He's reclaiming his property, beloved.
This morning, with the help of God's Spirit,
and His Word, I want to be able
to share a message that indeed confirms what
the Holy Spirit is doing in our midst
even now.
He is reclaiming his property.
Beloved, it is my conviction and firm belief,
and I pray that God will continue to
enable my conviction and my firm belief to
grow more and more and more insomuch that
I become fully consumed in this conviction and
belief.
And that firm conviction and belief that is
welling up within my soul, within my mind,
that is a predominant theme in the Word
of God, is found in 1 Corinthians chapter
6, beginning in verse number 12.
May I suggest this morning, and if I
would title this message this morning, I would
entitle it, The Holy War.
You know that there has been declared a
holy war in the East, and those who
are adherents to the Muslim religion, who follow
the Quora, have been encouraged and commanded by
their leaders to begin a holy war, which
is basically an all-out effort to destroy
and deliver themselves from the aliens that have
come into their area who are a threat
to their shrines and their religious customs.
Those aliens, of course, happen to be the
armies that are there defending Saudi Arabia.
And they have declared a holy war.
But, beloved, there is a holy war that
is occurring now, and it is the true
holy war, and this is the holy war
of which we want to bring your attention
this morning, found in 1 Corinthians chapter 6,
beginning with verse...
Well, let's begin in verse number 9.
1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse number 9.
Paul is dealing with a number of issues
at this time.
First of all, in 1 Corinthians chapter 5,
he deals with sin in the congregation.
There was sexual immorality occurring in the congregation,
and the believers were not humbling themselves and
weeping before God, mourning over this sin, but
rather they were puffed up, Paul said.
In other words, they weren't dealing with the
problem.
They were pretending that it wasn't there.
And oh, how dangerous this is.
How dangerous this is.
When the Christian begins to pretend that there's
nothing wrong when the Lord is possibly wanting
to deal with an area of sin, perhaps
in our life or perhaps in the life
of a local church.
Pretending that there was nothing wrong.
And Paul, of course, loved the Corinthians with
the love of Christ.
And he had a very tender heart toward
the Corinthians.
But he also had a rage.
He had a rage that was in him
against the devil.
And he knew how subtle the serpent was.
He knew how tricky Satan was.
And it broke Paul's heart to see how
the serpent was mingling in the church at
Corinth and causing all kinds of problems to
occur.
Taking advantage of the Corinthian immaturity.
Taking advantage of many of the saints.
And this is what inspired Paul to be
so tender toward the Corinthian church, but yet
on the other hand to be so firm
and so definite.
And in chapter number 6 of 1 Corinthians,
we find that Paul is beginning to deal
with a problem that had occurred in the
Corinthian church.
One that was inspiring the believers to take
other believers to court.
They were having problems among themselves.
And instead of getting together as mature Christians
and talking the problems out and allowing the
attitude of Christ and the spirit of humility
in order to reign in their thinking, they
were acting carnal.
They were wanting to take people to court
and sue them.
And Paul here in verse number 9 is
describing those people that the Corinthians were subjecting
themselves to as their judge.
See, they were Christians and they were going
to the court and they were having these
kind of people be their judge over matters
that they themselves should have handled.
And I'm reading this in context in order
to be able to come to the Scripture
that we want to deal with this morning
that is becoming that conviction and that belief
that I want to consume myself and I'm
praying that it will consume you also.
Verse number 9 after Paul deals with how
they were doing wrong by bringing these people
to court, how they should have settled it
among themselves.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived.
Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate
nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves
nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you, but ye
are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye
are justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
All things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient.
All things are lawful for me, but I
will not be brought under the power of
any.
Now when Paul refers here in verse number
12, all things are lawful unto me, he
is not referring to those things that are
unlawful.
Here many times Christians use this scripture to
say, well, there's really nothing that you can
do as a Christian that's wrong, because the
Bible says that all things are lawful unto
you.
Not so.
Paul is speaking within the context of Christian
liberty.
But he's saying even though as Christians we
are free, we're not under any legalistic laws,
yet I will not allow my Christian freedom
to bring me into the bondage or servitude
of anything, because then my Christian freedom becomes
perverted.
