This is That ....
This statement is about pre-existence, or that something exists before it actually becomes manifested.
I have told you that the messages that I deliver unto you on Sunday, I usually receive from the Lord on Tuesday. Holy Spirit wakes me up and drops the theme into my spirit and then I follow along as He unwraps it and develops it. So, I might say to you “This is That”.... Before I speak it forth, it already was. It existed before I declared it....I preached this message before I preached this message. God has already done what He is about to do....He has already performed what He is about to perform...God thinks and speaks something and it is the pre-existent future reality .
That’s why Ecclesiastes 1:9 “What has been, is what will be, And what has been done, is what will be done.So there is nothing new under the sun”.
I used to go to job interviews and I would start getting nervous, or I would go into a new experience and be anxious and the Holy Spirit would whisper, “what will be, already is, and what will be has already been”....and it would calm my spirit and let me know that God has this already figured out!!! I was living in a pre-existance..
John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am”. The Lord is saying He has been where you are going to assure that you will accomplish your purpose as you seek first His kingdom.
On the Day of Pentecost, when Peter stood up and said “This is That”, He was referring to the fact that before it happened it had already happened. So he quoted the address in Joel where God said He would do it before He did it.....
We see this pre-existance as God said it before He did it at another address... Isaiah 28:11 “For with stammering lips and other tongues will He speak to this people”. (This people being the Jewish people that were present). So look at this with me.....Acts 2:16 “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy” and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy”
(Man, this lets us know that whatever is coming, has pre-existed, it has already been, and God has got it all covered!)
Every thing that is coming has already been....If you know your bible, you have the advantage on everyone else. You have a leg up, while everyone else may have 20/20, you have binoculars to tap into pre-existance!
When the prodigal son left and was in the pig pin, all messed up, having squandered his inheritance, and he was eating in the pig pin with the oinkers... there is a powerful verse that is part of the story.
Luke 15:20 So he (the prodigal) got up and went to his father. But while he was still FAR OFF, his father saw him and with compassion, He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him”.
The father saw him far off, started running towards him, and had everything ready.... He said “put a ring on his finger, shoes on his feet, a robe on his back, and kill the fatted calf.... He couldn’t say that if it didn’t pre-exist, before the son arrived. Then when the son said “let me just be your servant”... Dad said, welcome back to your full inheritance.... This is That!!! The father here, is a type of the heavenly Father, who sees the modern day prodigal far off and fore-knows that there will be a moment when he will come to his senses and has everything already prepared. When Joseph was in Egypt, having been elevated to assistant Pharaoh, his conniving brothers came, looking for food to sustain them during the famine, which already was foretold, before it happened. It pre-existed....They got their food, but Joseph set them up.... (SOMEBODY SAY “God is setting you up! IT’S A SET UP”) He hid his royal cup in Benjamin’s sack, then sent his servants to arrest them. (God is revealing things that He hid, to bring you back, to what always was)... He’s getting ready to reveal “THIS IS THAT”.... There’s a royal cup in your stuff that has yet to be revealed, but when it is revealed, it will change everything!!! You wondered why you went through that, or why you’re going through it.... but you already have the royal cup, you’ve been set up, for the time of revealing... everything is about to change... THIS IS THAT!! That royal cup, for the prodigal was hidden in a pig pin.... he didn’t know it, until he went through the revealing process and lost everything...
That royal cup. to the apostle Paul was his purpose, and he didn’t find it until he was on his way to kill Christians, and on the way, he went through the revealing process....He got a new boss and found what he was always meant to be....
David was always king until he was king....but the process of revealing hadn’t manifested his purpose yet. When Samuel went to Jesse’s house, it was to anoint what was to be, that already was...7 sons were brought before him but none were chosen, then a red headed, little, freckled face, teen, who was born as the result of his mom’s adulterous relationship, is brought in from the fields, And when Samuel saw David, he said “he’s the one”.... THIS IS THAT!..
