The Culmination of the Age Pt 11 - Keeping Oil In Our Lamps - Joe Sweet

this is part 11 teaching series i'm calling it the culmination of the aids and if you missed any of them they're all on youtube they're also on our website shekinahworship.com you can hear all of these for free we are making cds and dvd sets for those that want to have them in their home or hear a cd in a car so those will be available but um the culmination of the age part 11 subtitle keeping oil in our lamps keeping oil in our lamps now last week we looked at this verse and if you have your bible you can open and follow along with me in ephesians chapter 5 verse 15 paul is giving counsel to the church he's giving the wisdom of god he says see then that you walk circumspectly circumspectly means observantly means you're paying attention you're not distracted walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time for the days are evil so last week we talked about redeeming the time and why because the days are evil and then he goes on he says therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the lord is so here's how we redeem the time every believer must learn to pray you don't have to pray it word for word but every believer should be very familiar with the apostolic prayers that are in the bible they're there for a reason they're there to impart to us the heart of god and the wisdom of god so we can pray that back to god and get the blessings and benefit that god wants to give us so colossians chapter 1 9-11 is a prayer recorded paul said we're praying without seizing for you that god would make knowing to you the knowledge of his will with all wisdom and spiritual understanding every believer needs to take that prayer and make it a regular part of your life from now until jesus comes back daily and weekly praying lord make known to me the knowledge of your will bless lord give me wisdom and spiritual understanding that has to do with timing and know-how right so that i can walk here's the prayer i can walk worthy of you if i think i'm doing god's will but i'm not i'm not walking worthy agree fully pleasing i want to be fully pleasing i don't want to be 80 i want to be a hundred percent fully pleasing what does that look like fruitful in every good work not every good work in the whole world ephesians 2 10 says god has four ordained good works says you are his workmanship created in christ jesus for good works that god's foreordained so every person god's allotted assignments to you your part in the body is important and so you have to pray it comes by revelation praying regularly god show me what your will for me is what's your will for my marriage what's your will for my my relationship with my kids what's your will lord for me as a pastor what's your will for me i want to know it i want you to give me clarity i want you to give me wisdom i want you to give me understanding so i can walk worthy of you and i want to walk fully pleasing i want to walk in the works that you foreordained when we walk in the works that god has for ordained for each one of us there's grace and anointing for it then he said fruitful in every good work increasing in the experiential knowledge of god it's one of the apostolic prayers when we do the works that god wants us to do what we reap is more of the manifested presence of god in our life that i can give you a case scripture to show that there were people in isaiah the 58 that were fasting but they were doing it the wrong way with the wrong motive and god came and corrected him he said that's not the fast that i want you're fasting for debate people go on strike and they fast god said that's not the fast that i want they say here's the facet i want undo the heavy burdens help the poor feed the poor clothe the naked help the homeless that's the fast i want then he says when you do that and then you cry out to me i will say here i am and my glory will be your rear guard that's called an increase of the experiential knowledge of god so we do what god wants us to do and god gives us an increase of him so every person should be hungry to seek the lord and say god i want to be in your perfect will where do you want me to serve in the body where should i put my hand to the plow what should i do what when you know what to do then you know what not to do because there can be people and around you pulling on you do this do that but you have to know what god has for you when you know what god has for you can it's easy to say no to what's not his will and if you can't say no to what god's what's not god's will you'll get pulled into it then you get drained and you don't have the resources to do what god called you to do so every believer needs to know the so that's how we redeem the time he said redeeming the time the days are evil don't be unwise understand what the will of god is jesus god was very merciful to me in 1986 i had an encounter with the lord he came into my office and talked to me but at the time i was convinced i'd been overseas and been doing short-term mission trips in india and i was just convinced that uh it was god's will for me to be a missionary to third world nations i thought how can i stay here there's churches everywhere over there i've been to villages in india where no one's ever heard of jesus one time i said i i'm just gonna go there i'm gonna spend the rest of my life in third world nations but i was presuming i didn't know at that time back in 1986 i didn't understand like i do now how to pray longer and wait more for revelation the lord