From there on: transformation takes humility.

Hello and welcome to From There On, a podcast about teaching and to move you forward from where you currently are to your next. And today the topic is transformation takes Humility, and that's quite a thorough teaching. We'll be walking through John 21, Luke 24, Acts 2, Acts 8, Acts 12, Proverbs 18, Proverbs 15, Proverbs 22, Acts 20, Genesis 35, and Judges 14. Let's pray. Father, thank you for gathering us today. Anoint my lips. Thank you, Jesus, for keeping me preaching with fire. Shakarararararara. That your Holy Spirit will be present among us today. Speaking truth. Blowing truth. English. So let's go to John 21:1-19. So the situation here is Jesus is resurrected and he's back near the shores of the lake because, well, they're The apostles are back fishing. Hey, they've missed something, so they needed to be put back on track. They need to be recommissioned, especially Peter. Later, Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened. Several of the disciples were there: Simon Peter, Thomas, nicknamed the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and the other disciples. Simon Peter said, 'I'm going fishing.' 'We'll come too,' they all said. So they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night. At dawn, Jesus was standing on the beach, but the disciples couldn't see who he was. He called out, 'Fellows, have you caught any fish?' 'No,' they replied. Then he said, 'Throw out your net on the right-hand side of the boat and you'll get some.' So they did, and they couldn't handle the net because there were so many fish in it. Then the disciple, the disciple, Jesus loved, said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his tunic—for he had stripped for work—jumped into the water and headed to shore. The others stayed with the boat and pulled the loaded net to shore, for they were only about 100 yards from shore. When they got there, they found breakfast waiting for them: fish cooking over a charcoal fire, and some bread. "Bring some of the fish you've just caught," Jesus said. So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore. There were 153 large fish, and yet the net hadn't torn. "Now come and have some breakfast," Jesus said. None of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Then Jesus served them the bread and the fish. This was the third time Jesus had appeared to the disciples since he had been raised from the dead. After breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," Peter replied, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," Jesus told him. Jesus repeated the question, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Lord," Peter said, "you know I love you." "Then take care of my sheep," Jesus Jesus said. A third time he asked him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, 'Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.' Jesus said, 'Then feed my sheep. I tell you the truth, when you were young you were able to do as you liked. You dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands and others will dress you and take you wherever you do not want to go.' Jesus said this to let him know by what kind of death he would glorify God. Then Jesus told him, 'Follow me.' So at this point, Peter had cast his net following Jesus' instructions out of obedience, out of faith. He had no idea what is in the water. He had no idea whether that would be fruitful. He just obeyed. He made a choice to obey. So he had no idea whether that would be effective, and— but his eyes were then opened to recognize Jesus. And with that Jesus' hand in the presence of glory. Now this is a repeat performance because Jesus had already done that in Luke 5, okay, but it had to be done all over again. Peter had to be recommissioned because he had denied Jesus 3 times during the crucifixion process, thinking that the crucifixion would not be his cup. He refused that cup. But it turned out it had to be his cup. And Jesus at the crucifixion was modeling to Peter how he would die. And so here in this instance, Peter demonstrates humility, obedience, and faith, just as previously in Luke 5. And in Acts 2:14, where the Holy Spirit starts blowing on the gathering, Peter steps into his preaching anointing, his preaching mantle, and his mouth is filled. He's not somebody who went to Bible college. We need to stop this thing about Bible college being compulsory to preach. God uses whomever, whenever, however. Who are we to decide who should preach and who shouldn't, whether they qualify? Jesus qualifies us. Thank you. And in Acts 12, we see also that repeat of the obedience, just not asking questions and moving on with the Spirit, moving on with the instruction of the angel, even though Peter was sleepy and he didn't have time to think. If he could just manage to put one step in front of the other to get out of that prison, that was it. He was conscious enough to put one step out of— one step in front of the other to get out of the prison. He was not conscious enough to put his own thoughts in the process. So to be transformed takes humility, repentance for going against God's will, and the Holy Spirit which is assigned to do new work in us. So more results of obedience of faith in humility. We'll see that in Philip's ability to travel in the Spirit in Acts 8. Same thing. The Spirit comes, Philip is taken away. Philip doesn't think, doesn't put any thinking into it. His thinking does not come in the way of the process of what the Holy Spirit wants to do. There's no questioning going on. And the first sign of pride is thinking that we know better than God and that we're rich, that we can question the instructions, that we can put our thoughts in between the instruction and the action, you know, we then become a hindrance, we then become an obstacle to the move of the Spirit, to our own freedom. Let's move on to Proverbs 18:12. In Proverbs 15:33, um, still talking about humility and what kind of thing that is. Proverbs 18:12, I'm reading from the NLT, um, 'Haughtiness goes before destruction, humility precedes honor.' And in Proverbs 15:33, 'If you—' sorry, 'Fear of the Lord teaches wisdom, humility precedes honor.' There's an order there, there's an order. The fear of God not only brings wisdom, which is a key, but it leads to the key of humility, which in turn leads to honor. It's a domino effect. If