Mike Bickle emphasizes the importance of partnering with Jesus in His ministry of justice, highlighting that Jesus is consumed with zeal for justice and longs for His people to share in this mission. He explains that true justice will be established through a global worship and prayer movement, as prophesied in Isaiah 42, which connects worship with the release of justice on earth. Bickle encourages believers to understand the significance of worship in moving the heart of Jesus and to actively participate in this end-time worship movement, which will ultimately lead to the second coming of Christ. He warns against false justice movements that lack allegiance to Jesus and calls for a commitment to prayer and worship as the foundation for true justice. The sermon concludes with a call to action for worship leaders and musicians to rise up and fulfill their role in this divine plan.

We ask you for the spirit of revelation. I ask you for living understanding. In Jesus' name, Amen. This is chapter 8, or session 8. We're doing a total of 14 teaching sessions. And this one, we're going to look at the subject of the justice in the end time move of God. Jesus is consumed with zeal for justice. He is consumed with zeal for his people. And he is consumed with zeal to intervene and show his heart for his people by establishing justice. But he wants us to partner with him in this ministry of justice. And so, the zeal that he has in his heart, he wants to impart to us. And the insight that he has about justice, he wants us to agree with it. So Isaiah 42 is about understanding justice from his point of view. And understanding how he feels about justice. And then receiving his zeal into our spirit so we can partner with him equally yoked in justice. Justice is one of the most important issues in God's end time plan. Jesus' end time plan is to transition the earth so that it's filled with righteousness and justice. He wants to bring justice to the fullness of expression on the earth. Isaiah prophesied more about the subject of justice than I think any other person in the Bible. He emphasized it more than any other man in the whole Bible. And Isaiah 42 is his premier prophecy on this important subject. So if you love Jesus and want to partner with him, Isaiah 42 is a very important chapter to understand. And one of the main points that Isaiah is going to make in verse 10-13 is that justice is released into the earth through the prayer and worship movement in the end times. Isaiah connects the end time worship movement with the zeal in Jesus' heart to release justice in the earth. We'll get to that point in just a few moments. We'll start in Isaiah 42 verse 1. This is the Father speaking. Behold! I have an announcement to make. It's about my servant. He is serving me, not serving himself. He is my elect one, the one I have chosen above all the men of the earth. This is how the Father announces his delight in Jesus. This man will bring justice to all the nations of the earth. The word Gentile means all the nations. This man is different than every other man. He's fully God, but he's my servant. He serves the agenda that's on my heart. Announcement! He will fill the earth with justice. He will transition planet earth into the age to come, and justice will be everywhere. He will remove all injustice from the planet. There will be no exception. He will not fail until justice is established in every city of the earth. This is a very big announcement. This, from the human point of view, is impossible to do. What man could bring justice to every single area of the entire earth? How will he do it? He will do it by the power of the Holy Spirit. But surprisingly, he will do it through his people. Not just the great political leaders, but through the worship and praying people, he will release justice. And this is one of the most surprising things about this chapter, paragraph B. The Holy Spirit is going to raise up a worldwide worship movement. And this worship movement would be so powerful, it would move the heart of Jesus at the right hand of the Father. Can you imagine anything more valuable or more precious than moving the heart of Jesus at the right hand of the Father? Do we really understand how important worship and prayer is from God's point of view? It moves God and it releases justice on the earth. Verse 10 to 13, this is one of my favorite passages on the second coming of Christ in the whole Bible. It's very surprising that Isaiah would talk about the worship movement as the key to releasing justice on the whole planet. Verse 10, sing to the Lord a new song. Sing praise songs from the ends of the earth. The people who go down to the sea, that means the islands. The people who live in the coastlands, that's the major cities of the earth. Verse 11, the wilderness, the desert regions where there's very little population. And the inhabited cities of the earth, all through the earth, the cities. All of them will be involved in