"BREAKING THROUGH INTO GOD'S PURPOSE"
MF Blume SPECIAL YOUTH RALLY OCTOBER 16, 1998
Josh 3:15-16 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Reve 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne [were] four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, [were] four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Exod 26:31-32 And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy.
2Cor 3:15-17 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
The Word of God shows us that there is a barrier between God's purpose or goal for mankind.
- Jordan River barred Canaan.
- Sea of Glass barred the throne of God.
- Veil barred the room where God's GLORY dwelt, the Holiest of Holies.
- Veil bars our hearts from the glory of God.
And God wants us to pass this barrier. - Enter the purpose.
- God put a barrier by the Garden of Eden in the form of cherubim and a flaming sword.
- God wants us in the Garden again.
- There was a barrier called the Jordan River that stood in front of the Promised Land and God wanted Israel to enter there.
Why all these barriers God has before His purpose for us? - God knows that in us is a barrier that stops us from getting through to Him.
In the temple, there was a barrier called a VEIL, and God's presence was behind that veil. - God wants us to be in His presence.
Between your heart/mind and God's realm of the spiritual, there is a barrier, also. - Paul called it a veil.
- It is over your minds or your hearts.
- It is not God's fault it is there.
- Man fell into sin and veiled himself from the presence of God.
- But when the heart turns to Jesus, the veil is removed.
We need to break through this veil! - We need to get past the veil of the mind and get into the wonderful revelation of Jesus Christ!
- We need the veil removed!
Moses went on top of Mount Sinai in Exodus.
Exod 24:15-18 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
He went into a cloud. - He passed the cloudy barrier.
- God's Glory was in side the Cloud.
- Glory of God was like Fire.
- So the cloud was like a barrier blocking glory.
- It was like Moses going into a Holiest of Holies.
- Nobody else could go in.
- Only Moses.
- Moses passed the veil.
- And the wonders Moses must have seen!
YOUTH YEARS Young people, too many christians do not enjoy the depths of God because when they were your age they did not realize the chance they had.
- It is the years of the youth that people first have the capacity to begin to know the deep things of God.
- You leave childish things and go into mature things.
- And you can blow it by not recognizing it.
Why do you think the devil has so many things for youth? - Because he knows the potential of the youth.
- Christian youth have their first real crack at getting into the things of God.
- He knows that youth are at the age where they will enter trends for their entire lives.
- Either get in a trend of breaking into new territories in the Spirit or a trend of boring christianity.
- No threat to devil at all.
- There are Awesome things in the Spirit!
- And the devil does not want you to get into these things.
- You might get locked onto power, and cast out of few of his demons and he will not like that!
- He does not want you to know you have a veil that can be broken through when you TURN YOUR HEART TO GOD.
- He does not want you to get hold of God's power.
- Turning your heart to God is not just going to church.
- It is truly, and really starting to make up your mind to live for God honestly, when nobody from the church knows what you are doing, and you can easily do bad things you know is wrong.
- It does not matter what people from the church see.
- It matters that God sees us all the time!
The preacher told us in my youth years, to not pay any attention to those who would whisper and chat in service while the preacher was preaching. - He said to ignore them.
- Listen to the word.
- And I did that.
- I began ignoring people's notes passed to me in church and ignoring their whispers to me.
- I wanted to get all of God I could get.
- Somehow my young heart was hungry for the supernatural God in Heaven.
- I believed in Heaven and Hell, and I wanted to get to Heaven more than anything else.
- I didn't even want to sit in sunday school class downstairs.
- I told my mother I want to hear the preacher preach.
- Thank God in my YOUTH I began to enter past the veil.
Youth are old enough to get into the WORD. John saw Heaven opened, and He saw this sea of glass between himself and the throne of God.
- A barrier.
- From John to the throne was a sea of glass.
- If John could only get to the throne!
There is an unseen spiritual realm of glory for us from God. - You are each like two people. You have a spirit and a soul. An inner man and an outer man. Your inner man leans in the direction of the spiritual things of God while the outer man looks towards the physical things.
