Royalty vs Religion PT. 1 | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | July 6th 2025

Father, we just thank you for your word today. Thank

you for the richness of Holy Spirit in our midst.

Thank you for opening the eyes of our understanding. Thank

you for leading us, thank you for connecting us with

an amazing family. We rejoice over the inheritance we have

in one another and the power that's working in our midst.

We give you the praise for it in Jesus name.

And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, you may be yeah,

you may be seated. You weren't standing, which you may

be seated anyway, all right, Praise the Lord. I want

to talk a little bit about royalty versus religion, and

so it's kind of along the theme of somewhat springing out.

I think of the four weeks that we had on

the New Creation, because we really have become a new creation.

We are new creation beings. And that passage for the

new creation is tewod Corinthians five, sixteen and seventeen, and

it means when it's the Greek word for the word

new means another kind. We've become another kind. It's not

like it's not like you have an old Nike tennis

shoe and then you get a newer Nike tennis shoe

of the same. So have you heard of the Australian tennishoe?

The Australian tennishoe? What's the brand? No, somebody helped me. Huh,

he'll come to me. You have to buy them online. Hokahs, hokahs,

hookahs hokus. Okay, if you get a hookah? Anybody have

a hookah? It sounds like something you smoke. I was

afraid of that brand because I didn't know if my

feet would get high while I walked. But if you

get the they have certain models, you know. And if

you get a certain model and it feels good, right,

you kind of want to get when it wears out,

you want to get Okay, Well, the new creation isn't

like a new model, a new of the same version, right.

So the new creation in second grintheens five seventeen that

were new means of a different kind, of a new kind.

It's more than just like I get a second chance

to do it right, you know, I hope I can

really get at this time. I hope I can really perform. No,

you literally become a new person, right, You've be given

a new person. And I think what is so hard?

I think it's kind of hard to hang on to

because I think everything is against this. What's hard to

hang on to is that you become royalty. You become royalty.

You've become royalty Revelation one six A kingdom of priests

or kings and priests. Unto our God right he is

the king of kings, and he is the Lord of lords.

It's hard to hang on the royalty. You know, Joel,

she's got she's got Mercedes Benz Taste buds. And sometimes

I tell her, but we have we have, you know,

we have Volkswagen wallet with Mercedes Benz Taste buds. It's like, Honey,

calm down, Oh no, I know you can do it

all right, right, right. So when it comes to you know,

our neighbors, our neighbors on the lake, they have this

giant inflatable pad thing right, and all the women get

on it and whatever, and they get out there and

they frat andize, and you know, the kids jump on

her or whatever. And I'm sure they spent thirty nine

ninety five on that thing. But it's big, it's huge.

I think it's sufficient, Yepe, not for missus Wolf. She

wants to thirteen ninety five thirteen hundred and ninety five floaty, right,

so there's no wrestling, you know, if we do wrestle

with thumb rustle, and she always wins, and so I

just know, okay, all right. So so I found it

on sale. We bought the thirteen hundred and ninety five

floating got a little sale price. And it's kind of

a big hexagon thing. It's called the Mission Hecks. It's

a big hexagon thing, and it's got kind of a

little trampoline thing in the middle, right, So the ladies

love to get out on it, and there, you know,

and the kids get out in the middle of the

little trampoline thing and they're in the water, right, and

I'm looking at my neighbors thirty nine ninety five, I'm

over here. So we barely get the thing in the water.

We're like in the water three days and I look

out there and it's half flat, got a big hole

in it. So we're like, how do you find those hole?

How do you even find a hole like that? Right,

And so you know, we're looking all over, we can't

find it. We turned upside down we find it. So

where the trampoline comes in to the net and it's

kind of woven in, a stick from somebody else's dock,

A little piece of pressure treated, some stick, some scrap,

some piece of junk, some piece of garbage from somebody

else had floated into my floating and somehow got in

between the trampoline and the floaty thing in a barber right,

and it had a screw in it where they were

remodeling their deck. It had a little screw and you know,

had a deck screw in it. And they had cut

the screw off with like some kind of a you

know thing, and it made a really sharp barbed and

that thing was poking a hole in my floating, and

that floating was suddenly worthless. Thirteen ninety five nothing ninety

five worthless. But its me. It makes me think about

us in our royalty. It makes us me think about

us who are called the royalty. We are, we're made royalty.

