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Above The Law | Alex Bonilla

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  1. I love it. I was very surprised to hear

  2. people don't know what an empanada is.

  3. Today is the day of your breakthrough.

  4. I think you should buy 10 of them, one

  5. for you and each member of your family.

  6. Amen.

  7. This morning I want to talk about a

  8. subject uh the title uh message uh above

  9. the law. The Bible says in Romans 8:2 it

    Romans 8:2

  10. says, "For the law of the spirit of life

  11. in Christ Jesus has made me free from

  12. the law of sin and death."

  13. Galatians 5:223

  14. says, "But the fruit of the spirit is

  15. love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

  16. gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,

  17. temperance. Against such there is no

  18. law." You know, in in the past 25 years

  19. in my relationship with God, I I've

  20. watched people and I watch what works

  21. and don't work. I always ask God say God

  22. I don't come from a religious background

  23. and I was a very good sinner uh I did it

  24. with the best of them and then the Lord

  25. called me from that place and uh and and

  26. and he say follow me right so I I went

  27. on my journey so I didn't have all these

  28. preconceived ideas all these religious

  29. idea so I was just watch people to see

  30. what worked and what did not work and my

  31. prayer was always God help me care for

  32. what you care and and if you don't care

  33. about it I don't want to care about it.

  34. If you don't care about the the clothing

  35. I wear, if you don't care about these

  36. things that people these laws

  37. established by men, I I just want to be

  38. free from all that stuff. I just want to

  39. care about what you care and follow you

  40. and pursue you. And in that process,

  41. I've seen two main uh groups of people.

  42. I've seen the people that are consumed

  43. by everything. They're consumed by their

  44. goals. They're consumed by by by their

  45. jobs. They're consumed by the next house

  46. they're going to get, the next car, the

  47. next vacation, the next thing that

  48. they're going to conquer, and their

  49. whole life is consumed by that.

  50. But then I have seen throughout the

  51. years a very interesting group of

  52. people. And it's the people that say,

  53. you know what, I'm just going to be

  54. consumed by him. I'm just going to make

  55. I'm going to spend my time, my energy

  56. every day of my life just pursuing his

  57. will. And the Bible says there is a

  58. principle. The Bible says in Matthew

    Matthew 6:33

  59. 6:33 it said, "But seek first the

  60. kingdom of God and his righteousness and

  61. all these things shall be added to you."

  62. And then I noticed something very

  63. interesting.

  64. These people that were consumed by him,

  65. they don't have to pursue all this other

  66. stuff. The the Bible says everything

  67. else will be added.

  68. I believe as the church, we're entering

  69. the season of everything else being

  70. added. I think there's a group of

  71. radical people in the church, radical

  72. disciples. Now, there's a difference. I

  73. we love converts. We like people to come

  74. in and receive Jesus Christ in their

  75. heart. And that's the most beautiful and

  76. most important thing you can do in your

  77. life. But God don't want to keep you

  78. there. He says, "I I I call to raise

  79. disciples of the nations." And to those

  80. disciples, to those people that have

  81. this radical pursuit, those people that

  82. make the kingdom first, that spend their

  83. time, energy, and space into pursuing

  84. the will of God, I noticed that they

  85. don't have to pursue after any of that

  86. stuff. That everything is added.

  87. >> I'm like, man, this is an interesting

  88. concept. The Bible says you can be slave

  89. to sin that leads to dead or you can be

  90. enslaved to Christ. You're going to

  91. serve something. You're going to be

  92. consumed by something. But I believe you

  93. have the option to choose what we are

  94. going to be consumed by. And if you

  95. choose to be consumed by God, everything

  96. else is added. And I notice that to

  97. those people where everything else being

  98. added, those certain laws don't apply to

  99. them. It's like they're above the law.

