Todd White - Clean The Inside (Part 1 of 2)

i'm fascinated with god's love fascinated with it every day i woke up this morning fascinated with it i am so thankful my my prayer time was thank you lord god for not for allowing us to keep our power on for allowing us to take in people for allowing us to to be there for people thank you so much for being able to be the hands and feet of jesus everywhere we go that we're able to help the needy that we're able to help those in need thank you so much for the people that did have their power to go out that you would warn them that you would help them but we can't just say be warm and be fed we have to keep them warm and feed them are you with me i'm just excited for the practicality of the word like practically what does it look like to be the body of christ the fullness of him that fills all in all what's it look like to be the hands and feet of jesus this morning i woke up and and i came into the prayer room and i was so excited because somebody met me there the lord okay he did but when i went in there i just said to him as soon as i started this morning i had about three hours to be with them today which is par for the course that's the average that's where i want to shoot for regardless you need to carve your day to make time you have to make room for him you have to make room if you don't make room for him you're making room for the world regardless of your schedule regardless of your time regardless of your phone calls if you do not pull away to meet with him first things first priority jesus second thing priority jesus third thing priority jesus i've said it before lots of people have gone to ministry schools and bible colleges and they've established this latter this kind of tears of first we're going to first it's god then it's then it's family because we don't want to get ministry ahead of family then it's family then it's ministry then it's this then it's that i would like to tell you that god does not want you to have some kind of a ladder he wants it to be first god second god third god fourth god fifth god sixth god he wants to be involved in everything that you do and say he doesn't want something to be done apart from him he doesn't want us to be a people that are so heavenly minded that we're no earthly good like he doesn't want us to be a christian that is flaky and can't work he doesn't want us to be here's what i mean man i'm called to pray for people i'm not called to work and provide for my family well that's just not the lord it actually says if somebody's not willing to work don't even associate that's a big deal are you with me it's huge but as i'm growing and as i'm going after him with everything in me i'm learning his heart more and more this morning i went in to the prayer room i said lord i just want to minister to your heart something so different about your life with jesus when you know that when you're there you shut off the world that secret place that time says go into your closet shut the door what that means is don't allow any other thoughts any other things to invade the reality of your union with god this is why it's so important that we understand what jesus did for us he paid a price for us to enter in to his rest he said all of you who are weary and laden and burdened down and weighed down by the issues of life come to me and i will give you rest so we come to him but we have to see what he did when we get there that's why i've been sharing about the it is finished the it factor if it is finished then something so important must have been in that word for it to be jesus's last words before he paid the price that he did that it is so big to be ministered to by god and to minister to god are completely different going to god for what you can get from him going to god for what you can receive from him going to god to see what he can do for you is you being ministered to by god and god's not mad it's not like he's like i can't believe you asked me for some it's not that it's going to god not for what you can get from him or from what he can do for you but so that you can be with him so prayer life has been pour out to god all your needs all your supplications pour it out and sometimes we think that it says be anxious about nothing but in everything we want a prayer and then we want supplications and this and that the other thing but here's the problem is that thanksgiving isn't in that place thanksgiving is isn't in the give me list are you with me in everything through prayer and thanksgiving make your request be made known to god when we request and we make things known to god sometimes it's a what can you do for me instead of i'm here to meet with you and i have found that the switch in my life when i got saved and i realized that i had been in rebellion my whole life against god that i had sinned against him that i had tore i had done everything detrimental that you could possibly do i was the worst the angriest the most addicted the most selfish and jesus went and cut my heart and said not guilty when that hit me i didn't want anything from him i was like i can't believe you love me i'm not kidding like at first when i got saved i was like this is i i was at team challenge and i'm telling the counselors i'm like do you see this like god forgave me like he didn't just forgive me he removed it as though he never sinned god sees me as if i never sin the counselor is like settle down listen you need to relax you need to calm down no way why are you telling me to calm down because we don't want you to be like that seed that falls on the rock that doesn't have any roots and then burns up i'm like what does that mean i have no idea what that means i don't know christian language i haven't read scripture i haven't been soaked in the word i'm brand new spiritual huggy and right then you know how an infant when an infant is like mine and selfish i became that infant but with god do you know what i'm saying you don't have to teach a kid selfish all you have to do is put one toy in the room with two two-year-olds one of them is not going to have a toy maybe