Restoring Our Design - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

thanks good morning good morning [Applause] gotta make sure you're alive and awake double yolker excuse me double yoka yoga i want to go home and crack open some eggs anybody else going to do that i think we just need to go home and see if i heard that happening to somebody once every egg they opened for a season of their life was a double yolker because the lord he does stuff in the natural to illustrate spiritual truths and uh it's it's so fun so fun to it's it's a it's a language of the spirit unusual circumstances they sometimes testify things so anyway wonderful merry christmas merry christmas um a three-year-old in church learns the lord's prayer and he comes home quotes it for his family our father who does art in heaven harold is his name amen amen that was close my wife invited some people over for dinner and at the table she turned her her six-year-old daughter and said honey would you like to say the blessing little girl said i wouldn't know what to say she said well just say what you hear mommy say the daughter bowed her head and said lord why on earth did i invite all these people to dinner a mother was preparing pancakes for her sons kevin was five and ryan it was three the boys began to argue who would get the first pancake the mother saw this as an opportunity to give a lesson she said if jesus were sitting here he would say let my brother have the first pancake i can wait kevin turned to his younger brother and said ryan you be jesus [Applause] oh goodness one more one more after the christening of his baby brother in church jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car his father asked him three times what was wrong finally the boy responded that preacher said he wanted us to be brought up in a christian home and i wanted to stay with you guys all right all right all right that's it this poor poor sense of humor that's awful well don't uh open your bibles to matthew chapter one we're actually going to read from two places in the scripture going to read from matthew 1 and a little verse i think maybe out of chapter 2 we'll see and then also second corinthians 5. so we're going to we're going to use these two passages let's read this first one here in matthew and then uh and then i want to talk to you for a bit before we we jump into second corinthians 5. we're going to start in verse 20. while he thought about it this is joseph an angel of the lord appeared to him in a dream saying joseph son of david do not be afraid to take mary your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy spirit and she will bring forth a son you will call his name jesus and he will save his people from their sins he will save his people from their sins jump to verse 23 behold this is what a prophet said the virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name emmanuel which means god with us she called his name emmanuel god with us christmas is uh is the the season that emphasizes the absolute greatest story ever told and it's the the coming of christ and there's a lot of people who have this notion that jesus came to earth to plead on our behalf to calm down an angry father that was looking for somebody to punish and i i don't know that that's something you would believe because we've gone through this enough through the years but jesus actually came to do the opposite he came to reveal a father that was passionate for his people but here's the context in which he came in the context in which we we live today there's secularization of culture is working very hard to remove the concept of a creator and when you get rid of a creator let me re name it when you get rid of the designer you get rid of design because you can't have design without a designer and the effort is to erase the lines of uniqueness to all that god has made and the purposes that he has created us for so if you don't have a designer then you don't have design and you're free to do what you want design implies that when god created us with design he created us with purpose purpose carries with it the implication of destiny and destiny carries with the responsibility of accountability so the bottom line is the effort to destroy the concept of a creator a designer is to erase that which we were born with it's the conviction that i'll have to give an account of my life when jesus when god created the worlds it says in genesis 1 10 times it says he created this these animals to reproduce after their kind is the phrase ten times after they're kind so there's two laws in creation that are actually uh reveal part of why jesus it was necessary for jesus to come number one we reproduce after our kind you plant a flower seed you don't grow a horse you know it reproduces after its kind within each specie there's latitude but there's no crossing over if you take a donkey a male donkey a female horse i think it is i think i have it right they breed you get a mule but that mule cannot reproduce because it is outside of design it's got to get deep into us that by nature we were created to reproduce and i don't just mean obviously children who have children who have children i mean just in life that we are contributors to society that's who we are in the story of the minors there's this parable where 10 servants were given a sum of money they in turn reinvested it and the master came back to collect the prophets and the one who who increased his one talent to 10 that master said now be in charge of 10 cities enter into the joy of your master here's what you need to see responsibility was their access to greater joy greater responsibility because joy is not something you get by doing nothing it's something you get by functioning according to design design is what connects us to purpose design is what there are different gifts and individuals in this room unique giftings you have something to contribute to the overall story of mankind that no one else can can contribute there's a uniqueness over every person we were made in the image of god and so when you destroy the concept of design and purpose you've erased this