Unlocking the Power of Water Baptism: A Journey to Newness of Life

Upon everyone here today. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. All right. Well, there’s a lot going on today, so I’m going to try and get this microphone to Samuel as quickly as possible. So, Sam, if you’re in the house, you know, make your way up here. But while he’s coming up, we have so many things happening in the month of April and.

It is a month that I hope everybody loves. Spring is supposed to be here. And, you know, the Blossoms are supposed to be pushing out, but it’s coming. All right. But in the meantime, we have an event happening. It’s a community event this this week. It’s called Not My Kid. And it is going to be put on at Sierra Bible Church through organizations like Sonora Area Foundation who are trying to respond to just the troubles so many kids are going through.

There’s a lot of mental health struggles in our world. And parents, we want you to be geared up, grandparents. We want you to be informed of how to be of better help and more aware of what maybe they’re facing. But we are supporting that cause, and we’re going to need some volunteers for the hospitality side of things there.

And so we did send out a link last week, but if you’re interested in that you can find that link, talk to me. Sam could even point you in the right direction if you want to bug him. But Michelle balloons and Rosie, I know they’re a big part of it. There we go. Anyway. And then we also have at the end of this month, something called Love 12 Me County.

And that is an effort where we just blast the community with a bunch of volunteer efforts. We got projects going on that standard field projects at Sonora, projects at interfaith all over the county. And we’re just we’re blasting the community with a day of love. So if you can be a part of that, I need some project leaders, if you don’t mind stepping up and and helping carry a task for the morning or day anyway, find me for that.

And then this next weekend, we’re doing a spring cleaning here at the church outside, and we can use all sorts of help for that. So It is a busy week when I go through a bunch of announcements like that, but it’s just for the month of May. If you feel like strapping up your boots, tightening your belt and coming out and joining the cause.

So I would love to see some young faces. You know, the real strong young junior high and high school. You guys would do my heart so well. All right. So with that sham, are you ready? This is a good friend of mine now. Lifelong friend. I’ve always wanted to be like him. So now you get to know why they.

You should aim higher. Okay. All right. So what a privilege to be here today, first of all, is you’re going to get baptized and you need to go change your clothes. Now’s your chance. So just go out the door and around the corner and find a room. And if you want to stick around for the message, that’s fine too.

Anyway, first of all, I. I am super privileged to be here today and to get to preach in front of a superstar. And, you know, I don’t know if you guys know this guy, but his name is Pastor Chris Mullens. In the little world that I live in, he is one of the people that I admire greatly. I want to know that in a way, he a tremendous ministry in the prisons.

And I can’t even list how many prisons he goes to. There’s more that I knew existed and he ministers to the men and women there. And it’s phenomenal. He’s like a modern day incarcerated Billy Graham. But all kidding aside, a wonderful man, and if you haven’t ever met him, you should take a minute to go shake his hand or give him a hug.

And I think a lot of his team is here also from the Mercy and Grace ministry. And holy cow, what they do is phenomenal. That’s close to my heart. So I had to share those. But okay, so let’s dive into this. I get the opportunity to teach the water baptism classes at our church, and I’ve been doing it for a few years now, and I will tell you that nothing compares to this in my walk with God.

My testimony starts when I was a teenager in water baptism. I don’t want to go into that too fast. It’s not about me today, but I will tell you that it was the single greatest moment in my walk with God where I had this marketable change in my life. And that’s my pitch to you today is that in that moment, things turned markedly in my life.

I’ve been walking with God my entire life. I was born and raised in this church, has raised under the anointing of my God and my parents raised me to love him and to fear him. So it wasn’t like I was coming out of something terrible to start with. But I will tell you that there was a moment where I was sitting in Rick and Barber’s living room and God pressed it on my heart and I felt it and I knew it and it was Holy Spirit all over me.

And I took that step forward and faith and it was what set my walk in the right direction. It set my feet right. So thank you, Lord, you Rick and Cheryl. So today I’m going to give you guys just a few minutes of what actually happened. So that way we could break it down and you know, what’s going to happen to these people that are getting baptized.

