The Interaction of Heaven and Earth - John Paul Jackson (2012)

[Music] honor the gift that the lord is bringing thank you please be seated please be seated ah it is so so good to be here and thrilled to see my friend paul keith davis and his wife wanda and it's like a old homecoming for me so it's really paul's not that old but i'm old and there was an old homecoming so there you go but i just it was it's just endearing when you when you touch people again that have touched your life and you know paul keith you had a vision one time of libraries of heaven and some things that i had written apparently made it into that library i will write and that i've kept that for a long time i mean i i hold that and as a promise of the lord to me that he's going to give me something um you know there are i want to talk to you tonight about the interaction of heaven and earth it's a mystery lots of mysteries and so if uh if you would turn with me to acts chapter 12 verse five it'll be just a bit before i get there but we're starting with verse five lots of people i thought what a spiritual life is i do a lot of work also with in the new age community pagan community a witchcraft community i was talking to a witch a head witch of of new england and a big big guy he was telling me i was talking to him and he was telling me about all the stuff that he had done and so i said i asked him i said how did you become a witch and said you won't believe it he said i was i was raised in the church you're right i don't believe it he says no seriously i was raised in the church and in fact i was accepted to rhema bible institute and i the summer before i was going to go to rhema bible institute i had a spiritual encounter and in this spiritual encounter i had something happen to me that was so profound i was never able to get over it i went to my pastor and i said pastor this is what happened to me can you help me understand this encounter this dream and my pastor looked at me and said god doesn't speak that way anymore that was the devil and he says i got up out of my chair i looked at my pastor and i said then i'm gonna go find the devil because i've never seen this kind of power in this church and he says i got up i walked up and i found the devil and i said to him tell me your dream tell me what this is maybe the lord will give me an understanding maybe god gave it to you after all he told me the dream and without going into the into the privacy of that dream i would just say this i told him i said you know what the dream was this god was calling you into the ministry he had given you a gift to lead people into spiritual understanding of mysteries from heaven and and he looks at me and he goes i know but it's too late now and he died four months later that changed my life that encounter changed my life i there's so many people that that have had incredible encounters from god and the church does not understand the encounter and because they haven't understood that encounter they have driven those people to the new age we go out and we do new age outreaches and those people come to us and 95 percent of everyone who will walk through our lines they will tell us i was raised in the church but i don't go anymore so i think there's things that are fighting against i think there's cultural issues that make the church seem that you don't need the church you can watch church online but you see there's mysteries and you don't get the mystery online if you take a look at if you take a look at the the tabernacle of moses when you take when you see this tabernacle you see it you see basically what appears to be two two buildings uh there one is the outer courtyard and the other is the sanctuary or the tent everybody until you get inside you don't know that that tent is actually two rooms it looks like one from the out outside and in fact from a distance it looks like a mountain because the badger skin takes on a mountain-esque appearance and the phrase mountain of the lord was first coined in reference to the sanctuary of the tabernacle of moses so when it says come let us go to the mountain of the lord and there he would teach us of his ways he will walk in this path it is saying in that sanctuary that's where the real stuff is learned the problem is not many go in there jesus said few are called many are called few are chosen that many go into that sanctuary they're content to stay on the outer court you know there's salvation on the outer court if you take a look at the at the tabernacle of moses you find out that the brazen altar first thing you do when you walk into the through the to the curtain of the outer court into the tabernacle first thing you encounter is the brazen altar you know what the brazen altar is it's on fire you know what the brazen altar is it is the sea of fire it is the lake of fire and that sacrifice is in that lake of fire so you don't have to go there it's confronting you immediately with what jesus did by becoming the sacrifice to take your place so you don't have to go there you immediately come in contact with the brazen labor and the water and the baptism and the repentance of dead works and the washing of of the water of the word and the reflection as you look at yourself and the perfectly glass-smooth bowl when when you dip your hands in it you you come face to face with who you are and you know that's not bad that's wonderful it's awesome but most people are content to stay in the outer court and it didn't say come let's go to the outer court he said come let's go to the mountain of the lord you see in that in that mountain of the lord when jesus said on two occasions he said it's been given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom mysteries it's beginning to you to know the mysteries of kingdom of god another time there are mysteries and the only way you know them is to come into contact and relationship with this incredible god that we serve there are mysteries this is this god that we serve as so far beyond us i've talked to so many individuals that claim to have a spiritual life so many young men and women have come up to me and said i'm spiritual i'm i'm a spiritual man i'm the spiritual woman and probably if i ask you tonight most of us would raise our hands some have thought the spirituality was the ability to control one's emotions some people have just seen it as merely self-discipline others have thought it was the ability to tap into some parallel dimension or alternative state others have said it's some type of esoteric experience that somebody has still others think it's the ability to pray for people and see their lives changed or their is healed few if any really understand what true spirituality actually is fruit's important the typical thought is when you think of spirituality within church walls you typically think of the fasting and praying and spending time with god you know what all that's really good but that's not all there is to spirituality in fact those are accelerants to spirituality it doesn't make you spiritual otherwise anybody who fasted can be spiritual without having a relationship with jesus some of us wonder how can i live a spiritual life month after month you know it's like i pray and fast and everything is cool for a while but then all of a sudden i'm finding i'm having the same