The Journey to Wholeness

From the beautiful sunshine coast of Australia, this is the Awake Nations Ministries podcast equipping the church for revival, Reformation and Kingdom Impact. Learn more about us by visiting awakeaus.com the Bible is focused on wholeness. And there's a difference between healing and wholeness. Whole, wholeness is the outcome, it's the destination. Healing is part of the journey to be able to get there.

But God wants us whole. And how. Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5, 23, which says, now may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly or completely. Right? May your entire spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at his coming, at his return, at his parousia.

So the, the idea of God actually wanting a people that are whole now we mentioned obviously several times, but if you're just joining us, I am going to recap just a few things as it's important I believe that we do this. But we also looked at a key passage is found in Hebrews 10, verse 14, where it says, for by a single offering, Jesus Yeshua has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And notice this, there's apparent, it seems like a contradiction. He has perfected, but those who are being sanctified. So the idea is there's obviously a state where it's done, boom, finished.

But then there's another aspect where there's a journey here where God is taking us on that journey. And so the way to, to break it down without really compartmentalizing it. Because how do we separate our spirit and our soul? It's really, really difficult to do that. They're all interconnected, but ultimately our spirit is actually was made perfect, okay.

And we're given holy Spirit, we become partakers of God's nature, right? His seed remains in us. 2 Peter 1, 4, 1 John 3, 8, etc. Ephesians 4:24 also speaks to that. So the idea is that God is doing something in us.

And positionally he said, hey, you're right, you've been forgiven, you've been justified, you've been regenerated. That's in our spirit. We're born of the spirit, right? But then there's this thing called the soul. And the soul is actually includes our affections, our will, our emotions, our thoughts, all of this.

And we are on a journey to bring that into alignment with God's grace as well in every way. And some of us have a longer journey, maybe a bit of more intense journey. But understand this, but wherever there's brokenness, wherever there's Sin, wherever there's trauma, whatever it may be, there's also abundance of grace. So it's not like, well, you don't understand me. Like, you don't know my life story.

You don't know my journey. No, I don't. You don't know mine fully either. But ultimately it doesn't matter. His grace is sufficient.

His grace is enough, more than enough. The Bible always speaks of God giving us abundance of grace, which means overflowing grace. He's not the God of just enough, is He? He always, in every miracle, there was excess, there was surplus, there was more than enough. And he, he is the God who actually restores us completely, entirely, and he gives us more than what we need.

So our spirit was perfected at salvation. That's the place of a union with God. Soul is, in a process, progressively healed and aligned. Our mind, will and our emotions and our body, of course, the viable vessel of incarnational living in the world. We're going to talk more about that today.

Your body is important. And the older you get, the more you understand that, right? Because you're just like Paul says the outward man is, but the inward man. And you realize that, especially if you don't take care of yourself. So the reality is we need all parts of us to be whole in Christ in every way.

So God wants to heal the sick, he wants to heal us of those things. And He. He wants us to also live a life of health and wholeness. Okay? So that's in every way, spirit, soul and body.

So in your spirit, obviously you build yourself up in the Spirit by praying in tongues, praying in the Spirit. The words of Jesus are spirit and life. As you receive revelation, it also edifies you, etc. So all of this is important. But then as it relates to the soul, there's this progressive journey where our soul is trying to catch up to what our spirit already knows.

And 2 Corinthians 3, 18 talks all about that. It's a powerful thing how we're being transformed into his image and likeness and we're going from glory to glory to glory. And that's a powerful thing. But it requires that we catch up with what God is doing. So we've actually looked at the specific, what we call the six movements.

And this is. We call movements because it's a journey. And if you stop moving, guess what happens? Think about it in the natural. If you're in a race, there's a finish line and you stop moving, well, you don't complete the race, right?

So you're you're disqualified. Even so, this is the reality, guys, that we have to be committed to move with God. God's inviting us into a journey, and he's saying, will you move with me? And I love how we. We talk about the move of God.

