Transition Turmoil

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Transition Turmoil

• Im a Christian why do I need to worry any
  shaking?
• When the Holy Spirit touches me, Ill change.
  (Until then?? Continue living life as I do?)
• Should I only be motivated to live right when
  things are difficult?

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Transition Turmoil

• Whats the purpose of supernatural encounters and
  manifestations?
• Isnt it bad to let people be frustrated about
  the promises of God?
• Where is our security?
• What about deception, offense, lawlessness?

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Positioning Ourselves for the kingdom

• Know the King and his ways
• Its time for the church to mature

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Positioned asNormal Christians

• Knowing God
• Listening to the Holy Spirit (know how to)
• Walking in kingdom ways (know the word walk in
  accountability)
• Laying down our lives responding to what the
  Holy Spirit and the Word tell us

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Positioned to hear, however it comes

• Does it matter how?
• Angel
• Jesus
• Cloud of witnesses
• Physical appearance or in your spirit

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Positioned to see

• How do you see what God is doing?
• Blessed are the pure in heart/Nathaniel
• Biblical, unbiblical, or extra-biblical?
• Supernatural build faith doesnt validate

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Positioned byKnowing His Ways

• The master commended the dishonest manager
  because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of
  this world are more shrewd in dealing with their
  own kind than are the people of the light (are in
  dealing with their kind). Luke 168

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Positioned byKnowing His Ways

• So they set the ark of God on a new cart, and
  brought it out of the house of Abinadab... when
  they came the threshing floor, Uzzah put out his
  hand to the ark of God,... for the oxen
  stumbled.Then the anger of the LORD was aroused
  against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his
  error... And David became angry...afraid of the
  LORD and he said, How can the ark of the LORD
  come to me?... 2 Samuel 62-13

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Positioned byKnowing His Ways

• David took it aside into the house of Obed-Edom
  the Gittite. Now it was told King David, saying,
  The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom....
  So David went and brought up the ark of God...
  And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the
  LORD had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen
  and fatted sheep. 2 Samuel 62-13

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Positioned byKnowing His Ways

• Then Moses said to the LORD, See, You say to
  me,... I know you by name, and you have also
  found grace in My sight. Now therefore, I pray,
  if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now
  Your way, that I may know You and that I may find
  grace in Your sight. Exodus 3312-13

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Positioned byKnowing Him

• Now the LORD descended in the cloud,... and
  proclaimed the name of the LORD,... The LORD,
  the LORD God, merciful and gracious,
  long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and
  truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
  iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means
  clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the
  fathers upon the children and the childrens
  children to the third and the fourth generation.
  Exodus 345-7

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Need to know GodA. W. TOZER

• No religion has ever been greater than its idea
  of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper
  entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this
  reason, the greatest question before the church
  is always God himself - what we in our deep heart
  conceive God to be like. We tend by the secret
  law of the soul to move toward our mental image
  of God.

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Need to know GodA. W. Tozer

• Almost every heresy that has afflicted the church
  through the years has risen from believing about
  God things that are not true, or from
  overemphasizing certain true things so as to
  obscure other things that are equally true.

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God is different since the cross??

• Does his love deny his justice?
• Does his goodness contradict his holiness?
• Does his compassion cancel his truth?
• Does his sovereignty diminish his goodness and
  love?
• Are the ancient ways obsolete?

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Kingdom PositionCitizenship

• We have it dont earn it
• You have been Christians a long time now, ought
  to be teaching others. Instead, you are like
  babies who drink only milk. A person living on
  milk isnt far along doesnt know about
  righteousness. Solid food is for the mature, who
  are trained to recognize the difference between
  right wrong and then do what is right. Heb.
  512-14

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Kingdom PositionPlace of the Ancient

• Is ancient a positive or negative?
• First (most ancient) declaration regarding the
  rebuilding of the temple took preeminence over
  subsequent declarations Ezra 4-6

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Kingdom PositionPlace of the Ancient

• For if He were on earth, He would not be a
  priest, since there are priests who offer the
  gifts according to the law who serve the copy
  and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was
  divinely instructed when he was about to make the
  tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all
  things according to the pattern shown you on the
  mountain. Hebrews 84-5

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Kingdom PositionPlace of the Ancient

• Brethren, I speak in the manner of men Though it
  is only a mans covenant, yet if it is confirmed,
  no one annuls or adds to it. Now to Abraham and
  his Seed (who is Christ) were the promises made .
  And this I say, that the law, which was four
  hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the
  covenant that was confirmed before by God in
  Christ, that it should make the promise of no
  effect. Galatians 315-17

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Kingdom PositionPlace of the Ancient

• Things that are ancient or happened before the
  foundation of the world
• Land cant be sold always returns to the
  original owner. Lev. 25-27 Psalms 24
• Jesus slain before the foundation of the world.
  Revelation 138

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Kingdom PositionPlace of the Ancient

• You were chosen before that, your name was
  written in the book of life and a book was
  written about you. Eph. 14 Rev. 178 Psa.
  13916
• Secrets of the kingdom kept secret. Matthew 1335

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Kingdom Position Ancient Testament - Arbitrary?

• We should serve in the newness of the Spirit and
  not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we
  say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! ... The
  law is holy, and the commandment holy and just
  and good. Has then what is good become death to
  me? Certainly not! ... For we know that the law
  is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
  Romans 76-14

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Kingdom position Ancient Testament - Outdated?

• I did not come to destroy the Law or the
  Prophets but to fulfill. Till heaven and earth
  pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means
  pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever
  therefore breaks one of the least of these
  commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called
  least in the kingdom of heaven but whoever does
  and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
  kingdom of heaven.

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Kingdom Position Ancient Testament - Outdated?

• The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses
  seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to
  observe, that observe and do, but do not do
  according to their works for they say, and do
  not do. Matthew 232-3

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Kingdom Position Ancient Testament - Outdated?

• All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
  is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness,
  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
  equipped for every good work. 2Timothy 316-17

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Kingdom Position Ancient Testament - Difficult?

• Letter of the Law versus the spirit of it
• For I say to you, that unless your righteousness
  exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and
  Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom
  of heaven. Matthew 517-20

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Kingdom PositionObedience brings stability

• Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine,
  and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who
  built his house on the rock and the rain
  descended, the floods came, and the winds blew
  and beat on that house and it did not fall, for
  it was founded on the rock.But everyone who hears
  these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will
  be like a foolish man who built his house on the
  sand. Matthew 724-26

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Kingdom Position obedience brings
revelation/habitation

• He who has My commandments and keeps them, it
  is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be
  loved by My Father, and I will love him and
  manifest Myself to him,... and We will come to
  him and make Our home with him. He who does not
  love Me does not keep My words. John 1421-24

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Blessed are the Frustrated

• Good things come out of it
• Gods unraveling things in our life

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Blessed are the Patient

• Timing of God
• Tarries but wont tarry
• Re-building of the temple

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Blessed are theCloud Followers

• Keep moving forward
• Judged by light that we have
• Lose what we have if we dont continue
• Will you leave too?
• Justify ourselves?

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Blessed are theSecure

• Where do you find security?
• In a system?
• In routine?
• In a person?

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Blessed are the long haulers

• Generational and Mature Heart
• David couldnt build the temple
• Gathered resources
• Made the plans