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Dominate - The Reigning Church

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  1. What an awesome day it is today and there was a lot going on.

  2. So that I'm going to need to jump right into the word.

  3. Amen. All right, let me let me direct

  4. our attention to Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18.

    Matthew 16 chapter mention

  5. You know, traditionally when it comes to us, I am a person.

  6. Funny I'm saying it this way. Traditionally, you know, that we

  7. do not follow traditions, you know, so there are some

  8. traditions out there that are good, but you know, I'm kind of

  9. anti traditional. I'm like, you know, do we have

  10. to do that? And if I honestly see everyone

  11. doing something that technically isn't just scriptural, it's just

  12. traditional, then I'm like, I don't know that I'm doing that.

  13. I tend to push a little bit. And you know, one thing that I

  14. see that comes through is that there's always somebody

  15. declaring something at the beginning of the year.

  16. And I realize God is not on our our calendar.

  17. God is not technically completely concerned about our

  18. calendar. Now, I'm not saying that he's

  19. not aware of our calendar and that he's not aware of specific

  20. times that he has put in the earth because there were

  21. specific times to think that he's not calendar driven.

  22. That's not true because he said, well, you're going to keep this

  23. feast and you're going to keep this thing and you're and there

  24. was were specific days when the day of Pentecost came.

  25. That was a calendar day. That was a calendar day.

  26. And God ordained this long before man and he knew I'm going

  27. to drop the spirit. Passover was a calendar day and

  28. Jesus is the Passover lamb, so to say He's not aware.

  29. I know He's aware, but He doesn't have to give us a word

  30. January 1 every year and He may not be technically doing

  31. something different now. For us, a word came into our

  32. spirit in 20/20/20. Prior to that, we lived up

  33. underneath this idea in 2017 to 20, 2017, 1819 on being

  34. equipped. And, and who would have known

  35. that for those three years we kept emphasizing being equipped,

  36. that COVID would have come and we would have seen a generation

  37. of churches not equipped to not to be not equipped.

  38. Aren't you glad we were being equipped?

  39. I said we were being equipped. Hallelujah.

  40. Well, then it moved into raining and all of a sudden I and I

  41. sensed in my spirit we could talk about reigning till Jesus

  42. comes. Because when Jesus comes back,

  43. he is not coming back as a suffering servant.

  44. He's coming back as the reigning king.

  45. Hallelujah. And much of Christianity,

  46. globally speaking, needs to rediscover his reign.

  47. They need to rediscover his reign.

  48. This is that I think the genius, when I say genius, the Holy

  49. Ghost will make you look like a genius.

  50. That Doctor Miles Monroe did when he started writing on the

  51. Kingdom of God, that he knew that it was a lost context.

  52. And when he ministered it, it would be such a foreign concept

  53. to the church as a whole that it would give the appearance it was

  54. a new revelation. When?

  55. Let me just say this, there's nothing new under the sun,

  56. Nothing new. It's just that things can get

  57. lost through the years because #1 traditions #2 man can become

  58. complacent or #3 man can enjoy the blessings of God and then

  59. forget God. And in their forgetting, they

  60. will redefine him so that they can live their blessed life.

  61. Are you hearing me? And so he was very wise when he

  62. said rediscovering the Kingdom. And you know what?

  63. The King's coming back. I said the King's coming back.

  64. Now he is a king, His father is a king, and his father is a

  65. father, and his father holds position of fatherhood and

  66. kingship together. They're not a separate thing.

  67. He can be a loving father and a supreme ruling king at the same

  68. time. Never will Heavenly Father pull

  69. his crown off in order to be a loving father.

  70. In fact, it's his kingship that establishes his fatherhood

  71. because it's who he is. They're inseparable.

  72. He is the ruler, creator of everything.

  73. It's amazing. And out of his nature, which is

  74. Love Is All. Oh, Mama, it's all, it's

  75. everything. And so it's important for us to

  76. continue to grow in this thing called the Kingdom of God, of

  77. which our heavenly Father so desires for us to be his sons.

  78. Amen. And so this year, you know, as

  79. we again, just seeking the Lord. Is there something I just sensed

  80. in my spirit, the Lord's life. I'm still dealing with the

  81. church. Last year we started, we kept

  82. raining as our thought process, but we went into the reigning

  83. church and we're still going to be talking about the reigning

  84. church this year because God is doing something in His church.

