Scripture Reference: John 16:7 (AMPC); Matthew 24:14 (NKJV); Matthew 25:34 (NKJV); Matthew 16:13-20 (NKJV), Ephesians 3:14-21 (NKJV); Luke 5:5-9 (NKJV)
Praise the Lord. Alright. Are you ready for a wow night? I say, alright? Are you ready for a wow night? Right on. Yeah, man. Me too. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Okay. Okay. Let’s get this thing going. So, why did I talk to you this afternoon about vision and about planning and about all of this stuff? Why? Why? Why? You know, when you ask a question, why, why? Why always refer to a purpose. So, anytime there’s a why, you always have a purpose question.
Why, did you do that means, what’s the purpose? So, if you have no purpose, then it’s just, why ask the question? So, the reason why is, the Holy Spirit is the One who is given to us by Jesus, and there’s a very specific purpose that the Holy Spirit has. So, I want to ask you, where do you think the Holy Spirit was? Before anything happened on the earth, where was the Holy Spirit? He was with the Father and with Jesus in heaven. I mean, I know this is basic for you guys, but just bear with me. Three Beings in heaven. 3 Beings. They’re 1, but they are 3. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three Beings. If you are if I refer to the Father as the Continuous Perfect State of Being, then what is Jesus? Continuous Perfect State of Being. If I say, “What is the Holy Spirit then?” Continuous Perfect State of Being. So, they are 3:1, 3, but They are 1. So, it’s important that if I am talking to you about the Continuous Perfect State of Being, where do They live? Our normal English language, we will say, “They live in heaven.” The way I put it to you is they have a continuous perfect state of occupation. Right?
I’m just using a different language to change your mindset so that you understand that where the Holy Spirit lives and where Jesus lives and where the Father was living in the beginning was heaven. But it was a perfect continuous place of occupation because wherever They occupied, that was what we have to call heaven, but, I mean, it’s just a language. Heaven is something that we describe it’s a language.
How does the Afrikaans language describe it? Hemel. So, if you’re going to someone in America and said, “God stays in the hemel,” they’d look at you and say, “What? What’s that?” Right? Now you know heaven is hemel [Pastor John speaking with Drew]. Where’s heaven? Hemel. See what happens when you say, “Shhhh.” [Pastor John Speaking with Drew]. So, in the hemel, or give me a Zulu language or a Sotho language for heaven. Ezuleni, eZwelini! EZwelini EZulwini. [Ernest giving Pastor John a Sotho word] Oh, that’s enough for my brain to handle. It’s enough for my brain to handle for now. So, if I come and say to you, “God lives in EZulwini.” If you hadn’t been part of this conversation, you’d say, “Where is that?” Right? Well, you see, we’re trying to use words in different languages to describe a place where God lives.
And so, I mean, we have to try and come up with a word that describes looking up into the sky, looking up into the heavens, because that’s where God is. He’s not on the earth and He’s not in the earth and He’s not below the earth. He’s somewhere in the heaven, so we’ve called heaven. So, God is in the highest heaven so that’s what we describe. I’m just using a different language when I say that He, as a Continuous Perfect State of Being, lives in a place where it is a perfect continuous state of occupation, you can’t challenge my description. If you do, sorry anyway. I’ll tell you He stays in EZulwini.
So, if God lives in this continuous place of state of occupation, He also brings with Him a continuous perfect state of order. So, the Continuous State of Being has a continuous perfect state of occupation, and in that continuous place of state of occupation, He has a continuous state of order that He brings. It’s His life force. It’s the order of God. It’s His life force. It is life. It is love. So, where’s, when God decided with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, they want to make a different equal… this is important, equal but separate, continuous perfect place of occupation. Separate, but equal continuous perfect state of occupation. They decided to make it on earth. Where was… what was the earth before they decided to come and make it a continuous perfect state of occupation? The Bible says the earth was void. It had no shape and form, and darkness was on the face of the deep. In other words, this thing was chaos. It is likely where Satan resided anyway, because when he fell from heaven, he had to go to a place, and it is likely that this place of darkness that was without shape, without void without form, it was void, darkness, shapeless. It is likely that is the place where Satan was occupying with the fallen angels, because there’s no other place we know where he could have gone.
