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Exploring the Transformative New Era

Say with me, just say the two words, new era. New era. Say it again, new era. In fact, just look at somebody and say we've moved into a new era. Look at two or three people and just tell them we've moved into a new era. And I've started using that phrase instead of a new season because it sort of just communicates, to me at least, the magnitude of the shift. It's not like just another season. another era. And I want to talk to you tonight for a few minutes about what that looks like, because at Passover, we pass over, right? We go out and we go in, we cross over. And so we're moving into a new era. era and I'm going to tell you what I little of what I think that looks like I'm probably going to be speaking on this subject for the next season I feel like it's time now that God will give us definition of what this new era looks like so I'm going to do that for the next few minutes and I'm going to do it in the context of the word full or fullness four aspects of full fullness that I'm going to talk about. The first one is especially for a prophetic group, mostly review. Actually, the first couple will be not necessarily new to you, but will help contextualize what I want to ultimately get to. And so the first word or phrase is fullness of time. So let's review because the Lord operates in cycles or seasons. And in Acts chapter three, He actually calls them seasons of restoration. Seasons of the restoration. We're going through, he said, seasons, plural, of the restoration of all things. Restoration, many of you have heard me say it, apokatastasis. The word means reconstitute, literally. Re-apo-constitute. So that means to move things back to where the way they were supposed to operate or function. The constitution of an organization. the constitution of a human body, the way it's supposed to operate. So we're going through, Acts 3 says, seasons in which the Lord is reconstituting things back to the way they're supposed to be. And what does one of those seasons look like? Well, the word for it, as most of you know in Greek, is a chronos. That's a season. In every chronos, you come to a kairos. That's the window of opportunity now to reap the fullness of that season. there yet because even though kairos could be translated an appointed time it's important to remember that it does not mean a guaranteed time it's an opportune time and every good definition of kairos will always give you the word opportune or opportunity it is a window of opportunity in the season in the chronos so if you steward that kairos well you get to fullness of time. That's when you have the fruit in the barn. That's when you made the right investment at the kairos because this is not necessarily spiritual language, although it is for us in this context. But kairos, fullness, is not necessarily religious or spiritual terminology only. So if you make the right investment in that season, in that window of opportunity, you get to fullness of increase. So that's what... time looks like and we go through cycles where God is restoring this back to the way it's supposed to be and he's restoring in the next season something else back to the way it's supposed to be and I call these redemptive cycles we're always in a redemptive cycle he's always in the process of moving something on planet earth through the church back to the way it's supposed to be another word would be reformation we throw around the word reformation what the word really means is to correct something. Deorthosis or to straighten something would be the best translation. Something has gotten crooked. Something has gotten off. Ortho, deorthosis, ortho, bone, a broken bone. A doctor that fixes broken bones is an orthopedist. Because something got crooked. So it means to straighten something. It means to take something that's fallen and stand it up right again. It means to correct. It means to amend when something is not just right. just the way it's supposed to be, he amends it. So really, we shouldn't actually just think of reformation in the context of the great reformation because we're always going through seasons of reconstituting or restoring things and we're always going through reforming of things because he's always straightening things up. He started in the book of Genesis when the fall took place and he said, I'm going to correct all of this. And since that time, we've been going from season to a kairos in that season to fullness. Sometimes we don't get to fullness. If you don't steward the kairos correctly, like Israel, you have to go back and he starts over with another generation because it's not a guaranteed time, it's an opportune time. But we've just come through a fullness. We just came through a kairos and God restored some things to the church. He restored to us the five-fold Christ anointings, which I'll get to in a moment. He's restored some things prophetically, apostolically. And he's moved us into another level of being able to function the way we are supposed to function. Reconstitution of things. Now, let me just say one more thing and then get to number two because I can't, I don't have time to get bogged down on any one of these. Because I'm going to spend most of my time on the last one. but ephesians 1 talks about a fullness not a fullness of time in other words you made it through to fullness it talks about and uses the phrase fullness of times fullness of kairos is the word and then he says the next phrase is where all things are summed up in christ now so all of the seasons he's walking us through and we get to a kairos if we stew we're well and get fullness he says all of these fullnesses these kairos opportunities that we succeeded in in uh going through are being added up and what it's all supposed to look like when it's finished is christ he's restoring everything back to the way it was supposed to be to where christ can be seen in the earth in his fullness and so he's adding up all the kairos is he adding up what he did 100 years ago what he did 70 years ago 50 years years ago 30 years ago 10 years ago and all the fullness of these kairoses are moving us toward the fullness of christ in the earth now that's the context where time is concerned but number two is the fullness of the christ anointings because this is what he's been moving us toward and this is where he's had to get us before he could get us to you a place where we could reveal Christ fully in the earth. He had to restore the Christ anointings, and that's Ephesians 4.12. Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. These are the five Christ anointings. I may have said four a minute ago, but these are the five Christ anointings. anointings. Christ broke himself down into five anointings and gave those to the church so that we could manifest him in the earth. And those are of course, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. You can only manifest Christ fully when you have all of those anointings being released through the church. So if you just have pastor gift, you're probably only manifesting 20% of who Jesus is in the earth, the shepherd, the nurturer, the healer. If you only have the evangelist, even though they can win souls and care for sheep, they can only manifest 40% of who he really is because he's not just Mary's little lamb. He's the lion. He's not just the shepherd. He's the apostle. He's not just the lover. He's the general. He's the conqueror. He's the ancient of days. He's, he's not just nurture Jesus. He's the judge of all the earth. He has love in his eyes, but he also has fire in his eyes. And when he speaks, it sounds like the rushing of many waters. And when it comes out, it becomes a sword. So you can only manifest fully Jesus when you have the fullness of the Christ anointings. Most of the church for the last umpteen years, we only had evangelist, pastor, teacher. So we could only manifest a limited portion of who he is. We could win people, we could nurture, love on people, and heal people, and we could teach people, but we couldn't go to the next level. But that's changed, because in the last 20 to 30 years, he's restored. understanding of the prophet and then eventually the Apostle and now we have the fullness of Christ functioning operating in the church so that we can now reveal him And that's what the five-fold giftings are all about. When we bring those together, we can reveal Christ in the earth. The church has not had the ability up till now since the book of Acts to really fully manifest who he is. That may surprise you. The church has not had the ability to fulfill all of the commission that Christ gave to us because we can only do that when we have all of him functioning and all of his anointings are Now that we have all five of these operating, one of the things that is going to happen is that there's going to be a synergy of these giftings. Pastors are going to pastor better because there are also apostles, prophets, evangelists, and teachers. Teachers are going to teach better and with a different emphasis and understanding because they're linked to apostles and prophets. Evangelists are going to evangelize more effectively because they're aligned with apostles and prophets. And they're not going to waste their time over here because the prophet's going to say no over here. So everything's going to go to a new level. Apostles can only do the work of an apostle when they're linked with prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. A general can't lead an army if there's no army. So all of these anointings are working together, and you know this, so I said number two and number one are for most of us a review. But these are not just offices, these are anointings. We took gifts, anointings, and we made them positions. When you make them positions, it's about me. It's about him. It's about the leaders down here. But when you understand that it's a gift and an anointing... Then you understand that it permeates the entire body. You may not be a prophet, but you can be prophetic. You may not be an apostle, but you can be apostolic. You may not be an evangelist, but you can win the lost. You may not be a pastor, but you can nurture and heal people. You may not be a teacher, but you can come alongside somebody and talk to them and train them, teach them the ways of the Lord. You can walk them through scripture. So what we're about to experience is not a new anointing in leaders. We're about to experience a fullness anointing in the church. A remnant. People, a remnant company, is about to become apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral, and teaching because the church is about to manifest the fullness of Christ's anointings in the earth. And so the synergy that begins to take place is going to multiply the anointing. I don't know how many fold, but many fold. The other thing that's going to happen in the context of these five anointings is that people are going to begin to be redefined. Especially leaders in this one. Because there are many people, since we took gifts and made them positions or titles, if you lead a congregation in the past culture of the church, if you lead a congregation, you're a pastor. I led a congregation for 20 years and they called me pastor. There's not a pastoral bone in my body. But I fulfilled the definition, I fulfilled the definition culturally because I led a congregation. But Christ put me through a season of redefining who I was and showed me, you're not a pastor, quit trying to be a pastor. Quit trying to counsel and nurture. When you counsel people, you hurt them. Generals hurt, generals like Patton, when they're scared or they're going through a crisis, the soldier and he's suffering a little bit, General Patton slaps him upside the head and calls him a coward. But doctors don't do that, pastors don't do that, they help them. So you've got to have somebody that's nurturing them, but you've got to have somebody that sees the big picture. And is not worried about the need of that person. I'm getting ahead of myself. I love to talk about how apostles don't have to be pastoral. The spirit of joy comes all over me when I talk about the fact that apostles are not pastors. But people, leaders are about to be redefined because culturally we have pushed them into roles that don't match the gifting and anointing that God gave them. So you're going to find people now that are leading ministries and congregations and they're going to go through a season where they're going to understand, you know what, I've been trying to do this, but that's what they call me this, but I'm not that. And God's going to redefine many. And it's going to shake some things up. I think there are going to be people leading. large