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Understanding the Kingdom of God

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  7. >> Speaker B: Now what I will do today, I will just build on

  8. what he did, just like an

  9. introduction of the theme.

  10. If you're writing. So I will talk today on

  11. understanding the kingdom of God.

  12. Understanding the kingdom of God

  13. because you can manifest

  14. what you have not understood.

  15. Every man

  16. will reflect the level his knowledge,

  17. which means is that before we begin to talk of

  18. manifesting the kingdom,

  19. we have to understand exactly what

  20. is manifesting. What is

  21. the kingdom of God?

  22. You know, many of our

  23. practices as believers

  24. have become

  25. religious because there is no

  26. understanding.

  27. When Jesus washed the feet of his

  28. disciples and he

  29. told,

  30. I show you an example.

  31. I show you an example. He said,

  32. do the same.

  33. You know, today you see churches

  34. who will bring a bow and pour

  35. water. And you see members and the

  36. pastors is washing their feet.

  37. You get this type of dumb practices

  38. when understanding is not there.

  39. And we the reason is because we don't pay

  40. attention to scriptures.

  41. If you have been reading, probably you ought to have

  42. understood that that's not what Jesus is talking

  43. about. Because even Peter missed

  44. it. Peter said, no, master, you won't wash

  45. my feet. And Jesus said,

  46. if I don't wash you, you have no part in

  47. me. Brother, is not talking about physical things.

  48. That there is something critical he is trying to

  49. communicate

  50. what he that you have no

  51. part in me. There

  52. is something deeper he is

  53. communicating. And that's

  54. why he continued and then began

  55. to teach. By the time you reach. Because

  56. that if you in John

  57. 13 by the time you reach

  58. 35 is

  59. a love for one another. And the

  60. by this shall all men know

  61. that ye are my disciples.

  62. That's why we don't want to miss

  63. the truth. We are paying

  64. attention. No Russian.

  65. We want to know God

  66. accurately so that our worship will be

  67. accurate.

  68. We don't want to face the Master.

  69. And he said, what you have done

  70. is useless work. It has been burnned.

  71. He said, you will pass you, but your

  72. works will be burnnedt.

  73. We don't want to do a useless work.

  74. We do not want to labor and

  75. overnight there is no reward of it.

  76. That's why we are mettriul. We want to

  77. know what exactly is in

  78. the intent of the author of

  79. what God desire.

  80. Go back to that verse 20 of Luke

  81. 17. Look at ver 20,

  82. Luke 17.

  83. He says that

  84. now when he

  85. Was asked

  86. by the Pharisees

  87. when the kingdom of

  88. God would come.

  89. When the kingdom of God will

  90. come. The first question we want to

  91. ask what is the

  92. kingdom? That's the

  93. first question. What is the

  94. kingdom that the Pharisee,

  95. even the Pharisee are asking

  96. when will it come? And Jesus

  97. didn't say what are you talking about? Come? Come

  98. where? No, Jesus said

  99. the kingdom does not come. So that

  100. means Jesus is saying what you are asking

  101. is a good question. But

  102. I'm just trying to let you know what your

  103. eyes is seeing. It'not where you will see

  104. it. That's why he say he does not come by

  105. observation. But then that

  106. means we have to get accurately

  107. what is the kingdom?

  108. Because one time that is where the issue. So when we talk about

  109. manifesting the kingdom, what exactly we are talking

  110. about? Hallelujah.

  111. So that wor the kingdom.

  112. Now please, if you're in this church, don't be afraid of

  113. Greek Hebrew do you know? Understand I'm saying

  114. don't be afraid. I don't know Greek too.

  115. But by the virtue of the

  116. work of God in our hand,

  117. there is no huoddle we will not cross to know the truth.

  118. Do you know I'm saying you are in. You are

  119. in a privileged generation

  120. that we have everything. Even if you don't know Greek,

  121. Hebrew, whatever in the sun.

  122. Our, sister last week,

  123. testify that she had to learn Turkish,

  124. you know, understand to be able to. And it gave an

  125. advantage in their career

  126. some of us who refused to learn where. What is your story

  127. today?

  128. That's a word for someone

  129. now. But the point is that what we are saying to say is that

  130. so there are certain things to get the

  131. truth. We have to read

  132. and understand the original word.