We are we are literally the kings of the earth,

the kings and the priests of the earth. We literally

we abide in royalty. We're seated in royalty at the

right hand of Papa. Are you hearing me? But royalty

wants to leak out of us. Somebody else's junk comes

over and bumps into us. Right, stuff pokes us, and

next thing you know, we've developed a leak. And almost

every day, I'm telling you this is important, Almost every

day you have to And this sounds this sounds a

little sac religious maybe, but I don't know, but it

seems every day you have to fight to retain your royalty.

And I don't mean like a fight, like a fight

of works. I don't mean that kind of a fight.

I mean just a fight over your own heart and

mind that you do not let your own failures, your

own faults, somebody else's faults, some other issue, some chunk

of pressure, treat with a bar about it, poke you

and get you out of your royalty. When that thing

is inflated appropriately, it is extremely worthwhile and you can

rely on it and it provides a lot of enjoyment.

But all you have to do is pull ten pounds

of air pressure out of that thing. Five pounds of

air pressure out of that thing, and immediately it's worthless

and nobody can rely on it, and nobody wants anything

to do with it. The structure didn't change. It still

is what it was. This is the way with us. Listen, listen, listen.

The enemy is wanting to attack your royalty every day

to bring you off of the throne where you are

now coceded with Christ ruling and reigning in life, expecting

and receiving fully the blessings of God, without works whatsoever.

The enemy wants to pull you off of that so

bad and if he can just poke, if he can

just get five pounds of the pressure out of you,

it doesn't take a lot to make you worthless. It

doesn't mean you're not a new creation anymore. It doesn't

mean you've changed in your nature. It doesn't mean that

you changed in your structure. It doesn't mean you're no

longer coceded. You just have disconnected your faith to who

you are. You've disconnected your heart to who you are.

You've disconnected your attitude from who He's made you to be.

And if you disconnect your heart, your faith, and your

attitude from who He's made you to be, it doesn't

make you less than who he made you to be.

It just positions you to not partake of who he

made you to be, and that makes you worthless. So

then you're feeling worthless. But it isn't him who made

you worthless. You just allowed some something to poke you.

You allowed something to pull out of you, your royal identity,

your faith in who he made you to be. You

just allowed something to draw down all that He put

in you to make you work. While that wasn't your choice,

I mean his choice that was that was your choice. Wow,

the wilderness is a The wilderness is a really good

you know, the wilderness was meant to be a really

good picture of the new creation coming out of the

old and going into the new. And you know, the

wilderness period, the wilderness. This is Deuteronomy. I thought i'd

look it up, Uh, just for fond too. I didn't

do that for service, but let's do that. This is

Deuteronomy eight. For the Lord, your God is bringing you

into a good land. Everybody say good land, A land

of brooks of water, of fountains and springs. Now, if

you've been, if you've been in a wilderness for a while,

this sounds good. This sounds really good. Of fountains and

springs flowing for work in valleys and hills. That sounds

better than a desert. A land of wheat and a

barley of vines and fig trees of pomegranates, a land

of olive, oil and honey. A land where you will

eat food without scarcity, in which you will lack, you

will not lack anything. A land whose stones are ironed,

and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And

when you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless

the Lord your God for the good land he has

given you. Now that's just one little passage in Deuteronomy eight.

One little passage in Deuteronomy eight of some of what

the promised land would look like. Right, So there's further references.

It's called the land of milk and honey is called

and it's a land where there would be every kind

of copper and brass and bronze and gold. And I mean,

just the descriptions are. And then you got the wilderness. Right,

This is we have. It's supposed to be a picture.