ministries and they're about to be redefined but when this redefining takes place it's a healthy thing because when I stopped trying to be a pastor I could get some real pastors pastoring people everything worked better when I stopped trying to be the healer the shepherd I just was the apostle and I coordinated and I governed and I administrated things and I made sure there were some true pastor gifts pastoring the people in the house. So when I got redefined, others got redefined and they were no longer my assistant pastor. Pastors, I was the apostle and they were pastors. And when I released them to do that and we all got redefined, the people became more pastoral and more apostolic because I was able to give them who I was and the pastors and the evangelists and the teachers and the prophets were able to give who they were and the whole congregation went to a new level of being able to operate in the fullness of the Christ anointings. Does that make sense? Now I said all that to say this. in this new era. We have now come to a point in the church that we have not been in for many centuries. Probably since probably 1900 years. We now have the ability, the potential, to represent Christ fully. I want you to just think about that now. We now have the potential that we did not have when we were not moving in all five of these anointings. We now have the potential to represent the fullness of Christ in the earth. The change is going to be very, very dramatic. So it shouldn't surprise you when I say number three is the fullness of Christ. Fullness of time. Fullness of a cycle of restoration, of reformation. fullness of his giftings and now we can manifest Ephesians 4 goes on to say the fullness of Christ that means we can now stop saying but we only said it that we're going to do the works of Jesus in works because you can only do the works of Jesus when you have the fullness of Jesus manifesting himself through the church but now we can do the works that he did in greater works because the fullness of his anointings are now flowing through the body of Christ in the earth. What does that look like? Well, it probably looks like all the signs and wonders we've been prophesying about for the last 10 years. It probably looks like the creative miracles. We're going to do what he did. We can now do what he did. We can now be who he was. We can now model ourselves after him. You know, if Christ is normal, what does that make us? We have been anything but normal. If he came to show us what spirit-filled people not operating under the fall but filled with the spirit and breath of God listening to the father moving in holy spirit doing the works of the father giving the teachings of the father if he came and showed us this is the pattern and this is normal if he is normal what are we I saw that on a book subtitle recently I think it's powerful well we're now able we're going to be able to manifest him fully and do what he did we're going to move we're going to be able to manifest the fullness of of the wisdom of Christ. The wisdom of Christ himself is now going to be able to be revealed to the principalities and powers in heavenly places, Ephesians 3.10. We could not fully do that in the last season, but we can do it in the new era. We can release the fullness of revelation. We can move in levels of the prophetic now that we haven't been moving in. It's one thing, we have a pretty high level of the prophetic in our stream, but we're about to move in a higher level of prophetic because the prophets are now going to say not what the weirdo... dictator across the planet has been planning. They're not going to tell the leaders how to respond to that. They're going to tell them before it happens, I heard what he said in his bed chamber. I had a dream. This is what he's going to do for the next two years. This is how you can prepare because the prophetic is going to the level of Jesus. Shifting of governments can go to the next level because we can do more than go in and preach the gospel to those nations. We can go in with the mind of Christ, with a seeing ability. of Christ, with the hearing ability of Christ, with the governing ability of Christ, with the ability to re-foundation, re-administrate, reconstruct, restore things back to the way they're supposed to be. So we're not going to just go into nations now and get them saved, we're going to go into nations now and get them transformed. We're going to move in the fullness of His wisdom, we're going to do what He did, we're going to move in the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit. Demons are not going to sneak up on us anymore. We should never, the church should never be called off guard or blindsided by what the enemy is doing. Somebody should always have received that dream. Somebody should always have received that vision or know what he's up to. We should never find ourselves having to react and say, he did this, what are we going to do? We should always find ourselves saying, he's going to try to do this, but we're going to cut him off here. Because that's Jesus. Jesus was never called off guard. Jesus was never anxious or worried. And when we move in the fullness of the Christ anointings, we're going to manifest Him fully in the earth with wisdom and revelation. We're going to manifest the fullness of His teaching anointing. I'm not sure what that looks like other than the fact that people sat for days on hillsides in the hot sun without food listening to Him. And nobody wanted to leave, including the children. If you can teach families, including kids, for three days and they don't have anything to eat and you have to work a miracle to give them something to eat, but nobody's leaving, you're a pretty good teacher. This is the season that we can do the works he did and greater works because he can manifest himself through us. Which brings me to number four, where I'm going to camp for the next little while here. We can now, and I'm not trying to put a time frame on this, we can now fully complete our assignment on earth and i'm going to summarize i'm going to use two words to talk about this well let me i'll get to those in just a minute what is our assignment genesis 1 26 7 and 8 a lot of people don't think we can do that well they think that because we couldn't do that because in genesis 26, seven, eight. This is before the fall. He said, I