Living in Heaven Now – Bill Johnson Full Sermon

How is it possible to live in Heaven now? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches on abiding in Christ, and what effect that has in our lives in relation to eternity. Learning to abide in God’s Presence increases our awareness of our eternal purpose, and the realization that we have access to Heaven here and now. The Apostle Paul talked about being “seated in Heavenly places”, which was never supposed to simply be a theology, but an invitation to an ongoing experience. As we lean into this truth, we will increasingly live from an eternal perspective, and tune our hearts to the dreams and plans in God’s heart, becoming one with Him.

Jesus lived an ascended lifestyle Paul

would later find language for it and he

would call it being seated in Heavenly

places in Christ

tragically it becomes a Doctrine not an

experience

it was never meant to be a point of

theology it was supposed to be an

invitation to help the journey the

ascended lifestyle this place of of of

living aware of him living aware of

Eternity living aware of Heaven itself

this place of abiding is the place of

absolute Triumph and Victory

anyone twist their knee today yesterday

the last couple days to us when you did

yeah stand up it should be healed

anybody else

check

check it out check it out really good I

mean do what you couldn’t do

it it’s good

tell them it’s good

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there’s uh there’s chill children I

think it’s I think it’s several children

that are just prone to ear infections

and they may not be here

you but you your children uh young kids

prone to ear infections they get them

over and over and over again and so it’s

a weakness in their system you you would

say or their doctor would say whatever

if that’s you and you’re the parent

stand up or if the parents aren’t here

the grandparent is you stand up because

we’re going to pray and declare

yeah quite a few yeah this is uh This

Ends Tonight All Right This Ends Tonight

extend a hand towards them and we just

declare in the name of the Lord Jesus

in the name of Jesus this cycle of ear

infections

Ends Tonight

thank you Lord Holy Spirit we ask that

you would uh just recreate that whole

the way the ear functions in in these

folks the the chemical system wherever

there’s the breakdown we just ask for

you to step in

and to make it okay thank you we declare

this in Jesus name Amen in Jesus why

don’t you declare that with me in Jesus

name

do you know what that means it basically

means that we’re doing what he would do

if he were here in the in the flesh in

his name we’re using we’re using his

authority his name

to do something

and I think I don’t know that any of us

have the right to say this verse is most

important or that verse but I’m going to

do it anyway

um I I think I think maybe the most

important verse let me put make it

personal the most important verse for me

in recent years concerning my faith my

walk with the Lord is John 15 verse 7.

