Pastor Carter Conlon - Living Bread

spoke a message that Jesus spoke in John chapter 6 where he turned to a group of people who were looking for bread sustenance but they were looking for a bread that falls far short of what he was prepared to give them and it can be the dilemma of our Christian life the Lord sometimes may want to give us something that is is more than what you and I are aware of what he wants to do and he said a profound statement he said he that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwell in me and I in him and as the living father has sent me and as I lived by the father so he that eats me or of me even he shall live by me this is that bread which came down from heaven not as your father's did eat manna and are dead but he that eats of this bread shall live forever in other words there was a bread that was given under the Old Testament and yet it yes it had the power it had a divine enablement in it because there certainly had kept the people healthy and strong throughout a very lengthy journey but they died under this bread it didn't have the power to give the life that God wanted to give to his people Jesus said I want to give you this bread and there was a lack of understanding among the people of what this really was about and the scripture tells us that many of his disciples turned back and wouldn't walk with him anymore because they found this to be a hard saying that's an incredible thought I don't see in Scripture anywhere where people just said would you please help me to understand this what really do you mean by this I'm confused could you could you just show it to me in a concise manner so I can understand it but instead of that they just simply walked away because they were focused on getting something from God that he he said I once gave it to you but I'm taking you farther than this place that you once knew me and this sustenance I once gave you now in order to understand what it means to eat the body of Jesus Christ into drink his blood and that's really what I'm going to talk about tonight I want to explain it as clearly as I can in order to do this I have to go back right to the beginning of the Bible in the book of Genesis chapter 3 and verse 5 Genesis tells us that Satan came down into the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were there tending the garden and fellowshipping daily with God and Satan came down into the garden and he said listen this place is restrictive you're created for more than this to tend the garden to name a few animals and to meet periodically with God you can be more than this if you will if you will embrace my view of life you can be as gods and you can have the knowledge that God has you can know good and evil you can chart your own course you can create your own destiny you don't have to live under the authority of God why should it be just God that tells us what to do why should it just be God who says this is good and this is evil and he says he must have said to them look at me I was released as it is from walking under this this authority of God and I seemingly haven't suffered any harm and if you appar take of this see the fruit was really a symbolic of a theology if you partake of this theology that you can live outside of the governorship of God and suffer no harm actually it's a good thing your eyes will be open if you simply just make the choice to live your own way do your own thing you don't have to really be under the authority of God and you can be just like God you can you can say this is good even if God says it's evil I mean after all what does God know does he really have the right to govern our lives like this don't we have the right how aren't we created with the mind shouldn't we be using this mind can't we don't we have the capability of saying this is good and this is evil remember his brother Jerry shared this morning that's one of the great dilemmas of even the Christian life is that we can we can look at the Word of God know clearly what it says but form another opinion that comes from the sin nature of man we can choose to obey something that God clearly says is wrong and somehow justify it and say no that no I have a higher authority that higher authority is me you see I'm God in this area and though you declared to be wrong I declare it to be right and that's exactly what Satan told Adam and Eve and so they bit into this theological fruit as it is and he told them you won't suffer a consequence but the consequence was in the presence of a holy God they became afraid and ashamed a lot of people don't know what they are until they actually do come into the presence of God what a terrifying day that will be for many people when the living they stand before the Living Christ the presence of all right miss and goodness and truth to find out that they're covering was insufficient and so Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden and barred from the Tree of Life no more ability to partake of that which God had provided on a tree for any need they had whatever their supply was running short of they could find in this tree that they had access to but now they're barred from the tree and sent out to encircle this globe and to try to find their way as it is back to God in their own strength but even in the midst of this God had spoken to Satan and he told Satan he said there's going to be a people this is in verse 15 of Genesis three that are going to be born into this world who were going to crush these thoughts of his mind so this this the seed of this woman is going to crush your head you've thrown this into the human race you've sown a sin nature a nature of rebellion into the human race but there is going to be a people born who are going to step as it is on these thoughts of your mind they're going to crush you a people who understand that in ourselves we cannot be gone and so man headed up from the garden with the thought planted into his fallen nature that he could be a good the god of his own destiny and what a marvelous mess we have made of that here we are at the