But could it be that God's actually waiting for a move of Glenn? Could it be he's waiting for more from us? And we can say, you know, we're waiting for God, we're waiting for God. And God's saying, actually, I'm waiting on you. Will you do what I've called you to do?

Will you go on the journey? Will you engage in this transformational process? So we initially looked at immersion, intimacy, and then the last time, integration. Immersion is simply this. It's speaking of who we are in Jesus, what happened the moment we were born again.

And immersion is all about union. And so many times in The Bible, over 160 times in the New Testament, those two words in Christ, we're in Christ. If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. So we're in Christ. And that speaks about union.

That speaks about abiding in him in the sense that we are positionally now in Christ. So union is established. Now, this is really important to understand because there are two paradigms that are operating in the church. One is, we'll just call it the religious paradigm, and the other one is the kingdom paradigm. The religious paradigm is perform, produce, position.

Okay, so perform right, activity, rule following, impressing God. Performance right produces visible righteousness, spiritual achievements, that type of thing. And then position is we're hoping to earn acceptance and approval. And the result is, it's exhausting, it's mechanical. But the kingdom way, the way of righteousness, the way of grace, is position.

It starts with position, meaning immersion. We're already in Christ. He doesn't say, hey, if you do this, this and this, and pray and you know you're faithful, then you'll be in right standing with me. That is legalism. That's works.

And that is not what we're called to do. We start off from a position of righteousness. We start off from that place. Now we continue, we abide. We need to keep ourselves from things that are going to impact us.

And we need to go on the journey as already mentioned. But the idea is we're accepted, we're forgiven, we're placed in God's family. That's the bedrock. That's it. Boom, done.

Then process. Process is really important. Many of us want to go from the place of promise to the place of seeing things fulfilled. But there's a process in between. There's always a journey.

For every promise in God's word, there's a process. Every promise. What does that mean? They we have to engage it with God. So you can say, well, I've got this problem, I've got this challenge.

No big deal, easy. There's over 8,000 promises in God's word. More than enough to handle any problem we would ever face or have ever faced. Problems? Yep.

Challenges, yes. Promises, yes. So if you're struggling financially, God revealed to Himself first and foremost as what his aseity is. The theological term, aseity simply means this, that he's the all existing one. He doesn't need life.

He is life. We need air, we need water, we need relationship. We depend on God. All creation is dependent on him and what he's created. But not the Lord.

That's his society. He is unlike anyone else. He's the Creator and everything comes from in him is life in him. We live, we move, we have our being. That's so powerful.

Let that get a hold of you. Come on now. Hey. God lacks nothing, he needs nothing. He doesn't need our praise, he doesn't need our worship.

He invites us to that privilege of being able to approach him, to worship him, to sit at his feet. He doesn't need it. He's good position. We're accepted, we're forgiven, we're placed in God's family, etc. Then process, the Holy Spirit begins to form Christ in us over time.

This is like the trunk of the tree and then eventually it ends up in produce. Produce is simply this natural growth of love and obedience. The branches, right, and then eventually the fruit. So the result is overflow. All right, let's look at the six movements we talked about immersion just now.

And then we're going to go into intimacy, but I just want to throw this up on the screen for a moment because this is really important for us to see. So. Yeah, can we switch that off for a minute? Thank you. Just the top left.

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It's great. Okay, so I want you guys to see this for a moment. Okay. And notice this. We have the cleared riverbed and then we have the flowing water on the right side.

So the first three movements, immersion, intimacy and integration are really about God carving out this riverbed in our life.

So why do we carve out a riverbed? Right. What's the purpose of it, ultimately, because it's about the flow, it's about the water, it's about bringing the water and seeing it delivered. So God wants us to flow in the Spirit, his life flowing into us and flowing through us, but he has to create a riverbed, okay? So it's what he does in us.

And we've already mentioned it starts off with immersion. Then from immersion comes intimacy. So if immersion is union, then intimacy is communion. Communion is all about this. Like, how do I actually move to a place where it's not just theological rhetoric, it's not just giving academic assent to something.

