The Courts of Heaven - Robert Henderson (Sunday, 31 Jul 2016)

Robert Henderson just gave us an incredible weekend seminar and he's here this morning on a tight schedule having to catch a flight what times you're playing again some 2:30 so yeah let's welcome Robert can we stand and give them a great welcome once again to Toronto god bless you Robert 2:30 thank you so much bless you guys you can be seen the Lord bless you thank you so much it's such an honor as I said earlier in the weekend to be here I've been talking about the courts of heaven and so we've stirred some stuff up at least and so I want to just have I'm so privileged to have my wife Mary maybe we'd stand up sweetie this is Mary my wife we've been we've been married for 39 years August 19th so we accept cards and gifts anything that you want to send to be fine but but we've been we've been married again for almost 39 be 39 in August we have six children four boys two girls are all grown and we have five grandchildren and so in fact I have a picture he's our number one grandchild I mean that mean that by the fact that he was born first is his Jackson you can't see that but this is Jackson and Jackson's about 10 years old now he'll be 10 but when he was six when he was six years old Mary walked into the living room where he was with our little dog we have a little dog named Otis oh this is about 14 pounds long shaggy hair his mother's a Datsun kind of gives you a little bit of an idea he's part of Datsun Terrier poodle and something else don't really know what he is but that's just who Otis is so we love Otis Otis was a great dog and so Jackson is in the living room with Otis and he doesn't know anybody's around Mary walks into the living room and Jackson is on the floor with Otis and he has Otis his head in his hands now Jackson is six at this point and he's looking into Otis's eyes and Mary hears Jackson say to Otis Otis if you want to be a superhero you're going to have to change the way you think and so Mary just stops and listens and he said the first thing you have to do is get a cape so the second thing you need is you need a superhero's name like a Superdog and he's in the third thing you need to do is learn how to fly so a Jackson picks Otis up it begins to move them around but notice isn't very impressed I tell people my grandson understands something we need to understand if we're going to move into the realms of the supernatural we have to change the way we think we have we have to begin to think differently because our natural way of thinking does not lend itself to moving into the supernatural rounds of God so what I want to talk to you about this morning again is the courts of heaven which is the supernatural realm of God now now John said how many of you here may I see those hands again that we're here this weekend so I'll kind of know okay so lots of people that were not okay when when I start talking about the courts of heaven let me just real briefly give you a review in the Book of Luke Jesus put prayer in three different dimensions in Luke 11 and Luke 18 he put it in two in the first dimension of approaching God as father okay we understand that the Holy Spirit reveals the Fatherhood of God heals our wounds all these kind of things we we fall in love with the father and the father loves us and so jesus said when you pray say our Father which art in heaven so the first dimension of prayer is approaching God his father but then he continues on in Luke 11 verse 5 and he says and he said in which of you having a friend would come to him at midnight and you have nothing to help him with you would get up and go to another friend and say help me help me help one has come on his journey so that I can help my friend that's coming so the second realm of prayer is approaching God his friend see these were these were dimensions of prayer that Jesus was teaching the disciples the first one was relating to God his father which is about getting our own needs and desires Matt the second round was meet was was approaching God as friend which the picture that Jesus painted was of a man that had a friend come to him who could not help him so he had to go to another friend so this one which is us is standing in the middle or in between which is always a position of intercession okay so we approach God as father for our own needs and desires we approach him as friend why because we're trying to get the needs of somebody else Matt okay so if the second dimension is we are interceding for someone else so we approach him his father for our own needs but we approach him as friend for the needs of others okay just a thought for you two for you consider and walk through but then Jesus when he finishes that in Luke 18 he finishes in the Book of Luke his teaching on prayer and he said in Luke 18 verses 1 through 8 that Jesus spoke this parable that men ought always to pray and not to lose heart and he said there wasn't a certain City a widow who came before an unjust judge and said avenge me of my adversary and he would not for a while but he finally said I'm gonna give her what she wants less by her continual coming she wears me out and Jesus said hear what the unjust judge said it shall not God avenge his own elect who cry to him day and night yes I say he will avenge them speedily okay so he puts prayer watch this in the third dimension he puts prayer in the realm of approaching