came in my office asked me what i was doing and i told him and i was shocked of my life he said i didn't call you to that see kenneth hagin had a visitation from the lord jesus christ he had a if i understand if i get the numbers right the lord appeared to kenneth hagin in a two-year period about 14 times one of the first times the lord appeared to kenneth hagin he talked to him about his ministry what god's plan for him was and after the lord told him what he wanted to do he said now the lord said the first phase of your ministry shall begin brother hagin was shocked he said lord what do you mean the first phase of my ministry i've been pastoring for 14 years the lord said you've been out of my will for 14 years all a waste would hand stubble burned up god only appreciates what he initiates if it's his will it's his bill when you're in the will of god people in the will of god never beg for money they give because god provides where he guides help me somebody so the way we redeem the time is if you're if you or i are doing something how the will of god we're wasting time it's a race we only have so much time to one at the end of our life we want to be able to say what jesus said in john 17 verse 4 and 6. verse 4 he said father i finished the work you gave me to do then verse 6 he said i've manifested your name that's character and nature so god wants us to have those two things in our life we have to understand our first calling is to know the lord abide in him so that we can manifest his name his character name means character and nature and number two we must all pray and discover every week every month what is your will for me i want to be in your perfect will so that at the end of our life we can say father i finished the work that you gave me to do and i manifested your name help me somebody so anyway uh getting back to the introduction of our message therefore don't be unwise but understand what the will of the lord is so everyone needs to cultivate a regular prayer life to discover what is your will for me daily daily daily lord show me guide me and he says don't be drunk with wine which is dissipation but be being filled with the holy spirit the word is ongoing tense means to be continually be filled with the holy spirit now wine dissipates we could put in in the place of wine we could put television iphone cookies food shopping whatever you use to medicate whatever you use to numb out whatever you use god said don't do that don't do that to fill the emptiness in your soul don't do that it's a waste of time he said instead be filled with the holy spirit and again it means be being filled it's an ongoing tense as i said before in acts 2 they were all filled with the holy spirit but some of the same people in acts 4 were refilled so they prayed the place shook and they were all filled so being filled is not a one-off deal it's a start when we're filled then we have to cultivate the lifestyle to stay filled help me then he tells us i know i covered this last week but we're going to go on but you know what i could re-preach everything word for word last week and it would be good for us to hear it again i could do that three or four weeks in a row and it wouldn't be too much because we're not we need to not just hear and say amen that was a good word we've got to practice it we've got to implement it so he's going to tell us how to be filled with the holy spirit you know being filled with the holy spirit should be the number one quest being filled with the holy spirit means be filled with god the number one quest of every believer should be to know the lord abide in him and have his spirit fill us that's our number one need no christian no church can effectively carry out the will of god without being filled with the holy spirit what we need more than anything is to learn how to be filled with the holy spirit and how to maintain the filling of the holy spirit so he tells us how he said speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart no psalm is the word of god so he's mingling the word and singing and thanksgiving all together it's mingled so psalms hymns spiritual song singing making melody in your heart to the lord giving thanks always for all things that that covers everything to give thanks always the the word always in the greek means always sometimes if you add greek it helps and for all things the word all means everything so god now this is real this is real wisdom from god you and i were made for god god is love he that abides in love abides in god and god abides in him if jesus said i can have my own self do nothing and jesus told us in john 15 i'm the vine of the branch without me you can do nothing then we better believe it so our number one quest in life should be to learn to how to be filled and maintain fullness of the spirit because when we're full of the spirit we're empowered with the mind of christ the energy the gifts the fruit and we're able to do the will of god so that's what we talked about so i want to just say this before i go on let's not forget this singing making melody singing the word back to god how many know any scripture songs you can sing back to god can you do it when i was young we learned them we learned the scripture songs psalm 25 remember that unto thee oh lord do i lift up my soul unto thee oh lord do i lift up my soul oh my god i trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not my enemies triumph over me and i learned it in spanish confirmed [Music] [Applause] i used to be a ice to lead worship at an