A Government Of Peace | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

Let's start there. I want to talk about a government

of peace, and specifically our place in that government of peace,

and what Father has in mind in these days. For

unto us, a child is born. This is the scripture

we know as a Christmas scripture. We read it every

year at Christmas time. You've heard me talking about it

quite a bit over the last you know, several months,

maybe the last year or so. For unto us, a

child is born. To us, a son is given, and

the government will be on his shoulders. Let's read it again.

And the government will be on his shoulders, and the

government will be on his shoulders, and he will be

called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Prince

of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace,

there will be no end or the King James says,

of the increase, So I like increase actually better than

the utter translations. It's true to the Hebrew. But it's

also gives us a really good picture of what's happening

with his government, right, his government and peace is that

it's increasing. So of the increase there shall be no end.

It's great, yes, it's great. But the picture is that

it's an ever increasing government and ever increasing greatness. Okay,

So he will reign on David's throne. This is kind

of interesting. He will reign on David's throw everybody say

David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing it, establishing and

holding it up or upholding it with justice and righteousness

from that time on and forever. So the implication is,

and the way, you know, the way prophecy works is

that something is stated as if it's done. So this

was hundreds of years before Jesus came, but it's being

stated as if it's done because the way the prophetic

word works is that the word is sown as if

it's done. So the word is sown by the prophet.

But it's interesting that from the moment that it's fulfilled,

he says that it will this will come to pass

from that time on. In other words, from the moment

of its fulfillment, it will come to pass from that

time on and for ever. You can put it back

up if you want, and forever. The zeal of the

Lord Almighty will accomplish this. So this is interesting, right,

God is God is working. We could say, you know,

we can say this is this is a messianic passage.

It's about what God's up to in time and in

the earth. And we see that God is working to

bring forth a government, and he's working to bring forth

a government of peace or a government that results in peace,

and the government a government that is on the shoulders

of Jesus, right, on the shoulders of Jesus, meaning Jesus

will shoulder government right. So what's interesting about this too, though,

is that he's trying to give us a picture that

the government can't be on, the government can't be on

something else. Like for instance, when David wanted to bring

the glory back to Israel, and this is after his

seven years of reign over Hebron and then uh Over,

you know, just part of Israel. Then after seven years

then he was installed as the king over all. And

when that happened, he said, I want I want the

Ark here, And the ark was up at Obidiedam's house,

and so they first went to bring the ark in.

And when they went to bring the ark from Obidiedam's house,

which there the ark was causing him to prosper greatly.

And David was envious of the glory, right, and so

but Unfortunately, he sought to bring the ark in the

same way the Philistines got rid of the arc with

with Oxen and the ark on a cart. Right, but

the ark or the presence of the Lord can only

be carried on the shoulders of the priest. The ark

had to be carried on the shoulders of the priest,

meaning that we carry the glory, we shoulder the glory.

The priests shoulder the glory, we bear up the burden

of the glory. But it also means that there was

like there was something sanctified about there was something special, sanctified,

set apart and crazy cool about the priests and their

relationship to the glory and to the ark. And the

ark was significant to the glory of God. It's where

the chairman was, It's the mercy seat, is where the

glory of God would come in the tent of meeting

and in the Holy of holies. Right. So we're given

this picture though, and it's out of you know, first

Chronicles fifteen. So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves

to bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God

of Israel, and the Levites carried the arc of God

on their shoulders with the pole as Moses had commanded.

So so this is a sacred thing, It's a sacred works.

And this is what Isaiah is seeing about the Christ.

Isaiah is seeing this about the Christ, is that the

government doesn't come in on a program. The government doesn't

come in on legislation, or the government doesn't come in

on a building. The government doesn't come in. You see

what I'm saying. I mean, I'm just I'm thinking of

things that could be. You know that we want the

government to come in on The government only comes in

on the sacredness of the shoulders of Jesus. The government

of peace will increase as it increases on the shoulders

of Jesus. Now, who are the shoulders of Jesus. Now

they're in the room today. You are the shoulders of Jesus.