  85. Now let's look at this. In Matthew chapter 16, verse 18,

    Matthew 16:18

  86. it says it this way. It says, And I say unto thee,

  87. King James Version, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I

  88. will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail

  89. against it. I'm going to say that again.

  90. And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I

  91. will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail

  92. against it. It will not prevail.

  93. It will not prevail. So the church he's building will

  94. never be sounding like, whoo, it's getting so bad.

  95. I don't know what we're going to do 'cause his church is saying,

  96. I don't care how bad it's getting, it's getting.

  97. It's getting, it's getting. It doesn't matter how bad it's

  98. getting. What is happening is that the

  99. church is raining and it cannot prevail against us.

  100. Can't do it. We can say, Yep, sounds bad.

  101. Oh, that's not good news, but I have some good news for you.

  102. I just want you to know there is good news and you can take

  103. confidence. In fact, I just want you to get

  104. a little happy because our king said in this life you'll have

  105. trials and tribulation, but be of good because I've given you a

  106. Kingdom. I've just given you a Kingdom,

  107. my Mama. The gates of hell is the power

  108. of destruction, and it is of a lower position domain.

  109. So the gates of hell is the power of destruction of a lower

  110. position or domain. We know that Colossians says

  111. that God transferred us out of the domain of darkness.

  112. It is a lower position. I said it's a lower position.

  113. It's lower. It is not over, it's under, it

  114. is not above, it's underneath, it's not on top, it's on the

  115. bottom. And it's so far on the bottom

  116. that it's hard to even see that it's there.

  117. It's so beneath our King, so beneath.

  118. And this reminds me of something, man.

  119. I was thinking about this just before service about God.

  120. And I'm like the Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy

  121. Spirit, just them before anything, before he spoke.

  122. Let there be the heavens and the earth before creation.

  123. He knew the minute I create something not me, they can rebel

  124. and will. However, that position doesn't

  125. move me to not create that he was not intimidated by that,

  126. that he was like I'm still a higher position.

  127. It did not move him out of position because he's the

  128. supreme position. Are you hearing me?

  129. Prevail means this to be superior in strength to overcome

  130. so we can say this Scripture says it this way that that Peter

  131. upon this rock a revelation that I am the Christ.

  132. I will build my church and the power of destruction, which is a

  133. lower position or domain can never be superior in strength

  134. and overcome my church. I'm going to say that ain't can

  135. never be in a superior position to overcome.

  136. It doesn't matter if you're in a government that's a dictatorship

  137. that hates God, they're still not superior.

  138. It's not superior. So for all of our brothers and

  139. sisters that are in nations that they are doing everything to

  140. persecute, destroy the Bible, destroy Christianity or Christ

  141. likeness to destroy the name of Jesus, they're still operating

  142. from a lower position. In fact, the scripture tells us

  143. the Psalm says the Lord is in the heavens and he looks at the

  144. efforts of man and he what? He's laughing.

  145. He's like, really? Do they think all of that

  146. killing and martyring my people puts them in a higher position?

  147. It's not, so you understand. Unfortunately, we tend to only

  148. think finite man. Years ago the Lord finally

  149. showed me said, Son, quit living in the now.

  150. Go ahead and live eternal. Because when you live eternal,

  151. you know that things are beyond my lifetime, meaning on the

  152. earth when I let go of my spirit and it's gone.

  153. Because the reality is anything that's ever gone on this planet

  154. will be dealt with entire. There's not an injustice that

  155. God will not bring to justice. It's never going to happen.

  156. There's never a leader, never a person, never a moment, never an

  157. act, right? And we see this in the book of

  158. Genesis when the Lord comes down, he says, K, where's your

  159. brother? He said, I'm on my brother's

  160. keeper. I don't know.

  161. He said, well, his blood's talking to me.

  162. Now you may remove the vocal voice of a person, but you never

  163. remove the blood of a person in the earth and anyone's blood

  164. that's been spilled unjustly, any action, they will have to

  165. reckon with the Lord of all, the Chief Judge, the one in supreme

  166. power. And it doesn't matter if you do

  167. not see it in your lifetime. There is a lifetime in eternity

  168. that He is supreme and will rule and reign all these things.

  169. He is the Judge of the living and the dead, glory to God.

  170. So there is never a position that the gates of hell can be in

  171. a superior place of strength and can overcome, can overcome.

