The Nano-Kingdom

Let's pray. Dear Father God, It's possible to come to church and be

lost. It's possible to do the right things and even do the wrong things

really and just not have Jesus in our lives to think we do. We

don't. So Father, give us authentic religion, what the Bible calls real

religion that's not defined by what some group says, not defined by what we

were taught. It's not made up of how we feel because we have strong

feelings, or even what we think because we believe we're kind of smart.

Lord, help us to see what Jesus says today in the Word of God,

and to be saved and help others get there in Jesus's name. Amen,

take your bibles and turn with me to Matthew thirteen thirty one thirty two.

The title of our message today is the Nano Kingdom. The nano nano

means extremely small. It is the nano technology is the technology of the extreme

small. Matthew, thirteen thirty one thirty two. Another parable he Jesus put

before them, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard

seed which a man took and sewed in his field. It is the smallest

of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the greatest of

shrubs and becomes a tree, so that these birds of the air come and

make nests in its branches. Sometimes people want big cures for huge problems when

they really need a small cure. We hear it often we need to think

big. Right ever, hear that, thank big. Of course, everybody's

impressed with that. He's thinking big, dear heart. The Lord wants us

to consider the small, the tiny, so we can be saved, and

so the humble God of the universe does not come to us with outward appearance.

In fact, my message today is shaped out of the Chapter and Desire

of Ages, not with outward appearance, Chapter fifty five. I highly recommend

you go home and read it afterwards. But we often think, well,

if I could just be big, be impressive, have the right persona,

be able to communicate dynamically. In fact, I remember a young a young

man practice seeing a sermon once was trying to be like Bradford. We are

stunding, and he could do that. I can't. So I'm just going

to speak the truth to you and my skin, my personality. But I've

learned from the scriptures that God works through the small and the little to create

big changes. My first church that I ever pastor was six members. The

senior pastor stuck me out there with those six members and he took care of

his two hundred and something member church. And I was there every week except

for occasionally bring me as a token, let me preach. And you know

what, I valued that six member church because I learned to think small.

So sometimes I want a big cure for a huge problem, when we really

need a small cure that gets the job done. In the King of God,

the cure we need the most comes to us as something very very tiny,

but it grows into the King of God that is huge. It's the

smallest of all the seed. It's a mustard seed, but it becomes a

tree with leaves and it branches. In the Hebrew way of thinking, a

cosmic tree, and Heaven and earth connect because of the small. It's Christians,

we belong to God's nano kingdom, the Kingdom of the small. How

small is a nanometer, It's about one millionth of a millimeter in size.

That's small. A human hair is about one hundred thousand nanometers in size.

A strand of DNA is about two point five nanometers thick. The surface receptors

on your cells are about forty nanometers in size. That is small, really

small for us to imagine. In fact, you can't even use most microscopes

and get down to that DNA level. In twenty seventeen, and a breakthrough

champion by Durham University Research has announced a nano medicine technology for killing cancer cells

in a very innovative way, kind of like pac Man. Little little nanobots

that work like pac Man. Het me remember the video game years ago,

pac Man. You know, little nanomotors were developed. I don't know what

they made them out of. Probably ATP, which is a molecular molecule that

has energy. I don't know. Little nanomotors were developed that turned like motorized

shredders, like lawnmowers turning that night. I had a hard time believing this,

but this was in print. They turned at a speed of two to

three million rotations per second. That's what they say. Fifty thousand of these

nanobots can fit on the tip of a human hair. These nanobots were unleashed

on a cancerous prostate tumor and they quickly started shredding it to pieces like pac

Man. You know, like your shredder, or you have in your living

room and not your living room, your kitchen where you put food in it.

Or if you have a shredder in your living room, that's unique.

Now, these nano bout shredders were activated by ultra violet light as a power

source for the super tiny machines that got the job done. They affected the

death of cancer's tumor cells within three minutes. Other researchers have used nanobots to

deliver medicine to cells, goes right into the cell. Still others have targeted

blood vessels to cause clotting to kill cancer cells. The possibilities are endless and

marvelous for the field of nanomedicine. Nanomedicine is right for the future. In

a sense, the future is already here because we are seeing it in medications

and light. Friends, we live in a time when our country is divided.

I've been watching the news this week and I'm keeping the politics out of

the pulpit, But can you say with me we live in divided country.

It's obvious the world is at war. There's the world is looking for a

new World Center, and no one knows exactly how it's going to pan out.