Romans 8:28 “And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed (shaped and fashioned) to the image of His Son, so that He (Jesus) would be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified”.…
(there’s the golden cup of our purpose, hidden, waiting to be found) It has been hidden, but the revealing process is bringing it forth)
This uniqueness in our purpose does not mean that we are less than or more than someone else....and this is evident in the lives of two great leaders in history, the apostles Peter and Paul.
Their overall purpose was the same. Both were given the task of reconciling mankind to their Creator and spreading the Good News of the Kingdom of God. Beyond that, their individual revealing processes were different.
Peter, after the vision that led him to the house of Cornelius (in Acts 10), related primarily to the Church in Jerusalem. His purpose was to be a leader among the Jewish believers, convincing them that God was also incorporating Gentiles into
the Church by the gift of Holy Spirit (that sermon is in Acts 2:11).
Paul, on the other hand, was rarely in Jerusalem. His visits there were for the primary purpose of defending His ministry among the Gentiles to those same leaders that Peter influenced in the Messianic congregations.
Galatians 2:7-8 “They saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.”
Paul’s purpose or reason for being born was to specifically go to the non-Jewish world and share the good news of reconciliation to God. The apostle Peter was called to overseethe Church in Jerusalem. But both shared in the spread of the Gospel, even though their purposes were separate and specific. They could not have changed places and remained true to God’s purposes for their lives. The same is true for you. No one can take your place or purpose, and for your purpose, there is no substitute.The revealing process is so that what already was, can now be manifested!
Our healing for example, was finished 2000 years ago, so, when a healing occurs, it is now, what it always was... “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we are/were healed”.... But go back a little further.... God said in Genesis...“He (satan) will bruise your heel but you will crush his head”.... You are healed, because you always were healed in Christ.... THIS IS THAT!! It is because it always was!!! It is pre-existant from the moment Jesus said IT IS FINISHED!
God had a REALLY BIG IDEA.. it included all the stars and galaxies, it encompassed The entire universe. It determined exactly how much the earth is tilted on its axis and it’s exact distance from the sun, also the shape of it’s orbit and the speed of it’s rotation. It’s core is super heated and the molten ore is a huge nuclear reactor which creates gravity and keeps everything from coming apart..... and holds the air we breathe in place, and the water and dirt down to the atoms and molecules that it’s all composed of.
Oh, yes, each of us are a part of the Big Idea from the beginning. It includes all that now is, and will be, because it always was, in His Idea.
The big idea is the ultimate governing program for mankind that provides for all of
Our highest aspirations, such as equality, justice, peace, love, unity, respect for human dignity, the value of every human being, as well as personal andcorporate empowerment.
It is an idea that is superior to and contains the solutions to all of our earthly problems—such as war, terrorism, crime, AIDS epidemics, child abuse,environmental destruction, culture clashes, poverty, oppression, ethnic cleansing, economic crisis, family disintegration, political and religious corruption, community violence, and the culture of fear that is like a global disease.
The only way to defeat a bad idea is with a better idea. Ideas are destroyed by better ideas. The battle for the soul of Earth is a battle of ideas.
One of the most misunderstood people on the planet was a young Jewish philosopher, who came to the earth 2000 years ago, still lives today, and always was, the same yesterday, today and forever, who presented the idea that humankind can be restored to the original passion, purpose, and plan of the Creator through a global invasion of love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, justice, patience, and righteousness under the supervision and heavenly oversight of the Spirit of God.
That’s God’s Idea.....Everything began as an idea. The shoes on your feet, the clothes on your back, the house in which you live (well, maybe not that one) the car you may drive, your job, your marriage, your children and YOU BEGAN AS AN IDEA!.... (your mom and dad wondered about it sometimes).... but all began as ideas!
Ideas begin as precepts and a precept is in two parts, “Pre, which means “before” and “Cept”, which means “thought.” Therefore, the word precept means “the thought before the thought”...
