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Understanding the Kingdom of God
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>> Speaker B: Now what I will do today, I will just build on
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what he did, just like an
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introduction of the theme.
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If you're writing. So I will talk today on
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understanding the kingdom of God.
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Understanding the kingdom of God
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because you can manifest
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what you have not understood.
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Every man
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will reflect the level his knowledge,
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which means is that before we begin to talk of
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manifesting the kingdom,
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we have to understand exactly what
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is manifesting. What is
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the kingdom of God?
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You know, many of our
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practices as believers
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have become
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religious because there is no
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understanding.
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When Jesus washed the feet of his
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disciples and he
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told,
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I show you an example.
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I show you an example. He said,
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do the same.
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You know, today you see churches
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who will bring a bow and pour
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water. And you see members and the
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pastors is washing their feet.
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You get this type of dumb practices
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when understanding is not there.
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And we the reason is because we don't pay
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attention to scriptures.
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If you have been reading, probably you ought to have
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understood that that's not what Jesus is talking
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about. Because even Peter missed
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it. Peter said, no, master, you won't wash
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my feet. And Jesus said,
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if I don't wash you, you have no part in
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me. Brother, is not talking about physical things.
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That there is something critical he is trying to
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communicate
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what he that you have no
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part in me. There
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is something deeper he is
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communicating. And that's
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why he continued and then began
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to teach. By the time you reach. Because
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that if you in John
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13 by the time you reach
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35 is
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a love for one another. And the
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by this shall all men know
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that ye are my disciples.
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That's why we don't want to miss
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the truth. We are paying
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attention. No Russian.
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We want to know God
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accurately so that our worship will be
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accurate.
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We don't want to face the Master.
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And he said, what you have done
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is useless work. It has been burnned.
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He said, you will pass you, but your
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works will be burnnedt.
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We don't want to do a useless work.
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We do not want to labor and
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overnight there is no reward of it.
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That's why we are mettriul. We want to
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know what exactly is in
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the intent of the author of
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what God desire.
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Go back to that verse 20 of Luke
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17. Look at ver 20,
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Luke 17.
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He says that
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now when he
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Was asked
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by the Pharisees
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when the kingdom of
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God would come.
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When the kingdom of God will
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come. The first question we want to
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ask what is the
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kingdom? That's the
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first question. What is the
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kingdom that the Pharisee,
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even the Pharisee are asking
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when will it come? And Jesus
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didn't say what are you talking about? Come? Come
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where? No, Jesus said
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the kingdom does not come. So that
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means Jesus is saying what you are asking
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is a good question. But
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I'm just trying to let you know what your
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eyes is seeing. It'not where you will see
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it. That's why he say he does not come by
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observation. But then that
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means we have to get accurately
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what is the kingdom?
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Because one time that is where the issue. So when we talk about
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manifesting the kingdom, what exactly we are talking
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about? Hallelujah.
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So that wor the kingdom.
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Now please, if you're in this church, don't be afraid of
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Greek Hebrew do you know? Understand I'm saying
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don't be afraid. I don't know Greek too.
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But by the virtue of the
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work of God in our hand,
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there is no huoddle we will not cross to know the truth.
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Do you know I'm saying you are in. You are
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in a privileged generation
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that we have everything. Even if you don't know Greek,
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Hebrew, whatever in the sun.
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Our, sister last week,
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testify that she had to learn Turkish,
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you know, understand to be able to. And it gave an
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advantage in their career
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some of us who refused to learn where. What is your story
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today?
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That's a word for someone
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now. But the point is that what we are saying to say is that
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so there are certain things to get the
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truth. We have to read
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and understand the original word.
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And then we will now leave the context.
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Remember, even in this show you have also
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understood that in reading scripture we don't
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read in paragraph andrse. I mean we don't read
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it in verses and chapters
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and headings. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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You understand? We read as if those chapters
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does not exist
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because context is key.
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That word kingdom. Please follow
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me gradually. That's the reason why I'm slow.
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Because if you miss this part of the
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introductory part Pastor Fre started last
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week. I am telling you miss
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everything we'll be doing both in cell
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and it is going to be
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dangerous
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that what kingdom?
