Glorious Way Church
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The Present Day Ministry of Jesus 1
Drawing from Hebrews 8, we explore how Jesus isn't passively watching from heaven but actively administering, executing, implementing, and carrying into effect the words of our faith-filled confession. Your voice literally becomes your address in the Spirit realm, and Jesus responds to back what you say—when it aligns with God's Word.
Let's lift our Bibles up and wave them around. Make Jesus glad and the devil mad. Say this together. Say Heavenly Father, I'm so thankful for Jesus. He died for my sins, but he is alive right now and he's moving in my life and he's moving all over this world. I refuse to be distracted by all the headlines of evil. Righteousness is reigning in the earth. In Jesus' name, amen, praise God. Let's turn in our Bibles to Hebrews, chapter 8. 8. And we'll read there a few verses, 1 through 3, and then verse 6. Hebrews 8, 1.
Speaker 1:Now, of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum. We have such a high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man, for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices, wherefore it is of necessity that this man, talking about Jesus, have somewhat also to offer. Verse 6,. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry. More excellent than who? Well, more excellent than Aaron. Aaron, you know. The whole theme of Hebrews is Jesus is better. Jesus is better than the angels. Jesus is better than Moses. Jesus is better than the high priest Aaron. So he's obtained a more excellent ministry. By how much? Also, verse 6,. He is the mediator of a better covenant founded upon better promises, covenant founded upon better promises.
Speaker 1:And so today I want to begin a series of messages entitled the present day ministry of Jesus. And it's vital for the believer to have revelation of what Jesus is doing right now. You know, we did die for our sins, but guess what? He's still alive. And we, last week, we talked about in Acts, chapter one, how, after he was risen from the dead, he spent 40 more days on the earth after being risen from the dead, defeating the devil. And what did he do during that 40 days? Well, he showed himself alive by many infallible proofs. I mean, if they needed proof that he was really alive, then how much more do we need proof? And then it says that he taught them concerning the kingdom of God for 40 days. And then, of course, he was.
Speaker 1:He was taken up, and when he was taken up to heaven, he didn't go into a lazy boy. No, he's not sitting in a recliner. You know, one of the ones with a cooler, the built-in cooler. You know the built-in remote's got the power, the power that that lifts you up and puts you on your feet when you're reclining. No, he's not in a recliner, he's got a ministry that he is performing right now, and so the these messages, uh, in the next few weeks I'm going to expound on these, uh, these ministries that he's involved with not near enough teaching on this subject, and all that he did on the cross and when he took our sins and sicknesses and when he rose from the dead, all of it would be non-available to us right now if he wasn't moving in the way that he's moving. He's operating at the right hand of the majesty on high and it makes it possible for you and I to partake of the good things that he paid for him operating in his present day ministry wouldn't be available. So then, it's imperative for us to have revelation about his ministry, because otherwise we're going to be bound with sense, knowledge or religion instead of revelation of redemption.
Speaker 1:So there's three views of Jesus ministry ministry. First of all, jesus before the cross. You see that in the gospels he's the man of sorrows. And then you have jesus on the cross. The son made sin. I mean right there. A lot of people don't believe that. A lot of people don't believe that jesus was made to be sin. I heard one famous preacher on TV 40 years ago and I could not believe my ears when he said that he's very popular. I won't say his name, it doesn't matter, but here he is on television spreading a lie. Oh, jesus didn't take our sin. Well, you know what? If he didn't, then I'm still lost. He took it, he was made to be sin. That's what he was on the cross.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, the last part what we're talking about this week or next week, is Jesus seated at the right hand of the majesty on high. That's more important for us right now. We need to do those other two things, but we need, we need the reality of what he is doing. And when you get a revelation of what he's doing, children, it's for you too. I mean, you need a revelation what he's doing for you. He loves you just as much as he loves your parents. He's available to you, just like he's available to grownups. And so, um, he is set on the right hand. In other words, that word set means to appoint, to confer a kingdom, to fix an abode, to settle down.
