Kia ora, Embassy family, my beautiful beautiful friends from all around the world, what a
delight to be with you and whether you are joining us live or delayed it is an absolute
delight and an honour to have you tuning in with us and watching us and joining us for
the Sonship Masterclass, hey if you can hear me why don't you just hit the thumbs up so
I know boom you are hearing me say I'm hearing you so I know that everything is going well
with you, AJ, Veronica, great to see you guys, what a treat to have you here, Hayley, just
wonderful people, Barry, great to have you all on board, if you can hear me and it's
all going well just type in there, it's all sweet and you're hearing the connection's
good, Steve, Keith, great to have you guys with us for this exciting session, now tonight
my session is called Revealing the Father and tonight I am going to drop some theology
bombs on you, it's going to be exciting and I want to say wow haven't Matt and Joseph's
messages in the Masterclass so far been exceptional, I want to tautoko, to honour them, they have
been amazing, genius level messages, hey I'm glad you guys are hearing well and if you're
checking in for the replay why don't you drop in a hashtag replay if you're going to watch
this later on, for those that are here live what a delight, we really are in for an exciting
night as we go deeper into the Sonship Masterclass and I'm excited to let you know as well that
at the end of the Sonship Masterclass we will actually be sharing with you about the opportunity
for you to come in and experience the full online school of Sonship so that the Masterclass
has got some genius stuff unfolding in it but if you want to go really really deep into
launching into the bliss of your Sonship into effortless bliss and seamless union with the
Trinity then you'll want to stay tuned to the end of the Masterclass and hear about
the opportunity coming up for you to jump on board with the online school of Sonship
and look at all of you guys, Jackie, Sharon, all of you, massive love to you, hey let's
pray and then we're going to get into this, this is going to be an exceptional night, some big
truth bombs, some great freedom coming tonight, some glorious stuff that's going to help us all
transition and go on this migration from a gospel of inadequacy and separation into a gospel of
effortless bliss and seamless union with the Trinity so let's go, if you're liking this,
you're excited about this, let's have a thumbs up, let me know what you're excited about and
also if you've been loving the Masterclass so far let me know as well what's been good,
what have you been getting out of it, great to have you, Shally, all you beautiful people I
see you, let's pray and let's get into it, Trinity we can already sense your presence,
because you're a constant with us, your presence isn't like the shadows that come and go,
your presence is a constant, union with you and bliss in your presence, it is a constant
and everything in us comes before you to honour the sacred wonder, the infinite awesome wonder
of who you are, our hearts are overwhelmed, we are undone by your glory, we are undone by your
sacred glory, by your sacred presence, by your holy face, we're undone by your radical cosmic
crazy love for us that leaves us baptised and overwhelmed and saturated and marinated and
completely recreated, we're undone by this radical love that you have, by this bliss and ecstasy that
you have for us, it leaves us completely undone and with everything that is in us we come to
express that delight right back to you, we come spirit to spirit, we come face to face, we come
so saturated with your love, so flooded with your love, so delighted in your presence,
so it's just so overwhelmed by the wonder and the sacred awe of
who you are, we come before you in total delight, in total bliss, in total ecstasy and say thank
you, thank you, thank you, we love you, we celebrate the wonder of your presence Trinity,
we thank you right now, I thank you that your glory is just moving, wow, your presence is
being awakened upon people, inside people, around people, in the very air we breathe,
I thank you that right now there's revelation of your nearness, there's revelation that
you are, that in you we live and move and have our being, wow, right now I thank you
for this explosions of awakening, explosions of just arising and shining into the present
reality of who you are and who we are and awakening into the present reality of our
union in you and the bliss of this perfect love relationship, well we love you like crazy
and we welcome you Trinity to flood this whole session with the wonders, the wonders of who
you are, with the sacred wonders of who you are, so unveil yourself through your supernatural
presence, unveil yourself for your glory, I thank you that you're turning up in people's
hearts and homes right now, I thank you that there's a thick weighty presence coming on
us, wow, even now, I thank you for a spirit of wisdom and revelation, I thank you for
angels moving, I thank you for heaven moving, I thank you for the throne of God descending
and the glory of God breaking out among us beyond simply my words but the proceeding
word of the living God, the proceeding word of the spirit of God breaking forth into our
hearts causing freedom like never before and sonship like never before and union like never
before and bliss like never before, release your glory and fullness, wow, so good, so good,
we love you, love you, love you, love you, I just want to encourage you, wow, drinking,
drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, Lindi,
Joseph, Angela, Lorraine, great to see you guys, every moment is a moment that is the
perfect moment for drinking in the wonders, for being saturated in the awe, for being
baptized and marinated in the wow, the wild glory, the weighty presence of Yeshua Messiah,
wow guys, this is going to be wild, oh, I'm loving it, I'm getting so blasted and I love
it, I love it that bliss is effortless, I love it that intimacy is not a journey to
a far off land but it's our present reality, it's our default setting, it's where we get
to start from and launch every moment from and launch every day from, wow, so if you
like the concept of effortless bliss, if you want more effortless bliss, give a thumbs
up, give a shout, give a yes Lord, more Lord, if you want more of that then just be like
yeah, boy, I want more of that, that's me for sure, I want more, more, more, more, theology
is great but theology is the study of a real God who's present right now, who's tangible
right now, who's thick weighty presence is always accessible, it's effortlessly accessible
and the bliss of our sonship is that we get to enjoy the wonders of God, so drinking deep
on the wonders, hey tonight is an exceptional night, tonight we're going deeper, tonight
we're going to deal a death blow to some destructive theology that has enslaved me for so many
years of my life to shame and inadequacy and isolation and separation, I just lived in
this religious shame bound isolated existence for more years than I want to admit, well
over a decade, most of my life, I don't know, just over 20 years living in this world of
isolation and shame and inadequacy and separation and you know what, it wasn't something that,
this wasn't, like the issue, my issue is something that developed in church, like I
got this issue from the mainstream gospel, so the mainstream gospel that I heard growing
up was actually a gospel of inadequacy and separation and the core theology of the mainstream
western gospel is
what enslaved me to shame and isolation.