  133. And then we will now leave the context.

  134. Remember, even in this show you have also

  135. understood that in reading scripture we don't

  136. read in paragraph andrse. I mean we don't read

  137. it in verses and chapters

  138. and headings. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

  139. You understand? We read as if those chapters

  140. does not exist

  141. because context is key.

  142. That word kingdom. Please follow

  143. me gradually. That's the reason why I'm slow.

  144. Because if you miss this part of the

  145. introductory part Pastor Fre started last

  146. week. I am telling you miss

  147. everything we'll be doing both in cell

  148. and it is going to be

  149. dangerous

  150. that what kingdom?

  151. Don't mind my pronunistion of Greo. I told you I didn't know

  152. Greek. The most important thing

  153. is to know the word and to know what it means

  154. are we together?

  155. It's basacillia. So I will

  156. spell it. that's not the pronunciation. I have

  157. tried to know how to pronounce it. Well,

  158. I didn't know, but just know that it's something like

  159. that. Did you

  160. hear say yes.

  161. So is ba

  162. si

  163. le

  164. I Ba m

  165. si l e

  166. I

  167. is a noun.

  168. And that word means

  169. dominion.

  170. That word means

  171. authority. That m

  172. whatd means rule.

  173. That what means royal

  174. power. It's not just power,

  175. you understand, has to do with reigning.

  176. Understand Royal power.

  177. Do we get that? That

  178. word? That is what it means now

  179. by just defining that word, it has crumbled

  180. many things. Now, you know

  181. what Pastor Fre said last week?

  182. That the kingdom is not a

  183. place. Is that what he said?

  184. Good. So

  185. each time we say the kingdom of God

  186. is not a territory, that's not what we are talking

  187. about. What are we saying again? What,

  188. which wor did I say? What is a kingdom?

  189. Dominion. Yes. Authority

  190. and rule. Royal power.

  191. I beg in the name of God, don't forget this

  192. because we're going to be talking about the kingdom of God. Plenty,

  193. plenty, plenty. So when we said

  194. now that the theme of the Y

  195. is manifesting the kingdom

  196. Calibraa makada,

  197. now you know what we are saying

  198. is manifesting authority,

  199. manifesting dominion,

  200. manifesting rule,

  201. you know, I'm saying that's

  202. why that song says that,

  203. dear, is power,

  204. abandant power. Why

  205. for the Holy Ghost

  206. is. Do you understand that? That

  207. is the kingdom.

  208. We are not talking about a

  209. place where people are, wearing white

  210. clothes,

  211. where they said that there is

  212. gold in a s.

  213. Did you know? I'm saying that's not

  214. what we're talking about.

  215. Because most of those people who taught that

  216. as ah, the kingdom, they are

  217. using human

  218. establishment to define God's

  219. kingdom. Are we

  220. together? Are, we together?

  221. Hallelujah.

  222. So kingdom

  223. of God or the kingdom, in this

  224. context must never

  225. be confused with territory,

  226. with a place,

  227. rather

  228. authority. So when you say the

  229. kingdom of God, what you are saying is the

  230. dominion of God. What you

  231. are saying is that the authority of

  232. God.

  233. Glory to God.

  234. So that word

  235. palia is actually

  236. a word that is from a root word

  237. called basilious.

  238. B E S I

  239. B e S

  240. I L e

  241. u L E u

  242. S Basilius

  243. and that word is a noun, but it means

  244. a leader of a people.

  245. It means a prince,

  246. a, commander, the lord

  247. of the land or the king.

  248. So you don't understand.

  249. So when there is power here,

  250. what that Means is that I am the

  251. commander, you understand?

  252. And the commander

  253. has the kingdom.

  254. Note again. Now

  255. Basilius

  256. is the king.

  257. Basacilia m is not

  258. the territory of the king.

  259. It is the power of the

  260. king. Did you

  261. understand saying it? So that is what

  262. we are saying.

  263. Now, since now we understand the kindingdle

  264. what it means, I want

  265. you to substitute it in that

  266. scripture. This one.

