MISTY: I mean he was liberated. You can’t take anything away from this man. What do you take away from a man who’s already given everything up? You can’t touch a man like this. He was untouchable! Because he was living transcended. Holy. And the Lord is raising up a company of people who hear the voice of the Bridegroom. Who hear the voice of Yeshua. Who hear the voice of the Bridegroom and who have the love of God, the fire of God in their hearts to such a degree that they will face even persecution and not shrink back. History’s already proven this love. There’s been many, many martyrs through history who have gone to the end in this kind of love. One of the good things that, about Jesus and that Judgment Day when we stand in front of Him is that, you know eternity is the great equalizer… so I’m rewinding a little bit so we’re back to the point we’re all going to die… Okay? We’re back to that point (laughs).
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)
MISTY: So we’re all going to die. We’re going to face Him. Whether you’re, you go through the End Time scenario. Or maybe it’s your children. Maybe it’s your grandchildren that will go through it. But there’s a great equalizer called death. You get a rich man who was successful, attractive. Did it all right in this age, standing before Jesus, but didn’t know Jesus or turned his back on Jesus. You get the poorest of the poor who loved with all of their heart, their soul, their mind, their strength with loyal allegiance to Jesus. Guess what? There’s an equal opportunity for greatness in the eyes of the One Man that matters. That audience of One. The reason why we live before the audience of One is, again, because there’s only One Man who can evaluate us. You know I hear the story of, umm, Mike Bickle who I work with in the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. And his brother Pat Bickle was paralyzed during a High School basket… uh, High School football game. So he was 18 years old. He’s paralyzed from the neck down. And he was paralyzed for over 30 years. And they prayed for healing, they had so many prophecies, they thought that they, he thought he was going to be healed. And there’s a mystery all around that. I mean I don’t pretend to understand it. Mike Bickle in the meantime has a thriving, you know, global ministry that’s being raised up around the world and his, his ministry’s just booming and growing and young people are coming and on and on and on. And Mike tells the story that at the end of, uh, Pat’s life he’s in the hospital. I mean picture this. He’s, he’s paralyzed from the neck down and at this point he was so sick that he couldn’t even talk. He couldn’t even drink. He, he was completely on the verge of death and Mike is talking to him and, and Mike is, again, in this booming time of his ministry. And he says “Pat, right now, you can be as eternally great as I can be. We have the exact same opportunity because Jesus is judging us, measuring us according our hearts, not according to the size of our ministry, not according to our impact.” Pat Bickle has the same opportunity to be great in the eyes of Jesus according to the size of his heart response as his famous brother has. I love that our God is like this. I love that He evaluates us by the size of our heart. The measure of a man is truly the measure of his heart. The measure of a woman is the measure of her love and her heart responses. That you didn’t get offended when everything didn’t go your way. Pat Bickle could have been angry and offended and bitter and he would have lost his eternal reward. But he stayed open-hearted and he has the chance to get the same kind of reward that Mike will get. Isn’t that stunning to me? That is so beautiful to me. It’s simple, so profound. Yet we complicate it so, so greatly. So I believe in this hour, this hour of crisis that’s coming on the earth, as the Lord is raising up men and women who truly live before His eyes. More than rhetoric. You know I, I live in a culture of, of language. You know we write lots of songs. I hear lots of sermons and after a while it just becomes you know that, you know the teacher and Charlie Brown (laughs) “Wah, wah, wah, wah.” You know it’s just like really, because there’s just so much. If you grew up in the church, you know again my dad was a pastor, I grew up in the church. And after a while the whole thing was just like “Wah, wah, wah. wha, wah.” I couldn’t even… it’s too much. So I’m talking about something beyond rhetoric, beyond language. I’m talking about when you leave this, this room tonight and you’re driving in your car your thoughts turn toward him. In that moment He says “I see it.” I’m, I’m talking about when you walk down the street and you see, you give that person that cup of cold water. He says that not one cup of cold water will go without reward. Not just unseen but reward! There are actual, literal rewards in heaven when you look a person in the eye, a lost person, and you tell them about Jesus. I mean it’s so simple. This seems so elementary but it changes my life. Suddenly I went from an Ecclesiastes heart, where I thought “vanity of vanities.” This was me as a teenager. What’s the point? Everything’s a “vanity of vanity.” I took my heart to the heights. If I become a lawyer, I wanted to be a lawyer, I said “I’ll become a lawyer, I’ll change the world, I’ll help the poor and then I’d die.” I said “So I’ll just become, I’ll become rich and just indulge and then I’d die.” I thought “Well then, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll become a musician and I’ll just express myself and just get it all out and be an artist and then I’d die.” (laughs) But when I realized that His eyes were on me and I realized that He was measuring me according to Matthew 22, 37 