Like never before, and I'm just excited, we'll
be in Luke chapter two to bring the
word of God to you all.
I do want to share a dream that
I had, I believe will hopefully apply to
some of you guys, you know, that God
will speak through prophetic dreams often.
Actually just, I took a power nap today,
I love those, right before I get a
little exercise in and before ministering this evening
that we'll have releasing, it should be live
to you now, Christmas Eve morning with your
family and your PJs, drinking coffee, and again,
hopefully just loving Jesus.
But the dream was simple, again, just hope
it applies with some and would bless you
guys, but what I could see in the
dream was a Scrabble board.
We actually have one at home, it's funny,
me and my children play Monopoly, though a
little bit more when we can, we need
to play Scrabble, but you know, the word
game.
But it was vertical, all the words were
being built out vertically, which I believe is
the word of the Lord to someone and
to you guys.
And right when I saw it in the
dream, I heard a good story.
And so there's something to do with a
good story the Lord's building in your life,
and it may be a literal connection to
somebody that just played Scrabble or has the
game or enjoys it, I don't know, but
it wasn't your typical horizontal and vertical, they
were all being built out in different ways
vertically, which again, I believe speaks of the
heavenly call and the word of God.
And I'm excited to jump into the word
of the Lord would be today with you
guys.
And we'll just speak that over you that
I believe there's a prophetic kind of implication
of God's voice to you.
And it's a good story he's building and
I think just like the game, you don't
always know until certain words come in that
it can now make another one and just
wanna encourage you guys sometimes that it just
takes patience and time.
And that's funny, that's one of the main
points I'm gonna hit tonight, as we look
at the birth of the Lord out of
Luke two.
But I think sometimes it just takes time
for destiny to unfold.
And I think the Lord won't encourage some
of you guys that it's going to be
a good story.
It's gonna be a good story, what he's
got planned out for you and to let
those words begin to formulate and unfold by
him, from him to you and through you.
And that'll be good.
So we'll pray, we'll be in Luke two
and I'm just really excited.
Hope it blesses you guys and it's been
rocking me as well and it'll be good.
So Lord, thank you so much for this
time together.
Just right out of the gate, I bless
each and everyone listening.
I bless you in the name of the
Lord.
God, I ask for your manifest presence to
come into their homes worldwide.
I ask that you would go ahead and
heal bodies by your blood.
Lord, thank you that your word went forth
and healed them.
Thank you that your presence is there to
heal them, be healed in your bodies.
And I pray most of all, Lord, that
you would tenderize our heart to receive the
seed of your word.
Transform us, I pray.
I pray you'd help us fall more in
love with you, know you more, and most
of all be glorified, be pleased.
We love you in Jesus' name, amen.
Awesome, so I'm gonna read Luke chapter two,
starting in verse one through 19.
Good bit of reading, but then we'll jump
straight in.
I have a bunch of notes here and
we'll talk to you from my heart, but
I'm just really excited, man, and just feeling
a fresh stirring of what we're heading into,
even into this new year, into 24 and
25.
And I think we're really coming into the
culmination of things from promises many years ago.
I was just on the phone earlier with
a dear friend of the house, and a
friend of mine, Paul Keith Davis, many of
you know, and he was saying similar, just
feeling something on the horizon and just expectant
and grateful.
But listen here, we're in the New King
James, verse one, and it came to pass
in those days that a decree went out
from Caesar Augustus that all the world should
be registered.
This census first took place with Quirinius, I
think I'd call him Qui for short, I
think his nickname if he was my partner
would be Qui.
Quirinius was governing Syria, verse three, and he
was the governor of the cities who all
went to be registered, everyone to his own
city.
Joseph also went up from Galilee out of
the city of Nazareth into Judea to the
city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because
he was of the house and lineage of
David to be registered with Mary, his betrothed
wife, who was with child, verse six.
So it was that while they were there,
the days were completed for her to be
delivered.
and she brought forth her firstborn son, capital
S.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
And wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid
him in a manger because there was no
room for them in the inn.
Verse eight, and I wanna encourage you guys,
just receive the word of God, it's supernatural.
I'm so thankful for the word of God.
May it wash you.
I'll start getting off on the whole thing
on the word of God, but it's so
powerful, alive.
It cuts through sharper than any two-edged
sword and it transforms us, it resets our
soul.
But verse eight, now there were in the
same country shepherds living out in the fields,
keeping watch over their flock by night.
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
before them and the glory of the Lord
shone around them.
Angel before, glory around.
And they were greatly afraid.
Then the angel said to them, do not
be afraid for behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which will be to
all people.
For there is born to you this day
in the city of David, a savior, who
is Christ the Lord.
And this will be the sign to you.
You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel, a
multitude of the heavenly host praising God and
saying, glory to God in the highest and
on earth, peace, goodwill toward men.
So it was, verse 15, when the angels
had gone away from them into heaven, that
the shepherds said to one another, let us
now go to Bethlehem and see this thing
that has come to pass, which the Lord
has made known to us.
And they came with haste and found Mary
and Joseph and the babe, capital B, lying
in a manger, verse 17.
Now, when they had seen him, they made
widely known the saying which was told them
concerning this child.
And all those who heard it marveled at
those things which were told them by the
shepherds, but Mary kept all these things and
pondered them in her heart.
Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God
for all the things that they had heard
and seen and as it was told to
them.
So, I'm actually gonna be hitting 11 points,
kind of an exhortation first, and then 11
points that I'm calling this the birthing of
the Lord's second coming.
So, kind of a unique lens into it,
but I couldn't see it any other way
this year.
I pulled from, I wanna say it was
Luke one into Luke two last year and
hit it from a different angle, but the
Lord's return is so near and I see
such a parallel often in scripture from his
first coming to his second.
And I believe we're gonna see many things
repeat themselves from a broad overview, but also
I would hope this message and I wanna
deliver it in a way that we can
apply it personally.
I always try to do that.
Apply the word of God to me personally
and then corporately, I think you'll see a
lot apply as well.
So, a parallel look, the birthing of the
Lord's second coming, using the Lord's first coming,
his birth, to kind of do a reflected
image of some similarities and parallels.
We're gonna see markers, if you will, signs
that will also indicate how near we are
and point to his second coming and final
coming.
And in there, 11 points too, that we
can apply personally in Jesus' name and that
we can see corporately also to the church,
the body of Christ and things like this.
But first, a quick exhortation.
This isn't quite to the 11 points and
then I'll pray at the end.
Pray the Lord bless you today.
I really pray that you'd fall more in
love with Jesus.
May his word go deep within your heart.
I pray even if you have family members
there watching in town, that the glory of
the Lord will be manifest amongst you, that
you'd sense his tangible presence and his nearness
and conviction of heart.
There's whole things about Jesus and knowing him,
you know, that more and more by the
day and especially going into a new year,
we would get our priorities right.
And it's to love Jesus, know him, be
in his word, that he may get glory.
So with this first exhortation, I wanna point
out as it says in verse one, and
it came to pass in those days that
a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that
all the world should be registered.
First off, I just wanna highlight the difference
because I think the Lord's looking for a
Jesus type people that are in the image
of God and look like him.
And I wanna just kind of expound on
the stark difference of mankind and our tendencies
in leadership and governance versus the Lord.
It looks vastly different.
And I pray you and I as believers,
and if you're not a believer, you must
be born again.
But to those of you that are children
of God are listening to this, that we
would go the Jesus way.
He's the way, he's the truth, he's the
life.
And his model of rulership and of his
means of governing, it's polar opposite.
And so all you have to do is
do a little historical dig on Caesar Augustus,
digging into history or many others.
And you can see polar opposites.
And I just wanna use that because I
think it's interesting that the gospel of Luke
in the context of the son of God
being born, he brings a leader into it.
And even the world of that day being
registered and all these similarities we'll get into
in a second.
Then I think we're gonna see come back
around again before the Lord comes again, his
second coming.
So this is his first one.
I think many of these indicators are gonna
repeat themselves and are coming close to come
back on the forefront that will match the
day of his second coming.
So anyway, but Caesar Augustus, he reigned from
like 27 AD to, sorry, BC to 14
AD.
And then Tiberius, his successor, just a quick
little fun history lesson from it, reigned after
him.
And we know the Bible says that John
the Baptist started his ministry in the 15th
year of Tiberius.
So you had Caesar Augustus, he reigned till
his death up to 14 AD.
And so let's say the Lord's around 14
years old.
And then you had 15 years of Tiberius's
reign when John the Baptist came on the
scene, and that's about 29 years.
Jesus started his ministry around 30 years, we
know.
So just interesting to do kind of the
history timeline.
But Caesar Augustus, he was the first one
to start the Roman Empire, the emperor, and
did not lack confidence to say the least.
We'll just put it that way kindly.
And look, I have even, one of his
famous quotes is before he passed on is,
I found a Rome of bricks, I leave
to you one of marble.
Meaning, he's quite proud of his accomplishments, his
abilities, and where I'm getting at is this
is what we wanna run from as leaders
that the Lord is raising up in the
body of Christ, also in families, as parents.
And you're always leading somebody.
If you're a disciple, you're discipling somebody.
There's always somebody watching and following.
And may we run the Jesus way.
So Caesar Augustus, who Luke two mentions, very,
from what history shows, proud of himself.