problem i had i think to really be spiritual we have to really come to grips with what true spirituality is and i think we live on the fringe of spirituality and are content to think it's deep spirituality it must include more than simply doing spiritual things it has to include the what and the why of spiritual life and what is the spirit who is the spirit what is this whole thing of the spirit of of the living god there are eight mysteries in the bible but they're not easy to understand that's why they're called mysteries it's not like a mystery is impossible to know it's not like some hidden gnostic knowledge something that nobody can grasp only the elite of intelligence can can understand a mystery is something that comes through relationship you understand it and it happens just go ah an epiphany i get it spirit to spirit communication the mystery of god found in colossians 2 2 the mystery of christ found in ephesians 3 the mystery of the gospel found in ephesians 6 the mystery of godliness found first timothy 3 the mystery of lawlessness in 2 thessalonians the mystery of the kingdom of god found in mark 4 the mystery of god's will found in ephesians 1 the mystery of faith found in 1st timothy 3 9. we talked last night i i talked last night about moses and and and he said i have a mystery i don't know you there's this mystery i need to find out the answer and i didn't put it in those words but it was basically saying that i've done all this work and i don't know you show me your ways teach me your ways that i might come to know you so i want to talk a little bit about tonight about some of that mystery of god i want to take it back down to some basics some rudimental things that are that are just like did you know did you know i i don't know why but for some reason in my life god has given me an incredible an unusual amount of encounters of varying kinds all the way from dying twice of being raised from the dead twice because i'm still here so you know that i was raised yep i'm here to to angelic encounters to other i've been taken from one place to another four times in my life two with witnesses and so strange things you know what none of those made me spiritual none of those made me spiritual i still had troubles that i had before still had issues that i had before god still worked on things and he was working with after the encounter that he worked on before the encounter he just asked my wife she'll tell you now she said he'll tell you also that i'm a much nicer man than i was when they you know earlier in our marriage but what i found out is what really changes me is that close relationship with jesus and in that relationship i start to learn about this incredible god that i love and it makes me love him more it makes me love him way way more not just a little more this incredible world of spiritual spirituality and and living in the spirit and walking in the spirit and having spiritual entities and beings appeared to you and taken from one place to another and seeing ahead of time and then watch as it happens all over again like you live it twice how does that work how does angels coming and taking you places and and saying god wants to use you in certain ways and it's like you don't in a way you have a choice because you said not my will but your will be done but on the other hand you didn't know he was going to do that this spiritual world this invisible world that is tangible when it wants to be and most of the time intangible seeing what it wants to be and yet most of the time unseen how does it work with you and me and and how is it working right now with all the angelic beings in here holding back the hordes that want to disrupt this meeting and that is happening right now this incredible invisible world that we we live in but that's so real this this encounter in acts chapter 12 peter's in prison so begin reading in verse five it says this peter was therefore kept in prison and if i'm reading from the new king james so i'm not very what version you are king james or niv or esv or anyway i just letting you know why mine might read a little different peter was therefore kept in prison but constant prayer was offered up to god for him by the church and when herod was about to bring him out that night peter was sleeping bound with two chains between two soldiers and the guards before the door were keeping to prison so he had two guards in front of the door and two soldiers standing on either side of him as he laid on the floor in chains man that's bound verse 7 and behold an angel of the lord stood by him why didn't the soldier see him see last night i asked you i said i ask you to do something like that i do and that is when you read the bible ask why did god do it that way why this and not that so i'm thinking you got four soldiers there how come none of them saw the angel he said well he was just invisible well he was visible enough to kick peter in the side here's what it says and behold angel lord stood by him and light shone in the prison why didn't those guards see that light in that prison and it says and he struck peter on the side and raised him up and said arise quickly and his chains fell off what were the soldiers doing when the chains fell off then they hit the clank what did the angel do to the soldiers we don't know but see that's where my brain thinks i go what happened to the soldiers here's why because those guys were going to be put to death they were going to be put to death because they didn't keep the watch so it's very important to them so the chains fall off without anybody touching them the angel didn't come with the magic kingdom it didn't even say the angel said be unlocked nothing and then the angel said to peter gird yourself up and tie on your sandals and he did and you said to him put on your garment and follow me it's like like was peter going to leave without his garment [Applause] i don't know but i'm thinking he had to tell peter so peter's something's going on with peter i mean this is the guy that jumped in the lake fully clothed and then you know remember he said he he put on his garment to jump in the lake i don't know peterson there's this guy is an interesting character and so verse 9 and so he went out and he followed him and did not know what was done by the angel was real but thought he was seeing a vision and when they were past the first and second guard post so now now we know they just walk right past the guards guard post number one not this is not in the prison they're outside the prison they're in the city but there's a guard right outside the guard post they just walked right by it they walked right by the second guard post and when they were past the sec first and second guard post they came to the iron gate that leads to the city which opened by itself the gate just went and they just walked through and it says that when they got outside the angel disappeared left him now that is interaction with heaven and earth that is the intangible becoming tangible it is affecting it is the invisible affecting the visible and becoming visible to whoever he wants to be visible to and it's not only that it's the invisible making peter the visible invisible that's right making flesh and blood invisible so it's not like you go well i can get the angel being invisible he kind