The very reason why I became free as
a Christian was to be the Lord's bondservant.
So the only slavery, if I might use
that word, that should be operating in our
life as Christians is the slavery of our
relationship to Christ.
He is our master, we are the servant.
Paul called himself the bondservant of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
So Paul here is explaining that though I'm
free, yet I must not allow my freedom
to bring me into the captivity of anything,
lest something other than Christ Himself become my
master.
Who masters you this morning?
What masters you this morning?
Verse number 13, meats for the belly and
the belly for meats.
Here Paul is talking about the legalistic convictions
regarding ceremonial eating and things, but Paul puts
it in proper perspective.
He said meats for the belly and the
belly for meats, but God shall destroy both
it and them.
Now the body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body.
Now beloved, before we go on, we must
bring this out in order for us to
be able to comprehend the heart of the
Lord in what God is saying and the
moving of the Holy Spirit this morning.
Let us read verse number 13 again, the
latter part.
Now the body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body.
Now let me ask a question.
Who are we as redeemed children of God?
We are the body of Christ.
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Now Paul is helping these Corinthian believers to
make a transition that they have failed to
do thus far in their Christian experience, which
has become the root of their problem.
They are suffering from an identity crisis.
The Corinthian believers are suffering from an identity
crisis.
They are still walking around as men who
suppose that they belong to themselves and that
it is the desires of their own heart
that ought to be expressed through their mortal
bodies.
And Paul is showing that this is a
fundamental error in their thinking which is resulting
in their continued captivity to sin.
You see, he says the body is not
for fornication.
My human body and the body of Christ
at large is not for fornication.
In other words, your body is not to
become that which expresses the desires of sin.
You see, the new identity is I am
in Christ now.
We must become conscious of God in us.
For prior to our conversion in Ephesians chapter
2, we can go there very quickly in
order that we can substantiate these sayings by
the word of God which is quick and
powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.
Prior to our conversion, Ephesians chapter 2, And
you have he quickened who were dead in
trespasses and sins.
What the apostle Paul is saying here is
you Ephesian believers prior to your conversion, prior
to the day when you experienced life in
Jesus Christ, you were dead in sin and
in trespasses.
You were alienated from the life of God.
Listen, your only identity, your only communion that
you had was with the sin that lurked
within.
In other words, Paul is saying, your body
became an avenue by which sin expressed itself.
That's the old identity.
When we were dead to Christ, we were
alive to sin.
Meaning, when we were dead to Christ, Christ
did not express his holy desires in us
and through us.
Our tongue did not speak the words that
are seasoned with salt in order to minister
grace to the hearers.
Our minds did not think the holy thoughts
of God's word and the holy thoughts of
righteousness and holiness.
Our hands did not work the works of
God.
Our feet did not take us into places
that are pleasing to God.
But rather, our tongues spoke the corrupt words
of the devil and our sinful heart.
Our hands worked the work of our own
selfish interests and the interests of the devil.
Our bodies became the means by which sin
and the abyss of wickedness within us expressed
itself.
This is the old identity.
This is just touching the iceberg of the
depths of the fall.
When Adam fell, his body became the very
means by which his sin would express itself.
And here these Corinthian believers were confused.
They were walking around as Christians, but yet
they were not identifying themselves with the new
life that lived within them.
Thereby, they were yet being captive to those
things that Christ pronounced as dead and cursed
and to be forever laid aside.
You see?
And you hath he quickened, we're going to
go back to 1 Corinthians 6, who were
dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of
this world.
Now see what we're doing here?
We are seeing a life identified with the
old.
See, our life identified with the old is
characterized by walking according to the course of
this world.
That's the old.
That's what we used to do.
We had no other alternative.
According to the prince of the power of
the air.
So not only did we walk according to
the course of this world, but we were
walking in accordance to the prince of the
power of this air.
That is, we were in obedience to and
in allegiance to the devil.
Which meant our mind became the place where
he thought his thoughts.
Our body became the place where he expressed
his wicked desires.
There's the old.
Oh, the redemption of Christ.