you grab hold of the fear of the Lord, you're given keys because you are entrusted by God with those keys of wise counsel, which then open up new doors in the spirit and physical doors. When Peter walked in wisdom by being obedient to Jesus, to the voice of the Shepherd, I'm quoting Psalm 23, he walked in it, in his lush place of abundant provision, into the glory-filled place of overflow. And that's reiterated in Proverbs 18:12. Now here we see two demonic entities of pride and destruction working as a pair, and two angelic entities of humility and honor working as a pair. Pride is a key to the door of destruction. Humility is a key to the door of honor. Moving on to Proverbs 22:4. Choose humility, fear of the Lord, lead to riches, honor, and long life. Here there's a different set of keys, a different combination of keys: humility and fear of the Lord. One key for the man lock and one for the safety lock, which then opens 3 doors back to back. Riches, honor, and long life. Um, and in Acts 20:20, we'll see what Paul's got to say about those things. I never shrank back from telling you what you need to hear, either publicly or in your homes. So Paul never fell for fear of men. I highlight to you the word shrink. Like a mantle would shrink, a covering of authority, an anointing could shrink, could diminish your capacity, your authority, if you fell for fear of man. So fear of man is a trap that leads to lesser authority, lesser anointing, and lesser ability to move in miracles, signs, and wonders. Now, sometimes you just need to clean shop, you need to clean house for, um, uh, to enter into the new thing, to enter through the new gateway, the new regional place, the new territory. Let's go to Genesis 35:2. So Jacob told everyone in his household, let's get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing. Here there's a before and after the place of the new altar. The old ways, the idolatry. Jacob is putting an altar up in Bethel, but it's got people with old habits, such as Rachel, bringing idolatry. Not just the stuff that she was sitting on to hide away from Laban, hmm, not just that. It was Inna. Whatever is in you manifests around you. So if you've got a storm in you, there'll be a storm around you. If you've got idolatry in you, idolatry may manifest around you. And there was a divine, divine purpose and divine timing Rachel could not go into the new nation, into the new country. She belonged to the old place, to the old ways, the place of idolatry. But Jacob said, "Why? I can't have that going on here, not in this place, because that territory belongs to God, is marked." as being of God. And you can't have idolatry and God in the same territory. One has to go, and God will see that his ways remain. Um, so everything that belonged to previous generation, the previous season, the previous covenant, and a previous altar had to go. So Rachel passed away at Bethel. The place of the new altar was erected there, but this is also where Benjamin came forth, where Benjamin was born. So the push for the new is going to demand our all, our everything, until our old selves are no more. And that's reinforced in Genesis 41:14 at the time of Joseph's promotion when he's got to shave shaving the new— the old off, and the old clothes, the old mantles are also disposed of. That's his upgrade. He's walking into upgraded company, and he shaves and puts on the new mantles, the new tunics. And we'll see that thing about anointings and proximity. In Judges 14, where Samson had given a riddle to some people to solve, and as in, "Ha, you would not have been able to solve it unless you had been near my hypha," which was his ox which carried his anointing because of his proximity. While plowing. So similarly, the United rubbed on those people who managed to solve the riddle. They got downloads, knowledge, revelation, which they would not have been able to get without the anointing. So they receive new abilities and new gifts and talents and intelligence and capacity. So, um, this season there are positions, places, things, keys which open up new possibilities for the first— um, but the first place is humility. To access those things, you need to be rightly positioned and humble, or humble either, because if, if you don't choose humility, the Lord will bring you to the place of humility, and that can be uncomfortable. I've been there. So the first touch point is an access point, a key place is humility, because from there other good and divine things open up in the spirit and in the natural realm. So Father, we thank you, thank you that we don't wait until you bring us down, until you push us down. We come down, we get on our faces. We kneel down because we've learned, and now we know better than just waiting to be humbled, waiting to be pushed down. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for everything you want to open up for us this season. Thank you just for all the keys you want to hand to us and everything you want to give us, from keys to connections to mantles, anointings. Thank you, oh, thank you, Jesus, that you are getting us to walk into new place— not just new places, but new shoes, new mantles, oh, and for some of us, new crowns. The fear of man is the place of shrinking, but the fear of God is the place of augmented capacity, of extended capacity. For from your throne in the heavenly realms, you see high above all things on the earth, and you can see what's to come, and you access the treasures, the trunks with your names on them. Signet rings, signet rings, ha! Signet rings, oh shh! There's a whole set of things to get in the spirit. Mantles, crowns. Scepters, signet rings, places, trunks, books. Come on! And we're going to go and get them. We're not going to let disobedience, we're not going to let pride stop us from accessing them. Pride, arrogance, disobedience— we have to move because we're moving with humility. We moving on our knees, face down, shaka, to shift places and things in Jesus' name. I'm giving away the 120 Days to a Lightgiving Lifestyle journal, and you have the code in the description to get it. Um, it's— you just need to put the code in when you click on the link to Payhip in the description, and you'll be able to get the download straight after that through the checkout process. May the Lord bless you, keep you, make you special, and be gracious to you. Bye for now.