You are the body of Christ. The body of Christ

is the shoulders of Jesus. And so you know, we

have to make this association because we've missed some stuff.

And I want us hopefully by the Holy Spirit as

he helps us to see things, and he's helping me

to see that we've missed some things. Uh. And in

the process of of like not making some of these associations.

Then we have d shouldered government, and we've allowed we've

allowed the government to be on the shoulders of the

wicked instead of on the shoulders of the righteous. We've

allowed the wicked the shoulder government instead of us taking

the responsibility and shouldering government. So so this whole thing

about the government be on his shoulders. He's giving us

a picture. And the reader of Isaiah couldn't help but

to have known first Caronicles fifteen and many other passages

where the government where the glory would come in on

the free. But now he's saying, oh, it's not just

the glory, but it's also the government. Are you with me? So, meaning,

in this case, the government is set apart for Yeshia,

set apart for this man. He has a special calling

and anointing to bring forth pure government in the earth.

And so Jesus was bringing forth a government, not a

government of this world, but a government nonetheless, a government

of justice and righteousness, a government from above, a government

that results in peace. And it's an extension of the

throne of David. This is interesting. It's an extension of

the throne of David. Now I want to say something here.

I want to say something that I think is important

for us to meditate on, and just you know this

in your meditation computer. But it's interesting that he has

a twofold calling, and even that twofold calling is then

passed on to us because in John twenty through twenty two,

twenty twenty through twenty two, he says, as the Father

he breathed on them, and he said, is the Father,

as the Father sent me? Everybody say, as as the

Father sent me, so so send I you. But there's

this twofold calling calling on him, and we see John

the revelator refer to it in Revelation one six. He

says that we are kings and priests unto our God. Well,

we see something here. That's what David was. David was

the four type of Christ. Jesus is called the son

of David. Now it says he's going to sit on

david It's throne, but he also sets on the throne

of Melkezedic, because the Book of Hebrews tells us that

he stepped into the priestly throne of Melkezedic and his

priestly ministry and the anointing of Glory and the ark

of the Covenant and him shouldering because he is the

priest that shoulders the glory. He is now the high

priest that shoulders the glory. When we come to him,

we come into the glory. We can't come we can't

go to a synagogue now and come to the law

and come into glory. We can't come to an ark

that's no longer in a synagogue when we come to him,

who was the center of that arc, who was the

center of the mercy seat, when we come to him,

he is now the one shouldering the glory because he

is the high priest. So I want you to see

this is kind of interesting where he's trying to give

us a picture that he fulfills the throne of David,

but he fulfills the throne also of Melkezedic. He was

a priest and he was a king. He's called you

to be a priest and a king. Now, what we've

embraced as a church is we've embraced the priestly. We've

embraced the priestly. We've taken responsibility for the church. We've

taken responsibility for Bible school and education and seminaries and

Bible understanding and leading people to Jesus and salvation and

the gifts of the spirit and prayer. And we've taken

responsibility for the priestly. We as a church have not

taken responsibility for the kingly. Don't shout me down because

I'm preaching good now, you know, let the conviction fall

Glory to God. Spoke somebody and say he's preaching to you.

So I want you to see this, that he in,

that he's taken all. He's taken on both, but he's

called us into both with him. That's the understanding of

Revelation one six. When he calls us to be kings

and priests, or he calls us kings and priests, it's

a fulfillment of what he declared over us in John

twenty twenty through twenty two, as the Father sent me.

So now what we've done, we've grabbed the spiritual part. Oh,

as the Father sent him. Okay, he's a he beats

up devils and he heals the sick, and he preaches

the good news of born of the spiritism. So we've

grabbed one side of it, but we haven't grabbed the

other side. That he came as a king, he came

to bring a government it's a government of peace, it's

an increasing government, and it's founded on a throne of

justice and righteous. It's an extension of the throne of David.

We haven't seen it, we haven't bought it. So half

of us don't even vote. Half of Christians some statistics

say half of Christians don't even vote. I just saw

a thing in Pennsylvania, that a little thing dinner day

where in Pennsylvania millions of the Christians didn't vote in

the last election. This is happening all over our nation.

