Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] We're so thankful for a man that has set a foundation in our house and is going to continue just to be a friend and a minister here. So we welcome you, Ben. Thank you. There's a lot we can say about him, but I'm just going to prophesy that by next Holy Spirit conference, this man is going to be engaged. I don't know.
[00:00:23] I don't know.
[00:00:27] I'm just prophesying that by next Holy Spirit conference, you're going to be engaged.
[00:00:33] I don't know.
[00:00:45] I feel the Lord all over that word.
[00:00:48] I feel. I don't know if I need to preach. I just. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Well, I know why I came now to Portland. My assignment's completed by that word.
[00:00:58] I'm just gonna move some of this back. Is that okay with you precious musicians? I love you. I'm a musician. I know. I get it. I just don't want to hit any good. Thank you. Oh, you're the best. You're the best.
[00:01:10] Dylan.
[00:01:11] Yeah, Dylan, Vincent, and then Demi and Benjamin, we'll just jump up here. We're just going to pray real quick for sick. For sick things, for sicknesses, for miracles to happen. Before I get into the message, these are some of my team. Dylan's your team, but he's my old team. So Vincent and Demi, they're both German. They're both pastors. They're true German shepherds. And so they're both.
[00:01:38] And then.
[00:01:40] And then Benjamin works with me. He's my assistant, and he looks like.
[00:01:45] Like he's in the military, which I need that. So anyway, we. They're all filled with the Holy Ghost. We've all been pressing in last night, even this morning. We've been praying a lot in the spirit for you. We really go into this thing when we stand on these stages. We take it very, very seriously that we speak to God's children, and we want to pray for miracles. I want you to stand up if there's anybody in this room. You're having continual migraines. Like, constant migraines have been 10 years, 15 years, or maybe even less five years. But you have constant migraines. They come back. Would you stand up if that's you?
[00:02:15] And I know this church is no longer a Slavic church. Really? You are Slavic. You're more. You're a mix. But I just want to always say, like, don't ever sit down because you're culturally taught to sit down. Always be bold if you hear the word of the Lord. So is there Anybody else?
[00:02:31] You have migraines.
[00:02:33] Okay. Anything else, guys?
[00:02:36] Yeah, I felt like if you have issues with eyesight, like you don't have clear vision or you have like, maybe one eye is dark or like you don't see properly. I felt the word on that.
[00:02:52] Yeah. This one's a bit random, but I feel someone here has a problem with their neck, like a neck injury. You have stiff neck? I don't know. Yeah, yeah, cool.
[00:03:03] Just stay on that one. Is there anybody here has a weird injury with their neck, strange injury that you had, like a. Maybe a sporting injury or maybe an accident? Yeah, this guy here. Okay. And this woman as well, right next to each other. Good. We're going to pray for this.
[00:03:18] I heard the word pancreas.
[00:03:21] If anyone has issues in their pancreas.
[00:03:24] I see a couple of people and just in general in their digestion system, feel like maybe even lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance. That's you.
[00:03:38] I felt limited mobility or like partial paralysis in your right arm.
[00:03:44] Can you stand? Like, right arm. Give me a wave if it's you, just so I can see some people in the room. Okay.
[00:03:50] Partial paralysis in your right arm. And then I also felt the whole conference that God was healing people of arthritis. Like, even resetting arthritis in people's bodies, like in your joints. Even like God doing a sign and a wonder in your joints. So I just release that right now. And then I also felt short term memory loss.
[00:04:11] If you've been struggling with memory loss, can you stand? Can you just give me a wave too, if that's you, just so I can see some people in the room. There's some. Okay, thank you, Lord.
[00:04:21] And then I also hear, like, someone has fear of losing their hearing.
[00:04:27] Something to do with hearing. Like, something to do with fear of losing your hearing.
[00:04:34] Yeah. Okay. There's some hands at the back, too. Thank you, Lord.
[00:04:39] And then last one for me. I sense somebody has a, like, sensitive, like, eyes to light.
[00:04:46] Like something to do with your eyes and the light.
[00:04:48] Can you just wave your hand? Okay, there's a few people. Okay, thank you, Lord.
[00:04:54] Guys, for you standing and for those sitting, I want to tell you something. The book of Hebrews, chapter eight says this, says we have a covenant now with better promises. Better promises. So the old covenant, they had a promise where Israel went out of captivity. And it says this. Of 3 million plus people, there was no one feeble among them. Not one. Think about laying brick for 40 years and being whipped. And then all of a sudden when they got set Free. There was also a physical restoration of their soul and body that took place. I would encourage you to believe right now that there is nothing at all you can do for this to happen except receive anything supernatural is beyond the natural means that you have.
[00:05:32] So all you can really do right now in this moment is go. God, I believe in who you are and who you say you are. I believe in these better promises and for those around them. Do you believe that your hands can be used as a vessel for those promises?
[00:05:44] Okay, so you know what to do. Pray with faith. Don't pray with unbelief. Don't pray. Our Father, if you want pray with authority, declare over these people. Just go to them and say, what. What miracle do you need? Ask them. Go to the ones around them. You know what to do, right? Church. Go for it now. You can go now. I mean, yeah, yeah. Go to them and say, what do you need? And just pray with faith.
[00:06:05] And some of you may feel it's an evil spirit or something from.
[00:06:09] From the enemy.
[00:06:10] Just pray with faith.
[00:06:13] We ask you this morning for unusual miracles.
[00:06:18] Unusual miracles.
[00:06:20] Hearing Seeing miracles.
[00:06:48] What's.
[00:07:43] Okay. Pray with faith one more time. Just ask the Lord, say, father, we thank you for the authority of your better promises. Restore your daughter, Restore your son.
[00:08:08] Just a 30 more seconds now. If you're receiving prayer, then receive, receive, receive. Grace is like rain. Just receive it in the.
[00:08:19] Thank you, Lord.
[00:08:24] Praise you, my king.
[00:08:27] Praise you, Father. We love you, Father.
[00:08:34] Right now we pray for unusual miracles, quick healings, restoration.
[00:08:40] But God gave me authority over this one with migraines. So if you have migraines, just put your hand up if that's for you.
[00:08:46] In the authority of Jesus name right now, Father, I ask you to remove them. And I command any afflicting spirit connected to those migraines in Jesus name. Get off.
[00:08:57] Get off those people right now. I command that off your mind in the authority of Jesus name. Thank you, God.
[00:09:06] Thank you, God. Now ask these people, some of them cannot check it. It's internal. But turn around to them. Don't leave them. Just ask them, say, how are you doing? What's going on?
[00:09:16] Just check with them. What's happening?
[00:09:22] The guy with the arm or the people with the.
[00:09:25] What's happened here?
[00:09:28] Someone's either making noise because they're happy to be at church or there's someone who's been healed. What happened there? Did someone get healed?
[00:09:35] What happened?
[00:09:40] You're hearing. Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:45] Something's happening in you right now. Okay. Praise the Lord. Yes, thank you, Jesus. Anything Else, Ask the ones with the arms if they can check their arms or their neck, the eyesight. Put your hands up and wave your hands up high if you know God's doing something.
[00:10:01] If you sense something, change. What happened with your arms? Was it your arm?
[00:10:06] Your neck is the mobility. Come back.
[00:10:09] Praise the Lord. Come on, we got to celebrate everything Jesus does. That's awesome.
[00:10:14] Anything else?
[00:10:16] Anybody else?
[00:10:18] Wave your hands high if you know something took place. A lot of those words were internal, but we have to. We have to just. I just want to honor God, what he does in the room. Yeah. What happened to you?
[00:10:31] Arthritis.
[00:10:34] Okay. And how do you know the arthritic thing is being healed? How can you tell?
[00:10:39] You felt the pain leave. Are you in constant pain? Usually.
[00:10:43] Wow. Come on. Praise the King of glory. That's awesome. Thank you, Father. Thank you, my Lord.
[00:10:51] Anybody else? We missed? We missed anybody. Yeah. What happened there?
[00:10:58] What is it?
[00:10:59] Your knees? How long have that. How long have you had that for?
[00:11:03] Five years or more.
[00:11:10] Wow. You felt fire in both of them. Come up here. Come up here.
[00:11:16] Yeah, it's all right.
[00:11:18] Dylan can go down there with you. You had five years of knee problems. All right, I'm gonna ask you. I'm gonna ask you to run with him, but first I want to check how bad was the pain?
