Telling and Demonstrating the Redeemed Story | Troy Brewer

Church were you join the whole wide world right here to Burleson Texas this is open to our church and this is the open door experience boom outstanding hello my friends blessing a piece on you as welcome to a midweek service because once a week just ain't enough amen amen amen guys thank you so much for overcoming whatever it was that you had to overcome I'm so happy that you're here tonight I'm in Jordan worship tonight how many guys enjoyed worship man I'll tell you what so good friends I want you if you would please to open up your Bibles to the book of Ephesians and specifically chapter five we've got a lot of ground to cover here tonight and we're going to go in a lot of different places here tonight and I want you just to I want you to be teachable okay and some of you already mad amen and I want I just want to encourage you and just decide you know what I am going to be teachable because because this word that I'm going to deliver here tonight it's kind of like a 747 it's it's a big word and if I can get this thing up off the ground we'll get to the place where we need to be right but if we don't get this thing up off the ground it'll just crash at the end of the runway and nobody likes that the good news about a 747 is that it wants to fly you turn it on you throttle up and boom it wants to go and I know that God wants to make a tremendous difference through this word here tonight so you guys ready to do this guys I'm going to be talking tonight about I didn't realize that this is one of my favorite subjects until this week one of the cool things about getting older is you find out you know the things that you like and you realize the things that you don't like and it's a it's a very important discovery and it's one of the things that makes you crotchety when you get old like I don't like that no that ain't for me but like you're old and you're kraji that's okay it's because I know what I like and I know what I don't like how many guys know what I'm talking about and the older you get the more you're like that right and also to the older you get the more you realize the things that are really important okay like sleep becomes very important the kind of mattress that you have in the time that you go to bed determines if you are in pain the next day at a certain age you're like I hadn't hit that I hadn't hit that yet you will so exactly like that in my walk with King Jesus there I keep calm across these things so I go wow that's like one of the themes of my life and I've never really pieced all that together and God guess you know you know how good it feels when you're trying to think of somebody's name and I dude I just saw that girl man I hadn't seen her in 40 years about what's her name once and boom you remember her name right and it feels good oh yeah got it man I know that I remember her name but yeah yeah I really do remember just exactly like that it really there is there's a certain kind of significant victory that happens when you discover new things in Jesus you're like dude I didn't know that that's a game-changer and guess tonight I'm going to introduce you to what has been a theme of my life for the entire 35 years that I've been saved and I didn't realize it until this week and it's this telling and demonstrating the redeemed part of the story telling and demonstrating the redeemed part of the story now friends if you've already turned to Ephesians chapter 5 one of the things that you find is chapter 5 is all about walking right talk about walking or advancing in love in light and in wisdom all of those are different chapters and segments as chapters in Ephesians chapter 5 and then the last part is this is how you get God into your marriage you serve that's how you do that sofie's is chapter 5 is such a great book and guys we're going to start off at verse 8 and verse 8 says this for you were once darkness but now you are lying in the world walk is children of light for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth everybody say goodness righteousness and truth all right now I want you guys to listen to this finding out what is acceptable to the Lord you know what it means what is acceptable to the Lord it means compatible with God being made manifest if you want to know how in the world am I going to get God you know to show up in my life in an incredible way well what's acceptable to him or compatible to him is goodness righteousness and truth that's good word amen all right and then verse 11 says and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret but all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light for whatsoever maketh manifest is light he's like look you don't have to go around pointing out the devil what you do is point out Jesus and shine as Jesus and people will realize that's false that's bad that's hell and that is not life because you're showing them what what is real and true in what is life and he says the light that is within you maketh manifest again the whole thing of being made manifest is such a big deal causing things to be seen as what they really and truly are we're friends there's this part in here that I really want to focus on in its verse 12 it says for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret Paul's like look the narrative then I'm going to bring to you is all about God I will give you the bullet point about what's going on with them but I'm not going to give you the details because if we go there we're not going there with God you guys tracking with me and guys I want to tell you that we have a tremendous responsibility in telling and in demonstrating the right part of the story in such a way that light makes manifests and every story we tell in every story we demonstrate one of the things I recognize as I've seen my kids get older and I recognize with my grandchildren you know if you're saying something to your grandchild and you're like pick that up off the floor you need to understand that the way you say it in