The Bride, End Times, And The Middle East // David Popovici // 8/21/21

[Music] but yeah man i just want to honor really my best friend in all of the world david papavisi uh for a little bit and get him up here and let him loose i think you guys are going to be immensely blessed how many of you have ever heard davidpapa vc either live or through youtube okay many of you so most of you so it definitely needs no announcement but um literally my best friend in all the world i would say that he probably can't you may be top five i'm teasing but we go back like man is it 22 years now over two decades yeah way before the gray hairs started coming in and all that and uh oh in a second i thought this would be fun i have some pictures don't do it yet though some pictures you want to go way back i didn't ask his permission first you ask after you you repent later and that's how you just got to do some of the stuff but some old pictures it'll be fun no no uh no facebook live please not but we go back 22 years literally fresh out of the world ex-gang member of chicago and now he's a gang member for the lord over the middle east that mentality never really changed it was just a different kingdom and uh but yeah so i want to say is it almost 10 years now you all have been in the middle nine years almost a decade in the middle east northern iraq and we went to bible college together over at the brownsville revival you know all the ups and downs through life and uh man i'll never forget almost a decade now when god called them out um to the middle east northern iraq and now they're rocking it over there listen i wish we could show you some of the videos open air preaching to muslims born again just miracles healings yeah i've been making serious headway in the middle east and so what you've seen as of late you know on the news and things like this is very common you know i think you said it goes afghanistan iran iraq it's like neighboring over the middle east and um but heaven's doing something i'll never forget i'll tell one quick story we were in um i was over there visiting him i know david brown was over there for a while too with him and we're in the car he gets a random call from a stranger don't even know him mind you a lot of the top um i'll leave out names but you know terrorist groups and stuff or in certain areas he's preaching at all this and he gets a phone call they're like are you the man that's preaching about the bible and telling people about jesus christ i'm like tell them no what are you do i'm teasing i didn't say that but i'm in the car and i'm listening yeah and uh somebody's never known and they're like well i want to meet with you i'm like no way not a chance they have zoom now they have no and uh no but i'm listening so he uh i'm flying out the next day actually and i'm thinking bro hope he's hearing the lord and uh somebody's never met so he's scheduled to meet with him come to find out this is there he could tell you more but actually what he the word he has is really in sync too with where david brown was going it's gonna be so powerful um but a lot of them are just getting taken into full out dreams jesus is coming to him i mean it's crazy yeah it's like almost every time we talk he'll you know when we catch up he'll hit other cities and people like are seeing crazy did one see john the baptist something like that yeah saints and they're just getting born again like crazy supernatural stuff so this one person had to find who's the man preaching about jesus because they were having apparitions of the cross show up everywhere they'd be eating their food in their cross and show up on their plate and dave they're like some of the only ones really you know going for it open their meetings and just really hit the ground running and um so anyway they're seeing crazy fruit and uh love him to no end but let's go ahead and do some pictures let's go to the first one this will bless your socks off look at this i mean fresh out the world i mean far from sanctified and then we'll go to the next one yeah that's going to be your favorite we'll go to that yep this is a bible college days this is our different brian jackson he's powerful raise the dead he's been on the mission field africa he's amazing and then we'll close it out with a more recent one the beautiful family hey yeah and if you could their whole family could stand please danielle his beautiful wife elias his son israel adey and yaeli yeah yes indeed so yali and zoe are real close and israel and judah our kids are super super close so anyway i could just spend forever just honoring love him to know and listen one of the most fullest men i know that reflects the likeness of jesus christ i'm serious i tell everybody just in wisdom humility but the fear of the lord yet the word really an apostle he's not going to tell you that apostolic they're planning and doing many things but somebody that just exudes and carries the fullness of jesus like i've never seen with a sense of eternity right at the at the doorstep you got to realize you know in that type setting eternity's surreal he lives on a different different frequency certainly i'll go on forever but please stand and honor and welcome david papavisi [Applause] i mean you guys could be seated i thank you jesus thank you jesus for your word and for your spirit i thank you lord that you know where where each one of us is at in our hearts and what we need lord thank you that whatever we may need whatever we came into this service with lord we know that our greatest need is a is a new and a fresh revelation of you just as you revealed yourself to the seven churches in revelation two and three it all began with a revelation of jesus and in the revelation of jesus you you addressed things that needed to be addressed and so lord reveal to us in a