singing worship songs to Jesus. And the most surprising of all, the villages of Qadar, that's in Saudi Arabia. This is an Islamic village, a very small village in Saudi Arabia. Even there, there will be a worship movement, there will be a house of prayer magnifying Jesus. The inhabitants of Salah, that's a little town in the nation of Jordan, another Islamic village. Let them sing worship songs to Jesus. I cannot wait to meet the house of prayer leader of Qadar in Salah. I don't know if he's in place yet, but the man or woman, they are going to be leading a prayer movement in that village. How would you like to be the head worship leader in that town, and your house of prayer is in the Bible? Maybe someone says, I'll move there. Well, wait till the Lord tells you to. And the most difficult of all, let them sing and shout at the top of the mountains. Then verse 13, look what happens. Verse 13 is describing the second coming of Jesus in the sky. When Jesus hears the worship songs from the villages and the mountains and the coastlands of the earth, He shall go forth. Oh, that's awesome. When Jesus goes forth and leaves the right hand of the Father, that is awesome. But when he goes forth, he won't go like a lamb, but like a mighty man of war, a lion. He shall stir up his zeal like a man of war. The worship songs in the earth stir his zeal. They move him deeply. And Isaiah describes that his zeal is stirred up to the next level. How glorious for the church, and how terrifying for the wicked. He will cry out. Yes, he will shout aloud. In a moment, we will see Jeremiah uses the word, he will roar. And he will prevail against his enemies, those who work injustice in the earth. All of those men that are stealing young girls and boys for human trafficking, Jesus will deliver them. He will defeat his enemies openly for all the nations to see. I like this description, he will cry out. Isaiah anticipates the people of God saying, cry out? What does that mean? God from heaven is going to cry out? Are you sure Isaiah that you heard that right? So he says, yes, you heard me, he's going to shout. I just love the way Isaiah said it. He will cry out, yes, you heard me right, he will shout. The question is, what will his first words be? I believe his first words that he shouts will be to the worship movement, not to the enemy. Yes, he will shout at the enemy, but that comes next. Page 138. Let's look at these areas of the earth that will be involved in the worship movement. Paragraph C. Isaiah highlights five areas in the earth that it is a challenge to build the worship movement. Each of these five areas have their own distinct challenges in order to build a fiery prayer movement and prayer ministry. And I'm using the word prayer and the word worship synonymous, I'm using them interchangeably. The first area is the islands of the earth. There are nearly 12,000 inhabited islands on the earth. Most of those islands have like third world economic conditions. It is hard to get worship equipment there. The finances are not abundant. There's not a lot of people. But in all the islands of the earth, the worship movement will come forth. This reveals how important this is to the Holy Spirit. Even the far away islands will have a worship movement. The coast lands, the biggest cities of the earth are usually next to the coast lands. Can you repeat that one more time? The biggest cities of the earth, most of them are on the coast. There are exceptions, but most of them are really close to the coast. The major population centers, the major economic centers. They have plenty of people and plenty of money. But they have a lot of sin and a lot of distraction and a lot of opposition. On the coast land cities of the earth, they will overcome the sin and distraction and there will be powerful worship movements in the coast lands. In the wilderness or the desert regions that are far away where nobody seems to be. I have people tell me, I live in a very little town and nobody wants to pray and worship. It's very hard. I tell them, hang on, hang on. Because Isaiah 42 says, in the far away little villages where nobody is at, there will be worship movements coming forth. Because Isaiah 42 says, in the far away little villages where nobody is at, there will be worship movements coming forth. Somebody says, yeah but my little town is different because we are in an Islamic nation. It's illegal to worship Jesus. We live in Qadar. It's not very far from Mecca. You can't worship Jesus so close to Mecca. Jesus is Lord over Saudi Arabia. The Holy Spirit will raise up a worship movement in Qadar, in Saudi Arabia, the little village. Okay, the most difficult of all is the mountain tops. I mean the top of the mountains. I don't mean the ski resort that's almost at the top. I mean the top of the mountains. There's no housing. There's no running water. There are no gas stations for your car to get up there. There are no roads. There's no restaurants. But there will