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God is good, isnt he! Do you all feel the anointing? Whew!!! Hallelujah. Would you turn tothe book of Revelation please. Its time to get a revelation - an impartation and amanifestation! Revelation 12:1, would you start with me. Now a great sign appeared inheaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head agarland of twelve stars; then being with child she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.And another sign appeared in heaven, behold a great fiery red dragon, having seven headsand ten horns and seven diadems on his heads. His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven,and threw them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to givebirth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. She bore a male child, who was to rule allnations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and his throne. And thewoman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they shouldfeed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. Now I want to share a couple of things quickly about this because the woman is also a representation of Israel. The book of Revelation speaks about things that were, that are, and that are to come. In fact, this wholebible speaks about things that were, that are, and that are to come. But you have to discern,by the Spirit of God that he has given you, what period of time he is speaking doeseverybody understand that? Because Gods word is eternal. Always was and always will be.Now the Holy Spirit will bring you direction in what part of time, or sequence, he is speaking.Is everybody with me? The reason why I brought this up is I want you to understand that,even though in the world right now everybody is celebrating the coming of the Christ amen? that there is a fight going on. Not only is there a war in heaven but there is a war in thenatural realm, because whatever war is going on in heaven, it is manifesting in the naturalrealm. Amen. And in this, because you and I are celebrating the birth of Christ the comingof the Anointed One and his anointing there is a fight going on, isnt there. Do you thinkthe devil and all of hell is celebrating the birth of Christ? Why? They lost that battle, didntthey. They lost that battle, didnt they! In fact, the bible says if satan and his kingdom wouldhave known about killing Jesus, they never would have done it! They would have nevercrucified him. So we know that birth was a battle that was won. In other words, Jesus wentthe whole way, all the way to the cross is everybody with me? So that you and I could bebirthed. You see when he was pierced in the side, water and blood came out. In fact, he waspierced after he died. Does everybody get it? He had to be pierced after he died. Becauselife comes out of death. So he was pierced after he died so that you and I were birthed justlike Adam, God put him to sleep. Jesus died. In other words, he was put to sleep. And thenthe rib was taken from Adam where a woman was birthed. Amen? That same place whereJesus was pierced is the same place where the rib was taken from Adam and then the bridewas birthed. Do you all understand that? See the bride of Adam was birthed and the bride of Christ was birthed. And thats where you and I come in. Does everybody get it? Amen? Sowe see that there is a battle. Now understand this, God is using you to birth things of theSpirit, isnt he. So do you think that there will be a battle? That battle is in the Spirit and thatbattle never ceases. The devil is always going to come against you. He does not lay dormantin the areas of attack. He just does a new strategy. Hello. He does new strategies. Heknows how to deceive, he knows how to prevent. One of the things he tries to always do isseparate the flock. He always tries to separate the flock. See thats why it is so importantabout fellowship, isnt it. Amen? Does everybody get it? You all alright now? Glory to God!!!Now turn to the book of Luke. Lets try chapter 2. Luke 2:8, Now there were in the samecountry shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And,behold an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them:and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid: for, behold, Ibring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people. For there is born to you thisday in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign to you; You


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shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there waswith the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in thehighest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. So it was, when the angels were goneaway from them into heaven, that the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even toBethlehem, and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. Nowthis is powerful. You have to understand something Why did God reveal, through hisangels, to the shepherds? Why didnt he reveal to all men? You know I mean where didhe go? He went to visit the what? Shepherds. Why? Because they were the shepherds of the flock. Understand this the Great Shepherd had to reveal to the shepherds. See ineverything that Jesus was doing, there was always something connected in the natural realmin representation of Him. The Great Shepherd was now coming in to take his flock! Doeseverybody get that? So he revealed to the shepherds that were in the fields and then he toldthem where to go. And then they went to see the Great Shepherd. Is everybody with me?There is something very powerful that he said. He said there is what? Peace and joy. Twothings that are important. Peace and joy to all men. And you are going to see why he saidthis. Go to verse 