  172. You remember our new board member, John George, Reverend

  173. John George, when he came and ministered after COVID, he gave

  174. a startling statistic that prior to COVID there were so many

  175. churches within the United States and then after it, a

  176. large number shut down and never it was like 50% gone.

  177. They never reopened. Now when you hear that, you

  178. would think, man, the enemy has done something.

  179. Well, either they didn't know who they were or #2 the lore

  180. wasn't building that house anyway.

  181. For the Bible tells us unless the Lord builds a house, they

  182. that what labor. Labor in.

  183. Which means you can build a church that God hasn't

  184. authorized, but when the storms of life come, it will not stay

  185. standing. And to the untrained eyes it

  186. seems like it's a church, but to God it never was. 1 Amen.

  187. But we know that God's church is alive and well in the planet,

  188. and it may not seem to be everywhere in the context that

  189. we it, it looks dominant or the most powerful or the supreme, so

  190. to speak, because it's everywhere that we can see and

  191. every nation is enjoying it. It is operating in an in in

  192. places that may not be seen, but they're there nonetheless.

  193. They're some of the most oppressed nations have the

  194. largest growth of people coming into the Kingdom of God.

  195. But the Prince of the power of the air does not want you to

  196. know because he will not advertise for Jesus.

  197. Are you hearing me? Colossians 118 says this and he

  198. also and he or he is also the head, OK.

  199. He is the life source and leader of the body, the church, and he

  200. is the beginning, the first born from the dead so that he himself

  201. will occupy the first place. He will stand supreme and be

  202. preeminent in in how many things you understand that the biggest

  203. passion Jesus has today is his church is building his church.

  204. I said is building his church. He started this track by going

  205. after he preached after he was tempted of the devil came out of

  206. the wilderness and the power of the Holy Ghost began to preach

  207. this message. He said repent for the Kingdom

  208. of heaven as at hand. He announced a Kingdom is in

  209. your midst. And when he went to to Peter and

  210. John and and Matthew and all of his disciples, Andrew and all

  211. those people, when he made this declaration, come follow me now

  212. when we hear that, we hear it through religious lenses,

  213. because when we hear disciple, we think of religion.

  214. But when Jesus said disciple, if you read the amplified and some

  215. other translations, you'll know that when he says repent, it

  216. means change your thinking side with my party now party.

  217. If we say this in the United States, if I came and said,

  218. well, whose party are you with? You wouldn't think I'm talking

  219. about a church. You would immediately be

  220. thinking of voting, government and whose party?

  221. But yet these were the terms Jesus used.

  222. Jesus says come, follow me, side with my party, because a King's

  223. dominion is in the earth and you're going to want to be a

  224. part of this Kingdom. And they said, I'll leave

  225. everything to be in your Kingdom because for these they've been

  226. waiting for the king. The Jewish people, the nation of

  227. Israel, did not realize that the king would first come as a

  228. suffering servant because he wanted to extend his boundaries

  229. beyond the nation he had a covenant with.

  230. He wanted it to be what he always intended from the

  231. beginning. And we know this in Genesis

  232. chapter one verse 26 when it says God said let us make man in

  233. our image. He didn't say let's just be over

  234. 1 nation called Israel. He said let us make man in our

  235. image according to our likeness and let them what rule have

  236. dominion. And so he says, I want the whole

  237. planet to be a citizenry of kings under the king.

  238. They're my offspring, they're of my nature.

  239. They rule like I do in this realm, like I do in my realm.

  240. Hallelujah. And Jesus has come to set that

  241. back in play. That's why Jesus says message of

  242. repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, is saying dominion

  243. is for man, not for the devil. Dominion was for man, not for

  244. the devil. Dominion was for man, not for

  245. the devil. God never intended you to be in

  246. the condition you're in, in the position you're in.

  247. You are in a lower position because you are of a domain that

  248. is dark, that is in a lower position, and you are not to be

  249. in that position. I want to raise you up.

  250. I want to sit you on a throne. I want to raise you up and seat

  251. you in heavenly places. I'm going to put you back in the

  252. position that My Father ordained for you to be all the while.

  253. So when Jesus said I'll build my church, he's saying when he said

  254. to disciples, come follow me, he said side with my party.

  255. I have a government that's coming to the planet and you're

  256. going to want to be a part of it.

