Aula 1: Jesus, o Sumo Sacerdote - Braveheart

Welcome everybody um to time to revive um for those of you who don't know this is uh an incredible Ministry um that I have known and worked with um since really 2017 2016 uh Kyle and Laura Martin they live in Richardson which is this part of town um they have a global Ministry um they equip the church specifically in sharing the gospel um on the streets and in the marketplace and so they've got a really amazing uh just Blueprint from the Lord with these colorful wristbands you've probably seen them we can probably get some uh

and that corresponds with these Bibles and so back in uh 2016 just a little history God gave me a vision to um to do 50 days of sharing the gospel around DFW from Easter to Pentecost and in my mind it was the great 50 days and uh we were going to culminate this deal on Pentecost and I was like we need to I was like Easter was just the halftime Like Pentecost is the Super Bowl you know like like come on like we got to do this thing and um and so I met with Kyle

Martin and Kyle was like man he goes we're all in we want to help you and so time to revive took that initiative and made it something so profound we gathered over 360 churches um for 50 days um and we broke DFW into 10 regions um in 50 days um daily we had a morning prayer meeting in in 10 regions so there was like 10 hubs happening Simultaneously there was prayer equipping to share the gospel gospel outreaches lunchtime and testimony afternoon gospel Outreach and an evening service in 10 regions for 50 days wow we saw

over 3,000 people saved over like 50 00 people get in discipleship um and I think we equipped over 20,000 Believers to share the gospel on Pentecost Sunday um God had given me a word from um with Elijah in the in the cloud the size of a man's hand and it's a whole different Story that I'll share another time but on Pentecost I was like Lord did we really did we really do what you asked us to do and um and I the four days before Pentecost I prophesied y'all I've only maybe one other time said

thus sayeth the Lord I stood up at this Gathering and I said thus sayeth the Lord and I y'all know me like I do not talk that way this word was in my bones like I go this is what the Lord says there is a cloud coming up out of Dallas The size of a man's hand you've been looking for the sign of Revival reain for six weeks but on this seventh week There's a cloud coming and so I prophesied that on a Thursday that Sunday there was this sign and wonder I'll find the picture

somewhere there was a literal um the meteorologist called it something there was a cloud that looked like an atomic bomb over downtown Dallas on Pentecost night and that someone texted me that photo we Only had I think 2,000 people at the Gathering so I was like in my when I dreamed it up I was picturing thousands hundreds of thousands Revival you know around DFW and we had 2,000 at this church in Carolton and I was like God did we really and then there was this picture of a cloud and I was like oh my gosh

and so um on that night uh time to revive gave me a painting a prophetic painting that Kyle's sister or his cousin had painted of a waterfall um It's in our house you'll see it um but this place is very special to us Kyle Martin and his wife and their team are very special um just as in every place we go we just want to honor we want to leave it better than we found it but just know there's a lot of prophetic history here this isn't just some random Warehouse in Richardson um there's a

kindredness in the spirit which I think is important when you're doing something like this to have that and so they Literally opened up the studio to us and said you guys can use this as you want and so they're just letting us do this and so we want to honor them a couple Logistics um number one we are recording this as you can tell um so this uh the first probably five or six weeks of this teaching time is going to to live on the website we're going to be looking at Jesus as our high

priest did y'all know that yet did I share that already um and I'll I'll not going to teach into that Now but um so this will this will live on uh there so just know that we are recording thank you guys for being on time uh again you're going to start to feel the rhythm of of this week so I know for some of us it's taking us it'll just take us some time to get used to like oh we're meeting on Tuesday nights and then we're in the word um and then tomorrow night we're

going to pray like for a while you know so there's going to be a rhythm to this um that hopefully We'll get used to um and again we're just trying to um we're going to honor these times um so that we can stay in the flow uh I'm GNA have Christie kind of Welcome us uh in prayer um just acknowledge a few people that you may not know people on our team um and then we'll jump into the word cool any questions for me first any thoughts last night was fire right yes so so fun

Okay um okay I wanted to make youall aware of a few people and honor a few people um and give just a short word I but Peter talked about in light of um time to revive the Lord is so knitting his body together and I feel like it's such a word for right now um that he's putting all the pieces together to make this whole which is his body um to get together as one and y'all would not be sitting here today if it weren't for some really important people so I want To acknowledge Kate

pal she's amazing stand up Kate stand up I this is this is not being nice you literally would not be here if she did not do everything she is doing she does it from Ohio she has been in a very challenging time even with her and the Lord's given her incredible Grace so y'all give her a hug later um but I just I just want youall to know that like there are people working behind the scenes and those people it says that God Honors those and he actually honors them more he actually hides them because

they're more valuable and so um if you are one of those people be encouraged yeah because he hides the valuable things um and so truly thank you Kate yes um Caroline is my cousin she is here all of your email correspondents comes from Caroline um she also has a counselor pastor's heart she's amazing so whenever she can Be here she'll be praying over y'all loving on y'all um but I wanted y'all to meet her and we all didn't meet Wesley last night Wesley will be here on Tuesdays typically but he wasn't there last night so

Wesley does our podcasts it's also incredible so um I just wanted y'all to know those people he's a pastor in church he a pastor he he does a lot of things that I just say wow um but I wanted to pray for yall I really felt the Lord um as we were coming in here I Felt like the Lord was like reminding me and reminding us the scripture says for from him and to him and through him are all things but we can't get to the two we can't live towards him until we realize that

we've come from him yes um and so I want to give youall permission to let God uh nourish your hearts to let him put your roots down deep to put your roots down in good soil so that you realize that everything that you do to him and through him is because you come From him and you come from his heart that he when he formed you he was delighted um and so I just want to pray a blessing yes that as Peter teaches and preaches that that the word would be accompanied with with power and

with the the presence and the anointing of the Holy Spirit I want to encourage you that the Holy Spirit just doesn't come in worship he actually rides on the Wind of his word and so let your hearts be open yes um because he wants to instruct you From the inside and I think the whole goal of what we're doing is that you would be formed and changed from the inside out so Jesus I just thank you God that we were your IDE idea that this whole thing was your idea that Redemption was your idea creation

was your idea that salvation was your idea because you are a good father you love to create you love to redeem you love to restore and so God I ask Lord that you Would soften any hard places in our hearts Lord that where there is wrong thinking where we've been wired a certain Way by our upbringing or by by the ways of the world Lord I ask that you would rewire us God and I ask God that the truth would be embedded in our hearts and that truth would come with the oil of your spirit

God that you would soften Hearts God that you would speak identity that you would speak Destiny and I just pray for Peter Lord God I ask that you would his words I ask for for grace and for the the wind of your spirit to guide him and to lead him thank you Lord Lord we just worship you and we say thank you and we just say Lord teach us teach us today in Jesus name amen amen thanks amen all right um if you want to get your Bibles and your notebooks out I'm going To say

a few things just as uh just kind of set the the stage um number one I realize we're recording uh but we need to just like get the don't be afraid if it like if you need to wiggle or respond or encounter the Holy Spirit that's why we're here do y'all hear me y'all see me so like we're not bound to our chairs like I'm sorry production team we we are going to encounter God together through his word um and so I I Want to free you like there's not you're not going to screw something

up of like oh my gosh I don't want to say or like just respond to God one of my favorite scriptures because it's my name in the Bible it says as Peter yet spoke as he's speaking the Holy Spirit fell on the people and they began prophesying he's not there was no paths there was no worship leading he was just sharing the gospel and Holy Ghost goes on these people that the Jews didn't think the Holy Spirit could fall on and they were like and and they're they're manifesting under the power of God just hearing

the good news of Jesus that's number one so you have permission you have freedom to encounter the Lord please don't resist it don't resist the Burning Heart Don't resist being intoxicated if it's happening do you hear me yeah so so allow yourself to respond it's okay you're not going to distract me if you're crying if you're Getting delivered I'm serious I've maybe at the beginning back in the day I would have been like what's happening oh my let's pray we don't need to pray because if God's doing it he'll do it and we can just

let it happen Okay that's number one number two we all listen to me this is really important we all hear and respond to God at different times and different ways so for those of you who are listening and God's moving upon some Of you some of your your your fellows do not we will not judge what God is doing with someone next to us we will not compare we will not begin to go how come I'm not experiencing that we are going to keep our eyes on the Lord we're going to keep our eyes fixed