this way but god became mine he became mine when i got saved and i realized that god loved me i didn't deserve it none of you do if you want what you deserve go to hell because that's what you deserve but when i found out that he loved me i went crazy i'm like oh my gosh i'm reading this god so i love the world that he gave his son like i'm part of the world these counselors were like well yeah all of us are i'm like yeah but you don't understand god so loved the world i'm part of the i'm part of the world and he loves me they're like well yeah i'm like yeah but you don't get it how come nobody told me that my whole life no one told me that god loved me it's not see with me when i read god so loved the world i saw god love me god so loved me that he gave a son i didn't see god so loved the world i saw that i'm in the world the world is my home here i am and god so loved the world that means that he loves me i'm not i promise and i went ballistic and i would go guys you got to see this i interrupt last no you don't understand god loves me well yeah no no no you don't get it he loves me i didn't do anything i just said yes that's it they're like they're like there's a whole book i'm like yeah but he loves me i wasn't trying to be silly i was being simple i i was being simple and that simplicity took me out of sin and out of darkness and out of the manipulation and out of the maneuvering and it put me into the kingdom of love he said that i was darkness in ephesians 5. i was once darkness i was once darkness i was once darkness but now i am see i was and now i am i was once blind but now i see what do i see i see jesus the author and finisher of my faith that i was the joy set before him he pursued the cross because he saw me on the other side two thousand years later he saw a drug addict a liar a thief a manipulator a maneuverer one that had to get his way at the cost of everybody else he said father i want that one he saw me god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that he could have me as his son oh i just went yeah man you know how many people try to talk me out of this people that were christians mature christians some well-meaning but that's not there's emptiness in telling me that it's not mine i don't believe that you have to go through 62 years of trying to get to the place where god said you were when you got born again i don't believe that you have to that you have to wait 12 years to read the bible i believe the reason why we don't open this book is because we're trying to get it with our brain and the bible is not is not meant to be understood with your brain the only place that the mind has is to be renewed it is not to relearn you are not created to relearn your mind's not created to relearn gosh i hear people tell me all the time they grew up in religion well you're lucky you didn't come in this you know you you just got saved you were totally in sin and now god saved you it's no reason you love much because you for you were forgiven much and i'm like you've been forgiven the same amount as i have i'm not kidding like maybe i was an addict and maybe i did steal and maybe i and i did all those things and maybe i was hooked on all the stuff i did it all maybe you think that you hardly have any sin maybe that self-righteousness is killing you maybe that's religious arrogance that's hurting you and destroying you when really it's just to believe the gospel believe to be fully convinced absolutely convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt to have your house with no empty rooms that's the example it gives to believe means to have a house with no empty rooms and a town full of believers would be a bunch of believers with no empty houses that are full and filled together and come into community and we all grow up into the fullness of christ the mind of christ we have everything that we need according to life and godliness everything jesus has paid more of a price than just to get us there he has paid a price to get himself here but when he moves here everything else moves out he will not share the temple all right let me just share a couple of scriptures i was looking at today i'm fascinated i'm fascinated at the freedom that i have that people told me that i couldn't have that i'm still walking in almost 17 years later like you can't take this away from me you didn't give it god accepted me you didn't you don't have to i've been accepted in the beloved through jesus christ i am seen through the lens of jesus when the father sees me he sees me through his son therefore i am blameless that doesn't mean i'm perfect but that does mean that when i see myself the way he sees me the sin that used to ensnare me gets less and less and less and the love that he has poured out into my heart through holy spirit he has lavished his love upon me grows more and more and more and more and the reality of my intensity of relationship and the intensity of intimacy increases and here's the goal satan wants to completely crowd this to stop you from having absolute union and communion with god the enemy is after anything and everything that would push you into union with god he is after making he is after making he is after you making most of things that matter least so that the one thing that matters most matters not don't ask me to repeat that because i couldn't but it's true he is after crowding this thing with all these different things the things you have to do the to-do list the things that you wish you'd never done that list that you wish you'd never done gets eliminated with the blood of jesus there is nothing else that washes away jesus didn't pay a price to just forgive it didn't john the baptist didn't say behold the lamb of god that that forgives the sin of the world even though it's true he did not say that he said behold the lamb the lamb of god that taketh away taketh away and forgives are two totally different things yet they're one and the same see taketh the way means he forgave and forgot never to be remembered by him again but remembered by the devil every day of your life hoping that maybe he can