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Don't mind my pronunistion of Greo. I told you I didn't know
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Greek. The most important thing
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is to know the word and to know what it means
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are we together?
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It's basacillia. So I will
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spell it. that's not the pronunciation. I have
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tried to know how to pronounce it. Well,
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I didn't know, but just know that it's something like
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that. Did you
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hear say yes.
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So is ba
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si
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le
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I Ba m
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si l e
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I
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is a noun.
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And that word means
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dominion.
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That word means
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authority. That m
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whatd means rule.
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That what means royal
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power. It's not just power,
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you understand, has to do with reigning.
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Understand Royal power.
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Do we get that? That
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word? That is what it means now
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by just defining that word, it has crumbled
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many things. Now, you know
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what Pastor Fre said last week?
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That the kingdom is not a
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place. Is that what he said?
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Good. So
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each time we say the kingdom of God
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is not a territory, that's not what we are talking
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about. What are we saying again? What,
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which wor did I say? What is a kingdom?
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Dominion. Yes. Authority
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and rule. Royal power.
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I beg in the name of God, don't forget this
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because we're going to be talking about the kingdom of God. Plenty,
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plenty, plenty. So when we said
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now that the theme of the Y
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is manifesting the kingdom
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Calibraa makada,
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now you know what we are saying
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is manifesting authority,
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manifesting dominion,
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manifesting rule,
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you know, I'm saying that's
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why that song says that,
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dear, is power,
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abandant power. Why
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for the Holy Ghost
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is. Do you understand that? That
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is the kingdom.
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We are not talking about a
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place where people are, wearing white
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clothes,
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where they said that there is
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gold in a s.
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Did you know? I'm saying that's not
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what we're talking about.
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Because most of those people who taught that
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as ah, the kingdom, they are
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using human
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establishment to define God's
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kingdom. Are we
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together? Are, we together?
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Hallelujah.
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So kingdom
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of God or the kingdom, in this
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context must never
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be confused with territory,
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with a place,
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rather
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authority. So when you say the
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kingdom of God, what you are saying is the
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dominion of God. What you
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are saying is that the authority of
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God.
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Glory to God.
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So that word
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palia is actually
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a word that is from a root word
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called basilious.
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B E S I
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B e S
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I L e
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u L E u
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S Basilius
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and that word is a noun, but it means
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a leader of a people.
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It means a prince,
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a, commander, the lord
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of the land or the king.
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So you don't understand.
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So when there is power here,
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what that Means is that I am the
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commander, you understand?
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And the commander
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has the kingdom.
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Note again. Now
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Basilius
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is the king.
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Basacilia m is not
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the territory of the king.
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It is the power of the
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king. Did you
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understand saying it? So that is what
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we are saying.
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Now, since now we understand the kindingdle
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what it means, I want
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you to substitute it in that
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scripture. This one.
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You can now read it this way. Now
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when he was asked by the Pharisees
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wherein the dominion
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or when the
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authority of
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God will cop, he answered
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and them answered
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the dominion
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or the power
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or the rule in the
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of God does not
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come by observation.
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We're going to see how does it
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come? Because Jesus already said it
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does not come with
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observation.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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Let me show you something. Go back to that 20.
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Now when he was asked by the
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Pharisee when the
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kingdom of God will come,
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then Jesus said it does not come. I
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want you to know something. The
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kingdom is about what will
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come, not where you will
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go.
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it's not where you will go.
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The kingdom is
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come. Now you understand what the kingdom is. Are we
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together? So it will be that you don't have sense
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when we say we will go. Because how can you
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say we will go? Will go power
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or we will go into
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authority. No. Is
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the one that will come.
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Is the one that will come.
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Now again, let me emphasize what
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pastor Fred told us last week.
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That it is not a place.
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So stop dreaming that when
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you die you go
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somewheremm.
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Are we together? Amen. That is what we are talking
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about. I believe somebody is understanding
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something. Amen.