if you abide in me my word abide in you

you ask whatever you want it’ll be done

if you abide in me

living with the the felt presence of God

is a benefit the benefit of a believer

it’s not I’m not talking about emotion

it affects emotions I’m not talking

about some you know emotional Buzz or

something I’m talking about the felt

realization of God he is actually

tangibly right here

and there’s Larry Randolph uh what used

to tell us he said if God is as big as

he says he is he shouldn’t be that hard

to find

and that’s that’s I think that’s that’s

quite wise so

we often look for

um well let me just say this

living with the realization of the

presence of God

or this far away from living with the

realization of Eternity

we’re this far away of living with a

really realization of Heaven itself

abiding in Christ is actually a

foretaste of

of Heaven

he is the person of Heaven

there’s nothing that exists in heaven

that isn’t that is separate from him

there’s nothing in that reality in that

realm that is actually separate from him

Ecclesiastes 3 verse 11 says that God

ordained us to have eternity in our

hearts

there are certain things that are like

like our DNA

our spiritual DNA has eternity is

written

in our hearts

it is

it is Who We Are

living

aware

of him is the great privilege in life

and the big uh the the big work of the

enemy is to do whatever he can through

manipulation through accusation

um these different tools that he uses

to to make us distracted

from what we have a gift

to live aware of

I don’t know if that maybe if I don’t

think I said that real well but work

with me

we have a we it’s written into our

design

to live conscious of him

it’s not something you have to work to

do it’s something you have to learn not

to do

you can you can worry yourself out of it

but you’ll have to work hard

he is the most predominant feature of

your life is him

his love for us is the most extreme

thing there is

before there was

sin

God had prepared a savior

to the son of his would take upon

himself everything that you and I

deserve

so that we would freely inherit all that

he deserved

it is so mind-boggling it’s easiest to

not think about it

because it hurts

it actually is beyond

it’s beyond our ability to wrap our head

around the fact that he actually became

sin and bore the Wrath of the father

in my place

so that I

through a faith he gave me

could receive that gift of Salvation and

literally step into what he deserved

eternity is written in my heart

and the great um

the great privilege that we have

is this

living aware of him is a continual feast

it’s a constant Feast there’s there’s no

downside

the presence of God doesn’t have a shelf

life

it doesn’t get old it doesn’t become

familiar

Christian routine becomes familiar songs

become familiar Expressions become

familiar but there’s nothing about the

presence that becomes overly familiar

those who are stuck in ruts have lost

sight of the presence and have reduced

their life to the routine

foreign

Chris read out of Ephesians 4 this

morning

a great word

and in this verse 11 I think it is he

says and that these gifts of Christ

fivefold Ministry have been given until

we attain to the unity of faith so there

was something set in motion

that he says this is where we’re going

this is where it ends up

there’s many verses that describe where

we’re going and where it ends up

we know that we have all been

predestined to be like Christ

there there is no plan B there’s only

Jesus and his desire for me is to look

like Jesus

so we have this we have this description

that these gifts were given until

we come to Unity of Faith we’re probably

at least a week or two away from that

three let’s go three weeks three weeks

later

Unity of Faith it’s an extraordinary

thing I can’t even comprehend what that

looks like

I mean I haven’t I haven’t heard enough

time being united in my own faith with

with me you know

there’s a lot of folks that can have a

church split even if they were the only

member

yep

so he says this is where we’re headed to

the unity Faith now you have to

understand

he can pull it off

we can

until we attain to the unity of faith to

the measure of the stature that belongs

to the fullness of Christ

you know it’s just easier to say that

stuff’s supposed to happen in heaven

I mentioned a few weeks to you actually

it was a Sunday Morning Show but I

mentioned a few weeks ago that uh

most Believers have greater faith in the

return of Christ than they do in the

power of the Gospel

and the concept behind that statement is

the fact that we know Jesus is coming

back and when he does he’ll fix

everything

instead of us believing that the power

of the Gospel that’s been given to us is

what fixes everything

instead of him returning to fix stuff

maybe he’s coming to

pick up what is fixed

[Applause]

so to the measure of the stature

of the fullness of Christ and then he

uses this phrase a mature man a perfect

man

I don’t this is mind-boggling this is uh

this is troubling

he actually has put us on a course that

says this is where you’re going to end

up you the people of God and the world

gets a bigger mess and the church gets

more divided and he still hasn’t changed

his plan

it still hasn’t said uh

too much work never mind I’ll just come

back and fix it myself he just didn’t do

that

it just didn’t do that

I’m fascinated by well by Everything

Jesus did but a story that stands out to

me in this moment

is the fact that Jesus

the disciples had come to him saying the

crowds

the crowd needs to go home we have no

food they’re starving send them away and

Jesus said you feed them

which is just a classic moment because

you got to mention the disciples are

waiting for him to laugh and hit him on

the shoulder and say just kidding you

know after after he gives this command

but he doesn’t he doesn’t he doesn’t

break into laughter he says you feed

them and and they’re nervously trying to

figure out how in the world can we do

that if we had the food we we couldn’t

do that

and so Jesus all he does

is he

he gives them

he gives them something to do

it says have the people sit down in

groups of 50 and 100.