It’s way more than just an outward show. Okay. This is not a bunch of people going in here and making a declaration that they love God. It can be that. That’s fine. That’s a good thing. But water baptism is so much more than that. It’s so much more. I’ll just rattle off real quick. It’s a burial. It’s a resurrection, it’s a circumcision.

It’s a change of heart. It’s a new mind, it’s a new way of living. It’s all these different things all compile. It’s like a two second event that happens underneath some water. There’s so much to it. It’s compact, It’s awesome. It’s life changing. Here’s the deal. All of those things I just said are all great and they all lead toward one final goal.

So let’s dive into this. We were created man, body, soul and spirit, our body, our flesh. We interact right here on Earth. You see it? It’s my bones, it’s my skin, it’s my muscles. You guys got it right. That’s an easy. Thank you. Beyond that, that’s what’s so recognizable. That’s also what’s failing us. Right from the moment we were born, we began to die.

It’s this path. It’s a result of sin. Our bodies were destined to this. Ever since mankind was created. They were designed to be perfect and walk with God and live with them forever. And then the fall of man happened where a man disobeyed God. And that’s why sin entered the world. And that was the beginning of

the end for mankind.

And that was sin equaling death. Well, then, God, he loves us enough, then God, that he desired a relationship with mankind so much that He created this cool little plan for us. And it started off by him addressing the fact that we were sin sick, that we were dying from sin. And so his path laid in front of us was this, and he said, You must be born of the water and the spirit in order to.

Enter the kingdom of God. Okay, so what do we do here? We got to be born of the water. We got to be born of the spirit. US being man made a body, soul and spirit. Let’s address spirit that at the moment that we believe that Jesus came to Earth and that He died for us to redeem us at that moment, that we confess it with our mouth and we believe it in our hearts that Jesus is Lord and that He died for a fallen man.

That moment is when we get a new spirit within us. It’s this new seed. It’s incorruptible. It can’t be. It can’t be damaged no matter how hard we try. Yes, that’s a big deal. Here’s why. Because that is the beginning of the redemption of fallen man. That’s our. Take it out, you guys. Okay, here we go. So God gives that new seed, that incorruptible seed, Incorruptible meaning that even though you try, you can’t read that thing, Thank God.

Right. So that seed was planted within us. And it’s perfect. It’s the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that dwells in us. And moving on here at that moment, our spirit, which also is our connection with God, is restored. So now we have that ability as man to be connected to God. Once again, he bridge that gap that was built or that was that was destined between us and God.

When man chose to sin, Jesus did that for us. Okay, so now our our communication is restored between us and God, which is wonderful. I don’t know about you guys. Those years leading up to the day I was water baptized. Yeah, I love Jesus. And yeah, I was thankful for that. And I was redeemed from my sin. I was able to go to him and repent.

But there is still this this battle going on in here. There was still the failure. There was still all the different things that we as humans suffer from. Okay, so our spirit is perfect, but our heart is still ill. Our mind still has problems, right? You guys want the proof of it? Look what we just praised and worship God and ask them to heal us from and ask him to touch us from everywhere.

From the. The pain and the anguish and the anxieties and the mental illnesses that are rampant in our society to the anxieties to the depression. How about even deeper? How about the addictions? Come on, everybody’s got their thing, Everybody’s got their things. Nobody gets to say, no, I don’t have that. I never dealt with anything. Because if you’re alive and you were born, then you have that issue, All right?

It’s that old stony heart. And I’ll tell you this, that’s what we’re here to address today, You see, because we’re born of the water and the spirit entered the kingdom of God. At the moment we receive Jesus, we get a new spirit with the moment that we go into those waters of baptism. That’s where we get that new heart.

See, in the Bible, it refers to your heart and your soul and your mind at the same thing. So if I jump back and forth between them, they’ll get too confused about it. But as you go into the water, as a baptism, what God addresses is that old stony heart. You see, He promises that when you go in those waters, baptism, that as you’re dunked down the water, it’s like being buried.

