Day 7 (2011)

➡ 1:20 - Get settled on your righteousness in Christ - Hold your healing questions. I want to cover the foundational truths. You live from the place of righteousness. The reason we struggle in healing is because we haven’t settled this first things first topic.

2:20 - Is it faith that makes us righteous or the salvation that Jesus brought? We’re saved by grace through faith - Eph. 2:8. It’s both. Faith brings the revelation of righteousness to be in your life. God sees you righteous in Jesus but it’s by faith that you walk in that righteous revelation. In other words, you can live in condemnation, yeah buts etc. that absolutely aborts your revelation of righteousness.

3:15 - Salvation it the same way. You’re saved by grace through faith. There’s a supernatural working of God’s power that opens up your understanding and a revelation to the finished work of Christ but it’s faith that takes you there.

4:00 - What’s the difference between “God loves you” and “being loved by God”? Theologically I am correct when I say to this whole school, "God loves you." There is a difference between me saying, “God loves you” and you RECEIVING the love of God. When I say “being loved by God” it means receiving that love. Letting that love actually have place in your heart and mark your identity. Jesus says...

4:30 - John 14:15 - If you love me, you will keep my commandments… Sounds legalistic. No - When you love me you’ll walk in agreement with me. You’ll find yourself doing what I do because you love me. If you hear with a legalistic ear you’ll try to prove your love, "See, I love you. See, I love you." and won’t receive His love in the process. John 14:21 - If you keep my commandments, you will be loved by my Father… That means that grace touches my heart - that I know my place in Him - that I have peace in me with God - and God is letting me know that on the inside. By faith I believe that He loves me. And there is a grace that comes to make that my reality. You live by faith.

Approach by Faith Now - Don't Wait to be Touched

5:50 - Isn’t this just for Dan? Isn’t this just a special revelation for Dan? No, for everybody. Without all of these experiences all you have is Bible knowledge right? True. But I’m not pursuing just Bible knowledge - not reading the word just to know my Bible but to know Him. So in my personal communing there is a place of interaction, interface, intercourse with God where those revelations come freely. It has to do with perspective and mindset.

➡ 7:20 - Knowing that He sees you as righteous is foundational to communing with God - That’s why I’m trying to hit this foundation in righteousness so that as we lead into communing with God, no one has a set back ("It doesn't feel like anyone is there, etc.) in communing with Him because you have every right to be with Him. That’s why we are taking so much time with righteousness - so that you see that God wants you in His presence.

7:45 - Don't wait to be touched - Approach by faith now - Be careful not to think, "Well until God touches me with a revelation, I can't know that He is real. I'm just going to do the best I can and maybe one of these days He might choose to touch me that way." Be careful not to strive for experiences that come by grace. When you start believing "I don’t hear the voice of God" - you can be on a struggle journey for 20 yrs. That negativity in and of itself impedes your ability to hear, to recognize. Rather than communion…

8:35 - Thank God for speaking clearly - Approach by faith - Father I thank You that You speak to me. Father, I thank You that when I read Your word my heart comes alive... This is what we are not being taught - communion with the Lord - faith. Father I thank You that You absolutely love me and my ears are open to hearing. The hearing ear is from the Lord according to Proverbs and the seeing eye is of the Lord. Thank You that I am not blind. And thank You Lord that my heart is in agreement with You. And If I seek You, I find You. If I draw near, You draw near to me. And I thank You Father for the grace in my life to cause me to recognize and hear Your voice - even in the midst of chaos - even in the midst of pandemonium - I thank You that I have the ability to hear Your voice on the inside. And everything I sow into me, I thank You Father, comes alive by Your Spirit in every time of need. I thank You that I can know You... You can pray that way even when you are believing that you are not hearing God's voice like you should. You start opening up your heart to say, I know that you are speaking to me and I know that you want me to hear you. And I thank you that I'm in position. Thank you for fathering me. Thanks for loving me.

9:45 - Don't let what's not happening identify you - Don’t identify yourself based on what’s not happening or what you don’t have. That becomes you. And then it becomes like trying to fight your way out of a bag.

9:55 - Live by faith in truth - Not by feelings - Peace - It’s the same way with peace. People come to the altar for peace. We gather around them because we love people. And God will sometimes supernaturally bring a sense of peace. But what people need to know is that - I have peace with God. I'm not trying to have just a surface peace. I'm not just trying to feel peace. We minister to feelings instead of starting with truth. I have peace. Not looking for peace through the ministry of others.

10:55 - People go to great lengths to find peace. We seek out impartation of peace through the ministry of others. But by doing that you are pulling yourself so far from the walk of faith. You are conditioning yourself that unless I feel peace right now, I have no peace. You are living sensual.

11:30 - Emotional deficit. As you are praying their mind is already working against faith - "Here we go again, I don’t feel peace - it isn’t working - I don’t know why God won’t give me peace." And that belief becomes a stronghold in their mind. They’re waiting for a feeling.

12:15 - I need to feel the love of God - Lady at alter - I just need you to pray for me - never felt the love of God. A stronghold that kept her from living by faith int truth. She just wanted God to come and blast her. So she was frustrated with me. Just feeling a feeling would encourage her to live by feelings instead of faith - living for sensual manifestations. You're being deceived. Get alone with Him and thank Him for His love for you. Approach God by faith and let the cross be enough. 15:20 - God shows us His love through the cross - Not a feeling - I shared 1 John 4:9 with her - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. - The word "manifest" is not talking about a goose-bump feeling. It means to be made seen and known - revealed. Now in that place there can be a stewardship of a fun feeling. I'm not against fun feelings. But if I don't have the fun feeling, I'm not lacking anything unless I don't see that You love me. When you start there, when you lay a foundation of faith… God can give you stewardship of manifestations because it will be healthy.