  257. That's why Isaiah prophesied very articulately.

  258. He said a son, a child will be born, a son will be given

  259. notice. The son is not born because the

  260. son always existed. A child will be born, a son will

  261. be given, and the government will rest on his shoulders,

  262. Hallelujah. And there'll be no end to the

  263. increase of his government or of peace.

  264. The government on shoulders are in the body, and the body is the

  265. church. And so God always intended to

  266. bring his government expression or His Kingdom through the

  267. church, which is much like an embassy.

  268. Wow. And so we see here that Jesus

  269. says when God gave Adam this dominion, Adam did the one thing

  270. that would cause him to lose his rulership, and that is to rebel

  271. from God. God said, Son, you can eat from

  272. any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of

  273. good and evil, you shall not eat, for the day you eat you

  274. will surely. And the day he ate, through one

  275. man's transgression, sin enter the world.

  276. Death came. And this is not God's plan.

  277. This was not God's purpose. This is not what God wanted for

  278. man, but He had a plan. He had a way back so that His

  279. word concerning man would be fulfilled.

  280. Because there's no word, God says that He doesn't accomplish

  281. that. He doesn't have a pathway for

  282. accomplishment. Now, if you choose to accept Him

  283. or not, it's up to you, but you'll stand before holy God one

  284. day. And he said what I said about

  285. you, you could have been. All you had to do was believe.

  286. Because what I said. About man, I meant about man,

  287. and I made it for man, so much so that I sent my own son as a

  288. man. Because a man lost dominion.

  289. It required a man to gain dominion.

  290. This is why Jesus has to be born of a virgin, because the seed of

  291. man's now corrupt. And so God by the Holy Ghost

  292. impregnates a woman called Mary, and he grows as a man on the

  293. earth. He's the Son of God, yet the Son

  294. of man. And when the devil attacks him,

  295. tempts him, in the Luke's account of the temptation of

  296. Christ, he said, now look at all this domain, all this, all these

  297. governments, all these powers, all these principalities, all

  298. these things on the earth. I'll let you rule them.

  299. But all you have to do is bow down to me.

  300. I can give them to you because they've been handed over to me.

  301. In the Luke account, where did the devil receive this the day

  302. Adam ate the fruit? So the devil.

  303. Never stole from Adam. Adam abdicated his authority by

  304. willfully disobeying the word of God.

  305. And now we have sin in the earth and sin.

  306. We are all very much professionals, experts, we could

  307. say in the field of sin, so much so that we rightly know we're

  308. not worthy. We're not worthy and our whole

  309. existence. Since the day we.

  310. Were born, the enemy was telling us.

  311. You're never good enough. With God.

  312. And then we would do things that's not right with God and

  313. guilt and shame and all these things.

  314. But then you hear that Jesus has done something.

  315. I said Jesus has done something, that Jesus took your place, paid

  316. your price, went down the line of death.

  317. And paid the. Price so that you would not have

  318. to pay yours and that if you would just call on his name, you

  319. could be saved, be born again, or correctly translated would be

  320. born from above and you would take on the nature of God again.

  321. The problem is, is that when we interpret the Bible only from a

  322. sin consciousness, we'll live in the earth like unworthy people,

  323. although we're different people. And that's where.

  324. Religion kicks in because all of a sudden we're right with God,

  325. but yet we still convince ourselves we're unworthy to be

  326. around him. Yet all the while the Father

  327. saying you're only back where I said you were supposed to be.

  328. Why are you? Fighting against your position,

  329. I said let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

  330. And if you want to walk in true humility, then you must put on

  331. what we call Christ consciousness.

  332. Know that you're born again. No longer do you maintain this

  333. attitude of I'm a sorry Sinner saved by grace, but instead you

  334. said I was a Sinner. I was rebellious to the throne

  335. of God, but by the grace of God and faith in Christ Jesus, I

  336. became born again. And now I'm a child of God.

  337. I'm a believer and he renews my mind and he's made me worthy and

  338. he's made me righteous. And I can be what he said I am,

  339. and I am to walk in what he's declared me.

  340. And I am supposed to be on the throne with Christ and.

  341. When you see. That that church looks

  342. different. So Jesus said I'll build my

  343. church, which means I will personally be involved in doing

  344. it. But yet as the church, he is the

  345. head. Colossians tells us that he is

  346. the head of the church. He has first place.