a judge or going into a judicial system this is important because the first Ram is approaching God his father the second round was approaching his friend but the third Ram is coming before God is judge because when Jesus spoke of this widow approaching an unjust judge he was not saying God is an unjust judge he is saying that if this Widow could get a verdict from an unjust judge how much more can we come before the righteous judge the judge of all the earth and see him render verdicts in our behalf okay so watch this we come before the Father for our own needs and our own desires we come before him as friend for the needs of others but we come before him as judge when we're dealing with an adversary see how many of you realize prayer is a conflict anybody ever felt a conflict in prayer fix your praying and your thinking I don't understand why I'm feeling this while I'm sitting this but there's a conflict here this is the conflict that you're in / Jesus is not a battlefield like so often we think it is actually a judicial system or a courtroom II know that courtrooms are places of conflict courtrooms are places of conflict and we are dealing with an adversary that's seeking to resist God's will from being done in our life now to help you understand that the Bible says in first Peter 5:8 it says that that we should be sober we should be vigilant for our adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour that word adversary at first Peter 5:8 and the one in Luke 18 is the same word and is the Greek word anti-d coals which means one who brings a lawsuit it's a legal position so in first Peter 5:8 it tells us that the devil is operating from a legal position in heaven bringing lawsuits against us seeking to get a legal right to devour us and stop God's purposes in our life okay we got to get that because if we're going to get the breakthrough in the midst of the conflict we have to understand what the conflict is it's in a sits in the legal systems or the judicial systems of the spirit realm and we have to know how to come before God not just his father not just his friend but also as judge okay so and deal with the adversaries and the issues that were resisting is how many of you say it would say to me you know what I bet prayers I've been praying for a long time but I haven't had any breakthrough anybody have anything like that okay the rest of you are lying I always tell people you're either lying or you're not praying 1 or 2 so but here's here's the deal God wants to bring breakthrough to us we have to know how to go into the store dimension now having said that I want us to look at Revelation chapter 12 Revelation chapter 12 we're going to read verses 10 through 11 because what I just did is catch you up well not really but bring a review a little bit of what we said this after this weekend and we taught all weekend long on it but revelation 12 verses 10 and 11 is going to give us some further insight I hope as we move through this for a few moments it says in Revelation 12 verse 10 then I heard a loud voice John's NAT said saying in heaven now everybody say now salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come now I will just pause right there whenever Jesus says now he says he says let me get his right the salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ has come what he's saying is that there has been a full manifestation of the kingdom it's now fully manifest how do you know the man the kingdom has not yet been fully manifest would you agree that if the kingdom was fully manifest the moment somebody got saved they would be healed if the kingdom was fully manifest cities would be reformed and nations would be discipled we have not yet seen a full manifestation of the kingdom as we would understand it today so when he said went so obviously when John says now he wasn't talking about the now now or even the now then he was speaking of something that was yet to come he was hearing a sound of something that would yet to materialize yet to be made manifest because we're still pressing and pushing for a full manifestation of the kingdom would you agree with that see now you see if you've got a full manifestation of the kingdom it means every realm of breakthrough you've been desiring you now have so we have not yet got a full manifestation of the kingdom now this is important because watch what he says for the accuser of the Brethren who accuses them before God day and night has been cast down okay here he says please get this here he says the reason a full manifestation of the kingdom had come if you will was because it was no more accuser able to speak against us see this word accuser is the greek word categories ka ta g oro s categories and it means a complainant in a legal system a complainant at law it's someone who is bringing a complaint against you in the judicial system of heaven so that's why it says the accuser are this categories is complaining or bringing a case against us in the courts of heaven watch this and his complaint against us is stopping our full breakthrough that's what he says he says the full breakthrough comes when the accuser is silenced when he's fully dealt with if he's not fully dealt with and he still has a case against us then the result of that is we're not we have not yet had our full breakthrough so we want so it stands to reason if we want our full breakthrough we're going