  267. You can now read it this way. Now

  268. when he was asked by the Pharisees

  269. wherein the dominion

  270. or when the

  271. authority of

  272. God will cop, he answered

  273. and them answered

  274. the dominion

  275. or the power

  276. or the rule in the

  277. of God does not

  278. come by observation.

  279. We're going to see how does it

  280. come? Because Jesus already said it

  281. does not come with

  282. observation.

  283. Hallelujah. Amen.

  284. Let me show you something. Go back to that 20.

  285. Now when he was asked by the

  286. Pharisee when the

  287. kingdom of God will come,

  288. then Jesus said it does not come. I

  289. want you to know something. The

  290. kingdom is about what will

  291. come, not where you will

  292. go.

  293. it's not where you will go.

  294. The kingdom is

  295. come. Now you understand what the kingdom is. Are we

  296. together? So it will be that you don't have sense

  297. when we say we will go. Because how can you

  298. say we will go? Will go power

  299. or we will go into

  300. authority. No. Is

  301. the one that will come.

  302. Is the one that will come.

  303. Now again, let me emphasize what

  304. pastor Fred told us last week.

  305. That it is not a place.

  306. So stop dreaming that when

  307. you die you go

  308. somewheremm.

  309. Are we together? Amen. That is what we are talking

  310. about. I believe somebody is understanding

  311. something. Amen.

  312. I don't need to explain further because when you understand

  313. Bible, then you will see that when

  314. somebody says something, you know that is

  315. speaking. Because imagine,

  316. let's say you are in Lagos, Nigeria and somebody say Lagos

  317. come to Cyprus. Will Lagos ever

  318. come to Cyprus? You can only go to Lagos,

  319. but Lagos cannot come. do you understand I'SAYING

  320. because if it is a place, it will not come.

  321. You are the one that will go if it is a place,

  322. but it is not a place.

  323. Hallelujah.

  324. Now I want to remind you of what you have been

  325. reading again. Now

  326. when you read what we normally call the lost prayer.

  327. Let's leave with that. That. But

  328. he says something. He said, thy kingdom

  329. come. thy will be done on earth.

  330. Are we together? You now understand what Jesus is talking

  331. about.

  332. So I don't want you to be singing some

  333. songs that looks you don't understand.

  334. M. Did you understand I'm saying

  335. So we have to be careful.

  336. We know himonight.

  337. Thy kingdom come, Thy

  338. will be done. No, that's not his song to sing.

  339. Now

  340. change it. Because

  341. we will show you that the kingdom has

  342. comera already and the will

  343. has been done. Are we

  344. together? Hallelujah.

  345. Good. Now look at verse

  346. 21. Look, verse 21.

  347. He said no. Will they say see

  348. here or see there?

  349. For indeed the kingdom

  350. of God is within

  351. you. Is within you

  352. first. Remember, he told them, the

  353. kingdom does not come with

  354. observation. That is is not what you

  355. see. The power,

  356. the authority, the rule

  357. is not what you see.

  358. That means is spiritual. It

  359. does not, come with observation. That is not what you

  360. see. You can't see as a see there

  361. because that is remember.

  362. I believe Jesus have

  363. tapped into the

  364. Pharisee'mind

  365. Remember the

  366. life of the apostles

  367. before their eyes opened, in the 40 days

  368. teaching with Jesus,

  369. before he moved away from them

  370. in the sun, they kept asking him, when will

  371. you restore

  372. the what he, are you with m Me?

  373. When will you restore the

  374. kingdom to Israel?

  375. They ex it. In fact,

  376. look captured it in two places

  377. in act of Apostles, chapter one.

  378. You understand? And again Luke 24.

  379. He helped us to know what also

  380. these Pharisees are thinking.

  381. That's why Jesus tell does

  382. not come by what by observation.

  383. So don't say see here, there. Because that is

  384. what also the disciples were thinking.

  385. When will you restore the kingdom?

  386. Because they are looking at

  387. the Romans, how they were

  388. dealing the structure.

  389. Remember when they came and they were

  390. lobbying John and his

  391. brother, he said, let me sit by this side. You see

  392. what they are thinking? And let me sit by this side.

  393. In where in your kingdom.

  394. Lack of understanding. Because they

  395. thoughtaught God's kingdom is

  396. like the kingdom of men. And

  397. don't think the other

  398. 10 we. Because when

  399. they heard that the two, were lobbying

  400. the Bible said, they became indignant.