the way you relate to that kid is as big of a message as the words to pick that up off of the floor and people that do not recognize that end up with lots and lots and lots of trouble so you have to say it in a way that tells them you know you are loved you are redeemed and you will pick that up of the up off the floor not you are constantly in trouble not that I do not approve of you not any of those things but simply keep it up it's your job to pick that up off of the floor right and if you got one tonne of and all you know how to do is yell let me tell you something you are not demonstrating a story that is redeemed amen and so the fruit that will come from that child is different even though you are screaming and yelling Bible verses Adam are you with me on that I've also seen this too just when it comes to be making sure that you tell the right story that you're telling the right story I'm a huge critic of funerals I mean I'm like the very worst funeral critic you've ever seen and I actually need an app where I can rate people's funerals because most of them would be a minus 12 on a scale of 1 to 5 because the pastor got up and did not give a redeem version of the story he got up opened up his giant King James Bible yelled and hollered at everybody and then sent everybody home dude you know can I tell you something you can do that on the street a funeral is supposed to honor the life of the person that died and is supposed to glorify King Jesus and and and are you or do you have such an evil eye that you can't find one redemptive parable within someone's life so what if they're not saying what if they ain't saved did they work for a living did they have kids can you not think of a single verse that says dude that's the way Jesus is he does this this and that's important all back to King Jesus I've seen people you know I've known a lot of people who lived a good life but they didn't finish well and I want to tell you something you do not judge everybody exactly by how they have finished by one moment within their life this does Hebrews chapter 11 define Samson that way because that's the Hall of Fame of faith in the New Testament oh you never thought about that have you he's in a Hall of Fame of faith and the brother offed himself see why is that because God Almighty the redeemed version does not define somebody by their by their weakness or by their failure the redeemed version defines them by the victory that Jesus gave so it's very important and it's not that that didn't happen was septum because it did happen and then there was there was a big time consequences of that Israel remained in slavery for 400 years because of that 400 years now there were tremendous consequences of that but in Hebrews chapter 11 it's all water on the bridge we're just going to bring the redeemed version of the story why because we're here to glorify Jesus not the enemy amen yeah I'm not I'm not saying that suicide is a good thing what I'm saying is this just because somebody loses a battle doesn't mean that they lost the war and I'll tell you what I've got I've been in hopeless places in my life and I love Jesus with all my heart and I had no I didn't know what I was going to do or how I was gonna do it and somehow by the grace of God I'm still standing here today so it's very important that we remember the right stories that we demonstrate the right stories that we tell the right stories and I'm just gonna tell y'all something I love me some storytelling I love storytellers I love Steven Spielberg I love Walt Disney love me some David Crockett incredible storyteller love me some Mark Twain CS Lewis James Cameron Ridley Scott King Solomon who's the inventor of drama yes you're been to musical where am I going I don't know when will I get there I ain't certain not y'all don't know what I'm talking about do you that's called paint your wagon all that starting with Song of Solomon it's the very first musical that the world had ever seen yeah he's the inventor of all that and what's he doing he's communicating a message that causes an emotional response for people to fall in love with God that's what he's doing storytelling is in fact a cornerstone of human existence and it's what enables successful people to communicate and connect with anybody and I mean anybody whatever your goal is rather it's to initiate some kind of social change or if it's to make a sell maybe it's to make a friend your success within those things has to do with your ability to be able to tell the story and get that person to be able to believe it and to trust you so what exactly makes a great storyteller it's a really big deal and you're like well I don't know you know Tori I'm not much of a storyteller listen you're telling a story whether you know it or not what you're passionate about tells a story now rather you're able to communicate that verbally or not it's really up to you and what you're able to and what you're willing to engage yourself in the idea that people just wake up being excellent communicators is ridiculous because that's not true you have to there are people that wake up talking right out of the womb like a guy that doesn't make them excellent communicators you have to be committed to that I mean you you have to be seriously committed to that and it's a really really big deal so what is it that makes a good storyteller well we need to understand that since the Bible calls us living epistles living books living Bibles that is communicating the story of God we might not to take that pretty daggum serious and there's a lot Amino preachers that talk about people and they say terrible things like you know what you only go one part of the bible and you don't ever preach anything else but but their lives only preach one tiny part of the Bible Oh y'all didn't hear what I just said you don't think you're gonna get that on the way home you're go ahead dang that was brilliant no there are preachers that get up and say I never one time have I ever seen you preach this certain verse and I say to that person