want you to multiply, fill the earth. So he had to give us the family mandate. You're going to give me more kids. I'm putting my life and breath in you. And before the curse and the fall human beings had the ability to reap. Reproduce eternal life. Eternal spirits. They could reproduce more people with the nature and breath of God in them. You didn't have to be filled with the spirit before the fall. You were filled with the spirit. They were, Adam and Eve were filled with the spirit. And what they reproduced would have been spirit filled beings with the fullness of his nature operating in them. So he said, give me more family. Make more people that look like me. Make more people that think like me. Make more people in my likeness and in my image. Reproduce me on the planet. That's a staggering statement, isn't it? So he gave us the family mandate, multiply, and then he gave us the dominion mandate, rule the earth for me. I'm going to take care of the rest of the kingdom, but this colony or this outpost here called earth, this part of the kingdom, you're going to rule. It's your home. And you're going to take my kingdom principles from heaven. And that I operate and rule the whole realm with. But you're going to implement them on planet earth. So it was the dominion mandate. Rule. Function as my. my government on the planet. And most people haven't really believed that we could ever get back to that, but we will get, we are moving back to that. And we're going to talk about that for the next few minutes. We are able to rule for him on planet earth. Now we are able to step more fully into the stewarding role on planet earth so much so that we're going to heal nations. We are going to transform nations. We're going to eliminate poverty in regions of the earth that respond to our message. We're not going to rule by force, we're going to rule by the spirit, which is going to change hearts, which is then going to help us change minds, and kingdom principles will be implemented, and they will cause things to change in nations and regions of the earth. You will see over the next decade... Places like Haiti that are steeped in poverty, starvation, and hunger transformed, and God will begin to show them as a testimony of what can happen to a nation that accepts His kingdom rule. So the two mandates, the two assignments were you're going to multiply, you're going to give me more family, and you're going to steward, rule this part of the kingdom for me. That got, of course, got messed up at the fall, but Jesus came along to rule. Restore. He came along to reconstitute. He came to reform. He came to rebirth. And he said it in Matthew 16. I'm going to build my church and the gates of hell won't prevail against it. Build is the word. word oikos, oikadameo, which doesn't mean build a building, it means build a family. So when Jesus used the word oikadameo, when he said, I'm coming to oikadameo, he was saying through that one word, I've come to get the family back. In fact, I've come to get the family back and put in my people the ability to go get more family members. And even though they'll have to be born again, I'm giving my people the ability to help them and enable them and breathe on them and lay hands on them. and deliver them to where they are born again in my image again, in my likeness, filled with my nature. I'm giving my body the ability to reproduce again. Oikata meo, I've come to enable you to do that. And then, of course, he followed that up with the word ekklesia. You're going to hear the word ekklesia a lot in the next few years. It will be probably the, if not one of the, predominant words, at least subjects, whether they use the word ekklesia or not. word or not because the church is finally going to become the church at least a remnant of the church will become the church because most of the church right now is not the church because we've defined the church as the building on the corner or the 501c3 or the service we're doing or the organization we lead or where we go on Sunday mornings. But when Jesus said, I will reestablish family and they will be my ecclesia, he was talking about a government. And most of you know that he was not talking about a congregation. He was talking about, this is my governmental expression of my kingdom, my kingdom, my great kingdom of God of heaven. This is my governmental expression of it on planet earth. I will have a governing people that the government of hell will not prevail against. I will give them my keys. I will give them once again my authority to function in my name in the kingdom. And when they bind, it will be bound. And when they lose, it will be loose. Jesus was not exaggerating. We've just been down here with the inability to fully function. pull us up to the new level now. We're going to move into a realm where when we bind, it's bound. And when we loose, it's loose. And the kingdom of hell, the gates of hell won't prevail against us. I know they prevail against us, but they're not going to prevail against us in the new era. Because the Ecclesia is going to become the Ecclesia. And Jesus'name is going to be more than a formula at the end of the prayer. It's going to be a realization that we're decreeing when we say in Jesus'name that we are speaking with the full authority of the King who gave us His authority. It's not a phrase. It's not a magic phrase. It is a statement that I am moving in His dominion and His authority. I'm doing this in the name of the King. I'm going to build the family. I'm going to come. I'm going to re I'm going to recapture the family the two mandates and I'm going to restore dominion And then in mark 16 and matthew 28 He recommissioned us Stop calling those the great commissions and start calling them just to help you train you and your thinking call them the the great recommission Not the great commission the great recommission The Great Recommissions. And of course... They're different. And in Mark 16, it's all about the family. This is what I would call awakening. We talk about awakening and reformation. I'm going to define for you what I think that means because this is the era of awakening and reformation. The season that we just came through and made it through fullness has now positioned us to start a new season of awakening and reformation in the earth where we fully manifest Jesus through all of the gifts and anointings of