  401. That means they say, so these people, that's what they are

  402. planning. And Jesus had to

  403. call them

  404. and taught them again in the sa

  405. and said, what you are seeing outside.

  406. How they do it in the other kingdom

  407. is that they loade it over

  408. people. He said, but in this kingdom

  409. it is not so. The greatest

  410. among you shall be the servant of all.

  411. Even the Son of Man. He

  412. did not come understand to be

  413. served, but to serve and to

  414. give his life a ransom for many.

  415. So that was what. So, I'm trying to connect to you Jesus

  416. answer so that you don't think that the Pharisee has

  417. some Revelation.

  418. Because when Jesus just immediately said it

  419. didn't, it does not come by.

  420. Neither will you say, see there, See here?

  421. That is what he was addressing.

  422. Unfortunately, over more than 2,000

  423. years ago, we still have believers. They are

  424. in the kingdom, they are in the

  425. authority, they are in the power.

  426. But they are waiting the day they will

  427. go into the kingdom. And now look

  428. at it.

  429. He said, for

  430. indeed the kingdom of God

  431. is within you. Now

  432. listen, you have to train your mind

  433. now that we have started addressing this issue, because eastern now

  434. I say the kingdom, there's that debris that you have

  435. held since you

  436. know, sir, you have to deal with it. That is your responsibility.

  437. Because you have to deliberately, you

  438. understand, relear. Now,

  439. now when Jesus says the kingdom means the

  440. authority, the power is within you. That

  441. what within you? That's not a good, translation.

  442. That word within you is amt, you

  443. is amidst you.

  444. Because listen, reading

  445. even the context know that that is with. If you

  446. say within is inside them, why

  447. then, are they asking when will it come?

  448. Did you see how it doesn't make sense? Because if what

  449. Jesus is saying, that the kingdom is

  450. inside the Pharisee,

  451. why then are they asking when will it come?

  452. So that within you contextually shows that he's not

  453. talking about that.

  454. Jo is saying that the kingdom is inside them.

  455. Are we together? So it'am, miss

  456. them is and miss them.

  457. Hallelujah.

  458. So when Jesus said the kingdom

  459. is within you, Jesus was talking

  460. about himself.

  461. He was talking about himself

  462. that he was amids them.

  463. What that means is that the coming

  464. of Jesus is the coming of the

  465. kingdom. That means

  466. up until Jesus has arrived, the

  467. kingdom has not come. That's why

  468. it's important to know

  469. that this kingdom, this

  470. dominion, this power, this authority

  471. in the sun

  472. is the coming of

  473. Christ. Look at with me

  474. Isaiah quickly. Isaiah 9.

  475. When we are young, we have being

  476. learning this verse very very well for a

  477. long time. We together

  478. is have nine, verse six.

  479. We have been made to memorize this, but we don't know the meaning.

  480. For unto us a child is born,

  481. unto us a son is given.

  482. And the government will be

  483. upon his shoulder. And his name will

  484. be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

  485. Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. Of the

  486. increase of his government and peace

  487. there shall be no end upon the throne of David

  488. and over his kingdom

  489. to order it and establish it with

  490. judgment and justice.

  491. From that time forward, even forever,

  492. the zeal of the Lord of hosts

  493. will perform this. Now look at

  494. it. Most times when I was growing up when they say the

  495. government, you know, because we are used to democracy,

  496. you understand? Most believers are

  497. thinking that the

  498. government

  499. is that God will come, he will take over

  500. this government and his believers will

  501. be there. And we'quot in some scriptures when they

  502. just are on the throne. The righteous

  503. prosper. You a sir,

  504. you. You know that kind of thing. Just the same we used to calle that

  505. scripture. What was that scripture? The

  506. blessing of the Lord. It make it rich

  507. and it had no sorrow in it.

  508. Kashaakata. You see, when the Lord

  509. blesses you, there is no sourrow. Bro. Brother

  510. did do something. Don't worry. We're going to unpack some of those

  511. things. That's why you don't just take things anyhow.

  512. In the sun or the parts of the jaws

  513. is like a shining light that shines more and

  514. more onto the perfect day. And then you

  515. ask explain.