Just how Jesus died said being buried into his death. Okay. At that moment are old men, and our old way is cut away. It’s separated. There’s an obvious divide between the old man and the new man. You see, once you’re dead, you can’t be undead. It’s very clear they’re right. So as we are buried in the Christ death, our old ways cut away.

Our old way is dead from us. That’s the first of the four ways that we see water baptism work in our life. The second, it’s pretty cool. And we call this the circumcision of the heart, you see, because God, not only does this where he cuts away that old man, but then he takes away that old man, referring to our heart, that old Stony heart, the one that couldn’t receive, that couldn’t change even though we wanted it to.

He cuts it away. And in the Bible, God used Abraham as a perfect example of circumcision. When he made a covenant with Abraham, he marked it with circumcision of all the men of Israel. The same way he does that with us is that he cuts away that old stony heart, and that marks his covenant with us. That covenant that that old man is cut away and that we are officially his and he is ours.

That’s number two. It’s pretty cool, you guys. I’m sorry, but if nobody else thinks it’s cool, it’s like, All right, number three is that we get to take on the family name of God. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah. You guys, when a woman, a man, she takes on the man’s family name. When a child is born, a child takes on the father’s name.

That child also stands in line to inherit with the father. Has the same way that we stand in line. Actually, we don’t have to wait for Father to die because he already died for us. He already sent his son to pay the price for us and we inherit the kingdom of God. Our inheritance is right here with him.

Right. And then we’ll touch on that a little bit more in a second. Okay. But number three is that we get to take on the family name of God. We’re born into the family. So just as we were buried in the Christ death and as the as our old man dies in those waters and he does a heart operation while we’re underwater there and he cuts away that stony heart.

Then as we come out of those waters of baptism, he’s giving us his family name because we’re being reborn. You see, if you’re dead and you come back up, you’re alive. It means you’ve been reborn and so the diagnosis a little bit more here, I’ll help you guys out. All right. Now, as we’re

being reborn, God’s inheritance to us is so much greater than he.

I feel free. You see what he’s done now? He’s. He’s gone in, and he’s taking the very old nature that has held us captive and literally has kept you in bondage. I don’t care. Nobody’s exempt this because we all have suffered from it. You wouldn’t come to church if you didn’t have a need. Yeah, I’m sorry, but you would not be here this way.

Better things to be doing on a Sunday and sitting there listening to me talk to you. If there wasn’t a need in your life. You see, Holy Spirit has grabbed your heart. He has tugged on you and you’re hearing it and responding. Today we see the people who step forward in faith because they want that change. They want to know next week.

Also, there’s so many people we have to do in two weeks. I’m so thankful for that. But here’s the deal, is that we step forward in that faith because God is setting them free from that bondage. Amen.

So we get to do all these things that we relate to here on Earth, right? It’s our new heart. I’m free from bondage. No more addiction, no more anxiety.

All these things. I’m still naming all these things. I’m looking back at my old dead man, Right? I’m just. Okay, so God raised me up out of the waters, but I’m still talking about all my dead stuff down there.

You see, water baptism isn’t designed for us to sit there and look back at who we used to be. It’s just like gloating in the past, you know? It’s like being proud of your old nature. To me, there’s so much more to it. There has to be. God says that you have to be born of the water and the Spirit in order to enter the Kingdom of God, to enter the Kingdom of God.

Let’s describe that a little bit more. Okay. The God says the Kingdom of God. It’s righteousness, peace, joy, empowered by the Holy Ghost, living in the Holy Ghost. You see, we can get we can go through all these steps and we can come out and we can still try and take that old stony heart and hold it up in front of us and go, Yeah, this who I am, This is who I was.

Right. You can still try and have all that old sin nature and still put it on. But the reality is that God didn’t design us. He didn’t design this whole process of redemption so that we come out of those waters of baptism talking about what we used to be. Rather, he says, Look ahead, look ahead, guys, wake up.

