Mike Bickle emphasizes the vital role of the Holy Spirit in the end-time church, highlighting the church's need to embrace its bridal identity and engage in intercession. He explains that the Spirit and the Bride will cry out for Jesus to come, reflecting a deep unity and urgency for His return. Bickle outlines a fourfold revelation of Jesus that awakens the church to its mission and identity, urging believers to align with the Spirit's intercessory work. He asserts that this prophetic call is crucial for the church to experience a powerful breakthrough and victory in the midst of spiritual conflict. Ultimately, the message is about cultivating an active intimacy with Jesus as the Bridegroom, leading to a transformative relationship with God.

Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus for the Word of God. And Lord, we ask you to release the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation. In Jesus' name, amen. We'll talk about the end-time church, fully engaged, fully anointed with the Holy Spirit. And that's the subject of the great prophecy that ends the book of Revelation, and therefore, it ends the written Word of God. It's in Revelation chapter 22. And the prophecy begins in verse 12 when Jesus says, Behold, I am coming quickly. I am coming, which is the theme of the book of Revelation. I am coming. I'm coming in power as a king to take over the world. I am coming. Verse 16, Jesus gives a fourfold revelation of his heart. And I don't want to go off on that, but this fourfold revelation is a significant part of the bride of Christ being awakened in her bridal identity. It may not seem apparent at a casual reading, but these four dimensions that Jesus speaks about himself leads to the bride crying out in her bridal identity, Come, Lord Jesus. Jesus says, I am, number one, the root of David. Number two, I am the offspring of David. Number three, I'm the bright star. And number four, I'm the morning star. Four things. And I talk about them just real briefly at the end of the notes, but I just want to point out that fourfold revelation. Verse 17, which is the heart of what we're looking at tonight, this is a prophecy. The spirit, the anointing of the Holy Spirit will be resting on the church, and the church will be in a bridal identity. The spirit and the bride, or another way you could say it, the spirit on the bride will be crying out. The spirit in the bride, under, releasing the presence of God, crying out to Jesus, Come, Come. The Holy Spirit's crying, Come, Lord Jesus. The bride's crying, Come, Lord Jesus. Verse 20, Jesus answers this cry. He says, Surely, you can be sure I'm coming in power. I'm coming in victory. In power is the idea. Because the message of the book of Revelation highlights the conflict in the spirit that is manifest in the natural. There's a great conflict at the end of the age. Of course, the conflict is throughout all of church history, and before as well, but there's a great conflict that is emphasized in the book of Revelation, and that conflict produces a praying church with a bridal identity. And the church, when she understands this conflict, when she's touched by it, she begins to have a new urgency. Come, break in power. The cry to come means release power and bring victory. That's the essence of it. A breakthrough of power, a breakthrough of victory, a breakthrough of your presence, and Jesus answers in verse 20, Surely, I promise you, I promise you I will come in power. I will come in breakthrough. I will come in victory. And then after Jesus says, Surely, I am coming in power and breakthrough and victory is the idea. I'm going to do it quickly. Then John the apostle, he's the one that jumps into prayer. Even so, come. I mean, he like lays the pen down, and he begins to cry out, Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. That cry, Come, Lord Jesus, is the cry of the church, but John is actually praying it as an individual right there, and he records his prayer, and that's the prayer the Holy Spirit's going to awaken in all of us. The cry to come, again, it's a cry for the breaking in of God's power and God's victory in the midst of the conflict that is described in the book of Revelation. Roman numeral one, this is the most important prophecy for the end-time church. I've studied prophecy, end-time prophecy, fairly energetically for some time now, and I can say with certainty, this is the most important. This is the most informative prophecy. It gives us more information. There are more implications on this prophecy than any other prophecy that I know of about the end times, in terms of just a sentence or two. The implications are vast. And at a casual reading, they may not appear to be vast, but there are many, many implications to your life and my life to this prophecy. Paragraph A, this is one of the most informative, most significant prophecies in the Bible describing the end times. John is telling us, as the church, he's telling us about our future. He's telling us specifically what's going to happen just before the Lord returns, and I believe that's in this generation. This prophecy is describing the church in deep unity with the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is on the church. The Holy Spirit's in the church. The Holy Spirit's moving in power. And notice this sentence here, the church is saying and doing what the Holy Spirit is saying and doing. What is the Holy Spirit doing? In this verse, the Holy Spirit's interceding, come Lord Jesus. People ask me all the time, I'm sure many of us talk about, we ask one another, what's the Spirit saying? What's the Spirit doing? And there could be several answers to what the Spirit's saying, what the Spirit's doing, but I assure you one thing, the Spirit's highest priority is to cry out, come Lord Jesus, and to find a people that will cooperate with that cry, that would partner with him in the cry, come in power, come in victory, break in, break in, break in in power. That's what the Holy Spirit has on his heart right now. The Holy Spirit is an intercessor. Not just during this time of history, the Holy Spirit will be interceding as Jesus will be interceding, as the church will be interceding. Throughout eternity, God's government is ran through intercession by his people agreeing with his heart and