Sunday Service: September 26, 2021 11AM

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all yeah [Applause] [Music] forever [Music] who wins oh there's a god who plays so praise the one who would reach for me hallelujah [Music] yes hallelujah [Music] [Music] is [Music] he's [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] meeting jesus [Applause] jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] after all that we've been through tell me how i'm supposed to function without we prepared [Music] we prepare away we prepare the way we prepare the way [Music] so [Music] we prepare the [Music] way prepare the way [Music] [Music] [Music] we prepare the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] we prepare the way [Music] well [Applause] uh [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] it's time for [Music] i hear the spirits [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it's time for the old ways [Music] it's [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] glory let the king [Music] [Music] [Music] the way [Applause] [Music] we prepared jesus christ open up the yes know let me [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] come on in come on in come on [Music] [Music] oh [Music] open up the windows let the lighting open up the windows let the light let the light get the light open up the window [Music] open up the window [Applause] [Music] glory there's [Music] come on [Music] [Music] me okay let me [Music] [Music] [Music] come on every every voice [Music] you all the glory we'll give you [Music] we'll give you all the glory we'll give you [Music] all the glory [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] christmas [Music] you will be praised you will be praised [Music] you will be praised [Music] [Music] you will be [Music] [Applause] angels [Music] so oh [Music] oh [Music] we'll give you all the glory lift your hands and sing we'll keep come get your glory we'll give you all the glory will give you [Music] i will praise his name forever [Music] we'll praise his name [Music] let the light and open up the windows let the light in open up the windows let the light in put a demand on your prank church and open up the windows [Music] open up the windows let the light open up the windows let the light open up the windows get the light look [Music] open up the window open up the windows [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] glory [Music] [Music] glory [Music] [Music] let's keep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we prepare the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] way we prepare away [Applause] [Music] [Music] come on in come on [Music] uh [Music] we've seen what you can do [Music] the things you've done before a great measure you will do again there's no reason why you can't break through no [Music] there's no broken body you can't raise no soul that you [Music] you can light it up you're the god of revivals [Music] [Music] victory [Music] [Music] things are possible there's no broken body [Music] you can [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's prophesy [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh god everybody [Music] oh oh [Music] is oh oh [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] god [Applause] so [Music] whoa whoa [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] be glorified be lifted [Applause] [Music] everything we will [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wow [Applause] oh [Music] hallelujah [Music] pull it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] last night i was praying and i heard the father say stay hungry dallas say hungry dallas stay hungry dallas stay hungry for the glory of god for the open heavens so we say come awake in the city come awaken your people god of revival pour it [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] before we get going let the voices ring out do you know there's a hunger that got your blueprint [Music] they can't be hungry for you only you can be hungry for you [Music] [Applause] one last time we say [Music] [Music] jesus we thank you for what you're doing in this moment we believe that you are touching lives that you're meeting us right at our point of hunger and you're stepping in and doing what only you can do to the glory of god our father if you believe that say amen come on shout out man why don't you take a moment and find your way back to your seat if you've moved from there and also greet someone that maybe you didn't walk him with this morning just take a moment and greet him greet him greet him it's good to be in the house of the lord blessings and honor glory and power to the lamb there's nothing like the presence of the lord isn't it good to be in his presence it is so good to be in the presence of the lord how many of you are visiting with us this morning for the first time would you just wave your hands why don't we welcome our first time visitors come on welcome my first time visit us real strong those of you that are watching online we want you to know that we see you we see you there and we are happy that you have joined us online we believe that the lord is invading homes and hearts right now that what you are experiencing in this moment is really for you and for your family we want to encourage those of you that are watching us for the first time or maybe you want to connect a little more and those of you that are in the room visiting with us for the first time to go to our website trinitychurch.org info and get all the information about trinity what's going on here and how you can connect deeper many of you know that one of our lead pastors pastor becky has got a conference coming up in a couple of weeks called reformers collective it's yes it's gonna be so good and if you'd like more information you can text the reformer to the number on the screen and you also could visit the visitor center outside for more information and more details there's so much going on in the life of trinity we are reforming and reviving and restoring everything that god has called us to do but for the latest i'd love for you to turn your attention to the screen so you can get the latest information chelsea here and these are your weekly announcements first up we have our man of god event tonight at 6 00 pm so guys get your buddies and your friends and be sure to come on out and don't forget to purchase your tickets online and next sunday joshua giles will be with us so be sure that you are there it's going to be a great sunday and you want all of our family to be there and lastly on october 10th at 6 00 pm we are having a plunge get excited if you are interested at all in getting baptized then be sure to sign up online and for all of these announcements and any other things that you want to know be sure to visit trinitychurch.org info and that's it for this week have a great sunday bye [Music] the valley is not a bad place you some of you are always wanting the mountain experience but what you got to understand is that the valley has been set aside and set apart for your next breakthrough because when you get to know god in a way that you didn't know him before you don't get that on the mountain you get that in the valley you get that when people overlook you you get that when people think that you're insignificant but it's in the valley that god says you're about to keep the guys i i am astonished at the people that god is sending into friendship and relationship with me and beck and trinity church joshua giles has prophesied into our church you don't know him yet you're going to meet him next week but this is one of the most dynamic young men that i know of anywhere i'm so excited for you to for you to meet him and hear his ministry and uh i'd love for you just to invite your friends and family to come next week it's gonna be a remarkable service i promise i promise this guy is really really really really special as are these guys i i didn't even realize that we had not officially introduced the manigaults to you and i want to do this today this is one of the families that god is just picking up from somewhere