WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.440 Getting a revelation of your son's ship will cure one of your greatest hindrances. 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.160 And what is that great hindrance? 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:14.080 It's an orphan heart, an orphan spirit, and it's completely opposed to the heart of 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:15.080 a son. 5 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:19.240 We all have some elements of the orphan heart and my prayer is that on this Father's 6 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:24.960 day we would receive the love of the Father and be healed of any orphanhood that we've 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:26.480 accumulated. 8 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.040 Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast, thanks for joining us today, as we look into 9 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:35.800 God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 10 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.440 If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com 11 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:44.920 that's CityLightNYC.com. 12 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:50.100 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already 13 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:52.720 working in our hearts and minds. 14 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:57.720 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you 15 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:06.560 are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 16 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:12.320 Are you ready to celebrate Father's Day at CityLight Church? 17 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:15.560 Let's begin in Galatians 4. 18 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.440 I'm going to read verses 1 through 5. 19 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:21.440 And we'll really be getting into Galatians. 20 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:31.040 I know I keep threatening that for weeks now, but I'm waiting, what is the way the Bible 21 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.960 phrase is in the fullness of time. 22 00:01:33.960 --> 00:01:37.680 So in the fullness of time, I'm going to begin the series on Galatians until then there's 23 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:43.080 going to be this snippet, but it contains a verse that really is appropriate to the topic 24 00:01:43.080 --> 00:01:44.080 today. 25 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:50.160 Here, the Apostle Paul is contrasting the law, which is a system whereby you endeavor to 26 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:55.640 be approved unto God through your own self-effort and your own works. 27 00:01:55.640 --> 00:02:00.160 You can never do that, it always ends in failure, that's the system of the law. 28 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:05.560 The system of grace that we're under is one where already approved, we're already accepted, 29 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.880 not through our own self-effort, not through our own works, but through the finished work 30 00:02:09.880 --> 00:02:12.200 of Jesus' cross. 31 00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:17.720 And in the entirety of Galatians, he's trying to set these Galatians free that are mixing 32 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:20.280 the two covenants together. 33 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.040 And here he writes, now I say that in air, as long as he is a child, does not differ at 34 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:29.960 all from a slave, though he is master of all. 35 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.200 In this context, he was saying that under the law, we were like children, and when you're 36 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:41.720 a child, under the law, there's really no difference between you and a slave, but later 37 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:46.640 you grow up and you come into the new covenants and you're a free person. 38 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:52.320 But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the Father, even so we, 39 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:57.280 when we were children, under the law, we were in bondage under the elements of the world. 40 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:03.240 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son. 41 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:04.240 What does fullness of time mean? 42 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:08.040 It just means that the appropriate time. 43 00:03:08.040 --> 00:03:12.520 Born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who are under the law. 44 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.400 Why did all this happen? 45 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:16.880 And why did Jesus come? 46 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:22.320 Yes, to forgive us of our sins, to die as our substitute in place for us. 47 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:29.720 But why ultimately was that we might receive this beautiful and precious thing called 48 00:03:29.720 --> 00:03:40.680 the adoption as sons, which was mind-blowing to people under a Roman mentality? 49 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:46.720 Because to have adoption, they understood it in that particular culture. 50 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:51.760 That when you received adoption, there was no difference, none at all, between you and 51 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:53.720 a natural born son. 52 00:03:53.720 --> 00:03:59.920 You not only had the same legal rights, but you were considered completely co-equal with 53 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:01.720 a natural born heir. 54 00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:07.240 And what Paul is saying here is you have received this precious thing called adoption. 55 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:16.080 And under adoption, biblical adoption, you have the same level of sonship as Jesus. 56 00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:23.200 And God the Father looks at you and receives you, loves you, and accepts you just as He 57 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:26.840 does Jesus. 58 00:04:26.840 --> 00:04:33.880 And even for modern day Christians, this can be something difficult to receive and to 59 00:04:33.880 --> 00:04:39.760 understand, because we always want to just put Jesus a little ahead of us. 60 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:43.480 We almost feel like it's heretical to say we're on the same level. 61 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:49.480 But He paid a colossal price to give us these things. 62 00:04:50.280 --> 00:04:55.520 So it's actually heretical not to receive them. 63 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:57.760 I'll often ask, who's more righteous, you are Jesus? 64 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:00.400 And then people who don't want to be heretical, Jesus? 65 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:02.120 No, the answer is you're the same. 66 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.160 He's given to you his righteousness. 67 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.320 Who's more of a son? 68 00:05:05.320 --> 00:05:06.480 You are Jesus. 69 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.200 And ladies, just now it is okay for you to say I'm a son. 70 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:16.520 Hey man, we're dealing with spiritual new covenant things. 71 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.760 Just now, it's okay for me to say I'm a bride of Christ. 72 00:05:19.760 --> 00:05:25.600 Hey man, sweetie, just loosen up your shoulders, just a little bit. 73 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.560 She always wants to make sure I don't go too far, but it's too late for that. 74 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.160 So I'm a bride of Christ. 75 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.600 Somebody's going to record this and take it out of context. 76 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.640 Whatever. 77 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:42.640 I'm a bride of Christ, your son of God. 78 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:47.360 And so you have been made to stand on equal footing as a son. 79 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:54.800 And I will say this, that this is something that's easy to mentally ascend to. 80 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.760 And go, yeah, nice. 81 00:05:56.760 --> 00:06:01.320 And with great difficulty comes the revelation, because we've been programmed so wrong. 82 00:06:01.320 --> 00:06:09.960 But getting a revelation of your sonship will cure one of your greatest hindrances. 