Speaker 1:He has settled down in his ministry, and so, um, the present day ministry of Jesus is five fold. Isn't that amazing? You know, the five fold ministry is five fold aspects of his present day ministry. Number one he's the high priest. Number two the fivefold ministry is fivefold aspects of his present day ministry. Number one, he's the high priest. Number two, he's the mediator. Number three, he's the intercessor. Number four, he's the advocate. And number five, he's the Lord and head of the church. Those five aspects, and some of them, they're just really interchanged, they overlap and they go back and forth. For instance, mediator, intercessor and all of that, advocate, those are running simultaneous with one another.
Speaker 1:So today we're going to talk about Jesus the high priest, and let's look at Hebrews, chapter three, and we'll start reading with verse one, wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, christ Jesus, who was faithful to him. That appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. So here we see that Jesus is called the apostle and high priest of our profession. Notice, he's talking to the holy brethren. You know that's. You know he's not talking to. You know, chopped liver, he's not talking to people that are just kind of irrelevant. No, we're called the holy brethren. See, it's good to know what the Bible says about you. You're the holy brethren.
Speaker 1:And uh, it says consider. It says consider the apostle and high priest of our profession. Consider means to put your mind down on a thing, or really, I like to say lock on you, lock on the apostle and high priest of our profession. Profession is homo legeo. It means essentially the same thing as confession. It means what you're saying. It means literally to say the same thing as confession. It means what you're saying. It means literally to say the same thing as. So when you say what the word says, then the apostle in high priest, what is the apostle? It's a sent one. He was sent to occupy this, this office called high priest. Now, you know we're not. Most of us are not. Office called high priest? Now, you know we're not, most of us are not. Uh, you know we.
Speaker 1:It's hard to understand about a high priest that. You know, jesus Aaron was dressed up in a garb, you know, he had the funny hat on, you know, and he had the, the E? Fod and the stones and the E? Fod and all the. They called it the curious girdle and all of that kind of thing. I mean he was they called it the curious girdle and all of that kind of thing. I mean he was kind of a funny looking dude and he was dressed for the part. They had a part, they had to go in and offer sacrifice. They represented all of Israel and only the high priest could go into the Holy of Holies once a year, not without blood, and they would offer sacrifices for the sins of the people.
Speaker 1:But Jesus has got a better ministry. He's sent to execute his ministry. And so the high priest, see, is not just a holy man in strange clothes. The high priest is one who is authorized listen carefully. The high priest is authorized to administer, execute, implement and carry into effect our profession or what we say. I mean it's not just you saying magic words, you know. It's not just you saying Simon Says.
Speaker 1:Did you ever play Simon Says when you were a kid? You know, it's not just you saying Simon Says. Did you ever play Simon Says when you were a kid? I mean, I was the youngest of four and we took a couple of long, long road trips when I was real young. I was the youngest. I had teenagers. My sisters and brother were all basically eight years older. My brother was eight years. My oldest sister was like my second mother. She's 13 years old. She was 13 when I was born. So you know, if you've got a big family, you kind of know what an older sister like that is. Marianne we just got to see her last week. She's 91. It's hard for me to believe that I've got a 91-year-old sister, but anyway, she's like 13 years old, or she doesn't look 91. I can tell you that she knows the word.
Speaker 1:But uh, uh, you know, we, we, we had to have games to go all from here to denver. I mean, it's a long trip and and, uh, you know I'll be in the youngest. They had my dad. I don't know where he found it, but he found a little hammock thing, a little canvas hammock. It hooked in between the tops of the rear doors and I hung in suspension above the laps of my brother and two sisters. They're crowded in the backseat. That's back when cars could hold three people in the backseat, but they were crowded and I was hanging above them, you know, for 1100 miles. It was a lot of fun for them to have. You know, baby brother writing, you know, swinging right there, sucking his thumb and uh, but we played. Simon says we played all kinds of listen. This is not a game we're playing.
Speaker 1:When we speak the word, when we have a confession of faith, when we believe in our heart and speak with our mouth, it doesn't just come to pass just because it's because the high priest is up there to administer, to execute, to implement and to carry into effect what we say. Glory to God. So when we say what God says about us and believe in our heart, god you backed. You know God, jesus, the high priest backs us up. Isn't it good to know he's alive and well and he's not distracted. He knows every word you say, or else he wouldn't be able to back up the good ones. Now, some of the words that we speak unfortunately are not that good, and so he can't do anything about those.