And since he came into the garden at a later stage, it’s likely that he was there at the time. I can’t say that for sure, but I’m saying, “It’s likely.” Are you all with me? So, then the Holy Spirit comes from this continuous perfect place of occupation, and the Bible says the Holy Spirit was hovering over this ball of what is now called earth. And then the Father, the Source of all things, said, “Let there be.” And when He said, “Let there be,” His power went through the Holy Spirit to bring the order of the word that was authored 3 in 1. The Author, the Activator, the Doer. Amen?
Now, this is actually essential to all of what we believe, all of us, because the Holy Spirit is resting, and He says, “Let there be light. Let the light be separated from the night because the sun and the moon. Let the seas be separated from the earth. Let this be like this…” And God begins to speak day after day. He begins to speak the earth into being.
Let there be creatures. Let there be all kinds of food to feed the creatures. Let these kind of creatures live in the sea. Let these kind of creatures live on the land. As He’s speaking them out, the Holy Spirit, the Continuous Perfect State of Being is making it happen. What’s He creating? He’s creating the same place on earth that is a representation of heaven. He said, “Let’s make man in Our image. Let’s make a place for him that will fit him.” Hallelujah.
There’s one difference, one difference between the man that God created and the Being that is God. The difference is that man was stuck to the ground, but God can move as a spirit moves between the speed of light and down to the slow pace of time. So, God can go as fast as light, but slow down to the speed of time. Man can only live at one speed, and that’s the speed of time. Hallelujah. Are you all still with me?
Now, when this is all happening, He says, “Let’s make man in Our image to occupy like We occupy in heaven. Let’s occupy. Let’s make man to occupy.” So, We’ve created a continuous perfect state of occupation, now we need to take this Continuous Perfect State of Being that We said We wanted to create in Our image, let’s make them to be in this perfect state of occupation. As it is in heaven, so it should be on earth. What’s God looking for? God’s looking for another family that He can be that can be like Him, that He can have eternal fellowship with another family that has exact same occupation as it is in heaven.
Why would God want to do that? When I get there one day, I’ll ask Him. He’s God after all. He can do what He wants to do, and He chose to do this. It’s for His pleasure. That’s it. I mean, that’s a good the Bible says it’s for His pleasure. Everything is for His pleasure. So, glory to Jesus. Here we are. Now we are certainly not living in a continuous perfect state of occupation. In fact, right at the moment, there is a whole lot of hullabaloo going on. That’s an old English word. Sorry. Hullabaloo.
I don’t know how that came out of my brain from such a long time ago. Hullabaloo is just another old English word for noise. You know it? Hullabaloo. Anyway, you know, there’s a whole lot of noise going on around in the world now because we got to protect the planet. Mother Earth. We got to protect Mother Earth. Mother Earth is going to be our life source forever. We got to protect Mother Earth. It’s become a religion. It’s become a god that we have to protect Mother Earth. They want to destroy and kill babies, but they want to protect Mother Earth. They want to be able to have children that are under the age of 10, learn everything about terrible, horrible acts of sexual activity and all kinds of human body mutilation, but we have to protect the earth. Can you see that people will just try and make gods however they want to make gods because that’s they just don’t want to acknowledge the true and living God?
So, God takes man and he puts man into this perfect place. He says, “Occupy it and have dominion in it. Live on earth as I am in heaven.” For His pleasure, He comes from heaven to walk on the other place of heaven that’s on the earth, that is completely perfect. I’ve been privileged to listen to some really, really amazing scientists over the years that have got all kinds of theories about why carbon dating is something that scientists are not inaccurate in the way they use it, but they will date things to thousands of years ago or millions of years ago. But the reality of it is that when the earth was in a perfect form, everything was in such a perfect state that time itself was not measured in the way that the time is measured now.
So, when they started carbon dating, they were trying to carbon date something that was so perfect, that was so every day could have been a thousand years, could have been a hundred thousand years because there was not the same kind of time as there is now. So, if you still believe in evolution, I know you guys don’t. But, anyway, sorry for them. Takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in God, I think. Anyway, I’m getting off track. Why are you taking me off track? It’s all your fault. Julle mense, magtig man. EZulwini
[Pastor John laughing while he is looking at Elizabeth] This white pastor trying to use a… so, you know, God made this amazing, this amazing place, and He made this amazing human being, human being that was also all glory to live on the planet. Where’s the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is on the earth helping the being that’s on the earth. Whenever the Father is on the earth, Jesus is on the earth, the Holy Spirit’s on the earth. The Bible doesn’t reveal that the Holy Spirit ever left the earth to go back to live in heaven. So, what we do know is that the Holy Spirit is on the earth now. Isn’t He?
