Sermon 2847 - Growing Pearls of Gratitude - 1st Message.....(Wed am 11/04/2009)

GROWING PEARLS OF GRATITUDE — 1ST MESSAGE.....(WED AM 11/4/2009)
(Mexico Ministerial Retreat) In the Father’s realm, we must gain a Seal of Experience in order to be in the 144,000. We have been owned servants, aw-bad servants, twice, by Jesus Christ. Out of one drop of Blood, He created us. And out of another drop of Blood, He purchased our Salvation, our Redemption! So we have been purchased outside and inside with His precious Blood! We must get our twelve Gates of Ingratitude converted into twelveGates of Gratitude in our City within. We gain the gratitude of the Son to do the Will of the Father in the Out-Pasture, at Calvary’s Cross.

When we lie down under the Feet of the Crucified Christ, we pick up a tiny Pearl of gratitude as a witness that we have been to the Out-Pasture. We gain the gratitude of the Father for the Son in the In-Pasture, and our Pearl grows. In this place, there is no room for Leviathan or Lucifer because we have the Son’s Gratitude for the Father and the Father’s Gratitude for the Son!

The Bride grows to maturity in the Spiritual Stature of Jesus Christ. Then, the Seal of Experience that is gained by the 144,000 is what protects the Stature and the LORD’s Name that is in the Bride. This Seal is another way of saying that this is our Wall of Reverence in action around the City.

The Reverence and Gratitude are interlaced around the Wall or the Gates of Pearl. As an oyster weeps over a little grain of sand, a pearl is formed in the natural realm. Spiritual Pearls are formed by the tears of Gratitude that Jesus wept over the Truth. Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus because He knew that He was going to make His Father’s Name known by putting Life in the midst of Death. He wept in gratitude for the Father’s Redemptive Will in the place of hate,death, and darkness. Then, He went to the graveyard and told Lazarus to stand up in the midst of all this death. So there was Life and Light and Love because Jesus knew how to weep a Pearl of Gratitude.