16:00 - Approach by faith now - Don't wait to be touched - Back to the question @5:50 - Continue in this place of faith. God is not holding out for years and years to eventually touch your heart with revelation. It's in the approach we take. We get to striving. We label ourselves as dull of hearing - dull senses. Not a journey of frustration. If you start there you will run well.

16:50 - You have everything you need - You don't need to be touched - Comparing to others - I want to be like you. "Lay your hands on me. I want what you've got." You have it. "I can lay my hands on you and bless you but you have what I have. He died once for all. You have what I have. There are just some things that I am seeing that maybe you are not seeing right now." But if you will start here (faith - not feelings) you will run well.

17:25 - Bring your flesh into line with truth and feelings will eventually follow - There were times when I went into my bedroom and I didn’t necessarily feel like meeting with God. I told myself that I was going to go meet with God. I felt like doing something else. The greatest thing I can do is know Him more. I’m going in this bedroom because I want to know You more. Sometimes I would tell myself, "Flesh you are going in there." And those were some of the greatest experiences with the Lord. My spirit was saying "Father I want to sit in your lap." And my flesh was saying, "Dan you already did. You already read 3 chapters..." I would take my flesh right in there. It was fun. That was all by faith. And a lot of times God met me with amazing encounters because it was straight up faith. So I understand that journey.

18:45 - God didn't just zap me - I've spent time cultivating relationship - God didn’t just zap me. I'v spent hours on end just talking to Him and receiving His love and thanking Him for being so good.

19:20 - Special gifts are given for the sake of the whole body - to reproduce after its own kind. God wouldn't anoint someone to teach something that you couldn't have.

19:35 - You have to understand that there were seasons in my life where all that I prayed for were revelations of God's love. I would turn the clocks to the wall. I've spent countless hours developing this communion with God - to where when I'm driving I'm just Godward - I'm thinking, I'm running things through my heart and God is there. It's just knowing Him.

20:00 - We have the amazing privilege of knowing Him through time alone with Him - So that's what we're inviting you into. It's not just a "special touch of God." People didn't understand that I was spending so much time alone with God at a capacity that they had never considered. People write it off as a special grace. That sidesteps the great privilege you have of knowing Him.

➡ 20:35 - So I just wanted to answer those questions and now we are going to jump into Hebrews 10.

Intimate Relationship

20:45 - Participant's comment - “intercourse” - nothing can get in between them - deep intimacy - agape - co-union.

21:45 - Deep intimacy with God - I'll bring up a personal prayer in light of what you have said. Shared this at the Global school - This might freak some of you out but I think you can handle it. It has to do with this co-union, communion thought - Father I open myself up to You - unreserved and unashamed. Here I am. Come into me and deposit the seed of who You are. Impregnate me God, so that I can give birth to Your will. And anything that comes out of me is going to look just like You. Come into me Lord and deposit Yourself into me... And I would pray that way as a communion thought spiritually. It's pretty deep. And it's not weird. So my spirit is like this (9 months pregnant). And I am about ready to bear down on something and push - and give birth to something - all of the time. It's a spiritual thing.

➡ 23:15 - Ok, Hebrews 10...

23:20 - But it's true I have prayed that way many times. Come into me and impregnate me. Come inside of me and touch my spirit and deposit the seed of who you are inside of me. And impregnate me God with the revelation of your will. That's an intimate prayer. It's not to impress anyone. It's not for any other reason than to know Him.

24:00 - We get distracted from that relationship - We say we are hungry but are we really hungry? Are we seeking His face? Alone time with God. No other motive than to know Him. Or are we distracted, occupied and we think we are busy? You are occupied. Texting / technology - strategy to make you feel inundated, needed, busy, important. Son loses cell phone with 700 contacts. But you can't know 700 people. It's superficial. It's taking the place of something. We fall into it because of need in our lives. It tries to meet a need that only knowing Him can fulfill.

Overview of the School

➡ 26:00 - Establish righteousness - Ephesians 3 - We will nail this big when we start talking about becoming love - in the next week or so - Because I want to cover communion with God and becoming love - and I know those things are in the order of the Spirit. Settle, first, on your right standing with God, righteousness and get free from sin-thoughts / sin-consciousness / sin-mentality / sin-desire / pulling and tugging. Stop believing you’re just prone to sin - well that’s just the way we are. You need to deal with that and stop letting the devil lie to you. You’re not waking up being pulled and tugged, shook and shaken. You give yourself to the Lord. We’re going to hit that hard today.

27:00 - Righteousness leads into communion - You give yourself to Him. You present the members of your being unto righteousness - not unrighteousness. Without that (righteousness) firmly established you won’t have the true desire when you are all alone with God to seek His face. Because you’ve got other things identifying you, driving you, drawing you, ministering to you. But when you understand righteousness and give yourself to righteousness and faith, it promotes, instigates, stirs up the desire to be with Him and know Him.