Let me have a look at this.
Let me show you this.
Look, ta-da.
This is what I'm talking about right here.
This gospel right here, okay?
You've probably seen this, right?
That, so here we go.
After the fall, right?
After the fall, because God was so holy,
He couldn't have sinful humanity in His presence,
so He had to distance Himself.
God had to initiate distance and separation
and disconnection from humanity,
so He had to push humanity away
in order to protect His holiness,
and then, so humanity lived isolated and disconnected.
Well, there's humanity over here,
and this is the chasm.
It was described to me as the chasm of separation,
this chasm of separation, and then praise God,
hallelujah, amen, jingle bells, Jesus came,
and by Jesus' death on the cross,
He bridged this chasm of separation,
and finally, humanity over here,
who was separated and isolated,
living in inadequacy and shame,
could finally cross over
and have relationship with God, all right?
So you've probably heard that gospel.
Tonight, let's do something
that will produce effortless bliss and seamless union,
all right, let's start tearing this up, okay?
This is some of the theology bond that I wanna let loose.
Stay tuned, okay,
because I am not gonna be getting into heresy.
I'm gonna be getting into blissful theology
that is gonna liberate you to participate
in effortless, seamless union
and have an effortless bliss.
Look, here we go, it's torn up.
Let's get rid of that.
We don't need that in our lives.
Just give me a thumbs up.
Just give me a thumbs up
if you've had enough of feeling inadequate.
Give me a thumbs up
if you feel like you've had enough of separation.
Give me a thumbs up
if you feel like you've had enough shame.
If you've had more shame
than you think you would need in a lifetime.
If you think you've had more mental anguish
and more condemnation
and more sense of self-hatred
than you think anyone should ever have to deal with.
If you've had enough,
then give me a thumbs up
because I've had enough.
I've had enough of that.
And thanks be to Jesus.
He said that we would know the truth
and the truth would set us free from all those things.
The gospel does not lead us into bondage.
The gospel produces a beautiful liberty
which enables us to effortlessly participate
in the infinite wonders of union
with the trinity which is ecstatic bliss,
unspeakable glory,
unspeakable joy full of ecstatic glory.
That's where the gospel leads us.
Not to shame,
not to isolation,
not to bondage,
not to fear,
not to inadequacy.
So, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna,
I'm gonna drop some truth bombs on you, right?
And then we're gonna unpack these things
and we're gonna be talking about it
in the context that the number one mission
and mandate on the life of Jesus
was not to change the Father,
but the mission,
the mandate of Jesus Christ
was to reveal the Father.
And I wanna say a massive thanks to Matt.
I mean, you did such a great job.
Matt lands down in that last session,
the master class on Jesus' perfect theology
and just unpacking how Jesus reveals the Father.
That was exceptional.
So, if you haven't seen that,
check that one out
cause this follows on so sweetly from there.
Here's my issue with the gospel that I was told
is it starts with this,
it starts with this assumption, right?
It starts with this assumption
that first of all,
you're inadequate.
That as though that's the number one declaration.
And when I heard the gospel,
one of the core declarations of the gospel
is that I was inadequate.
I was a dirty sinner.
And actually, if you look at Calvinistic theology,
they have one of their core beliefs
is total depravity.
And this is something that is still prevalent
in the mindsets of the mainstream Western gospel
is this concept of total depravity.
That there's something intrinsically wrong
with our humanity.
There's something intrinsically corrupt
and defiled about who you are.
And so this became one of the core declarations
that I heard when I was hearing the gospel
in my whole life.
Like I grew up in the church,
so I was hearing this all the time.
all the time. You know, you're a sinner. You're a sinner. If you heard that, why don't you
say a me too? Yep, you heard that too. I'm sure you heard that. Now here's the other
thing that I heard over and over again. Not only was I inadequate, not only was I a sinner,
not only was there something corrupt about the core of who I was, and that I had this
intrinsically sinful nature, I was somehow defiled. Corey, my man, great to see you.
On top of that, I was told that I was distant from God, that my sin had separated me from
God, that my sin had produced a giant chasm, and that God, because He was so holy, because
He was so holy, He couldn't associate with me and my total depravity and my sinfulness.