Because I can read you something here, and it says, however, John chapter 16 verse 7 However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. (John 16:7 AMPC)
So, where was the Holy Spirit when Jesus was on the earth? If He was going to send Him to them? He, the Holy Spirit, was always present in Jesus, but He couldn’t come in the fullness of His person until Jesus left because Jesus was representative of the Godhead at that time.
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So, He couldn’t come in His fullness on the earth, but He was on the earth in Jesus. Because Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure. Isn’t that what the Bible says? The Holy
Spirit Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure. So, He was on the earth in Jesus, but Jesus had to leave so that the Holy Spirit could not just be in one person, but could be in every person that had Jesus in him. So, this is important because Jesus had to go away so that He could send the Holy Spirit so that when you gave your life to Jesus and received Jesus into your heart, what happens is that the Holy Spirit is present in your faith transaction. And as your faith transaction happens and you say, “Jesus, live in my heart” the Holy Spirit is present to come and live in you.
So, what happens when you get filled with the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in another tongue? You already have the Holy Spirit, but you get filled with the Holy Spirit. And so the evidence of the filling up of the Holy Spirit is the speaking of another tongue. But when Jesus and the Father come to live in your heart, the Holy Spirit comes to live with Them. He doesn’t stay away from you, but there’s a fuller measure that you can have of the Holy Spirit, and that’s when you receive the Holy Spirit in the fullness of what Jesus sent Him to do. So, then, when you have that fullness, you speak in another language. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
This is the same faith transaction because the faith that gets you saved is the same faith that fills you with the Holy Spirit. How did you get saved? “Lord, I declare You as my Master, as my Saviour, as my Lord. Please come and live in my heart.” Your confession with your faith, the belief in your heart, completes your salvation. How does the fullness of the Holy Spirit come? The same way. “Thank You Holy Spirit. I believe You are the Spirit of God. Come and fill me and be in me with fullness for the rest of my life.” [Pastor John speaks in tongues.] I speak in another language by faith. Hallelujah.
Okay Pastor John, why are you doing this? Because when Jesus came to Earth, when Jesus came to Earth, what did He come and He preach? What did He come and preach when He came to the earth? Matthew 24 verse 14. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14 NKJV) Matthew 25:34. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matthew 25:34 NKJV)
If you go and read your New Testament, can you Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Out of all of those things, there’s only one time Jesus talks about salvation. In fact, He doesn’t talk about salvation, He only talks about being born again. And that, thank you, pastor Lynn, is the entrance into the Kingdom. He talks it in the context of a rabbi, a teacher that’s coming to ask Him, how do I enter the Kingdom of Heaven? And He says, “You must be born again.” And he says, “How can I be born again?” And He says, “What’s born of the flesh is flesh, and what’s born of the spirit is spirit, and you must be born of the spirit.” What’s that? It’s the spirit of God that comes to live in you when you ask Him to come and live in you. Hey? Every other time Jesus talks in the New Testament, He talks about, “I’ve come to establish the kingdom. I’ve come to tell you the message of the kingdom.” Come on. Can I tell you what He came to say? “I come to tell you about the continuous perfect state of occupation. I’ve come to tell you as a Continuous Perfect State of Being, that I’ve come to restore the continuous perfect state of occupation. That was in the garden with Adam, I’ve come to restore that.” Well, it doesn’t look like that in the natural, does it? But that’s what He’s come to do.
So, what is our role as the Church, if Jesus came to preach the Kingdom? Do you want to know? Yeah. You guys don’t look like you’re that interested. I mean, this is a bit ‘laat in die dag vir julle. (It’s a bit late in the day). No? You sure? You want to know? [Congregation answers; Yes] Thank you. Thank you. Matthew chapter 16 verse 13, 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” This is huge. 16 … “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. My Father who is in heaven has revealed to you that I’ve come from heaven. And I from heaven am now come to the earth to bring heaven back. Watch what happens next. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock, Peter – that word is petros. There’s three different versions of this word; petros, petra, petras. 18 … on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ (Matthew 16:13-20 NKJV).