english spanish church so i learned all the spanish songs that means the fire of the holy spirit falls and the demons leave so he said sing to yourself in song sing psalms are the word of god so in the shower and the dishes in the at wherever you're going sing the word of god and god says if we cultivate this practice you will stay filled with the holy spirit seek ye first the kingdom of god and his right now what it does it keeps our mind on him keeps our heart on him god will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on him what happens when we're in perfect peace peace is where we have to live if we're going to have sanctification working in our life now may the god of peace sanctify you completely may your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the lord hebrews 13 20 21 now may the god of peace who brought up our lord jesus from the dead that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant may he make you perfect in every good work peter said be diligent to be found by him in peace without spot blameless peace pressure precedes holiness pursue peace with all men and holiness without which no one will see god so when we cultivate singing giving thanks always it keeps our heart fixed on him god keeps us in peace when we're in peace where the peace is the linchpin for all the fruit of the holy spirit out of peace it said the fruits of righteousness are sown in peace by those who make peace the reason we don't manifest the fruit of the spirit because our minds on 18 different things instead of on the lord but when our mind's on the lord and we're singing and making melody and giving thanks in our heart to god always instead of complaining complaining is deadly complaining is not a little sin it kept the jews out of the promised land and complaining will keep you and me out of god's promises complaining is an offense to god it's not little it's big don't instead of complaining give thanks always we all have a lot to thank him for every day all the time even if you're in the fire even if you're in pain even if you've got problems thank him because god is causing all of them to work together for good to those who love him to those that are called according to his purpose and whoever he called he foreordained to be conformed to the image of christ and when we start praising him like that the peace of god is filling us and then the god of peace romans 16 20 crushes satan's head under your feet and that's what paul and barnabas did paul and silas in the prison in acts 16 as they were praising him read ii chronicles 20 verse 22 when they begin to praise the lord god sent ambushments against their enemies so the so we're called to live this way we're called to be full of the holy spirit the greatest need of every believer the greatest need of every church is to be a praying worshiping holy people that are filled with the holy spirit because unless we get more filled with the holy spirit than we are we can't do the will of god it takes the spirit of god to do the will of god amen and now he said so redeeming the time means understand what god's will is and live a lifestyle of seeking always to stay in the spirit amen stay with your heart focus on the lord stay full of the holy spirit why he says because the days are evil the days are evil now i shared this a little bit at prayer this morning but i'll share more what do you mean the days are evil the days are evil and we my wife and i listened to heidi baker last night who we both highly esteem heidi baker she's walks as close to god as anybody we've ever met she's full of jesus he's been here in this church before and she's full of jesus and of his heart and heidi baker was telling this is september 21st so it's just a couple of weeks ago she hasn't been to the u.s in 18 months because of all the covet and all the stuff going on in her country in mozambique she got up and she said in the last 18 months i've i've lost hundreds of my friends she said they've been killed by the muslims that are raiding northern mozambique they're they're pursuing christians to kill them this is she said uh i've lost hundreds of my friends they've been crucified and had their heads cut off children have they've taken the children and murdered them cut them to pieces in front of their parents he said they come in to terrorize they find out who's christian and they kill him he said they'll kill their children in front of the parents and then send the parents go to the next village and tell them we're on our way they burned down churches and burned down homes she said we're in the middle of that devastation she said i'm i'm she said i'm i've got pastors coming to me she said one couple that she knows that are friends of theirs she said we took off running when they came to our village husband ran this way the wife ran that way no time to think and they lost their kids when they came out back out they started looking for their kids said we can't find our kids we lost three of our kids so for the next two or three days heidi said we walked back we walked back we went through all the dead bodies looking for their kids she said were we're over there she said right now there's one million people displaced in northern mozambique she don't hear much about on the news at all she said we're feeding 30 000 people a day and it feels like a drop in the bucket she said i'm overwhelmed she said i'm holding people whose families have been butchered she said she said it's it's horrible and yet she said what i see in mozambique among all the