of appear disappear appear but peter he disappeared the guards didn't see that's astounding to me that's interaction of heaven and earth and here's what we find there are three keys to understanding this incredible interaction of heaven and earth the first key to really grasping it and living in an arena where it doesn't shock you when it happens is this key number one you have to understand the eternal realm we're going to talk about each of these keys more in detail but key number one is he turn around key number two is understanding the co-existing spiritual world kind of how it works key number three is what i call above the line thinking it is thinking in heavenly terms setting our mind on things above not on things of this earth so when a natural thing happens to us we have a spiritual response to a natural stimulus and we'll talk about that and once you start grasping that you'll begin to start to know the ways of god and that will open up everything else for you so we're going to take in a way we're going to take a little journey inside the cupboard tent called the sanctuary anytime you want to know what the sanctuary meant every time you read in the scripture the psalms the proverbs anytime you read in the old testament read about the benefit of the sanctuary you know what it's talking about it's not talking about the the tabernacle it's talking about that covered tent that no one knows the two rooms of mystery are in that cupboard tent one's called the holy place once called the holy of holies there are five pieces of furniture in there i'm not going to go into a teaching about the tabernacle at all but i i want to kind of set the stage for you to understand when when jesus says mysteries the answers are found in that sanctuary the eight mysteries we just read to you are found in that sanctuary the benefits of the sanctuary that you read about in the psalms is found in that sanctuary it's talking about that covered tent that's where you want to go so let's talk about the first key this this eternal realm the eternal nature of god isaiah 57 15 but thus says the high and lofty one who have it inhabits eternity whose name is holy who inhabits eternity what is that what does that mean we begin to understand a little bit about what that means when god appears to moses in exodus chapter 3 and he says this chapter 3 verse 14. god revealed begin to reveal to his name and he says i am that i am and that i am that i am has caused a lot of consternation of various theologies over the millennia i am that i am well i am that i am i am that i am i am that i am we're not sure how i said it but it it's like it's way deeper than what we think we kind of gloss over it i am than i am well okay but what does it mean what is i am that i am mean before we can understand what i am that i am means and the eternality of that we have to kind of understand this what is the difference between deity and humanity and we start and i'm not going to go through a long treatise on this but we basically start with this idea god's god humans are humans pretty clear we start with that idea but it goes a little bit deeper next step is but god said we'll have eternal life and go well yes and no he said this that john 3 16 for god so loved the world that whoever believes in him that he sends his began to send us whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life the greek word is everlasting but some of the newer versions have translated that word as eternal life the only problem when you translate that word eternal you blur the lines between god and man deity and humanity we are everlasting meaning we did not always exist but from the moment he brought us into existence that we are created being from that moment on if we believe in him we have everlasting life from that moment on angels are not eternal beings they have everlasting life they are not eternal beings there is one eternal being there's one one being that eternality or the word eternal should be attributed to that alone is god we must not blur the lines no matter how innocent it may seem between us and this incredible god that we serve so he is eternal when he said to moses i am that i am he was communicating the first understanding the first essence of my eternality there are found there are five foundational attributes of god those attributes are one omnipotence all-powerful nothing more powerful never gains power never loses power omniscience that means all-knowing never gains knowledge never loses knowledge and everyone says wow i learned something new today never omnipresence there's no place that god is not the psalmist said where can i go from your presence from your spirit lord i can go nowhere the highest mouth of the deepest sea the greatest darkest parts of hell you are there omnipot i mean omnipresence and with that eternality meaning nothing preceded him because nothing he was never created in the first place being uncreated says nothing preceded him nothing supersedes him meaning he doesn't end and something goes on after him so eternality says always has been always is and always is in the future he is everywhere at once nowhere where he is not then the final deal is this immutable immutable says as micah 6 says i am god i change not immutable i never gain knowledge i never lose it i never gain power i never lose it i'm never someplace that i'm not been i don't change and you know what the great thing is we can trust him because he doesn't change imagine a god who says i don't know everything well then how do you know you're eternal well ever since i've been i've been well i know but i think ever since i've been i've been too then i'm human how do we know that you're all all powerful omnipotent well because i've never brought anybody more powerful yeah but what if there's another god somewhere who's more powerful you just haven't met him yet see if any of these things that we say about god changes we lose trust in him it's very important we may not understand god but it's very important we trust god because he's doing as we saw last night he is doing a lot when it seems like he's doing nothing he's perfecting he's providing he's promoting he's propelling he's doing all these things we don't know it but he's doing it very important so in these five things we kind of what does it mean what does i am that i am mean it means literally there's never a time i am not you see we kind of think of god as being what i call progressively eternal what do i mean by progressively eternal like well my my god walked with my grandpa he died but god kept walking he walked with my dad and he passed away in january and god keeps walking he's walking with me and one day i'll pass away and he's walking with my two sons and he's he'll walk with my grandchildren and god just keeps walking men may pass away but god just kind of keeps walking kind of like the ever-ready battery just keeps on walking the problem with that is this if god is a is progressively eternal that means when he comes into tomorrow he's someplace he has not been and that means he's not omnipresent uh but god says he's on the present well if he walked into tomorrow he's not on the present because he goes wow i it's it's not raining wow great day see so we have a problem right there unless we understand i am that i am is not progressively