then proclaiming his heart back to him. And in the very process of proclaiming his heart, our heart gets changed, our heart gets transformed and connected to God. I mean, a billion years from now, we will still be operating in intercession. We will be governing, governing, you can say two words at once. Anyway, we'll be ruling, and the way that we'll be doing it is the same way Jesus will. We'll be standing before the Father, speaking to the Father, his own words and his own decrees. And as we do it, those words will grab ahold of our hearts. Those words will join us to one another. They'll join us to God. They will empower our spirits. Intercession is a way where God grabs the inner man of his people while he's releasing power through them. It's absolutely brilliant. That's what the Spirit's doing right now. He's interceding. B, this will be the first time in history that the church worldwide is doing and saying the same thing the Spirit is doing and saying. Right now, that's not even close to true worldwide. Right now, the church is mostly doing something and saying something other than what the Spirit's doing and saying, particularly the church in the West. We have so many agendas that are not priorities to the Holy Spirit. But before it's over, before the Lord returns, there's going to be a dynamic unity. It's going to be the first time in history, except for, you know, right there at the Day of Pentecost, for a few minutes on the Day of Pentecost, maybe a few years is what I mean by a few minutes. But ever so brief, the Spirit, a very small church of some thousands of believers, was in unity. The church was in unity with the Spirit. But after that, the church has been out of sync with the Holy Spirit for 2,000 years. But there's good news. And this really impacts our lives. We, globally, as the church, will be in sync with the Spirit. We will be saying what He's saying and doing what He's doing, and we'll be doing it in unity with Him and therefore in unity with one another. And it's going to be a full release of power. Full release of power. The Spirit will be resting on the church, moving through the church. And the Spirit will rest on the church more and more as we grow in our bridal identity. See, this prophecy, the prophecy, the Spirit and the Bride Say Come, where, you know, all of chapter 22, I mean, most of it is connected to this prophecy, describes the highest function of the church in four ways. I've said it, but I just want to say it again. Just say it, one, two, three, four. Number one, the Spirit and the Bride Cry and Come means the anointing of the Spirit is on the church. The church is under the anointing of the Spirit. The church is flowing in the Holy Spirit. The implications of that are awesome. That's not happening much right now, but it's going to change. Again, this is the most significant prophecy for our lives. This is going to happen, and we want to partner with the Holy Spirit. Number two, this prophecy tells us the church will be engaged in intercession. Right now, intercession, it's growing worldwide. It's growing fast, but it's still, though it's growing fast, it's grown from about 1% of the church to maybe 10%, which is very, very fast growth. But still, the majority of the church is completely disconnected to intercession. But before the Lord returns, the entire church, the entire church will be gripped with the spirit of intercession. Not a few prayer warriors, you know, on the church, basement on Wednesday night, I'm talking about the whole body of Christ, will be gripped with intercession, engaged in it. That's why we want to, that's why, that's one reason, of course, there's other reasons as well, that we want to begin to give ourselves to it now. We want to be in the flow of what God's doing. That's, this is what he's doing. He'll be crying, come, through a people who are cooperating with him in the church. The people will be crying, come Lord Jesus, come Lord Jesus. The third thing this prophecy tells us, that we'll be, when we cry out, come Lord Jesus, we'll be crying out with a bridal identity. We will see ourselves differently than the church has seen herself through history. We'll have a different view of Jesus and a different view of ourselves. I mean, it's in the word of God, not different than the word of God, but different than what church history has understood Jesus to be. Church history has understood that he is a forgiver of our sins. And that is fantastic. I love that. I never weary of the message of God forgiving me and God forgiving you. That is fantastic. But he's more than one who justifies us by faith. He is a passionate bridegroom who has fiery desire for you and I. And number four, the church will be effective in bringing in a vast in-gathering of souls from all the nations. Because we'll find out in a minute, the church, the spirit of the bride saying, come first to Jesus, but the spirit of the bride is also saying, come to the world, calling them to come to Jesus. So the cry come starts at intercession, but it ends in proclamation. We will be effective. We will be anointed. We will be engaged in intercession and we will be established in our bridal identity. You can absolutely count on this prophecy coming to pass in the church before the Lord returns. So as individuals, we're saying, how do I line up with this? Am I anointed with the spirit? Ooh, okay, not so much. Am I engaged with intercession? I'm gonna be. Am I established in my bridal identity? I bought the book. Am I effective in the harvest? Not yet. So we're looking, all of us, all of us, we're looking at those four things going, hmm, I'm not fully in sync yet, but I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be. Lord, now I know the direction. I have the roadmap. I know what you're doing. I wanna get in sync with this. Because most believers that you and I know are not in sync with these four things. D, what is the spirit saying? I already mentioned that, but again, my gift is repetition. So I'll say it again. What is the spirit saying? This is the primary. It's not the only thing on God's heart, but at Revelation 22, this passage is the primary thing on God's heart. I wanna say that strong. It is, I wanna say it unapologetically. This is the primary thing, not the only thing that the Holy Spirit is