Todd White - Come Holy Spirit

last night was wonderful how many of you were there it was so good just being able to see people encounter jesus to be able to see people encounter him the real jesus not encounter religion encountering religion is it seems like it's okay in the beginning but it's horrible it's not the answer jesus is the answer jesus is the answer to life's issues to life's problems too to addiction jesus is the answer to lust jesus is the answer to all those things that have no answer he is the answer he ends everything in a moment and when we encounter him and we encounter the reality of who he is the last thing we want to do are things that don't have anything to do with him thanks for coming this morning i'm a wreck i am father i ask you to help me i got up this morning time went back so we earned an extra hour it was amazing i got to spend about three and a half hours with him this morning just just loving him and letting him love me he was sharing so many different things with me this morning and i i tried to write him down i've not done this before so i'm gonna try to go through what i wrote down and hopefully it'll go and still be there it's kind of like at night when i when i hear his voice in the past i've tried to do this and it's always drifted away and he's changed the subject but i don't think he wants to change the subject today in john 14 jesus says i'm the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me [Music] then in the next verse he says if you had known me you'd have known my father also and from now on you know him and have seen him and his own disciples that are with him are like uh okay what's he talking about if his own disciples were like what's he talking about we have the right to say lord what are you talking about here are you with me [Music] sometimes i think that because we should know we fail to ask like you've been a christian for so long and since you've been a christian for so long you should know this by now it's like asking to our own minds seems stupid but nothing is ever stupid when it comes to asking about the father are you with me yes [Music] philip says show us the father and it'll be sufficient for us and jesus says have i been with you so long and you don't know me philip he who's seen me has seen the father so how can you say show us the father do you not believe that i am in the father and the father is in me and the words that i speak to you i don't speak on my own authority but the father who dwells in me he does these works believe me that i am in the father and the fathers in me or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves [Music] then he says this ridiculous ridiculous answer for all of us as believers most assuredly i say to you he who believes in me the works that i do he will do also when he just said before that that it's the father that dwells in me that does the works right he who believes in me the same works that i do he will do also and greater works okay that's so far out from our mind like you look at jesus and what he did his works were absolutely ridiculously profuse and it says that the books of the earth couldn't even contain what he did in three and a half years and it says that a believer is going to do greater than that now i've heard theologians explain it away but that's just not what he said [Music] i've heard theologians explain it and well you know what he really meant was no let's not go with what you think he really meant let's just go with what he said are you with me see i'm simple i'm not technical i i love god i love him i want this bible to trump what i think it should be i want his word to trump what i think should happen i want his word to trump what i think should be possible see he didn't say some things are possible he said all things all things are possible with god now all things are possible to them that so he gives that little word called believe it's ridiculous amazing i was looking at i was looking at peter and i was looking at his life and man he really really really missed it but then he really got it and then he really missed it then he got it missed it got it missed it and he was like right and i've heard a lot of people say i can relate to peter and i've said this before and my big question to people that say they can relate to peter it's mostly because he missed it the reason why people say i can really relate to peter is because peter missed it a lot so when they say well i can really relate to him it's because we're used to missing it but i would like to tell you that when you say you can relate to peter i would like to ask you which one because there's a peter before he got saved and there's a peter after he got saved so if you can relate to the peter before he got saved then you might need to be saved are you with me this is really crazy so i went and did like a god took me on this journey today you know and i i looked at um actually when we were over there worshiping i just kept thinking in my heart about the father the father you know the bible says in matthew 23 9 it says call no one on earth your father free of one father says call no one on earth your teacher for you have one teacher it's it's amazing although we need teachers and we need spiritual followers it says you have many teachers but a few fathers so contradictory but it's not he's saying that we can't afford to elevate a spiritual father or an earthly father above our heavenly father [Music] it's so nuts so i'm looking at this and i'm like wait a minute and i looked and i the lord said scan your heart and search for who the disciples fathers were i said ah james and john sons of thunder father zebedee and what did i ask them to do leave their father i'm like oh my gosh that's crazy okay well um i'm thinking of other fathers in there how about the guy that says let me go and bury my father jesus said let me dead bury the dead you follow me and i'm looking at this and i'm like whoa you made it really easy yeah the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except by me see when you see jesus and you see the life that he lived everybody wants to come to him but very