I've never seen you one time ever demonstrate the verses says feed the poor I never one time ever seen you demonstrate the verse that says raise the dead I never one time ever seen I mean what what kind of a Bible are you and when people read you when people look at your life what are they looking at or they looking at somebody who's lived their entire life defeated or are they looking at somebody who found Jesus in the midst of a pursuit of him even though all hell is breaking loose that you're somebody that found stability in the midst of your credibility and chaos that was handed to you are you somebody that got happier and happier or somebody that got worse and worse and worse then your life is telling something and you know the Bible describes it as a Bible and I want to uh someone tell you this too in the book of Revelation you talk about light being made manifest that light maketh manifest do y'all know that Jesus doesn't accuse anybody and send them to hell he just shows up and he and his light causes them to open up their mouths and reveal what's in their hearts and they condemn themselves their Bible says and the books were opened I'm looking at the books all of us and we're either when Jesus shows up we're either going to profess how we loved him and what he wrote within our hearts and the moments of faith that we had or we're going to profess how that we denied him because light maketh manifest and the books were open one of the things I tell people AG man if you're gonna be a good storyteller one of the things that you need to do is you need to learn how to tell your own story just tell your own story like well it's not a very cool story it would be cool if you tell it cool and this is one of the things that I also tell people too is when you tell your own story and by the way you need to pay attention to hey I need to hang on to that because that's a cold Jesus story I don't know if you live that life I live that life now I have an awareness that I'm going to preach four or five times every single week and many times way more than four or five times and all the media that that we're doing now and I'll tell you something I gotta have content and my content is not the huge study I'm doing it's my awareness of who Jesus is in my own life and what are all the different things that God is talking to me about just exactly like this message I'm bringing to you right now I didn't look for a sermon I look for Jesus in my life and I'm giving you a sermon about something Jesus is doing him in my own life amen so look this is something else too even though you tell your own story you don't have to always look cool in your own story and y'all notice that I tell my I listen when I get up here and show you my portrait I'll show it warts-and-all right on and get up here and just go hey look there have been times in my life that were very difficult to me that you might have them those things might not have been difficult to you but man it was hard for me it was hard for me and I struggled and but I can tell you this it's just as powerful to point out how Jesus is awesome in the worst part of your lives as it is that Jesus is awesome in the best part of your life because you're not writing a Bible about you the Scriptures do testify of Jesus that's what Jesus said so you don't have to always look cool and your own stories if you do a Google search on what does it take to be a good storyteller you'll come up with five simple truths number one keep it simple number two keep it emotional number three keep it truthful number four keep it real number five keep it valid in other words at the end of your story they don't need to say so and no less that's it well it can't be it there has to be a point to this right so just exactly like that guys everybody say simple emotional truthful real and valid now that's all stuff that we all need to work on okay but here's another question another question is what exactly makes a great story now the first one is what makes a great storyteller and that's all cool and we can all learn about that because do we even know the makeup of what a good story is because this is a really big deal if you do a Google search on this you will find that there is a formula to good storytelling now if you go to if you go to Bible College one of the things that you're going to study is hermeneutics okay and there's actually several hermeneutics professors that actually come to our church and they always laugh at me and say dude you break every rule there is to break and your messages are still good it's like you know one of the things that you always do you always look over there you never ever look over here listen I love y'all I really do okay it's just this is my good side so I got this going on over here I'm kind of womp I don't know if y'all like Shrek no honestly I don't know why I tend to lean left instead of 10 instead of it but but whenever critics come in here and they write down everything that I do wrong that's one of the things that they typically say it seem like that you were only talking to one or two people in the house no I was talking to everybody but I was serving an audience of one in his name is Jesus so there is actually what people have discovered is there's pretty much a predictable there's actually a very predictable pattern a progression of how the story of a hero goes and I want to tell you that George Lucas actually studied this before he wrote Star Wars and he based Star Wars on the pattern on the predictable pattern of how a hero's story works and it works something like this okay it works like you said you start off with a guy who's in obscurity and everybody sees him but nobody thinks he's any big deal right and then he's approached by some mentor who's called him right and then he refuses okay and then he talks him into it and then once he comes he Thresh's he crosses the threshold and then he gets engaged and at first he's not very committed but then he has a transformation in his life where he's all the way in aren't you