okay

anybody have food here yeah there’s a

kid with lunch

all right

so Jesus could have created up nothing

but he usually creates with something

it’s fascinating that he he easily could

have just from nothing but these

Miracles that we see in scripture

actually started he had something to

work with

and so in John’s gospel when he talks

about this situation

it said when he broke the bread when he

gave thanks

he distributed to the disciples and it

it became more than enough

but when he gave thanks what did he give

thanks for

he gave thanks for not enough

he gave thanks when it was way

insufficient

see when you take what isn’t enough

and you baptize it in thankfulness

it becomes supernaturally positioned to

be more than enough

it’s the power of Thanksgiving

it’s the power of a thankful heart

an unthankful heart is is imprisoned by

numbers and limitations and restrictions

a thankful heart is positioned to see

increase

in John’s gospel it says there are 5 000

men besides women and children this

happened two different times

the multiplying of at least twice that

we know

and it says there are five thousand men

not counting women and children

where did the Loaves and Fishes come

from

a child

someone who didn’t count

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you heard it in the video tonight with

the by the Global Response

where

the Ukrainian people are saying we we

thought the world forgot us we thought

even God forgot us and

he said the world maybe has but God

hasn’t forgotten

there’s there’s something there’s

something

profoundly significant by recognizing

the value of an individual

and hear Jesus

honors a child

I don’t know if there were other lunches

that were there wasn’t important

it was the one that was given to him was

from a child and Jesus Took

and he didn’t throw it in the air and go

Shazam

I mean let’s let’s face it crowd control

you know you don’t create a mountain of

food in front of thousands of hungry

people

instead what he did is he divided it

into 12 baskets

and the disciples distributed

how much was in a basket I don’t know

that much I don’t know

but 12 baskets is not enough to feed

five thousand men besides women and

children can we say fifteen thousand

people

12 baskets isn’t near enough

unless it multiplies as you’re giving it

out

so when Jesus said you feed them

he didn’t change his mind when they said

we have no food

he didn’t change his mind when they were

puzzled by The Challenge he didn’t

change his mind all he did was enable

them to do simple actions that he would

bless and cause food to multiply in

other words there’s a point of obedience

most Miracles are connected to a point

of obedience and we usually wait for

something to happen to us when

oftentimes we’re supposed to take Faith

and put it into an action

the blind man go wash in the pool of

Siloam that’s a cruel assignment for a

guy who’s blind

you’ve got to go to another geographical

location and wash in a specific pool

but there was something in his makeup

that needed confronting is too strong of

a word

it needed to be there’s something that

needed to be exercised in him

in his obedience

so many times we see actions we see

blind Bartimaeus take off his Beggar’s

robe there is a profound action

it’s what qualified him as a legal

beggar in that culture

people would see that garment to know he

was legitimately blind and needed help

so when he took that off the

extraordinary Act of Faith but actions

have to take place I I remember Through

The Years so often I would I would have

people do something

not you know if you’ve got a broken

ankle I wouldn’t say stand up here on

the stage and jump off to test and see

if it’s healed

game night

I I wouldn’t do that unless he told me

to I wouldn’t do it out of the principle

of faith please listen to this carefully

I will not put anybody at risk of the

principle of faith

I had times I’ll have to put myself at

risk out of the principle of Faith

because I’m not getting a breakthrough

but I have no right to put you at risk

let me illustrate it

is it true

that the Widow gave her last meal to the

prophet

and that was the key to her economic

breakthrough for the next season

is it true

read your Bibles because it’s in there

and it’s a really good story

so it’s a it’s a it’s it’s a principle

of faith

she emptied her own resources and gave

to the prophet

I’m grieved at how often I hear people

in this position use that to tell people

that’s what they need to do you never

put somebody else at risk

unless he says so

and the most terrifying thing I think

for that Prophet was for him to bring a

word to a widow who was down to her last

meal and he’s got to tell her that the

kid her breakthrough is you feed me

first

some would automatically think that’s

arrogance I think it’s the absolute

greatest demonstration of humility

because it’s obeying to a point you make

yourself look foolish

I want you to look with me at uh John

chapter 3

and I I’ve talked about this so many

times I feel a little bit embarrassed

doing it again but I it just actually at

the end of worship I felt like

I felt like I should talk to you about

this

and I’ll try to

hurry through the parts I’ve done so

many times

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so when Jesus told his disciples you