emphasizing in the generation the Lord returns. To get the church under the anointing, in intercession, in a bridal identity, and then proclaiming it to the nations what she proclaims and discovers at intercession. Let's go to Roman numeral two. What is the bridal message? I'm gonna give just the briefest summary, but my desire, my prayer is that you would be able to just review these notes a little bit. If this is new to you, and in a short amount of time, you would at least be able to answer the question very succinctly. If someone goes, what's the bridal message? This is not comprehensive. This is a summary overview of it. And again, it's an easy, it's easy to understand. There's more to it if we're gonna encounter it in an ongoing way, but it's my desire that everybody that's a part of this ministry, whether visiting or whatever, could be able to give this answer quickly and efficiently and effectively to somebody saying, I don't get, what is the bridal message? Because we cry, come to Jesus, and then we proclaim it to people. Hey, we talk much about the bridal paradigm. That's a phrase we use a lot in our mission space, the bridal paradigm of the kingdom. The word paradigm, if that's a new word to you, just means perspective in essence. It's a bridal perspective, a bridal view of the kingdom of God. Thus, we could refer, we could say the bridal view of the kingdom if we wanted to. In other words, we're talking about seeing the kingdom through the eyes, seeing the kingdom of God through the eyes of a wholehearted bride with loyal love. When we begin to see how the kingdom works, the great empire of God works, and we see it through the eyes of wholehearted, loyal love from him and back to him, then we are beginning to be established in the bridal paradigm. That is the bridal paradigm, to view the kingdom through the eyes of a bride wholehearted in love. We view the king through the eyes of a bride. We review the mandate to disciple the nations through the lens of a bride with loyal love. It changes everything when we view the scriptures and the kingdom and the king himself through this lens. B, the Holy Spirit for the first time in history, will universally emphasize the church's spiritual identity as a bride. This has never happened in history before, where the Holy Spirit has emphasized it universally. There's always been, you know, a small group of people and on whom the Holy Spirit has emphasized this, but this isn't going to be a small group of people kind of over a monastery somewhere in the middle ages. The entire church worldwide, everybody is going to be in this emphasis. Holy Spirit's going to emphasize it universally everywhere. The scripture doesn't prophesy that it's the spirit of the family crying, come, it doesn't say the spirit of the family of God say, come, we are the family of God and we are forever. And that's awesome. It doesn't say the spirit in the army. We are the army of God. It doesn't say the spirit in the kingdom, the spirit of the body. It doesn't say the spirit of the temple. It doesn't say the spirit of the priesthood. It says the spirit and the bride, the church in a bridal identity is the point. And we will forever be the family of God and the kingdom of God, the temple of God, the body of Christ. Those are, that's part of our identity forever. But there's, and these dimensions of our spiritual identity have been emphasized through history, but never has there been a time where the Holy Spirit has emphasized our bridal identity, except for one time, the generation the Lord returns. One, actually one of the signs of the times is around the world. There's a new awareness. It's a brand new reality. The last 10, 10 years or so, there's always been again, the one guy or one gal through, you know, just real exceptional that has carried this message. But there are, there are worship songs. There are hundreds of worship songs about affection and bridal love and the Jesus of bridegroom being written and sang. Although books and seminars and conferences as a person that pays attention to the signs of the times, this is clearly a prophetic sign. It's a new reality in the body of Christ. It's a new awareness that has never existed. Now, the reason I'm pointing this out, you want to be in the middle of what God's doing and you do. You want to grow in bridal, your bridal identity. You want to learn it, feel it, experience it. And you want to bring others into it. And you want to do it through the, through a lifestyle of fasting and prayer and worship through a heart that's crying. Come Lord Jesus. So it's not just the bridal identity, but it's the bridal identity that is engaged in intercession. And obviously I'm, you know, preaching to the choir. You wouldn't be sitting in this room if that's not what you're interested in. Certainly the vast majority, if not every one of you, you're saying, yeah, that's what I'm signing up for. That's why I'm sitting here right now. But as a individual believer, I want to give myself to what Revelation 22, 17 says. As young people that are here, I'm thinking of our teen track, 15, 16, 17, 18, whatever you want to give yourself in these early days of your life to these four things that I mentioned here, getting in the anointing, bridal paradigm, learning how to flow in intercession and learning how to proclaim Jesus as a bridegroom to the lost. Okay, let's go to Roman numeral three. Well, no, you know what? I got to go to C. I was going to skip C, but second thought, let's go back to C. I mentioned it, but I just feel like maybe I need to emphasize it a moment. I met in his 90s, in his 90s. He's on the island of Patmos writing. He's had the book of Revelation given to him in open visions. And what it does, it thrusts him into prayer. This encounter of seeing Jesus as a bridegroom coming back with the end time truths. He saw the end time battle and he saw Jesus as a bridegroom. He, he lays his pen down, so to speak, and he begins that minute to give himself, come, break it in power, victory, come. The thing has an impact on John right there as he's writing. My point is this, you fill your spirit with the revelation of Jesus as a bridegroom. You tell your friends, you tell those that you're ministering to about Jesus as a bridegroom. You tell them about the message of the book of Revelation