Peter Roselle: Jesus Pulls Us Higher
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 19/09/2019

Pastor Peter speaks from Matthew 21:28-31, where Jesus told the Pharisees the parable of the disobedient son. Jesus concluded by telling the Pharisees, “tax collectors and prostitutes are going into the  Kingdom of God ahead of you.” That should be a wake-up call for all of us today about the toxic effects of religious pride. The Pharisees were leaning on their own understanding, proud of their superior intellect and elevating themselves above the common person Jesus sought to save. Jesus beautifully modeled a life fully surrendered and yielded to the Lord. Each day we can ask Him to take us higher into His presence. Not matter how long we’ve served Him, there will always be another level higher he can take us. He disarms the power of our carnal instincts that try to lead us into sin and the  remnants of our human nature that tempt us to walk in pride.

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Similar to Peter in the boat saying, “Lord
depart from me I'm a sinful man,” was the
people when they came across the lake
after the storm and they met the
demoniac, remember?
Jesus cast out the Legion of demons that
were in him and suddenly the man was in his right mind.
When the people of the region saw him healed
they asked Jesus to leave.
Why would they do that?
Shouldn't they have emptied out
the psych ward and said, “Look if you
could do it for that guy then all these
other people can be healed too,” right?
But they couldn't grasp what was happening,
it was too big of a shift.
Instead, they told him to leave because 
their pigs were dead. Selah
Sometimes we want to hold on to our pigs.
Luke 8:37 says, “people of the Gerasene district
Asked him to leave them, for they had been
seized with great fear.” It was too
unusual, it was too out of the ordinary.
What I'm saying is, we're praying for God to move among us,
but sometimes Jesus would tell a story that
was difficult to understand so they would mentally check out.
Later and they would say, “Can you explain to us what the parable means?”
In the parable of the sower, Jesus warned of the
deceitfulness of riches.
Here in America we live in first-world country, we’re prosperous
and we can easily fall victim to the deceitfulness of riches.
When Trisha and I were in
Mozambique, that was not one of their problems.
They were very, very poor, just wondering about
They were not caught up than the deceitfulness of riches.
They had a different battle that they were facing.
We have to recognize our regional territorial spirits
Our comfort can almost be our biggest enemy when it comes to
staying hungry for God. 
So, Jesus told this parable to the
Pharisees Matthew 21:28-31,
“Yeshua said to him I tell you that the
tax collectors and prostitutes are going
into the kingdom of God ahead of you.”
The Pharisees may have said, “Come again Jesus?
We're the Pharisees! We like our pigs!”
They we're leaning on their own understanding.
They knew the Scriptures better than everyone else, but they were arrogant.
These prostitutes and tax collectors were
getting into the kingdom ahead of the Pharisees.
Their intellect had become idol. 
Another risk of our culture is that we're not humbled by the
Word of God. We look at it and read it 
and think we know what it all means, that 
there's nothing more for me to know.
But “to you it has been given to know the
mystery of the kingdom of God.” (Mark 4:11)
In Psalms 19:7 it says,
“The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”
You don't need to be informed in all the
details to make good decisions.
Our education must be subservient to
the will of God.
There is a stronghold here in the New York Region
of this intellectual version of Christianity that is trying to normalize sin.
In this picture you see Jesus reaching down to lift us higher.
The Apostle Paul who, before his conversion, served
under Gamaliel, had all the head knowledge.
But Jesus said, “I want to take you up to another level now.
I'm going to give you a different lens to look at the Word through.”
Every one of us here should say, “Yes,