[00:11:29] Like a 6 out of 10. Every day? Every day. Like, right now. Like, as they were praying, I'm like, it's still really painful. Like, I just wanted to sit down, but I stayed standing. And she like, there's just, like, heat in both of my knees. Praise the Lord.
[00:11:44] Now, would it be normal. Would it be normal that you could run?
[00:11:48] No, not really. No. Not without pain. Not without severe pain. Could you jog just right up to Pastor Roman and back.
[00:11:56] Where's Pastor Roman gone? I don't know where he went. Oh, there he is.
[00:11:59] You might be jogging for a while. If we can't find him. All right, just go to him and back. Just jog and then back, and I want to see if there's pain.
[00:12:09] No pain.
[00:12:11] No pain.
[00:12:12] Are you sure?
[00:12:14] Give the king of glory praise. Thank you, my Lord. Thank you, Father. Wonderful.
[00:12:20] Is there anybody else?
[00:12:22] Anybody else? Something happened. Yeah. What happened?
[00:12:27] Yep.
[00:12:31] Yes.
[00:12:32] Yeah.
[00:12:34] So your neck would be. Be stuck in one position.
[00:12:38] Weird things. Yeah, Benjamin said that weird things of the neck. Okay. Yeah. That is kind of weird if you're just stuck in one position the whole time. All right, but now check it. Fully.
[00:12:48] Fully healed. Come on. Praise the King. Thank you, Lord.
[00:12:52] Anybody else? I saw where I saw yeah. What happened with you?
[00:13:03] Sorry, you gotta go preach it to me.
[00:13:08] You had migraines since you were 12.
[00:13:11] How do you know right now that the spirit has delivered you from this?
[00:13:19] So you have pain, usually in the neck and tension in the head.
[00:13:25] Yeah.
[00:13:28] You ask God, take away this discomfort. Yes.
[00:13:33] And you'll testify and you'll tell everybody. Praise the Lord. The Lord likes those people who testify.
[00:13:39] But you are sure?
[00:13:41] I really. I'm a person. I really. And we all are, I believe, hate hype. I. I love to be connected to what God really, really is doing. How do you know? How are you sure?
[00:13:56] How do you know? Just quickly. Joy inside me and. And not the joy, though.
[00:14:02] We could have that from a few medications. Well, I, I. How do you know?
[00:14:06] How do you know the pain is. Is the pain fully gone from your neck and your head? How do I know? It's. It's. It's gone. It's not. Pain's gone. The pain's gone. Of course. Okay. Praise the Lord. All right, good. Praise the King. Good. I just want to check.
[00:14:21] I want to check because sometimes when the healing, anointing, people stand up and they go, I'm healed by faith. I'm like, you're healed by faith. And I love that faith. But also, we want to verify it. But it is verified, and I believe you, because if you had that long, since 12 years of age, that is a mighty miracle that the Lord has done for you. Praise the King. So anybody else?
[00:14:42] Anybody else, just really quick. Yes. You want to preach it at us?
[00:14:50] Yes.
[00:14:56] Okay. He's coming to you. Say that again.
[00:15:00] I had a crushing migraine and pressure on my head, and I'm sensitive to the light. And after the second time of them praying, it decreased by, like, 20%. And then so I said, pray again. And by the fourth or fifth time they prayed, it's gone. It's just completely lifted. Praise the Lord. Yeah, I love that.
[00:15:22] Thank you, Lord Jesus. And thank you, Light sky, for doing that while that happened. All right, that tests her eyes real good. Anybody else we missed? And it's really. Yeah, over there. Look. You got to go right to them because they're really, like, making a lot of noise there.
[00:15:36] Why do we do this church? Why do we check what God does? What does it do? It honors him, number one. What else does it do? It shows you God is no respecter of persons. If he does things for one, if he releases his promises, his goodness, he can do it for many.
[00:15:51] All right. I was in an accident, a really bad accident. When my car flipped about three years ago.
[00:15:57] It's like really emotional.
[00:15:59] Anyways, I hit my head, back of my neck and my lower back really, really badly. Thank God. I had no concussions, but I've had really bad pain where I had to, like, stop doing a lot of things. Anyways, I walked in here with pain in my neck that I haven't had in like maybe a week. So you had three. It was a full on. Car flipped three years ago. Yeah. And you've had it since then? Daily? Almost daily. Okay. Anyways, I haven't had pain in like maybe a week.
[00:16:27] And I walk in here with pain in my neck and I was like, God, what's going on? I'm like, it was finally gone and I got prayed over and it's gone. So come on. Praise your father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
[00:16:44] A little thing like that can restore not only somebody's healing, but their soul.
[00:16:51] It's terrible to go through suffering for many, many years. Is there anybody else that we missed? Anybody? Yes, sir.
[00:17:02] Just. Just give us one second. The camera guy. They're all running to you. We're gonna have to pray for the camera guy in a minute.
[00:17:10] A slight hearing problem. I'd miss the first consonant. The guy's name was Ty. I'd call him Ty. Are you with me? Anyway, she lays hands on my ears right now. They're on fire and burning. And I had a lack of death to me on my neck. And it was stiff. The stiffness is going.
[00:17:29] Come on. Praise the Lord. So good.
[00:17:32] So your hearing's increasing.
[00:17:36] Anybody else we missed anybody else?
[00:17:41] Sorry.
[00:17:43] Yes, ma'. Am. Up the very back.
[00:17:46] Be careful. Camera guys, be careful.
[00:17:48] They're running with a camera.
[00:17:50] All right, this will be the last one.
[00:17:55] Yeah.
[00:17:58] So I came in today with a knot in my stomach.
[00:18:03] I was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia. And I have issues in my digestion along with, the Doctors say, stage four cancer, six to 12 months. And I know that God has told me that he would heal me before my diagnosis or after, but. So I have random intestinal issues every once in a while. And so this morning I came in with a knot in my stomach and I prayed. I had my hand over my stomach and sat down and it was gone.
[00:18:37] Wow. Thank you, Father. Praise the Lord. Amen. Guys, around her.
[00:18:43] Stretch your hands to this woman.
[00:18:46] Sometimes when we ask in our church in Germany one time, I had the whole church ask God for a girl who. A little girl, about 7 years old, 6 years old, who had constant bleeding. She had to Wear every day bandages and woke up with blood all over every morning. Nobody could do anything for her at all. She went all over Europe to doctors. I had the church ask heaven, in agreement.
[00:19:10] There's something that happens when God's children, he's the head, where the designated authority agrees and they make a determination with heaven that this cannot remain. She came back a week later, and her mother was from another religion. She was completely healed. The daughter.
[00:19:25] We declare, and we ask heaven, we ask God for mercy to be proclaimed over this woman's life. Not just over the knots of her stomach, but. But over her entire life as a church God. We ask you, in agreement, would you give this woman life as you extended the days of Hezekiah? We pray in agreement, extend her days in Jesus, mighty name. Do you agree with me?
[00:19:52] Amen. Amen. Would you give God thanks for all he's doing so far.
[00:20:02] Now? Pastor Roman, would it be okay if the clock is reset a little bit? Is that all right with you? Okay. Because I realize it's down a bit and I'm gonna fail.
[00:20:16] Who was here last year when I shared that word about breaking the mic? Just went very nice and very warm atmosphere all of a sudden with that light. Who was here when I said, let's break away from the spirit of control? You remember that?
[00:20:28] How you doing? You doing better?
[00:20:30] Feeling better?
[00:20:32] Is there less gossip?
[00:20:36] I'm looking for a yes. If that's. If there isn't, that's okay. Round two, you know, Round two.
[00:20:47] Would you. Would you do me a favor this morning?
[00:20:51] Would you pray for me? Because I have a really, really strong word from the Lord and.
[00:20:57] And the word is. Is really going to sound. If there's pride inside your life, it's going to sound hard, but it's really, really good and it will bless you. The preaching might not be, but the word of the Lord is. And so. But I actually feel to minister in a way. I don't often do it because I don't like the instability of this. I really have to jump off the cliff and be led by the Holy Spirit. But I want to minister prophetically as I preach to you. So there's going to be different themes in this, but you'll see the red line of God's voice in what I share. But would you just pray for me? Just. I just really need. Just stretch out your hands because I just need you just to pray that God would speak through me. We prayed all morning. We prayed that God would put me on a glove. I want to disappear. I want you to hear what God says.
[00:21:40] Father, use me.