and Jesus as the bridegroom, and it will produce an urgent cry of even so come. It produces prayer. People visit a lot. They say, hey, we want to do one of these IHOPs back home. I go, okay, what's your plan? And more times than not, they talk about the building they're going to get. I go, that's good. You got to have a building. I mean, you know, that's good to get one. And then they talk about the schedule. And I go, that's good too. But I said the, the most challenging part of doing a 24-hour prayer ministry isn't the building of the schedule, though those are necessary. It's, it's not even the people. It's what's in the heart of the people. It's not just a bunch of people in the room taking turns doing worship sets. That's critical. But I go, it's more than that. What's in their heart? Is there a cry, even so come, if it's not in their spirit, how are you going to work together in the grace of God to awaken that cry in them? And more times than not, I'm being a little, you know, ornery because I know they haven't thought about that. I didn't either, to be honest, till I got half, you know, right in the middle of this thing. It kind of dawned on me as I was already, you know, fully involved in it. So I'm just assuming they haven't really thought much about it. And they go, huh, I don't know. I go, how are you going to produce and sustain in them the cry of the urgency? Come, because a building with a schedule and singers, but without a cry, come Lord Jesus in their spirit is a really lethargic house of prayer. How are you going to, how are you going to sustain that in your prayer meetings back home? I said, well, I don't know. I said, I can tell you, I can tell you for sure. The thing that awakened John right here to prayer, the thing that moved him to prayer is the thing that will move us to prayer. Show them the end time conflict and the assurance of our victory and show them Jesus as a bridegroom. It's interesting that the spirit of the bride crying come is at the end of the book of Revelation. It's not at the end of the book of Acts or the end of the book of Gospel of John. This thing was produced by the message of the book of Revelation. It's not this isn't how the book of Acts ends. Even so come Lord Jesus. It's not how the book of Isaiah ends. It's not how any book ends besides the book of Revelation. Because the book of Revelation, the conflict with certain victory and Jesus is a bridegroom. It's the combination of eschatology in times and intimacy. It's the combination of the two that produces the cry in the hearts of the people. That's why every Friday night we do intimacy. And every Saturday night we do eschatology because of this passage right here. I've I've framed out our Friday and Saturday nights because of Revelation 22. Because of this passage right here. John cried even so come. And if I want to see the IHOP community cry even so come have urgency. They have to encounter a bridegroom and they have to encounter the understand the conflict that is coming and the certainty of our victory in the midst of it. They have to have understanding of it. Because it make it completely changes our view of life. Those two things, the bridegroom and the coming conflict and our victory in it. We don't want to end up in despair. You got to share the conflict in a way that brings us to a clear understanding of our victory. Okay, let's go now to Roman number three. What is the bridegroom message? Again, it's very simple, but my desire here is that you would be able to say this in a short amount of time from now. Maybe not by the end of the night. And maybe some of you could take this and go down to the IHOP afterwards. Is that 10 p.m. set is going with Misty and her team and just study this and just sit there and journal and write and say, I'm going to get this down. I'm going to learn this. What is the bridegroom message? It speaks of our call to experience the deep things of God's heart. When I talk about God's heart, I'm talking about God's emotions. I'm talking about God's desires, God's thoughts. God has many thoughts. King David said that a lot. He says, God, you're. He says, your thoughts towards me are numerous. He says, your thoughts towards me are very deep. They're numerous and they're deep. God has many thoughts towards you. And he has very deep ones towards you. And we want to know God's thoughts. We want to know his emotions. We want to know what his desires are towards us. Changes everything. Thus to enjoy active intimacy with Jesus. That's what the bridegroom message is. It's really it's an active intimacy. It's not just a doctrine of intimacy, but there's an active movement of our heart. It's God's heart is moving. Our heart is moving, and they're connecting on an ongoing basis. It's an active intimacy. All intimacy is active. But I just I like that phrase because it points to the ever moving heart of God. God's heart is always full of life. It's always full of desire. And our heart needs to be encountering it. The power of it and then giving ourselves back to God, our heart being expressed back. So there's an active two way flow that's happening throughout our lives. It's an active intimacy. So what is the bridegroom message? It's enjoying active intimacy with Jesus's heart, feeling his heart, experiencing his heart. That's the essence of the bridal message. First Corinthians chapter two, verse 10. It says here that the spirit searches all things. What a powerful verse. The Holy Spirit is pictured by Paul as searching. Another word you could put there is the word discerning. The spirit is discerning. All things he's talking about the heart of God, the father. He's searching out God, the father's heart. Now that's a odd concept to me that God is searching God. So I think of it as the word discerning. He's discerning the father. And it says he discerns all things. He searches all things. Yes, because Paul is anticipating somebody going, what? He goes, yes. Yes, you're understanding me. He goes, even the deep things, the deepest things of God's heart. The spirit is searching the deepest things of the father's heart. Why? So that he would give them to us. Beloved, can you fathom? I certainly can't. But can you fathom? The implications of the spirit searching the deepest feelings of God to give them to you. So that