eternal he is eternal meaning let's just say this is the beginning of time right here right in front of you you're the beginning of time wonderful title god is right here he's looking that way ahead into time time is not outside of god see if time was outside god that means something preceded him and therefore if something preceded him he could not have always been therefore time is not outside of god he created time it is in him so now let's say time is a timeline this is the this is the beginning of time right here this is the end of time right here right in front of you peter the end of time this is the end of time right here god i am that i am he's sitting moses now i am here looking back at what you've done i am here with you at the burning bush i am here before time ever begin looking at where i'm going to place you and you're not even there yet i'm looking ahead into future history and i'm deciding right now where am i going to put you he chose to put you here we'll talk more about that in a moment see god doesn't change and again if he walks into a new day then he gained knowledge because he didn't know what the class was going to look like tomorrow how could he so he gained knowledge and that means he's not omniscient because you can't gain knowledge if you already know everything now the great thing we also know about god is that god is all five of those characteristics and we know satan is not how do we know satan is not another god well because we know he's not any of those five how do we know he's not any of those five very easy we know one that he's not omniscient how do we know that because if he was omniscient he would have known he lost so we know he's not omniscient he's not omnipotent because he was omnipotent he couldn't have got kicked out how can you if you're all-powerful get kicked out by somebody didn't the very fact he got kicked out say somebody was more powerful than him so he can't be omnipotent and we know he is not omnipresent because he got kicked out if you're omnipresent you're always there and he got kicked out so he can't always be there because he's not there and we know he's not immutable because all four of those things he got changed in so we know he's not immutable so we know satan is not deity he is not close to being deity is simply another created being we we on one hand we don't respect him on the other hand we disrespect him because we just don't understand the spiritual world we just don't understand how it all works together this incredible god that we serve he's letting moses know i am currently in the past i am currently in the present i am currently in the future all at the same moment see if he's progressively eternal let's take a look at the mount of transfiguration who was there on the mount of transfiguration three humans they were peter james john there were two spiritual beings one was moses and the other elijah right how did moses and elijah get there i know how peter james and john got there how did moses and elijah get there it could have been the chariot with elijah moses was buried in moab so how did how'd they get there see we here's here's in essence what if god is progressively eternal meaning he can only be at one place at one time one era at one time one day at one time and we kind of think well he's all over the world in that one day at one time but he's still only there at one time so now he had one of two things it happened either well either way is the same thing that is this god had to go back and get moses so just send just a second i'll be right back i forgot moses moses come with me oh elijah see that's what progressive eternality says god cannot be on the present if you believe he's progressively eternal he's letting moses know i'm not progressively eternal i am eternal i am everywhere i am before the future before the world began i determined when you would be and i knew when my people would need you and i created you there while you're going through it i am with you i'm helping you and let's just say you he's looking back at you he is in the future already after time has ended new heaven new earth he's looking back and he's looking at what your great great great great great great great great great however many greats there are before his return he's looking back at them and he's saying he's saying what they did because of what you did only you won't do it for two more years are you getting this he's already seen stuff you've done that you haven't done and he's seeing the result in your bloodline but you haven't done it yet but you're seeing what's going to happen with your children though you haven't done it yet now some people say well that means i don't have a choice no you have a choice i have two sons very different from each other my oldest son if i took a bowl of candy and put it on the kitchen counter maybe one piece would be gone in a month my youngest son i put that same bowl on that counter the candy and the bowls gone by noon [Laughter] i do not make my son not eat the candy and i do not make my other son eat the candy but i do know what's going to happen of that candy and that's the same way with god he knows what you're going to do but he does not make you do it this incredible god that we serve all knowing and he's waiting for you to say your will be done not mine no wonder no wonder jesus said this he said this kind of oxymoronic statement that that we can look at in matthew matthew 22 32. oxford i mean these two these two beliefs can't exist at the same time these two objects these two entities these two philosophies these two theologies can't exist at the same time and he said this i am the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob god is not the god of the dead but the living yo wait a minute you said i am the god of abraham isaac and jacob they're dead and then you said i'm not the god of the dead but the living now how could that be at the same time if you understand i am with abraham and i'm with you all time is present inside me all time coexists at the same moment in god his already at the end is already at the beginning this means alpha before the beginning omega after the after the beginning after the end i am that i'm already i've watched everything i know how it plays out we go i'm really concerned god knows how it plays out he does everything that's pretty incredible that's pretty incredible no wonder david wrote the song that said this psalm 139 verse 16. your eyes saw my substance be being yet unformed and in your book they all were written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them god fashioned the days of david when there were none of them when he wasn't even a thought you saw all the days and you know what we're going to get into how that's true for you in a moment okay second key coexisting spiritual realm we gave you an example out of acts with peter getting out of the prison another example that you you know very well second kings chapter 6 elijah elisha and the unnamed servant unnamed sermon gets up in his house in dotham walks out to the front porch looks out on the hills goes [Music] the syrian army is here they're covering the hillsides runs inside gets elisha says elisha we're dead we're dead they're here elijah walks out on the porch he goes what a beautiful day now maybe i'm