a jacked up world it's going to be
important that you begin to hear this
the reason is is I have so much
encouragement to bring to you now I'm
going to start out talking about some
circumstances that the Bible talks about
that are challenging and what will begin
to take place but this is going to be
really good for your heart I want you to
pay very close attention give me your
undivided attention if you would because
I know this is going to really help you
so let's begin starting out when we're
talking about this this crazy title
about a world that seems all messed up
jacked up all over the place and just
difficult we're coming into a day and
age that is so challenging you know
there's problems we have not experienced
before there are pressures the world's
not experienced before and they use
guilt and different types of things to
get you into submission to an agenda I
believe an agenda that's trying to cause
you to fall to your knees and become
subservient to what I consider to be the
spirit of antichrist running rampant in
the Earth and many people from the
church institution to the worlds
institutions government Marketplace all
of it entertainment societies
institutions are quick to surrender and
bow the need to the institutional
pressures from an antichrist spirit for
the purpose of self-preservation now one
of the number one ways you overcome a
messed up world is through avoiding
self-preservation Jesus said he who
would lose his life will gain it but he
who tries to keep his life will
eventually lose it that's paraphrasing
what the Lord said to us and when you
put this in perspective when you begin
to get faith in your heart over what's
happening I'll tell you you can begin to
rise up and Thrive not just survive in a
messed up world and messed up society
when all the institutions are collapsing
and difficulties going on and if they're
not collapsing they're trying to control
reformers and people with freedom in
their mind
let's talk about what the word of God
says
the things we face in the world many
times are cyclic what happens in the
world over and over again is something
that seems to be a cyclic event there
can be difficulty that happens there's
exposure of difficulty there's times and
Seasons that seem to repeat themselves
over and over again in John 16 32
you can see right in the scripture where
it says
indeed the hour is coming this is Jesus
speaking he said that you will be
scattered each to his own now that's not
encouraging that sounds kind of harsh
actually he said and will leave me alone
this is Jesus prophesying about after
the Garden of Gethsemane all the things
that would take place they would all
scatter and leave him alone
and Jesus goes on to say and yet I'm not
alone because the father is with me now
that's an important thing you need to
understand Jesus is the Prototype he is
the firstborn among many Brethren you
and I have him to look to as our example
why do I say this because even when he
said there will be a moment and an hour
is coming that you'll be scattered and
really what he was saying is you're
going to run away from me out of fear
you're going to be terrified and these
are the people who'd walked with him
these are the Believers who were with
him and they ran away they were
scattered each to his own
self-preservation set in they went to
their own they wanted to make sure they
were okay and he said and you will leave
me alone but here's the key phrase the
key phrase here is yet I am not alone
I want to say this to you and you need
to hear this right now as the world is
just wild and we use very dramatic
titles and things that catch people's
attention I hope
but really the end result is I want to
tell you Jesus loves you
you need to know that
you need to know Jesus and not mad at
you God's not mad at you
as a matter of fact you're probably one
of the reasons or all of us or many
people who are lost and don't know the
Lord right now
if you don't know the Lord I recommend
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but if you are in this position I
believe God is so slow
and he does he wants all men to be saved
he's so slow to judge the world and come
after the world because he's giving
everybody he can an opportunity to know
him
that's why these things are prolonged
that's why the Lord tarries in returning
I think it's his grace I think all the
terrible things that mankind has done to
this world not God mankind God gave them
the authority they do this to the world
the reason that things are so terrible
is because mankind made a mess out of
this all the way from the fall of Adam
till today and where we are right now
the reason things get worse and worse
and God's not intervening and getting us
all out of here and doing everything is
because there's more lost children out
there and he's giving every opportunity
for them to find home there's a lot of
people hear me there's a lot of people
today
they're trying this they're trying that
but they're kind of like you know and I
don't put stock in this but I I just
think this way but I think it's like
that U2 song that says I have claim
highest mountains I have run through the
