SWYC 2008: Looking Unto Jesus

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GYC Southwest

SWYC 2008 Plenary Sessions

Randy Skeete

The Invisible Man

Dennis Priebe

Will The Real Gospel Please Stand Up?

Jay Gallimore

I Am a Jealous God

SWYC 2008 Question and Answer

Faith and Prayer

What Is Possible For Us?

Delivering the Captives

SWYC 2008 Testimonies

All or Nothing

23 to where David said the spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue father Please put your word in my tongue and for your sons and daughters Lord do for them what David prayed in Psalm 119 verse 18 Open thou my eyes Open all of our eyes.

I pray that the truth may be understood, received, and believed.

Our subject for this time is the invisible man.

Our theme is looking unto Jesus and we discovered last night that by looking to Jesus we are looking to someone who is equal with God the Father, someone who is divine, someone who has all the characteristics of the Father.

We're looking to someone who alone can restrain the power of Satan, who is our enemy at every level.

But I want to remind you that Jesus at present is not on earth where we are.

What I'm saying is Jesus Christ at this very moment is both physical man and God.

When Paul writes in Colossians 2, I believe it's verse 9, in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead, how?

Bodily, and that's about 2 decades after Jesus went back to heaven.

In 1 Timothy 1, verse 5, or chapter 2, verse 5, There's 1 mediator between God and men, and who is that?

Because of this, he cannot be everywhere at the same time.

So Christ is not on earth now, Jesus Christ is in heaven.

We are on earth and the battles we face are played out on earth.

We discovered last night that our enemy, the devil, wields the greatest power in the universe next to God's power.

And if we need help with that power, we need help that is present with us, but Jesus is in heaven.

Then when we look to Jesus, we are also looking to his agent.

Or are you watching those who are coming in?

Now you know what a human being looks like.

I don't see why you have to turn every time someone comes in.

I don't know what's funny about what I'm saying, but I really don't.

We must learn to focus because if we plan to look unto Jesus, Satan has multiplied distractions which work.

That's why so many of us are spiritually weak.

We cannot focus on Christ without succumbing to the distractions that surround us.

We cannot study the Bible intensely because we're distracted by the game that's playing in the background.

By the way, when you were seated this morning, what were you talking about?

What is so wrong with walking into a place of worship, and I'll get back to the Holy Spirit, Open the Word of God and just commune with God quietly.

Let me encourage you for the next session, which comes immediately after this 1, if there's a lull in activity from the desk, try this experiment.

So those coming in, seeing this place full and hearing silence, but seeing people reading God's Word, that really, really bothers me.

And you correctly responded, through the Holy Ghost.

Then, if the agent of Christ, who comes to us, to aid us in our battle with a power that is second only to God's power, and in the battle with Satan, a draw is not enough, there must be victory, then we can conclude immediately that that agent must have won.

Or he cannot sufficiently assist us in this struggle.

He will have to do as Gabriel did and send for help.

The Holy Ghost, the agent of Christ, must be as powerful as Christ.

Let's look at the Bible and see if we can come to that conclusion biblically and with some degree of reasonableness.

Let us identify some qualities of divinity and see if we find them in the Holy Ghost.

We're reading from the King James Version.

The Bible says, remember the former things of old.

Now God immediately separates himself from all other gods because there are other gods.

That's why the first commandment says, thou shalt have no other gods before me.

I need to be God, number 1, and God, number only in the life.

So God understands the other gods, so-called.

But He must, of necessity, distinguish Himself from other gods and He gives some qualities in Scripture that separate him from other gods.

1 of them is mentioned in Isaiah 46, 9 and 10.

Remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is none else.

Now he tells us why he is God and there is no other God like him.

He identifies the quality, declaring, verse 10, the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.

What is it that God says about himself that makes him God?

First Peter chapter 1, reading from verse 9.

God says 1 of the things that make him God is that, or 1 of his qualities I should say, nothing makes God, God 1 of his qualities is that he knows the beginning from the end.

He can tell you things that will happen long before they happen.

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The Invisible Man

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