83 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:13.720 And when I say you're with an extended finger, I don't mean just yours mine as well. 84 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.480 Everybody's we as humans. 85 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.720 And what is that great hindrance? 86 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.520 It's an orphan heart, an orphan spirit. 87 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:29.120 And it's completely opposed to the heart of a son. 88 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.800 They're complete opposites. 89 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.920 The heart of a son rests safely in Jesus. 90 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.240 It's trusting, it's forgiving, it's grateful. 91 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:47.360 The heart of an orphan, it's like a walking mobile wound. 92 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:53.240 And to one degree or another, just by virtue of living this life, we all have some elements 93 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:54.240 of the orphan heart. 94 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:58.400 And my prayer is that on this father's day, we would receive the love of the father and 95 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:04.680 be healed of any orphanhood that we've accumulated, amen. 96 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:08.760 And so when it comes to receiving the love of the father, I've just found this, that 97 00:07:08.760 --> 00:07:14.840 all too often people, myself included, they receive the love of Jesus easily, but the love 98 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:21.960 of the father, that's a little risky. 99 00:07:21.960 --> 00:07:26.480 Because Jesus, I know he's very kind and compassionate, I know because I saw the pictures 100 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.680 of him walking around with the lamb, walking on a bed of flowers, so he seems like a pretty 101 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.680 nice guy. 102 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:32.680 He's not going to hurt me. 103 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.480 But the father, oh, what's the father like? 104 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:37.480 Who's the father? 105 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:38.480 What's his nature? 106 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:39.480 What's his character? 107 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.320 I'm so glad you asked. 108 00:07:41.320 --> 00:07:48.320 The Bible says that Jesus is the express image of the invisible God. 109 00:07:48.320 --> 00:07:53.040 That means if you want to see the father take a good long look at Jesus. 110 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.560 Jesus kept talking about the father, he kept talking about the love of the father. 111 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:02.660 Philip finally said, Jesus, show us the father and it'll satisfy us. 112 00:08:02.660 --> 00:08:07.180 When Jesus turned lovingly towards him and said, Philip, have I been with you so long? 113 00:08:07.180 --> 00:08:09.140 And you have not known me? 114 00:08:09.140 --> 00:08:12.260 He who has seen me has seen the father. 115 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:17.940 Let's look at a couple of those scriptures, John chapter 5, verse 19. 116 00:08:17.940 --> 00:08:23.520 Then Jesus answered and said to them, most assuredly, I say to you, the son can do nothing 117 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:26.700 of himself, but what he sees the father do. 118 00:08:26.700 --> 00:08:32.020 But whatever he does, whatever the father does, the son also does in like manner. 119 00:08:32.020 --> 00:08:37.080 There's like 20 different sermons at least, maybe 20 different series you can base off 120 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.240 of this one verse. 121 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.140 But here's just what I want you to gather from this verse. 122 00:08:42.140 --> 00:08:47.300 If you want to know what the father would do, just look at Jesus. 123 00:08:47.300 --> 00:08:51.340 He said, I don't do anything unless I see my father do it first. 124 00:08:52.060 --> 00:08:53.060 Just think about that. 125 00:08:53.060 --> 00:08:59.180 Jesus and his ministry and his day-to-day life, have you ever seen God do something? 126 00:08:59.180 --> 00:09:02.380 You don't see, may not be the right word. 127 00:09:02.380 --> 00:09:05.100 You perceive in your spirit. 128 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:09.380 You perceive God is doing something and then you get in on and you just follow God. 129 00:09:09.380 --> 00:09:11.820 Jesus was like that all the time. 130 00:09:11.820 --> 00:09:21.060 And so when he healed blind Bartimaeus, he perceived in his spirit, the father do that. 131 00:09:21.060 --> 00:09:26.580 When he sat with the sinners, he saw the father do that. 132 00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:30.140 When he flipped over tables and charged up the money changes, he saw the father do that. 133 00:09:30.140 --> 00:09:32.660 Yes, both. 134 00:09:32.660 --> 00:09:35.820 But if you want to know what the father would do and what the father is like and what his 135 00:09:35.820 --> 00:09:41.620 nature is, what his character is, what his personality is, take a look at Jesus. 136 00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:44.820 John chapter 12 verse 49. 137 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:53.900 This is important before I really get into today's message just to acknowledge that inadvertently 138 00:09:53.900 --> 00:09:59.940 we may have a different emotion towards the father than towards the son. 139 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:02.060 Would you entertain that thought? 140 00:10:02.060 --> 00:10:06.300 Look, I've made it my life since early on when I first got saved to know the father's 141 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:07.300 love. 142 00:10:07.300 --> 00:10:13.100 And I was privileged to just a few years after I got saved to be part of a global revival 143 00:10:13.180 --> 00:10:16.900 where the emphasis was the father's love. 144 00:10:16.900 --> 00:10:22.940 But even as recently as, I don't know, 15, 16 years ago, I found myself sitting undergoing 145 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:26.500 inner healing, which I won't get into that too much. 146 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:30.820 I think some people get too caught up in that where they emphasize themselves too much 147 00:10:30.820 --> 00:10:35.260 and forget about a relationship with Jesus and it can become, you don't want Christianity 148 00:10:35.260 --> 00:10:38.380 to become just a giant therapy session, amen. 149 00:10:38.380 --> 00:10:42.900 But I was going through a crisis in my life and I was there and I was receiving in and 150 00:10:42.900 --> 00:10:43.900 it was good. 151 00:10:43.900 --> 00:10:44.900 It was quality. 152 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:45.900 It was scriptural. 153 00:10:45.900 --> 00:10:46.900 It wasn't goofy. 154 00:10:46.900 --> 00:10:47.900 It wasn't flaky as a lot of it. 155 00:10:47.900 --> 00:10:48.900 It just can be. 156 00:10:48.900 --> 00:10:54.380 But one of the things they had me do was in a time of prayer, they said, imagine Jesus 157 00:10:54.380 --> 00:10:58.740 is face, which you can't do that in your spirit and they said, what does he look like? 158 00:10:58.740 --> 00:11:04.380 And I was there, I was feeling God's presence and I said, oh Jesus, he's, and I saw Jesus 159 00:11:04.380 --> 00:11:05.380 is face. 160 00:11:05.380 --> 00:11:11.220 And by the way, when you see Jesus is face, you don't see Jesus is face, like somebody 161 00:11:11.220 --> 00:11:12.220 goes, what color was he? 162 00:11:12.220 --> 00:11:15.060 No, you don't, you don't, what color was his eyes? 163 00:11:15.060 --> 00:11:16.060 How was his hair? 164 00:11:16.060 --> 00:11:17.060 Did he have gel in his hair? 165 00:11:17.060 --> 00:11:18.060 You don't see him. 166 00:11:18.060 --> 00:11:26.620 You perceive his face and I saw his face and he was smiling and loving and approving 167 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:33.140 and accepting that and I said that and they said, okay, good, now imagine the Father and 168 00:11:33.140 --> 00:11:36.740 I went, huh, and I said, what does he look like? 169 00:11:36.740 --> 00:11:42.860 And it was just like what I'd seen of Jesus except all like gray and I couldn't see clearly 170 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:45.340 and it was just a silhouette. 171 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:51.500 And when I expressed that and I knew right away what it meant, it meant that I was stumbling 172 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:56.540 at that time in my life and my understanding of the Father. 173 00:11:56.540 --> 00:12:00.700 Like Jesus I was intimate with, Jesus I can hang with, Jesus I can pray to, but the 174 00:12:00.700 --> 00:12:13.300 Father, he was less approving, he was less accepting, that's not the biblical reality, but 175 00:12:13.300 --> 00:12:16.820 what I was carrying in my heart was exposed and then I could go and present it to the Lord 176 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:20.140 and he can touch it and heal it. 177 00:12:20.140 --> 00:12:26.820 John 1249, so Jesus established, I don't do anything unless I see the Father do it first. 