RESET | Reset Vision | Philip Anthony Mitchell

welcome to the victory broadcast if this ministry has impacted you in any way please consider supporting the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you now we pray that this message will stir your heart and build your faith get ready to receive the word of god grace and peace to you my victory family to all of our friends watching in cities outside of atlanta and around the country this is week three of our series called reset and today i'm scheduled to preach a message to you called reset vision and uh i don't have that outline with me i don't have the notes for that that that message i feel like the holy spirit gave me an instruction this week to scrap that outline and what i have for you is my bible and the spirit of god because i believe the lord gave me a clear instruction to share something with you [Music] that is critically important and it may be very maybe uncomfortable to hear difficult uh to grasp but i feel that it is so necessary and so my my outline is gone but the sermon title still will remain we will reset vision but my assignment has changed by the instructions of the holy spirit and i i just i i beg you my sons and daughters i i i went to god i would be in a room with you right now i would grab you and shake you [Music] until you lend me your ears for just a few moments lend me your heart for just a few moments and allow the spirit of god to speak directly to you with no distractions [Music] no distractions [Music] my brothers and sisters it was on tuesday of this week i was sitting on my back deck and consecration and prayer before the lord my bible's open my notepad is open and i'm just i'm just sitting there just meditating on the lord i'm leaning into the scriptures i'm leaning into his presence i'm enjoying the beauty of his creation as i'm seated on the outside of the pavilion of glory i'm marveling at the beauty of his creation the awesomeness and the grand and the magnitude of who he is and it's in that moment god begin to speak to me begin to stir up inside me texts i've read in the scriptures things i've seen in culture preaching i've heard in america and i begin to think in my heart all around me i hear the voices of children of god sons and daughters who are depressed and miserable they have no real joy outside of a momentary fleeting experience [Music] there are so many american christians who are just down and depressed there is no real light coming from no real joy no happiness no real peace and we front we front we front we put on a mass when we come into gatherings and we tell people bless the lord and i'm doing okay but the truth is man amongst many believers i've been outside the country are believers in trinidad and believers in jamaica and believers in israel and of all the places i've been around the world american christians are among them the most miserable and i sat there on my back deck and i wept before the lord and these revelations they start rolling up in my spirit on the inside of me and i would go into my house and i would fall down on my face in my prayer room and i would just pray that thing out for hours [Music] and on tuesday night i sat all my children down at our kitchen table and i had malachi and israel and abigail and josiah my wife and i said to them i said [Music] i said a day is coming we're not gonna they're gonna leave this house you're gonna go off to college god spare life and y'all gonna walk into the a very dark and dismal world you're gonna step on campuses that's gonna try to attack everything you believe and everything you've been taught you're going to meet people at jobs that are going to be counter cultural to everything you've been taught and i told them i said look right at me look right at your father look right at me i told them i said to them [Music] i said i said i said malachi israel abigail josiah i told them that in this life everything you put your trust in outside of jesus it will have a potential to fail you and i told them that in america i told my children that there are a lot of believers you're going to meet in church on jobs on college campus who are miserable because of the lies we have bought into in our culture the lies we have brought into american christianity and i've told them that these lies keep american christians hearts sick and miserable all the time we always sad we always depressed we always miserable because we have believed in a christianity and a jesus that does not exist we have been taught a god that is not in the scriptures i told them and i told them all these believers they're always battling the disappointment that god is not coming through from them the cognitive dissonance between the expectations of god and the reality that they experienced because of what they've been taught i said to them as like my son josiah i said joey i told him earlier joey asked me he said oh daddy uh can you take me to walmart and buy me a a remote control car and i said to him sure i'll take you to walmart and buy the remote control car and i said later on in that day i told my other three children i was bound up with all these issues and i couldn't take joey anymore to get the car and he was disappointed because i could not take him to walmart to get this remote control car and i was telling them in the same way we have so many preachers men and women they keep telling us the father's going to take you to walmart the father's going to take you to walmart the father's going to take you to walmart you're going to receive this blessing you're going to get this money you're going to be this you're going to be that the father is going to take you to walmart they keep loading people with all these promises that's outside of the scriptures and when the father does not come through for them it keeps leaving believers disappointed with god and disappointed with jesus and disappointed with the kingdom and so there is this cognitive dissonance between the god and the expectations i have upon him and the reality of what i'm experiencing and the two don't connect and as a result of that i'm always disappointed with my father i'm always disappointed what he's doing he didn't come through he didn't answer his prayer he didn't do that and all of us listen disappointed because somebody keeps telling us god is taking you to walmart he's taking you to walmart he's taking you to walmart and i told them all of the preaching in america so much of it is so perverted because it is keep teaching us that