to have to deal with this accuser because this is the one who is standing resisting us from getting what God wants us to have remember first Peter 5:8 that the anti-d Coast the one who brings a lawsuit same idea different word they did that word comes from two words anti vehicles anti which means to deny D coasts which means rights so he is using his accusations against us to deny us what's rightfully ours and you know Jesus died for us to have everything then why don't we have it because there's still a case against us there's still a case against us in the spirit room it's that simple it's not on a battlefield it's in a courtroom see the reason we haven't got the full manifestation of the kingdom is not because we haven't want the victory on the battlefield is because we've yet to get the case answered in the court room of heaven this is that third dimension of Prayer so God listen your break doing your family it's because there's still an accusation against you in the spirit round I promise you to break through the lacking of breakthrough this is not because of timing oh I'm just waiting on God to answer me and it's about to kill me while I'm waiting and everything is falling to pieces around us and people are being divorced and financial rulings occurring and people are dying prematurely but we're waiting on God please hear me guys that's not the god I serve there's something else working here it's not a timing issue it's a legal issue if I can get the legal issue dealt with if I can get the case answered if I can get the accuser silenced then I can have my bread through by moving into this third round my prayer and I made a good enough case for it here get you thinking of the right way okay then Jesus says in verse 11 or Paul said excuse me John says in verse 11 he said and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives death three issues to answering the case against us you ready for this three issues to know how to step into this third dimension a prayer and answer the case against us in the courts of heaven the blood of the Lamb the word of our testimony and by not living our life unto death that when we apply or walk in these three dimensions we are able to answer any and every accusation against us that the enemy would use to stop the full breakthrough that we desire from coming into our life so can I talk to you about those three things for a few moments okay because this is what we use this is how we answer every case against us so you gotta understand the enemy has spent a long time building a case against you I mean you know if someone files a suit against you is because they have evidence against you and they have spent a long time putting that together the enemy is the same way he spent a long time putting cases against us because he doesn't want us coming into the fulbright through God has for us but Jesus by what he has done has given us everything we need to answer that case to silence the accuser and see the fullness of what God wants for us to become reality in our life then all they excite us amen so let me give you these three things number one it says they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb everybody say thank you Lord for the blood now in my book operating the course of heaven I talk about the voices that are in the courts of heaven if you if you went into a literal natural court you would hear all sorts of voices witnesses jurors judges bailiffs all the activity that would be in the court you'd hear also two different voices there are voices in the courts of heaven as well and and nine of those know she could be eight of those are mentioned in the in Hebrews 12 22 through 24 because what it is what it says there in that spirit dimension that I talked about a little bit yesterday of the courts the last thing mentioned is the blood that speaks better things than that of Abel now watch this in Genesis 4 when Cain kills Abel in verse 9 I believe it is Genesis 4 verse 9 God comes to Cain he says where is your brother Abel and he said I don't know am I my brother's keeper and he says what have you done for the blood of your brother is crying out to me from the ground and the very next thing God says you will be a vagabond and a wonder in the earth listen on the basis of the testimony of Abel's blood God judged and sentenced Cain because the blood watch this is not something that just has spoken in Hebrews 12 24 it says the blood speaks it's still speaking Jesus is blood is a speaking element that has in it and what that means this it means it's prophetic in nature see something that has spoken may not be prophetic but when something is still speaking that means it has a prophetic element connected to it and so that means we can pick up in the spirit what the blood saying hello this is that whole dimension of Hebrews 12 23 to 24 where that this is that prophetic dimension we can began to a discern and understand so this is the deal when the Bible says we overcome him by the blood it is because we come into an agreement with what the blood is saying now thank God that whenever I sin or any realm that I fail in I can come I do this I do this I say Lord I'm asking for your blood to speak for me I thank you that your blood is speaking for me and I'm asking that this sin and this this thing or this this this fault of mine or whatever it may be I'm asking for for the blood to speak watch what