We are living in a generation that’s unraveling before our very eyes. Our society is spiraling down very quickly. It’s shocking to see what has happened to America in the last couple of years. Things are happening that we never thought would ever happen. We seem to be spinning into confusion and in morality. Our country seems to be imploding, and the only hope for our nation is a supernatural awakening. And the only hope for a spiritual awakening comes through men and women of God who the Holy Spirit gets ahold of, and we reclaim the mind of Christ.
apraise god
thank you
praise god
we finally got a a picture of the real
me up there yesterday they had a picture
of a young guy about 20 years ago
it sat in my heart when i looked at it
how many were here this morning in the
first service anybody oh look at that
okay praise god you obviously didn’t
understand what i said so you’re coming
back
for the second service and i spoke a
message this morning called
reclaiming the mind of christ
reclaiming what is the mind of christ
why is it necessary that we reclaim it
in this generation
you know you and i are living
in a generation that’s unraveling before
our very eyes our society is spiraling
down very very quickly shocking isn’t
that what happened in america just in
the last two three years
things are are happening we never
thought we’d ever be saying with our
lips you know that on every conceivable
level we seem to be spinning into
confusion
and immorality and i don’t want to scare
you this morning but i i need to tell
you this that there are two very
prominent social scientists in canada
and they’ve spent a lifetime
studying the rise and the fall of
societies and they’re not lightweights
either and these two social scientists
have recently written a book
and they’re encouraging the prime
minister of canada and the government of
canada to prepare for the collapse of of
america’s society
in their estimation all the variables
are in place for a complete implosion
of the american society by the year 2025
and they’re telling the canadian
government that they need to prepare for
the
exodus of refugees coming from america
into canada looking for safe haven
now i don’t know the full i haven’t read
the book yet i don’t know the full
details of what they’re saying i just
know that these men are not lightweights
they’ve dedicated their life to this
study
and they see the variables at play
in this society today that are leading
in their opinion to the collapse of
america as a country as we’ve known it
so i tell you this for one reason
the only hope
for this nation now is a spiritual
awakening
and the only hope for a spiritual
awakening comes through you and comes
through me it’s not going to be a
superstar preacher that god’s going to
raise up
feathers are not going to fall out of
heaven it’s going to be men and women of
god like you unlike me the spirit of the
lord gets a hold of and we reclaim the
mind of christ that’s what i want to
talk about today i spent yesterday in
prayer i spent the time with god just
saying lord what would you have me
to speak to the church today this is not
an old message that i preached somewhere
else this is the thoughts
in my opinion from the heart of god for
you
and for me today so father i want to
thank you lord for
the touch of heaven that’s been here all
morning in this sanctuary lord i thank
you god for the numbers that responded
earlier today god too to the word that
you brought
lord i’m asking you for the grace and
the strength lord to
unlock this word and we’re asking you
for the anointing of the spirit to hear
it for if you don’t illuminate it we
can’t hear it
it’s just black and white
letters on a page it doesn’t transform
us it doesn’t renew our minds god so
we’re asking now
holy spirit would you come
would you literally renew our
understanding would you quick in the
word of god and would you give us the
ability to understand the words that we
are about to hear
and we give you praise and we give you
glory for it give me the ability lord to
walk with you today
oh jesus christ
the day of games is over the day of
light-hearted christianity has come to
an end god we are a city to be set upon
a hill
we are supposed to be a testimony that
cannot be denied
so lord take us out of everywhere we
need to be out of and bring us into what
we need to be into give us the mind of
christ
we ask it in jesus name
amen
now by reclaiming the mind of christ i
i’m referring to
returning to something
which we’ve never fully understood you
know that it’s possible to be in the
church of jesus christ for years and
years and years and we’re reading the
scriptures but and god’s trying to speak
something but we’re not hearing it fully
we’re we’re hearing the edges of it but
we’re not fully hearing
what it is that god’s trying to speak to
us not collectively necessarily but
individually what is he speaking into my
life what is it perhaps about me that
he’s thinking that i am
not understanding what is it about my
mind that it’s not been transformed in a
sense and i’m still living by my own
reasoning i’m still living by my own
