PLUGGING INTO JESUS

John 15:1-9  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

CHristians must adjust your perception of yourself by learning what the Bible says about you.

• I highly recommend a book entitled VICTORY OVER THE DARKNESS, by Neil Anderson.
• It details this very truth that we have concentrated upon for the last two years in this church.
• I was excited to read the very truths that I have been preaching here to you.
• God is truly opening up this truth in these days to His church!

• Imagine a frog turned into an eagle by the power of God.
• But that eagle still has memories of being a frog.
• Its no longer a frog, but it still thinks it is!
• And the eagle is seen hopping around on a lily pads and trying to reach its tongue out to catch flies.
• The eagle could be soaring into the sky above the storm clouds in pure majesty!
• But it still thinks its a frog!

You are a new creature, if you experienced Acts 2:38.

• There is no need for you to make yourself one.

• But we need to see who we are in Christ.
• John saw the Churches plugged into Jesus as branches of a candlestick stemming out of Jesus.

• Like a light must remain connected to electricity in order for it to produce light, we must remain plugged into Jesus in order to live a victoriously Christian life.
• Too many saints do not plug into Jesus, though.

• I understand that prayer towards God to quicken my mind, and to give me the anointing and the thoughts that He wants me to speak to you will cause God to produce through me what He wants in this service tonight.
• Unless I plug into Jesus like that, you will not receive help from God through me.
• God may use someone else who is plugged into Him, but He cannot use me unless I am plugged into Him.

• If you sing, you may be a professional singer with much ability and skill.
• But your singing is useless to God if you do not learn to plug into Jesus before you sing.
• You can think of all sorts of things to testify about to other people here tonight.
• But if you do not plug into Jesus and seek for Him to give you the thoughts and words that He wants you to say, then you will do nothing for anybody.

• Some people think you do!
• That is rather silly, though.
• But anything that regards the Kingdom of God and your work for Him in it, requires you to plug into Jesus in order to do it.

• They have never been taught the truths of John 15.
• Abiding in Christ is simply plugging  into Jesus.
• Its relying upon Him to do your work for God.
• God doesn't need your intellectuality or your popularity amongst people.
• His word teaches that He uses the foolish things to confound the wise.
• He wants to get the thought across to us that we must plug into HIm!

• We gather together and sing choruses of praise.
• But some stand there and talk to each other while the rest of the people praise Jesus.
• You not only interfere with the moving of the Spirit of God when you do that, but you are not plugging into Jesus so that when the sermon is preached to you, you can receive everything that it offers for your Christian life and spiritual maturity.
• Reach out and mean every word that you sing when you sing choruses of praise.
• Reading words from a hymn book and not meaning one word that you sing is as bad as reading prayers from a prayer book.
• Its heartless!
• Its spirit-less!

• We have absolutely no place to take that time that the saints have dedicated to Him and chit-chat to one another about the weather or the plans that you have for tomorrow, while the saints of God praise Jesus.
• Please plug into Jesus when you come to service.

• And they wonder why they are not receiving the Holy Ghost.
• They are not plugging into Jesus!
• You must flow with the worship and let the Spirit of God lead your soul and mind as your praise Him.
• Open your heart to Him and sing every hymn of praise from your very soul and spirit!

• I recall that shortly after I was first saved, and began sharing my testimony in service, that I would reach out and praise the Lord in the singing and worship service.
• And then my mind would be filled with thoughts of the Lord.
• I would speak them to the church as a mere teenager, and so many times those very thoughts were what the minister received from God to preach in that very same service!
• How does that happen?
• You plug into Jesus and concentrate on thoughts of praise for Him, and He begins flowing through your soul by His Spirit and gives you inspired thoughts!

• God would move marvelously!
• Miracles would occur!
• People would flow together in the unity of the Spirit and visitors would be amazed and touched deep within by the very power of God!

• There is more reason than simply keeping us from hell that the Lord urges us to forgive one another and love one another!
• He needs you to plug into Him in order for you to be used by Him!

• Traditional ideas of the cherubim make them out to be naked infants flying with wings and holding bows with arrows to pierce lovers' hearts with passion for one another.
• Needless to say, these are not what the Bible calls Cherubim or Cherubs


Ezekiel 10:1  Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Ezekiel 10:14  And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 1:10  As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Perhaps the devil wants us to think that they are infant angels!

• Because the truth is that these cherubim are YOU THE CHURCH!


Revelation 4:6-7  And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, [were] four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast [was] like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast [was] like a flying eagle.

Reve 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

And who did John say were the kings and priests?

Revelation 1:5-6  And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

We are power-houses in Jesus Christ!

• We need to see ourselves as Kings and Priests!
• Hebrew culture deems the EAGLE as the king of the FOWL, and the OX is the KING of the cattle, and the LION is the KING of the beasts.
• These are KINGS!
• No wonder they represent us who are kings and priests!

That is what the devil sees when he sees you coming!!!!

• Maybe that is the reason he wants you to think that cherubims are naked babies with little wings and bows and arrows!
• Ha!

• On the throne was the same one whom John saw in Revelation 1!


Ezekiel 1:22-28  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings. And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Revelation 1:12-15  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Revelation 4:2-3  And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Here is the GLORY OF THE LORD that Ezekiel saw.

Notice what the ark of the covenant was called in the Bible:

1 Samuel 4:21  And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

Ezekiel 1:28b ... This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

• Just as the cherubim (four beasts in Revelation) were situated beneath the firmament upon which stood a throne with Christ seated on it, the priests of old Carried over their heads the Ark of the Covenant, with its mercyseat, depicting the throne of God.
• And the beasts even called themselves "priests" in Rev. 5:10!

The ark of the covenant and the Chariot of Ezekiel both depict the GLORY OF THE LORD.

• Notice what mankind is called by God.


1Corinthians 11:7  For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

• This portrays in the spirit what Apostolic people of God are in this world!
• We carry Christ with us!
• We transport the King of Kings with us!
• We are the kings, depicted by the faces of the kings of the animals kingdoms, and Christ is over our heads as KING OF KINGS.

• What enemy can stop us when we know who we are in Jesus Christ!?
• Plug into Jesus!

The Jordan was a barrier to the Hebrews when they sought to enter the Promised land.

• But when Joshua told the priests to carry the ark and walk into the river's waters, the waters opened up and the Hebrews walked over on dry ground!

• Lift Jesus up and walk by faith!
• No weapon formed against you shall prosper (Isa. 54:17)!
• If God be for us, then who can be against us (Ro. 8:31)?
• Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).

• Its our's but only when we plug into Jesus Christ.
• Abide in Him and you shall have much fruit (results).