be worship movements on the tops of the mountains across the earth. When I see this list, it makes my spirit so excited to see how committed the Holy Spirit is to the end time worship movement. There is no obstacle too big that the Holy Spirit does not have an answer for to have a worship movement in that town. But remember what the worship movement does. It moves the heart of Jesus. It stirs His zeal and He comes back at the second coming because He hears the worship sounds on the earth. Jesus doesn't come in a vacuum where nothing is happening. He comes in answer to a global worship movement. He hears the love songs and the songs of praise coming from the earth to His name. Beloved, when we sing the love songs from heaven, they are cries of war in the spirit. We love you Jesus. You are beautiful Jesus. You are glorious and wonderful. We offer songs of love, but in the spirit they become cries of war. And there's a point in time where it is globe all over the earth. It's arising to heaven. And Jesus looks at the Father. Father, do you hear my bride? She loves me. The Spirit and the bride globally, come Jesus! Come Jesus! We love you! Father, there's several billion of them! They love me! Do you hear them cry for me to come as a bride? And then at the exact moment in the will of God, He says, Go son, it is now time. Go to your bride. Beloved, the worship movement is an issue of releasing justice in the earth. I begin to ask the Lord, let me see what you see and feel what you feel when worship arises from the earth. I want to see what God sees when worship arises. Some people say, well, we will let a little music happen because the kids like music, so let's get a few instruments. I'm not talking about having worship in our intercession because the kids like it, because Jesus likes it. I'm not committed to worship because I like music and I'm a musician. I'm not a musician. I can't sing, I can't play an instrument, I can't dance. Well, I think I can, but the IHOP team won't let me do it on the platform, that's for sure. I think they're missing out on something good, but they don't agree with me. So when they say, well, you're really into music, I go, no, this isn't about being into music, this is about liking what Jesus likes coming forth from the earth. It's bigger than liking music, it's a revelation of the heart of God, that's what we're talking about. Paragraph D. Again, we're going to read verse 13 just so that you get the flow of the passage. I want to show you this isn't just a breakthrough of revival, this is actually the second coming of Christ being described here. In context, this passage is about the second coming of Jesus and the judgments of God removing the wicked oppressors of the earth. Verse 13, the Lord Jesus will go forth like a mighty man. His heart shall be stirred up with zeal like a man of war. He will cry aloud, yes, you heard me right, he will shout. Again, what does he shout, what are his first words? I don't know what they are, but I think I know the theme of what it will be. His first words will not be, enemy, you are finished, no, he says that a little later. His first words are something like this, I love you too, I see your beauty, I see the way you love me, I am coming for you. Something like that. He will shout in his zeal for us before he shouts in his zeal against the darkness. I don't know what he will say, but it will be something like, I love you, you are beautiful, I am yours, you are mine. And 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul the Apostle tells us, When the shout of God goes forth, we get raptured and transformed instantaneously into a new body. I love you, you are mine, up to the air. The trumpets are blasting. Paul said, the archangel speaks up and says, yeah, that's right, he does love you, I don't know what he says. But Gabriel gets so excited, he jumps in and throws in something. I don't know what he says, but I think it's something like, yes, he loves you more than you understand. I don't know what the angels are going to say, I have no idea, but I cannot wait. I don't know if I will be alive and hear it, or I'll be in the grave, but wherever I'm at, that shout, I'll come shooting out one way or the other. If I'm in the grave and he shouts, I'll come out saying, I knew this was real, I knew it! And maybe we'll be going up and we'll high five, glory! Right in the air together. It will probably all be different than all that, but I think about this all the time. Let's continue, verse 14. Now Jesus gives an explanation to how he's been feeling. This is Jesus talking now in verse 14, related to the second coming of Christ. He said, I have been quiet for a long, long time. I have held myself back for centuries. Now God has released his power and he has spoken his word to his servants through the centuries, that's not what he's saying. He said, I have longed for centuries to manifest how I feel in the natural realm for all the nations to see, but