in the nation these guys were the pastors of ecos church they still are but because it's an online church god said why don't you move to dallas and come alongside pastor jim and becky and be part of the trinity church family and uh they came first time i met you was at at the linc conference in february and even the girls said yes right you came did you come with a good heart a good attitude or no which one yeah sort of a good attitude okay so uh these guys are such special gifts and we're so thankful for them tim's carrying a title right now called associate to the pastor and somebody said what what is that what is that supposed to do and what that's his answer is keep me from retiring that's what he's doing all right so that's that's what his job is and we are so honored for you guys to be part of our family uh tim we hear from you all the time randy let me hear so tell them how glad you are that you're here well i'm i'm super happy to be here um i would remember our first time maybe our second time visiting trinity and i was sitting over there and i heard the lord say welcome home come on i cried a little bit because i wasn't quite ready to move but he in that moment he also put his hand on my chest and he said it's time to tend to your heart wow and i knew this would be a place that was a healing place a restoration place and a place that my family would thrive and do well yeah it's so good it is live so good so you guys please uh welcome these guys ask them this story they had a tremendous story jeremy and danny you and annie come up please why don't you why don't you stand together and stretch your hands out toward this family we want to pray over you guys okay we're going to pray over you guys and jeremy i was going to ask you if come on annie i was going to ask you if you just lead in prayer over tim and brandy and the kids and just sort of officially welcome them to this part of our family heavenly father i thank you for just divine appointments god and i thank you for what you're going to do through the manigold family here at trinity church jesus and lord i just pray that this new season that they've stepped out in faith and they've been faithful god i pray that in this new season you will begin to show them all that they've been called to do i believe they don't even know why they're here yet jesus and i thank you god for just uh bringing them to us and i pray that you solidify them in us this today god and in our family god i thank you lord that they're a part of our family and you're gonna bless this family i i just i also feel like god's just going to bring you a financial blessing for the risk that you've taken to get here and i thank you for that jesus i thank you for all that you're going to do in their lives and lord i pray you promote them in the kingdom come on i thank you for this moment of promotion for them in the name of jesus jesus name amen amen give it up for these guys jeremy annie you just come over here we also we also want to celebrate you you can be seated you give me a c you don't have to stand for jeremy um we want to celebrate jeremy and annie usually they are leading the campus in frisco we've started this thing where we want our campus pastors to come visit us as often as possible so bex and frisco today preaching in jeremy's place and jeremy has really orchestrated um the the movement that has allowed us to to open the not only the frisco campus but the campus at fair park and the campus at fair meadow so just give us a report if you would and i don't know anything that's in your heart it's just i i see 2021 as a year of expansion you know god's given us the opportunity to open three new campuses i firmly believe that he's giving us a a road map on how to do this and uh this is not the the end of it i believe god's gonna continue to expand us into the kingdom and and play i think he's giving us ground do you believe god's given us ground not only in dfw but across the world and i i'm just i'm excited to be a part of that i'm thankful for trinity church cedar hill because we couldn't do it without you you believing in us you giving all the things that you do help us go out and take this ground with security so thank you for being secure and letting us do what we do out there in the mission field taking ground amen amen give it up for jeremy and annie please we prayed over them in the first service so um yeah that might be that might be a theme i was just flabbergasted this week when i began to hear of all the opportunities that trinity church has had i'm sure i'm going to miss something i know i know that um tommy and miriam were on the sid roth program representing uh us this week and i know that uh pastor danny took some young youth whisperers when they were ministering somewhere jeremy was pastoring somewhere on friday ministering somewhere on friday night uh gabe and um some of our team ministered at christ for the nations and uh then worshipped with kerry jobe last night until the wee hours of the morning and i know that i don't even know i'm losing track of i know our tech teams were serving a conference up in up in north dallas somebody give god praise that he's allowing us right to take territory to be to be a to be a kingdom church a sending church a parent church we're a parent church for for dallas and so i'm so thankful i'm so thankful for it how many of you deeply believe that god really wants you to prosper yeah some of you are thinking about it you're not sure you're not sure you don't have to worry about it okay but um i just say i'm just gonna tell you with authority god wants you to prosper but here's the next question why why do you think god wants you to be to be blessed yeah and the answer is so that we can be a blessing to the city and to the nation and then and then beyond that and um you know i heard a teaching this this week it was it was amazing it was it was teaching um about the prodigal son coming home and it said i don't know if the prodigal son was tied to the abundance that the father had like until this happened he couldn't come home but when he came home he received a robe and a ring and a fat calf right that's a that's abundance this is a father who not only was able to forgive his son and say okay we don't have a place for you i guess you'll have to sleep in the basement you know he brought him in and restored him see and this is why this is why our church needs to have abundance because we are in the midst of prodigals coming home guys oh i wish i could take time i wish i could give you the details it's kind of a secret but there's a really special person in my life she's been troubled and tormented with a young a young person who's been tormented with neurological disorders and and some mental just really really battles uh i think it was sherman said in 45 days you're something that has haunted you for years is going to be on the 45th day she woke up and was healed of those disorders so praise god for that restoration god is restoring god's restoring god is restoring it's restoring so i told the first service and and i just share this with you because i think we're family we could really use some fresh seed in the ground we could really use so there's so many opportunities out here i mean there are there are two major opportunities that i'm going to be meeting with this week and honestly both of them are going to cost about at least one of them is going to cost about 50 000 and the other is going to cost a little more than that and i just i we just need somebody to plant some seed we need a whole we've had a season of harvest and now there's a whole new dimension of harvest but that it has to do with you know can we live in this abundance that god wants to bless us with okay so uh would you like to give today how about up in the theater seats would you guys like to give today yeah well you're going to get a chance to all right you're going to get a chance to right now if you're online watching online we bless you in the name of jesus we ask you to participate as well you can give by texting 972-444-2113 you can go to the church app you can all kinds of ways that you