Speaker 1:When you speak, well, brother, I just call it like it is. Well, that's not what we're supposed to do. We're not to call it like it is. Maybe that's why things are so miserable in your life is because you've been calling it like it is. No, call the thing that be, not as though it were. We need to call what we want, find out what the Bible says we can have and call it the law of calling. Oh, it's powerful. Why? Because the high priest, jesus, the apostle and high priest of our profession. He was sent for this purpose, not just to die on the cross, but to implement and to carry into effect the New Testament for us right now, not back then. Right now, not back then, right now. See, I grew up Catholic and we kept looking back over our shoulder at miracles, way back, you know, way back. Miracles, way back. No, miracles are right now because he's alive right now. He's doing the same thing right now as he was back then.
Speaker 1:So in the Old Testament we have in the Old Testament, it's valuable to read the Old Testament because the Old Testament is the shadow, the type and shadow, and the New Testament is the substance. So when you read your Old Testament, you don't just read it just to read. A lot of people get all tangled up in the doctrine and the tangled up in the law and all that. We've got people that keep the law and trying to keep the dietary law and all of that kind of. That's a bunch of bunk. That's not, that's for them, that's not for us. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. But anyway, uh, it's valuable because you see the shadow of what we have and then it we have the substance of that shadow, just like I'm standing up here and I see my shadow right here. Well, that's not me, that's my shadow. It's only two dimensional. You gotta, you gotta, see me. I'm in three dimensional, see. So you don't get the full picture in the Old Testament, you just get an indication, and the Christ, the high priest, is a shadow of what I'm about to tell you about Moses.
Speaker 1:Moses, you know, it says here in chapter 3 in Hebrews he said it talks about Moses was this man was counted. In other words, Jesus was counted worthy. Let's look at verse 3, chapter 3, hebrews 3, 3. This man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses and as much as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. So Moses was a builder. He built Israel and he had a hard time building Israel because he didn't have a whole lot of cooperation. Moses is a type of Christ and Moses is a type of the high priest, even though Aaron was the high priest, but Moses was the leader and he was in charge of that group.
Speaker 1:After he got them out of Egypt. It took a few weeks to get Israel delivered out of Egypt and it took 40 years to get Egypt out of Israel. I don't think he ever did get Egypt out of Israel. They carried Egypt with them everywhere they went, but they got out in the wilderness in Exodus 17 and the people began to murmur for water. Then why don't you bring us out here to die of thirst, us and our children? They kept bringing the children up, the poor children. Oh, the children, the children. They weren't worried about the children, they were worried about their own hides, griping and complaining, forgetting all the glory that brought them out of Egypt to begin with, forgot about the Red Sea, forgot about all the miracles. They forgot all the miracles. And now they come up in this wilderness. There's nothing to drink and they're complaining and murmuring. And, of course, it upset. You know, moses.
Speaker 1:He went to the Lord. What am I going to do? They're about ready to stone me, he said. He said let's go over here, to Horeb here, and I want you to take your rod and I'm going to go with you and my glory is going to accompany you, and I want you to strike the rock. And so he did. He struck the rock with his rod in Horeb mount and water gushed out.
Speaker 1:You know, god can cause water to gush out of a rock. It might look like a desert where you're at, but God can make it productive. And so he struck that rock and water gushed out. We got to realize it. Not just a little old trickle, it's not just a little garden hose. We're talking about enough water to water 3 million people and their animals. That's a lot of water. I mean, that is a lot of water. And so it come gushing out of there.
Speaker 1:And so you know they, they shut up, but not for long, because you keep reading in Numbers, chapter 20, and that wasn't very much longer. They were in a different wilderness. The wilderness was Zen and they murmured again about there's no water out here. What do you keep bringing us out? There's no water, I don't have any water. Hey, mama, I want a candy bar. Mama, it's always at the checkout line.
Speaker 1:So he, you know, again, he goes to the Lord and says what am I going to do there? Just just he said all right, I want you to go over to the rock and I want you to speak to the rock. Speak to the rock. Now, see, struck the rock. What does that mean?