does the blood to the blood gives God the legal right to forgive you so how do you know that because when the priests in the Old Testament would go behind the veil once a year on the Day of Atonement they would sprinkle the blood of the Passover lamb they would pour it out and the testimony of that blood administered by the high priests granted God the legal right to roll the sins off of Israel for one more year that's what the blood did guess what we have a high priest his name is Jesus after the order of Melchizedek and he has taken his own blood and he has poured it out and he has sprinkled it and that blood is speaking in testimony before the courts of heaven and it is giving God it's a legal right not to roll our sins away but literally to forgive our sins forever that's what the Bloods doing it's a legal element that's speaking in our behalf you got to know what the blood is doing if you're going to overcome by the blood because every accusation against us in the court of heaven that the enemy would bring we answer by the blood and I want you to know there's not one accusation he can bring that the blood can't answer the blood of Jesus can answer any and every accusation see now I believe that for the blood answer I have to repent see because first John 1:9 says if I confess my sin which means to say the same thing about that God says he's faithful and just notice the legal language faithful which speaks of his covenant keeping nature just which speaks of his legal nature he's faithful and just to forgive see when I confess I am activating the legal round that God operates in so that the blood is now able to speak in my behalf and God has the legal right to forgive me do you get that so we overcome by the blood I love the blood the blood deals with all my failures but the blood is also speaking I believe for the passion of Jesus because the Bible says in Hebrews 12 24 it's his blood is speaking see I believe his blood is also crying out for everything he spilt it for to become a reality see the blood doesn't just forgive the blood doesn't just protect the blood of Jesus is also crying out for his purpose to be done in the earth that's what we have to have an ear to prophetically hear what the blood say because let me tell you when you start picking up what the blood saying it will stir the passion of God on the inside of you so you began to agree with this blood and you begin to say Lord everything you laid your life down for let it become a see God wants to bring that spirit into the church the Moravians whenever it over in Europe when they show the guys that prays so much and all these kind of things and when they were they had such a heart to evangelize the world they would sell themselves into slavery so that they could go to a foreign land and be able to tell people about Jesus they would not have otherwise had an opportunity to tell tell them and the way they would get there would be to sell themselves into slavery and they would load themselves on the ships as they would be sent and be going to where they have sold themselves into slavery into the foreign nations they were going to and as they were loading themselves on the ship they would sing a song and part of the song that they would sing had this lyric it would say that we might win for the Lamb the rewards of his suffering that the passion of our heart is to lay our lives down and win for the Lamb the rewards of its suffering do you understand that's what we're here for we think that sometimes we're here to get blessed and God wants to bless us He loves us so much but we're also here to lay our lives down for everything Jesus died for to become a reality I want you to hear this his blood the message and what the blood is saying is also about his passion being fulfilled in the earth so if we're gonna if we're gonna silence the accuser we're gonna have to agree with the blood and what is speaking I agree with the blood lord I just want you to know as we stand before you I agree with your blood I agree with your blood that brings healing salvation forgiveness protection watch this I agree with the blood that causes you to remember me did you know God remembers you because of the blood that's speaking in your behalf I agree with the blood I agree with the blood just whisper that to him Lord I agree with your blood and I thank you for the blood Lord Jesus just and I thank you for the blood that you gave that you spilled I don't take it for granted I don't I'm not presumptuous about it I just thank you for the blood amen that's critical to answering the accuser the answering the accuser the second thing he says and they overcame him by the word of their testimony how many know in a court there's testimony given that's that's kind of a no-brainer the word testimony those who give judicial witness that's what the word means it's a legal idea in a legal term we overcome by the word of our testimony now you need to understand that it can be a word we speak but I want to 0and could I mention the sealing I just want to go back to it for just a moment you need to understand there are many different things in the spirit realm that are received in the courts of heaven as testimony your word and my word is one I need to make sure my words are in agreement with his passion and let me just say this we need to make sure our prophetic words are in agreement with his passion for instance