This Generation Of Promise – Part 1

Pat

The culmination of the ages would that not be us, and the cloud of witnesses coming together?

Mike

The promise is that this generation, this race of people that God has created, is not going to pass away until we see all of this. Because we've seen the start of this, we've seen it start to unfold, and it's going to unfold and keep unfolding to a culmination, where the cloud of witnesses and us become one together and move in because we're not going to supersede them. Without us, they're incomplete. But we're not going to step ahead of them in all that they've accomplished, up to this point.

Dale

No generation has been called to do something like this before.

Ron

These questions like you just asked, we're going to walk that out. But we're going to walk it out quicker when we don't try. We don't try to figure it out. We just let the Lord unfold in front of us, He's going to unfold in front of us, and it's going to be so fun, and a lot more fun, the less we try.

Mike

What is there that's keeping us from understanding who we are? Because I am becoming that which I am becoming is what the father's saying to us. And he spoke that to Moses, I am becoming what I am becoming, or that which I am becoming, he spoke that to Moses, and they said to Moses, tell the children of Israel become free I Am that I Am, and I will be what I will be. So for us, when are we going to say I am, that I am,

Pat

I Am that I Am,

Mike

I Am that I Am, or I am the Word made flesh, just like it said here: and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Well, if we're creating the image of God, as Christ was created in the image of God, then does not that apply to us too? Can we see ourselves in that same vein?

Ron

If the Father is in us, you can explain it all you want. But the truth is, the Father is in us. We can say I am. I am the word I am.

Dale

And see that as determined by how much does He abide in you?

Ron

Or how much do you accept to He abides in you?

Dale

And really, how much are you no longer male or female? No longer Jew or Greek? No longer bound, or free? How much do you claim to be that new creature? We're shedding so much of the past. And we're shedding so much of yesterday, that we're being thrust into something new every day, if we're willing to accept it. That's the key. He created us at the foundation of the earth. What He's trying to do is just separate us from the sin that we fell into. And that sounds like something that's been preached forever. But there's a different way to get out of it. Get rid of that sin. And that is, He has opened the door to believe. We don't have to go through penance. We can't buy it. All we have to do is say, Lord, thank you. I trust you. I believe you. Our worship sets us free. Two places we change, worship and communion. How do I take upon me the life of Christ? I eat of His body and drink of His blood and His life is in me. How do I be to the Father what He wants? Worship Him, and worship Him, and worship Him. And in His presence, what are you doing? You're worshiping and He's changing you, and He's changing you. His parousia. He is coming; He is coming. But out of His love and His grace, He's willing to draw us. He's willing to bring us. Isn't the word over this end time? We are led by the Holy Spirit. That's the key.

Mike

Who are we? What does the word say we are? You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him, who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. We are the word. We are the sons of God. We're not travailing and going to the travails of birth pangs and whatnot. Its creation is going through this trying to birth us into coming into the reality of who we really are. Does the word say something about you, and you're not accepting it? Start accepting what the Word says, because it's truth that sets you free from all these lies, all these deceptions, all these distractions, and everything else has come out here to keep you from knowing who you really are. We are already the new creation; it was created before the foundation of the world. That's what it says in Ephesians. But then when He tossed us down here, we stepped into some sin, but the blood of Christ and what He did on the cross snaps us out of that. We've got to start chucking off all these experiences of this flesh side of things and get back to who we are in the spirit.

Dale

Isn't that what He said? I am the light of the world, you are the light of the world. Why? Because the light that God created through His son is in you. I am dressed with a light in order to go out and do the will of God in the earth.

Mike

Be, be the will of God. Don't just do it. But be it; be the light. You know, This little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine. Let the light shine.

Dale

The character, the makeup of a little child. See, that's part of this new creature. It's not a person short in stature, but it's a person that takes the characteristic that makes a little child so attractive, so beautiful. And how do we get that in 70-year-old people? That's where we give way to the new creature. And one of the things that's the most exciting to me is seeing God take this new creature and add to it and that's the day we're living in.