  347. The word head means superior, chief, principal, one to whom

  348. others are subordinate. Who is the head of the church?

  349. What's his name? Come on, what's his name?

  350. We are never to debate with the head.

  351. What to do? We are only to say Yes Lord, yes

  352. Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord 'cause he's

  353. supreme. If we've called him Lord, how do

  354. I call my own shots? If he is supreme, why am I not

  355. speaking? Because the church he's building

  356. has his children that are passionate about waking up every

  357. day by the Spirit of God and saying, yes, Lord, I'm here

  358. today, use me. Whatever you want to do, I'm

  359. here to serve you. I bow down to you daily.

  360. You are my life, You are my source, You are preeminent, You

  361. are everything. And when those group of people

  362. assemble together, this is an unstoppable force on the planet,

  363. because Jesus is unstoppable on the planet.

  364. First place. Means to hold the first rank or

  365. highest dignity, to have preeminence, to be cheap.

  366. Now Jesus said this, which means then I always have to examine

  367. myself. We have to examine ourselves and

  368. say, are you first? Are we seeking you first?

  369. Are we putting you first in everything?

  370. Are we asking you? Should we take that job?

  371. Are we asking you? Should I date that person?

  372. Are we asking you are? We asking you?

  373. Everything. Are we asking Hallelujah, Lord,

  374. do I go there? Do I take vacation?

  375. Then do I stay home? Whatever the case.

  376. May be he's first place preeminent means this surpassing

  377. all others to have superiority. Now I know I'm saying these

  378. terms that are very difficult for the US citizen.

  379. I understand this. I understand This is why the

  380. Kingdom is is very difficult in all nations, because any type of

  381. government has some layer in God's Kingdom, but man corrupts

  382. it. And even in the.

  383. Great United States of America, where we are a constitutional

  384. Republic that democratically votes for our leaders, OK, we

  385. are not a democracy, constitutional Republic that

  386. democratically votes for our leaders.

  387. All right, it is still not better than God's Kingdom.

  388. And. What we have defined as freedom

  389. would not be freedom in the Kingdom of God.

  390. Now you can say anything you want to say, but you will be

  391. held accountable to whatever you say.

  392. He said he. Will hold account every idle

  393. word. See, in our nation, we're like

  394. freedom of speech. I can say what I want to.

  395. Which means we can complain about our government.

  396. Anybody won't complain about Jesus real quick.

  397. Anybody won't run him down. You say no, I'd never.

  398. Do that well, people have. People have called him a devil

  399. before. Said he.

  400. Cast out devils in the name of a devil.

  401. Amen. Yeah, there's many believers

  402. that have even cried out to God, prayed to God and then blamed

  403. him for stuff. Why could we carry this freedom

  404. of speech over into the Kingdom of God?

  405. See, there's this thing that we hold true to called

  406. independence. And.

  407. Independence is the most dangerous word in a Kingdom

  408. because in God's Kingdom there is no independence, but there is

  409. individuality. Because God made you.

  410. He created you. You've been fearfully and

  411. wonderly made. He did not want you to be a

  412. cookie cutter like someone else. He wanted you to be unique, but

  413. yet He created you to be with others.

  414. And that you? Thrive in the assembly.

  415. You do not thrive in in dependent.

  416. You thrive dependent upon others.

  417. When every joint brings its supply, the growth is better.

  418. You cannot do it by yourself. And many in our United States

  419. are carrying this thought of independence.

  420. I asked Jesus into my heart. I asked Him to save me.

  421. I have a personal Savior with Him.

  422. I love Him on my own. I'm right with Him on my own.

  423. And we don't think the church is a secondary idea.

  424. It is the heart of God. Jesus.

  425. Called disciples for one purpose so he could look at them and say

  426. I am going to build my church and if the church was not

  427. important then why does Paul planting so many?

  428. If the message was only about Jesus Christ, death, burial and

  429. resurrection, and you know where you're going to go when you die,

  430. then why did Paul have the painstaking task of going along

  431. with others through multiple generations where they have laid

  432. down their own lives so that people and nations could

  433. assemble around the Word of God and the head of the church?

  434. In fact, last. Year when we took time to spend

  435. on the reigning church, we had this whole timeline of the price

  436. people have paid not only to build his church, but to put

  437. together his engrafted word of God that's inspired by the Holy

  438. Ghost so that in every nation of every tongue, people could hear

  439. the word of God. Because you know, in the United

  440. States we're not suffering like others are.

  441. I mean we are much like Hebrews when he says you've not resisted

  442. God to the point of shed and blood.

  443. But there are. People in the in the world that

  444. are today. And we are not to.

  445. Turn a blind eye to that and we are definitely not should not

  446. squander our opportunity, but we should be the taking the lead

  447. because where our brothers and sisters and nations cannot do

  448. what we do, we need to do what we can do and not sit back and

  449. retire. Are you hearing me?

  450. Ephesians chapter one, verse 20 to 23 says this.

  451. And when he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead

  452. and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, where

  453. did he set him? Far above how many?

  454. Come on, how many all principalities and powers and

  455. might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in

  456. this world, but also the one to come?

  457. And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be head

  458. over all things to the not the individual, although it includes

  459. individuals to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him

  460. that filleth All in all. Fullness means complete as an

  461. outfitting and entire ship. I like this because what this

  462. tells us is that Christ, who now has been given the name above

  463. every name, and God has put him up and seated him at his right

  464. hand. He is the head of the church,

  465. and as the head of the church, what he has done is now he has

  466. the authority and right to distribute a supply to His body.

  467. It reminds me of when I enlisted in the Army.

  468. When I enlisted. In the Army, there was this

  469. cadence that talked about getting rid of your civilian

  470. clothes. You got rid of your jeans and

  471. you put on Army greens. And we were seeing.

  472. This I took off my, my, my jeans and I put on these army greens

  473. and when I when I went into in processing, they stripped me.

  474. They. Stripped me of my former life.

  475. And they said we're making you a soldier.

  476. And soldiers do not walk up in here and wear what they want to

  477. wear. Oh, y'all don't want to hear

  478. this? That's fine.

  479. I'll preach over here. Maybe they're not going to wear

  480. what they want to wear. I mean, my haircut.

  481. Woo. As much as I liked it, it was

  482. gone in a blink of an eye, kind of like the Rapture.

  483. It was like, bam, it's off, it's out of here.

  484. And they next thing you know, I'm looking in a room that I

  485. look like everybody else. Although we're still different

  486. because some were taller, some were a little wider.

  487. I was really skinny and short. You know, we all looked a little

  488. bit different, but our heads were the same haircut, our pants

  489. were the same, our our boots were the same, our blouses were

  490. the same. I don't know why Army calls them

  491. blouses, but our jackets were the same.

  492. I mean, it was. We look the same, although we

  493. were different. And then we.

  494. Assembled every day. Oh y'all don't want to hear

  495. this? We assembled, we made formation,

  496. and if you didn't make formation, whoa, there's a thing

  497. called being a wall, and it is not good.

  498. I'll never forget one time I was in AIT, There's one particular

  499. guy that was kind of a problem and he tried to get me in

  500. trouble one time. Yeah.

  501. I mean, I'm such a good person. I was a good person.

  502. I was extremely nice during those days.

  503. I was a bit backslidden. But anyway, this guy tried to

  504. set up my my friend and myself anyway but he would come in past

  505. curfew because he was a drunkard.

  506. And. We didn't tell on him because

  507. you know, you, when you're in your own assembly, you tried to

  508. help your platoon get in line, and there are ways to do that in

  509. the Army. I'm not at liberty to tell those

  510. anymore. All right.

  511. But this particular person, we didn't use some of those

  512. tactics. We just let their sins surely

  513. find them out. And so.

  514. We're in formation, the whole company, and all of a sudden the

  515. squad leader gives his, his count of how many he has and how

  516. many are present. And he was -1 that drill

  517. Sergeant. Walk through there.

  518. You know, probably where is your, where's your squad?

  519. Where's your squad? I think they're in the bedroom.

  520. Next thing you know. These guys are running and the

  521. windows are open. They're running through the

  522. going up the the stairs, screaming.

  523. You can hear it. They get to that guy's bunk.

  524. He is drunk. He has wet himself.

  525. Sam will embarrass you people. I'm just letting you know.

  526. They drug him out. Threw him in.

  527. Front of the formation in his underwear.

  528. No, you're not getting. Dressed, he had to do push ups

  529. with a hangover. Then they cuffed him with the

  530. military police in front of the whole company.