[00:21:42] I praise you for your fire and I praise you. Your word is a sword. It's a hammer, it's a flame.
[00:21:49] Let it cut away darkness.
[00:21:51] Speak to us, God.
[00:21:54] Speak to your people, God, in Jesus name.
[00:22:01] I'm ready, Lord.
[00:22:06] I had a dream last night, and I'm going to share two dreams that I've had recently. And last night I had one with Dylan in the dream.
[00:22:16] I never like to lay a foundation of a sermon on anything except the word of God, but Benjamin, who works for me, came into the room with Vincent and Pastor Demi and Vince.
[00:22:27] They are pastors in our ministry, and they come and we get in this pocket with God before we minister. I really go through this process of really understanding that where I stand, I'm accountable for.
[00:22:41] I'm not here to impress you. I'm only here to deliver what God says and to see him move on you. Like, we need an encounter with the Lord. We don't just need information.
[00:22:50] And a lot of preaching, I feel, is just soul to soul. It's just right to the brain, and it's just in the mind. And you hear these cool points, a cool point, but it really doesn't move us, and we need to be moved. And so I had this dream and I asked the Lord before going to bed, because I had this sort of internal musings last night about selfishness, and I was feeling like God, I'm still so much about Ben Fitzgerald, and it's too much, Lord and Jesus, you gave your life away.
[00:23:20] You gave everything away.
[00:23:23] The Father's will was your delight. You didn't do your will.
[00:23:28] And in the prayer that we prayed through this conference, actually we prayed it. It's come up several times.
[00:23:35] Your kingdom come, your will be done.
[00:23:37] I was moved by the fact that Jesus told the disciples to not just expect that when the kingdom is around, that the will of God is an automatic, automatic thing. It's not. You've still got to pray. The will of God happens. So we think if the kingdom's in the room, God's perfect will is being accomplished. The part, though, about our own soul and our own hearts agreeing with the will of God and getting into this place in prayer, like Hayley ministered so beautifully about last night, where you are conformed and your heart aligns to what God cares about that's so important. So I was just musing with the Holy Spirit, saying, God, I want all selfishness driven out of my soul. I was on the floor last night not even thinking about the evangelist call and those things. She ministered just so beautifully, this precious friend of mine. And she's a friend of the Lord. And so when she ministers, I always pick up on these sort of prophetic veins, like these little rivers, and I jump in them. And I jumped in one last night, and it was all about, for me, selfishness.
[00:24:35] And so I said, God, I said, you people need a word from you and speak to me in a dream. And then last night, I have a dream, and Dylan is in the dream. And I was in a house with Dylan, a house of the Lord.
[00:24:49] Like this house, I believe it purely represents you.
[00:24:53] And in the dream, there was a woman next to Dylan. And I said, dylan, look at her. She's pregnant.
[00:25:00] She's pregnant right now. And she was. She had a big belly. She was ready, and there was a lot of joy in this house. And then Dylan started to sort of look at her and go, listen, because you're pregnant. And I said, dylan, you gotta tell her. You gotta tell her. And he's like, yeah, I know. I know, too. And he knew it. He goes, because you're pregnant, you've gotta eat different now. You've gotta be careful how you move around. And then he looked at all the other people, and he's like, she has to be careful now, guys. And. And I looked him to her go, guys, we have to protect what's going on here because it's really important.
[00:25:28] And what she eats now, this woman is extremely important.
[00:25:31] And then Benjamin comes into my room for prayer with Pastor Demi and Pastor Vince. They come in to get in this pocket. We get in. And so they're like, what are you feeling? You know? And I'm like, just, let's just pray. Just pray. And I often do that because I want to make sure that it's not my own vision. I want to see a little bit of a. Just an affirmation from God, like, you're on the right track.
[00:25:50] So Benjamin then says, I had a dream last night that I had a baby, and I was trying to feed this baby correctly.
[00:25:58] And he said, I was looking for all the right foods of the child.
[00:26:02] And I knew, okay, thank you, Lord, that this is what you want to say. And then the Holy Spirit was taking me into these scriptures in Zachariah where it's talking about false shepherds and false shepherds.
[00:26:15] What they used to basically do is they. They. You can see this in the wrong way, too, by the way. You can, because now we live in this culture where everything's about, like, A leader versus a sheep. And, and then the sheep are sort of like portrayed as these innocent people that have no brain, just turned off their brain and listened to every wrong sermon. But God holds held Israel equally accountable as the false shepherds. But in this book of Zechariah scripture, Zechariah being a prophet and a priest, predominantly priest, but he's there with God and he's conversing with the Lord and he's saying to God, he's like, what are we going to do about Israel? And he says this, God says, these shepherds, all they care about is their own riches.
[00:26:57] Basically they're selfish and my people are starving. And he gives Zachariah these two rods, beauty and this other rod, and that's this. The one I want to talk about was the rod of burden. There was two beauty and burden. And I was like, God, is this me? You know, I'm always self reflecting in scripture as I'm praying, getting ready. I'm like, okay, God, I don't ever want to be a false shepherd. I want to be a true shepherd who loves your sheep and gives my life to your people. And the Lord just said, keep praying. I put in my heart, keep praying, keep praying. And so I kept reading, kept praying, and I started to understand. And I've read the one in Ezekiel as well. These false shepherds are, were basically people who took vocational ministry as a job description instead of a calling, instead of loving who God loves. They took this as like, this is what we do.
[00:27:47] And they probably did what many churches are doing today. They created probably an echo chamber where everything sounded good, but people were spiritually dying, they were dead. And we live in a generation where if we're not careful and we don't teach the body of Christ how to be discerning, we're going to fall for the trap that the last generation fell for, which is this internal echo chamber of churchianity that doesn't see the real problems of the world, that doesn't see the real needs of God's people, that doesn't know his sheep well and doesn't know his heart well. And ultimately, ultimately in the house of God, from pulpit to the one receiving the word to the one in the home group, ultimately just begins to receive from whatever they can get and begins to create the same system as the world, which is a system of selfishness. Whatever this is all about, I'll get whatever I can get from this. And I won't give to this. I won't lay down my life.
[00:28:43] And Jesus came to lay down his life.
[00:28:46] And the first disciples off the chopping block, first off the assembly line, they were not interested in their callings.
[00:28:53] They didn't talk about their call. They didn't talk about all their prophetic things. All the time. They heard the commands of Jesus Christ.
[00:29:02] They heard his commandments and they followed it to a T.
[00:29:07] They didn't say, well, you know, aren't you so thankful that out of those 12, which became 70, 120, 500, aren't you thankful out of the 12, that nobody ever turned around and said, you know what, John? You're more like the soaking intercessor person. So you're going to kind of love people differently and, and then, and you know, Peter, you're going to be the bold breakthrough guy. You're going to be the church planter Paul. They didn't talk this way. All they talked about was this. We have seen the Messiah. The promise has come. Now we must feed God's people with pure food and we must preach the gospel because the world needs to hear that Christ has come. All the prophecies of all the ages, that salvation has found the earth, that the earth is ready. We must preach salvation.
[00:29:54] And what I'm scared of, what I believe the Lord is showing me, and I believe he's kind of using me as a prophetic voice to cut through a lot of the falsehoods of Christendom. Let's say that we are creating a Christianity without the nature of Christ at its core, without the way of Jesus at its core, and where putting against each other intimacy with God and loving people, we're placing them kind of worlds apart. And we're like, and I love that you've got to hear this right? This is not about anybody. This is not even about, like, Brian the other day, he said it so beautifully. He said, the first commandment and the second commandment, they are like each other. Haley even referenced it, didn't know, but prophetically she said, they're like each other, but the order has to be correct.
[00:30:40] But I saw this picture in my mind of these false shepherds who are teaching people more about the church and more about, like, yay, we saw some amazing things happen. And like, here, check out this testimony of this person. And they're speaking and they're inoculating God's people by making them think that the world is in revival, but it's not. It's dying. It's actually just producing more and more of a slow, subtle, depressing and downplaying of your own discernment that says, hang on, this doesn't fully feel true.
[00:31:14] Like, people do that when they get on stages at different churches when God isn't even moving. His glory is not in the room. But that preacher has learned the language of how to knock your discernment down.
[00:31:24] He's learned the language of how to go, isn't the Lord here so strongly? And everyone then goes, yeah, but inside they're like, no, but he's not here. Something in them knows there's something greatly missing.
