The Heavenly World | Pastor John Greiner

This teaching from Colossians chapter 3 calls believers to live from a heavenly-world perspective rather than an earthly one. Emphasizing identity, authority, and union with Christ, the message explains that believers are risen with Christ, seated with Him in heavenly places, and empowered to believe and speak with God-given authority. By continually setting the mind on things above, listeners are challenged to grow spiritually, reject a “mere human” mindset, and manifest Christ’s life through faith-filled words, confidence, and daily obedience as they prepare for His return.

Chapters

• 0:00 Setting Minds On Things Above
• 2:25 Translating Colossians Across Versions
• 4:10 The Heavenly World Explained
• 7:45 Pressure From The Earthly Realm
• 11:20 God’s Perspective Is Not Neutral
• 13:55 Expecting Christ’s Return And Focus
• 15:40 Authority Of Believing And Speaking
• 19:20 Watch Your Words Like They Work
• 22:10 Prayer Habits And Efficiency
• 25:00 Word Over Spectacle: Mark 11:23
• 28:10 Raised And Seated Far Above
• 31:05 Grow Up: From Milk To Meat
• 35:20 Union With Christ, Not Mere Men
• 39:00 Hidden With Christ: Secrecy, Safety, Identity

Transcript

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Our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. Let's make this confession. Say, Heavenly Father, I thank you for the Word of God and for the Holy Ghost. I thank you that I'm here by divine appointment, not here by accident. You don't, you're not a random God, but you're right on purpose. And Lord, it's intentional that I'm here tonight to receive what the word says into my heart so that my faith will grow. My spirit will develop. In Jesus' name. Amen. Alright, let's look at Colossians chapter 3. And I might need some help up in the sound booth because I left my iPhone at home, which has other versions. So I'm going to need the message Bible and I'm going to need the amplified. But we'll read it in the King James first. Colossians chapter 3, verse 1. If you then be risen with Christ, or we could say it since we've then been risen with Christ, there's no if about it. We've been risen. If we're born again, we are risen with Him. If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ seateth, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection or your mind, my barjin says, on things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. Now, in verse 2, in the Amplified, it says, and set your minds and keep them set on what is above, the higher things, not on the things that are on the earth. And then I want to get the message Bible. Let's read verses 1 through 4 in the message. I like it. I like the message. I know it's not on the same par as other translations. It's got modern language, but I think it gives you the thought. So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up and be alert to what is going on around Christ. That's where the action is. See things from his perspective. See things from his perspective. And then when I look up verse 1 in the linguistic key to the Greek New Testament, and you don't have that back there, but I'll just read it. It's simple. Since you're risen with Christ, seek those things that are in the heavenly world. Seek the things that are in the heavenly world. Isn't that that just sounds so cool? And so that's the message tonight, the heavenly world. You know, for years I've I've you know heard this old religious saying, you know, he's so heavenly minded, he's no earthly good. And really, my experience has been most people are so earthly minded they're no heavenly good. You know, that's really my experience. Uh but uh Paul here is in so the heavenly world, everybody say the heavenly world. And I didn't really get the connection between this message and us praying for 20 minutes together, but I mean, really kind of got us in the heavenly world. We've been spending time in the heavenly world for 20 minutes. Before this message, I didn't catch it, catch it till the end of the prayer time, and I thought, oh, this is kind of cool. I didn't I didn't think about it. But Paul is writing to believers and says, since you're risen with Christ, verse one, continually, the word be there, uh, or seek and keep on seeking, uh set and keep on setting, continually and habitually aim and seek the heavenly world. And it's not a mental thing, it's your activity, your actions. It's gonna shape your actions. You're gonna live like it. That's what my point is. It's not just about being hyper-spiritual, it's about just seizing the opportunities that you have every day to affect people in your life. You just never know when you're gonna come up with somebody that needs what you've got. You'll never know. You just, and we're living, the clock is running down. I mean, God Jesus is coming soon, and what he's doing, he's doing quickly, so we need to be ready. And verse 2, continually and habitually set your mind. That is the seat of your emotions and priorities. You have to set your mind on the heavenly world. You have to do it all the time because why? Because you're under pressure from the earthly realm. You're under constant attack by the devil and demon powers. There's a constant flow against you. It's like, you know, I don't know if you've ever, you know, been uh in the Gulf of America when the tide is uh going out, but it'll take you right on out. If you're, you know, I mean, it's gonna take it, it's pretty hard to fight it. And if you're in the chest deep water and that and you get in one of those rip