The whole thing, the whole story was a metaphoric picture

of your life before Christ and your life after Christ.

It's not a metaphoric picture of heaven. It's a metaphoric

picture of heaven on earth. How many of us have

thought or been told that's a metaphoric picture of heaven,

But it's not. It's a metaphoric picture of Heaven on Earth.

And listen, listen. Moses didn't die on Mount Nebo because

he was a bad dude, as all of theology will

tell you, Moses died on Mount Nebo because the law

can never take you in to your promise. The law

cannot take you into your promise. The law shows you

that you need the Christ. The law is a tutor,

a schoolmaster, leading you. Because the law will always accuse you,

and it will always convict you, and it will always

show you what's wrong. And it doesn't matter if you're

Jew or gentile. If you're Jew, you have the six

hundred and thirteen, you have the decalog, you have the

Ten Commandments. If you're Jew, you know the law. But

if you're gentile, then Romans one says you have the

Law of God inwardly in your conscience, convicting you of

right and wrong. And the enemy will always use the

law to keep you defeated and to keep you outside

of your royalty, and to keep you humbly accepting the wormy, cruddy,

lousy louse. You are the number one shunk of pressure

treated lumber with a screw in it. To the believer

that wants to poke a hole in your inflatable is

your own heart and mind partnering with the law to

prove to you that you are worthless, that you don't

measure up, that you don't perform well enough, you don't

pray enough, you don't fast enough, you don't give enough,

you don't serve enough, you're not humble enough. The enemy

will constantly use that tool to deflate your royalty. This

is why every day you have to press a little

bit in and I don't mean press in out of works.

I mean with your heart and with your mind to

remember because royalty leaks. Royalty leaks. Everything about this world

is postured to pull the royalty out of you. But

Father wants us to see, even in what he did

with Israel, he wants us to see that what he's

called us to is the promised on. What he's called

us to is royalty. He's called us out of a wilderness.

He's called us out of scarcity. He's called us out

of wondering around without purpose. He's called us out of

going around the same issues time and time again. He's

called us out of bondage. He's called us out of

He's called us out of all of that into abundance

and plenty and rejoicing. One of the key, one of

the key stories the Lord told about all of this

is the Prodigal story. And I don't know if you've

thought of the prodigal story in light of Jewan gentile,

but I want to give it to you in light

of Jewan gentile, because the older son was the metaphor

the figurative picture of the Jewish people. The Jewish people

were keeping the law and attaining their righteousness according to

the law. And of course this is what life springs

out of life. Life and blessings and everything springs out

of righteousness, right relationship with God. Righteousness. Righteousness is the

central key to not only eternal life, but the tree

of life. And you and I have been brought into

Father through his righteousness so that we can taste of both.

We not only eat of the tree of life, but

we eat of the goodness of God in every way.

So in the Prodigal Son's story, this is Luke chapter

fifteen eleven. And following I'll just tell the story for

the sake of time, because I want to get to

a few other thoughts. But you know that the younger

son said, give me your inherit, give me my inheritance,

and he went out into wild living. And it's really

a picture of the gentile nations. The gentile nations wanted

nothing to do with God, and they went out into

wild living. But then at some point he came to

his senses. And this is what happens with all of

us as well, as we come to our senses and

we come back to God in our works. So he

said to himself, I know that even the servants back

at Dad's house, they at least have food and housing.

So he's coming back to Dad and Dad is running

to meet him. Remember the story, So Dad's running to

meet him. He's coming back to Dad and Dad is

rejoicing to see him, and he throws himself prostrate before Dad,

and he says, I'm not worthy. This is all of us,

this is all of us, this is the gentile nations. Now,

as we come back to God, this is religion, as

we come back to God, I'm not worthy to become

your son or to be called your son. Just make

me one of your hired servants. Wow, he's coming back

to live like old brother older brothers living. But Dad

will have nothing to do with it. Dad's like, you

don't have to pay me back. I'll reinstate the full inheritance.