We know in Bible prophecy that the Church we unite with the state and

a coalition of power, and we know that it will eventually bring what the

Bible calls the mark of the Beast. And if you don't think that's half,

and you're not really in tune with the Bible nor the science of the

times, the world is moving toward religious oppression. The great leaders of our

time often say they have the answers that they can impose their will, and

when they opposed their will, they can solve it. And so people look

to presidents and others as messianic kind of leaders. If we only had this

president in all our troubles would go away, if we had this world leader,

and we would suddenly be fixed. You know, when Jesus came,

Jesus came to a world that had a world leader that everybody loved. His

name was Augustus Caesar. He was called the Prince of Peace by the people

of his time. He activated the Pax Romana, the Roman peace in BC

thirty one when he defeated the Great Navy of Egypt the Battle of Actium,

and they thought that somehow Augustus, who had ended all war and strife by

defeating his enemies, was the true prince of peace. And Christ came into

this world as a messiah that people were not expecting. As a messiah.

They really didn't want. The Pharisees and the Sadducees. We're looking for great

leaders. The Pharisees were looking for him aside would come who could somehow defeat

the Romans, who could empower the Jewish nation and help them start all over

again. And Jesus didn't show up according to their expectations. Christ came to

his people as a humble king of a nano kingdom, a super small kingdom,

and he referred to his kingdom as the little flock. Does that sound

like a world leader to you. He's a little flock. It's the will

of the Father to give you the kingdom little flock. You know, sometimes

we think, well, he had a remnant flock, that's all. He's

working with, just a small group of people. Twelve fifty seventy. He

grew, but not great, and when he died it shrunk down. But

he poured everything he had into those people. His kingdom was a small kingdom,

and from that kingdom, that Nano Kingdom, the King of the universe

in planted in the hearts of those believers the living and abiding Word of God,

and it grew, it blossomed. They surrendered, the Holy Spirit started

moving, and in one generation they had overtaken the Roman world. They'd come

to China, They'd gone up to the great barriers that separated the Danube River

into the Russian realm, down into Ethiopia. They had taken their world for

Jesus Christ, because Christ came focusing on the small. As Christians, we

belong to this Nano kingdom. And the Nano kingdom is the kingdom of the

heart the inside Luke seventeen, twenty twenty one. Take your bibles and turn

with me now. When he was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of

God would come, he Jesus answered them and said, the Kingdom of God

does not come with observation. Does anybody anyone's Bible read a little differently?

Any translation says something different than observation, to shout it out, what is

it? Okay, Well, I'll stick with mine observation. I'll explain what

it means, nor will they say see here or see there? For indeed,

the king of God is where what does it say, is within you?

That's where it's to be found. Inside of you. Now, the

Greek word for observation has only found this one time in the Greek Testament,

only here. It is not found at all in the Greek Old Testament.

The translation of the Old Testament second century be seen. The word appears in

secular Greek sources, suggesting something that can be watched with the eyes and a

visible fashion. In other words, the Kingdom of God is not coming so

you can see it with your eyes. You will not be able to say,

oh, there it is. Your eyes will not discern it. By

the use of this word, Jesus teaches us that God's Kingdom comes to us

as something invisible and that cannot be seen, and that invades the life like

a nanobot, but gets the job done. In the of the invisible nanobot

kingdom, you can't look to a church, a country, a political party,

and in theology or a great world leader to find it. It is

unseen, but it's there, cannot be found with outward display and power of

pop and circumstance something's huge. Oh, there it is, and yet it

steals into the life unseen. It changes the life. Jesus said, For

indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you the Greek word in tossed,

meaning inside of you or among you. It is here, he says.

You can't see it, but it's here. It's here. There isn't every

one of us a throne deep inside the heart that needs a king to rule

over it. Do you hear me? I mean, when I was fifteen

years of age, my life almost came to an end because my life was

a wreck. My family system was a wreck. I didn't know if I

would survive to be sixteen. And what I needed the most was someone to

come into my life and take charge of it. Have you ever been there?

Everything breaks down, nothing works, You try hard, and you realize

you're a wreck, and if God doesn't save you, no one can.

I remember walking across a bridge and gailas Virginia. I'm just looking up and

saying, if there's a God up there, save me, I don't know

what, I don't even know if you're there. He took that prayer and

mobilized events whereby I could come to be a Christian and friends. Wherever that

prayer is prayed, be it in your life for someone else's, the Holy

Spirit begins to work in you. There have been times in my life when

I wanted to be my own king. After that when I visited this idea,

Oh I'm in charge, and I learned the hard way that being my

own king doesn't work at all. I am still learning that lesson today.

There are times the Lord has to bring me to the foot of the cross.

I have to fall down and say, Lord, I'm a sinner.