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I don't need to explain further because when you understand
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Bible, then you will see that when
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somebody says something, you know that is
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speaking. Because imagine,
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let's say you are in Lagos, Nigeria and somebody say Lagos
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come to Cyprus. Will Lagos ever
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come to Cyprus? You can only go to Lagos,
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but Lagos cannot come. do you understand I'SAYING
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because if it is a place, it will not come.
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You are the one that will go if it is a place,
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but it is not a place.
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Hallelujah.
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Now I want to remind you of what you have been
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reading again. Now
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when you read what we normally call the lost prayer.
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Let's leave with that. That. But
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he says something. He said, thy kingdom
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come. thy will be done on earth.
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Are we together? You now understand what Jesus is talking
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about.
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So I don't want you to be singing some
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songs that looks you don't understand.
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M. Did you understand I'm saying
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So we have to be careful.
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We know himonight.
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Thy kingdom come, Thy
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will be done. No, that's not his song to sing.
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Now
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change it. Because
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we will show you that the kingdom has
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comera already and the will
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has been done. Are we
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together? Hallelujah.
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Good. Now look at verse
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21. Look, verse 21.
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He said no. Will they say see
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here or see there?
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For indeed the kingdom
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of God is within
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you. Is within you
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first. Remember, he told them, the
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kingdom does not come with
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observation. That is is not what you
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see. The power,
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the authority, the rule
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is not what you see.
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That means is spiritual. It
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does not, come with observation. That is not what you
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see. You can't see as a see there
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because that is remember.
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I believe Jesus have
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tapped into the
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Pharisee'mind
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Remember the
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life of the apostles
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before their eyes opened, in the 40 days
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teaching with Jesus,
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before he moved away from them
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in the sun, they kept asking him, when will
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you restore
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the what he, are you with m Me?
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When will you restore the
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kingdom to Israel?
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They ex it. In fact,
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look captured it in two places
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in act of Apostles, chapter one.
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You understand? And again Luke 24.
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He helped us to know what also
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these Pharisees are thinking.
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That's why Jesus tell does
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not come by what by observation.
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So don't say see here, there. Because that is
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what also the disciples were thinking.
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When will you restore the kingdom?
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Because they are looking at
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the Romans, how they were
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dealing the structure.
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Remember when they came and they were
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lobbying John and his
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brother, he said, let me sit by this side. You see
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what they are thinking? And let me sit by this side.
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In where in your kingdom.
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Lack of understanding. Because they
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thoughtaught God's kingdom is
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like the kingdom of men. And
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don't think the other
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10 we. Because when
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they heard that the two, were lobbying
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the Bible said, they became indignant.
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That means they say, so these people, that's what they are
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planning. And Jesus had to
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call them
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and taught them again in the sa
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and said, what you are seeing outside.
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How they do it in the other kingdom
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is that they loade it over
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people. He said, but in this kingdom
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it is not so. The greatest
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among you shall be the servant of all.
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Even the Son of Man. He
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did not come understand to be
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served, but to serve and to
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give his life a ransom for many.
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So that was what. So, I'm trying to connect to you Jesus
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answer so that you don't think that the Pharisee has
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some Revelation.
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Because when Jesus just immediately said it
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didn't, it does not come by.
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Neither will you say, see there, See here?
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That is what he was addressing.
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Unfortunately, over more than 2,000
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years ago, we still have believers. They are
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in the kingdom, they are in the
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authority, they are in the power.
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But they are waiting the day they will
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go into the kingdom. And now look
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at it.
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He said, for
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indeed the kingdom of God
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is within you. Now
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listen, you have to train your mind
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now that we have started addressing this issue, because eastern now
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I say the kingdom, there's that debris that you have
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held since you
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know, sir, you have to deal with it. That is your responsibility.
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Because you have to deliberately, you
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understand, relear. Now,
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now when Jesus says the kingdom means the
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authority, the power is within you. That
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what within you? That's not a good, translation.
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That word within you is amt, you
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is amidst you.
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Because listen, reading
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even the context know that that is with. If you
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say within is inside them, why
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then, are they asking when will it come?