Check this out. The kingdom of God in front of you. How do you live in the Kingdom of God, righteousness, peace and, joy are the Holy Spirit. But guess what? It’s free of sin. It’s the choice is now yours to live free of that bondage. That’s what he gave us. You see, God didn’t design man to be robotic.

If you wanted that, you would have just had the trees and the rocks do. It’d been way easier for him to write. Instead, he designed men with their own free will, and he had to put himself through all this hardship of us in our free will. Right He had to give his own son to die for us because of our free will.

And you bastard so entire process, so that our free will can have the chance to have relationship a love relationship with him. You see, he wants the best for us. I couldn’t quite understand this until I became a father myself. But you see, you want the best for your child, right? To where you would give anything for them.

You would even sacrifice yourself for them. It’s pretty heavy that God saw that in us, and He designed this whole thing for us because of the Father. He wants that relationship free of sin, free of bondage, that we can freely walk and live with him right here in the very kingdom of God. And I’ll tell you this, the people who are getting baptized, I always ask why.

That’s my opening clasp with every baptism classes. Why? Why are you doing this? Part of it is to make sure that they’re not going into the Lord’s baptism so that way they, you know, something’s going to happen and it doesn’t. And they get all disappointed by it. Right. You know, water baptism has very, very specific function. But the best part is the answers that you get out of it, because we get these answers that this array of people from someone who has never been baptized, new baby, the Lord, just figuring things out.

All they know is that they’re hungry, they’re hungry to be changed or they want more. He is wide array of people who’ve gone through all these different paths of life. And you go the other end. Here you’ve got people like today, Pastor David’s getting baptized. It’s so cool because you ask why you ask, why you ask, why you ask, why they all want the same thing, all coming from different directions.

But the thing that kind of blew me away with all this is that David and I were talking a little bit and it’s here’s the deal, is that you can be walking with God and you can have that incorruptible seed planted in your heart, planted in your body. That’s new spirit and you looking to the Lord and you want more.

But that seed is still there. But it’s not until you are born of the water and the spirit that. That seed is actually germinated in the new life. You see, you can have that new spirit and yes, you have forgiveness from your sin and yes, you have a free path to heaven if you were to die, free of the opportunity or or the result of sin, which would be hell.

Instead, you’ve got this new spirit within you. But there’s so much more it. You see, he’s calling us to walk in newness of life. He’s calling us to walk in the Kingdom of God. And that can’t happen until not only do you have that new spirit within you, but until it is birthed forward, you see it when born again in the water, that’s when we see the fullness of God’s promise.

That’s where the keys to the kingdom are truly unlocked. It’s pretty cool because I’m watching David and he’s going through this and I mean, the man knows the word of God and he knows he loves the Lord and and here he is. And he wants that. He wants that unlocked relationship with God where his spirit in his soul and his freedom of life is unhindered.

And so dynamic is so awesome. I’m just saying that because I know that God is calling each person here. But I would tell you this and this is not my pitch to water baptism, but it can be if you want it to be, that if God is talking, the Holy Spirit has got a grip on your heart. It doesn’t matter where in this walk with God you are with that.

If it’s time to step into the Kingdom of God, I’ll give you an easy diagnosis of this. All right. You must be born of the water, the spirit, in order to enter the Kingdom of God. So it’s not too late. And if you already got baptized one time, it’s okay. You know. You can’t get baptized. But at the same time, you know.

What? Did you have faith in? The full knowledge, understanding of the operation of God, what he’s doing in your life. So I’ll tell you this We don’t say no to baptism. What we say is, Yes, you need this. Everybody needs this. I needed this. Everybody needs this. So today we’ve got a burial happening. We’ve got a resurrection happening.

Yeah, but here’s the other cool thing. And then spring this morning and God put this on my heart that as these people come out of the waters of baptism, the coolest part of all this to me is that here they are stepping into the fullness of the body of Christ. You see, we each are called in perfectly placed together in the body of Christ.

And it’s not until we stand up and walk in that full function that the body becomes whole, you see, And God will show me this, that as these people come out of the water, this baptism that we

are being more and more unified as the bride of Christ. Yes. You know, God promised us that there was going to be a people who didn’t have to taste the sting of death.