you would know them and the word know in the New Testament is the word experience. You would, you would know by experience. You would know and feel them and go. Oh, I am yours. Oh God, this is the essence of our humanity to receive and feel the power and then give ourselves back to the God who loves us. That's the, that's the essence of humanity. That's the glory of humanity. It's the reason that's the point of our existence is this. I want to read this verse again. The spirit searches all things. Yes, even the deep things of God, the deep things of God's heart. And why? We have received these things. We have received the Holy Spirit so that we could know these things that have been freely given by God. Paul says later in Ephesians 3, 18, that you may be able to comprehend the depth. That's the phrase that we look at the deep things. You would be able to comprehend by the anointing, the deep things of, of the love of God. I want to just focus on the word deep, the deep things of God's love, his affection. Instead of the word of love, put the word affection. God wants you by the spirit to know, to experience the deep things. He wants your heart on fire. He wants your heart ravished and lovesick because he's lovesick. This is the power of the end time prayer movement is the bridal identity. Says here in Psalm 92, your thoughts are very deep. And it's not just God's plans are very deep. That's included in here. His plans for governing the universe. He has very intricate plans that are all thought through. That's what end times is all about. The eschatology, the teaching on the end times is that we're, we're tapping in a little bit to the reality. God's thought through his entire plan. His thoughts are deep. They're fully thought through. There's many levels, but it's more than just his, his, his plans are thought are deep. His thoughts beyond that, the, what he thinks about you. And again, Psalm 40, when David says that God's thoughts towards us are the multitude of those thoughts. There are many, many, many thoughts he has towards us. Paul talks about this idea. And he goes, Oh, he's overwhelmed. He goes, Oh, the depth of the wealth, the riches, the wealth, the riches of the knowledge of God. In other words, the knowledge of God's heart. Paul goes, the, the wealth of knowing what God's thinking, the wealth of it, the wealth, the riches that you and I have. When we have a little bit of knowledge of what's in God's heart. This is the most neglected wealth in all of human history. It's the riches of the knowledge of God. It's wealth that is neglected even in the church. It's wasted wealth in terms of our experience. That wealth could be enriching our life. It's riches that greatly impact us. And the riches is what God's thinking. And it's not just what he's thinking about the future of the earth. That's awesome. What he's thinking about you now and in the future. Beloved, that's a wealth. That's a, that's a, a, a, a riches. We do not want to neglect or waste. We want to live in the power of that. Even now, don't we be as sons of God? We are in the position positions, the key phrase to experience God's throne as heirs of his power, his authority. We are all sons of God, men and women. We experience, we are in a position to experience God's throne. We are heirs of his power. But as the bride, we're in an experience position to experience his heart. Not his throne, his heart. Both as sons of God and the bride of Christ, they are unique positions of privilege. When someone says, what's this bride of Christ thing? You say it is a unique position of privilege that only humans have. Angels do not have this privilege. It's far beyond what God gives the angels. We have two different, big, big categories of privilege. As sons, we have access to his throne. As the bride, we have access to his heart. And beloved, we want both of them to the fullest degree that we can experience them. In this age, which is only a little bit, but still a little bit, really will change us. And we want the fullness of what he'll let us experience of his throne and his heart in the age to come. See, women are sons of God. Men are the bride of Christ. They describe a position of privilege. That's the key idea. And the reason you want to know that is because of D. Is that the reason you want to understand this position of privilege is that most women, believers that I know, they don't struggle with the idea of being sons of God. You know, women are go, oh, I'm just not into that son of God thing. That's kind of weird. Sons of God. I'm a girl. And why don't they struggle with it? Because they don't see it as a call to be less feminine. They don't see the call to be sons of God is something that minimizes their womanhood. But on the other side, men often, not all men, and there's many, many that are connecting with the truth of this. They struggle with the idea of being the bride of Christ. Because they wrongly conclude it undermines their masculinity or their manhood. Women don't think that being sons of God undermines their womanhood. But men do think that being the bride, because they don't know it's a position of privilege. They don't know it's about having access to God's heart. If you ask them, what is it? They think, I don't know, you know, get a dress, I guess. I don't know. You know, it's like some years ago, we started having bride of Christ conferences. And the first people that would make the brochures, they always had some gown and wedding dress. I go, get rid of that wedding dress thing. I go, the essence of a bride isn't what she does for two hours that one day. It's what she is for years and years and years. I go, you know, so-and-so, you know, been married 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. They only reward that bridal dress of the few hours. You know, it's not the essence. It's like, oh, get rid of the dress. You go, what do you want to put on it? I said, just put a bride with army boots. I would have said, I don't care, but put something. Put the idea that we're going after this with God's heart and we're going to change the world. Something like that. Like a globe and a fire and a sword and boots and a smile, you know, something like that. And one of the reason, well, there's, I mean, man, we're just got so many messed up things as it