feed them

and they were clueless as to what to do

they knew they didn’t have enough

he didn’t change the assignment

he just enabled them through simple

step-by-step instruction enabled them to

do what was actually impossible

when Jesus says to you and to me go into

all the world preach the gospel disciple

Nations

you may be like me going wait a minute

all we’ve got is a kid’s lunch

and if we’ll listen further he gives us

step by step

approach because he’s not changing his

plan

he’s not going to change his mind he’s

not going to say

all right it’s a little rough making you

like me I tell you what I’ll try to make

you like John

or Fred you know whoever

it doesn’t change his plan he’s got he’s

got an assignment for you and for me

and here’s the great thrill for me is

that we actually get to live first of

all we acknowledge in Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3 11.

eternity is already in my heart it is

already written in my spiritual DNA I am

a forever person

to die and to lose this tent

there it’s seamless between this moment

and Eternity it’s a seamless entrance

into that reality

because I have eternity in my heart

and

one of the things that happens

when you lose somebody that you love and

care for

family member dear friend

when a Believer dies

I’ve been with a number of family

members and Friends

uh is is down to a two-year-old child

I’ve been with him when they’ve died

and extremely sobering moments I’ve been

with a number of people when they have

gone from this world to the next

and it’s it’s it’s such a sobering thing

because you you have this privilege

to be with somebody that you care for

and walk them right to the edge of

Eternity

and to hand them off so to speak I mean

that’s what you’re doing you’re you’re

in this moment

where there is no other explanation for

this moment then

they have now been received into their

Eternal reward

that has to become more real

the more blessed you become in Earthly

in an Earthly sense

the more necessary it is to become more

aware of Eternity

people who are being persecuted it’s

easy for them to live with a greater

awareness of Eternity

because they’ve not fixed their Hope on

immediate blessing a breakthrough they

fix their Hope on eternity it’s much

easier for them to live conscious of

Eternal reward

but those who go through seasons of

great breakthrough great healing and

miracles uh Provisions promotions at

work all those things all those things

are supposed to be demonstrations of the

heart and nature of the Father which is

supposed to warm our heart for eternity

but when it’s not

when it’s appreciated on a surface level

it actually hardens us to Eternity

and makes us more in love with blessing

now

and I I believe that God would bless us

beyond what any of us would possibly

imagine in an Earthly sense

the challenge is to bless a people

but not bless them out of their

consciousness of Eternity

the problem isn’t the amount of blessing

the problems you and me the problem is

us and so these moments that I’ve had

through the years and I’m thankful for

every one of them uh some so

so painful

but they are all gifts they’re gifts

because they’re absolute reminders it’s

like you have something right here you

cannot get away from it you can pretend

it’s not there you can close your eyes

you can humans sing you know plug your

ears you can do whatever you want but

it’s right here and it’s not going

anywhere and that’s the fact that

somebody that you care for just stepped

into eternity

and you can either Savor the moment

and enter into a an actual

a promotion just in your own soul

of what feeds you what strengthens you

what excites you

you can either you can either become

healthier in your your inner world

because of that experience you can’t

control it you can’t explain it but it’s

there and it’s more real than the nose

on my face

it is this will all vanish that never

goes away

so if it is if it is in fact the

Ultimate Reality

then I owe it to myself

and I owe it to anyone under my

influence to live more and more

conscious

of him

but I’m going to push a little farther

conscious of him

conscious of Eternity

conscious of this reality called heaven

at several moments this morning in

worship and tonight uh

where I could just just in my heart of

hearts I could just catch glimpses of

the nation standing before Him worship

just

it just it just becomes so real it

becomes it becomes as real and maybe

more real

than us together in this room singing of

the greatness of God it just becomes it

becomes

predominant

and and I need that

you need that

so this verse that has uh defined a huge

part of my life in recent years

if you abide in me that’s living in the

felt realization of his presence

if you abide in me in my word abides in

you that’s that’s the intentional

embracing of what he has to say holding

it as a treasure in your soul

says Mary treasured these words in her

heart

she treasured what do you do with the

treasure you don’t you don’t take a

treasure and leave it on the coffee

table

if you’ve got something you know you

have a a a vase that is worth you know

two million dollars you know you just

don’t stick it out where the

two-year-olds play you know why because

because it will get destroyed

and there are things that God has spoken

to every person in this room

it needs to be marked in your soul

because it’s your history with God

it’s your history it’s these moments

where you were just you know maybe you

just came to Christ you began to read in

the Bible this verse just meant so much

to you the this is your history this is

your journey these are Milestones along

the way that that have marked your life

and you you write down I I I have marks

all through my Bible of of my journey my

history with God where he spoke to me I

can take you to a place in Weaverville

where I was in the woods weeping before

the Lord because I was so distraught

over things that that I was experiencing

and my ache for more and and and the

Lord spoke to me spoke to me out of a

out of a Ephesians chapter 4 he spoke to

me so deeply

and

out of context

but it healed my heart

it helped me it didn’t change my

situation it changed me

and what my situation needed was me

changed

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sometimes in the journey you know we