He said that there’s going to be people who that might be the only burial they ever have experience. I’ll tell you that some people back away from this message, but I’ll tell you that that is my hope. You know, I’m getting older. I’m starting to feel a little bit a little bit in the body. Yeah. The runway is getting shorter.

As Pastor Pat says, you I’m looking at all this and I’m going, That’s not when my faith should start to fade. That’s when my faith should start to grow even stronger. In this, you see see, we have faith that the body of Christ is coming together even greater now as these people come out of the water as a baptism, the unity and the unifying of the body and people stepping in the full function of what God has called us to be.

That’s the identity that we’re changing here. Amen. Are you guys. But we’re going to jump right into this. You’ve me talk enough. So God bless you guys. Thank you, Sam. All right. We’re going to get started. And I want to invite our our prophets of our house that have been notified if you could come and join me, Pastor Pat, if you could come and join us.

What Our baptism is really important to us here at our church. And we we love to do as a family together. It’s so important to us that we rejoice in every choice. Amen. And so we also believe in this house that God didn’t start stop speaking in the book of Acts, that he spoke all the way from the beginning of time.

And he spoke all the way through the Old Testament, the New Testament. And he did not stop speaking and that he still speaks through his prophets today. So you’re going to experience that today? We’ll have an opportunity that the prophetic word will be able to go forth over those that are getting baptized. And as you see your family, if you have a family member getting baptized and you would like to, come up and join us, please come, just come to the side of the screens here and we would love to have you join us as your family member gets baptized.

So with that, we’re going to get this thing started. All right. Who’s first? Brahm and Angelina Curtain is with you. It’s. I thank you, Father. Many Lord, we thank you. We thank you for Ron and Angelina tell you your current Lord. And we ask in the name of Jesus that are they as they are buried in these waters of baptism, that they would rise to walk in the newness of life.

So we baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that of was that last year? How long? Yeah. How many young were these alone. Yeah. I think I put your hands, like, right here together. Yeah. As soon as you walked out, I heard the Lord say the blessing of the Lord makes rich.

And he adds no sorrow to it. Says, Today is a day where you get to have new hearts that don’t contain any past sorrow. The Lord says, I am wiping away tears of your life today. And he says it’s a fresh beginning for you. Do not look at former things. Don’t have an expectation of what was that will follow you into the new because God says I am going to teach you what it means to walk in my blessing and I do not bring sorrow because his daughter I am healing your heart today from the sorrows and the griefs and the disappointments.

The Lord says This will not mark your future and the Lord says as you walk with me, even the things that seem like a lot, I don’t understand. Why is this happening? I don’t understand what this is. The Lord says I’m going to teach you how to bring them to me, how to lay them at my feet and how to let me.

He’ll heal your heart so that you will not have to carry them anymore. The Lord says This is a day for you to It is a day has the release of every heavy burden. Every heavy burden has been buried today, God says, and it is not yours to carry forward. And so he challenges you today do not pick them up again.

Do not pick them up again. The blessing of a Lord makes bridge and he adds no sorrow to it. There have been many detours, there have been many broken bridges, There’s been many roads to go around the broken bridges. But the Lord says today the road work is over. The detours are done. The Lord says he is going to make straight your paths.

There will be hills, there will be valleys. But he’s going to make clear he’s going to make straight your paths. The detours are over, the broken bridges are done. You will be a part of those that will rebuild the bridges in many lives. Your experience, the heart breaks. The spirit of comforting compassion shall be you. And through the many people who suffer through these times of detours and broken bridges.

But your detours and your broken bridges are over, says the Lord Matthew. I just want to thank the Lord for guiding me to this point. I’ve been through a lot of stuff in my life and growing up we were never a church family. But I remember when I ever since the time I was a little kid, my dad had told me to believe in Jesus and to believe in a higher power.

And if he wouldn’t have done that, I don’t know where I’d be. And I just want to thank the Lord. I want to thank and every one of you for being my church family and just welcoming me with open arms and just being with me along my walk with the Lord these days. Yeah, Father, we now baptize Matthew in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ.