thinking my estimation of myself is is
based on what i i have on my wall or
what i look at in the mirror and i’m not
thinking the way god is thinking about
me
or maybe
the mind of christ is something that
we’ve resisted because of unbelief like
the children of israel who got to the
shores of this incredible promise
not just they were taken out of
captivity and they were taken out
miraculously and there’s a lot of people
here today that you could say that’s
that’s my story i was an
addict i was i was hopeless i was
depressed i was suicidal i was
despairing my marriage was broken my
family were destroyed when you were
brought out
sovereignly by the presence of god by
the power of god
and
going through in a sense a wilderness
experience now coming to the coming to
the shores of something that god had for
you this the place of promise that the
cross actually leads us
collectively and individually into
and yet you stood back and and as the
children of israel wants dead resisted
it because of unbelief
you came to the wrong conclusion
not about yourself your conclusion about
yourself was correct the wrong
conclusion you came to was about god
you concluded that you were too weak you
concluded that you didn’t have the
knowledge the strength the ability to go
in to do whatever it was that lay before
you and so you came to a correct
conclusion about yourself but your wrong
conclusion was about god because you
didn’t have the mind of christ for your
life
or maybe you did know and you let it
slip away because of neglect or apathy
or complacency
it was there at one time and you you did
have this realization
but you just let it slip so i want to
start in first corinthians chapter one
that beginning at verse 17
and i’m going to keep on reading and
just commenting on verses of scripture
so lord again i just say illuminate this
word my god
and shine it in our minds and our hearts
my god and help us to embrace it
so paul says in verse 17 christ did not
send me to baptize but to preach the
gospel not with wisdom of words lest the
cross of christ
should be made of no effect so paul is
in effect saying this there’s something
about the cross and the victory of the
cross there’s this there’s a power in
this
there’s something in it for every person
and so i wanted to be careful
that in my speaking i didn’t draw to
myself that you start looking at me paul
could be saying as the standard you
start looking at my wisdom because paul
obviously had a brilliant mind he was
probably the most brilliant theologian
in the entire
writings of the new testament
yet
he himself he said i didn’t come and i
didn’t use perhaps the wisdom he had
lest you should bless the cross in a
sense and the the power that was made
available to every person should kind of
disappear from your site and you start
listening to me and you start listening
to my wisdom and that becomes your focus
paul said i didn’t want that to be your
focus
for the message of the cross verse 18 is
foolishness to those who are perishing
but to us or being saved it is the power
of god for it is written i will destroy
the wisdom of the wise and bring to
nothing the understanding of the prudent
where is the wise where is the scribe
where is the dispute of this age has not
god made foolish the wisdom of this
world
for since in the wisdom of god the world
through wisdom did not know god it
pleased god through the foolishness of
the message
preached to save those who believe
for the jews request a sign
and greeks seek after wisdom but we
preach christ crucified to the jews
stumbling block
and to the greek’s foolishness
paul said there’s a power
in the preaching of the cross
when christ was raised from the dead
the cords of sin that bound us to the
past were completely severed
we were given the same spirit that
raised him from the dead and we were
promised that by the spirit of god we
too would be raised from the dead and we
would be made into new creations
that means everything of the past
everything that we were everything that
we think or thought we we are all of
those things are gone and and the slate
is clean we’re now born again that’s the
reality of it we’re starting life all
over again
and god is willing to take us out of our
weakness and out of our nothingness and
and begin to do something in us that
only he can do for the purpose of
bringing his own name to glory
that is the beauty of the preaching of
the cross the cross is level ground
there’s no smart people no stupid people
there everybody’s level we’re all have
sinned and fallen short of the glory of
god we’ve all fallen short of what we
should be and so it’s not by wisdom it’s
not by might it’s not by human effort
that christ is glorified in us it’s by
the spirit of almighty god
freely given
when you and i come to jesus christ at
the cross we receive the same holy
spirit not a little here’s a thimble for
you there’s a bucket for you here’s a
little bit for you as an eye dropper for
you same spirit
same calling same same abilities given
to or or differings of abilities but
same power of god given to every person
that comes to god through jesus christ