christians he said all the christians all of them are always looking to god seeking his face praying because they're just all of them are completely on for the lord so she said that's what we've been going through the last 18 months she said in the middle of that the lord starts speaking to heidi and said i want you to go to the usa and she's like lord i don't want to go to the usa i don't want to go lord they don't listen to me they don't want to hear what i have to say see heidi lives the gospel and she preaches a laid down surrendered life which is the normal pathway of following christ what heidi's doing is not extraordinary she's she's a normal disciple she's laid down her life for christ that's what a disciple is she said she was arguing you could see it on youtube she said i was arguing with the lord and she said i don't want to go they don't listen to me they don't want to hear my message she said lord over here everybody's hungry for you but in the usa it's different the lord said then she said the lord rebuked her because she said the lord told her you heidi you told me you gave me your life and that you would go anywhere and do anything do what i say so she said i came to the usa and she said in one sense i was thinking okay i'll get to see some of my friends in the usa i haven't seen in 18 months but she said when i got here all of a sudden the holy spirit came all over me and i was groaning she's on the floor groaning in the spirit now if you've never had that it's the burden of the lord so the holy spirit's in her travailing she said i'm just travailing and groaning and i'm saying lord what is this what are we praying for she said the lord said it's a 9-1-1 emergency in america it's at 9-1-1 we're praying for the church to wake up we're praying for the church to wake up it's 9-1-1 and then she he said pray there must be a move of god must be birthed this is what grieved me i'm just going to be honest with you as we're watching the video all the people in the church when she said we're praying for a move of god to be birthed everybody started clapping and i just thought how blind how blind all they could hear is a move of god yay signs and wonders that's not they didn't hear god is groaning for an awakening of the church and i thought as i heard that why does god have to apprehend heidi who's in the middle of a crisis in mozambique and tell her please go to the usa and start groaning for the church to wake up why does he have to do that because over here we're not doing it see that's why jesus said watch always and pray watch and pray always keep your lamp burning and your waist girded watching so we so the days are evil the lord said usa is in a 9-1-1 crisis i want to just say some things real plain our country has been hijacked that's not a political bias that's not a a theory our country's been hijacked we have illegitimate people in washington big tech and media has been and news has been bought by china the fraud that's in washington is owned by china that's why he gave afghanistan to china this has been revealed prophetically we know a prophet he'll be here next month he was given a dream he was shown before the 2020 election this certain democratic candidate who's in the white house sitting down with the chinese counterparts and china said in in exchange for our involvement in the election we want you to give us afghanistan in another dream he was showing that that person who's now in washington saying i have to give them afghanistan they have dirt on me how many know that all the illegal business dealings his family was involved in was covered up and ignored by the media so our country's been hijacked china whose af whose goal is world domination rather than have a nuclear war with the usa is buying us and the insanity of the puppet that we have in washington leaving the border open allowing two million unvaccinated many sick people in but then firing 70 000 health care workers in new york fired for not taking the vaccine but we let two million ms-13 illegals drug cartel i'm sure many good people that just want a better life and a lot of them they're sick and infected all come in who's directing the white house we have lost the nation it's no longer government of the people by the people and for the people and most of the church is absolutely blind because we're not obeying what jesus said he said watch always and pray keep your lamp burning and your waist girded communism and islam are merging together for world domination the open border is a disaster i want to read something to you it's about the days of evil i want to read something to you i don't have time to read all of it but this is a bible study that was i get a newsletter from a man of god in oklahoma named john finn he has a network of house churches he's a true apostolic person and uh from time to time he'll have face-to-face visitations from the lord since the 90s and uh he's anyway he he put together a bible study on discerning the antichrist spirit working in governments fascinating and uh he's just saying when i studied the world history oh let me just say this the ways many of the governments around the world are handling covert are eerily similar to description in the bible of antichrist government i began to study what scripture says of the antichrist in terms of what kind of government he establishes and was amazed at the similarities in spirit and how governments are handling covet shots and mass mandates in our day let me just say this you can fact check this far more people die every