[00:31:35] And these false shepherds do this. They don't even mean to. It's a system we've created where we kill discernment, we kill truth. And I love celebrating. If you know me personally, if one person gets saved, I'm the guy. Jump. I'll do backflips off the stage. Like I tell our whole church, all of heaven, all of heaven is celebrating. We must celebrate with them. We must treasure what God does. But there's this thing that comes right next to it that I'm talking about, where then the preacher or the shepherd feeds himself and says, there we go.
[00:32:07] Yay. It's done now. That's amazing. We're reaching the city. Yay. And it's all fake.
[00:32:13] It's not true.
[00:32:15] And God's heart is breaking both for those sheep in his house who are not really whole, who are not really healed. And God loves them.
[00:32:26] You know, in fact, there's a psalm where David says, it says, God has not forgotten, but you have mocked the purpose of the poor.
[00:32:34] What purpose does a poor person have?
[00:32:37] But God says they have purpose.
[00:32:39] There's something special about them. But you've mocked them because you're okay.
[00:32:43] You're doing good.
[00:32:44] And again, there's been so much preaching about intimacy with God, which is wonderful and right. But in John 14, when Jesus said, if you love me, in other words, if you treasure me, if I'm your highest treasure, he said, obey my commands. And then he just follows it straight. With the first command, he says, this is my command that you love, not him.
[00:33:08] And I've watched preachers do this over and over again. Like a tennis match. They hit the ball between the net. We're supposed to love God now. We're supposed to love people. And it's like it's. They're not competing realities.
[00:33:19] They are the same thing. But I'm going to be honest with you, because I'm not a preacher, prophet, person who is. Has anything to gain from you here. In fact, this could cause me to not be welcomed back the Other night I was in Nashville and I did something that could easily have caused me to never be welcomed there again. But what happened, because I did it was the pastor came on the stage and started publicly repenting to his church, saying, I've been wearing a seatbelt. I'm filled with fear. I fear you and I don't tell the truth. He repented. All these people started repenting, saying, I'm a liar. I lie to people. I own a business, but I lie when I sell things. I lie to people. All these people started standing all over the church. I'm in sexual sin. Repentance came. And when repentance comes, a clearing comes, a vision comes. It's clear.
[00:34:05] And so I saw this picture of the first and second command, the first and second command. And I looked up how much Jesus spoke about certain things in the New Testament. What was the order or the mass of what he spoke about? Here's what the main things are. Jesus spoke about these three things in this order the most. Are you ready? He spoke about loving God and the kingdom of God like we give ourselves to the Father, the kingdom of the Lord. We need to know our God. We can't be shallow. We can't get our bread. It's not Sunday bread. It's daily bread. We must be given to the Lord. We must lay our hearts down as our precious brother said and surrender.
[00:34:47] The second thing he spoke of, though, the second thing Jesus spoke the most about loving people, loving others.
[00:34:56] The third thing he spoke about eternity.
[00:35:00] Eternity forever.
[00:35:05] You and me in 70 years will not be in this room.
[00:35:11] We are being prepared for a whole nother dimension of life.
[00:35:16] As shepherds, we have to prepare people with the right healthy food. And you church are in a move of God that is incubating, that is pregnant with so much life and beauty. Remember beauty and bonds, beauty and burdens. You are in a move of God. It's the beginning season of it. And what goes into you, not from this pulpit, not just the mechanics of what goes into leadership teams, what goes into your soul in the way that you posture your life after his heart is so important in this season. It's exceptionally important. And I saw this picture and I'm going to put it on the screen. It's a strange picture, but you'll understand it. It's a picture of a train.
[00:35:59] This picture of this train in the name of Jesus is there. It is. It's not on the screen. Okay, it's on that screen. Good.
[00:36:09] This picture I saw.
[00:36:11] The picture represents something that I saw in my mind, this train has people on the train playing tennis. It has horses, it has people's desires, things that don't belong on that train at all. Tennis matches don't belong on this train. Horses don't belong there. The first carriage of the train. Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. But then is I have my life right after that. I have my house, I have my passion for horses. I have my tennis match, I have my restaurant that I go to eat at all the time. And then somewhere down the furtherest carriage or the optional carriage, whatever carriage I decide it will be, is love your neighbor as yourself.
[00:36:57] But they should be in order.
[00:37:00] But they're not in order.
[00:37:02] They're disordered.
[00:37:04] And I'm telling you right now, the body of Christ is doing a really wonderful job in this season of coming back to intimate worship and Levitical worship to the Lord. We are doing a very poor job of doing the other side of that, which is loving the world.
[00:37:20] And I realized last night how selfish I am, how far these worlds apart are in the house of God. They're not even close. And I think I know why now.
[00:37:29] I think I understand where this is coming from. Do you understand in your heart and in your mind how to tell yourself the truth?
[00:37:36] Do you know how to tell yourself the truth? Or do you only receive when you say good things about you? Or do you only receive when a preacher says, this is how good you are?
[00:37:43] That carriage represents the fact that we love God this season, well, but we are not loving people next.
[00:37:50] There's all this other stuff in between.
[00:37:52] How much do you think about heaven?
[00:37:55] How much do you think about hell?
[00:37:58] I put this survey up on my thing and I said, Instagram said, when's the last time you heard a sermon about hell?
[00:38:04] 97% said, not within three years.
[00:38:07] What makes me.
[00:38:09] Makes me think I know what those preachers don't want. I know what they don't want. They don't want to talk about what could drive someone out of the church. The fastest growing church in America, though, is Philip Anthony Mitchell's church. And that's the one in Atlanta where all he's preaching about is judgment, leaving sin, sexual sin and hell because the body of Christ is dying for true food. They're dying for real shepherds.
[00:38:31] They're burning for real shepherds. Where are they?
[00:38:36] Where is. How did this become about how I can get up here with a microphone? How did this become about my calling?
[00:38:43] I'm so thankful for those 12 men.
[00:38:47] There's a difference between your calling and a commandment.
[00:38:51] The commandment is to love God. If I am selfish and don't love him, it doesn't matter if I'm called to be the biggest prophet in the world and I have all the right prophetic words. Haley said it last night. If it is not coupled with God's fruit, it is dead.
[00:39:06] It's meaningless. God may use me as a vessel, but it's dead.
[00:39:11] What is your life really about?
[00:39:14] Is the second commandment a priority of your soul?
[00:39:20] Has God been able to grip you out of selfishness into selfless love?
[00:39:25] Do you think about heaven? Do you think about hell?
[00:39:29] Now we get into the sermon.
[00:39:32] I had a dream recently, and this is going to really rock you again. This is me preaching prophetically. I didn't prepare all of this the right way. I have to preach this God's way.
[00:39:43] And then we're going to read from Luke 19 so you can get ready for the guys up the back. Luke 19. But I had this dream. And in this dream, an old man was like this on the ground.
[00:39:53] And this is recently, about a month and a half ago, an old man was on the ground. And he looked up at me. He said, ben, look at this. And he was weeping over this giant clock. It was huge. He was just weeping over it. And it was like gold and had all these jewels, and it was perfect, but it was giant, like a huge clock turning. And it was. I've never seen a clock even looked remotely like this. And then there was a group of young, like, kids. And in the dream, I felt like we are all God's. I was like, we are God's children. That was my feeling. I'm like. I looked at these kids. I'm like, I'm one of them. We are God's kids. And then he looked at me, the old man. He said, ben, do you know this clock? He said, you know this clock? And I said, yes, I do know that clock. And I said, but I've never seen it before. And he said. And then he looked back down. He was moving parts of the clock and putting things in this old man. Beautiful man. And then he turned around and he looked at me, and he looked at all the group, and he was weeping. And he said, do you know how much this clock is worth?
[00:40:58] And when he spoke the next sentence, the whole room was like a swirl. It, like, reverberated through the room. It echoed through the whole room. His voice. That's how I knew it was the Father God speaking. And he was just bawling over this clock as he was moving it around. And I'm looking at it now. All of us are looking at the clock like, look at it, look at it. And look at him with the clock. And he turned and looked at me, and he said, this clock. And he's just weeping. He goes, it's worth. And when he said this sentence, it just. The whole room went like. He said, it's worth millions, millions like that. And I was like, it's worth millions. And then I work out of the dream, and I heard eternity, eternal life, eternity, time, seasons, eternity, the plan of God, the love of God. And this Father was weeping over every single part of eternity.