fresh way today the face of jesus we pray amen amen amen those those those pictures i turned to danielle did you send him those pictures yeah i still remember meeting brian in fall of 99 we used to have friday night evangelism at brownsville and actually a friend remember my roommate freddie i think he had invited joe of the house and it was like late night we had curfew you know we had to be done by a certain time how many of you guys are in ministry school here amen obey the rules we kept curfew so what do we do we we hurried up and we threw in some totino's pizzas do you remember the tortillas pizza we were on a budget it was one dollar pizzas from walmart are they still one dollar that's interesting yeah it's wild but but they did it for us we threw jalapenos on top threw it right in but yeah no i'm honored uh honestly honored and i would say the same thing brian has said outside of my wife my closest friend uh on the earth just going through different seasons of life i think i jokingly say sometimes i don't know if i want to make like new friends like strong relationships jokingly it takes you know it's it's an investment and when you have something that's precious you you honor what you have and so i'm i'm honored and i want to encourage anybody obviously all of you guys know uh bridal glory and the impact that they've that they've made the ministry has made here in the u.s but even around the world and uh i'm honored to be connected to this house and to the spiritual family and i believe that there's a word that's that's in my heart to share that connects with what god is doing here and what god is doing in the nations of the earth because i believe what god is doing here impacts the nations of the earth so if you guys have your bibles you could turn to john chapter four so what would you rather would you rather me go verse by verse which is what i was intending to do i normally don't do it or just read the whole thing and just preach after the fact we'll see we'll see what happens you guys are a lively bunch so you know it's it's interesting how quickly things develop in history i i you know we say always in our home how how blessed we are to be how much easier it is to really be missionaries in 2020 2021 you know just a hundred years ago if you move to the other side of the world it took you maybe three months to get there on a boat you landed didn't i mean hopefully you've been talking to somebody by mail you don't know what they look like were there cameras a hundred years ago if you did it wasn't very clear from the picture people sent you drawings this is what i looked like i'll meet you when you get off the dock right just just 100 200 years ago i mean we're talking about all of history or at least let's say church history and we're blessed you know to be able to have skype and you know facetime and to be able to connect and you know we we connect all the time on the phone and to be able to jump on a plane and half a day later you're over here but things are moving so quickly and just as quickly as they've moved in the last 50 years i mean if you were to tell somebody 100 200 years ago what life was going to look like today you wouldn't even have a reference point for vocabulary to explain it but i believe the same goes for what's ahead of us in the next decades to come however long we have before jesus returns and the same way how many of you guys been blessed by kovac whoo nobody yeah nobody's blessed by coke but listen one of the things about covid that's that's gotten everybody's attention is how quickly the whole world can be focused on the same thing how quickly the whole world can be impacted obviously never negatively by the same thing how quickly the whole world can be united around a common cause and whatever the case may be and rallying everybody to a particular narrative okay i'm not going to get political tonight but it's interesting right it's interesting we've of course we've had the internet and the internet connects the world but now cove and everybody's on the same page i want to submit to you that god is revealing his son through the power of the gospel in the nations and that god is raising up an end times bridal company and that there's an intensely middle eastern focus connected to that and the same way that the whole world has been touched in some way shape or form by covert every jesus loving god-fearing saint on the planet will look to his return and will focus on the middle east i want to submit that to you guys today amen so john chapter 4 john chapter four and and we know the story it's a beautiful story of jesus meeting a samaritan woman by the well and and this story speaks so much not just you know john only records seven miracles in in all of his gospel john's gospel was the last gospel that was that was written he penned it towards the end of his life in exile there were all you know matthew mark and luke were already around the narrative of jesus's life so john wanted to focus in very specifically on the character and person and nature and work of jesus so there are sevens all throughout john for those of you that love prophetic significance right prophetic imagery i think i'm in the right place and so john chapter 4 is one of these stories jesus meets a samaritan woman by the well but let's just just as you're there before we start reading we have to quickly go back to creation you know what often when we read the scriptures we read the scriptures with with a particular lens and a focus and everything that we read comes through that particular lens and focus that we have and none of us are aware of it none of us are aware of it and that lens can is in influence that paradigm if i can use that that term is influenced by many many different things it could be influenced by our past maybe negative