The Three Dimensions of the Supernatural

grab your bibles while you remain standing what an awesome presence of the lord is in this house and i want to say to our dear dear friends brother and sister britt and their family congratulations on 11 years of pastoring the great church here in hartsville come on i think we can do better than that a great big hand clap make some noise actually it was 10 years last year but with when you calculate the covet year it's like being here 22 years now so 22 years including covet we say congratulations to them now i don't know and i could be wrong but i think this might be the first time in three years that i have missed the pentecostals of gainesville to go out and preach somewhere on a sunday now i'll miss to go on vacation and i won't even apologize about that but i think this is the first time i have missed to go out and preach and brother arnold the first time your pastor preached for us brother arnold looked over at me on the platform and pointed his finger and said now that's what preaching's supposed to sound like right there i don't know what he was trying to say to me but i know many of you came today wanting to hear your pastor preach so i found this so if you get real quiet on me i'm just going to put this little face up here and then you could just just act like it's i'm gonna have to put that face down though cause that scares me it's good to have my wife with me she's here to keep me straight make sure i don't say anything i shouldn't say amen we we love we love the brit family brother used to have me preach for you a little bit until y'all got in this new building and then i have been begging to come and preach in this new building and he never would let me and uh and then brother huntley couldn't come today and several others couldn't come and then it came down to me and so here here we are on today mark chapter number six um i gave the media folks some verses but we're gonna we're gonna skip around i'm not gonna read all those that i gave you uh we'll get to them maybe here just a little bit sunday school lesson was great just tremendous tremendous lesson amen i said this friday night but this weekend is really about brother and sister bread and so i just want to say before we get into the preaching i don't know of another pastor and family that works as hard that gives as much as sacrifices as much as brother and sister britt and they are well well loved among the fellowship you are blessed to have this couple as your pastor uh mark chapter number six verse verse seven reverend you you got your microphone i'm gonna have you read for me in a little bit okay not right now but just a little bit mark chapter six verse seven and he called unto him the twelve and began to send them forth by two and two and he gave them power over unclean spirits the enemy is not stronger than we are the devil is not more powerful than the church the world is not winning i don't care what the polls say the world is not winning upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church verse 12 and they went out and preached that men should repent and they cast out many devils and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them my sermon today or lesson i'm not sure really what we'll call this i haven't ever preached this out i just taught it a couple of weeks ago as a wednesday night bible study so we'll see how it goes today the three dimensions of the supernatural the three dimensions of the supernatural if you'll help me preach shady ma'am god bless you maybe seed i'm gonna preach for 40 39 minutes 39 minutes keep your bibles open if you don't mind to mark six i'm gonna have your pastor read a little bit more from that and give us a little context of the text in which we just read and i'm not certain the holy ghost has already swept through here once and i'm not certain if i'll do preaching or teaching but i am certain that god does want to speak to us regardless of which way it may come across i am thankful that i am serving a supernatural god i'm glad that he is a miracle working god he is a delivering god we can never stop believing that we can never stop preaching that and we can never stop declaring that and this is where it may get uncomfortable but we can never stop experiencing that we must continue to be an apostolic church but let me remind you we can't be apostolic just because we believe in one god and we can't be apostolic just because we can quote acts 2 38 and we can't be apostolic because we have come out from the world and we are separate all those help make us apostolic but to be really apostolic we also have to have signs wonders and miracles like what happened in here a few minutes ago we've got to see people coming to the altar laying down situations addictions we've gotta see god healing people of their diseases we've got to see people being saved from their sin that's what makes an apostolic church an apostolic church and i want to be part of an apostolic church in the church said amen okay this is our cue when i hold up brother britt's face that's for the church to shout amen okay all right let's look at mark chapter six read for me a little bit here we'll start at verse one uh mark chapter six is one of those unique chapters in the bible because it shows us the mercy and kindness of god intermingling with the stubbornness and unbelief of man and i am glad that when i am stubborn and when i am battling unbelief that god doesn't write me off amen look at verse number one read pastor and he went out from thence and came into his own country and his disciples follow he came to the place where people knew him they knew he came to the place where maybe he had thought they will receive me they know me there verse 2 and when the sabbath day was come he began to teach in the synagogue so it started out as just kind of a normal sunday a normal sabbath day if you will just usual church was custom and and they had stayed faithful to that custom i think it's good to stay faithful to coming to church amen and while he preached something began to happen every time the word of god is preached something ought to begin to happen in our midst