i z kiyul when Ezekiel is dropped down in the valley of dry bones God says to him can these bones live and he said Lord you know why did he say that because he was struggling why was he struggling because in the natural his eyes were seeing a valley of dry bones but in the spirit he was hearing a marching army he had to decide am I going to agree with what my eye see or what my ears hear and he chose to agree with what his ears hear he began to prophesy and release testimony in the courts that allowed bones to come to bones flesh and sinew to wrap around them and the breath of God to enter them so that they stood up on their feet as a mighty army but it was all based on what he chose to prophesy him you know it's really easy sometimes to look at the natural state of things and prophesy wrong things what's this and then they happen and we say see there I told you that was God no it's not happening because God is happening because you prophesied it and release testimony in the courts of heaven that allowed it to happen that's what people don't get you say how could that be because the the the 12 spies that went into Canaan land and came back 10 of them gave an evil report or a bad testimony what did God do he rendered a verdict against a nation because of 10 spies who gave the wrong testimony 10 spies with the wrong testimony 10 which is government obey 10 thing I share with the other night 10 spies recognized as a government in the courts of heaven when they gave the wrong testimony God said on the base of your gift your testimony I have no alternative I render a judgment you'll wander in the wilderness for 40 years 10 people determine the destiny of a nation for 40 years we better be careful when we prophesy I literally want to take my shoe off and hit these doomsday prophets upside the head it's like please be quiet please don't say that please don't prophesy that prophesy what's in the books of heaven about a nation the good Word of God what God is actually intended not what your natural is because anybody can prophesy from the natural we need people who can prophesy to what the Spirit of God is saying and see the good even in the midst of the bad see the intent of God I love that because we're releasing testimony when we're prophesying whether we realize it or not okay so it says the word of art we overcome with the word of our testimony but let me give you one of the real ways we release testimony you don't know it but you just released testimony well ago when those baskets went in front of you and you gave money we don't realize we just released testimony and I just want to show you this for just a moment look with me in Hebrews chapter 7 Hebrews chapter 7 because every time we give an offering we're releasing the testimony Hebrews 7 verse 8 this is the writer of Hebrews talking about us transitioning from the Levitical priesthood to the Melchizedek Priesthood so we're we are hot we are priests after the Melchizedek order not the Levitical one and the Melchizedek the Levitical priesthood is about legalism the Melchizedek present appreciate is about honor okay so take yourself in we won't go into all that but here's at the verse eight here Marto men receive ties from method Levitical tribe that receives it because they were still operating but there he receives them talking about Jesus after the Melchizedek order he receives them of whom it is witnessed that he lives notice he connects a witness to our tithe as we give it under the Melchizedek order to honor who Jesus is as our high priest because I want you to see this here mortal men receive but there he receives tithes of whom it is witness the word witness there means to give a judicial testimony so every time you give your money you're releasing a testimony whatever is in your heart when you gave that money is the testimony that is speaking in the courts of heaven I'm going to show you this look with me in Matthew 25 Matthew I'm gonna skew me Matthew 5 Matthew chapter 5 take you'll just a little journey for just a moment Matthew chapter 5 verse 23 Jesus says therefore if you bring your gift to the altar and and there at the altar as you're giving your gift you're in the presence of God honoring him and all of a sudden as you're there you remember that your brother has something against you so something's wrong between you and somebody else there's a contention there's a problem you have bad feelings ill-will with somebody is that you remember it is you're in the process of bringing your offering watch what he says verse 24 leave your gift there before the altar so in other words don't use it as a reason not to give use it as a reason to get things fixed so you can give because he says leave your gift there at the altar go your way first be reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift Jesus says do not give your gift if there's a problem in your heart towards somebody else now why would he say that what he's gonna tell us why in the next verses verse 25 agree with your adversary anti-d Coase that's the word adversary anti equals one who brings a lawsuit agree with your adversary quickly while you're on the way with him lest your adversary deliver you to the judge the judge hand you over to the officer and you be thrown into prison I surely I said you will by no means get out of there - you paid the very last penny so he says the reason you don't give your