And so that's one famous quote.
Also, I love this, listen to this.
He actually wrote an autobiography on himself called
The Deeds of the Divine Augustus.
If that tells you a little bit about
his posture on life, he literally wrote an
autobiography, which first off, Jesus people, they don't
even do that.
They let other people write books about themselves.
But writes something on himself and titles it
The Deeds of the Divine Augustus.
And he named the month of August after
himself because he knew that Julius Caesar named
July after himself.
And so it's just really about himself.
And listen, Augustus too, listen to what it
means.
Exalted, increased, great, magnificent, and even illustrious.
This is who we're talking about.
But I love that Luke brought him into
the picture because here comes the king of
the world, king of kings, Lord of lords,
creator of all of heaven and earth.
And he becomes, he comes word made flesh
born of a virgin.
And when he comes on the scene, you've
got the world ruler, world leader in Caesar
Augustus.
And this is what he looks like.
And then the Lord and their polar opposites.
And I'm praying we'd see things like this
in scripture, see the stark difference that the
eternal word of God highlights to us and
run to the Jesus way.
And so I love this.
Look at this.
Yeah, I have here.
Jesus, he came into nothing and left this
earth with nothing.
He came by way of a manger and
rode out on a borrowed donkey.
This is the Lord, Caesar Augustus.
Even make sure you know before he checks
out with a final quote of one of
his famous ones.
You know, I came to Rome with bricks.
I leave you, you know, one of marble.
And he writes a autobiography upon himself of
the divine deeds of myself, you know, and
here comes the Lord born in a manger,
came into nothing and left, riding out on
a borrowed donkey, left with nothing.
Even his mother who was with him, his
entire upbringing, he even leaves her with John
the beloved.
He's so cared about mankind.
He was even named Jesus, which that means
savior.
I just wanna show us this picture of
like, yes, help me Lord go this way.
You know, more in my life.
Your name means savior with the meaning that
the whole reason you're coming is for others.
Savior has nothing to do, it's to save
others.
Like that's why I'm here.
Augustus, illustrious, great, magnificent.
Look at me, I'm amazing.
Look what I've done, listen to my divine
deeds of me.
Jesus comes in his very naming savior.
I'm coming, I'm leaving everything, Philippians two, emptying
myself of my divinity and I'm coming for
my prized possession in humanity.
He gives himself and I come in a
manger and I leave riding out on a
borrowed donkey.
I don't own anything.
Selfless, gives up his entire life for others.
You see the difference here, I love right
out of the gate.
When Jesus hits the globe, he comes born
of a virgin and the word is made
flesh.
You have the ruling leader of the day
in Caesar Augustus, illustrious, magnificent, divine deeds of
me.
You know, and the Lord comes in hidden,
no room in a manger and they're polar
opposites is my point.
The kingdom way is so anti this world
system, so anti mankind's leanings and it's so
beautiful.
I have here true lowliness in the earth
that simultaneously gives its life up for others
is seen as great and prominent in heaven.
See heaven looks down and sees prominence in
lowliness and greatness in humility and importance in
selflessness.
The world looks over that and makes no
room for them.
You need to go find a manger, but
Caesar, the world gets caught up in food
and bows to and honors and places value
on illustrious and divine deeds and oh, wow,
you probably are amazing.
You wrote a book on yourself, you know?
And so let us run from that.
We need to run to the heaven way
for his glory.
I love this, yeah, so Jesus meaning savior,
his very name means I'm coming for others.
Wow, yet Augustus is all arrows and fingers
pointing to me.
Illustrious, magnificent, speaks of look at me, how
special I am.
And while you're at it, go ahead and
notice what all I've accomplished.
And by the way, I have a new
book out about me called The Divine Ways
of Me.
Actually, go ahead and buy as many copies
and tell all your friends about it.
So my book about me will climb the
charts, hopefully, ranking as a number one New
York Times bestseller so I can look even
more special in the eyes of everyone else
but heaven.
See, I'm coming at something specifically that's not
godly and it's not the way we wanna
go.
And I love that he gets brought into
the story in Luke two because it's totally
the polar opposite of our king found in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so he's so hemmed up on himself.
And I have here that I mentioned earlier,
Jesus allows others to write about himself.
Jesus could have wrote the most phenomenal books,
manuscripts we ever saw his God.
Never wrote a thing.
He lets other people write about himself and
it becomes and remains the number one book
in the world, the word of God.
And so he's a man who writes about
himself While Augustus writes his own self-proclaimed
manuscript that ends up flying like a rock
in the history of time and virtually no
one knows about it.
You see the difference there?
It's a big difference.
Lord, help us.
Let's first learn from this vastly contrasted picture
and distinction of what true leadership, authority and
governance looks like from heaven's point of view
and follow Jesus.
So I just wanna point that out while
we're here.
Verse one was Caesar Augustus since he made
the story and it's true to be in
history.
It is a big, big difference.
And we want to look nothing like this
world system, the means by which everybody climbs
the ladder and look at me and all
the autobiographies and awards and accolades.
We wanna be like Jesus.
Manger bound and borrowed donkeys.
So anyway, that quick one, another one then
we'll jump into our 11 points.
And we'll pray.
But the next kind of parallel I can
see that I just wanna encourage us to
keep watching for because we're getting close to
the Lord's second final coming that you see
actually in his first coming is the end
time one world order parallel and kind of
controlling, you know, he wanted the whole world
registered.
And so, you know, you saw it in
verse one and it came to pass in
those days that a decree went out from
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be
registered.
So we hit character first in the difference
of leadership models from heaven to the earth
and vice versa.
But now the whole world's being registered by
this ruler.
And why, like what's going on there?
And why is Luke, you know, bringing this
into the picture?
But a census of the world, basically what
it is is a count of people for
not only the control and rule, but for
the purpose of taxing, meaning there's financial gain
involved in the motives here.
And, you know, which we know the Bible,
just a quick again, emphasis on the parallel
is as it gets near the Lord's return,
we're gonna see a very similar model repeat
itself in, and the Bible's clear on this.
This is not news or to anyone that
the world's quickly going to mirror this same
model of a one world order and register,
if you will, and one world currency.
And so as it goes there quickly and
you see this come back on the scene,
no.
And this is when the Lord came in
and he's coming again quickly.
And that's where it's trying to go.
You know, we're already starting to see this
in different expressions.
I'm not gonna get us bogged down here,
but many think in 2020, there were certain
things starting and it is what it is.
But nevertheless, you're gonna see this same type
of, I think application be implemented of like
a one world register, like let's count, see
how many we got, turn in normally there's
financial, there's definitely control and rule involved, but
also financial gain.
So if we know how many we got,
we know how many we can tax and
how it's gonna look in the end is
one world order and one world currency.
The Bible talks about that being the mark
of the beast and that's also brought up
again, I think in Revelation 14.
But anyway, just think it's important to note
that.
Yeah, I have here, I just think it's
interesting that the gospel of Luke gives us
a unique connection and looking at this from
the Lord's first coming, that will be a
connecting puzzle piece and sign of the second
final coming.
So let's go to verse three.
So all went to be registered, everyone to
his own city, and then continuing on to
verse six.
Joseph also went up from Galilee out of
the city of Nazareth into Judea.
And this is where it'll start hitting home
a little more personally and corporately.
We'll see both.
To the city of David, which is called
Bethlehem because he was of the house and
lineage of David to be registered with Mary,
his betrothed wife, who was with child, verse
six.
So it was that while they were there,
just wanna stop there.
And encourage us, this is kind of getting
into step one, but finding our there, this
is very, very important because you see, this
is always where God's will can be birthed
and come into fruition.
But it says, while they were there, back
in verse three, it says, everybody had to
go to their own city.
And I just wanna personalize that, that in
this hour, it's super important that we make
sure we're in our own city.
Where's the Lord calling you?
And where is your there?
This is step one, finding your there.
Because often if we miss this step, you
can see once the days were complete, she
brought forth a son.
The Lord can't be brought forth through our
life if we're not in our there, our
own, you know?
And this ties back to God's voice to
us.
We know that.
We've got to hear the voice of God
now clearer than ever.
Our decisions nowadays cannot be based on circumstances
or preferences.
They must be founded, rooted and made by
and through the voice of God, written and
spoken relationally, you know?
But I have here, where is your there?
I really want us to ask God as
we're, you know, I'm preaching this word and
teaching it that we open our heart up
and say, yes, help me, Lord, help me
receive.
You know, I want to be changed.
I don't want to just sit here and
listen to another message.
May we never get that way.
When the eternal word of God's coming forth
by the spirit, I pray we'd begin to
ask to reassess, am I in my there?
Because this is critical.
You saw time and time again when people
would miss it.
God cannot, his son can't be birthed through
you for purpose and destiny if you're not
in the right place.
Timing matters, all this.
We're gonna get to that in a second.
But, you know, you saw it with Ruth
and Orpah.
Ruth found her there.
Orpah chose wrongly because of preference.
You must make your decisions off of what
God says, not by what statistics are showing,
what everybody's saying, what everybody's doing.
So where is your there?
We want to make sure you have this
clear because you can find yourself going around
mountains for quite a while if we're not
there.
I have here, it's so important to find
and arrive at your there.
I'll read it again.