  100. You know, I share many instances my

  101. hatred for parks, especially amusement

  102. parks. I think is something demonic

  103. uh to make line. I don't know who who

  104. came out with this idea of making you

  105. have to make a line to the line. Have

  106. you seen that? Like we I say baby what

  107. what we're in the line for? No, this is

  108. just to get to the parking and then in

  109. the parking there's a line to get into a

  110. shuttle and then the shuttle takes you

  111. to another line to get into the park. I

  112. was like Lord Jesus. And then you get

  113. there, I'm and I'm reading the reviews

  114. and they say, "Well, the tunder mountain

  115. or something like that." I said, "Man,

  116. Thunder Mountain is the best. If you

  117. come to this park, you have to go to the

  118. Thunder Mountain." I was like, "Okay,

  119. let's do that." Have no idea what is it.

  120. I just know it's the best thing. And I

  121. told my family that first thing that we

  122. need to do, we need to go to the Thunder

  123. Mountain. As we're going into the

  124. Thunder Mountain, I start seeing these

  125. signs and I knew something was wrong.

  126. immediately say, "If you got back

  127. issues,

  128. please don't get into this, right?" I

  129. said, "Well, I think I'm good." Still

  130. still got some.

  131. And then you you continue to go up in

  132. this line. And then he says, "If you got

  133. heart issues, you definitely should not

  134. be in this thing." I said, "Man, what

  135. kind of ride is this though? What is it

  136. that we're doing this down? I thought it

  137. was some thunderings and stuff. I don't

  138. know what to expect.

  139. And then they they got all these

  140. warnings and all this stuff. Strap in

  141. and do all this stuff. So I'm strapped

  142. into this thing and this thing I don't

  143. this have to be conceived in a demonic

  144. mind. Like this thing don't only go like

  145. a 100 miles an hour downhill but all of

  146. the sudden everything goes dark. And

  147. then once it goes dark it pull you back

  148. and it start running back like a 100

  149. miles an hour and I don't know if I'm

  150. going forward. I don't know if I'm going

  151. backwards. I don't know if I'm up. I

  152. don't know if I'm down. I'm short and

  153. this thing is shaking. I say, "God,

  154. Jesus,

  155. I want to go out like this." You know,

  156. enemy tried to kill me so many times in

  157. my life. How he went out? Thunder

  158. Mountain.

  159. Thunder Mountain. It's like

  160. we gave him all the warnings, but he he

  161. wanted to go on. But you know what is

  162. the only thing I love about parks is

  163. this thing. They they got the lightning

  164. lane pass. I like that stuff.

  165. I felt so important because there's this

  166. pass that you can get that there's these

  167. lines. There's like two hours and a half

  168. of lines right there, right? So, there's

  169. hundreds of people on this line and you

  170. just walk by it like

  171. I told my daughter, "Baby, don't look at

  172. them.

  173. You don't want to offend them."

  174. That's what the common folk do. Do they

  175. do lines?

  176. We have favor, baby. I know it's not

  177. fair. Keep walking.

  178. And I do believe that's the season that

  179. we're in that God is saying, "No, don't

  180. don't don't look at them cuz I got a

  181. fast track for you." Because you choose

  182. my kingdom first. I will add everything

  183. else. You don't have to be consumed. The

  184. Bible says you are in desert but you're

  185. not from it. The Bible said do not

  186. conform to the patterns of desert. Look

  187. at those people in line for their dreams

  188. and their goals and their things and

  189. you're in the fast track because you're

  190. pursuing him. And he said you don't

  191. don't even look at them. Those are the

  192. common people. Orphans care about that

  193. stuff. Orphans are praying for what

  194. they're going to eat, what they're going

  195. to wear. Your father in heaven knows

  196. everything that you need and he get you

  197. to fast track. You know, David went to a

  198. fast track. The Bible says King David,

  199. he's standing in front of a giant say,

  200. "I will kill you. I will do all this

  201. stuff to you." This dude don't even have

  202. military training. This dude show up

  203. with some shorts and flip-flops and a

  204. couple stones and a stick. But the Lord

  205. says, "Because you're pursuing my

  206. kingdom first. You don't need to go to

  207. boot camp. You don't need to you don't

  208. need an armor. You don't need a I'm

  209. going to take you to a fast track into

  210. your destiny. And I'm going to use the

  211. opposition before you, not for your

  212. destruction, but to propel you to your

  213. destiny. Because I got you in a fast

  214. track, in a lightning fast lane, that is

  215. not going to you're not going to care

  216. about the things of this earth because I

  217. I I I care for you. I know the plans I

  218. have for you.