the christianity that we have ascribed to is a christianity of acquisition it's a christianity of all tangibles it's a christianity of all the things i could keep putting my hand on and i told my children i said look right at me i told all of them around the table look right at me look at you look right at me i'm talking to you and i said to them i said my children when y'all leave this home i cannot be a hero and your mother cannot be a hero and i said to them when you leave my house jesus must be your hero and i said look right at me i said y'all must be fully satisfied in him apart from anything else you got to find the fullest of your satisfaction and joy in jesus apart from anything else i told them your satisfaction can't come from the home you live in or the car that you drive or the amount of money you have in your bank account or the amount of people you have following you on instagram i told them your satisfaction has to come from jesus that we have to find some way that that we are most satisfied in him that he is the object of your affections he is the object of your deepest longings he is the object of your deepest desires and nothing cannot take that place and i said that you have to love him this way for how he has loved you and i said israel are you there yet is jesus the object of your affection is he the centerpiece of your christian experience are you fully satisfied in him israel that if you didn't have anything else but jesus would you be fully satisfied with him and him alone and she said daddy i'm not there yet and i said malachi what about you [Music] and he said daddy i'm not there yet and i said joey what about you and he shook his head because joey's a man of few words and i'm not there yet and i said abigail what about you she said i'm i'm not there yet and israel said i never heard him put that way before but i'm not there yet and then she turns to me she says daddy are you there yet and in a moment of honesty i said to my 14 year old said i said no israel i have not arrived but i'm much closer now than i've ever been in my entire life that if i did not have my home jesus would be the object of my affection that if i did not have the car that i drive jesus would be the object of my fiction that if i did not have a dollar in my bank account jesus would be the object of my affection that if i did not have victory church if i didn't have that people telling me my sermons was good if i did not have thousands of people follow me on social media if i was a hermit and no one knew my name and all i had was christ i would want to be fully satisfied in him i want christ to be my all in all i want to be fully satisfied in him that he is the ultimate source of my joy he's the ultimate source of my happiness for all these other things they can be moved i can lose them they can fade away [Music] and i said israel i turned to her that got to begin with remembering how he loved you and she's staring at me with her cute little face and i said don't get it twisted i said to israel i said don't think for one second god loves you because you got a cute face or don't think for one second god loves you because you're raised in a christian home or don't think for one second god loves you because your moral or your woman avert you or because you're a virgin or because you obey your parents or because you read your bible and you pray in the morning and even don't think for one second god loves you because of those things [Music] i said israel you know why god loves you i said from the time you came out your mother's womb still born with that umbilical cord strapped around your neck and god resurrected you when you was born dead from the time you came out of god's your mother's womb you was an object of god's wrath you were born in sin and shaped in iniquity and from the time you was born in duke hospital i said to israel you was an object of god's wrath his wrath abided upon you but i said it was christ i said to my daughter on the cross fully absorbing the wrath of the holy god and he took his righteousness from the cross israel and he gave it to you and he took your unrighteousness and then he nailed it to the cross and so now when the lord sees you israel he doesn't see a filthy rag an object of wrath now through the blood he sees you through the blood and because he sees you through the blood now you're an object of love and i said your love for him has to start at the cross it can't start at the stuff you got in your room you can't love god because you have a house or you love him because you have a car you love him israel because you got sneakers in the closet these are not the primary motives to love the lord jesus and i said israel and i said to my children your primary motive for loving him has to begin with the cross and what he has done for you on the cross and that he has removed the wrath of the father upon you from the cross and he has to be watched the ultimate source of your joy in which is you are fully satisfied in him watch and if more americans had that as a goal then everything else he gave us would just be icing on the cake so that i'm not finding joy in the house my heart is just exploding with gratitude because he gave me that on top of my salvation and my joy is not in the card that i drive but my heart explodes with gratitude because he gave me that on top of salvation and all with relationships and friends and church and calling and title and following and fill in the blank see but this is not the air that we that we live from the word this the air we breathe in american christianity it doesn't cultivate this in us look right at me let's be honest it doesn't cultivate this in us let's be honest i'm talking to you you and i be honest for just a moment that's not the church you grew up in or you heard was blessing blessing blessing and we have been born into an american christianity that's all about tangibles and consequently when some of us can't get our hands on all of these things we are mad at god and disappointed at him he becomes like he becomes like the father that made us promises and abandon us when we was 12 abandon us when we fall we don't even know his name he becomes like this absenteeing father that i talk to you don't come through and i ask you for that and you ain't come through and i prayed about that and you come through why because we have in our minds of christianity that we think god owes me something [Music] because i'm shedding tears in my prayer closet he owes me that he owes