on his word everything I'm going to teach in instruct you from is from the scriptures why do I do that so that when you leave here and you're having your quiet time and you have your notes you Can go back here and you can sit with God and you can go go God how come when Peter said this verse nurri fell on his face and began crying and I didn't I didn't see what he saw can you show me Lord can you show me what Nur saw that made him do what he did because I

know he didn't do that because he's trying to draw attention to himself I know he did that because he saw you y'all hear what I'm saying yeah that's that's number two on the flip side those of you who are Getting drunk are getting intoxicated with the spirit I want to tell you this also be mindful of that that your neighbors are are also learning and growing at a different rate and so have we're going to have Grace for one another does that make sense just love and honor that we're all going to be together in

this is that cool um okay that's number two number three and and this is where I will I will pause and we'll begin to kind of Like lay an introduction for these next six weeks do you have your notebooks out you're going to want to take notes so the next six weeks we are going to uh consider Jesus as our high priest now there's no there's no praise or Applause for that um because if we're honest most of us don't really have a grid for the priesthood of Jesus and why it matters um a a

priest a high priest is a very Jewish thing um and so for most Christians I would say I don't know I Would give it 98% 99% of Christians don't have any grid for what a high priest is and why a high priest would have any bearing on your Christian Life today um and I would like to submit to you this that the revelation of Jesus as your high priest is as significant as Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world I would actually go so far to say is that

you can't actually understand Jesus the Lamb of God who Died on a cross without the revelation of your great high priest um because Jesus as the Lamb of God he was the offering and biblically an offering was always offered by someone and that someone is a high priest and so the disconnect watch this the disconnect most Christians feel is that this wonderful thing has been done with Jesus on the cross This Magnificent promise of freedom and life forever more and yet there's a tremendous amount of attention In many Believers because there's this promise of life

and power and freedom and yet they're not experiencing it raise your hand if that bears witness to you that tension that Gap okay it should be unless you're like walking around and levitating you know people getting healed in your Shadow that's all of us right like like we we know there is there is more that we can grow up and mature into and I believe that Jesus's priesthood Uh is Paramount to that um so today this first lesson um is going to be an overview um kind of like a like to wet your appetite um

if you ever been to a really nice wedding and they have the the nice or derves after the ceremony and they give you those little like mushroom wrapped things with they're fried and you eat one and you're like dang I could have just eaten 10 of those this is going to be like that hopefully today like I'm going to give you morsels From the script RT and my desire is to provoke you to make you hungry um to dive in and go man I want to eat 10 of those the the prudo wrapped bacon asparagus

Glory things those are good the crab cakes what else of the little wedding thing so this is even better than that um so I'm going to pray um we're going to be in Hebrews if you want bonus points um I will say this we are going to be in Hebrews the next six weeks um We'll jump around of different scriptures but if you want to be in step with us in the word um read the book of Hebrews you're like which part all of it again and again and again for those of you who do

not know this is worth mentioning um many of these Revelations and the understanding of them comes on the 50th reading yes of the same text why because the word is alive this is a spiritual book um sometimes the first time you Read it if you read how many of you have read Hebrews recently all the way through okay awesome when you're first reading this let's be honest it can be mind-numbing I don't like to pretend I read the Bible I'm like Lord this is a lot of words most of them don't make sense and you

read it again and you read it again and you get little morsels along the way and as you get the little morsels God's amazing he connecting the morsels so the four chapters that didn't Make sense previously there's going to be one nugget in chapter 8 that unlocks 10 nuggets in chapter 4 and you only get it when you read it again and again and again why because it's the glory of God to conceal a matter and to search out A matter is the Glory of Kings and I believe you're all kings and queens in God

Amen okay um so if you have your Bibles open to Hebrews chapter 3 I'm going to read the first verse and Then we're going to pray and we'll hop in Hebrews 3:1 therefore holy brothers and sisters you who share in a Heavenly calling consider Jesus the Apostle and high priest of our confession father we thank you uh for your word that is alive uh we come today to consider Jesus to actually do what you tell tell us to do um to consider Jesus as our Apostle and the high priest of our confession Holy Spirit we

need you we don't approach these scriptures With with a bunch of knowledge of our own Lord we ask that you would reveal Jesus to us holy spirit that you would Open the Eyes of our heart you would unstop any areas in our ears that we cannot hear you we want to see you we want to hear you today in Jesus name amen all right um so I'm just going to walk through a little bit of this Hebrews 3:1 I'm a simple person for some of you this teaching is going to be painfully slow for you

because you're Going to want to know what's next tell me what's next give me something to do and I'm just going to warn you right now if you do not put it into first gear and slow your role you will be frustrated and you'll miss it um you some of these things you cannot get by speeding and going okay now what do I do there there's not a lot to do right now I'm just telling you and it's going to frustrate the heck out of your flesh the only thing we're going to Do the next

six weeks is we're going to do those two words we're going to consider Jesus now many of you are so used to considering yourself that you say well what about me what about how I'm feeling what about what I should do and I I will talk about that we will eventually talk about about what you should do but for Christians to talk about what you should do without considering Jesus this is where it all goes Ary this is what Chrisy was talking about most Christians are living for Jesus and you think well yeah praise God

the Christian the the the New Covenant design is that we would live through him wow there's a huge difference between living for Jesus and living through him yes living for Jesus Is God you did all of this for me so I'm going to do all of this for you now if you're living for Jesus you will be burned out Wow oh my goodness will you be burned out because the only motivating factor for living for Jesus your your your engine if you will your your motivation what compels you to do stuff is only your gratitude

for what he's done wow so the moment you stop being thankful for he's done you lose your your reason for doing things for him you guys with me yes that's living for and and there's a lot of Christians doing a lot of amazing things this is what I love about God God's not looking at those people going you you bunch of fools I can't none of that counts he's awesome he's like wow you did this for me that's incredible people getting saved planting churches he's amazing he's not this isn't about like right and wrong this

is about life to to the full that we're seeking that's good so so don't think of these things of like oh I've been doing that praise God you've been living for Jesus some people are living for the Devil living for themselves praise God we're living for Jesus but but there's an invitation in the New Covenant to live through him now how do you live through him come on how do you live through him now this is like this is awesome living through Jesus you have to see Jesus when you see Jesus let's just say when

you see Jesus's love for the lost when you see it like when you really like see that Jesus Christ loves people who don't Know him when you see the way he looks at them when you when you feel in your heart the way he feels for them when you see that when you touch it this is what John first John he who we've seen and who we've touched what's he saying he goes I touch his heart for the lost so now what happens watch this when you see a lost person you're not thinking I should

share the gospel because he did all this you've Touched the man who loves the lost and so all of a sudden there's a Grace for you to just present yes the one that you've seen to them on and so you come up to them and you're like you're not even you're you're no longer thinking about what should I say to them how do I approach them why because you're living your life through through Christ and when you do that guess what there's a supernatural power called Grace and you start acting like a Christian and you're

Not even aware of it yeah you're not you're not trying to be a Christian you're just aware of Christ and this is the this is why am I doing this I'm showing you there is a supernatural power hear me a real Supernatural power in simply considering Jesus yes there is a transformation that takes place there is a your behavior changes the way you talk changes so many things happen we had a sign and a Wonder happen can I share the Brendan story so the other Night we were we were we were praying and preparing for

this last Friday night and I believe that we can be so one with Jesus like I'm saying you just prophesy and you're not trying to prophesy like you're just doing things so Lindsay we had finished the night and Lindsay used to be a cheerleader at the University of Texas before that she was at LSU is that right so she's like hey I had this funny cheerleading fail we'll have to show the video later maybe even on the video Course we'll show the video it's epic they throw her in the air and she like doesn't do

the thing right and she lands and she drills this dude and like luckily she was okay but this dude gets drilled in the chest and and so we're talking about and there was another video in the same guy it was the same guy that got hit and I'm just like joking I'm in a I'm in a a laughing mood we're all laughing at this and I was like I was Like a that's cool I was like what was his name Brendan and she was like yeah like how did you know and I was like I

don't know how I knew like I just it was like I knew his name and I really felt like it was a sign it was a sign like to make us wonder and go wow what is that and to me it's it's it's the prophetic utterance on accident it's that my I wasn't like let me get a prophetic word I was being me I was like I was like what was his name Brendan She's like yeah actually and we were all like wait what I was like wait what we're like you know what's the point

the point is there's such a joy in just being a son and being a daughter and now we demystify the prophetic we demystify healing we make it so serious oh you can heal people Peter's Shadow was healing folks come on Peter what did you pray what were you doing he's like I don't I don't know like I just was one with god well tell Me about your Shadow Healing Ministry what just one with the Healer and My Shadow was healing people Paul you think they're bringing handkerchiefs to Paul they could have brought anything to Paul

it wasn't oh there's something about a handkerchief no there's something about one man anointed by God living in Union can manifest the will of God so how does this happen does this happen because because these guys are great students no I believe it happens because of the person of Jesus Christ and in his invitation to all of us and so um here is the invitation for us the next six weeks we're going to consider I'm really only uh we can I'm going to touch on the Apostle um it says to consider Jesus who is the

