In this sermon, the preacher encourages believers to overcome the attacks of the enemy and walk in the wisdom and compassion of God. They emphasize the need to glorify Jesus Christ and stand against the giants of their generation. The preacher quotes Isaiah 41 to remind the congregation that God will not forsake the poor and needy, but will provide for them abundantly. They also highlight the power of the Holy Spirit in transforming believers and bringing them back into divine order.

Think about your own life from the day that you found Christ as your Savior. That's exactly what God has done for you and I. When we first come to Him, we begin at this stage to be aware that there is a source of strength that God is willing to give to us that we've never known. How many sitting here today, the morning after you received Christ as your Savior, you woke up and there was a wisdom in you that you had never possessed before, and you knew it. It's as if your eyes were open, some scales fell off, and you seem to instinctively know what is right and what is wrong. Things that you'd not even thought of before now were very, very clear. All of the gray areas were beginning to dissipate. They only become gray again when we start moving away from God's divine purpose and His life that He has provided for us. We are born on the wings of God. We are carried from place to place, as Paul says, image to image and glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord. You've heard me say it a thousand times in this pulpit because it's one of the most profound truths I've ever known in my entire experience with Christ. We are made to be what we could never be in ourselves. We are taken where we could never go. We are given what we could never possess. We are called to do what we could never accomplish apart from the strength of Almighty God, that Jesus Christ might be glorified. We are brought into divine order. We are brought into divine light. And as that divine light begins to be infused in and through us, we begin to move in a realm that this world knows nothing about. It's what this world was created to be. It's what man was created to be in the image of God but lost because of sin in the Garden of Eden. But in Christ, everything that was lost is brought back. All that the moth and kangaroo have eaten have been restored to us. We are recreated in the image of the one who was raised from the dead and the same spirit that raised him from the dead now lives in you and lives in me and quickens us, makes us alive from the power of death, and brings us back into divine order, back into the life of God, gives us a new mind, gives us a new heart, gives us a new spirit, gives us a new direction. And in our heart, there's one cry, Father, glorify Thyself. Glorify Yourself, O Jesus, in my life. Whatever You have to do, if You have to put me in the olive press and squeeze me to get olive oil, do it, O God, that You might be glorified in my life. He made Him ride on the high places of the earth, verse 13. In other words, I took You over that which would have obstructed You in Your journey. And You no longer had to climb and claw Your way through life, but I gave You the power to rise above Your circumstance. Oh, Your circumstance may have fiercely opposed You but could never destroy You or stop You. That He might eat the increase of the fields. He made Him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flimsy rock. I love that verse. It's amazing. The Lord says, I gave You provision in the hardest of places. The devil threw mountains at You and You just bore a hole and drew honey out of these hard places. When the enemy tried to stop You with sorrow, You just walked out and You were sweeter than ever before. When he tried to stab You in the back with vicious words, You walked out of these places with the wisdom and compassion of Almighty God and determination to see hell exposed and destroyed and to see men and women released into the glory of God, not just Your own home but Your own community, Your city, Your town, Your state, Your country, Your world, for the glory of Almighty God. Jesus, be known in the streets of New York City again. Jesus, be known in the marketplace. Jesus, be known on Wall Street. Jesus, be known in Central Park. Jesus, be known. Be known, don't be hidden any longer. Butter and pine, He says, milk of sheep, fat of lambs, rams of the breed of bison, goats with the fat of the kidneys of reeds. You drank the pure blood of the great. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You were washed in a pure blood and You drank that pure blood. You knew who it was that I had made You. You knew where You were going. You knew why You were called. Consider this, the years of many generations. Isaiah chapter 41, please, if you'll go there. Isaiah, again, declares as it is, the heart of God for every person. This word has as much an application to you today as it did the moment it was penned back in history, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You say to me today, well, Pastor, you don't understand. I'm poor and needy. I mean, I just spend my life. I grabbed hold of the concept that the church is a Holy Ghost hospital. And so I'm just, it's everlasting patience. And I come in here every week to get bandaged up and a little oil poured into my wounds. Oh, folks, we've got to get beyond this. We are called to glorify Jesus Christ. We are called to stand and fight the giants in our generation. We're not called to tower and lick our wounds from now till Christ returns. We're called to stand in the glory of God. Verse 17 says, when the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue fails for thirst, I, the Lord will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness, the cedar, the shite tree, the myrtle, the oil tree. In other words, there'll be fruit. It just abounds. There'll be provision for every need. I will set in the desert, the fir tree, the pine, the box tree together that they may see and know and consider and understand that the hand of the Lord has done this and the Holy one of Israel has created it. God says, I will do this. All I need is a person who's thirsty to do it. It's all I need. I don't need your talent. I don't want your ability. I want your heart to thirst for me. I want you to come. And when you do, I want you to come honestly. I want you to come with a design and desire in your heart to be used for the glory and the purposes of God and my kingdom. And God says, then I will just command in your high places, your low places, your dry places. I'll just command life, water, provision, fruit to come into your life that you may know that you may consider and understand that I am a God of the miraculous. Hallelujah.