year in the usa from cigarette smoke than they do from covid okay coverage real it's a nasty virus i had it made you feel lousy for a few weeks and some people die from it usually it's the people who have underlying health conditions like diabetes and other conditions it's a real virus but smoking is far more dangerous than covet fact check it fact check it now ask yourself why is all of this going on like this wake up church see most of church is fast asleep we just put our masks on and do whatever they say now you see people i don't i'll tell you how brainwashed people are i see people walking down the street on the sidewalk all by theirself with their mask on see people driving in their car all by themselves with their mask on stop watching cnn anyway anyway when i when i in when i included the study of world history of the style of government the scripture describes it became clear that the antichrist spirit is involved i didn't say the antichrist is a man but the spirit of antichrist is involved the bible says that the spirit of antichrist is already in the world and it denies jesus christ agreed so he goes on in this bible study and i'm going to just read briefly some of the things he says he and he has a scripture verse for each one of these points i won't read it to save time but there's a scripture for every one every point scripture describes a government of the man of sin who we call the antichrist he rise to power from a subordinate position daniel 7 8. in other words he's not a big powerful person he's subordinate and rises to power he used political rather than military means to take power political rather than military that's what china's doing once in power he manures to centralize power to himself daniel 7 8. he makes all attention of the citizens directed toward him as a supreme leader we just had the governors are doing this now a governor has no right to mandate he's not the king over the state it's government of the people by the people for the people congress makes laws the the cdc and the governor have no right to say you all have to wear a mask or you can't go to school they're out of their league that's not their job but we're taking it like a bunch of blind sheep [Music] amen it says he tries to unify politics economics and religion under him revelation 13 the antichrist comes in power during economic and national crisis he demands absolute loyalty and pledges of allegiance under threat of death he's a good speaker he's flamboyant laying out a vision of what can be he blames and persecutes other groups for the misfortunes of society he presents simple solutions to complex problems he makes them he makes treaties and breaks them now these are there's a scripture for every one of those points i read so he's talking about the antichrist spirit in government how it works then he talks about how hitler was a perfect example of that how hitler came up under the ranks he didn't have great military power he was a a flamboyant charismatic great speaker um in in the 1920s 1930s um talks all about that i'm going to skip some of that after the stock market crashed in october of 29 his fiery speeches hitler caught the attention of a nation reeling from the depression 1930 he got 30 percent of the vote then in 1932 he was able to get 37 percent they called him the drummer because he made the most noise and thought they could control him by giving him a voice in 1933 the first laws urging citizens to boycott jewish businesses were passed the citizenry largely ignored the law causing more laws to be passed through the ears then escalated to vandalism and attacks on jews and on their businesses that kind of thing is happening now against christians and jews and conservatives in our day just watch how christians are already being marginalized they're being blamed conservatives and christians are the problem help me somebody he said when we see how daniel describes a future little horn rising through the ranks of the ten finally able to get to the point that he can up root three to take their place that's what hitler did same spirit therefore the same process both hitler and the former journalist mussolini of italy started with very minor roles in government they were good speakers they spoke of great promises and the vision for the nation but but once in power they subdued all resistance how many ever saw something so grotesque and irrational as having what was it 25 000 troops and barbed wire around the white house for three months when has that ever been done that's like russia or china 20 was it 25 000 troops and barbed wire around the white house for three months and they couldn't leave 2500 troops in afghanistan for three weeks there's no threat in washington that was a statement it's a statement we have all power and you're going to fear us that's what it was there was no there's no threat to the white house listen to this the common theme among hitler was the good and the rights of the many over the rights of the individual well we just heard the imposter in washington dc say this is not about your freedom it's about the good of all it's exactly what hitler said the church needs to wake up the lord's groaning groaning groaning for an awakening in the church now the answer is not politics the answer is a holy spirit filled house of prayer evangelizing disciple making church that's the answer and if we don't wake up now when tanks are rolling down the street and there's a curfew at nine o'clock every night and then christians have to meet secretly in their home