Kill the fatted calf. We're gonna get get the band,

get the dance. Were out, this son of mine who

has lost, These gentile nations who were lost, they have

now been found. It says Father goes to He goes

to every extreme to throw a party. It says, the

merriment began. And you know what, if you go to

the end of the story, it doesn't say the merriment

ever stopped. The merriment never stopped. It hasn't stopped to

this day. Father is rejoicing crazy over the gentiles us

as we come back to Father in faith, not in

our works, receiving the royalty of being hidden in Jesus

and living out of that reality of already seated in

heavenly places with him. The older other season and the

older brother is the picture of religion, the picture of

working hard, the picture of trying to attain, the picture

of trying to please, the picture of the trying to perform,

the picture of judging myself according to my performance, and

therefore evaluating the level of royalty that I can walk

in and the blessings I can partake of. He's never

he's never partaken of blessings. He says, I'm mad, I'm bitter.

I'm mad this son who's spent everything. You're blessing him.

You put the robe on him, You put the finger

on him, you breathe the ring on his finger. You've yeah,

I put a finger on him.

Picture.

You may be seated. We're gonna make it through this morning.

We're gonna make it through this. We're gonna be okay.

He was so ticked off, he was so mad, right

right because and listen what he says. He says, I've

worked for you all this time, and I've never asked

for anything from you. Why why doesn't religion partake of

the blessing? Why doesn't religion partake of the abundance? Why

doesn't religion rule and reign? Why doesn't religion partake of

the grace? Why doesn't religion receive the lavish kindness of God?

Why doesn't religion partake of the promised land? Because they

never can, They never can obtain. You're never good enough,

so you never do ask much. You're afraid to ask much.

And if you ask Jesus you gotta be careful. You

can't you can't receive much. And if you get, if

you if you begin to act like Jesus, Oh, religion

will tell you. How dare you? How dare you command

the weather? How dare you act like you're blessed? How

dare you speak the sickness and disease? Who do you

think you are? Well, let me just tell you who

I think I am. I am a joint heir with

the Beloved. I am seated in heavenly places. This earth

suit that I've got right now, this earth suit is

just an obedient extension of a spirit man that's already

raised up with Jesus. I'm only eating right now this

food because I need to to sustain this earth suit.

But the real me, it's already ruling and reigning with him.

Come on, somebody, we have to be so careful because

religion is trying to reel you in all the time,

is trying to reel you in all that, and even

to just get you talking religious. The way we talk

religious one of the ways there's so many ways that

we talk religious. We sing religious songs. I'm so thankful

for Bethel. Can I say how thankful I am forbebel

because the Johnsons and the Bethel folks who've been cranking

out beautiful songs now for twenty five or thirty years,

they've been helping us because they've been redeeming our bad

theology songs, because so many of our songs were filled

with religious theology instead of life giving revived. I'm a

walking open heaven. I'm a walking revival. I have the

open heaven living in me. I have Jacob's latter living

in me. Wow, there's not one blessing all that hasn't

already been given to you and me. We've already been

blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Jesus, you know

why most of the body of Christ is not tasting

of the blessings because they believe that they don't have

them yet. Everything's future in religion. Everything's future, and you

never get to it because you're always disqualified. The harvest

is coming, oh, Jesus, rebuke that. No, the harvest is now.

The fields are white under harvest. Now. No, the harvest

is always coming. Revival is always coming, Glory is always coming.

Everything's in the future with religion, but in the fulfillment

of royalty of the new creation. We are partakers of

it now, we are carriers of it now, we are

dispensers of it now, we are dwelling in it now.

It is ours now. How are you ever gonna shift

the future if you don't have something now now. Faith

is the substance of things hoped for, not tomorrow. Faith

is a substance of things hoped for now. Faith is

the substance of things hope for. We will never shift tomorrow.

If we don't have it today, it's not coming tomorrow.