I need the Cross. I need a king inside my heart to rule me,

because out of control life unless Christ is in control. Maybe you've tried

to be your own king and you can maybe you can feel what I'm saying.

Maybe you've learned the same truth. Maybe you haven't, but I know

it to be true. I own experience. The delivery system for the nanobotic

grace in the Nano Kingdom Sea is the Nano Kingdom Seed, the super small

Seed, and Jesus identified it as the Word of God delivered by the Holy

Spirit. So how do we change? Christ told Dicademons that the Holy Spirit

is invisible, but when the Holy Spirit wind blows like an invisible wind in

your life. He causes changes in your life so you will be born again

from the inside out. Now you know what God hates. He hates fake

religion. He hates the kind of religion where you say you want to look

good, but you're bad. You hear me. You want to say,

well, you know, I'm a believer in Christ, but you hate somebody.

You avoid them, You treat them like dirt in your mind. You

may smile at him, you know you do this, smile. I'm so

happy to meet you, But I hate your guns. And you ever do

that? You've never done that? I bet you have. Now you know,

you know the only thing that can change that is to have the Holy

Spirit go deep inside and find where that problem is at and hid it with

Christ and him crucified, for the glory of men to be laid in the

dust and for the beauty of Christ to be elevating their lives. This is

not possible by trying hard. So the delivery system of the seed, that

is the Word of God that affects change is the Holy Spirit working through the

Word to change who we are. Christ or Nicodemus that the Holy Spirit is

invisible, but when the Holy Spirit when blows, you can see its effects

in a changed life. Look at John three, verse one. John writes

there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Now the Greek word for pharisee means set apart. If I would ask

you next week, what does pharisee mean? What would you say? Based

on what I just said? Set apart? And they were considered the ones

who were that a part for the law. Their loyalty was to the law.

Nepaul says, he was set apart for the Gospel of God. So

his loyalty was the Jesus to God the Father, not to the law.

Because the Pharisees didn't recognize that God is the law, that Jesus is the

law, and so set apart for the law. They prided themselves and knowing

the law, and yet their religion had become rigid, disobedient, world loving

and still on the inside of his heart, Jesus said, look these Pharisees,

he says, you do as they say, but don't do as they

do. They're saying a lot of good things. They told us to love

our brother and all this, but they didn't. They said to tithe,

but they didn't. Jesus said, don't do as they do, do as

they say. In other words, that you can be inconsistent in what you

teach and preach in who you are. And look at verse two. This

man, I like the ways that this man, he's a person, came

to Jesus. Hurrah, He came to Jesus. This is where he hits

the home run. It came to Jesus. And what is saying your Bible

translation king to Jesus, how by night to him and said, Rabbi,

we know that you are a teacher. Come from God. For no one

can do these things that you do unless God is with him. The Greek

language indicates that it was a night kind of time for Nicodemus's life, and

the Greek a genitive of time is used for the word night, which means

night kind or quality of time. It means there was darkness in his life.

It's not talking about what it was like outside. It was talking about

what it's like inside. For Nicodemus, there was darkness in his life.

He was a teacher, and yet he didn't have the light in his teaching.

He was yearning for something inside that would fix that dark, gloomy feeling.

John one nine. Jesus is the true light that comes in the world

and lightens every man has come in the world. The Bible says that the

true light shone at creation. The darkness did not overcome it. Jesus is

the light of the world. He says so unapologetically in John eight. So

in verse Jesus answered and said to Nicodemus most as surely I say to you

here it is now we should pause, have our finger on that text and

look at it. Unless one is what born again, He or she implied,

cannot what see the King of God. You can't eat. You can't

see that invisible nano kingdom. It doesn't come with things to be observed unless

you have the Holy Spirit. Only with the Spirit can you discern it.

First, poor Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when

he is old? So he's thinking literally concrete. He's missing the spiritual symbolic

aspect of Jesus language. Therefore he can't understand or see it. He says,

Can he enter a second time into his mother's roomb and be born?

That's got literalistic baby talk. To Jesus, Christ works with it. Nicodemus

was a teacher in Israel, yet he didn't understand spiritual truths that affect part

the life. He was a was as literal as a rock. Here,

Like many of the Pharisees of his day, who needed the Holy Spirit to

illumine the Bible, to open its meaning so he could be saved, he

just wasn't getting there. Now. Look at verse five, Jesus answered most

assuredly, I say to you again, he goes right back to this point.

Unless one is born of water and the spirit. Now the Greek language

would mean born of the water, that is the Holy Spirit, he cannot

enter the King of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh,

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel

that I said to you you must be born again. So if I would

ask you to day, how important is being born again? What would be

the answer? Based on jesus statement here, It's extremely important, isn't it.