step in the place of union between you and the father oh man you get this it'll change everything everything changes oh when you see jesus and what he's done not just when you got saved every day of your life the depth of union and intimacy the life that jesus led the life that he lived when he was here as god's son in relationship with god the father through god the holy spirit becomes yours the only one that can separate you from it is you and your affections oh my gosh that's amazing okay matthew 23 this is an amazing chapter jesus is going off on pharisees and scribes he woe to you whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa to the pharisees and to the scribes that are trying to self-justify and be all that he woes them says in verse 25 i just want to handle a couple of different things and then pray for you you guys all right i'm sorry i'm exploding i'm really really rejoicing in the fact of the fresh fire that god has kindled inside of my heart and the reality of his love for me that is a new every morning his mercy is new and this morning i spent three hours in that mercy ministering to the lord loving him and being loved by him so that when i come out of that secret place he rewards me with him that i saw in the open if you seek your father it didn't say go into your secret place shut the door and seek things didn't say go in there and ask him for stuff didn't say go and remind him about things that he might have forgot about god does not have to be reminded about the things that are necessary in your life are you with me to seek my father in secret and then he rewards me in the open with what i sought so if i go into my secret place and i seek the father when i'm in there then he's going to reward me with the father in the open when i'm out man it's called relationship it's called walking one with the father we are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone just like a husband and wife would be married we are one spirit with god it's fascinating but these pharisees thought that by the way they dressed by the way that they by the way that they memorized by the torah by their bells and whistles by the way that they prayed to be seen by people by the way that they led not as servant leaders but as religious leaders that lorded over people jesus was trying to show people what servant leadership looked like in his life by washing feet these pharisees would never wash feet jesus had encounters with pharisees that should have should have washed feet when he came in but people came and broke in the house and washed feet that should have never touched the feet of somebody that the pharisees thought no way yet jesus what kind of king do you serve because if jesus becomes lord not just savior saving you is one thing but lord is another him living inside of you becoming lord and master from within where the kingdom doesn't work outside in with fear and trembling the kingdom works itself out through our members with fear and trending trembling from inside salvation works itself out with fear and trembling it's because the king has come to move in and he doesn't play games with things that don't belong because those things that don't belong will capitalize on your affections and take you away from intimacy which is priority because it's out of intimacy that you and i destroy the works of the devil oh jesus says in verse 25 woe to you scribes and pharisees you hypocrites you clean the outside of the cup and the dish but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence you blind's pharisees first clean the outside of the cup of the dead of the dish and so the outside of it may become clean also or first clean the inside of the cup of the dish so that the outside of it may be clean also woe to you scribes and pharisees you hypocrites you're like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful but inside there full of dead man's bones and all uncleanliness so you two outwardly appear righteous to men but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness that's intense and we think why did the pharisees want to kill jesus do you know what pride hates to be called pride you're full of pride no i'm not whoa i'm not kidding pride hates to be called pride basically jesus was saying you think that on the outside you're good but your insides are filthy yet when i'm looking at this the pharisees had no way to clean the inside neither did his disciples the only possible way jesus was speaking of a day that was coming there's no way to clean the inside of the cup look when you look at hebrews 9 you look at the blood of of bulls and goats and lambs and all these different things when you look at hebrews it talks about the holy of holies and the high priest going into the holy of holies and applying blood for the people's sins committed in ignorance but it says it was not possible for the blood of goats and the ashes of a heifer wasn't possible for it to cleanse the conscience the inside of the cup are you with me so it says how much more shall the blood of jesus cleanse the conscience from dead works in order for you to serve god so he's talking about what's to come he's telling the pharisees their self-righteousness and them thinking they know it all i mean jesus is the word and he said you study the scriptures because you think in them you have in john 5 because you think in them you have eternal life but it's these scriptures to testify about me and you're not willing to come to me so you can have it so the very word standing before him and they think the books on the book pages are where eternal life is found but if jesus doesn't come into the pages in the book there is no eternal life you can't just study the word you have to know the god that wrote the word so the holy spirit can be your teacher and your guide into all truth oh i love this so much okay just hang with me for a second i just had something pop up in my heart here let me just say it because i don't have much time let me just share with you jesus comes into the temple all of you remember when jesus came into the temple now when he came