meet him and we want him to be the great

deliverer and healer and fixer of stuff

and he is that and all and more

but there are sometimes he wants to work

inside of me first

and in in that moment it’s my it’s my

history it’s my journey

abide in me my words abide in you and

here’s the crazy conclusion to that

verse you’ll ask anything you desire

I I talk about this all the time

I don’t want anyone to think I actually

understand it

I talk about it kind of because I’m

trying to learn to understand it

see God God

is it condoning self-centered

Christianity he’s not he’s not condoning

this egotistical thing where God is the

cosmic bellhop who attends to whatever

we wish and desire nothing could be

further from the truth nothing

and yet what is true is so strangely

close to that that a large part of the

church has abandoned it all together

four times in three chapters Jesus says

whatever you ask for will be done

here’s how some of us teach it

when we pray what Jesus tells us to pray

then he’ll answer our prayer

oh that’s true but it’s not what he said

actually this the context is this

immersion into a journey

where your heart beats consistent with

his and he can trust your dream

something happens in the journey where

my my thoughts my ambitions they’re not

there because he commanded them they’re

there because they’re The Offspring of a

relationship

the the result of a journey I’ve seen

his heart I’ve tasted I’ve tasted of his

words I have fed my soul on what he

dreams about and I’ve got stuff going on

inside of me and I don’t know if it’s

the will of God or not and Jesus says

just keep my word in you live in the in

the atmosphere of presence and I’ll

Trust you you can pray for anything you

want it’ll be done he’s looking for not

an individual but a generation

can you imagine this what would it be

like my goodness just this amount of

people in the room on the planet

that anything they asked for

when what he’s intending is the however

many hundreds of millions of Believers

there are actually in that position to

pray

and to see things shift because they

prayed

that’s that’s where you’re going you’re

headed towards this thing and becoming

like Christ what does that look like

anything you ask for

foreign

I don’t know about you there are times

in my life where I really don’t want him

to do that

I I want him just to tell me what to do

I’m I’m really good just give me the

details step one two three and four and

I’ll do exactly what you say and he

somehow for some reason actually wants

wants to interact with me in the journey

to find out what I want I don’t want to

want

I wouldn’t be told what to do

I’m I’m a real good doer doer you know

I’ll do whatever he says

and there are times where he’s just he’s

just silent he’s not it’s never silent

out of punishment

it’s not silence out of you know it’s

not giving you the silent treatment he’s

Sonic because he’s already spoken

that’s true all right I need to I need

to wrap this up but we haven’t even I

quoted scripture though so it is a legal

meeting but I should probably I should

probably read read something here

John chapter three are you still there

I’m going to take you through part of

this really quick so I can get to one

verse actually two verses all right

what’s what you’re well I have so much

time I do all right

I’m not taking a vote I’m not taking a

vote

can’t better talk fast read fast

you listen fast

agreed

all right verse 2

Nicodemus came to Jesus by night

and said to him Rabbi we know you’re a

teacher come from God

for no one can do these signs that you

do unless God is with him okay stop

right there

we know you’re a teacher come from God

because no one can do these signs that

you do

no one can do these signs that you do

God is with you

the teaching gift in the body of Christ

is not looked at as a miracle working

gift but it was for Jesus

the word is to set the stage for the

miracle

it doesn’t mean every time the Bible is

taught there should be signs and wonders

but it does mean there’s an occasion for

it and if you’re a teacher of the word

of God lean into it because your words

create opportunities

don’t be satisfied with the word only

the scripture says the kingdom is not

inward it is in power

it’s very diverse again it seemed to go

over so well I want to just kind of make

sure you see it