Some of our churches have doctrines that we teach our

people not to vote because God is sovereign, He's going

to work it out. Don't even interfere with his sovereignty.

He's going to pick the rulers. Don't you know He

picks them through you. Don't you know the testimony of

Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and the testimony of

Jesus is alive in you, so that you'll pick who

he's picking. He's not going to pick who he's picking

with somebody else. He's going to pick who he's picking

through you. You are the sovereign expression of his sovereignty.

You are the expression of his sovereignty. So you do nothing.

His sovereignty doesn't even get expressed. That's Brian. I call

these doctrines of demons. These are doctrines of demons that

have infested the church. And this connectedness from the fullness

of our calling. It's not just a gospel Sunday School calling.

It's not just an evangelism food bank calling. We have

a calling to govern the nations. We have a calling

to lead the nations. Look at the craziness of Matthew

twenty eight eighteen and nineteen. You know it is a

great gospel calling, the craziness of Matthew twenty eight eighteen

or nineteen. Then Jesus came to them and said, and

if I'm getting loud, Gabriel, don't turn me down. Go

ahead and give me plenty, even give me a little

bit more, because I'll calm down if I think I'm loud.

Otherwise who knows what? Well, you know, I don't want

my voice to get harmed. I might have a third service.

Then Jesus came to them and said, all authority in

heaven and on earth in heaven, now this is him

booting Satan out of heaven. We've talked about that in

the past, Revelation twelve versus eleven, and following there was

a war in heaven. The dragon was booted out, Satan

was booted out. All authority has been given me in

heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make this disciples,

Disciples are disciplined ones. Go and discipline the nations. Go

and bring the nations under the disciplines of my governmental leadership.

Go and bring the nations under my authority. He didn't

just say go and save a few folks. He didn't

just say go and lead a few to me. He

didn't say go and just get a few folks born

of the spirit. He said, go and discipline, Go and

disciple all the nations, baptizing in them in the name

of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you, and surely

I'm with you even to the end of the age.

Now I want you to see all authority has given

me heaven and on earth. Right, all authority has given me.

I'm sos to whind this up pretty soon, because we're

gonna start cooking chicken. But I'm feeling like the large

fellow going through a barbed by our fence. Just one

more point and I'll be through. Authority. Listen. Authority is

governmental talk. Authority over rulers. That's governmental talk. Why have

we thought it's just gospel talk. I'm using the word

gospel because we usually think of the word gospel as

it pertains to preaching the good news. But the good

news is also that nations are no longer under the

dominion of Satan. It's not just people that are no

longer under the dominion of Satan. Nations, counties, states, rules,

rulers are no longer under the dominion of Satan. So

he's given authority over rulers, authority over the earth, authority

over mankind. This is governmental talk, not just preacher talk.

Our schools and universities they shouldn't just have preaching degrees.

We should have degrees in government and governmental leadership. And

most of the people going into governmental leadership they go

get a law degree. The how many lawyers that we

have in the church. In our church, I think we

have a big fat zero. I don't know one. We

have one Sarah. We have Sarah. Are there others besides Sarah?

I don't know. But we need this desperately. We need

this desperately. Why have we despised the law? Why have

we despised law degrees? Why have we despised law years?

Why have we Why have we turned that over to

the world, And it's disabled us from shouldering some of

what we're supposed to shoulder. Right, So we're supposed to

go and disciple the nations right, teaching them nations how

to establish government, teaching the nations how toment govern people

in justice and in righteousness, in meekness, in humility, in grace,

and truth. According to the principles of heaven. It's the

Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, don't know how much more I

need to say. Well, you know, in the you know,

before came, governments were highly controlled by Satan. Even Satan

was called the prince of the power of the air. Right,

the monic actors, principalities and powers of wickedness were wielding

power over governments and the state. And yes, sometimes God

would intervene and sometimes God would judge. We see it

in Daniel five. We see it in Daniel four, We

see it in Daniel seven. We see a few times

where God would step in and there would be a judgment.