178 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:31.540 There he takes it even further, he says, where I have not spoken on my own authority, but 179 00:12:31.540 --> 00:12:35.460 the Father who sent me gave me a command. 180 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:43.860 What I should say and what I should speak, verse 50, and I know that his command is everlasting 181 00:12:43.860 --> 00:12:44.860 life. 182 00:12:44.860 --> 00:12:51.220 Therefore whatever I speak just as the Father has told me so I speak. 183 00:12:51.220 --> 00:12:55.380 So if you want to know what the Father would say, look at the words of Jesus. 184 00:12:56.260 --> 00:13:00.900 If you want to know what the Father sounds like, read the red portions in your Bible. 185 00:13:00.900 --> 00:13:05.820 You want to know what he would do, you look at Jesus, you want to know what he would say, 186 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:12.740 you look at Jesus, he and the Father are one and Jesus is the express image of the invisible 187 00:13:12.740 --> 00:13:20.300 God and Jehovah God of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ of the New Testament and the devil 188 00:13:20.420 --> 00:13:28.220 is after that revelation because he knows, listen now, he knows that you were success in 189 00:13:28.220 --> 00:13:39.260 life and by success in life, I mean real success in life, not the world's definition of success, 190 00:13:39.260 --> 00:13:46.820 but real success, peace, joy, yes prosperity, but not just financial, of course it includes 191 00:13:46.820 --> 00:13:52.900 that, but that's just a side thing, real prosperity, the nothing missing, nothing lacking, 192 00:13:52.900 --> 00:13:59.420 nothing broken piece of God, the righteousness, peace and joy that's in the Holy Spirit, real 193 00:13:59.420 --> 00:14:08.900 success, it is yours in direct proportion to your understanding of the Father's heart. 194 00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:17.620 I'm telling you right now, if you don't agree yet, you will, about 15, 20 minutes from now. 195 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:25.060 Your success in life is directly proportionate to you having a spirit of 196 00:14:25.060 --> 00:14:31.540 sonship as opposed to an orphan spirit and we're going to compare and contrast, you say, 197 00:14:31.540 --> 00:14:36.100 what is an orphan spirit? How do you get an orphan spirit? An orphan spirit is a closed, 198 00:14:37.060 --> 00:14:44.340 wounded spirit. An orphan spirit, again we all have elements that some more than others, 199 00:14:45.140 --> 00:14:50.820 but an orphan spirit can come by way of trauma, it can come by way of religion, 200 00:14:51.700 --> 00:14:54.340 it can come by way of bad parenting, 201 00:14:58.420 --> 00:15:05.380 we really can come by way of just walking down this road called life and God wants to set you 202 00:15:05.380 --> 00:15:12.660 free from an orphan spirit which is traumatized and hurting and allow you to rest and receive joy 203 00:15:13.700 --> 00:15:18.820 with the spirit of true sonship and so we're going to just compare and contrast and if this 204 00:15:18.820 --> 00:15:24.820 doesn't make sense to you yet, it will in just a few minutes, I just want you to, as we begin this 205 00:15:24.820 --> 00:15:33.060 journey, to be open-hearted and this is a different kind of Sunday, a sermon like this will probably 206 00:15:33.060 --> 00:15:39.140 best be on a Friday night where we have more time and we can spend time and worship afterwards 207 00:15:39.140 --> 00:15:46.100 because the Lord wants to do an operation on you. If you can get some of that gunk out of the way, 208 00:15:47.220 --> 00:15:55.460 you can really do a deep work in you and have you find true liberty and so please resist the 209 00:15:55.460 --> 00:16:01.380 temptation as we go through this list to think I really wish that friend that I had a falling 210 00:16:01.380 --> 00:16:08.020 out with was here today. I really wish my skunk of a roommate was here or my spouse that I 211 00:16:08.020 --> 00:16:13.700 bicker with so often was here. Imagine that God and his infinite wisdom started good to have you 212 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:23.300 here today and so open up your heart and see where you fit because we all have elements of this 213 00:16:24.100 --> 00:16:28.900 and just know if you walk away saying that was a good message but I'm so glad I don't fall into 214 00:16:28.900 --> 00:16:32.900 any one of those categories. You immediately know that you fell into every single one of those 215 00:16:32.900 --> 00:16:43.540 categories and you are the very expression of an orphan spirit. Amen. Are you all ready? All right. 216 00:16:44.260 --> 00:16:51.220 We're comparing and contrasting the heart of a son to the heart of an orphan. 217 00:16:51.620 --> 00:16:59.620 One lives an abject misery. The other one experiences righteousness peace enjoying the holy spirit 218 00:16:59.620 --> 00:17:04.900 and of course Jesus paid a very dear price and went to the cross so that you can receive the adoption 219 00:17:04.900 --> 00:17:10.900 as a son and have the full privileges of a natural born heir that is himself. 220 00:17:11.700 --> 00:17:25.380 Concerning the image of God, the orphan heart sees God as master. They see a harsh, cold and cruel 221 00:17:25.380 --> 00:17:31.860 master. Somebody they have to work for not somebody they really want to spend intimate time with. 222 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:42.180 The heart of a son, there's an intimacy there. There's a delight there. They realize that they 223 00:17:42.180 --> 00:17:48.980 are approved. Amen. They realize that they are accepted. They realize that they belong and so 224 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:59.300 they see God as loving Father. And one of the main things that Satan works on people is this 225 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:05.940 rejection. And by the way, that's also one of the ways you can catch and allow to fester this 226 00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:13.700 orphan spirit through rejection. This is why Jesus has so many sayings about acceptance. He says, 227 00:18:13.700 --> 00:18:20.340 come to me, whoever, whoever comes to me, I will accept, I will buy no means cast out. 228 00:18:21.620 --> 00:18:28.980 And one thing I found is most people feel like they're the oddball. I realized that early on when 229 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:35.140 I began pastoring because people would come and confess that and each one would think that they 230 00:18:35.140 --> 00:18:40.180 were the only one. And I thought I've always felt that and I thought I was the only one. 231 00:18:41.460 --> 00:18:46.580 But everybody in their mind, because from the day they're born, Satan starts working this narrative 232 00:18:46.580 --> 00:18:52.180 of a rejection in them. They feel like they're the orphan walking through the snow, 233 00:18:52.980 --> 00:19:00.820 down some windy street in some city on Christmas Eve, cold and broke. And there looks like this warm 234 00:19:00.820 --> 00:19:08.900 glow coming from a house and they warm up the window and they peek through. And inside is the family 235 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:14.020 and there's the stuff turkey and the fireplace is going and they're laughing and enjoying and they're 236 00:19:14.100 --> 00:19:20.900 on the outside looking in. Have you ever felt that about your life? I have. Everybody feels that way. 237 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:27.620 That's part of Satan's assignment to make you feel like you're the weird one, you're the other one. 238 00:19:27.620 --> 00:19:32.260 Everybody else is having the time of their lives but you're the one that's dejected and rejected 239 00:19:32.260 --> 00:19:41.300 and that's why Jesus came with a message of not just acceptance but approval. He will accept 240 00:19:41.540 --> 00:19:46.340 you and then when you come to him in faith, he will watch you in his blood and take all your sin away 241 00:19:46.340 --> 00:19:51.140 and now you're not just accepted but you're approved and you're justified which means your 242 00:19:51.140 --> 00:19:56.580 pronounce not guilty. That's the love of the Father. Hallelujah. And that's one of the benefits of 243 00:19:56.580 --> 00:20:04.660 sonship. Dependency, concerning the subject of dependency, the orphan heart because it's been 244 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:13.300 hurt is independent and self-reliant. Can I get a New York City amen? Sounds like it's describing 245 00:20:13.300 --> 00:20:19.620 New Yorkers right? Well there's some truth to that. The orphan heart has been hurt and so they're 246 00:20:19.620 --> 00:20:28.580 mistrusting. They don't allow people in. Their life motto is if it's to be, it's up to me. They don't 247 00:20:28.580 --> 00:20:37.140 want help. They're singing the Frank Sinatra song. I did it my way. The heart of a son is 248 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:44.660 interdependent, acknowledges need. By the way humility means that you have a neediness for the 249 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:50.340 Lord and when you've been made whole by the Father's love, when you've allowed him to do a deep work 250 00:20:50.340 --> 00:20:57.540 in you, you can be open and you can be transparent and you can allow people to come in and help you. 251 00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:07.860 Have you ever known somebody that's just like, I got this. I'll do it my own way. I'll do it myself. 