few want to come to the church but if we would learn and understand who we really represent and the same works that jesus did were done by the father that's the same works that we should do because the same father that dwelled in jesus through holy spirit dwells in us through holy spirit and he wants to do the same works and greater works that's he want to do with us we never we may never do this well but you don't have the right to turn it off we may never do this the way that jesus said but you don't have the right to say i'm not going that route because i can never succeed that's the way that seems right to a man and it leads to destruction you're actually living in destruction when you say that we can't afford to water this down to the way we can figure it out to be we have to let this define how we're supposed to live are you with me okay all right so i did this little study and i'm just gonna try to do it i'm gonna read a bunch of scripture today i'm gonna try to do it quickly i have faith for the first time i have faith for this no because this is huge and i look at peter and i'm using this as an example because something happened in peter's life to completely change everything so peter says in matthew 16 this is famous and this is something that that we all talk about because jesus asks his disciples he's like who do people say that i am are you with me and when jesus came into the district of caesarea philippi this is matthew 16 13. he was asking his disciples who do people say that i am the son of man is i love that he didn't say the son of god is who do people say that i the son of man is yet jesus had no earthly father and they said some say john the baptist others elijah but some others jeremiah are one of the prophets he said but who do you say that i am and peter simon peter answered and said you're the christ the son of the living god and jesus said to him blessed are you simon barjona because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my father who is in heaven and i also say to you that you are peter and upon this rock i'm going to build my church and the gates of hell or gates of hades will not overpower it i will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven whenever you bind on earth be bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth to be loosed in heaven then he warned his disciples that they should tell no one that he was the christ and from that time jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to jerusalem suffer many things from the elders and the chiefs and the chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised on the third day and peter took him aside and began to rebuke him i would tell you that the person that tried to rebuke jesus wasn't the same one that said you're the christ and even though they're the same person it was a different it was a different place that it came from it's so important that we get it and that we see it so he said you're the christ the son of the living god jesus said blessed are you simon you didn't come up with that the father told you and i'm going to build this this is going to be the rock that the church is going to stand on it wasn't peter it was him being the christ that was going to be the rock are you with me i know that we know that i'm going to build my church and the gates of hell will not overpower it i would like to say that when jesus was talking to peter he wasn't talking the gates of hell chasing down the church he was talking about the revelation of christ being the reality of the foundation of the church that is built within the soul of man that the gates of hell are also inside of your soul trying to fight the very reality of god being sovereign and god being sitting on the throne of your soul so when he said that i'm going to build my church on this rock the revelation of christ and the gates of hell the way that seems right to a man it's so powerful he warned his disciples not to tell anybody he was the christ and that time jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to jerusalem suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed raised the third day peter took him aside i would like to tell you that they did not hear raise the third day they didn't jesus said it like a bunch of times at least five times he told the disciples that he's gonna raise and they were not waiting outside of that tomb for the stone to borrow away peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying god forbid it lord this shall never happen to you he turned and said to peter get behind me satan you're a stumbling block to me for you are not setting your mind on god's interest but man's in other words get behind me peter who is thinking like the way that seems right to a man it's demonic and satanic you're a stumbling block to me in other words the way that seems right to a man is a stumbling block not just to him but to us you're not setting your mind on god's interest but you're setting your mind on mans jesus said to his disciples if anyone wishes to come after me he must deny himself take up his cross and follow me denying yourself as denying the way that seems right to a man are you with me so good if anyone wishes to come after me he must deny himself take up his cross and follow me for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it and peter was so overwhelmed with the goodness of jesus and what he was carrying he left everything to follow jesus he left his career he left it all he's following jesus now jesus is about to say jesus is saying i'm going to be taken from you and simon in order to defend himself instead of deny himself why because he wanted jesus for himself whoever wishes to save his life will leave it lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it it's completely opposite than anything we've ever been taught the kingdom is upside down inside out that's completely different than anything what will the prophet of man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul for what will a man give in exchange for his soul just the next chapter this same this same peter is brought by see jesus sees something in peter