can give if you're in the house we would ask you to give by locating the receptacle that is near to you and you can just you can go to that and give your gift now why don't we stand together in the house i'm going to read the scriptures as you're as you're getting ready to give we can stand and uh even if you don't have anything to give pretend like you just go there so somebody else will say well i'm not going to stand back if they're going forward so father bless the giving today i pray let a lot of seed be planted for the glory of god in jesus name amen go please if you would to the receptacles and give and um get ready for god's word today amen i um yeah i don't know if we're in revival or not i i sherman says we're in revival so i guess we might be but but the reality is there's a lot of things that have to happen in my mind for it to be revival and one of the things is that sleepy believers have to wake up it's not just harvest not just not just people coming in to get saved but an activation of people who have walked in faith for a season just get a new energy a new vigor a new enthusiasm for the things of god and i just pray that happens that happens to our family amen you want it to happen to you i do i want it to happen to me our um our theme has been family revival and i'm going to stay in that for a bit more today i just want to talk to you for a few moments about entering deep love for your family entering deep love for your family and our text of course is ephesians chapter 3. for those of you who are our guests all of these messages are really based on the prayer that paul prayed over his family out of ephesians 3. so follow along as i read for this reason says paul for this reason i bow my knees to the father of our lord jesus christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named every family has a name every family has a destiny i learned this week that the name hennessy means do you know what it means it means one that is strong it means strong one so i'm just gonna i'm gonna be strong how about that all right that's my destiny that's my name you've got a name i don't wanna know what yours is right now but later on you can tell me all right that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit where in the inner man in the inner man that christ may dwell in your hearts through that you would be rooted and grounded in yeah that you would be able to comprehend take it in take it in with all the saints the width and the length and the depth and the height to know the love of christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of god i can't that phrase just now to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us to him be glory where in the church by christ jesus to all generations forever and ever amen amen and then also just before this prayer we find these words in ephesians chapter 2. this is right before the prayer in ephesians chapter 2 verse 19. consequently you are no longer foreigners and strangers but you are fellow citizens with god's people and you are also members of his family members of his household you're built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets with christ jesus himself as the chief cornerstone in him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy dwelling place for god and in him you two are being built together to become a dwelling in which god lives by his spirit this dear friends is god's word you may be seated so again for those of you who are just joining us in the middle of the series we're really believing god for five things number one we're believing that our destinies will be discovered yeah number two we're believing that there'll be a culture of honor established in our church and in our city because honor defeats shame there's no room for shame when we understand what the blood of jesus christ has done for us so honor defeats shame the third thing that we're believing for is the restoration of things that are lost not talking about the replacement of things that are lost but a return above and beyond what we lost what what was taken from us that's coming back to us in a new way in a different way and then number four that prodigals would come home who has a loved one that you're praying for say i just need him to come home i need him to come home yeah let's just speak it into the atmosphere come home just say it with authority come home come home and then the fourth thing that we're believing is that our church our church would understand what it means to be a family that we would behave like brothers and sisters fathers and mothers sisters we would just we would understand family love for one another now the question is what gives us the right to expect this i mean why should we believe this could actually happen for us you might say well we fasted for 21 21 days we we handed out a lot of food during covet to the to the hungry and yeah those are those are awesome things but i just need to tell you there's a whole more sure reasons there's a better reason to expect that these things are going to happen for us than than what you're probably thinking okay um this week one year ago i had knee surgery um i don't know if anybody's ever had knee surgery and the day you wake up from knee surgery you have buyer's remorse but i had buyer's remorse with my knee surgery okay i thought it was going to be like a little two-week recovery some little simple thing they found so much stuff in my knee that literally for almost one solid year i had incredible pain going on in my knee until just a few weeks ago and um a few weeks ago something something happened that i need to tell you about if you have knee pain my trainer you guys need to know demarcus he's amazing my trainer told me that i needed to start rolling out my it bands do you know do you guys know those little rollers like little little foam rollers and you just roll them out says roll your it bands and roll your glutes which is kind of a hard thing to do okay but that he's like roll the inside roll the outside roll the back roll the lower part of your leg roll it and then he said the craziest thing he said not just your left knee do your right knee as well like no but you don't understand demarcus my surgery is on the left knee there's no sense paying attention to my right knee it's my left knee that's her and he's like no no no you need to roll out your i.t on your right you need to roll out everything on the right side as well as the left side i was like i don't understand why should i do that is because they're joined they're connected what happens on the right side influences what happens on the left side what happens on the left side influences what happens on the right side and and today i just want to talk to us a little bit about what it means to be joined to be to be able to give supply to one another you see i i don't know what's happening at our church um my mom says it's a fresh wind i like that it's a fresh wind i i believe that but um we were just talking this week the last 18 months it has been not just the starting of new campuses but the starting of new relationships the starting of new levels this week this week i received our staff received a teaching from this amazing prophet he was just incredible he's a solution his name is drew and he built the whole strategy around three main ideas and he's prophesying over our church that we're gonna we're gonna steward revival and we're gonna steward reformation and we're gonna steward restoration and that means those were just labels but he broke it out and he helped us understand it i got home and received an email from patricia king and she prophesied over me and back personally that we were going to steward revival and restoration and reformation the very same thing i showed it to drew he said yeah if my three-hour teaching had been reduced to 15 minutes that's what i would have said i'm just trying to get you to understand that god is active in the corporate anointing here i mean god is sending us got to sing his people he the man of golf and reggie dabs is going to show up week after next he's going to be on usa today talking about