experiences that we've had maybe positive experiences that we have it can be impacted by our culture by how we grew up economically it could it could be influenced by the theology that we've learned and adopted along the way and when we open the word of god we have this paradigm that we see things through and we're not aware of it because it's it's to us it's normal it's it's normal vision and and for me i remember for us when we moved to the middle east many of the passages that i read in the scripture that i applied to my situation we were we were living in chicago or from chicago doing ministry in chicago and the way that we interpreted things all of a sudden i saw from a different light living in the middle east ministering the gospel to muslims a lot of the passages that maybe i would have preached in a different way were very much literal now very much literal application and i would submit to you that the bible the word of god is primarily about god the gospel is not primarily about you and that is good news it's good news it's good news that the bible is primarily focused on the character of god so when you read in the beginning god that's the focus it's not in the beginning god and then adam and eve you know no no it's in the beginning god every single time the bible speaks about god it's like oh paul's he's the he's this he's the main actor in the script right when we read the story of the the prodigal son in whoever along the way in history put the scriptures together they write it's the story of the prodigal son as if the prodigal son is the main character in the story but whoever i don't know whatever they did that couple hundred years ago it wasn't like that from the beginning of time the prodigal son is not the main character in the story and the reason for that is ever listen you could he's a dime a dozen every one of us to some degree we're wasteful sons and daughters right you throw a rock and you can find a prodigal son there's anybody can come and apply for the role every you don't find somebody else like the father in that story there's nobody else like the father in that story yeah amen you can't find anybody else god is the main character in the scriptures and so when we read the scriptures and when we hear the gospel it's so important that we incline our hearts in a place of prayer and ask the lord lord open my eyes to see you i want to see you listen we can apply and it's right too it's right too and we should we have the proverbs we have the scriptures we can and should apply the scriptures to every part of our lives practically speaking to our businesses to the way we to the ways we make decisions etc but the scriptures are not primarily a a a guide to just you know exalt and focus and magnify you more the scriptures are all about revealing jesus and his majesty and worth amen amen why why am i saying that well because when god creates the world he creates light in the midst of darkness and order in the midst of chaos and he builds day after day until day six when he creates a man and every day god says it is good and the reason it is good is because god created it because he's the source of all good right so when he creates mankind he creates adam and then he says something that he had to set up to that point he says it is not good that man should remain alone i'm going to make for him a helper and he creates eve from his side it's a prophetic picture of covenant as a helper now practically that has many many different things that it speaks to our families but more than anything it's speaking about god and his desire for a bride because the scriptures are primarily about him amen so when we're reading the scriptures listen it's pointing why does god create image bearers on the earth to point back to the heavens and the eternal desire of god so john chapter 4 jesus is looking for a picture of what his bride will look like through history and specifically in the end times amen it's interesting we just we just my family and i we were just in kansas city with a community that's very much focused on the bride and uh intimate devotion to jesus the bridegroom and the end the end of the age and here we are today with with uh a work that god's raised up that very much has the same focus and the more that i walk with jesus the more that i'm i'm beginning to see and sense that this is what god is doing in in the nations this is what god is doing in the nations of the earth he's preparing a bride for himself he's preparing abroad so it's important for us to understand what is the gospel what does it mean to say yes to jesus and to be a bride to respond to the gospel as the bride and what kind of implications does that have for us today living in the united states and how does that connect us to the middle east i didn't know that uh david brymer was going to share the things that he shared and or singing farsi for that matter uh anytime he leads worship for some reason for me at least i just mentally just go back to iraq to our living room or to the prayer room over there or to the to the times that we've had over there so john 4 will try to move quickly here we won't pause at every verse but it's a divine storyline jesus is looking for a bride and we'll start at uh verse four then let's say verse three jesus leaves judea and departs again for galilee and he had to pass through samaria so he came to a town of samaria called saikar near the field that jacob had given to his son joseph and jacob's well was there and so jesus wearied as he was from his journey jesus is wearied by his journey goes and sits besides beside the well and it is about the sixth hour or the the the hottest part of the day now it's it's not coincidental that that jesus is going to a well that is identified as jacob's will god gave abraham a promise and that promise