And as He rises out of these waters, Lord, may He walk in newness of life. Hallelujah. Yeah, that of us. Yeah. We raise our men here. Worthy and worthy. So the Lord speaks a word of restoration over you today. God’s the restorer. He restores things that were lost. Things that you thought you could never get back. That’s what God’s doing to you today.

A new heart, a new mind, a new path is ahead of you. And God is going to bring restoration to you. God’s filling you today with the strength you never had, the abilities you didn’t think you could have, and God’s putting that within you today. And as you cry out to him and say, God, how do I walk this walk?

He’s going to make it plain because he empowers you today to walk that walk. God is your restore Today the day of restoration receive from the one that restore us today in that scripture good Psalm one one through three. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners or sits the seat of scoffers.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on the law he meditates day and night, for He is like

a tree planted by streams of water that yields his fruit after season and its leaf does not weather. You know, we were in my men’s Bible study yesterday talking about the giant sequoias and their roots don’t necessarily go deep, but they interlock with each other just like we do with other believers.

And they drink massive amounts of water and the Lord is saying interlock with my body, drink from my living well, and you will never thirst who will Tanya prove?

Thank you, Lord. Lord, I thank you for the work that you have been doing in the work that you are doing and the work that you will do. So now I baptize Tanya Simpson in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ, and that as she is buried in these, so shall she rise to walk in new life.

Lord, I just declare a newness. I declare a wiping away of every residue that was the past, that she would come forth into something so spectacular and so new that it would astound even herself. Lord, we declare in the name of Jesus, Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Holy. let hair. that. And I sing. this holy, This is all from us.

I bring life. I bring life to you, daughter And what was stolen away I restore more than you can imagine Daughter I bring life to your ministry I bring life to every one you come in contact with. Says God. For I will use you to bring life to me. Says God. I send you into this place, this world to bring my truth, to bring my hope, to bring my life, says the Lord.

And you will give my gospel show back at top groups without compromise, without fear. But with my purposes as your God daughter. Because you are my daughter, says the living God. It’s never been any different. You are my daughter, says the Lord, and I send you into this world an assignment to bring life. Bring life, bring life, says God, and many will be delivered by your word.

Those held in deep bondage you will rescue all like brands out of the fire. You will bring them out, says God. And in this process, God says, You will know my anointing on your life as never before. Our communion will be sweet. Father says, I have some surprises coming for you because of my great love for you. Daughter and us.

So thank you. I heard the Lord say I am designating you as an ambassador with all the rights and privileges of I. I don’t know all of what that means, but it’s a statement the Lord is making to you, and it’s part of the covenant with you. Ambassadors are afforded privileges in foreign countries that are nationals. There are not a this is something you should study because there is a revelation of both the assignments and the provision of the Lord in it for you.

But that was what I heard him say very clearly, very directly. There is a very strong assignment on your life, but there is also a complete plan. The provision and the fullness of grace for it says God and I am Pastor David. I have I think you have a whole slew coming to do things justice.

Heck yeah. Heck yeah. God, your glory for is being revealed in men. God, Lord knows this one testifies of your glory and your wonder and your power. Lord, we thank you for Him and we baptize him today, according to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. And as He is buried in these waters, and He may rise to walk in newness of life in Jesus name, yet that other associate that our care to all of us.

Yeah, you are worthy, Lord, is your greatness. God. Now, now was first of there was No rock of ages in the for long and holy one Yeah. Time and your task and the time that’s on that and our son then go to to you and then I soon I am I honor you today my son. I’m so pleased.

Your ability to humble yourself and say, God, I want to get it right and I want it all. I am making you a sign and a wonder to those that observe and see you, I’m putting you on display says, God, thank you for that. There’s no time in our life when you cannot come lower and be raised higher.

In my presence, says the Lord. And it’s the humility that’s on you and the tenacity that you’ve lived through every trial and struggle that is molding you into the man that I am putting on display. So keep on keeping on since your God, I’m having a love affair says aloha. But you’re not just my friend. I love Thank you for so you’re on the right track.