27:50 - Communion leads into receiving and becoming love - You don’t love Him first. You don't love God because it's the Christian thing to do. You love God because He first loves you. So what inspires your love response is totally seeing and receiving and wearing His love. Then you want to hang out with Him.

28:10 - We bail on relationship and just try to DO what seems right - We don’t give Him that place in our lives. We’re just trying to DO kind of right. No, when I see His love for me it triggers my heart - the goodness of God changes me. Biggest trap - all these other things that keep you from letting that (relationship) matter as #1.

28:35 - Receiving His first love is so important - Receiving the love of God is #1. But there are a lot of other things that seem super important in our lives - but they are not really that important. Our opportunity to relate to God is so amazing. If that relationship were not so important, satan would not try so hard to disrupt it.

Purpose

29:30 - Ephesians 3 - God's purpose in sending His Son - To manifest who He is through His church - In Ephesians 3 Paul shares the intent of God in sending His Son. Paul was given this mystery to preach - Christ in us and Christ to the Gentiles and this mystery that has been hidden through the ages (v.8-9). And now it has been revealed. The cat is out of the bag. He is telling us the intent of God... This is the purpose of God...

30:10 - v.10 - To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, - Another translation...Wisdom of God made known by His people to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places - The wisdom of God would be made know through His people. God is going to thoroughly manifest Himself through His church - which He created in His image - which seemed to be fallen and not able to get up. But God let His Son take the fall so He could get us back up and breathe Spirit back into us. And now we can manifest His glory. So God brought the gospel so that we could shine and reveal who God is to the world.

30:55 - The truth of God's purpose - v.11 - According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: - according to the eternal purpose - He always made you for that. He always meant this for you - for you to be filled with His Spirit - to manifest His nature - to walk in His image and confound the wisdom of the wise and in the face of darkness shine as light. He always made you for that. You've never had a different purpose. God never changed His plan. It's the eternal purpose of God. It's who you are and why all wrapped up in one. It's why you have breath today.

31:30 - Give yourself to His purpose - God breathes on faith to establish us in this truth - I've given myself to this. That's why I am passionate. I have surrendered, made sacrifice - the labor of love - the patience of hope - the work of faith - to attain this. It's not a works thing, faith took me there. Yes, I have a revelation. God has breathed on that faith. I don't see anything else. I am alive for this reason.

32:00 - Now, it's not even hard for me to keep from having an attitude or being angry, or selfish or jealous. What? That's not even a trial to me. It's been obliterated through this understanding. Was it always that way? (No,) I grew into that. I'm more extreme in that than I ever was. So I am not like a man struggling to stay afloat and "Thank God that He considers me." I've given myself to these things and He has breathed on that and empowered me to live what I never could have lived if He didn't breathe on that. But the key is I want that.

32:50 - Many have not given themselves completely - Some of us need to get real with ourselves. Some of us still want our right to have a right - and say, "enough is enough." "Well, you can go that far but that's far enough." We have limitations set. We still have rights. We still have things in our lives that are stopping the image of God from manifesting from the inside out.

33:25 - Sell out prices - We have sell out prices. Judas said, "What will you give me to betray Him?" - Mt. 26:15. And for Judas it was only 30 pieces of silver. Some of us wouldn't even consider that. But there are some things that we will do. There are some things that could happen to us that could stop (the manifestation of) the image of Christ. Example - where we would take occasion for the flesh and say, "Enough is enough" and stand for our rights.

33:50 - Renouncing rights - You have to get to the place where you are dead - where you get alone with God and say, You know what - the best I understand I don't even want a right I don't have a right except to manifest who you are. The intent of you creating me was to manifest your image. What would I live anything else for? Why would I covet this life and take advantage of it and start living for other things and pursuing other things apart from You first. That way, everything else is in the light of you and it will never get goofy and muddy and funny. I'm talking passionate and militant today.

34:25 - Being a Christian means manifesting Him - The intent of God in sending the gospel is to make known His manifold wisdom through your life to the world you live in and the powers that seem to control it. Your life becomes a testimony, a conviction, a judgment to the powers of darkness. And all of the sudden everywhere they look they see Christ in us because we are surrendered, sold out and filled with the Spirit of God and our integrity is squeaky clean. Our motives are super pure and we see God. It's called being a Christian.

35:05 - We thought a Christian goes to church and sings happy songs and then does his best to live kind of good.

35:25 - Boot camp - Prepare to represent well - I'm feeling kind of boot campy. You sweat a little in boot camp. You get stretched in boot camp - your muscles hurt. Boot camp trains you and equips you for war. And after a while you are not worried about the training any more because you start getting a little healthy pride in what you are representing and the uniform you wear and what you are fighting for. And all of the sudden that overtakes all of the work and effort to get suited up. All of the sudden you don't mind the sweat and the jogging any more - the heat - the pressure - the drill sergeant drilling you. All of the sudden you stand up and you realize what you are wearing and what you are representing and what all of this is for. All of the sudden it doesn't matter any more because you are standing for something instead of falling for everything.

36:45 - Technology - I don't have a cell phone or a computer and look at this - Pastor freaked out - I'm alive! Actually very alive and not distracted. And I'm not against cell phones. But I wonder who has the capacity to have all of this technology and still be in a good place.