Watch what is happening here? Jesus, He’s saying, “Peter, you have had a revelation that I am the Christ. I am the Messiah. I am the Kingdom that has come to the earth. And there’s no way you could have seen that unless My heavenly Father revealed that to you. On this revelation that I am from the heaven that’s come to bring back heaven, on this revelation, I will build My Ecclesia.” He didn’t use the word congregation. He didn’t use the word synagogue. He didn’t use the word local meeting place. He used the word Ecclesia, the called out ones that will rule in where? He will rule in the Kingdom. Which kingdom is that? The Kingdom of heaven. To be what? On the … Now come on. We’ve come a long way with this teaching. Now we’re coming to the fullness of this teaching because you will recall how many years ago has it been that I have said, what’s the point of being a Christian? To be spiritual. What’s the point of being spiritual? To bring heaven to earth. What’s our job as Christians? To bring heaven to earth.
So, now we have to live like all the other normal human beings on the earth, and we have to work with their systems. And we got to work with their education system. We got to work with their economic system. We got to work with all their systems, all their systems. But God’s called us and He said, “You are the ones I’m going to build My Kingdom on, the Kingdom of heaven that’s coming to earth. You are they. You are they.” And we want to just keep going back and say, “Alright, listen, we’ll just be good little Christians. We’ll be good little Christians, good little Christians, good little Christians. I’ll tell you what, we’ll just live in the system successfully, and our success in the system by faith will demonstrate that we are better than those that are in the system because we can live in the system successfully.” And that shows them what? “Oh, you’re sick, you go to the same doctor as me. Oh, you want to get a house, you’re borrowing from the same mortgage lender that I do. You’re going to get a bond from a bank the same as I do. Your kids go to the same school. Your children go to the same university. So, you’re a Christian. So what?” Hey.
Our time has come. Our time has come, and that’s why I stand in awe of you. Truly, I stand in awe of you, you people, that are listening to me preach this to you. I stand in awe of you. I do because you are the ones God has chosen to reveal in this time and call and say it’s time to come out from the system and all the systems, the systems, the systems, the systems, the systems that have controlled and ruled Christians all the time. You’re the one He’s chosen to say, “I’m going to preach this to you, going to preach this to you. I’m going to give you the truth. I’m going to give you the chance to come and rule and dominate, to have dominion, have dominion. Come. Let’s dominate. Let’s dominate. Let’s dominate.”
So, remember now, I’ve preached the whole weekend, remember I got through preaching stuff about natural laws and spiritual laws. Remember, natural order of things, spiritual order of things. Remember? So, I’m going to eat the same food tomorrow as I did today. That’s the natural order of things. I’m going to have the same oxygen tomorrow as I did today. Well, hopefully not quite the same, but similar oxygen. You understand? I’m going to sleep tonight like I would sleep any other day because this body lives in a natural order of things. We, as a people, are living in an order that is flawed. What’s going to bring us out of the flawed order into the Kingdom of God? Come on. You guys should know this and I know you know it. When I say it to you, you will say, “Yes, of course, that makes sense.” What’s going to bring us out of the natural order into the spiritual order? It’s faith. It’s faith. It’s faith. What kind of faith is it going to take? It’s the kind of faith that says, “I’m going to put a word in my mouth. I’m going to put it in my heart, and I’m going to start speaking what God says I must speak.” Hallelujah.
You guys look a bit stunned. Are you not stunned? Are you taking it in? Thank you very much. Hallelujah. I want to tell you that the world is made up of a whole lot of legislative procedures that they expect everybody to live by. That’s not going to change overnight. And what we do is not going to change overnight. But if we don’t change, start the change somewhere, then we’re never going to get anywhere. And so, would you like me to finish our discourse tonight on a high note? But you better be ready for this, because I’m telling you, this is going to blow your socks off. It’s literally going to blow your socks off. Put the fans on. No. I’m teasing. Hallelujah.
