Bootcamp Series #3 Derive

Sermon – Derive: 3rd Day Power
Impact Church London
Oct. 31, 2021

Recap: Bootcamp Possess the Promise.
Declutter: If we don’t spend some time to be intentional about forgetting what is behind and pressing into what’s ahead, we could inadvertently bring an attitude, a mindset, a behaviour or habit into our new situation that is incompatible with our new status. This will become destructive and unsustainable.

Determine: Courage takes many forms, but it’s important and absolutely necessary.

Intro: Derive – to take or obtain from a particular source, to find origin in a particular source.

Big idea: We must be settled in the reality of Jesus’ resurrection as the source and spring of our own life, future, and inheritance before we keep going.

DERIVE – 3RD DAY POWER

Joshua 1:11
“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own.’”

References to events or happenings on the “third day” in the Old Testament are meant to help us understand a certain aspect or meaning of what the resurrection of Jesus means to us and for us. They are illustrations.

1 Corinthians 15:4
“that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…”

He is prophetically talking about third day Scriptures. Jesus does the same thing, just more explicitly using the story of Jonah:

Jonah 1:17 (ESV)
“And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”

Luke 11:30 (ESV)
“For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.”

Matthew 12:39-40 (NIV)
“…the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Acts 10:40
“Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,…”

Luke 13:32
“And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’”

Luke 24:46
“He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day…”

1 Corinthians 10:11
“Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”

I think God wanted them to wait so they could know that the promised land is not just something you wake up one day and decide that in the strength of your own power you take over on your own.

Why three days to prepare? It took Jesus three days to prepare a place for us.

John 14:2-4 (NKJV)
“…I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

How does this relate to us in our transition as we prepare to possess the promise? Eph. 1:17-20 is the New Testament equivalent of “wait three days.” Instead of “get provisions” we are to get revelation and be saturated in the reality of his call and his inheritance expressed in us as we participate in his divine nature through resurrection.

Ephesians 1:17-20
“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places…”

To have confidence moving forward have to see that we too were raised with Jesus.

Hosea 6:2
“…After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.”

Ephesians 2:4-6 (NKJV)
But God…made us alive together with Christ…and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…”

By virtue of our resurrection life in Christ, we are co-heirs with him, born and raised up into an inheritance.

1 Peter 1:3-4
“…has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you…”

So what does the resurrection mean for my life? That’s where we turn to the Old Testament to look at some of those third day illustrations:

1. A Time Of Production, Reproduction and Multiplication

Genesis 1:12-13
“And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.”

1 Corinthians 15:20
“But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”

The Resurrection life of Christ in me creates fruit. Harvest is the rightful inheritance of those made alive in Christ. I

2. A Time Of Provision

Genesis 22:4-5, 12
“Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you. … And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”

The provision Abraham spoke of was the Lord will provide a lamb.
Genesis 22:8 — “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”
Romans 4:25
“…who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.”
Resurrection life demonstrates, proves, and establishes an eternal existence free from the impurity of sin and death, guilt and shame. God provided a lamb that removes sin and shame from my inheritance and life.

3. A Time Of Fellowship

Exodus 19:10-12, 16-17 
“…Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God,…”

On the third day they went out to meet with the Lord…

Hebrews 12:18-24
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words…But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God…to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

This new life we have is characterized by fellowship and union. It makes us a child of God and the bride of Christ by virtue of the life inside us, giving us instant access to the very heart of God — through union.

4. A Time Of Authority and Leadership

Joshua 3:2-3, 7
“So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp…And the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.”

Resurrection life is one of excellence, distinction, authority and leadership. If you can consciously connect to the royalty of the life within you, you will live with an inner propulsion toward greatness that finds its source in your participation in the divine nature.

Ephesians 2:6
“…and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”

5. A Time Of Completion and Realization

Ezra 6:15-16
“Now the temple was finished on the third day … Then the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the descendants of the captivity, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.”

Colossians 2:10
“…and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”

Find wholeness in Christ and the virtue of the new life you have in him. Let his love and acceptance bring you wholeness and a sense of completeness that empowers wholehearted living and inspires faith that brings all things into complete expression.

6. A Time Of The Best Wine, Healing, Miracles and Glory

John 2:1-10
“On the third day there was a wedding…You have kept the good wine until now!” This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.”

6 water pots representing the number of humanity, being created on the 6th day.

The power, the glory, the amazing stuff we want to see God do in and through our lives, it happens in the third day. It happens because he has upgraded us, made us alive with him and given us authority and power by nature in our new life joined to the resurrected life of his son.

This power and glory is connected to a revelation of our sonship, who we are by virtue of our share in Christ’s life, not who we are because we are gifted, but who we are by nature, by life.

He saved the best til NOW! Third day is not a reference to a future dispensation, but a church awakened to the reality of what it already participates in ‘Divine Nature!” A revelation that up til now, possibly only few churches have really walked in!

Summary

Let’s get fixed, let’s gather our supplies, let’s embrace revelation now that will propel us forward. Let the eyes of our heart be flooded with light to see the riches of his inheritance in us and the suppressing greatness of his power at work in us…

Eph. 1:17-20
“…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know…”

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