  516. Hallelujah. No, brother, you are in the perfect

  517. day. You are in the perfect day.

  518. It's not you is talking about. Did you understand?

  519. Saying, that's the just of

  520. the old who are seeing the

  521. promissory. Their revelation is progressive.

  522. Did you understand I saying? He'progressive

  523. and suddenly the man of Calvary

  524. appeared and he stepped and,

  525. and, and John told us and

  526. the word became flesh. And

  527. suddenly in the past he spoke through

  528. prophets, but now he said he spoke to his

  529. son.

  530. What you see we'talking about, we're

  531. saying that, that government

  532. is not the country's seat of power.

  533. That word government

  534. is a word called misra.

  535. M M I S R

  536. A. M M I S R

  537. A. That word is

  538. a word in Hebrew. You

  539. it means rule. What you it

  540. mean rule? It means

  541. dominium. That's what it means.

  542. Just the same thing we see in Greek

  543. basilia. That's the same thing. This one

  544. means dominion.

  545. Misra. So when

  546. he is talking, he said in that

  547. prophecy in the

  548. sa that of the increase of

  549. his government. Brother is not talking

  550. about territory. Are

  551. we together? Amen. He's all talking

  552. about territory.

  553. So Jesus told them, the kingdom of God

  554. does not come by what? By

  555. what? It does not

  556. come by observation.

  557. So how does a

  558. man have contact with the

  559. kingdom of God? Because what we are talking about

  560. manifesting the kingdom is only those people

  561. who have the kingdom will manifest it.

  562. By the way, you know, I'm talking about authority.

  563. So how do a man have

  564. contact with the kingdom or

  565. have access to the kingdom? Jesus already

  566. have said it does not come by what,

  567. John, chapter three.

  568. John, chapter three.

  569. Halak Kabadaka Glory to

  570. Jesus.

  571. Look at verse three

  572. he said. Jesus answered and said

  573. to him. Now you see Nicodemus

  574. came When you read from verse one, you

  575. know he's intriguing me. Look at ve two he say, this man came to

  576. Jesus by night in the sun

  577. and said, rabbi, we know that

  578. you are a teacher come from God.

  579. Jesus immediately have to change the

  580. discussion because this man that is a Pharisee

  581. have learned a lot inocent ever

  582. learning, but never ever coming to the knowledge of the

  583. truth. He has not understood that no, Jesus

  584. is not a teacher that comes from God. That's why in

  585. that context Jesus presented himself as the

  586. Savior, the sacrifice for sin.

  587. Did you understand saying no, he's not a teacher that

  588. come from God. He didn't come. Do you understand

  589. saying Jesus turned the discussion

  590. and start talking talking.

  591. And that's why you didn't understand you the

  592. so now look at

  593. it Vu he said Jesus

  594. answered and said to him, most

  595. assuredly I said to you, unless one is

  596. born again, he

  597. cannot see

  598. the kingdom of God. Now

  599. he's not talking about going to somewhere

  600. he cannot see the

  601. dominion, the authority, the

  602. rule.

  603. Nicodemus did't understand.

  604. Nicodimo said to him,

  605. how can a man be

  606. born when he is old?

  607. Can he enter a second time

  608. into his mother's womb and be born? And

  609. Jesus clarified again what he said in VE3

  610. he said, no. Jesus answered mosturedly

  611. I say to you, unless one is

  612. born of the water

  613. and the spirit, he cannot enter

  614. the kingdom of God.

  615. Jesus clarify. What I'm talking about is not

  616. the issue of physical thing, it's not biological.

  617. Verse 6 that which is born of

  618. flesh, meaning that which is biological is

  619. biological. Understand? But that

  620. which is born of the spirit

  621. is a spirit. So he's talking

  622. about that how you access it is spiritual.

  623. Is spiritual. That was Jesus told them, it does not come by

  624. what reservation is

  625. spiritual,

  626. it happens spiritual.

  627. And Jesus kept on discussing up until he

  628. went to a point where he told him how the

  629. man can access how he can be born

  630. again. Are we together? And for God so loved the

  631. world that he gave

  632. his only begotten son that whoso ever believe

  633. in him will not perish

  634. but have a everlasting life.