Now? In the Kingdom Parables of Jesus, the seed is the Word

of God. In the Gospel of John, Jesus is the living Word from

the very beginning before the written word was here. Christ was the Word of

God in the beginning in our kahinha Goths in Greek. In the beginning was

the words, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God. All things are made through him.

But when you go back to the beginning, the book of Genesis and

Hebrews Brave Sheet, in the beginning, you go to Genesis fifteen one,

you see the Word of God. There. The Word of the Lord came

to Abram in a vision. In my translation the Americans, the Right Standard

English Standard version I believe, leaves it out, says the word of the

Lord came to Abram a vision saying I am your shielding, your great reward.

Don't be afraid. That was Christ, the preexistent Christ, the Word

of God, who came in the beginning. He was God, he was

with God. It's nonsense that Jesus is not God. Makes no sense.

In great controversy the Snares of Satan, sister White makes the statement that one

of the final snares of Satan will be to convince people that the deity of

Christ is not true. That we should be uttering. There's no way.

She says, that we can have a deep understanding of the Atonement without understanding

of Jesus's God. It's an amazing statement. It precedes the eighteen eighty eight

revival in Adventism. It shows you the spirit of prophecy is not afterthought,

but it is a forward thinking of things. In the Gospel of John,

Jesus is the living Word from the very beginning, who was spoken to us

in every age to give us the written Word of God that is now our

Bible. So when you have your Bible in your hand, you have Jesus

in your hand. Good God works through the implanting of the tiny word of

God. You may read one verse in your life. That verse can change

your life. And you know the verse that has changed more lives than any

It's John three sixteen. For God so love the world, that he gave

his only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but

have everlasting life. One tiny verse has one thousands, yea millions to Christ

and affective the Kingdom of God for all eternity. And so through the Word

of God we are transformed. We come to know Christ, come to the

cross, we realize where sinners our hearts are broken, evil people that we

are. We become kind, unselfish, humble, willing to reconcile, to

love others, to put others before ourselves, and thus advance the kingdom without

sacrificing one lick of principle in doing it. And Jesus taught us that this

supernatural change comes into our lives like a new birth, as something that is

invisible, like the wind blowing in the trees you have. The change is

real in us, and in time that nano kingdom, affected by the spirit,

its effects can be seen in our lives Verse eight. The wind blows

where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot

tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is

born of the spirit. So the King of God has not come with something

to be observed. It comes as the invisible nano kingdom, and it changes

lives. Thus the Kingdom of God does not come as something that we will

point to and say, oh, look at this big, successful kingdom.

No, it will be felt where two or three are gathered together in His

name. There he is in the midst of them. It starts starts with

something you can't see now, Peter knew this, and he knew that the

Word of God is part of this change in our lives. Turn to First

Peter one twenty three, twenty five, and let's notice the text here.

Now, true Christianity always leads to a changed life. Did you hear me?

You can write that down. True Christianity always leaves to a change,

surrendered, purified life. Faith. Christianity says it doesn't matter. True Christianity

says it matters. But it's not legalism. It is the outward working of

the Holy Spirit through faith and grace, verse twenty two. Since you have

purified your souls, Look what he says, Look what helps us to purify

our souls in obeying the truth? Through what? Through the spirit. You

can't obey without the Holy Spirit. You can't surrender God witholy spirit. You

can't grow without the Spirit. And sincere love of the Brother. Now,

what's the best evidence that you are a Holy spirit filled obedient Christian. What

does it say in the sincere love of the Brother when you love people in

the church. You know this was set in a minister's meeting. I liked

it. I heard it this week and it's right on. Wolves eat sheep

right, am, All right, sheep are vegetarians, right, that's what

I said. I thought it was quite profound. I'm copying what I heard

in our ministerium there, Pastor Nick, and I heard this week. So

we should not be in the business of eating anybody in the church. She's

a sheep, right, So well, you know, I'm a I've been

here forty years and it's a good thing I'm here, so I can hold

the place together without me, you know what with this place? That what

happened this place? And just see that young person coming through the door with

this problem that. Now we didn't get that out of her talk, don't

we. That doesn't mean we don't mentor, that doesn't mean we don't grow,

That doesn't mean we don't instruct. In fact, we've heard that great

verse today in the Sabboscool class about we are to draw the distinction, as

Eco says, between the clean and the unclean. That means we're to teach

the law of God. But your teaching won't matter one lick unless you love

people. And so what's the evidence of a converted life? A sincere love

of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart. We aren't

just a love. We're to love people a lot. You know, if

someone isn't loving to you, you go out of your way to be more

loving to them. That does mean you let them walk over you, but

you try, you try to bridge those barriers. Now it says, let

me get back to this. We cannot truly love the brethren unless that Nano

kingdom change has occurred inside our hearts. You can't force it. A sincere

love means we really do love each other. Jesus said, love your enemies.