  219. >> I know before you were in the womb of

  220. your mother, I I I knew you. I love you.

  221. I predestined you. I created a fast

  222. track where you don't have to be

  223. concerned about these things. I love how

  224. Paul calls himself an ambassador. He

  225. says, "We are ambassadors." Now, that's

  226. a political term. That's not a religious

  227. term. Now, when you understand the laws

  228. of an embassy, when you're in an

  229. embassy, you are in a different country,

  230. but the laws of that country don't apply

  231. to you.

  232. >> It even even more, it says that even the

  233. local law enforcement of that nation

  234. have no jurisdiction over the embassy.

  235. And Paul is saying, "I'm an ambassador.

  236. I'm sent here. I'm here in this world,

  237. but your laws don't apply to me. All

  238. this stuff you live by don't apply to

  239. me. I operate under a higher authority,

  240. under a higher power, that stuff." But

  241. the enemy is trying to keep the church

  242. in this place where you're so consumed

  243. by rationale, where you're consumed by

  244. the process on how it's supposed to

  245. look, tradition, and settings and things

  246. like that. And God is saying, "Who told

  247. you that?

  248. >> Who told you that?"

  249. >> He looks at Adam and Eve and they say,

  250. "We were afraid because we were naked."

  251. And he looks at them. Who gave you that

  252. information? That did not came from me.

  253. That don't apply to you. That don't

  254. apply to you. That's a a law, sin, and

  255. death. That don't apply to you. I

  256. created you free from that. The Bible

  257. says through Jesus Christ, through the

  258. blood of Jesus, you and I become an

  259. ambassador of heaven. that that that we

  260. are on this earth and we're going to

  261. walk through it but those laws will

  262. don't apply to you that the enemy have

  263. to ask permission even to touch you that

  264. the enemy have to ask permission even to

  265. come your way we did a deliverance

  266. conference powerful deliverance

  267. conference but something that they were

  268. keep saying is the enemy have no access

  269. to you

  270. >> only the access that you give it to him

  271. the Bible says he have been disarmed he

  272. has been defeated

  273. >> that means he have no arms No legs. No,

  274. I'm just joking. English is my second

  275. language. And so he's like, I'm going to

  276. get you.

  277. He can't get you. He can't touch you. He

  278. can't chase after you. He got no arms,

  279. no legs. No. Uh, that will be an email.

  280. So, I I believe Apostle Alex is not

  281. totally correct on his theology.

  282. I went to college and all that stuff. It

  283. just I did not pay a whole lot of

  284. attention.

  285. But the Bible says he have been

  286. defeated. He has been disarmed.

  287. He have no weapons. He got nothing

  288. against you. The Bible says he even have

  289. to go to the courts of heaven. Think

  290. about it with Job. He says what you're

  291. telling me about this guy. I cannot

  292. touch him.

  293. Satan is saying this as evil as he was.

  294. It's like I cannot even touch him

  295. because there's a hedge of protection.

  296. He's an embassy. My laws don't apply

  297. over him. He's untouchable.

  298. I cannot touch him. That that the Lord

  299. have to give him permission because he

  300. knew whatever area he touched it was

  301. going to double in the next season. So

  302. he said, "Go ahead and touch him. I got

  303. my money on him." But make no mistake,

  304. the enemy did not have any authority

  305. over him. The Bible says even to prove

  306. that point, it says that he came to to

  307. the courts of heaven and he demanded

  308. Peter. He could not touch Peter because

  309. he was an embassy of heaven. His laws,

  310. his rule did not apply over him. But he

  311. said, I demanded him to be sifted. He

  312. have to ask permission to come in. There

  313. is that we need to understand as a

  314. church the enemy have no power, no

  315. authority over you. Unless you open

  316. doors, unless you invite him, unless you

  317. allow him to come in. And even if you

  318. have allowed him to come in, the Bible

  319. says if you humble yourself and pray, if

  320. you come into the presence of God and

  321. you you can you can spell those demons

  322. out of your life, you don't have to be

  323. manipulated by them, they have no

  324. authority, no power over you. That's

  325. what the enemy wants to keep you in this

  326. place. Because if you understand how

  327. powerful you are, the anointing that is

  328. upon your life that you are here to rule

  329. and to reign to bring the presence of

  330. God in every area of societal influence,

  331. you become a force reckon, a force to be

  332. reckoned with.