According to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now walketh in
the children of disobedience, among whom also we
all had our conversation.
Now the word conversation there suggests our lifestyle.
Not just our speech, but our entire lifestyle.
Our entire lifestyle, when it's identified with Adam,
was completely corrupt and our bodies became the
expression not of Christ, not of righteousness, not
of holiness, not of goodness, but of the
things of the flesh.
Now he's comparing here.
Among whom also we had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh.
Our lifestyle was characterized by the lusts of
the flesh manifesting themselves through the body.
Now remember our text.
Paul said the body is not for fornication.
The body is not for fornication.
That characterized the old way of life.
Fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind.
And we're by nature the children of wrath,
even as others.
But God who is rich in mercy for
his great love wherewith he loved us, even
when we were dead in sins, hath quickened.
That means made alive.
We were only alive to sin, but now
we are alive to who?
To Christ.
If so be that Christ dwells in you,
you are alive to Christ.
He quickened us together with Christ.
By grace ye are saved.
Now, going back to 1 Corinthians 6.
1 Corinthians 6, latter part of verse 13.
Now the body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord.
And the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord
and will also raise us up by his
own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are the
members of Christ?
Now here Christ Jesus is the head and
this is the body.
Now, if this is the head, which is
Christ himself, Christ Jesus, then if we are
his body, then tell me, whose desires should
be expressed in these bodies if he is
the head?
If this is the body of which Christ
Jesus is the head, then the desires of
Christ, the desires of the head, should be
expressing themselves through every single member of the
body.
Every single member of the body.
And this is how then the body of
Christ glorifies Jesus.
Because the body of Christ becomes that visible
means by which Christ himself expresses what he
is.
Identity crisis.
Now what's the holy war?
The holy war consists of the devil's attempts
to keep the church of God captive to
their old identity in Adam, so as to
prevent them from recognizing that they, the body
of Christ corporately and the individual members, that
means you and me, so as to get
us not to realize that both the body
of Christ and us individually do not belong
to ourselves.
We are not our own.
We belong to the one who redeemed us,
listen, whose body we have become.
You are an individual member of the body
of Christ.
Now let's develop this thought.
The holy war.
Keep the church from understanding that eternal life
in the person of the Holy Spirit dwells
in them.
Keep the church from understanding that Christ in
them has become the victory over everything that
they were in Adam.
Keep the church from understanding that it is
no longer their desires that are to be
expressed through their body and through their minds,
but it is the desires of the Holy
Christ that lives within them.
Keep the church from realizing that they have
been impregnated with the very presence of eternal
God.
Keep the church from recognizing that through the
operation of faith and by yielding and by
coming to God, they can become in Christ
victorious over all the works of the flesh
and the enemy.
Keep the church from realizing this.
Ah, devious plan, isn't it?
Keep us walking around thinking like the world
does.
Well, I'm just a person.
Hey, hey, life?
What's life?
Just get in, make a living, try to
be successful, get enough so that you can
be happy?
Keep the church from realizing they've been redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb.
Now they're placed as witnesses in this world.
Now they've been given opportunity to reflect in
their very action the life of the Son
of God by the way, which life is
greater than any power of the devil.
Keep the church from understanding their union with
eternal God through Christ.
Because the moment the light shines, and a
believer, not just a believer, can you imagine
the corporate body of Christ?
Everyone that's truly one of God's?
Can you imagine an awakening beginning to occur
where suddenly we come to realize that we
are in Christ, Christ dwells in us, and
now I have been given the blessed opportunity
to arise morning by morning and get in
tune with Christ's life in me and put
down Adam's life by virtue of abiding in
Christ and letting His life express Himself through
the day?
What a revival would occur!
What a revival!
It wouldn't be this revival of emotionalism and
gifts where there's no change, but it would
be a revival, it would be a reliving
of Christ again, walking through His people, a
reliving of Christ, walking in His people, going
to the supermarket.
I wonder what it would be like if
Jesus went to the supermarket.
Well, if there's any Christians in there, He's
there in them.
See, remember, the body of Christ.
The body of Christ.
It is Christ the head, Jesus is the
head, He is God, He alone is God,
the body does not become God, but the
body has the joy of being joined to
the head in the Spirit.