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Did you see how it doesn't make sense? Because if what
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Jesus is saying, that the kingdom is
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inside the Pharisee,
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why then are they asking when will it come?
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So that within you contextually shows that he's not
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talking about that.
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Jo is saying that the kingdom is inside them.
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Are we together? So it'am, miss
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them is and miss them.
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Hallelujah.
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So when Jesus said the kingdom
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is within you, Jesus was talking
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about himself.
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He was talking about himself
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that he was amids them.
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What that means is that the coming
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of Jesus is the coming of the
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kingdom. That means
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up until Jesus has arrived, the
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kingdom has not come. That's why
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it's important to know
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that this kingdom, this
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dominion, this power, this authority
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in the sun
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is the coming of
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Christ. Look at with me
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Isaiah quickly. Isaiah 9.
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When we are young, we have being
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learning this verse very very well for a
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long time. We together
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is have nine, verse six.
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We have been made to memorize this, but we don't know the meaning.
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For unto us a child is born,
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unto us a son is given.
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And the government will be
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upon his shoulder. And his name will
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be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
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Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. Of the
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increase of his government and peace
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there shall be no end upon the throne of David
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and over his kingdom
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to order it and establish it with
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judgment and justice.
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From that time forward, even forever,
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the zeal of the Lord of hosts
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will perform this. Now look at
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it. Most times when I was growing up when they say the
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government, you know, because we are used to democracy,
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you understand? Most believers are
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thinking that the
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government
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is that God will come, he will take over
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this government and his believers will
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be there. And we'quot in some scriptures when they
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just are on the throne. The righteous
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prosper. You a sir,
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you. You know that kind of thing. Just the same we used to calle that
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scripture. What was that scripture? The
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blessing of the Lord. It make it rich
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and it had no sorrow in it.
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Kashaakata. You see, when the Lord
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blesses you, there is no sourrow. Bro. Brother
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did do something. Don't worry. We're going to unpack some of those
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things. That's why you don't just take things anyhow.
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In the sun or the parts of the jaws
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is like a shining light that shines more and
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more onto the perfect day. And then you
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ask explain.
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Hallelujah. No, brother, you are in the perfect
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day. You are in the perfect day.
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It's not you is talking about. Did you understand?
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Saying, that's the just of
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the old who are seeing the
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promissory. Their revelation is progressive.
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Did you understand I saying? He'progressive
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and suddenly the man of Calvary
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appeared and he stepped and,
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and, and John told us and
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the word became flesh. And
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suddenly in the past he spoke through
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prophets, but now he said he spoke to his
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son.
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What you see we'talking about, we're
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saying that, that government
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is not the country's seat of power.
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That word government
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is a word called misra.
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M M I S R
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A. M M I S R
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A. That word is
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a word in Hebrew. You
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it means rule. What you it
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mean rule? It means
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dominium. That's what it means.
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Just the same thing we see in Greek
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basilia. That's the same thing. This one
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means dominion.
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Misra. So when
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he is talking, he said in that
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prophecy in the
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sa that of the increase of
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his government. Brother is not talking
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about territory. Are
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we together? Amen. He's all talking
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about territory.
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So Jesus told them, the kingdom of God
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does not come by what? By
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what? It does not
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come by observation.
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So how does a
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man have contact with the
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kingdom of God? Because what we are talking about
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manifesting the kingdom is only those people
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who have the kingdom will manifest it.
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By the way, you know, I'm talking about authority.
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So how do a man have
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contact with the kingdom or
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have access to the kingdom? Jesus already
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have said it does not come by what,
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John, chapter three.
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John, chapter three.
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Halak Kabadaka Glory to
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Jesus.
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Look at verse three
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he said. Jesus answered and said
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to him. Now you see Nicodemus
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came When you read from verse one, you
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know he's intriguing me. Look at ve two he say, this man came to
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Jesus by night in the sun
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and said, rabbi, we know that
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you are a teacher come from God.
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Jesus immediately have to change the
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discussion because this man that is a Pharisee
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have learned a lot inocent ever
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learning, but never ever coming to the knowledge of the
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truth. He has not understood that no, Jesus
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is not a teacher that comes from God. That's why in
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that context Jesus presented himself as the
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Savior, the sacrifice for sin.
