Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

All right. So eventually we're going to John 11, but I'm just going to read a little bit for you first. Are you ready?

You engaged in your spirit? Those of you having these encounters with the Lord,

guard them. That sounds great. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you. All right. dare to witness the bookends of joshua's

breakthrough into the culture as history supreme model for an agent of cultural transformation

i'm going to read through this quickly so listen fast all right all right dare to witness the bookends

of jesus breakthrough into the culture as history supreme model for an agent of cultural transformation.

His release of manifest power and glory is instigated at his baptism.

I call his baptism the reinforcement of his beloved identity.

Could it be that nothing noteworthy or lasting happens within the kingdom realm without this

reinforcement of beloved identity remember at the baptism he hears the voice that doesn't say

go have a successful ministry and plant churches all over the world and he hears a voice say this is

my beloved son and whom I'm well pleased.

Before any supernatural activity is recorded in his life, he already receives the announcement

of beloved identity as a consequence of communion, not production.

Come on, as a consequence of devotion and proximity, not performance and production.

Come on, we're coming out of an obsession with performance and production, and we're being

seated in the revelation that proximity is God's only prerequisite for promotion.

Proximity is God's only prerequisite for promotion.

Not gifting, not skill, not talent, not intellect,

not intellect, not experience, not education. I said I was going to read this fast and I lied.

If the sin-free man needed this reinforcement of beloved identity, how much more do you and I?

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