Well, read that.
And as the body yields to Christ, then
Christ Himself can live through us.
What is your victory over every area of
conflict that is presently bombarding you as a
Christian?
Christ in you.
The hope of glory.
Now it gets better.
Now, by the way, I forgot to mention,
verse 14, "...and God hath both raised up
the Lord, and will also raise up us
by His own power."
I personally don't believe that He's talking about
the future resurrection at the last day.
I believe Paul here is referring to the
raising up of the Christian out of the
identity of Adam into the identity of Christ
where victory reigns.
There's the resurrection that Jesus wants the church
to experience before the trump.
The present resurrection.
Jesus said, "...I am the resurrection and the
life.
He that believeth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live."
Oh, that we may live in His presence.
That we may reign as kings.
Remember, Paul said, Oh, I wish you did
reign as kings.
He was talking to the Corinthians.
What was he talking about?
That they would get a kingdom and get
a throne and sit down on it and
have people serve Him?
No.
To reign as kings in this life means
that in Christ, by allowing Christ's life to
become our life, we reign over the flesh.
We reign over the devil.
We reign over the lower powers of Adam
in us.
And in Christ, we find victory evermore.
Verse number 15, Know ye not that your
bodies are the members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ
and make them the members of a harlot?
God forbid.
What?
Know ye not that he which is joined
to the Lord is one body?
For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
You see, one body.
The head and the body.
One body.
We who are joined to the Lord are
one spirit.
Christ dwells in us.
Christ in us.
See that?
Christ in us.
But he that is joined to the Lord
is one spirit.
Now, free fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without
the body.
But he that committed fornication sinneth against his
own body.
What?
Know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own?
Do you see this now?
Ye are not your own.
You see, we walk around in an identity
that we belong to ourself, that we are
accountable to ourself, that our standard of judgment
is what we think.
But that whole frame of thinking must be
brought down to subjection to the word of
God that says, now that we are Christians,
we can't think that way anymore.
We have been bought with a price.
We are Christ's possession.
We are his body.
It is his holy desires that are to
be manifested in us.
This union of being the body of Christ
suggests that we have the same interests of
Christ, the same service and burden as Christ,
the same outlook as Christ, and we are
in union with his desires.
Now listen, Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians chapter 5.
Here is the same teaching, but in another
place.
The same teaching, but in another place.
Ephesians chapter 5, beginning in verse number 21.
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear
of God, wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church, and he is the Savior of
the body.
Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ,
so let the wives be to their own
husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church and gave himself for it,
that he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word, that
he might present it unto himself a glorious
church, not having spot or wrinkle or any
such thing, but that it should be holy
and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as
what?
As their own bodies.
Now, beloved, Paul's taking us through a transition
here.
He's introducing the Ephesians in this few Scriptures,
he's introducing them to the same thoughts that
he was teaching the Corinthians.
Now, let's read this slowly and understand.
Men ought to love their wives as their
own bodies.
He that loveth his wife, what?
Loveth himself.
Now watch this.
For no man ever yet hated his own
flesh, but nourished and cherished it, even as
the Lord the church.
Beloved, can you see what the Holy Spirit
is trying to show us here?
The Bible says that the man, if he
loves his wife, okay, this equals what?
Loving his own flesh.
Now, understand this now.
The man who loves his wife is like
loving his own flesh.
Verse number 29.
For no man yet hated his own flesh,
but nourished it and cherished it.
So Paul here is saying a man does
not hate his own flesh, but he nourishes
himself and takes care of himself, even as
the Lord the church.
The idea here is what?
Here's what Paul is trying to say.
Christ considers the church to be what?
His own flesh.
In that, he considers himself so intimate with
you, so involved with you, that he considers
you to be his own body, his own
flesh.
Now, I want to ask a question.
How many wake up morning by morning and
affirm the moment you awake, I am a
member in the body of Christ, I have
been redeemed by him, I am not my
own, Christ lives in me and considers me
to be his body.
Listen, if you consider you to be your
body, then you will do what you want
through your body, right?