guys you guys with me on this and then as soon as he's all the way in he immediately suffers trials and he goes through temptations and he has like a wilderness experience and then after that he goes into a public kind of arena where everybody recognizes now who he is and then he goes into a terrible place a horrible place that everybody thinks the story's over and then he comes up out of that place it doesn't kill him and now he has brand new powers and when he comes out with his brand new powers he has brand new authority and he takes on the guy that sent him into the bad place and then once he conquers that guy then he becomes a ruler and everybody lives a much much much better place so where they get this from is it comes from a book that's called the hero with a thousand faces and it was first published in 1949 but the guy started studying this a man by the name of Joseph Campbell and he started studying all he started studying myth legend and lore from all over the world and he started going hey man I got I got Aladdin's lamp I got let's see what else do I got oh I got King Arthur okay I got all the myths of the Romans and the Greeks I got all the all the far northern tribes I got there Thor and I've got all that kind of stuff I went out to the Pacific Islands and I got all of their folklore and all of their legends and he combined it all together throughout all the centuries from all people groups all over the world and he said dude there's a pattern to all of them there's this there's this actual predictable pattern once it didn't matter if it came from some remote Pacific island or if it came from China or if it came from you know some Arab land it started off exactly the way I just told you and ended the way I just told you and there was this predictable pattern he's like these people have never been together how do they know this story I want to tell you he thought and his idea was that well it's just a part of evolution and how you can actually predict how people will go from one stage to another stage another staging friends there is actually a predictable pattern in most things you know there's a predictable pattern of a baby is going to go through this stage then it's going to go through that stage and then it's going to go through this stage right because psychologists will tell you that 93 percent of all human behavior is absolutely predictable based upon what stage they are and what it is that they're confronted with and how people have affected their lives Wow there are stages of marriage guys are stages of grieving how many guys know that there are stages of civilization and what I mean by that is you know there's a stone age and there's the Bronze Age and there's an Iron Age and so on right there's stages of Technology there's stages of weapons there's there's stages of warfare there's stages of you know you start off and you're by yourself and you just have a family and then the family joins a tribe and then the tribe actually has a religious leader and then the religious leader turns everything over to a war leader and then the war leader turns everything over to a king and then the King turns everything over to parliamentary law right and then it all goes back into chaos again you guys y'all got the Discovery Channel right kidneys so there's he just says he just thinks well you know what this is actually just the predictable progression of how storytelling has developed but for anything I want to just tell you this this story is the story of Jesus and before you think it's just one more competitive story in the midst of stories of heroes it is actually the story of V hero that human beings are inclined to look for and I'm gonna I want you to understand when you see this story first of all Jesus starts off nobody knows who he is he's just a kid right he's a baby in a manger all that kind of stuff go with me on that and then he hears his father's voice and then he crosses the threshold and he gets baptized right you right and then from there he goes into the wilderness for forty days and he fights temptations and then out of the wilderness he comes out and he gets his band two brothers together and then people find out who he is and he does miracles and then he goes through a horrible trial and then he dies and goes into the abyss and then he resurrects from the dead and then he takes away the keys of death and health from everybody and then he gives it to us then he pours His Holy Spirit upon us and says Sikkim and then he promises he will come back again and when he come back whenever he comes back again we're coming with him and there's a new status quo that's that's the cycle and you're like okay I don't like that pastor Troy because you're just saying that the story of Jesus is just one it's just one of many many stories of heroes no I'm telling you it is the story and you're like whoa okay if it is the story and if this is how it works then then how is it that the same story comes up all over the world number one I'm telling you God Almighty programmed human beings to find this story that's number one he programmed human beings to find this story but that's not all the other thing I can tell you is it doesn't matter if you are a Comanche Indian and live in here 3,000 years ago or if you were part of King David's tribe 3,000 years ago or if you are part of some African tribe 3,000 years ago or if you are part of the Babylonians or the Medes or the persians right or the Greeks and the Romans and then the progression of all of those great civilizations if you were some I don't know if you were where Greenland is now or if you were on the Pacific Island one of the things I can tell you are you guys ready for this they all had the stars in the story of Jesus's in the Stars and I know something that this brilliant man by the name of Joseph Campbell does not know and this is what I know Psalms 19 verses 1 through 6 the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork firmament my friends is a King James word from how the sky looks from your