that peter doesn't see in himself i mean he's like called the devil by jesus get behind me satan that's pretty heavy to be called the devil by jesus but it's pretty heavy to rebuke jesus too so are you with me so in the next chapter six days later now we're six days past that day that he said he took with him peter he names him first peter and james and john his brother and led him up a high mountain by themselves and he was transfigured before them and his face shone like the sun his garments became as white as light and behold moses and elijah appeared to them talking with him peter said to jesus i mean imagine peter peter knows moses moses represents the law you i mean elijah represents the prophet so he's looking at this saying we have everything we need right here this is absolutely amazing jesus i said that you were the christ you got mad at me but i know moses and i know elijah and i know it's good for us to be here so peter says it's good for us to be here if you wish we can make three tabernacles one for you one for moses one for elijah while he was still speaking a bright cloud overshadowed him and behold a voice out of heaven said a voice out of the cloud said this is my beloved son with whom i am well pleased listen to him with an exclamation point so that part thundered so he's saying i know you're seeing moses i know you're seeing elijah but i want this to only focus on jesus so look this is my beloved son he didn't say this is the famous moses this is the amazing prophet elijah this is my beloved son hear him the disciples heard this they fell face down on the ground were terrified jesus came up and touched them and said get up and don't be afraid lifting up their eyes they saw nobody but jesus himself alone because that's how god wants it he wants us no matter what situation we're in no matter how good it is no matter how bad it is to be able to see jesus lifting up our eyes they saw nobody except jesus they were coming down from the mountain jesus commanded them saying tell this vision to no one until the son of man has risen from the dead and they still didn't get it jesus says in john 16 he's talking about the holy spirit talking about the holy spirit when he comes what he's going to do he says i tell you the truth it's to your advantage that i go away for if i don't go away the helper won't come to you but if i go i'll send them to you and he when he comes will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment concerning sin because they don't believe in me concerning righteousness because i'm going to go to be the father and you no longer see me and concerning judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged this is crazy in john 18 this is just a couple chapters later you've got jesus that's there and you've got simon peter jesus has been snatched he's been taken everybody is freaking out john and peter go to the place where jesus is helped simon's outside warming himself on the fire now jesus was there the shepherd was struck and everybody fled it's scripture judas sold a mount but all of them ran all of them now they ran but john and peter went to where jesus was they were brave enough to go there simon peter was standing there warming himself and he said to him so they said to him aren't you one of those disciples he denied it saying i am not you guys know in john 14 i skipped so much stuff in john 14 jesus is washing feet and and he tells peter this night you're going to deny me peter's like never aren't you one of those disciples he denied it saying i'm not one of those slaves one of the slaves the high priest said being a relative of one of those that peter's ear peter cut off his ear he said i do not didn't i see you in the garden with him peter denied it again so he denied three different times i am not the one no i'm not him some translation says he actually cursed he was actually cursing saying i'm not the man the rooster crowed and that rooster threw guilt like you couldn't because jesus said before the rooster crows you're gonna do it so now you've got this guy that's left everything to be with jesus and he thinks in his own brute strength that he's going to defend jesus and man part of that's true because on the night that he was taken he's the one that had the knife that cut off malcolm's ear jesus like if you live by the sword you'll die by the sword honestly it all comes down to the way that seems right to a man it's the same thing over and over and over and over and over again so you've got this jesus this most amazing person in history that the disciples don't even really know who he is but they're hanging with them and he chose them because he saw something in them that the world doesn't see i love it he didn't choose the most amazing brilliant smart people that could figure it out he chose uneducated and untrained men that would never be able to take credit for learning about him because he would have to take all the credit so you've got jesus and he's looking at peter and and man i can imagine when when jesus like when you see the passion and i see the passion moving when i i look at peter when he denied jesus you see jesus looking over being beat man that has to be devastational to a heart to deny the very one that came to save you all he did was good all he did was heal all he did was the most amazing things that nobody ever did they're hanging with him they're with him they're close to him they're sleeping with them they're in the same circle they're breaking bread together they're walking miles and not just a mile if you've ever been over to jerusalem it's ridiculous how far you go between the towns like they're not like they're walking we're talking about hundreds of miles of cruising with the king of glory we're not just talking about see we read the bible we read the we read these we're talking about years 365 days in a year we're talking about three and a half years that these guys are cruising with the king of glory you would think because we think now that we have the holy spirit see we have the holy spirit that they didn't have jesus said don't fear guys i'm not going to leave you alone i'm going to