WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.580 Morning, good day everyone. It is day 26 and this is entitled Destroying Authority 2 00:00:06.580 --> 00:00:11.500 that Establishes Chaos. Restful one, listen with your spirit to the Word of 3 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:16.980 God for you. Stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, 4 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:21.100 with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the 5 00:00:21.100 --> 00:00:26.640 readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up 6 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.520 the shield of faith with which you can establish all the flaming arrows of the 7 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:34.880 evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the 8 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:39.720 Word of God, and pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers 9 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:45.640 and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the 10 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:50.760 saints. Ephesians 6, 14 through 18. This well-known portion of Scripture on 11 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:56.520 spiritual warfare describes the armor of the believer. Look at the feet fitted 12 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.640 with the readiness of the gospel of peace. Peace destroys the authority that 13 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:07.120 establishes chaos. The enemy creates chaos through division and alienation. He 14 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:12.000 fractures relationships, subtly or overtly, between man and God, between 15 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.440 people, in every facet of society, even in man's relationship with nature. We must 16 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:22.520 war against the enemy who creates chaos and destroys his authority to establish 17 00:01:22.520 --> 00:01:26.960 chaos. To have authority against the demonic structure that establishes chaos, 18 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:32.160 we must live a lifestyle of being peacemakers, of knowing how to bring 19 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:37.800 peace of God to bear on the fragmentation of our culture. Jesus 20 00:01:37.800 --> 00:01:46.000 modeled this. At times, he was assertive. At times, he was compassionate. At times, 21 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.240 he forgave the most overt sinner, and at times, he confronted the seemingly 22 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:57.320 righteous religious structure. Jesus used different tools to destroy the 23 00:01:57.320 --> 00:02:04.920 authority structures that brings chaos. I bless you, restful one, with being a 24 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:10.080 student of the peacemaking skills of Jesus Christ. I bless you with having 25 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:15.160 ears to hear what the Spirit is saying in your spirit, and I bless you with 26 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:20.040 improving your skill of hearing your Father's voice. I bless you with being 27 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:25.640 led by your Father in situations where there is chaos, division, and alienation, 28 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:30.800 so that you have opportunity often to practice the art of being a peacemaker. I 29 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.800 bless you with well-fitted shoes on your feet that are ready to bring the gospel 30 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:42.640 of peace in all of its different colors and forms upon a multitude of situations 31 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:48.200 around you. Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called 32 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:56.400 sons of God. Matthew 5, 9. I bless you to aspire to that title, that you would be 33 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:00.920 called a son of God because you have mastered the art of being a peacemaker. I 34 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:05.640 bless you to destroy the spiritual structure that authorizes chaos in every 35 00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:10.640 situation where people don't want peace, where people are turning against you and 36 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:15.920 the things of God. God will bring you into a multitude of situations like that, 37 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:21.600 for this world is full of chaos, brokenness, and alienation. The structures 38 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:28.280 of the enemy are everywhere. I bless you with endurance in peacemaking, because 39 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.920 being a peacemaker is a difficult thing. 40 00:03:33.160 --> 00:03:38.900 Rest for one, I bless you with honing your peacemaking skills as he takes you 41 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:44.080 through one apprenticeship after another, grooming you to wear the title of 42 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:49.760 peacemaker as a son of God. I bless you with being a peacemaker who has the 43 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:53.280 spiritual authority to demolish the strongholds which bring chaos into your 44 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:59.440 family and your community. I bless you with setting your face like Flint 45 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:04.200 towards the goal of being a peacemaker and being sought out because you have 46 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:10.520 high authority over the spiritual structures that bring chaos. I bless you 47 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.000 with having your feet shod with the readiness that comes from the gospel of 48 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.240 peace. I bless you with being one of the sons of God in the name of Jesus Christ 49 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:30.480 of Nazareth, who was your prototype, your prototype. Lord, there are times when I 50 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:36.040 felt that the dictionary in heaven and the dictionary on earth have become 51 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:44.960 misaligned, or there's concepts that have kind of been imputed or work their 52 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:50.480 way in into our culture, especially not just society, but even in Christian 53 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:59.400 culture that being a peacemaker is to be somehow passive or conflict-averse. 