It says, so it was that while they
were there, the days were completed for her
to be delivered and she brought forth her
firstborn son.
It's important first step that we find our
there.
I'm telling you, often God's waiting for Jacob
to get to Bethel and he says, once
I was in that place, if you read
in Genesis 28, it was that place, location
mattered.
Where was I when I was there?
Where are you?
Where is your there for the Lord to
be birthed through you?
And yeah, like I touched on earlier, I
have in circumstances are never the determiner for
where your there is.
You can't go by that.
They'll play into it sometimes, but they can't
be like the main staple support.
His voice has to be.
Preferences should never become the decision maker for
the destination of where your there is.
If you are uncertain where your there is
or if you are in the correct there,
that you're meant to be and clear everything
back off the table.
I just wanna encourage you guys, I do
this often, just to reassess in prayer before
the Lord and make sure I'm where I
need to be as far as timing, decision
-making, all that.
And sometimes you just have to clean the
slate again of the place of prayer before
God and hear clearly.
Get all your preferences off the table, move
them over here, get circumstances out of there.
This is a big one I hear so
many people get tripped up over.
Well, you know, yeah, I'm waiting for God,
but he knows it's gotta be this and
that.
Says who?
You don't have the right to put circumstances
into like your checklist or something when it
comes to the will of God.
He says, deny yours.
If you're gonna really follow the Lord, you
don't get to put in there, but Lord,
He loves us.
He'll answer prayers, I'm for that.
But when you start asking for His will,
I'm telling you that can be the quickest
thing to throw you off.
You start gauging it off of how the
circumstances are or if it plays in my
favor or not, or if it's how I
like it, is the temperature right?
Do I like this country or not?
It doesn't matter.
If He says, go to Russia tomorrow, you
go.
You wanna hear Him clearly, but you don't
get to say, well, but my 401k or
all those years of college, I've just got
one more year, I need to finish that
because on paper, I could waste all of
it.
No, when He speaks, you go.
When He speaks, you obey.
And if that's too high a cost, then
that's fine, but don't expect for His son
to be birthed through you.
Don't expect to bring things forth in God's
will.
You're there is very important, hearing and making
sure, am I in, am I there?
And deception can warp this as well.
We just wanna be clear, unbiased, let everything
go.
All your preconceived ideas of how I thought
it would look or who I thought I
was supposed to be with or how I
thought I was supposed to be being used
by now, whatever, you gotta let all that
go constantly.
I constantly do this before the Lord.
Clean slate, I don't care, Lord, I don't
care.
Take it all, multiply it all, it don't
matter to me.
I've gotta please you and be, am I
there?
And timing and all that, there's many more
that apply, but that first step is super
key.
So yeah, go back to His voice alone,
I have here in my notes.
Go back to His voice, His pure, what
did He say in the beginning, what did
He say?
Because often along the way, other opinions come
in, we'll let our thoughts play into it,
how we thought, all of our assumptions, all
that, none of that matters, none of it
matters.
The most unbiased place in prayer is the
most productive because you can hear Him clearly.
You get all of your soulless desires, wants,
perceptions, opinions, all that, none of that matters.
You just want Him, you want His voice.
That's the pure, clean way, and that's how
His Son gets brought forth.
That's why Mary and Joseph were gold.
Mary, so be it unto me.
Joseph's like, yep, every time the angel spoke
in a dream, yep, gone, they wouldn't ask
questions.
Well, I don't know if I wanna go
there because, I've heard this so many times,
what we, I don't feel right.
I'm telling you, you wanna get all that
out of the way, you're not gonna hear
right, and you're gonna end up like Orpah,
who chose wrongly.
You can read it back in the book
of Ruth.
They were both given a fork in the
road, and Orpah chose wrongly because of preference
and what she was familiar with and how
she thought it was supposed to be, and
you never hear of her again.
Barnabas did it in Acts chapter 16.
He wanted to bring Mark, and it wasn't
ideal.
You never hear of him again.
And so, anyway, the first one, first step,
let's find our there because this is what
sets it in motion.
The Lord's waiting for Jacob to get to
Bethel because it was in that place.
And as soon as he hit that place,
it triggered something.
And so, point two from this, start family.
We're talking about in the context of the
Lord coming into the earth.
And I love this, that Jesus Christ, of
all ways he could have come into the
earth, he comes through family.
And the Lord's really on this in this
hour.
I don't wanna get ahead of myself or
my notes, but I have here, I love
that Jesus was born in the context of
family.
So find your there, and then look to
start family.
Look to get tethered into and sewn into
the fabric of family.
I'm telling you, like I know it clearer
now than ever, and it's only becoming more
real.
God's wind and breath and favor is upon
family.
Always has been, you see it in the
word, but it's hitting an all-time high
as things are wrapping up.
And if, I am getting ahead of my
notes, but if you're doing anything outside of
not going further into the family of God
and getting sewn into the fabric of family,
I promise you, you're gonna miss the boat.
You're gonna miss the wind of God.
So step one, find your there, whatever that
is.
And I know I'm talking to many people
across the world.
Whatever that is, could be a home church
in Alaska, could be wherever.
Wherever God's speaking to you, find your there,
and then point, part two, point two, start
family.
I love that Jesus was born in the
context of family.
He could have rode a meteor down to
the earth and just popped on the scene
and popped out of the woods like Melchizedek
in the Old Testament, said, I'm here.
Divine ruler.
No, he chose to be born lowly into
family, and then model that.
I have here, this is what he has
come to do.
This is what he's coming again to and
going to be born through.
So again, we're using the Lord's first birth
and coming to reflect into his, I believe,
some moves coming to by God in the
earth that are going to forerun his second
coming in parallels.
But this is what he's coming again to
and going to be born through, family.
Family is actually the means by which he
is preparing his bride right now.
It's one of the means, one of the
main means he's doing it by.
He's using family to prepare us for the
eternal family.
If you cannot be threaded into the fabric
of family now, your eternal placement into the
everlasting family will not be so astonishing.
Because a lot of us, if we're honest,
we run from this type thing because, well,
I don't like so-and-so or we
don't quite get along or whatever it is.
It doesn't matter.
This is why the whole death to self
that we've been coming through here at the
house is so key.
We've gotta get over ourselves and go after
what matters to God.
What matters to him is his family, his
kingdom.
They've embodied it since before all of time,
the Father, the Son, the Spirit.
And we run to it, not from it.
I know it's easier sometimes just to isolate
and not deal with attitudes or offenses or
shortcomings of others.
But this is not what God's in.
If you start isolating yourself and running from
these things, you're gonna find yourself disconnected from
the grace and wind of God.
I'm telling you, his wind, grace and favor
is upon the family of God.
And it's gonna look different from house to
house and model to model.
That's great.
Nevertheless, you wanna be one of the threads
getting sewn into the fabric of family right
now.
It's what God's building unto.
But a quick disclaimer from Matthew 10.
A quick disclaimer from Matthew 10 is that
when I say family, I mean the family
of God.
Because Jesus says, look, if you love your
father or mother more than me, you're not
worthy of the kingdom.
If you love son or daughter more than
me, you're not worthy of the kingdom.
So please share that balance.
When I say family, I mean in the
context of loving, knowing and following God and
loving him above all.
Because some people go yes and amen to
family, but don't follow Jesus.
And they love their own children more than
the Lord.
And the Bible is clear.
I just wanna be clear on that.
The Lord Jesus out of his mouth said,
if you love your children more than me,
you're not worthy of the kingdom.
If you love your father or mother more
than me, you're not worthy of the kingdom.
So when I speak family, I'm speaking at
God over all Jesus, the head of it
all.
Which actually ignites and illuminates true family.
You can't without Jesus at the head.
And so you detach from that and start,
I'm just being honest.
Some people love God until God calls their
children to the mission field.
And then no, Johnny, I don't know.
At that point, you care more about your
children than God and his voice.
Or some people, God calls them to move
and because they love their family so much,
they won't move away from their parents.
Well, it's gotta be, it has to be.
That's fine, but short circuit your destiny.
Don't bleed that over into other people's lives.
The Bible is clear.
We must love Jesus above all.
So I just wanna bring that disclaimer quick
and balance really, just balance while I'm talking
about family.
Yeah, often too, there are some in ministry,
listen to this, that love the family model
even in ministry more than Jesus.
And this is why the Lord's not fully
into what they're doing.
Meaning some people are so top heavy on
family that then in the model of that
in ministry, that the model becomes so predominant
in their mind and focus that the Lord,
it usurps the Lord and he can't even
speak into it and guide.
And so, and this is where things shift
to the model over the man, capital M,
Jesus Christ.
That's backwards.
He's gotta be over it all.
So it's always the man over the model.
I love different ways the Lord's, the clouds
moved through bodies and expressions and moves throughout
the years.
But we must be careful too that sometimes
we don't allow, it's a little side note,
the model to become so prioritized in our
mind as the way that we, it takes
precedent over the man, Jesus Christ, it's man
over model always.
So, but back to family, I've said this
before and I'll say it again.
Now is not the time to still be
running around looking out for your good old
number one Maverick plan.
Trust me, there's people that are still looking.
Yeah, I wanna connect here, but I wanna
also network here cause this will be better
for me.
Keep all my doors open.
It doesn't work that way.