paraphrasing a little bit but it is it's kind of that's like what was going on incredible and and the server goes are you kidding me we're about to die within the hour and i'm about to die because i'm with you elisha lays his hand on him praises that lord open his eyes that he sees in essence that he sees reality now see we too often think reality is only what we see we have an aristotelian mindset that says if it's not logical and it's not tangible then it's irrelevant to our life the problem is it totally eliminates the unseen tangible unseen world it is tangible if you know it's there is it it moves things how do you know it moves things because we're about to see it blinded the entire syrian army god's army blinded the entire syrian army very tangible see if it's not tangible it can't move iron gates if it's not tangible chains don't fall off if it's not tangible humans don't disappear if it's not tangible entire armies aren't made blind if it's not tangible one angel of the lord couldn't slay a hundred and eighty-five thousand men like one angel of the lord did for hezekiah without hezekiah lifting a sword or spear anything they just woke up in the morning they were dead well the soldiers didn't wake up in the morning they were dead hezekiah woke up in the morning oh you guys are trying to trick me but i'm going to catch it and so you had this interaction and it says verse verse 17 elisha prayed and said lord i pray open his eyes that he may see and the lord opened the eyes of the young men and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around elisha so when the syrians came down to him elisha prayed to the lord and said strike the people i pray with blindness and destruct them with blindness according to the words of elisha who do you think did that the armies of god at god's behest see this in this spiritual world is waiting to help you this spiritual world is waiting on your behalf it is there for you so knowing god enlivens the spiritual world to work on your behalf it helps you achieve whatever it is that god wants you to achieve why do you think those that army was there why do you think the army was there so some would say well the syrian king was really hacked because elisha knew what he was being said in the secret chambers of the king and so he was going to go get elisha for knowing the secret chambers that's not why he was there he was there because satan put it into his heart to destroy someone who was doing his his empire damage i refused to call satan's kingdom and then a kingdom it's an empire it's too short-lived to be a kingdom god has a kingdom and so so the syrian satan put it into the heart of the king to go after elisha because the syrian general thought that the king thought he was doing harm to his to him but satan knew he was doing harm to satan's purposes satan is the one that instigated it and they were there to do what to elisha celebrate him honor him it begins with a k it ends with an l with an i and another l in the middle to him what killed only the front rows responding to kill him they were there to kill him and guess what god didn't want him killed god brought his armies to protect elisha he would do the same for you if you are in relationship with him you see the world does not have the ability to call on the lord for protection unless they're calling on him to have mercy on them with the thought of i want to know you they don't have that guarantee of god i will be with you i am with you always they don't have that they don't have access to the database of all creation that you can get tapping into god having relationship with him and knowing but he how he created everything every every atom every electron every neutron every neutrino every quark every proton every gluon every meson every lepton he all he oh and stuff smaller than that that god is not confused by you they go gluon meson lepton proton guy says easy easy incredible god that we serve that loves you when evil arm when evil attacks god's already sent his army god's spiritual arsenal is at your disposal elisha was in a position where he could ask god to help him so must we be it makes little difference if we see that army or not they are still there we may think the enemy is attacking but here's the reality and here's what we've got to shift from this is part of the next section on on getting our eyes above and that is stop looking at the natural world as the attack we need to have spiritual insight and understanding that when there is a physical attack there is a spiritual world superior to the physical world and how do you know that because not one single time does it ever say in the bible a man bruised an angel let alone a man killed an angel you say i just heard somebody say well well jacob wrestled with one all night long no jacob wrestled the angel played i mean think about it this angel with one finger touched his hip and it fell out of joint wrestling with jacob was not like hard for that angel the spiritual world is superior to the physical temporal world we cannot hurt it it can hurt us we can have authority over it but it can we cannot injure it it can us well that incredible world god has put at our disposal in that coexisting spiritual world not this this is not a treatise on on angels and demons and so on this is just to give you an idea it's short there are 23 different spiritual beings listed in scripture by the way you think there's two angels god holy spirit three there's 23 other than god holy spirit jesus but i'm not going to go through all that there's angels they boast of god and celebrate his presence psalms 103. also in psalms 103 they excel in strength they cause things to happen they arrange for things to happen they serve it only at god's shema or command in other words they don't obey you i didn't say this the bible says this they they only hearken to god's shema they listen and act at his voice now they are the logistical agents of of heaven on earth they move things they range for things they shove things forward they move things out of the way they they logistically move the holy spirit moves inside of men angels move outside of men then there's these beings called hosts and people think well hosts are just a bunch of angels don't that is just not accurate the bible says they have their own job description they do something different than angels host psalm 103 verse 21 they minister to god they wait on god they serve god they seek to please god they fulfill the pleasure of god angels don't angels are like the butlers of heaven i mean hosts are like the butlers of heaven uranus then there's these watchers there's fallen watchers but there are unfallen watchers a third of heaven fell two-thirds didn't it probably means that after every two of everything principalities some fell some did not fall power some felt some did not fall might some fell some did not fall dominion some fell some did not fall watchers some fell some did not fall watchers observe they report they judge they sentence and they make unchangeable decrees and the book of enoch tells us that some of the followers did way more than that but that's a whole other thing then there's these things called seraphim strange beings they surround the throne isaiah 6 they attend to god's throne they continually cry holy holy holy and the crowd