looked like a seed that would be blessed and will be multiplied and would influence and touch the nations of the earth and then that seed looks like that promise looks like in seed form literally his son isaac he has one son with his wife and then when isaac is about he knows he's about to pass on and go be with the lord he says we must find isaac a wife and so he sends his servant and the servant goes and meets rebecca by a well the same story with jacob jacob has a a promise that he's contending for in his heart he goes about it the wrong way but deep inside he wants something of heavenly substance he wants the blessing of god and he go you know things things happen in life and he moves on to go to his uncle's house and he meets rachel and where does he meet rachel by a well and so jesus is walking through samaria an area that is mixed it's an area that used to be a jewish completely jewish area but along the way they have mixed with the people that they were not supposed to mix with so here you have the embodiment of a jew and a gentile the samaritans were not fully accepted by the gentiles because they're not fully gentile but they're not fully accepted by the jews because they're considered mixed and so you have the embodiment of a jewish gentile woman at a well and jesus is waiting on a journey waiting to have a conversation with a prophetic embodiment of what will be the end time bribe so it's the sixth hour it's the hottest part of the day and a woman from samaria comes to draw water and jesus says to her give me a drink his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food the samaritan says to him how is it that you a jew ask me for a drink a woman of samaria like we already mentioned jews had no dealings at that time with samaritans and jesus answered her if you knew the gift of god and who it is that is saying to you give me a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water and of course she looks at things very naturally she says sir you have nothing to draw the water with what are you going to draw the water with jesus is looking for an engagement of delight and satisfaction she's looking at things in a very natural way she's talking about natural water she says the wall is deep where do you get it are you greater than our father jacob he gave us the well he drank from it himself his sons his livestock and jesus says everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks the water that i will give him will never be thirsty again the water that will give to him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life a drink that turns into a spring that turns into an eternal well it starts with a drink it starts with a drink and a drink becomes a spring deep deep down in your soul and then you get rooted like a tree planted near the river of god and it becomes a deep well jesus is looking for a drink she's she's wanting satisfaction but jesus in turn is looking for the delight of satisfaction we have to remember those early words that were echoed in the beginning of genesis it is not good that man should be alone jesus is the most majestic of all men he's called the son of man we see pictures of him in the old covenant very very small pictures we see versions of and apparitions but explicitly we see god the son in the person of jesus and he's looking for an engagement he's looking to engage a people to covenant with the people to satisfy the thirst and be satisfied by love you know god he's he's perfectly self-sustained he doesn't need food he doesn't need water he doesn't need air we need all those things in fact so much so in the very design of god he's created us in such a way that we're we are dependent upon so many things in life right we need oxygen to live we need water and food we need sleep if you deprive us of what we consider to be essentials for life we cannot exist god doesn't need any of those things he's self-sustained by the eternal life that flows forth from him but he chooses to enter into a place of desiring and thirsting and wanting the love that comes from his creation and that's a that that's that's the mystery of the gospel part of what part of that makes that the mystery of the gospel how it's meant to to cause awe and wonder how is it that god who's created all would voluntarily enter into the things that you and i experience and and thirst for love desire love desire a bride for himself he's looking for the delight of covenant fellowship and he's looking to satisfy us with the same that's the gospel amen and that's why i believe that that here in this house and in our work in the middle east and in in in dallas working in orlando so many different works around the world and spiritual houses around the world there's this emphasis that's coming to the forefront of delight in jesus of loving jesus of of allowing him to love us so that we can be empowered by his love to love him in return of understanding that the great scheme the eternal scheme of things is to present to the son of bride the father like abraham presents to the son of bride and the son presents to the father sons and daughters that is the big picture of the gospel we must keep it focused on him amen in a day and age that makes the gospel so much about us in a microwave society that makes the gospel so much about instant gratification for me and how does this positively impact me listen there is no greater positive impact than surrendering to jesus but when we give all glory to him when that's when the focus is all glory and eyes on him the default is we are the ones that come underneath his good and pleasant rule but when we make it about us not only do we not give him the glory that he deserves but then we ourselves cut ourselves off from the goodness of his rule so the one the woman says to to jesus in verse 15 she says sir