I'm telling you.
Let me stick to my good old number
one Maverick plan of what's in it for
you or what's best for you or what,
why didn't they notice me because of my
call?
Everything's like me and what's best for me?
No, it's not about you.
It's family right now.
It's getting over you, loving God and others.
And from that, you start, it starts to
look like family.
And is it ugly sometimes?
Oh yeah.
The Bible says without oxen, the stall stays
clean.
But with the oxen comes great strength.
Meaning, but also the stalls get dirty.
Oh yeah, you're gonna have arguments and disagreements
and people get offended.
We repent, stay low, forgive and keep moving,
get stronger and we grow together.
But you wanna first make sure where you're
there is.
Cause if you're trying to start family and
you're the wrong there, so that's key first.
And we see that right in this passage.
So find you're there when you know that
clearly.
And the only way you know that clearly
often is to clean your slate in prayer.
Get all your preferences out of there.
All your preconceived ideas, how I thought, when
I thought it was gonna happen.
Trust me, none of that typically lines up
with God's will.
You'll get there a lot quicker if you
just clear that out.
But once you get to you're there, just
dig your heels in and start family and
get over you.
But the people that are still what's in
it for me and why didn't I get
noticed and what's in the jealous and somebody
else get noticed.
These people are going to get left behind.
But the shaking that is coming is going
to pull the rug out from under any
and everything that is not tethered to the
family of God.
Or in other words, the body of Christ.
It's called the body for a reason.
There's parts, my hand needs my wrist and
my wrist needs my forearm.
And my elbow needs my upper arm.
Like it's all fits together.
You cannot disconnect and still function and get
anything done.
And we still often beg for ease sake
and our desire alone, selfishness if we're honest,
we wanna just run from it.
Or we often wanna pick a few that
we gel with just right and we click
with and just cut it off right there.
That's not God, I'm telling you.
It's not the Lord.
We wanna get us for no more.
And then because Johnny over there, he doesn't
quite get it or see like us.
He didn't quite get the jokes and the
socially awkward when Johnny comes in.
What?
Or Timmy over here, whoever.
It doesn't matter about you and what you
like.
It's about what Jesus died for and God's
trying to build and it's a spiritual house.
We'll go here in a second in first
Peter two.
He's bringing living stones together that are all
tied into the chief cornerstone found in Jesus
Christ for his glory.
It's what he's doing.
I love that.
But we must be fit together.
Yeah, let's go to first Peter two.
You can skip down to verse four.
First Peter chapter two, verse four.
Watch this, coming to him as to a
living stone rejected indeed by men, but chosen
by God and precious.
You also as living stones.
Wait, what?
This is separate, but it still applies.
To him as a living stone, Jesus rejected
indeed by men.
So you're saying I'm a living stone too?
Wait, Jesus was a living stone and rejected
by men.
Yes, and you are too.
So just know that living stones get rejected
by men.
He said, though, I hate you because of
me.
There's a whole nother teaching, but important to
note.
You as living stones are being built a
spiritual house, not a spiritual two by four
by yourself, not a spiritual door or threshold
or floor mat, no, a house.
And living stones, plural, meaning you're going to,
if you want to follow the Lord and
the chief cornerstone, you are going to have
to be fit into other living stones, which
is called the body of Christ.
It's a spiritual house.
And listen to this, the Lord's just on
this.
I've been feeling this stronger and stronger.
I'm very grateful and I just want to
do better at obeying him, that's all.
May he get glory.
But listen to what that word house means
in Greek, spiritual house.
Family, in Greek it means family, home, household,
dwelling.
But when I'm being built as a spiritual
house, yeah, because you're being built up with
others, fit together, living stones.
If it's one stone, nothing needs to be
built.
So if you want to go do your
Maverick thing or build your Maverick ministry and
touch thousands and you're not connecting to any
family, I'm telling you where the days are
heading, you're going to get exposed.
The church, the church of the Lord, the
train of God's favor and grace and glory
is going to miss you.
Please hear me.
And I love different calls, but still do
what you're doing, but come back to wherever
you're there is and family, be tied in
somewhere.
I'm telling you, it's very, very important.
And because the shaking's coming and everything that's
not his spiritual house and those living stones
that aren't fit together to the living stone
of the chief cornerstone, it's going to fall
by the wayside.
That's very, very, very key.
You say, what is the spiritual house?
What is it?
It's a holy priesthood.
What does it do?
It offers up spiritual sacrifice that's acceptable to
God through Jesus Christ.
So again, this Maverick mentality that seeks to
do kingdom exploits and achieve eternal greatness apart
from true kingdom family in any real way
will be exposed in due time.
Just want to make that really clear.
Verse six, we're still there, but point three,
we'll read verse six.
It says, we go back to Luke two.
It says, so it was that while they
were there, the days were completed for her
to be delivered.
So point three, remain at your there.
It says, while they were there, the days
were completed.
So this is super key.
Find your there, while you're there, start family.
Thank God that Jesus came in this way.
This is how he says, you know what?
What's the perfect plan for me to come
into the earth?
He could have done it in so many
different ways, but he came through family.
And this is what they did.
They found their there, their starting family about
to bring forth the son of God.
And, but what they did was they remained
there until the days were complete.
So point three, remain at your there.
This point actually, I think gets, the ball
gets dropped more here than step one, finding
your there, from what I've seen.
And just so you know, I've messed up
all these.
So Lord help me.
Typically always preaching from experience and thank God
for his mercy and grace and trying to
get better.
But often we do due diligence and prayer,
fasting, whatever it is, we hear God clearly,
we get to our there, but because of
many reasons, timing, things didn't work out like
we thought or not like we expected.
We abort the plan too soon.
We don't remain at our there.
And when you don't do this, nothing can
be brought forth.
The son will not be brought forth.
That's the Orpah model.
That's Barnabas and many others in scripture.
So step three, we must remain at our
there so the days of fulfillment can come
into fruition.
Let the days of being there unfold and
ripen.
Let them season and come into the time
of fulfillment.
This is really key.
I'm telling you, I see it time and
time again, where again, I feel like this
step may be even a little more important
only because I feel like this is a
key step.
This is a ball that's dropped more here.
People get excited.
They hear God and they find they're there,
but they don't remain there.
It says the days were completed.
How many?
We don't know.
We don't know how long they were there.
All we know is the days were completed
though.
You see, what if you had, you know,
seven months and you left on the sixth
month?
You thought, well, I spent six whole months,
you know, two increments of three or whatever
it may be, but the days weren't completed.
This is really important for the birthing of
God.
Often, he's not gonna speed up his timeline
for anyone.
I have here, most people find they're there,
but drop the ball in the category of
remaining there, especially in this quick microwave short
attention span generation.
Everybody wants that same day delivery.
Amazon Special, and I love Amazon Prime.
I just ordered today two little metal clips,
like you know them little garage door clickers,
like the metal clip on the back?
I needed two of those.
6.99, what an amazing deal.
So I love it, but if we're not
careful, this quick microwave generation, the attention span's
shorter than ever.
We do this with God, and I can
promise you that doesn't work with him.
He doesn't do Amazon Prime.
He's on time, and he can do things
quicker than anybody, but also, he's not overnight
delivery in these.
The days must be completed with him, and
a lot of times, we don't realize the
days being completed was in the whole plan
because he's making and molding us during those
days.
They're needed, they're needed.
He's not just slow because he chooses to
be.
He's changing us, so we'll be ready once
the sun is brought forth.
But anyway, God never has and never will
work this way.
God is the God of the apple seed
that you plant, and you water it, see
nothing.
For weeks, nurture it, make sure it gets
sun.
Five years later, you get an apple.
This is how God works.
Just look at creation.
Then, from that apple you get, you take
a seed out, plant a new tree, water
it, nurture it.
Five years later, you got apples on both
trees.
That's about a decade right there.
A lot of us find our there, get
the seed, plant it, nurture it, water it,
and it doesn't quite do what we, and
we usurp the plant.
The problem is, if you go to a
new there, you gotta start over again.
We gotta get to God's way.
Just remain, let the days complete.
Let the season unfold, ripen, because he's trying
to do something.
I have here, anybody you see today with
an abundance of apples, started many years ago
planting seeds of obedience and remaining at their
there until the days kept coming into completion.
I just wanna encourage you, remain there, wherever
it is for you.
You hear the Lord, and wherever that is,
start family.
I'm telling you, if that's not something you
are tying into, start asking God how to
get tethered in, because that's where his breath's
upon, and then remain there, let the days
unfold.
Scripture tells us that when the days were
completed, she brought forth.
If you do not remain at your there,
you will never bring forth.
When a natural child is conceived, there's absolutely
nothing that anyone can do to speed that
bringing forth up.
When a child's conceived, it's nine months, and
nine months is nine months.
Doesn't matter how holy you are, wicked you
are, you're not gonna slow or speed that
up, slow it up or speed it up.
Some things, there's a set time that the
days must be completed, and doesn't matter what
you do, cry, wail, shift, or whatever, the
days must be complete, and so we've gotta
allow that.
I have heard so many become distracted, discouraged,
when the Bible is clear to not despise
the day of small beginnings, and to not
grow weary in doing good, so when you
find you're there, and you start family, just
remain there.