his new book and he's going to represent trinity church and some of you have met sherman dumas who's coming about once a month now and prophesying and cindy jacobs is part of our church and these new worshipers that are just coming like every week and these new intercessors and reformers and people are just being gathered they're just coming they're just coming because god and you you're here you came and the idea is that every one of us are carrying spiritual substance spiritual authority come on somebody the same spirit that raised jesus from the dead is in you and and so what happens if ephesians 2 takes place we join all these things together because what's happening right now it may feel a little awkward to you we're we're growing our joints we're growing our joints not not those joints like right i've got too much of a background here but i'm talking about like the knee bone connected to the leg bone though those those kind of things and corporate anointing really does require the joining together of our lives i'm talking about covenant relationships and many of you would know if you've been to the membership class you know that covenant relationships are deeply embedded in our story because for the first what six years seven years of trinity church the hennessy era was about triage we were just trying to keep together we were there was so much trauma that after about six years or seven years we were like oh my goodness this church has potential this might turn into this might turn into something and then i was so insecure because i'd never really let a a significant church i know i didn't know what to do i i only led small churches and and i was praying i was like god maybe i should go somewhere else where you know i can just fit into a smaller smaller church and the lord gave me this incredible spiritual experience and he downloaded the four core values which you can read them there out there on the in legacy park and they're on the stones is like if you will just prioritize my presence we call it the substance of god my testimony the testimony of jesus and you'll prioritize that if you'll prioritize covenant relationships that's what we're talking about today number three if you'll prioritize legacy if you'll recognize that the generation after you has great potential both for good and for evil and your job as a church is to bring out the good and if you prioritize the marketplace so that you'll measure your success as a church not by what happens on the weekends but what happens monday through saturday then i will bless your church then i will show my favor to you so so the lord so we started trying to figure all that stuff out and i'm just saying covenant relationships have suddenly taken a new dynamic a strategy a strategy when i'm talking about covenant relationship i'm talking about the way god chooses to relate to us and the way he says we're to relate to one another one day this story is in genesis chapter 12 one day god interrupted abram's life abram was just living a happy life in ur of chaldees he's like yeah i just think i'll build a little farm you know just have a little little house out here with some some babies or whatever but god just disrupted him it's called a calling when god calls you he disrupts your plans and says i got an assignment for you and so he said that to abram he said abram it's time to get up and it's time to leave all this familiar stuff that you've been around i i've got you to build some altars for me you're going to be pitching some tents and you're going to be building some altars because i have chosen you i've chosen you and through you abram all the families of the whole earth are going to be blessed now that was huge and he said you can expect some things because i'm calling you and choosing you you can expect some things you can expect your wife's going to get pregnant you can expect some land there's going to be a land for you so expect the land expect the baby and so there they go abraham and god are having a relationship built on the covenant built on the pro or built on the promise built built on this encounter that they have they're getting along fine except 25 years after god promised there's no baby and there's no land and so we come to genesis chapter 15 we genesis 12 is where where god said abraham just look up at the stars and that's this you're going to be blessed genesis 15. god's just talking to abram and he says abram you know this you know that you don't have to be afraid of anything because i'm your shield and i'm your great reward and abram's response obviously he'd been thinking about it because what he says is okay god i get it but i don't have any babies i'm childless and i don't have any land you promised me god that i was going to have all these babies as many as the stars are in the sky but i don't have one 25 years after you after you said it and and god said god said okay well let's go look at the stars let's look at the stars this is how many there's going to be a legacy and this is what the bible says about abram it says he believed believed but he asked this question he believed but he said how can i be sure he believed but he said how can i be sure i don't know if anybody here has ever asked that question before how can i be sure i ask it all the time god how can i be sure i can't be sure i'm supposed to be the pastor of this church how can i be sure that you really love me how can i be sure that my family is going to be how can i be sure that you're going to come again and take your bride to be with you for how can i be sure and god answered the question god did not get ticked off at abram for asking how he can be sure somebody ought to thank god right now because he doesn't get kicked off when we ask questions that need to be asked all right so he said he said how can i be sure and god said well here's the answer and he took abram on a ceremony a ritual and i don't know if you know this part of the bible or not but it's so amazing god took animals and he cut them in half and he arranged them like a little aisle like a little wedding aisle and he just walked god walked in between he turned himself into a flaming torch and he walked in between the bloody animals and abram immediately though we don't know what was going on abram immediately knew what was going on because in those days that's the way you made a covenant relationship you arranged the animals you cut them in half and you walked through the cut animals because what you were saying this was an oath that you were making and basically what you were saying is if i don't keep my promise to you let me be cut apart like these animals are if i if i don't keep my word then let happen to me what happens to to these animals and here's the crazy part of that ceremony only god walked through the animals usually if you're going to have a covenant relationship the two people who are entering the relationship walk together but in this case abraham didn't walk through the animals only god walked through the animals and the reason is because god knew that he even though abraham intended to keep the covenant he wanted to keep the covenant with god he knew that abraham was going to fail he knew that abraham was not going to be able to uphold his end of the bargain so on the front end god said abraham i'm going to be faithful to you and i'm going to keep my promise but you're not going to be able to keep your promise to me and instead of you being cut apart i'm going to walk through i'm willing to be cut apart i will be bloody when you fail the covenant and that's exactly what happened on the cross when jesus said even though you have failed to keep your end of the bargain i'm willing to suffer the consequence of our covenant you you did it naturally but i have it right here in my notes and since it's in my notes i have to say it here's what my note says myself i wish somebody would give five seconds of praise to god because we can be sure that he's on our side nothing can separate us from the love of god that is in christ we can live in confidence because god has made a covenant with us in the blood of his own son jesus