Royalty vs Religion PT. 2 | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | July 13th 2025

Word. We thank you that you are present in your

word to inspire to enthuse the You know the word enthusiasm,

It means you know that it comes from in Theosism. Enthusiasm

comes from in theos God in you, God in you.

Enthusiasm comes from God. When God gets in you, it

lights you up. You are enthused. When God is in you,

as you welcome, as you allow, as you receive from God,

then a passion, a flame, a fire comes alive within

you that nothing else can compare to. So God, we

just receive in Theosism. We receive enthusiasm today, Holy Spirit,

we welcome you life, eat up our hearts, light up

our hearts. We give you the praise for it in

Jesus name. Everybody said, we we spoke a little bit

about royalty last week, and I want to we'll just

spend a couple of minutes on that royalty royalty versus religion,

or royalty versus slavery, or royalty versus performance orientation. And

I had a couple of stories on that that for

the at the risk of telling too many stories of

which usually I'm just absolutely dry on stories. But then

Holy Spirit sometimes gives me these stories and I'm like,

thank you, Holy Spirit, I needed that. But I'll tell

you story, and tell you a quick story that'll lead

you to another story. They're both voting stories, which is odd.

But that's good. Good, that's good. When we had a

labrador for seven years, every story was a lab story,

remember that, Remember Lily the lab We had so many

lab stories. It was good, it was wonderful. But this

one here, this one here is a story about we

had a we had a doctor associate. And this doctor

treated me and many of the family members and so

and it wasn't like a health doctor. It was you know,

I don't know, I don't want to tell too much

of the story, but something to do with helping you

look better. That kind of a doctor, right, And so

then we spent a lot of time at this doctor's office.

And then one of our kids became best friends with

their kids. Well, this doctor is super successful and extremely wealthy,

owns twelve or twenty homes all over the place, and

where they would go and lived in a big mansion

on South Hill with a swimming pool. And then they

also had a lake house and I live in my

lake house. They just had it as an extra house

and so you know, back in the day, the kids

were younger, and I was spending enough time at this

office that there was some association going on, and he

was a believer, Like they were really strong believers. And

so one day they invited us to the lake house.

So Joel and I they were invited us to the

lake house. Well, you know, we love that lake, lake taps,

We loved the lake, but we didn't you know, I

think we had jet skis at the time, but we didn't,

you know, I mean, we were more like po folks,

you know, he po folks, So we were, you know,

po folks. So they're so poor that they're missing the R, right,

they can't even afford the R. They're just po folks.

So yeah, that's a Joe Simms joke right there. So

the invited stuff at the lake house, well just somehow,

and I don't know if this has ever happened to you,

but I'm suspecting it has. Is that we have religious

things that are trying to quench our royalty all the time,

and trying to quench the fullness of what we have

possess and have received and who have made the bee

in Christ. All the time. We have religious stuff grappling

at us. But then we also have our own stuff.

We've got like our first atom stuff, the old creation

stuff that's trying to pull us down as well. And

that stuff is also trying to tell us that we're inferior,

that we're worthy of rejection, that we don't fit, that

we're So it's not just you know, the qualit before

God stuff, but we also have the qualified among men stuff,

if you know what I'm talking about. And usually when

we feel like we're qualified in our audience of relationships,

we feel better about ourselves. Anybody feel better about yourself? Okay,

one honest person, but okay, but the truth of the

matter is the supreme qualification is with him, right. Anyway,

these folks invited us to go out on the late day.

I don't know what I did wrong, but I felt like, Hey,

this is cool, Like something is buddy here. You know,

I could just sense something was really budding, you know,

you ever since something is really budding about the but

about the bloom. I'm like, oh, this is so cool.

And so we went to their lakehouse, special lake house,

and they invited us even for food, and you know,

there was food, and then we went down on the

boat and we went for a tour around the lake.

And I don't know what I did wrong, but whatever

I did, like they were, they were they were casting

the net, you know, kind of a thing they were.

They were kind of you could tell. It was like

a friendship interview. You ever been on one of those?

You been on a friendship interview? I failed. I turned

in my application, I went for the interview. I failed.

I don't know what I did. You know, my lovely

wife and I we've talked about this, you know a

few times since since, like I don't you know, we're

done talking about it now, of course, but you know,

but back in the day when this happened, it was like,

I don't know, you know, did I talk too much?

Was that I was nervous? I was nervous. You ever

been nervous? I was nervous. I don't know. If I

talked too much, told too many dumb jokes? Was I

too goofy? Was I just not cool enough? You know,

you gotta flex your chest sometimes a little bit, you know,

you know, act more cool. I don't know. Sometimes I'm

bad at cool. I'm good at goofy, but bad at cool.