Loving people are kind to each other. Am I right on that?

Come on? Are loving people kind each other? Okay? Loving people are

there for each other? Right yeah? Loving people invest in each other.

Loving people give their lives for others. And how does this happen? Now?

I want to say something right now, Brother Kendo, Where are you

at? Brother Kendo? Want you to come up here. Brother Kendo is

moving to Texas to be with his family, his daughter. This is last

Sabbath here, so I could have said something before the sermon, but I

wanted to wait right here to say something right now about this. Dear Man

of God, you're one. You just will miss you, and I hope

you bring your whole family back. But brother Kendo, how many of you

would concur with me on that? Yeah, brother Kendo, I'm not a

hugger, but I'm gonna give you a hug. I want to say something

saying you don't have to where. We're gonna have something after the service for

those that are connected with this mister Kendo. But he has done a lot

of good around here and we're gonna miss you. Peter continues in verse twenty

three, having been born again just like John three. Not of corruptible seed.

You know, a guy to get the right nanos stuff in you,

but incorruptible through though and what is what's the agency here? Through the Word

of God. New birth doesn't happen unless God's Word speaks to you through the

Word of God, which lives and abides forever. And a Christ is the

living, abide and Word of God. He works through the Bible. Real

change your life can only come through the Word of God, driven home by

the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead. God has given us

his word to speak to us, to change us from the inside out.

We don't change becomes of some emotional group, dynamic hard effort or resolutions or

education. We change when God's Word gets a hold in our hearts and the

Holy Spirit comes inside. The Bible says, the Holy Spirit can possess us

in the good kind of way without breaking us down in the wrong way.

Verse twenty four, Peter continues, because all flesh is his grass, and

all the glory of man is that the flower of the grass. The grass

withers and the flower falls away. You know, I went to him getting

my hair cut this week, and I'm so glad I cut all that gray

stuff off. Sorry, ladies who have gray hair, and I'm struggling with

it too, you know, we all do. But look verse twenty five.

The Word of God endures forever. It doesn't go gray. Even though

God is the ancient days, he has gray hair. But it's a good

thing. The Word of God endures forever. Now this is the word,

But he tells you the word that works here. But this is now,

this is the word which, by the Gospel was preached to you. Or

one translation say it is the Gospels preached to you. The Word is itself

the good news that was proclaimed in the Gospel of God. Friend Jesus died

for our sins. How many of them, all of them. When we

deserve to die for just one little sin, He died for all of them,

from Adam to the end. He sucked them into his mind and heart

as a human being. He became the lamb of God. Isaiah says,

God caused to meet in him all our sins, and from Gassemite of the

cross he was living through every lifetime. It would rattle you for a minute

if you could experience it supernaturally sustained. He couldn't even feel the pain hardly

from the nail wounds and all that, because what he was going through,

what's quantum. It was information superpositioning every life in him. He became the

collective consciousness of the human race as one man. We will study this fraternity

beyond science. It cannot be grasped. And when it was done, and

he said, Father's finished. He had dealt with everything we have ever done,

and we were home again in the heart of God and Eden because of

the atonement. And then he was buried. The second part of the Gospel,

so he could put our sins away from us, disconnect us from the

past. Revelation says he has loosed us from our sins. Some translations say

washed us same thing, and then he rose from the dead Romans four twenty

five. For our justification, our acceptance are legal acquittal. So on Sunday

morning, not guilty if you're in Christ, not guilty anymore forever. But

you better be in Christ. That's the condition. People are still in the

flesh. That is, like the grand asked that fades have hearts and minds

focused on earthly things and not the things of God or others. It's not

enough to talk to the Gospel. He must live. It must be in

us to be born again. Hearts are broken by the cross. The boarn

again believer will live a life that does not conform to the world, not

to look good, not to virtue signal. He will do it because he

loves the Christ of the Cross, and the call is the upward call that's

high in Christ. Jesus Caaul says, Look, I forget the things that

lie behind. I go for the upward call in Christ. Not because I've

made it my own. I'm not perfect yet, but because he has made

me his own. A born again believer knows that his or her sins have

been put in Jesus on that cross, and they love Jesus and they hate

sin because of the Cross and because of the love of God. The Tsar

of Ages, page five eight five O nine, I want to show you

a couple of experts from this marvelous chapter of Zar of Ages that I recommend

it Chapter fifty five. Not with outward show, she writes, it is

as true now as an apostolic days, that without the illumination of the Divine

Spirit, humanity cannot discern the glory of Christ. The truth and the work

of God are unappreciated by a world loving and compromising Christianity. Do you see