Apostle and high priest of our confession everyone say our confession our confession your language will Change what how you speak will change as you begin to consider Jesus as your Apostle and your high priest you you will stop saying certain things and you will start saying certain things and I want to submit something to you when the church gets back to looking at Jesus the Apostle and Jesus the high priest we will begin speaking the same way not as robots but we will we will be aligned in how we view sin how we view trials

how we view people that fall how we view the Mission of the church our confession will align why because we're part of a denomination no because we're both looking at the Apostle and the high priest of our confession so number one what is an apostle an apostle is a sent one uh an apostle is someone that comes from God that represents God to man okay this is so important you can write this down an apostle is a sent one so the father sends Jesus to the Earth and he says Jesus your job as an apostle

Is to show mankind what I'm like that is the primary goal of an apostle you are sent and you're going to represent God to man so an apostle should be able to say this is what God is like how did Jesus do that t you know he was like look at me you know he was the message he was the word made flesh he tabernacled Among Us John 1 okay so Jesus lived the perfect sinless life he showed us you know Thomas was like Hey show us the Father And Jesus is like if you've seen

me you've seen the father why because he's a really good Apostle okay so if you want to know what God's like you look at Jesus that's awesome we understand that most Christians understand the apostleship of Jesus at least in that way one thing I do want to note about that just generally for the body of Christ and your understanding of an apostle the Apostle the Apostle the the the main one was a lamb the highest Revelation of the apostle was that he became a lamb and sacrificed himself for the world yeah the apostolic call is

to lay lay down your life For Those whom God has given you yes those of you who feel called that you feel like you have an Apostolic call it's it's you're being sent by God to manifest God and then ultimately in their rebellion and sin in in their wrongness you're going to lay down your Life for people that's the apostolic call so it's not the apostolic call isn't like the oh I'm the super one no you're the one that's actually going to end up on a cross so to speak does that make sense that's important

and maybe another time we'll unpack that point number two considering Jesus the Apostle and the high priest um I don't want to be too Elementary but I also don't want to just assume we all know everything so I'm just going to touch on some of these Things you can nod at me I can see all of your faces I can see all of your eyes so if you get something you can be like yeah I got it we're there with you if if you don't get it be like no I don't get it like give

me that confused look you know of like uh I don't know um that helps me you know that's we can talk that way um and if you have a question feel free we can edit them out just y'all y'all hear what I'm saying just let's be together we with me yeah We good okay so a a priest a high priest is a very very very very Jewish concept okay so the priests in the Jewish days were of the tribe of Levi okay so they were they were Levites Levi was was just a son one of

the sons of Jacob who became Israel and that tribe that tribe they were the only ones allowed to represent watch this the priest's job was to represent man to God so the high priest was chosen among men who would understand the weakness of men but would Also understand the prescription of God to make sacrifices on behalf of men and so that PR was a mediator they acted on behalf of man towards God to make sure the relational connection was solid you guys understand that the priesthood in the Jewish times that's what they were doing so

all of the Tabernacle what we call worship was not was the killing of animals that was their worship this is Crazy God was like I need you to worship me but this is how you're going to worship me you're going to kill a lamb in the morning lamb in the evening when this happens you got to bring a turtle dove when this happens you got to bring a goat when this happens and there's all this prescription you're like uh why all of that because there was sin and for mankind to be in right relationship with

God there has to be atonement for sin why because the wages Of sin is death and sin blinds humans to what God's like you guys got to get this these basic things sin blinds us to the nature of God so God himself was smiling upon Israel but his smile was obscured in their view because of sin they had a sin Consciousness so when man is looking up at God and His view is obscured by sin he begins to project on God anger frustration and there becomes a self-consciousness you feel hopeless you Feel without god without

hope in the world and if you have a god Consciousness you start trying to do a bunch of stuff to part the clouds and to get to God SM to smile at you again this is if we don't know how to deal with sin this is where most of us are this is why considering Jesus the Apostle and high priest of our confession it all of a sudden it acts as The Parting of the clouds and all of a sudden you you see someone that you didn't know was like That makees sense good so so

a priest a priest Jesus as high priest and this is why I'm going to give you a list of why this why these things matter okay um the fact that Jesus is our current day high priest it means this he as the Eternal Lamb of God forever slain he's acting right now scripturally biblically on behalf of man in relationship to God now I actually right now and I maybe this is overstated and just forgive me maybe sometimes I Overstate things because I get excited about the revelation of scripture but maybe it's not overstated I'm trying

to think of a more relevant truth to you and me living out the Christian faith than the fact that the real Jesus Christ alive today is in the presence of God on my behalf yeah come on I actually couldn't I couldn't I'm like I would be hardpressed to find A more like Central truth to my prayer life how I treat my wife and my kids how I carry myself I call myself a follower of Christ how I deal with sin how I treat my boss like I can't think of a more relevant truth than that

and yet watch this for most Christians we don't live with any Consciousness that there is a man in heaven whose role his he he has a Ministry he has a role we're like oh Yeah he died 2,000 years ago but the Beauty and The Wonder of the priesthood of Jesus is that he is now yeah everyone say now now he is now alive in the presence of God come on as a man and as God meaning he's still in a he's he's got a body he's he's embodied he's he has flesh and he's in the

presence of God why on our behalf meaning he's not there on his behalf you have to consider that now let Me let me real spiritual how do you consider something some like yeah I'm considering buying a new fridge you ever done that buying a new Appliance is super fun I'm just like oh my gosh you start googling you look at reviews you start talking to people tell me about you're considering it you got you go around and around you're like looking at the features this is what to we're going to consider Jesus as our high

priest what are the not to not to Diminish and to make it like a fridge but what are the features what what does it matter what does it mean what does it mean that there's someone in heaven in heaven in the holy of Hol see some of you listen some of you are trying to get that encounter into the holy of holies you're like I just want that Holy of holy encounter I want his presence in my life and you're not aware that there is a man you can't get closer to God than Jesus the

priest with the father glorified on your behalf how do you get closer how do you get get more access than that well I just I don't know if I prayed long enough oh really oh that's interesting so and why why do I why do I why do I make make light of that because many of us the regulations for encounter is in our own mind we we have this concept that if I Then God and the only way you can say if I then God is to not consider or see Jesus as our high priest

okay I'm going to give you a list here of about eight things um that Jesus's priesthood brings to us number one go to Hebrews chapter 7 we're going to touch on these in the coming weeks we're going to unpack uh the different ones in Greater detail Hebrews chap 7 verse 22 so we are Definitely cherry-picking here and then and then in the coming weeks we'll unpack them Hebrews 7:22 says this says this makes Jesus the guarantor of a better Covenant the guarantor there is a guarantee um number one the better Covenant is the New Covenant

which when we again some of these words I'm wanting to unpack because when we hear them we're so used to them and they seem theological to us but they don't make Our hearts beat they don't make our hearts burn when I hear the word New Covenant I get a little weak in the knees I'm G to be honest because it means I now have relational access to God that is unprecedented the New Covenant reveals that I can call God my father what did you just say you did you called God your oh that's really no