But on the other hand, if you consider
you to be his body, Christ's body, then
it will be Christ that doeth what he
wants through you, as you agree and yield
to the word of God.
You see the transition we're making here?
We arise and it's the society, it's the
world that we live in.
I wake up, I'm me, and I associate
me, it's my body, it's my life, it's
my plans, it's my job, it's my money,
it's my house, it's my interests, you see?
An identity crisis.
The word of God says that Christ doesn't
look at us as our own, he looks
at us as his own.
You've got to think.
Christ doesn't even look at you the way
you look at you, and the way I
look at me.
He doesn't look at you as one who
is, this is my body, and I could
do...
No, Christ says, no, wait a minute, you
are my body.
As my body, I've redeemed you for one
purpose, so that I can have a body
to express what I am through.
The man loves his wife, it's like loving
his own flesh.
Why do you think the Lord takes care
of us so much?
Why do you think the Lord watches over
us so intimately?
What man doesn't watch over his own flesh?
What man doesn't take time to take care
of himself?
Why does the Lord take so much interest
and cherish us and nourish us?
Because we are his flesh, and bone, and
body.
You say, Brother Phil, I never thought of
it that way.
Well, here, let's read it then.
Ephesians chapter 5, verse 30.
Watch this now.
For we are members of his body, of
his flesh, and of his bones.
There it is.
Black and white.
Now can you see this, beloved?
Now can you see the tears that were
falling from Paul's eyes when he wrote this
in 1 Corinthians chapter 6?
Can you imagine this?
Listen, can you imagine this?
Now the body, now the body, which
is his flesh, and his bone, in which
he dwells, now the body, is not for
fornication.
Can you think of such a thought?
We're just using fornication as one sin, but
beloved, when God shows you this whole thing,
it's not just fornication, it's any sin.
Now can you see defiling the temple of
God?
What does Christ wish for his body?
The expression of what he is.
Can you see it?
Now the body is not for fornication.
Here Paul, understanding this magnificent revelation of what
the church really is, here he sees the
very members of Christ.
Did you forget that God dwells in you?
And that Christ is so intimately involved in
your spirit?
And when you yield or turn to that
which is not pleasing to the Lord, you
say, hey, it's my body, I can do
with it what I want.
No, you can't do with it what you
want.
It's not your body anymore.
Listen, you're taking the member of Christ, and
what?
Subjecting it to something.
Taking the members of Christ.
See, this goes back to what we preached
on Wednesday, accountability.
Oh Lord, we are in need of the
Holy Spirit to reveal these things.
We would cease from demanding.
We would cease from justifying all of the
things that we do to please ourself and
say, hey, God doesn't deal with all, beloved.
When you see that you are not your
own and that you are a member of
Christ, something happens in your life.
Now the body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord.
And the Lord for the body.
So what's this body for?
The Lord Jesus.
What is my human body for?
In the natural, apart from Christ.
My human body is the vessel by which
I express what I want to do.
I want to go get a drink?
I get a drink.
My human body, I want to go to
the mall and buy something?
My body takes me so I fulfill what
I want to do.
Beloved, the magnitude and depths of what the
church is astounds us.
But now that we are redeemed, it's not
our body anymore.
It's His.
And He wants to establish His reign in
us.
2 Corinthians 6.
Another Scripture.
Verse 14.
Now, be honest.
Is anyone utterly confused and totally distraught and
you can't understand anything?
Besides the children.
Anybody at all.
Because, beloved, I don't want to drown, but
yet this has to be communicated.
This is what will determine and make the
difference between the victorious Christian and the Christian
that is defeated.
You realize it's not your power anymore, but
it's His working in you.
2 Corinthians 6.
Verse 14.
Now, we're going to get a whole new
meaning on these verses.
A whole new meaning.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
And what communion hath light with darkness?
Now, can you see it?
And what concord hath Christ with Beel?
Now, what do you mean, what concord?
That means what fellowship has Christ with Beel?
Beel represents the devil.
In other words, listen, do you see yourself
as part of the body of Christ?
If you are part of the body of
Christ and you make up His body on
earth, if you make up His body on
earth, then what fellowship do you, in your
new identity as in Christ, have with anything
that the devil's doing?