offering when you got a problem in your heart watch this is because you're offering is releasing a testimony like I showed you in Hebrews seven eight it's releasing a testimony that will testify before the judge and the adversary can use it against you as a legal right to have you judged and thrown in prison so the worst thing you can do when you got a problem is give an offering seriously that's the worst thing you can do this is why some of you have been practicing the principle and it hasn't worked in fact it's got worse do you know I got worse because your money is releasing the wrong testimony in the courts of heaven I'm just telling you a secret so you need if you have you've given finances and you have had this ongoing bitterness with somebody you need to ask lord please let the testimony of those finances be annulled so that they can no longer speak because that not that those that money is speaking in the courts of heaven releasing a testimony that is empowering the accuser to bring a case against you because money is very spiritual very spiritual now what if this is not a reason not to give this is a reason to get our hearts right so we can give because I'm going to show you if it's that powerful in the negative how powerful is it in the positive let me show you how powerful is in the part because our money releases testimony we overcome by the word of our testimony every way we release testimony in the courts of heaven it is designed to help us release a case that grants God the right to render verdicts in our behalf because we overcome by the blood but also the word of our testimony okay let me show you the positive Malachi Malachi chapter 3 I like this Malachi chapter 3 let's just start verse 2 but who can endure the day of his coming he and who can stand when he appears he is like a refiners fire like a launderers soap and he will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver he will purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer to the Lord and offering a righteous whoa whoa whoa why is he purifying us well so we can be holy but no no why is he purifying us so we can bring an offering and righteousness the whole reason for this purifying process is not so we can be holy said well I finally arrived know the reason he is purifying us is so we can bring an offering in righteousness because our offerings are so powerful because they contain testimony you're gonna see this so he's taking us to a purifying process so that our hearts are right our hearts are pure what we're not trying to manipulate God with our money we're actually bringing our finances because we are declaring his Worth and how much we love him and how much our faith is in him that's what resonates in the courts of heaven well I better give this cuz I don't give this he's liable to get me he might be mad at me now that's a wrong motive that's manipulation that's trying to manipulate God that's what job did I shared that the other night that's exactly what Joe did and the enemy took his the sound of his offering and built a case against him so that the enemy had a right to question his motives and it's really in a massive tribulation watch what he says he said he's gonna purify us everybody say Lord come purify me well that's a dangerous prayer of yoga but if we have to do it we have to go there okay so he said he's gonna do this so that we may offer an offering righteous verse for here's two things will happen then the offering of Judah in Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord as in the days of old as in the form years so God's going to accept it that's a good thing now watch verse five and God says on the basis of the offering I will come near you for judgment and I will be a swift wits witness against sorcerers against adulterers against perjurers against those who exploit wage earners and widows and off orphans and against those who turn away an alien because they do not fear me says the Lord of hosts watch what God says God says because your money releases a testimony because you've allowed me to purify your heart so that you're giving out of a right pure motive watch what he says he says your testimony actually empowers me to release judgments from my courts watch against every eel that afflicts society you see it works in a personal level but God says when my ekklesia brings me and offering in righteousness I am able to judge adultery in society the breakdown of marriage I am able to judge which crowd I am able to judge perjurers I am able to judge what is oppressive economic systems I am able to set things in order in society because my government the church has brought me an offering in righteousness with the right testimony attached to it that's how powerful it is Wow all of a sudden offering time means a whole lot more you're in court when you bring an offering I'm in court when I bring an offering now watch it that's on a big scale but this happens on a personal level you're fighting for your you bring an offering in righteousness let the testimony speak in the courts you've got people lying about you bringing offering you got your oppressed not making enough money bring it all friend see see you're releasing testimony you're bringing it in righteousness because we're allowing God to purify our hearts so that we can bring an offering in righteousness and release the judicial hand of God to move in our behalf this