I'm serious for us to just go yeah yeah God's my father really that Doesn't doesn't do anything just crickets in there if that's happening we've gone way too fast just downshift maybe put it in a neutral maybe put it in rever verse just back it up slow your roll no I'm serious as Christians can you imagine we get born of God we call the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the one who created everything we call we're saying we have such relational access to God and in and and not just access he's Now our or

he's now our dad how just that Revelation if we were to really marinate let that permeate every cell I it would change the way we live we would stop being insecure we'd stop comparing we'd stop fearing we'd stop grumbling we stop well my light bill I can't pay my light bill and oh I've got this desire that I've God's your dad just and I I no I'm I'm appealing to you because there is some of these things Some of these Revelations they're like wine in your Cellar that you've never opened you have the bottle wow

and you're like I have this wonderful bottle of wine called God is my father and I've never and taking a sip and let the juice hit your lips and you're like I had no idea I felt good that I just had the bottle I didn't know that this could intoxicate me like this I'm serious I'm pausing on these truths they represent y'all y'all Forgive the the wine analogy but it's it has to do with the Holy Spirit the holy spirit is likened to wine so I'm not using that flippantly I'm not using that unaware that

there's people that struggle with real alcohol I'm not referencing to that I'm referencing the I'm I'm just saying that for the sake of everyone in case there's some whatever like y'all hear me like there it it's real though it's a beautiful analogy like to have the bottle you're like oh Yes look at and you can show people look at this bottle it's a it's a 200 ad vintage this is where God became became my father and yet something happens when you stop take it off the shelf open it and begin to drink it and you

allow what does that mean to drink it can I give you handles it means you allow that truth to grow big again in your heart you humble yourself and you're like you you you no longer become an expert I'm like oh I know that already Yeah can you imagine you went to a friend house and they and the best bottle of wine you've ever had they were like hey can I serve you this like you know what is that is that the 2006 sasaya no you know what I'm good I've had that before what what

you is that the No No I have I have 10 of those bottles in my seller I'm good thank you who of you if you if you offered that you were like excited To offer that to them and they were like no no I've had that before I'm good you would be like what is you having this have any to do with us enjoying this tonight I would submit that to you me God being your father through Jesus the New Covenant what does that have to do with you knowing that when do we get to

enjoy it together together not not just by myself in my secret place but together in a company of people reminding like oh yeah You're he's your dad he's your he's my Dad wow what's possible what's possible today what's possible right now if God's our dad so that's what it means when he's guaranteeing the New Covenant he's guaranteeing that access he's guaranteeing that relational status this is what it means Hebrews 7:22 this makes Jesus as a high priest the guarantor of a better Covenant that's number one Hebrews 86 I better get through this Hebrews 86 but

as it is Christ has obtained a Ministry Christ has obtained a Ministry that is much as much more excellent than the old as the Covenant he mediates is better since it is enacted on better promises these are these are huge points that I'm pulling out but I'm extracting them and then we'll we'll work our way back these are the fruits Of this will make more sense as we hump back and you read it a lot but look at this number one Jesus has a Ministry Y come on this blew my mind when I read this

I don't know how many times I read Hebrews until it just clicked I'm like I've been was in full-time Ministry for years and I read this and I was like I did not know Jesus was in Ministry did y'all know that did y'all know he was in Ministry he he's obtained a Ministry come on you think maybe those of us who are in Ministry who are seeking to advance the kingdom should be aware of Jesus's Ministry we talk so much about our ministry well what does your ministry do what does your ministry how about what

does his ministry do how about we all just again bring our ministry um back unto the parent unto the head I don't know what a novel idea and and and we submit our Ministries to his Ministry I'm serious it what if his ministry what is Jesus's present day Ministry do you know what it is according to the scripture it's the mediation of the New Covenant some of us were like okay the Eternal high priest has said I have now obtained a Ministry well what are you doing Jesus what's your what are your key performance indicators

um kind of what's your goals for q1 Q2 yeah um my goal is that those who professed Their faith in me who put who've believed in me that they would actually live in sustained constant awareness of the Trinity the Trinity love Fellowship that we have that I would baptize them in baptize them into my nature with the Holy Ghost and that they would be so transformed into my image that the world when they look at them individually and corporately they would see see and experience The Fellowship of the godhead in their Midst that's my job

Jesus so that word mediation look at this it comes from the word mesos which means which means guaranteeing the performance of all the terms stipulated in a covenant so this why does this Revelation matter that Jesus mediates the New Covenant without this Revelation in your heart you will try to mediate or be the strength in your relationship to God yeah true wow in the absence of knowing Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant you think it's your job to mediate your relationship what does that mean it means that the onus of responsibility rests on your

shoulders for your nearness to God so without the teaching and the preaching of Jesus says priest people automatically because they desire to be close to God they start thinking what do I need to do to be close to God naturally because we want to be close to God how you're not no one's here watching this because they don't want to be close to God we want to be close to God face to face no one we all want just fa we want to be melted every morning we're like face melted just crying in his presence

shining like Moses this is our inheritance 2 Corinthians 3 ministers of reconciliation there is a Glory that far surpasses the Moses shining like a light bulb coming down from the mountain Righteous Sons and Daughters of God living face to-face communion with the father will will be more bright and more glorious than Moses coming down from the mountain so he had to Veil his face that's true that's a promise what does that look like there is a smiling father in the New Covenant and when you live under his smile something happens to your face I'm talking

about your actual face now something happens to your face when You live under this like when you no I'm serious when the god it's one thing for me to do it when the godhead when God your father just you live under this like I'm so proud of you oh I love you oh I can't turn it off he can't turn it off he we think this is what we think we think 2,000 years ago God gave all this passion and I love you and oh I'm going to die on a cross for you and and

then all of a sudden he wipes his hands clean He goes all right I did my job now what are you going to do for me Monkeys dance monkey dance we think people think God's that way God cannot change the same passion my God my God's Not My My God's Not apathetic he doesn't know how to switch off and go you know what I did so much for you I'm going to see what you're going to do now he doesn't know how to do that he is love he is steadfast love he his love isn't

like well let's just see about it his Love is public display of affection full on 24 by7 all the time make you uncomfortable in public I will tase you at the worst times why CU I love you this is my wife my wife represented this love to me when we first got married PDA y'all know what PDA y'all I'm like I'm like I'm aware of people like people hey hey everybody there you are my wife when we first got married she had these eyes for me she still does but she would like come up in

physical touches her love Language and so she would like smooch on me in public and I was like oh my and and and I'm like we're at a party and she's like I love you and she'd be getting in my lap and like kissing on me and I'm like I'm like do you see the people and she didn't see the people cuz she just saw me and it made me uncomfortable and I it was so it like happened and she was just in love with me and like it was so pure and watch this watch

this cuz I God is my dad and he's awesome I was like God this is making me uncomfortable and he's like she's not wrong you are and I was like oh oh snap he's like yeah you need to just you just need to go with it he's like she's in the right here he's like I'm a God of PDA God is a god of PDA and his what's PDA public display of affection he what's more PDA than him hanging naked on a cross in Love For Humanity exposing Himself see most guy most relations relationships think

well the the the you know the woman is the more emotional kind of the initiator of emotions that's not true before we ever turned an eye to God he gave everything and said I love you I'm going to I'm going to Bear My Soul first as the husband as the pur as the man listen to me men this how it rolls unfortunately Christian men we're not waiting for the women the man goes forth and says I'm giving you all before You ever give me a wink that's the Christian way and you can the Holy Spirit

can interpret that to you but this Jesus this love he he he mediates this Covenant he's mediating it he what does that mean like that has to like he is the strength of your connection to God so what do you do when you feel far from God when you feel like you haven't been praying enough when you feel like you haven't been reading your Bible enough when you feel like you're Stuck in your own mind all you have to do is lift your eyes and realize oh yeah my connection my access isn't based on all

of those things on that's good news which means at any point that you can see him you can have access you cannot access Jesus through your own flesh which means through your own doing this is why it's the New and Living Way but most of us live under the dead way the old and dead way which is what Are you doing and this is why so many of us have roller coast relationship with God feeling close feeling far feeling close feeling far I want to break that cycle off of you and go we're going to

go from glor glory to glory doesn't mean today right now that that you're going to you could you could lay hold of this Truth for you and you would feel a measure of Grace and just know that tomorrow there's a greater measure and you could just slowly do this and grow In intimacy and proximity to God why because there's I mean I I love what I've tasted but I know for a fact I'm like a little baby learning to crawl in approaching God through the New and Living Way like I just know there's more yeah

amen so that's number one the guarant the guarantor and mediator of the New Covenant number two what why does the high priest matter Hebrews 4 y'all are laughing that's number one I hear you that's fine go ahead go Ahead Hebrews 4:15 Hebrews 4:15 look at our high priest this is awesome this is us considering for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses wo speak in tongues huh we we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but one who in every respect

say every respect every Respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin the priesthood of Jesus guaranteed sees us that whatever you're experiencing whether it's personal sin or sin against you he can sympathize Wow Come on sympathize what does this mean this will break off the feeling of feeling alone and like no one gets me well people just you don't you don't know what I've been Through people hide under that and they'll live with a victim spirit for that for years yet never touching their high priest who says excuse me hello I I actually

can sympathize with you I I understand exactly actually maybe a little I'm not just maybe a little more than what you're experiencing I've experienced it what does that matter when God sympathizes with you in weakness and in Brokenness I can speak from experience Something happens to your weakness and your Brokenness yeah amen there's an oil that comes comes there's a time you know I and I've learned this the hard way I love I love the victory guys not going to lie got to be honest with you I like reigning in life I don't like pain