  333. >> You know, God is calling some

  334. troublemakers.

  335. >> God is calling some some people. I like

  336. that. It's always been a little bit

  337. rebellious in my life. But I realize

  338. the enemy perverted that. But there's a

  339. natural need in my heart to be above

  340. above these laws to be to not to be

  341. restricted by these things. And the

  342. enemy tried to pervert that. But then he

  343. showed me I'm calling some

  344. troublemakers. on calling some people

  345. that are willing to break protocol that

  346. are willing to break out of this

  347. tradition of these things of men because

  348. God cannot be restricted by these

  349. things. He cannot be restricted in these

  350. areas. He say I want freedom. I want the

  351. freedom to move and do. Jesus was a

  352. disruptor. Think about Jesus. Jesus, you

  353. can invite this guy anywhere. You invite

  354. him to a wedding, he's turning water

  355. into wine. He said the party's almost

  356. over. Jesus, not today. I'm going to

  357. party a couple more days. Bring me some

  358. water.

  359. People are mourning. They're all sad.

  360. This baby boy died and he's dead. He

  361. said, "Oh, you Jesus, you can't touch

  362. the dead people." That by the law, Moses

  363. said, "You can't touch it."

  364. Because the law says if you touch

  365. something that was contaminated, you

  366. become contaminated as well. You become

  367. impure.

  368. But Jesus said, "No, no, no, no. I'm

  369. changing that paradigm and an ambassador

  370. of heaven. Those laws don't apply to me.

  371. As a matter of fact, I'm so pure that

  372. when the impure touch me, I purify him.

  373. I'm I'm so full of life that when death

  374. touches me, they come back to life. And

  375. people were all crying. Now understand,

  376. there were people that were paid to cry

  377. in these funerals. There were people

  378. like crying, professional criers.

  379. I love that stuff, man. Hispanic,

  380. African-American funerals, the best you

  381. got. We got going on, man. That's some

  382. of my favorite. These people,

  383. throw me, take me with her, Lord.

  384. They want to jump into the hole with it.

  385. It's like, yes, Lord.

  386. And there's people making money out of

  387. these funeral proceedings, you know,

  388. that were benefit from these loss of sin

  389. and death and these things. And God

  390. says, no, I'm about to disrupt some

  391. things and I'm about to change some

  392. things in your life. I just feel the

  393. spirit of the Lord is telling you this

  394. morning, hey, I'm about to disrupt some

  395. things and I'm about to change some

  396. schedules. I'm about to change some

  397. protocols. and you think it's going to

  398. take you 10 years and the Lord says,

  399. "No, you're in a fast track. I'm going

  400. to bypass the multitude. I'm going to

  401. take you there. Vineyards that you

  402. haven't planted, houses that you haven't

  403. built, is the stuff that I have for

  404. you."

  405. >> Hallelujah.

  406. >> You know, the Bible says that

  407. when you seek the kingdom first,

  408. >> in justice, you're you're unshakable.

  409. >> You're unbreakable. You're unstoppable.

  410. The Bible says if not even injustice can

  411. stop your destiny. You know when I think

  412. about injustice, I'm thinking about

  413. always go back to Joseph. Think about

  414. Joseph. It's it's like the craziest

  415. thing. His own family sold him out. You

  416. do you understand that when your own

  417. family sells you, you know, they put an

  418. ad on marketplace, little brother for

  419. sale,

  420. will include tunic of many colors for

  421. $50 more dollars. You know, dude,

  422. this guy got sold by his own family into

  423. slavery. It was not so to work at the

  424. circus or like he he got sold to be a

  425. slave.