He'll speak if anything needs to change, but
definitely what you don't wanna do is usurp
that there, and that plan, and check out
too early before the day's complete, because nothing
will be brought forth, I promise you, I've
seen this over, and over, and over again.
I have here, some get jealous of others,
or offended by something someone did or said,
get hurt, pack up, and go to another
there.
Get hurt there, pack up, and go to
another there.
And typically what happens is, these type people
find each other, and form these self-imploding
pity parties, that they rally around, while going
deeper and deeper, into deception, often entertaining doctrines
of demons, I'm telling.
It's wild how these people all gravitate to
themselves, and they find each other, it's like,
I heard the Lord got to my there,
but just didn't go right, or I got
offended, or somebody said something hurt me, so
I'm gonna pack up, go to another there.
Nothing ever gets brought forth, then you get
hurt again there, and go to another there,
and you start running into all these other
people that have been doing that, took that
little apple seed, and apple tree that's only
a year old, and pulled it out of
the roots, and tried to plant it again,
and the leaves start dying, you're starting over.
And then it's funny, they all find each
other, and often, it's like they start becoming
the new spiritual police on how things should
be run.
It's funny, I don't know how they conjure
this up, but these little groups will start,
and it's like they know how things, what
everybody else is doing wrong, and how things
should be run.
The only problem is that they have no
fruit to speak of.
Typically, you can look at their children, literally
or spiritually, because the Bible says, wisdom proves
itself by its children, or its offspring, or
its fruit.
All you have to do is check the
fruit, and then, or look behind them, because
you'll see nobody's following them.
So I'm encouraging us, let's just hear the
Lord clearly, start family, get over you.
Don't always just run for your little click,
and you're for no more, no, get over
us.
I'm telling you, I feel like the Lord
often puts people that agitate us on purpose,
and He says, no, go love them.
I'm trying to kill you.
Just tie into family, love people, I love
them.
I know they're quirky to you, I love
them.
I made them that way, by the way.
The way they think, and the way they
see it that you don't, and how they
never understand what you're talking about, but they're
in their world that makes sense to them,
I love them, and that's how I made
them, love them.
Get tethered in to the fabric, you know?
And then also remain there.
I'm telling you, this is a big one.
Days cannot complete if we don't remain there.
Too many people that are hopping and moving,
and God's will can't take its place.
So don't shortcut the fulfillment of you're there.
Let the days complete themselves, and yeah, I
have here, if you don't gel well in
the context of family, typically you have a
you problem.
You're too important to you.
That's normally what's happening.
If you don't gel well with family, God's
family, typically we're selfish is what it is.
True death is one of the main ingredients
to the recipe that works in family.
I was just telling my kids this recently,
talking with them, just how heaven is the
perfect model because you notice there's never any
issues in heaven.
Nobody ever gets hurt, rejected, offended.
Nobody's selfish.
You never see a 24-elder take another
one's chair because he wants a better seat,
or the four living creatures, or the 24
elders getting jealous of the four living creatures
because they're closer to the throne.
You know what I mean?
You don't see any of that.
You don't see angels pulling power moves because
they are on a authority trip and want
more say-so.
Heaven just flows because everybody's selfless and they
want the king where he is in the
central part on the throne, exalted, lifted up.
It's about him.
And family works this way, but I pray
we would become more and more comfortable with
this and get over us and yield into
the lowly way of honor, preference, death to
us.
Truth, though, yes, the balance of truth, but
that Jesus may be glorified.
You just get so much misunderstanding because people
aren't truthful fully.
And there's so many different reasons and offenses
and rejections and things that just they're not
in the kingdom because this is what I
was telling my kids that a lot of
us say your kingdom come on earth as
it is in heaven.
And we pray that and love it.
I pray it, love it.
But if we're honest, a lot of times
we pray that because we want all the
benefits of his kingdom.
We want the power, the authority, the breakthrough,
the deliverance.
But one thing you need to know is
when his kingdom comes, also the kingdom order
comes.
And it looks like submission, honor, preference of
one another, true love, truth and only truth,
spirit of truth is the only thing that
resides in heaven.
No false witnesses being bared, no selfish ambition,
ulterior motives, guile, all this stuff's out the
window.
When the kingdom of heaven comes, it sets
things in order.
It's very beautiful.
There's conviction, it's sharp.
There's no subconscious stuff that's going on within
us that's rooted in selfishness and pride.
All this is gone, it's gone.
You saw where pride got Lucifer, ousted.
It will not stand in heaven.
And so I'm loving these things even more.
I love the power and all, let's have
it, revelation, glory.
But I'm loving your kingdom come.
Yes, come, come in my home, come in
our church, come in our nation, our city,
the world, come.
Because what it does, it sets things in
order and things just flow like butter.
You never see anything get out of order
and get tripped up.
Even in Zechariah four, I think, or Zechariah
for sure.
I was telling my children, there's an angel
who would always run with Zechariah.
He would call him the angel who talked
with me.
Let's say this is Zechariah and here's the
angel.
Let's say this is the angel because he's
bigger because we're yet a little lower than
the angels.
Zechariah, the angel.
Well, this is his angel.
He says, look, the angel who talked with
me said this and the angel who talked
with me said this.
Well, all of a sudden, another angel came
on the scene and he's an angel for
crying out loud, he's divine.
And he had something to tell Zechariah.
But in the passage, it says he went
to Zechariah's angel and told him to tell
Zechariah this.
And you think, well, that's okay.
But what's so amazing about that is even
the angels know, because they come from his
presence, divine order and respect and integrity.
They don't do all this backdoor nonsense that
is rooted in selfishness and how I can
network and better my thing.
And I'm telling you, there's so much nonsense
going on in the body of Christ.
We need it cleaned up.
We need pure, integrous people that run in
the kingdom of heaven.
It's order, divine, pure, it's clean.
You can trust it with your life because
it's in truth always.
Never comes outside of the spirit of truth.
And so this angel, he knew, he's like,
no, this angel's assigned to Zechariah.
So I'll go through him.
He could just went around him.
And this is how a lot of, this
is what we do a lot because somebody
says something makes us feel better.
And so we feel important and make a
power move decision that we wanna go ahead
and do this.
We don't run it by who the Lord
told us is the authority of the time.
Like, no, we don't do that.
And so I pray that the Lord would
help us even in the context of family
and living stones and come under the kingdom
of heaven.
You know, it's so beautiful.
So, but listen to this again, back from,
we won't turn there, but 1 Peter 2,
the living stones in the context of family
and remaining there, because this is often why
people don't remain there.
They get offended because they started family, but
that didn't know that, or I didn't get
promoted quick enough, whatever it is.
It's hanging about being promoted.
A lot of times, and God has no
problem promoting anything.
If he's ready, he sees you, he knows
you.
We're so busy blaming everybody else because we're
not being used and nobody sees me.
You think God's not capable?
You're probably not usable yet.
And I'm talking to me because I've been
here plenty and still need much grace in
all these areas.
But living stones must be, you don't just
grab stones and put them together.
There is no gaps in the wall of
that, which is tied into the chief cornerstone.
This isn't a stone wall.
You get stones out of a river and
stack them and there's holes in there.
No, living stones are chiseled, cut, and made
to fit one another that ultimately fit into
the chief cornerstone.
Quite often, what we do is we can
see all the areas everybody else needs to
be cut and chiseled in.
But when it comes to us, we have
blind spots.
We don't think, we think we're good.
Or we think everybody else needs to be
chiseled and cut to fit into us.
I can promise you that's not the case.
We are both, both sides, all sides are
gonna be cut, chiseled, shaved down, weighed, measured
to fit perfectly into one another, a spiritual
house that's perfectly fit into the head and
the chief cornerstone found in Jesus Christ.
So know that this is what the Lord's
doing right now.
He's chiseling living stones because it's holy and
acceptable to him.
It's a spiritual sacrifice.
It's going up before God in this hour.
And it's looking like family.
He's building a spiritual house.
And I love that Jesus came born into
a family.
And you'll see in a second, his birthing
projects from family to family.
But anyway, I just wanna encourage you guys
that may we allow the chief cornerstone to
have his way in us, get over us,
and may he get glory.
Point four, found in verse seven, and she
brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him.
Just wanna stop there.
We must wrap him.
This is point four.
Wrapped him in swaddling clothes, but we'll stop
there, wrap him.
This is so beautiful.
I've never quite seen it like this before,
but I have here to wrap him.
You gotta imagine this is to care for,
minister to, and comfort him.
This is where the end time model's going.
It's not the Lord for us, it's him.
It's caring for him, ministering to him, loving
him.
It's wrapping him.
Meaning when you do that, you don't get
anything in return.
It's one of the deepest, purest models of
where things are going.
We need to take things higher now to
why do we pray?
Why do we worship?
Why do we give?
Why do we serve?
To wrap him, to minister to him, to
care for him, to comfort him and glorify
him.
Many of us still pray, worship, give, and
serve with the priority stemming back to us.
Let's just be very honest with ourselves.
And I say this in love and in
grace and in love.
I say this in needed grace.
But many of us, we pray, serve, give,
worship, read the Word, all this, still with
the underlying motive of what's in it for
me.
When you wrap him, it's solely for him.
It's to comfort him, secure him, love him,
minister to him.
And I love this picture here.
Mary is solely on caring for him.
