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Redeeming Time Through Justice
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| Share a little bit more about redeeming the time of great injustice. | |
| You know, Jesus loves to bring justice. | |
| He does. | |
| And that's a big, huge part of redemption is the Lord King Jesus, he actually brings justice with him. | |
| And I want to tell you, number one, I want to tell you, sir, I'm so sorry for all that you've been through this last year. | |
| And I'm sorry because there is suffering and there is persecution. | |
| And a lot of people that are watching have suffered incredible loss and they've suffered incredible persecution. | |
| I have friends all over the world in our teams all over the world, and we have seen incredibly difficult and hard things. | |
| And I don't want to make light of any of those things because those things are dark and they are evil and they are terrible. | |
| I think that the shift that has to take place has to do with a couple of different things because it reminds me of the book, A Tale of Two Cities. | |
| It was the best of times and the worst of times. | |
| And I think that the closer that we get to the return of King Jesus, the more extreme things are going to be. | |
| That the things that are good and the breakthroughs that we're seeing are incredibly amazing. | |
| And also the things that are against us are mounting. | |
| And both of those things are going on at the same exact time. | |
| So Jesus talked about if your eye is evil, then your entire body is evil. | |
| And it has to do with the lens of how we're able to see things. | |
| Now, I can be in a terribly, a terrible situation and be experiencing great, great, great pain. | |
| And what's real is I can't help but feel that. | |
| I can't help but feel the pressure. | |
| I mean, it's real. | |
| But I'm not alone. | |
| And when I say I'm not alone, I say, I mean, I have the ability, the God-given grace to literally invite the presence of Jesus into this situation, not just to bless me from there and send a blessing towards me, but to actually step into this with me. | |
| As I know that you have over and over and over again throughout the years, you wouldn't be alive if you didn't have the presence of Jesus within your life. | |
| And so we all know that. | |
| But there's a way that we can literally, you know, Brother Jim, this great injustice I was talking about of me being thrown out of Bible college when I was a young man. | |
| It wasn't until 2015 or 2014 that I literally just stopped, just went, I need to quit. | |
| I have been so ashamed of that. | |
| And it hurts so bad. | |
| And it was such a bad time in my life. | |
| And it spun me off a little bit. | |
| I need to invite the Lord back into that place, literally into it, not just metaphorically, but ask for the manifest presence of Jesus. | |
| And that's the glory of God. | |
| And we know that whenever Brother Moses, he said, Lord, I want to see your glory. | |
| I want to see your glory. | |
| God said, okay, I shall cause my goodness to pass before you. | |
| That when God shows up in his glorious way, or what is it? | |
| It's his visible awesomeness. | |
| It's his tangible presence. | |
| Our Hebrew brothers and sisters call it the weighty presence of God. | |
| He shows up his goodness. | |
| And we know that goodness overcomes evil. | |
| The Bible says, do not be overcome with evil, but rather overcome evil with good. | |
| And goodness is attached to the manifest presence of Jesus. | |
| And so I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, you're not subject to time. | |
| You know, it doesn't matter if I invite you into now or into my future or into my past. | |
| You're not subject to time in any way whatsoever. | |
| Lord God, be with me on that day that that man spoke so shamefully to me. | |
| Be with me on that day where my heart was so broken. | |
| Be with me on that day, Lord God, and I rely upon you. | |
| And then, boom, it changed my now. | |
| And all of a sudden, that same exact Bible college began to require its students to read my book. | |
| Well, inviting the Lord into that place and asking and believing in the power of redemption is everything for us as believers. | |
| To literally see the goodness of God, to taste and see that the Lord is good. | |
| Personally experience that. | |
| So what's real is we are going to suffer persecution. | |
| We are going to suffer hard times. | |
| We are going to have things taken away from us. | |
| But what's real is this. | |
| Where sin does abound, grace does much more abound. | |
| And we will not be dismayed. | |
| We will not stop. | |
| We will not fall back. | |
| We will not just decide to, we're going to sit around and rot back and forth and freak out. | |
| That's not what we're going to do. | |
| Man, we're going to be the people of God and we can and we can have courage because we know that God is with us. | |
| And that's what the Lord told Brother Joshua, have courage, have courage, have courage, for I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you. | |
| Being able to see the presence of Jesus and view everything from the lens of I'm not alone and God is with me is everything. | |