Western culture is filled with carnal Christians, but the Eastern Hemisphere is experiencing an overwhelming revival. Pastor Gray expounds on John 14:5-6.
In expounding on John 14:5-6, Pastor Gray states, “Either Jesus is God or He is the greatest deceiver that ever landed on planet Earth. Jesus said, ‘I am the way.’ He didn’t say ‘I am a way,’ but the way.'”
“The way” means direction, path, road. Jesus says “I am” the path, the road, to God. You can’t follow The Way and be carnal.
You don’t have control over certain things, such as trouble that comes your way. But you have control over your heart.
You trust God, and God trusts you. He trusted His faith to you, that you might use His faith, just as He used His faith when He was here on Earth. When we use that faith, He increases it.
As it says in 2 Corinthians 5:7, we walk by faith not by sight. Pastor encourages us to reach for a higher realm as we use the faith we already have. As we use our faith, our faith will grow.
We are flawed people, but God uses flawed people. To walk in complete liberty use Jesus’ name for everything you do, and walk in Jesus’ delegated authority and power.
“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12 NKJV).
We do not war according to the flesh, and we do not war against flesh and blood. Our weapons are supernatural, and so is our enemy. If we want to see the world changed for the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to get violent. Violent against the enemy, the devil.
God placed enmity between Satan’s seed and Eve’s seed, but just what is Satan’s seed?
Jesus crushed the head of Satan at Calvary; He destroyed hell and the grave and removed the sting of death. He took the keys to the kingdom of heaven and gave them to the Church. In so doing this, He crushed the head of Satan. This was accomplished in Genesis 3:15.
Jesus became man and came to Earth. He operated by the Holy Spirit the same way we do. Everything we walk through, Jesus has already walked there.
There is victory in the Father, the Holy Spirit, and in Himself. Deity came down to us!
Heaven controls everything, and Christ has given believers the keys to heaven: to bind and to loose.
By our faith our words establish heaven here on earth. He’s given us the keys to heaven that the gospel might be preached and people will be saved.
In showing God’s permissive will and His perfect will for our lives, Pastor Gray discusses how God used the Ephesians’ urging not to go as Paul sets his face toward Rome. God had given Paul a word: he would speak before kings (Acts 9:15). Both these messages were from the Lord, but one represented God’s perfect will, the other His permissive will.
God can use conflicting messages to show us His permissive will and His perfect will.
Pastor discusses the kabowd glory of God–the weightiness–and how it differs from the shekinah glory–the majesty–of God.
God comes to us suddenly. As the disciples waited in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, the waited in expectation. When the Holy Spirit came, they experienced the weightiness of God.
Do we come to church every Sunday with the expectation of God making Himself known to us?
(Audio volume is poor. You will have to turn up your speakers or plug in headphones.)
Pastor Gray begins his sermon by discussing the gift of music he has and involves others of the congregation as well. He expounds on the importance of activating our faith by using the gifts God has given us for His kingdom.
We will all account for whether used our gifts or not when w appear before the judgment seat, 2 Corinthians 5:10.
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