25. And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon;and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spiritwas upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he would not seedeath, before he had seen the what? The Lord's Christ. Now this is important. The LordsChrist. The Anointed One and his anointing. No longer a formula or a password pass-phraseor pass-formula about anointing. Does everybody get it? See there was a formula they hadfor the anointing oil. No more about to use to put on people. Not that they still dont.Amen? But this time the anointing was coming. The anointing oil that they used in the pastin the old testament was now being fulfilled. Not only was the Shepherd coming. Not onlywas the Savior coming. This was the Lords Christ but now the Anointing !! the presenceof almighty God has now penetrated all of space and time and entered into the natural realmof his own creation. He had to come into a human form. Amen? In fact, anointing meansrub. So God came to rub on his children. He came to rub on them!! You know, you rubagainst God and something changes! You touch his glory, you change! You touch his heart,you change! The anointing of God He came so that you and I could change into his imageand likeness. Amen? Is everybody with me? Oh, hallelujah. Now we see that it was nolonger a formula or anything associated they were using creation that God created to makeinto a formula to put on man. Amen? But this time the creator was coming to be put on manso that they could change. Go to Romans 14. The Lords Christ. And what did the angelssay? Peace and joy, right. Good on earth and peace with men. Because the Christ, thereconciler, has come. Romans 14:16, Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.For the kingdom of God is eating or drinking; but righteousness, and what? peace and joywhere? Where? In the Holy Spirit. Wow! So do you understand that the Christ has comewhat? To bring you power! See the only way that this can be manifested In other words,the kingdom of God is not manifested by just word alone. Its manifested by power! So theHoly Spirit the Holy Spirit is the only one that can manifest the power of the Christ. Doeseverybody get this? Now listen, so when he came the child came he died, right? But hewas birthed by who? The Holy Spirit impregnated Mary. So if you look at it, the father of Jesus was the Holy Spirit. Amen? But see the Holy Spirit Because the bible says God isSpirit and God birthed and came into the natural realm but he came from the bosom thebible says Jesus came from the bosom of God. So God took a part of himself and put on fleshand came into the world God almighty came into the world and called himself son. But seethe people didnt know him (of the old testament) as the son of God. They knew him as theChrist, the Messiah, that would come. They didnt think about him being the son of God.Does everybody get that? See they only knew about the Christ they only knew about theone who would come to rescue them from and of course they believed he would be


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rescuing them from the hands of the Romans. But who was behind the Roman empire?satan. Amen? So we see now that the Holy Spirit came upon Mary to birth the Christ. Yousee he just couldnt go upon anybody and birth the Christ. Because their had to be a pricepaid. And that price was the death of Christ to be spread to everyone else. Amen? So nowthe Holy Spirit could come upon any man, to birth the Christ in them . HELLO!!!!!! Glory!!Thats why its righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost is the kingdom of God! Hey,the kingdom of God is POWER! ITS ANOINTING! ITS THE PRESENCE OF THE KING OF GLORY!ITS THE CHRIST!!!!!!! Amen? Go to Acts 1:8. I want you to see this. I want you to get itimparted. So if you havent been baptized in the Holy Ghost yet This may sound strangenow okay. Dont get freaky on me. To be in Christ, you must be baptized in Christ. I didntsay baptism of water. The baptism of water is a representation of remission of sin. But to bein Christ, you must be baptized in Christ. Do you get it? Why? Because without the baptismof the Holy Spirit, the kingdom of God is not manifested All you can do is go around andplant seeds of salvation. But you cant cast out a devil, you cant lay hands on the sick THECHRIST, THE LORDS CHRIST MAN, THEY WERE WAITING FOR THE CHRIST!!! They hadenough of the word! They knew the word! But the word was bringing them revelation thatthe Christ would come. And they were all waiting. And they waited. And they waited. Andthey waited. And they missed him. Well, they were waiting for machine guns, automaticweapons and for Jesus to come as a warrior and kill everybody and rescue them! But hecame in love. See they got so caught up in religion and they thought they were better thanothers because they knew the truth. But they couldnt obey it. See they had the law!Okay, we carry the law now, man. We know the truth and you dont! See but in that itbrought separation. It brought religion. They became self-righteous in the area where theyknew the law but couldnt obey it. Then they justified why they couldnt. See they werewaiting for the Christ and missed him. You know that is still going on now. People receiveJesus Christ as their Lord and Savior but are never baptized in Christ and have no power.Hello. Acts 1:8, lets read it. Jesus said it himself, didnt he. Thats why John came ahead of time and said, Listen, someone is coming Im telling you, the Light, the Christ is coming. Hesaid, I baptize you with water for remission of sin but He is coming and hes going to baptizeyou with the Christ , with fire in the Holy Spirit! See thats the Christ. Okay in verse 4, andbeing assembled together with them, he commanded them He did what? He didnt askthem, did he. He commanded them. In fact, what