that not in the ways of ease, of earthly honor, or worldly conformity

are the followers of the Master found. They are far in advance in the

paths of toil and humiliation and reproach, in the front of the battle against

the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness,

against the spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. And now, as

in Christ's day, they are misunderstood and reproached and oppressed by the priests and

pharisees of their time. See, if you advocate real religion, you're going

to have a hard time with religious experts. But you know, I'd rather

have it right in the heart then have it write with an expert. Nicodemus

came to Jesus night by night because he was not born again by the word

of God through the power of the Holy Spirit. He needed a change.

Nicodemus was looking for a visible earth, a kingdom, and not a kingdom

of the heart. So I ask you, practically, how can we have

that change in our lives. I'm going to tell you right now I write

this down. You get up in the morning. Number one, you get

on your knees and you say, Lord, I'm a sinner, save me.

Hold me today in Jesus. And then you open your Bible. And

if you can't read for an hour, you read for two minutes. You

find a place in the Gospels and you read it and you start a relationship

with God in the Bible. It's called a devotional life. Very simple.

And if you never get to be a four hour Bible student, fine,

if you're a five minute Bible student, you get in the Kingdom of God,

you're gonna make it. But you take this book and you let it

work for you in the morning. There have been times in my life.

When I failed to do that, I've been so busy people call me biostor

were you to get out at three thirty in the morning and get from A

to B? And I sometimes have to do that. So I put the

Bible on audio tape so I'll hear it. If I'm caught in a pinch

like that. I am dead in two or three days without the Bible in

my life, the prayer in my life. And I'm not special, I

know. So you would fall to if you didn't have Jesus. We have

to hang on to Christ in a practical way. So Nicodemus was looking for

a teacher of theology instead of a change life. But to his credit,

Nicodemus came to Jesus. That's where he hits the home run right out of

the ballpark. And friend, whoever comes to Jesus hits a home run right

out of the ballpark. So in the morning, come to Jesus. John

said that the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness is not overcome

in Christ is the light of the world. And if Jesus is shining in

your heart, there is no darkness inside because light dispels darkness. You can't

have hate and love in the same heart GNU, so we better have Christ

in our hearts. At the end of time, powerful world leaders were night

with powerful church leaders, and hatred destroy the remnant church at the time of

the end because they do not know Christ. And may there never be that

attitude in our midst The Nano kingdom has to be in us. Are we

are not of God's Kingdom? How does the song go, not I but

Christ, be ever more exalted? You've heard it, not I but Christ

in every word. Indeed, not I but Christ, and he goes on.

That's the mantra of a converted heart. Sometimes people measure church success by

how many people show up to a meeting, or how popular the church is,

or how many baptisms you got that year. There have been times I've

had many baptisms a year in Britain, none but I've worked the same,

or how impressive the music is, or how beautiful the building is. Jesus

pastor a little flock that changed the world, his little flock, the Nano

kingdom. It had no church building, yet Jesus changed the world with it.

His ministry ended in persecution, death, and yet from the seat of

his sacrifice. Christianity exploded into a worldwide movement that overtook the Roman world in

a few years. We cannot have God's blessing of the Church and compromise with

the world. That's a fact. We are to be in the world,

but not of it. Purified Christians, Peter calls us. We are to

be relevant. We are to be relevant, carrying loving Christians, sacrificial,

but not sacrificing one sacred principle of truth. To convince someone you hear me

the Czarees Pates five or nine. There was a forum during the COVID crises

where I just put this one statement in a form of ministers over a hundred

ministers in a certain conference. It blew the place up. I didn't say

a word. It is posted. This one statement totally blew the place up

I wanted to be because it needed to be blown up. This statement's right.

Read it. The King of God comes not with outward show. Actually,

it's the next one I'm going to read. It's part of this.

The King of God comes not with outward show. The Gospel, the grace

of God, with its spirit of self abnegation, can never be in harmony

with the spirit of the world. The two principles are antagonistic. The natural

man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness

unto him. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. You

know, I when I was in how many of you watched the Asbury Revival

they hit up? There was it Kentucky, the Methodists, Remember the Methodist

Revival. These young people made national news. At least you don't watch TV,

you know, But the fact is it hitting national news. I follow

these things on the internet, these news and these kids. It was one

one university after another where they had revival because of what these kids were doing.