It's ministering to him.
And I think things are flipping in this
hour to this, it's deeper.
They're both beautiful.
This first one I'm talking about is biblical,
just saturated in biblical truths, it's great.
But there's a deeper place now where we're
starting to wrap the Lord and the temporal
clothes that we have of love.
But because the first kind of shallower tier
is when I pray, I will be fruitful.
I'll say that again.
Many of us still pray, worship, give, and
serve with the priority stemming back to us.
And this is an example.
Because when I pray, I will be fruitful.
Or when I read the Bible, I will
be successful.
Or when I give, I will receive.
Or when I serve, I will be great
in the kingdom.
And all of these are incredible biblical truths.
So I'm not throwing those out.
They're in the Bible.
They're amazing to give and receive and serve.
And you'll be great in the kingdom.
These are beautiful.
But when it comes to wrapping him, it
totally gets you out of the picture.
And it's just a deeper place is all.
It's a deeper truth.
They're both truths.
Just the bride of this last hour is
going to this model.
It's him.
It's about him.
Why do I pray?
Him.
Why do I serve?
Him.
Why do I worship and love?
Him.
Why do I give for him?
Oh, yeah, I receive.
But no, I'm really giving because of him.
It's a big difference.
I believe the last hour bride is taking
things up a notch where her main priority
is to wrap him in love, wrap him
in praise, wrap him in worship, wrap him
in comfort, wrap him in nearness with whatever
lowly cloths of this life she might have.
The swaddling cloths, see our life, may it
shift deeper now to wrapping him, caring for
him.
That's what she was doing right there.
There was nothing in return for her.
It's a deeper place of love that I
think you can see in this birthing scene
that we're given in Luke two.
But may the earthly fabric of our temporal
lives begin to wrap him while we still
can.
It's the only side of eternity where we
can do that.
Let's wrap him in our love.
Let's wrap him in our lives laid down
through serving.
Let's wrap him in our giving.
Let's wrap him in our adoration and praise.
Let's wrap him in our 100% yielded
daily obedience this side of heaven.
So that step four, that we would, by
the grace of the Lord, by his spirit,
we'd start to shift deeper now to wrapping
him, caring for him, ministering to him.
Why do I pray?
Him, serve, obey him, his glory.
Point five, quick, and I'll start landing it
here shortly.
Point five, still in verse seven, the next
part of that verse, and laid him in
a manger.
So she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him.
So point four, wrapped him, point five, laid
him.
Where?
In a manger.
This is a really key point.
This was actually mentioned three times in Luke.
Two, verse seven, 12, and six, 16, all
three verses.
That manger, being laid in a manger, got
brought up three times.
The angels brought it up the second time,
said, this will be the sign to you.
And then it says, they went and saw
a babe in a manger.
They didn't say anything about the swaddling clothes
then.
It was the babe in a manger, and
she laid him there.
So what I wanna pull figuratively from this
is massive.
I have here, the Lord will rest fully
in that which he embodies, which is lowliness.
This is the picture of a manger.
Humility will be the container in which Jesus
rests in.
Humility will be the container.
The last hour move of God, or birthing
of the Son by way of the Spirit,
is going to rest in manger ministries, humble
abodes.
I'm telling you, this is coming back again.
His first coming, that's what he was laid
in, rested in.
This is what the Lord rests in.
Well, he's coming again to rest in manger
ministries, humble abodes, lowly ones.
The lowliest one ever is coming to lowly
ones in his image.
And help us, Lord.
This is a massive point here, point five.
She laid him in a manger.
So lowly houses that embrace the cross, the
picture of the wood in the manger, I
love to see as the cross, and the
hay.
The Bible doesn't tell us this, but we
see it as this, and you can look
through history.
And the hay, the dead grass that fades,
it's just preached on this from Isaiah 40
and 1 Peter 1.
But the manger wooden cross of death and
the hay of death, lowly dead vessels is
what the Lord's coming to rest in again
for his second and final coming.
I can promise you, I feel it stronger
than ever before.
He's not coming through know-it-alls, fancy
polished preachers.
If you've got a gift to Oracle, preach,
that's awesome.
I'm just meaning the core heart of us,
that there's gonna be manger ministries again that
the Lord's gonna rest in.
Those that embrace true lowliness and humility, those
that walk under the yoke of the Lord
and have learned from him gentleness and meekness
resulting in Christ-like humility.
Love Psalm 51, 17 says, the sacrifices of
God are broken and contrite spirit.
These he will never deny or despise.
Brokenness and humility is what the Lord's coming
to rest in again.
And she laid him in a manger and
marked my words.
His first coming rested there and his second
final was gonna do the same.
He's gonna come again and be birthed and
rest in manger ministries, humble abodes.
I'm telling you, lowly dead vessels.
Please never see the manger again without remembering
this.
The wooden cross and the dead grass of
hay.
It is you and I, all flesh is
as grass because the breath of the Lord
breathes upon it because no flesh will glory
in his presence.
This is what he's resting upon, death and
humility.
So come Lord Jesus.
Point six, no room.
We're still in verse seven.
So she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, laid him in a
manger because why?
There was no room for them in the
end.
I kind of love this one.
The masses will overlook who he is coming
to and through.
And again, I'm projecting kind of a parallel
from his first birth and coming into the
earth to his second coming.
And I'm seeing these similarities that I think
are gonna repeat themselves.
And there was no room for him then,
there'll be no room again.
The masses will overlook who he's coming to
and through.
Only later to realize that they made room
for so many other things and so many
other ones, but the one.
I'm telling you, it's gonna get overlooked.
The last hour birthing is going to come
through unexpected ones and unexpected houses.
There are many others that people are going
to make room for and assume.
Even the modern day Samuels won't suspect that
little David is the one.
It's gotta be his brothers, for sure.
A little David hidden, back side of nowhere,
taking out bears and lions, you know, leading
unto the Goliaths.
It's going to be though, these manger menace,
these lowly ones that they're gonna make no
room for.
I'm speaking to the church specifically.
I believe it's gonna get like so overlooked.
I promise you.
And I believe it's nearer than we think,
the move of God.
I believe it's coming through manger ministries that
do not care, they're dead, they're over it
all.
And the world for sure, but even the
church is gonna miss it.
They're not gonna make room for them because
they're gonna overlook it.
I promise you, whoever ran that in, or
they had the guest room, if they knew
that was the son of God in that
womb, oh, they would have made room.
They would have got out of the master
bedroom and slept in the fields to make
room, but people are gonna overlook it, look
at it and miss it.
You know, you saw something similar.
What was it last year at Asbury broke
out?
Nobody saw that coming.
It's gonna be similar.
And I love it.
There's gonna be as many other that people
are gonna expect and make room for that
they're gonna think it's gonna come through.
It's not, it's gonna come through manger, lowly
dead vessels.
And I love this because this is who
the Lord is.
This is what he's after.
Another reason is because the next final last
move, last day birthing is going to not
only come through major ministries, but simultaneously like
Mary be kept and pondered in their heart.
We read that earlier, it's verse 19, but
this is important.
You're not going to find them surrounding everything
with hype.
So who the Lord's coming to be birthed
through again, it's gonna be similar to Mary
and Joseph, pondering things in their heart.
You're not gonna know half the time what
they know from revelation, what the Lord's showing
them and speaking is you're gonna ponder it
in their heart and want him to get
glory.
They don't care that you know.
I mean, I can imagine Mary could have
told the end, the end when they said,
there's no room here.
She gonna be like, do you know who
you're talking to?
The Gabriel, the angel Gabriel came to me.
In my womb is Jesus, the son of
God.
I know this by angelic source.
My husband, he's given dreams in the night
from angel, whatever, she could have put everything
on blast, surrounded all the hype and got
a place there, but she just pondered it
in her heart and went the lowly way.
She was totally fine out in the dirt
with the animals.
These are the type people I'm telling you
the Lord's coming through, but he's not gonna
come through people that are surrounding everything with
hype.
Listen to me, it's coming through lowly, manger
abodes, major ministries that are dead.
Cross and dead grass that the Lord's breathed
upon.
They let him have his way.
And that the Lord's like, there we go.
Finally, that's why I came the first time
and I'm coming again through that.
That's what I rest in.
That's what I get laid in.
People that first wrapped me, the depth of
all of who they are is about me
first, not what's in it for them.
They love those truths and they do know
they apply, but they love, they pray because
of him.
They give and serve because of him, they
obey because of him, they wrap him.
Then he's gonna lay and rest in humility
and death because that's who he is.
And so you're not, trust me, he's not
gonna rest fully.
He's with them, he loves them, all this,
but he's not, and I wanna encourage us
too for us to run from this type
stuff.
This is not what the Lord's coming to
and through, he's not.
He didn't come the first time and the
second time, he's not coming through hype.
People looking to put on some show to
get more subscribers, and that's great if you're
touching the world.
I'm just saying the heart, I'm addressing the
heart, looking to grow followers and get YouTube
plaques and all this stuff.
And again, I'm not against, do your thing.
I'm just saying all this stuff's gonna melt
in his eyes one day.
And he's not, he's coming through hidden, manger,
lowly ones that it's not false either.
They just love him and they wanna glorify
him.
They're not trying to search for earthly accolades
and use clickbait imagery to pull more attention.