All right, so that's the gospel that you heard. Let's jump to Acts. If you want to go with
me, Acts chapter 17 verses 27 and 28. Let's read this. Acts chapter 17 verses 27 and 28.
So this is the gospel being preached right here, okay? This is the gospel being preached
by Paul in the Arapagos in Athens. So the people that Paul is preaching to is he's preaching
to people who've never heard the gospel. They've never heard the gospel. They are demon-worshiping,
blood-sacrificing, sin-loving, unrepentant Athenians who've never heard the gospel, all
right? This is who he's speaking to. So in our concept, in our mindset, the way that
I was raised, is these people are about as far away from God as you can possibly get,
all right? They are, I mean, they are right at the pits. Demon-worshipping, blood-sacrificing,
idol-loving pagans. Oh my gosh, that's bad. All right, so we're just jumping in at verse
27. At verse 27, God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him
and find Him. Listen to this. Though He is not far from any of us. This is what Paul
has to say to these Athenians in the Arab pagos. For in Him we live and move and have
our being as some of your own poets have said, we are His children. Wow, how beautiful, how
wild is that? Paul's gospel, Paul's declaration was not a declaration of inadequacy and separation.
Paul's gospel was a declaration of the present reality, all right? Check this out. The present
reality of our sonship, the present reality that we were made in the image of God, the
present reality of our sonship and the present reality of our inclusion. Oh my goodness,
how amazing is that? So, man, just think about this. Think about this. If the first time
you heard the gospel, you heard that you were exclusively defined by the Trinity, that you'd
been made in the image of God, that you carried the DNA of your Father in heaven, that Jesus
is the light of life, He's the light that lights the heart of all mankind, and you carry
the DNA of your Father in heaven. You're exclusively defined by Him. You were created as a son.
You're created with a birthright of sonship. You're created with inheritance. You're created
with promises. And not only that, in Him you live and move and have your being. Now, here's
what happened when Paul declared that gospel. Some people, right, some people completely
ignored Paul. They thought Paul was a lunatic. They thought Paul was crazy. They wanted nothing
to do with him. They shunned him. They hated him. They repulsed against him. And you know
what happened for those people? Absolutely zero life change, zero transformation, zero
life change took place for those people. But Acts chapter 27, as we read on, it also
says that some believed. And here's what they believed. They believed the truth that was
true before they believed it. Here's something amazing. The truth is the truth before we
believe it. And our believing the truth doesn't make the truth true. Our believing the truth
empowers it to become powerful in our lives. See, your identity is a present reality. Your
identity is not something that is earned through performance. You know what? You can
take no credit for your own perfection. You can take no credit for the fact that you were
made in the image of God. It's not something that your works have earned or produced. You
can take no credit for the fact that you're seamlessly one with the Trinity. You can take
no credit for the fact that in Him you live and move and have your being. That's a present
reality that God takes all the credit for that. So we don't take the credit for that
as though it was our own works that did it.
that we give the glory to God, that He created us in His image.
We're exclusively defined by the Trinity.
Genesis 1, 26 and 27 says that we were made in His image.
Image for image, substance for substance, essence for essence,
glory for glory, likeness for likeness.
From the very same substance, from the very same divine DNA,
we were created from that divine nature.
And who we are is an echo of that divine nature.
Now if that's what you heard, like when Paul preached the gospel,
all of a sudden, you're not going to be born into a life of inadequacy
and shame and isolation and separation and condemnation.
That's not going to happen. That's never going to happen.
You're going to get instantly birthed and born into,
you're going to get launched into a life of freedom and liberty.
You're going to get launched into a life of sonship
and you're going to get launched into a life of seamless union with the Trinity.
Oh, wow. If that sounds good, give me a thumbs up.
If you want to go and explore this deeper,
if you want to come with me on this journey of going deeper
into how the theology of this works,
how you can be launched into effortless bliss, sonship and seamless union,
give me a high five. Say, yes, I want that.
Say, and not just for me, like posture your heart before Jesus.
Be like, Jesus, I want that. I want effortless bliss.
I want the state of sonship. I want divine union.
I want seamless union. If that's you, give a thumbs up.
Say, Jesus, yes, that's what I want. That's what I'm after.
So here we go, guys. Here we go.
Jesus did not come. Let's talk about then.
Let's go back. Let's backtrack this
and get right back to really what Jesus came for,
what he was accomplishing.
If he wasn't coming to, you know,
if Jesus wasn't coming to resolve an issue of separation,
all right? And let me say this as well.
Jesus wasn't coming to empower God to forgive us, all right?
Right through the Old Testament, let's look at this.
Right through the Old Testament,
you have people with extreme intimacy with God.
They didn't have an issue with separation in the Old Testament.
You know, like the whole Old Testament is story after story after story
of people who walk in extreme intimacy with the Trinity.
You've got Moses who's face to face.
You've got Samuel who hears the voice of the Lord basically his whole life.
You've got Elijah who, you know, Elijah doesn't even die.
He gets sucked up into heaven in a, he just gets sucked up into heaven.