maybe they'll wake up i'm not waiting to wake up amen anyway there's a lot more you should go to john finn's website church without walls look get subscribe to his newsletter read what he has on that it's what i'm saying is what the holy spirit's trying to say is the days are evil we should be awake eyes open lamps burning house of prayer full of the holy spirit help me somebody now so one of the ways that we stay full of the holy spirit is what we talked about last week in a bit this morning it's cultivating staying connected to the lord in thanksgiving and praise all the time we have to practice it you start out as a white belt then you go to another color then to the another color then to brown and you're getting pretty soon you're going to be a black belt full of the holy spirit everywhere you go full of the holy spirit i'm not kidding this is the goal and that's what we got to do so now we're going to look at matthew 25 this message is keeping oil in our lamp matthew 25 verse 1 through 12 then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom a virgin is not a lost person a virgin with a lamp waiting for the bridegroom as a christian okay five of them were wise and five were foolish this is jesus talking he's jesus said there's going to be foolish christians i don't want to be one of them those who are foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them lamp represents your ministry because the lamp is what the light is supposed to shine through the oil is the holy spirit filling us it comes from our communion from our from the word being in us in prayer and worship that devotional communion with the lord is what brings the constant flow of oil the oil makes the lamp burn agreed everybody has a lamp all christians have a ministry all christians have assignments your lamp is your assignment but not all christians have oil and our number one thing should be to have oil every day every day every day every day every day every day every day every day oil he said they were foolish they took their lambs with no oil with them but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps while the bridegroom was delayed they all slumbered and slept and at midnight a cry was heard behold the bridegroom is coming go out to meet him then all those virgins arose and trim their lamps the foolish said to the wise give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out but the wise answered saying no lester should not be enough for you and for us but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourself now let me just pause here nobody can give you oil everybody has to buy your own oil the way you buy oil is with time every one of us has the same amount of money we all have 168 hours a week how much time you spend in the word in repentance in prayer in thanksgiving in songs and hymns and tongues and intercessions how much time you invest that's how you buy oil nobody can buy oil for you you can go to a conference and you can feel the corporate oil but you've got to get your own oil yeah there's a corporate oil but it comes that's the oil that comes on you when you go home you've got to have your own oil in you you can go to someone that's anointed they can lay hands on you you can get an impartation but it only lasts for about an hour unless you know how to maintain the flow of oil you're not going to keep it nobody can get oil for you every person has to get your own oil i remember years ago hearing kim clement he used to speak he used to come here to this building and speak before he was famous it was very it was anointed and he you know in that south african accent he said a lot of people come to me and they say kim i want you to lay your hands on me and give me your anointing and i tell them no i'm not going to give you my anointing i fostered and prayed and cried and wept for this anointing go get your own anointing come on that's right he bought it didn't he buy oil buy oil that's a wise person you know it's a wiser investment than gold wiser than silver wiser than real estate wiser than crypto wiser than technology the wisest investment is buy oil buy oil stay full of the holy spirit because if you're in the will of god you'll always have your needs met but the foolish don't see oil as the most precious commodity i'm talking about the presence of the holy spirit the foolish are running after other things and so their lamps become empty but the rich person has oil give me oil in my lamp keep it burning burning burning they said well they went to buy the bridegroom came and those who went were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut afterward the other virgins came also saying lord lord opened us the answer said assuredly i say to you i don't know you someone said can you interpret that for us what that means i said no i can't but i know this it's not good and i don't want it that's all i need to know what does that represent what's all i don't know all the nuances i just know it's not good you agreed oil is being filled with the holy spirit that comes from our communion with god through his word psalm 119 says the entrance of his word gives light that's why when we sing psalms we're doing two things we've got thanksgiving and praise going on plus the word in us at the same time singing opens up chambers of the heart that just speaking doesn't and so giving thanks singing giving singing psalms hymns cultivate this and it causes the flow of the holy spirit to stay in us now what we got to do is we got to start every day like jesus did jesus woke