[00:41:58] And I woke up and I was like, God, I'm not like this.
[00:42:03] I don't see what you are seeing.
[00:42:08] And Jesus, when he appeared on the earth, in so many words, Jesus said, I am the Father.
[00:42:16] This is the way the Father looks.
[00:42:18] Jesus came into the house of God and he taught.
[00:42:21] He didn't compete one v, the other, never.
[00:42:25] He taught the children of God. He revealed the nature of the Father, but he was so gripped with eternity that he would constantly leave and go to someone who never met God in their entire life, who was lost.
[00:42:39] And my question to you is, is your heart actually aware that you are sitting in a chair right now where you were never sitting and you were going against God before you were in this room? And God was constructing through people that your eternal destiny would collide with his? You would still have a choice, but you were not always here.
[00:43:02] You were not always in this room, but you feel like you were right.
[00:43:07] And so I've been processing this for six weeks and praying God, why? And thinking through, why is it that there's so much Christian stuff in our churches where it's like, they preach, yay, there's two people who got saved. Yes, I want to celebrate. But it's like everyone just goes home thinking the job is done, the city's being moved, and it's not.
[00:43:28] Where we live in Germany, between the age of 15 and 29, 1.5% of them follow God. That's all.
[00:43:35] And so to go. We're in revival. People come to our church. This is like, revival. I'm like, no, no, no. It's like, revival. Yeah, like.
[00:43:43] But most of us don't even think about eternity.
[00:43:46] Our mind isn't on hell. Our mind, we love God. We're getting that. And that's important that we build this pillar correctly. That baby has to have intimacy. The dynamics that the food must be processed perfectly into her of intimacy. God loves me. I am sheltered by God. I'm covered. This isn't by works, it's by grace. All that, that, that diet must be in her, in the, in the house of the Lord, in the bride.
[00:44:11] But the, the next part of the diet is to love your neighbor as yourself.
[00:44:17] And I heard this atheist say, if you really believe that I am going to hell, and this is a world famous atheist. And he said it with this sort of vehement fire. He said, if you really believe that I'm going to hell, you must, you must have some kind of a hatred, some kind of wickedness. Must be in your heart to really believe that I am going to hell. And you won't tell me about it.
[00:44:41] You are not moved by it.
[00:44:43] He was shocked at the inoculation of the soul of or the busyness, this Christian acceptable sin of busyness that we are just so busy with. Even the Christendom stuff. And some of it's really, really good, but some of it is actually killing you. It's lowering your discernment.
[00:45:02] It's causing you to not even see yourself correctly.
[00:45:05] It's causing you not to think of, I will give an account for my life.
[00:45:10] You will. You're saved. But you'll give an account.
[00:45:13] Think about where Jesus said the two times that he said these things will be rejected at the throne. You think about what they. Are you ready? I did miracles. This is good because he makes it clear. There's a big contrast here. He says, I did miracles, I healed the sick. And he says, I never knew you. Depart from me. Unacceptable. In the kingdom of God. And then in the same book of Matthew. What does he say? But, but God, we loved you. We prayed the temple in as much as you did not do it to the least of these. You didn't go to prison, you didn't care.
[00:45:43] Depart from me.
[00:45:45] First commandment, second commandment. We'll be judged in unto these two things.
[00:45:51] These two things will be the predominant judgment. So the birthing of revival has to carry these two things perfectly.
[00:46:00] It has to be complete.
[00:46:02] It can't be like one is really intimate and the other one is like dying. And then a couple of evangelists have to resurrect it every few months.
[00:46:12] It's a mockery to God's love for us. And what I think happens is it's not you purposely doing this. I'm just speaking at the pride of those demons that inoculate Christians.
[00:46:22] I'm speaking at the pride. I'm not talking to you, to your heart. I don't think it's your fault or mine.
[00:46:28] But I did say to God last night, I'm very selfish and I'm aware and I praise you that the lights come on.
[00:46:36] I praise you. The lights shine in my heart.
[00:46:39] Brian said it two days ago. He said, when the word of God comes in, what happens? The light begins to shine.
[00:46:45] So Jesus said, inasmuch as you have not done it to the least of these my brethren, but also those who are in prison, poor, naked, destitute, blind, oppressed, and they can be a blind billionaire or a blind homeless man.
[00:47:03] The point is that my love which is turned on heavenward has to be the same love, like it turned on to people.
[00:47:10] Otherwise a whole part of me is nothing like Jesus.
[00:47:14] Does that feel like pressure? Probably because all these other things that we're carrying, all those other carriages are in the middle of those two loves.
[00:47:22] Does that feel like pressure? Feel for sure. Because there's so much other stuff people have thrown at you that you think you need to do to be a Christian. But the truth is those are the things you'll be judged on.
[00:47:32] Even like, oh, we need to do three day fast or the Bible doesn't say there's a certain time of fasting you need to do. Oh, we need to do prayer mountains and wave the flags and go over the mountain. That's amazing. I love it. Please go up there. Please take out that 10 headed demon for us. Do it. Do that thing. Blow the shofar as much as you can. Shofar so good with me, it's great. But what you need to understand, What I need to understand is I need self reflection and I need true preaching of the gospel. The true preaching of the gospel is not just about us, it's about people.
[00:47:59] You cannot live selfish and call it Christianity.
[00:48:03] God will drive at that thing. You'll always live with this part of you that feels like, why am I giving something to people?
[00:48:09] The river inside you will always be coming toward you.
[00:48:13] And if you reject it and close that part of your heart down, you'll go blind. You won't see.
[00:48:19] Do you understand what I'm saying?
[00:48:22] Turn to your Bible in the book of Luke 19.
[00:48:32] I know this is strong, but I really do love you because I'm like Uncle Ben at this church.
[00:48:39] Like this is like my church of America, Portland. I'm a Midwest man now.
[00:48:49] Chapter 19.
[00:48:53] It's going to get a bit stronger.
[00:48:57] By the way, if you're called to the ministry and you think this pulpit and you Think someone taught you you have to get up here and mechanically tell people that God's moving and he's not even moving that much. Just be honest.
[00:49:07] Just learn to be honest.
[00:49:08] Just learn to help people discern. Learn how to help people's eyes come open and go. Father Church, I feel we missed a moment. Let's go deeper with the Lord there. Or just be honest. Go church. We saw four people saved the last month. That is wonderful. But we're sitting in a church of 1500 and only four, only maybe three of us led someone to Jesus Christ. And that means that our love is just staying within our community. It's not going anywhere.
[00:49:34] And what you have to remember is you were not here.
[00:49:39] The Father loves eternity.
[00:49:41] He loved you so much.
[00:49:44] I've never had a dream like that.
[00:49:51] You should still have your calling.
[00:49:55] But I've seen people take the calling of God and then crush the commandment of God by calling it their calling.
[00:50:06] I don't need to go and pray and seek the Lord over someone's soul. Someone else will do this. I don't need to love the poor. That's not my calling.
[00:50:15] It doesn't matter. That comes after your commandment.
[00:50:19] The commandment comes first. The twelve disciples looked at Jesus and they didn't go, hey, you know what, Jesus? You haven't made this individual enough.
[00:50:27] Because they weren't selfish. They had just been saved out of hell.
[00:50:31] Now I'm going to show you where this creeps in. And please hear me. All of this is with love. I know this. I'm just saying this because some of it might not sound like it is, but I know my own heart. I really pray thoroughly and I pray to have my heart so clean and that I just be a vessel of his word.
[00:50:47] Thank you.
[00:50:50] If it lands on you and you do something with it, I'll be happy.
[00:50:54] Here's what I'll say to you. Here's why I think we don't care. You ready?
[00:50:57] Put your hand up if you do care though, right? You do, don't you? You do.
[00:51:01] But let's say it like this.
[00:51:03] Here's why the care doesn't become a life.
[00:51:06] Here's why all those other busyness that blocks the love. Here's why you go to the cafe and you have no regard at all that the person sitting there is going to hell. Here's why you don't even think about it. You ready? Many of you were brought up in church and you blended into Christianity.
[00:51:22] Instead of being born again, you are blended again.
[00:51:26] What I'm saying to you is this. You walked into church as a kid. Did God see you for sure? But you don't understand. You are still under wrath. The Bible says Clearly in John 3:16, God so loved the world he gave his only son. Whosoever should believe in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Same chapter. Those who do not believe, the wrath of God abides on them.