37:40 - Yield to God's plan - Why struggle apart from it - v.10 - [Another translation] - God has a predestined, eternal purpose and plan for our lives and that’s why we’re alive. You're not alive by happenstance. You're not alive just because two people came together. You're alive because God said so and has an eternal purpose and an eternal plan. Now, why would I try to live anything else and struggle for anything less than what I'm here for and where total grace is found. Everything else makes life an experiment or your own agenda and journey. If I wasn't created for me and I was created for His image and I finally realize that through the word of God, why don't I yield to that so I find a place of grace and favor to walk out that destiny rather than push against the bricks and fight to have my own way. That's separating me from the very one that put me here with purpose.

38:40 - That would be like you driving in a car where you turn right and it turns left. You can’t steer it. Like a car with a mind of its own. The car was created for you to drive. But until it takes you to where you want to go it hasn’t fulfilled its purpose. It would have no value to you. You wouldn’t get in it anymore.

39:20 - You have to realize that you have a created purpose. And the Bible make it real clear...

39:25 - v.11 - According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: - "which He accomplished" - So you're not under the pressure of of fulfilling this. You just yield to it and go with the river of God. Go with the flow of grace.

39:50 - So Christ redeemed us. Got us back up out of the fall. Put us right back on track. And every man must be born again.

Access to God

40:00 - v.12 - In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. -

I have boldness - His heart towards us is revealed - Boldness - Because we see this as true and because of God's love and mercy to come and redeem us and restore our eternal purpose and value, not just throw us away... "Well, I made you to live for me. You're not living for me so <buzz>. That's not God. He woos and draws and it speaks to our hearts.

41:20 - He woos even when we mess up - There are times when you get your life in a messed up place. And you knew it. And these thoughts come to you. They are soft. They are wooing. "Man, you know, it doesn't have to be this way." Just sweet thoughts. Countering thoughts (to the mess). That sure beats God hovering over you and pinning you to the bed, "So, you want to live for yourself!" That would make for Christian robots, living out of fear. Instead of the goodness of God and the love relationship. That's what's so amazing about God.

42:40 - [Extended comments on God hypothetically dictating life] Instead, God humbled Himself, took on flesh and came and died for His man. So that man would get the picture and see and fall in love. That's all that wrong with me. It only took 33 years.

42:50 - His heart is revealed - So I have boldness. Why? Because I see His heart. I know who He is. I realize that He came to rescue me. He loves me. He's not mad a me. He has purpose for me. So I have boldness. Why? Because His heart is revealed. I’m not afraid of Him. I'm not afraid to approach Him.

43:00 - I have access - Access - I have boldness and I have access. This is where faith comes in. You either have access or you don't. If we believe we have access, why aren’t we accessing?

43:25 - I have confidence - With confidence - Confidence and pride are two different things. Don't think that confidence has anything to do with pride. You’re supposed to have confidence. You're supposed to not throw away your confidence - Heb. 10:35.It has nothing to do with presumption and pride. He’s the one that put the confidence and boldness in me by revealing His heart.

43:50 - I have boldness and access with confidence through faith - Through faith in Him - There are no "Yeah, buts." You step into the truth and say thank you.

44:15 - Here's what faith looks like - Thank You Father, that I have amazing purpose in my life. And even though I don't see totally clear like I believe I could, You created me with reason (for a reason, purpose). Would You reveal why I am on this earth. Would You make it really clear what it means to have Christ in me. Would You begin to father me and show me the intent of Your heart in designing me and fashioning me before the foundation of the world. Before you ever formed the world You fashioned me in Your heart. You shaped me in Your mind. You shaped me in Your vision. Would You reveal the beauty of that legacy? Would You reveal that destiny to my heart? Just start right there saying, "I ready to run God." That would bring great favor and grace to your life. Not many of us have thought that way.

45:10 - That's what faith does. Faith seeks Him. What does it mean to seek Him? We’ve been conditioned just to pray about trouble.

45:35 - We've made the gospel all about us - Discouragement - We've been trained to let this gospel be so self-focused and self-centered instead of knowing Him and loving Him and becoming like Him. That's why there are a lot of people who are discouraged, back-slidden, distracted and not all excited about the good tidings of great joy.

46:00 - What’s the difference between pride and confidence when coming into the throne room? Confidence comes from knowing Him and His heart. Pride is presumption. Boldness and confidence go hand in hand. What gives me boldness to go into the throne room of grace? Because I see Jesus, the High Priest sitting there representing me. He came to die for me - to restore me back to the Father. He didn't come to take me to heaven. He came to get me back to the Father. I am the way, the truth and the life - John 14:6. What's He the way of? He's the way back to the Father. So I have confidence to approach Him now because He came to get me while I was lost. Presumption / pride is just disregarding all of that and just assuming, "Hey, I am right with God. God understands. God knows my heart..."

47:00 - Presumption - Continuing sin - Lady willfully sinning yet embraced a language of intimacy. She would outwardly talk to the Lord even though she was not in fellowship with Him. Presumption grew in her heart. Then her life went completely into the darkness. Instead of letting the gospel build integrity in her, she took this message as permission for the flesh. Adultery.

48:25 - Continuing sin is at odds with who you were created to be - Paul says, "Shall we continue in sin so that grace is flowing everywhere? No!" - Rom. 6:1. Because you were not created for sin. You were created for God's pleasure. You were not created for flesh pleasure - for less than Him.

48:50 - Presumption vs. Repentance - So there is a pride and a presumption. There is a repentance that takes account for your life, responsibility for your actions without getting condemned for your actions and says, "Oh, God..." and comes into Him, receiving His love - receiving change. Versus "Hey whatever. He loves me. He knows my heart."