I’m going to read two passages of Scripture. One is I’m going to show you how the Apostle Paul saw it, and then I’m going to tell you how Jesus did it. And that’s how we’ll finish it tonight. Môre is nog ‘n dag. (Tomorrow is another day) Remember, don’t quit on me yet. We’re going someplace. If we’re giving first fruits, then God said this is a moment to release some truths out here. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is the way the Apostle Paul said it in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 14. He says, 14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. How are we going to get the Kingdom of heaven, of the earth, strengthened with might in the inner man? Why do we need to be strengthened in the inner man when the inner man is a continuous perfect state of being? We need the Holy Spirit to infill that inner man so that inner man gets stronger than our outer man. 17 … that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, that Continuous Perfect State of Being, where there is no fear, no distrust. 18 … may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. If you are trying to get a hold of how much God loves you after all of this, it’s not knowledge that can get it. It’s your spirit man that receives it because it, passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-19 NKJV). How are we going to get there? We got to be filled with the fullness of God. Who’s that? It’s the Holy Spirit. Come on. Are you all with me?
So he doesn’t finish his prayer there. What does he say next? After he said through the inner man, through being filled with the Holy Spirit, through being filled with all the fullness of God, through all of that, 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. Because we can’t ask or think enough to know what the Kingdom looks like through us on the earth. We don’t know what to ask or think because it’s so good. It’s so glorious. It’s so amazing. How are we going to ask it? We don’t have to. We have to just, by faith, receive it. 20 … according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church, the Ecclesia. You are called out to make this happen, by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever (Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV). Oh, man.
This prayer will tell you that it can happen. This prayer will tell you that it must happen because this prayer has been prayed not only by Paul who was representing the Gentiles and the Church, but it has been prayed for 1000 of years by the Church. Come on, people. We are destined for so much greater, so much greater, so much greater. We have been hoodwinked into accepting a much lower standard and living to such a low standard that we actually and I’m as equal to blame here. I’m not just putting this on you. I’m equally at fault here because the revelation that it takes and the faith that it takes and the timing of what it takes has all got to come into alignment. And there was a time in my life when I really believed that this is really amazing faith. Look., it’s kept me out of debt. It’s got me financially free, and look at my marriage and all of those things are still true. But that’s actually just the journey to something much greater. That’s not what it’s all about. That’s just the beginning part of what it’s all about. Isn’t it interesting that in the same book of Ephesians, Pastor Lynn, you would be able to help me with this? But in the same book of Ephesians, Paul is writing and he says, “If you want to know what the Church looks like with Christ, it’s equal to a marriage. Because that’s the closest thing I can tell you what the Church and Jesus look like. It’s in a marriage. Because if a husband loves his wife as Christ loves the Church and gives himself up for her and presents her to himself in glorious splendour without spot or wrinkle or any blemish – that is a picture of Christ and the Church. And you, woman, if you love your husbands and adore them and respect them and admire them and you are constantly being there for them, the combination of those two together is the Church and Christ.” Why do you think all of these years, it’s been such a big deal for me to talk to you about the quality of our marriage because it’s the only living representation of what the Church really looks like. Is that right, Pastor Lynn? Because even if the church doesn’t live up to all of its goodness, you can, in a marriage, live up to the equality of what a Church should look like, at least in its relationship with Jesus. That’s why I always say if you’re going to be in the ministry as a pastor, as its leader, you better make sure your relationship with your wife is in order because it’s powerful. It has a powerful image. It has a powerful representation of Christ and the Church. Hallelujah.
It’s a message on its own. Now I want to say this to you, now do you read Ephesians chapter 3 in a completely different light? Now when you start praying Ephesians chapter 3 prayer, you can read it and say, “Hey, I’m praying a Kingdom prayer. I’m praying the continuous perfect space to occupy that space, I’m praying that into the earth. I am a candidate to make this continuous perfect state of being occupation happen. Let me occupy on earth as in heaven. Doesn’t Jesus say, “How do you want to pray? That Your will be on earth …” I mean, they came to ask Him things. “How then should we pray?” So when they said, “How then should we pray?” He says, “Pray like this. The kingdom’s got to come to the earth, so pray that. The will of the Father’s got to come back to the earth, so pray that.” So what are we supposed to do? Live that. Jesus prayed that, we must live that. Hallelujah.
So Jesus came to show us. In His life, He came to show us what it looks like to make that happen. So what is heaven? In this language? What did I say? EZulwini (Zulu for heaven). EZulwini. What does EZulwini look like on the earth? What does it look like on the earth?
There’s a lake, it’s in Caesarea. It’s a lake. It used to be called the Lake of Gennesaret. This lake, the water is so clear. It is so clear that you can see all the way to the bottom of the lake, certainly in the shallow waters. You have to go very, very deep into the waters to not see the bottom of the lake. This is important. So where does the water come to this lake? Where does the water come from to this lake? It comes from the mountains in Syria in the north of Israel. In Syria, the mountains up there, the water comes from snow falls and for everything. The water comes down through rivers and it flows into this lake. Crystal clear, beautiful water. There’s lots of fish in this lake, but the water is so clear that you can see the fish and the fish can see you. This is a problem if you’re fishing. Especially, if you’re going to be fishing with nets. So, where the water comes down into the lake, what comes with the water? All kinds of nutrients, all kinds of good stuff that comes from the rivers into the lake. Where the rivers come into the lake, the waters are shallow, and the fish come to the shallow waters to feed. So any professional fisherman goes fishing, not in the daytime. They go fishing at night so the fish can’t see them. But they know where the fish are going to be because they all go there at night to get food. Shallow, clear waters. This is what’s called natural order of things. Yes?
So Jesus, He comes and He wants to preach a little bit. So He sees these boats in the daytime sitting on the side there doing nothing and guys are working their nets, fishing nets. He says, “Hey, boys, can I use your boats to preach a little bit, please?” They say, “Be our guest.” So they push the boat a little bit out into the water so His sound can be amplified off the water and He can preach to a lot more people. When He gets done, He says, “Hey, guys. You’ve done a great seed here. I want you to have a harvest. Go fishing.” Peter says, “Hey, listen, we’re the pros here. Have you seen this water? Have you seen any fish around? No. The fish are not here in the shallow water because they’ve gone to the deep water. Because in the shallow water, you can’t go fishing. But they would often come to the shallow water in the day because no one can fish for them in the day. Because if you go fishing for them, they go back to the deep water.” So Jesus says, “Hey, guys, why don’t you take your fish, your fishing net and your boat, and go fishing? But go to the deep waters. But the side that you would go, which would be the shallow side, don’t put your nets in there. Go the deep side.” And they say, “Well, you know, no one goes fishing in the day because the fish can see the boat and the fish can see the net. We are the pros here. We understand You’re the rabbi, the teacher, the guy that talks a lot. So You’re the talker, but we are the workers. Okay. But, you know, at Your word. So, 5 “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” 6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. Listen, they were so disbelieving here that they only took one boat out with one net. Their partners were still sitting on the shore. 7 So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” 9For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken (Luke 5:5-9 NKJV).
What was Jesus demonstrating to them right here? “I have come with a spiritual order that is way above this natural order. And whatever you think you can do with your natural order at My Word, I will bring a spiritual order that will change everything. And it doesn’t matter what the natural order is telling you, if you will obey the spiritual order you will get some things done that cannot even be done in the natural. And it doesn’t matter how much in your head you think it can’t get done or it can get done, the natural order is subservient to the spiritual order.” Now when Jesus says, “I have come to demonstrate to you the Kingdom of heaven and the Kingdom of heaven has come onto earth,” He says, “I’m not just going to demonstrate this to do with the power of My words, but I’m going to demonstrate that My words are changing and altering it back to the state when Adam was on the earth. He didn’t have to work for his food. He just had to go and harvest it.” Hey.
Do you know why the Lord is using this weekend to preach these messages? You know why? Because you’ve given Him first fruits. Remember, I prophesied. I prophesied this. I prophesied that there are things going to happen in the earth. There are going to be chaos and there’s going to be crisis. Do you remember that? Now, I’m telling you that God is bringing to you a solution. This weekend, He’s bringing to you a solution for when the crisis and the chaos comes. And we have to be Kingdom minded, not natural laws minded. And we have to be starting to prepare ourselves now for things that are going to happen because we are not going to be touched by that system. The natural system is not going … our natural. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but if we are ready for it, God is going to bring the super, and He’s going to put it on our natural, and the Kingdom of God is going to be demonstrated amongst us. And if you believe it, you will receive it. If you don’t believe it, you won’t see it. [Pastor Sharon says; I receive it] Because there were many, many people that heard Jesus, and they didn’t believe Him and they didn’t see anything of the Kingdom. In fact, they killed Him. “Oh, you’re the King of a Kingdom, we’re going to kill You because You can’t be.” If you believe it, you’ll receive it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God.