paul says the jews request a sign in the
greeks seek after wisdom so there’s this
these two types of people in a sense
that did hear the message of the cross
there are there’s a certain group of
people who feel that
by sheer force
of human effort and will that’s that was
what the jewish religion was all about
making promises to god that they
couldn’t fulfill
uh trying to do more trying to be better
trying to be godly you know they were
called to be the people of god in the
earth but it was it was all human effort
and and so basically the jews were
saying well give us
give us a sign that our our efforts are
not good enough i mean we have the robes
we’ve got the we’ve got the temple we’ve
got the scriptures we’ve got all this
stuff
give us a sign that it’s not so they
require a sign it’s in other words we’re
not going to believe that what we do is
falling short of the glory of god and of
course the greeks are saying well we’re
going to learn our way out of this
dilemma of called the human condition
we’re just going to learn about
all of the ways and it’s through
knowledge that we’re going to increase
and of course that’s where the world is
at today
you know through knowledge we’re going
to break out of the boxes of our
confinement and such like and we’re
going to be a better people and a better
society it’s so ironic it’s like a it’s
like a
it’s like an instruction class on wisdom
on the deck of the titanic after it’s
hit the iceberg you know
paul said but we preach christ crucified
unto the jews a stumbling block and to
the greeks
foolishness
a stumbling block
stumbling block
the fact that you can’t you can’t gain
favor with god through human effort a
stumbling block that i can’t will myself
to be a better person i i am on level
ground with with others all around me
that somehow
that we are we’re on level ground and
and the same power the same redemption
is available to all people
but to those who are called both jews
and greeks christ the power of god and
the wisdom of god because the
foolishness of god is wiser than men and
the weakness of god is stronger than men
now stop i i got first time i read that
i stopped at that verse and say how
could you ever describe god as foolish
or weak
and consider this part of the inspired
text of scripture
god who
is all-knowing how can he be described
in the bible as
how can foolishness be ascribed to god
god who has all power i mean he could
just do this and fold the whole universe
up and cr recreate it today if he wanted
to he has all power so how can he be
described as weak so what is the
foolishness of god and what is the
weakness of god it’s an easy answer you
are
i am
we are the foolishness of god the fact
that god in all of his power
all of his strength and all of his
knowledge chooses to reveal his glory
through you and me
that’s the foolishness of god that’s the
weakness of god that’s the mystery the
bible says that the the angels look over
the balcony of heaven and desire to look
into this
that god because they they live in the
presence of god they they’re aware of
the glory of god
when the words holy holy holy are spoken
in the courts of heaven the place is
filled with but there’s a kind of glory
of god the posts of the door move
there’s there’s they understand his
holiness
and it’s certainly in a greater measure
than we do and then they look down at us
we look like a leper colony compared to
them
yet the affection of god is upon us and
he has made a choice to reveal his glory
in the world through you and through me
praise be to god that’s amazing when we
consider that
me with all my struggles me with my
inglorious history me with with with all
the things that i’ve done wrong me with
all my frailties and weaknesses yet
almighty all-knowing god chooses to make
himself known through me
in the world amazing
amazing grace
how sweet the sound that saved a wretch
like me
now he goes on he says in verse 25 six
he said in first corinthians for you see
your calling brethren now we’re talking
about the foolishness and the weakness
of god so keep that in your mind we’re
talking about the power of the cross
we’re talking about the availability of
the power of god to all people
you see your calling brethren not many
wise according to the flesh not many
mighty not many noble are called but god
has chosen the foolish things of the
world to put to shame the wise
and god has chosen the weak things of
the world
to put to shame the things which are
mighty
and the base things of the world in
other words the things that are at the
bottom not the top
people who are in a place that nobody
aspires to be you know a lot of people
could say that today where i am nobody
in the right mind would want to be there
nobody would ever want to be where i am
and and be doing what i’m doing but god
has chosen you even in that place of
baseness and the and
and the things which are despised god
has chosen
even worse than that places places that
nobody wants to be the world despises it
they would not want to be where many of
us have been and some of us may even be
today
and the things which are not to bring to