Speaker 1:Well, jesus was struck once for our sins. He died one time. He didn't have to die over and over. He died once for the sin of man. That's the type of striking the rock. And water gushing out, grace gushed out at the death of Christ the first time. He only had to die one time, and so now this type is going to be the type that now, because he was struck once, we can have what we say.
Speaker 1:We can speak to the insufficiency. We can speak to the sickness. We can speak to poverty. We can speak to lack. We can speak to whatever that is attacking us. We don't even have to ask God. We can speak, we don't have to. There's a lot of things that we don't have to pray about. Once you get revelation of your redemption, there's a lot of things that's going to change about your prayer life. You're going to quit begging God for all the things that he's already provided for you, and you're going to rise up and speak forth what belongs to you, and so say he got so mad though.
Speaker 1:See, that's the thing about Moses. He just had a temper all of his life that he never, ever, got control of. He was always in a situation. That's exactly why he went. You know, at the beginning, when he was about 40 years old, it came into his heart that he was the deliverer of Israel. But then he killed an Egyptian in his anger one day and he had to flee to the backside of the desert for 40 years. It put him on a, it put him on a holding pattern for 40 years and, by the way, the whole nation of Israel on a holding pattern. God was just as willing to deliver them when Moses was 40 as he was when Moses was 80.
Speaker 1:We have this idea that God does everything like we're a bunch of robots and that he's a puppeteer and he's just. He's making all the moves and everything is just. No, we have a whole lot to do with it and what we say has a lot to do with it. And so he got so mad that he went over there. Instead of speaking to that rock, he said I'm telling you, you bunch of you know. And he started railing on Israel and he struck the rock with his rod, but guess what Water gushed out anyway. See. So God was his high priest.
Speaker 1:God, god went ahead and upheld what he did and let the water come out to supply the need of Israel. But then he told Moses. He said yeah, you've sinned. You know why? Because he violated a major type and shadow. God wanted to give the shadow of our authority of words and he violated that by essentially giving the wrong shadow. Like Christ has got to be struck again. No, he's only struck once. And so you know, we don't understand that and that's why I'm teaching it to you, so you understand. So God said okay, because you've done this, you're not. You're going to see the promised land, but you're not going to enter in. Can you imagine? I mean, that's pretty harsh, that's pretty harsh. That's how big a deal it was. But yet the people didn't suffer because of it. Are you with me now? He backed up. He backed up his man by letting that water gush out. So that was the type and shadow. God served as Moses, high priest toward the people, and Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our profession, will back up what we have to say. Which brings me to my question what are we saying? I'm still learning, after 40, some odd years of this, I'm still learning how to talk. I mean, I bet stuff come out of my mouth sometime that, oh, that's the wrong thing to say. I pray a crop failure. On that one I just learned just to go ahead and back up and say no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I was at Lakewood years ago. We had just moved back to town from Corpus Christi. That was in the mid-'80s. I was a home builder in those years and and Houston hadn't didn't have a recession, we had a depression, especially in my industry. I mean, you know, I mean I was.
Speaker 1:I was living in a in a subdivision spring it was candlelight hills, and we had at one point in the early 80s we had 18 van pools left over from Carter Remember Carter, and all the, all the the fuel shortages and standing in line to get gas and all that. So companies in Houston we had all these suburbs and so they, they organized van pools or P so their, their workers could catch a van in their subdivision and in 15, 14, 13, 12, guys or people not just guys, women too could ride in a van and if you were the driver of the van you got a little bonus from the company for driving the van and they would economize and save gasoline and all of that. So we had in one subdivision we had 18 of those going downtown every day. That's how prosperous Houston was and that's how many people were moving to Houston in those years buying my houses. But then in the mid eighties it all dried up because, you know, fuel, gasoline, rather oil went way down, bottomed out at $6 a barrel or something. So they, just they laid off thousands, tens of thousands of people and now we didn't have any vanpool, none Went from 18 to none. That meant that no traffic, there's nobody buying my houses.
Speaker 1:So I had to move to Corpus and do something else. For a year and a half, moved back broke I mean I'm broke. My business dried up and now the business that I worked for in Corpus I mean it lasted a year. I had a one-year contract, I made good, I had a six-figure contract, I mean I was well taken care of. But that company went belly up.