is overcoming by the word of our testimony all of a sudden I'm not just asking the father I'm not just even appealing to the friend I am bringing a case in the courts of heaven because that's what you do when you testify makes you want to give another offering guy dinner and I feel like we need to break off any past offerings that were given in wrong ways that we didn't understand this because I've had to do that because I don't want to I don't want to fall prey to some subtle motive of manipulation I want to get bring an offering and righteousness again that's why sometimes the principle that is very clearly in Scripture hasn't worked because we didn't let him purify us so we could bring that in righteousness does that make sense how many of you think maybe in times past we might have brought an offering with the wrong motive anybody feel like you might stand up with me because I'm going to do this for you and me too because we're human beings were flesh and blood so I want you to say this word say Lord Jesus any in any way that I add up a wrong heart with ill-will or wrong motives that had brought an offering I'm asking before you Lord that any testimony that is yet lingering before your courts connected to my offering that's giving a testimony that would allow the accuser to have a case against me I'm asking Lord for that testimony to be annulled by the blood lord I confess to you out of ignorance or whatever I messed up and I'm asking you to silence this offering and the words of the offering by your blood Lord I say I want my offering to be brought because I love you I worship you I value you I'm moving in faith in you so I want my offering to speak from that realm so I repent and I'm asking Lord for every word being used connected to past offerings to now be silenced in Jesus name okay now father even as we appraise that prayer I'm saying let the words now be annulled connected to these offerings and let let the things that have been happening in the people's lives because I know that this has happened because that the money's been speaking the wrong things let it stop now that every advantage that the accuser has had let it now be stopped and father let the words of our offering now speak write words before you that give you the right to judge everything that would work against us so we can come in the foot into the fullness of what you have in Jesus name Amen amen amen Lord light man give the Lord a praise yeah hallelujah yes one more thing woman okay let me go the one more do you set out I'm not done I think I have to catch an airplane but let me give you this one more thing because I need to cover it real quickly it says the third round we use to silence the accuser is we love not our lives unto death we lay our lives down now you're going to understand when we surrender our lives to the Lord into his purpose in his will that carries great realms of authority and influence on the courts of heaven so we should make it a normal part of our prayer Lord I I do I say Lord not my will but your will be done I'm just coming to lay my life down before you now having said that I wanna just touch one little element you need to understand we all need to understand how significant righteousness is in the courts of heaven in Ezekiel 14 verse 14 God said that there was such judgment coming on Israel that even if job Samuel and Noah were to intercede those three he said they would only by their righteousness be able to save themselves they wouldn't they would not be able to change the verdict concerning Israel nor would they even be able to save sons and daughters just look it up in Ezekiel 14 14 it literally says they would only have enough righteousness so that tells me that righteousness is really important in the courts of heaven that my ability to bring a case in the courts of heaven is connected to righteousness okay that's true here's the issue we can never be righteous enough watch we are made righteous by who Jesus is and what he has done I need me to get this real quickly I'll show you something that the Bible says that he became sin for us so that we could become the righteousness of God even in isaiah 54:17 it says that that my righteousness is of him so when I this is what I believe when I am walking in an open honest relationship with Jesus dealing with my stuff then I have a right to stand before him in righteousness see I can't I guess it would like live any old kind of way I want and God still gonna deem me righteous know by faith I am doing I'm following him I'm obeying him I am seeking Him I'm repenting where I need to repent because what is it first John 1:5 says that if we walk in the light as he is in the light the blood of Jesus keeps on cleansing us from all unrighteousness see what does that mean walking in the light is not walking perfectly it's walking honestly I'm just being honest with God lord I just confess this I ask you to forgive me see I believe if that's my hardness in my attitude the Lord says I dame you righteous because of the blood of my son because of everything he did now having said that let me show you one scripture Romans 8 don't have the time I have time to do a whole lot but you need to understand see Abraham was deemed righteous because he heard the voice of God and believed God remember it says it says that abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness faith has great power with