252 00:21:09.700 --> 00:21:19.460 They don't want to be helped. Really there's pride. It's manifesting pride but the source of it is a 253 00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:27.620 pain. But when you have sonship, you know the healings, the Lord's healing touch so well that even 254 00:21:27.620 --> 00:21:33.860 though you know, he looks, some people will hurt me. If I allow people into my life, I feel very 255 00:21:33.860 --> 00:21:39.700 confident in sharing this with you because this is my calling. This is what I do professionally. 256 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:48.500 Professionally, I put my heart out there and let it get hurt. And then you know what? The Lord comes 257 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:54.900 as the bomb of Gilea that he is and then heals it. And this is what he was training me with before 258 00:21:54.900 --> 00:22:01.060 the ministry because I said, Lord, you know, I keep letting people in. They just keep hurting me. 259 00:22:03.300 --> 00:22:08.260 And I'm not just speaking in metaphor. I was praying that prayer. I was in college in 260 00:22:08.260 --> 00:22:17.940 of sensitive. But I think I was sensitive if I was when I was 18, 19, 20, you know. I was Lord. 261 00:22:19.540 --> 00:22:22.580 And are you getting missed the eye for me? It's okay. The Lord did this a long time ago. 262 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:31.380 And the Lord spoke to me in my spirit so clearly and it meant the world to me. He said, 263 00:22:31.380 --> 00:22:37.860 they may, but I am the bomb of Gilea. And I will come and I will heal. You have, you stand in 264 00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:44.020 the fork in the road. You can allow people into your life and some will hurt you. Or you can say, 265 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:51.380 all people are awful and all of them always hurt me. And now you've put up walls to keep people out. 266 00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:57.140 But guess what? Those same walls that keep people out, they keep God out. And do not fall for the 267 00:22:57.140 --> 00:23:02.100 lie that you will put up walls that will keep people out. But you let God in. It doesn't work that 268 00:23:02.100 --> 00:23:07.220 way. By the way, I really believe that that's why some people are still masking up today. 269 00:23:07.860 --> 00:23:11.060 Because I'm seeing it's so hot the other than you still see people with the masks. 270 00:23:12.020 --> 00:23:16.260 And I'm going, all right, look, first of all, I want to say, do you own a time machine? 271 00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:24.020 Are you, have you come here from three years ago? Then the Lord chills me out. And I think about 272 00:23:24.020 --> 00:23:31.460 it. I'm like, this person is not worried about COVID. And then I'm looking and I go, you know, 273 00:23:31.460 --> 00:23:37.060 there are some people with a really are putting up is a protective barrier against the world. 274 00:23:37.860 --> 00:23:40.980 Because I have looked at some people in my neighborhood and some people sitting on a bench 275 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:45.140 alone and I'm looking, I see pain in their eyes and I see your hurting heart. And I realize, 276 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:49.300 this is why it's often, you know, when people go through a crisis, they'll take up smoking. 277 00:23:50.260 --> 00:23:54.980 Like, why? What does that got to do with personal pain? You want to hurt your body? Go have 278 00:23:54.980 --> 00:24:03.300 me donals. Do much quicker than cigarettes. But there's actually this desire to, you're 279 00:24:03.300 --> 00:24:08.420 blowing the people away. You're blowing life away. You're putting up a protective barrier. You 280 00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:12.660 don't, you want to be insulated. You don't want people in. That's actually one of the various 281 00:24:12.660 --> 00:24:16.740 reasons why people can still be wearing masks today. I fully believe that's one of them. I'm putting 282 00:24:16.740 --> 00:24:26.340 up a barrier. You know, why I'd get together in leadership, in church, whatever. They'll 283 00:24:26.340 --> 00:24:30.900 always tell you always have cups of coffee. You know why you have cups of coffee? Because people 284 00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:35.220 are a lot more social if they can hide behind a cup of coffee because they feel protected. You 285 00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:41.140 can be a 350 pound man hiding behind a six ounce cup of coffee and you feel totally embold. Now, 286 00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:50.180 I can talk this person because there's people hiding behind three millimeters of mask. How did I get 287 00:24:50.180 --> 00:25:00.500 on this? Because when you're independent and self-reliant, you're putting up walls to keep people 288 00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:05.540 out. But those same walls keep got out as well. When you have the heart of a son, 289 00:25:05.620 --> 00:25:10.740 there will be an openness. I'm telling you this can set you free. You receive the Father's love. 290 00:25:11.700 --> 00:25:17.380 You receive His acceptance and His approval of you. When you can walk the streets of New York City 291 00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:24.740 and you realize, I'm open and I'm open to the blessing of God. I'm open to good things. I'm open 292 00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:31.220 to Holy Ghost surprises. Satan wants to get you in a cowardly place of hiding. Do not let him. 293 00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:37.780 Jesus paid too high a price. He shed his blood taking away every single one of our sins 294 00:25:37.780 --> 00:25:44.740 so we can walk and be open and say, Lord, I trust you. You will protect me from the evil and I 295 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:56.020 welcome a hundredfold return. Wonderful of blessing upon me of good. Amen. Theology, the orphan heart 296 00:25:56.980 --> 00:26:05.700 only understands rules. The orphan heart by nature is religious. It only understands 297 00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:15.060 touch nut, taste nut, rules and regulations militantly cross every T, dot every I. 298 00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:21.940 And then of course the orphan heart will then put their expectations of what they're striving 299 00:26:22.020 --> 00:26:25.860 with on everybody else around in their life. Orphans are now fun to hang with. That's just the truth 300 00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:33.700 when it comes to an orphan heart. The heart of a son, you don't live by the love of law. You live by 301 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:43.780 the law of love. Everything that you do is fueled by first receiving God's love. Hallelujah. 302 00:26:43.780 --> 00:26:56.980 Pray for me, hon. Amen. This is one of those funny kind of messages. People tell me they 303 00:26:56.980 --> 00:27:08.340 appreciate it but it's like that's a cricket sound by the way. All right. On the subject of security, 304 00:27:08.340 --> 00:27:15.700 the subject of security. And the first service that went security and our security guard jumped 305 00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:24.260 up and left into action. And so I was blessed to see his response though. I was like, this is nice. 306 00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:27.460 I always wondered what would happen if somebody just came up and 307 00:27:29.060 --> 00:27:34.660 stepped up to me. I'm glad we have. Would he beat you though past your moment? He wouldn't beat you. 308 00:27:35.140 --> 00:27:46.020 The subject of security. The orphan heart is insecure. The orphan heart lacks peace. 309 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:57.300 When you have the heart of a sonship, you are resting at peace. You don't have anything to prove. 310 00:27:57.460 --> 00:28:06.900 Get to that place in your maturity with the Lord and in your receiving his love where you don't 311 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:13.620 have anything to prove. I know the world likes to set it up so that they value judge you 312 00:28:13.620 --> 00:28:22.820 and your accomplishments and your bank account, your resume. But all of that, it's for nothing. 313 00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:33.300 Jesus, he didn't do a thing up until his baptism. He was a good Jewish boy living with his parents until 314 00:28:33.300 --> 00:28:41.780 the age of 30. And didn't do a thing. Have you ever thought about that? He didn't do anything. 315 00:28:43.540 --> 00:28:46.660 I went to Ethiopia and they had these like murals and there was Jesus, 316 00:28:47.540 --> 00:28:53.060 there are these murals of Jesus taking these cracked clay pots and touching them and they would 317 00:28:53.060 --> 00:28:58.660 turn into doves and fly away and like nice mural but it's unbiblical. The Bible is clear. He did 318 00:28:58.660 --> 00:29:05.220 his first miracle. His first thing of note after his baptism. So he didn't do anything. 