fields only to be with you only to be
with you but the chorus says but I still
haven't found what I'm looking for
I remember singing that the same way I
just did at a Business Leaders event and
different events over the years and I
looked at them and said
I got what you're looking for
if you still haven't found what you're
looking for I want to say to you today
I got it not me as a person
but I'm preaching what you need
I know what you need you need Jesus you
don't got to be perfect to come to Jesus
just give him your life it's time to
find what you're looking for it's time
to answer the fight inside
and you come to Jesus if you do that
you've got to tell us and you give your
life to Jesus it'll be wonderful it'll
be wonderful and God is long suffering
towards you he's long suffering towards
many people in the world that's why this
this narrative is carrying on and
craziness is happening and God is Not
Just rescuing his people out of it it's
because he's still waiting for more he
wants more to come in to know him he
wants his family back he doesn't want
the devil to have his kids
come to Jesus
gotta repent of your sin turn to Jesus
give your life to him he'll rescue you
you confess with your mouth and believe
in your heart that God raised him from
the dead and that he is Lord and you
will be saved
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now God's long-suffering yes but here
look at this this is also a word for you
watching right now
they all scattered John 16 32 going back
to this this thought John 16 32 indeed
the hour is coming yes has now come that
you will be scattered each to his own
self-preservation right
self-preservation and will leave me
alone this is Jesus talking and Jesus
begins to say and yet
I am not alone
because the father is with me I'm going
to tell you something when I was 13
years old I was asked to leave my house
I was asked to leave my house from my
father's side and many good people in
the family and I'm not negative on
anyone but I had to leave my house
because I got born again I met Jesus and
it offended my family it offended them
deeply they said if you believe in that
Jesus stuff you can't live here and I
had a decision to make
but like this scripture
like this scripture Jesus said yet I am
not alone
because the father is with me the
father's with me
powerful
you right now no matter what's going on
in the world
You Are Not Alone
you're not alone if you know the Lord
it might feel like it I felt like it but
I knew I wasn't alone because Jesus was
with me
he was with me been with me the whole
time
and he'll be with you no matter what is
going on in your life he loves you so
much he can make up all the difference
it's worth it
let me go forward with this I'm going to
lay out a number of scriptures you know
it's
important and it's actually imperative
we must understand this first of all you
need to know God loves you you know the
goodness of God for you Jesus loves you
and there's nothing you can do about it
so important
you must also understand the world has
lots of trouble in it and God doesn't
allow it he doesn't cause it it's just
the Fallen World but God's given you the
tools by your faith to overcome the
world okay overcome the world
and this is where we get to now let me
begin to show this to you in John 16 33
this may not be a scripture remember you
have posted on your refrigerator that
you quote every day or begin to meditate
on but it's good
look at this it says these things I've
spoken to you that in me you may have
peace peace
and then he goes on to say in the world
you will have tribulation
but be of good cheer I have overcome the
world I've conquered the world
Jesus said it he says it again and I
want to remind you this is so important
to hear this okay it says in the world
you
will it's a Bible promise you could have
a scripture memory card with a promise
on it he says in this world you will
have tribulation another version says
you will have trouble but be of good
cheer I've overcome the world now that
word tribulation is a really brutal word
it's a brutal word and it's it's very
brutal
if you don't understand that your faith
can actually adjust this okay let me
explain
the Greek word for tribulation or
trouble here is the Greek word flipsis
philipsis is a it means like a giant
Stone one one depiction of it is a giant
stone that comes down on someone's body
it was actually an ancient picture of
torture unto death a crushing weight so
we're talking a stone a giant Millstone
that would be tons several tons of
weight that they would lower with ropes
chains devices onto somebody laying on a
flat stone
and flipsis is when the stone would come
down onto a person's body completely
flat and begin to pressurize them
it was a weight that had no way to
resist or respond to and little by
little they would add more weight to it
they would begin to lower the weight and
lower the weight and lower the weight
until several tons of pressure began to
crush and pop and Destroy every bone
ligament and fiber completely destroying
the person's body ultimately leading to
their demise and they'd perish they
would die