through 40, according to the “Shema Israel,” He was measuring me according to… He said that this was the first commandment and He said it was the greatest. I mean we’re talking about the Creator Himself going “This is the first thing on my agenda.” If He says it’s the first thing on My agenda then this should become my primary dream. And if I know that He is first agenda, and I believe the Holy Spirit’s primary agenda even in this dark age that we live in, is to put the first commandment back in first place, He’s going to do it in the Church and He’s going to do it in the remnant of Israel. He’s going to put the first commandment in first place. The Holy Spirit is going to do this. And it says it’s the “great commandment.” This is what makes us great. This is what He measures us by. Truly what He measures us by. Not just make me feel better measures us by. Like really at the end of my life this is what He measures us by. Did you learn to love? Did you really learn to love? Did you learn to love? Not how much money did you make? How many people, how many people did you get in a room? How many stadiums did you fill? How big was your family? How perfect was your marriage? No. Did you learn to love? Did you learn to love according to the way that I love? Which was with arms wide open, with His heart exposed, pouring Himself out. The Lord will show us how to love. He wants to teach this to us. With all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind, with all of our strength He wants us to love Him with all that we are. And then He wants us to turn and to love not just the people that are like us. You know the second commandment when I first used to read that I would be like and then love your neighbor as yourself, I would look around and I’d either find the coolest person that I wanted to hang out with and be like “Okay, I can do that. I’ll love that person” or I’d find people that liked what I liked. But I’m talking about the unlovely. You know that some of the best saints through history have gone to the most unlovely of the unlovely. The Lord will show you if you ask. I just dare you. I dare you in your car as you’re driving home. Lord, show me how to love. Say it again in the morning. Lord, give me a dream. Give me a picture. Just, just the idea of how to love You better and to how to love others better. How do I put You as first priority? If you ask these simple sentences throughout the day He really will whisper ideas into your heart. He’ll set it up in a divine way. He really will. He’s good like that. He’s good like that. He is faithful. If we ask Him, He will help us. He really, really is faithful. And there is… we… well, here’s the problem. We need to get a different vision of what it means to love. Because I need a different word. You know what I’m saying because I say I love a pizza, I love this, I love that. No, we need a different word. We’re talking about love divine, not the fading kind. We’re talking about the kind of love that makes you do bizarre out of this world kind of things. And the Lord’s going to confirm this message. Right there in John when He talks about abiding in love, in John 14 and 15. And He’s talking about abiding in the Vine it’s in that context that He talks about doing greater works than these. It’s actually in context to the first commandment being in first place. It’s in context to the indwelling Spirit. He says “And these signs are going to follow those who believe” and in context to that He says “Greater works than these you will do.” Ultimately that’s salvation. That’s the greatest of all works right there. It’s that the lost would come in. But He’s going to confirm this message with signs and with wonders. I just want to pray for us for a few minutes. But I want to, I want to pray. I have a couple of little things on my heart. So Holy Spirit… Let’s just present ourselves to the Lord for a second…. Lord, we just ask that You would give us a vision for the First Commandment. Lord, we admit that we have made this first and this great command too small in our own eyes. So Lord, I ask that You would give us a vision of a lifestyle of whole-heartedness before the audience of One. Before the audience of One. And come Holy Spirit, Spirit of burning. Pour the very fire of God, the very flame of God into our hearts until we are one with You. Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit… Amen. Amen.
SID: Now that is one unique ministry? And we need more of that! Would you agree?
AUDIENCE: Whooo! Whooo! (LOUD CLAPPING)
SID: Pretty profound things she was saying. Pretty simple things she was saying. It makes life a lot easier. You know, it’s really simple. Audience of One. Who are you pleasing? Makes it easy. Just One. Would you stand up? I want to pray what Misty’s saying. The Aaronic Benediction over you. But as some of you know that have been here before I’m making it a New Covenant version. But the Old Covenant version promises that He will seal you with His name and everything that that name represents. So you get in a receiving mode because if you could see in the invisible world you would see that you are being gifted as I’m praying for you. The Lord is blessing you right now! The Lord is smiling upon you right now! The Lord is giving you His Shalom, His peace, His completeness, His favor, His gifting! He’s giving you Himself right now! In the name that is above every name. Yeshua Ha Mashiach, Tsidkenu. Jesus the Messiah, our Righteousness. And if you feel a burning in your hand right now you’re being gifted from on high in Jesus’ name. In the name Yeshua, Yeshua, Yeshua. Seal Your people right now. Yeshua ha Mashiach, Tsidkenu. Jesus the Messiah, our Righteousness! And all God’s people said, “Boy, am I full!” Full with the Spirit of the living God!