nothing the things that are so here’s
the good news if you are somewhere on
the scale between foolish and nothing
you qualify to be used by god
isn’t that wonderful
i could i could just feel it now
somebody’s saying it’s me finally a
message for me finally somebody is
speaking into my life
i’m on the scale between i’m i’m a third
of the way down up from nothing but i’m
i’m a little closer to nothing than
foolish but there i am i qualify to be
used by god
why does he choose us that no flesh
verse 29 should glory in his presence
but of him you are in christ jesus who
became for us wisdom from god and
righteousness and sanctification and
redemption that means
his
wisdom is all that we need his thoughts
are the thoughts that we need to reclaim
in our generation not what we think
about ourselves but what god is thinking
about us
not what we say our future is going to
be but what god says our future is going
to be he’s our wisdom he’s our
righteousness he has declared us clean
no matter our struggles
no matter our inglorious history and
past when we came to the cross of jesus
christ just like the prodigal son the
finest robe in the house was placed upon
us we were cleansed from our filth we
were cleansed from our iniquity we
became sons and daughters of god
hallelujah
come on now
[Applause]
the bible says that we are the
righteousness of god in christ jesus
if that were not in the bible it would
seem to be blasphemy you know what that
says i am as clean as god is because of
jesus christ
hallelujah to the lamb of god
glory to god glory to god
christ is my righteousness he is my
sanctification means he is the
indwelling spirit of god that gives me
the power to become what he’s called me
to be to leave what i need to leave and
to go into what he’s got from my life he
is the sanctifier he is the one who
changes my heart changes my mind changes
my character changes my destiny it is
god in me that changes my destiny
and he is my redemption
he is the one who has cut the courts in
my past
it doesn’t matter who did what in my
family
i am a new creation in christ jesus
hallelujah
i’m not going where they went i’m not
living the way they lived
the cords of the past were broken when
jesus christ was raised from the dead
the my bible says he took captivity
captive
and gave gifts unto men
not only did he break the cords that
held us to our past and held us to a
life of sin but he gave us giftings of
the spirit
to become new creations and to do things
that we can’t do in our own strength
if we have the mind of christ
paul says he goes on in chapter two he
says and i brethren when i came to you i
did not come with excellence of speech
or of wisdom declaring to you the
testimony of god for i determined not to
do anything among you except jesus
christ
and him crucified
paul said i i didn’t want you i didn’t
want you looking at me
that’s what he’s saying i then want your
focus shifted to men
i didn’t want you sitting there saying
oh if i could only be like brother or
sister so and so then somehow god could
use my life paul’s saying it’s not about
me and i didn’t want the focus brought
to me
even though he had the capability of of
baffling people with his intellect and
his understanding he didn’t use it and
he goes on and says i was with you in
weakness and fear and much trembling and
my speech and my preaching were not with
persuasive words of human wisdom but in
demonstration of the spirit and power
that your faith should not be in the
wisdom of men but in the power of god
hallelujah
hallelujah
paul had this this inner trembling in
his life and said god please please
don’t let the people look at me
as if i’m the standard
let me be weak so that you might be
portrayed as strong
god let me be nothing so that you might
be everything and when people look at me
let them see the spirit of god and the
glory of god on a human vessel
that their faith should not shift to the
wisdom of man
but be in the power of god
however he says in verse six we speak
wisdom among those who are mature
yet not the wisdom of this age nor of
the rulers of this age are coming to
nothing
we speak
the wisdom of god in a mystery the
hidden wisdom which god ordained before
the ages for our glory in other words
there are thoughts
in the heart of god
towards you
that god had before you were even born
before the world was created he saw you
he saw you just like he said to philip
when you were under the fig tree i saw
you
before i saw you before we we physically
saw each other with with human eyes
i saw you where you were and i had
thoughts in my heart about you and then
he goes on this is an incredible verse
in verse 8 he said which none of the
rulers of this age knew for had they
known it they would not have crucified
the lord of glory now here’s what paul’s
saying the spiritual rulers of
wickedness
and those that they had gripped in this
world if they had known what was going
to be released
through the cross they would not have
crucified jesus christ if they would
have seen the power if they would have
had a a long-term view and seen a people
everywhere being raised out of dust and