now that positive or horrifying picture
is the meaning of this Greek word
tribulation ellipsis
Ellipsis means Jesus said in the world
you will have ellipsis
unbearable pressure and weight things
you don't you you're gasping for air you
don't know how to get out of it you
don't know how to get out of it but then
he pivots and says but be of good cheer
I have overcome the world now here's
what's important about this so important
actually is it
so important when you begin to
understand what he's actually saying be
of good cheer I've overcome the world
and when he's talking about overcoming
the world he begins to get into a
greater understanding
that the world system is the source
of this tribulation he's overcome the
world this understanding that the world
system is absolutely defeated and I need
to show you something this world system
is defeated when you start to recognize
that ellipsis
can only come against you
if you let the world win
now there's a lot in this and I'm going
to explain it you really should get I
have a teaching called the secret to the
life of John and I'm going to expound on
this and I do expound on this net
teaching but if you really want to
understand where I'm going with this
thought you need to get my teaching the
secret to the life of John
the secret to the life of John is how
John outlived all his other predecessors
and his contemporaries John lived to be
the oldest apostle
past 100 years old with persecution all
that what was the secret that kept him
alive you want to get that teaching and
I talk about this but let me talk here
going back to this here
John 16 33 said these things have spoken
to you that in me you may have peace in
the world you will have flips as
tribulation this pressure that you can't
escape it seems as if you can't escape
it but notice it's predicated on in the
world
in the world
in the world you will have flipsis now
religion and the world system it'll
allow you to get it under philipsis and
it'll tell you God's doing that to you
God's doing that too God's putting that
on you God's allowing that you don't
realize it's God putting this giant
weight on you flips this
but Jesus says be of good cheer I have
overcome the world I've overcome the
world I've overcome the world now you're
called to be as he is so are we in this
world let me jump to First John chapter
4 first John chapter 4 and this is so
powerful so
um understanding that you've got to
recognize
where this is going now
first and foremost
Jesus said be of good cheer I've
overcome the world but first John now
realize the same author who wrote the
verse in John 16 33 says be of good
cheer I've overcome the world also wrote
first John chapter 4 starting in verse
17. now there's a reason I'm saying this
to you now please tune in with me pay
very close attention to this
the same author John said love has been
perfected Among Us in this that we may
have boldness look at this boldness
in the day of judgment
this is so strong boldness in the day of
judgment because as he is
so are we in this world well what was
Jesus
he was the Overcomer of the world
phillipsis definitely came on Jesus but
he overcame it and like everything else
Jesus Took on the curse so you didn't
have to experience the curse Jesus Took
on death hell sin the grave all of it so
you didn't have to just the same as he
overcomes sickness he overcomes poverty
he overcomes everything
that is the opposite of life and
godliness John 10 10 I've come to give
you life and life more abundantly so
Jesus said be of good cheer I've
overcome the world now if you don't have
a revelation of the overcoming World
Authority
in Jesus Christ you will be subject to
philipsis Now flip flipses can attack
you you'll experience it but you can
overcome even flipsis
you can overcome it
and you see it here because slipsis is
powered by the world or the cosmos or
the system and I'm going to get to that
so he's saying as he is as Jesus is be
of good cheer I've overcome the world as
I am so are you now in this world
I hope you're following
and then he goes on to say a number of
wonderful things verse 18. there is no
fear and love a perfect love cast so
fear because fear involves torment but
he who fears has not been made perfect
in love verse 19. we love him because he
first loved us
verse 20 is as powerful if someone says
I love God and hates his brother he's a
liar
he's a liar boy I could do a whole
teaching on that whole teaching on that
for he who does not love his brother
from whom he has seen how can he love
God whom he's not seen
now this is where it gets powerful I'm
going to begin to jump forward this
commandment is here to love your brother
let's jump forward
and begin to go into chapter five first
John now chapter five whoever believes
that Jesus is the Christ verse one is
born of God and everyone who loves him
who begot also loves him who is begotten
of him
verse 2 by this we know that we love the
children of God when we love God and
keep his Commandments verse 3 for this
is the love of God that we keep his
Commandments and I love this this is so
important this is so vital to understand
because you hear a lot of people say
keep this Commandments keep the
Commandments and you have to but hold on
hold up
this is the love of God that we keep his
Commandments and his Commandments are
not burdensome
as a matter of fact he defines his
Commandments
by loving your neighbor and believing
the one he sent in other words you
believe in Jesus and love your neighbor
that's the Commandments of the New
Testament if you want to get down to it
but let's keep going
it says then
his Commandments are not burdensome now
verse 4 and this is where it starts to
all tie together on this thought
very powerful
for whatever
is born of God
whatever is born of God in other words
whatever has that spiritual horsepower
in it
pay attention this is revelatory
whatever has the spiritual horsepower a
heaven in it
go in red I like to say the blood of
Jesus and if that Covenant revelatory
Covenant horsepower it says
whatever is born of God whatever comes
from God overcomes the world
and this is the victory that has
overcome the world
our faith now remember Ellipsis is
empowered by the world
do you see it philipsis tribulation John
16 33 in the world you will have trouble
trouble resides in the world in other
words the world is the parent Force to
tribulation the world is the parent
forced to Flips this the world
as you're going to find out is the
system by which tribulation is possible
but now hear me this is going to help
you okay gonna help you that's why you
got to listen you gotta pay attention to
this because it's going to break you out
if you hear this you're going to have
such ability to break out of your
containment okay
for whatever is born of God overcomes
what the world the source of flipsis
tribulation and this is the victory that
has overcome the world our faith
who is he overcomes the world but he who
believes that Jesus is the son of God
now the word here in the Greek for a
world is the Greek word Cosmos okay
k-o-s-m-o-s Cosmos in the Greek in the
Greek it doesn't mean Cosmos like outer
space it's talking about Cosmos
and a simple rendering of that would be
the public it would be the culture it
would be the people around us it would
be the gates of hell
which is a system hell's a place
and a system
the kingdom of God
is a place and a system the kingdom of
God and the kingdom of heaven hell the
gates of hell are a system in a place
the kingdom of God and the gates or
excuse me the kingdom of God and the
kingdom of heaven is a place one to
place one's a system right
so this is very important that you begin
to understand this Heaven is a place
God's kingdom is a system
but when you're looking at this
and you're beginning to understand it
the Gates of Hell or the system of the
world the cosmos the public the
this Fallen world has a system and one
of the things this institution of the
Fallen World will produce against
believers
in this world you will have Philips as
Jesus said but be of good cheer I've
overcome the parent Force the cosmos the
public the Zeitgeist opinion the mood of
the generation you're living in I've
overcome that
and you know what he says he says he
overcame it but now we are him in this
world and as he is so are we in this
world
but we have the power to overcome the
world how by our faith and I like the
way that the um the message translation
says it it says this is the power that
brings the world to its knees a better
rendering would be our faith is the
power that brings the world to its knees
to its knees your faith that doesn't
waver is the power or the force that
brings the world system the cosmos the
Foundation of flipsis tribulation to its
knees you by your faith
are Jesus in the world enforcing the
promises of God and therefore you force
the system of the world the devil's
economics the devil's Health Care
sickness system the devil's evil vile
plans evil for your children persecution
that's off the chain that would try to
break you down and your faith overcomes
the parent Force which is the system
that provides ellipsis
it's here you can do it
that's powerful I don't care who said it
you can break out of that containment
you can break forward so you're called
to overcome the gates of helkers at the
Ecclesia Jesus said my Ecclesia my
church
would have the Gates of Hell come
against it and the gates of hell would
not prevail
John chapter 1 talks about the light was
in the world and the Darkness could not
overcome the light
we're the light and darkness Jesus is
the light of the world but we are him in
this world because he manifests through
his body which is what I call the 521
the body of Christ
and
we demonstrate through our faith through
believing Jesus that he overcame the
Gates of Hell the cosmos the world
system to the point that when phillipsis
tries to get on your tribulation you've
already defeated the parent Force
powerful
it's about what you know and what you
don't know and John why I've said about
my message the secret to the life of
John he knew this he knew this and it
was based on how much God loved him and
he knew that
powerful
powerful now going forward
going forward you need to hear this this
is going to help you so much
peace is a weapon okay it's a weapon to
break through containment pieces your