and so i just want to say three things about about covenant relationships and then i want to ask you to make a very important decision first thing i want to say about covenant relationships is that they're very unique there's really no place in modern culture where we can say oh that's what a covenant i think the uniqueness of a covenant relationship is is in deuteronomy chapter 29 let me just read this part of the bible to you deuteronomy 29 it says these are the terms of the covenant the lord commanded in addition to the covenant the lord commanded moses to make it hard so god is always making covenants with his people verse 9 carefully follow the terms of this covenant so that you may prosper in everything you do all of you are standing today in the presence of the lord your leaders your chief men your elders your officials and all the other men of israel together with your children and your wives so it's a family ordeal here and the foreigners that are living in your camp you are standing here in the presence of the lord to enter into a covenant with the lord your god now let me just point out coming into the presence of god is not the main objective coming into the presence of god is not the goal we are in the presence of the lord in order to be invited into a covenant with god the presence is the is the prepare the way for the covenant that we're invited to enter into see so so this is a covenant the lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath to confirm you as his people that he may be your god as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers abraham isaac and jacob i'm making this covenant with its oath not only to you who are sharing here with us today in the presence of the lord but those who are not here with us today so this covenant he was thinking about us while he was making this covenant with them back in deuteronomy are you guys staying with me well this is just loaded this is loaded with information about covenant this this just a little paragraph tells us that a covenant has terms to it stipulations it tells us that it must be entered into you can't just look at it you have to be deliberate about it it tells us that covenants accomplish something this is so you will be confirmed as my people this is so you will prosper this is so i will be your god as i promised this tells us that a covenant can be generational this is not just for those of you who are here those are for those who are coming covenant has to have an oath we have to say something we have to make a promise with our mouth we have to make a decree a covenant has to have responsibility he says i want you to carefully follow the terms of this i mean there's a there's a lot more there are consequences to the covenant he says if you keep the covenant you'll prosper later on i didn't read this part but if you don't keep the covenant there's a consequence to that you'll be you'll be cursed see all this is based on abraham's covenant this is abraham same way i made it to abraham isaac and jacob i try to come up with a definition of of covenant and i don't like it very much but it's the best i could come up with so here it is here's what a covenant is it is a voluntary mutual mutually binding promise built on love let me say it again what's a covenant it's a voluntary mutually binding promise built on love it's when two people say i want i want to unite with you i want to i want to join with you i i want to be faithful to you i want to love you i want to be a friend that sticks closer than a brother i want to i want your enemies to be my enemies i want your friends to be my friends i want what happens to you to affect me i want your life to have an impact on me and i want my life to have an impact on you and covenants are so odd for us because we grew up sticking up for ourselves we grew up looking out for number one we arranged our life come on somebody we arranged our life and our values around the things that are going to make us happy about the around the things that are going to promote promote us we arrange life around the things that we want and so today's love language is yeah yeah i'll be for you what i should be as long as you will be for me what what you should should be and so we're not really making covenant we're making contracts even though sometimes still in wedding ceremonies we still say it we say for better or for worse sometimes i'll leave i'll lead them in that part of the wedding ceremony and you can almost feel the fear of the thing like can i just say for better don't have to say for worse you know it's because if you make a covenant that's a scary thing covenants are scary because the covenant is only designed to work when both people agree to it right i mean if you if you make a covenant with someone and and they don't make a covenant to you you're going to feel taken advantage of you're going to feel abused you know if you're sacrificing for them but they're not sacrificing you just the covenant doesn't work but when two people agree when two people both decide because of love i i'm making this i mutually bind we bind our lives together in this mutual agreement that i'm for you and you're for me the bible says that the result of that is astonishing that the result of that is dimensions of love that we have not even discovered yet height with length and death [Applause] i i know i'm teaching a little bit more than i normally do but i think this is important to where we need to go in ancient times there's a very technical term it's called fictive kinship fictive kinship and in ancient times it was just the idea that your unquestionable loyalty was always to your family no matter what you were loyal to your family but what if you loved someone so much that you wanted them to be in your life but they weren't in your family what would you do then well you could find a couple of ways for people who are outside the family to come inside the family and one would be adoption right let's just adopt them let's just take someone that we love let's make a covenant with them and let's do whatever it takes to get them though they're not relatives let's get them inside the family and so you hire a lawyer you pay the money you make it legal you obey the stipulations of the of the law and then you make a new family and i'm just trying to get you to see that it's not enough just to love somebody that's out there adoption is like i love you so much i want to join with you i want to bring you into my family and i'm willing to pay whatever it costs how many of you know love always costs something come on parents come on everybody that's married love is costly it's going to cost you it's going to cost you something and and and there are covenants are odd for us because we don't understand what it's like to say i i'm willing to pay whatever it takes to bring you into my family see another way to bring somebody who's not a relative to become a relative is just marriage i mean i met beck i wanted her to be in my family but she wasn't in my family i mean you don't you don't you don't marry ken folk unless you're from arkansas that's the only reason that you you don't marry kennefall but but i loved beck and i wanted her to be in my family so on january the 7th 1978 i made the terms we swore the oaths to one another we had a marriage license to make it legal we entered into a covenant and we began this journey of joining this journey of joining two separate lives becoming one and can i just remind you first of all that there is a spirit of adoption that has announced over you i love you so much that even though you're outside the family i'm gonna pay the cost i'm gonna do everything i can to bring you inside the family and can i say to you that the goal of heaven is to get jesus a bride that is not a metaphor that is the journey that we're on right now to bring those of us who are outside the family into the family a glorious bride for jesus but all of that all of that requires covenant all of that requires covenant i know you're tired of hearing me talk about adam and eve but the truth is everything was a covenant before sin adam looked at he even