I actually don't like pain I like winning and I believe the gospel says we're going to win Romans 5:17 through the abundance of Grace the free gift of Righteousness we reign in life that's winning reigning in life is winning Paul being stoned to death at Lyra keeps going that's winning doesn't mean you don't have trials it means that you win yeah means you overcome Bible says we're more than conquerors not just conquerors like I think you got conquer and then more than conquer some of us need to get to that conquering Zone but before we

get there and I've learned this Jesus sometimes doesn't just make you a Conqueror overnight he'll come to you in your pit and he'll go that's so hard and when God says that it just melts you God you mean you mean but Lord I got myself into this yeah but I did this to me I know you did but man it's painful but Lord it was my fault I know I know it was but I see how bad you feel I see how much pain what you did is causing you I don't want you to live

in This I love you I forgive you I didn't didn't say I'm sorry I know your tears were that I forgive you and we're going to get through this that's how the priest talks now if you don't know your priest if you're not considering Jesus the priest acting in the presence of God on your behalf you'll never hear him say that because here he says he says he's making a point to say we have a high priest who can sympathy I and he's been Tempted in every way yet without sin what does that mean it

means the power to overcome is found in Lord how did you go through this I'm giving you launch points for prayer to deal with sin Lord how did you go through betrayal with Judas and not sin how did you not punch him not only how did you not punch him how did you love him to the End by washing his feet yeah do you know like how many you've gone through betrayal Betrayal H Jesus do you know what betrayal is like um a little how how did you then do it have a conversation now you

now have someone a real person you can talk to how did you go through betrayal and not allow your heart to get bitter not allow like what how did you do it Lord and he'll he'll whisper if you know your word he usually guides you he's like go read John 13 you read the account of when he washes his feet and you're like oh H and for me one of the Things I read that and I'm like the Bible it leapt out at me like a like a light bulb says Jesus got up from the

table and it just all of a sudden these random phrases when you're in these prayer now they make sense it says you think like why would he say that he got up from the table Jesus knowing where he came from and where he was going he got up from the table and started washing the feet and he says that's how you handle betrayal he goes you need to know Where you come from and where you going and some of you are like I don't know like yeah you got to sit with it but he can

sympathize if that's you today let me minister to you let me let me let me take you as a brother in the Lord hear me I love the victory I love the the Triumph but let me thrust you let me thrust you into the arms of a man of a God who simp empathizes and he will look at you and he'll weep with you and he'll say I'm so Sorry that's so hard and let him put oil let him let him do what his job description said he would do which is bind up the Brokenhearted

that takes time and you don't want to bypass that process I don't like I don't like pretending like you're Victorious and you're still you got a gaping wound and you're amputated your left leg and you're bleeding out and you're pretending like you're everyone can see That I'm like I don't you don't look like you're doing great cuz usually what happens is you're saying you're not offended the person saying they're not offended is offended they're trying to convince themselves they're not offended I'm not offended like but you keep saying you're not offended like if you weren't

offended you would just have love and kindness and patience and you wouldn't feel the need to say you're not Offended you see what I'm saying so if you're offended let him deal with the offense let him heal it and then you won't you won't say I'm not offended you'll just be happy you'll be loving so that's number two he sympathizes with our weakness Micah 7:18 it goes along with this the Bible says that he Delights in showing Mercy ponder that for a second for God to show Mercy means that either we did something wrong we're

in a wrong Situation and yet he's going to provide Mercy he does not give Mercy begrudgingly wow most of us think that Mercy is like oh he's we're we're really God's like okay okay I'm going to dull out a little mercy here he Delights to do it yes like he he likes doing it he's like this is my specialty do you see do you see how this Revelation at once is beginning to to De Venom guilt shame condemnation well I Should have well I should know better this Revelation puts to death orphan spirit so it

deals with so many things I'm not talking about all the woes I'm talking about the solution because when you see him it just sanitizes your heart of all of these battles that we're in that are that are unique to each of us the third one this is amazing it's the next verse um so this is number three if number one is the guarantor and mediator number two he sympathizes with Our weakness number three Jesus uh he sits on the throne of grace dispensing mercy and Grace in our time of need look at this Hebrews 16

because he can sympathize with us let us then with confidence everyone say confidence confidence by the end of this time you're going to have confidence not in yourself in the throne of grace and the one who sits upon it amen my confidence I don't trust myself if I've had a bad Day and there's a package of double stuff Oreos there's a good chance I'm going to eat the whole sleeve and that's just not healthy you know that's just not good for you eating my emotions like that but Jesus my confidence is in him when y'all

see me get fired up it's because I'm like it's true you can't change him my confidence is that you can't change God Amen well I just don't believe doesn't Matter you can't mess with him you can't change him he's not you so your perception of God doesn't doesn't change God I love that I love that there's one that no man well they're they're deconstructing the faith oh my what you can't deconstruct Jesus yeah he's Eternal he's on his throne you can't touch him I like that I like having something that transcends all you know all

the foaming and the frothing and the oh and The grumbling and the complaining and what are this nation doing what is this church doing and oh my gosh this people fell and Jesus is on his throne yeah well but I don't believe that doesn't matter I like that it's safe it's clean it's it's like wow what I think even like what I think about God doesn't matter do you know that doesn't matter it's either he is eternal and he is God and we can get on page with that or not but it doesn't change him

And that's nice because sometimes we live with the belief that well I think this about God and that's what he's doesn't matter what you think there is truth there is can know oh that's a crazy statement in 2024 there's something called truth truth is not subject to opinion wow well this is what I think doesn't matter what you think there is something called Truth and it's our privilege to obey the truth yes amen wow so look at This let us with confidence draw near to the throne th of Grace I'm going to go off on

that one week the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find Grace to help in time of need I love the phrase time of need time of need is like a like a catchall credit card for heaven you're like I got need Lord he's like great I've got something for you it's called grace and mercy how do I know you're going to give it to me because I sit on a Throne well what's your throne it's my authority how do I know he has the he has the authority to give you Grace Grace

is not some secondary blessing he's like this is my literal Throne yes the one that we sing about in Revelation I'm GNA go off oh I'm GNA get you guys the one with the rivers of the Water of Life flowing out of it that one with the elders and the thing the thing what what's he sitting on it's Grace yes Grace is at the center of all the worship he's sitting on the throne of grace why because Grace when you touch Grace when the crystal clear water of Grace the river the Water of Life hits

you oh oh my gosh I feel it right now I'm G to fall out of this chair I'm G to cry you can't help but worship you you mean you're going to tell me to worship are you joking I'm drinking of Grace and I'm just gonna Worship I'm Gonna Worship try to stop me why because I'm I'm finding my Mercy I'm finding Grace in my time of need cuz I'm needy I'm needy I'm not saying I'm not needy I'm saying I'm needy I need Grace we need Grace yes and it's his design he didn't design

you to live apart from the sap some of you think like you're ashamed of your need wow oh I'm just I feel so moody and I feel of course you're Moody guess what you need Grace and what's the grace going to do It's going to make you not moody anymore you're going to stop being so offended all the time and you're going to have Grace you're going to stop comparing yourself you're going to stop striving why because of Grace Grace Grace it's all Grace and it flows from him you're like well how do I get

some Grace it just flows like a river the Bible speaks of it he says hey you need to know it's like you're literally not Going to be able to drink enough like there's Rivers the supply is endless I I am on like a I am on a mission from God to break the LIE off the church that I should know better by now wow that thing is eating so many people's lunch and it's wicked I should know better by now wow stop it there's Grace there is there is him we Proclaim Jesus we Proclaim with

a warning there Is a warning when you begin to see this and know this and you just reject it and live in your flesh and you want to go your own way you're going to live in death there's a warning for that but this thing for most people is better than we think amen okay that was number what three the throne of grace we're going to we're going to we're going to minister and do some q a here in about 15 minutes so we're going to interact it's not going To all be this way but