send another i won't leave you as orphans because that's what these guys were all these disciples were orphans that were without a father jesus didn't come into the world except to reveal the father to bring us back to the father but so many of us have grown up with fathers that did or didn't do they were there or they weren't there we grow up with moms that either loved us or they didn't love us or they kind of loved us but we base our perception and our understanding of love on how we came up growing up with rejection there are people that have that deal with rejection on a consistent basis and try to year after year get something removed that might have came in in the rejection thing i would like to tell you that there's only one there's only one that fixes it the bible says call no one on earth your father because if you do if you do you will be rejected there's no way that god the father would reject you because you were accepted see if we understand that we are accepted in the beloved you can never be rejected by man again so you've got peter that messed up that jacked it up i mean he really jacked it up big time look what happens so good i love this because what we want to do here here i got it on encounter jesus walk in freedom through righteousness come on and then live the lifestyle see what happened is even though they walked with jesus jesus said something better is coming than having me with you if i don't go he won't come if i don't go he won't come and peter thought you can't go you're the best thing he said now the best thing's coming what you don't understand that if i don't go he won't come he can't come i have to go where are you going to go i'm the way the truth and the life yeah but okay you can't just leave no i'm going to the father what i'm the way the truth in life no one comes to the father except by me where are you going to go like okay well then show us the father have you seen me not he has seen me i've seen the father jesus said they're like i get it no holy spirit the holy spirit was with them but he wasn't in them so jesus was saying if i don't go he won't come the presence of me walking with you is going to be far exceeded by the presence of me coming to dwell in you the same relationship jesus said the same one that he had is available for us john 17 is the lord's prayer the lord's prayer is not our father who art in heaven that's a model prayer pray like this no the lord's prayer is when jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and he says father and he's talking to the father in front of the disciples and he says this is eternal life that they might know you the only true god and he says this it's amazing in john 17 20 he goes the same glory i'm not speaking just about the people that are here i'm talking about all of them that would believe the same glory that you've given me you have given them those that would believe in me through their word the same glory that you've given me i have given to them that's us that's me that's you that's jesus made a way for you and i to come to the father so when jesus says come to me all of you who are weary what he's really saying since he was the visible image of the invisible god colossians 1 15. hebrews 1 3 says that jesus was the express image of the father in john 14 he reveals it here i'm the way the truth in life no one comes to the father except by me guys if you not known me he who has seen me has seen the father so come to me is come to the father all of you who are weary and burdened down and weighed down by life come to me and i will give you rest it's come to the father because jesus made a way to the father hmm so good so the day of pentecost this is the encounter this is what peter needed this is what the disciples needed this is what happened jesus is hanging with them and it's it's amazing he's resurrected he's he's he's walking talking he's eating with them for 40 days he's talking about the kingdom of god to these disciples but he knows that the only way that they're ever going to have real clarity is when the spirit of truth comes he's the truth he's the truth about the father to every one of us to all of us all of us have the same access nothing stops you but the gates of hell between your ears nothing stops you but you see the devil has had his rights stripped away to stop you see on that day jesus made a public spectacle of the devil but look these disciples haven't realized that yet yes they're hiding in a room yes jesus has come in through the wall in through the door however it happened he was there and they went and he breathes on them says peace don't be afraid you need the breath of god to not be afraid i promise but it's more than that because they're 40 days later jesus is up on the mount he's going gonna go he's like you're gonna restore it now peter still peter you're gonna restore it now to israel you're gonna take these romans and thump them and give us back come on it's your time it's come on use your rod jesus is like it's not for you to know the time it's not for you to know the season it's not you know to know the epochs the father has reserved but you go and wait you go and wait and the promise is coming what is the promise the promise of the father so jesus they're like what why are you looking up and angel says why are you looking to the sky he's going to come the same way he went but you go and wait okay wait for what whatever jesus just told us let's just go pray i'm not kidding like clarity wasn't here because the holy ghost wasn't here so they were praying for something they didn't really know what was coming nobody did see god never dwelt in man before like jesus they didn't know that the same holy spirit that dwelt in jesus that raised jesus from the dead was about to come and dwell in them and the very one that denied jesus the very one that denied the king of glory was about to use his voice the same voice that he denied him with the day of pentecost came oh this is so good acts 2. day of penance pentecost came they were all gathered in one place and suddenly there came from heaven and noise this is 10 days in to a prayer meeting 40 days