Jesus to where we are fully functioning according to the mandates he gave us. Genesis chapter 1 because God is never defeated and he never has to alter his plan only temporarily. He always can get it back on track. So he said in Mark 16, go preach the gospel and get them saved and get them healed and get them to. liver and get them filled with my spirit again bring them back into the family that's awakening that's revival that's the new birth that's oikos But then he said in Matthew 28, he didn't say anything about getting them saved in Matthew 28. He said, go disciple the nations now and teach them what I have commanded you. And so that's the ecclesia aspect of the commissioning. And it's the stewarding of the earth. You're not just going to get them saved. You're going to transform the way they think, not just one at a time, but as nations. We are moving into an era where we're going to do not only Mark 16, but we're going to do Matthew 28. We're not only going to get him saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, delivered, speaking in tongues and signs and wonders happening, Mark 16, we're also going to train them in the ways of the Lord himself until nations are discipled. You know, I'm going to say this and then I'm going to give you, believe it or not, I'm going to rattle off about 20 comparisons quickly so we can get the full picture. This is what Oikos family Mark 16 awakening looks like. Ecclesia, Reformation, stewarding the planet looks like. They're not in competition with one another. They're two parts of the whole assignment. This is all we've been doing. in the charismatic movement, all we could do was Mark 16. We had no ability to do Matthew 28 because we didn't have apostles and prophets. You cannot do Matthew 28 without apostles and prophets. You can get people saved, filled with the Spirit, delivered. You can transform them into those that go do signs and wonders. All you need are evangelists, pastors, teachers. You don't have to have prophets and apostles to do any of that. You don't have to have apostles and prophets to have growing congregations with healthy Christians that love each other and have health. healthy families. You don't have to have apostles and prophets to do that. We did it for a long time. We did it for years and years and years and years. But you can only do Matthew 28 when you begin to steward the earth and disciple nations and transform nations into kingdom thinking and kingdom principles. You can only do that with apostles and prophets. So we didn't have the ability to do Matthew 28. And in the charismatic movement, which was the greatest outpouring in scope, the greatest outpouring of Holy Spirit in history was the charismatic movement. Some people estimate as many as 50 million. people were saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit around the world in the charismatic movement and yet we went through a whole movement that could be said was the greatest in scope outpouring of Holy Spirit in history and when the dust settled we actually lost ground and while we were getting them saved over here we were losing the culture while we were getting people saved unbelievers were discipling the nation while we were getting them saved they were taking over government while we were getting them saved they were taking over education While we were getting them saved and delivered and filled with the Spirit and getting them ready for heaven, they were taking over the media. They were taking over elements of the church and the family and business. While we were doing Mark 16, they were doing Matthew 28. They didn't call it that, but that's what happened. and if you don't follow this up with this if you don't join reformation to the awakening at some point you're going to lose the fruit here or at least maybe you'll lose you'll lose the fruit of the movement you may not lose all those souls but you're going to lose the movement because the response that really the goal is not supposed to be to get people to heaven only that's what this is all about over here mark 16 and the family get them ready for heaven but the goal of matthew 28 is to bring heaven to earth you're supposed to take the principles of my kingdom and you're supposed to apply them here here. You're not just supposed to try to get people there. You're supposed to try to get this here. And we've understood this fairly well, but we don't understand the part. We said it, and we've prayed it, and we've decreed it, but we really haven't been able to manifest it at all. We've said, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. But all we could do is say, let Your kingdom authority help us get people saved, and baptize the Holy Spirit and deliver. We have no understanding of kingdom authority coming into the earth like a leaven that cannot be stopped, and everywhere it goes, it transforms not only the one, but the whole. It transforms not only the person, but the planet. We've talked about healing the earth, but very few people have ever really... Even when we say heal the earth, our concept is to heal the people on the earth. When the... Yeah. Let me rattle off these things, because I'm going to stop on some of them, and I don't want you to be here too much longer, although it won't hurt you. So Mark 16 is the Oikos family mandate, get them saved, that reaches... Commission, Matthew 28, is the disciple of the nations, steward of the earth, govern for him, ecclesia, aspect of the mandate. In Mark, he said preach. Preach what? Preach the gospel, the good news. He didn't say preach in Matthew 28. You won't find the word in Matthew 28, the dominion, stewardship, ecclesia, recommission. You won't find it there because he didn't say preach. He said teach. Over here you preach or announce the good news of the gospel. But he said over here I want you to teach what I have commanded you. This is an invitation. Do you want him? This is a command. You will do what he says. This is Savior. This is Lord. Preach, announce the good news, teach what I have commanded, big difference. We've understood this, we've not understood this. The goal of Mark 16 is converts. The goal of Matthew 28 is disciples, discipling nations. Converts hear and receive, disciples hear and obey. converts hear and receive i'm not dissing that it's hear it and receive it a disciple mathetes the word is mathetes it means to become a