319 00:29:05.860 --> 00:29:12.740 Yet when he came up out of the water, he heard the father's voice. This is my beloved son 320 00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:21.860 in whom I am well pleased. What did Jesus do to earn such a statement? Nothing. It wasn't about what 321 00:29:21.860 --> 00:29:29.780 he did. It was about who he was. A son. It's not about what you do. It's who you are. A son. 322 00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:38.980 You have validation and affirmation apart from your performance. 323 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:47.140 And an orphaned heart is always trying to prove itself and is always measuring and weighing 324 00:29:47.140 --> 00:29:53.300 and keeping score because they get their validity from that. And it's such a trap. Why? 325 00:29:54.180 --> 00:30:02.900 Because people are fickle. You do know that right? To throw yourself worth on the tumultious sea 326 00:30:03.860 --> 00:30:11.380 of human emotion that is a recipe for disaster. This people will like you one moment and then hate 327 00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:20.500 you the next. I have experienced that personally. You see it in the scriptures where Paul and Barnabas 328 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:27.460 on Mars Hill, they go preaching, they love them. They said the gods have come down in the form of 329 00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:34.820 men. That was some good preaching. The next day that same people, that same group that said the 330 00:30:34.820 --> 00:30:41.300 gods have come down in the form of men. They was stirred up by the enemy and they took up stones 331 00:30:42.340 --> 00:30:51.940 to stone them. 24 hours from hero to zero. And it was still that same crowd that laid palm branches 332 00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:59.620 at Jesus' feet was the same crowd that cried, crucify him, give us Burabbas. So there's people 333 00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:06.020 who can't go to sleep at night because they're still counting likes and waiting for just one more 334 00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:09.860 to come in so they could just get that little boost of validation and affirmation. 335 00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:17.780 We're all like this. When I say that, I'm not saying I do some people here. We all have an 336 00:31:17.780 --> 00:31:23.940 element of that which we have to resist by receiving God's validation and affirmation and love. 337 00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:31.300 Apart from God, we're all just a bunch of hungry animals just needing some attention. Where does 338 00:31:31.300 --> 00:31:41.780 we are? But when you have the heart of a son, you can rest in knowing you have his validation, 339 00:31:41.780 --> 00:31:49.860 his attention, his affirmation. You're the apple of his eye. The Bible says, he calls you out by name. 340 00:31:49.860 --> 00:31:54.180 And if this isn't real to you, this is just pretty words and you say, it's a pretty words. I wish 341 00:31:54.180 --> 00:31:59.380 that was real for me. Pastor, I'm glad it's real for you, but how would I ever get it to be real for 342 00:31:59.380 --> 00:32:05.220 me? You have to allow the Lord to do open heart surgery on you and that doesn't come cheaply. 343 00:32:05.220 --> 00:32:09.380 I mean, it's free in the sense that it was purchased with the blood of Jesus, but you got to let him 344 00:32:09.380 --> 00:32:17.780 do it by spending some time with him. Sing a song to him. Read his word. Say a few words. Invite him 345 00:32:17.780 --> 00:32:24.260 in. Say, Lord, I give you every area of my life. Lord, I give you access to my heart. Tell him some 346 00:32:24.260 --> 00:32:28.580 secrets. You wouldn't tell another human. Yes, I know he knows them already. It's not for his 347 00:32:28.580 --> 00:32:35.620 benefits for yours. Pour out your complaints, the Bible says before him. Open up. Confess his word, 348 00:32:35.620 --> 00:32:40.500 even if you don't feel like it, if you struggle in any one of these areas of being an orphan, 349 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:46.420 speak God's word. I am a son. I have the same privileges as Jesus. I am accepted on the same 350 00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:54.420 level as Jesus. I am approved by my Heavenly Father. On the same level as Jesus. I don't have 351 00:32:54.420 --> 00:33:00.420 anything to prove to God. There is nothing that I can do that would cause him to add one more 352 00:33:00.420 --> 00:33:07.860 drop of his love. He just loves me, thoroughly, completely, unconditionally. Amen. You have to 353 00:33:07.860 --> 00:33:14.820 retrain your mind. And a lot of us, we've been programmed all of our life with wrongs, 354 00:33:14.820 --> 00:33:21.780 thinking, thinking. And you can't correct thoughts with thoughts. It's impossible. You can only 355 00:33:21.780 --> 00:33:28.900 correct thoughts with words. And what better word is there than the word, the word of God. So you 356 00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:35.700 begin speaking his word. And then there's a Holy Spirit renewing of the mind that will set you 357 00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:47.620 free. Amen. The need for approval, the orphan heart strives for the praise, approval, 358 00:33:48.580 --> 00:33:55.940 and acceptance of men. Do you know when Napoleon was famous for saying, one of his statements was 359 00:33:56.020 --> 00:34:05.380 it's amazing to me what a man will do for a little piece of ribbon. It was commanding troops. 360 00:34:06.260 --> 00:34:11.460 People would run and risk their lives and do all sorts of crazy things so they can get a two-cent 361 00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:17.860 ribbon sewed to their uniform so they could feel like now there's somebody. So you get that 362 00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:22.660 ribbon right away, you want another ribbon. Maybe not, but then someone else comes in and they have 363 00:34:22.660 --> 00:34:26.820 three ribbons. You're like, why they have three ribbons? I only have one ribbon and new lust comes up. 364 00:34:29.380 --> 00:34:33.620 Which should all make us think of social media right now. Amen. 365 00:34:36.260 --> 00:34:40.500 Mankind has never had to deal with what we have to deal with today because 366 00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:46.020 comparison is the root of all evil. That's my thing. The Bible says money is the Bible's correct. 367 00:34:46.020 --> 00:34:52.820 I'm wrong. I'm just saying right now. And social media is a comparison amplifier. 368 00:34:55.060 --> 00:35:01.700 The orphan heart strives for the praise, approval, and acceptance of men. It is amazing what people 369 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:09.540 will do for pets, for pet on the head. An orphan heart that maybe never got a pet on the head 370 00:35:09.540 --> 00:35:16.660 from the natural father. I've seen, I say, I've seen entire churches where the pastor's whole team 371 00:35:16.660 --> 00:35:26.900 is just a bunch of orphans. The pastor manipulates them and plays weird abuse of games where he's very, 372 00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:31.780 very close with them one moment, then emotionally cold the next, then gives them the pet, they're still 373 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:38.340 craving, then withholds it, and then he's got 20 men just following him, just to maybe sort of 374 00:35:39.060 --> 00:35:47.300 hopefully get a little pet, a little, that a boy. You got a that a boy from heaven. 375 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:56.180 Amen. The heart of sonship totally opposite than the orphan's heart because of the heart of 376 00:35:56.180 --> 00:36:02.900 sonship realizes and knows I'm totally accepted in God's love and justify that means 377 00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:12.180 pronounced not guilty by his grace. Amen. The motive for service, the orphan heart 378 00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:17.620 has the need for personal achievements as they seek to impress. 379 00:36:20.580 --> 00:36:25.620 I learned this on first year Bible school. I'll never forget a speaker said this and I thought 380 00:36:25.620 --> 00:36:32.020 that is truth and I need to remember it forever. They said you can do all of the right things for 381 00:36:32.100 --> 00:36:39.620 all of the wrong reasons. And so even in Christianity if you have an orphan heart you can be doing all 382 00:36:39.620 --> 00:36:44.260 of the right things externally. They look right but you're doing them for the approval of man 383 00:36:45.060 --> 00:36:51.860 to be counted as one of the spiritual for natural accolades. And really the Bible says that all that 384 00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:57.140 when the fire touches it it'll be wood hay and stubble because there will be a judgment for 385 00:36:57.140 --> 00:37:01.940 Christians not a judgment on whether it's heaven or hell. If you've put your faith in Jesus 386 00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:07.220 and trust in him for his righteousness your heaven bound your sins are forgiven you but there is 387 00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:11.540 a judgment on what you did with your life here on earth and you'll get a reward accordingly 388 00:37:11.540 --> 00:37:16.180 and what is the real test the real judgment is our motivation. 