  426. But when you know when you seek the

  427. kingdom first when you're marked by God

  428. it doesn't matter what people do against

  429. you they do against you got no effect

  430. over your destiny over your calling as a

  431. matter of fact the Bible says in

  432. Pyifar's house God prospered Joseph so

  433. much that he was put in charge of

  434. everything

  435. >> and then another injustice took place it

  436. was wrong he deserved punishment he was

  437. falsifully falsely accused of a crime

  438. and he was put in prison.

  439. He could be bitter. He could be

  440. offended. He could be like, "My own

  441. family betrayed me. Every Pifar's house

  442. betrayed me. Now I'm in jail. I'm in

  443. prison." But when you seek the kingdom

  444. first, God will use even that prison

  445. that they place you in. He will use it

  446. as a training camp for you. He say,

  447. "Don't worry, Joseph. I'm going to use

  448. this to train you. I'm going to use this

  449. to equip you." There is jails right now.

  450. There are situations that you are in

  451. right now that you feel there's

  452. injustice that you feel that you've been

  453. doing wrong that you have been shortch

  454. changed that you feel is and and and

  455. probably so probably righteously so you

  456. have been betrayed you have been hurt

  457. you have been done wrong but the Lord

  458. says don't worry when you are marked by

  459. me when you seek the kingdom first

  460. everything will operate for your good I

  461. will make the the natural the spiritual

  462. the good the bad and the ugly conspire

  463. for your favor that that that I will use

  464. you as a training camp. I will form you

  465. in that place. Do you know when when

  466. Joseph got

  467. into his moment to shine,

  468. the Bible says that it was his gift that

  469. opened the door for him. But it was his

  470. process of training that actually

  471. equipped him to stay in that position

  472. because he was able to to to um be able

  473. to interpret these dreams since he was a

  474. kid. He can do that with his eyes

  475. closed.

  476. But the Lord says, I'm going to use even

  477. the minations, the evil that people try

  478. to do against you as a training ground

  479. for you. In Pyifar's house, he training

  480. how to handle abundance. In the jail, he

  481. he he learned how to handle very little

  482. and stretch the little he got. So when

  483. he came to his opportunity to his open

  484. door, he knew exactly what to do because

  485. God used the process of training in his

  486. life. Instead of becoming bitter, he was

  487. faithful to the process set in front of

  488. him because he then he looked at his

  489. brother and say, "I know what you did

  490. was evil, but God used it. Don't worry

  491. about me." But that's why when you are

  492. in the kingdom of heaven, the law of

  493. offense don't work over you because you

  494. know it doesn't matter what they do

  495. against you. They have no power over

  496. your destiny. It will not stop your

  497. destiny because your destiny is in the

  498. hands of God. Yeah.

  499. >> The government looks at Jesus and say,

  500. "Don't you know I have the power to kill

  501. you right now." And Jesus laughed

  502. said, "You got no power, but the power

  503. that my father in heaven gave you. I'm

  504. not going to be offended at you. I know

  505. you're about to crucify me. I know

  506. you're about to kill me, but you were

  507. never in control." Because God will even

  508. use the cross to take you to that place

  509. of resurrection. He will use your

  510. process. Even the process that people

  511. use against you, the Lord said, "I'm

  512. going to use it on your behalf to form

  513. you, to shape you." So when you get into

  514. your space, you will have all the

  515. training, all the equipping that you

  516. need. So some people that they're stuck

  517. right now. And the only reason you're

  518. stuck is because you're still holding on

  519. to that past.

  520. >> And the Lord is saying, "You got to let

  521. go.

  522. >> You got to let it go. so little compared

  523. to where I want to take you. You're so

  524. hold on to that offense, seeking that

  525. justice, seeking that restitution. And

  526. God says, "Forgive that debt. Release

  527. them because he got no power over your

  528. destiny." As a matter of fact, do you

  529. know Judas advanced Jesus destiny more

  530. like Peter?

  531. >> Peter the friend tried to slow him down.

  532. He said, "I will keep you from dying. I

  533. will protect you so you don't die." And

  534. he said, "Get behind me, Satan.

  535. Because I know it look bad. I know it

  536. look like suffering. But I have seen

  537. into the future. When you seek the

  538. kingdom first, you can never outgive

  539. God. When you seek the kingdom first, he

  540. will use everything for your good. It

  541. doesn't matter how bad it look. It

  542. doesn't matter what form, what weapons

  543. are formed against you, they will not

  544. prosper.