sense of accountability for illustrating who he is and every person let me back up the sin issue entered the picture sin is operating outside of design what is the design it's in the image of god it's anything outside of the nature and character of christ is what is sin so when jesus came he came because of this reproducing out of kind so you have horses give birth to horses people to people flowers to flowers but sinners reproduce sinners that that cycle had to be solved we'll get to it in a minute another thing that he created in all of creation was he he called it in genesis 8 i think it is he calls it seed time and harvest seedtime and harvest that means you reap what you sow you plant a seed and it will bring forth fruit if i if i sow a thousand acres of corn i'm going to have a harvest from that corn if i sow mercy blessed are the merciful they shall obtain mercy it's just written in all of all of creation that what you plant you will harvest and so jesus saying that humanity has been planting actions apart from god not for his glory independent of purpose and design stepped into the scene to stop the flow of sowing and reaping we'll look at it in a moment he actually took upon himself all the fruitfulness of wrongdoing that that was that we earned he took upon himself what i deserved so that i could receive what he deserved that's what salvation is it's not just a temporary postponement of sin it's actually he took upon himself the punishment i deserved and he did it so that i could receive the life he deserved that's christmas i saw a picture this week i i really liked it it was a a christmas wreath and a crown of thorns and somebody put the two together so it was a half wreath and half thorn and it said the season the reason it was a costly introduction to a season where everything is about a father restoring people to design restoring to purpose i i cringe uh the internet i love and i hate love hate relationship i cringe at times when i hear what some people confess christ will say about another movement a political party a racial group a a social economic group whatever comments that are made that are just frightening to me and what concerns me is i know they will have to harvest those seeds as it's not only damaging but it comes around i've watched people who are just seem to be naturally contentious they have a lot of contention in their life sometimes i just want to tell them stop planting the seeds this will change in your life you just stop planting the seeds so jesus says blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy what we are harvesting today are the seeds we planted yesterday jesus came and interrupted the cycle so that the irreversible damage could be stopped and a new creation would take place take a look at me with me at second corinthians chapter five second corinthians 5. in verse 15 says he died for all that those who live should live no longer for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again verse 17 therefore if anyone is in christ he is a new creation old things have passed away behold all things have become new look at verse 17 again if anyone is in christ is a new creation old things have been passed away behold all things have become new the last thing that we needed as people is some kind of a soothing ointment over the open wound of sin we didn't need a spiritual band-aid over a problem he actually needed to come and to change everything to where there was a new start and new beginning in genesis 1 we read of the creation of all things in the seventh day he rested since that time there has never been anything new created until jesus died and was raised from the dead then everyone who puts their faith in him is what the bible calls born again and in that born-again experience they become something that has never existed before a new creation i had a a couple plants in weaverville that uh in my office that i had for years one of them i had i had in redding before i moved to weaverville and i actually ended up with this plant for like seven 19 or 20 years so we had a good good friendship made in that plant and i only watered it with coffee if i had leftover coffee that's what it got if i had none it didn't get anything if i wasn't in there for a few days you just didn't get anything else maybe my secretary watered it so i had this one plant that was in this pot like this this big and it was in this pot for um probably 17 years and 16 years anyway and right before a few months before we moved i decided to transplant it so i i took it out and when i brought it out of the pot french roast coffee is what it smelled like it smells smell like smell like this this plant is a reproducer of coffee i mean they had just been saturating coffee for 17 years so i put it into a bigger pot and uh something happened i put it in this bigger pot and within a very short time it started to blossom and have flowers i never saw that before in my life i i put it in a new setting it expanded to its new environment and produced things it never produced before never once did it ever produce flowers but it did in this new pot jesus when he caused you to be born again you were put into his shoes that are significantly larger than ours but every day of our life he works to get to enable us to grow into the fullness of what he designed us to be and in that context we bring a fruitfulness to the planet through our life that is impossible without the grace of god impossible without that natural gift that god would give us so that jesus could be seen once again this verse old things have passed away all things have become new has become a champion verse for probably most all of us let's read a few more and then i'll talk and we're going to pray over a few things together verse 18 all things are of god who has reconciled us to himself through jesus christ and he's given us the ministry of reconciliation say this with me god has given me the ministry of reconciliation now let's say it again together god has given me the ministry of reconciliation that's actually true for everybody in this room it's a mandate it's a call it's kind produces