perspective and the word handing them the word handiwork means details so it's like okay there is where you're at depending on what time of what time of year you are where you are at in in longitude and especially latitude determines what part of the sky you're looking at or certain parts of the details in that part of the sky day time is for hearing and not time is for revelation knowledge that's why the next verse says day in the day at utters speech and night under night it reveals knowledge there's a different way that God communicates at nighttime than when he does at daytime then verse 3 says this is how all of these different cultures throughout the world came up with the same story there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world and in them he has set a tabernacle for son for the son which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices like a strong man to run his race it's rising his from one end to heaven and it circuit to the other end and there's nothing hidden from its hit from its heat when it says that there's nothing hidden from its heat that means everybody sees the passion of God through the stories heat means passion and he's talking about it's passionate like like a guy coming up out of his bedroom the night after his wedding and saying it was worth the wait it was awesome it was what I always thought it would be yay he says you know what that's the way God feels about our story of redemption you cannot there's no nation that has not seen how passionate God is about redeeming his people okay so we know friends that in Genesis chapter 1 the reason why God created the Sun and the moon stars is he said let there be lights in the firmament for the heavens to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs everybody say signs seasons days in years okay I want to stop what is the first reason that God Almighty created the Sun in the moon in the Stars signs oh but pastor Troy that's the devil no your Christianity is the devil like what you can't say that dude there is so much Christianity that has absolutely nothing to do with the heart of King Jesus Jesus was not a Christian he was Jesus here's what I'm saying is this they say if the Bible says that he created signs in the heavens and he created he created the heavens in such a way that we should see signs and if your church says that's the devil who should you believe like but a story that's scary witches get involved in that and the Devils involved you don't say that about money and sex that's fine that's the Lord is involved in that right man this ain't gonna work on television you know I'm telling you it ain't so I want to show you all 12 signs I want to show you all 12 signs and these are the 12 signs and heavens now guys there are hundreds and hundreds of constellations but not all the constellations are assigned what determines if a constellation is a sign is if the Sun passes through it and there are twelve signs in the heaven that God Almighty put in the heavens to demonstrate his glory and to tell us how he wants to redeem us right on and I love it you know I love this I love I love finding all those things because what you find is it begins exactly the way the Bible begins and it ends exactly the way the Bible ends it begins with Virgo the virgin and it ends with Leo the Lion it begins with Genesis chapter 3 of the promise of the seed of the woman and then it ends with a line of the tribe of Judah coming back which is revelation 21 are you guys are you tracking why because the author is the same and I can just tell you there were some Hillbillies on the other side of the world that we're looking up and they God programmed people to be able to see what these symbols mean and not only that if you know the names of the stars the details are in the names of the stars and then with every sign there are three constellations around the sign that also give more details of the story like you know around Leo the lion is crater the cup and it's a cup of wine being poured out what does it say in the book of Revelation and I will pour out the fierceness of my wrath and it calls it the Grapes of Wrath you know there's also man there's there's the big crow is up there and Corvis and it's like what is that it's the Battle of Armageddon where the birds of the air feast on the flesh of the enemy that King Jesus himself has killed upon our behalf like what yeah dude I'm telling you the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork day in the day utter speech not in the night it gives knowledge and there is no voice where their language is not hurt so I'm gonna start off if you've never seen me do this before and by the way I have a book that's called looking up and I've got all of these things in my book you know what I just got back from London and I did a god TV conference I did a big I just did a big conference in London and while I was there I can't tell I don't know how many people brought that book for me to sign and I didn't sell any books of that conference I mean literally folk lined up for forever for me to sign that book and just like Troy this is look has made such a big difference to me and you know what I get it that once you get this once you get how real it is that King Jesus is screaming the story of his Redemption through everything around you you can't help but say let the redeemed of the Lord say so I'm redeemed I'm redeemed I'm part of that story it's beautiful so friends the very first one out of the 12 constellations is Virgo the virgin and this is the prophetic promise of the virgin birth of the Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ Matthew chapter 1 2 3 Matthew chapter 1 verse 23 and 1 anytime that you see 1 2 3 or 3 4 5 or anything like that what you're actually seeing is a progression it starts here so prophetically as Matthew 1 2 3 right this is where it starts and he says this behold the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which is translated God is with us so for instance story in heaven starts out as the same