God to cause us to be righteous Romans 8 and verse 5 verse 4 scheming it says that the righteous requirement of the law or what the law was after which was to make us righteous but it couldn't because it was weak because we were weak that the righteous requirement of the law are what the law was seeking to accomplish might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh or watch this out of her own strength trying to be righteous watch but walk according to the spirit so here's what he says he says the way we walk in righteousness is by faith we're believing in what Jesus did but then out of the empowerment of the Spirit we are obeying whatever it is a spirit tells us they see righteousness is never a result of keeping rules righteousness is a result of living under the mandate and the governance of the spirit the when I say when the Holy Spirit says this see because guess what the Holy Spirit may say some things for you are okay that are not okay for me it's just New Testament order or vice versa see I am responsible to live under the mandates of Spirit the Lord has spoken to me and told me there's things I cannot do not because they're wrong but because God wants me to obey Him they have nothing to do with right or wrong they had everything to do with obedience to him and so I seek to do that just real quick Rhys how's the great intercessor god told him not to wear a hat in public which was an insult in a very out of social order in his day that it was almost scandalous for a man to be outside without a hat on and yet he said as long as he obeyed that mandate from God which had nothing to do with right or wrong he had what he called a place of abiding because he obeyed what the spirit told him to do William Seymour was set in Azusa Street with a box over his head and pray and the glory would come and so somebody convinced him you don't need to do that so he took the box off the glory quit coming until he put the box back on that day that makes no logical sense is everything to do with obeying what the Spirit is saying to do so this is what I found many times God will give me points of obedience he's done this several tons of my life whether it as long as I am walking in agreement with what the Spirit is saying it gives me a place in the spirit realm to pray from that I might not have otherwise it gives me another realm of why because I am deemed righteous because I'm walking under the governance of the Spirit not keeping rules and regulations as that makes sense so sometimes we lay our life down for what he's telling us to do so we can move in these new realms that God wants us to move in amen so stand up with me if you would so those are just some ideas of how to how to silence the accuser and I just want to say that I need to say this yes because it's my last time here I just want to say to to John and Carolyn to the leadership team into this house I believe I really feel this so strongly that God is going to give you a place in the courts of heaven for Canada I'm telling you that I believe that I believe that this house has a reputation is recognized in heaven and as you as you just see God and hear God that there is a place in the courts that God wants to move you to that can literally from the legal perspective of heaven began to shift things even over the nation of Canada I believe that I believe that with every part of my being so lord I just want to thank you if you if you want if you want the accuser silenced say these words say lord I want to thank you for the blood of the Lamb I want to thank you that you teach me how to release the right testimony and lord I declare that I lay my life down out of the empowerment of the Spirit that allows me by the blood to stand in the place of righteousness where I am recognized in the courts of heaven I can present cases there that bring breakthrough to me to my family and to every realm of jurisdiction that you would have given me Lord we believe for great breakthrough in our personal lives in this house in the nation of Canada and the nations of the earth thank you for that Lord in Jesus name Amen now give a lot of good praise with you yeah Oh Robert that was that was really rich Wow you know I liked what he said almost as his opening remarks you know he said something like you don't have to believe what I'm telling you but you need to reflect on what you are believing and ask the question how is it working for you how many want more answer to prayer individually corporately and everything one of the things would be go home and just kind of ask the Holy Spirit what where are the areas that the enemy could build a case for me and just journal about that and begin to because I'd like us to come out of any slump that we're in and just begin to really go for it because that next wave of revival is almost upon us and there's a tremendous harvest about to come in and we want to be in good form for the kingdom don't we take someone by the hand and let's come into agreement say Lord with all of our heart we want your kingdom may your kingdom come and your will be done on earth in this church in my family just as it is in heaven bless my friends and all those around me in Jesus name okay take a minute to pray for one another bless one another encourage one another and have a great week the Lord be with you

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Published: Sun Jul 31 2016