he was saying was, Listen, Im going tohave to depart. Ive been hanging with you 40 days after my resurrection give me tendays. Just ten more days to fulfill the next feast, which is Pentecost meaning pente, right which would be 50 days from his resurrection. He said hang ten more days, I dont care if you order Dominos pizza hang up in that room. Dont budge. Im coming. And Im going tosend you somebody. The same Spirit that allowed me to walk in this natural realm. Thesame Spirit that raised the dead. The same Spirit that cast out devils. The same Spirit thatallowed access to my father who I had a relationship with. That same Spirit that helped mepray. That same Spirit that brought me revelations and dreams. That same Spirit that movesin the gifts of the Spirit! Im going to bring to you, just hang out there ten days!! Now he had500 of them. And they all went, Yeah! Yeah! Lets do it! Great!! Only 120 of them did. Therest of them, 380, went to the feast of Pentecost by the traditions of men instead of listening to the one who created the feast. The 120 that hung out in the upper room,maaannn they got slammed! YES!! And they were never the same! The other ones had tofight to be changed. And then Jesus changed them by the Spirit and they became children of the Christ! Glorious! And, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not todepart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said, you haveheard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the HolyGhost not many days from now. And in verse 8 he says, But you shall receive power, whenthe Holy Spirit comes upon you: and you shall be witnesses You will be witnesses of what?The kingdom. The Christ. Amen? You will be witnesses! to me in Jerusalem, and in all


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Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. In other words, this isnt stopping. Hello. If people would just read that whole scripture, they might get it that this was just not for theapostles - or the disciples - because he said to the end of the earth! In other words, Imgoing its flowing bro! Go to Matthew 17. The Lords Christ. I keep seeing this sphere, youknow all full of electricity [sound effects]. Look, we harness electricity! They still dont knowwhere it came from! But they use it. I think the Lord sneezed one day and producedelectricity. Okay, you can use that. Its anointed! Praise God. Matthew 17. Is everybodythere. In verse 1, And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John his brother, and ledthem up on a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured He was transfiguredbefore them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Man here he was, the Christ ! He was showing them who he was. They could barely see him!They were like, WHOAAAA!! And his love was radiating and ripping through them!! You knowthis electricity that we harness, you touch it and you get a bzz. But its not love. Itsawakening. I can tell you that. But it can kill somebody. Amen? But this electricity, thispower that comes from Christ, is ripping love. I can tell this to you because Ive been in it.And when my visitation from the Lord came and I was taken in his cloud YOW!! Thats whyMoses glowed. He had to hang out 40 days. This only took three seconds, I was done I wasfried! Cooked! Brand new! came out of the Masters oven and his love ripped right throughme! Blinded me! Changed me! He healed me! Freed me! And removed every foul, uncleanthing that was in me! It manifested right next to me. Why? Because of the anointing! Oh,the anointing the anointing of God and we talked about this before. See when you abide inthe anointing, you abide in the Lord and the Lord abides in you. Thats why sometimes youjust realize that something just you got freed from something. See the devils acknowledgethe anointing before you do. Amen? Thats why you get free. Thats why people are boundand miserable. Why? Because they are not abiding. The anointing is diminishing. Or theyhavent been baptized in the Holy Ghost yet. But its our responsibility to maintain thatanointing, isnt it. So here you are, I want to introduce you to the Christ. Thats Matthew 17.He was transfigured. Now, behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him.Then answered Peter, and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will, let usmake here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. Of course,you know their carnality was saying, Lets do something. They wanted to try and harnessthis. Alright lets make tabernacles! Yeah lets put them in here and we will come and seeyou every once in a while! Well come and see you every Sunday! You know people do that.They show up on Sundays, Christmas, Easter they think they have done their holy vow. Andthen they all go out and become heathens or disobedient when they leave. But it freakedthem out. Those guys John and Peter and James, they were like, Whoa! Of course, Peterwas the only one that spoke out. I think the other two were still in shock. And he said, Letsbuild a tabernacle for them. In verse 5 it says, While he was still speaking He wasinterrupted. Thank God. Behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and suddenly a voicecame out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear him.And of course, the disciples passed out. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on theirfaces and were greatly afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be notafraid. And when they lifted their heads, they only saw Jesus. You know what happened?They saw the Christ . They saw the Christ. They couldnt contain it. They couldnt handle it.One day my wife and I came back from Brownsville. We were there a few days. And youcould feel the presence of God. It was very sweet. You saw a lot of things happen andwhatever. And when we came back, I was crying out to the Lord for certain things andwhatever so we were in the living room and we were getting ready to show this video thatwe had brought back. So mom was there and another woman and my wife and I put thisvideo in. I began to watch this video and everybody was watching the video and all of asudden because I didnt see this video. This was the first time I had seen it and I saw thepastor behind the pulpit and all of a sudden I saw the glory of God hit him. I mean I saw the