wasn't her name then it was the man looked at the woman and and he said pounding my bones flashing my flesh that's covenant language it's like i see you in me and me in you and god in us but then sin came and adam gave the woman a name he says now i'm going to call you eve you're the mother of every living thing and now our relationship is going to be based on what you do it's going to be released on condition it's going to be based on it's going to be based on your performance and sin shifted the foundation by which we relate to one another so that now when we look at one another we don't look at one another ah i see the image of god in you i see me and you i see you and me i see us join together what we what we look at is i wonder how you can help me i wonder how you can make me happy i wonder what you can do on my behalf and we're and we're living in these contracts and these conditions and i'm just saying that is a small way to live it's a small way to love i love that john chapter 14 verse 21 jesus says if whoever keeps my commandments who does them is the one who loves me and he who loves me is loved by my father and i will love him and make my home with him i'm just saying that the goal of god is to make us at home with him him and we should never lose our all of this guys this is a god who wants he wants to have a covenant with us so it's unique but not only is it unique it's very mysterious it's a very mysterious thing in exodus chapter 19 verse 3 exodus 19 we see the mystery of the covenant um you guys doing okay so the children of israel are they've been slaves they've just come out of slavery they're about to come into the promised land and and god this is exodus 19. moses went up to god and the lord called to him saying tell the children of israel you've seen what i did to the egyptians how i bore you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself talk about a way to begin a conversation guys oh my goodness what is he saying he's saying hey you guys were screaming in your slavery just a few minutes ago but i wanted you and i saw you and i decided to do something about your condition and i brought you out you didn't have anything to do with it it was grace i came to you and i brought you out of your bondage i heard the change drop and it brought you unto myself so that you would be mine that's the way he began the conversation then he says in verse five now therefore if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant then you will be a special treasure to me that's bedroom language you will be special treasure to me above all the people for the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these guys are still slaves they still smell like egypt and god is speaking over them and he's saying oh no no no if i brought you to myself and if you'll keep the covenant i will make you a holy people and i will make you a king and i will make you a priest and i will make you a nation of kings and priests they have nothing they don't have a temple they don't have an army they don't have a resume but god loves them so much that he says let's do something that will get you changed let's do something that will transform you that's the point this is this covenant is a mysterious transforming power that turns slaves into kings and priests if you keep it if you keep it because god's going to keep his part are we going to keep our partner you know we're going to make choices because love requires a choice that's why that's why there is a tree in the garden of eden you can have everything you can do anything but there's a tree i need you to choose to love me i can't just love you like this you have to choose me back and this is how we grow our destiny this is how we steward revival and reformation and restoration i read this story this week in the bible about david's wife her name was michael and i don't know of anyone in the bible who had such opportunity as her she's the daughter of a king and she's married to a king and she's positioned to be the mother of a king she's got a lot going for her but she gets disappointed with the way life is going her husband commits suicide her brothers are all killed in war david is a fugitive so while he's away she marries another man when david comes back and knows that she's married to another man he messes that up real bad he takes his wife back says you're going to live with me woman i don't know if you said it like that or not so i'm just saying she's a troubled gal she's had a lot of disappointment in in her life but one day there's revival one day the ark of the covenant comes back to their homeland it comes back to jerusalem do you know about the ark of the covenant it's the presence of god it's the glory of god it's the thing that hungry hearts long for and david is so excited that the presence of god is going to dwell in his hometown he is exuberant he is dancing he is making a spectacle of himself his wife michael do you know what she's doing she's watching from a window can can i just say to you directly please that you may think there is safety in isolation but there's not there is nothing safe about isolating yourself and can i also say that if you're a window watcher while everybody else is exuberant you by nature are a critic you are if you're window watching you have you are always criticizing what somebody else is doing i get that she's disappointed i'm just trying to get you to see that there's a danger in isolation because she was more concerned about what was going to get posted on instagram the next morning than she was david's heart and instead of joining in and letting david nourish her and join to her she stays isolated and focused on herself and critical of david and the consequence of staying in the window when there was an opportunity to worship when she lost her future she was barren she was barren and she forfeited her future i'm just trying to show you practical applications of keeping covenants because if there's unforgiveness or if there's jealousy and it breaks the joints apart what somebody else has that you need is not going to become available to you and what you have that somebody else need is not going to be exchanged when god's people are joined to god are joined to one another when we forfeit that our future is at risk i know you're tired of hearing me talk about my dogs but they just give me such great illustrations so i have two dogs gypsy and cash cash is younger gypsy is older gypsy used to really be good at spotting squirrels and chasing them but she's not as good anymore she can't see like she used to see so she doesn't sit in the patio looking out of the woods anymore she sits looking at cash because cash can still see and so when cash sees a squirrel and she sees the hair on the back of his neck stand up she takes off chasing a squirrel that she cannot see because she knows that he sees something that she cannot see but but she can see him and i don't know if you can see the ark of the covenant in our midst or not i don't know if you can see what god is doing but if you can just get your eyes on somebody who is seeing what god is doing then you can have one that if you were to join with somebody they could give to you what you need they could give to you the hope that you don't have right now it's not enough to love god it's not enough to even love people there are stipulations for loving be careful to keep the terms of this covenant there are ways to join our lives together i i said this in the first service so i guess it's too late beck's not here so i can tell you this story if she were here i probably wouldn't tell this story she forgot me at the airport this week for real like hours i'm like beck you said you were gonna come and you're not here what's the deal and she wouldn't answer her phone and i'm just like oh my gosh um so you know us pretty well we've been living together for a while how big of a problem was it that she forgot me at the airport was it a big problem or a little problem i'll just ask you that it was a little problem honestly it was a little problem do you know why it was a little problem because our covenant carries terms