give me this water so i will not be thirsty again or have to come here again to draw water and jesus says go call your husband he says go call your husband now we know the story right she says what what does she say she says i have no husband jesus says right you know he pauses you're right and saying i have no husband for you have had five the one you're with now is not your husband that makes how many six six and that's that's the number of man that's the the apex of humanism that's remember john isn't two numbers that is the the focus is man and what is it in what's in it for me and how do i benefit but an end time bride responds to jesus with the beauty of repentance we see in revelation chapter 17 what everything is moving towards what everything is moving towards listen this world and its and its kingdoms are passing away listen we believe in the in in the gospel we believe in the gospel of the kingdom we preach the gospel of the king's rule but know this for a fact the church is not going to take over every institution in the world and christianize the world before jesus comes back that's a fact and you can look at the book of revelation there are some things that are a fact and there are other things that were invited to pray into by faith right prophetic promises and in the in the last days it calls this the world in its system it systems babylon revelation 17 the mother and i won't use the word that they're using king james luckily we use esv here the mother of all prostitutes right the mother of prostitutes and jesus is looking to redeem a bride for himself from the midst of babylon which means the bride that jesus is raising up in the end times is not touched by the stench of the babylon system amen that's beautiful that's that's that's the good news that's the good news listen the same way we've seen again everything that's been happening whether it's covid or even the political tensions and i said i wasn't going to get political but the same way we've seen things become explicitly more either you're on one side or the other and i'm not saying that we should choose and let politics set the rhythm and make us choose listen we're not going to let them make us choose we respond to jesus and his word however listen as we as we near jesus's return it's going to become a lot more clearly either you're for him or you're not for him amen that's going to become explicitly more clear there is going to be a lot less gray area you are either part of a babylon system the mother of prostitutes or you are part of the bride of christ isn't it interesting the very last book of the scriptures compares and contrasts two types of bribes if you want to call them that just like in proverbs there's a lady wisdom and then there's the woman who's in who's who's personified by foolishness the same way we see this prophetic picture at the end of the age there is christ the bridegroom and then there is the antichrist there is god father son and spirit and there is satan the antichrist and the prophet there is the new jerusalem that's god's rule on the earth and then there's the babylon system there's a bride who is pure and holy and spotless and surrendered to him and loving devotion and obedience and then there is the great prostitute who sells herself for immediate gratification and a what's in it for me mentality i i believe more and more god's god's highlighting these realities this beautiful truth to the church around the world and that's what our desire is for you know we've been now in the middle east for nine years and when we first got there i remember when we first got there uh you know and we'll talk about the middle east here in a moment and we'll try to move quickly but in in in the middle east you know for so many years it's been like uh like a front lines from f for missions and and hard ground for many missionaries sowing in prayer and sowing and fasting and some of them in your entire lifetime not seeing somebody come to faith and and some other people it bred contempt and and uh unbelief and i've talked to people years ago like listen don't go to the middle east and expect salvations and things to happen it won't happen there but at the same time they're speaking from their from their experience you know it's it's it's not a coincidence that you know it's it's easier to hear the call to go to i jokingly say like hawaii or fiji or you know like what is that you lord you know like the middle east like saudi arabia it's like wait what do you know like christopher like rebuked the devil on some things i remember a story by dr browner president of the bible school that we went to he was telling us a story it either happened to him or a good friend of his where he was facing some resistance in his life some hardship in his life and at the time he he he didn't know why it was happening but he was just rebuking the devil it wasn't like sickness or disease it was just different forms of of hardship that he was facing in that season of life and having to learn how to hold on to god's word and press through in faith and and and he was just praying back and forth in his like in his room one day he was like devil i rebuke you you know the situation devil i i rebuke you satan you know and then he just when he finished rebuking the devil you know he's kind of like okay and the lord said you know whatever his name was like john you know what you know john our relationship would be a lot better if he stopped calling me the devil right so meaning sometimes god calls you into situations that may not be comfortable right it's it's easy to hear the call some places of the world when we first got there it was like man it was so hard to see a convert somebody come to jesus now by god's grace i told brian i told david today actually and i've talked to brian about it