this is a big overview um so he sits on that throne of grace um number four Hebrews 51 for every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins again one of the biggest issues in the body of Christ is we don't know how to deal with sin habits and sin patterns after we get saved yeah at worst we still Embrace a Sinful identity at best we treat the blood of Jesus like the blood of a bull or a goat

yeah and we just keep going back well I need you to just walk plead your blood again and in the New Covenant says that there is a priest who again he's he's acting on behalf of God on behalf of men in relation to God to offer gifts and sacrifices look what he says for sins so the New Covenant interpretation of the priesthood of Jesus is he's taking his Sacrifice he offered himself up as a lamb so there's only one sacrifice that's needed for our sins past present and future yes amen Jesus doesn't die again when

you sin again he already paid for it so you're so think about it this way the atonement or the payment for our sins past present and future because all of our sins were future when he died so those of you who struggle like you mean he's paid for my future sins the sins that I haven't yet Committed yes because all of our sins were in the future when he died yeah that's good so so what does he do as a priest he takes that which he did applies it to what's been done and brings you

close to the one who forgives you that's how he mediates the New Covenant now if you don't know that and many many many many Christians don't know it if they stumble and fall and commit a sin that they know they Shouldn't do they feel responsible for the atonement and that atonement will depend on your denomination and what you think of God yeah it's true for me back in the day I had to let three days go by I'd mess up look at pornography do something I knew I shouldn't do and I'd have to let at

least two days three days go by before I could approach God again that was my atonement two days for you yeah so depending on who you talk to Because we Gentiles we just made up any kind of law we didn't have a law no one gave us a law so we just made up our own we're like well some of you it's like I got to read my Bible I got to read three chapters or I got to share the gospel with somebody I got to go once I go to church after I go to

church now I'll be good some of you it was that but the reality is the priest makes atonement for us and he's he's in the presence of God so what's he doing again These are all conversations real prayers you can pray to God if you stumble and I say if we'll talk about that later if you stumble you have someone who's in the presence of God on your behalf with a better blood so what do you do you have a conversation with him yes hey Lord yeah I'm really broken you're like do you don't believe

in confessing sin no I absolutely believe in the confession of sin not to get right with God but to Fuel relational intimacy and to let my god father me and show me how the heck did that happen right none of us want sin does anyone here you're like I want sin you don't if you're born again you don't you want righteousness so what should you do confess your sin Lord I that broke me I can't believe I did that if you sinned against someone confess it to them repent to them amen more amens if you

sin against Someone go back to that person you say hey I sinned against you I'm sorry will you forgive me then you go to the father father what the heck was that I am I am so broken over that and you're not doing that in shame and guilt you're doing that to draw close just because you know God will forgive you this is some weird Doctrine people say well I know God will forgive me so I don't need to confess it to him what confession and forgiveness is a Relational act that fuels intimacy if Christie

is the most gracious person which she is and I sin against her but I usurp her right to forgive me that's not good if I sin against her and I know she's going to forgive me 100% I'm like you know what I didn't take the trash out again like she said you wanted on Monday and take it on Monday she'll forgive me and I don't say anything and I assume her forgiveness I've now broken her privilege to say hey you didn't take The trash out I forgive you which would fuel intimacy does that make sense

versus assuming well I just know she'll forgive me so I'm going to live as though it never happened some people take Grace and they twist it like that and they don't let God the Father actually look at them and go hey I forgive you when he says that now of a sudden there's a conversation and he'll say what happened did you forget you were a Son did you hey did you see how did you see how that happened oh Lord what happened yeah you you you binged eight here you did this and he'll point to

four things that you were feeding your flesh that led you to something he'll begin to Father you and show you how you did the thing that you're like I didn't think I would ever do that again and he'll show you actually Lord why did I get so irritated well because you were feeding your flesh the last week and so That's why you were so triggered by that person but if you never if we just live in shame and guilt all the time we never give God Access to speak into our lives and to actually father

us to show us really what's going on in our hearts so that's Hebrews 51 he acts on behalf of men I love this one 52 he can deal gently with the ignorant and Wayward since he himself is beset with weakness I pray this from my own Heart some of us are really harsh with people who are ignorant and Wayward when Jesus sees someone who's think about this think of ignorant ignorant not a nice like they're ignorant and Wayward is even worse Wayward is like you're going the wrong way the Bible says that Jesus as a

priest his posture towards ignorant people and Wayward people specifically those who are in Covenant with him but may still be operating in ignorance and Waywardness he's gentle if that's you if you're like man I've just I feel like I've been ignorant I feel like I've been Wayward you need to know he's gentle he the Bible and you're like how do you know he's because the Bible says he's gentle how can he be gentle because he was beset with weakness on Earth he put on a mortal body and he understands the Bible says he knows our

frame that we're but dust isn't that Good number six Hebrews 5:9 in Jesus being made perfect he became past tense The Source say the source source I lost you guys already I lost you guys on number four y'all are still like oh my gosh he became the source of Eternal salvation to all who obey him so Point number six is that he is the fountain or the source of Eternal Salvation this um I think is connected all of these truths are connected um but we need to live with an awareness that the New Covenant promises

not just we saved past tense but Salvation is eternal yes mean meaning it spans every second of every moment of every day which means that if you're facing something you're in a trial you're in a challenge there is a source of Salvation available to you through Jesus as your priest does That make sense meaning you you can always be saved like we we hypers spiritualize well I'm saved but now I'm really going through a hard time and now what do I do you need to be saved again you need to be saved from that trial

you need to be saved from depression you need to be saved from from complaining you need to be saved from that relational dynamic in your family you need to be saved from that wandering lustful thoughts in your heart you need To be saved from feeling like you're alone and no one that you need to be saved you can be saved from that but see most Christians they think no I need to be saved when I was lost and now I need to figure it out now that I'm born again does that make sense but the

way of the Christian faith is that he saved you and he keeps saving you that he doesn't expect you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and hey you need to figure this out is there maturity do we grow Yes but he's covenanted to save us this means when You Face things that are too big for you too hard for you you can be confident that God's method of Victory is his salvation this is good news this means this means you always have someone that's GNA fight for you and leverage who he is on your

behalf to get you out of a situation and sometimes listen how many times in the Psalms I don't even think we take these things literal how many promises in the Psalms I take Refuge in you Lord we we are so spiritualized everything do you know what it means to take refuge you're hiding in something and then the Bible speaks of God acting when you're hiding yes so you're like I'm facing this challenge in life I'm I can't get past I can't figure this out I can't pray through it I can't worship my can't he's like

why don't you just take refuge me well but Lord then I couldn't Point to anything that I did to get free exactly how did you get over that I just tucked myself into his name won't he do it you know won't he do it then then where's my boast I come out and won't he do it he did it and then what do you people like how did you do it and you're like he did it well what did you do I did nothing I did not I trusted him I trusted my God I trusted

my God yes I trusted my God what did you do I trust him with my finances I trust him with my relationship I trust him with my own spiritual growth the area you have the most anxiety is the area you don't trust him I'm going to say that again you need to write that down the area you have the most anxiety in your heart the thing that you worried about that you stay awake at night that you pray About uh oh is where you don't trust him you're like I don't what you're really saying is

I don't trust you anxiety is the music that that plays in your soul when you don't trust God peace is the music that plays in your soul when you trust God it's a music it's a soundtrack at the root of both is either trust or unbelief doubt good so trust grows when you see Wow there's a fountain of Eternal salvation so what does that do it builds hope anytime you face something anytime you have a challenge you're now you you start to you start to get delivered a victim mindset of complaining of grumbling of man

this thing is just weighing so heavy on me I'm just in a season right now of of you're like you know what I'm facing you you don't it's not that you don't get honest you're honest you're like man I'm facing Something radical it's very difficult it's crushing my soul but there's this thing called hope yes and you're like but I know my God he's going to help me and it's not fake it doesn't mean that it doesn't it's not hurtful it doesn't mean it's not painful it doesn't mean that you're a robot that you don't

feel it means that you take those emotions and you set them on the rock of your Eternal salvation and you know that you know that you know that if 2,000 years ago he bled and died for you today he's mediating a covenant you know he can come through and if you don't know what to do take refuge yeah some I see I Pastor a lot of people and there some of you are so obsessed with trying to I I can just see it you're like well I just got to do something what if you don't

what if you just have to sit on the Rock and what if God what if God I don't know what if God who loves you what if he actually acted On your behalf and he and he moved in the heart of those people around you that were tormenting you what if what if he opened the door that you couldn't open yes what if he arranged the Divine appointment that you could never arrange on yourself what if he was the one that would water the dream in your heart and bring it to pass in his time

what if he holds your destiny in your future what if he's your Calling what if he's your inheritance what if he actually satisfied you what if no I'm that's the Lord right there I hear him what if he actually satisfied us yes come on yes last two and then I want to do some I want to I actually want to do some Q&A I want to fellowship with you guys because I know there is H but write these down we won't have time to get Into them um this one is so deep and so fun