story in the Bible because both have the same author remember the story as the prophecy of the Messiah's Redemption the first time we see the very beginning of that story the Bible uses prophecy as God spoke to the devil in Genesis chapter 3 he says this I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed and he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel it's the first promise the very first promise of the Messiah Redeemer is that okay a sin came through the woman but the answer is going to come through the woman and the promise is called the seed of the woman well how in the world can a virgin woman have a seed within her since women do not carry seed and men do so the very first consolation is not just a woman but it is a virgin woman and right where her belly button is is a star that means the branch and that's one of the prophetic names for King Jesus himself behold I send my servant the branch right on okay so it starts off there there's a problem in humanity and I'm going to enter into humanity that's the first sign the second sign is the Libra okay what is that it's skills what does that mean you know means you've been weighed in the balance and found wanting it means that there's a price that has to be paid and so what happens when we move and by the way every single month in perfect rotation we have a new sign every single month and it's a progressive story if you're like well how do you know where it ends and how do you know where it ends number one I know where it where it begins where it ends and I don't say the same thing as witches do because they say it begins at another place in the inns of another place but I know the Word of God and it begins with Virgo and it ends with Leo the reason why they don't know the beginning and the end is because they don't know the beginning in the end and his name is Jesus and if you're not looking for Jesus in this story you know what you're just gonna be fooled over everything once you can have no witch tell you what your what your fortune is by looking into that you need to read Romans 1 for when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were they thankful and their foolish hearts were darkened I promise you if you look in the Stars and you're not looking for Jesus you will find darkness and then professing themselves to be wise they became fools so the next part of it says so we go from Virgo the virgin the promise that there will be a child born into humanity through a virgin woman and his name will be called the branch and he'll be fruitful and he'll be amazing to ooh a set of scales that says not only will he be a messiah but he will also be a redeemer the prophetic promise that the Messiah would pay the terrible price for required for our Redemption so then we go to the next one what is the next one Scorpio what is that it's the price that he's got to pay Oh death where is your sting o grave where is your victory so let's stick with it let's stick with the progression God's going to enter into humanity right he is going to be a redeemer and the price that he's going to pay is he's going to die but then we move to the next one Sagittarius the Archer but don't worry he's going to resurrect from the dead and he's going to have power over the Scorpion the tip of the arrow points directly at Antares which is the heart of the Scorpion and here's something else too that is symbolic of King Jesus you need to understand these pictures are not completely accurate why because the Greeks and the Romans perverted it that's what they did for when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were they thankful but they became vain and their own imaginations and profess themselves to be wise okay so so but nonetheless the names of the stars are still the same by the way guys they all know that God named all the names of the stars and to this day the Bible says that two different verses and to this day all of the stars that you can see with your naked eye have ancient Hebrew and Arabic names to this day and when you look up all the stars it tells the story precisely you know we could we can talk about Orion which is not one of the signs the Sun doesn't go throw Ryan and he's got you know it's a perfect picture of Jesus the light of the world rising up because Orion means light its arise let your light shine that was written in the heavens through Orion before there was a Bible written in book form it was written in heavenly form right on and you know what there's the belt belts a big deal it's truth I'm the way the truth and the life there's three stars in a belt of Orion and the first the first star is it's an incredible star those those three different stars the first star actually has actually is translated in ancient Arabic as wounded the third one is actually translated as bruised and the third one is actually translated as beaten like well what is that he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities and by His stripes we are healed before that was ever written in the Bible was written in the belt of truth of the one who arises the heavens declare the glory of God in the firmament shows his handiwork amen so then right after that is this really where one after Sagittarius after Jesus rises up in his victorious over death after he paid the price then we have Capricorn the Sea Goat friends no such thing as a sea goat and what is it it's a picture of the front part of the goat his legs are folded up underneath him and he's laying down his life and the back part of the goat changes into a fish and the tail is actually moving so what is that it is out of the death of the sacrifice a new people will gain life a fish means great multitude and it's the picture of now that he's resurrected from the dead now he's going to resurrect us from the dead and when you look up all the names of all the stars it tells all that story perfectly the goat is the sacrifice in Leviticus chapter 10 the fish are those who the sacrifice was paid for that's Matthew 4 and Jeremiah 16 the sea go and the fish