389 00:37:18.500 --> 00:37:23.060 And if I'm if I'm coming here every Sunday because I want to be admired because I want to 390 00:37:23.060 --> 00:37:30.980 feel important or anything like that then the fire touches it wood hay and stubble. What a waste 391 00:37:32.100 --> 00:37:36.900 but if I do it because I want to see law so saved and existing Christians discipled and the name 392 00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:44.900 of Jesus glorified then it says precious stones. Hallelujah. The heart of a son 393 00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:54.260 service that is motivated by a deep gratitude for being unconditionally loved and accepted by God. 394 00:37:54.260 --> 00:38:01.380 I pray that the 200 people that we had on that volunteer boat yesterday that every single one I 395 00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:06.980 believe that I can it's the spirit that we've endeavored to cultivate nobody serves because 396 00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:19.300 they feel their scoring points with the big guy but you serve you serve because you're grateful 397 00:38:20.420 --> 00:38:26.260 and you know you're already unconditionally loved not based on your performance so now you want 398 00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:33.380 to give back. Hallelujah. The motive behind Christian disciplines. 399 00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:41.940 I feel like we need the worship team to come in do a quick set and we jump right back in. 400 00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:42.740 Everybody with me? 401 00:38:47.220 --> 00:38:54.100 Is this coming across a little too seminary? Okay sorry I'm exposing my orphan heart. 402 00:38:54.100 --> 00:39:02.260 Do you like me still? Am I doing a good job? Okay I need a hug. 403 00:39:04.900 --> 00:39:12.340 The motive behind Christian disciplines, the orphan heart, duty and earning God's favor. 404 00:39:13.620 --> 00:39:20.180 I read my Bible because I have to. I read my Bible because then God will approve of me more or 405 00:39:20.180 --> 00:39:24.660 like me more or they have no motivation at all because they're an orphan they feel like something 406 00:39:24.660 --> 00:39:29.940 has owed them life did them dirty and so there's zero motivation but the heart of a son it's because 407 00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:37.140 of pleasure and delight. It's not because I have to it's because I get to I want to. That's one thing 408 00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:45.060 I was sharing with my I want to say barber but she's a hairdresser but it feels weird to say 409 00:39:45.060 --> 00:39:51.780 hairdresser. I was at the barber shop with my barber and it was blowing her mind she was like 410 00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:58.020 so who shows up on Sunday and she's coming from a particular mindset she feels like why would you 411 00:39:58.020 --> 00:40:03.540 come to church if not because you're terrified and you have tremendous guilt and shame in your life 412 00:40:05.060 --> 00:40:09.300 and I told her you know everybody who comes they know that God will love them just as much if they 413 00:40:09.300 --> 00:40:14.180 don't come like they come actually because they want to and they want to know him more and they 414 00:40:14.180 --> 00:40:19.140 want to sit under the word and they want to meet each other and have fellowship and come into the 415 00:40:19.140 --> 00:40:27.220 corporate anointing and worship God together I didn't say that to her I secularize what I just said 416 00:40:27.220 --> 00:40:32.660 to her but I helped to understand that they come because they want to not because they have to 417 00:40:32.660 --> 00:40:38.980 I'll never forget her look it was like a blue or mine like that's possible yeah when you've been 418 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:44.260 forgiven of all your sins and you've tasted of his love that's how it is amen and that is the 419 00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:50.580 difference between you covenant Christianity and dead religion and the difference between an orphan 420 00:40:50.580 --> 00:40:59.780 heart and a new covenant heart of a son the motive for purity for holy living an orphan heart 421 00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:06.820 must be holy to have God's favor thus increasing the sense of shame and guilt the heart of 422 00:41:06.820 --> 00:41:13.860 the relationship they don't feel I have to be holy I want to be holy he's changed my life he's 423 00:41:13.860 --> 00:41:19.940 changed my heart I want to be holy I get to be holy I get to be delivered from sin which has 424 00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:30.100 always hurt me I don't want anything to hinder my relationship with God self image the orphan heart 425 00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:45.540 suffers from self rejection from comparing oneself to others self rejection from comparing oneself to 426 00:41:45.540 --> 00:41:57.300 others the heart of sonship is positive and affirmed because you know you have such value to God 427 00:41:59.220 --> 00:42:03.540 I hope that if you've been coming here for some time or this is your first time you know that you 428 00:42:03.540 --> 00:42:21.300 have value to God if you will allow yourself to marinate in God's love pursue a radical love 429 00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:28.020 relationship with him the power of God will manifest in every area of your life 430 00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:37.780 when I think of my job what's my job it's the same as your job my job is to receive truckloads of 431 00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:44.660 God's love every day out of that everything will flow and I notice if I'm not doing that every day 432 00:42:45.940 --> 00:42:53.140 one of the first things is more that orphan heart creeps in so quickly too so quickly the Lord 433 00:42:53.220 --> 00:42:58.020 could have done a deep work for years but if I'm not receiving his love consistently in a few weeks 434 00:42:58.580 --> 00:43:02.420 you don't want to be near me you don't want to know me right huh yeah 435 00:43:05.700 --> 00:43:12.180 her most her most evocative response in church she was like hey man look she's giving an offering 436 00:43:12.180 --> 00:43:15.380 she's waving a towel and giving an offering she liked that so much 437 00:43:15.380 --> 00:43:25.860 if you ever wondered does does pastor boy on battle with pride no the Lord sent me her and she's a 438 00:43:25.860 --> 00:43:38.740 great great solution source of comfort thanks baby the orphan heart seeks comfort and counterfeit 439 00:43:38.740 --> 00:43:47.700 affections addictions compulsions escapism busyness hyper religious activity 440 00:43:55.060 --> 00:43:59.620 I joked in the first service I said if you're single and you really want to stand out 441 00:43:59.860 --> 00:44:06.500 go to a cafe and just sit there like a crazy person without a phone in your hand 442 00:44:08.900 --> 00:44:13.700 doesn't that sound so insane like just put your phone down just sit there just 443 00:44:20.180 --> 00:44:25.860 but you will immediately stick out as someone who can actually stand their own company for more 444 00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:30.500 than 60 seconds and isn't terrified of being alone with their thoughts 445 00:44:38.100 --> 00:44:48.100 the heart of sonship seeks times of quietness and solitude to rest in the father's presence and love 446 00:44:48.660 --> 00:44:53.460 and this is a new challenge that's only about 10 years old 447 00:44:56.020 --> 00:45:02.980 something I think about when raising our kids and we really try to have very strict and disciplined 448 00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:10.420 guidelines when it comes to technology but I just I see how when their hour is up I mean it's 449 00:45:10.420 --> 00:45:15.300 like taking the crack pipe away and they're good it's hours up the timer goes off thinking but it's like 450 00:45:18.820 --> 00:45:27.300 and I think I remember for me like hours up in my infinite mind right remember that was 451 00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:35.700 the norm and how like my kids are gonna have to receive training and how to be good company for 452 00:45:35.700 --> 00:45:46.260 themselves and that's vital because so much of what happens between you and God it'll happen in 453 00:45:46.260 --> 00:45:55.700 silence it's I don't make the rules it's just how it is the old-timers called it contemplative prayer 454 00:45:56.580 --> 00:46:07.380 or meditative prayer new charismatic call it soaking old-time penicastles call it waiting on God 455 00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:13.540 it's all the same it just means you're not talking you're being still and knowing he's God 456 00:46:13.540 --> 00:46:22.260 and so much happens and Satan wars against that time and for a lot of us we can't we couldn't 457 00:46:23.300 --> 00:46:27.780 20 years