ashes and the glory of god being upon
them and the strength of god being given
them they would not have crucified
christ
in crucifying him they were releasing
the glory of god
in the earth through who through who
the weak
the marginalized the foolish the
nobodies the nothings of society you and
me
the glory of god was being released in
the earth
but as it is written eye has not seen
verse nine nor ear heard nor have
entered into the heart of man the thing
was god has prepared for those who love
him
but god has revealed them to us through
his spirit
for the spirit searches all things yes
the deep things of god
you know the bible speaks in another
place of this inner groaning of the holy
spirit i’ve always believed that
groaning of god’s spirit like
interceding it says for us with
groanings that cannot be uttered
the spirit of god knows the will of god
for each life and i believe the holy
spirit is groaning inside that we come
into agreement with god
that our minds come into agreement with
the thoughts of god
but god has revealed them to us through
his spirit for the spirit searches all
things yes the deep things of god for
what man knows the things of a man
except the spirit of man
which is in him even so no one knows the
things of god
except the spirit of god
in other words paul is just saying it’s
it’s really simple nobody knows what
you’re thinking right now except you and
god
nobody else knows the thoughts of your
mind in the same way he says nobody
knows what god is thinking about you
except the spirit of god in you knows
the holy spirit knows and jesus said
when when he the spirit of truth has
come he will take what is mine that
means the victory that christ won and he
will show it to you and he will show you
things to come amazing
he will reveal to you in a sense the
plan that god has for each of our lives
now we have received verse 12 chapter 2
not the spirit of the world but the
spirit who is from god that we might
know the things that are freely given to
us by god
that’s the mind of christ oh god
would you help me
to come into agreement with your plan
for my life
would you help me to look away from
my past and my resume and my weakness
and what others have said about me
god almighty you’re god they’re not you
are
would you help me to look away from the
people that told me i’d always be an
alcoholic because my father was an
alcoholic or be depressed because my
mother was depressed or whatever it is
would you help me god to look away from
those things would you help me to look
away from my my inglorious history or
whatever it is or whatever i can do or
haven’t done or tried and failed would
you help me to look away and god help me
to understand that you are you have
thought your thinking thoughts about me
and you have freely given to me the
things i need to accomplish what i’m
called to do
don’t let me stand at the border of this
incredible promise looking in at the
giants and saying it it can’t be i’m too
weak they’re too strong i’m too small
they’re too big until little or too many
god almighty the the people of this
world
we’re told by it’s a secular statistic
now that’s not even a christian one but
a secular statistic that 100 million
people go to bed depressed every night
in america 100 million people almost a
third of the entire population of the
country are groaning at night when they
go to bed because they don’t see hope
for tomorrow
many are opiate addicted many are their
families are being destroyed they
they can see the crumbling of society
all around them they don’t see hope for
the future suicide is becoming a huge
problem among teenagers today
in our society the people of this world
are are groaning
for the testimony of god
in his church
through you and through me
my strength does not come from
education or lack thereof or success or
failure none of it matters
the reality is it’s level ground at the
cross
it’s a whosoever will kingdom
can come matter of fact to isaiah the
lord said it’s the lame who take the
prey don’t you love it the pharisees are
just doing this how is it possible that
a prophet could come under jerusalem and
while they’re just playing with the
scritchy little beards
and
fixing all the robes the prostitutes are
touching his feet the lame are crawling
through the blind are crying out on the
side of the road
wisdom is justified of his children
right the pharisees don’t have a single
testimony with all their robes and right
all i have is a negative testimony but
the blind man’s got a quite a story
doesn’t he
hallelujah
verse 13 says these things we speak not
in words which man’s wisdom teaches but
which the holy spirit teaches
comparing spiritual things with
spiritual
but the natural man verse 14 does not
receive the things of the spirit of god
for they are foolishness to him
nor can he know them
because they are spiritually discerned
that means that
the person who
is trying to serve god in their own
strength
and they’re trying to
reason god by with their own minds i’m
not suggesting we don’t study or learn
the scriptures that would be contrary to