So I don't know. It could have been that I

was bad at cool and to goofy, But that was

like the interview was over and it was kind of

a you know, we got in the car and drove away,

and that was kind of at the end. We were

never invited to the lake again. The fact is, I

don't know if we've ever even had a conversation, you know,

you know, I mean it was just like, okay, well,

glory and what we have to know and does this

happened to you? You failed the interview. What we have

to know is that Father still has poured out every

blessing on us, that he still calls us royalty, whether

we measure up with man, whether we rasure up with religion,

whether no matter what our history has been, whatever our

family has been, whatever, it doesn't you know, I don't

know what it was that day, the shorts, the hair,

you know, I don't know what it was. But here's

the beautiful thing. We've still been blessed with everything we

need in Christ Jesus. We still have been brought into

heavenly places. In Christ Jesus. We are still we are

still a walking open heaven. You're a walking open heaven.

You're a walking revival. You're you you. We we still

have to know that we are royalty. We are royalty.

I was thinking coming into the ordination. I was thinking

of Ephesians chapter four, because I was going to read

a little portion of that. How when he ascended, he

gave gifts to men, and then he called them to

be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip the

people for ministry. So I was thinking on that, and

I started with Ephesians for one as a prisoner for

the Lord. This is just a couple of verses where

he starts this, But you have to realize that he

Ephesians four is the breakpoint in the six chapters. Ephesians

is six chapters, and Ephesians four is actually the beginning

of the second half of the book or the letter,

and he actually shifts into a new dimension, and so

it's totally different than the first part. And this is

how it starts. As a prisoner of the Lord, I

urge you to live a life worthy of the calling

you've received. I urge you to live a life worthy

of the calling you've received. Well, he spends the first

three chapters telling us and the Ephesians Church. How amazing

we are. He's telling us in chapter one, verse three,

that we're blessed with every spiritual gift in Christ Jesus.

He tells us in chapter three that God will do

abundantly be on what we ask or think. He tells

us in chapter three, and it's now through the Church

that the mystery of God will be disclosed and made

known to principalities and powers and authorities in the heavenly places.

He's telling us all through. He's telling us in chapter

two that we've received grace and that he's broken down

the dividing wall between jew and gentile, and those who

didn't have any promises have been brought into the promises

of God, and we gentiles have been made partakers of

the promises of God. I mean, he's telling us for

three chapters all this amazing stuff, and then he's exhorting us,

and he's also praying that we would come to know this. Right,

there's a giant prayer in chapter one and in chapter

three that we would come to know the hope of

our calling and the power. Do you remember what the

first one was in chapter one? The inheritance we have

in the Saints. That's why it's good when we hear

one another sharing and testifying, and when we love on

one another, because we're actually one family, and there's an

inheritance we have toward one another in the Saints. So

the inheritance we have in the hope of our calling

and the power to us who believe, which is the

same power that raised Stries from the dead. So he's

praying that we would come into that knowledge, and he's

praying that the Holy Spirit of wisdom and revelation will

visit us so that we'll come to know that stuff,

because if we don't know it, and if we don't

come into the understanding of it, we may not touch

verse one of verse four, that we will begin to

live a life worthy of the royalty we've been called to.

You are called a royalty. You are not a Walmart

shopper in your pajamas. God bless you if you try

that one time, Heaven help you. But just don't let

that be your identity. Church. You are the head and

not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You

lend and you don't borrow. You are the supreme. You're

the kings of the nations and the kings of the earth.

You are the priests of God, meaning people find Christ

through you. You represent Christ to them. We don't have

a priesthood. We have one priest and a giant priesthood.

We're different, we're different. Some churches are still reaching into

the old system and they have a priest or, a father,

or a rector or somebody. They have something up here,

and so all of the lay people they lay around,

they're called laity, and they're just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb,

sheep dumb. And then we have the clergy in salvations

for the clergy, and the clergy is really they're the

cool ones. They're the anointed ones. That's not the New

Testament Church, that is not the New Testament. The New

Testament is. You are all anointed. You are all the ministers,

you are all the called of God. You are all

a royal priesthood. You all carry Yeshia in your gut

and in your gizzard. You are all a walking revival,

and you are in open heaven wherever you go. Heaven

is not a place you're going to, It's an atmosphere

you carry. Every one of us. Do that, anyone on

this platform or in this ministry that leads is an equipper.