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Did you understand saying no, he's not a teacher that
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come from God. He didn't come. Do you understand
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saying Jesus turned the discussion
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and start talking talking.
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And that's why you didn't understand you the
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so now look at
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it Vu he said Jesus
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answered and said to him, most
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assuredly I said to you, unless one is
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born again, he
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cannot see
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the kingdom of God. Now
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he's not talking about going to somewhere
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he cannot see the
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dominion, the authority, the
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rule.
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Nicodemus did't understand.
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Nicodimo said to him,
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how can a man be
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born when he is old?
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Can he enter a second time
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into his mother's womb and be born? And
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Jesus clarified again what he said in VE3
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he said, no. Jesus answered mosturedly
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I say to you, unless one is
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born of the water
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and the spirit, he cannot enter
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the kingdom of God.
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Jesus clarify. What I'm talking about is not
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the issue of physical thing, it's not biological.
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Verse 6 that which is born of
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flesh, meaning that which is biological is
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biological. Understand? But that
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which is born of the spirit
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is a spirit. So he's talking
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about that how you access it is spiritual.
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Is spiritual. That was Jesus told them, it does not come by
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what reservation is
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spiritual,
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it happens spiritual.
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And Jesus kept on discussing up until he
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went to a point where he told him how the
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man can access how he can be born
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again. Are we together? And for God so loved the
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world that he gave
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his only begotten son that whoso ever believe
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in him will not perish
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but have a everlasting life.
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So what he is saying that it is a spirit that
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tossed and I want you to know that and I don't
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want you to forget that that
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we access power, dominion and authority
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is when we received the gospel.
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Is when we receive the gospel.
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So the kingdom of God is not
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access after Life. It's not what.
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When you die, you will see. Understand?
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We will go, And be with him. Where have you been?
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Huh? He said he has gone to be with the Lord.
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Where has he been all this while? Is it
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now that he died that you go to be with the Lord?
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Did you understand that? That's what we are
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saying. And I want you
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to. To. To. To see
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this. Now you
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understand the kingdom is power.
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It's not escaping from pain.
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You. Some of us are dreaming a place where
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we will go. You know that white place. I told you
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that people with writing we lo rope
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in the
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See there is no pain. That's where we are hoping to
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go. While God has given you authority
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in the sun to put
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the devil in his place. You see the devil
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harassing people. You're not angry and you are
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waiting to escape.
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God has kept you to save people from this
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harassment. And All you are dreaming is to
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escape. You know, I have a picture during pandemic
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while everybody is running. You
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understand? It's running while
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everybody is closing down. Government are closing down things.
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But we have some people which we call the health
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workers.
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People are running from the threat. They are moving
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towards it. Men. It taught me many lessons.
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Their focus is not their life.
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Their focus is to take
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care. Is to fight
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the threat for other people's lives.
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Some of them died in
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the process. And when I saw
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it, I saw the picture of the
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believer. The one who
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would run toward the threats
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and contending and Fighting for the harassment
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the devil is. Is hitting people with.
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Yes, of course there will be casualty. What
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for? That is what the disciples
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did once they
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understood before they never understood.
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When Jesus died, they were
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afraid for the Jews. They went
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and they locked themselves in the place.
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But not when they contact that
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power. When not when the
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kanddom came in the sun,
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they become
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vicusats
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in the sun. They say from today they flock
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them. Don't ever again teach and Speak in
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that name.
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Don said
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this name. We will not stop it. The coun
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council were surprised. Act 4:13.
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You said when they saw the boldness
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of Peter and John in the
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so and they say We know
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these men now. They are not
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educatedh.
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They have not learnt this thing. But they
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sayh the now the Bible
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says they realize that this man has
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been with Jesus. By this
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time they have
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accessed the kingdom and their
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life is a different life.
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Question. Can someone see your
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life and know you have
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contacted something? Or will what you
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carry be always be traceable to your
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Grandfather m He said don't play with
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us. In my family we have
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me. I don't take it lying down.