me a big following he owes me a mega church he owes me for my loved one to be healed really according to what paul wrote to the philippians the only thing he owes you and me is death and wrath but because we have been bought into a christianity that says god owes me god owes me god oh just look listen to just listen to the preaching it's always a glorification of men and their ideas and that the only person that has the right to boast in themselves or demand worship or demand homage or demand praise or exalt themselves is the lord jesus christ no one else has a right to exalt themselves that's why it is nauseous to me to see people in my camp pastors or worship leaders or whoever always exalting themselves every graphic got your face on it it's all about you you're not pointing people to jesus and watch and when we keep exalting ourselves we we draw people to me and every time we keep drawing people to ourselves we block them from setting their gaze on what would bring them their ultimate happiness not my sermon but the lord jesus christ not my personality but the lord jesus christ we've become a a blockage to them seeing jesus to holding on to the one person that can really give them joy and happiness that's what we've been taught that's the american christianity that we live look at us we we busy we're building our businesses we're building our entrepreneurial ventures we're building our capital we're trying to get our our things straight and our listen our minds are always set on our business i would all this stuff our title this perfect post this right filter all of this all of this and we have all these christians living but christ is not at the center let me ask you a question are you most satisfied with christ look right at me we can get honest right here in the chat are you in this season of your life most satisfied with christ that is he so satisfies my soul that if i had nothing else if everything i had was stripped from me could you still have joy if you lost that business if you lost the ministry if you lost the title the following if the loved one dies and god don't answer your prayer could he still be the source of your joy [Music] and this is what god was showing me and we we we're so miserable because we are not satisfied with christ watch he is not enough i need him and the next crib then i will be joyful i need him and the newer vehicle then i will be joyful i need him and my ministry to blow up then i will be joyful i need him and my instagram to blow up then i will be joyful i need him and the husband then i will be joyful i need him and the wife i then i'll be joy i need him and all the he's not enough let's just be honest look right at me we are american christians he is not enough and yet i've met christians in jamaica i preach in churches with tents and concrete slabs with no chairs where people stood in the rain for three hours to hear the gospel preach to them at ten o'clock at night i've been in trinidad and other nations and in israel seen christians who had much less than what we have in this country but are so satisfied with jesus they got more joy than american christians and we have more than most nations around the world [Music] oh if i could just if i could just grab you if i could impart some spiritual gift into you if i could get down on my knees in this studio and plead with you i would beg you that is i i don't know how this happens except the holy spirit comes behind me and waters this seed that you would start to desire in your heart christ that you would you would be honest about where you are honest about your our love of fear and our adulteries and our idolatries with all the things we love more to him he's not enough we are not satisfied with christ and i would just implore you to come with me on a journey of pivoting and turning and say no matter what it costs me i want christ i want to be satisfied with christ i want to find my joy in christ i want to be all sufficient in christ so that anything else i have is just gravy and if i don't have it i'm okay say pastor you ain't giving us no scripture i thought this was reset your vision all right i'ma find a text so i won't be a heretic right [Music] how about this one the right of hebrews the unknown author of hebrews said in hebrews chapter 12. and verse 1 he said therefore since we have been surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses we preach this wrong we think witnesses are the these people are in heaven looking down upon us false doctrine witnesses here in the greek means martyrs and people who serve faithfully they gave their life for the cause of christ and so in these stands we have the witnesses of people who went before us men like david ruth rahab moses abraham since we are surrounded by a great cloud of men and women who went before us let us throw off every everything that hinders us if it is a hindrance i throw it off it can be good hindrances or bad hindrances i just throw it off and let us throw us the sin that so easily entangles us that i'm not gonna be a lover of my sin his here's the reset of your vision verse 2 and let us fix our eyes upon jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross scorning his shame and sat down at the right hand of god the father no that's not sexy enough for you you wanted me to tell you without vision people perish you know that you wanted me to tell you that we can have cloudy vision but jesus can touch us again and we can see more clearly you wanted me to tell you that vision is what we see with our eyes closed it's the eyes of faith that's what you wanted me to tell you you wanted me to tell you that vision speaks that when we have vision it chooses my friends vision chooses my spouse it chooses the church because when i have vision my nose already preset and vision chooses my my path for me when i have vision i know i can't hang out with those people and i lie myself that's what you want to hear you want to hear vision is a hope that i have been something i cannot see all that is true but if i can reset your vision i want to reset the way you see christianity and the way you see christ that this walk is not about us going to walmart and just grabbing everything we want off the shelf it's not about materialism and that the centerpiece of christianity is not my servant but my lord who didn't save me for me to have my own plans and force him to get behind what i want [Music] but save me to himself [Music] to walk out whatever he has for me and my prayer for you is