  531. Because. That is not tolerated in our

  532. assembly. This is behavior not fitting.

  533. A soldier how much more the. Blood of Jesus, I said, how much

  534. more the blood of Jesus? Now this is what's awesome about

  535. this point. Jesus said I am giving to the

  536. church my fullness. I'm the.

  537. Head and whatever I had for the army that fit my head, it didn't

  538. stop. I never went to war neck down

  539. naked. They.

  540. Did not just issue me a helmet, you know, goggles, whatever

  541. would be on my head and then hear down nothing that would

  542. stink just beyond. Can you get an image of that

  543. real quick? Seeing a whole bunch of people

  544. come across like that and they're like, they're not

  545. wearing clothes. That would be dangerous in a

  546. battle, right? That'd be very dangerous.

  547. Yet if we don't watch out, we This is why he said put on the

  548. full armor of God. And in order to put on the full

  549. armor of God, you have to assemble.

  550. You have to come to the place of training.

  551. You have to come to where the equipment lies and the resources

  552. of that equipment comes to pass. And we need to know this is the

  553. case and everything that's been given to Jesus is ours.

  554. Come on, can I get an Amen? Can I get an Amen?

  555. Look at this. And he Matthew 2818 to 20 says

  556. it this way. And Jesus came up and spoke to

  557. them, saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and

  558. on and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples

  559. to of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,

  560. the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

  561. that I commanded you. And lo, I'm with you always,

  562. even to the end of this age. Notice that he said, go into all

  563. the world and make disciples. Yet if you read the Acts

  564. account, when you're making a disciple, you are inevitably

  565. building a church. There's no.

  566. Context. From Acts.

  567. Forward, where discipleship is without church.

  568. That. Concept does not exist.

  569. It exists in religious Christianity.

  570. It does not exist in the Kingdom of God because if discipleship

  571. was only telling people, asking them to pray a prayer and then

  572. leaving and finding the next person that was lost, then Paul

  573. wasted a lot of time assembling people, answering letters on how

  574. they should live, conduct themselves now that they're in

  575. this Kingdom, outfitting them with all the necessary tools to

  576. overcome, to conquer, to equip. He would just say, now listen,

  577. you know where you're going to go when you die and you know

  578. have the best life that you can. That's all I can say.

  579. But at least you've asked Jesus into your heart.

  580. That was never the gospel. And that was.

  581. Never how church was supposed to be.

  582. The church always came and says I'm pulling you out of one

  583. place, I'm putting you in another.

  584. There's a whole new way of living, a whole new outfit, a

  585. whole new protection, a whole new way of doing life.

  586. And we're going to come together because when things come against

  587. us together, we'll always conquer.

  588. Why? Because there's still a lower

  589. position domain that exists in the earth, but our key has

  590. conquered it. And when we come together, then

  591. we'll always conquer it as well. We can't but conquer because

  592. Jesus said all authority has been given to me.

  593. And he? Distributed it to his church.

  594. So the church is the highest dominion on the earth.

  595. I'm going to say that again, the church is the highest dominion

  596. on the earth. Individual believer does not

  597. have the same power as a unit. As a unit in our military, we

  598. have different types of units. Now we all call them the Army or

  599. the Navy. You know, the different

  600. branches. OK.

  601. And and if you served in one of those, thank you for serving in

  602. our services. However, Amen.

  603. However, you were assigned to a unit.

  604. You are assigned you. You have no permission to leave

  605. that unit unless you ask for it. And.

  606. The commander could deny your transfer.

  607. I'm gonna preach that later anyway.

  608. But not every unit's the same. Not every unit's the same.

  609. And you know, in in my branch called the Army, we had this

  610. elite group called Rangers. Rangers.

  611. Now, we had different ranks. You know, you had infantry, you

  612. know, they have specialized. But then you had this group, you

  613. know, called Green Berets. There was red ones and Green

  614. Berets. And then you get to this thing

  615. called a Ranger. Now, everybody.

  616. Knew Rangers were different. Trained different.

  617. And not everybody was at that level.

  618. And it was pretty dishonouring. In fact, people who go through

  619. Navy Seals today and do not make it still do not say, well,

  620. they're just a bunch of sissies over there.

  621. They expect too much. They require too much out of

  622. you. Well, now, if you want to be in

  623. a unit that doesn't require that, you're still in the Navy.