If you don't have it today, you've got to have

it in you today. If you think you're gonna get

something shifted tomorrow, it's impossible to shift tomorrow if you

don't have it today. That's why we've been made partakers

in Him by his righteousness, not by ours. It's not

dependent on my righteousness, it's not dependent on my works.

It's I love to pray every day. I love fellowship

with Holy Spirit every day, and I know you do too.

But if you miss a day, Hello somebody, you're not

a big pile of when he's pooh, there's nothing wrong

with You're gonna live. You're still reigning with Christ. You're

still a king with him. Hello, somebody you do? Oh

I miss Rare yesterday. I better do double time prayer today.

And wow we have you know we just okay, all right,

I'm sorry I should be looking at my notes that

I don't carry it away with myself.

Ephesians one three. Praise be unto God and the Father

of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Who hath hath the king?

James says, half everybody say hath he got a a

hath hath who? Okay, okay, the Nivas has it's I

just want you to see it's past tense. I want

you to see its past tense. It's behind you. Has

blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing

in Christ. Not some of the spiritual blessings, Not a

few of the spiritual blessings. Not enough to get you

to the rapture spiritual blessing. Every spiritual blessing you have

already received from Him. He's poured it. He goes on

to say, he's lavished it. He's lavished it on us

verse seven. In him, we have redemptions for the blood,

the forgiveness of sin, in accordance with the riches of

God's grace. Everybody's say riches. You'd never know this the

way most of us live. You'd never know this, the

way most Christians live, that we are partakers of lavish

riches of grace. You'd never know it. We're bummed out,

we're weary, we're wiped out, we're discouraged, we're broke, we're negative,

we're real attractive, extremely attractive. Ah. Yeah, lavished it on

us with all wisdom and understanding. He made known to

us the mystery of his will, according to the good

pleasure that he purposed in Christ Ephesians two six, because

of his great love for us. Remember he's talking to gentiles.

He's talking to the young son, the gentile nations that

ran away. This is Ephesus, the church at Ephesis, a

bunch of reprobates, involved in every kind of impure, unclean,

debauchery and witchcraft and idolatry. And look at this, He says,

He lavished on us this love because of his great

love for us. God, who is rich in mercy, made

us alive with Christ. What made us alive with Christ

even when we were dead in our transgressions. It's by

grace you have been saved, and God raised us up

with him and seated us a bunch of gentile nncompoops,

seated us with him in heavenly realms, in Christ Jesus,

in order that in the age is to come, he

might just continue to show us off and show the

incomparable riches of grace expressed in his kindness to us.

In Christ Jesus, your life is a thousand times better

than you think it is. It's a thousand times better

than you think it is. It's a thousand times better

than you are now receiving and in partaking. And it's

because you're letting your royalty get drained out of you

a little bit more. And you're thinking, but it's just

three pounds of pressure that I got drained at. It's

just a little bit. It's just a small it's a

small leak. You know how you judge inflatables, Well, honey,

is it a big league or a small league? It's

just a small league. Okay, then pump it back up tomorrow.

We tolerate small leaks, but the small leaks are making

us worthless. The small leaks are robbing our power. The

small leaks are keeping us dowdy. And downcast, instead triumphant

and overcoming. Put a patch on the leak. Put a

patch on it. Put a Jesus royal patch on it.

Remember who you are, Oh my goodness, God raised us

up in him and seated us with him. Last week

mich was talking about how he's seated at the right hand.

Remember that. He was talking about that, and he said, seated.

You know, there's a position of rest right And God

said that four times in scripture. You hear me talk

about that all the time Psalm one ten, Hebrews one.

Set here at my right hand, until I put all

of your enemies under your feet and make them a

footstool for you. The seated position, it's reflective of the

declaration over him and the direct declaration he made at

the cross. It is, it is finished, it's complete, it's done.