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glory and I said, My God, Lord, thats your glory!! And when I said that, it hit me! And all of a sudden from inner it was like this breath was just flowing out and it was like light wasflowing out of my mouth! My head just went and my mouth was open and this! And thenext thing I know I started flipping and flapping like a fish out of water! I looked like I washaving an epileptic seizure. I had no My flesh could not contain the glory of the Lord. I wasflipping and flapping if we would have recorded it, that would have been a new Holy Ghostshuffle! You could not have imitated that. No man could imitate that! [Laughter.] And I wasflipping and flapping on the couch and they were looking at me And my wife knowing wecame from seeing all this. Mom thought about calling 911. And my wife says to mom, Quickgrab the coffee table, hes going to go through it if we dont move it!!! [Lots of laughter.] Sothey moved the coffee table out of the way and as soon as they did, I went flying off thecouch. I was talk about holy roller. I was still flipping and flapping and I was rolling androlling and rolling back and forth and all these languages were flying out of me. Im tellingyou I spoke French. I spoke Japanese. Korean. All these languages were coming out of meand then I saw the face of the Lord came in the living room and said, Be not dismayed that Ihave come to dwell with you. And then all of a sudden I settled and this language was stillrunning. And then he said to me, Lay hands on everyone in this room and impart in them thedesire for the lost ! And I wasnt getting up. So they had to come down. [Laughter.] Andwhen they came down, I laid hands on them and prayed that. But Im telling you thatelectricity was intense. The power of Christ changed me, again. Never the same. Intercededfor the lost. See we can never lose the hunger for the lost. Never. Never get so caught up inyour own self and what you have - and what youve learned - and what youve done, whenthere are the lost still going to hell. Thats why the Christ came, didnt he. He came to bringsalvation. He came to bring love. The true Light of power, love and eternity came into thenatural realm. Oh, glory! Turn to John 1. John 1:6. There was a man sent from God, whosename was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness to the Light, that all throughhim might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. Thatwas the true Light, which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in theworld, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. He came to hisown, and his own did not receive him. But as many as received him, to them gave the rightto become children of God, to those who believe on his name: Who were born, not of blood,nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of God. So we see here we havethose who believe in him have the right to be come children. He had to come as a child togive the right for someone to become a child. Does everybody get it? Everything that youand are granted to do, he has already done. If he didnt do it, then you and I dont haveaccess to it to do it. Thats why he came as a man. He came just like any other fleshcreature. Right? Except that his flesh was the word. The word became flesh, and now yourflesh is to become the word. Through the anointing. Oh, hallelujah. 1 John 5. And the battlecontinues, the devil still resists! He resists you from knowing. He resists you from learning.He resists you from prospering. He resists you. He wants you to STOP! Hes going to comeagainst you in every area. Thats why the bible says resist him and submit to God and thedevil will flee from you. I John 5, is everybody there? Start at verse 1, the first five verses. Itsays, Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ In fact, in the bible every time you seeJesus it should be Jesus the Christ. In fact the word Christ is a Greek word but the restof the bible is English. So it should be Jesus, the anointed one and his anointing.Hallelujah. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God Now think about that.First of all, most people dont even know what the word Christ is! They know it as Messiah.They know it as Savior. But they do not acknowledge the Christ as the Anointed One! Withthe anointing and power of God! He is the Christ! Glory. Now, Whoever believes that Jesusis the Christ is born of God: and every one who loves him who begat also loves him who isbegotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, andwhat? keep his commands. In other words, you are abiding in him. For this is the love of