God's like, oh, I want you.
You've got Enoch who walked with God for 300 years
and then he didn't even die either.
God just took him supernaturally into another realm before the cross.
God was just like, just swallowed him up into his heart and said,
oh my gosh, I love you.
This is crazy.
We have just, and he just sucked him up into his own heart.
He just disappeared out of this realm and began to live in the eternal realm.
How wild, amazing is that?
So separation wasn't what Jesus was coming to resolve
and Jesus wasn't coming to empower God to be able to forgive
as though God had no capacity to forgive, right?
Before the cross in the Old Testament, God forgave so many people.
Even 2 Corinthians 7.14 which is one of the most,
so 2 Chronicles 7.14 which is such a famous verse
talks about God's ability to forgive.
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray
and turn from their wicked ways and seek my face
and I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins
and will heal their land, right?
God's nature, he's always been able to forgive.
The fall did not change the Trinity, right?
The fall changed humanity.
The fall didn't change the Trinity.
The fall didn't create, like the fall was the fall of man.
It wasn't the fall of God as though somehow when humanity fell,
God fell himself, all right?
That wasn't the case at all, right?
In the fall, we have humanity falling
but God's nature wasn't changed by the fall.
He was love.
Just as I talked about in the divine dance,
you know, humanity from the very beginning,
humanity was conceived, the concept of humanity,
we were conceived out of this radical burning love,
out of the context of the fellowship of this Trinity,
this unbroken cycle of divine love
before the foundation of the world.
The Trinity was in this place of unbroken, seamless union
and they had a heart.
They had a dream.
They had a desire to expand this beautiful divine dance
and they created us as the perfect conduits of divine love
to effortlessly participate in the bliss.
The wonder of the fellowship of the Trinity, that's what they created us for.
Before the foundation of the world, that was their motivation and intention.
At the fall, that didn't all change.
So at the fall, God didn't change.
So the cross, Jesus coming, is not about saving God as though God needed to be saved.
Jesus coming is about rescuing us.
It's about saving us.
It's not about saving God.
So let's check out, because what I'm saying here in this message, it's all about revealing
the Father, right?
The mission that Jesus had, it wasn't to resolve separation.
It wasn't to heal God.
It wasn't to empower God to forgive, because that wasn't the problem, right?
So here's the problem.
The problem was with humanity, okay?
Our issue, our issue was not a sense that we couldn't connect with God, because obviously
so many people through the Old Testament did.
They connected with God in a radical way, right?
Our issue, our issue was that we lost sight of the Father.
Now, when we lost sight of the Father, we lose sight of the blueprint of our own divine
design, right?
This was the issue that humanity had.
This was the issue that Jesus came to resolve.
And this was actually the issue that led to the fall in the first place, okay?
Now I want to touch on a couple of things as we go forward, because some of you might
be thinking, how does this work?
I thought Jesus in Matthew 26, 26 says, this is my blood poured out for the forgiveness
of sins, okay?
So we're going to touch on that as we go forward, and I know that there's probably even by now
a bunch of other questions started to pop up, like how does this work, and how does
this work, and how does this work?
Stay tuned, because as we go deeper into the Sonship Masterclass, and especially in the
online school of Sonship as well, we're going to be able to answer all these questions as
we go deep in this.
So, if our issue wasn't separation, if Jesus wasn't coming to try and rescue God and empower
God to forgive, then what was He doing?
Here's what He was doing, alright?
Here's the number one focus and the mission and the mandate of Jesus.
The number one focus of the life and the ministry of Jesus was to reveal the Father.
In fact, the number one topic that Jesus spoke about was the topic of Father.
He spoke about the topic of Father over 200 times.
His next best topic that He spoke about, the runner-up topic, was the Kingdom, and He spoke
about the topic of Kingdom 109 times.
I think the topic of Father was 213 times, and the topic of Kingdom about 109 times.
So He talked about the topic of Father nearly twice as much as He talked about anything
else.
And here's why, it's because the number one issue that we have is primarily we lost sight
of the Father.
Now, when we lose sight, when we lost sight of the Father, what happens is we lost the
blueprint for our own divine design.
That's right, we lost the blueprint of our own divine design.
Let's go back, all right, let's go back with this, because the issue didn't just...
This issue began with Adam and Eve before the fall, all right?
Something actually led Adam and Eve into the fall, because here's how it always works.
It always works with a fruit is produced by a root, a behavior is produced by a belief
system.
What was the belief that produced the behavior?
What was the root that led to the fruit?
So let me just say that Adam and Eve were walking as orphans before the fall, and it's
because they were walking as orphans before the fall that it actually led to the fall,
all right?
Now, if we look at Genesis 3, where you see the fall take place, Genesis 3 is actually
an example of what it looks like when we walk as orphans.
Now, I'm not sure at what point Adam and Eve lost sight of the image of God.
You know, they had this beautiful, beautiful revelation of the Father as the Father created
Eden.
You know, like He's created...
It was just so beautiful in creation.
He creates humanity and He creates Eden, which is the context of His delight, and He places
humanity in the...