But I'm actually. I know this is true. I actually know God. Like, you can know all about a person. You can read their biography, watch all of their YouTube videos, learn everything about that person, and have never known that person or met that person personally.

That's the way the Pharisees were. According to Jesus own words. In John 5, he said to them that they study the Scriptures vociferously. He said that they diligently apply themselves. You guys know that some of those Pharisees hadn't memorized the entire Tanakh.

So the New Testament obviously wasn't available at that time. It wasn't written, it wasn't canonized. But what we see is the Torah memorized, some of them by the age 14, memorized. Then some of them, by the time they got a bit older, they had actually memorized the whole Tanakh, the whole Old Testament memorized. So Jesus, like, you guys really know the Word.

But there's a problem. You know the Word of God, but you don't know the God of the Word. He says, these scriptures testify of me, yet you refuse to come to me. O snakes, vipers, that you might have life.

Wow. You know the Scriptures, but you don't know me. Crazy.

So communion is all about this moving from a place of saying, I know the Bible says I'm more than a conqueror. I know the Bible says I'm a son, I'm a daughter, I'm beloved, I'm seated in heavenly places, in Christ, I know who I am. And communion actually takes it to a place where it's not just knowing academically or intellectually, but, you know, experientially. So you experience the love of God. You can say, I know God is love.

But then in your private time, you don't really. You really struggle and something comes up and you don't understand the journey that you're on. And you might feel disappointed, like, where is God? Don't you love me, Martha, Mary, sitting at his feet. Communion.

Martha knew about Jesus, knew who he was. They actually knew each other. But there's a place of yada type of knowledge, or the Greek word is means to know personally, experientially. So when the Bible talks about the knowledge of God, its meaning to know him personally and experientially. And when you begin to practice communion and you begin to get in his presence, and he speaks to you and you have an understanding of who he is, and he comforts you and he fills you with his presence and he surrounds you, it just changes everything because all of a sudden you go, oh, peace, peace, peace.

Cease striving and know that I'm God. Yada. Know that I'm God. Psalm 46, 10. Cease striving.

Know that I'm God. What's that? I'm the one that makes wars to cease. 9 and 10, right at 46. And so just stop it, guys.

Just stop it. Chill. Get in his presence. I was. There's something that I used to say a lot when I was younger, very young, and I still believe it's true, even though I probably would say it a little bit more diplomatically today.

A lot of the challenges and struggles that we experience as Christians is because we don't practice communion, we don't practice presence. We don't practice spending time with God. The only time we get in his presence is when we go to church, when we pick up our guitar or when we, you know, turn on a playlist and we're soaking. That's good. That's part of it.

But we're called to live beyond that, to practice the presence, to live that. Brother Lawrence, if you haven't read that book. So we live in a place where we practice presence. His presence is with me now. His transcendence means he's with me everywhere, right?

God is everywhere. Obviously, he's ubiquitous. But ultimately there's a place where we recognize he's with me now, his presence, right? Because the Bible says in Habakkuk 2:14, the earth will be filled with. With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

Not just with the glory of the Lord. We say, yeah, the earth's filled with the glory of the Lord. No, the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. As I've said before, the NLT actually says the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of God. God wants you to be aware of his glory.

So you move from that place. And guess what happens when you get into there and you go oh, God is love. God is good. You drop your guard, you begin to trust, and things just begin to change. And you're like, hey, I can do this.

I can trust people again. I can. And even if. Yeah, I know God's with me. And even if things don't go well, I know God is with me.

So the next thing is we move into integration. And integration is whole person alignment, where basically what we start off with is. And we just put this up, the illuminated topography here is. This is. Sorry, guys, this is a little bit of Bible college level.

I hope you don't mind this, but we're going to start with this. The event, the conclusion, the vowel, and the pattern. Okay, now, how do we address this? Integration works backwards through the layers. We address the pattern, we expose the vowel, we dismantle the conclusion that then we revisit the event.