that we will reset our focus and reset our vision upon christ and even as i release you from the fast today release you from the consecration today and if you feel the holy spirit leading you to go further than do that [Music] but i plead with you i i i plead with you brothers and sisters man that we would go on this this this this quest in our prayer time this quest in a private time alone that we would we would we would we would pursue jesus and we would want to know him and walk with him and talk with him and be alone with him until we are most satisfied with christ [Music] and all it takes for me is to walk down the street and worship music and joy explodes in my heart because my mind is fixed on christ then all it takes for me is a flashback of the cross and joy explodes in my heart because my mind is fixed on christ and all it takes is me recollection of my rescue and my heart explodes with joy because my mind is fixed on christ that he can take everything from me [Music] and i will be most satisfied in him [Music] nothing else but him let's reset our vision on the person of jesus and do our honest inventory about the things we love above him and as i said to my children at the table i say to you right now [Music] may jesus become [Music] the object of your affection and may you be most satisfied in him and nothing else [Music] that is my burning prayer for you that the spirit of god will take this word and sink it so deep into your heart that not even the devil can take it now we will spend some time today sunday maybe we go on a walk maybe we go in our prayer class may we lock ourselves in the room and let the holy spirit ring us out in private and cry out to jesus and say lord i want to be most satisfied in you then my christianity becomes more joyful and more fruitful i don't need nothing else except christ everything else [Music] is father bring about this revelation for your people deliver us from the perversion of american christianity the that is infiltrating this american church that lies from pulpits the false promises that jesus's that does not exist let us stop just running with what everybody says and be like the bereans who search the scriptures and may our hearts get to that place where we are most satisfied with christ i pray that over your sons and daughters my brothers and sisters in the mighty and majestic and matchless name of the lord jesus christ look right at me don't turn off the stream and don't log off i finished early i got an extra 15 minutes on my preaching clock what are we going to do at that time you know what we're going to do we're going to take about seven minutes and we're going to worship jesus together [Music] we're going to lift up this song that is coming behind me call nothing else and wherever you are in your house you gotta pull over on the side of the road let's lean into this song for the next five or seven minutes or so and then our mc's gonna come behind that and give you some final words we're not gonna walk out of the chat we're gonna worship jesus together in this chat and we're going to spend some time talking about this in the chat then you'll be released let's worship jesus we need nothing else except him [Music] so [Music] [Music] so i'm caught up in your presence [Music] i just wanna sit here [Music] [Music] i never wanna leave [Music] and i'm not here for blessing [Music] jesus you don't hold more than anything that you can do i just want you i'm sorry and i'm sorry when i've just gone through the motions i'm sorry when i just sang another song take me back to where we started i opened up my [Music] i'm sorry lord and i'm sorry when i've come with my agendas i'm sorry lord when i forgot that you're enough take me back to where we started i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] holy [Music] give me joy you give me joy and i'm not here for blessing only you can satisfy me jesus you don't hold me in anything [Applause] more than anything that you can do god i just want you jesus oh jesus oh jesus cause i'm caught up in i'm caught up i'm else i'm not here for blessings oh the savior of my soul jesus you don't hold me in anything jesus more than anything that you can do i just i just want you [Music] i just want you jesus i just want you nothing else nothing else nothing else will do [Music] i just want you lift your voice nothing else sing it straight to her oh nothing else oh nothing [Applause] nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else i just [Applause] [Music] [Music] above and below [Music] [Music] i just [Music] straight to him i just want you oh take us back to the garden take us back to our first love full oh remove all our fall theology everything we believed about you that didn't align with your scripture that didn't align with your word that didn't align with your heart for us take it all away oh take us back to the garden take us back to our first love take us back take us back take us back take us back take us back [Music] take us back we just want you nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else nothing else [Music] nothing else [Music] nothing else [Music] nothing else will do i just want you jesus nothing else nothing else take us back to your throne room nothing else will do i just want you one more time nothing else [Music] nothing else nothing [Music] [Music] it's all else want it's all i'll ever need oh your love transforms me i'm caught up in your presence come on put that on your lips i just wanna sit here at your feet more than anything that you can [Music] [Music] jesus you don't owe me anything i'm not here for blessings i'm not here for blessing oh jesus jesus you don't hold me in me i'm not here for blessing i'm not here for blessing the blessing is you jesus the blessing is your nearness the blessing is your nearness i'm not here for blessing glory i'm not here for blessing jesus you don't know jesus you don't know anything more than any more than anything that you can do we just want you [Music] yes [Music] thank you for listening to the victory broadcast we pray that message was a blessing to you if you have a story or a testimony to share we want to hear all about it send us an email to share at victorychurchatl.org or visit us online 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Keywords: PastorPhilip, PhilipAMitchell, RESET, Resetvision, vision, jesus, focus

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Length: 46min 35sec (2795 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2021