and that's why you should be at church as much as possible because you never know on what ordinary sunday what ordinary wednesday might be the day might be the sunday might be the wednesday that god says i'm about to shift everything in the atmosphere and we're going to do something we've never done before so he's at church he's preaching read keep reading verse 2 there and many hearing them were astonished saying from whence hath this man these things all right keep going and what wisdom is this which is giveth unto him that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands so things are happening he's preaching it and the spirit starts moving and and the bible says that people were astonished that that just means they were amazed and and the word was convicting folks and it was inspiring folks and faith was was building in the building and then flesh kicked in follow me here anytime the word wants to do something we'll always have to battle the flesh very good because flesh and spirit are contrary to one another it's oil and water they don't mix real well and because this was his home town this is where he was from everybody here knew him as jesus well look jesus that's joe's boy that's mary's kid other folks caught glimpse that he's the messiah but to these home folks that's just jesus that's joe's boy i'm sure some of them remembered him as a kid jesus was a kid i'm sure some of them thought there's there's gee well i've watched jesus grow up how would you like to have said that you watched god grow up i used to babysit god i won't even go about changing the diapers and stuff like that we're not even we're not even going to go there that just doesn't sound right but but i remember when jesus put a baseball through my window it was just his hometown it was almost as if they were too familiar with him listen to what they said verse 3 is not this the carpenter the son of mary the brother of james and joseph of judah and simon all right now he's reading way too slow so that 39 minutes if it goes beyond that sister bridge that's not my fault that's your husband up here pronunciating every word yeah so professional trying to be mike williams but go ahead uh and are not his sisters here with us and they and they were offended at him and they were offended he's where he is known the most the spirit they're at church they're not out in the backyard grilling they're at church and the word was being preached and all of a sudden they started thinking is not this just jesus joe's boy isn't this just mary isn't his brothers and sisters right here with us and it says in verse 4 that a prophet is without honor but in his own country you've got the king of kings and the lord of lords in your midst and he's not even getting the honor that he deserves the same spirit is here right now what kind of honor are we giving him he could go 10 miles down the road and he could walk in a church and reveal himself in a way they've never seen before and they break out palm branches worshiping god but many times we become so familiar what does verse 5 say pastor britt and he could there do no mighty work save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them now catch that because of everything just being familiar he could do no mighty work and then it gives this little footnote except lay hands on a few sick folk and healed them now if we had a few sick folk healed today we would shout that that was a mighty work but god says a few sick folk being healed that's not even a mighty work for him that's what he can do when unbelief is in the house that's what he can do when doubt is in the house if a few sick people can be healed with unbelief what could happen if we could tap into some faith this morning and let faith begin to penetrate through this house and here's what i'm afraid is happening in the pentecostal church we are so accustomed to great church great music if brother bridge preaching great preaching we are familiar with the presence of god we are familiar with the moving of the holy ghost we are familiar with the supernatural we are familiar with the gifts of the spirit and i think we could almost say that jesus has been here so long that this is kind of his hometown we know him he's been here a long time but he could go five churches down and reveal himself in a way where somebody would give him greater praise greater worship greater exaltation because they've never seen him like this to them he's messiah to them he's deliverer to them he's savior but to us he's just jesus you see when we're so familiar with something we have a tendency to do more questioning than experiencing because sometimes when we are too familiar we can't let god be god right now some of you came to church and you knew there would be singing and you knew there would be worship and you knew there'd be an offering and you knew there'd be goosebumps and you knew there would be this and you knew there'd be that you knew there'd be preaching and it's just another sunday morning it's just familiar to us but what if today is the day where it's going to end different what if today is a day that the glory of god baptizes this place what if today is the day that you're healed what if today is the day that you're delivered what if today's the day that you finally come to the altar and you're ready to lay those heavy burdens down what if today is the day if we come just saying it's jesus it's just normal then we'll let something familiar i don't want the familiar to become a filter and i don't want to question what i'm supposed to experience i want to experience everything that god has for me to experience today i don't want the familiar to filter what god wants to do verse 3 said is this not the carpenter the son of mary the brother james joseph judah simon or not his sisters here with us and they were offended at him we're talking about the supernatural three dimensions of the supernatural but let me tell you what will repel the supernatural offense right when we get offended we will lock the supernatural ups from flowing in our midst wow anybody ever been offended okay are you holy people sit there and lie that's fine i'll come a little