currents, you're liable to drown because it's gonna take you. And and you're struggling, and people don't know what what that means, and so they start struggling against it, trying to swim against it. No, just swim parallel to the beach and you'll get out of it pretty quick. If you can swim, swim parallel to the beach and you'll get out of that river. That river is gonna flow right out to deep water, and that's where that's where people drown all the time. They get caught in that tide. They get caught in the riptide. And there's a tide working against us all the time that we're operating against, and so that's why we have to set our affection or set our minds continually and habitually. We've got to aim and continually aim and seek the heavenly world and get the prior or the get the perspective of the heavenly world, get Christ's perspective. Perspective is a word I've been using for quite a while. Another way of saying God has a side. We use that all the time because people, you know, they they get all religious and they repeat things that they've been told about politics and church, and you know, we can't get, oh no, God's not a Republican, he's neutral. No, he's not neutral about anything. There is no neutrality. God has absolutely got a perspective about every single thing, or he's not God. He's not a moderate. Really, he's pretty extreme. He's an extremist. And you better get on his side. He's not coming over to your side. We've got to have his perspective. Everybody say his perspective. So when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you be a then you shall also appear with him in glory. Oh, I'm I'm thinking a lot about his return, his coming. His signs are all around us. And uh so until he does come, let's heed the instructions of the letter. I like to tell people, you know, all the Bible's for us, but not all of it is to us. Even the gospels are not to us. The gospels really are, you know, are an account of Jesus' ministry to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, you know. And so I see people get so hung up on what Jesus said about something, and he wasn't talking to you. He was talking to them. And what he said to them is different than what he would say to a believer who's born again. So you can't, you've got to rightly divide the word of truth, and you get all hung up, you know. Uh if you a number of years ago, you know, somebody came up with a what would Jesus do, the WWJD necklaces, and that was the latest thing in all the Christian bookstores. What would Jesus do? You know, and uh, well, he'll do the He's the Word. And really the part of the Bible that's to us is the epistles. And so Colossians is absolutely written to us, it's for us, it's to us about our lives today. So we need to heed the instructions of the letter to us, and let us all let see let us all see things from Christ's perspective, and I've got two things tonight. I I could preach others, but I've got two. Let's see things from Christ's perspective concerning number one, our authority. We're seated with Him far above. Every word that we speak is with a perspective of our own God-given authority. You know, 2 Corinthians 4.13, we having the same spirit of faith. See, let's look at it. Let's turn back a few pages to the left, 2 Corinthians 4, Paul's writing. And he said, We having, see, so we have it. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, therefore have I spoken. Well, where is that written in the Bible? Well, it's my Bible says it's Psalm 116, 10. I believed, therefore I have spoken. We have the same spirit of faith as the psalmist did. We also believe and therefore speak. But when we speak, we speak with an authority. When we believe in our heart what we're speaking will come to pass. There is an authority that goes with it that causes things to change now. Your household will change, your marriage will change, your your career will change, your church will change, your friendships will change. Everything starts changing when you believe in your heart and speak with your mouth. You have that authority that you have because where you're seated with Christ in heavenly places, that is the perspective we've got to develop in our thinking. Because we have this, you know, endless inner dialogue in our brain tissue that is left over from the world and left over from dead religion where some of us were raised in, you know, churches that don't believe what I'm preaching tonight. They don't preach about the authority of the believer. They just preach about how to get saved. If they preach anything, they preach everything. They can tell you how to get saved every week. They have an altar call every week, and every week people are in the same crowd that was there last week is here this week, and they got another altar call for people to come get saved. Well, there ain't nobody to get saved. So people come up because they think, well, maybe I'm not saved. I mean, that's dumb. That's not what the Bible, that's not what the Bible is for. The Bible is for us to grow and begin to occupy a space on this earth where we believe and therefore we speak. We believe, therefore we rule and reign. Praise. Come on, lift your hand right now. Glory to God. I'm talking about that perspective you're only gonna get when you're in the heavenly world. You spend enough time in the heavenly world and you don't care too much about what people think about you. I mean, we ought to, you know, we ought to take care of our reputation. I don't mean that. We ought to value our reputation. We ought to protect