many times i can honestly say besides needing more of jesus this is the truth our greatest need in the ministry right now is more laborers we don't have enough people to follow up with different people that are wanting to know jesus or have or have been born again or need to be pastored and discipled we don't have enough people and my burden is to see the nation save to see iraq save to see the middle east saved but much more much more than seeing a muslim exchange his allegiance from the allah of the quran to jesus of the bible is is to see a bride come out of that amen i don't want to see millions of people that are compromised in the middle east waving their hands and saying we're no longer muslims jesus wants a bride from the middle east we're jealous to see a bride from the middle east the people that would say no to sin that would turn away from the deception that's been bred into them because of islam for generation after generation and a perverse spirit and a spirit of murder that rules in the land and to the degree that the church is not properly aligned to the groom rules in the hearts of believers in measuring degrees we want to see a bride and and the more we we we get the more we near jesus's return i believe the more he will put a spotlight on his desire for a bride but and then specifically even pointing to how that will end in the middle east jesus says go call your husband a covenant requires repentance and beautiful repentance there's promises in god's word there's promises this is how many of you guys have heard the isaiah 19 prophecy or promise anybody yes no so isaiah 19 there's a promise that in in the last days god is going to pour out his spirit that is going to impact the region of the world and it's the actual even if the geographic geographically you can even trace out the land that god promised to abraham it's a land that will host a new jerusalem god is going to touch a part of the world with a revival that will be unmatched from the beginning of time to the end of time amen a revival that will precede the turning of many from the nation of israel back to their messiah and introduce the bridegroom back to his creation it's something all of us long for something all of us desire it's a maranatha christ what peter talks about when he says when he talks about the end of all things and he's he's warning against false teachers and he's talking about how all things will end but he says as we eagerly wait and hasten the lord's coming we we wait for it's a position of waiting but it's a position of hastening at the same time there's a there's a wait and a go to the gospel we wait before him as a bride and we join him we want to see those promises fulfilled we want to see this last region of the world that has not yet been touched by a wide-scale revival like other parts of the world have the muslim world in the middle east the cousins of isaac the ishmaels of the world the irans the iraq's the afghanistans the middle east the syrias that god would pour out a spirit knowing that that that ishmael will provoke the sons of ishmael will provoke isaac back to jealousy we're jealous for that because god is jealous for that because he's waiting for a bride that's both jew and gentile when the fullness of the gentiles come in israel shall be saved as god is raising up a bridal company in these last days and and and putting specific focus on loving devotion and purity and the glory and majesty of the groom the church will be more and more compelled in prayer and in going to see the in the middle east impacted by the power of the gospel and i feel like this is a safe place to share these things the woman says to jesus i perceive you are a prophet verse 21 jesus says to a woman believe me the hour is coming i'm sorry i skipped i shouldn't have skipped jesus says true the woman says to him sir i perceive your prophet our fathers worship on this mountain but you say in jerusalem that is the place where people ought to worship jesus says to a woman believe me the hour is coming when either on this mountain nor in jerusalem where you worship the father you worship what you do not know we worship what you what we know for salvation is from the jews but the hour is coming and is now here when true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such people to worship him god is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth jesus was getting right down to the heart of the issue for her it was the issue of devotion and love you know we talked about how how john is into numbers this woman had five and now six the apex of humanism and human gratification the antichrist himself there's a number that's given to him in the scripture as a symbol i don't know if there's going to be a literal number or not connected who knows but symbolically it's six six six three meaning like the highest version god is one and three the highest version in embodied in a person of what humans are without god and what humans desire outside of him that's what that's all the antichrist is certainly a demon-possessed man but when you really get down to the heart of it when israel wanted a king like all the other nations around them god gave them a king after their own heart he gave them what they wanted the guy that appeared to be the strongest and and fit all the descriptions of what a successful king would look like he says i'll give you a king although it grieved the heart of god i'll give you the kind of king that you want that's what you want you want what the nations want that's all the antichrist is he is the apex of everything humanity wants outside of god and so she tries to make it about religion but jesus redirects the conversation back to the heart he says the father is looking for those that will worship in spirit and in truth the bride is a people a