Willful Sin

49:20 - Counselling young people - Fornication - I can't tell you the number of young folks that get that impression. Young folks sleeping together - "God will forgive us anyway." And they do that many times. When you counsel they say, "Well, God loves us. You preach forgiveness. We just can't help it. We love each other and we're going to get married soon. God still forgives us." There’s no way your conscience can get clear. That's willful.

50:10 - It's not just a rule - There is a reason behind it - That's just you fulfilling your desire and not gaining understanding of why this is not just a law. This is not just a law. There is a good benefit in the whole abstinence thing. There is a beauty to it that needs to be explained.

50:30 - "We can't help it - God won't judge us for something we can't help" - Their response might be, "Oh, well, we can't help it. God’s not going to judge us for something we can’t help. So when we do this we look at each other and say, 'We shouldn't do this.' But then we say, 'But God will forgive us.'" So they do it. "Forgive me." Do it. "Forgive me..."

50:45 - Effects - You will stalemate your spiritual growth, muddy your soul and get yourself in delusion and presumption. You will be presumptuously approaching him and won't even know Him if you continue in that.

51:00 - God won't enable sin - Pastors are afraid of enabling sin - God can't be in the midst of that because He would be empowering something (sin), enabling something. This is why some people are afraid to preach righteousness for fear of empowering sin. People take what you say and make it what they need it to say to cover face. I'm not afraid to preach it because if anyone hears with a hearing ear this message changes your life. It doesn't empower your sin. It changes your life.

51:30 - And it's not just the young people - all ages...

51:40 - Women in 50s with STDs. It's people with insecurity in them. There are people that need to be with someone to fill a void that only Christ can fill.

52:15 - Lady with STD in 50s - recently divorced - alone and hurt - I’m not that kind of girl - healed - that’s not who I am - so if that is not her, how can that fruit remain in her? - it can’t.

55:00 - Repentance - That's not who I am - If she is sorry and her heart breaks and she realizes what she's done and doesn't get curled up in condemnation and shame but repents... What she is saying is, "That's not who I am. That was deception. That was a moment of feeling sorry for myself. I got snared and captured. It is not who I am." That's what she is doing by talking to me. That's the statement that she's making.

55:30 - If that is not me how can sickness hang on - It can't - So if that is not who she is then how can the fruit of who that was still remain in her if that's not her? This thing is spiritual and it's (that sickness is) legalistic. Devils are very legalistic. They stick to sin like velcro. And now it's there because it has the right to be there because you "opened the door."

56:00 - "I opened the door" - Well shut it - Repent - People say, "Well, I deserve it. I opened the door." Well, close the door. "I'm just reaping what I've sown." Plow the ground and let's get some new seed in there. Let's get a harvest. Pull out the weeds. Come on. Repent. Change the way that you think and you are no longer that person and the Spirit of God and God's goodness and grace comes upon you and makes all things new.

57:00 - Guilt, condemnation and shame - Devil tries to take advantage of a pure heart - People struggle with guilt, condemnation, shame because of the things that they have done. They don't understand that satan plays off the fact their heart is pure and they do really care. If you didn’t care you wouldn’t have any capacity for guilt, condemnation or shame. You’d be cold, calloused - whatever. So the guilt, condemnation and shame reveals that you do care. Satan, like a snake in the grass, is trying to tie you to your care and make you condemned instead of redeemed. What a rat! I think we ought to listen to Jesus instead of him.

Adversity

58:00 - Eph. 3 - v.13 - Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. -

Don't lose heart in adversity - Don’t even let what I am going through distract you from this truth. Don let adversity or trials sideline you and pick back up your old self - your own life. He's saying this right on the heels of "This is your destiny..." If this is your calling, then don't let what I am going through in life take you off of that truth. That's what we do. We get this joy for a moment, "Wow, this is so good. I'm going to walk this out." Then we are hit with life - adversity comes. "Oh God, why is this happening?..." Paul is saying, "Don't you ever lose heart."

58:45 - Adversity is the opportunity to manifest Jesus - You glory in your tribulation - Rom. 5:3. Why? Because you have the ability to persevere and character build and manifest Jesus. Adversity brings the privilege of revealing the Son through you.

59:10 - When you incorporate Jesus for blessing, adversity is a problem - Die to live - We haven't heard a gospel that tells us die to live. We've just incorporated Him in for blessing. When you just incorporate Jesus into your life adversity doesn’t sound like blessing. But Paul says that we glory in our tribulation. Because it is the privilege to manifest the Christ in you. You ought to have great joy because the tidings are good.

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100:20 - v.14 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, - This is the reason that Paul is praying the prayer that is coming up. For what reason? That the wisdom of God be revealed to the powers of the earth through our lives. For this reason I pray - that you be perfected and formed in love. So what is the manifold wisdom of God manifested through your life? When you and I become like Him and become love and take on His nature and manifest His heart to the earth. This message is all through the Bible.

Filled with All the Fullness of God

➡ 101:00 - [skipping ahead to] - v.19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. - Here is what I want you to see...

Don't wait to be zapped - Receive His love by faith - to know the love of Christ - To know - (Interlinear - working knowledge gleaned from first-hand, personal experience - {Helps Word Studies}) - to perceive, to understand, to recognize, to realize.. to personally experience. It's the recognition of truth by personal experience. To know the love of Christ... If you are waiting for God to drop that onto your lap - to just zap you with that and call that a gift - you are going to be deceived. You RECEIVE His love. You believe His love and know His love.