Rabbi we know that you’re a teacher come

from God for no one can do these signs

that you do unless God is with him Jesus

answered and said to him most assuredly

I say to you unless one is born again he

cannot see the kingdom of God stop right

there what is the kingdom

it’s the invisible reality of God’s

Dominion

it’s measured in the visible

but the kingdom itself is unseen

Matthew 12 28 Jesus said if I cast a

demon Out of You by the spirit of God

then the kingdom of God Came Upon you so

here’s a demonized individual Jesus

ministers to him and the demons leave so

Jesus then describes this is why the

demons left

because the Dominion of God that is

unseen Came Upon the demonized person

and drove the evil spirits out

so now the Dominion of God is

established in this life instead of the

demonic

unless you’re born again you cannot see

the unseen reality of God’s Dominion

what’s the implication if you’re born

again you can see

our conversion gave us a gift

a capacity

for most it goes undeveloped

because we get taught that certain

things aren’t for today or whatever

or they’re for another culture maybe a

missionary culture or something

but they’re actually it’s actually the

normal Christian Life

unless you’re born again you cannot see

if you’re born again you can see

what can you see the Unseen

verse 4 Nicodemus said how can a man be

born when he’s old can he enter a second

time into his mother’s womb and be born

Jesus answered most assuredly I say to

you unless one is born of water that’s

the natural birth and the spirit that’s

being born again he cannot enter the

kingdom of God

verse 6 that which is born of flesh is

flesh that’s natural birth that which is

born of the spirit is Spirit

do not Marvel that I said to you you

must be born again the wind blows where

it wishes you hear the sound of it but

cannot tell where it comes from where it

goes so is everyone who is born of the

spirit

you guys still like breathing and

everything you guys are still sucking

air and all that stuff all right

so he’s just given us two unusual

illustrations of conversion and the

Christian Life

conversion being born again the

Christian Life is the nature of wind

verse 9 Nicodemus answered said to him

how can these things be

and Jesus in his classic

so their response said are you a teacher

of Israel you don’t know these things

that’s funny

most assuredly I say to you we speak

what we know and testify what we have

seen you do not receive our witness who

is we

we speak what we know we testify what we

have seen

it’s not Jesus and the disciples

scratch that

it’s not even Jesus and the angels

father

son

Holy Spirit

now think about this read this verse in

that light again we speak

what we know

Jesus only said what he heard his father

say

so when he says we speak

he is saying the father

be the son

the spirit of God is upon me enabling me

to speak words of authority and Power

father son Holy Spirit

we speak what we know we testify to what

we have seen God has an interesting test

of testimony

God has an interesting testimony

now look what he says he said he says we

testify excuse me we speak what we know

we testify what we have seen you do not

receive our Witness

is it possible that Jesus is saying

nobody wants to listen to our story

nobody wants to hear our testimony

this chapter to me is an invitation to

everyone who’s born again to be restored

to the normal Christian Life

all right here’s the two verses I

actually wanted

that all everything else was hors

d’oeuvres that was the runway we’re now

we’re now about to take flight all right

verse 12. if I have told you Earthly

things and you do not believe how will

you believe if I tell you Heavenly

things

all right just stop right there well

I’ll read it again in a moment

when the Lord unveils gives

understanding of his kingdom

he starts

with what is the easiest for us to

understand

which specifically is natural natural

things

he starts with things like

sewing and reaping

you plant corn you harvest

corn

you plant an apple tree you harvest

apples

your soul Mercy you receive

Mercy see he starts with natural things

because it’s the easiest for us to grab

hold of

and so what he does is he sets natural

principle in place wherever the natural

world mirrors or reflects concepts of

the kingdom of God that which we can’t

see