This is all about not being conformed to the world, which means, don't let the world squeeze you into its mold. That's what it means in the original language. Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold. The world's always. The spirit of the age is always trying to squeeze you into a mold.

So don't let that happen. But be transformed, be transfigured by the what? The renewing of your mind. So he talks about in Ephesians, the spirit of your mind. It's not a contradiction.

It's a spiritual process because our mind and our spirit overlap, etc. So what do we look at? First of all, pattern. What happens? Maybe you get triggered.

Every time I think of this person, every time I trying to do this, boom, I get triggered. Something happens. Or. Or maybe it's like, yeah, whenever. Whenever I'm feeling a certain way or whatever, I run and I do this.

And you. You go and you sin, or you indulge yourself in something that's not helpful. And it can be just like. Honestly, something like the flesh, right? And you do that, and that becomes a pattern.

So you identify this pattern in your life, and then what you have to do is you have to recognize that there's a vow that maybe unwittingly has been made by you. You may not even notice it or identify it, but there's something in you that just says, hey, no way. People aren't getting close to me. Not easily. And we live with a wall.

We have our guard up. And what has occurred, in all honesty, I just want to say the truth and love here is we've used boundaries to protect us from the healing work of Jesus. At Times. Now, I'm not saying we shouldn't have boundaries. We do, but boundaries aren't meant to be a lifestyle.

It's not like 24 7, I got this wall. I just, like, got this. No, that's not what it's about. God wants to tear down those walls in our life. He wants us to trust him and to begin to love again and trust others.

And. And sometimes there needs to be this dismantling of a vow, like a recognition of it, even if it's just an internal promise that was made in pain. And then conclusion is the lie the soul drew about God's self or others as a result of the event. So if you were hurt by someone, if you were a child and maybe you were traumatized, if something like that happened, then what ends up taking place is we a lot of times create these narratives or these belief systems, right? And it's a conclusion, and it can be extreme.

We know that. Right? Can't trust men. All men are this. It can be a lot of different things, but we have to recognize that it's present and that we've drawn this conclusion.

Okay? And then the last thing is this. And this is part of what we shared before. It's recapitulation. So recapitulation is this.

Jesus actually walks through the human journey. We shared this before in Luke's gospel, only Luke's gospel, we see Jesus as a child. We get a glimpse and kind of like the lens widens and we see his life as a kid. Why? The idea is that Theophilus was one who was being addressed and written to.

And the idea is this. This isn't some Johnny Come lately religion. Jesus actually went on the journey. You can trace his journey. It's really concerning to me when someone pops up on social media and all of a sudden they're this person who's got these incredible gifts.

And then you talk to others and go, who is this person who discipled them? What church were they part of? And then nobody goes, no, I don't know. I mean, and no one knows about the person. And can God do that?

Yes. But even Paul, even though he received revelation directly from Jesus, went to the apostles and said, hey, guys, here I am. I had this encounter with Jesus. He spoke to me, but I want you guys to know who I am. And they said, all right, we get it.

And they gave him the right hand of fellowship and they affirmed who he was. And so there's a place where Jesus goes on the journey and he becomes the last Adam, and he shows us how we're called to go on a journey. And that journey is a journey to maturity, to becoming whole in every way. And ultimately, what takes place is Jesus steps back by the Holy Spirit as we pray, and we invite him and we say, jesus, deal with this. Show me.

This happened in my life, and I'm not sure why I'm experiencing this, but I'm asking you, by your spirit, to step into this and heal me and restore me, make me whole. Guys, I know some people go, that's really mystical. That's really weird. I'm not talking about going back into your mother's womb. I'm not saying that.

Okay? Just. Yeah, I'm being clear here. And there's people that teach out. But what I'm saying is that there's a place where Jesus goes back and he says, let me heal you.

Let me restore you. And pain is a good thing. It's not meant to be permanent. Trauma is not meant to be permanent. But it is a way to alert us that something's wrong and that we need healing.