into the temple when he was a young boy it was different but when he came into the temple after the holy spirit was on him and god the father god the son god the holy spirit were working in union together trinity the son was filled with god the holy spirit came inside of the temple and saw everything but what was necessary do you remember the story where jesus comes in he makes a three-strand cord and he goes about turning the place upside down flipping over the tables the money changing tables and what does he say when they rebuke him jesus says you've made my father's house a house of a house of thieves a den of robbers what did he say to the pharisees the inside of the cup first clean the inside he's talking about lawlessness and he's talking about robbery the same thing so jesus says tear down this temple and in three days i'll rebuild it again and they said it took 46 years to build this temple and you're gonna rebuild it in three days but it says he was referring to him as the temple when you get saved the holy spirit the same holy spirit that raised jesus from the dead comes to dwell inside of you when the holy spirit comes to dwell inside of you he wants to do the same thing that jesus did when he came into the temple and he wants to flip over all the tables that don't belong the money changing tables the ideas the affections the twistedness that life has brought in so that you can become a house of prayer and when you look at first corinthians chapter three first corinthians chapter six i'm not going to go there it says you have become a temple for a holy spirit first things first three things need to happen god needs to become your father and in matthew 23 9 the bible says call no one on earth your father for you have one father why your earthly father didn't cut it as good as they are this is one of the biggest things for people to have to get through being born again means to be re-fathered from above when i grew up my dad was was good but he wasn't god and he made a lot of mistakes and god makes none and i wasn't a mistake listen so many people think that they're a mistake they're the product of this or my mom didn't want me what does your mom not wanting you have to do with you being born again that's why you must be born again no no no you you don't get it you have to get this this will change your life man you must be born again you must be re-fathered from above you must be re-fathered by god he must become god your father god our father god my father how can i seek the father in secret are you with me everything hinges on this jesus was the firstborn among many god is my dad like he's the best dad ever he always has good things to say about me he doesn't have anything negative to say about me his correction that comes to me isn't because of negative stuff his correction comes because he sees the end from the beginning and he wants me to go through this thing with complete clarity the blood of jesus cleanses my conscience from dead works okay blank canvas brand new what do i do you're my dad it sounds silly i don't care if you're 40 years in christ when he becomes your father everything changes when he becomes your father doesn't matter who your dad was this is such a huge hiccup in the body of christ in the church how many people have had trouble with their parents everybody why because a lot of parents don't read the book on how to parent and even when they do they're trying to get through life and they're trying to do the best they can i'm not faulting anybody i'm not blaming anybody the only thing i'm saying is you need to take out the way that you were raised whether you grew up the way that you were taught and you needed to read this book and say father i don't know you but i want to i'm your son you're my dad show me what it means to be free show me what it means to be a son show me what it means to not live in this world as an orphan because an orphan always has to wonder where's their meal coming from an orphan wonders where am i going to get fed today how are they going to bring the bread are they going to bring the rice like when am i going to get fed lining up gosh there's food coming but a son our son says dad give me this day my daily bread oh it changes everything this is where everything changes where i can receive from my father what's necessary but you've got to let your parents go you've got to let that stuff go people are like well i can't because they they shouldn't have done this you're right they shouldn't have you can't go back and fix that you can't go back and get yesterday back man every moment that you're thinking about yesterday you missed the moment that you're in every minute that you're thinking about what happened three years ago you're missing it you're missing the very fact that god is here right now for you he's your father and he wants you to know him he wants you to walk with him and talk with him he wants you to be excited about life he doesn't want you to look at what was wrong he wants you to see what's been made right and righteousness has made you right with god we don't want to live back there we got to live here you can't afford to the bible says call no one write in verse 10 imagine that matthew 23 9 call known as your father and it says call no one on earth your teacher imagine that someone's your father someone's your teacher who is it the christ jesus holy spirit so jesus becomes your teacher it says it in matthew 23 10 call no one on earth your teacher for you have one teacher the christ in in second in first john 2 27 says you need no one to teach you for you have the anointing what is the anointing in this that he's talking about is christ in you the hope of glory so he's talking about the reality of the holy spirit that was given to you at fresh at new birth god becomes your father you become fully dependent upon your father and he sent you an internal teacher to guide you into all truth oh my gosh this is fascinating people are like wait a minute we have apostles prophets pastors teachers evangelists there's teachers what do you mean call no one your teacher no no