They don't care about your attention.
They're just happy enough being out in the
dirt and caring for him, wrapping him, ministering
to him, and laying him in humility and
death.
That's where he's gonna rest.
This is it.
And this is why so many people are
gonna miss it because we, as humans, fall
for all the shiny and glittery and glamorous
and notable on the horizontal plane.
That stuff, I already touched that with Caesar
Augustus first, that stuff's not notable in heaven.
What's notable by heaven is people that sit
in the dirt and wrap the Lord and
look like vessels of death and humility.
That's where he's gonna rest in, and that's
why so many people are gonna miss it.
They're not gonna make room for it.
I have here stuff in my notes, I
may not go here, but just, I don't
wanna step on toes, but I'm telling you,
we've gotta get away from all of the,
there's just a lot of nonsense that I
wanna encourage you guys.
The Lord's not gonna rest fully in it.
And I'm always preaching to me, he's not
going to rest fully in all the hype
and the noise and the look at me
and the charts and the accomplishments and all
my accolades in the name of the Lord.
He's coming where nobody's noticing, and they're not
even making room for it.
We've gotta be the real thing hidden and
be comfortable there.
Listen to this, please.
Those that the Lord are coming to and
through love the back shelf, they love it
there.
They're not gonna say, you're gonna hear a
peep out of them.
When you say you have no room there,
that's fine.
Because in my womb is the son of
God.
I know what's going on, he's speaking to
me.
Not because of me, because of him.
I just, I gotta wrap him, I gotta
care for him, I gotta minister to him.
They don't, you tell them back shelf, they're
like, I'm more comfortable here anyway.
I was never trying to be seen or
known or need a special spot in the
end.
Put me in the dirt, I don't care.
Those that the Lord are coming to and
through love the back shelf.
So if you don't notice them and you
kind of neglect and ignore and don't make
room for them, they're very comfortable there.
And the Lord is too.
They are very content with being overlooked because
they were never trying to be seen in
the first place.
These are the ones he's coming to rest
fully in.
He can partially rest and work as best
as he can with half dead vessels and
ones that are still about themselves.
He loves you, but it's limited.
The Lord's gonna fully rest though in these
back shelf folks that are glad to be
overlooked.
They don't care if you notice them or
not.
They don't need you to make room for
them.
And they're not gonna say a thing if
you don't.
They're not gonna build a bunch of hype
and show you all of their trophies and
accomplishments.
Mary didn't say a thing, she pondered it
in her heart.
That's beautiful.
She could have gave a rap sheet of
all the supernatural.
And do you have any idea I'm pregnant,
but I'm a virgin?
Trust me, you wanna make room for me.
No, she never said a word.
And this is how the Lord was.
Ridiculed him, reviled, didn't say a word, go
under the tree.
And so this is it, this is it.
Run from the hype, run from the noise
and the lights.
I'm telling you, this is the way.
It's so beautiful.
So anyway, point seven, that's kind of one
of my favorites.
They'll be honest.
They made no room for him.
Verse seven, no, sorry, point seven, verse eight.
Let's go to verse eight, please.
Now they were in the same country, shepherds
living out in the fields, keeping watch over
their flock by night.
Point seven, it's going to start with family,
Joseph, Mary, and the babe, capital B.
And then it's gonna project and catapult to
family, shepherds and their flock.
I love it, it could have gone to
anybody else, but the first people that it
gets boomed from heaven to, by the way,
this is another key point to note.
Heaven can advertise for you.
You don't need to shout from the rooftops
and build all the hype and do the
clickbait images.
You don't need to do all that.
Just follow, wrap him and make sure you're
that vessel he can be laid in and
rest in death and humility.
And the angels in heaven will pronounce what
they need to.
It'll get known.
And you don't even, trust me, need things
to be known, but he does for his
glory.
Glory to God in the highest.
That's where we're going, verse 14.
But where did it first go to?
Shepherds and their flock.
I'm telling you, I'm feeling more and more
the local body of Christ, the local church
family.
Shepherds and their flock, the real ones, is
where this thing's going to.
It's coming to family and being projected further
to family.
And you notice they were nearby.
It's gonna be covenant ones that run together
and are looking at the blueprint of heaven
in this hour.
They're looking at death and humility and they're
looking at the true shepherds and sheep.
Ezekiel 34 is powerful when you get time
to maybe read it on another day.
I believe the Lord's, I believe it's a
now, I'm getting excited, word that the Lord's
on of rebuking false shepherds and affirming real
ones.
Rebuking bad sheep and affirming real ones.
Because sheep are the problem sometimes too.
They're disobedient, strong-willed, they don't wanna follow.
You can only lead as well as somebody
else can follow.
You know, and we're all following somebody and
his name is Jesus Christ.
But also there's order throughout the church and
the body and elders and all of it.
Leaders and apostles, and I love it all,
I love it.
I'm always trying to find out where's the
leader.
You know, I know it's in the Lord,
but I'm following.
I love submission, getting an order.
I don't need to have a say-so.
What for?
But I'm telling you, the real shepherds, you
notice they were in the same country, but
they were out in the fields at night,
which I think speaks of the last hour
darkness that Isaiah 60 says, deep darkness.
The people, darkness covering the earth, deep darkness,
the people.
These real shepherds in this last hour, that,
and it's interesting, there's just so much here.
It's gold, I'm trying to cover ground quick.
But Bethlehem means house of bread.
I believe there's these houses of the word
of God, bread of his presence and the
bread of his word, that these are the
two staple factors, the spirit and word, that
they follow and stay on, and they feed
their flock the word.
You know, I love that Jesus said to
Peter, said, do you love me?
He said, I love you.
He says, feed my sheep.
He says, Peter, you love me?
Feed my lambs.
Do you love me?
Yes, Lord.
Feed my sheep.
It's very important to the Lord that we
feed and we eat and feed the word
of God.
And so also coming to family, but also
where is it being projected to?
Shepherds with their flocks.
The local church, I'm telling you, and it's
ironic that you see old moves of God
and they typically break out in and through
local community in the body.
It's usually not some maverick running around out
there.
They can help fuel and join, but it's
always gonna be, and I think it's going
further onto starting at family, going to family.
But I do wanna tell you, I feel
like that Ezekiel 34 is a now thing
where the Lord's addressing false shepherds.
The games are over and he's affirming and
breathing upon the real ones that are following
the Lord.
And again, there's many different models and expressions
out there.
So let's make grace for each other and
realize we all need each other and where
the body and the hand looks nothing like
the foot, but we need each other.
And let's never put the model over the
man.
The man must stay over the model or
we get it twisted.
We'll get all, because a lot of times,
because your model doesn't look like mine, you
don't have it going on because I know
we need to stop all that and make
room for keeping the man, capital M, Jesus
Christ on top.
And then whatever that model looks like, great.
Obviously in the context of the word, you
never wanna get on biblical, but you know
what I mean?
But I believe the Lord is starting to
check, hold accountable and correct the false shepherds
or ones that are veering, have veered, affirming
the real ones.
And same thing with the sheep.
A lot of people always wanna point their
finger to the shepherd or sometimes the shepherds
always wanna point to the sheep, but it's
across the board.
His glory, his will, his word and way.
And the sheep that are causing issues too,
they're gonna get checked and which we all
are.
We all follow the good shepherd, but you
know what I mean?
So anyway, point seven, going to start in
family, but be a spread to family.
Point eight, and behold, verse nine, and behold,
the angel of the Lord stood before them.
It triggered the angel of the Lord to
the shepherds.
Point eight, I believe angels, heaven, kingdom backing
by both proclamation and power are going to
increase like never before as this, the birthing
of his second coming.
As we look to his first coming and
look at this repeat parallel that's gonna happen,
I believe the same process is gonna unfold.
But we must find our there, start family.
He's on that so much right now.
Remain at your there and then let things
continue to unfold.
But then once it goes to family and
spreads to family, point seven, point eight is,
I believe heaven is going to start coming
in a way like we've not seen ever
before with angelic backing, resources, revelation, power, proclamations,
all of it.
Just as you see here, I have here,
as the king draws nearer to the earth
for his second final coming, his kingdom will
do the same.
We're going to start seeing a heavenly involvement
like never before on all fronts.
And as I mentioned earlier, with his divine
order, and I'm really excited about that one,
and we're seeing it.
I'm so grateful, so thankful.
We're starting to see the Lord do so
many things.
So yeah, his power, his domain, his authority,
deliverance, proclamation, the revelation, the supernatural, but also
his divine order.
And he sets houses in order.
He brings divine order.
It looks like so many different things I
touched on earlier.
So expect that to come more fully.
Keep reading verse nine, and behold, an angel
of the Lord stood before them and the
glory of the Lord shone around them.
The manifest glory of God's coming again.
As he gets projected through family to family,
heaven's backing coming stronger than ever before, and
the glory of the Lord shone around them.
I believe the manifest glory of the Lord.
And 10, the awe of God.
It says the glory shone around them and
they were greatly afraid.
I love Matthew 17 on the Mount of
Transfiguration.
You can just kind of see a picture
of this.
It says a bright cloud overshadowed them, Peter,
James, and John, and they fell on their
faces and were greatly afraid.
A bright cloud overshadowed them, the glory, and
they fell on their faces and were afraid.