Let's deal with this. Let's sort this. Let's go on the journey. Why is it that maybe some men can't relate to other men? Why is it that we see people that struggle in different ways and so many different examples we could use?

So we have to go back and address this stuff, okay? God, why is that? Maybe you didn't have a father that was present in your life. Okay? That type of thing.

But you did have a mom. Or maybe there weren't male figures around. Father figures. Yeah. I'm just using that as an example.

There's so many different applications. Okay. All right, let's look at this whole idea of integration and what takes place. All right? Integration essentially, is you come to a place where.

Where you know how the Father sees you and you agree with his assessment. 1 John 3:1 says, hey, how I know the Father's love, He's revealed it to me. And so I know it, okay? And I agree with it. And again, because of communion, it moves beyond that.

And so what happens is integration is this. You're dressing the lies. You're addressing the things in your life that are broken, and you're replacing it with truth.

Very practically, I'm spending more time on this than I thought I would. Very practically, what happens is, remember Titus chapter two. Paul says in 11 and 12, he said, you know, the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. Yeah. And he says, it teaches us to deny ungodliness, Worldly loss, how to live upright, sober lives.

So he teaches us to deny. The NIV says it teaches us to say no. No.

Do you know that the term in the New Testament language comes from the Greek word rhema deny, or to say no. And it literally means to speak the opposite, to verbally speak the opposite. Not just to believe the opposite, but to speak the opposite. It literally means to contradict. So we contradict the lies by speaking the truth.

That's how we contradict lies. I feel this way. And then we have some people go, oh, yeah, that's just religion, right? How you going, mate? I'm good.

God is good all the time. And they're like, yeah, right, you never have a bad day. And that person may not be saying they don't have a bad day, but they're contradicting it. Remember when the woman, the Syrophoenician woman, who was it? Her son died, right?

And she went to Elisha, the shunammite. Thank you. I knew it started with an S. The Shunammite goes to Elisha and he sends his messenger and asks her, is it well? And she says, it is well. Her son's dead.

Was she in denial? Was she trying to just gloss things over? No. In Hebrew it says that she said, shalom. So what is she saying?

She's saying, this is what it looks like in the natural. This is what is happening. But I know the truth, that God turns all things around for my good. And this too shall pass. And God will turn this around.

So I trust in the goodness of God, even if I don't necessarily feel, has nothing to do with feelings. Okay, we have to reset. We have to speak. Alright? So let's throw.

Throw this up. I know how the Father sees me. I want you to see this. All right? So here's the anchor.

Come on now. The anchor. We are anchored to Jesus. We go on the discipleship journey, which is a process. You see the chain, and this is repeated encounters with love.

It's also safe voices speaking truth into your life. Guys, that's why it's so important that we. We hang around with the right people. Bad company corrupts good habits, right? If you associate with an angry person, Proverbs says, you will find yourself being an angry person.

So you need to hang around with people. Not that I lack empathy. We'll go there. Not somebody who goes, it's all good. Don't worry about it, mate.

She'll be right. That can be like, superficial. There's no empathy. You really can't relate to that person. And you're not willing to sympathize with them.

Ezekiel sat with the captives and mourned with them. He sat there and mourned with them. So we have to be willing to sit where people sit because we have been there ourselves. And we can sit there not trying to push them through quickly, but being patient. Come on.

I just wish you'd get over this. When are you going to grow up? No, sit with them. Job's comforters. No, we don't need Job's comforters.

Just sit with them. Sit with them. You've been there. You know what it's like. This is a journey.

I understand. No man can make you change, force you and change. This is something. And if the church would do this, guys, if we would actually get around people and go, hey, I'll come over and I'll sit with you and. Yeah, yeah, sure.

We'll pray together. And you speak truth and you encourage, but you don't downplay what they're going through. Let them grieve. Let them engage in the process. Let them.

What's the word? Process it. Even what they're going through. Okay, so here, we're anchored in the truth now, right? So this is all about.

