Pastor Chris: The Call of Blessings #WordFest

[Music] let's begin from the book of Ephesians chapter number one from verse 1 Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the Saints which are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus say that includes me you see not only those that are at Ephesus but to the faithful in Christ Jesus because those at Ephesus have gone to heaven alright so Ephesus is no longer there but those that received this epistle at that time have gone to heaven but then it includes us for we are the faithful in Christ Jesus look at this opening of this beautiful letter grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ and everybody said amen and when you see something like that that's a blessing when you read it you receive it it is grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ when you read that you don't keep quiet you respond and you say amen grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ you know one of the problems that a lot of Christians have found themselves in without knowing is the absence of the call of blessings the a lot of them don't understand because most have never been taught the call of blessings you can only bless that which has been blessed you can only bless the man or woman that's already blessed if they are not blessed you cannot bless them it's a principle for example jesus said when you go to preach he said if you go to a house you say peace be upon this house he said if the son of peace be there your peace will remain there but if the son of peace is not in that house your peace will go back with you without doing anything for them you see so we would think when you say peace be upon this house you are bringing peace yes you are bringing peace but it will not do anything in there except the son of peace is there so when we speak blessings only those who have been blessed by God in the mind of God only those that have been called into the blessings that a blessing can be called upon if they have not been blessed by God doesn't matter what you say they will not get it so many don't understand the call of blessing they don't realize that these words need to be spoken it's amazing that even among the so-called 'war tights that is those who believe that they they preach and teach the word they neglect this they don't even understand it it's important to pronounce blessings on God's people it's got to be done because they are the blessed of the Lord and that's exactly what Paul is doing here you look at it this is the back to go back to that verse he says grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ we already know that grace truth grace and truth came to us by Jesus Christ we see the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and think about that that that was fall again pronouncing blessings on the Corinthian church now this is the efficient church it pronounces a blessing on the current and we say those words at the end of a service and it's modern words at the end of a service they're real that was in his conclusion of the second Corinthians have you ever read it I know you said it but did you ever read it 13th chapter in the fourteenth verse the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ on the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all and then is it amen did you notice that that's the call of blessings this is the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you the love of God be with you the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you then you become conscious of what's working in your life listen when you come into Christ you come into God's place it's a change of environment when you're born again a complete change of environments a change of life not a change of lifestyle but a change of life but that new life gives birth to a new lifestyle a completely different life is what you get when you become a Christian when you're born again when you have this eternal life the life and nature of God in your spirit you walk in a new environment you walk in Christ walk in a new consciousness and you walk in the glory of God from that moment on everything that should happen in your life what happened under the control of heaven you no longer walk alone everything about you is under the control of heaven because you become a part of heaven you become a part of heaven even though you're in the earth your life is from veins connected to the celestial of God now when you don't know this you will be ethically conscious you'll be world conscious you'll be conscious of your earthly environment you'd fight their fight in their way of funny you'll have their consciousness their mentality their words their reasoning you'd use their reasoning but we're not supposed to use their reasoning but if you are never taught you will not know you just think that you know now that you're Christian you're just going to be nice and good and kind and those are the things you you would be conscious of about Christianity but Christianity is far beyond that much more than that much more than being nice and kind and unhelpful in Christianity you become connected to the heavenly your walk on earth from then on is with the consciousness of the heavenly realm and through you the kingdom of God operates you become the extension of the heavenly can imagine that if you were the extension of the heavenly how could you be so sick if you were the extension of the heavily how could you be discouraged if you were the extension of the heavenly how could your life how could you be defeated but if you don't know this you be in and out of sickness you can get discouraged fearful you'll panic at anything you be defeated but you have to be taught so you have to be tough all right so let's go again Ephesians chapter one verse two grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ aha you got