102:45 - [backing up to] v.15-17 - Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, - that Christ may dwell in your hearts BY FAITH… He doesn’t skip around faith. He’s not talking about a mystical manifestation from God. That you be rooted and grounded in love - through faith.

103:00 - v.18 - May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; - that you be able to comprehend… Praying for removal of all obstacles - stumble, trap, deceive, limit, regulate - your understanding. That God would make clean the path of your understanding so that you can perceive and comprehend this thing - get you out of the way so that He can go, "Tada."

103:25 - v.19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. - filled with ALL the...

FULLNESS of God… I don’t even know what that means. But I know it’s incredible. I know what fullness means. Fullness means - a house with no empty rooms; a town with no empty houses.

104:10 - Out of fullness flows... - I know that when there is fullness in me, that every motivation comes out of that fullness - every action and desire comes out of that fullness.

104:20 - Emptiness drives need... When there is not fullness in me, then every action, every desire comes out of the deficit, the drive, the need, the emptiness. And that's why we do a lot of what we do because we haven't been established in love.

104:40 - To know His love is to be filled with fullness, so to not know His love is to have deficit. And that's what drives us, need, emptiness, insecurity, a lack of esteem and identity - trying to find ourselves through life and through one another - support systems. But to know the love of Christ → filled, fullness - no empty room.

105:15 - So then when I say, "I love you," I say it from the place of truth - no strings - no expectations - completely for your sake. That's the position we ought to all put one another in.

105:30 - So we thank Him for filling us with a fullness we might not feel? Yes. This is good to incorporate communion here with the idea of being filled with all the fullness of God... Don't make appointments with God. You are in fellowship with God. But there are times when you can be alone with Him and you can capture that moment.

106:40 - A year off to seek God - Friend who took a year off to seek the Lord. He had saved up. At the end of the year he came to me and cried because a whole year had gone by and he hadn't really gotten intimate with the Lord. He said, "My time just got occupied and I just lived life." That happens quickly to people.

107:05 - Do you REALLY want Him? - If so, you WILL seek Him - It’s easy to say we are hungry but our life reveals our hunger. Because if I really want Him, I’m going to seek Him, not just say, "I want Him." Just get real with your own heart.

107:10 - Objection: That kind of communion is only for Dan - So I spent countless time doing this... And this is what Holy Spirit led me in when I first got saved. He led me there. Some people would say, "See that was sovereign" - (as in that kind of communion is a special gift especially for Dan).

107:30 - No, I have that communion because I gave myself to Him - I believe - and I know that we are saved by grace - I believe that the night that I got saved I got out of denial. God moved on my heart. Of course He did. It's grace that saves us. But there was a total surrender that night. I gave myself to Him. Some people find themselves going along the way and giving more and more as they go. I suggest that you get alone and just purpose to give yourself to Him. Even if you are not sure what that means. Get alone with God and...

108:00 - Give yourself to Him - And trust Him to figure out what needs exposing - I give myself to you. And if, in any way, I'm reserving rights or holding things to myself, Holy Spirit you are my friend, You show me this because I will let it go. That way you are not nitpicking, searching, introspecting with negative resumes. You are just seeking God and along the way things get stripped and cleaned out. And you are not always fishing and looking back.

108:30 - God keeps us - I have a greater faith in His ability to keep me than in me being misled. Because I know that without Him keeping me, I'm already toast. I've learned that. If He didn't come and father me at times and show me things, I was in the dark. But because of this faith before Him and this relationship... And even asking Holy Spirit...

108:40 - Look, I know You love me. I don't care by what means of discipline... If you have to kick me in the butt, whatever that means, keep me in You. I've talked that way to the Lord. And He probably chuckles. I'm just saying, "I'm yours."

108:55 - At times He will rescue me, save me - when I am ready to follow the wrong thinking. He'll go, "What are you doing?"

109:10 - God exposed negative thinking - Driving - mind in a negative tone for about a mile. I don't want to be negative but I fell into it that day. A situation was not going the way that I anticipated. - "Boy, Dan, now would be a good time to practice all that stuff you preach." - You got me! It made me laugh so hard. He’s a friend. It snapped me right out of that. My response: I started to see it through Christ. And I countered all of that and just washed all that negativity away and just crushed it with faith before the throne. Why? Because He came and fathered me and rescued me. Why? Because I want Him to. I don't have reserved rights. I want Him to. So I get alone...

111:00 - Get alone and commune - Father, I thank you that you are everything that I will ever need. You're the fullness of my life. You're the strength and the security of my life. Father, I don't need the honor of men - approval and affirmation. If men encourage me, so be it. But I am not living for it. My life is in you. My strength is in you. Everything I ever am and will be is found in you. It's your grace that satisfies me. It's knowing you and your love. Father, you have made me complete. You've made me strong. You've made me one in you... I could take that last line and go for a half of an hour and forget that you are here and have communion. And it would just get bigger in me.

112:00 - And I believe it. It's not saying that it's my current reality right now but I know that it's true. I know that He is all that I need. All that I need is You, Lord Jesus.