the 40 after 40 days jesus is up now they're in jerusalem they're at the upper room they're praying and 10 days later after they've been invading heaven with what they didn't even know was coming heaven invaded earth they were all together in one place and suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and there appeared to them tongues of fire distributing themselves and they rested on each one of them and they were all filled with the holy spirit began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance but peter taking his stand i love this taking his stand with the eleven the other eleven aren't taking his stand with the eleven sorry judas was gone raised his voice and declared to the men of judea and all of you who live in jerusalem let this be made known to you and give heed to my words why where why would they have to give word kivvy to peter's words because they weren't his words they were the fathers these men aren't drunk like you suppose but it's only the third hour of the day but it is what has was spoken through the prophet joel and it shall be in the last days that god said i will pour out my spirit on all mankind and on your sons and daughters they shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and even on my bond sermons both men and women i will in those days pour forth my spirit he was prophesying joel and they shall prophesy he was saying this is that i will grant wonders in the sky above signs on the earth below blood and fire and vapor of smoke the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and glorious day of the lord shall come and it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the lord shall be saved men of israel listen to these words jesus of nazareth a man attested to you by by by god with miracles and wonders and signs which god performed through him in your midst just as you yourself know this man delivered over by the predict predetermined plan sorry before knowledge of god you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death god raised him up again putting an end to the agony of death since it was impossible for him to be held down by its power for david said i saw the lord always in my presence for he is at my right hand so that i will not be shaken therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exalted moreover my flesh will also live in hope because you will not abandon my soul to hades or allow your holy one to undergo decay for you have made known to me the ways of life you will make me full of gladness within your presence brethren i may confidently say to you regarding this patriarch david that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day and so because he was a prophet and knew that god had sworn to him with an oath to seek one of his descendants on the throne he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the christ he was neither abandoned to hades nor did he suffer decay jesus christ raise up again which we are all witnesses of therefore having been exalted to the right hand of god having received from the father the promise of the holy spirit he has poured forth this which you both see and hear was it not david who just who ascended into no way for it was not david who ascended into heaven but he himself says the lord said to my lord sit at my right hand until i make your enemies a footstool at your feet let the whole house of israel know for certain that god has made him both lord and christ this jesus you crucified when the people heard this they were pierced to the heart no man no man without god can pierce the heart no preacher without the holy ghost can pierce the heart only god is able to pierce the heart i love this so much version says they were cut to the quick they were cut to the heart everything inside of them was help and said to peter and the rest of the the disciples are the apostles brethren what shall we do peter said to them repent and let each of you be baptized in the name of jesus christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the holy spirit for the promise is for you and your children and for all those who are far off as many as the lord our god will call to himself and many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exerting them saying be saved from this perverse generation so then those who had received his word were baptized and that day were added 3 000 people 3 000 souls to the kingdom so crazy now look i'm almost done i look forward this peter this is the first day this is the initial day so i've got second peter like which is the this is the new peter first and second peter the new peter the born again peter the spirit phil peter the one that just got touched here now we've got him it was written in 62 to 64 a.d peter was martyred in 64 a.d by nero this is 29 to 35 years after his initial encounter with jesus i would like to tell you that when peter got touched by the lord that day the conviction of sin the conviction of righteousness the conviction of judgment came upon him because that's what the holy ghost does and when peter was convicted of his righteousness when he encountered jesus the first thing the holy spirit does is he convicts you of sin oh can't can't live here anymore didn't realize it the blinders are off no way encountering righteousness what does that mean being convicted of righteousness because you were first convicted of sin when you're convicted of sin god breaks the shackles now comes the conviction of righteousness and when you're convicted about being right with god everything changes if you woke up convicted by being right with god this morning it's an amazing day buddy this morning i woke up convicted of being right with my father today i went to lunch convicted of being right with my father this evening i'm gonna go to dinner being right with my father i'm gonna go to sleep tonight on my pillow realizing that i've been made right with god convicted of my righteousness i'm going to sleep at night totally convicted of my righteousness and convinced that i am loved by the father it's so powerful it changes everything so ii peter chapter one simon peter a bond servant an apostle of