he draws parallels so that we understand

the nature of what we can’t see

are you with me

so here in this verse he says if I teach

you Earthly things and you don’t believe

if I talked about Earthly things and you

don’t get it you don’t connect the dots

how can I talk to you about Heavenly

things

all right

when did he do that

he did it when he said you must be born

again

and the Christian Life is Like wind

stay with me he set the stage for them

to grab hold of an understanding of this

unseen reality called the Dominion of

God

and he was letting them taste of and

have glimpses of how that world

functioned

because if we’re going to honor the

nature of this unseen reality called

God’s Dominion his kingdom

the reality of his rule his lordship if

we’re going to live under that it helps

us to understand how that world

functions

and so In this passage he says if I talk

to you about Earthly things being born

wind

and you’re not connecting the dots

how can I talk to you about Heavenly

things what does he mean by that

how can I talk to you about the nature

of my world that has no earthly parallel

how can I talk to you about the nature

of my world that has no earthly Peril

there’s nothing to compare it to

you

foreign

if I’ve told you Earthly things and you

do not believe

you know these illustrations that Jesus

gives all through scripture Parables

other things that you and I learned just

through life what the Lord will speak to

us about something natural

those are all invitations to increase

faith

here let’s read it again so that you can

see it

if I’ve told you Earthly things and you

do not believe

so what was his intention of telling

them Earthly things

it’s that they would believe

his intended outcome as he invited them

into this dialogue into this experience

into this journey his intended outcome

was come

I want you to step into

Billy faith I want you to come into a

greater place of Faith so he invites

them but they miss it

and he says man if you’re not getting it

when I’m talking about the simple things

planting corn harvesting corn showing

Mercy reaping Mercy if you’re not making

that connection

then I can’t talk to you about my world

that has no earthly parallel what’s the

point he wants to

he wants to John 16 is is a is a

sobering portion of scripture for me

Jesus actually tells the his disciples

and the crowd he’s with I forget how

many were there but he tells this group

of people he says I have so many things

to tell you but you can’t bear it now

whenever Jesus speaks he creates

let me put it this way whenever he

speaks he releases the reality of

another world into the atmosphere

we know this is true in John 6 he said

my words to you are Spirit

and their life words become presence

so whenever Jesus spoke words became

presence

and so here he says I have so many

things to say to you but you can’t bear

them now you don’t have the weight

carrying capacity for what I would

release over you if I told you all that

was in my heart

so that tells me number one there’s a

responsibility to be able to host him

well but also to have the character the

the the the surrender the willingness to

do whatever he says to live in that

place where you can you can carry

increased measures I think it’s all

about this increased measures of his

glory

you say well he won’t share his glory

with another it’s true but you’re not

another

we are members of his body

and so he’s working to build us up in

strength and Purity and power to walk in

this in this dimension of of Christ’s

likeness

so that he can impart more so he says

I’ve got so much to say to you but you

can’t bear bear no it would it would

crush you

so here he says if I told you Earthly

things you don’t get it

how are you going to get it when I talk

to you

about reality of my world that’s within

reach that has no earthly parallel and

yet I’ve called you to broker it into

the Earth

I’ve got one more verse to read I’ll

take a few more minutes for it and then

we’ll we’ll pray

verse 13 is the mysterious verse

no one has ascended to heaven

but he who came down from heaven

that is the son of man my translation as

this phrase who is in heaven

no one has ascended to heaven

but he who came down from heaven

that is the son of man

who is in heaven all right we’ll look at

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