[00:51:44] Ephesians, chapter two. You were by nature children of wrath. What is a child of wrath? What does that mean? Child of offense. Offensive to God. You were not blending in because God liked you.
[00:51:58] You didn't go to church and God went. I liked that person so much. You were still, even as a kid, under wrath. But what happened? Jesus saw this woman who grabbed him and weeped over his feet with her hair. And he said this sentence. He said, those who have forgiven much, love much.
[00:52:14] And so much of the American church blended into this relationship with God. And subconsciously, somewhere in your thinking, you've been taught again, it's inoculation. It's the lowering of your own discernment, the spirit speaking truth to you, or the word cutting you like a sword. You've been taught that God kind of some voice and sort of says to you that you're so important.
[00:52:35] That's why God saved you, because you're just so important.
[00:52:39] And I know we have created value. I know Genesis 1, we are made in his image. But we were not like God.
[00:52:47] And because I got saved when I knew I wasn't like God, I loved much.
[00:52:53] And the girl that comes in here who was a stripper, she will love much. She'd be like, she's so on fire. Why?
[00:52:59] Because she couldn't blend into righteousness. She couldn't blend into God's hand on her life. She couldn't blend into her calling.
[00:53:08] She understood she had nothing to offer heaven.
[00:53:11] So what is the response of her life? I have won the lottery. You are the greatest treasure of my life. Your commands, whatever they are, I'll do them.
[00:53:20] The 12 disciples around Jesus, we think they're all around him all the time. They're just hanging out. They love him. He's just so nice to be around. Peter, he's standing with Jesus on a boat. The first time he meets him, he said, go away from me. I'm a sinful man.
[00:53:33] When Paul the apostle, who could have easily blended in Brian shared this verse, Paul could have said, hey, I know Gamaliel Benjamin Tribe Bible, Bible, Bible, I've got you. I'm going to KO Chess Match you, I'll win every chess match of scripture. He could have said anything like that. But I believe when he met Jesus on that road, it was more like this. They're on that horse. And he's on that horse on the road, and he's going to vehemently destroy believers. He's going with this righteous zeal of why he thinks he's doing God's will, will. And then as he's on that horse, just clicking on through, the Lord comes to him. And I've. I've actually had an experience like this. Not like Paul, but guys, I had one experience where the Lord let me hear his voice for about three seconds in heaven.
[00:54:11] And I. It's terrified me in a right way. It's hard to explain it because. And guys, I want to say something to you right here.
[00:54:19] Some of you are hearing me, and you're like, this isn't the preaching that I like best. And I don't believe God would say it that way. You. You know how arrogant it is. This is where I feel. I'm so selfish. Sometimes I sit there, even on the front row, I hear someone preach, and I'm like, God would say it this way. It's more about love. Like, I'm so arrogant to think that God only speaks in my language.
[00:54:37] Like, how God showed me. He's like, ben, you think that I'm only going to talk the way you think I'll talk through you.
[00:54:43] God has many voices.
[00:54:45] He has many things to lay upon his house, truths and foundations.
[00:54:50] But he wants to restore the beauty of holiness. That's number one. And the burden of God's love for the world, the beauty of intimacy and the burden. Those two yokes, they belong to us. But false shepherds have stolen them from you.
[00:55:04] Now you have a team of true shepherds.
[00:55:06] You are going to be the difference. You are going to break down the house of Ahab, which is a complacent leader who just preaches what sounds good and doesn't mature you.
[00:55:17] But I saw Jesus one time. Like, I had this vision. He let me see, and he was speaking from the throne. And it's exactly what revelation says. It was waves, it thundered through heaven. I'll try and give you a description of what it sounded like. It terrified me. It was like this. She brought me. It went like. It was like you'd be. You'd be blown back by the. The awesome power of God, how massive he is, how extremely holy he is. How the angels in heaven in the Old Testament. And Jesus by his side, the Father's side. When they wiped out nations who were in rebellion against God, Jesus didn't say, you're wrecking this for me. You're making us look bad.
[00:55:59] He said, well done, Father. Perfect and wise are your judgments.
[00:56:03] Everything God is is holy. Everything he is is perfect love.
[00:56:08] Everything he is is truth. There is no deception in him.
[00:56:12] So when Paul, who thought he was righteous, was on that horse, it was more like this, in my opinion, where Jesus came and then he's thrown. And then he would have been like, it says that he fell off the horse. We think it's like, oh, he just fell off. And oh, who are you, Lord? It was like screaming. He's like, ah, I can't see. Blind, just piercing light hitting him.
[00:56:35] And he looks, he goes, who are you, Lord?
[00:56:38] You only call someone Lord when that the majesty and the authority of who they are has just hit you square in the face like it hit him. He's like, who are you, Lord? Because he was going against the Lord and he knew the Lord in his terms, who are you, Lord? Lord. And he says, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
[00:57:01] And then he says, you shall be told what to do. You'll suffer many things for my name's sake. He starts his Christian walk with true conviction.
[00:57:09] Paul comes out of that. His eyes are open. And after his eyes are open, here's what he says. I consider everything that I learned. Nothing in comparison to knowing Christ and all that he has laid upon me. And he says, I burn. I labor and travail for their souls. He says, I'll gladly give myself. He says, woe is me if I do not love people.
[00:57:29] He was marked, gripped. Why? Because he couldn't blend in.
[00:57:36] If you don't understand what you are forgiven of, you'll forget hell. You'll forget where you were going. You'll forget the mother that cried out to the Lord for five years on her knees, tears all over her bed. The tears on her bed are the history of your redemption.
[00:57:50] The tears on her bed covered the deep inequities that you continued in the constant manipulations. The constant. I mean, the culture in Slavic churches that I went to around the world, full stop. Every single church had a spirit of gossip.
[00:58:04] Like all of that gossip in the church was a offense to God that creates wrath. God's holy, perfect and just. Instead of justly punishing me and you, instead of going, you're going to hell, what did he do? He took hell for us.
[00:58:19] And then somebody said, God, save my daughter, save My son.
[00:58:24] Find my son.
[00:58:26] And all that journey, when we come into Christ, when we were in deep darkness, the first year, the first six months, it's like, oh, do anything. You go to every prayer meeting. There's this urgency in you. There's this love in you.
[00:58:39] And as Brian said, we are at the last hour of the last hour, last minute of the last hour.
[00:58:45] And the church is being beautifully restored to her first call.
[00:58:50] But the second is right there. Right there, that close, like it. Jesus said, you'll prove your love for me by obeying the commands. This is my command. That you love, not him, because you're already loving him. You're like, I want to love you. And he goes, then love people, then burn for people.
[00:59:08] So why wouldn't you burn because you went to church and somewhere subtly inside your subconscious, you think that you. God picked you because he really liked you.
[00:59:15] You had a lot to offer the Lord.
[00:59:19] All of us run to wrath.
[00:59:21] All of us run to judgment. Do you know that? Do you ever think like that? Because that can make you feel condemned, right? Well, hang on. I'm talking about who you were, not who you are.
[00:59:30] You're an inheritor of God's throne. You come to God now boldly. But what a sad thing it is if I can walk to God boldly. And I can easily forget my unsaved sister who. Who's also on a path, and she's five minutes away from hell.
[00:59:45] What has happened to us?
[00:59:48] What has happened to the effect of the American church?
[00:59:52] Where is the fruit?
[00:59:54] How many of you can put up your hands and say, in the last year, I was born again, maybe five.
[01:00:00] What has happened to us? The first chopping block of Jesus. Those disciples, their whole life was, I'll love God with everything. I'll pray. I go deep the scriptures. But I put into this baby this important thing called revival. So precious. How do we feed it the right way? How do we feed the broken in this room who need inner healing? How do we look with God's eyes, basically? And I feel we have one eye of intimacy, very open. Because that eye of intimacy, when God's presence comes into the room, that even blesses me.
[01:00:29] But even after that blessing, how could I be so selfish that I have no time for the unsaved when I was exactly where they are now, Unless I wasn't. Unless I blended into it all, unless I was always around God? And that's why God picked this amazing person called me.
[01:00:48] It's selfishness.
[01:00:51] Here Jesus is with this man called Zacchaeus. Verse 1. Then Jesus passed through Jericho.
[01:01:00] Now, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector. And he was rich.
[01:01:05] He had things going on. He was despised, probably because of his job, but he had a lot of money.