I have overcome on behalf of the sons of Adam. Well,

that's that's where you are spiritually. You you're not in

this place of like hyperactivity and you got a little

really a boy, you gotta go, you gotta and boy

I don't and man, I'm not measuring up. And you

are seated with him. That's a position of rest. You

enter into that and partner with it through your faith,

not through your works. Yeah, let's stand this morning. Religion

says you have to overcome sin, Satan, and the curse.

But royalty says he overcame for you and on your behalf,

and you only need to enter in to his victory

by faith. Religion always has a reason why God's not

working now, but he'll work in the future. Religion will

tell you that he'll work in the future. That reason

always pertains to works and performance. Religion functions out of

a state of poverty and alienation, and appeasement has to

be made to remove the alienation. So this is how

religion ministers, too are mined. Oh I've got to appease God.

I've got to appease him. I've got to appease him.

The Royalty of the New Creation says, the Lord appeased him.

I can. I cannot. I cannot supersede the appeasement of Jesus.

All I need to do is stay close to Papa

in faith, I don't need the crawl on glass. No

appeasement necessary. Religion presents us as perpetual paupers, beggars who

don't deserve, constantly appealing to God for grace and mercy.

But the Royalty of the New Creation says, you've been

made sons and daughters of God by the gift of righteousness.

His righteousness. Religion says you must strive to get near

to the Lord. Royalty says you're already one with the Lord.

You can't get closer than you already are. Religion says

sanctification of the process. Royalty of the New Creation says

Sanctification is a man and he lives in you. Partner

with him and you'll immediately be sanctified. You don't need

twenty years to get sanctified. You need a man living

in you. That's all you need. Walk with the man,

Listen to the man. The man will guide you. You'll

be instantly sanctified. Oh Holy Spirit, let's put our hands

out this morning. I want you to receive a patch

and you're inflatable right now. Just receive a patch right now.

And just whatever has been assailing your heart, whatever's been

witnessing against you, whatever has been accusing you, whatever has

been just tearing you down, and who He's made you

to be, just renownce that right now, Just dismiss it.

Let's get off of my heart, get off of my mind. Testimonies, accusations, legalistic,

performance based arguments. Leave me alone, Leave me alone, Leave

me alone. I dismiss you out of my theology. I

dismiss you out of my mind. I dismiss you out

of my heart. You're very in the beloved, So you

have to go. Leave me alone, Leave me alone. Come on,

just pray with me, Pray with me. You're getting a

patch right now on your You're getting a patch right now.

Oh Holy Spirit, I just thank you right now that

you're restoring us. Restore our royalty right now, Holy Spirit.

Restore our royalty right now. Restore our paradigm, our perspective,

our mindset, our courage, our faith, Restore our attitude, our

emotions right now, right now, right now, right now, right now,

restore us. Restore us, Holy Spirit. We agree to be restored.

We receive. Come on, just be a really good receiver

right now. Not a beggar, not a pauper. Just be

a really good receiver right now, and just tell him

that you receive the fresh wind that fills you back up.

You receive the impartation that fills you back up, that

quickens you, that strengthens you, that restores you in the Beloved,

restores your true identity, restores you in your righteousness, the

righteousness imputed to you by Jesus, and restores your royal identity. Oh,

come on, give him a thank offering right now, give

him a thank gofern hallelujah. Listen, alters are open. I'm

gonna ask some of the Destiny team to come this

morning as we close. If you're online or here this

morning with us and you're giving your life to the

Lord today or restoring your life to him, you've fallen

away in some way, I want you to come and

be prayed. For you that are online, we bless you

press into him. What I'm talking about today is how

we activate fully what He's done for us. So don't

don't leave without just letting the goodness of God wash

over you through prayer and receiving what we've acknowledged that

he's doing in your heart and in your life today.

If you're if you're newer to him, Amen, we bless you, Father.

We thank you for your people, the inheritance we have

in the saints. We shout your blessing over them. We

agree that they prevail and overcome, they enter end well

in their promised land in Jesus' name, and everybody said, God,

bless your church.