best but until I had to bring some minor correction to him he was being rude to people at our resource table I don't i sat him down I said hey man these are God's sheep why are you why are you so rude to them man you need to be kind smile oh my gosh he tore into me he looks at me and goes you're this and you're that in you're this and I'm like oh nice and I look inside I said god what do I do and God said fire him so I let him I let him vent and I said well you you really can't work for our Minister any longer I'm really sorry he walks out man I start crying cuz I really cared about the guy so the Lord speaks to me while I'm crying he says he'll be back in he'll be twice as faithful okay so watch three months later he calls me he says John God's never spoken to me like he's spoken to me in the last three months he said I took you and Lisa for granted I treated you as common and ordinary I lost sight of the place God had placed you in my life I lost sight of the place got a place me in your life I'm so sorry John I forgive you I said will you come back and work for us he said yeah he came back we never had problems again I still keep in touch with him to this day now now now listen now listen Duncan I love you buddy man I made a new friend here okay so say so now I got this new policy I have 45 team members right and my policy is this forty five team members I think eleven interns I won't reveal my heart share the intimate secrets of my heart with any employee until I know they're very established in Who I am in their life and their established and who they are in my life some my employees now in my best friend okay so you know God says to us till you're really established in Who I am before you and who you are before me I gotta keep you to serve and even though you're an error but when you get established in Who I am the fear of the Lord I can bring you in as my friend you getting this so so look what Jesus says no longer do I call you servants for a servant doesn't know what his master is doing that's the Masters way secrets his wisdom but I have called you friends now look at this now Jesus gives his universal statement to the whole church he said you are my friends if come on everybody say if where is it hit the button click click John 15:14 did you freeze up darn might have froze up okay I'm reading John oh there it is you are my friend this is Jesus universal statement of church you are my friends if everybody out if I don't know about you but if is a condition if I okay I look at you and say if you work for me for 20 hours I'll pay you $2,000 right right you don't work to 20 hours you go hi what's up 2,000 hours I got if you work for me for 20 hours you didn't work for me so we write songs about this we write books about it Jesus is my friend it's not everybody's friend in the church there's a condition on this you are my friends if everybody shout if if you do what if you do what ever I command you there it is the fear of the Lord trembling in his word you know what Jesus is saying not everybody in the church is my intimate close friend but listen to me he passionately desires everybody in the church to be his intimate close friend but you're the one that determines the level of your relationship with God not God therefore draw near to God and He will draw near to you did you get something out of this today I have an international flight to catch in an hour in 25 minutes and I'm gonna ask you this because I believe the Holy Spirit's down to working people's hearts if you say John I am a believer but I lacked the fear of God and I realized that today and oh I want you know what Bible says Jesus delights in the fear of the Lord Isaiah Isaiah 51 verse 3 shouldn't we delight in what he delighted it you say John I want the fear Lord see because what spirit it's a manifestation of the Holy Spirit Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon geez the spirit of wisdom spirit of might spirit of counsel spirit of understanding spirit of knowledge and the spirit of the fear of the Lord and Jesus is delight was in the fear Lord if you're here and you say man I want that manifestation stand up you're already doing it I want that and then we're gonna worship and I think the worship is gonna go to a whole another level and I'm gonna be an airport bummer that's all I can say is bummer okay you ready okay pray this with me and by the way there's a book out there called God where are you it will go more into this as well as the fear of the Lord book okay put your hands up and say this with me father in heaven thank you for speaking to me I know what's missing in my life it's the holy fear of God I come boldly to your throne and I'm asking you dear father you said if I asked you for the Holy Spirit you wouldn't give me a different spirit I'm asking you baptize me in the name of Jesus with the Holy Spirit of the fear of the Lord now just keep your focus on him and worship come up to the front come to the aisle do what you need to do and I pray that God reveals himself to you in a powerful way God we want this for our lives we know we need this for our lives if you know that you need to get before God get on your knees you can stand and just be like God and have a heart of repentance and then saying God I want to fear you you can come up to the front you can stay in this place we're gonna worship for a while longer God we love you we love you we love you [Music] [Music] you got all of my attention Jesus you've got all of my attention [Music] you've got all my attention [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know my attention [Music] you got all of my attention Jesus you've got all my attention what you you've got all of my attention [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you've got all my attention [Music] you've got all of my attacks [Music] my 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thankful for the freedom that you have released in this place father for the past two days we're so thankful father because you're the only one you're the only one father that can satisfy our soul as the counselor of our so you're our friend [Music] and holy spear I ask right now that you will maintain [Music] and do what you came to do in each one of our lives in this place we love you Jesus we love who you are we love who you are we love who you are [Music] and Holy Spirit I ask that every truth that have been spoken that your Holy Spirit will come and seal it in our hearts guarded in our hearts today and they pray that encounters will happen that we will go from glory to glory as the time goes into this whole this whole conference and the rest of the schedule with love you cheese's we love you Jesus real of you Jesus [Music] you're welcome to stay in this place of encounter you're welcome to stay in this place of worship and I want to release the rest of you if you guys want to go and grab lunch I'll see you guys at 2:00 p.m. but for those of you that you're soaking in in this in this place that you're soaking in with God I want to just yeah just feel free to stay in this place feel free to stay up here we love you and we love what God is doing and we don't want to stop or disrupt anything but just so you guys know there's a new book John Bevere book God where are you and you can find this in the bookstore this is the most recent book that he has wrote and we also have catched the fire revival 25 album that came out this week and this album was written by some of these guys they're on the stage and all their worship leaders they're here this week and he was basically captured at our last conference that revival 25 this January that just came past so feel free to go and grab your CD feel free to do that otherwise I'll see you guys at 2 p.m. and again please feel free to so can and to stay in this place these guys are gonna stay up for a bit longer so you guys are 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Length: 132min 25sec (7945 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 20 2019