When the glory comes, the reverential awe comes
and vice versa.
When the fear of the Lord comes, so
comes the glory.
And so I sense this more than ever
before that as we find our there, this
is the personal application, find your there, start
family, just get over you.
Stop, I'm telling you, the quicker we can
do this and just don't even care about
your destiny anymore.
Let him worry about that.
Love God and love people.
Just do the first two commandments.
Go to the most awkward person first.
Go ahead and die quicker.
Go to the people you don't get along
with.
If you know that you're there, because then
it's just family.
Get tethered in, love them, and lay your
preferences and your conveniences down.
But what's convenient for me, that's out the
window.
We're kingdom people.
We lay our life down for others.
And then remain at your there.
And when you remain at your there, the
days can be complete and then things start
getting brought forth.
Destiny can start to happen.
But just know God's the God of the
apple seed that brings fruit years later because
he's doing something in that process.
It's that in-between season.
That's where he's a master at, with the
potter and the wheel and us being the
clay.
But then in that, may we wrap him.
Kind of recapping before the end, but lay
him, and what's he gonna rest and lay
in?
Manger ministries.
Dead, lowly, humble vessels that do not care
to be over.
If you overlook them, they weren't interested.
They're not gonna care at all because they
weren't ever trying to be seen.
They're so comfortable in the back shelf and
you making no room for them because they
got overlooked.
And they're not gonna try and make sure
you see them.
They're not gonna pull out all the click
baits and jockey for all these positions and
create these false, just imagery of, I'm trying
to be generic as well, but all these
things that fool man to make them think
you're so special so you can have greater
impact, all that stuff.
Nobody cares.
They just wanna love him and see him
glorified.
And then from this, it's gonna go from
family and to.
It's gonna be projected to nearby covenant houses,
I believe, shepherds and their flocks, the real
ones that the Lord's aligning right now in
this hour.
And the end time move, I'm telling you,
it's coming.
And for his last time harvest, but he's
gonna do it through the local body, church
shepherds that are in the dark, really watching
and feeding their flock, really feeding them, really
eating the bread and manna of heaven, the
word, and abiding in him and feeding from
that place.
It's gonna be healthy houses of bread.
And then heaven backing's gonna come like never
before with the awe of God and the
manifest glory at the same time.
Point 11, why?
That's verse 14, glory to God in the
highest.
This is where I wanna land it.
Like, why is, why?
Why are we going through all these steps?
What for with us?
Why do we humble?
Why does the Lord rest?
So God may get glory in the highest.
It's what this whole thing's about.
I love that after all this, the angel
with a multitude begin to praise God, saying
glory to God in the highest.
As this progression unfolded of the Lord's first
coming, well, this progression leading to his second
coming is gonna do the same thing, resulting
in God getting glory at the highest level.
It's what this whole thing's about.
And so quick recap, and then we'll pray.
Just again, that wasn't quite to the 11
points yet, but the government parallel, just to
remind you of the one world order, it's
just an awesome indicator that Luke 2 gives
us.
That you'll see kinda, he's one world control,
census with financial gain in sight and also
rule.
And it's going to that one world control,
one mark in one world currency.
And as that begins to repeat itself again,
we're gonna know his first coming that was
kinda similar and highlighted, well, it's coming again.
But also pulling from Caesar Augustus' illustrious divine
autobiography of himself, style leadership versus coming in
a manger and riding out on a borrowed
donkey.
Like, this is what we want, go this
way.
It's the way, the truth, and the life,
and his name is Jesus.
But back to the points, find you're there.
I really pray that, I'm gonna pray right
now here in a second, but I'm telling
you, time's late, I didn't wear my watch
tonight, but it's short, time is short, Revelation
says.
He's coming, this is not the time to
keep playing, be playing games, a foot in
the world or not, and just kinda haphazard
about the things of God.
This is not the time, I'm telling you,
please hear me.
Please wake up, I feel it.
Wake up, get hungry again for God.
Let's get sharp with our convictions, be sober.
The Bible says be sober.
This is the time, and we must find
you're there.
This is not the time to still be
out floating around just trying stuff out, and
with good old number one you still at
the core of why you're doing it.
And networking to build it, watch all that
come down so quickly.
As long as you try to network and
build you and connect with that, because that'll
help me, and if I know them though,
they'll help me and build me and me,
me, me.
Watch how fast it comes down.
That's not what the Lord's doing right now.
He's having people find they're there and start
family.
Does that look different from expression to expression,
region to region, oh yeah, model to model.
But he's doing that, and he's actually using
family to prepare his bride for the eternal
family.
And then when you're there and you get
tethered into the fabric of the family of
God that looks like dying and being chiseled
out as a living stone from first Peter
two, and cut and measured and placed, and
when you fit in, that's the perfect expression
of love because you're cut for the other,
and we're all fit into the chief cornerstone
found in Jesus Christ.
That's where we wanna be.
You don't wanna keep your edges and just
make everybody fit to you.
That's not the end time model.
That's not what he's doing right now.
So start family and then remain in your
there.
We must do this so the days can
complete themselves because if the days don't complete,
you bring forth nothing.
Quit getting hurt and offended and short-circuiting
your there, remain there.
Just remain, just trust me, wherever that's at
for you under the sound of my voice
across the world, remain there.
Find it, start family, remain there, and then
live a lifestyle that wraps him.
Let's try and go deeper now in wrapping
him.
Keep all of the biblical truths that apply
back to you of yes, if I read
the word of God, it'll keep me pure
and life will be successful.
I'll bear fruit if I abide in him
because I'll bear fruit.
Yeah, these are biblical truths that are amazing,
but I believe things are deepening now to
where we're wrapping him, and there is nothing
in it for me.
Will there be?
Oh yeah, because that's just biblical protocol, and
that's the result of these things, but may
we with the temporal cost of our love
begin to serve, give, obey, love, worship, adore,
and wrap the Lord in this hour.
Point five, he's gonna rest fully in lowly
dead vessels that look like a manger.
He's coming through manger ministries and lowly abodes,
vessels that, point six, are not gonna have
room made for him.
They're gonna get overlooked.
The masses will overlook who he's coming to
and through only later to realize that they
made room for so many other things and
so many other ones except for the one.
So be comfortable with that.
Be content being back-shelfed and overlooked.
Just love him, give him glory and be
content with what he's coming to.
Point seven, just for us to look out
for and be in the wave of God's
grace and move in this last hour, he's
going to spread from family to family, shepherds
and flocks.
What's that gonna look like?
Heaven's backing like never before.
Proclamation, power, angelic, heavenly host, supernatural, but also
the kingdom way of divine order.
It's going to come into our homes, into
our churches.
Our workplace is gonna start aligning things to
his order.
It looks beautiful and it flows like butter
because everybody's dead and loves him and wants
him enthroned.
The glory of the Lord is gonna surround,
point nine.
So with the heavenly kingdom coming with the
king is his glory, his manifest glory is
gonna come again and surround, not just be
in pockets, it's going to surround and envelop.
I love Isaiah six.
It says that the, I believe the seraphim
looked down and said, behold, the whole earth
is full of his glory.
We're coming into that.
Yes, deep darkness, but great glory is gonna
shine.
It's gonna surround the shepherds.
Oh, but back to point seven, Ezekiel 34,
super curate.
I believe he's affirming the good shepherds, chastising,
rebuking, correcting the false ones.
And the same thing with sheep, good and
bad.
We must lead well and follow well in
this hour.
10, with the glory of the Lord's coming
the awe and fear of God like never
before.
And number, point 11, number 11, why glory
to God in the highest, that God may
be glorified above it all to the highest
capacity he ever could.
It's always in and through his son.
So I wanna pray with you.
Thank you for hanging with me in the
word.
I'm excited.
May he change us, transform us.
And I pray that the end of this
year is rich in his glory, but projects
you into this next year of him taking
precedent overall, knowing him and loving him above
all things that he get glory.
So Lord, I just thank you so much
for each and every one.
I bless you again in the name of
the Lord.
And I pray that you'd give us grace,
Lord.
I pray right now even there'd be supernatural
revelation for many that need to find they're
there.
And I pray you'd help them clean the
slate again and hear you clearly and get
over preferences and circumstances and looking at all
the temporal and just hear you, hear you
clearly and obey.
And I pray you'd help us start family,
help us get over us and allow the
chiseling tool of your word to make us
living stones fit into one another.
It ultimately locks into you the chief cornerstone,
Lord.
Let us remain there once we find it.
So the days can be complete.
So you Jesus Christ can be brought forth
through our life.
And I pray, Lord, you'd help us wrap
you, make you priority and love you well,
obey you, serve you, minister to you.
And I pray you'd make us those manger
vessels of lowliness and death.
There would be living sacrifices, Romans 12, that
you'd rest in fully, make us that people
that are glad to be overlooked, Lord.
Let us be the ones that there's no
room made for.
And we're so comfortable there being back-shelved
and overlooked for your glory.
And Lord, I say your kingdom come on
earth as it is in heaven.
Thank you that you're starting from family, going
to family.
And may your glory reverential all come so
you can be glorified.
May you be glorified.
Glory to God in the highest in Jesus'
name.
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Man, we love you all.
We bless you in the name of the
Lord, in Jesus' name.
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