Hebrews 7:16 um Jesus has become a priest uh we'll start in 15 this becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of melkisedek my man who has become a priest not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent meaning they don't come from the tribe of Levi but his priesthood is on the basis of the power of an indestructible life that Matters yes and and high level matters because he's not going to die again and so this priesthood continues permanently meaning The Rules of Engagement this that I'm sharing with you

can't change yeah some of some of you you're hearing me and like I'm I'm seeing Sparks of Hope but then there's this there's this thing in the back of your mind that goes that's true today and that feels good today but that won't be true tomorrow and there's something I think Of this nature that that God says hey I'm actually my priesthood is not I'm not going to die again I'm alive forever yes in this role yes and finally that's number seven um number eight is Hebrews 7:25 consequently Jesus is able to save to the

uttermost those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them the beauty here is that is that Jesus is in the presence of God on our Behalf and he's praying there's very few people that I meet that don't think they should be praying more most people feel like they're not praying enough and just to encourage you um my my prayer life it es and flows based on my awareness of Jesus's prayer life I rest in his prayer life and I have found that when I rest in his Prayer

life I actually stopped counting my prayer life and I just live in communion and it's nice so this is the overview hopefully you see why this revelation of Jesus as high priest matters like that this will impact literally every waking moment in most of your sleeping moments so that that concludes this overview this session which is is awesome isn't That good can we praise God thank God okay now I know that I know that I know there are questions wrestling like give me a few give me a few like like thoughts what stood out to

you what what frustrated you let's be real there's no posturing no pretending yes Marcus so I feel like this is a constant battle that I have when it comes to like specific decision making um because I'm hearing you say like rest in Grace and you know you don't have to Like necessarily do anything so what what's the balance between like stewarding like something that you have by making a decision but also like Allowing God to like I don't know do this part with like Grace right give me a give me an example put a little

more meat on the bone like finances right when it comes to like uh like support reason like what I hear you say a lot of times is like okay like God will finance you God will supply it God Will give Grace for it so does that mean I can just sit and just BL do that or go actually have to reach out and Steward what he's doing you know what I'm saying yeah once you get into these practical things you have to be led by the voice of your father um when I started Braveheart Ministries

we had $1,000 in the bank account one person gave a $1,000 check uh I was still on staff at upper room and I had three kids at the time little Sammy there was was one and we had a mortgage three kids and $1,000 in the bank account and we were living month to month and I said God and I had a friend who had just gone into full-time Ministry and he just basically went for 70 days four meetings a a a week and he said he raised all of his money in 70 days and I

was like wow and he goes yeah I scheduled this meeting this is how I did it and he gave me the blueprint and I went for a walk and I said God unless You build this house I'm going to labor in vain I said so what do you want me to do I was like if you want me to go work at McDonald's if you want me to bang the door down like my friend did you tell me what to do and he said I want you to write the the gospel message that I've shown

you the last six years from this time to this time in the he goes spend this time with me in the morning and then write your book and I was Like yeah but I was asking about the money and he said what you do with the rest of your time is your business he says but I don't want you asking anyone for money he told me that he didn't tell I don't know that he's told you that he told me that so I didn't ask I did actually that's wrong I disobeyed him I called one

guy who I knew was going to give to me and it was the most awkward conversation ever like this guy was like ah and like I was like ah I disobeying God you know it was terrible and and I will say I I fleeced God I said God if this is your voice I was like I would like to see a cardinal a red cardinal I was on a walk I was like I want to see a red cardinal and I got to my finish my whole walk and I thought it was his voice and

I tested it and I think I tested it with Christie so some of you test the voice of God with people you know some of you that hear God and you never it's never Tested with people around you makes me a little scary cuz then if you're just hearing God and no one's ever bearing witness and going amen yeah we live in a community faith community so like I submitted it to some people I said hey this is what I felt like I heard I gave a fleece that night I didn't see any Cardinal I

got home and I was like I don't know I was like I think that was him I'm like wrestling but the voice there's provision in the voice I went to Sleep I went to sleep and all I saw was fence and a cardinal flitted down and just sat on the fence and I woke up and I was like bang started running so I in my season of fundraising I was spending time with God and writing back to the gospel and I had so many miracles happen like the the wisdom is justified by all her children

so this guy calls me out of the blue he goes hey get this so he's like my son is lost and I he goes do you remember me you ministered at this thing Six months ago he goes I feel like you're supposed to lead my son to the Lord what I'll meet you tomorrow and I'm going to bring my son I meet this guy at a coffee shop he's the lowest hanging fruit I've ever met in my life he's like I share a little bit of my testimony I'm just trying to like does the dad

just want him to be saved he's like how do I get born again come on he's like I'm tormented I pray for we share the gospel pray for him power God Hits him he gets saved and I'm like that was so easy I drop this guy back off the dad comes out he goes what are you doing these days I go I just started this Braveheart because the Lord said he goes you can respond to people that reach out to you he goes my wife and I are going to support you thousand bucks a month

I didn't know the guy W so why do I share that story it's provision is in the voice specifically amen and so what it was work for me to wake up early in the Morning spend time with God and to write that was the work so Paul says I work harder than all of those other guys he goes but it wasn't me it was the grace of God in Me So I know when someone's walking in Grace because actually there there's fruitful labor and they got a smile on their face people that are Idol when

I y'all I need to say this the grace of God does not make you Idol yes it's actually anathema to the gospel The grace of God isn't when I talk about sitting I'm talking about your inside sides I'm talking about your inner life your your hands and your feet and your face you will be working you will be typing emails and you will be doing things but you'll be doing it glad because you're living in rest with a fountain inside of you so that's a really good question but it depends with the voice few others

this is good questions about the priesthood why It matters connecting our hearts to it I want you guys to see the scope see the bigness of it the importance of it I can go with a question on just like confidence in God like knowing the authority approaching him as high priest having this confidence in him what's the balance of that and like knowing it I'm like oh I know my authority I know my high priest but also having like a reverence for Him yeah that's a great question um Hebrews 10 talks about the New and

Living Way being through the curtain that is his flesh and you guys know that's a that's a reference to the old the old Tabernacle that to walk into the presence of God you had to walk past a curtain I believe one of the reasons his design is the curtain the the Bible says the curtain is now through his flesh Hebrews uh Ephesians 2 uh 13 says that you who are once far off have now been Brought near by the blood so anytime I approach God I have to go through the curtain which is what is

flesh so I don't know how to like there's a there's a confidence but like if you picture and this is really like intense but if you picture Jesus's back filleted open with blood coming out like it it does two things like number one it's like it would be it would seem um it would seem dishonoring to shrink back from Him would be dishonoring to not like if I understand now from the scriptures that he did that to bring me close to he that he wanted me near and that he endured all of that for proximity

and then if I were to like if I were to see that and to go no I'm good I'm going to stay here like that's not honoring simultaneous it would be dishonoring to walk past that and to not allow it to touch me because the veil of His flesh there's still warm blood and so when I touch the warmth of his blood it I'm in the presence of God covered in warm blood I'm not going to be there like like you know high on my horse like oh look at me and I'm I'm going to

be aware of the price that was paid for me which is going to keep me in a posture of humility and reverence and awe and humility draw near to the house of God to listen rather than to speak it's like yeah like if you walk Through a veil of his flesh you're not going to rock up and be like he you're going to be like every time like every time you approach the presence of God you can be confident cuz you know he did that to bring you near but you can't be arrogant you can't

be cocky you're you're sobered you're in awe you're humbled you're thankful [Music] you're it is it it's okay for it to be Painful and joyful like I don't know how only the spirit can do that like I don't I don't think you ever outgrow it being being like both you're like gosh but it's so joyful CU I'm like wow you you endured the pain actually so that I didn't have to so I could be close and experience Pleasures as your right hand forever more and so that's a beautiful question though station I think I think