He places humanity in the context of his delight. That's what we were created for. That's our birthright
We were created for Eden. We were created for the Father's delight
There's always the Trinity's intention that we would be created
we were created for the Father's delight to live in the context of the Father's delight and
and so but somehow in the midst of that Adam and Eve lost sight of the
Image of God. I kind of think of it like this is that Adam and Eve had to mature into their sonship as well
They had to grow into it as well. They had to discover God as well. They were actual humans
You know, they weren't born with all the information. So they're on this journey of
discovering they're on this journey of discovering the father, but they were still immature and
what happens is
when we lose sight when we don't have an accurate image an
Accurate image of who the father is. We we don't have an accurate image of our own
Divine design created in his image without an accurate understanding of who he is
We lose sight of the blueprint of our own divine design. So Adam and Eve even before the fall
They're walking as orphans. That's what led them into the fall. They had some type of
Issue in their understanding of who the father was which produced an identity issue which produced behavior issues
Here's how we see the contrast of that in Matthew chapter
4 we see that Jesus
Demonstrates what it looks like to walk in sonship, right? So Jesus is the perfect
Example of sonship. Jesus is the model for what sonship looks like. He is the only
Model for what sonship looks like if we want a blueprint of what what sonship looks like if we want a blueprint of what?
The father looks like we find it in
Jesus so Jesus
Demonstrates for us. It's like a it's like a parallel to the fall and
Genesis 3 we see humanity walking as orphans and the devil comes with temptation and they fall for it and that's an example of
Living in the orphan mindset living with a false image of who the father is the devil can overcome you the devil
Contempt you and you can fall in that context, but Jesus demonstrates what sonship looks like Jesus demonstrates with his
When when Satan comes to him every single time Satan comes Jesus
Overcomes him Jesus demonstrates for us in Matthew 4 that when we walk in our sonship, we walk in victory
Every time how good is that if you like that give that a thumbs up if you're like, oh, yes
if the concept of living an
Invincible life is exciting to you
Then you want to go deeper into sonship give a thumbs up or a given
I mean if you want that if you're like, yes, I want to walk in an invincible life
Then just be like yes me too
Thumbs up on that Jesus demonstrated that when we walk in our sonship
We live an invincible life
now the key the secret to this invincible life the key the secret to sonship is having the
Image of God our image of God fully restored the key to it is having the blueprint of our divine design
restored to us and
That my beautiful friends is the number one mission of Yeshua the coming of Jesus
his great
Primary mission was the revelation of the father. So let's get into some scriptures on the revelation of the father
But let's let's look at how Jesus talked about his mission how Jesus talked about what he what he came to do
First of all, we're going into John
Chapter 14 verses 6 to 10 and I'm going to put this handout up in the embassy as well
So if you want to download it, I'll whack this up in the embassy as as well
So you'll be able to download this later John 14 6 to 10. Jesus says this
Jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the life
No one comes to the father except through me
If you really know me, you will know my father as well
From now on you do know him and have seen him
Philip said Lord show us the father and that will be enough for us
Jesus answered don't you know me Philip?
Even after I have been among you such a long time
Anyone who has seen me has seen the father
How can you say show us the father?
Father, don't you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me?
The words I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority, rather it is the Father living in me
who is doing his work. Wow, how beautiful is that? I like to describe that like this,
Jesus is like the glove and the Father is the hand inside the glove. So absolutely everything
that you see the glove do is a perfect expression of the Father. So in absolutely everything that
Jesus does, we see a perfect, perfect, perfect expression of the nature and the character of
the Father. This is amazing. Let's check out some more. John 5, 19. So Jesus said to them,
truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he
sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. Oh, how beautiful
is this? John 1 says, in the beginning, the Word existed and the Word is with God and the Word
is God. Jesus is the exact representation of the Father. And in that place of Jesus being the exact
representation of the Father, he restores to us the blueprint of our divine design. Let's check
some more out. John 6, 38. Jesus says, for I have come down from heaven, not to do my will,
but to do the will of him who sent me. John 10, 30. I and the Father are one. John 14, 31. But he
comes so that the world would learn that I love the Father and do exactly as the Father has commanded
me. John 8, 29. It says, and he who sent me on my mission also accompanies me. The Father has never
abandoned me for a moment. It is my delight to do that which pleases him. John 16, 32. Then suddenly
you will all scramble and run for your lives and abandon me. But I am never forsaken because my
Father is always with me. That's what Jesus prophesied going up to the cross. He said,
the Father is with me. He said, I will never be abandoned. My Father is always with me. Jesus
knew that he wasn't going to be abandoned on the cross and that's something that we'll be able to
get to at a later date. So we see here, hey Ian, good to see you, my friend.
We see here that in everything that Jesus is doing, he is revealing the Father. He is revealing
the blueprint of our divine design. Let's look at another one. I've got a real
juicy, juicy one for you already. Let's go on to John 17. John 17 is one of the juiciest, most
beautiful, most amazing passages in the whole Bible. This really captures the essence of the
gospel that Jesus came to declare. A gospel of sonship and a gospel of union. Not a gospel of
inadequacy and not a gospel of separation that leaves us in bondage to shame and isolation,
but a gospel of sonship and a gospel of seamless union with the Trinity. So let's check this out
in John 17 20 through to verse 23.