what the word of god tells us but this
is their whole sense of being
is is living by natural wisdom and
natural strength and and so what i’m
talking to you about to a natural man is
foolishness it’s foolishness
it’s out of reach it’s pie in the sky
theology that’s not attainable by anyone
in this generation but he was spiritual
judges all things yet he himself is
rightly judged by no one for who has
known the mind of the lord that he may
instruct him
but we
have
the mind
of christ
so what then is this mind of christ and
how does it apply to me let’s bring it
home now
it’s when we agree
that in spite of our present condition
we are the ones chosen by god to display
his power and grace
in the spiritual crisis
of our present
day
that’s the mind of christ
when we are when we agree in spite of
our condition
in spite of who i am you’ve chosen me
in spite of my weakness you’ve chosen me
in spite of my nothingness you’ve chosen
me in spite of my
powerlessness you’ve chosen me in spite
of my
lousy self-view you’ve chosen me in
spite of whatever other people have said
you’ve chosen me
you’ve chosen me
you’ve chosen me you’ve given me your
promise you’ve given me your spirit you
have a plan for my life you’re going to
take me through a door and do things
through my life that i could never do
with my own strength but you will do it
and when i get to the other side i’ll
say glory to god glory to god only god
could have done this
and my my message will be when i get
there
what god has done for me god will do for
you it will be that simple
it won’t be complicated i’ll not be
wasting a lot of time on greek and
hebrew word meanings it will be i walk
with god god has done this in my life
the breath of god entered my life he
took me out of weakness and into
strength he has made me more than i
could ever be taken me where i could
never go given me what i could never
possess and oh glory to god for what he
has done through my life
[Applause]
aren’t you glad that we’re the foolish
plan of god
and the weakness of god
he wanted to take his people out of
captivity they’ve been there for 400
years
the strongest empire on the earth of
that time is holding them in captivity
they have no possible way out so god
looks down says how am i going to
display my power
and bring them out so there’s a there’s
an 80 year old man out in the backside
of the desert
he can’t speak he stutters matter of
fact he can’t even deliver a one night a
line sermon he needs his brother to
deliver it for him
and he just has a stick he no longer has
a sword so that’s my perfect candidate
to show my power
so he sends an 80 year old man and his
83 year old brother and they come
walking into the court of of the
strongest leader in the known world of
that time and moses stands and goes
let my people go
that is the plan of god folks
that’s the plan of god that’s that’s
that’s the foolishness of god that’s the
weakness of god
you see the only reason pharaoh didn’t
kill them on the spot i believe is
because it was such a joke that these
two men would be standing there saying
we are here in the name of god telling
you to let these three million people go
from captivity that they may serve god
in the wilderness
and pharaoh laughed in the beginning but
when it became a contest of power now
he’s caught in a trap he can’t kill them
because it makes them look weak now
amazing the plans of god amazing how how
god does things
he 135 000 midianites are coming into
the nation on a regular basis and
they’re they’re eating up everything the
people of god are trying to produce
they’re destroying that society of that
time and there’s there’s a hopelessness
abounding everywhere and it’s so
hopeless that people have even turned
from the worship of the living god and
they’re now worshiping idols
god finds a young man just a teenager
probably in the backyard of his father’s
house scraping out a living trying to
trying to scrape up some semblance of
hope and and he calls him suddenly a
mighty man of resources
gideon says are you kidding me
i i’m
my i’m of the least tribe of the tribes
of israel my father’s house is the least
house
of all houses in the least tribe and i’m
the least person in the least house of
the least tribe in all of israel
and you’re looking at me and you’re
calling me a mighty man of resources
who does god choose
to do exploits when everything seems
hopeless
folks we have to get this because this
is a do or die moment in america now we
have got to get a hold of this this
can’t just become knowledge that we
write down in a little book somewhere oh
wasn’t that nice
we have to get a hold of this we have to
move into this we’ve got to go beyond
just learning about it
and gives him a battle plan split into
three companies go to the top of a hill
raise the torch and shout the sword of
the lord and the sword of gideon and god
says you leave the rest to me that’s
your part you do that i’ll do the rest
he wants to there’s a law
a medo-persian king has been deceived by
the people around him and he’s he’s
going to invoke a law that’s going to
cause the jewish people the entire
race of jewish people in that nation to