So, if you follow this process, a precept becomes “an idea.” An idea becomes a concept, which then develops into a mental image and that image results in a product.
God’s Precept, became a concept, which developed into a product.....The invisible kingdom became visible and physical when God created the garden and put the man in it.....Eternity was entering the physical realm, The kingdom of heaven was invading the physical earth....
Genesis 1:26 Then God (had a precept which became a concept) and said, “Let Us (Jehovah is always plural in the Hebrew) make man in Our image, after Our likeness, So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.”
God’s intent, which is His original purpose, was and is, to fill the earth with the kingdom of heaven. Jesus taught us to pray, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”.... So, each of us have His intent, or original purpose built into our DNA....
Jesus likened the process to the way yeast leavens bread:
Matthew 13:33 The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.
He also compared the Kingdom to planting a mustard seed:
Luke 13:18-19 “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew, became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches”. Little is much when God is in it.....With God great things come in small packages, but miracle power is contained within it!
God’s ultimate goal was and is, to fill the Earth with His glory. The glory of God is one of the significant themes of the Bible.
For example, God told Moses, Num. 14:21 “Truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled
with the glory of the Lord”. (when’s the last time you were lost in His glory)
King Solomon, son of David, prayed, Psalm 72:19 “Praise be to His glorious
name forever; may the whole earth be filled with His glory”
God wants to fill the Earth with His full presence, His full and true nature, all the fullness of who He is and what He is like. He wants to be on Earth just as He
is in Heaven. This is a God idea and it will come to pass!!! And we shall stand and say THIS IS THAT!
Think about it.... all of that was packed in a dirt house, named Adam! He was the Epi-center of God’s Big Idea.... God didn’t make any more men.... all the rest of mankind was in the one man...all humankind were in Adam... God made everybody in one body, so what He said to one body, He says to everybody...... It says God saw that Adam was alone.....
that word “alone” in the Hebrew, is “All in one” And God said it’s not good that everybody is in one body.....So God put the one body with everybody to sleep....and he reached inside the one body and pulled out another body... It was another man, but he made an adjustment and gave it a womb, and called it “Wombman”.....Now with the wombman, he can begin to get everybody out of the one body.....two men can’t get everybody out, and two wombmen can’t get everybody out.....God said to the man who was everyman, and the wombman, multiply and fill the earth.... God doesn’t make people any more from the dirt, they were all in the everybody man and they’re still coming out!!! What God said to the everybody man, and the wombman, He says to everybody...”Have dominion over the earth”....God keeps looking for those who won’t just be here, but will understand their purpose for being here.... to fill the earth with the glory of God!!!
Abrahm was an everybody man, His name meant “Father”..
God changed his name to Abraham, which meant “Father of many”... He renewed that covenant to Isaac and Jacob because their blessing was the blessing of every man that flowed out of an everybody man...
He stopped making people, because the many were in the one, and part of the dominion they were given was given to us, because what He said to one was for the many and what He did for the one, He did for the many....
Romans 2:10 For, glory, honor, and peace, is to every man that works good, (agathos.. that which is empowered by God) to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God”. In the one, He came into covenant with the many. God is in it all, for it all and through it all.....
It’s for the good of God’s big idea! (even if we don’t often see it) that
nothing exists for itself; everything is related to something else. The moon doesn’t shine, it reflects the light of the sun. So the sun must shine in order for the moon to reflect, or it cannot fulfill it’s purpose. We are all connected in purpose....
A car battery stores energy but a car battery cannot fulfill its purpose unless you turn the key in the ignition and allow the battery to send power to the engine, which starts the engine that powers the wheels that move the car.
The world needs you and the purpose for which you were born. You also need the purposes of others in order to fulfill your purpose, because we are all connected.
You are who you are, where you are, how you are, why you are, and when you are for a purpose, and that purpose is connected to the purpose of others around you.
God’s purpose is not hindered by your past or your present circumstances. .