  545. And Judah's betrayal accelerated his

  546. purpose.

  547. And God is saying to the church, there's

  548. so offenses you need to let go. There's

  549. some I know it was wrong and it deserve

  550. punishment, but it's so little compared

  551. to where I want to take you. You need to

  552. let go so I can take you into that

  553. place. Do you know Lot's wife was so

  554. concerned about something that God was

  555. done with that she stopped her destiny?

  556. She was so distracted. She was looking

  557. back into something that God says, "I'm

  558. done with it. It's finished.

  559. and she become bitter. Well, she become

  560. salty actually.

  561. There's some salty people in the church

  562. because you are too distracted what was

  563. in the past and you can see what the

  564. Lord have in the future for you.

  565. And God is saying, "Hey, look forward.

  566. Look forward. I will use it all. I will

  567. use it all." The Bible says that even

  568. the laws of scarcity and poverty have no

  569. power over you. You know the Bible says

  570. in first Kings 17:14 16 says the the

    1 Kings 17:14

  571. bean of flour shall not be used up nor

  572. shall the jar of oil run dry until the

  573. day the Lord sends rain on the earth.

  574. Now this is a story. This is a widow

  575. that is the the whole time. Understand

  576. this the whole area is in a famine. It's

  577. not just the widow struggling in this

  578. scripture. The whole area is in a

  579. famine. The economic system was

  580. collapsing. There was issues with the

  581. economy of the whole region. And she's

  582. struggling. But she said, "You know

  583. what? My husband seek the kingdom first.

  584. We were under covenant. We're radical

  585. pursuers of his presence. We pursue the

  586. kingdom first." And you know what she

  587. did? The prophet told her, "Give me

  588. first. Plant a seed." Because in in the

  589. kingdom of heaven, it works differently.

  590. Even in famine, even in need, we give.

  591. >> Why? Because we know we cannot outgive

  592. God. Because we understand he activates

  593. a spiritual principle in the heavens

  594. where he activates you die to your own

  595. personal provision and you embrace his

  596. provision. You you let go of the economy

  597. of this earth and you can take part of

  598. the economy of heaven. So when you give

  599. your tithes and your offering, the Bible

  600. says the Lord himself will rebuke the

  601. devour for your sake. You know, and and

  602. this is the thing like there's many

  603. people you you may agree or may

  604. disagree, but you need to be if you are

  605. a disciple, you need to be a giver.

  606. >> You need to be giving your tithes, your

  607. offerings. I believe personally 10% is

  608. the bare minimum

  609. >> that you should be giving.

  610. >> I believe I'm believing and I'm telling

  611. Jennifer uh and we're in agreement. say

  612. we want to be so blessed that we get 50

  613. 60 80% you know and and if it's 80% of

  614. millions you know that can I can make

  615. that work.

  616. So I'm asking God, God, why you don't

  617. test me on that? I haven't been tested

  618. with a lot of money. Maybe that's sift

  619. me with that. You know,

  620. couple million. See what happens. You

  621. know, worst case scenario, we tried it

  622. and

  623. you know, I said, "Well, that was not

  624. it." You know,

  625. but maybe that's where I exhale. You

  626. know, maybe I was born to be rich. I

  627. don't know.

  628. But the Bible says this woman gave out

  629. of her need

  630. because she knew she was operating into

  631. a different economy. She knew the laws

  632. of famine and scarcity have no power

  633. over her. And the Bible says

  634. supernatural provisional breakthrough

  635. came to her. It says the flower they all

  636. never cease in her house. Because when

  637. you are in the kingdom of heaven, when

  638. you pursue the kingdom first, these laws

  639. don't apply to you. the laws of desire

  640. don't apply to you. You can give in the

  641. time of your need. You can plant seeds

  642. in the time of your need because you

  643. know that God is going to back you up.