kind once you're reconciled to god your nature is to be a reconciler kind reproduces kind kind reproduces kind of all right you have you had a chance you missed it all right jump down to verse 20 it says now then we are ambassadors for christ as though god were pleading through us we implore you on christ's behalf be reconciled to god verse 21 last verse for he made him who knew no sin to be sin that we might become the righteousness of god in him verse 21 again he made him that's jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of god in christ here's the here's the deal my favorite definition of mercy and grace his mercy is when i don't get what i deserve and grace is when i get what i don't deserve mercy is where i don't get what i deserve grace is when i get what i don't deserve jesus came lived perfect faced every kind of temptation a person can face he did not yield to any of them in the slightest measure he became what would be called a lamb that had no blemish was not defiled there was nothing wrong with it he became the perfect offering why because this cycle of sowing and reaping was going to destroy for eternity all of humanity and jesus stepped into the middle of that and basically said put the harvest that they deserve on me i'll take all of it and it was in the past and every person in the future he took upon himself the punishment that every person deserved it's not an angry father that's looking to destroy people it's this creation that requires productivity increase reproducing after its kind sowing reaping it's the way you come into life if he changes the laws he changes the way we come into breakthrough in maturity and progress so instead jesus came and bore the punishment for all that which was wrong and then he turns to us and he says you're reconciled to god now you be a reconciler i don't understand this verse it says that jesus became sin so that we could become the righteousness of god i like it i just don't understand it but i sure like it how is it possible for you and me to be living examples of the righteousness of god but that's what he says those are shoes that we're growing into i believe that today is marks a season of breakthrough um about two or three weeks ago uh eric led in a prayer time here and he spoke about that in the last uh several weeks of the year i think i think it was a month maybe five weeks the last several weeks of the year that we'd see more miracles in that period of time than we did in the previous 11 months in other words it'd be compounded be increased and we prayed into that then chris got up in that similar period of time and he announced um i'm going to use the word reconciliation restoration but he used different terms but it was people who had family members who had not been walking with the lord that they would be restored in their in their faith in their relationship with god and it was a great time of prayer and uh one of the greatest miracles in the vallettan household ever took place before the day had passed he literally went home from here and got a phone call from one of his grandsons that was going left when god was going right and called the grandpa and said i'm not i'm not right with god and i want to be in and it's a long story but it's a beautiful story i feel like when god is breathing on something that's what we give ourselves to we stand in that and we say we join our voice with his his is the creative powerful voice but it's the partnership that brings release specific application to his heart to broken situations so we hear what god is saying we say this is the day of reconciliation this is the day of reconciliation this is the day of being restored to god i think it was within the last two years billy graham died what a wonderful man i i my name is i shouldn't hate to say this but my name is actually billy don't call me billy my name's bill but my name is billy it's not william they'll ask me you know whatever is your name actually william no no it's billy yeah my mom's apologizing my my uh now don't don't don't it's it's an incredible honor my mom met billy graham my uncle worked for him and uh was his right-hand man for a number of years and my mom met him just weeks before i was born and i inherited that name which is a great honor billy graham great man a man of integrity a man of great faith and he just gave his life for people to know jesus to know the love of god he did it all over the world and then last week we had the home going of reinhardt blanchy who is one of the greatest men i've ever met tonight we have heidi baker coming and it would be heidi uh reinhardt bonkey and brother yoon those are the three scariest people i know and uh reinhardt just went home to be with the lord unusual evangelist he just brought so many 79 million people came to faith in christ through his ministry through the years that they know about when the lord takes people home like this their gifts remain but i don't believe that what god is doing is going to raise up another billy graham or another reinhard bonke what he's doing is he's trying to bring all of us into that inheritance to walk in the grace to walk in the anointing to walk in that heart for people that these two great great leaders had and so we're going to actually pray into that today we're going to do a couple things together because i feel like whenever we've done this uh i i don't know how many times it's been but you know maybe 10 15 times in 20 years we'll take part of a meeting just to pray corporately over specific things how many of you were here for the the i want my knife back uh meeting several years ago it was it was just the weirdest weirdest story and a serious sequence of events it basically has to do with lost items god miraculously restoring and there's a long story to it i don't want to take the time for it now but we saw the lord honor corporate prayer for that area and we had stories that continued we had inheritances that were lost in court cases that had been wrapped up for years that were released that week so many things that were bound and lost that were restored it was extraordinary what was it it was