company of believers that worship that are defined by worship it's expressed through song it's expressed through devotion in a place of communion it's expressed through the obedience in our lives and the way that we that we live our lives the values that we have and it's expressed through spirit and truth now the opposite of spirit or the power of the spirit would be the arm of the flesh the arm of the flesh the picture of babel when when mankind creates babel by their own strength concerted unity around one effort and one goal to make a name for ourself that shall be great they said we will make a name for ourselves that shall be great rather than the greatness of god's name they wanted a name and the power of their of their flesh their might the the church is a church that waits upon the strength that comes from the animating power of the spirit the spirit empowers us we worship in spirit and in truth not you know i'm learning some of these terms trying to i'm trying to stay up to date we live in the middle east so we're a little bit outdated we don't always know what's happening in the u.s we're trying to i hear there's a term called your truth just share your truth i have my truth and you have your truth and we want to make space for you to share your truth there is no your truth there is god's truth let god be found true paul says to the romans and every man be found a liar there is one truth god's word is truth god's word is truth we worship based upon what god says i was talking today actually to david i'm grieved by by the things that i'm hearing in the church around the world the deconstruction of our faith has anybody else heard this term or is it just me well i'm going through a process and i'm deconstructing my faith deconstruct no this is a new term that i've heard i'm deconstructing my faith which in essence means i'm going to not believe what the bible says about god anymore i'm not going to believe the explicitly revealed word of god i'm going to now respond to how either i or others have taken up offense with god in his rule listen the reason the bride in the song of songs chapter one was in a state she was in is she was burned by the sun at the heat of the day do you remember she says i'm i'm dark yet lovely she says i've been working in the gardens of others and have not taken care of my own she was hurt she was wounded by her brothers by others by the hardships the son the hardships of life here's this woman who who represents the bride who's coming out at the heat of the day why doesn't she go out when the other women go out when it's you know before the sun rises to get water because of the shame because because of the things that she on the inside deals with it's it's these things that that life life has a way of of wounding and stripping and beating down humanity listen the devil is not a good lord he's not a good ruler in fact at the end of revelation he turns on babylon at the end he destroys his own bride at the end there's nothing good about him so so we allow these things to impact our hearts and then see god in a different light we can't do that spirit and truth the disciples come back and they say why are you why are you talking with this woman in verse 31 they're urging him they're saying rabbi eat he says to them i have food to eat that you do not know about the disciples said to one another has has anyone brought him anything to eat verse 33 34 jesus says my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work then he said do you not know that there are four months and then comes harvest i tell you lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest already the one who's reaping is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life so the sower and the reaper may rejoice together the story starts with a drink and it ends with a meal ends with food jesus is looking for fellowship and covenant with a bride that is to be his eternal helper forever and that is the gospel message and he's calling that bride out from a babylon system with a radical repentance and a cutting off of the world and the way that the world influences and presses and imprints his image on the hearts of men the immorality the love of fame the the material things that are passing away idolizing these things making god of these things he's looking for a bride for himself his drink is the delight of fellowship is the delight of love the drink is the water that he's looking for from his bride the food is is the meal that is represented by obedience to his father that is what sustains the son of man in the earth obedience to his father and the delight of communion and satisfaction it comes from intimate conversation with his bride that's the meal where'd you get the drink where'd you get the food jesus says i'm fed he was weary he was he's a man on a journey he's a man on a mission he's waiting by a well for a bride just like the patriarchs did when he first called them to be a representative in a small way of christ and kingdom and he's waiting by a well for a bride that would bring satisfaction to his heart jesus is looking for a meal and he's satisfied he's satisfied by love you guys can stand we want to pray we want to pray today and we want to lay hands on people today but i would i want to submit to you that as we as we near jesus return we are going to begin to feel more and more of a stir to see the bride of christ brought those that that will be part of the bride of christ to be brought into the fellowship of light and specifically so for the middle east we're going to start to see more and more happening in the middle east we're going to start to see more and more focus and attention on the middle east on the muslim world and then specifically on israel and as we pray even tonight we want to pray that god deposits we want to