But many times, many times, what we see is these

pagan religions, inspired and led by Satan's through sorcery and

wit craft, were intimately tied to all of the nations.

Egypt was under ten gods, and those are the gods

that were judged in the plagues. The Promised Land was

under seven unclean nations, all led by demon spirits, and

those were all judged by God as they went in

to dispossess the darkness. Right, even Israel was under darkness

when the king them split into the two kingdoms after David.

There were wicked kings as well as righteous kings. Josiah

was great. Many of the kings were vile and unclean,

like Ahab right Ahab and Jezebel. Jezebel was married to Aheb.

This is a king over Israel. So even Herod look

at Herod. Herod clearly perceived that the baby, the Christ Child,

was a threat to his power and so ordered the

killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of infants in order

to stop this incursion. Matthew two, all of this stuff

is happening, and it's a sign, it's a symbol, it's

an insight for us. All to see that the nations

were under unclean rule. But that is no longer to

be the case. But it can't be the case. It

can't be the case if we set back on our laurels,

if all we have is prayer meetings, if all we

do is evangelism, if all we do is preach the

good news of being born the spirit, and do not

engage in culture, and do not engage in government. Satan

is glad to lead the world through a minority even

though there's a majority, right, and he's glad to do

it as a micro calls him in. You too, by

the way, did you know that? I mean, you can

get all sorts of happy with Jesus, all sorts of forgiven,

But if you've got some unclean stuff in you that

you don't drive out of you, he's glad to stay there.

Doesn't matter if you shout and dance and saying and

worship and pay tithe, you know what. He's glad to

stay there until you confront him. So you've got a

minority ruler inside of a majority spirit led person. It happens.

It's happening in our nation. We have minority influences that

are demonic seeking to lead the nation that is majority

wanting righteousness. Why because the righteous are doing nothing. The

righteous won't get involved, the righteous won't even vote, and

then the righteous are confused that you wonder, well, I

don't want to talk I don't want to talk about that.

You know that. I don't want to talk about Republican

or Democrat. I don't want to talk about that stuff.

I mean, you know, let's not talk about that stuff.

You know, you just be a Christocrat. Folks, read the platform.

Democrats are killing babies. Hello, they had an abortion clinic

at their convention. Come on, let's wake up. Republican platform

is embracing God. Democrats want nothing to do. It's become

pretty clear if we got to fight about that. When

you haven't read the platform, you have not read the platform.

You probably even haven't even read the Constitution or the platform.

This is your nation. You're a citizen here, Rise up,

wake up, take responsibility, start shouldering this nation. Shoulder the nation.

It's your nation. Shoulder the nation. Shoulder the nation. Read

the platform, Read the platform. If you can read those

two platforms and come away and tell me you're still confused,

then I need to get some medication. For you. You

need medication. The defeat of demonic powers is not through

evangelism alone. It's not through salvation's alone. It's not through

church services or revivals alone. The righteous must take their

place and shoulder government. And we're going to do that

until it's fulfilled. Until Revelation eleven is totally fulfilled. Then

the seventh Angel sounded and there were voices in heaven saying,

the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of

our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign forever

and ever. Now, by the way, you notice that is

written in present tents though it hadn't happened. Why because

it was the prophetic release. It's the very thing we

need to say as a prophetic release, because as we

come into agreement with what God has said through the prophet,

then it releases the power of God for us to

begin to see it to come to pass. But you'll

notice again, it's government talk the kingdoms of this world,

not the churches of this world, not the synagogues of

this world. The limitation of the Gospel is not on

churches or synagogues. There is no lid on the church.

The church, the ecclesia is to rule and reign in

both religious and governmental spheers both priest and king. Priest

and king Christ King. Wow, we have a superior kingdom.

We'recalled to bring that kingdom into government. We can't do

that by hiding. We can't do that by disdaining the call.