doer of the teaching so this is to receive hear and receive so you can be converted this is to hear the command and not only hear it but become one who does it you This is number three, Mark 16, we receive his life, we receive his nature, his life. Over here, Matthew 28, we release his life. We get to a point where we're not just receiving it for ourselves, we're releasing it into the earth. Number four, in Mark 16, the focus is on individuals. We rescue them. The focus in Matthew 28 is not on individuals, it's on cities, regions, and nations. It's biblical. It's not wrong for apostolic and prophetic leaders to care more about regions and nations than they do the individual. I love individual people, but that's not my assignment. And like Jesus, the great shepherd who will heal and know. nurture and save he'll then train them and make them go die for him because he's not only the shepherd he's the apostle he's the general and you have to you have to understand these different facets of who he is because you start talking about martyrdom in the average church on a Sunday morning I can promise you you will never be invited back But the head of the church has no problem talking about martyrdom. The head of the church had no problem allowing the twelve disciples, the eleven, and then Paul was added later in his early church, apostles and disciples. He had no problem allowing them to die for him because he... knew there was a cause bigger than the individual. We're not just trying to get him ready for heaven. We're trying to save not just the one, but the world. So the goal in Mark 16 and the goal of the family mandate, the focus is individuals, but the focus in Matthew 28 is cities, regions, and nations. One has to do with rescuing. One has to do with influence. And in the new era, we're not just going after the one, we're going after cultures. This is why you have to have enough authority in the new era. We're going to have to have enough authority to deal with kings and dictators and rulers. We're going to have to understand decrees at the level that we will make fearless decrees, not only over people, but over nations. Because our assignment is... not just to the one our assignment is also to go in and transform cities regions nations of the earth we're going to do that you're going to be a part of teams whether you know it or not you're going to be a part of prayer teams that go in and unlock regions of the earth for the kingdom of god to come and invade that part of the earth Number five, Mark 16 saves people. Matthew 28 saves nations, societies, cultures. Mark 16, we heal people. Matthew 28, we heal nations from poverty, from hunger, from violence, from deceptions, mindsets. Mark 16, we deliver people. Matthew 28, we deliver nations. We shape, in Mark 16, people are filled with the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28, we're going to go in and he's going to fill the atmosphere with Holy Spirit. You're going to lay hands on people and they're going to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but you're going to stand and decree with apostolic and prophetic anointing. The King Himself and the fullness of Christ is going to be released and the entire atmosphere of a region is going to change because Holy Spirit is not going to just fill the one, He's going to fill the region. region. That's why demons are going to know when they're not even in the same city as you, they're going to know you're in that region because the very atmosphere is going to change and they're going to realize something just happened in this atmosphere, something just happened in this realm, something changed over this city. I feel the spirit of God here. They will not like it, but they cannot stop it because Ecclesia is about to go to a new level. The government of God is going to be released. And we're not just going to get people baptized in the Holy Spirit, we're going to get regions filled with the Spirit. I know that sounds weird to some of you, but you'll get it one of these days because that's what's going to happen. You're not just going to get your people, your city saved as in individuals, you're going to get the Spirit of God hovering over your... entire region there's a difference and the more he hovers over the entire region the more these people will get saved and the more people that get saved the more he'll hover over the region and these two things will be married and the family will increase and the government of the lord will be He multiplied in the earth. His kingdom government will come. Souls will be saved. Kingdom will expand. Souls will be saved. The kingdom will expand. Souls will be saved. The one upon whose shoulder the government rests will manifest himself fully in the kingdom. Mark 16 shapes the soul of a person. Matthew 28 shapes the soul of a nation. Number 10, the destiny. This is Mark 16. It's about the destiny of individuals. You're starting to get this. These are no-brainers now. The destiny of individuals. This is all about the destiny of nations. Not only people, not only do people have destinies, cities have destinies. Nations have destinies. The destiny of America is to be beachhead for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God to the ends of the earth. I know the destiny of this nation. It's not just for the white. It's not just for the First Nations. It's not for the black Latinos. It's for all of us. I don't care the mistakes we made along the way. I don't care what we did wrong. It's not about any one of us. It's about all of us. our destiny as a nation is to be a beachhead for the gospel and the declaration of the kingdom of god to the ends of the earth and we're going to step back into that destiny as a nation not just people but as a nation this is why god needed a man like trump to go in and shake things up. It's not because he's the smartest. It's not because he's the wisest. It's not because he's not going to make mistakes. It's because he needed somebody to come in and break things up and mess things up a little bit because sometimes before you rebuild, you have to uproot and you have to tear down and you have to destroy. And then you can plant and build. Mark 16 brings wholeness. We'll be back to number 10 on destiny. See, this is the entrance into the body of Christ. This is the function of the body of Christ. Sooner or later you get saved, but