pray that god deposits his dream and his desires in our hearts his dream and his desires everything will culminate on a mountain in the middle east everything will end when the son of man steps foot on the mount of olives in israel thank you jesus we want to lay hands on people but before we do let's just let's just turn our hearts to the lord in prayer for a few moments i just feel just here even in a moment feel right to do this to ask the lord lord reveal to us your desire and your plan for your bride in the nations and the middle east lord thank you that all things that you do you do by the spirit you give revelation by the spirit you invite us lord into your divine narrative by the spirit lord we ask that you would you would give to many that have come today maybe even from different cities or maybe even from different churches from across the u.s that you would plant seeds in hearts or maybe in those that you've already planted a seed you would cause it to flourish lord and you found love for the bridegroom and you found love and and burning desire to see the gospel revealed in power in the last days to see a bride that worships in spirit and in truth to see the middle east impacted by the glory of god the sons of ishmael to provoke the sons of isaac to loving repentance lord invite us in invite us in invite us in lord it says in his word he says his disciples watch and pray he says his disciples in gethsemane watch and pray it's interesting in on top of the mountain when when the disciples see jesus in his glory it says in luke's account that they began to be weary and to fall asleep as he's being revealed and then in gethsemane as he's being revealed they were they were weary they were wearied lord i pray let your church and your bride lord lord we pray as as we go through the seasons of life and the storms that come our way that our hearts would be in a place of peace in the midst of the storms of life lord may our hearts be in peace lord that that that we we would not be weary by the problems of life we would not be weary by the problems of life so that so that we can watch and see and join you in what you're wanting to do thank you lord lord call us higher call us higher release your dream lord over your people release lord just a maranatha cry deep down in the spirit of your people in jesus name in jesus name so thank you lord thank you lord thank you for this bridal company here tonight one of the things that sets in my heart is i believe every one of you here how many of you guys are not from from atlanta the atlanta area so many people wow wow if only i can get people to come to iraq we gotta have we gotta have a talk after what do you do just one of the things that sense in my heart i really feel like every one of you it's it's not a coincidence obviously that you've come that you guys are connected to this house but every one of you is a voice a voice a seed in your local community in your local church in your city there in a place of prayer to speak to and to point to jesus and his eternal gospel to the bridegroom coming back for his bride to his promises both for this nation and his generation and how it's going to impact the end of the age in the middle east the muslim world and israel just to encourage you guys to dive deeper this is this is one of these words go home search the scriptures stay in a place of prayer ask god lord speak to me lord i want to be part of your bridal company a bride is a helper a bride is a helper when we first get born again it's all about jesus you're so amazing because of everything you've done to me that's that's that's okay at that stage of life and he continues to bless us along the way but who wants to be married to a gold digger right who wants to be married to somebody who's just only once like well if you don't if you don't give me what i want every moment whenever i want it then i'm not that interested you know a bride is a helper lord what are you doing in the nations god what do you come what kid lord what are you doing in the nations in a place of fellowship lord i want to hear what are you saying to the churches jesus is speaking to the seven churches it says let those who have ears to hear hear what the spirit is saying to the churches suffice it to say god is saying to his church in the nations of the earth he's seeking for loving the devotion loving devotion in the place of prayer god's raising up his house of prayer a bride that's devoted to communion a bride that is pure and holy and unstained by the sin and stench of babylon the harlot system a bride that understands his promises and is moving towards that end jesus save the nations save the middle east pour out your spirit god purify your church [Music] if you want more of jesus this evening we want to invite you to come up or fill the the aisles we want to move quickly you don't want to take too much time but we want to lay hands on those tonight that want hands laid on them as you may be you may be sick in need of a healing jesus is the bridegroom the father gives good gifts you may be asking and seeking a a new deposit a new fresh infilling and baptism of the spirit i believe there's many people here tonight god's already spoken and deposited many seeds inside of your hearts that he wants to reignite in a fresh way and many others he's looking to call you higher in him he's looking to share his sufferings paul says i want to know him the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings listen he wants to he gives the joy of delight who here wants to volunteer for a baptism of tears in the place of prayer and suffering [Music] may it be may it be in a place of fasting and devotion and a baptism of tears jesus birth your church of the nations thank you lord [Music] you

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