  635. So what he is saying that it is a spirit that

  636. tossed and I want you to know that and I don't

  637. want you to forget that that

  638. we access power, dominion and authority

  639. is when we received the gospel.

  640. Is when we receive the gospel.

  641. So the kingdom of God is not

  642. access after Life. It's not what.

  643. When you die, you will see. Understand?

  644. We will go, And be with him. Where have you been?

  645. Huh? He said he has gone to be with the Lord.

  646. Where has he been all this while? Is it

  647. now that he died that you go to be with the Lord?

  648. Did you understand that? That's what we are

  649. saying. And I want you

  650. to. To. To. To see

  651. this. Now you

  652. understand the kingdom is power.

  653. It's not escaping from pain.

  654. You. Some of us are dreaming a place where

  655. we will go. You know that white place. I told you

  656. that people with writing we lo rope

  657. in the

  658. See there is no pain. That's where we are hoping to

  659. go. While God has given you authority

  660. in the sun to put

  661. the devil in his place. You see the devil

  662. harassing people. You're not angry and you are

  663. waiting to escape.

  664. God has kept you to save people from this

  665. harassment. And All you are dreaming is to

  666. escape. You know, I have a picture during pandemic

  667. while everybody is running. You

  668. understand? It's running while

  669. everybody is closing down. Government are closing down things.

  670. But we have some people which we call the health

  671. workers.

  672. People are running from the threat. They are moving

  673. towards it. Men. It taught me many lessons.

  674. Their focus is not their life.

  675. Their focus is to take

  676. care. Is to fight

  677. the threat for other people's lives.

  678. Some of them died in

  679. the process. And when I saw

  680. it, I saw the picture of the

  681. believer. The one who

  682. would run toward the threats

  683. and contending and Fighting for the harassment

  684. the devil is. Is hitting people with.

  685. Yes, of course there will be casualty. What

  686. for? That is what the disciples

  687. did once they

  688. understood before they never understood.

  689. When Jesus died, they were

  690. afraid for the Jews. They went

  691. and they locked themselves in the place.

  692. But not when they contact that

  693. power. When not when the

  694. kanddom came in the sun,

  695. they become

  696. vicusats

  697. in the sun. They say from today they flock

  698. them. Don't ever again teach and Speak in

  699. that name.

  700. Don said

  701. this name. We will not stop it. The coun

  702. council were surprised. Act 4:13.

  703. You said when they saw the boldness

  704. of Peter and John in the

  705. so and they say We know

  706. these men now. They are not

  707. educatedh.

  708. They have not learnt this thing. But they

  709. sayh the now the Bible

  710. says they realize that this man has

  711. been with Jesus. By this

  712. time they have

  713. accessed the kingdom and their

  714. life is a different life.

  715. Question. Can someone see your

  716. life and know you have

  717. contacted something? Or will what you

  718. carry be always be traceable to your

  719. Grandfather m He said don't play with

  720. us. In my family we have

  721. me. I don't take it lying down.

  722. La in your family, which family is

  723. that? Which

  724. family is that one?

  725. We glory in nonsense. We

  726. glo in the tradition of men

  727. and neglect and reject our life.

  728. Will you trust the Lord that this year

  729. that there shall be evident? Paul

  730. charged Timothy and said

  731. be committed he said, through yourself

  732. he said, so that your're evident. I mean your

  733. profiting will be evident to all.

  734. So that your prophets your

  735. profiting will be evident to all. So when we talk about

  736. the kingdom it comes when we believe the

  737. gospel that authority

  738. come. That's why when we sing that song,

  739. he said and I know understand

  740. I know that healing

  741. is happening through my hands.

  742. I know is a

  743. knowing when the kingdom

  744. comes, it is not by seeining it'by knowing.

  745. The kingdom does not come with

  746. observation. The kingdom

  747. comes by knowing. He said,

  748. this is eternal life that ye

  749. by know Thee ye min

  750. know

  751. its knowledge. When they had.

  752. When they received it, they became bold

  753. and they did greetings.

  754. So you're not going anywhere.

  755. Stop. Don't stop. Stop trying

  756. to escape. You not escape

  757. became who you are. Stop the

  758. harassment going on in your families.