ago now because our dopamine receptors are fried from scrolling we can't 458 00:46:28.740 --> 00:46:35.060 so we got to go back to the gym it's like going back we have to train ourselves so I recommend 459 00:46:35.060 --> 00:46:40.500 and I know this is really scary starting out with 60 seconds of quiet time for some of you is 460 00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:47.380 going to be the most terrifying minute of your week I joke but only because I've experienced it 461 00:46:48.980 --> 00:46:54.660 you go to be silent before the Lord and that's 60 seconds will feel like an hour it'll just be 462 00:46:54.660 --> 00:47:00.020 you and the Lord in silence and your mind will immediately drift and you got to just come back 463 00:47:00.020 --> 00:47:10.900 mind Jesus just Jesus 60 seconds put in 60 seconds and the next day make it 90 and try to get up 464 00:47:10.900 --> 00:47:16.020 to 10 minutes where you can be quiet with the Lord that I have many messages on this topic and for 465 00:47:16.020 --> 00:47:20.020 some of you you're hearing it for the first time but there is great power in being quiet before the 466 00:47:20.020 --> 00:47:27.140 Lord not much seems to be happening but he is putting gifts inside of you he is going before you 467 00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:32.820 so much happens when you're quiet before the Lord when the Bible talks about praying for hours 468 00:47:33.540 --> 00:47:38.740 do you really think someone is talking for hours like your prayer life may not be powerful because 469 00:47:38.740 --> 00:47:45.460 you run out of stuff to say after five 10 minutes that's kind of normal and then you can pray in 470 00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:51.460 tongues and then you go for another 20 minutes and then and then you know like when I talk about 471 00:47:51.460 --> 00:47:55.700 how I've had seasons where I pray eight hours a day do you think I'm pacing back and forth and I'm 472 00:47:55.700 --> 00:48:02.820 yes Lord and I'm shouting for eight hours like 80% of that is me being still before the Lord 473 00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:06.100 hallelujah 474 00:48:12.420 --> 00:48:21.140 peer relationships the orphan heart full of competition rivalry and jealousy towards other success 475 00:48:21.700 --> 00:48:25.540 I just want to remind you that we're also trying to find ourselves here we're not thinking of our 476 00:48:25.540 --> 00:48:31.860 roommate our old friend our spouse the person at the grocery store whoever the coworker 477 00:48:32.660 --> 00:48:38.820 try to find ourselves here the orphan heart has a poverty lack mindset 478 00:48:40.180 --> 00:48:44.660 and it thinks that because God bless somebody else that God is going to run out and there won't be 479 00:48:44.660 --> 00:48:51.780 enough leftover for them it's a big what about me you're going to run out so I'm jealous I'm 480 00:48:51.780 --> 00:48:57.620 envious I resent you getting something because I was always trained and the way I grew up was as if 481 00:48:57.620 --> 00:49:03.620 you get there's less for me the good news is God doesn't run out he's a fountain that never runs 482 00:49:03.620 --> 00:49:12.500 dry his cup overflows and so you can have the heart of a son where you have humility and unity 483 00:49:12.500 --> 00:49:18.900 amongst your brothers and sisters as you value others and are able to rejoice in their blessing 484 00:49:18.900 --> 00:49:25.540 and their success all of our attitude needs to be if somebody else gets blessed whoo what God did 485 00:49:25.540 --> 00:49:38.900 for them he can do for me and God doesn't run out amen praise God handling others faults the orphan 486 00:49:38.900 --> 00:49:49.700 heart accusations and exposures in order to make you look good by making others look bad the orphan 487 00:49:49.700 --> 00:49:59.380 heart loves the gossip the orphan heart loves to point out other people's faults and critique them 488 00:49:59.380 --> 00:50:04.580 because then they feel better about themselves they love to magnify other people's faults 489 00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:14.580 so that they can mask their own I'll just be transparent right now and confess that I know I'm 490 00:50:14.580 --> 00:50:22.260 delving back into an orphan heart if I become critical and more critical then I immediately I know 491 00:50:22.260 --> 00:50:28.740 oh you know what I'm really saying is father I'm not feeling so loved lately I'm not receiving your 492 00:50:28.740 --> 00:50:35.780 love for me so I'm becoming increasingly critical of people in my life the heart of 493 00:50:35.780 --> 00:50:43.620 sonship love covers love covers the Bible says a multitude of sins as you seek to restore others 494 00:50:43.620 --> 00:50:56.340 in a spirit of love and gentleness you are tolerant loving you forgive quickly by the way the 495 00:50:56.340 --> 00:51:01.380 doorway you have to walk through in order to have the heart of a son you have to walk through this 496 00:51:01.380 --> 00:51:07.860 doorway it's called forgiveness not for yourself but for others I'll never forget somebody very well 497 00:51:09.220 --> 00:51:15.860 very well very very knowledge then quote unquote inner healing wrote books and all that I'll 498 00:51:15.860 --> 00:51:20.900 never forget he just said once he just could speak seminars hours and hours on how to be made 499 00:51:20.900 --> 00:51:29.460 whole on the inside he said he said I can sum up 99% of inner healing with one word forgive and the 500 00:51:29.460 --> 00:51:35.860 whole place would awe because we want to talk about all these things and therapy this and inner 501 00:51:35.860 --> 00:51:42.100 healing that you want to be healed of the inner baggage the doorway you got to walk through is 502 00:51:42.740 --> 00:51:48.180 you know what there's some jerks in my life I release them I forgive them I cancel their debts 503 00:51:48.180 --> 00:51:53.700 I truly forgive them as I have been forgiven you have to walk through that door as long as 504 00:51:53.700 --> 00:52:02.820 your mad bitter angry easily offended you're struggling you're in misery you have an orphan 505 00:52:02.820 --> 00:52:08.740 heart get up from under that thing rise up to being a son Jesus paid for that privilege with his own 506 00:52:08.740 --> 00:52:20.100 blood view of authority an orphan heart will always expose itself when it comes to 507 00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:29.060 its relationship with authority the orphan heart the orphan heart sees authority as a source of 508 00:52:29.060 --> 00:52:36.100 pain the attitude as authority has always heard me starting with my dad my fifth grade teacher 509 00:52:36.660 --> 00:52:44.420 my coach in high school my first boss they resent authority but you cannot ever be an authority 510 00:52:44.420 --> 00:52:52.420 unless you learn how to be under authority and you will always be under authority 511 00:52:55.380 --> 00:53:04.260 I'm under authority we have to joyfully submit to authority orphan hearts they come in all 512 00:53:04.260 --> 00:53:09.940 different shapes and sizes but they also come packaged like this you know I don't want any leaders 513 00:53:09.940 --> 00:53:15.300 and I don't really go to a church I just kind of go from church to church wherever the Lord wants me 514 00:53:15.300 --> 00:53:22.740 I'm on assignment we're all the same you know we're all got children what's with this like rank 515 00:53:22.740 --> 00:53:31.300 in order and God is a God of rank and order God is a God I know this is not a popular word right now 516 00:53:32.180 --> 00:53:40.420 I'm going to say it because it's not a hierarchy God even structured the angels in hierarchy 517 00:53:41.380 --> 00:53:46.660 they're not all the same there's the archangel the seraphim the cherubim 518 00:53:48.180 --> 00:53:51.460 the regular ones that just hold your feet up bless your dash your foot against the stone 519 00:53:51.620 --> 00:54:06.580 he said it up in rank in order and that spirit of the enemy operating through old wounds they left 520 00:54:06.580 --> 00:54:13.140 to blur all those lines that's why an orphan heart your least favorite word is submit 521 00:54:13.700 --> 00:54:27.700 it's like shoving garlic in a vampire's face oh I didn't even get to that bar lack of a heart 522 00:54:27.700 --> 00:54:38.020 attitude of submission do you know the madman of gedara also known as legion you know what a legion 523 00:54:38.180 --> 00:54:42.980 it's a Roman garrison of three to five thousand troops that means the madman of gedara had anywhere 524 00:54:42.980 --> 00:54:47.860 from three to five thousand demons living in him when they found him you know how they immediately 525 00:54:47.860 --> 00:54:56.820 knew he was cured and the demons came out it says they came and they saw him sitting sitting 526 00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:03.140 what is sitting it's a sitting clothed in his right mind sitting as the posture of a disciple 527 00:55:03.220 --> 00:55:09.700 he was sitting and learning and Jesus rebony the rabbi was standing and teaching 528 00:55:11.300 --> 00:55:15.780 and he went from being the raving lunatic with zero submission in his life to sitting and go 529 00:55:16.660 --> 00:55:21.140 do you know what an orphan heart is like nah you can't tell me nothing 530 00:55:23.140 --> 00:55:27.380 I know it all I'm the smartest in the room don't come and speak and oh 531 00:55:27.540 --> 00:55:32.180 and they're the ones who are just