He wants you to do more than just be saved. He wants you to grow into your function. Your destiny is not about getting, it's about being. It's about releasing. It's not just about receiving the kingdom, I'll get to that in a moment. It's about releasing the kingdom. So this one, Mark 16, brings wholeness to the individual. Matthew 28 brings wholeness to society. Number 12, this is all about, Mark 16 is all about your rights as children. This one, Matthew 28, is all about your responsibility as a citizen of the kingdom. Don't miss that. The rights of a child. That's what the charismatic movement was all about. Rights, our rights. All we know is that we have to be responsible for our rights. how to do is teach him how to be family. Teach him how to, this is your right. This is what he wants to do for you. This is what he wants to give you. But we're going to another level now. And it's not just about receiving our rights and privileges. It's about our responsibility. This is about inheritance. This is about assignment. We're about to go beyond inheritance and we're going to understand assignment. We're going to understand that he wants more than bless me in my house. He wants to save my neighborhood. He wants to do more than bless me and my family in my house. He wants to use us to transform a city and a region and a nation. inheritance assignment inheritance assignment so mark 16 serves people matthew 28 serves god and i don't mean that as in comparison this is bad that's wrong i mean it literally mark 16 is assignment is go serve people give them salvation give them deliverance matthew 28 is all about take my kingdom in there and teach them what i commanded Number 14, in order to do these things, in Mark 16, we dispense or operate in power, signs, wonders, miracles, power. But Matthew 28, we dispense truth, doctrine, information, authority. Truth gives us authority, principles, precepts. Nobody wanted that in the charismatic. It was one of the flaws of the charismatic. We want to get them saved, delivered, filled with the spirit and teach them how to prosper. Theology became a bad word in the charismatic movement. Nobody wanted theology. They were never told that the word means the study of God. Be careful what you say about theology. The study of God. Doctrine. It's all important. And you can't do Matthew 28 without sound doctrine. You can't do it without principles and precepts. You can do this without it. You don't have to have good theology to cast out a demon. You don't have to know anything about doctrine to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. But you have to understand those things to disciple nations. It's not either or, it's both and. Persevere, I only have five or six more of these. So to do Mark 16, we need the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We need an outpouring of Holy Spirit and His works. But over here, we need the administration of the Holy Spirit. We need His wisdom and His... revelation because we want his works but we also want his ways we want to see him perform with power but we also want understanding to come to break the back of humanism secularism Doctrines of demons in the earth. Deceptions over people. You will never disciple America until you get to that. Because there are too many other false doctrines floating around Washington D.C. And capitals around the world. And then the education system of America. So first you need the power of God to come and invade. So people begin to get saved. And delivered. And start caring about what God thinks. Because something has been awakened in them as an individual. But once that awakening hits full stride. Then you can begin to put in them. them truth and revelation and wisdom and the ways of God and you begin to disciple an entire nation that way and that's where we're headed big time this mark 16 short term you go in do a week crusade get a hundred thousand of them saved This is Matthew 28, long-term, discipling nations. You better have a long-term vision if you're going to do this. I hate to burst some of your bubbles, but Jesus is not coming through the night tonight. What if you're wrong? I'll rejoice with you. But I am very, very confident. Start thinking long term. If we had thought more long term in the 60s and 70s and 80s, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. Because all we cared about was getting them ready for heaven. We couldn't care less about trying to bring the principles of heaven to earth. And you know I'm telling you the truth. As in regards to the five-fold gifts and anointings of Christ, to do Mark 16 you need evangelists, pastors, and teachers. You can do every bit of Mark 16 without apostles and prophets. And we did. But to do Matthew 28, function as the ecclesia, the government of God, disciple nations, you must have apostles and prophets. Is it evangelist, pastor, teacher, apostle, prophet, and teacher? You need a teacher in both. If you train the ones, you also... train groups. You teach, you instruct the one, you grow and mature them, but you also do it with, with, in larger settings as well. The teachers need to teach with the shepherd anointing, but they need to teach with apostolic anointing. This is why I said earlier, we could not do Matthew 28 20 years ago. We didn't do it. I used to say, why didn't we do this? We should have been doing this. There, listen to me. You can argue with me later. Just listen. We did not have the potential. Biblically, we did. Experientially, we did not have the ability to do Matthew 28, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. Because we were not functioning in an understanding and anointing of his apostolic ministry and his prophetic ministry. And you can't do Matthew 28 without that. So all we could do is get people saved and ready for heaven. We couldn't get heaven to earth. So I'll just say one more and then I'll just pray. So I made evangelist, pastor, teacher all one, 17, 18, 19, so I'm on number 20. I know you can't take notes on a message like this. Just buy the CD or the video or download it, whatever you do. With this anointing, this assignment, this part of the commission, we're going to deal with and transform individuals at a moral level and their personal lifestyle we will alter. but here we will deal with and transform mindsets and paradigms over nations belief systems this is where we get the stronghold