Speaker 1:It was about a year behind Houston, in Corpus, and so now I'm broke and I moved back to town with nothing. I had no job. Nobody wanted to hire a guy that had been self-employed most of his adult career. They would tell me oh, you're overqualified. I thought overqualified, what's wrong with that? But that was a reason they used not to hire me. So I didn't have a job.
Speaker 1:So I was at Lakewood and of course we just put on our game face, we put on our clothes and we don't look sad and we, you know we're there and so I do know how to talk. But I mean, in those days it was kind of rough because you know, we just I moved in with my sister I couldn't even supply a place to live for my family. It was humbling, it was embarrassing, it was hard. You're the man of the house, you're the head of the house and you've gone down the tubes. So, anyway, somebody said hey, john, how are you doing this morning? Well, I'm hanging in there. That was a. That was the highest level of confession that I could make. I'm hanging in there. Well, what's going on? Hey, john, good to see you how things going. I'm plugging along, and I must've said hanging in there and plugging along about a thousand times.
Speaker 1:And so one morning, I mean this had been going on for a couple of weeks. You know, people just being friendly, did they really care how things were going? No, it was just a greeting. Okay, I mean they didn't really want to know how I was doing. I mean, how many times have you asked people how are you doing? Do you really care? I mean, let's stir ourselves up to care.
Speaker 1:But anyway, this guy asked me how I was doing. I said, well, I'm hanging in there, and I just kept. He walked one way. I kept walking, the same way I was walking, and right in the front of the old building there, right by the console I'll never forget and I heard an audible voice. I thought everybody heard it. I mean, it was loud enough. It seemed like the whole church heard it. And I said, yeah, I'm hanging in there. And he says, yeah, and your fingernails are about to break. I said, yeah, I'm hanging in there. And he says, yeah, and your fingernails are about to break. And I knew that was the Holy Ghost. And I instantly realized that I had said the wrong thing, man, and I turned around and I chased that guy down and I grabbed him by the shoulder and turned around.
Speaker 1:I said let me rephrase that I'm doing better and better. He looked at me like what. He didn't even know what in the world I was talking about. It didn't mean anything to him at all.
Speaker 1:And so ever since then, when you ask me how I'm doing, I'm saying I'm doing better and better. Well, why is that? That's in the Bible. Well, I'm blessed of the Lord. I could say I'm blessed and highly favored. I could say it that way.
Speaker 1:But I mean, some people are not word people. Some people are lost and undone and when they ask me how I'm doing, I like to say I'm doing better and better. And they always look at me like wow, that's unusual. They're not used to hearing that. I don't spray them down with God's word. I mean, god's word is good, but sometimes we can adjust our confession to line up with what the word means.
Speaker 1:Are you with me now? What are you saying? What are you saying? Well, I'm so tired. I'm telling you, I'm just sick and tired, sick and tired Boy. Everybody's saying that nowadays. I'm just sick and tired of the Democrats, sick and tired. I'm just sick and tired of the Democrats, sick and tired of lawfare. I'm sick and tired of these crooked judges. I'm sick. You know, sick and tired is not a good confession, because Jesus bore our sicknesses, didn't he? What could we say? Well, we're overcoming by the blood of the Lamb. How's Gladys doing? She's overcoming. That's what I tell people.
Speaker 1:I don't give them a report. I don't give them a health report. I don't go down the list of what things that she's challenged on and the things that she needs to get better in, but I'm telling you she is overcoming, she is improving, she is. But I don't go into detail, why? Because I don't want to go through all of that. I don't want to talk about what's wrong. I want to talk about what God said. See, your voice is your address in the Spirit. When you speak, he knows right where you are, he knows right what you said and he's there to execute that, to implement that, to bring it into effect. Oh, come on, lift your hands right now. Glory to God.
Speaker 1:Children, I tell you, when our kids were children, gladys and I'd pray over them when they went to school every day and we'd just say hey, you know now, claire and Jay, you're 10 times smarter than the heathen kids. Where do we get that? Well, daniel and the Hebrew children were 10 times smarter than all the things that they were in front of. They were 10 times greater, 10 times smarter than all the heathen kids. So we can claim that for our kids. You have favor with all your teachers. You know.