is, but one of the reasons that we draw back to this because we imagine the dress every time. That's why I said, get that stuff off all of our literature. I don't want no dresses on the Bridal, the Bride of Christ message. Let's put a boot on there. That'd be good and that kind of intrigue them. The servant spirit. I'm in the middle of paragraph D. The reason that these men wrongly conclude it's a call to be less than masculine. And this is ladies as well as men as well. We can take this. And when I make this clear to a man, he goes, oh, why didn't anybody ever tell me? I go, well, it's exactly the same logic of a woman being the son of God. It's a position of privilege. It's a call at the end of paragraph D to experience the deep emotions of God's heart. Oh, my goodness. This is awesome to experience God. I mean, not just his power where we heal the sick. That's I love that. But I'm talking about not just being a conduit of power while we're kind of separated from him, you know, where we pray and all of a sudden money happens or something changes, you know, some great change happens through the power of God. I love that. I'm not minimizing that in any way. But it's more than that. It's experiencing God heart to heart and then being a conduit of his power. The devil does not want this to happen. He does not want a whole generation of 15 year olds to grow up with this reality and to be 20, 25, 30 and 35. And to have, you know, 15, 20 years of experience in this. They will be absolutely impossible to intimidate by the powers of darkness, cannot control people who are fearless in love. And that's one of the reasons the church is in such a mess today. That's not going to always be that way. It's because so much of the leadership, because they don't have their identity in love, they don't have their identity and being loved in a lover. They can be easily controlled by the religious hierarchies and powers. If you don't calm down and get with the program, we're going to take away your building and kick you out of the system. And they go. And if you want something, you can be controlled by the threat of losing it. But people that are alive in love, you cannot control. You cannot control a woman in love. You can offer her anything. No, she's going in one direction. That's that's the end of the story. God's going to bring the whole end time church to this kind of fearless, courageous, focused love. It's called the Bride of Christ message. E, the revelation of God's emotions, the revelation of God's emotions, which is really the King David revelation. King David was the man that revealed God's emotions in the Old Testament. The revelation of God's emotions will usher in the greatest move of God in all history. The one that's coming. It's not going to just just suddenly everyone's going to get saved. God is going to bring forth this great ingathering of souls from all nations is going to bring them in through a people red hot in love who are filled with the spirit of prayer. So we're giving ourselves to this. This passage revelation 22 gives us clarity on how we want to spend our lives, how we want to spend our weekends, how we want to spend our free time, how we want to spend our money. We want to spend our time and our money and we want to have friendships that are enhancing and developing these realities. We're not just looking for how can we get through some program so we can get a certificate so we can get a building so we get a pulpit. So now we have a ministry. No, no, that's not where we're going. We're trying to get hot in love, anointed in intercession, and then everything else will line up with that. That's the focus. F some of the greatest men of God in history had this experienced intimacy with God, the essence of the bridal message. David did not call it the bridal message, but it was the essence of it. The intimacy message is the bridal message. King David was Israel's greatest warrior king, but he was a lovesick worshiper. He was ravished by God. He had he was lovesick. He was ravished by God's desire for him. He was fascinated by God's beauty, even in the Old Testament. Beloved, this is our inheritance. This isn't just a sermon. It's not just a handout. This is a living reality that is offered. The Holy Spirit who searches the deep things of God, he offers this to every single person in Jesus who will say yes to him. Every person who will say yes to him in the grace of Jesus and every believer that will continue to say yes, he wants us to experience this. The thing that pains me some at IHOP is that we get used to the language of it and that we could get content with 10 or 12 phrases and we don't pursue the inward connect, the inflamed heart. We lose sight of the reality of it because we get the language of it. Now, this isn't terminology. This is a living encounter. It's active intimacy. John the Apostle was the other one. I mean, he was called the son of thunder, but then five times when he described himself, he called him the man, the disciple whom God loved, the one who Jesus loved. He was in love. He's this thunderous, fiery man that said, I'm the one. He goes, you know, you might think I'm this, that, and the other. The great apostle that wrote the book of Revelation that, you know, all these different great things that happen in John's life. He goes, no, I'm the man God loves. I'm the one that loves God, and I'm the one that God loves. That's who I am. That's what I do. That's the essence of who I am. When we run into John in the future, hey, John, how you doing? Man, that was incredible what the Lord did through you back in those days. He goes, yeah, it really was. It really was. But, oh, I'm the one God loves. Man, you're still going with it. Oh, that's my story, and I'm sticking with it. I'm the one God loves. I can see him a billion years from now. Well, I'm going to steal that story. He says, oh, I don't care. The heart of God is so big, you can have that story. You're the one God loves, too. If you're wise enough to run with it, run with it. John the Baptist, the fiery prophet. Jesus called him the greatest man ever born of a woman. But he said, I was ravished with joy. He says, I heard the voice of the Messiah as a bridegroom. When I encountered Jesus as a bridegroom, it filled me, filled my heart with joy, with power. Joy