little closer to you how many of you have ever done the offending we've all been offended he didn't even shake my hand they didn't say hello i could she was looking right at me i waved and she looked right through me they didn't even shake my hand when we get offended we focus on fleshly things when we get offended we major on minors and we mine our own majors when we get offended we get carnal that's why the bible says in proverbs chapter 18 verse 19 a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city you got a greater chance of conquering a great city than you do a winning back a brother whose heart is bent on remaining offended no wonder the devil is trying his best to keep us offended no wonder the devil is trying to keep you upset with somebody i feel like i'm preaching good right now no wonder the devil is trying his best to get you sideways with a brother or sister because if he can keep you offended it locks up the supernatural it locks up god from doing something great in our midst so for all of you that's ever battled jesus was in the church house on that sabbath he was teaching the word of god they were astonished mighty things were starting to happen and then all of a sudden they got offended now you would think you couldn't get offended when the holy ghost is starting to move in but they got offended that's why it is statisti statistically proven that 99.7 of all fights between spouses happen on the way to church it's also been proven at 83.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot that's why the devil tries to keep you at odds against your spouse that's why the devil tries to keep you at odds against your kids that's why the devil tries to keep you at odds against one another because he knows jesus can be in the house but if offense is there there's going to be no mighty work and so i just for everybody that's ever been offended or for the ones who are doing the offended i want you to hear me offense usually happens on the eve of something supernatural because it's all the devil can do to get you to miss what the holy ghost is about to do and so when the devil starts messing with your mind and starts trying to convince you that you don't belong here and that people don't love you here and that this happened and that happened to your kids and this happened and you've been ignored on purpose you need to be wise enough to realize if i'm battling that right now then we're just a service or two away from god doing something supernatural in our myth i don't know about you but i don't want just a few sick people to be healed i want everybody that needs the holy ghost to get the holy ghost i want everybody that needs to be healed to get healed i want everybody that needs to be delivered to be to not just one not just two not all god let the supernatural fall and he marveled because of their unbelief when we are too familiar when we just know it's going to be this many songs in that sermon then it's hard for us to shift when the holy ghost wants to shift and that leads us to being offended and the reason why the devil is working so hard at keeping us offended is because offense produces unbelief unbelief is the offspring of offense if offense had a baby it would look like unbelief you look just like your daddy no not necessarily unbelief in god to begin with but but but unbelief in your brothers or sisters well they lied to me and you're not going to have issues with brothers and sisters that it doesn't eventually become an issue with the pastor so now you're got unbelief in the church you've got unbelief in the man of god now you've got unbelief in the saints of god eventually you get enough you'll start having unbelief in god without a continuous revelation of the glory of god we become spiritually stagnant the new testament calls it old wine skins and that's why when the holy ghost starts moving we got to be willing to change so that that that spirit can find new wine skins so so i'm just going to let me just give you these in case we don't get to all of them there's three dimensions if you will of the supernatural the first one is faith everybody shall faith anointing everybody shout anointing and then the third one is glory in mark chapter number six jesus marveled because of their unbelief he was shocked that there wasn't more faith there that was his hometown if anybody was going to have faith they should have had faith wonder what jesus sees in this building right now does he see more faith or does he see unbelief our faith is under attack i don't mean our religion i mean just the ability to believe god for something impossible that is under attack romans 12 3 tells us that every man has been given a measure of faith god gave everybody a measure of faith to help us interact with the spiritual realm while being confined to the physical realm faith is the believer's spiritual antennas to hear and see beyond the natural it is the bible says substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen you see right now in this building there are waves in this building frequencies if you will and if we had the right receiver if we had the right antenna then what you can't hear right now you could hear and what you couldn't see you could see it doesn't show up it's already here you just don't have the right ability to receive it now for all you young people you're not gonna know what i'm talking about but but some of you old folks help me out here before we had cable we had this thing called antennas rabbit ears and and now some of us were holy and we had them in the closet and we only brought them out when when we needed them how many ever had to hook an antenna up to a tv that antenna did not bring that picture into your atmosphere that picture was already there it just didn't have anything to receive now how many of you you know you if you did if you couldn't afford an antenna you just get a coat hanger or some aluminum foil can somebody help me preach in here right now or we had an old one out kind of hooked to the house where you'd have to get out there and get on the roof a little bit start trying to turn it i see some of you on your head you know what i'm talking about and you got somebody in the house go hold right there no go back turn what stay right there because now we found a frequency and we're able to hear what we couldn't hear a few minutes ago and we're able to see what we couldn't see a few minutes ago that's what faith is that's the first level of the supernatural you come into church and you start throwing your hands up faith is feeling for a frequency when they're up here singing they're not singing so you say oh that's a good song that's got nothing to do with it it doesn't even matter how good or how bad it is we're trying to find the frequency we're trying when you see your pastor walking around with his hands raised he's saying i know miracles are here i know deliverance is here i know supernaturals here i just gotta find the frequency come on that's the first level of the supernatural you've got to have faith you've got to believe that god can do something in your life right now that's why jesus said when i come back will i find faith on the earth because the devil's going to do everything in his power he can't stop the frequency it's there right he can just stop isaiah says isaiah the prophet isaiah asked this question where are the receivers jesus looked at his disciples and said i don't want you to leave jerusalem until you're endued with power he blew on them and said receive you become a receiver you become a that's what faith wants to do it wants to help you receive what the holy ghost wants to do you cannot step into a miraculous rin god does not anoint unbelief god does not anoint doubt he may heal a few sick folk but he walks away marvel because of their unbelief but if we can find that frequency that faith can help us plug into i promise you that faith can help change a whole situation i just want somebody to shout i believe no shout it like you mean it god i may not know how you're going to do it but if that's the first level of something supernatural then i want to shout i believe i believe you can heal me i believe you can bring my family back i believe you can do something supernatural in my that's why i want to beg you don't get weary with worship don't get weary with prayer don't get weary and well do it why why are you preaching on something like this because i want you to understand it's already here a preacher's not going to bring it it's already here a song's not going to bring it it's a but a preacher and a song may help you find the frequency so you can see what you couldn't see and so you could hear what you couldn't hear three dimensions of the supernatural you've got to have faith somebody shot faith second thing you gotta the next dimension of supernatural is anointing just like everybody has given faith everybody has also been anointed anointing is not just for preachers the bible says in first corinthians chapter 12 that there are diversities of gifts with the same spirit there are difference of administrations but the same lord there are diversities of operations but is the same god which worketh all in all the anointing is the power of god how many has ever felt the anointing flow through a place you would have never felt that anointing without faith faith opens the door to the anointing and when you feel the anointing all of us let me tell you what the anointing is the anointing is god taking a little bit of himself and setting it on you to empower you to do what he wants you to do that you wouldn't have been able to do without that anointing how many have you ever been through something and you've heard people say man i don't know how you went through that you know how i went through that god took a little bit of himself and he set it on my shoulder to give me the anointing to go through that you couldn't have gone through it i couldn't have gone through it by myself but i tapped into the second dimension of the supernatural yes i have faith but now i have ano i don't want to do ministry without the anointing i don't want to teach a bible study without the anointing i don't want to teach a sunday school class in the old testament the glory fell on the tabernacle after the priest the altar and the utensils had been anointed no anointing no glory no faith no anointing the bible says that doubt and unbelief they're evil reports god doesn't anoint that the anointing is god's power working through us to do what he wants us to do it was the anointing that accompanied david when he killed the lion the bear and the giant it was the anointing that accompanied samson when he whipped a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey it was the anointing that that rested upon them when the blinded eyes were open and the deaf ears weren't stopped it was the anointing that caused lepers to be cleansed in wheelchairs to be vacated the goal of everybody in this building today ought to be god i want my faith to go to the next level and i don't want to just believe that you're able to do it i now want you to anoint me so that i'm able to walk the way you want me to walk we need faith to give birth to the anointing we need more we need more than just good church services we need anointed church services it's the anointing i don't know anybody in here really i don't know what all is taking place in this altar a little earlier but i do know this that the anointing was flowing through this house the anointing was flowing because somebody's faith said i believe if i could raise my hands god might just forgive me and the anointing started flowing i can't preach without the anointing i can't witness without the anointing this is what your bible says isaiah chapter 10 verse 27 it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed here we go because of the anointing a good song can take the yoke off a good sermon can take the yoke off a good service can take the yoke off but it's only the anointing that can destroy the yoke the word destroy means to break it it doesn't get broken if it doesn't get broken then you can put it back on your neck and i can't tell you how many times i've come to the altar and laid something down but i didn't let the anointing break it and it wasn't two or three weeks later that i had the same issue back up on my neck but it's the anointing it's the anointing it's the anointing that break if you're addicted to pornography you need the anointing if your marriage is falling apart you need the anointing if you need god to do something supernatural in your life you need to let faith open the door to the anointing the reason why our church is different is because there's an anointing that flows through this place i want the anointing and then that leads us because if we can if we can let faith open that door all right god i believe somebody shout i believe all right now god anoints you and then that steps into the third dimension of the supernatural that's the glory now in short faith caused the anointing but the anointing calls the glory faith shows up at a church like it did today and it quickly hit speed dial and it caused the anointing and said hey anointing you could show up here today and so the anointing kind of rushes through here like it did and then when all that gets set the anointing will hit speed dial on its phone and say oh hey glory you're welcomed here today but most of us never graduate beyond faith and anointing because the glory is not god taking a little bit of himself and putting it on you the anointing or the glory is when god puts all of himself all right see if you if you go do a little word search you'd see that the word glory comes from a hebrew word kabad and the word kabad there means weightiness it's it's very heavy when the glory falls the anointing i can handle because god knows i'm flesh and so he only gives me what i can handle but when the glory comes down nobody can minister in that presence we all just fall down i thank god for the faith in this place i thank god for the anointing in this place but i prophesied to you that god wants to do more than our faith and he wants to do more than just put a little of himself on us he wants to get us to a place where the glory and when the glory settles you just kind of bow in his presence and you get out of the way and when the glory comes in you remember the old-timers used to talk about glory clouds oh god let this generation see a glory cloud i don't mean smoke i don't mean something manufactured i mean the glory the shekinah the power the anointing that reaches a level that god says all right now let me step in and when the glory shows up everything is shaken you know what our country needs our country needs glory you know what our churches need our churches need glory i want us all to stand we are addicted to the anointing it becomes a drug to us it's a little bit of god touching us to do things we didn't think we could do and we like that and because of that addiction we hardly ever get out of the way for the glory now we shout about the anointing we write books about the anointing jesus walked on water because he was anointed he multiplied fishes and loaves because he was anointed he healed people because he was anointed but he took three of his disciples upon a mountain with him and the anointing will always make you want to get in a building project all of a sudden the anointings brought up moses and the anointing brought up a lot and and peter's like man let's build let's get because the anointing will make you ready you know like all right let's do this man we're annoying to get the hammer let's build something here and the lord said all you've ever seen is faith and anointing but he said i'm about to throw show you a third dimension of the supernatural and the bible says that he was transfigured what he did is he took them beyond the realm of the anointing and he showed them who he really was and the bible says when they did they didn't want to build anymore they fell down as dead men because when the glory shows up there's nothing we should ever want to do god i'm i'm begging this church i'm begging my church at home let's get to the place where we're not intimidated we're not afraid we're not worried or ashamed god let your glory let your glory settle in this place because if the glo see i don't want to mess with your theology but and i don't want to confuse anybody but here's the reality you can be anointed and walk out of this room and still get tied up with sin pick up junk tomorrow but if the glory showed up the glory is going to leave behind a residue that is going to take a little while for you to forget now pastor said there was a wave that swept through here but there's about to be another wave that sweeps through here and if you just need faith i want you to begin to believe that god can touch you that god can help you that's the first dimension but then once you step through over that threshold you're going to feel the anointing of the holy ghost that's fine welcome that anointing but then just keep praying keep being hungry keep pushing and let his glory settle on your situation let his glory with your hands raised all over this place what do you need to believe god for what do you need to believe god for lord show us your glory let faith enter into this room let faith enter into every home into every situation let your anointing begin to break the yoke that so easily binds us and keeps us and ties us down but god whether it be today or it be tomorrow or it be next week we're not going to stop until your glory until your glory because you're when your glory shows up god it doesn't matter who's preaching it doesn't matter who's singing when your glory shows up we just fall as dead men show us your gl if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways see god's inviting you he's inviting you if you'll seek his face the lord the bible says no man can see his face and live what he's inviting you is invite the glory down you die out to yourself you die out to your flesh you let the glory come down i don't know who i'm preaching to right now but if god god could god could do a work in your life if you just take a little step of faith if you let the anointing i'm talking about the dimensions of the supernatural let's get off the surface let's get out of the shallow wind let's swim in deep waters right now let's believe that god is wanting to do something glorious in our midst right