be put to death and all their goods are
to be taken and spoiled and divided
what’s the plan of god it takes an
orphan jewish girl puts her in to the
court of the king
and she must have been thinking in her
heart what could i do what kind of a
difference could i make how could i
rewrite the law of death into a law of
life
what could god possibly do through me
and at the time that she’s called of god
she says to her her cousin mordecai says
well look
like the king and i are not tied anymore
like we we it was it was a passionate
relationship in the beginning but he’s
not even called me for 30 days and if
he’s the type of a young girl here today
the lord’s calling you now
and you say well oh i wish he would have
called me five years ago or you know i
used to pray i haven’t even talked to
him in 30 days i don’t even pray anymore
i don’t feel close to him and mordecai
could say to her esther it doesn’t
matter you still have access to the
throne of the king you’re still his
bride
nestor ends up rewriting the law
of death into a law of life
and she becomes a co-regent with her
husband
unheard of in the media persian empire
women were almost like chattel
but the king saw the worth of his bride
and she ends up in a sense ruling and
reigning with him may put it that way
in that time
each of these
were foolish battle plans
they’re foolish
in the natural the natural man would
look and say this is idiocy
it’s idiocy send two old men
to deliver up three million people
a boy with a stone to bring down a giant
god needs to raise a voice to guide the
nation back to himself again so who does
he look for a barren womb
how many times did he he bring the
deliverance in the sense it was needed
at that moment out of out of a womb that
couldn’t bear a child
look at it it’s all there the the
testimony of it’s replete the whole
testament of scripture is about who god
uses and when he uses them and
especially in a crisis time you know
hannah had gotten to the point where her
prayer had no more words
she could just move her lips he couldn’t
even speak she was just so used to being
disappointed in the presence of god
and from a
wordless prayer came a voice that
governed the nation for 40 years
in samuel the prophet
i love the foolish plans of god it gives
me hope
it gives me hope for my future
it gives me hope for what god can do it
helps me to kind of look away from look
away from everything and just say lord
god
just
show me what you have for me give me the
the mind to be able to believe it
if we fully realize the power that’s in
this room
the great good that could be done for
the kingdom of god the evangelists that
are here who don’t even know what you
are yet
those with prophetic gifts those with
giftings of the spirit because it does
say that christ took captivity captive
and gave gifts unto his people so there
is a gifting of god in your life whether
you’ve acknowledged it or not it’s there
and it’s there for his glory and for his
purposes
and so now let’s bring it really home
now
where you say so how does this apply to
me everything you’ve just spoken pastor
how does it apply to me well the truth
is it doesn’t
unless you see your calling
it doesn’t it’s just more knowledge it’s
just
more stuff in a book and a binder it’s
just more notes
it doesn’t really apply
unless as chapter 1 verse 26 says for
you see your calling brethren
and so the
the point is
do you see it
do you see it can you can you can you
break the bungee cord that holds you to
the past
or to a lousy selfie or to like a
rather dismal view of your future
spiritually speaking
can you break that cord can you can you
trust god to go across that boundary
line
and say lord
i’m going to believe you
i’m going to believe that my life is
going to make a difference i’m going to
believe that you’re thinking thoughts
about me you’re giving gifts to me
that you’re going to send me to
somewhere to do something that could
only be done by your spirit and when i
get to the end of the journey i’m going
to shout grace oh god grace grace grace
grace grace it’s been all grace it’s
been goodness you know what my message
will be what god has done for me god
will do for you
no deeper than that
i’ve heard it said that christianity is
one beggar telling another bigger where
to find bread
all i can tell you today
is that i’m in for the full journey
i don’t know where it’s going to lead
quite frankly i don’t care
as long as he’s in it
that’s all i care about nothing else
matters now
i am absolutely unwilling to let this
generation die in their sin
absolutely unwilling to let the devil
dictate the future of our children
destroy our families and our homes
confuse genders in our great schools i’m
absolutely unwilling to let this go on
as long as god gives me life as long as
god gives me breath my prayer is lord
jesus christ send me where you want me
to go and you know where he’s sending me
to you
have become the calling on my life
because he’s been telling me i have an
end time army
that doesn’t know what they are yet
they’re weak and they’re foolish to
despise their base they’re nobody