it was doing what he said he was doing it's breathing out what he's breathing it's involving himself and what he's involving himself with and i believe today he's involving himself in these things we're supposed to pray for economic breakthrough for those who have impossible economic situations we're supposed to pray for relational healing for those who have impossible conflicts and families the cool thing is nothing is impossible with god and the things that look to be the most impossible tell them hello jesus is calling we we actually it's all right it's all right we had somebody call years ago or our secretary was praying for somebody behind their desk that just needed a real deliverance you know and they were praying for him and the phone rang at the church you know so she went and grabbed the phone and instead of saying good morning bethel church he said i plead the i plead the blood of jesus or something like that she wasn't thinking she was still praying for this person in her mind when she answered the person on the other and the end of the phone fell under the power of god so you know you never know what you're going to get so we're going to pray together for the economic breakthrough we're going to pray for relational healing i feel like there there are anytime you have a crowd this number it's not even a word of knowledge we always know there's relational difficulties and challenges we're going to pray for healing there we're going to pray for the health there are impossible cases medically uh in this room that just need a miracle and we're gonna join together and pray for that in just a moment because this is i i saw colon cancer healed right here so a woman get out of a wheelchair right over here stroke 58 years gets up and begins to walk seeing a whole series of about four different diseases right over there just completely healed uh that were impossible ms west now no west nile virus is already here several things just all over this room i can look around and just see right back over here a woman's jaw that broke 10 years ago she couldn't open her mouth without pain was instantly healed all through this room olympic athletes right over here that were healed of career-ending type injuries jesus heals them so it just happens here it happens here and it might as well be your day and so in fact we have so many watching on bethel tv we bless you prophesy to you get in on this because we want to pray for this kind of a breakthrough but the greatest miracle of all is actually a person being reconciled to god reconciled to god it's it's it's not hoops that we jump through it's certainly not joining a church membership or something it's not that it's a personal relationship with jesus and jesus comes and he's standing with the hand of the father and he's reaching for yours he's saying i want to bring these two back together i want to restore you to design to purpose because you have a purpose for your life that is rich it's wonderful it's significant and that's what it is he restores reconciles to design into purpose if there's anyone here that would just say with me i i i want to be reconciled to god i don't have a personal relationship with jesus i don't know what it is to be the new creation to actually be different on the inside by his doing not mine i don't want to leave this place until i know i have peace with god if that's anybody here in that category all i want you to do is put your hand up and we're just going to pray for you right back over here's one anybody else put your hand up right down here's another one put you in right over here is another one beautiful it's time amen it's just time another one back over here beautiful yeah we give thanks for this it's this is about to multiply so get ready to disciple people get ready jesus didn't say go make converts he said make disciples and this is the great privilege so all put your hand up again if you put your if you raised your hand a minute ago put your hand up again if uh if you raised it right here anyone sitting around them just put your hand on their shoulder just pray for them right now pray for the greatest most significant breakthrough of their life to come right now to come right now for the spirit of god to come upon them at the end i'm going to ask you guys to come to the front here to talk with our team but right now i want you to pray anybody who's watching on bethel tv they would just say bill i don't want to i don't want to leave this broadcast until i know that i found peace with god you just prayed the same thing god restore me reconcile me to god reconcile me i put my faith in jesus in his work to restore me completely so we declare over these people that there would be such a transformation a transformation of life that happened from the inside out inside out just declare i believe in jesus let's say it all together i believe in jesus as my lord my savior i sit here as a disciple a follower of jesus change me now from the inside out i give you my past i give you my present i give you my future all of my trust is in you thank you lord beautiful now anybody who has a relational impossibility put a hand up i want to see who you are stand if that's you any kind of a relational impossibility it just impossible with man not you know for for most of us in this room uh our problem starts getting solved the moment we stop being impressed by the size of our problem and uh for most of us we just need to shift our attention to a perfect loving father who is more than able to repair and to fix that situation i want you to extend your hand towards these some of you stand stand around them just pray for them once again on bethel tv we declare the same thing that god would work wonders in your household in your family and that family members that have been out of sorts with other family members we declare that jesus bore the dividing wall on his flesh when he was crucified he took away the power of division and we declare the healing the restoring of broken hearts god restore families restore households restore marriages restore children to parents parents to children yeah church i want to