is so the cry is sold out it shakes the doorpost of heaven and they have six wings we're not sure whether they have four heads or just four head four faces on one head and then there's cherubim they're even stranger they guard the garden of eden they stand on each side of the throne they stand on each side of the of the ark of the covenant on the mercy seat they have four wings not six wings and they are very very powerful beings now so he gives us this incredible arena of spiritual beings yes there are ranking of angels absolutely we could go through that but again i'm not giving you a great teaching on a huge teaching on angels i'm just saying there are angels and this is the general outline of them hosts general outline of them seraphim general outline of them uh but i didn't mention them yet that's another category then there's there's cherubim and and and and they have they had their responsibilities so they are there to help you yes they do god's bidding but they help you at god's bidding and then in addition to spiritual beings it is given to help you achieve your purpose for which he put you here there are what spiritual gifts so he gives these spiritual gifts to us this pneuma this breath this gift of the holy spirit this this ruach of god in hebrew and he gives us to help us achieve our purpose to destroy anything that tries to stop us there all the gifts of the holy spirit are evil destroyers every single one of them that gets found the the gifts and operations found in hebrews 6 1-3 doctrine laying on the hands repentance from dead works etc those are all evil destroyers as well fits right in line with with first john 3 8 for this purpose with the son of a man made manifest that he might destroy the work of the evil one he came to be an evil destroyer you are to be an evil destroyer not somebody complains that well the evil's attacking me you're an evil destroyer but our culture has kind of got us to thinking but he was attacking me pray for me evils attacking me jesus died so you could be an evil destroyer and so all spiritual gifts to pray for the sick the lame the death the blind the demonized the deformed the halt those who died prematurely all the gifts of the holy spirit the various administrations operations and methodologies of the gifts of the holy spirit all of these things in their differences are given to help you reach your purpose the reason why god said i'm going to put you here he said we could pick anybody anybody here named tom don't be shy tom where yet no tom this is a first tom is always here man alive i know you're going to come up to me up and you're going to go i'm tall too bad too bad so let's just say that guy named tom is here god looks forward oh look let's just go to peter we just use peter yeah i know he's here so god looks ahead in time and says when would be the best time to put peter on earth stone age [Music] iron age no no no no no renaissance [Music] we'll put peter we'll put it as zenith of influence at the turn of the century and i will prepare a people who will walk in his leadership listen to what he has to say and that people will affect great damage on the powers of darkness now but you know what he did that to every single one of you how do i know that because the bible says so where does the bible say that well the bible says that in acts chapter 17. acts chapter 17 verse 26-28 he is made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times whoa that means god looked ahead and said the pre-appointed time i want for you is right here and that's why jesus that's why the scripture says in the fullness of time god sent his son in the fullness of time he also put you here you were designed for this era the enemy's goal is to make you think you don't belong in this era in fact you don't belong period you were an accident your mother and father never wanted you you then they proved to how they raised you they didn't understand you they didn't even like you they think you're ugly they think any number of things to get you to think i shouldn't have been born and god's saying i put you here on purpose i didn't i didn't birth you in in world war one i put you here now i didn't birth you in the renaissance i put you here now i put you here now why because i designed you i created you i gifted you i gave you literally i gave you the look you have to achieve my purpose i gave you the look you have to achieve my purpose i made you from the italian line to achieve my purpose the polish line the black line i'm african-american first nations a polynesian whatever i i did that and i brought you here because i have a purpose and you're going to help me accomplish it now god could do it on his own he just go and it's done but the great joy of god is that you would do it with him see i i my youngest son my good son his name is michael we call him mighty micah i mean he was he's been strong since he was born like with within 10 days after he was born i could put my fingers like this he could hold onto my fingers and hold himself up over the bassinet he just strong he's strong you know today micah moved that tree okay dad [Laughter] strong well i had been promising micah that i was going to build a tree house because i had some time off from from speaking and not traveling and i was going to build this treehouse and micah we're talking about the treehouse that he wanted i you know one of the he kind of wanted to help me design that and and it it's like he wanted the swiss family robinson treehouse like multi-levels with the ropes swinging from one to the other and a tire swing going out from that and a line that you could zip line down to the next little island over here and you know and i had like two days to build this and so i got up early went to the went to the lumber yard to get the material came back and and in my truck and and uh just loaded down like a you know lucky it didn't slide out the back on the street and so when i drive up i see mikey comes running out of the house and i'd see this look on his face like you and i are going to unload the truck dad and he's like six years old and i'm thinking if he and i unload the truck i've got very little time to build this if if he and i unload the truck half my time is going to be gone just unloading the truck and the lord stopped me and he said son there's a lot of things i could do without you [Laughter] and it'd be a lot quicker i choose to do it with you and i go oh okay micah would you like to help me unload the truck yeah i did one two before at a time across the yard put it down back to the truck took a long time to unload that truck when it was done my son goes thanks for helping me dad [Applause] i helped him unload the truck and and immediately the lord the holy spirit just grabbed me he said that's exactly how you treat me thanks for helping me god god goes i was helping you no i did it see the lord has designed us for a purpose and he will he'll give us whatever we need to get us where we're where we're going he sees our future he's determined exactly where we would live exactly and so the next line says that it says he has determined the boundaries of your habitation and the next line said and what does it say it's up there right now it was up there well it says that he has the boundaries of their dwelling the niv says the