now it's finally come. Now he gives a very deep emotion. I will cry like a woman in labor. This is Jesus of Nazareth talking about his heart on the hour of the second coming. I will pant. I will gasp. And I will lay waste all the mountains and the hills. When God, when Jesus lays waste the mountains, that's talking about earthquakes. And in the book of Revelation 16, the great earthquake is the final bowl, is the great earthquake right before the Lord shows his glory. He will dry up the vegetation, that's the drought that is happening even in the great tribulation in Revelation chapter 11. There are several passages in the prophets where the Lord releases drought against the Antichrist. Drought, you know, no rain. Thirsty. He says, I will make the rivers coastlands. It is not good when a river becomes the coastland, that's bad. Think of a river that's 10 miles inland from the ocean and now it's the seaside, that means something really bad has happened. He's describing the judgments in the book of Revelation here in verse 15. But it's verse 14 that shows his emotion and how deeply he feels about finally appearing to the nations. The devil tells us that Jesus doesn't see our trouble and he doesn't feel it and doesn't care. Jesus says, I see the pain and the oppression against my people and the day I appear I will gasp and cry and I will show them how I felt all along about their pain. Paragraph E. I'm going to have you read that on your own, but it's Jeremiah is commenting on the same time frame of history of the second coming. He looks at the same diamond of the second coming but from a different facet, a different angle. Page 139. Paragraph G. In the middle. I want to emphasize in the end times, the subject of justice will be one of the primary themes in the spirit. The Holy Spirit will raise up a justice movement that flows out of the prayer and worship movement. But Satan is going to raise up the harlot Babylon which is a counterfeit justice movement that is not loyal to Jesus. Satan will raise up a false justice movement rooted in humanism and occultism. And many people who profess the name of Jesus will be deceived. They will take hold of the wrong worship movement. It is very important that we understand what the Bible says about the two end times justice movements. One is true and one is false. Paragraph H. This is the litmus test. Isaiah 42 gives the clearest model of what true justice flows out of. Our approach to justice must have deep allegiance and loyalty to Jesus. The false justice movement is feeding the poor and they have a false type of unity, but it's not loyal to Jesus. Don't be impressed with it. The true justice movement will be released by prayer and worship. It will operate in the power of the Holy Spirit. It will call people to believe in Jesus and to come under his leadership. There's many justice movements. They say we can't mention Jesus. We are just being nice and we don't ever say Jesus. The justice movement I'm a part of, I want to say Jesus at every opportunity that's appropriate. And I'm sure that you feel the same. And there's more characteristics to the justice movement. All in Isaiah 42. You can read that on your own. Page 140. I'm not going to read this parable because of time and because I know you're familiar with it. Jesus is making a reference to the justice movement in Isaiah 42. I believe that's what he's doing. And in the way that Isaiah said that the Messiah would have justice linked to worship, Jesus is saying the same thing in Luke 18. He says it in verse 7. He says God will release justice when prayer goes night and day. Prayer and worship. Again, this is the theme of Isaiah 42. That worship and justice, prayer and justice are deeply connected in the Spirit. Then in verse 8, he says I have a question. When I return at the time of the second coming, he's talking about the end times now. Will I have find faith in the earth? What he means by faith, will anybody on the earth be in agreement with me? Some people have misunderstood this question. He's not saying will there be anybody born again on the earth? Will there be any faith? That's not the question he's asking. Some people read this and they say see the church is going to dwindle away to a very small remnant that barely hangs on and almost nobody will make it. That's a wrong interpretation. He says when I return, will there be people on the earth who seek justice related to night and day prayer? They agree with my approach for justice. Or will they disregard the prayer part and try to do justice unrelated to the night and day prayer? Will my people approach justice my way based in night and day prayer? That's the question he's asking for the end times. We will end with paragraph J. This is my last point. Then I want to ask the Lord to touch you. The release of justice, it involves political process. There are things to do at the government level. It does involve practical works. We have to do things if justice is