pieces John 14 27 peace I leave with you
and Jesus goes on to say my peace
Jesus peace
my peace I give you
not as the world gives you this is so
powerful
not as the world gives you
do I give it to you let not your heart
be troubled he goes on to say neither
Let It Be Afraid Jesus said I give you a
supernatural power to have peace and
overcome my peace I give you Jesus said
my peace we have Jesus peace we have
Jesus Joy at Jesus peace
allows you to enforce the ability to say
to your heart you can't be troubled
right now I don't allow it I don't allow
my heart to be troubled let not your
heart be troubled neither Let It Be
Afraid so powerful and Jesus kind of
peace
is what Philippians 4 7 says is the
peace of God which surpasses all
understanding and it will guard your
hearts and Minds through Christ Jesus so
that's Philippians 4 7 lining up with
John 14 27 how because Jesus said my
peace I give you not as the world gives
it to you in other words the world's
type of peace is based on situational uh
comfortability it's based on if things
are going right people in the world can
have relative peace if things are
perfect if things are going good if
there's no struggle or trial or
difficulty to a high level
but Jesus said I don't give you that
kind of Peace the peace that's
predicated on how people treat you and
how things are going how the world
system the cosmos kind of Peace in other
words you have a big bank account are
people treating you good do you have
good relationships do you have the
perfect marriages everything just right
if you have everything just right then
you can obviously have peace it's
situational peace based on your
environment that's worldly Cosmos peace
the world's peace
but Jesus goes on to say something I
don't give you the world's kind of peace
I give you the peace of God which passes
all understanding in other words it
passes the reasonable conclusions the
world would come to about you my peace I
give you the Jesus kind of Peace the
peace that passes reasonable Logic the
peace that makes people go what how can
you possibly be okay how can you
possibly be all right it reminds me of
that story I think it was Edison who had
his Workshop burning to the ground
and his children came and got him in the
middle of the night it was burning to
the ground burning huge infernal all his
life's work burning in his shop he walks
out in his pajamas
Edison goes out there and he's looking
at the fire he's staring at this gazing
into the Flames of his life's work
and as he's looking at it
his family people around and listening
intently what's he going to say
what is he going to say it's his life's
work and their somber and they're
listening
and just in that moment Edison reaches
over so I've heard
Taps the one of the kids on the shoulder
one of the family members it says quick
he whispers to him quick
go get your mother
she's never seen a fighter this big
and they did they went and got the mom
now I had just fine humor in that
and here's a guy that probably didn't
have a revelation that I'm teaching you
today I don't know but what I want to
say too about it is if the world can
find moments to find Joy or Find humor
in something that's so horrible how much
more can you overcome this world's
present evil age
Galatians 1 says that it's God's will
that you overcome this present evil age
that should be delivered from this
present evil age according to the will
of God
now
when you're looking at this
the peace that passes understanding when
you know Jesus gave you his peace it
passes worldly logic and people that are
reasonable and they think you're being
unreasonable because you're still full
of joy and you don't have to let
yourself fall apart when something goes
negative you can actually rise up under
either persecution loss difficulty
Stress and Anxiety of the world you can
look at the world like proverbs 31 says
and laugh like the Proverbs 31 Woman she
looks to the Future and she laughs
because her family is clothed in Scarlet
they're going red they're covered with
the blood of Jesus that represents the
Covenant of God that begins to say no
matter what comes my way it's not
greater than the blood of the lamb and
the word of my testimony Revelation 12
11.
but that will give you peace the peace
that passes understanding and then when
you have that peace
it passes all carnal understanding it
goes beyond your need to have Comforts
to have peace you need to have
everything in order to have peace which
those things help praise God and you
should do that but your need for the
worldly definition of Peace doesn't
matter what you will have is a peace
that underpasses understanding all
understanding and then it will guard
your heart and your mind through Christ
Jesus that's an amazing promise it
guards your heart and mind
meaning you're going to be okay on the
inside and your thinking is going to be
stable and you are going to be okay
you're going to be okay
man I hope this helped you today I know
it did I believe it did
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into you into this on this topic and I
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