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God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. Why?Because you cant do it in your own flesh. But you can do it in the anointing . For whatever isborn of God overcomes the world Glory. Overcomes the world. Whats in the world? Lustof the eye, lust of the flesh and pride of life. Overcomes the world. It doesnt mean youwont be tempted. It doesnt mean you wont be attacked. But you will overcome. Whoeveris born of God thats why its a state of being. If you are born again if you are in the stateof being born again, you overcome. Why? Because the anointing is there . And the devilscant they have to flee. Thats why there are the three chambers of the tabernacle. Theouter court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Right. See when you get saved, you aresaved. Youre conceived. But when the Holy Ghost comes and birthed that seed, you areborn again. And the anointing is there. But let me tell you this, it is a state of being also.Because you can eventually go back to that state of fallen away. See thats why it is ourresponsibility to maintain the anointing so that we stay in the state of being born again!!Thats why Jesus said come and learn from me. Oh, hallelujah. Verse 4 again, For whateveris born of God overcomes the world. Praise God. Thats simple enough. It doesnt take arocket scientist to figure that out. Hallelujah. The devil does cause confusion and all kinds of stuff. Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that hasovercome the world, our faith. Wow! Our faith. So, see if you believe, you follow. What areyou following? Youre following the Lord by what? Faith. See the more you abide, the morethe anointing of God is on you. The more the presence of God is expressed on you andthrough you! You will have more victories if you are walking in that state. You will have morefailures if you are walking in the saved state than the born again state. Because its theanointing Remember the anointing is what came into the world. Amen? Who is he thatovercomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? Praise God. BelieveJesus is the Christ and we overcome by obedience to the commands. Go to 2 Corinthians 5.Glory!! Oh, youre going to see this differently. Listen, Im not trying to Thats why theycall it Christ mas. Christ mass. Its a fellowship. You remember what those masses are?You know where you went when you were a kid? It didnt hit you but you hit it. You went inthere and came out the same way. It was a representation of a gathering. It was arepresentation of a celebration or a feast. So they gather to acknowledge the Christ. Thatswhat they call Its not X-mas, its Christ mas. Hello. Some people put the X there. ForChristmas. They are actually cutting him off. But most people dont know that when they arecelebrating Christmas, that its about the coming of the Anointed One and his anointing.Think about all the years that we celebrated Christmas with the wrong attitude or deceivedknowledge. You know we looked at this little baby in a manger. Goochy, goochy, goo! Awyeah thats God. Yeah we would say its God but its hard to see God in that baby. But seewhen we understand that he had to be all things so that you and I could become the child so that we could be born again. All these things, he had to do or we couldnt get it. Glory! 2Corinthians 5. Oh, its a wonderful day. Whew! Come on, lift your hands to heaven and get adrink, its okay. Nobody will scold you for getting a drink. Praise God. Were going to becelebrating a holy day. Every day is a holiday! Every day is Christmas! Every day isThanksgiving for me and you! Every day is the Sabbath! Hey what did he say? He said bejoyful! How are you going to be joyful? You need to get drunk! Lift your hands to heaven!How are you going to get some peace? Let me tell you, you need to get rid of yourself! Goahead and lift your hands to heaven! Thank you Lord!! Peace, joy and righteousness in theHoly Ghost! In the Christ! Glory! 2 Corinthians 5:16. Come on read this with me. I want youto get this. The Lords Christ. Thats what we are talking about today. Therefore from nowon, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according tothe flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. In other words, we are not acknowledgingthe flesh part any longer. Does everybody get it? See when we mention the name of Jesus,were not talking about the Jesus of the natural realm. Its the name of the Christ! I mean,dont get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with having a picture of Jesus. It reminds you of


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what he has done. But thats not who we are acknowledging now. We are acknowledging theChrist! The Christ had to come and put on flesh and come into the world so that you and Icould receive his Spirit. The Spirit of Christ! But religion Religion has still got him on thecross. Thats why he said dont acknowledge Jesus in the natural in the flesh. He came asa Jewish boy. Amen? Amen, weve got somebody who agrees in here. But hes no longerJewish. Hes the Christ! But the Jew was chosen to spread the message of the Christ. If hehad chosen the Italians we would have had trouble! There would have been too manyconcrete shoes around! [Laughter.] Hey Ive got an offer, man! You cant refuse. Youaccept Jesus or die! [More laughter.] So he knew he had to choose a Jew. Praise God. Youcan drink some more. Its alright. See, its supposed to be called fun day not Sunday.Glory!! So we are not to acknowledge him in the natural anymore. Amen? Hes the Christ!Go to verse 17. Therefore if anyone is what? in Christ, In other words, if you arebaptized in the Spirit, you are in the Christ. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a what? new creation. I want to share something with you. When people accept Jesus Christ as Lordand Savior, you know they are not all brand new right away, are they. In fact, they goaround, Yeah, Im born again! Praise God! Lets go party. Im born again! Lets gofornicate! They are not born again. Hello. Theyre not in a born again state. See if you arein Christ if you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, you become a new creation. Oldthings have passed away and all things have become new. Im telling you, you seedifferently. You hear differently. You speak differently. Amen? Now sometimes, its instant BAM! And sometimes its gradual. I sure wish it was instant for everyone. You know, likeQuaker Oats - five minutes - your done! Everybody eats! Alright, praise God. Just dress it upa little bit and wolf it down. But its not that way. God knows exactly how to deal with aperson sometimes he is waiting for that person to get in a position where they truly cry outto God. See because your prayers actually cause circumstances in peoples lives. Your prayercant rescue anybody! You mean my prayer doesnt rescue anybody? No. What your prayerdoes is cause a circumstance in that persons life for God to rescue them. Hello. Now lets goa little further. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passedaway, all things have become new. Now all things are of God who has reconciled us tohimself through Jesus the Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. So listen,there is a ministry when we are in Christ, called reconciliation that has been granted to youautomatically. Why? Because didnt he just say when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, youwould be a what? witness. A witness will always cause reconciliation. So you see thatautomatically you have been given the ministry of reconciliation. Wow! In verse 19, That is,that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses tothem; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Wow! Now go to verse 20, look atthis. You not only have a ministry of reconciliation but check this out. Now then, we arewhat? ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us, we implore you onChrists behalf, be reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, thatwe may become the righteousness of God. So two things happened here. You have aministry called reconciliation and you become an ambassador of the anointing. Doeseverybody got it? So that when somebody gets saved, you dont say okay just go your merryway, accept Jesus Christ as you Lord and Savior and see ya! No. You introduce them to theHoly Spirit. Why? Because its your responsibility that Christ be birthed in them. See thatswhy I dont like oh, yes Jesus will save you. Yes he will. But too many people accept Jesusand run. They are not willing to do whatever it takes so that Christ the character can bebirthed in them. They become religious. They become very offensive. All kinds of things.Because thats the flesh, isnt it. And you have to remember Whats the devil doing?Trying to prevent you from turning into the fullness of Christ. See now that Christ dwells in ushe wants to have his way in every area. So he comes in there and begins to knock you off your seat, you know. Yeah, your lust for money? Gotta get out of here! That pornographyhas to go! And all those other things that are associated with the world. Your rebellion has


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to go! See now you have to agree with him. Hell only push so far he will say come on andturn it over. And if you refuse okay. He wont force himself, will he. Glory to God. 1Timothy 2:1. Therefore, I exhort first of all that, supplications, prayers, intercessions, andgiving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all who are in authority; that we maylead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good andacceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who desires all men to be saved, and to come tothe knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself as a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Forwhich I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, (I am speaking the truth in Christ, and notlying) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Wow! The Lords Christ. Go to Philippian4:10. You know there is a difference when you are baptized in the Christ. You no longer goto bars. Hello. You no longer compromise in those areas. You dont promote the things of the world. You just dont do that. You come out of the world. You dont laugh at dirty jokes.Its appalling. There are things that you no longer do because to you then the things youthought were clean or funny are now dirty. Because of the purity of Christ thats in you now.It begins to change you. You no longer when you find yourself exaggerating, you getconvicted. Oh, Im sorry Lord. I exaggerated on that and Im sorry. There is no longer acovering up or justifying the things that are not acceptable to God. They are being exposednow. There is no more blaming everybody for your stuff. There is now an acceptance and ataking responsibility. No more hiding. But telling the truth because you realize these thingsare making you more and more free. There is no more an area of wanting to do it your way.You become more surrendered. Because in Christ you are beginning to know who he is. Andyou are beginning to trust him. You begin to realize now you become more sensitive toeverything that goes on around your life. Hes there. You know that I know if my wifecomes up and rubs my shoulders, I know the Lord has sent her because I must have aproblem there. Does everybody understand that? See you begin to look beyond the veil.Thats not just the things in the natural realm. You see things differently. You have neweyesight. Things are wonderful. You should have seen when the Lord restored my wife andmyself when she saw me, she thought I was bonkers. Of course, I was. I wasnt of thisworld and there was a definite amen to that. I was looking at plants that I never saw. Bugs.Whoa, look at the colors! There were things that I never saw I couldnt see beyondmyself!! I began to see I began to recognize that Gods creation was awesome!! Whoa,look at these trees - look at the bark! I mean, you look at this human body and whoa!!!Look Ive got blood flowing how can this I mean it does what I say it does!! I can movethis leg!!! This is incredible! I am a Spirit in this earth suit! And