going to be established. But most people, even God's people, that's where they start and stop justice, political process and practical works to help people. Jesus said, but there's more. He said, I want night and day prayer to be involved with the political process and the practical works. Because the primary source of injustice is in the spirit realm. And we have to deal with injustice in the spirit realm, not just in the political and the economic realm. And the release of God's resource is an issue in the spirit realm, not just in the political realm or the economic realm. All through history, believers and unbelievers alike, they have pursued the establishing of justice on the earth without addressing the issue of injustice in the realm of the spirit. And Jesus is the man described in Isaiah 42, and he said, you can't have justice without night and day prayer and worship making a way in the spirit first. And he said, in the generation that I return, I have one question for you. Will my people agree with me on this issue? Or will they ignore Isaiah 42 and Luke 18 and pursue justice without night and day prayer being related to it? Or will they ignore Isaiah 42 and Luke 18 and pursue justice without night and day prayer being related to it? Amen. Good, I want to have our worship team come on up. I think Misty's coming. Misty, I know you're back there. Misty? She needs two minutes? Okay, but she is coming. No, I was talking to Misty. She just came because she was leading the worship set. She just came just a few minutes ago. And I said, Misty, I'm going to give you a great compliment. Misty is the most diligent person at the house of prayer. I mean, she's at the house of prayer many times, 16 hours a day for 12 years. I mean, 12 to 14 hours a day for the 12 years. And many times, many times, 16 hours a day. And so I said, she's the most diligent person at the house of prayer I know. So she walked in just before this last session. I said, Misty, I have a compliment to give you. She said, thank you, what is it? I said, I'm sure you're half Korean, I know you are. I said, you are so diligent, you're not just a white guy, you are half Korean. And she said, thank you, that is a great compliment. Misty said, thank you, that is a great compliment. You're half Korean. That's the biggest compliment I gave her this year. Let's stand. I want us to respond to the Lord and say, yes, I will agree, I want to build the worship movement. I want to ask anyone in the room that's on a worship team, or you're a musician, or a singer, or you ever have been on a worship team, I want you to come stand on these lines if you want to. I believe that the end time move of God is going to be led by the singers and musicians. I know many of you, you don't feel like you're that good, you don't feel that powerful. But I tell you, you are very important to God's end time worship and prayer, I mean, to the move of God in the earth. So I'm going to ask for the spirit of prophecy to touch your spirit. That you would sing the new songs from heaven, even with a greater measure than you ever have before. That he would give you the melodies of heaven, the songs of heaven, and you would begin to play them at a new measure than ever before. Now I'm going to ask any pastors in the room, or any people that are leading in prayer ministries, you're part of the leadership team of a prayer ministry, if you would come up and help me pray for people. So if you help lead in a prayer ministry back home, or you're a pastor anywhere, come on up and help me lay hands. And I'm going to ask everybody that's on IHOP staff in this room, come on up and help us. We're going to ask the Lord to release the songs of heaven and the melodies of heaven into their spirit. So Misty's going to sing in English, and every now and then say a phrase, just very slightly, hear them. Let's get Misty here. And pour out your Spirit on the singers and musicians. Release your glory, Lord. For such a time as this, release your glory, God. Release your love songs, Lord. Release the love songs of heaven. Awake, awake, the song of the Lord. Rise up Korea and sing. Oh mighty man of David, rise and sing the love song to God. Oh mighty man of David, rise and sing the love song to God. Rise, mighty man of David, sing the love song to Korea. Oh mighty man of David, rise and sing the love song to Korea. Oh mighty man of David. Oh mighty woman, sing the songs of God's heart in Korea. Open your mouth and prepare the way, prepare the way, prepare the way of the Lord. Handmaiden to the Lord, sing the love songs in Korea. Oh, oh, but I have held my peace for a long, long, long, long time. I've been praying for Korea, she is mine, she is mine. I've been praying for Korea, she is mine, she is mine. Prepare the way of the Lord with a song. Awake, awake, oh mighty man of David, rise. Awake. Oh sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing. Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing