Please Take Your Seat: His Show Is About to Begin. The Flight Deck 5-14-2026

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``You see, part of what the enemy's strategy to just skip over the ascension is to pull this awareness out of you and have everybody live with the mission of Jesus but without the position. And without the position, you can't really access the power. He did not say, all authority in heaven and earth has been given unto me. Therefore, just try to survive until I come back. Go and make disciples. It was LA Joyner, I think, I heard this phrase. Jesus never intended his church to have his work without his power. And unfortunately, church in large part goes out there to try to do his work without the power or the position. [00:20:26] (59 seconds)  #MissionWithoutPosition Download clip

And I think that's all been part of the strategy of the enemy because if you can take out that leg of the ascension and take out it's connected to this leg of the Holy Spirit. Because if the ascension doesn't happen, the spirit isn't released, just so we're clear. So, you know, I always go, I spend a lot of time with the Lord and then I I get in Friday morning, no matter what I've sent out in the ping or anything else, sit down and go, okay, guy, what's the one thing? And he just kinda has fun messing with me. And so this is I won't give you the exact words but this is what it boiled down to. The vav of Jesus was only complete when he ascended and sat down in the heavenlies and he that created the conduit of holy spirit movement from heaven to earth. [00:11:00] (49 seconds)  #AscensionReleasesSpirit Download clip

of taking your seat, then I want you to go after it. because that's the trigger. Right? The ascension is the trigger for the Holy Spirit to have his power. You get this? Mission, position, power. Part of the problem with the church is we jump from the mission to the power. And because we don't have this position, we'll use it for our own benefit And that's why there's been so much blowback [00:43:44] (60 seconds)  #PositionUnlocksPower Download clip

I need you to get this. It's not just See, I've been showing you these spikes, what began to show me is that was a conduit of connection. There was a connection there that allowed a flow for things to go because it created the conduit of our being seated with him yet walking in the earth. Hello? The completed vav forms the conduit. It opens a channel. I got thinking about this phrase, open a channel of communications. Any of you watch Star Trek? Open a channel. What that means, a channel of communications. Right? It's it's a way of doing that. But it's really about there was opening a communion. So this opened a channel of communication, but it opened a communion, a connection, a transition point. Is this making sense? I had never thought of a valve as being a conduit like that. So we have his mission like we just talked about. His birth, resurrection crucifixion, resurrection. But then we also have to gain his position and then his power and they're both linked to the ascension. [00:11:49] (67 seconds)  #AscensionOpensChannel Download clip

is that kinda light you up a little bit though? Come on. Yes. I mean, just would it have been helpful for somebody just very simply to say, by the way, here's the benefits when Jesus died for you. Here's the benefits when he was raised for you. And by the way, here's the benefits when he ascended. You would have gone, woah. Okay. Because frankly, John MacArthur was right. His most magnanimous gifts was when he left. Because that's when he went before us. That's when he got the seat. That's when he started your house. That's when he intercedes with the father. That's when So I wanna say, please take your seat because this show is about to begin. Because all this thing with the Ascension, we're getting ready then for Pentecost when things break open. But the issue is is that we have to choose to ascend. Okay? Hello? [00:31:55] (55 seconds)  #TakeYourSeat Download clip

But bottom line, I think there's a demonic strategy involved with trying to unhinge all of these major connections when heaven and earth are boom like this. And so what he does, he waters down the birth of Jesus with Santa and gifts. He waters down the crucifixion resurrection with the Easter bunny. And basically, he just has us skip by the ascension. And suddenly, it's like all those important connections. And here's what's critical because and if you sit on a three legged stool? Yeah. Works works pretty good. Okay? Here's the question. The crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension. Which is the most important leg? Well, the reality is it's a three legged stool if you remove one of them. Mhmm. And so, many are trying to actually sit on a two legged stool. [00:09:04] (59 seconds)  #DontSkipTheAscension Download clip

Because if he put that, he time stamped it so we pay attention in our time. There's gotta be something he's saying. And then all of these things are not simply dates to remember historically, because that's what a lot of people do. Oh, don't you remember back the 07/04/1776. Right? It's gonna be but in there, it's a memory of things. You can remember back to specific things. Memory, you know, someone's son's birthday or something, but it's we go back and it's historical assessment, okay, and we celebrate that. And it was back there and we're we may be glad it was or wasn't back there, but it's sort of settled. God doesn't do it that way. Right? If he's put something in there, it's because he's bringing it up now because these are transaction times. [00:02:47] (41 seconds)  #CompleteTheGospel Download clip

we have a gospel. Right? You have a gospel, you have a mission. But what's very interesting is it's not completed yet. It's not completed yet, and yet it's so much like the story ends there. As long as you believe that he was born, he was crucified and raised again, it stops there. But what's interesting is all the historical creeds in the church, the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, make sure they have in there, and he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. But we just kinda and I gotta you know, because of that and because the significance we'll connect it to through here, I ask again, which is the most important leg? Father, Son, or Holy Spirit? And yet again, the reality is that a bulk of the church is trying to sit on a two legged stool. It's the father, son, and the silent partner. [00:10:04] (55 seconds)  #AccessToTheKing Download clip

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