What we're talking about here now is actually moving into a place of identity number four. And what we mean by that is our identity is established, stabilized. Beloved. What's your name? Beloved?

Hey, I'm beloved. And it's like, you know, I've said this so many times. If you hear again, you're going to hear me say it again. John, right? Who wrote the book of John, calls himself the disciple whom Jesus loved.

Why? Identity stabilized. His identity was stabilized. He knew it was true. Yeah, he loves me.

I'm the disciple whom Jesus loves. I'm convinced it's established. It's stabilized. Okay. And what happens is, let's look at the top on the surface.

On the surface is a boat in a storm. And what does that mean? There's still going to be storms. And guess what happens? So it could be criticism, human opinion, fear of rejection.

It could be whatever. But the ship, it rocks, experiences the effects of the storm. The weather is real, but it doesn't sink. The ship doesn't capsize the ship. They're like, yep, yeah, I feel that.

Oh, I don't like that. Jesus, help me. But because we're establishing our identity, we're good. It won't sink the ship. This is really important so we can talk about self esteem.

But stabilized identity is received from outside yourself. Self esteem Is self generated. It's fragile, rises and falls. If you're having a good day, I feel great one day. You don't feel great.

Self esteem. Right. But identity proceeds from the reality of what God says and what he has done in you. You feel the weather, but you no longer move with it.

All right, let's talk about closing the gap. You have the gospel position in your head, but your soul's still running the religious race. Okay, so you're not failing. The anchor's still settling. Come.

It's all right. We're on a journey. So how do we get this anchor to really grip? Okay, repeated encounters. The father's unhurried presence eventually overrides the internal script of worthlessness.

For example. Right. Anxiety, whatever it might be. Ongoing integration. Every lie is renounced.

We saw that movement. 3. It creates physical room in the soul for truth. Chuck that out. Get rid of that.

Fill it with the truth. See, guys, it's not enough to just reject the lie. It's not enough to rebuke the devil. The Bible says, submit yourself to God. Resist the devil.

We know the story, right? Jesus said, when he was talking about that generation, he spoke. He says in Matthew 12 and in Luke 11, he's speaking of his generation. He said, you're like a man in whom there was an unclean spirit. And it left and it went out trying to find rest.

Dry, arid places couldn't find rest, so it returned to the original person. And it says it was like this building or this apartment actually is. The Greek word is actually topos. And topos actually means room. Okay.

And so it finds like this room. And it's clean, it's nice, but it's empty. Swept clean, but it's empty. So what is he saying? He's not speaking of a literal person who's demonized.

Even though we could. That's the way we tend to interpret that. Well, Jesus means if you don't really get filled with the spirit and go on the discipleship journey, seven other demons will come in you, and the Willada state will be worsened. The former, yes. Okay, it's probably true.

But the point is, what he was actually teaching on had nothing to do with that. He was using that as an illustration. So what he's saying is he said that generation in his time had changed because now they're back in Jerusalem. And guess what? The Babylonian captivity purged them of idolatry.

The Babylonian captivity purge them of a lot of evil things. So now they're really good people, the Pharisees. The word Means separate ones. They're really good people. They're not idolaters.

They're not immoral. They're really good people. But Jesus looks at them, and you said, you're just like that man. Empty, swept, clean, empty, nothing. And he's saying, you're opening yourself up to demonic powers through legalism, through self righteousness.

And you're not whole. You're not filled with the fullness of God because you don't understand the journey. You don't understand. And that's why the. The church today needs to repent on filling buildings with people where people are not being filled with the word of God and truth and the spirit of God.

120 people turn the whole world upside down. Yeah. Acts 17:6, right? These are they who have turned the whole world upside down. Now they're here too, Right?

So Jesus never, ever was after a crowd. In fact, he did the opposite. When the crowd got too big, swollen, he challenged them. You guys know what you're in for. You can't count the cost.