And it’s different than anyone else, you know? So don’t compare yourself to anyone. You’re on the way. We got good days ahead. Says God. That some of us as Pastor David got this for you. When you’re standing, I’m standing behind you in your congregation. So it’s about the assignment. God says it’s about the assignment. What’s my next assignment?

That’s it. That’s what you ask. God, what’s next in? That pleases the heart of God. And this was your next assignment. Was this here being buried in these waters and coming back up into the to walk in the newness of life? Because I do have assignments for you, and now I have equipped you says, God, I have equipped you for every single thing that’s going to happen in the future.

Yes, you are whole says your God. The past is gone, says your God. The future is bright, says your God. You are equipped, you are anointed and you are prepared, says the Lord for what Ahead I’ll rest in my arms, says God and don’t worry and don’t fear about the future because I will carry you from assignment to assignment to assignment, says a Lord.

The Lord God is so proud of you today. He loves you much and he’s so pleased. I just have to be obedient to the Lord and just give us really quick word is that He is bringing you greater authority, greater authority in every place, every place, even the places that you didn’t think you had. Say, didn’t you think you had influence?

He’s bringing you greater authority if Helena ever saw it, she saw that. Hey, Liana. Amen. I now baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. And as you are buried in these waters, so shall you rise. Walk in new life, new life, new life. All things are pass away. All things have become new.

The name of Jesus. Come in here. Holy day You are worthy of His Royal Highness. Hallelujah, Worship. We worship you. We worship your song. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. You ran on. So this is a little unusual, of course, because it’s you. The Lord gave you a word before it didn’t get recorded or written down and. He wants you to have it because I saw you like a red plane on a runway zipping back and forth so fast, doing these things, spinning around, doing all these things.

And it was really wonderful and joyful, except planes are made to stay on the ground. So it is confirming to your heart today that you’re meant to fly and that everything that comes as a resistance is only to lift you higher because planes require, air resistance to be able to lift, be able to lift it up from the low places into the heavens.

So cut has covenant with you today at every piece of resistance. It is not set to break you and it is not set out to see you crashing to

the ground, but only to cause you to go higher into the places that you were created to fly. So fly them through that.

Hi, my name is Panel the Lord Jesus Christ. You are Iliana the Lord Jesus Christ. And just as you’ve been taught about baptism, there are promises in that name that will empower you to fly as you were created to. And so today, not only was this old like body just left behind, but also that old thought process is left behind is the Lord wants you to know that He has taken all of whatever has been holding you and grounding you to this ground.

He’s severed that to move you forward and he’s challenging you today. Do not look backwards. Do not look to what has been holding you because you have already been claimed. You have already taken on a name. You are meant for greatness. You are meant for holiness, You are meant for things that you haven’t seen. And when you look back.

You are only being grounded to that level. You come down as your father today to publicly declare this love affair that I have. Or if you I love you, I am enough. I will always be enough. I love you. Now, daughter, walk. Stand up and walk and run and jump and then fly this love. And I promise you I will be with you every step of the way.

Life, eternal life. That is my promise for your daughter. Joy. Unspeakable joy. That is my gift for you and will have it. All right. I think that’s it, man. Church So exciting. God is on the move. We have another round next week to her, man. So, God, we thank you for the work that you have finished. We thank you for the finished work of the cross.

Lord, we thank you that you have provided access to your very throne, that you provided entrance into the Kingdom and to new life. And we declare today new life. We declare today that even everyone in this room has the opportunity to step into the places that you have provided for them. Lord, I even pray that you would remind us of the places and the things that you have called us to, even the things that have been hidden.

And maybe that went by the wayside. We remember them again. Lord. We remember your promises and we covenant again today, Lord, that we will pursue you. That we will pursue the call of God. We will pursue the spreading of the Gospel of Christ In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen and amen. Men Church, Please join us across the hall for our fellowship time.

We believe doing life together is so important. We’d love to have you join us. And them.