they’re nothing but they are my choice
to reveal my glory in this last
generation
hallelujah to the lamb of god glory to
the name of jesus
glory
the gideons the esthers the david the
moses
the hannahs it’s you
you are the end time army it’s not some
fancy ministry it’s not some new
preacher that’s going to rise up it’s
you
you are the end time army of god there’s
there’s people all over the country
they’re filled churches all on the
blocks everywhere and don’t know what
they are
god give us the mind of christ
god give us the ability to get out of
our box and get out of our prison cells
and get out of our abject thinking about
ourselves and get into where the spirit
of god is leading us
hallelujah
you are my calling now
and i’m going to shout at you until the
day i die
until you get it
until every person gets it at least i’ve
tried when i get to the throne of god
i’m going to be able to say i gave it my
best god
i gave it i i did it to the last ounce
of strength that you gave me god i
encouraged every young person i
encourage every old person i encourage
every man every woman i encourage every
teenager my god
and the strength that you gave me i
encourage them to recognize that you are
god
and that you are willing
to use us
we are your weakness hallelujah
i love that thought
we are your foolishness god
and so for the rest of my days all i can
say
is i’m in
i’m in for the full journey and don’t
look at me because i’m nothing i’m just
i’m i’m in because god’s put it in my
heart to be in
if if i was if if i was governed by my
own heart i would just retire and go
fishing
i’ve been at this a long time i’m tired
but i feel like the lord just reached
down one day out of heaven and says give
me the last tithe of your life
all your children are home he says but
mine aren’t so let’s go get mine and you
can enjoy your children grandchildren in
eternity you have an eternity with them
go get my children because they’re not
all in yet
you are
the end time army of god there is no
plan b do you understand there’s no plan
c no plan d
you are plan a in the kingdom of god you
are the end time army of god so the
point is lord i’m in give me your mind
for my life
whatever it is you call me to do just
give me your mind and give me the the
faith and courage to get up and just go
through the open door the church of
philadelphia says you have a little
strength you’ve you’ve kept my word and
you’ve not denied my name behold i set
before you an open door that no one can
close
i said it before you don’t have to find
it i put it there
all we have to do is walk through it
god almighty
there’s evangelists here
you know
there are i’m serious there’s there’s
civic leaders here there’s teachers that
can make a difference in the classroom
there’s people that are going to run for
office and make a difference
there’s people that are going to i don’t
know in whatever profession you’re in
you’re going to be a you’re going to be
that person that brings the glory of god
in the room with them whenever you walk
in you’re trusting god to make a
difference
it’ll be the point where you don’t have
to preach it’s just the words you speak
will be will bring conviction to those
who live in darkness
god almighty help us to have your mind
help us to reclaim the mind of christ
this was the trembling in the heart of
paul and i can feel that trembling in my
own heart that’s the trembling that that
paul says somehow i fear that the people
won’t understand this
and fall sore to the glory
so i want to give an altar call this
morning
it’s real simple
i’m in
how many are in i see your hands
i’m in i’m in i’m in for the full
journey
i’m in i’m in for whatever god has for
my life wherever god wants to take me
whatever god wants to do i’m in
whatever it entails and and listen to me
you don’t have to figure it out the holy
spirit will whisper it to you
you don’t have to go home today and and
just just start like praying for the
will of god like it’s a needle in the
haystack like god says hey watch this
gabriel i’m going to drop brother
schoenster’s my will
as a needle in the haystack it’s going
to be so much fun watching him try to
find it you don’t have to find it he
sets the open door right before you
it just comes down it’s just there
that’s the only way i can explain it you
seek him
say lord i want to live for you i want
to serve you i want to make a difference
he will set the open door
before you he will show you he will show
you he will put those strong desires in
your heart
whether it’s to preach the gospel or run
for political office i don’t know what
it is but he’ll put that strong desire
there
so father i want to thank you god i have
honestly
poured out everything you put in my
heart
and this was your word
for today
for these
precious brothers and sisters in christ
that are gathered in this auditorium
lord jesus christ
we don’t have
a long time
to rise up and become your church
god would you give us the strength
everyone who’s here
to just say lord i’m in
and wherever it leads me i will follow
father i thank you for it and praise you
for it
in jesus name let’s stand together
please