Yeah. And many turned away, walked. Yeah. So it's a call to discipleship. It's a call to the fear of God.

It's a call to repentance, a call to God. Deal with me. Close the gap. So ongoing integration, then. Trusted voices, safe people naming who you are in Christ, depositing truth that accumulates over time.

Oh, we don't do that. That's why we need community. I mean, I'm talking about real community where we love people and we prefer one another and we honor one another and we pour into one another and we call out the grace and the gift of God on people's lives. And we tell them, this is who you are. This is who you are.

We call out identity and we can say like, they're not living that way. Doesn't matter. Like, yeah, you can do better. And yeah, but this is who you are. And we begin to just call it out.

We do it in our kids, we do it in others in the church safe spaces. So if there's correction, we do it in love. We do with grace. We do it patience. And we never do it to injure.

We never look, play all this passive aggressive stuff, which I've seen happen here in Australia so many times, where church leaders have an issue with someone in the church and they won't go and talk to them and correct them and say, can I teach you? Can I bring you on the journey? They just take them off the roster. And they're like, what happened? Why am I not on the roster anymore.

I don't know. So we marginalize people. That is not the way of the kingdom. Come on now. Whoever watches this video too need to repent of this rubbish.

Jesus took the disciples on a journey. He said, hey, guys, this is who you are. Can you imagine, John head on Jesus chest? Jesus said, bro, you're amazing.

You know how much the Father loves you, how important you are. You got such a calling and destiny on your life. And he's like, I don't know about that. Jesus. He goes, you're good, man.

I see it. You're good.

Yeah. This is what the church is supposed to be raising up, sons and daughters. Yeah, raising up. Yes. It's not about us using people for our purposes now.

Seeing transformation. All right, so the posture of religion and the posture of inheritance. Let's talk about inheritance for a moment. We've talked about identity. Inheritance is sonship.

That's what we're meaning. Okay? Now, it doesn't have to do with. With identity. Absolutely.

But we minister not from a posture of pleading. From the floor, begging God, passively enduring. Okay, but sons. Because that's identity confusion. That's orphan stuff, right?

Sons recognize number one. They're seated with Christ in heavenly places. Whoa. So you're seated with Christ, by the way, if you're seated with Christ in heavenly places, it says that he's above all. So guess who else is above all?

We're not above him, of course, but we have authority. We have authority. So we can pray with authority. We can agree with God and take thoughts captive. Now, here's the core insight.

You did not earn your inheritance. Okay? Who you an heir of God, a joint of Jesus, all of that. The authority that he said is yours. You didn't earn it by performing.

You received it because of your position. But here's the point. Inheritance is not passive. It requires active participation. You can have an inheritance and absolutely worthless unless you activate it and access it.

Does that make sense? Okay, so what we're talking about here is we actually get to a place now where we say, all right, I'm not putting up with this. I'm not putting up with it. Not allowing the devil to mess with my thinking. I'm not allowing these thoughts to take root in my heart.

I'm actually saying, and when he comes against you, and whenever the lies surface, you take it captive. You rebuke the powers of darkness. You speak truth and use authority. Satan, get behind me. Satan, go now.

How many times? I'm suffering for Jesus, and we're putting up with abuse. When we have no reason or no legal right to be doing that, we're called to deal with it. Push back. Say, no, Satan, you're not doing this any longer.

Not on my watch, not in my family, not in my life, not with my health, not with my mind. No, Devil, you're not doing this anymore. Get behind me. Go. And Satan departed from Jesus for a season.

He'll be back. He'll try it again.

So that's the reality. So we have this authority now. We could talk about unhealed if we're not healed. Authority can be dangerous. Recognize that people use spiritual gifts, they use the anointing, but they're not healed.

They're not whole. And they end up. It creates havoc. So we won't say much about that, but let's move on. Okay?

Let's talk about the pivot of participation. This is very powerful, the pivot of participation. Stop waiting for someone to fix what Christ gave you, authority over it. Two, start declaring truth over your own mind. Three, start taking your thoughts captive.