- Spiritual things are invisible things.
- The spiritual things are behind a veil.
Notice God did not put a brick wall in the temple, but only a veil, to block man out. - One day that veil was going to rip when the Lord Jesus died.
- Veils are MEANT TO BE RENT.
- We are temples of the Holy Ghost.
- God was trying to show us that in ourselves, in these temples, there is a VEIL that must be, and, thank God, CAN BE removed.
2Cor 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
The things that are seen are the things the devil will try to get you infatuated with. - He will try to get you hooked to those things.
- He'll point you to anything that is seen so that you will not enter into the unseen things behind the veil.
- Anything to stop you from using your inner man to reach to the unseen.
- The things that are seen are temporal.
- The things unseen are forever.
- The inner man is unseen and the outer man is seen.
- The inner man will last forever, but the outer man will have to be changed for it will not last forever.
- Satan is not going to last and he doesn't want you to last either.
- He wants to take you down with him.
- Get you infatuated with seen things.
Get mad at the devil. - Get mad at his attempts to have you blow it in the Kingdom.
- Don't let him use you like his little puppet.
- You are supposed to tread on serpents and scorpions, instead of them treading on you.
- There is a goal that God is trying to accomplish in mankind and in the world.
- He told Adam to MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH.
Gene 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Multiply what? - Multiply Adam!
- Fill the earth with what?
- Fill it with Adam.
- But not just any ADAM.
- We have the earth filled with Adam today, but the earth is in bad shape.
- The problem is that Adam missed something before he began filling the world.
- He missed eating the fruit of Life.
- If the world could be filled with a whole lot of Adam with LIFE in him then this world would be a wonderful place.
Mankind is supposed to be one huge ADAM filling the earth. - Adam messed up and Christ, the Last Adam had to come, and now the CHURCH is the Body of the Last ADAM.
- And this Gospel is to fill the world and add people to the BODY of the LAST ADAM, Jesus Christ.
- This ADAM has LIFE in Him!
- Filled with the Holy Ghost!
- And we are to be one great Body.
- This Gospel is to be preached to all nations and then the end would come, because God wanted ADAM with Life to multiply and fill the earth.
- This LIFE inside of us, this Holy Ghost, will do a lot of wonderful things if we just let Him!
- By ONE SPIRIT are we all baptized into ONE BODY.
- The idea behind FILLING the world with ADAM involves the idea that all the people are of one body.
- And the present fallen ADAM that has filled the world with five billion people is so divided and at war with each other that you could say Adam fulfilled Satan's will instead of God's will.
- When there is chaos and everyone trying to be at the top, then Satan's nature has rule.
- Satan's nature was to rule himself.
- So if everyone has that in their heads then you could say that Satan's nature is ruling.
That is why the Body of Christ must be in UNITY and love for one another, because that is the purpose of the BODY to begin with. - As young people, if we could learn these spiritual things then we will be so important to the Kingdom.
- As young people you generally form your entire life's character.
- If now you are divisive and cannot get along with the believers in the Body then you likely never will.
- You set your course now.
Speaking of the barrier, Joshua and Caleb were right with God, but because the majority of the others were not, they had to stay outside the realm past the barrier with the rest of them. - Why?
- Because God wants a united BODY to enter past the veil.
- If God did not care that we are in unity, then Joshua and Caleb could have entered but the rest stay out.
- But they all had to stay out when some were disobedient and doubtful.
- God wanted Adam to fill the earth and subdue it.
- God wanted Israel to enter Canaan and subdue it.
- But Israel could not subdue any Canaan land if there were problems amongst themselves.
So we not only must get past the barrier, but we must get past it TOGETHER. - We need each other.
- I am not here to serve you, but to serve God tonight!
- We need to recognize the devil's attempts at breaking up our unity.
After John saw Heaven and twenty four seats with elders on them, and four beasts, and the sea of glass keeping man from the throne of God (HEAVEN PRACTICALLY EMPTY) ... we read:
Reve 7:9-10 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
- Before the throne was where the sea of glass stood.
- The barrier.
- But in Revelation 7, the sea of glass is still before the throne, but there are multitudes that no man can number standing on it now!
- They passed the barrier!
- Why?
- What happened?
- REVELATION 5 SHOWS A LAMB AS IT HAD BEEN SLAIN WITH ITS BLOOD STANDING THERE BEFORE THE THRONE.
- Between and empty heaven in Ch 4 and a filled Heaven in Ch 7, Ch 5 shows us a lamb there with blood!
Blood will get us past the barrier. - Blood got the high priest past the veil.
- Blood got the Israelites through Jordan, since they had to carry the ark with blood on the mercy seat to see Jordan opened.
- When Jesus died and shed His blood, the veil in the temple ripped open.
And all of us were baptized into the death of Christ. - That one blood of Jesus saved us all.
- We are all one Body.
- Together we go through the veil.
- One Body of believers passing the veil.
God will work more powerfully when we are together with other believers than He will work when we are alone. - There is more anointing upon the BODY than upon individuals.
In your YOUTH years do not form groups and cliques in the Church. - If you cannot fellowship with someone with the same Spirit of God that you have, that baptized you into the same Body that they are in, then you are working against God's will and purpose in the world.
- While you are a YOUTH, learn to see the need for the BODY, rather than your smaller disagreements.
Satan messed up the first Body by getting the people to be concerned with themselves rather than the purpose for the Body. - He got Eve to look at the things that were good to HER.
- The things pleasant to HER eyes.
- Good to HER for food.
- And make HER wise.
- If she would have remembered the purpose to fill the earth with an ADAM that had LIFE inside, she would have saw what the devil was doing.
- The other things were not as important as the WORK OF GOD to fill the world.
We need to stop letting the devil split us up by getting us concerned over OURSELVES, and realize he'll use anything to split the BODY. - As long as he stops the purpose of the BODY.
- God's will needs you to join with others who have the same LIFE in them as you do.
- ANYTHING that stops that from happening is SELF-CENTRED and works against the BODY PURPOSE.
- You won't fellowship with THAT ONE, even though they have the Spirit, because YOU do not agree with something about them.
- Paul said to allow yourself to suffer for the sake of the BODY PURPOSE.
- Do not be so concerned over YOURSELF, but get concerned over the BODY PURPOSE.
- Paul said sacrifice things so that you can get together.
- Sacrifice your selfcentredness.
- Sacrifice the thing in you that holds you back from fellowship.
- Why?
- Because unity of the WHOLE BODY is more important than your own little world.
- YOUTH, you can be too caught up in your own little world more than the BIG KINGDOM OF GOD and BODY PURPOSE.
"They said THIS to me and THAT." - So, yourself is more important than God's will that we get together and MOVE ON IN AND SUBDUE THE LAND?
- So long as Super City Halifax's believers cannot march together, there is no threat against the devil's armies.
- Israel had to go into Canaan and FIGHT.
Past the veil means deeper experiences and life of spiritual growing. - But also means ONE BODY going forward.
He gave us all the SAME SPIRIT. - It baptized us into ONE BODY.
- God is going to rapture the whole church at once.
- There is only ONE HEAVEN for the CHURCH.
LET'S FILL THIS CITY WITH LIFE. - God needs you and He needs me.
- I cannot be where you are.
- Our unity makes this a body that functions.
You have to get over stress upon PERSONAL HURTS and PERSONAL ANYTHING, and start putting the BIGGER Kingdom of GOD FIRST! "It has always been like this."
- It has always been wrong, then!
- It can no longer be like this!
- Paul said some disagree with eating certain meat.
- But Paul said, forget about that LITTLE difference and do not let that separate you.
Roma 14:1-3 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Roma 14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God.
Because the WORK OF GOD REQUIRES UNITY. - And that work is destroyed when the devil gets us divided over little things.
- The work of God is the bigger thing.
As a young person, if you can get concerned over being part of the BODY PURPOSE, and MATURE enough to see what God prioritizes above all else, then you will be so blessed of God.