it obeys! Wow, I can movemy leg, everything! I mean, come on. You cant tell me there isnt a God. Wow! Hallelujah.Philippians 4, did we go there yet? But I what? Oh, hallelujah! What are those two things?Peace, joy and righteousness in the Holy Ghost! And I what? Rejoiced! Dont hang aroundmiserable believers. Depart from them. If they say, Where are you going? Arent you goingto help me now [Laughter.] Lift the book up and send them to their closet where they cango pray for a while. And if you are miserable, dont tell anybody you know Jesus! Becausethen people are going to say, How are you doing? [Pastor mimicks a whining believer.] Ithought you were a believer? I am. But Im still waiting on the Lord! [Pastor mimics angrywhining believer saying that.] Oooo, happy one, arent you. Go through the drive throughand get a happy meal and youll be okay. Hallelujah! Go to the drive through of Jesus andget a happy meal! Amen? But I what? Rejoice and we sing that, [pastor sings] Rejoice,rejoice Emmanuel But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of mehas flourished again; though you surely did care but you lacked opportunity to express it or toshow it. Not that I speak in regard to need: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, [Hello.Whatever state you be--] to be what? C-o-n-t-e-n-t. I know how to be abased, and I knowhow to abound: everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry,both to abound and to suffer need. Are you ready? But I can do all things through Christ who


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strengthens me. In other words, you can do all things through the what? The Anointing . ATHINGS! Hallelujah. Go to Colossians 3:1, is everybody there? Lets read it together please.Colossians 3:1, If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, whereChrist is Where is he? Hes above. Hallelujah. Sitting where? At the right hand of God theFather. Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. For you died and your lifeis hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you shall also appearwith him in glory. Praise God! You dont have to figure it out. You just have to believe it.Trust. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth Why? Because we donot want to nullify Christ. fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness,which is idolatry: Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In which you yourselves once walked, when you lived in them. But now youyourselves are to put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds;And have put on the new man, who is renewed in the knowledge according to the image of him who created him: [Whoa!] Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision noruncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. So were goingto appear with him. Hallelujah. Does everybody get it? Good. Lets go to Ephesians 5:11.And he says okay, And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of what? darkness, butrather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by themin secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light [which is the Christ]for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore he says, awake you who sleep, arise fromthe dead and Christ will give you light. Whoa! Ephesians 3:14. For this reason I bow myknees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earthis named; that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthenedwith might through his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts throughfaith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saintswhat is the width, and the length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ,which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now go tochapter 4. Hallelujah. So we know that the Spirit of Christ is within us. Now we have tolearn, dont we. See without the Spirit of Christ in you, its difficult to learn. Thats why Paulsaid How are you going to get Jesus even said, Listen, if I tell you the things of the earthand you cant get it, how are you going to get the things of the Spirit? Well you must havethe Spirit in you to get the things of the Spirit of God. Thats why he says in chapter 4 inverse 11, [ Ephesians 4:11] And he himself gave some to be what? apostles; someprophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers; for what? the equippingof the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ : Till we acome in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, tothe measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ of the fullness of Christ. So that must belearned. That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about withevery wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, and cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.By the voice of the stranger. You know people are still being led by the voice of the strangerbecause they have not learned Christ yet. Oh, hallelujah. But speaking the truth in love, maygrow up Hello. Everybody say grow up. in all things, into him who is the head, Christ.From whom the whole body joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, accordingto the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth to the body, forthe edifying of itself in love. Glory to God. The Lords Christ. Everybody got it? Good.Everybody get it? Good. Praise God. Thank you Lord. Now Father we thank you for theSpirit of Christ. And we ask Lord, that this seed, this revelation, this impartation will beprotected by the Blood and sealed by the Spirit, to grow and bear fruit for your glory, that wemay pass this information, maintaining our ministry of reconciliation and ambassadors of theChrist, in Jesus name. And everybody said? AMEN.

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