in one but here we get a stronghold over a region because truth begins to invade the atmosphere. And truth will change not just from changing a person's belief system. Truth will change cultures, because without them even understanding how it's happening, it will begin to permeate the very atmosphere, and people won't even know why, but they'll start thinking differently. Even the unsaved. the new era we've come through a fullness of time now we're moving into a new era and we're going to manifest the fullness of christ's anointing that's what the word means right christ the anointed one Those five anointings, gifts, which will enable us to reveal him fully in fullness. And now we can fully accomplish our assignment. We're going to have to write books on this. We're going to have to break it down into bite-sized pieces so people can chew on this. There are a lot of people that have not yet embraced this message, these truths that are going to. Teachers are going to, apostolic teachers are going to have to write books on this subject. So that when we start getting people saved, and especially the millions of young people around the world, they're going to be kingdomized, not churchized. And I realize I just coined a couple of words, but I don't know what else to say. They will become kingdom-minded, not religious. And there's a generation out there now that is about to be impacted with Mark 16, but in their very DNA he has put Matthew 28. Even though they may protest and do marches and violate and they curse and they put on goofy hats, they're doing all of that because there's something in them that wants to change things and make a difference. They think they have enough wisdom to rule nations, but they don't have any wisdom. but they're going to get saved and then they're going to be fathered and mothered and transformed and then they're going to become an army that can transform a nation because the generation that he's about to pour himself out on they care more about making a difference in the earth than they do their own individual blessings and inheritance so lord Take us now to the fullness of the full giftings. Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, but Lord, move us to a more complete expression of those things. Mature us in the apostolic. Until the government that's on your shoulder comes out of our mouths. The government on your shoulder is in our spirit. And we... Manifest you, King of the Nations, Creator, Judge. Mature us in our prophetic anointing, gifting, evangelism. Make sure this time that the evangelists are connected to the apostles and prophets so our goal is not just to get them saved. It's to transform them into warriors, ecclesia members, soldiers. Mature us in these understandings and as we move into this new era. Help us to get rid of old paradigms that would limit you. Help us to change our way of thinking so that we don't mix up these two things in the sense of making them synonymous, Mark 16 and Matthew 28. Help us to get to the a point where we understand we're doing one and the other and we do them together yes but we're not just doing this we're doing both we're not just getting them ready for heaven we're bringing kingdom to earth kingdom of heaven to earth thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us the faith to begin to believe that this can happen. Give us the faith, help us with our faith to expand, to believe we can do the works of Jesus and greater works. That we can function for Him the way He functioned for the Father. Not doing one teaching or working one miracle until the Father said do it. We're not going to do anything. We're going to be so tuned in and so listening and so hearing. We're not going to do anything until you have told us. The head of the church has told us. And when he says go over here, we're going to go over there. When he says stop, we're going to stop. When he says heal, we're going to heal. When he says tear it down, we're going to tear it down. So help us to begin to think differently. Help us to begin to think not just as children, but as the manifested, the earth is waiting for the manifestation of sons of God. God, fully matured sons and daughters. Not just children who want their rights and privileges, but sons and daughters who can insist on the will of the Father being done in the business. Not just those that can heal the one, as in children, but those that Romans 8 says can heal nations, because even the very earth is groaning, crying out for the manifestation of sons. And Mark 16 is never going to heal us of racism. It's never going to overthrow abortion. But Mark 16 and Matthew 28 will. The salvation of the king and the dominion of the king will overthrow these giants in the earth. And as we move into a season of overthrowing giants. We will overthrow them as the ecclesia. We will take them down as the ecclesia. We will take them down as we release the dominion of the king, the word of the lord, the binding and the loosing, the keys of the kingdom, the sword of the lord, and we will take down giants. I ask you for an increase of revelation into these areas of the scripture. I ask you for books, dozens, dozens and dozens of books to be written on Ecclesia. On the marrying of these five giftings. On how they can function together with more insight. Lord, give us new books on the apostolic. Give us new books on the prophetic. But give us books on how they work together. Give us new books on the kingdom. Give us books on ecclesia. Give us books that do more than teach the individual. Give us books on how to transform the thinking of nations. Give us more than the teacher who says we should take the seven mountains. Give us prophets and apostles that know how. Let the wisdom of the King begin to manifest through the apostolic and prophetic leaders in the body of Christ. Give us faith to bring us to a point where we understand. And it's more than just a sermon that makes us excited, that we understand that we do have more dominion on the planet than any king or any president anywhere. That when we get aligned with you correctly and fully, you will speak through us and your authority will back up what we say. And when we bind, it'll be bound from heaven. When we lose, it'll be loosed from heaven. And the kingdom of God will come to earth and manifest. And ancient strongholds, ancient strongholds will come down.