jesus christ now we're talking 29 to 35 years later this is the last letter written by peter before he was crucified upside down by emperor nearer and murdered for his faith that he would never deny christ again for to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours we receive the same faith that peter did yeah but he's saint peter guess what when you get saved by grace you become a saint in the eyes of the father and the fivefold gift pastors apostles prophets teachers of angels the fivefold gift is for the equipping of the saints for the works of ministry the first thing you've got to see is that you become a saint in the eyes of the father that doesn't mean you're holier than thou but that does mean that he lives in you and he wants to let you live a holy lifestyle not a perfect lifestyle see living the lifestyle isn't living a life of perfection living the lifestyle is living simply a life of obedience of the same faith as ours by the righteousness of god our savior jesus christ grace and peace be multiplied grace is pretty amazing multiplied grace peace is pretty amazing multiplied peace he wants to give you the peace that surpasses understanding so you can't even understand to have it you have to give up your right to understand to keep it that's amazing now multiply that oh it's so good in the knowledge of god and of jesus christ our lord seeing that his divine power has granted us everything for to everything pertaining to life and godliness you have been given everything pertaining to life and godliness everything there's nothing else that you can be given it's been given to you already but you can live with an inheritance and never realize what you have and die of death never realized what you had just to get there and realize that there was way more that you could have utilized when you were here seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence for by these he has granted to us his precious promises magnificent promises so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that's in the world by lust now for this very reason applying all diligence in your faith supply moral excellence and in your moral excellence knowledge and in your knowledge self-control and your self-control perseverance patience and in your patience godliness and in your com and your godliness brotherly kindness and your brotherly kindness love watch this if that short list of qualities are yours and increase they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of jesus christ but anybody who lacks these qualities he's not talking about like just pastors prophets he's talking about anybody who would say that they're a believer if you lack these qualities look at what it says this is crazy is blind or short-sighted having forgotten his purification from his former sins i i need you to hear this faith virtue knowledge self-control patience godliness brotherly kindness love if we lack any of those things were short fighted short-sighted forgotten that we were purified from former sins i don't know if this echo if this makes sense to you the heart cry of the father is for you to wake up a brand new creation the heart cry of the father is for you to go to sleep with a new creation the heart cry of the father is for you to not remember the denial of jesus peter was a wild man he got it really wrong like how how much more wrong could you get it denying jesus on that day that the holy spirit came down he convicted peter and then he removed the sin from peter because jesus doesn't just convict you of sin and let it stay there see the cross does an amazing work but if we don't see the reality of it what happens is we never see our value from it if i don't see the reality of the quick cutting work of the cross if i don't see the truth that he forgave me and he forgot it i will still remember it and the enemy loves to spin us around the wrong way still thinking that we're going forward and guilt shame condemnation and regret are in that place and that is not your portion peter could never preach the gospel there's so many people that have that have made so many movies about peter how he couldn't get past the fact that he denied jesus the gospels don't proclaim that makes for a good movie because we can't even get over the guilt thing makes for a good christian movie but it keeps people bound if i couldn't get past what i had done if i couldn't get past the people that i've hurt how could i live my life for jesus how could i pray for people see what happens is if we don't get past this what happens is that we never get convicted of righteousness and if i can't get convicted of righteousness i can't have boldness to approach the throne of grace in time of need god knows what you've done he sees where you were he knew where you were when he found you we didn't find god he found you so if he found us like that when we were sinners when we were as twisted and as whacked as ever then why would he turn his back on you now because you didn't keep your act together grace is the most amazing thing that can ever come upon our lives but it's not just a little grace grace is absolutely foundational for everything that you do in life but grace isn't an empowerment to sin and get away with it no grace enables you to be able to catch the gaze of the father and to be able to look in his eyes and call him apa on a consistent basis there are so many people that can't get over what they wish they'd never done and there's no possible way for you to live a fruitful christian life i've been so adamant about this my whole life in christ and some people have been upset about it thinking that i'm coming after their ministry that i don't like their ministry it's not that god hates anything that interferes with love jesus has paid a price for us to look and see god as a father be convicted of our right standing with the father to actually walk and talk with the father to function with the father on a consistent basis there is nothing that you can do to add to it but you must surrender completely to him you can't afford to hold on to you you can't afford to hold on to yesterday at the end of the chapter we'll