our reputation on our side. But once we've done that, we can't worry about whether somebody lies about us. We can't worry about whether somebody likes us or not. We've got to please him and we've got to line up our perspective with his. Are you all with me now? I tell you, when God's on my side, I don't really care who else is against me. They're on dangerous territory, really. Everybody say, My God given authority. We believe that what we say shall come to pass. So when you are heavenly minded because you've spent so much time in the heavenly world, then you're a little bit more careful about what you say. You're not going to run off at the mouth and say too much. Because if you believe in your heart what you say comes to pass, and you say something that's amiss, or you say something against, you say something you shouldn't say, well, now you're creating trouble for yourself or for someone else. Are you with me now? Everybody say, I believe what I say comes to pass. Well, what if it's not in the Bible? Well, see, get back to are you have are you in the heavenly world? Are you seeking continually and habitually that's what's going on at Christ's at the throne room? In Christ at God's right hand. Are you seeking and thinking about that? You're reading your Bible, have a prayer life. This this little 20 minutes of prayer tonight, that's just a little jump start. I mean, we ought to be doing that every day. We ought to be praying and Holy Ghost. I know most of us don't. And most of us are too busy for our own good, but I'm telling you, this year, let's let's start carving out our schedule and cutting stuff off. It's just not that necessary. And let's get down to the main thing. Let's get the heavenly world working in our lives. You can imagine. You talk about efficiency. I like what John Wesley said one time. You know, I pray two hours every day. And if in my schedule I have a very difficult day and it looks like I'm just gonna have a real tough time that day because of the schedule, then I pray three hours. He just let everything wait till he got finished. And, you know, you'll find that things start to move out of the way quickly. Brother Hagin has the testimony one time that his mother called him. Son, her brother had called her. Her brother, uh, that would have been uh brother Hagin's uncle, called about the uncle's daughter, but which would have been Brother Hagin's cousin. And she had been taken to the hospital and was in bad shape and didn't look good, looked like she might die. And so uh Brother Hagin's mother called him on the phone, says, he he called a request that you pray for her. Well, Brother Hagin didn't pray a lick. And say, Okay, mother, let's let's agree and pray. No, didn't do that, didn't pray. He said, Tell Uncle So-and-so that my cousin will live and not die. Just like that, just like that. That was it. And so on the other end of the phone, you know, she's in a payphone by the hospital, you know. So she's she's there. And she says, Oh, son, you got a word from heaven. You got a word about it. Oh, that's wonderful. And so, see, she misunderstood. She thought he was prophesying, she thought it was a gift of the Spirit. She thought that God had showed him something about the situation. And she thought that it was, you know, something that she had watched him perform in before. He said, Yeah, Mother, I heard from God. I heard Mark 11, 23. You can have what you say. Jesus said, You could have what you say. And she went, Oh. Well, son, do you think that'll work? Yeah, some people have more confidence in the gifts of the Spirit than they do the Word of God. They have more confidence in some kind of spectacular ministry, and thank God for it. I mean, we don't minimize it. But we've got Mark 11, 23, Jesus is the one who says we can have what we say if we believe in our heart and speak with our mouth. We having the same spirit of faith, we believe, we also believe, and we also speak. And we expect what we say to come to pass. He said, She'll live and not die. Tell Uncle. My cousin will live and not die. You think that'll work? Well, he went off on her a little bit. Well, will the multiplication table run? Nobody ever asks if the multiplication table works. Nine times nine is still 81. It works every time. It's just the word of God is just like the more it's like mathematics. It's like, it's like you can set your watch to the time. Are y'all with me now? Talking about the heavenly world. See things from Christ's perspective. What is Christ's perspective? He's got a lot of confidence in the church. The Father has a lot of confidence in the church. God raised Jesus from the dead and set him at his own right hand, and he put all things under his feet. Where are the feet? They're in Christ's body. They're on the earth. And then in chapter 2, and we and we has has he quickened. We were we're dead in trespass and sin, but God raised us from the dead. He by grace are you saved. And set us in heavenly places in Christ. Far above. We're just as far above everything as Christ is. That's the perspective we need to hold on to on a daily basis. We need to walk through this world from the perspective that we're way above it. Come on, lift your hand right now. Glory to God. Well, I've heard this before. Well, you need to hear it over and over till you live like it. You've got to act like it. You've got to speak like it. You've got to believe like it because it's true. And this is what's wrong with America. The church forgot all this and didn't hang on to it for any length of time at