exact place they should live god not only determined when you would live he knew where you would live exactly i looked at that word in the greek and it literally means exactly not then what does that mean let's just say you you live here in red deer they didn't just determine that you live in red deer he determined you live in the street but not just on the street wherever along that street is he determined the exact apartment or house number you would live in why because you just your presence will change everything let me tell you a story of that i had this incredible experience of watching for half a day the move of a young woman from one apartment to another apartment not a pleasant experience for her she did not want to move she loved the apartment she was living in loved everything about it but they raised the rent and she could no longer afford it little lucino the holy spirit put it in the heart of the people to raise the rent to force her to leave she looked for other apartments none were available look a little bit further away none were available look a little further away no more available finally found one a few miles away not nearly as good and she was so disappointed she walked in the room had the key walk unlocked the apartment door and goes refrigerator nothing's in my refrigerator i gotta go to the store gets in the car drives the store and she's driving to the store she sees one across the street where she had to turn left to go there she can't turn left because there's a car right beside her she tries to speed up he speeds up so he she tries to slow down tap on the brakes slow down he slows down she speeds up he speeds up she slows down he slows down she has no clue that there's angels behind the other car going [Music] [Laughter] why because they didn't want her to go to that store so she kept on driving pretty soon that car turned kept driving and as she's getting ready to make a left a u-turn she sees another grocery store she goes i'm turning anyway i'll just turn into the store she goes into that store she's walking down the aisles and you hear demon of greed and control and manipulation screaming the light has come the light is here help us help us the light is here and they were seeing the light of god radiating from her even though she was pushing her heart going she was unaware of her light but the demons weren't she gets what she needs she's headed to the cashier and as she's getting ready to walk right into the cashier in front of her that was empty no line a woman with a cart mounded with food pulls right in front of her she does not like that and but she has no clue that the angels hid her from the woman and pushed the woman in front of her because they didn't want her in that checkout line they wanted her three registers over the woman over here at the cash register is going through crisis this woman comes in and as the woman the cashier is checking her out the cashier is thinking i need to be like her i wish i was like her there's something about her that i she has her life together she's not seeing the physical disappointment of the woman she's seeing the spirit of god radiating from the woman because this woman as jesus said is the light of the world he didn't say depending on your emotions you see we get to thinking our spirituality lies in our pleasant nature so when we're pleasant we're spiritual when we're not pleasant we're not spiritual the reality is god is with us we are the light of the world and that light will show forth neither of them know that three more christians are going to come through that woman's line today she will be so touched she'll be in church tomorrow morning gives her life to jesus the next day and it started with the woman who had to leave her apartment disappointed and go through that cashier when she walks into her apartment she has no idea how the demons are shrieking and that in six months the entire floor that she's on will no longer have any darkness because demonic forces can't stand the presence of god's life she has no understanding of this and you know what most of us have no understanding of that either when i begin to understand this i begin to ask god will you make me a light will you make me radiate will you just will you make it to where the when people see me they see the light of god from me that somehow i like what i what scent fran saint francis of assisi said has always stuck with me told his followers he said i want you all to go into the village this week and spend a week there evangelizing and if you have to use words and i thought may my light the light that god has put in me so radiate to others that i don't have to say a word the creator is in me i walk by creator touches creation they're touched creator touches creation their touch creator touches creation they're touched that's what peter did that people shadow length away were healed because the creator in him touched the creation see if we understand this incredible dynamic of this wonderful awesome god that we serve who is in us we start to understand uh my existence in the world changes the world maybe it's one person at a time fine maybe it's one cashier at a time fine but no one can meet me and not be changed not because of john paul jackson but because he who is in me is greater than he was in the world when i started believing that i began to ask god i purposely i left notes in my car radiate god today radiate god okay god let your light shine from me may i when i walk through this mall may people notice me i'm telling you it is amazing first time first time that that this happened i walked into a baggage drawer i was buying a new roll-on a carry-on roller bag because mine broke and i walk into the store and there's this woman and she's looking at me and i go she's going to help you and i go i'm looking at roller bags i travel a lot i know exactly what i need if i find it i'll let you know thinking don't bother me so i'm looking and looking at the roll-ons and she comes over and stands right next to me i'm thinking i told you i know what i want and so i kind of keep looking and getting another one look and get another and she kind of stands right by me finally i go okay i'm going to take this one and she goes okay and just stands there so i look at her go don't i have to pay for this like are we supposed to go to the cashier right now you know i pay for this she goes oh yeah yeah yeah but um can i ask you something i said sure she said would you pray for me i'm like what she said i said do you know me she goes no are you somebody i go no i'm just checking i just was wondering how you knew to ask me i would pray for you of course i will pray for you but how did what made you think that i i would pray for you and she said when you walked in i saw this light around you and i heard a voice say if this man prays for you things will get better wow after that for the sake of time i won't go in i can tell you about the cashier i could tell you about the flight attendants i can tell you about the the the the gal at the ticket counter who ge who gets me to pray and there's like 200 people online i can tell you about the the tsa agent i could tell you about the guy at the toll booth handing out tolls for the you know the you take the tag the ticket and you go down to the end of the the the