and power are the same thing. My heart was filled with power when I experienced Jesus as a bridegroom. So we're talking King David, John the Apostle, and John the Baptist. We're talking about three men that were fully established in their masculinity. I'm talking to the men now. And ladies, you can use this biblical logic, it's from the Bible, and to share it with men so they can get over this confusion about being the bride of Christ. Say, if it's good enough for King David, the greatest warrior king, John the Apostle, the son of thunder, I mean, he was a fiery guy. And John the Baptist, if those guys, hey, I don't think it hurt them at all. They go, oh, yeah, good point. Doesn't undermine one's masculinity, it strengthens it, it establishes it. G, to understand Jesus as a bridegroom, a passionate bridegroom, is soon to see ourself as a cherished bride. Now, those are slightly different. It's the same reality, but we see him as a bridegroom, then we see ourselves differently as a cherished bride. We can't see ourselves as a cherished bride till we see him as a passionate bridegroom. So I encourage people to put their energy on, and their time, and their study on seeing him different. Because when you see him different, you automatically see yourself different. You don't have to work on seeing yourself different when you see him different. Roman numeral four, okay, we're looking at, we're just gonna look at a couple of different emotions of God that are in the bridal paradigm. Number one, Jesus is a bridegroom filled with tender mercy. This is where it begins. He is gentle with our weakness. We cannot speak this too many times. Every time we talk on the mercy of God, we are talking on the entry point, the open door, it's the doorway into the bridal paradigm. People don't have to use the word bridal paradigm, but they're bringing people into experience of God's emotions, his tender mercy. God is gentle with our weakness. Is that good news, or is that good news? Wow, what if he was rough with our weakness? Well, none of us would be here. We often confuse rebellion and immaturity. God doesn't. God is angry at rebellion, but he has tenderness towards the immature. He still disciplines us, but he has tenderness in his heart towards us. That's the beginning. He enjoys us even in our weakness. This is the open door to the bridal paradigm, tender mercy. He enjoys us even in our weakness. When we understand that a little bit, and it's not like we fully understand it ever in this age, but we understand that a little bit, then we begin, our heart is equipped to go to the next stage. And it's not like you go in stages. You study all of these at the same time. It's not like you have to study one for a year, then you study the next one next year. No, I study all of these all the time. But I find that the easiest one to connect to is God's tender mercy. And the way that, and the acid test, do you experience, do you know about God's tender mercy is this. Here's the acid test. Do you feel that he enjoys you when you're weak? No, I don't think he enjoys me when I'm weak. I think I annoy him when I'm weak. Can God enjoy you while you're repenting, while you're working through your sinful weakness? Can he enjoy you? And when you can feel that he enjoys you, I'm talking about a sincere believer that's really waging war against sin. You're sincere. If you can feel his enjoyment over you in the process, you have the foundation of this first point of God's emotions, is tender mercy. King David, I think this was David's chief revelation in life. David had a number of very important distinctives about his life. We're looking at the life of David for some months. We're going to continue on into the fall on the life of David as well. But his, I believe his chief revelation was right here in Psalm 18. He says, God delivered me because he delighted in me. And most of you know by now, if you've been around here a while, that because everybody quotes this verse, and we want everybody to quote this verse all the time. I mean, I would that this verse was mentioned every message by everybody. You can't, you can't overdo this one. That David wrote this after a time of 16 months of coming out of compromise and zig lag. I mean, the day after the compromise is over, he goes, God delivered me because he likes me. And the guys around David said, David, we've been with you the last 16 months. How could you say that? He goes, you know what? That's behind me. God is for me because he delights in me. I can share some of his friends. They raise their eyes, go, that guy's got some boldness, man. I mean, just wow, you really, he goes, yes. And then he says in verse 35, a couple of verses later, he goes, God, your gentleness is what is going to make me great. And he doesn't mean your gentleness is what makes me famous. That's not what he's saying. He says, my heart will be great in God. My heart will be alive because you were gentle with me instead of wiping me out. Beloved, it's his gentleness towards you that's going to make your heart great in the days to come. He's not, David's not talking about your gentleness makes me famous. Psalm 130, he says, Lord, if you should count iniquities, you'd wipe everyone out. But because you don't mark all of our iniquities and wipe us all out, we grow up to fear you in the days to head. Paul, the apostle, the reason he became fiery and anointed was because he didn't get wiped out in his early days, even as a Christian, because God was gentle with him. And that made Paul's heart great. B, the second emotion is the gladness of God. Jesus had more gladness than any man that ever lived in history. He says, I was, I was anointed with the oil of gladness more than all of his companions. And he meant the companions of the human race, more than all of the fellow humans. He had more gladness. And most of us, most of church history has viewed God as mostly mad or mostly sad when he relates to us. It's not true. He's mostly glad, not mostly sad and mostly mad. It's a big subject. We'll never, we'll never grasp God's gladness, the gladness of the bridegroom until we grasp his tender mercy. A God who doesn't have mercy, it's not likely he's going to be glad. Some people will go right to the gladness. I go, no, let's build a foundation of the tender