Peter Roselle: Aim Higher with Your Spoken Words (Ephesians 6:17)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 04/03/2023

Peter Roselle: Aim Higher with Your Spoken Words (Ephesians 6:17)
Peter speaks at King of Kings Worship Center on 1/22/2023. Quotes: “Ephesians 6:13, it says, "Take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day." Is this an evil day? I'll start with easy questions. That's pretty easy to figure out, isn't it? Verse 17 says, "And the sword of the Spirit which is the word." and the word for word there is rhema. The Greek word, “rhema,” often refers to the spoken words of God whether it be through Jesus, the prophets, the apostles I'll say, or you and me. It's a word of God in season. It's God's word spoken through his people.”

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Last week I spoke about, "We were once darkness and now we are light in the Lord." Then the last part of it says, "Aim Higher." This week is connected to that idea of aiming higher with our spoken words. Because we do a lot of communication verbally, but we also do a lot of communication non-verbally. You all know that, right? Anybody who has had any training in psychology, knows that the majority of our communication is non-verbal.

It's the look in our eyes, it's if we're looking at our watch or not, if we're in a hurry, if we're rolling our eyes... it's usually not a good sign to the other person. So what does God think? He thinks you're here for a reason and I'm here for a reason. One of those reasons is to see lives changed as they accept the kingship of Christ over their life.

I say this often too... He didn't say, "Go you therefore, and make converts." He said, "Go you therefore, and make disciples." [Matthew 28:19] There is a really big difference between a convert and a disciple. A disciple is somebody who is continually staying hungry and wanting to be more like Christ every day. That's our definition of it. So aiming higher, that's for all of us. Aiming higher means asking, "Was there anything I did today that was not like Christ?" But also, "Am I doing better today than I was yesterday on my mission of being more like him?

What are we doing with the spoken words of our mouth? That's the theme today. Then I said, "Fearlessly proclaim the gospel..." because I love that expression. Paul uses it twice in Ephesians chapter six and you also know that the armor of God... hopefully if you've been around a while, you know that is a chapter, Ephesians 6, where we list the armor of God... and the sword of the Spirit is... "the word of God." Yes! You all went to Sunday school, so you know that one!

So we'll get there, but today we're going to talk more about the sword of the Spirit. As the weeks go by, we can talk as the Lord is leading us about other parts of the armor. So in Ephesians 6:13, it says, "Take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day." Is this an evil day? I'll start with easy questions. That's pretty easy to figure out, isn't it? Verse 17 says, "And the sword of the Spirit which is the word." and the word for word there is rhema.

Does anybody know what rhema means? Anybody here? There's a college out in Oklahoma the Kenneth Hagin founded called Rhema, and revelation is the common understanding of it. But there is more to it. See, because rhema often refers to the spoken words of God whether it be through Jesus, the prophets, the apostles I'll say, or you and me. It's a word of God in season. It's God's word spoken through his people. Which is why I've said it ties into the prophetic conference that we're doing because you might not be called to be a prophet in title but you are called to be prophetic.

The world would call that intuition. They would call it, "I had a hunch, I had a sense about something." It's also called discernment. Holy Spirit will increase your discernment. Okay, do you believe that? Yeah, and why wouldn't we want more of that? You have the Spirit of God inside; you have a furnace because the Bible says that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit and that there's a fire in the Holy of Holies there's a fire. So that fire inside of you is burning whether you know it or not. You can fan the flame, you can increase that fire or you can let it dwindle down but you are the temple now and you want to keep sharpening all of these skills not because you want a great name in the church.

This is the great name in the church, servant. But the currency of the kingdom is lives that are changing. So how many lives change because you brought the kingdom to people. It's unlimited amount. I mean, people telling us they're watching from all over the world.