up a great while before david went out to a solitary place and there he prayed so we have to everyone needs to start with a a time of solitude in prayer in the word alone where you get your lamp filled up come on and then we have to cultivate a lifestyle just from now on until jesus comes back complaining is not allowed thanksgiving thanksgiving songs hymns tongues prayers intercessions giving of thanks to stay full of the holy spirit and and when you're singing hymns the word is in us you know what you know what the word does the the word jeremiah said is like fire in my bones you want your lamp to burn sing psalms keep the word colossians says let the word of christ dwell in you richly jesus said my words are spirit and their life hebrews says the word of god is living it's alive it's active keep the word in you and and give thanks always to god for everything and we'll stay full of the holy spirit well i'll i'm excited about it so i'm i told you that when we're full of the holy spirit we have the mind of christ we have the peace of god we enter his presence god you know stifles our enemies all so everything changes when we keep our mind on jesus and keep worshiping him i'm trying to give you the uh this is the wisdom of god now i don't know how much more time i have a few more minutes but when paul wrote to the ephesians when he said don't be unwise ephesians 5 understand what the will of god is don't be drunk with wine be filled with the holy spirit he tells us exactly how okay let me read it again speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the lord giving thanks always for all things to god the father the name of our lord jesus christ submitting to one another in the fear of god that's part of staying full of the holy spirit now please hear this we touched on this before so so we're cultivating thanks worship praise the word right and they said submitting to one another in the fear of god then in the next verses he's going to detail for us what that looks like that's as important to maintain the fullness of the holy spirit he tells us how husbands how do i submit husbands love your wife paul also says don't be bitter toward them and the words he uses nurture cherish first peter 3 honor so love nurture cherish honor and don't be bitter toward them that's how i submit if i'm not submitted if i'm not if i'm rebelling against that i'm not going to be able to be full of the holy spirit wives submit to your husbands in all things as unto the lord you've got to do that if you want to stay full of the holy spirit children honor your parents obey them if you're dishonoring your parents you will not be full of the holy spirit masters that's like employers be good to your employees because you have a master in heaven employees work for your employer as you would for the lord not with eye service that means oh he's not here today we'll come in late we're not here we don't have to work oh here comes let's work hard he said that's called eye service said don't do that do it as unto the lord because the lord sees everything and he'll reward you accordingly so now he's saying how to redeem the time the days are evil i don't want to waste any time i want this church i want myself to be as full of the holy spirit as possible as soon as possible now as progressive as we grow in faith and love and obedience we get fuller and fuller i don't want to waste any time the days are evil we need to have a habitation of the glory of god in our midst so he tells us how to do it practice staying connected to god all day long in worship and thanks practice it and we got to just practice it because we we go through the day life happens we get busy we got stuff to our mind drifts but bring it back keep practicing keep practicing and then he said keep your relationships right submit to one another in the fear of god it says why because he's going to tell us we're going to go on farther he's going to tell us what to do after that after you're full of the holy spirit and you're submitted to one another in the fear of god then he said now put on all the armor of god and pray with all perseverance yes but if we don't have the order if i'm out of divine order if i'm mistreating my wife or a wife is not respectful or submissive to her husband the children are dishonest their parents satan has an open door to bring hell into your home you'll be so busy putting out fires you won't be able to pray that's why if we're going to pray effectively i have to love my wife nurture honor cherish she has to submit to me as unto the lord children have to obey and honor their parents when we're submitting to one another in the fear of the lord like that the devil doesn't have access but when someone breaks rank there's an open door in comes satan stirs up the turmoil in the house and now it's like i can't even i can't even think about going to a prayer meeting right now we've got hell breaking out in our house how many know what i'm talking about now how many be honest and say i've experienced that before i'll put up both hands and both feet we're all human we've made mistakes we've left the door open for the devil so this is how we redeem the time listen loving your spouse honoring your parents is redeeming the time because when you do it you shut out so much of the enemy's work he can't get in the devil can't get in to a husband who's loving his wife some husbands are selfish everything's about them they spend their money on them they do what they want they neglect their wives the devil will just bring pain into