They aren't one. We don't. I can't dispense any more

grace than anybody else in this building, because we're all

dispensers of grace, because we're all equal partakers of grace.

But we have to come to that knowledge. We have

to knowledge or we will not walk worthy of our calling.

And he exhorts us for the next three chapters. He's

exhorting us to walk worthy. That's just the beginning of

us walking. He starts that way second half, to walk

worthy of our royal calling. That we are no longer slaves,

We're no longer performers. We're no longer getting our identity

out of performance. We're not getting our identity out of

what somebody says, or if they don't want to take

us on another boat ride or not. Our identity is

secure in the Beloved, It's secure in his purchase of

our salvation. It cannot be taken away from us, he

says in Roman chapter eight. Not height, nor depth, nor persecution,

nor famine nor peril. There is nothing that can separate

us from the love of God. There's nothing that can

separate us from the love of God. Which is fir

established who we've become in Him, and that we are

full part takers now of everything everything in Christ Jesus.

But knowledge is key. You're you're really not here today.

You're not really here today to get more holy You're

not here today to get a deeper revival. You're not

here to really today to get more glory. You're not

here today to get some this dispensing from us that

you don't already possess. You're here today primarily to get knowledge.

You're here today primarily to get knowledge, because you already,

if you're in Christ, you possess all things already. You

just don't know you possess it. You don't know what

you already have. We assemble many times the a major

focus of our assembly is that we would receive more knowledge,

because knowledge is central. Knowledge is critical. And when we're

worshiping the Lord and the Holy Spirit starts. Because because

when you're worshiping, what happens. The Bible says, when you worship,

and this is what happened with David, who was a

precursor to the Salvation. We experience what happened in Zion,

and why we have the psalms, Why do we have

all these prophetic psalms, all these crazy, crazy, crazy amazing psalms.

Why do we have those? Because in Zion, where they

brought not animal sacrifice, but the sacrifice of their lips

and the sacrifice of their instruments, then God would minister

to them and minister through them, because as it says

in the psalms, they would assind with a shout, they

would ascend with the clap, they would ascend with praise,

they would ascend with the worship. They would go. And

what happens with us is we come up into the

place where we're already seated in Him. When we worship,

we come up into the place where we're already seated

in Him, and we're able to receive what's being spoken

over us in that atmosphere, so we're getting knowledge. That's

a part of why it's so rich to worship is

because worship and praise brings you up to where you're

already at so you can hear what's already being said

that you weren't hearing that you need to hear, and

it's the release of the prophetic promises over your life.

Because God's not done talking. The canon was not the

ceiling of God's voice. We didn't close the writing of

the cannon, the canonizing of scripture. We didn't close the

canonized in scripture. And then some ecclesiastical denomination somewhere shouted, Okay,

you're done. You can't talk anymore. We forbid you to talk.

That isn't what happened. God still talks, the Holy Spirit

still leads, The sons of God are led by the

Spirit of God, and knowledge is central. Let's go to

second Peter. I'm gonna close just a moment. I'm working

on my first closing. We've got a keyboard coming. I

can't close without a keyboard. Keep preaching, he'll get trip

him on the way. Just keep preaching until he gets

on the platform. Sorry about that rope on your leg.

Tewod Peter. Chapter one, Simon, Peter, are a bond servant

apostle Jesus Christ to those who have received of faith

the same as ours, by the righteousness of our God

and Savior of Jesus Christ. So we've received this salvation,

this faith, we've received by His righteousness imputed to our

spiritual account. Right then he goes on. Grace and peace

be multiplied to you. They knew about math two thousand

years ago. Multiplication not just simply added to your life,

but grace and peace be multiplied, exponentially, poured out upon you.

Let grace and peace be poured out multiplied to you

in the knowledge of God, Oh, in the Oh, in

the knowledge of Oh, in the knowledge of God. Knowledge

is connected to grace and peace. Grace is unmerited favor

and deserved favor, unearned favor. But grace is also the

power to accomplish God's will, no matter how big that

word or will is over you. So grace grace be

multiplied to you. Peace is shalom. Shalom be multiplied to you.

Shalom is nothing lacking and nothing missing, is what shalom is.

Shalom only exists in its fullest expression, where there's nothing

lacking and nothing missing. And that's what the word means.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you. But how in

the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Why

Because everything that we've become is hidden in him, and

he's the fountain head of the new creation of whom

we've become. Seeing that His divine nature has granted to

us everything pertaining to life and godliness, how many things.

Notice that it's granted. It's not going to be granted.

You already have everything you need for tomorrow. You already

have everything you need for Tuesday. You already have everything

you need for Wednesday. You have everything you need for.

Every difficulty coming, every trial coming, every problem coming, every

bill coming, you already have everything you need. He's granted

to us. His divine power is granted to us everything

pertaining to life, life, and godliness. Well, I just want

to be more godly. Well I just want more life. Hey,

let's have both through the true knowledge. We go back

to knowledge. Through the true knowledge, that means there can

be Leviathan, there can be twistings, there can be lying knowledge.

There can be twisted knowledge, there can be distorted knowledge,

there can be there can be deceiving knowledge. We have

to have the true knowledge. If we don't have the

true knowledge, then we aren't going to have everything granted

to us. But it's not his problem. He granted it.

Where it's us we're missing it. You ever miss it

through the true knowledge of Him who called us by

his own glory and excellence. Verse four. Now look at this,

for by these he has granted to us his precious

and magnificent What promises, oh, oh, my goodness, promises are

how we acquire or lay hold of, or come into

the understanding of the knowledge by these he has granted

to us his precious, magnificent promises, so that by them,

by the promises which define the knowledge which we must have,

by them you meet, you may become partakers of the

divine nature. Are you lacking some of the divine nature?

Are you? Are you falling short? Are you needing more?

Are you desiring more of a man manifestation? Well, he's

not going to give you more of the divine nature.

He already gave you all of the divine nature. What

you're lacking is the knowledge of the promises. As you

acquire the knowledge of the promises, then you immediately and

simultaneously come into receiving, partaking of, and manifesting the divine nature.

And then theology is going to come along, and religion

is going to come along and saying WHOA Now, well,

now be careful, you're going to have valleys. You're gonna

they went through a wilderness for forty years, You're going

to go through a wilderness and you've got some valleys

coming up, and you've got some dry times and some discouragement,

and there's going to be some really hard stuff that

comes your way. So you just might as well expect

that because they went through that, uh and and they

they had a big wilderness and there's going to be

a lot of stuff like that. So just prepare, prepare

like that. But then they these people have not read

the Bible. Not only do you become a particular of

the divine nature, but you escape the corruption that is

in the world. I know, it's hard to believe in it.

You can't even believe. It's so good. This is so good,

you can't even believe it because people have told you.

People have even told you that, I hope you didn't

come to the Lord to get out of troubles, right,

people have told you that, I hope you haven't come

to the Lord, because if you came to the Lord

expecting a better life, that's a bad motive to come

to the Lord. Like life is still going to be

hi double toothpicks. But at least you've got the peace

of God in your heart. That's what you've been told

for hundreds of years. But that says right there. Not

only do I become a partaker of the divine nature.

I escape the corruption that is in the world through

deceit or lust. Send with me. I know we got

to close. I'm just telling you the Bible is going

to scare the crid right out of all those lives

that you've been heard listening to, and all of that

stuff that's told you that you are not royalty, that

you are not set apart, that you're not a partaker

of the goodness of God. The word of God is true.

The word of God is true, and the Word of

God is declaring this over you today, that you are royalty,

that you are sons and daughters of God, that you

who have given your heart to Him, you have trusted

him for salvation. You're leaning into him. You're recognizing, in

counting your old life as put to death with Him

and the Cross, you have already come into resurrection, and

you are living with Him, victorious over sin, over corruption,

over the curse, over darkness, hopelessness, fear, over depression, over performance,

and the demands of religion destiny theme. Would you come,

just spend a couple more minutes with us at the front,

If you're here today giving your life back to the Lord.

If you're here today you've been just like overwhelmed with

falling short in performance. If you're here today needing just

the encouragement of the spirit of God on you, and

if you missed just being prayed for, we want you

to come and just be ministered to. As we're closing today,

we've got those ordination placards to sign. We've got lunch

for you today. You don't need to us out of here.

We've got everything covered. This is like Fred Meyram. This

is like one stop shopping right here. Pharmacy is right

around the corner. If you need a little anointing oil,

they'll give that to you instead of aspiring. Okay, so

but listen, listen, you don't need to run out of here.

God is good, love one another. That's the inheritance we

have in the saints, and then tap into the goodness

of God that's ours in the power to those who believe. Father,

we thank you for this day. We thank you for

setting us apart for ministry. We thank you for your

hand on Frank and Angela Roman and Nina. We bless

your people and especially with knowledge, we say, spirited wisdom

and revelation. Rest heavy on your kids this week. Open

up scripture to us and take us into the fullness

of who you've made us to be. Jesus' name, and

everybody shouted God, Bless you CHURCHM