How can you subject the very body and
flesh, that is, the earthly body and flesh
of Christ, which you are, the Bible says
it, how can you subject that to that
which is of the devil?
Here's why we do, because we don't see
ourself the way Christ sees us, and that's
why we do it.
We continue because we don't see ourselves as
that accountable to God.
We are accountable to God to the extent
that we have lost possession of our own
self.
We belong to Him now.
This is true with the baby Christian as
well as with the mature Christian.
Now watch this.
Verse 16.
What agreement hath the temple of God with
idols?
Now who is he talking about?
The Jewish synagogue?
Was he saying get the temples out of
the Jewish synagogue or get the idols out
of the Jewish synagogue?
No.
Who is the temple of God he was
referring to here?
The church.
Know ye not that ye are the temple
of God and that God dwells in you
by the Spirit?
For ye are the temple of the living
God.
As God hath said, here it goes, I
will dwell in them and walk in them,
and I will be their God and they
shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
the unclean thing.
And I will receive you and will be
a father unto you and ye shall be
my sons.
Now here's the word sons in comparison to
children.
Sons and daughters are those who recognize their
identity in Christ and allow themselves through yielding
and responding to the initiating work of God
and the grace of God, allow themselves to
be lost in Him.
Listen to what it does.
It changes your thinking, it changes your actions,
it changes the whole way you do things
because you become keenly aware you are not
your own.
And I will be a father and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith the
Lord.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of
God.
Now you see?
In other words, Paul is saying now that
we realize that we are the body of
Christ, let us cleanse ourselves.
Now what is it to cleanse ourselves?
Yield, take responsibility, say no to what God
says say no to, say yes to Him,
walk softly before the Lord and let Jesus
fill His temple with His glory.
The devil says let's do everything within our
power to keep them blind to who they
are in Christ.
Because the moment they awake and realize who
they are in Christ, we are defeated.
Because we already are defeated.
Christ has defeated the devil.
He's defeated the flesh.
He's defeated sin.
And as we awake through the realization of
our identity with Christ and through the working
of the Holy Spirit, this begins to become
a reality in us, the victory of Christ
reigns and the devil is put down.
So beloved, in closing I want to encourage
you, expect God to lay hold of your
life.
And when God lays hold of your life,
you can expect a change in who you
thought you were.
A change in your thinking, which will result
in a change in your actions and
glorious victory will follow.
Now how many thought Christianity involved such
a work of transformation in the way you
think?
How many ever thought Christianity delivered you from
the identity of who you were and put
you into the body of Christ where you
become a vessel in another one's hands?
Doesn't happen through passivity.
We don't have time.
There's so many angles then that you can
keep going at in order to solidify this.
Some Christians think this happens through passivity.
You commit intellectual suicide and you just become
completely passive and God moves you.
No, it's not passivity at all.
It is your human spirit.
You are in agreement with God.
You agree with God and then God works
through you.
He doesn't bypass your mind.
He doesn't bypass what you are.
He works through you.
He becomes the life in you working through
you.
It is not passivity, but it is active
cooperation with the Holy Spirit and Christ Himself.
Well, we'll have to call it, we'll have
to bring it to an end.
We're going to continue on these very things.
Well, thank you, sweetie.
We're going to continue on these very things
and continue to solidify our identity in Christ.
You know when people really get filled with
the Holy Ghost and the power of God
starts moving?
When God begins to show us who we
are, we recognize our need for Christ more
than ever and then that's when it all
starts happening.
So, be encouraged.
Don't be dismayed by the attacks of the
devil.
Don't be dismayed when he comes suddenly and
disrupts things.
Just remember the song, On Christ the solid
rock I stand.
God wants to bring a real work in
our life and He's doing it.
Praise the Lord.
Let's just have a word of prayer.
Colette, you want to go to the piano?
Father, thank You for the Word of God
for Your holy presence this morning.
Lord, we confess that we need You.
We need the spirit of wisdom and revelation
and the knowledge of who You are and
who we are in Christ.
Lord, do it, I pray.
And we will give You praise forever.