  759. Stop the harassment that the devil had been doing to people.

  760. You understand? It's high time to

  761. arise to preach this

  762. kingdom, to preach this

  763. authority that come by

  764. believing. That come by

  765. believing. You know there's a song mo time when there is a

  766. deatht they used to sing I used to love

  767. itam then where I grew is

  768. close to jo plateo state in

  769. Nigeria. So we used to catch PRTV

  770. inside each time we hear that song somebody has

  771. died you a

  772. Never grow old

  773. never grow old

  774. is a land Where will

  775. never grow old.

  776. Never grow old

  777. Never grow old

  778. is a land that will never

  779. grow old. You know including that

  780. one you are see more ago but this one, well immediately you hear

  781. it. You know somebody ale

  782. yes we total submission to the will of

  783. God son. We

  784. regreta is a daughterv and then we regret

  785. no, but you

  786. see our ah, Daddy. I'll call him

  787. daddy. Jim Reeves in the

  788. sun when he san that song there's

  789. a knowledge is missing because that's why there's on part

  790. because the idea that when he spoke he's thinking of a space

  791. somewhere. When we die we will you know that's

  792. why he sang that song and the

  793. songimes sound comfort tea

  794. the sun and then you know that his voice

  795. I have heard

  796. of A land on a far

  797. awayra dis a

  798. beauty home of

  799. the soul. Sou

  800. built by Jesus on

  801. high. Yah will never

  802. or shall die. Tis the land

  803. M.

  804. Yes,

  805. Daddyent.

  806. No. The

  807. kingdom is not a land.

  808. Are we together? It's not where we are looking

  809. for to

  810. Hallelujah. It's not a

  811. promise. It's a

  812. reality. Now

  813. are we together?

  814. We are already in the land.

  815. Is not what we expect

  816. to have when we die. We have

  817. it now.

  818. Now are we together

  819. now?

  820. Now you are re not Abraham

  821. and the patrch who we are

  822. looking up to.

  823. You understand? Give me Hebrews

  824. Elevenrse

  825. 9. When Abraham were looking to up

  826. to that land, even the land he

  827. was looking up to is called a city.

  828. Even that city is not a territory, is a peoplea.

  829. did you understand saying

  830. so? You have to understand when the Bible is talking.

  831. When you say land, you are thinking

  832. of your grandfather

  833. Langirir.

  834. By faith he dwell in the land.

  835. He'talking about physical land of the

  836. promise that is not the promised

  837. lanu. Even the one who entered there

  838. is looking to another land or

  839. another city. He said, as in a

  840. foreign country dwelling in tent

  841. with Isaac and Jacob. The hair with

  842. him of the same promise.

  843. Next verse. For he waited.

  844. For who? For the city.

  845. Who waited Abraham.

  846. He waited for the city which

  847. has foundations,

  848. whose builder and Americcca is God. This

  849. one city is not talking about a

  850. territory. Are we together is

  851. not a territory. Give me someal

  852. 37, verse

  853. 29. Psalm

    Psalms 37:29

  854. 37, verse 29.

  855. The righteous shall inherit the

  856. land and dwell in it.

  857. How? How

  858. forever. This is not a

  859. physical land. That is

  860. what Abraham, was

  861. looking. That land is a

  862. people. That land is.

  863. We call a city. Move

  864. to Hebrews 12.

  865. You will see that is a reality.

  866. Now

  867. he say what reality now? Hebrews

    Hebrews 12:22

  868. 12:22.

  869. But you have come to Mount

  870. Zion and to the city of the

  871. living God, the heavely Jerusalem. not

  872. you will come. You have

  873. come to the,

  874. innumirable company of angels.

  875. Next verse. To the Jara assembly and

  876. the church of who?

  877. The church of who? A people or

  878. a territory. A people or a

  879. territory? The church of the

  880. firstborn who is registered with CAC

  881. or where which is registered in

  882. heaven. To God the judge of all and to the spirit

  883. of the judgment made perfect.

  884. Please give me. I have to read this one. Give

  885. me Corinthians. and we're going to just

  886. do some adjustments more in the sun

  887. instead of land Will correctly sing that

  888. song. Ah, I love that song. It's A beautiful song.