Went on for weeks, shut the place down. Now, when we

were at Southern Abnis University, when I was there as a young person,

had a revival on our dorm. In my room. I was part of

a group that was studying the Bible, praying and given our lives to Christ.

Someone came into the group older than me. He looked like he had

his life together, you know, he had persona, he had chrisma and

the like. Begin to tell the group that we need to associate with people

on their terms. Now I agree, with that. I associate with nonbelievers

all the time. So he said, what'd you like to come to me

and I'll take you to a place where I associated. Said sure, So

he got me in his car and he drove me to the bar. Alrighty,

I said, that's different. I'm a theology student and this other theology

students take me to the bar. But I said, open mind, open

heart. We got there and it's what he did. He says, I'd

like to have Scotch over suton another and they gave him his drink. Now,

look, I've lost family members to alcoholism. I was going, what's

going on here? And he turned to me with a pious look, and

he says, I'm trying to win people. I cannot win people unless I

do what they do. I said, really, I thought to myself,

the only person's being one is you. You're being one by them. So

I sat there and I said whatever. He left the theology program. He

didn't have enough energy for Greek or Hebrew or anything like that. He spent

all his time in that. But you know what, I feel sorry for

him because I loved him. I wanted him be saved. There's nothing funny

about it. He left Christ, but he did so because he compromised.

Now we're gonna be relevant in the world, but not compromising his believers.

That's the tension. Jesus was a scandal. He would meet with people and

it was awful. They thought for him to do so, but he never

compromised principle in doing it. That's what we're called to do. Some people

believe that if we could just change the government to impose religion, we get

church and state. Well, save America. It doesn't work. These kinds

of people looked up political leaders to be their missiles. With all the answers

in every age, people like this have been disappointed because one president, one

leader after another lets them down. We're not looking for the king of the

world. We're looking for the King of God. Desire of Age Dispates Bible

nine. Here is the statement that blew up the ministerial group. And I

didn't think it would, but it did. The government under which Jesus lived

was corrupt and oppressive. Does that sound like maybe what we see in our

world today? Okay, on every hand, we're crying abuses, extortion,

intolerance, and grinding cruelty. Yet the Savior attempted no civil reforms. He

attacked no national abuses, nor condemned the national enemies. He did not interfere

with the authority or administration of those in power. He, who was our

example, kept aloof from earthly governments, not because he was indifferent to the

woes of men, but because the remedy did not lie in merely human and

external measures. To be efficient, the cure must reach men individually and must

regenerate the What Christ was in the Asbury kind of revival movements, that's what

he was doing. He was making a difference with the Word of God in

individual lives, and he overtook the Roman world by saving souls in meetings,

preaching, teaching healing. When Jesus came before a pilot to be tried and

crucified, Pilot asked the most important question, are you the King of the

Jews? And Christ answered him with a very important question reply, Are you

saying this for yourself or did others say this? Jesus got to the heart

of Pilot's heart problem. Are you asking me this question because you want a

king or because they told you that I claim to be a king? Where

are you coming from? That's what he asked pilot, do you want me

to be your caesar? Are you tired of ruling over your own ruined life?

Are you asking a sincere question or just trying to impress me with the

question? John eighteen thirty five thirty six. Pilot answer, Am I a

Jew? Your own nation? The chief priests have delivered you to me?

What have you done? That's another way of saying no, I do not

want you to be my king. I don't like your nation either. You

can take your nano kingdom of the heart and keep it for you and your

rotten Jewish nation. I'm a Roman, and I worship power of success,

Hail Caesar, verse thirty six. Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of

this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight

so that I should not be delivered to the Jews. But now my kingdom

is not from here. He's saying this. Look, the Jewish people don't

accept me either. I'm not a Jewish king. Really, I'm a heavenly

king. Pilot asked him, are you a king? He had every evidence

that Jesus was a king. Jesus possessed the dignity, self control, humility,

kindness, an authority of a true king. Jesus turned to Pilot and

said, I came to this world to bear witness of the truth. That

is why I was born. Then he turned to Pilot and he said,

everyone who is of the truth, here's my voice. My word is truth,

my teaching is truth. Because I am the way, the truth,

and the life. I speak the truth. Pilot. I've taught the truth,

and now I stand before you on trial for the truth. Because I

am the truth. Pilot said, I find no fault in him, and

yet Pilot condemned him to death in the same breath. Think about that justice.