it now mm-hmm okay now look at the next one blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us who had blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ did you notice the word places is in parentheses there on the screen or it will be italicized depending on which text you're using did you notice what that means is that the word places was not in the original manuscript so they put it there to fill it up and make it make sense to you but the word that's translated heavenly places actually stops up heavenly in it refers to that which is heavenly celestial alright so panel or you say heavenly regions heavenly regions celestial regions in other words regions beyond the earth those celestial regions let hold the forces the forces that control the material world this earth is controlled from the celestial world the Stars the moon the Sun the all there and they act upon the earth to control times and seasons they regulate times and seasons on the earths Alleluia and so that rare is the realm of spirits now when we use the term spirits many people get confused they think you are talking about things that don't really exist things that we we try to imagine from our minds no no the spirit world is more real than this world the spirit world has definite means definite personalities definite means some people think that when you talk about spirits you're dealing with some formless formless shapeless entities there are some unreal they think all right maybe you were talking about some gas some formless no no no the definite beans definite beans this word is a shadow of the spiritual this world in other words this is a copy a copy of what you have in the spirit realm for example the Bible tells us you are a copy of God's nature your physical body is a copy of God's nature in other words God has one head two eyes one nose two nostrils two legs two hands did you get it that's the way God looks now why is that important yes because there are different kinds of beings in the realm of the Spirit [Music] blessings are not empty words we can live in it when you receive it won't get in it set you apart for victory and it goes forth to produce what it talks about the benediction is an invocation of blessing which means a blessing is an empowerment of prosperity they are word for the new creation in Christ to live above always and dominate everyone who is born again is car to inherit a blessing in this insightful teacher benedictions you will learn several important spiritual secrets you can put to work for extraordinary results you can get your copy on the pastor Kristen is a library app downloadable on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store god bless you pasta Chris worth hearing [Music] say I look like God close your eyes one second and say I look like God think about how inspiring that is next time the devil lies to you and tells you you don't look nice you say I look like God hallelujah hallelujah look at this this is really nice according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world and we should be holy and without blame he chose me to be holy and blameless my god this is beautiful before I was born he chose me to be holy and blameless so what life should I live you see this is my calling to be holy and blameless now if you don't know this what you're gonna do you're gonna be struggling to be holy hoping you'd get holy praying to be holy trying to be blameless it's not going to work that's why it's not been working that's why it's a problem that's why you're struggling how many of you how many of you found out because somehow you got to find out how many of you found out that you were a male how many of you found out you haven't found out yet how many of you at least discovered some time in your life because somewhere along the line you didn't know where are you a male or female you wore your sister's clothes and run around with them like you're all the same and then somebody try to get your attention you're a boy you're a girl they got it into your consciousness and you started to change right mm-hmm so how many of you found out you were male you still haven't found out in spite of what I said how many of you have found out somewhere sometime in your life that you were a male thank you unless you found out and when you found out what did you do you acted like one you acted like one you found out first you found out first if you hadn't found out you never would have acted like that because we know some people we know some people they haven't found out yet Thursday according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that's verse 4 that we should be holy and without blame before him in love oh he chose me to be holy he chose me to be blameless in his sight I like it love it having predestinated oh oh did you see that word what word yes so this predestination with God notice having predestinated us not predestinated the word predestinated us you have to understand something what the Bible teaches about predestination predestination as taught by God in the word doesn't mean everybody has been predestinated to be whatever and they got nothing to do with it no that's not what it teaches about predestination predestination in God's Word requires your corporation requires your will that's why judgment is possible God has a plan and it says to you this is my plan for your life this is the direction I want you to go this is what I want you to be then he says I need your cooperation to work in the slides' to become what I want you to be you can say no you don't have to be what God wants understand this God's will doesn't always materialize it's one of the things that a lot of people have to understand God's perfect will doesn't always materialize just because it's the will of God doesn't mean it's going to come to pass he needs your cooperation for his will to come to