all. They'd let it slip. For 2,000 years, pretty much. Now thank God for people like Brother Hagin that would rise up and speak it out and teach it all over the country and all over the world. I mean, I don't know how many hundred thousand books and millions of tapes that he has sent out. I mean, way back there when it was real to real, he had like a hundred thousand real-to-real tapes sent out across the world. And then can you imagine how many cassette tapes? Now cassette tapes are out, so now it's just a little old thumb drive. Can you imagine the impact? And there's there's still millions of people who never even heard of the man. Because he wasn't on television, he was on radio. My first weeks of being saved, I listen to him every day. KJOJ Conroe. All right. Brother Osteen, I mean, I think about the shoulders of the men we and the women that we stand on their shoulders that preach this word of faith uncompromised. Praise God. All right, so let's see things from Christ's perspective concerning our authority. And then let's see things, number two, uh, from Christ's perspective concerning our union with Christ. Our union with Christ. Christ is the head of the church, and we are his body. I mean, he's just as part of us as our head is, part of our body. We're connected. We're in union. Verse 3 says, we're hidden with Christ in God. We're hidden with him. Again, you've got to continually and habitually set your mind on these things. You've got to continually and habitually place yourself in the heavenly world. Amen. And this internal dialogue that you've had all your life, that's what you program. Human beings are programmed with it. Well, I'm just, you know, I'm only human. Have you ever said that? I'm only human. Well, quit saying it, because you're not. You're an alien. You're not human. You're a UFO. You're what the news is all worried about. All these flying saucers and all that. They're just seeing angels. That's all they're seeing. There ain't nobody flying around out there. There ain't no weirdos with weird arms and legs, three toes and four eyes and all that garbage. That's all sci-fi bologna. God made us who we are. We're it. We are the center of his universe. See, all of that is an ignorance of God and who he is and what he does, and he created sons. He didn't create aliens. Him in here and destroy the earth. I mean, that's stupid. I don't give it a minute's thought. No, no. We're one with him. We're hidden with Christ in God. This internal dialogue. In fact, over here in 1 Corinthians, let's look at it. I might need this one in the amplified. 1 Corinthians chapter 3. He's talking to the Corinthian church. And they uh they uh they need a lot of help. That's why he had to write two letters. Look at chapter 3, verse 1. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but unto you as spiritual, but I had to speak unto you as carnal. That word carnal means body ruled. Body ruled. They were not spiritually ruled. They were body ruled, even as unto babes in Christ. Even though they'd been saved long enough not to be babies anymore, they clung to, that's that's what's where that's where believers are today that go to dead churches and go to churches that don't teach anything but and give out anything but Pablum. They never grow up. Ephesians says that we need to grow up. Be no more children, toss to and fro with every wind of doctrine. But speaking the truth and love may grow up into him in all things. And so here he's rebuking them and reminding them of where they are. He said, Look, I've had to feed you with milk. What's milk? Milk is the blessed scriptures. Milk is all the goodies. That's what all the illegal aliens came to this country to get. They came to get the goodies. They didn't come to work, they didn't come to contribute, they didn't come to assimilate. They came to do their thing and steal us blind. I'm painting with a broad brush because I know there's probably exceptions to that, but I just read that whole thing about the Somalians the other day. I just kind of got tickled because you know the Somalia is where the pirates are. That's their culture, is pirates. What do pirates do? They plunder. They moved here and they plundered and they found the Democrats helped them. And they plundered our treasury with billions and billions of dollars. Fake charities, fake daycare centers, fake you name it. They sucked the country almost dry with all their criminal activity. And they're not the only ones. But notice here he says, I fed you with milk and not with meat. See, meat is your responsibility, scriptures. See, you need you need milk, but you need meat too. You can't grow. If you just give a baby milk, milk, milk, and you never get them over-transitioned into regular food, then they just get all fat and they don't have all their nutritional needs met. So milk is important for a baby Christian, but at some point in time you've got to teach people that they have a responsibility. You have to teach them commitment. You have to teach them, you know, how to make good decisions. So, for hitherto you were not able to bear the meat, neither yet are you able. You're still not able. For you are yet carnal. For where is, whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions or factions or cliques. Clicks is a good word. Just want to hang with my little group here. I don't want to, well, I don't, I don't know them, but I like these people right over. No, that the church, we ought to be all the way across. We ought to just have no division whatsoever. Doesn't matter where we're from, what part of town we're from in this church, we got lots of people from all kinds of different places. And we're not going to just have the Cypress group and just the spring group and the Klein group and the chance. No, we're all in there, we're all mixed up together. For you are yet carnal, for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are you not carnal and walk as men? And let's look at the amplified. Are you not carnal and walk as mere unchanged men, mere men? Well, we're only human. You see where that comes from? That is not the Bible. The Bible says we've been changed. The Bible says that we're new creations. We're a new species of being. 2 Corinthians 5, 17. We're new creatures in Christ Jesus. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things are become new, and all things are of God who's reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ. And so the word creature there, it means a species of being that never before existed. That's why I say you're aliens. You're not human. You've got a human body, but you shouldn't be ruled by that body. You should be ruled by the heavenly world through your spirit. Come on, lift your hand right now. That's why I'm preaching this. I mean, I believe in 2026 we can aim a little higher. I mean, we got to aim a little higher. Because Jesus is coming. And when he does, see, in Colossians it talks about we'll be able to, you know, let's go back to Colossians real quick and remind ourselves why we're doing this. I mean, we're not doing it to just get a gold star or something. I mean, we're doing it because the Bible says we should. And it says here to remind ourselves, Colossians chapter 3, when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. Man, he's gonna show us off. We're his bride. He's gonna parade us. We're gonna have the marriage supper of the Lamb. Wouldn't it be terrible if we still got a bunch of baby food down the front of our garment? Our white linen garments got a bunch of baby food and we've thrown up on it, and we're just still, you know, eating, drinking milk, and we've got milk breath, you know, babies with milk breath. I've been close to babies before. No, praise God. We're gonna appear with him in the glory. Amen. So we're hidden with Christ and God. Now I looked that up. I want you to consider this. I love studying the Bible. And I have this little book called The Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament. I bought it in Amazon. I could have probably gone to Mardell, but Mardell's all the way across town. I don't go to Mardell anymore. Too bad. You moved out of my neighborhood, so I can't shop there anymore, so I shop on Amazon. Well, that's not good. Well, you know, they sell what I need. I found this book there. The linguistic key to the Greek New Testament. So you look that up about being hidden with Christ and God. Colossians chapter 3, verse 2. Um, excuse me, verse 3. And it says, the Greek there, hidden with Christ and God, suggests three thoughts. Number one, secrecy. And the believer's life is nurtured by secret springs. Secret springs. You know, Jesus told the woman at the well about eternal life. He said, You know, you're looking for water, but if you'd asked me, I'd give you the living water, you'd never thirst again. And this life would be in you as a well of water springing up into everlasting life. He talked about that's what we have with the new birth. We have the Holy Ghost springing up as a well of water or a spring. We sing that little song, Spring Up, O well. Now that's different than the baptism of the Holy Ghost, because Jesus said about that subject, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink, and out of his belly shall flow what? Rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit that those who believe on him should receive. But the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified. See, this was before he was on the cross. He's prophesying, he is a prophet, he's prophesying to the point where when the church is going to be filled with the Holy Ghost, not only have a well of water for their own personal salvation, but they're going to get baptized in the Holy Ghost, the power of God to come on them, and they'll have rivers of living water to flood and help others. But our personal, I'm talking tonight about our personal being the heavenly world is fed by these secret springs. Just think about life is springing up in you. It's coming from all kinds of directions. And what is life? Well, life, eternal life, Zoe life. It's the life that God lives where He lives it. I mean, there's no death in that. There is no sickness in that. There is no depression in that. There is no lack in that. Could we use a few more springs springing up in the inside of us? See the secret spring. Where do you think you get them? I tell you, the more you're heavenly minded, the more you spend time in the heavenly world praying like we prayed tonight. I'm telling you, it looses springs up inside of you that can meet needs that you don't even know you need in your brain. Your brain doesn't even know. You hadn't even recognized you have this need yet. And here comes a spring, a secret spring nobody can see. You know, my brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Sylvia, lived for a number of years on the Sabinel River. The Sabinel River went right through their front yard. You had to drive through the river to get to their house. And uh they lived in a manufactured home on eight acres. And the Sabinal is a it's a beautiful crystal clear