know towards first yeah towards the end it says for we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made it known to you the power and coming of our lord jesus christ but we were eyewitnesses now listen when they saw when they saw jesus on the mount of transfiguration peter james and john when they were there they heard a voice from heaven he said let us set up three tabernacles and god interrupted peter when peter was getting his mind of man in the way interrupted him and says this is my beloved son hear him and i'm well pleased hear him this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased hear him so he says we did not follow cleverly devised tales but we made known to you the power and coming of our lord jesus christ but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty for when he received honor and glory from god the father such an utterance as this was made to him by the majestic glory this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased jesus said don't say anything about this until after i'm crucified and resurrected so simon right now at the end of his life is reiterating what he heard he said we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain then he said this so we have this prophetic word confirmed made sure which you do well to pay attention to as a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your heart this is what happened to peter on the day of pentecost righteousness was made available to him that couldn't have been made available until jesus went to be with the father and the very one that denied him preached the very first message of salvation and three thousand people were added three thousand people why because the day star illuminated his once dark heart and peter heard the voice from heaven the same voice when jesus went and got baptized in the river jordan remember that voice jesus fulfilled righteousness and when he fulfilled righteousness god said this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased on the mountain this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased hear him now peter born again spirit-filled end of his life he is telling everybody how he lived his life and he said the day star eliminated in the darkness of my heart and god spoke to me and said this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased the same voice that spoke to jesus and said he was well pleased spoke to peter on the day of pentecost and he's referring to it right before he goes and he writes this peter wrote all over it's not tedious that we write the same thing again and again and again and again and again i promise you this is not this is not redundant what you need to hear is god's voice saying you are his beloved child in whom he's well pleased not because of what you've done but because of what he made for you there's nothing you can do to earn it there's nothing you can do to make it better what you need to do is you need to open up your eyes and see the father and hear his voice saying you are his beloved child in whom he is well pleased because righteousness is what made it possible and the same voice that spoke to jesus the same love that loved jesus the same father that father jesus wants to father you he wants you to let go of all the things on earth that you call your father and he wants you to know that he's your one father the one father that made a way for you to be right with him if you've been struggling with this very word father and this very thing that i'm talking about right now to where you struggle with the fact that you're pleasing to the father stand your feet this isn't a shame thing look we will never do shame game here ever i'm over it i got over it when i got saved i realized i could do nothing in my own strength to get this man god had to rescue me he rescued me but he wants to rescue everyone and he wants us all to be able to hear the same thing you are my beloved in whom i'm well pleased not because of what you did but because of what he did to give you this for free i want people around you just to put their hand on your arm or your shoulder right now we're going to pray for you good news you can't go back and fix anything you messed up it's impossible there's no possible way to go back and fix anything it's over regret guilt shame condemnation is demonic influence trying to get you to never see who he created you to be father i thank you in the name of jesus god for healing and wholeness all through this place jesus i thank you for the conviction of righteousness the voice the voice from the father that says you are my beloved and whom i'm well pleased god i thank you that the day star would dawn in their hearts and you would bring the crucial awareness of how good you are just pray with me lord god right now i surrender i'm asking you to reveal to me your voice come holy spirit welcome you you great convictor of righteousness there is none like you there is none like you no one else can touch my heart like you do [Music] there is nothing like you no one else can't touch my heart like you do jesus i love you father we worship you we ask you to come right now i ask you to come with such an intensity in jesus name come every stranger's voice that's trying to separate us from the father we command it to go now be silent be gone in jesus name we command these voices to stop cause there is none like you there is none like you there is none like you there is no like you father [Music] there is none like you there is none like you all guilt and shame all condemnation leave this place all guilt all shame all condemnation leave this place there is none like you there is nothing like yeah there is none like you there is like you jesus [Music] jesus there is not like you there is no like you heavenly father [Music] righteous father holy spirit you are welcome here come flood this place and fill the atmosphere your glory god is what this heart loves for to be overwhelmed by your presence love your presence lord your presence lord your presence lord holy spirit you are your glory lord is [Music] spirit you are welcome

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