pass in your life without your cooperation it will not happen otherwise there will be no judgment but there's judgment with God because man has been given the responsibility not only to know God's will but to walk in the light of it and fulfill God's plan so he's predestinated us in Christ Jesus and he shows us what he wants us to be he shows us what he's already accomplished for us he gives us a picture of as heirs then he says all I want you to do is say yes I need your cooperation then he gives us the material which is his word and his word is our guiding light to lead us in his will to fulfill God's plan and purpose hallelujah what a life what a life what a life that you can know his will and follow and then he makes his power available to you so you can use it to become and when you walk in that light when you walk in that will nothing on earth above the earth or under the earth that's able to stop you if you use what is given you nothing nothing on earth if you use what is given you and you know he gave us the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit helps us to know the will of God the Holy Spirit helps us to know the mind of God the Holy Spirit leads us in God's purpose and plan it guides us oh don't let your life be an accident at home I don't know where I'm going we we just don't know we never can tell you know people live like that they just live their lives according to whatever before us there they're just Johnny in in the dark they don't know where they're going and they pride themselves in it the same way we never know who knows we never know we never can tell because we don't know where we're going we don't know where our country is going so we don't know where go I'm not a victim of a country come on no no no a thousand times no what of it how your victim refused to be refused to be a victim refused to be a victim hallelujah [Music] there are no limits to what you can achieve and no restrictions to what you can enjoy his name brings to us repentance permission and forgiveness eternal life healing and held the Holy Spirit and his ministry from this transforming teaching five blessings in his name you will learn deep truths about the blessings we have in Christ this message is now available on DVD and other downloadable formats you can get your own copies at the pastor Kris digital library app available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store god bless you [Music] Pastor Chris worth hearing [Music] look at that having predestinated did you notice how us look shall choose us you remember that having predestinated us not shall predestinate us and this is really big nicolas having predestinated us unto the adoption of children now the construction here is a little problematic for the for the with the King James what is saying he having predestinated us unto the adoption of children it means having predestinated us unto the rights of adoption in other words he's talking about the pure Taoiseach that is the when you talk about those son of adoption okay a placing an authoritative listen he has brought us into a place of adoption it actually means a place of heritage not just adoption like you you take someone's son to be your son someone's daughter to be your daughter okay that's the what he's talking about he's referring to a placing in a position of authority when you become an heir so he says he predestinated us unto the real Asia into the rights of sonship that's what it means the rights of sonship he predestinated us onto the rights of sonship do you know what that means he is saying he is looking beyond what your father and your mother gave to you or had the capacity to give to you he looks beyond all of that and brings you into a place where you become an of God irrespective of how you were born and who you were born to now you have a new heritage that's powerful and causes the predestination he saw ahead of time planned it to be so how could you be poor how could your life then be limited to the company that you work for how could you like be limited to that business that you have in your neighborhood how could you like the limited the limits have been taken away because he predestinated you until the few things halleluja say have an inheritance our heritage in Christ Jesus now understand this the spirit realm the spirit region controls the earth realm always remember that what's happening in this world is controlled from the heavenlies and you are supposed to be a player not a victim of the activities of the heavenlies you're supposed to be playing you're supposed to be a branch of what's going on in the heavenlies that's affecting your world are you giving it for example think what happens to your money when some fellow somewhere makes a dumb decision and and the the the currency is devalued the money you have in the bank shrinks suddenly your money shrinks because it's been devalued it just shrinks so and the barber says did not trust in uncertain riches is this their own certain they're not dependable so if you trust in the money that you can count which is supposed to be a result of what has happened in the realm of the Spirit oh come on yeah hallelujah when you look at it from the spiritual currents because the spiritual controls the material question would be how much do you control in the realm of the Spirit [Applause] if you can catch this then imagine what will happen in your life never again with devaluation of anything anything affect your life because your values come from a higher level read verse four one more time verse four want to go hmm into verse five according to the good pleasure of his will in other words he loves it it is his pleasure so when you say O Lord you don't great things for me he says it's my pleasure [Applause] this is my pleasure right there look at it according to the good pleasure of his will it's as well it is good