[01:01:11] Maybe he could offer Jesus an offering.
[01:01:14] He sought to see where Jesus was, who he was. But he could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature.
[01:01:22] So he ran ahead and he climbed into a sycamore tree to see him. He was hungry to know God.
[01:01:28] He was going to pass by that way when Jesus came to the place. Now, think about this slowly. Jesus is God.
[01:01:40] He's teaching all his Christians. He's teaching his people. Let's say he's teaching you. He's teaching, but he's like this. I'm teaching you, but my eyes are here. I'm teaching you, but my eyes are here.
[01:01:50] That's his life. I'm teaching you, I'm teaching you, but my eyes are over there on her. I'm teaching you, but I'm about to go to a well with this woman who's an adulterer.
[01:01:58] He was both.
[01:02:00] The perfect fulfillment of two commandments. It's unhealthy Christianity to have them competing against each other. It's extremely unhealthy. And it's also very, very unhealthy to say that we are doing this and we're in a revival when we're not in England. Right now, I love this man who works for me named Matzah, because he's a man of truth. They're talking all on social media because social media is creating false revivals. Because you watch the real and everyone shares the real. And then everyone's like, england's in a revival. Well, Matzah, he's smart. Matzah likes to see if there's truth behind this promotion.
[01:02:33] He found out that in England, they're not even close to a revival, because what happened was the BBC decided to do a real study on churches. It's not even close.
[01:02:43] Maybe at 1%, 2% increase. Everyone's like, oh, it's 20%. No, it's not. I've been there.
[01:02:49] I've been to England. I've been to Portland.
[01:02:53] We are missing the mark greatly because we've made this the great suggestion, great option, great Cris Overstreet. Well done.
[01:03:01] It's not Chris, it's Christ.
[01:03:06] So here Jesus was with this man, teaching his disciples, doing the other one really well. Again, they're not against.
[01:03:14] He says, verse 6, verse 5. Sorry. When Jesus came To the place he looked up and he saw him. And he said to him, zacchaeus, make haste and come down for today I must stay at your house.
[01:03:27] God went to houses of wicked people.
[01:03:34] Where are they?
[01:03:37] Right there.
[01:03:40] At one point, God visited your house, didn't he?
[01:03:43] At one point you were wicked.
[01:03:46] But you don't. Do you believe you were.
[01:03:49] See, you're like, well, I don't want to think that of myself. Why not? It's exactly what the word of God says.
[01:03:54] But I think I was pretty. That's the problem. That's the whole problem is your discernment is mixed into God's word and your word and his word. Go like this. And whoever wins on the day, wins on the day. And where do they win? Where does that mindset win? It wins with, I'm too busy. I can't talk to that person. That's where it wins. But I'm busy enough to pray. I want a new car. I've believed for one for four years.
[01:04:13] I believe for so much in my life.
[01:04:16] But then the other competing reality. But I can't love my unsaved sister.
[01:04:21] I'm not breaking and burning for somebody who doesn't know God.
[01:04:24] Guys, if we do not preach the gospel, they are today headed to hell.
[01:04:29] And the commission was given to the church.
[01:04:32] So Jesus had his mind on both the beauty and the burden.
[01:04:36] Both of those staffs belong to the house of God.
[01:04:40] And here's what he said.
[01:04:42] So verse 6. He made haste and came down and received him Jesus joyfully. When they saw it, they all complained.
[01:04:49] And this is what I feel happens even in sermons like this. People complain like, yeah, you know, that's it's good, but you know, but. And that's again, somebody has taught you that that's your right to have this option against God's word.
[01:05:06] The Father was weeping over this clock.
[01:05:09] There is no second chance.
[01:05:11] There is no other chance for your unsaved family member.
[01:05:16] You're there.
[01:05:18] God placed you in their world.
[01:05:22] God placed you in Portland.
[01:05:27] Many of you can't receive this in your heart because probably because again, these false shepherding things, not from this leadership. This is one of the best leadership groups in the world. But many of you probably can't even receive a burden of God's love because your hands are filled with all of these other burdens.
[01:05:44] And eternity has become a faint thing thought in your mind. And you're like, how am I even going to love someone when I don't even love myself?
[01:05:51] How am I going to love someone When I feel like my own world is breaking down.
[01:05:54] Come to the Lord.
[01:05:56] Do what our brother said. Surrender to the Lord. Say, God, I'm so sorry. I've made this about 50 other train carriages instead about these simple ones. Loving you, loving others.
[01:06:07] Jesus said it here.
[01:06:09] Verse 7. Is it on screen behind me? They complained, saying, he's gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.
[01:06:17] Jesus, why can't you just do more church things?
[01:06:21] Why can't you be busier with what really matters, which making us feel like we're the only ones in this whole thing.
[01:06:29] We're not the only ones.
[01:06:30] I have to say this again until it goes deep in your ears. You were not sitting here.
[01:06:37] You were not in Christ.
[01:06:40] You were headed to hell.
[01:06:43] I don't care if your dad was a pastor.
[01:06:46] The word of God is no respecter of any individual. We were born with sin.
[01:06:52] How can a person who has been.
[01:06:54] How can a man who has cancer and somebody comes and injects him and he breathes life into his body, then stand up out of that bed and go and look at all the other patients covered in death and go, I hope someone comes back for them.
[01:07:12] How can that happen to us?
[01:07:14] It's the lowering of discernment.
[01:07:17] It's the fulfilling all other things except the one thing that's needed.
[01:07:21] The one thing that's needed is him.
[01:07:24] And then them, him, them.
[01:07:28] That's it.
[01:07:30] If we don't have these two right, we won't have a real revival and that baby will come out deformed.
[01:07:37] Ben was looking for the correct food in the dream. Dylan and I were looking for the correct food.
[01:07:42] The correct food is the word of God. It's the two commands. So Jesus finishes this. They complain and look what happens here. Ready?
[01:07:49] Verse 8. Zacchaeus stood up, said to the Lord, look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And if I've taken anything away by false accusation, I restore fourfold.
[01:08:06] What is that? That's the stripper who's in this room, who's now a daughter of God who said, God, I can't believe that you would come to my house. Now I give. Now I restore fourfold. Whatever you want. Whatever you want.
[01:08:21] Whatever you want. I'm not too busy for you. This isn't about my calling. I can't. Would you. You came to my house.
[01:08:28] You didn't blend in the door. See, some of us, it was like Jesus, just come in. Here's all the. Here's all my righteousness.
[01:08:35] We haven't been thrown off the horse and we haven't been the woman at the well. And because of that, Jesus said, if you're not forgiven much, you don't love much.
[01:08:50] The pastor told me three days ago, she said, since you came to me, I had visions of hell all the time.
[01:08:56] She said I had visions of hell outside the meeting when you were there.
[01:09:00] Today the Lord wants to implant into the baby of revival that is being birthed in this house the second commandment in such a mighty way that it will literally be a whole holy grace filled burden in your soul and you will not be able to escape it. If you, if you push it away and escape it, you'll only become more blind.
[01:09:22] You'll only go back to the sleep called busyness, the Christian acceptable sin. Yay. We're doing so much for God. Are you?
[01:09:30] Most pastors, they have 500 meetings a year. Some of them are really good.
[01:09:36] 500 meetings a year.
[01:09:38] And most of them, when you study their lives, out of 500 meetings a year, not a single soul comes to Jesus through those meetings.
[01:09:48] No eternity.
[01:09:50] Are those meetings wrong?
[01:09:53] No. You must disciple.
[01:09:57] But what are we doing in here all the time?
[01:10:01] This wasn't the original mandate to be here all the time, to be at pulpits all the time talking to each other about the God we already know.
[01:10:12] 500 more meetings next year. What's going to change for you?
[01:10:16] Kingdom movement. You're birthing a kingdom movement.
[01:10:21] You have true shepherds.
[01:10:23] You have ones that can change the dial back.
[01:10:27] You can scale back the busyness back to the pillars.
[01:10:31] Then people will walk in here and they won't just get encountered by God and keep that selfishly, privately to themselves. They'll be marked, saying, I must go back to my city. I think Haley or someone prophesied over it. I go to Cuba, I go to another country. I will take what's here and I'll take it away. I'll give it away. I won't be like a Christian. I'll be like Christ Zacchaeus, fourfold. He couldn't hold it back.
[01:10:59] Isaiah sees the throne of God.