How beautiful is this? Let's get to this. I think if there's one statement that Jesus makes that
captures the essence of the gospel more than anything else, it is John 17 22. Now this,
honestly guys, this will produce so much crazy, crazy freedom in you. This is the theology that
will set you up for effortless bliss as a state of being. This is the theology that
that will set you up to experience seamless union with the divine nature as your default
setting.
So if you want to jump into that.
If you're like, yes give me effortless bliss, yes give me seamless union with the divine
nature.
If that's you, give a thumbs up, let's jump into it, alright.
Just be like, yes, comment on there, say yes me too.
If you want this, if you're ready to jump into this, give a thumbs up.
Here we go, okay.
John chapter 17 verse 22.
This is the core of the mission of Jesus, right, he says, I have given you the same
glory that the father gave me that you may be one as we are one.
Oh my goodness, right there.
This is the core, that core essence of the gospel that Jesus came to declare.
Now this is something interesting about the gospel.
Jesus said, the gospel of the kingdom, right, the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed
to the ends of the earth and then the end will come, alright.
So let's look at this, let's expand on this concept that Jesus said that the gospel of
the kingdom will be proclaimed to the ends of the earth and then the end will come.
Let's look at this a little bit deeper because Jesus was the author of the gospel, right.
If you agree with that, give me a thumbs up, right.
Jesus was the author of the gospel, boom.
You agree with that, give me a thumbs up and amen, yes.
So Jesus is the author of the gospel.
If you agree with that, boom and amen.
Next statement, Jesus preached the gospel in its fullness.
So if you agree that Jesus preached the gospel in its fullness, boom, give me an amen, a
thumbs up on that.
Yes, Jesus preached the gospel in all its fullness, okay, boom.
Jesus taught the disciples to preach the gospel in all its fullness, right.
Yes, if Jesus taught the gospel to the disciples, if you agree with that, boom, give me an amen.
If you agree that Jesus and the disciples preached the gospel in its fullness, then
give me an amen.
Yes, you agree with that.
Not only that, Jesus prophesied that this very same gospel that he was the author of,
this very same gospel that he preached, this very same gospel that he trained his disciples
in, this very same gospel that his disciples preached, is the very same gospel that he
prophesied will be preached to all the ends of the earth.
Now listen, that gospel was preached in all its fullness before the cross.
What, what, what, now that's a mind-blowing moment.
That's a theological bomb right there.
That Jesus preached the gospel in all its fullness before the cross, the fullness, and
the disciples preached the gospel in the fullness before the cross.
So let me, let me help you come to a theological conclusion about that, that the cross, the
cross, right?
The cross is not supposed to add new information to the gospel.
So many people are trying to interpret the gospel after the cross, they look to the cross
for the gospel.
I tell you what, you don't look to the cross for the gospel.
That might sound crazy, but the gospel was preached the whole, Jesus' whole life, Jesus'
whole ministry, he was preaching the gospel in its fullness, alright?
So the cross wasn't designed to add new information to the gospel.
The cross was designed to be a great exclamation mark of the gospel that Jesus and the disciples
had already preached.
The gospel was supposed to be the ultimate cosmic emphasis on the wonder of the message
that Jesus had already brought in fullness, alright?
And so what was the message that Jesus already brought in fullness, that the gospel, that
the cross emphasizes, and the cross endorses, and the cross shakes a great big amen, where
the cross becomes the greatest expression of the message that Jesus has preached his
entire ministry?
So you can find the answer to the gospel that Jesus preached in John 17, 22, and it says
this, I have, alright, past tense, I read that in over 27 translations, it always is
translated as a past tense.
I have given them, and it's about you as well, this is for you, this is what's going to help
produce freedom in your life, this is what's going to launch you into effortless bliss,
this is what's going to launch you into sonship like never before, it's going to take the
handbrakes off, it's going to take the shackles off, it's going to put the nose on, the accelerator
on, it's going to launch you into freedom, into the divine life, into participating in
the divine nature like never before, it's this, Jesus said it's a past tense, alright,
a past tense, I have given you the same glory that the Father gave me, oh my goodness.
Now the Greek word for glory there is the word doxa, okay, that word doxa, it means
Substance. It means essence. You could also substitute in there the word
identity. It would fit perfectly. It would be an excellent translation of the
Greek word doxa in this context that Jesus is saying I have given you the
same identity that the Father gave me and why? Why is it that Jesus says
why does he do that? And here's why. If you follow on to the very next part
of it he tells us why he has given us the same doxa. So that you may be
one as we are one. Here's how it works. Anytime we come to the
conclusion that we're not enough. Anytime we come to the conclusion that we are
inadequate in any way, it produces shame in our hearts. Shame begins to
grow in our hearts. The secret standard that our human hearts measure
against is the divinity, the perfection of God. If our hearts come to the
conclusion in any way that we are less than perfect, then what we do, we
come to this conclusion that we're inadequate and on that conclusion of
inadequacy comes shame. And on that conclusion, on that foundation of shame
is condemnation. On that foundation of condemnation it produces isolation.