that family some wives are critical and judgmental of their husbands the devil will bring pain into that family you have to love one another we have to love one another and that means love each other as we are not conditional not like i'll love you when you do what i want no no if we're like christ we love you period now we'll all submit to you when i feel like no you submit to me because that's the god order so this is what paul is saying this is the wisdom it's wisdom from god to be submitted to one another in the fear of the lord it cl i'm telling you it saves so much time no so many battles will be stopped before they start if we walk in divine order the devil can't get in and one of the ways we know that we're not loving our spouse or our parents is if we're murmuring about them means we're not loving them see murmuring and complaining is the opposite of loving them but pastor you don't know it doesn't matter it doesn't matter god didn't say love the person if if you're just thrilled about everything you just said love them that's how we become like christ you see the person that you're with and the people that you're with are the perfect plan of god to perfect you it's the perfect plan of god to humble you humble me cause me to die to self crucify my ego and walk in love it's the perfect plan no don't wish for another place or another don't wish for another situation the situation you're in right now is the perfect one that's the that's the situation where you will become christ-like by loving the people around you that's an overcomer help me somebody [Applause] and you know what changes people not withholding love giving love don't don't try to teach someone a lesson love them don't try to teach someone a lesson because what you sow is what you'll reap [Music] so anyway paul i this i need to close but so paul's saying the days are evil redeem the time know what the will of god is stay full of the holy spirit submit to one another in the fear of god oh this will save so much pain and so much time love each other love your wife submit to your husband love and honor your parents love your children love treat your employees good work for your boss as you would for the lord stay submitted to one another in the fear of the lord and then lord willing will go on next then he says now you can put on the armor why do you need the armor because you're going to pray he said put on the armor the purpose for the armor is i hear people it amuses me oh praise the lord i got all my armor on but they don't pray the armor is for praying because once you pray you're in a battle he said put on all the armor of god then take the sword of the spirit and pray with all perseverance for all the saints so let me close with this thought and we'll we'll pick it up later next time and go on farther but the brilliant wisdom strategy that god gave the apostle paul to write in the book of ephesians for the church to have complete victory over the powers of evil and for the church to be full of the holy spirit was to take that's why we're praying these apostolic prayers to take the word of god which is the sword of the spirit and pray with all perseverance for all the saints he said so you get people that are now submitted to one another in the fear of god cultivating being full of the holy spirit they got the armor on and they're just praying they're just praying with all perseverance lord let's hear some of the apostolic prayers i'm okay lord make this church make our family make us increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men that you would establish your hearts blameless in holiness can you imagine a whole church striving together for the faith of the gospel god filling that people with a supernatural unearthly otherworldly divine love and praying first thessalonians 5 23 and 24 now may the god of peace himself sanctify our body may our whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the lord or praying colossians 1 lord make known the knowledge of your will with all wisdom and all spiritual understanding so that we can walk worthy of you fully pleasing fruitful in every good work increasing in the experiential knowledge of god strained with all might according to your glorious power for patience and longsuffering full of joy or first thessalonians lord count our body worthy of this calling that the name of the lord would be glorified in us lord fulfill all the good pleasure of your goodness in the body and the work of faith with power that the name of the lord jesus christ would be glorified in the church according to the grace of god so god's saying church take that that's the word of god pray that always get full of the holy spirit and pray it always that's what he said to do to completely displace all the powers and principalities of the air you now have a church that rises up into the stature of christ you now have isaiah 60 arise shine for your light has come and the glory of the lord is risen on you well i know john and bonnie believe it praise the lord amen so that's why i'm not i want to just say this i'm not ever getting tired i get invigorated when i pray these apostolic prayers somebody look at me like you believe it they're life-changing this is our destiny this is what god has for us we were made by god to be full of the holy spirit we're not going to go farther by doing what we've done in the past we're going to go farther by doing what's in here amen stand your feet let's give god praise [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sun Oct 03 2021