  889. But that land will not put it there.

  890. You understand? And we will change the whole thing because

  891. that is. Yes, Our believers expecting

  892. something. Yes. Did you understand m

  893. saying we are expecting something? We have not come into

  894. the fullness of what already has been

  895. possessed of us. You know what I'm saying?

  896. Yes. We are expecting something, but not they land.

  897. The land is a reality. Let me show you that one, and then

  898. we'll close.

  899. Second Corinthians. Oh, this one. Please

  900. open with me. I want you to read with me quickly.

  901. 2 Corinthians, chapter

    2 Corinthians 4 chapter mention

  902. 4.

  903. 2nd Corinthians,

  904. chapter 4.

  905. Look at verse 16. Therefore, we do not lose

  906. heart. Even though our outward man

  907. perishing, yet, our inward man is being renewed day

  908. by day. For our light affliction,

  909. which is but for a moment,

  910. is working for us a far more

  911. excellent and eternal weight of

  912. glory. While we look, While we do not

  913. look. Did you see that? Are you with

  914. me? While we do not look at the

  915. things which are seenin, please, I want you to know. Which means there

  916. is something we are expecting.

  917. What is sin. But ah, are the things which

  918. are not seenin. For the things which are sin

  919. are temal, but the things which are not

  920. seen are, eternal. Verse 5, chapter 5.

  921. For we know.

  922. We know is a

  923. knowing That if our

  924. atly house. Say Atley house.

  925. Say Atley house.

  926. Our Atley house.

  927. This tent is destroyed.

  928. We have a building of God.

  929. We have a building of God. A house

  930. not met with hands eternal in

  931. heaven. For in this we

  932. groan, earnestly designed to be clothed with our

  933. habitation which

  934. is from heaven. If indeed having been

  935. clothed, we shall not be found

  936. naked. For we who are, in this

  937. tent be burened

  938. not because we want to be cloth on clothes,

  939. but for that clothe that

  940. mortality may be

  941. swallowed up by life. Now, he who

  942. has prepared us for this very thingin

  943. is God, who also has given us

  944. the spirit as a guarantee that, that will happen.

  945. So we are, always confident,

  946. knowing that while we are, ah,

  947. at home in the body, we

  948. are absent from the Lord. For we walk

  949. by faith, not by sight. That's why he

  950. said, we know. We know.

  951. We, ah, are confident. Yes,

  952. well, please, rather to be absent from the body

  953. and to be present with the Lord. He's

  954. talking about the body. When he say

  955. we have a house. He's talking about

  956. celestial body. He's talking about this,

  957. the spiritual body we are. We long for.

  958. So now we're going to put this thing now

  959. where we have a land In James

  960. Rick songs, we'put a house

  961. in the now because

  962. that house will never grow old.

  963. So when you sing never

  964. grow old.

  965. Never grow old

  966. in a house. Because the house

  967. now is a celestial body

  968. where it will never grow old. Did

  969. you understand saying e that is

  970. what we are expecting. Are we

  971. together? That is what we are expecting.

  972. So now you understand that

  973. the authority. When we say

  974. manifesting the kingdom, we are first

  975. saying manifesting the

  976. authority, the dominion of God.

  977. Are we together? That is what we are saying.

  978. We are not saying you will go somewhere in the sun.

  979. Are we together? And I want you to

  980. say this with me.

  981. I believe the gospel.

  982. Please say it as you. I mean, say

  983. it with your with conviction. If you are

  984. born again here, say it.

  985. Except if you have not

  986. believedir

  987. and we'praying for you so that you believe.

  988. Yes, sir. So I believe the

  989. gospel. Therefore,

  990. I am in the kingdom now,

  991. right now, at this very

  992. moment. At this very

  993. moment. I am not waiting for

  994. it. I have it

  995. now. I have dominion.

  996. I have authority. Christ's

  997. authority. He is my life.

  998. His victory is my victory.

  999. Oh, I reign in life,

  1000. over demons, over sin,

  1001. over the whole system and

  1002. every force of darkness. Oh, this is

  1003. my life. This is my song.

  1004. And this is my reality. Oh, this is

  1005. my life. This is my

  1006. song. And This is my

  1007. reality.

  1008. Just pray to you. Shalak Kapata

  1009. Kataba.

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