[01:11:01] Throne of God. Who will go for us? I will go. But I'm unclean. But I will go.
[01:11:10] And our prayer today for you, our prayer for this baby, because I can see it. I can see even in this conference. I can see it in your precious leaders. I can see it in you, actually. I can see you are placing in, in this child.
[01:11:23] Perfect.
[01:11:25] You're placing the value of a newborn creation. You're placing the value of God's intimate love, one with another. Intimacy with God. It's getting put in there, Dylan. These, these leaders, they're putting it in this revival.
[01:11:38] But there's another very important meat and ingredient that must come back to you. Where is your tears?
[01:11:46] Where are your, where are. Where's your love for souls?
[01:11:50] Where is your burden? Not just the beauty of the house.
[01:11:53] And if you're a preacher in here, don't lie to God's people. Tell them the truth.
[01:11:58] Tell them, say, we haven't won yet. There's a big stronghold over our city, but we are going to win.
[01:12:04] We are going to see thousands come to his throne.
[01:12:07] Because we came to his throne.
[01:12:10] Eternity.
[01:12:13] Eternity.
[01:12:15] You won't be here very soon. It will be over.
[01:12:20] Make your life count.
[01:12:30] I finished with this pastor Roman Precious Hayley was at our church.
[01:12:36] We do a conference called Glory.
[01:12:42] And something weird happened.
[01:12:44] I met a pastor in my office.
[01:12:47] He said, I'm from Hamburg, Germany. Before I came to your church, something weird happened in my building. All my alarms in my building started to go off. Before I came down here to your church, I said, that's really weird. Last night I'm out there hours in the field, in, in front of God saying, God, move in this conference. Come to this conference. And then alarms, just these sirens start going off. Alarms, alarms, alarms. It stops, but I feel something in it. I keep praying, I ignore it. And then again, it didn't get me enough. It didn't grip me again.
[01:13:22] All these villages, alarms, alarms, they kept going off every time I went to pray. Alarms, alarms, alarms. And then this pastor, he's in my office the next day. Before I came to your church, my whole building has never done that. The alarms went off.
[01:13:38] And I said to him, he goes, the weird part was it happened at 5:15 in the morning.
[01:13:43] And the Lord said to me, son, preach this. And I'm like, this is Glory conference. This isn't like a Heart for Souls conference. And he said, it's my people.
[01:13:52] Preach this. Preach that. We are at the end that the alarm is going off, that hell is meeting people. Hell is waiting. It's taking thousands and thousands into eternal darkness. And we haven't cared.
[01:14:05] Preach it. Wake my people.
[01:14:08] And so I preached it. Guess what happened that night? The conference ends. They go back to their hotel, a big hotel in Weil Rhein, Germany. The alarms go off at 5:16 in the morning. They evacuate the whole hotel. All these Christians are standing out there with non confidence Christians. Same time, same thing.
[01:14:26] 5:15, 5:16. Then Pastor Timo Comes to me. I forgot to tell you this. At 5:14 the alarms went off in the church.
[01:14:36] 5:14, 5:15, 5:16 of Matthew. Let your light so shine before men. No one has a lamp and hides it under a bushel. They place it on a lampstand that all may see.
[01:14:49] You are a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden.
[01:14:54] The alarms are going off to God's church because the second command is somewhere down here.
[01:15:02] It's time to say yes to love.
[01:15:05] It's time to remember where you came from and to remember you were under judgment until God saved you. Do you know that you were not good?
[01:15:15] That's not why you were saved. It was grace.
[01:15:18] It was grace.
[01:15:19] It was a love that died for your sin and died because it saw value in you. How can we not see that in others?
[01:15:29] So what do we do? What do we do? What's the answer?
[01:15:32] What's the answer? How do we remedy this?
[01:15:35] Ask of me for eye, soul that you may see. Be a true shepherd. Cry out to the heart of God. Open my eyes to eternity. Give me regular visitations about hell.
[01:15:46] Help me to remember hell.
[01:15:49] Help me to think of my unsaved brother out there. He's snorting cocaine tonight. All these people in your families, in your lives, they matter like you mattered.
[01:15:58] Here's what we have to do. We can't strive into this because it will burn out. It'll be human flesh. But you can respond. And you, you can say, God, you're helping me become intimate. You're helping this baby to become a very healthy, intimate baby. Now implant into me. Love your neighbor. Love your neighbor. Love as you love yourself.
[01:16:19] Don't you love yourself if you know that your heart or your discernment has been lowered and it's being inoculated and your motives are being challenged and you know, like, you're busy, the carriage is full of other things. And you know that what I'm saying to you is the word of the Lord for you.
[01:16:39] And especially you older ones. Why do I say that? Because when I do older calls, I see these young ones. They come up because they're burning.
[01:16:46] That's not fair.
[01:16:47] That's not fair.
[01:16:49] That means the 70 year old who has all this wisdom and rich history, he's got the most treasure to give to an unsaved person. You have the most history.
[01:16:58] But this, this dignity, it's false. This fake dignity. I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to be a bowling mess in tears. I've got to get home to that football game, that's fake.
[01:17:09] That's what's putting you to sleep.
[01:17:13] This baby has to come out for Kingdom movement healthy. Dylan, you'll help birth it. Pastor Roman, Sophia, Pastor Vickana said you guys are all going to birth it.
[01:17:23] But those pillars better be the same.
[01:17:26] Not 3%, 97%. They better be just like it.
[01:17:31] Where Jesus can look and go. My beloved, you are in my commandments. My beloved, you love the broken, you love the poor. My beloved, you love the poor. Even the billionaire poor.
[01:17:43] If you know your heart has gone to sleep. If you know that your discernment has been numbed and you need to come back to this fresh first love with the Lord and this remembrance.
[01:17:53] Old and young. Run up here. I mean run.
[01:17:59] That the word of the Lord may rest on you.
[01:18:03] Run on the stage. There's going to be way too many people. Come up on the stage. Kneel down on the stage. There's going to be way too many. Come. Lay down. Lay down. It's okay. God's got you. It's okay. It's okay. He's going to give you this burden.
[01:18:16] Touch the musical equipment, but come on the stage.
[01:18:19] Come. He's going to give you this deep, deep love for people Again.
[01:18:23] The first and second commandment is like it.
[01:18:29] Come. Young and old, Young and old.
[01:18:32] Come. There's so many people. I know it. I can feel the burden of the Lord. It's going to fall on this church.
[01:18:37] Guys, I don't know if you know this, but your movement is going to birth a big movement. Movement. It's going to burst something. That this whole region is going to be touched by God out of this very house.
[01:18:47] It's. The baby is so precious.
[01:18:51] So precious. Come on the stage. More of you. There's too many people behind. Come up. Come up. Make room for them.
[01:18:57] Come up. Lay down. Just lay down. Come up.
[01:19:00] Come. Make room for the ones behind you, for those behind you. Now you must come to the floor because there's just too many people coming.
[01:19:08] Father, you are going to place inside this house the second commandment which is like it. The second.
[01:19:15] The second which is like it.
[01:19:17] The second which is like it.
[01:19:21] Praise the King as we pray. I want you to let go of this room. Let go. Forget this room. Let the Lord's heart into you right now. If you've been, if you're a weeping mess, if you start seeing hell, if you heaven, visions, unsaved souls, Praise the king. Just say yes to whatever he wants to do. Please. Come to your knees, everybody. Come to your knees.
[01:19:41] Come to your knees. Let's cry out to the Lord. Father, we need you. Our eyes must be opened by heaven. We cannot have your love without your love.
[01:19:50] We cannot have your love without your heart.
[01:19:59] Cry out. Kingdom Movement.
[01:20:01] Talk to the Lord.
[01:20:05] Don't beg him, but open your mouth.
[01:20:08] Open your mouth.
[01:20:10] Talk to the King. If your heart has gone to sleep.
[01:20:16] Eternity.
[01:20:20] Eternity.
[01:20:24] Eternity.
[01:20:32] Pray team pray for people.
[01:20:40] Father Guys, it's going to get very wild in here. I feel it. I feel that burden. It's going to fall on you. It's going to get very, very deep. There's going to be a lot of weeping. Some of you are going to have literal visions of hell and of heaven.
[01:20:53] But just forget this room. I know. If the kids need to be dismissed, please feel free. I'm a pastor, too. Please feel free.
[01:21:01] No pressure, but please pray. Please pray. Forget this room. Pray.
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