pleasure this is my pleasure it's my pleasure to bless you say father you bless my plan can you see so all that begging and pleading and we're trying to convince him to bless us makes no sense to bless me lord please bless me Lord please bless me Lord oh he's a son I bless you it's my pleasure hallelujah all right look at this to the praise of the glory oh oh dear little sometimes we read it in King James I wish I could break it down very much for a lot of people because look at how it goes to the praise of the glory of His grace it's simple but when you read it like that it looks a little complicated but it's very simple to the praise of the glory of His grace so His grace is a glorified grace all right so it's to the exalted position of that glorified grace hallelujah wherein he had made us accepted he's not trying to accept us he has accepted us did you see that he had made us accepted in the beloved who is the beloved Christ Christ's this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and we are accepted in him in Christ Jesus hallelujah in whom we have redemption Oh God in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace wherein he had abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence Oh so let's try NIV I'm trying to pick a lot of people are longer right and this is this will be shorter and probably a little nicer he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace which he has freely given us in the one he loves in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding hallelujah okay is it a little better just in case let me read it to you from the from the Living Bible that one is going to sound like your friend is talking to you his own changing plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us dear Lord Jesus and it did this because you wanted to you know some things that they don't really get okay aha I mean like verse five none of them really got it but it's nice where I'm going is actually I'm trying to tie verses 7 and 8 for you in a way that you can get it because of the use of expressions alright so verse 6 now all praise to God for his wonderful kindness to us and his favor that he has poured out upon us because we belong to his dearly loved son so overflowing is his kindness okay you like this one so sort of a flowing is this kindness toward us that he took away all our sins through the blood of his son by whom we are saved and he has showered down upon us the richness of His grace for how well he understands us and knows what is best for us at all times sounds nice right sounds simple okay but let's let's let's read you still there he says I could give you seven and eight what they are neglecting I want to tell you what they're neglecting they're trying to stay in contexts all right the versions that we just read they're trying to stay in contexts and they are living out principles that's why what they're saying is not the best what King James already said is actually very accurate what I read to you from the King James Version is very accurate and and that's one of the beautiful things about the King James Version it marries contexts with principle and it's very important very very important now if you didn't really understand what I mean by those two don't worry okay we're in he had abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he had proposed in himself now verse 10 is even going to complicate it more that in that let me just read it okay that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him did you get it you got it you're wonderful then in whom also we have obtained an inheritance who is he talking about Christ in whom also we have obtained in Christ says we have obtained an inheritance a I have obtained an inheritance said again I have obtained an inheritance I'm not trying to obtain Oh God I have obtained an inheritance [Applause] let me explain something to you when you get a hold of these things that I'm sharing with you to actually get a hold of them you will have to decide to drop your normal natural human acne kernel way of thinking you have to drop it because the two cannot go together Romans chapter 12 yeah and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by it tells us how by the renewing of your mind by the renewing of your mind your mind must be renewed that means your way of thinking must change if it doesn't change your life cannot change there will be no transformation you just be getting bigger and older that's all but the same you the quality of your life will not change there are men and women there are 60 years old they haven't changed from the foolishness they had when they were 13 they still they are still thinking the same way they're only older and bigger but they haven't changed they say have the same foolish thinking childish senseless thinking they still have it they haven't changed they have grown up to have children and grandchildren but they are not wiser their life has not transformed there has been no Transfiguration how much longer should they continue like that maybe you are 23 by the time got 32 he could still be the same person the same reasoning not a transfigured life no glory no glory no that's not Christianity Christianity is a is a life of glory it is it is listen glory is not the hell it's not about the house where you live it's not about the streets where you live it's got nothing to do with that it's not the car you drive it's not any of those things it's not the clothes you wear is the quality of life that is inside the capacity of your personality what can you do what can your life affect what can it create what can it produce what is inside you what comes out of you when you speak [Music] if you have been blessed by this message we would love to hear your testimony kindly send an email to 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Published: Mon Jun 01 2020