112:15 - Commune through a song - I've sung that song: All that I need is You, Jesus. All that I need is you. I've sung that song for so many hours. Songs like that... [extended communion]. Hours... Hours... You have no idea. Another song: What a friend I’ve found, closer than a brother…

113:15 - Hours... It doesn't get monotonous. "Can you hit another track brother?" Let it play. I’m becoming the truth in that song. I'm not listening for entertainment - to appease the distracted mind. I'm not reading my Bible to be a Christian - to feel Christian. I'm reading my Bible to know Him and to become the word. So let it play... I'm becoming the truth on that song. Song: Jesus, what a friend I have found. Sometimes laugh, cry, quiet - sinking in. Go with the flow. And you let the truth make you free - John 8:31-32.

114:15 - I think we are in a hurry - we're striving - we're struggling... If I could just prophesy, I would feel... If I could just heal... No, if I can just know Him everything will be OK. So get alone and trust that He is there. Don't think things like, "Well obviously this doesn’t work for me." No. We've been teaching faith all along...

114:45 - Release faith through thanksgiving - Father, You absolutely love me. Thanks for being here. Thanks for filling my heart with all that You are and causing me to understand and see the depths and beauty of Your love. Thanks for forming me in Christ. Holy Spirit, I appreciate all that You're doing in me. And I thank You that You are etching me, molding me, shaping me and making me more like You. Thank You that every trial in life is helping perfect Christ in me. I am not moved by adversity. I am moved by Your love. Your hand is upon me. And I worship You and honor You and give my whole being to You. Thank You that when men look into my face they see Your light. When they look into my eyes, they know Your love, because Father, You have made me one with You... I pray that stuff. I think that stuff. I talk that stuff. Can you tell. It's what's wrong with me.

Intercession

115:45 - Healthy intercession - See in agreement with God for others - You want to pray from a faith that works through love. You want to see in agreement with God. You want to address these situations and speak life over them and not just fret and complain and try to positionally pray correctly.

116:15 - How many things have we prayed and haven't seen change? Tons. And the more that happens, the more you're aware of that and aware of what needs to change. And it drives you. It doesn't drive you to Him but in another way.

116:30 - See from His perspective - You'd be amazed that you don't even see things the same way. It's not denial it's just seeing things through the light. Things don't move you, drive you, hurt you, scare you. When you are living this (intimate relationship) you are looking from His seat. And your response is totally different than you, in your own seat, as a Christian trying to serve God. It's a whole different perspective. You have to walk in it to understand it. You are seeing from His view. That perspective is void of fear, worry, concern. You're not reducing prayer to a method and scripture to a principle.

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117:20 - We're not just applying a method to get a result - We're living in relationship where faith and grace flow - We’ve reduced scripture to a principle and a method that we proclaim to get a result. That’s so impersonal and doesn’t build relationship with God. If anything it challenges relationship because your intellect will say, "Well, why didn’t it work and where was God?" Or it causes introspection - "What am I doing wrong? Why didn't God answer my prayer?" All of that confronts closeness. If to know His love is to be filled with all of His fullness (Eph. 3:19), that’s where I am camping. Everything is going to flow from there - even faith works through love - Gal. 5:6.

➡ 117:55 - Do you see why I am taking so much time on righteousness and being free from sin-consciousness and all that stuff? Because faith works through love - you’re rooted and grounded in love - Eph 3:17. (And love is only received and entered into if you are sure that you are accepted in His presence - righteousness.)

Righteousness - Hebrews 10

➡ 118:05 - Hebrews 10 - before break and then we'll go to Romans 6 after break and try to wrap this thing up (righteousness).

118:45 - Recap of Hebrews 10 (see first part of discussion at Day 6 @1:43:00) - v.1-2 - The writer is saying that the goal is to get free from the consciousness of sin. And that this first way through the law and sacrifices didn’t get it done or the sacrifices would cease to be offered. But the accomplishment of Christ is to make you complete and no more consciousness of sin.

119:35 - v.3-4 - Why can't animals take away man's sin. It's blood for blood. Man for man.

120:00 - Sacrifice of animals - It's all pointing to what is to come. Innocent animals point to innocent man shedding blood to wash away sin. It's all pointing to Christ. One day a man, completely innocent is going to die the same way. And His blood is going to wash your sin away. Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world - John 1:29.

121:15 - v.5 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: - body you have prepared for ME - He was made to be a man - flesh. Man was created for the image of God. God told him to subdue the earth - to have have dominion. And by the authority and grace of God He was to govern the earth. What man failed, Jesus came and became a man and fulfilled. He was the last Adam. So He became the captain of our salvation - the perfect sacrifice. He was tempted at all points without sin. He walked through trials and testings - rejection, adversity, temptations of devils. He went through the wilderness just like the children of Israel...

Wilderness Experiences - Selfish vs. Selfless

121:50 - Comparison of wilderness experiences - Selfless v. selfish - 40 years vs. 40 days - they died in the wilderness - Jesus came out of the wilderness in power - Why? They were selfish. He was selfless. Big difference - 40 years and die vs. 40 days and Spirit and power. Same wilderness, same atmosphere, same God, same devil - Different motive. Selfish - "What about us? What would be better for us?" Complaining - "Where is God? If He is so good why are we out in this wretched rocky place?" Well, if He wasn't good why is He providing food, heat and cooling, clothing... We miss that and then all of the sudden the gospel is not enough.

122:45 - Manna points to Jesus - And they loathe the worthless bread that was sustaining them. It was a sign of life. Pointing to the bread that was to come from heaven. Pointing to Christ.