our covenant has stipulations there are laws in our family that keep us together and one of the laws is we forgive one another when we offend one another and i could have pouted and i could have spent a night at the airport i suppose and been critical standing in the widow at a woman who had forgotten all about me i could have done that but our future our future is too important our family destiny is too important for me to carry some offense because she did something that she didn't mean to do i'd rather be inconvenienced than lose the destiny over my family i'm asking you today to keep the covenant musicians join us please this is the secret of the early church it really is you i know you're tired of hearing me talk about homophobia i know you're like what is that and it's the greek word that's just means same fire it's what happens when they score the winning touchdown and everybody stands up and cheers at the at the same time that's why the early church was so powerful i know you missed it in the in the reading the king james version because it's just translated that word is translated into such boring language like one accord or together but this is the way it reads in acts chapter 2. they were all in one accord the homophobia they all had the same passion therefore in the one place suddenly there came a sound a rushing sound from heaven as of a mighty wind they were in one accord acts chapter 2 verse 44 says all the believers were together you just run by that unless you know that it means they were in the same passions and the bible says the wonders and the signs that came through the apostles no one had need of anything and the lord was adding daily to the church those that were being saved chapter 4 verse 24 of acts says that they raised their voice with homophobidine one accord and one accord and the place where they were where they were a symbol was shaken and they were all filled with the holy ghost they enjoined their lives together acts chapter 5 verse 12 says they were in one accord in solomon's porch and through the hands of the apostles there were many signs and they wonders the same heart they had the same heart no wonder paul writes in ephesians 4 3 that if you want to walk worthy if you want to live a life that honors god here's what you need to do you need to bear with one another in love and then you need to endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and so i've come today just simply to ask you would you please put up with me please bear with me i'm gonna i'm gonna try to walk in a covenant with you but i'm gonna make mistakes and i'm gonna screw up because i i'm telling you i'm gonna try to bear with you it's going to be much harder than you bearing with me and you have to we're going to have to endeavor we endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit why why is it worth it because our future is at risk our future is at risk and the third thing that i would say about a covenant is simply this a covenant equips us it equips us why why did god cut those animals for abraham when he said how can i be sure well he was disoriented he didn't know what was happening and god said this is how you can be sure it's 25 years i know it's 25 years but i you you can cut me you can this is my oath to you and that covenant equipped abraham to go forward and fulfill his calling and live by faith and and you know build all those altars it wasn't because abraham was such a great christian he didn't even honestly he lied a lot even after the covenant and he slept with his maid he did a lot of bad things but he had a new attitude in his heart and his attitude was i can be sure because god has made a covenant with me the bible says he believed god and god counted in his righteousness this attitude is you know what god is never going to quit on me if he's not going to quit on me then i'm not going to quit on him and that's what i'm trying to join to our hearts today and attitude this is i'm equipped to do what god has asked me to do because there's a new covenant in the blood of jesus christ would you stand together please i believe in the next few minutes that god is going to do something that i don't know that he's ever done before in our church i'm going to ask you to really give god open the windows and let his light come in i'm going to have a closing prayer but i want to sing a song first and then i'll come back let's get ready to meet with god [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] never be on my lips [Music] you kind of [Music] you're making me like you you're clothing me and [Music] get rid of is [Music] [Music] [Music] you will be [Music] [Music] you will be worthy [Music] [Applause] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] you when somebody tells jesus he's worthy just saying you're worthy lord you're worthy you're worthy you're worthy you're worthy you're worthy you're worthy lord you're worthy you're worthy maybe maybe you guys can tell i really struggle with this message today mostly i struggled with how to how to ask you to apply it like what do you do okay yeah god made a covenant with me what do i what do i do with it and so as i was as i was praying into the message i heard the lord saying well what are you doing what are you going to do with it um if i had preached this message two years ago i know exactly how i would have cl how i would do this close right now i would say we need we need to make covenant we need to join our lives together because you've got something i need and i've got something you need so join a small group there's a sign up sheet in the foyer or i would have said join the prayer team or come tonight to the men's event because we really need we really need and if you signed up and if you came and if [Music] the praise songs were songs that you liked [Music] and the temperature was exactly what you thought it should be and if the games were fun for you tonight then you might come back [Music] can i just say that is a flawed model for the church that wants to steward the glory of god [Music] all right i told the early service i i've been trying to i've been trying to reach out to people that i know are offended at me because jesus said if you're going to pray or you're going to give an offering and you realize somebody's upset with you or you're upset with somebody else you should try to repair the relationship before you give an offering before you pray and i've actually tried to do that it's not like a long list but there's a few [Music] don't act so surprised that there are some people that are upset with me but there's a few and i'll just be candid with you it hasn't all gone that well in my mind it was like yeah as soon as i call somebody and apologize or say i want to have a relationship surely they will just jump on that opportunity and love me right love me right back but that hasn't happened with all these conversations they've been carded they've been a few that are like yeah i just don't want anything to do with you and i don't really know what to do with that i'm not going to make a covenant with that person because it has to be agreement but i'm not going to sit in a window and criticize that person i'm just going to ask god to do something there because i cannot afford to jeopardize my future by living with a critical spirit am i making sense to anybody in the 11 o'clock service today what i'm and i still don't know exactly how this message applies to your heart but i but i know for sure [Music] i know for sure that you are carrying spiritual substance in you that my heart needs you're carrying prophecies you're carrying faith you're carrying love that i need and i'm carrying something that you need and how dare this spirit sweep through our land that says i have no need of you how dare this spirit come through the body of christ that says i don't need any apostles or prophets i can do spirituality on my own i'm fine at home i can just do whatever i need to do however i need to do it no sir we need to be joined together if we care about the glory of god in the church typically when i have a closing prayer i want to pray for people who