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 We're not supposed to have conflict. 55 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:20.880 There was a season where I was in these strange situations and I started seeing these aspects of which there was almost like an aggressive enforcement or, or where you were making peace in a sense where you were imputing peace into situations. 56 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:28.880 Not just trying to placate people to try to keep everybody from to get along. Can't we all just get along? 57 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:44.000 There are cultures and other religions in particular where this acquiescent way of being is like the lukewarm water that you want to spit out. They have, and they just do not go well. 58 00:05:45.000 --> 00:06:08.000 The Islamic culture in particular does not at all value these things and looks at it as weakness and there's a, there's an element in which some of this way of being where our Christian culture and their culture has kind of set a table where we are at a disadvantage in a sense. 59 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Just how we have mitigated certain circumstances. But there's an aspect of the peacemaker that is a place where you're making enforcing peace, you're imputing peace in an area in a forceful way. 60 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:33.000 Just like almost like how the police are known as peace keepers. There's an active agent in it. 61 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:48.000 And that you as our model, sometimes, as they said, you are assertive. The same God that forgave, that drove out demons, the same God that which is a form of peace. 62 00:06:48.000 --> 00:07:08.000 You drive the demons out and the peace can be. You're making space. But there is the same place where he healed the one, the same one where he knew all of the sins of the woman, the same one where he said those without, you know, without sin cast the first stone. 63 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:31.000 One that would, that would do miracles and say, go and sin no more. And the same, you know, man, the same Lord went and made a whip by hand and angrily chased people from the temple. 64 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:40.000 There's an aspect of who you are, even as a peacemaker, that we really don't know and understand. 65 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:58.000 And so many, including myself, have this wonderance in this, this affinity for that scripture that says that the all of creation is groaning for the manifestations of the sons of God. 66 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:19.000 There's whole, there's a whole movements in the past and even now that are all around the manifestation, the latter rain movement about being a sons of God that it's like, kind of like, for lack of better term, like being a superhero or something. 67 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:48.000 And it's not that it's not true at all. But it's so interesting if you, if you say, according to the greatest sermon that you ever gave is, well, some would say, and it would say that the peacemakers will be the sons of God, that there's an aspect of almost like a requirement, a building block to be a, to manifest the son of God that comes from being a peacemaker. 68 00:08:49.000 --> 00:09:06.000 And that Lord under our feet, all the principalities and powers are under our feet. When we're seated with you in heavenly places that there's an aspect of peace that Lord you, the Prince of Peace would umpire our heart in peace. 69 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:30.000 And I believe as I'm looking, it's like a handshake of being able to be at rest, to be at peace, to be able to destabilize and destroy or displace, it would be another word, the chaos for your order to release peace everywhere that we go. 70 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:59.000 Again, I don't know why every time I go to pray here, I end up with a Graham quote, Graham cook quote in my head, but I heard of once said by him, I thought often Lord of the fruit of the spirit, being a process of, of walking with you, or a reflection of a certain level of maturity, 71 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:00.000 or a reflection of a certain level of maturity. 72 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.000 Or at a minimum, just aspects of your personality, but it was kind of like, I don't know, passive. 73 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:15.080 And for lack of a better term, this is very mundane language, so very spiritual, but kind 74 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:20.880 of like, it was kind of like, not as exciting, let's say, as the gifts. 75 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:24.280 You have the gifts, and you have the fruit. 76 00:10:24.280 --> 00:10:31.640 And I became aware that there was a linkage between the fruit and the gifts, that, Lord, 77 00:10:31.640 --> 00:10:38.040 you don't want to give us more of the gifts than we have of the fruit, because we won't 78 00:10:38.040 --> 00:10:41.840 be able to sustain it. 79 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:50.280 But I heard him describe the fruits of the Spirit as tornadic forces that circle around 80 00:10:50.280 --> 00:11:00.640 us, and in a sense, doing destruction to the enemy, to his kingdom, and that there's 81 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:09.240 even an active place in which we can extend, spiritually speaking, into each situation 82 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:14.600 or into people's lives, aspects of the fruit of the Spirit that they need in that given 83 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.360 moment. 84 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:23.120 And with that in mind, therefore, as a fruit of the Spirit, which is another aspect of 85 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:31.840 your character and your nature, as the Prince of Peace, that we can extend or impute peace 86 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.880 into situations that are in utter chaos. 87 00:11:34.880 --> 00:11:40.400 That in a sense, we can subdue the chaotic culture and structures of this world by the 88 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:52.760 enforcement or the encroachment or the insertion or activation of peace. 89 00:11:52.760 --> 00:12:00.400 And sometimes, Lord, it appears that it can be as simple as engaging it. 90 00:12:00.400 --> 00:12:07.760 Engaging, sitting, walking. 