the turnpike and you pay the the bill and i all the all the stuff would you pray for me would you pray for me i can tell you about standing in target tell you about walking into costco there's a spiritual thing walking into costco and i hand the guy my card and there he and i walk in i take like three or four steps maybe five and a guy runs over to me and grabs me by the arm says would you pray for me would you play would you pray for me and i go yes but why why do you think i pray for you he said i was just standing over there saying god i need someone to agree with me in prayer and i don't know anyone who could agree with me in prayer i need help i need financial help and i walk i looked and there you were [Laughter] you said i saw this light around you and i said that's the man isn't it god so he said i ran over to you see i decided to believe god when he said you're the light of the world i've decided to believe god when he said he determined when i'd be born i decided to believe god when he said he determined the exact place i would live i decided i decided to believe god knowing that god does nothing by accident i decided to believe god and it revolutionized my life revolutionized my ministry revolutionized my marriage revolutionized my parenting i decided to believe god so many of us are afraid to believe god we don't know what to do we don't know how it works you were born for such a time as this you live where you live by god's design what goes on in your life does not go on by happenstance you have to think in heavenly terms we put our god told us to move from new hampshire down to dallas texas we put our house on the market it took three years to sell and i and then what was in that three year process i asked god i said god you told me to put my house on the market and he goes yes i did but it's not selling and he goes yes i know i said lord it kind of needs to sell if you want me to move and it will but but i'm having to make payments on this house yes you are well lord why aren't you selling it he says because you haven't learned i haven't learned what he said i created everything that's in this house yes i created the the or that the metal came from i created the gypsum that the sheetrock came from i created the trees that the wood came from i created everything that's in this house yes yes you did lord i yes and i said and i created the people who are going to buy this house it is not hard for me to bring creation together what's hard is to get you to believe i will do it and not think in subprime mortgage rates terms not think of marketplace not think of your remote location not think of all the human things that mere men think of i want you to set your mind on things above not things of this earth and when you learn that i'll sell your house it took three years for me to learn that i would love to say the next day our household it did not it took three years for me to learn that but it taught me there's a spiritual response to every physical stimulus and there's a physical response to every physical stimulus i choose the spiritual response to physical stimulus that's what david did as we talked yesterday he chose the spiritual response to a physical stimulus he strengthened himself he sought god and then obeyed i close with this in first corinthians 10. paul is talking to the church in corinth and is talking about the way of thinking they have mental attitudes mental strongholds and he deals with their mind and he says this that they are to cast down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ every thought into the captivity to obedience of christ how they think here's what he was saying to them he was not talking about how they think about the church he was talking about how they think about themselves you see anything you think about you that does not agree with how what god thinks about you is a mental stronghold is it exalts itself against the knowledge of god about you if you do not agree with what god thinks about you you have said my thoughts are higher than yours and as long as you think your thoughts about you are more accurate than god's thoughts about you you will never be able to walk into the purpose for which god created you only when you agree with god about you would that happen you see god thinks you're marvelous god did not design you with incapabilities he designed you with full capability of doing what he called you to do now that doesn't mean you want to do it and it doesn't mean that somebody isn't trying to tell you you should do something more than what god's called you to do but he designed you to do exactly what he called you to do you had the looks you had the body you had the shape you had the size you had the intelligence you have everything you need to achieve that purpose god did not make a mistake and go whoops i wanted to make you 6-3 and i made you 4-2 what was i thinking if if you agree with the enemy about you you will never agree with god about you until you change that line of thinking and that's what paul was getting at you have to change how you think and it starts with how you think about you then he goes on to say once you've done that i will punish all disobedience when your obedience is complete now what i just said was this when you view yourself properly i now can act on your behalf because if you don't view yourself properly you too are in disobedience and if i punish one disobedience i have to punish your disobedience so i will wait to your obedient and how you view yourself so then i can punish everyone else that doesn't view you in line with how i created you i will act i will correct all disobedience when your obedience is complete you think you're waiting on god he is waiting on you you want to have interaction with heaven and earth agree with god it starts with agreeing with god about you be you transformed be transformed by the renewing of your mind starts with how you think about you about god what i taught tonight was to just refresh your not your thought processes about this incredible god who knows you're beginning from your end and planned you and put you here no matter what you think about you you're here for a purpose he's given you spiritual gifts he's given you angels he's given you he's given you dreams visions visitations translations transportations trances all of this stuff is to help you reach your purpose and you think you're not worth anything he's created an arsenal for you designed just for you custom fit to your body to your brain to your spirit so father in the name of your son jesus may you transform the thinking renew the thinking may they be renewed in the spirit of their mind may they see themselves as you see them not more than they are not less than they are just what they are especially built for this era put on earth to change it here for your glory bearers of the light of god knowers of the mysteries of god may they grow in their hunger to spend time with you reading your word knowing your ways that they might know you know you not just know about you know you may they be an awe of you maybe be full of the reverential fear of god may we ascribe deity to you and never confuse creation and deity help us oh god to bring glory to your name in jesus name we pray [Music] you

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