I have to ask you, you know, as this is

hitting us, and as this is washing over us the church,

because God's saying this, not just at noon horizon, He's

saying this all over in the church. He's saying this

as a prophetic release over the church. I have to

ask what is our hindrance? What is our hindrance? Right?

Stand with me this morning? What is our hindrance? Well,

Jesus said this kingdom. He said, my kingdom is not

of this world. Well, theologians have distorted and perverted that

word to make us think that we aren't to be

involved in government or in kingdom business. But he didn't

mean that. He meant I'm not supposed to remain. He

was being asked of the king. This is crucifixion time.

He's being asked, are you a king? And he said,

my kingdom is not of this world, meaning I'm not

supposed to remain here as an earthly leader, asserting physical

leadership in a third dimensional body. But he did agree,

as you say, I'm a king, but I'm just not

going to stay here because it's not of this world.

It's not of a third dimensional realm, nor is it

of the world's system. But he is a king. He's

a king, Isaiah declared it. How about this one, we

know our citizenship is in heaven. Well, appreciers have distorted

that one, perverted that one, and made us think that

as long as we're going to heaven, it's good. We

don't have to mess with things on earth. No. No,

what that means is, I don't derive my acceptance from you,

worth from you. I don't derive my resource from you.

I don't derive my value from you. I'm tapped into

something higher and out of my citizenship. I'm called to

bring that reality to this place, out of my citizenship,

out of the resource of heaven, the joy of heaven,

the affirmation of Heaven, the identity of a son of Heaven.

It's not to shirk our responsibility. That's a perversion of preaching.

That's a doctrine of demons that causes us to hear

or read some of these scriptures. Well, I'm just a pilgrim. Well,

I'm just passing through. Well, this world is not my home.

Perse corinteen seven, I'm just passing through. Well, our lives

are but a vapor James, Chapter four. These have been

preached in a way that's perverted our mind and kept

us from shouldering the very thing that he called us

to shoulder. So we have to shed every excuse, heads bowed,

eyes closed, all across this auditorium. I'm asking you to

shed every single excuse this morning. Listen to this while

you shed that excuse, while you pray. I want you

to pray over yourself. I'm going to read you two passages.

Then we got to close. How many thinks I can

do it? I don't know. I don't know. I don't

know that Chapter five looks real good. Peter and the

other apostles said we must obey God rather than man.

Oh boy, that's a good one too. I don't know

I should read that one. But here's listen to Daniel too.

This is where we're going in the time of those kings.

This is the Roman Empire. The God of Heaven will

set up a kingdom that will not be destroyed. It

will never be destroyed, nor will be left to another people.

It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to

an end, but itself will endure forever. This is the

meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of

a mountain, not by human hands, a rock that broke

the iron, bronze, the clay of the silver, and the

golden pieces. The Great God has shown the king what

will take place in the future. Listen to Daniel seven.

In my vision and night I looked, and there before

me was one like a son of man, coming with

the clouds of heaven. And he approached the Ancient of

days and was led into his presence by the way.

This is the ascension. We're not looking forward to this.

We're living on the other side of this. And he

was given authority, glory, and sovereign power that all the

nations and peoples of every language would worship him. His

dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,

and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. Church,

he's talking about government. He's talking about government. The Gospel

is a gospel that affects our hearts, and it builds

us into and that clacea, and that it influence serves

our culture, and we shoulder the government that brings an

increase of peace, and it's built on a foundation of

justice and righteousness. And there's no rep there's no way,

there's no way to substitute that with any other thing.

Nothing can substitute that. Hands up this morning, Father, say

it with me, Father, I forsake can renounce the shirking

of government, confusion over government, disdaining involvement in government, not

listening to the call to government. I acknowledge today even

as I'm called to the priestly ministry of Jesus. I'm

called to the kingly ministry of Jesus. I am the

body of Christ, and I shoulder his priestly ministry in

this earth, a ministry of reconciliation. And I shoulder the

kingly ministry of Jesus in this earth, a ministry of peace.

I receive it right now in Jesus' name. And everybody said,

give him a thank offering this morning, Give him a

thank offering, Give him a thank offering.