  644. You know there's going to be provision

  645. that he's going to make a way where

  646. there was no way. Now there is people

  647. here that you may be stuck right now

  648. financially on many areas of your life

  649. and and the enemy is telling you you

  650. need to hoard it. You need to save it

  651. all. You need to keep it. And the Lord

  652. said no just give in this season. I

  653. believe there's going to be people that

  654. God is going to put on your heart to

  655. give flamboyant offerings in this

  656. season. I believe God is raising

  657. millionaires of in this house because

  658. the Lord says that no vision will go

  659. without provision and he wants to use

  660. you to be a kingdom funer. So we need to

  661. break this law of scarcity and poverty

  662. from our minds and say that don't apply

  663. to me. You know I operate under a

  664. different economy.

  665. I believe in this season,

  666. God is calling disciples to a brand new

  667. level.

  668. I believe this is a season

  669. where God is telling the church, I need

  670. you all in.

  671. You cannot be in two mindsets anymore. I

  672. said, we're going to decide today.

  673. You're going to either serve Baal or

  674. you're going to serve God. For me and my

  675. house, we will serve him first. They

  676. asked Jesus what is the greatest

  677. commandment

  678. and he say to seek the Lord your God to

  679. love him with all your heart, soul,

  680. heart, and spirit. That's the main law.

  681. You submit to him the Bible says and the

  682. enemies will flee from you. That he

  683. becomes a shield for you. That he

  684. becomes your everything. But I do

  685. believe there's people in this room that

  686. God is calling you to a higher level.

  687. that he's saying you you may need to

  688. reach out if you're part of primary

  689. leadership, if you're part of a

  690. leadership development. And if you are

  691. not, you need to be where God is saying,

  692. "No, I want you to be a disciple. I just

  693. don't want to I don't want you to be an

  694. observer or a reporter in the kingdom. I

  695. want you in. I want you to pick up your

  696. cross and follow me." There's some

  697. people here that you may have to reach

  698. out to your leaders and say, "How can I

  699. build my house? How can I serve the

  700. kingdom? How can I come to a higher

  701. level of covenant with this house? And I

  702. ask you this, if you look at this last

  703. month, when you look at your time,

  704. space, and money, can you prove that you

  705. value the kingdom of heaven

  706. based on how much money, time, and space

  707. you have provided for the Lord?

  708. I'm I'm blown away by the decisions

  709. people make that say, "Oh, the kingdom

  710. first." And I love it because, you know,

  711. you have beautiful worship here at North

  712. Palm and the spirit falls and you see

  713. people crying say, "God, I give you my

  714. all. Send me." Then we got a conference

  715. and you got to beg people. So I I I can

  716. come to the conference. I can pursue the

  717. kingdom. I can do this. You ask for

  718. volunteers and and and and you get these

  719. responses sometimes.

  720. The Bible says there was a call

  721. made to people

  722. and some people answered that call, some

  723. people did not. The Bible says that rich

  724. young ruler was given the chance to

  725. change history with Jesus.

  726. Not ever again we will see Jesus coming

  727. to the earth like he did in that season.

  728. He's coming back. Well, he's coming back

  729. in glory and power to get his church.

  730. But in that moment, he have a

  731. one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to follow

  732. Jesus, to make history with him. I

  733. believe this is the season that God is

  734. telling the church, I inviting you to

  735. make history with me. Come, leave

  736. everything behind and follow me. Just

  737. follow me. That's all I'm asking. I

  738. don't care what you're dealing with. I

  739. chose you. You did not chose me.

  740. You thought you were pursuing me. I was

  741. pursuing you.

  742. And when I chose you, I knew exactly

  743. what you lack, exactly what you needed.

  744. And the enemy want you to be so overly

  745. concerned about what you're lacking

  746. about these processes, about these laws.

  747. And God is saying you're above that law.

  748. You're a troublemaker. You're a

  749. disruptor that don't apply to you. So I

  750. just pray, Father, in Jesus name, I just

  751. want to invite you to bow your head. I

  752. just in Jesus' name I just ask you

  753. father to break right now.

  754. We surrender every idol, every other

  755. lover that we have in our heart any

  756. other pursue,

  757. anything else in this season that we

  758. have value more than you.

  759. We destroy every altar and every high

  760. place this morning.