are the two becoming one body both fully resurrected both fully redeemed before that was written in the heavens Jesus spoke it somewhere I don't know number seven Pisces the fish is the next one you know what Pisces the fish is it's two fish one going vertical and one going horizontal make it across in the heavens and it has a band of Covenant between them what is that it's the Old Testament and the New Testament it's it's the one new man that the Bible talks about between the Jews and the people of God it's it is the promise of the two coming together as one and it is a great multitude it's fish what's the one after that you know went up to that is Aries the RAM Aries the RAM is not a sacrifice Aries the RAM is the one that rules in power what is that guys if you looked up the the main several stars within Aries the RAM means if you if you look it all up it literally means his kingdom is coming his kingdom is coming see this is going to be the role of the church the role the church is not to try and get to heaven the role the churches are trying to bring heaven to earth amen so after all that what's the next one that comes up it's Taurus the Bull what is Taurus the Bull Taurus the Bull was always only seen this half way why is that because he's breaking through something so what is that it's the return of the Lord Jesus Christ and there ain't no stopping him the bright star that is in Taurus the Bull is the eye of the bull and the Bible says when he comes back every eye shall see him come on so Taurus the Bull is the prophetic promise that the Messiah will come back with his people to judge and to rule and to reign hallelujah and then after that after that is really cool this is strange one I love this one it's Gemini what is the Gemini twins Gemini twins is this when we see him we shall be like him his righteousness would be our righteousness his holiness will be our holiness remember it's the one that fault that follows his coming what is the next one not to that it's cancer the crab what is that he's holding on to us because we are his possession now there's no more threat against us ever ever ever ever ever ever ever he is holding on or as a citizen book of Revelation I hold you in my hand and none shall pluck you out and then what's the last one Leo the Lion of the tribe of Judah coming back roaring ruling and reigning so guys let's just quickly look at all 12 of them Virgo says this there is a messiah coming and I won't put all 12 up here if we could good job Virgo means there's a messiah coming libra means that he's going to be a redeemer Scorpio means that he will that he will go to war and he will die Sagittarius means that he will be resurrected and he will conquer death Capricorn says from his death a living people is is going to be born after that is Aquarius the water pour which means he's going to pour out his Spirit upon all of them amen after that is pisces and his people will multiply and they were blessed at earth Ares is after that his kingdom will come and his will will be done after that is Taurus he will return with his people on behalf of Israel and Gemini says his people are going to look just like him cancer says he will never ever ever let go of us as his possession and Leo says he will rule and reign supreme throughout the universe and that's the right story to tell that's the right story to tell that's the right one now friends I want to just tell you something your life needs to look like that and the stories that you tell need to be that kind of a story as a matter of fact I want to show y'all what Daniel chapter 1 2 3 means Daniel 12 verse 3 says this those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness like the Stars forever and ever are you hearing what I just read to you can you receive that your story needs to be that story you need to be as the stars of heaven you need to shine as the firmament and you need to lead many people to righteousness which is what that story is all about oh it's a big deal so I close by saying this yes people all over the world looked up into the heavens and they saw this story and they they came up with their own ideas of how that could work and they ended up telling the same story over and over and over again so by the time that Jesus came people already were ready to receive the story of Jesus he he actually prepped humanity for the receiving of the gospel and they're like I've heard something like this before but this is the real deal that story before it kind of gave me kind of help me wrap my head around something before it actually was revealed to me and now I'm ready to receive it friends whatever story you tell and however your life glorifies the Lord there's one thing that people were supposed to leave you and me thinking about and brother Paul says it in the book of Philippians he says finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of a good report if there be any virtue that there be any praise think on these things what sort of things are true means on course with the kingdom and it's real whatsoever things are honest means honorable worthy of respect whatsoever things are just means when a wrong has been made right those are the kind of stories that we need to tell whatsoever things are lovely that means something you want to receive whatsoever things are of a good report that means you make a big deal out of the right things that are admirable whatsoever things whatsoever things are beautiful go with all that if there be any virtue what is that it means if people make any good decisions at all make a big deal out of the good decisions that they make if there be any praise if there's anything that you can tell that makes people say thank God for Jesus let that be the story that we all tell it was in the heavens it's in the Bible it's in us and now it's in the world let's give Jesus a great big praise [Applause]

Channel: Troy Brewer

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Length: 46min 36sec (2796 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 25 2019