that's the that's the Mature heart we want to we want to hold both of those things in tension um and I think sometimes as we're learning these things we gravitate one towards the other um and as we mature we're able to hold both of those in tension because there is a tension sometimes we see confident people and you're like you don't you don't have any reverence really good few more couple more yeah um with him as an Apostle like representing what was it God to man how have you seen him like reframe like wrong views

if that makes sense I've got like let's say I have a certain view of God as a father and it's it's off and it's like through pain so how I feel like to for that to be reframed is like painful and like no I don't want that but like how have you seen does that make sense like how have you seen him reframe um God like certain aspects of Him personally I guess yeah like specifically when you said the god like he's the god of PDA I love that but I hate it I was like

like P like public toplit to me it's like this isn't this isn't like there's a part of me that loves it believes it but this is like tired me like I can't I'm just like it's wrw right now um it's like I manipulative almost like you want something from me and I I don't know um like it benefits God as a father Um not me like it's taking for me not it's super specific but I just mean like God Jesus as an apostle representing like a side of God that's like painful how have you seen

that yeah yeah um I would say before you you're willing or you're able to exchange your view because it sounds like there's pain in that view he's not just coming and being like let me show you what I'm really like I think he'll like we said he wants to meet you in That pain and heal it sanitize it of the of the sting um and so that I think that would be step number one is just letting him weep because you can't see you know when you're in pain like phys literally physically if you ever

hit your head I hate hitting my head I I become an unregenerate unsaved person if my head gets hit on accident I'm like I you say thing you you get blinded someone's trying to talk to you you're like I Can't see I can't think that heart pain does that so I would just encourage you like to allow allow him um just to meet you there um and I think that would go a long way um because once once that pain gets touched by him it'll be very easy to see him in the right light and

if it's if you don't and you're trying to see the right light you won't be able to see it cuz the pain will obscure You so for me um one of the ways I think I think one of the ways I try to stay on the path of of just repentance if you will is realizing that today I still have views about God that are not right and I want I welcome God I prayed it yesterday I'm I'm running like Lord if I've got a speck or a log will you please take it out I

want to see you good so it's the willingness for him to show you something different but I I want to like if you can't pray That prayer in honesty it's because there's the pain um and then if I pray that prayer usually what he does to answer your question he will show me something through the scriptures through Jesus um where I'm like oh wow you responded this way I would have responded that way but you responded this way and then I have to sit there and wrestle with like God you forgave people that were Crucifying

you I wouldn't have done it that way and you sit there and you wrestle with that um and it usually is a wrestle you feel like Jacob you end up leaving with a limp you're kind of like to let it go cuz cuz let's be honest some of the the ways we view God we've created an identity around that and it's hard to let them go because we've related to God for so long in that way so your question is really really good An Elise and I think so many people can relate to that um

it's really good um I don't know how much this relates to the high priest but you kind of touched on it a bit earlier but how do you get over the LIE the feeling like you're never doing enough specifically when it comes to the Bible or praying like what practically has helped because I'll get in these moments where I'll read scripture however long for some Reason it just won't feel like enough or I feel like I almost hav't connected with the father like I was hoping to when I read the Bible and I have this

like mag feel that I didn't accomplish what I wanted to accomplish like I don't know if that makes sense yeah I mean I think it's actually very applicable to what we stud today in that he Jesus is the one satisfying that that thing um but what I think is happening with you and I'll just maybe Speak prophetically um you you strike me as one who's very hungry for god um and so what you're describing is hunger yeah there you go you're just describing being hungry and there's nothing wrong with being hungry and so just because

you you you ate for an hour and you're still hungry it's actually a sign of of your spiritual health versus your Spiritual whatever what what you may be tempted to believe and to be accused of which is that you're that you're not doing enough or that you're not that you're apathetic and that you don't pray and read enough you're actually just a really Hungry Hungry Hippo for the Lord and it's beautiful no look at me it's beautiful I can see your Zeal and your desire for him um and so I just want to tell you

you're actually really really healthy I really believe that I believe You need to know like that is actually a sign of your heart health the amount that you desire him I would be much more concerned about someone who wasn't hungry for the Lord most often times people feeling that of like I'm not doing enough are the hungriest and the purest hearts and there's something about agreeing with that truth yes that's nice amen I'm Serious I honor your hunger for him he sees it when your heart reaches for him you finish your Bible study and you're

like cuz you've tasted some stuff and it and it messes you up and so then you have like a regular one and you're like but God y'all are laughing because you know I'm crying because I'm like I feel that I feel that way 24 by S I'm like I I'm it's like sometimes I'm here then I'm like I don't want to be here I want to be there all the way there and that's so good just bless that in you yeah it's kind of like backing what you said but when you're talking about like public

display of affection Right like when you love someone like you don't care like he sees it you're so in love like you only have eyes there not looking to the left or to the right but Like when it comes to more I guess like intimate parts of God it's like there's certain things that I guess like you don't do in public because it's like more intimate but like how does that parallel to God like when we have more intimate time with him is there like times where it's like just him and I and then when

we're in public with other people it's like how far intimately can you go or why does it feel awkward when it's like oh I want to go deeper with You God but why do I feel like I don't want people looking at me like does that make any sense like trying to like sense figure out intimate you should be with God because in a human aspect there is a side of intimacy that you don't share with anyone else except for that one person you God like how should you show that intimacy aever yeah it's a

great question um the secret place is real that's you and the Lord and it's a secret for a reason Doesn't need to be on Instagram or anywhere else but in your own heart with the Lord and I would highly encourage you guys just practically I know this maybe sound obvious if you don't have a secret place meaning where you're alone with God just you and God you you need to cultivate that use this season as a time to set aside time can be in your car in your room but not a public place not a

not a restaurant or a coffee shop or a mall or a public room you need Alone time with God where you're literally alone with him um I can't really speak I I think there's invitations corporately that we can we we we should believe together when we come together we should believe for corporate intimate encounters with the Lord like I believe that like we're not here just alone it's not just like Christie's here and Rachel's here Antonio's here we're here actually together before the Lord And I think the closer we are the more love that exists

between us the the greater like the more measure of his glory and presence can rest upon us does that make sense if there's a bunch of Discord here and disunity and all that God doesn't rest on that does that make sense so and then as far as God encountering Us in public sometimes sometimes I don't think he cares I was in a mall in Brazil one time and he Just he just decided to tase the mess out of me and I was walking with friends I was on a mission trip and and the reality of

his love for me so overwhelmed me and I and I fell over and I just laid in the fetal position for about two minutes in the mall in Rio de Janeiro and I didn't want that I did not want that that was not nice he didn't care he was like I love you and it hit my heart and I was like I just went down walking with my friend my friend's Like what's going on I'm like I yeah so yeah it wasn't fun it wasn't nice but it was nice you know so I don't know

the answer to I know sometimes you know the the woman that's weeping over Jesus's feet like at the dinner meeting like that was out of place but she didn't care Paul says if I'm out of my mind it's not for you it's for God if I'm in my right mind it's for you I do think there's a Time David became undignified In the presence of God before men and I do think there's a time to allow ourselves to respond I don't like there's times where God becomes so real to your Consciousness it would be not

it would be not right how do I say the the best thing to do is just to let yourself be undignified before him and it honors God and some people may get offended but some people may be invited into an encounter through your Worship and I want to be the one that lets your worship provoke me not judge and go why you why is she doing that why is she crying so much maybe because she loves God can we pray it's been really good y'all feel the lord well Lord we we we do want to

drink we do want to drink of these things and not let them stay far Um thank you for the grace to partake of these things Lord would you would you provoke us as we go to fellowship with one another to engage with one another in conversation around your word in a way that would honor you that would deepen this encounter that would pray with one another Lord give us an appetite Lord to continue in this fellowship with one another God God would we seek to know you Through how you're revealing yourself to each other we

know that you we have the mind of Christ and I just bless and honor everyone's process how you're thinking how you're wrestling what you see God I pray that we would have the the the context to share it with one another that we would feel together in this journey thank you for this place God as we find our footing as we find our our Way in these times together God we uh we just need your grace and your help and so thank you for this place thank you for this time in your word um and

just pray that this this wine of your spirit that we're drinking of um you would just allow us to partake of it more and more Jesus name amen amen amen amen [Applause]