Speaker 1:You can start saying that, children, you can say well, thank God, I don't have any problem. The Holy Spirit helps me in math. The Holy Spirit lives on the inside of me to help me in my subjects at school. Sometimes kids struggle with math and they struggle with English and all of that kind of thing. Struggle there's, there's all kinds of struggles. Oh, I just hate homework. Well, quit saying that. Say, oh, thank God, the Holy Spirit helps me with my homework. It's better for the Holy Spirit to help me than dad to help me with my homework. Don't say that. Don't say that to him.
Speaker 1:Are y'all getting anything out of this? You know, sometimes we do things that we're ashamed of of this. You know, sometimes we do things that we're ashamed of. You know, if any man sin, let him. You know, if you confess your sin, if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father. We're going to talk about Jesus, the advocate and the high priest.
Speaker 1:So, the high priest, if you handle your sin when you know you've sinned, you do it right, then you don't wait, you don't go on a fast, you don't put dirt on your face and sackcloth and all of that Old Testament stuff. No, you're a believer, you're a blood-bought believer. When you sin, all you've got to do is say oh Father, I missed it. Please forgive me. I believe I received my forgiveness according to 1 John 1. Thank you, lord. Jesus is the propitiation for all my sin. Thank God, I have my heart sprinkled from a guilty conscience, my body washed with pure water. You don't forgive it.
Speaker 1:Another thought, you don't think about it later. You don't dredge it up. You don't condemn yourself. You don't beat yourself up. That doesn't do any good. That does, that does wrong against the blood. The blood has been shed for you. It's already done.
Speaker 1:Now your high priest is backing you up, but he's not going to back you up if you're going to say, well, I'm just an old sinner saved by grace. No, you're not. You're not a sinner. I put that on my Facebook page one day and I mean, oh Lord page one day and I mean, ooh Lord, well, we're all sinners. No, you might be, but not me, buddy, I am not a sinner. I was. I was a sinner, but no longer. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. Well, that's just pride. No, it's Bible. You're bragging on Jesus. You're bragging on the finished work of the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Are y'all getting this today? What are you saying about your situation? What are you saying about your financial situation? Man, this is terrible. I mean, these tariffs has got everything all fouled up. No, jesus made me rich.
Speaker 1:2 Corinthians, chapter 8. We all know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor. That we, through his poverty, might be rich. Might means it's on our side. We have to say it, we have to believe it in our heart and speak it with our mouth. Rich doesn't mean a million dollars. Rich just simply means having an abundant supply. Do you have an abundant supply? Well, no, I've looked in my check. No, I didn't say you. Look in your checkbook to find out. I'm saying are you saying I have an abundant supply? See, that's what you're saying, no matter what it looks like. And then the facts. Your financial facts will change and line up with God's word. Facts will change and line up with God's word.
Speaker 1:So our confession you'll never rise above the level of your confession or your profession. I'm going to leave this subject with this idea. It says profession, sometimes in the Bible, and other times it says confession, but they're the same Greek word, but I'd like to say it this way we need to be more professional with our confession. We need to watch our words on a higher level than before. You know, if any of you have ever had a career, you know you go to work and your business or your job sends you for continuing education and you get certified in a higher level.
Speaker 1:You're going to have a certain way of speaking a professional language that you're going to have to get familiar with. That has to do Like if you're an accountant, you've got to get proficient in accounting language. If you're a pilot, you've got to get proficient in listening to the air traffic controller. And if you're whatever I mean if you're an electrician you've got to get proficient in electrical jargon. I mean, if you're an engineer, whatever you're, if you're in the medical field, no matter what field you're in, the more specialized you are, the more professional your language has to become in order to converse with other people and communicate directly. See, we need to be more intentional and more professional about what we say about situations in our lives, our lives. Everybody say I'm increasing in my proficiency and my professionalism of my confession. Praise God, hallelujah. Jesus is the one who said you can have what you say, so let's watch what we're saying Come on, lift your hands and receive today. Thank God for Jesus, the high priest.