always banging their head against the wall 532 00:55:35.220 --> 00:55:44.820 eh hallelujah the heart of sonship respectful honoring you see them as ministers of god for good in your life 533 00:55:45.140 --> 00:55:48.580 Amen 534 00:55:50.980 --> 00:55:52.900 view of correction or admonition 535 00:55:55.540 --> 00:56:03.300 orphan heart difficulty receiving admonition correction 536 00:56:05.060 --> 00:56:10.580 you must be right you gotta be right when you're not you gotta be right so you easily get 537 00:56:10.580 --> 00:56:20.020 your feelings hurt and close your spirit to discipline if we look at somebody to come on staff 538 00:56:20.020 --> 00:56:25.140 or specially come up on leadership I don't want to let the cat out of the bag this is one of my 539 00:56:25.140 --> 00:56:32.180 secret things but I immediately start correcting and I'm not if you notice unless the Lord like lands 540 00:56:32.180 --> 00:56:39.780 on me I don't offer much unsolicited counsel I don't I'm too busy with inbound solicited counsel 541 00:56:41.540 --> 00:56:47.540 so do you does that make sense I don't I can see you like you're driving your car off a cliff and 542 00:56:49.220 --> 00:56:56.420 like come to me I'm here but unless the Lord pricks me I'm not you maybe the cliff part was a little too 543 00:56:56.420 --> 00:56:58.660 dramatic but I'll probably stop that but 544 00:57:09.140 --> 00:57:18.100 in the Bible listen you could insert as a priest you can be a Levi if you had any scabs 545 00:57:19.060 --> 00:57:23.220 did you know that do you know why the scabs are nasty 546 00:57:25.940 --> 00:57:33.700 no because scabs because scabs are an un unhealed wound scars are good you can serve with a 547 00:57:33.700 --> 00:57:39.780 scar that's where a scab used to be that's the wound that's closed up but a scab that's still tender 548 00:57:39.780 --> 00:57:44.420 that's still touchy there may be some pus coming out and the only way you discover that is you 549 00:57:44.420 --> 00:57:49.460 bring some correction to somebody have you ever people have an orphan hard you can give them a 550 00:57:49.460 --> 00:57:54.900 compliment and they'll be like what do you mean by that there's so much hurt there's so much pain 551 00:57:54.900 --> 00:58:00.660 there's so many scabs everything is a defensive like you look good today oh yesterday I didn't 552 00:58:02.900 --> 00:58:03.940 what are you trying to say 553 00:58:04.340 --> 00:58:08.340 you can't do it 554 00:58:11.300 --> 00:58:17.380 God forbid you tell somebody you lost some weight oh thought I was fat 555 00:58:24.500 --> 00:58:30.580 see it sermons like this why our attendance vacillates so much you know Lord builds it up 556 00:58:31.540 --> 00:58:43.860 all right expression of love and orphans heart is guarded because it's mistrusting guarded and 557 00:58:43.860 --> 00:58:52.180 confidential based upon others performance as you seek to get your own needs met or when you have 558 00:58:52.180 --> 00:58:59.860 an orphan hard you really see people as a means to an end and you're a user by the way I'm not 559 00:58:59.860 --> 00:59:05.300 talking about some people mystical people out there know my me and you all of us have elements of 560 00:59:05.300 --> 00:59:13.300 this amen want to put our best foot forward present yourselves only in a good light I pray that every 561 00:59:13.300 --> 00:59:18.740 single one of you have at least three people in your life not that you're married to not related 562 00:59:18.740 --> 00:59:24.420 by blood three people one will do for starters that you can be you and you're still loved 563 00:59:25.380 --> 00:59:31.620 and if you don't have that which is you that if you don't ask the Lord you are not meant to go 564 00:59:31.620 --> 00:59:36.260 through life alone ask the Lord to put an actual friend in your life that you can be real with 565 00:59:36.980 --> 00:59:43.700 amen and the real the sad truth is it's true though the older you get the more faith you're 566 00:59:43.700 --> 00:59:48.020 going to need for that because the more difficult it becomes you're in your 20s this is a piece 567 00:59:48.020 --> 00:59:52.180 of cake you're like yeah who's he talking to 30s a little bit more challenging and so you get 568 00:59:52.180 --> 00:59:57.700 past your 40s you're like God squeezes friend out of a rock for me but I want one 569 01:00:04.340 --> 01:00:12.580 the heart of a son open patient and affectionate as you lay your life in agendas down in order 570 01:00:12.580 --> 01:00:20.580 to meet the needs of others and this is the blessing zone and the reason why some of us don't 571 01:00:20.580 --> 01:00:24.340 have close friends the bible gives the answer is because we're not friendly 572 01:00:25.780 --> 01:00:30.340 says if you want friends this is one of those mind blowing out of proverb you're like oh there it is 573 01:00:31.140 --> 01:00:40.020 he wants friends should be friendly and so if you want friends then like be the friend that you 574 01:00:40.020 --> 01:00:47.300 want and find people and just love them and don't condemn them and do something nice for them be 575 01:00:47.940 --> 01:00:54.500 be a listening open ear and then you will reap from what you've sowed worship team come on up 576 01:00:55.140 --> 01:01:02.180 I'm nowhere near done but I just wanted to give the illusion that I am so sense sense of God's presence 577 01:01:06.580 --> 01:01:11.380 when you're an orphan your sense of God's presence you know sense God's presence 578 01:01:11.940 --> 01:01:20.020 you think that God will reward you when you only do right I remember like two weeks after I 579 01:01:20.020 --> 01:01:25.220 got saved thank goodness I was actually discipled and what that means is it was just some other 580 01:01:25.220 --> 01:01:30.180 Christians who would listen to me and answer my questions but I didn't know how to allow the Lord 581 01:01:30.180 --> 01:01:34.420 to do work in me and there was some things that I stopped doing other things and the guy who 582 01:01:34.420 --> 01:01:42.100 led me to the Lord I said you know do you ever after you sin do you ever you know not feel God's 583 01:01:42.100 --> 01:01:50.100 presence of 16 years old two weeks saved I'll never forget he turned to me said no I feel it more 584 01:01:55.300 --> 01:02:00.420 I said what I thought you know he runs away when you sin he said no he comes closer to help you 585 01:02:01.300 --> 01:02:07.620 it comes closer to heal you but we in our heads we think maybe we had authority figures or 586 01:02:07.620 --> 01:02:13.940 parents who withheld affection when we did wrong and gave affection when we did right then we think 587 01:02:13.940 --> 01:02:22.100 God the Father is that way and he's not he's not he's not so when you have an orphan heart 588 01:02:22.740 --> 01:02:27.220 you relate to God based on your behavior you think he's looking at you conditionally but it's 589 01:02:27.300 --> 01:02:33.860 unconditional that his love is the heart of sonship your sense of God's presence is close and 590 01:02:33.860 --> 01:02:39.140 intimate the condition of the orphans heart is one of bondage the condition of the heart of 591 01:02:39.140 --> 01:02:47.380 sonship is liberty concerning your position the orphan heart you feel like a slave the heart of 592 01:02:47.380 --> 01:02:54.580 sonship you feel like a son like a daughter concerning vision the orphan heart full of spiritual 593 01:02:54.580 --> 01:03:02.260 ambition the earnest desire for some spiritual achievement and distinction and the willingness 594 01:03:02.260 --> 01:03:12.820 to strive for it a desire to be seen and counted among the mature you know what the most 595 01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:18.260 miserable people are those who are in full-time ministry and they're doing it for affirmation 596 01:03:18.420 --> 01:03:28.340 validation they are in a constant state of torment because it's never enough it's never enough 597 01:03:29.300 --> 01:03:34.980 the heart of sonship to daily this is division this is the plan this is the goal to daily experience 598 01:03:34.980 --> 01:03:40.500 the father's unconditional love and acceptance and then be sent as the representative of his love 599 01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:46.340 to family and others concerning the future the orphan heart says I got a fight for what I can get 600 01:03:47.220 --> 01:03:54.020 the heart of a son concerning the future realizes that sonship releases us into our inheritance 601 01:03:54.020 --> 01:04:00.900 amen close your eyes lift your hands right now on this father's day 2023 I pray in the name of 602 01:04:00.900 --> 01:04:11.060 Jesus how for an outpouring of Abbas love for you that the orphan spirit 603 01:04:13.700 --> 01:04:23.300 would be healed in Jesus name that you have a revelation of adoption of sonship 604 01:04:24.180 --> 01:04:29.060 at all the pain of yesterday go go 605 01:04:32.660 --> 01:04:38.900 performance mentality that it goes bitterness goes striving it goes 606 01:04:41.460 --> 01:04:46.820 which you realize you're as approved as you're ever going to be you're as accepted as you're 607 01:04:46.820 --> 01:04:49.060 ever going to be you're as forgiven as you're ever going to be 608 01:05:16.820 --> 01:05:19.620 ah 609 01:05:47.780 --> 01:05:50.100 man 610 01:05:56.100 --> 01:06:07.380 thank you Jesus thank you Jesus the callousness that goes hardness bye bye in Jesus name 611 01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:14.660 this is 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