I am thankful. I’m thankful that God has chosen this moment to reveal Himself to us like this. I’m thankful. I want to say; let’s go fishing. Hey, let’s go fishing. Let’s go and do what seems impossible to get done. Come on. If you’re going to start to believe this, I want you, I’m telling you now, I’m preaching this tonight not just because this whole weekend, God has had me preaching about natural laws, spiritual laws. He’s having me preach about vision. He’s been having me preach about the Continuous Perfect State of Being, which is the love of God, which is God, which is in heaven, which has come to earth, which is all of, this has been a whole series of messages here. Pastor Christi got to preach right alongside there about the first fruits and about what God is doing right now in the earth. And, Pastor Garth, he preached about the love of God and that we can count on the love of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I believe Pastor Sharon has got something to say before the weekend is over. Don’t you think that she’s got something to say? [Congregation says; Yes.] Oh, yes. Hallelujah. She’s looking at me with a confused look on her face. That’s not your confused look. Okay. I must interpret that. Okay.
Well, praise the Lord. God is leading us here because we decided we’re going to give God first fruits, and we’re going to take this thing that everybody goes away on Easter holidays, and we’re going to take our so called holiday time that everybody takes as a proper vacation every time, every year because it’s what we can do. And we say we’re going to give this to God. And so because we’re giving it to God, it’s time for us to receive from God what He’s giving to us because we’ve given Him our first, and He says now the rest is blessed. So this is God coming to bless you. So this is God coming to bless you.
I want to tell you that as you are blessed going out, you have got to start to make a demand on the Kingdom of heaven, the Kingdom of God, the ways of God, the order of God. You got to make a pull on Him. You got to make a demand on Him. Phone those customers that wouldn’t give you an order before and say, “I want an order.” And they say, “We’re not ready. We don’t have the budget.” Phone them again tomorrow and again tomorrow and again tomorrow until they give you the order. Cast your net on the other side. Push your boat out there and say, “Come on. Come into the boat.” Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to Jesus.
I mean, that’s how faith acts, doesn’t it? I mean, faith says, “Hey, that’s my business. Give it to me. Give it to me.” Jesus said, “Give me some loaves and fishes here. Come, let’s feed thousands of people.” Well, how do you do that? I’m surpassing these natural laws with a – come on, Jesus. He’s living in you. The same One that broke that bread, He’s living in you. Same One. Same God. Same Continuous Perfect State of Being. He’s living inside of you. You got to let Him out of there and out of your mouth and let Him do the work. Let the angels work with His words coming out of your mouth. This is not religion. Religion can’t talk like this. Religion wants you to bow your knee to a set of rules and a set of rituals and a set of ceremonies. This is not religion. This is the power of God. This is the glory of God. This is what Jesus came to pay the price for. He came to give us this power. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He didn’t come for us to walk around on this earth and say we are a bunch of defeated Christians. Got Christian written on my back, so I must walk like this. [Pastor John walking slumped over] Pull your shoulders back and say, “I am a believer. I’m a sent one.” Hey.
Before the weekend is out, we’re going to talk about you; sent ones. Sending you to go and get stuff, conquer stuff, bring healing to people, delivering people, doing things that are awesome, godly, amazing things. Don’t bow to the suggestions of the enemy. Don’t bow to the systems that want to box you into another religion. We are not them. We are not them. Hallelujah.