Four, resist the adversary. So early in the journey, healing happens to you. You rest. But there comes a moment where God says, stand up. Use what you've been given.

Stand up. Read Watchman Nee's book. Sit, stand, walk. That's what it's all about. Powerful.

All right, the last thing we want to talk about here is. Is incarnation. Okay? So incarnation is simply this. We're talking about the overflow.

Okay? Now we're saying there's an overflow. The overflow is simply this. You've come to this place where you are on a journey still. There's always going to be revisiting things and going back.

But it. See, see these six movements, they're not rooms, guys. They're doors. There's a difference. The six movements are not rooms.

Like, I'm just going, this room. I like this room. No, no, no. And you stay stuck in. Maybe immersion.

How many people do that? They can quote all the new creation reality scriptures. I'm this and Jesus, I'm righteous. The righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. But they camp out in that room, and they don't go beyond that to communion or whatever else it may be.

All right, this is good. All right, so what we're talking about here is overflow. Now, where actually we move, we're talking about the river is flowing. The river is flowing. Right out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water.

And everywhere you go, there's an overflow. Because you are the incarnation of Christ. You're actually representing him in the world. You're representing him in the world. And wherever you go now, you're actually bringing his life, you're bringing his presence, you're bringing his power, you're bringing his person, his character and who he is.

Wherever you go, that's overflowing. That's incarnation. There's something powerful about a person who's whole and healed. Let me. The Lord spoke this to me.

I was up all flipping night and God was just wrecking me and showing me all this stuff. And I'm like, whoa. And the Lord says this to me. He says, son, the church is praying for revival. They don't understand this.

When you are whole, when you're healed, guess what happens? You are revival. And obviously we don't say these things, but we know that I'm carrying His presence, I'm carrying His goodness. And people who may not even understand, like, we just walk in and people go. It shifts things and people begin to soften.

They begin to open, the walls go down. And without necessarily, even at times preaching. When I first got saved, I can tell you this. All right, let me just share this story. This is nothing.

I won't be long, I promise. So this is what happens. So I get saved, right? Dysfunctional, messed up life. Dad who was never around.

Mom, who had grown up in a dysfunctional family. She'd been through World War II and hid underground as a teenager. And the bombing happened. She went through that. No love, no affection, no physical gestures in my family, nothing.

So I went through things. But when I came to Jesus, one of the things I realized and what I believed I had good teachers and pastors, was that Jesus can actually change me and transform my life. So I started praying and getting in the Word and praying and praying and whoo. Encounters, visitations. Yeah.

And he started to speak to me and share things and. And guys, I am so rough around the edges. And I get alone with the Father and he opens. I open the Word. And he says, you're my son, you're my servant.

I've called you and I'm like, me, I'm 18 years old, right? 19 years old the time. And he said, yeah, before you were born, I set you apart. And he's speaking all this stuff to me, and I'm not even realizing, like, what it's doing to me. What.

He's healing me. He's healing me. And all of a sudden, things begin to change in my thinking. I move from that place into a place of he loves me and I'm secure in him. And, Lord, because of that, I can do whatever you've called me to do.

If you. If it means I die and I lay down my life on a mission field somewhere, I'm willing to do that. Because, Lord, you love me so much. You've changed me. Now you love me.

Your love compels me to love others, to reach others. And so I'm hypersensitive to churches that don't love people. Christians that don't love people, they don't care for people. Because honestly, guys, if you don't care for someone, you don't have the heart of the Father. You don't have the heart of God.

You need to allow him to break you. When was the last time we wept over people that didn't know Jesus or someone that was suffering? We wept with them. We prayed with him like we. We sat with him like, God wants to see you changed so that he can use you to change others.

It's not about a few super mature people. This is about the body of Christ going on this journey and allowing him to change us. And there are times when the boat rocks. I feel it. That's not nice.

All right? That's not fun. But I'm anchored, right? I'm secure, not going to capsize.