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La in your family, which family is
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that? Which
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family is that one?
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We glory in nonsense. We
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glo in the tradition of men
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and neglect and reject our life.
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Will you trust the Lord that this year
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that there shall be evident? Paul
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charged Timothy and said
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be committed he said, through yourself
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he said, so that your're evident. I mean your
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profiting will be evident to all.
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So that your prophets your
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profiting will be evident to all. So when we talk about
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the kingdom it comes when we believe the
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gospel that authority
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come. That's why when we sing that song,
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he said and I know understand
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I know that healing
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is happening through my hands.
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I know is a
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knowing when the kingdom
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comes, it is not by seeining it'by knowing.
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The kingdom does not come with
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observation. The kingdom
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comes by knowing. He said,
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this is eternal life that ye
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by know Thee ye min
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know
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its knowledge. When they had.
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When they received it, they became bold
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and they did greetings.
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So you're not going anywhere.
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Stop. Don't stop. Stop trying
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to escape. You not escape
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became who you are. Stop the
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harassment going on in your families.
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Stop the harassment that the devil had been doing to people.
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You understand? It's high time to
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arise to preach this
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kingdom, to preach this
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authority that come by
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believing. That come by
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believing. You know there's a song mo time when there is a
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deatht they used to sing I used to love
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itam then where I grew is
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close to jo plateo state in
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Nigeria. So we used to catch PRTV
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inside each time we hear that song somebody has
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died you a
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Never grow old
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never grow old
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is a land Where will
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never grow old.
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Never grow old
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Never grow old
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is a land that will never
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grow old. You know including that
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one you are see more ago but this one, well immediately you hear
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it. You know somebody ale
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yes we total submission to the will of
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God son. We
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regreta is a daughterv and then we regret
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no, but you
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see our ah, Daddy. I'll call him
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daddy. Jim Reeves in the
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sun when he san that song there's
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a knowledge is missing because that's why there's on part
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because the idea that when he spoke he's thinking of a space
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somewhere. When we die we will you know that's
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why he sang that song and the
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songimes sound comfort tea
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the sun and then you know that his voice
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I have heard
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of A land on a far
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awayra dis a
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beauty home of
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the soul. Sou
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built by Jesus on
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high. Yah will never
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or shall die. Tis the land
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M.
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Yes,
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Daddyent.
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No. The
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kingdom is not a land.
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Are we together? It's not where we are looking
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for to
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Hallelujah. It's not a
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promise. It's a
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reality. Now
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are we together?
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We are already in the land.
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Is not what we expect
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to have when we die. We have
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it now.
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Now are we together
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now?
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Now you are re not Abraham
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and the patrch who we are
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looking up to.
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You understand? Give me Hebrews
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Elevenrse
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9. When Abraham were looking to up
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to that land, even the land he
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was looking up to is called a city.
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Even that city is not a territory, is a peoplea.
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did you understand saying
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so? You have to understand when the Bible is talking.
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When you say land, you are thinking
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of your grandfather
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Langirir.
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By faith he dwell in the land.
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He'talking about physical land of the
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promise that is not the promised
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lanu. Even the one who entered there
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is looking to another land or
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another city. He said, as in a
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foreign country dwelling in tent
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with Isaac and Jacob. The hair with
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him of the same promise.
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Next verse. For he waited.
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For who? For the city.
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Who waited Abraham.
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He waited for the city which
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has foundations,
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whose builder and Americcca is God. This
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one city is not talking about a
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territory. Are we together is
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not a territory. Give me someal
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37, verse
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29. Psalm
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37, verse 29.
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The righteous shall inherit the
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land and dwell in it.
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How? How
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forever. This is not a
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physical land. That is
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what Abraham, was
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looking. That land is a
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people. That land is.
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We call a city. Move
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to Hebrews 12.
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You will see that is a reality.
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Now
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he say what reality now? Hebrews
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12:22.
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But you have come to Mount
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Zion and to the city of the
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living God, the heavely Jerusalem. not
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you will come. You have
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come to the,
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innumirable company of angels.
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Next verse. To the Jara assembly and
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the church of who?
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The church of who? A people or
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a territory. A people or a
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territory? The church of the
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firstborn who is registered with CAC
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or where which is registered in
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heaven. To God the judge of all and to the spirit
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of the judgment made perfect.
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Please give me. I have to read this one. Give
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me Corinthians. and we're going to just
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do some adjustments more in the sun
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instead of land Will correctly sing that
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song. Ah, I love that song. It's A beautiful song.
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But that land will not put it there.
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You understand? And we will change the whole thing because
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that is. Yes, Our believers expecting
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something. Yes. Did you understand m
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saying we are expecting something? We have not come into
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the fullness of what already has been
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possessed of us. You know what I'm saying?
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Yes. We are expecting something, but not they land.
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The land is a reality. Let me show you that one, and then
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we'll close.
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Second Corinthians. Oh, this one. Please
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open with me. I want you to read with me quickly.
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2 Corinthians, chapter
2 Corinthians 4 chapter mention
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4.
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2nd Corinthians,
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chapter 4.
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Look at verse 16. Therefore, we do not lose
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heart. Even though our outward man
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perishing, yet, our inward man is being renewed day
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by day. For our light affliction,
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which is but for a moment,
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is working for us a far more
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excellent and eternal weight of
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glory. While we look, While we do not
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look. Did you see that? Are you with
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me? While we do not look at the
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things which are seenin, please, I want you to know. Which means there
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is something we are expecting.
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What is sin. But ah, are the things which
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are not seenin. For the things which are sin
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are temal, but the things which are not
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seen are, eternal. Verse 5, chapter 5.
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For we know.
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We know is a
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knowing That if our
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atly house. Say Atley house.
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Say Atley house.
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Our Atley house.
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This tent is destroyed.
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We have a building of God.
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We have a building of God. A house
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not met with hands eternal in
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heaven. For in this we
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groan, earnestly designed to be clothed with our
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habitation which
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is from heaven. If indeed having been
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clothed, we shall not be found
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naked. For we who are, in this
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tent be burened
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not because we want to be cloth on clothes,
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but for that clothe that
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mortality may be
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swallowed up by life. Now, he who
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has prepared us for this very thingin
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is God, who also has given us
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the spirit as a guarantee that, that will happen.
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So we are, always confident,
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knowing that while we are, ah,
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at home in the body, we
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are absent from the Lord. For we walk
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by faith, not by sight. That's why he
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said, we know. We know.
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We, ah, are confident. Yes,
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well, please, rather to be absent from the body
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and to be present with the Lord. He's
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talking about the body. When he say
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we have a house. He's talking about
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celestial body. He's talking about this,
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the spiritual body we are. We long for.
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So now we're going to put this thing now
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where we have a land In James
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Rick songs, we'put a house
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in the now because
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that house will never grow old.
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So when you sing never
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grow old.
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Never grow old
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in a house. Because the house
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now is a celestial body
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where it will never grow old. Did
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you understand saying e that is
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what we are expecting. Are we
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together? That is what we are expecting.
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So now you understand that
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the authority. When we say
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manifesting the kingdom, we are first
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saying manifesting the
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authority, the dominion of God.
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Are we together? That is what we are saying.
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We are not saying you will go somewhere in the sun.
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Are we together? And I want you to
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say this with me.
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I believe the gospel.
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Please say it as you. I mean, say
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it with your with conviction. If you are
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born again here, say it.
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Except if you have not
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believedir
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and we'praying for you so that you believe.
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Yes, sir. So I believe the
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gospel. Therefore,
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I am in the kingdom now,
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right now, at this very
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moment. At this very
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moment. I am not waiting for
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it. I have it
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now. I have dominion.
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I have authority. Christ's
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authority. He is my life.
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His victory is my victory.
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Oh, I reign in life,
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over demons, over sin,
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over the whole system and
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every force of darkness. Oh, this is
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my life. This is my song.
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And this is my reality. Oh, this is
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my life. This is my
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song. And This is my
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reality.
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Just pray to you. Shalak Kapata
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Kataba.
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