no doesn't mean we don't have a need for teachers it just means that you have a need to know the teacher that dwells within you and abides in you why because he will teach you and guide you into all truth and he will never lead you astray teachers can lead you astray teachers can lead you astray but if you establish intimacy with the father with the son with the holy ghost and you see that you've been washed and that you're clean and there's no debris like god didn't miss anything like he didn't save you when you got saved to go i missed that one when you were seven sorry gosh gabriel why wasn't i thinking about that it's not it doesn't even make sense we need to make most of the blood make most of god be in our father can i get the worship team can you guys come up i am fascinated i have become a temple that god chose i didn't choose him he chose me like when we come to god i always say this before you read your bible you'll think you found god and some people go 30 years thinking that they found god but then when you read the god found you that changes everything wait a minute i thought i found you and then you start reading and he goes oh my gosh you knew me before i was born you knit me in my mother's womb so wait a minute my mom didn't want me when i was in there but you knit me anyway oh come on this will rock your life and change your world why because whether your mom wanted you whether your dad wanted you whether you came through rape whether you came through whatever all life comes from god which means you have purpose you have value you have worth wait a minute no i'm not i haven't done anything to earn it no jesus did everything for you to become it the cross reveals the reality of how valuable you are to the father because the price that god paid for you reveals how valuable you are to the father i don't care how much you messed up i don't care what you've done see you're looking at a guy that did it all and god went not guilty people were like well that's not true you have to do something no no you can't do anything jesus said they said to jesus well what was we do jesus said believe in the one he sent no no no it can't be that easy yes it's that easy believe only believe so hard with the waves and the crushing of life add all the drama and the trauma and all the stuff that we go through in life even after like we're little kids you know we grow up little kids don't know any difference like my little son dude he busts into my prayer room he comes in he looks he shuts the door a little bit he opens a little bit i go hi buddy he goes he he does he does i love it [Music] it's a picture that god gave me when i come in my closet [Music] that's what i do to him i go no you don't understand it's real to me he's waiting for me to sit with him he knows that i will never let anything in life govern this heart now that jesus has come in and turned the tables upside down and flip them all over so that this house can be a house of prayer there is no way to get through life [Music] any other way facebook can't take you there instagram take you there youtube videos can't take you there only the father he wants you to know that he's proud of you he's not mad at you and he's got nothing but good to give to you he wants you to let go of parents and stuff that they should have never said and should have never done and he wants you to plug into you being a son of a father that's what pleased with you you don't have to do anything to earn it you just have to believe that jesus did everything for you to receive it you cannot earn this money can't bind this silver or gold can't purchase this you weren't bought with silver or gold you were bought with the precious blood of jesus christ and there is nothing that compares to the freedom of completely forgiven because being completely forgiven and having your sins removed completely empowers you to be able to serve in the kingdom that on your job you can be jesus to the people around you you don't have to die for their sin but you are an ambassador of reconciliation but you can't reconcile people if you don't know you reconcile yourself [Music] you can't know and reconciliation is being brought back brought back to the original value so that you can be in union with the father there is nothing else nothing else we'll do [Music] i will spend the rest of my life talking about the blood of jesus and the work of the father watching sons and daughters wake up to who god's called them to be there's nothing else nothing else will do it i i want to be caught up in his presence i want to guys if you're here and you don't understand this whole father thing and it's been real hard parents-wise and just all that stuff and you want to be re-fathered i want you to come up here to the altar right now please don't wait i'm talking about being re-fathered come up here if that's you please come up don't wait don't hesitate man i'm not saying man your mom and dad might have done whatever this does not this does not take the place of who the father is [Music] jesus is amazing and he's got amazing plans for your life but it starts with you making a reality of god becoming your father i'm sorry for what your mom and dad did or didn't do but you can't go back and fix that so you can choose today to say yes to jesus and yes to the father you can turn your back on yesterday you could turn your back on all that stuff and not let any of that infiltrate your system of thinking your train of mind god wants to give you a brand new a brand new memory bank that you can take out all the hurt and all the stuff and all the twisted stuff that was done to you and all the stuff you did to others he wants to make old things pass away and all things become new you do not have to do this alone we want to be family we want to help you we want to be family man it doesn't matter people are like well i'm a worst case scenario i was the worst case scenario i'm telling you right now jesus will take your case jesus will take your case he loves you he loves you here

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Published: Fri Mar 05 2021