Well, there’s some things that I wrote down here. Let me see here. Oh, no. No. No. You’re not ready for this yet. You’re not ready for this yet? Maybe tomorrow. What about tomorrow? You think you’ll be ready tomorrow? [Congregation says; Yes] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Let me tell you. You know why Peter, when he saw what happened with Jesus, do you know why he jumped out of the boat? I mean, he did something quite … I mean, I’ve preached on this before. This is not something new, the first time I’ve preached it. But he jumped out of the boat, and he came and he dropped to his knees in front of Jesus, and he said, “Depart from me for I am a sinner.” What kind of reaction is that? I mean, God’s just blessed him with all this wealth, and he drops to his knees and he says, “Depart from me for I am a sinner.” You know what happened? When the glory and the goodness of God comes and meets you from heaven on earth, you realise that heaven has just come into your natural world, and there’s no way you could experience this without heaven coming to the earth. And you are so awestruck by this heaven, and your humanity is so insignificant that you can’t help but drop to your knees and say, “What am I?” But Jesus says, “Come, Peter. This is just the beginning. You haven’t seen anything yet, Peter. If you think this is grand, come with Me. We’re going to catch people for the rest of eternity.” I mean, he just gave Peter a visualisation of what was to come later on. But, you know, I mean, just recently, when I was meditating on this, this is what I believe. When Peter fell to his knees and he said, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man,” God said, “Look at that heart. There is the man that I can use that heart. That heart, that’s the heart I can use going forward.” Because when he sees the goodness and the Kingdom of God demonstrated to him, his repentance, repentance, repentance. Didn’t Jesus say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” You didn’t even have to say that to Peter. He just fell and repented anyway. “Hey, Peter, I like your heart, man. Let’s go and change the world. Let’s go and change the world.” Hey, Church, let’s go change the world. Let’s go change the world. Yeah. “But Pastor John, look, we are a good bunch of people in Witbank.” That’s your reality and that’s your reason and that’s your relevance. Tell it to shut up. We’re living in redemption, and we’re going to live in the revelation of God. And we have just started our revolution.
We have just started a revolution. This weekend, we started a revolution. We started a revolution. We started a revolution. We started a revolution. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. You know, we started a revolution when we said we’re going to give this weekend to God, and we changed all of our plans and we came. God said, “I’m starting a revolution this weekend.” And it has begun. It has begun. I’m telling you, it started off on the first morning when we started to pray for people’s healing. And by the way, healing power is still working in all your bodies, all your bodies, all your bodies, all your bodies. The healing power of God is working, working, working, working, working, working, working. It’s working, working, working. Hallelujah. Glory to Jesus. Wow. Wow. Yeah. You are the guys. You are the guys. You are the people. You are God’s kind of people. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord, for this revelation. Thank You for the Word that has been spoken to us this week, this weekend so far. We receive the power and the download of the impartation of the Holy Spirit tonight, even in our sleep, even in our sleep, we will be filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
It’s possible for the Holy Spirit to give you dreams and visions in your sleep. And you wake up in the morning and you say, “I know how to go and get that deal. I know how to go and make that money. I know how to go and crack that case. I know how to go and do this thing. I know what to do next. I know. I know. I know. Because in my sleep, the Holy Ghost was upon me.” Hallelujah.
One of my biggest breakthroughs that I had in business was from when I woke up early in the morning, I woke up and I was praying in the spirit, praying in the spirit, and I got a vision of a man’s face. You know the story, and it changed the whole deal. It can happen to you while you’re sleeping. The Holy Spirit is working in your spirit because your spirit man does not sleep. Your spirit man is alive and awake to the Word of God. It’s an eternal being. So your mind sleeps and your body sleeps, but your spirit is alive to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on. We got to speak this stuff out. We got to change our language. We got to speak out that the Continuous State of Being is continuously working in me. It’s continuous. In me, strength, strength, strength. In my inner man, might, might, might, might in my inner man. I have supernatural energy and might and strength in my inner man, inside of me, inside of me. It’s working inside of me, coming out of me into the natural world. Hallelujah.
May your night therefore be blessed with sleep. May the peace of God rest upon you, and may everything that happens to you tonight, may it be covered with the Word and the blood of Jesus. No silly intrusions into this brain. No, your mind is pure now, and you got to keep talking like this all the time; my mind is pure. My soul is pure. I’m being transformed. I’m not being conformed. I’m being transformed by the renewing of my mind because my inner man is telling my mind what to do all the time. Hallelujah. Let’s go change things. Let’s change things in us. Let’s change things around us. Let’s change the world. Hallelujah. Blessed going out. Blessed coming in. And I’ll see you as you are blessed coming in tomorrow morning. Hallelujah. Okay. Well, good night then.
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