  761. You told the church, "One thing I have

  762. against you. I've seen your works, seen

  763. what you have done, but you have and and

  764. team preach about this. You have loved

  765. that first love." He says, "I want to be

  766. your first and only love

  767. right now as we speak. These chains are

  768. breaking. These limits are breaking over

  769. you. All this stuff that the enemy tried

  770. to tell you, oh, you don't have the

  771. education, you don't have the

  772. background, you don't know the people,

  773. you don't have the platform." I rebuke

  774. that in Jesus' name. God says, "I'm

  775. about to put you on a fast track. You're

  776. going to skip some lines in this season

  777. because you have chose me first and you

  778. will not be put to shame because what

  779. I'm about to do is going to be

  780. transformational."

  781. And I just invite you to make covenant

  782. right now with God to those who feel

  783. led. Now, don't make a covenant if

  784. you're not ready to make those

  785. covenants.

  786. But I feel there's a spirit. God

  787. operates through covenants. It's a

  788. covenant keeping God.

  789. And there's some people that God is

  790. saying, I'm I'm renewing. It's a time to

  791. renew your vows with me. It's time to

  792. renew your comm your your commitment to

  793. leadership, your commitment to give,

  794. your comm commitment to serve, your

  795. commitment to build the kingdom. How are

  796. you using your resources and your

  797. giftings to build the kingdom?

  798. God is putting a demand on that. He say,

  799. "Seek me first and I will add everything

  800. else.

  801. My children don't have to be concerned

  802. about all those trivial things. I got

  803. your back." And I want you as you do

  804. that, you go to this place where your

  805. love beyond measure.

  806. His word says, "I cannot love you any

  807. more than I love you right now. Not even

  808. things in heaven, on the earth, or below

  809. the earth, the past, present, or future,

  810. can keep you from my love. You are my

  811. child. I love you. I got your back. I

  812. got your back. I got you protected. And

  813. as that perfect love comes upon you, all

  814. this fear, all this anxiety, all this

  815. narrative or this urge fades away and

  816. breaks over you right now in Jesus name.

  817. Because those laws don't apply to you.

  818. And that love is casting out all fear,

  819. all anxiety, all turmoil.

  820. And you take your eyes from yourself,

  821. from your situation, from the economy,

  822. from the natural things. And this

  823. morning, you lift up your eyes to the

  824. heels where your help comes from. Many

  825. trust in chariots, many trust in

  826. soldiers, but you pray, you trust the

  827. Lord.

  828. And you may be here this morning

  829. and you may not even have a relationship

  830. with Jesus. Or maybe you had a

  831. relationship with Jesus and that

  832. disconnected somehow.

  833. You know,

  834. one of the laws that did not apply to

  835. me, you know, I thought when we talk

  836. about the laws of sin and death, I was

  837. supposed to be dead.

  838. Like I say, I was a very bad sinner. I

  839. deserve it all. If I was in the courts

  840. of heaven, I will tell you it's true. I

  841. did it. I was rebellious. I sin against

  842. you. I deserve to be dead

  843. by those laws.

  844. But Jesus said, "I know I became sin for

  845. you."

  846. He looked at me and he said, "Those laws

  847. don't apply to you

  848. cuz I took your sin in the cross. That

  849. is paid for."

  850. And there's some people here that have

  851. been even serving the Lord for a while.

  852. And the and the enemy's been trying to

  853. bind you with this legalism and this

  854. religion. And God is saying, "I love

  855. you. I pay for all that. I don't came to

  856. abolish the law, but through me was

  857. fulfilled."

  858. And I thought it was unfair. I thought

  859. it was it it it it was it was not right

  860. because I just made one prayer but that

  861. prayer transformed my whole life and I

  862. felt how that blood of Jesus came upon

  863. me and erased all my sins. All the stuff

  864. that I was trying to fix with

  865. anti-depressive and ADHD medication and

  866. alcohol and drugs just trying to find

  867. that peace. Just trying to find that

  868. love. Just trying to find that place

  869. where I belong.

  870. one prayer

  871. and I just felt the spirit of the Lord

  872. coming upon me and for the first time in

  873. years I felt peace.

  874. That law was broken over