are aware of their needs and and i do i pray that god would meet your needs right now in the name of jesus whatever it is god me he's because he can do that nothing's impossible but i want i want our closing prayer today to be for people who see themselves powerful i want our prayer to be for people listen it's not arrogant just to know that you are spiritually significant can i say that again it's not prideful to know that you have a call of god on your life it's not prideful to know that the same spirit that raised jesus from the dead is inside of you but some something needs to get better in the body of christ about our ability to join to one another and i don't know i mean i can't provide sign up sheets for everybody to feel like they're joined that's not that's a flawed model a much better model is for you to go to your workplace and say hey guys how about we start a bible study tomorrow or calling somebody up and saying hey can we do coffee at starbucks or i don't know i don't know i just all i know to do is pray the prayer that paul has prayed over his church that we would be strengthened inside us by the holy spirit and that we would be rooted in his love and that we'd be filled with his fullness and then somehow i just believe the holy spirit would give a strategy to get outside these walls and to represent the glory and the love of god to a community that's so desperate for it so i want to pray for strong people i want to pray for people who carry a sense of i think i've got something that somebody needs and i want to pray that god by his sovereign spirit would release you into a relational union with the right people so that the glory of god could increase i i'm i'm not going to be asking you to be an usher i'm not going to be asking you to be a security person i'm asking you to be rooted in the love of god in such a way that what's in you comes out of you so again i don't know if anybody has the courage to do this but if you're carrying a sense of you know what i think i have a call of god on my life and i think i'm carrying the same spirit that raised jesus and i have a measure of faith and i have an anointing from the holy one if that's you would you just come to the front right now because we're going to pray over why don't we just sing as you're coming worthy [Music] the lord together [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] so i just want to pray over you father in the name of jesus i break a spirit of window watching come on help me pray that would you if two of us agree together as touching anything in his name it'll be done i break a spirit of window watching where we're staring out across the body of christ criticizing one another because we don't like this style or we don't like that or whatever we break that isolation right now in the body of christ and we say i refuse to be withdrawn i refuse to be standoffish you've put your glory in me come on make a confession over yourself you have put your glory in me you have put your spirit in me you have put your righteousness in me you put your inheritance in me you put prophetic words in me you put decrees in me you put faith in me you put spiritual gifts in me [Music] come on can you say it i dare you to say say i have what somebody needs come on say it i have what somebody needs i have what somebody needs [Music] i'm so father in the name of jesus i'm praying for your bride [Music] not only to be not only to be joined to you but oh god would you sovereignly by your spirit join us to the people join us to one another father i decree that we will be a covenant relationship church lord if you're going to trust us with revival and reformation and restoration we are going to be joined to one another in such a way lord when i might not be able to see what i need to see but i can see the person who sees it so god come on say this say this out loud baptize me in your love baptize me in your love lord baptize me in your love [Music] lord today i enter the covenant i enter the covenant with the bride i enter the covenant with the body of christ i join myself i join myself to those who can feed me and nourish me and strengthen me and god i am willing to release what you have put in me i'm come on i'm not just a container i'm a fountain hallelujah [Music] here's what i want you to do if you're at the front you can participate in the back if you want to i want you to take what you have whatever it is that you have and i want you to put your hand on the shoulder of a person standing next to you and i want you to just release it impart it if you like that word just give it away to somebody right now all right just give it to the person that you're standing next to me pray over them pray the mantle of god the anointing of the spirit pray pray the fusion of the body pray god that lord there would be a synergy here that can cannot happen as we remain individuals and isolated but god together together together signs and wonders together together lord and the the same passions rise up and when your heart is attracted your art is attracted to a place where there is where there's joining together lord give us the strategies that come from a full heart give us the strategies that come from a root that is love give us the strategies that come from a streak that is the holy spirit come on use your prayer language if you have it pray with your understanding if you don't have a prayer language a new level of your glory god [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you god you're healing me of the fence you're healing me in bitterness you're healing me god of the wounded spirit you're healing me god of the disappointments thank you god listen i just want to do one more thing one more thing bow your heads please our time is almost uh bow your heads i really prayed this week significa specifically i pray that this week we would we would have a harvest that would there would be people to enter the covenant with god and there may be there may be people here that were in the first service there may be people here who would say pastor i've known about god i understand that he died and then he rose again i get it i get it but i don't know that i have ever deliberately taken my life and said i'm going to enter a covenant with god and i'm going to keep that covenant i don't know if i've ever done that before but but i just want to tell you that's what that's what the invitation is that's what the gospel is and our closing prayer today is going to be for anyone who would say today is the day that i make a love choice mutually binding choice based on love to come into a covenant with the god who created me and if that's you just lift your hand all over the place right now thank you thank you thanks for being honest with god thank you it's a big deal it's a really big deal anybody else just hold your hand over just a second so i can see it i want to know who we're praying for yeah thank you thank you thank you this is a big deal i'm going to enter a covenant with god i'm gonna walk through the shed blood of my savior hallelujah father in the name of jesus i pray for every person who today says yes to the invitation of the holy spirit lord we don't want to live outside the family your spirit of adoption is bringing us in your proposal of marriage is bringing us in we're lord we're outside the family but we're coming in right now because you have made a covenant for us so we just say yes come on say it out loud yes yes yes yes to the covenant yes to the faithfulness of god yes to his mercies yes to his lordship i want you to be the lord of my life say that out loud i want you to be the lord of my life i want to be joined to you and it will be joined to those who love you in jesus name all right god give jesus praise right now hallelujah hallelujah give him praise come on give him praise he's worthy he's worthy he's worthy oh my goodness i love you so much the lord bless you and keep you and god his face to shine upon you and give you grace and peace now and forever and everybody says amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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