So we become the genesis of our own separation and we become the
genesis of our own isolation. The land of Eden had a garden in it and
God separated Adam and Eve from the garden but the garden was the
garden in Eden, not the garden of Eden. And Eden represents the Father's delight.
Now it wasn't God that separated Adam and Eve from the whole land of Eden.
Adam and Eve did that themselves. It says after the fall
they ran away and they were hiding. They were afraid and they were covered
in shame. They were covered in shame. They ran out of their own
inadequacy, out of their own shame. Adam and Eve ran and hid and they were the
ones that created the separation, created the distance,
created the disconnection. So in that one sense, yes Jesus did come to end
separation but he didn't come to end it as though God was the initiator of
separation, as though God was the one that was creating the distance and
pushing humanity away. No, it doesn't work like that. We are the initiators.
We are the genesis, the origin of our own separation and isolation and we come to
these false conclusions about our own identity and when we conclude that we
are not enough, when we conclude that we're inadequate, boom, it produces shame
and condemnation. The moment we've got shame and condemnation and inadequacy in
our hearts, that shame, condemnation and inadequacy, it drives us into isolation.
So the core, the very core, the heart of Jesus gospel is to restore to us our
identity and that's what he's doing in John 17 22. He says, I have given you the
same, the same, the same, the very same glory that the Father gave me that you
may be one as we are one. Because what happens is when we understand that
we're exclusively defined by the Trinity, all shame is gone, all condemnation is
gone, all self-hatred is gone and we no longer produce, we no longer
initiate separation and isolation. In fact, we awake up to the present reality
of our inclusion and our seamless union with the Trinity. So that's the number
one thing that Jesus is doing in the gospel, is he's constantly revealing the
Father. We see that, you know, in John 14 Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen
the Father and as Jesus restores to us an accurate blueprint, an accurate image of
who the Father is, he restores to us at the same time the blueprint of our own
divine design. Let's check this out again, John 17 22. I have given them the same
glory, the same doxa, the same identity that the Father gave me. So when did that
happen? When did he give us this doxa, this substance, this divine essence, this
divine nature, this divine DNA? When was that given to us? It was Genesis 1 26 and
the very beginning. God created us in his image and Jesus is reminding us of
something that's a present reality that's
always been true. He's reminding us of the present reality of our sonship. And for you and I, right,
this is what sets us free. What sets us free is discovering the present reality of our identity.
That we don't have to earn it. That we don't have to work for it. That what we have to do,
what we simply have to do, is come into agreement with the truth that's already true. We come into
agreement with the truth that's true before we believe it. And all of a sudden, the power of the
gospel starts taking place. See, because Paul, when he preached the gospel, the gospel was a
declaration of the identity of humanity, of the sonship of humanity, and the seamless union,
the inclusion of humanity, that in him we live, and we move, and we have our being. How beautiful
is that? So, it's this, here's a question for us, all right? Here's a question for you,
here's a question for me, and feel free to answer in here. Have you come to a place where you have
concluded that you are inadequate in life? Have you come to a place that you've concluded that
you're not enough? If you have, just say, yes, you have. I know for me that I did that a lot.
In fact, Romans 3.23 speaks about this. It says, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory
of God. Now, that Greek word glory there again, it's the Greek word, the Greek word for glory is
the Greek word doxa again. Jesus said, I've given you the same doxa that the Father gave me. This is
our definition, our identity, the substance, the essence of who we are, the divine nature.
And then Romans 3.23 says, all have sinned, or missed the mark, and fallen short of their
identity, fallen short of their divine nature, fallen short of their glory. And sin, sin there,
it's a term that means to miss the mark. So, basically what sinning means, what sin is,
is sin is to live outside of your identity. And why do we live outside of our own identity?
We live outside of our own identity because we make a critical error in where we judge our
identity and where we take our identity from. See, for most people, and for me, for most of my life,
I took my identity from my life experiences. And this is something that we do all the time.
We have welded, right? We've welded our identity with our behavior. And as a result, if we sin,
we call ourselves sinners. Whereas God doesn't do this. He doesn't weld our identity with our
behavior. He has a separation. He makes a distinction between our identity and our
behavior, which is why He can call us His sons, which is why He can say He's given us His glory,
which is why He can say that we're exclusively defined by Him, even in the midst of our mess,
in the midst of our dysfunction and chaos. And it's as we come into agreement, as we come into
alignment with the present reality of our own sonship, as we come into agreement with the
truth that we're exclusively defined by Him, that all the behaviors change and all those behaviors
fall away. As we come into that place
of being fully persuaded they're exclusively defined by Him. So
I call this the beautiful journey. And this is what I want to invite you on as we go
forward in the Sonship Masterclass. I want to invite you deeper into the beautiful journey.