spring river. And they were just a few miles from the headwaters. We went up in the Lost Maples Natural Park, Natural State Park, where all the maple trees every year in November, it's kind of like Vermont. It just turns this beautiful colors. A lot of people don't even know, but enough people do. That road gets to be like a traffic jam. Everybody going up in the canyon to see the trees. But we went up there and we saw the headwaters of the Sabinel River where it bubbles up out of the ground. And just a little spring springing up, and then a few feet over, there's another little spring, and there's another little spring, another little spring, and then you know, you get about a half a mile down there, and it's it's got a pretty good, pretty good trickle of water coming down that canyon, and then and then you know there's springs all along the side, it's going through those hills, and the springs are feeding it, and by the time it gets to his house, in the summertime now it gets kind of dry. I mean, it would still flow, but it would only flow in part of the riverbed. Most of the riverbed was dry rock and moss, and and the river part was only about four or five feet wide and about 12 inches deep. It's enough to you can drive through your drive through, drive a car through it and go, and he would have a he'd add rocks to it so you wouldn't have to go down and flood your car. But when it rained, we were there one time when it had a flash flood, and it came in the middle of the night and woke us up, thunderstorm, and it was pouring. And all of a sudden the house started shaking. I said, Man, what? Is that an earthquake? He said, No, man, that's those boulders. Or the water has caught the boulders that are on the side of the edge of the river, and that those boulders are rolling down the riverbed like this. Boom, boom, boom, boom, and rolled right past his house. And I mean, the whole house is shaking. I mean, you know, it's pretty exciting. But uh, everybody says secret springs are feeding my spirit. Glory to God. So it's the second thought is safety, secrecy safety. We're hidden with Christ, and God marks a double protection. We're hidden with Christ. Really, the devil, I've heard this preached for years, but this is my verse for it. When we're full of the Holy Ghost and we are fully aware of who we are in Christ, we look identical to Christ, to the devil and demon powers. They can't tell who is again, they can't tell who they're dealing with, and they they are they're afraid of you. They're more afraid of you than than you have. You should never be afraid of any devil. You should never be afraid of Satan. I mean, they're deathly afraid of us. Why? Because we look like Jesus. We're hidden with Christ in God. Is Jesus ever intimidated? Is he ever fearful? So we shouldn't be. So we have that protection, and then we we have the protection that that Jesus is our deliverer. He delivers us from evil. He is our protection. So there's a double protection. And we should never fear. I mean, when we walk, but yet what's the part on our side? Well, we need to have the heavenly world working in our perspective. You know, you can lose your perspective and you can you can be where you shouldn't be, and you can open yourself up to an attack. And you can become vulnerable just like that. I mean, you know, without that, then we are vulnerable. But with that, we're invulnerable. Are you with me now? Everybody say, I'm invulnerable. Trouble. Trouble has to go. And then finally, the thought of our identity. The believer is identified with the risen Lord. You know, that's the thing about Catholics, they identify with the suffering Savior. I grew up in the Catholic Church. I know a little bit about it. I've looked back on it. I confronted my parish priest when I was old enough when I went through Gladstone, I went through instructions. He let us go through nine months and never told us anything that we really needed to hear. I knew he knew it after the fact. I knew he knew what I needed, and he didn't tell me to be born again. He didn't tell me I needed to be born again. He should have done that, but he didn't. And I confronted him. I had a meeting with him and I I rebuked him. I said, That was wrong of you. You're gonna stand before God because if I hadn't. Had somebody else come along after that, I'd still be on my way to hell. Thanks very much, but no thanks. What do you expect? You expect people just to get it by osmosis? Well, kinda. He was smart at it. He answered me in a scornful way, and that showed what he was really like. Well, I tell you what, we're hidden with Christ and God. I'm not identified with with any denomination or non-denomination. I'm not identified with any person. I'm identified with Christ. Seated at the right hand of God. Amen. I mean, you can't tell where I end and he begins, and vice versa. I'm fully identified. Everybody say I'm fully identified with Christ. See, you've got to get that thought in your mind to get away from this. I'm just a mere man. I'm just a human. I'm just only human. No, you're not just human.

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So as we act and think in line with the heavenly world, we shall manifest the very life of the one who has called us. The heavenly world. Come on, let's lift our hands tonight. Lord, we thank you for the heavenly world. We thank you for what you've done through Christ. We thank you for the word of God that gives us what we need to function in this world. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Praise God.