No. Pilot said to Jesus, what is truth? And I've heard

this in so many places, what is truth? As if that's a smart

question to ask? Here, Pilot asked the wrong question. He should have

asked Jesus the question, who is truth? Are you the truth? He

wasn't looking for a king who is truth? Pilot wasn't willing to have any

part of Jesus Nano kingdom. At Pilot's command, they scourged Jesus. They

placed on jesus head a royal crown of thorns. Bleeding wounded, they quickly

led him out to the Eastern Gate, up the summit to the Mount of

Olives, whipping him, pushing him, and there they crucified him nails and

hands and feet, hoisted him on a cross as the condemned of God's and

Christ in that awful time was going through every life from Adam to the end.

And they didn't even know it that he was the Lamb of God.

And their pilot wrote in Latin, Greek and Hebrew the truth on a plaque

nailed at the top of a cross, as it read, Jesus King of

the Jews. Friend, Jesus was King of the Jews, all right,

but this fact was written in the languages of the world, so the whole

world would know in Latin, Greek and Hebrew that Jesus is the king of

the universe of the world. This week I went to get my hair cut.

Did it work okay? My hair stylist, who's from the Kingdom of

Nepal wasn't there. They used to call hairstylist barbers, my car or hairstylist.

So I needed a haircut because I was tired of looking like a hippie.

You don't know what a hippie is, some of you, But when

I was a convert to the church. These dear only couple of revenue of

the church says, we love you, but don't you start dressing like a

hippie, And they did. They loved me, so I didn't. Id't

dressed like a hippie. But when my hair gets long, I still think

of Alan Alleke's exhortation. So I took my seat in a chair where a

kind Vietnamese man started wagging away at my gray hair follicles. Felt good to

see them fall to the ground. He first started with scissors, you know

they do that. Then he ended with clippers, and when the haircut was

done, I said, you've done such a good job on my head.

This is why I told him this is a load off my mind. And

he smiled at fun with the pun. Then I asked him, are you

a Christian? He said no, I'm a Buddhist. I said, fine,

it's so nice to know you're religion. I just purchased an expensive Bible

at the Living Well Center the Angis University Seminary studied Bible large print, so

I can fall along into a lot of the Bible stays. I'm switching to

New King James version for others sake, mainly it's a large print bible.

I said, do you have the Word of God? He said no.

I asked him if he wanted a Bible. He said yes with a smile.

Very nice man. So I paid for my haircut and I went out

to my car, and I made sure I tipped him because I didn't even

feel like I was cheating him on the tip. And so, honey,

excuse me if we don't have as much money this week, you know,

in our bank account. And I brought the Bible that I just purchased into

the salon and I wrote a message on it. I wrote his name in

his Bible, not my Bible. And it was felt good to do that

as I gave up the Bible. See the ever belongs to us all.

It's not a Christian Bible, it's the Bible for the world. I wrote

with a pen in his bible. Jesus is the light of the world.

And may God bless you with his word. Now. In Buddhism, Gautama

has claimed to lead us to the light, and gaal Thomas has a lot

of good philosophies for how to cope with existence. But gaal Thomas's teaching cannot

get you out of the ground in resurrection morning. He did the best he

could in his time and not criticizing Gautama, the father Buddhism. He was

trying to make a difference. But if he had known Jesus, he would

have pointed them to Jesus. So I also wrote in this as I said,

Jesus is the light of the world. May God bless you with his

word. I wrote in his Bible, Jesus loves you. I dated the

message, and then I put my name and phone number in his Bible,

and I left it there with him. He smiled as he was zipping away

at someone else's hair, looking at his bible. He said, remember my

name? Would you remember my name and come back again? I said,

oh, will. I plan to get my hair cut by him in the

future for a while so we can talk about his Bible. I had asserted

that there's unfinished business in this man's life. God had redirected my life to

sit in his chair. God's Nano kingdom of the Spirit cares about the one,

not the collective, but the one that creates the kingdom, the seed

in the heart of the one. So can I ask you a favorite.

Can you praise pray for my Vietnamese Buddhist friend. Can you please pray for

him and pray for me also, I don't want to look superior anything I'm

not. We all need Jesus. We all need freedom from guilt. There

are millions of people in the Buddhist world who who love truth, who want

to know the way, and they need Jesus and Catholicism Adventism too. We

all need Jesus. France. God's kingdom is not with outward show. It

is the kingdom of the heart. It is the Nano kingdom. How many

of you like to affirm? Lord, take my heart today we knew me

in the Holy Spirit. Give me a sincere love of the brethren and for

the lost in Jesus name. Amen, Dear Father God, we need Jesus.

Thank you for Jesus and give us Jesus and give us to Jesus.

Lord. May you bless your people. May you hold him in them in

Christ. May you keep them for the day of your peering. May you

forgive every sin and give them power to obey and overcome every sin. And

they may they be found without fault before the throne of God. Because of

the blood of the lamb in Jesus name, Amen