Now, I know that we're starting to raise some theological questions there. I want to close with
this. I said that Jesus didn't come so that we could be forgiven. Matthew 26, 26, Jesus said,
this is my blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins. But the word there, here's where I want
to conclude. The word for forgiveness there is the Greek word aphesis. And aphesis is the Greek
word that's used to translate the Hebrew word jubil or jubilee, as we would say. The Hebrew
concept of jubil or jubilee is translated in the Greek through the word aphesis. Now this word
aphesis and jubil, what it means is, at the core, if we wanted to boil it down, it means freedom.
In the Jubilee Festival, in the Old Testament, all debts were cancelled,
all slaves went free, so all identity was restored, all debts were...
Cancelled all identity was restored
What what else happened so all slaves went free or your inheritance was restored everything that was lost was restored and
If so, everyone's cashed up
Everyone's had their identity restored their inheritance restored all their debts cancelled
They're completely liberated from any form of bondage or slavery and on top of that
They're ready for a party and no one has to work for a year. They have an entire year of rest
So Jubilee is the ultimate word for freedom. It's the ultimate word for party
But it's the ultimate word for liberty and that's the word that is that is being translated here through the Greek word of thesis
It's carrying the concept of the Hebrew word shalom
so when it says this is my blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins, it's more like
This is my blood poured out for the
freedom from
Sin, all right now this makes so much difference that Jesus didn't come so that we could be forgiven from sins
But he came so that we could be completely liberated and set free from
Sin now that's so exciting and we're going to go deeper into this and the Sunship masterclass
We're also going to go deeper into this and the online school of Sunship
Which is which we're going to share that opportunity with you at the end of the master class. So
My message for you right now, wherever you are
wherever you're at right now in your life, if you've been struggling with
inadequacy, if you've been like the rest of humanity where it says all
Have all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God all have struggled with this concept that we're exclusively defined by him
Everyone has lived outside of their identity
This is where you're at right now. Here's the message that I want to declare to you and declare over you
I'm going to declare John 17 22
John 17 22 Jesus says I have given you the same
Glory that the father gave me
That you may be one as we are one. So let me pray for you right now as we come to a close
Jesus did die. He did pay a price
But he paid a price for our freedom from sin
He paid a price for us to discover and rediscover the blueprint of our divine design
Then actually I'm just going to give you I'm going to give you one little bit more one
I want a little bit more the moment when Jesus gives the greatest revelation of the father
The moment that Jesus gives the greatest revelation of the father is on the cross
The moment that Jesus gives the greatest revelation of the father is on the cross. That's why the cross is the absolute
Climax of the gospel story. It's why the cross is the they're just the greatest moment of the gospel story. It's the greatest
Endorsement of the message that Jesus brought because here on the cross
Jesus brings the greatest revelation of the father because in the context of the greatest expression of hatred
Jesus love doesn't flinch his love doesn't turn off
You see it takes the full force of hatred to expose the full power of love
And that's what Jesus went through on the cross
He faced the full force of hatred and in that his love didn't flinch his love didn't turn off his love stayed strong
His love stayed vibrant his love stayed at full intensity and in so doing he revealed the nature of the father
That his love is unconditional. It's not a love that's going to turn off on you. It's not a love
That's going to flinch on you. It's not a love that's going to back down. It's not a love that's going to run away
It's a love that is constant
Consistent perpetual it's stuck on full bore for you. And
and I'm so
Excited as we go deeper into this deeper into the revelation of the father's love for us deeper into the revelation the present reality
Of our sonship deeper into the revelation that were exclusively defined by the Trinity and there was seamlessly one with the Trinity
Let me pray as we bring this to a conclusion
Jesus I thank you right now
that
There is no life experience that we've been through that has authority
to redefine that which has already been defined in your image I
Thank you for every person that's watching I thank you for an absolute outpouring of
Wisdom and revelation absolute outpouring of the radical radical nature of your love that it would flood that it would infuse
That it would be poured out that it would wash over every person that it would be like a baptism of fresh
Baptism in the fire and the awe and the wonder of your love may that love just be poured out
May it be lavished on every person and in a
Next to this divine love, may there be a revelation like never before, that every single person
here is exclusively defined by your glory.
That the same glory that the Father gave you, Yeshua, is the same glory that's being poured
out on us.
It's the same glory that defines us, it's the same glory that produces seamless union
with the Trinity.
And I thank you, Jesus, right now for breaking off every trace of inadequacy, for breaking
off every trace of shame and condemnation, as the revelation of the present reality
of our sonship explodes in our hearts with supernatural wonder, in your beautiful, beautiful
name, Jesus.
Amen.
Hey, well, thank you so much, everyone, for being a part of this adventure.
If you've got questions, I would love to hear them.
I know that we dropped some theological bombs tonight, but if you've got questions, put
them in the comments.
I'd love to hear those questions.
If there's things that you want to hear more about, put them in the questions, put them
in the comments, because I would love to journey deeper with you in some of these beautiful
concepts.
And if you've enjoyed that, give a thumbs up, but massive love to you all.
Bless you.
Have a phenomenal week.
We've got the next couple of classes, we've got Matt coming to you, we've got Norm coming
to you, we've got Joseph coming again.
It's going to be a great, wonderful week, and you're going to love the Sonship Masterclass
as we go deeper.
Bless you, and we'll catch you real soon.
Love you guys.
See ya.