123:00 - He says in 1 Corinthian 10:9 - Don't you do what they did. And don't you tempt Christ like they did in the wilderness. That means that they loathed the worthless bread. This gospel, this bread, your provision is not enough for my life.

123:20 - They had different perspectives - Complaints of Israel - Mentality - protect yourself - young and old alike. Perspective. So you come out of your tent door and you go, "Argh, same old stuff again. Here we go again." You've got to guard your heart - be the steward of your heart. [Complaints of the Israelites]

123:40 - Mana means "what is it?" Well it was keeping them alive. It was a miracle. It was coming while they were sleeping at night. And it was on the ground every morning guaranteed. They were only allowed to take enough for today so that they'd enjoy the glory and goodness and provision of God everyday and keep their heart in tune. And not take for granted the blessing. But what did they do? All of the sudden, it's not good enough. And here is this bread - we don't even know what it is.

124:05 - Who cares what it is? It's from God and it's keeping you alive. It's a sign from God that He is there. And when things look really bad, He is there. He is your sustenance. He is the Lord.

124:20 - Versus thanksgiving - So they are coming out of their tent doors, disdaining the bread. Complaining against Moses and God. Versus coming out of your tent and going, "Oh God, there you go again. You are so amazing. I can sleep in total peace knowing that, in the middle of nowhere, You are here. And You are Somebody that loves us. I'll never fear again..."

125:35 - Don't lose sight of the big picture - We complain if we are not careful, instead of catching what it was really all about. That when things look really bad and really tough don't miss the glory of who He really is. When things don't seem to be panning out, don't lose sight of who He is.

126:00 - 40 years and wandered and died vs. 40 days anointed, Spirit and power, fulfilled ministry. There's a lesson there. Follow Him.

Righteousness (cont.)

126:20 - He came as a Man - A body you have prepared - He’s still the Man. He is not a spirit. After He rose from the dead He walked through the wall as a man empowered by God. He said to His disciples, Touch me, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bone as I do - Luke 24:39. What is He trying to get across? He wants us to know that positionally, legally, theologically, He is still a man. Because He is about to ascend as a man - the Man - capital M-a-n. No man can mediate between God and man but the Man - 1 Tim. 2:5. He wants you to know that He is still a man sitting on His own blood on the mercy seat at the right hand of the Father, mediating on behalf of mankind. A Man is in the holy tabernacle - a high priest forever able to save to the uttermost those who come to Him by faith because He never dies or changes - Heb 7:25. Do you see where confidence comes from? So this either becomes doctrine or you give yourself to this truth, God breathes on it and the truth makes you free. Or you just go to Bible school and get a degree in Bible.

127:45 - Bible knowledge - You don’t need just knowledge - that takes the place of your relationship with God. Your Bible knowledge won't save you. Knowledge puffs you up but love edifies - 1 Cor. 8:1.

128:15 - v.6-7 - In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. - It’s the will of God for Christ to come and be the sacrifice - redeem man - conquer death - remove sin. Everything Jesus did was the will of God. When you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father - John 14:9. I only do your will - John 5:19.

128:55 - v.8-10 - Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. - He’s taking away the old order to establish the second. Sanctified - set apart - called out of darkness into the light. Once for all - every person.

129:25 - v.11 - And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: - NEVER take away sins - nothing but the blood of Jesus. It’s not even you fretting enough. It's you believing enough. If you fret, only do it for about three seconds - it qualifies your heart. Then thank God that you are clean. He wants you at peace with Him. It does not do God or you any good for you to be downcast all day because you blew it. There is a repentance - sometimes a deep godly sorrow, but it should be only for a moment.

130:55 - Box of Kleenex - Do you know why you live the way you do? - Receive the grace - Be a son - Wrecked in worship - whole box of Kleenex - I love you - Do you know why you live the way you do? Consistency, continued joy, no condemnation, no despair, no depression, no discouragement - pumped and alive inside. It’s because of your grace, Lord. No. - You have to be in a position to RECEIVE that grace - to enjoy the gift. It’s one thing to be positionally righteous but another to live that way - to wear it. On the night you got saved, you were sin-conscious for a moment, and ever since that moment you’ve been a son in your heart. He’s the One that allows me to be a son. But I’m the one who has to say, Thank you, OK, that’s what I’ll be. So is it His grace that saves me? Yes. But if my perspective isn’t in agreement with truth, I can’t walk in the blessing of that truth. I could let condemnation eat my lunch. I could let lies rob me. I could let other things mean more.

134:35 - We are right here at the big punch line...

➡ 134:40 - v.12-13 - But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. - But God... But this man - Capital M-a-n... He wants you to see that He came as a man. Single sacrifice - for sins forever.

136:10 - v.14 - We're Perfected forever through His sacrifice - For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. - He has - past tense. Listen to this → PERFECTED FOREVER those who are being sanctified - those who want to be born again - called out of darkness - set apart. "I want to be a child of God." Well then that's what matters. "I don't want to live for myself." Then you qualify. "I don't want to sin." Then you qualify. "Come on in. I paid the price to forever make you complete in my sight. Now come and be a son and run well." Perfected forever - It is finished. He perfected forever those who believe. So what are you right now? Perfect. And where is sin? Gone. Holy, blameless, above reproach.

137:50 - Why aren't we teaching and believing this passionately our whole lives? And being the living product of this truth?