mercy, because if you got a, if you have a God who's going to wipe you out quickly, it's going to, it's going to be confusing to think he's smiling all the time when he's wiping you out. I go, you know, I'd work on the tender mercy first and then let's move on to gladness. Again, it's not like you have to pick one. I study all of them. The book that we gave to the teen track, the book that I wrote on the, I forgot the name of it. It's the one on David. Anyway, recently he's got a guy on the cover. Anyway, after God's own heart, that's it. After God's own heart, I just go through these five things. And that's why we give it to, thank you. I saw that. Well, that's because of my publisher. They've changed the name five times. Anyway, nevermind. C. Anyway, in that book, we go through these five or six things. I have a couple of extras in as well, put a couple of chapters on each one. It's so critical that we understand. It's very, very fundamental, but it's the bridal paradigm. C. The affections, the burning desire of God for us. D. He's zealous. He will destroy everything that hinders love. That's what the battle of Armageddon is about. The battle of Armageddon is a jealous bridegroom destroying everything that hinders love. Battle of Armageddon is one of our greatest days as the church. We look at the battle of Armageddon. We think, oh no, that's bad. You know, that's like communism and capitalism going to nuke one another. No, that's not what the battle of Armageddon is. A zealous God enraged against everything that hurts his bride. He's zealous. He rises up to fight for his people with great zeal. E. His beauty. Now, David made this point. We all know about this verse. David said this one thing. The number one thing in my life was to become a student of God's beauties. What David was saying. But beloved, you can't start with beauty. Beauty is the summation of all of these things. And there's a handful of other points I could put on here. But I just want to make it really brief. The beauty is the summation of all of these others. Like some people say, I want to get lost in his beauty. I go, what does this beauty mean to you? He goes, you know, he's beautiful. I go, I know. But what does that mean? When you're quiet in your heart, what does break it down? He is, you know, really beautiful. You know what I mean? And we got to get language for it. We got to break it down. And emotionally, he's beautiful because he has these bridegroom dimensions of his emotions. That's part of his beauty. F. I'm going to skip F. It's good, but I'm out of time. Five. Roman number five. There's a threefold cry when we say, Lord Jesus, come. Here's what we pray. When we say, Lord Jesus, come, there's three things we're doing. We're saying, come near us. And we're praying that today for now. Come near us individually. When I say, come Lord Jesus, I mean, anoint my heart tonight. Like right now, come near me in intimacy. Power. I want a breakthrough of my heart. You're crying, come Lord Jesus, when you want your heart filled with the presence of God. Number two, come to us. That's revival. We want God to visit the different regions and cities and regions of the earth. Come to us. Lord, come Lord Jesus. We're talking about revival now. So this little different angle than just come touch me individually. Both of them are very, very valid and biblical. And then number three, come for us. That's the great breakthrough. The ultimate breakthrough when he comes in the sky, the second coming. Come to us. So there's three different ways we cry out. Come Lord Jesus. B, we express it in either worship or intercession. We cry, come Lord Jesus, either near us to us or for us. We cry it anyway by worshiping or by using intercessory prayers. When we say, I love you, I love you, I love you. We're really saying to him, we beckon you to come near us because of love. I love you. Our love is beckoning his presence. I love you is just as powerful. The throne of God is break in with revival. It's the same thing when it hits the throne of God. So we can say, come by worship songs or corporate individual, or we can say, come by intercessory prayers. Top of page four. It's a two dimensional cry. It's what I mentioned at the very beginning. We cry to God, but we also cry to people. The cry come first, we say, come Lord Jesus. And then we, we, we, we go horizontal and we tell people come to him, come to him, come to him. So the cry come is first to him. And secondly, it's the people. The intercession turns into proclamation. Number two, undersea horizontal. I am crying out, come to the Lord. Jesus is a bridegroom right now. That's what I'm doing right now in front of you. I'm calling you to come to a bridegroom, not just to come to a savior to get forgiven. I'm talking, uh, certainly that's always included, but I'm calling you to encounter a bridegroom. I am crying out through the spirit to your heart. Come, come. That's what I'm doing right now. If there's three or four of us sitting around the coffee shop, we call it fellowship, but we're still calling each other to him. If you do it in a, in a Bible study or, or, or a, a teaching, you call it a sermon or something, or a Bible study. If you do it around a coffee table, you call it fellowship. You're still calling people to him by the spirit. You're calling that heart to come to Jesus, but not just to come to Jesus. End of sentence to come to him as a bridegroom, to come to the Jesus with flaming fire in his heart. But we don't just call the church to it. We call the loss to it. When we call the loss, the lost, when we call them, not just to get fire insurance, to escape hell, we call them to begin to encounter the fiery desire of God, who is lovesick. That changes the whole way we present the gospel. And the end time church is going to present the gospel through a bridal lens, a bridal paradigm, very different than any time in history. The way the gospel will be preached, I don't mean the essence of repent and believe all that's, that's permanent. But I'm talking about, we're going to shift it from get, you know, wealth and money and fame and honor and get out of hell. We're going to switch it and we're going to start calling them, not just to stuff or out of eternal damnation. We're going to call them to encounter with God who's lovesick.