end of the ages and what have we done we've created weaponry that can destroy ourselves in just a matter of moments of time it created economies and and senses of endless prosperity that cannot be maintained we've called evil good we've called good evil and we have reaped the consequences of it in our homes in our countries in our lives in our societies we live with rebellion we live with murder deceit and everything else that is in the human race somehow convinced in our hearts that we're not going to suffer wrong from this way of living now fast forwarding to Genesis chapter 12 you don't have to turn there I'll just read it to you if you if you have time you you might want to try that but Genesis chapter 12 and I'm I'm taking about five weeks of teaching tonight and putting it into thirty five minutes so you'll have to it's just going to be points along this this road of history God found a man called Abraham and made him an incredible promise in Genesis 12:1 that says the Lord said to Abram get out of your country and from your kindred and from your father's house into a land that I will show you you know that's the call of the Christian in the sense get up from where you are let me lead you and I'm going to take you to another place and he said I'm gonna make you a great nation there and I will bless you and I'm gonna make your name great and you shall be a blessing I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed how'd you like to get a promise like that tonight given to you I'm going to take you Abraham and I'm gonna do something so supernatural in you and I'm going to give you a descendancy as it is that if you could if you could possibly count the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore that's what your descendants are going to be that's how many you're going to have a Paul in Romans 4:16 refers to Abraham was the father faith the father of us all it was abraham believed God the scripture tells us and you and I know that in Abraham was the physical DNA of Jesus Christ the Son of God Abraham Isaac Jacob the patriarchs through to David the King through all of the lineage and finally from the loins of Abraham Jesus Christ is born and we in turn step into the spiritual life through Christ that was promised to Abraham did you know that you are the fulfillment of the promise of God to Abraham we are the descendants of Abraham by faith in Jesus Christ we are that which God promised to Abraham that was God said it I'm going to I'm going to send into the earth to cross the head of Satan himself we are a people called to be supernaturally multiplied made into something more than we could ever possibly be in ourselves by acknowledging that we are not God He is God Jesus Christ is the son of God by bending our knee and confessing with our mouth that's how you crushed the head of Satan I am NOT God my ways to not right my thoughts are not right his ways are higher than my ways his thoughts are higher than my thoughts he is God and I am NOT we Bend our knee and say Lord Jesus forgive me hit me for having sinned against light and knowledge and God thank you now that through Christ I'm now grafted into the promise of God given to Abraham that I would be multiplied I would be made more than I am anything that tries to curse me God says I will curse that and through my life all the families of the earth shall be blessed you are not called to be a blessing we are called to be the hand of God we're called to be a message to a generation who think they can live as God and not suffer the consequences of it now it's clear in the scriptures that the seed of Abraham would not be born would be born a promise and not of human effort no Abraham tried in his own strength we do that sometimes don't we we try to manufacture God if God's not showing up on time we try to make God show up if he's not moving in a certain way and we think he should be moving in that way that we try to make him move in that way and Abraham thought God was delaying and he thought I better give God a hand in this promise he's given to me and so he gave God a hand and what a nice thing he created isn't it amazing we're still fighting it out in the Middle East today now God came to Abraham and he makes a very strange covenant with Abraham a covenant is a promise it's a it's a life-and-death promise when you made a covenant with somebody you essentially said to that person if I fail to fulfill what I promised you you have the right to slay me it was it was a blood covenant was that kind of a promise that was made and God told Abraham in Genesis chapter 15 the Abraham said to God he said how will I know that I will inherit what you promised me how can I know and he said to him take it take a heifer that's a young calf of three years old and a she-goat of three years old and a ram of three years old now I'm not going to really get into biblical numerology but suffice to say that 3 is the number that's assigned to God 6 is the number that's assigned to man that's why people say 3 3 + 3 is that is the Trinity 666 is Man Man Man that's what it's man trying to be God that the the number of the mark of the beast is actually the culmination of rebellion against God where man tries to be God that's why the number 666 but I'm not going to really go there into that tonight and it said he took this this heifer and the the goat and the RAM and the turtle Devin and pigeon and he divided them all into half except for the birds and laid each one against another but the birds he didn't divide now this was the Covenant that God was making with Abraham and when the fowls came down upon the carcasses Abraham drove them away now that was abraham's responsibility in this covenant God was making a promise to Abraham but technically speaking God was making the promise to himself it says when the Sun went down and it was dark behold a smoking furnace a burning lamp came down and passed between those pieces it was a covenant and the smoking furnace could represent God the Father the burning lamp would be the power of the Holy Spirit and the divided sacrifice would be Jesus Christ Himself on the cross in other words God made a promise with himself that he was going to do this all Abraham had to do was chase the birds away I don't know if you get this or not what is my part in this Christian life chased the birds away chased these vultures that tried to devour the the sacrifice of Calvary out of your life chase away every lie of hell that's what the scripture says you have a righteousness given you of God and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you have the right to condemn it you can chase it away Satan you're not taking away my righteousness you're not taking away the robe that God's given me yeah I know I'm weak and I know I struggle and I know I fail but I have a righteousness that means a cleanness and the sight of God that is not my own it was given to me by God I would came down the road lost lonely hurt destitute realizing I'd made a mistake and he met me on the road and he covered me with the garment of the blood of his son and gave me an empowerment to stand against Hell itself and put shoes on my feet that I might be the fulfillment of Abraham and be that blessing of God in my generation hallelujah get lost Satan chase the vultures away now the threat of this covenant that God made with Abraham runs all through the Old Testament you'll see it everywhere in the Old Testament once you understand this you'll see the threat of it you'll see it again promise through David you see it all through the Old Testament this promise that God made that a people are going to supernaturally be born into the world and will crush the head of the devil and through them the whole world is going to be blessed that my friend is the Church of Jesus Christ but now another covenant was given there were two covenants really of significance there's probably some minor ones but they're two of great significance in the Old Testament and this time it was a covenant the God made with man you remember he brought his he told Abraham you're your heritage we're going to go 400 years into captivity but at the end of 400 years I'm going to bring them out and into the place that I have promised them and when Moses brought the children of Israel out of captivity they were brought to the foot of a mountain and on that mount and the Covenant was given to Moses and the Covenant was called the law known remember this the man's inherent problem because of his sin was that he could be God you have that problem I have that problem it is resident in my flesh that's why your flesh will always war against the spirit there's something in us that just always wants to be God wants to be right in every argument wants our actions to be considered holy even if they're not once the words of our mouth to have some validity even if God says it's not proper there's something in us that wants to be God so God said okay if you think you can be God I'll give you six hundred and six to thirteen and roughly laws to obey now you have to be God to be able to obey them and now remember if you break one you've broken them all remember the Apostle Paul said the law what in Galatians I think it's three and twenty-four the law was our schoolmaster the law was it instruct they're to actually teach us we're not God isn't it amazing then we can't beat God than ourselves you can't be God and I can't be God but we didn't know that so we had to be given a mirror as it is and here are six hundred and plus laws to obey but if you if you break one you're not God so then you got to go back to go and you got to start all over again you got to go back in the temple you got to get a ram you got to get a goat if you're poor you got to get a Turtledove and you got to go to the priest and the priest has got to cut the throat of the sacrifice poured the blood on the altar and you're forgiven your sin and now you can go out and try to be God again awesome incredible Peter says it was a yoke which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear historians tell us there was a literal river of blood that flowed out of the temple as honest people perhaps like many that are here tonight tried to serve God wanted to serve God and I wanted a clean conscience and wanted to live right but every time you failed or sinned you had to get another goat actually it was so lucrative that the Pharisees set up their own relatives in the outer Court of the temple and they changed money and they sold doves and they sold goats and they sold Rams they've made a fortune from the people's failure they didn't really want the people to succeed they wanted them to fail because they were prospering from their failure no wonder Jesus was so angry when he came into the temple he said it's supposed to be a place of Prayer you're supposed to simply ask and I'm just going to I was willing to do the supernatural but you made it a den of thieves you made it a place where people can profit from the failure of my own house my own people now think about it tonight let's say we were under the Old Testament law wouldn't that be just grand tonight so I'd give an altar call you come and yeah you confess all your sin and you feel real good and you you you walk out of this hotel tonight you get half way out if somebody steps on your toe somebody's somebody's in your room when you get back and so you say something you shouldn't say or you look at something you shouldn't look at or you feel something you shouldn't feel so you got to come back and you got to get another goat and you got to get another dove and you got to get another RAM and you got a how long do you think it was before the people got sick of this whole thing and the hopelessness of it must have simply overwhelmed people this is this is this can't be done it's not possible so so what happened oh all it did was created a tiered system of religion a religion that judged other people to maintain its own righteousness it despised the weak it hit its own corruption with religious garments a lot of religious talk and pretended prayers and ultimately hated God and their fellow man and that's all that religion will ever produce is a hatred for God and your fellow man in your heart didn't Jesus say that the two greatest laws are to love God with all your heart soul mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself he said on these two things hang all the law and all the prophets everything that Isaiah wrote Habakkuk wrote every prophet in the Old Testament everything in the law is summed up in these two things and conversely to that you'll find a hatred for God and a hatred for man where there is no real truth you say well did they really hate God the Pharisees you see didn't start out wanting to hate God if you look at the origin of the Pharisees they started out as guardians of the truth they wanted purity they wanted the original they wanted to look like what God gave to Moses on Sinai but they ultimately ended up hating God because deep within themselves they they they must have felt the injustice of this whole thing you say well how do you know they hated God they killed him when he came it's not even debatable they killed God Jesus Christ was God they killed him when it came they hated him he come in and he's he showed them the shortfall the shortcomings of their system that they had developed how it fell short of the glory of God that that the door they had created was too high it was too wide you see the door to eternal life have to go through on your knees it was it was the humble who found it it was the man who woman who finally realized I'm not God I can't be God there has to be somebody else in my life that is God other than me and you don't go through that door with your chin up in the air and full of pride you you just bang your forehead on the wall and you fall look down again you have to get on your knees to get through that door there has to be humility in the heart there has to be a recognition that not my ways but God's ways some people never learned the lesson that we are not God and how do I know this because they justify wrong and they call it right there's there's no real desire to go into this book and learn what it says and let it be applied to their life they live in total rebellion to God they hate all authority and somehow think they're going to heaven now remember the promise that God made in covenant to Abraham and ultimately God made a covenant not with us but with himself you see this is the key the Covenant in the Old Testament was made with man in the New Testament it's made with himself God made the covenant with himself now let me explain this the father said to his son this is before the foundation of the world according to the scriptures the father's when in Genesis when Adam and Eve sinned and immediately God says to Satan there's a seed coming of a woman that's going to crush your head this is not just an on-the-spot plan God already knew what he was going to do the father said to his son son and this is before the foundation of the world son you're going to get down we're going to create man in our image and they're going to fail and a price is going to have to be paid for that failure because we're not willing to lose that which we've created in our own image and you're going to have to go down to the earth and walk among them for 33 years and you're going to be touched with the feelings of their infirmities they're going to hate you and despise you as you speak truth into their hearts they're going to take you to a cross and you're going to be there and Sun even more than this I'm going to turn my back on you in that moment of time and you're not going to just sense in your heart the absence of my presence but you're going to feel the fullness of my wrath I'm going to put the sin of my fallen creation upon you you're going to die son but you're going to trust me at the end of three days I'm going to raise you from the dead I'm going to bring you back together remember Jesus prayer in John 17 father I pray that the glory that we had before the creation of the world he prayed that he may return to that glory but not alone he said son I'm going to raise you and the dead on the third day you're going to be returned and you're going to sit at my right hand and you're going to have all authority every name that is named every principality every power every Dominion everything is going to be under your authority you're going to sit as complete victor over Satan his works what he sowed in humanity you're going to be the victor of it and the curse of sin is going to be broken you're gonna have to trust me son that I'm going to raise you from the dead remember he said father into thy hands I commit my spirit it was an act of faith on the part of Jesus believing that his father was going to raise him from the dead and the son said to his father father I agreed to do this thing on one condition that when you raised me from the dead and you bring me and sent me at the right hand of all authority that everybody who believes in Me gets the same thing that I do they get to set with me in heavenly places they get to be more than conquerors they get to be Victor's over sin hell and death they get what I get hallelujah to the lamb of God thank you Jesus listen to what the Apostle Paul says let me just read it to you in Ephesians chapter 2 he says God who is rich in mercy whereby he has loved us even when we were dead in sins as quickened us together with Christ by grace you're saved and he has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus I am at the right hand of God tonight in Christ Jesus that's why Paul said I'm more than a conqueror how could you be more than a conqueror but folks if he's the head we are the body think about a race when runners get to the finish line and they lunge and sometimes it's just the head that goes over the finish line first but because the head has crossed the line the body has already won the victory as well he crossed the line we are in him we are already more than conquerors I sit at the right hand of God tonight I sit in Christ in a place of victory do you understand every promise of God given to him is mine it's yours if you are in Christ the promises of yours the life is yours the supernatural and dominant power is yours to be a blessing the point is to be a blessing in the earth and to make a declaration that God is good and just and willing to forgive everyone who calls out his name hallelujah to the lamb of God listen I want to read to you what Paul said about this he said in Ephesians 1:17 that the Lord the god of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints and what is his exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places far above all principality power and my and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but it also in that which is to come and has put all things under his feet remember there was the seed of a woman would crush the head of Satan and gave him to be the head of all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him that fills all you know Paul said oh that you could see what I see I can endure what I have to endure by the grace and strength of Almighty God that is given to me now you asked me a question where does the Holy Spirit then fit into all of this now the Puritans knew this this is this is not something that is hidden it's not brand new it's very clear in Scripture the Puritan writers like John Owen and Mackintosh they knew it here's here's the best way to explain it I am at the right hand of God tonight I view my life as a Christian from heaven down instead of from the earth up I'm already there tonight I don't know if you really understand I'm already there in Christ at the right hand of God that's my that's my standing that's where I am that's why the devil can't condemn me as a genuine believer in Christ because I'm already there I'm already over the line condemn me all you want I'm already there in Jesus Christ I'm talking about a genuine believer which I know I am tonight that's my standing but my state is different I live here on planet Earth I live in Terra Firma I live in this body that still fights against the spirit but you see the Holy Spirit is given to me of God and in John 16 jesus said when the Spirit of God has come he will take what is mine and he will show it to you in other words he will show you your inheritance and not only show you your inheritance and me mine but all my life be lifting my stay in line with my standing all my life Paul said I'm not what I should be yet but leaving behind those things I need to leave behind I press on to the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus I'm here at the throne of God in Christ by my physical body is down here on the earth but the Holy Spirit all my life and all your life is lifting our state in line with our standing and if you can receive it tonight for the New Testament believers yes sin can cause you to lose touch with what God is speaking and saying to you and I'm talking to the honest believer tonight but sin is not imputed to the New Testament Christian if sin was imputed to you you'd be saved at three lost at four saved at five lost at six you just want to hope that you die on the right side of the clock you'd be right back in the old testament say loss saved lost saved law sin confess sin confessed this endless treadmill that ultimately just makes you start to hate God and your fellow man the good news is the price is paid sin is not imputed to the honest sincere but I'm not talking about the reprobate I'm not talking about the game player the game player will play with grace as well as they'll play with the law a game player is a fraud and the game player no matter what environment you put him in I'm talking about the sincere Christian when God called Abraham he said be perfect but in the Hebrew that word means upright and sincere be sincere that's what I require of you and if you fall short if you fail you are a covering that's why the devil can't condemn us as the Church of Jesus Christ he can't get me on the treadmill of sin confess sin confess yes I'm a bow my head and say God forgive me for saying that forgive me for doing that but I am NOT under condemnation there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who choose to make that choice to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh the Apostle Peter says according as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that's called to glory and divert you whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through last second Peter chapter 1 verses 3 & 4 bottom line God has given us promises and by these promises we escaped the corruption we escaped the lust we escaped the trappings and the frailties of these human bodies and we become partakers of the life of Christ that is freely given to us that's what eating the body means of Christ we drink the wine of his shed blood which is our forgiveness it's our salvation it's our strength it's our victory it's our hope it's our covering its our all in all it's our recognition that we are not God and he is it's our receiving of the work he did on Calvary not as a light thing but oh my god that you came to the earth and died from me there's a gratitude comes into the heart there's a trembling that comes into the soul this is Lord I'm not worthy but Oh God thank you for coming to my heart to my life and then we eat this book we eat of his body the promise is the provision that's what he was talking about the provision of God in Christ we eat of it and we say God I can hardly wait for tomorrow to see these things and the Holy Spirit begins to quicken the Word of God have you ever had that happened you read it and and a verse just pops off the you know what that is the Holy Spirit according to John chapter 16 verses 13 to 15 the Holy Spirit is making these promises real to you because God intends to do it in your life my part is to believe him that's my part believe him and just put one foot in front of the other and believe God for the victory the Lord says I'm I'm going to take away this out of your life and I'm going to change your character and make you this my part is to believe him I don't have to buy seventeen books on seven steps of chief and that's just going back under the Old Testament law again no my part is faith to believe the New Covenant is through faith abraham believed God and it was imputed imparted to him for righteousness how to do yet I don't know if you're getting this in tried but to me it's like Oh God Oh God I now understand why the cross I now understand what the Old Testament and why there's a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament I now understand I'm no longer under the law the devil has no right to my life no access to my mind he cannot condemn me I don't have to live under this this sense of failure you don't have to live there anymore hallelujah to the lamb of God you don't have to live there yes we fall short of the glory of God but there are promises if there's provision in Jesus Christ that these things might be changed the increase of God might come into our life and what is our testimony I want to tell you what God has done for me that's where this whole thing started full gospel right just telling somebody else I want to tell you what God did for me I was a young police officer and I started searching for God and long story short another police officer started coming to my house and telling me about Jesus Christ now I I really wasn't you ever noticed like I'm searching for God and I'm not even going to church but I became very Catholic all of a sudden some of you did that too and I became very religious and and every bit of gobbledygook I'd ever thought I'd learned I started to throw back even though it's nonsense I started to throw it back in but he had one thing I could not in my darkened thinking refute he said I used to be a womanizer and a gambler and a drunk and I'm looking at this man he's everything other than what he's telling me he used to be I wasn't overly interested in his theology but I was perplexed by his life such a changed man I remember thinking how is this possible well that this man could be this when he used to be that you see that's the testimony you don't have to be a great preacher you have to have an active life with God through Jesus Christ you can actually be a great preacher and not have a changed life but you see the greatest sermon of all is a transformed life that you've been walk up to your buddies on the street say man I got to tell you what God did for me I don't want to do drugs I don't want to kill you anymore there's just something has happened in my life that has changed me and you'll see the hardest two people because every man in his heart has come to the place of understanding and it can't be God I can't govern my own life I'm making a mess the longer I go the worse it's getting and suddenly God sends somebody before us who is the fulfillment of the promise of God to Abraham I'm going to multiply you and change you and I'm gonna do it supernaturally and you're going to be a blessing in the earth the devil has had a heyday with the people of Ireland and he's had a heyday by condemning you you live under condemnation many people and he will do everything in his power to keep you from ever understanding this message from understanding the fact of who you are in the sight of God when you learn it the feeblest of saints gets up and say devil just get out of my way I know that I fall short here and here and here and here and here but I'm leaving these things behind and I'm going to move toward the high mark of God in Christ Jesus that he set before me and God is going to change my life and it's going to be a testimony of the Grace and the power of Almighty God and Satan by God's grace I'm gonna step on your your filthy head I'm going to see you crushed not just in my life my friends life's the lives of people that I know the lives of people I haven't met yet on my block by apartment building in the streets and the places where I work I'm gonna crush your head Satan by the power of God in my life I'm gonna let God work in me sovereignly supernaturally and make me into the kind of a person I could never be in my own strength I'm gonna bend my knee in the sight of God and call wrong wrong and right right I'm not going to set my judgment above the Word of God I'm not going to live in rebellion to God I'm gonna walk under God's Authority God's going to transform my life and Jesus and I together gonna crush the head of Satan that's the church who you are buddy no matter what the devil's tried to tell you that's who you are you're the church hallelujah the Church of Jesus Christ all the revival that would break out if people got a hold of this that we don't have to we're not condemned when we go to our knees were justified cleansed made clean by the blood of Christ and we don't have to stay in our struggle and we don't have to stay in our failure he promises he makes his word come alive and says partake of me that's what you've needed partake of me part I've died for you and the provision is there to change you can be a different man you can be a brand new woman you don't have to live in the shame of your past anymore that's done away with you know the irony of it all God says through the prophet Isaiah your sins and iniquities I will remember no more and so here you go into the prayer closet and reminding God of something he's chosen to forget when you get to heaven you're going to stand at the throne of God and say Lord I'm just so sorry that I was this and that and everything the Lord will say well I'll have to take your word for it that doesn't seem to be any record of it here and I don't personally recall the Bible says that Jesus sits at the right hand of God as the intercessor now it doesn't mean he's sitting there sing oh I hope John makes it I hope Mary makes it I hope Alice makes it all father I hope they all make it down in Ireland it's such a mess down there the intercessor is just the fact that he's there and he's just saying your name Satan if he could approaches the throne of uses of make-believe scenario but he he approaches the throne of God says listen John Fitzpatrick is making a mess he yelled at his wife last night and he's been really thinking about sneaking into places he hasn't been but he's just making a mess of everything got mad at somebody and so the father turns to Jesus what do you think of it Jesus and Jesus says your name John Fitzpatrick and the father says Satan begone my son is standing in intercession for John you get it you understand it hallelujah our brother said tonight if you got no jury you've got no Christianity you've missed the boat man you've got the wrong end of the stick if you've got no joy you don't really get this thing you're living under the Old Covenant you're just still walking in with a goat and the lamb and the dog you don't get it the price was paid on Calvary we're free in Jesus Christ hallelujah to the lamb of God for free the understand we're free we're free we're free from condemnation we're free from sin we're free from death we're free from the fear of hell we're free from the limitations of this natural body we're free to grow in grace and become everything God has called us to be we are free hallelujah hallelujah let the redeemed of the Lord say so let them say so or you can say it louder than that let the redeemed of the Lord say so say so if you're redeemed give God glory give God praise give god a shout of victory of your redeemed hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah have redeemed unredeemed unredeemed unredeemed that written by the blood of Jesus Christ Humphry hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I'm free I'm free I'm free Humphry flew in again and free hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah country you want to be a snowy old soul person go ahead and be one I'm free I'm free to go I'm free to love I'm free to change hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God hallelujah hallelujah shake off those heavy bands lift up those holy hands give God glory give God praise give god praise for what he has done give him the glory that's due to his name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ooh hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you lord thank you mighty God thank you mighty God Oh God Almighty God Almighty thank you for the cross thank you for Jesus Christ thank you God for this great salvation hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah step out of every place of death Lazarus come forth you don't have to live there anymore you don't have to be bound anymore you don't have to give in to the struggles of your flesh anymore you don't to be condemned anymore you can stand hell to the face tonight and experience the victory of Jesus Christ glory that God don't live in secrecy don't live in mediocrity don't live in hidden sin you don't have to live there anymore you can have the victory it's yours through Jesus Christ and the strength to change is yours so Jesus Christ and don't ever forget sate of God we are already at the right hand of God tonight I'm already there and I'm looking from heaven back and say come on Carter come on man come on come on keep up hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh it's such a difference it's such a difference theologically my friend when you are viewing things from heaven back as opposed from the earth to heaven and just living in this continual begging of God when the Lord says my son what are you begging for you're my son you're my daughter what kind of father do you think I am to you you don't have to beg me for anything I ran to my son in the road I ran to kiss him and cover him and empower him and call him and I struck up a party over him that's read letter in my Bible that means right out of the mouths of Jesus he was describing God in his church hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah revive us again it's not what we're talking about revive us again revive us again Oh God Almighty Oh God Almighty just bring us back to basic truth just bring us back to an understanding of the cross bring us back to what it means to be a Christian and a follower of Jesus Christ bring us back to the true supernatural not some flaky thing that pretends that God is there but the true supernatural is the change that God brings into my life into my heart that's the supernatural nobody has to tell me God lives and no he lives the man I used to be died and a new man was born if anyone being Christ he's a new creation old things are passed away behold all things have become new that the power said has lost its hold the power of death which finds its strength in our desire to be our own God that's where it means the law that's where sin is strengthened by the law but once we Bend our knee to God its whole power is broken hallelujah we are free to change and be a blessing tonight somebody needs to say God would you make me a blessing in my home would you make me a blessing in my marriage would you make me a blessing from my children's sake would you make me a blessing in the workplace Jesus Christ would you would you set me free from this prison would you heal my wounded heart we heard a testimony so powerful today of of the power of God to heal a wound that's where the Spirit of the Lord is that remember Jesus stood up in the temple and said the Spirit of God is upon me because I means for this reason that the poor have the Treasury of Christ revealed to them that the blind the spiritually blind be given sight the wounded and heart be healed they imprisoned be released that's the reason and the mandate of the Holy Spirit has never changed that's what God does that's who he is it's what he does through his church it's what he's doing tonight there's no wound that should hold you any longer I know there's there's been tons of abuse in this country and it comes because of wrong practice and thinking I can't how can the man I would venture again that about a third of this audience has been sexually abused men and women and many people carry that incredible pain inside that sense of shame that sense if I should have cried out I should have done something I shouldn't have let this happen to me you know when you came to