hear you pray just take just a moment longer to pray over these and just bless them bless them bless them thank you lord now before the christmas season is over we ask for miracles in households miracles and families restore in the wonderful name of jesus and lord we do pray this that you would be glorified amen amen good to sit down anyone who is uh facing an impossible medical situation i want you to stand without god it's an impossible medical situation to stand up impossible medical situation yeah please stand it's just it's just a day of miracles the things i've seen happen oh goodness gracious in this in this room you know this colon cancer guy was a gang leader from another city who heard that god was healing people and he came here and he got healed and the report i got back was he went back as a gang leader evangelizing the gang members with this message of jesus's love and so we just declare that over every household here stand up around these pray for them just declare that healing word find out where they need the miracle pray just pray just pray god restore completely we declare the same for our friends at home the healing grace of jesus would fill your household the healing grace of jesus would fill your household i mean pray in jesus mighty name we rebuke torment affliction in the name of jesus loose people's bodies the bible says he sent his word and healed them so we declare the healing word over them now jesus name every cancer cell dies in jesus name thank you lord larynx larry is there a part of the body called the larynx something larry what is it learning larnix all right it's right here who has a problem with that there's a what's it called larynx right right back here what is it larynx is that did i say it right whatever it is if you've got the problem there this is your day somebody put your hand on that and just pull off the affliction in jesus name i had a staff member buy me an anatomy book once it's a coloring book because i have issues so we declare the healing word of jesus over your body now jesus mighty name now fully restore what was stolen here okay go ahead and be seated all right one more uh no two more things economic financial impossibility that you stand some of you just keep standing for everything i think you you're just a glutton for more prayer by the way heidi is going to be here tonight you know i don't know how many i know this is hard for some to believe but i i've been there i've i've seen they they've had hundreds of resurrections from the dead and here's the deal they don't even count it a resurrection unless they've been dead at least four hours so if they've not been breathing for three and they're cold and stiff and they're raised up that's a healing you got to have standards it's not the standards i have that's the standard you stop breathing for 30 seconds for me it's it's it's a miracle all right all right she's going to be here tonight to be it's not an accident by the way when she flew into town she heard about little olive last night and went right from the airport to the prayer meeting to pray it's not not an accident this is the season of impossible breakthroughs now i want you to surround these folks surround the folks economic just declare over them the god of more than enough visit your household just declare the god of more than enough visit your household that this christmas season will be a season of great celebration great break through great favor god give wisdom for every dollar you release so we handle in a way that honors you pray this in jesus name thank you god there's a few of the folks we're praying for right now uh this will make sense to a small handful of you is there's an economic issue in your life and it's been there for several generations and we're just really to break that cycle that generational curse of lack off if that's you let the people that are praying for you just say that's me it's been multiple generations and then those of you pray pray with that with that insight we just break that cycle of generational lack we just declare it ends now in jesus mighty name all right just declare over them we bless you in the name of the lord and now let's have everybody stand for this last one all right everybody stand how many of you have a family member who is not walking with jesus this man it's it's not everybody but it's almost everybody in the room so this is what we're going to do just grab a hand and if the person you are holding hands with if you don't know their name by now that's your fault you've been with them for hours here excuse me i just want you to pray for their family members to come home to jesus and if they have no family members then pray for their neighbors just pray that this love of god will touch everybody they know lift your voices let's pray uh just break through god we just praying for our cities the cities that are represented here that there would be just literally a harvest of souls of thousands tens of thousands of people millions through the broadcast the people would just come to know the love of god and be restored to design be restored to purpose we pray this in jesus wonderful name amen amen all right you can drop the hands now we had several people come to faith in christ this morning i want the team over here to get that banner up right away i've got a banner over here i'm going to ask those who who came to faith in christ this morning i'm going to ask you to do us a favor yourself a favor come up here just a moment we have people that we don't entrust i just want them to talk with you and to pray with you that's all we don't want anything from you we just want to bless you i'm going to ask the ministry team come up to the front right now because we're going to extend time of ministry to people we're going to let you go a few minutes early here in a heartbeat but i would like for those that put their faith in christ this morning if you would right now make your way down to these with their hands up come down to them talk to them church bless them as they come amen

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Published: Fri Nov 13 2020