91 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:16.680 Being one with you in that place, and Lord, as a natural outcropping, for lack of a better 92 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:24.280 term, for sitting on what some call the seat of rest. 93 00:12:24.280 --> 00:12:25.880 To be seated with you. 94 00:12:25.880 --> 00:12:28.960 To be at rest in you. 95 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.480 At rest above all powers and principalities. 96 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:36.280 At rest that everything has already been accomplished. 97 00:12:36.280 --> 00:12:41.560 Not in a passive way, as in peace is passive. 98 00:12:41.560 --> 00:12:44.520 There's an active nature of rest. 99 00:12:44.520 --> 00:12:58.000 There's an active way of being, of knowing, of resting, of being at peace. 100 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:08.320 This is a bit of a stretch, but I've heard it described that from folks that have reportedly, 101 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:14.840 you know, been to heaven, that the sea of glass, that I've always even tried to imagine, 102 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:23.640 what is a sea of glass, is really, it's just water that is so still that it's like glass. 103 00:13:23.640 --> 00:13:30.400 It's a perfect reflection, and you can see completely right through it, because there's 104 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:35.320 no passage of time, there's no weather, so to speak, in heaven. 105 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:42.680 Well, Lord, we're 70-something percent water. 106 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:47.240 The Spirit of God hovered over the waters, and Lord, I pray that you would bring our 107 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:55.360 waters to peace in that same place, that internally, whether it's spiritually, whether 108 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.520 it's in our soul or in our bodies, that Lord, that for each person here that would come 109 00:13:59.520 --> 00:14:04.800 to a place of peace and an understanding of peace, that Lord, an aspect of you and your 110 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:13.040 peace, an aspect of you as the Prince of Peace, that the Prince of Peace himself would release 111 00:14:13.040 --> 00:14:25.040 that peace, and today's seed, and sow into each of these folks a new level of peace, 112 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:30.680 an aspect of peace as the peacemaker that has never been. 113 00:14:30.680 --> 00:14:37.240 Lord, I firmly believe, as I've heard these teachings before, that there is something 114 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:49.520 terrifying about your sons and daughters coming into a reality and understanding of who they 115 00:14:49.520 --> 00:14:59.720 are, of their real identity, and that real identity is, partially, is hidden in you. 116 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.880 There's an aspect of who they are that really comes from a greater understanding of who 117 00:15:07.880 --> 00:15:08.880 you are. 118 00:15:08.880 --> 00:15:15.280 And there's an aspect of who they are, we are, that comes from the unique way in which 119 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:17.280 you fashioned us. 120 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:32.840 If we're an ear, then help us to be an ear, for lack of a better term. 121 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:37.880 So Lord, let the Prince of Peace be our tutor today. 122 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:48.480 I pray for the peacemaking aspect of God as the subduing of this world, that it rests 123 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:57.260 upon us, but that we would actively engage into that place of peace as a peacemaker, 124 00:15:57.260 --> 00:16:04.120 that everywhere we go we would release peace, that it would destroy the works of the enemy, 125 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:09.040 that there's a way in which you war, there's a way in which you seek vengeance, there's 126 00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:15.200 a way in which you do things, Lord, that is contrary to how we would do them. 127 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:22.940 And there's something hidden in the aspect of being a peacemaker that unlocks so much 128 00:16:22.940 --> 00:16:27.440 more than we could ever imagine. 129 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:38.000 Lord Jesus, the Prince of Peace, I pray and I ask of you today as the peacemaker, as the 130 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:44.320 umpire of our hearts, that you, Lord, would increase the peace that we have and we carry 131 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:50.560 and increase our capacity for, but that today you would teach us, you would open up some 132 00:16:50.560 --> 00:16:59.680 aspect of being a peacemaker that we have never seen, heard, thought of, or imagined. 133 00:16:59.680 --> 00:17:04.200 As we're entering into, and I know this is a very silly thing to say, Lord, but as we're 134 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:10.880 entering into the Christmas season, and yes, there's always the big Christ in the Christmas, 135 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:17.359 and I know that, Lord, you were not born on Christmas Day, most likely, right? 136 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:27.440 But in the year, in the place of giving up gifts, in the holiday spirit and all of that, 137 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:36.240 my silly, childish, childlike prayer is that today, Lord, that there be a gift, that this 138 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:47.680 aspect of imputing, of releasing something of you, of being a peacemaker, as a gift to 139 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:54.800 be released to each and every one, and that you would help us to find it and unwrap it, 140 00:17:54.800 --> 00:18:00.800 but Lord, that we would receive it as a gift, that you're giving it to us, that it's ours, 141 00:18:01.520 --> 00:18:09.040 and that we don't have to work for it or labor for it, and that there's an aspect of being a 142 00:18:09.040 --> 00:18:17.840 peacemaker and living at peace and living at rest that unlocks and is a key to great sonship power 143 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:24.480 and to the destroying of things here, to move in the opposite spirit, as it's been said, 144 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:32.800 to chaos, which is peace, and that we bring order. We bless you and we love you, in Jesus' name.