Christ you don't have to live under that it's broken there is no record in heaven it's all just in your mind there's no record you get to have a nobody kuna no nobody's going to care we're all just a mess that we're redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ you don't have to carry that shame anymore there's some people that you've been so wounded you just you drink and you find yourself falling back into drink and you try to get another sap from God and you you come back to church as if it's coming back to the old testament temple and not really understanding that Jesus doesn't mark your iniquity it was willing to give you the victory if you have an honest heart put one foot in front of the other he can give you the power to forgive it's hard to forgive this is such an abused society that unforgiveness has seemingly found a stronghold and many people but it's not impossible with a testimony this morning of a man who's kept in pain in captivity because of unforgiveness in his heart but he he was given the power by God's Spirit to release it and became a new creation there's so many things that Satan would want to use to keep you captive but the good news tonight is you don't have to be just as Lazarus got up and just walked out that's exactly how that's how complicated it is if you can hear today the write of Hebrews says if you can hear his voice don't harden your heart don't say oh not me maybe the guy down the next to me maybe somebody else but not me don't sell yourself short the deepest down and the farthest and the darkest sometimes that's your gonna have the greatest testimony of anybody in this room because you will get the freedom you get to a place where you can't stop speaking about Jesus Christ you're so taken by his power so enamored by what he's done you just it's not a program you're not pulling tracks out of your pocket to give to anybody you're just as big as a man looking you gotta listen to me man I've literally over the years taken people listen listen to me remember when I was a cop after I came to Christ going one night into a place where a husband and wife were beating each other's brains out you throwing every piece of furniture in the house at each other I walked into the house I said sit down on the couch and they said that on the couch and they're kind of scared of me and I said you need Jesus both of you without Jesus you have no future you have no hope you need Jesus hallelujah hallelujah it wasn't an argument it was a transformed life that God was beginning to give me do you struggle pastor oh yeah we all do is be honest let's not let's take off our pharisees robes tonight and just be honest we all struggle we all live in the body that wants to be God but we change by the mercy of God I want to give an altar call tonight for every bruised and abused person here everyone is struggling but somewhere in your life and I want you to come forward and I don't want you to cry and I don't want you did repent I want you to come and rejoice in God I want you to come and say Jesus I get it I get it lord I get it and tonight I'm just going to rejoice I I'm just gonna this is like a new life to me I'm just gonna rejoice and give you thanks I'm gonna shout I'm gonna dance I don't care what anybody says you know you might have to just step out of your room and run down the hall tonight and you're in this hotel you might have to go outside and shout I did that one night I just went outside and started shouting it's this God this thing is real man when I was a new Christian I just went out in my back fearless oh God and the cows next door I was in a farm the cows started moving in the field next door and I didn't care I said you are real Lord Jesus Christ you're real you're not a religion you're real the Living God you really do save people you really did change us you really do give us the power or to be a new creation hallelujah you don't have to live there anymore wherever you are whatever holds you you don't have to stay there tonight you're part get up and put one foot in front of the other and rejoice yeah okay let's stand and if the Lord is speaking to you come here now tonight and meet me here and we're just going to rejoice young people older people that don't matter who you are doesn't matter the depth of your struggle you don't need to tell anybody hallelujah love to see all these young men praise God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah bless the Lord God Almighty make these evangelists I pray Jesus Christ Jesus Christ touch these young man Lord God Almighty used their lives for your glory Lord God let people be set free from captivity Lord let the glory of the Lord just fill their souls tonight father God thank you Lord for what you're going to do thank you mighty God would you be free can we sing that again would you be free from the burden of sin there's power wonder-working power in the blood folks to step out wherever you are step out of the pain step out of the struggle step out of the sense of unworthiness step out of the feeling that God will never use you step out of the hopelessness just do it just step out and believe God and he's going to touch your life tonight whoever you are and wherever you are believe God for a miracle tonight I am free I am free Jesus hope the chains around me I am free through the blood of Kaveri I am free I am I am free I am free I am free Jesus broke the chains about me I am free through the blood of Calvary I am free I am free I am say it again with all your heart I am free I am free Jesus broke the chains about me I am free through the blood I'll come free I am free I am free I am free singing again I am free I am free yes I am Jesus broke the chains around me I am free to the blood I'll come for me I'm free I am free running it again I am free I am free Jesus broke the chains around me I am free through the blind I'm Kimberly I'm free I am free I am free we glory glory glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God

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Published: Thu Jan 16 2020