Nothing you have done can cancel your purpose. And the world is
waiting for each of us to discover and live out our purpose.
He turned the coward (Gideon) into a mighty leader, and he turned a stutterer and a murderer (Moses) into a deliverer. He turned a prostitute (the Samaritan woman Jesus met at the well of Jacob) into a preacher who reached her entire community. Imagine what He could make of you. You are never too old to resume your purpose.
There are no mistakes. God has a purpose for each of us when He planted us in our mothers’ wombs. That purpose has not changed. The challenge that lies before us is to understand and accept the process of purpose at work in our lives and allow it to guide and redirect our paths.
If you are in a boat and the lighthouse is in your way, the lighthouse is not going to move out of your way. God’s purpose is like that lighthouse. It’s calling to you, but it won’t move and you may crash into it, but when you have sunk, it will still be there, calling to you.
God knew your purpose when He designed you....Your success is in His best interest, because He put His likeness on you. His name is on you....”Christian”... means like Jesus”....
Now, your shoes have a name on them, your clothes have a name on them, your car, your watch, your cologne or perfume, your phone, your appliances, all have a name on them. And most of those things have the manufacturers image or logo on them. When that product is ready to go out of the factory, the last thing to go on, is the image or logo. That means it is finished. That means it has been tested, they pay folks to go through every component and check everything to make sure it’s up to par. They’re so sure of the product that they include a book..... a book of promises, about the product. How it will work, and what it's capable of.
You see, God saw you as the finished product, before He put His name on you!!!
God said to Jeremiah, what He says to you....
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Say with me, “Who I am, and what I am, is built into me. I was born with my purpose embedded in me”..... If you knew who you really are, you would be shocked at yourself.... Hear me today! High five somebody!!
You were created with greatness, you were made to win... “Who is man that you are mindful of him, you made him a little lower than angels, you crowned him with glory and honor”.....
Most of us get a phone which has over 300 functions and we never use but 10 of them. The manual says this phone will make phone calls, connect to the internet, it will text, play music, take pictures and videos, make video calls, and how do they know that..... they’ve tested it!. Your new phone is not new, it has gone through hours of testing, so they can tell you what it will do. Then they have stores where people can show you how it functions, and what it will do, because they’ve tested it. They want to make sure it lives up to the image that’s on it!!
How many have read every page of the manuel (I call it your promise book) for your refrigerator, for your car, or for your phone. That book that tells you what it can do, and what it’s capacity is....
Our manual is the bible, and if we don’t check it, we miss our purpose and we just go through life, always knowing there is more.... We get up, eat, go to work, eat, go back to work, eat, sleep, and get up, eat, go to work, eat, go back to work, eat, sleep, get up.... and so on....and the merry go round goes round and round.....
The last two pages of the manual for your phone, your appliance, or your car, contain the warrantee.... the warrante says we stand behind this product, if it gets broken we will fix it. Then there is the guarantee. Which means they guarantee it will work like they said in the manual. Now, listen, all of this is not about you, it’s all about the manufacturer who has their image on the product. They want to protect their image and their good name!
Your manufacturers manual the bible has a warrantee and a guarantee that you, the product, will function at capacity.... or He will fix it!!!! No one knows the product like the manufacturer!
We read it already, didn’t we.... Romans 8:28 “And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed (shaped and fashioned) to the image of His Son.”
Who is it that is trapped in you.... I’ve come to pour oil on your head and release the person of purpose that you really are. (hold hand like I’m pouring over you)
You and I have the most powerful person on the planet in us and with us, to help us fulfill our purpose....
John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come”.
He stands in your future and brings you things to come, before you get there. The future is not out there somewhere, the future is right here right now.... You have the edge, you have the advantage, in order to occupy until He comes and be more than conqueror, because the price has been paid to fulfill your purpose!!! It already pre-exists, You are predestined for your purpose, and I came today to declare the release of the Lord over you, in Jesus name.....