  624. But don't be. Upset because when a Ranger

  625. needs to take territory. So.

  626. Maybe churches aren't the same either.

  627. Now we're all. The body of Christ.

  628. But maybe there's some that's being trained different.

  629. I know Kenneth Hagan, the head of Rhema, says.

  630. We are an elite group. Which means our.

  631. Training puts us at a different level.

  632. Now that doesn't diminish the whole body of Christ, but his

  633. expectation is are you living? And even Paul said, look, I am

  634. not going back. I what I've attained to, that's

  635. where I stay at because I'm not moving back.

  636. I have attained to something and I'm going to live at that level.

  637. And you understand, Jesus wants us to attain to a level

  638. Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah because there

  639. are people that are hungry and thirsty for righteousness for

  640. the body of Christ, for the church to rise up and to be all

  641. that it was required and and want to be.

  642. In fact, we want the church to dominate because God wants the

  643. church to dominate because we are the highest dominion in the

  644. earth. Now if that word bothers you,

  645. that tells me you have sin consciousness.

  646. Sin consciousness will hear the word dominate and go, Well

  647. brother, where's humility out? I'm going to tell you where

  648. humility is at. Humility is doing whatever my

  649. God says and he said I'm the head and not the tail.

  650. I'm above and not beneath. How?

  651. Can I call myself unworthy when he has made me worthy?

  652. I mean, I might as well spit his face like the Roman soldiers and

  653. say your blood's not enough. Just not enough.

  654. All it was good for is keep me out of hell.

  655. Can't transform my mind, can't make me different, can't help me

  656. overcome the enemies of this world.

  657. No, that's a different. Training.

  658. He's trained me in righteousness, I said.

  659. He's trained me in righteousness.

  660. He said that I would overcome. In essence, this word dominate

  661. means this to exert the supreme determining or guiding

  662. influence. The Church is supposed to have

  663. the supreme guiding influence in the planet.

  664. You. Natural government should not be

  665. telling the church what to do, especially that we're not

  666. essential. The government should not tell

  667. us when we can and cannot assemble.

  668. Arts and entertainment should not.

  669. The sports should not tell us, well, we're going to do a sport.

  670. You know we do church on that day.

  671. Oh y'all. That's fine.

  672. No, we should be. The most dominant, I mean, we

  673. need coaches to ride back up and say, you know, we need to change

  674. this league because there was a time that our sports didn't

  675. interfere with our worship. And y'all need to get back to

  676. the program because that y'all making this thing turn into

  677. idolatry. And I'm trying to teach my son

  678. and daughter how to work as a team, and you're trying to put

  679. them in idolatry that the football's more important than

  680. the cross. So we need to get our priorities

  681. right and we need to cut Wednesday's practice different

  682. and we're going to do in these tournaments on Sundays.

  683. But you got to. Rise you got to be.

  684. You got to know that you can exert a supreme guiding

  685. influence. It means to overlook from a

  686. superior elevation because of superior height or position.

  687. The church was never to do this. What we going to do?

  688. That's not how. We are in the earth what we

  689. going to do but yet is that not the church always look into

  690. heaven in the context of ho ho, I wish you'd come.

  691. It's so bad down here. The Lord's like, why did I not

  692. say pray this way, our Father, that art heaven hallowed be your

  693. name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it is.

  694. So if you don't have a heaven expression down there, it's

  695. because you're not asking. It's because you're not stepping

  696. out and dominating. You're not allowing the superior

  697. influence to a manifest in the Earth.

  698. Because my. Name is preeminent.

  699. My name is supreme. My name is above every name.

  700. And I've given you my name. I've outfitted you with

  701. everything heaven has to offer. All you got to do is walk in it

  702. because see, when you dominate, it'll make you dominant.

  703. You will be prevailing over others.

  704. You will have the dominant culture.

  705. You understand, believers are the dominant culture.

  706. And this is not like, oh, I'm better from a malicious heart.

  707. It's that God made me supreme because I'm of his nature, which

  708. means sickness and disease, bowel to me, poverty and lack

  709. Bowels to me, you know, mental health bowels to me because I

  710. have my health. My mental health is healthy.

  711. How's your mental? Health Healthy.

  712. I'm healthy. I have great mental health

  713. because He renews my mind. I wash it with the word daily.

  714. I let it renew my mind. I'm submitted to my Lord.

  715. He's supreme in authority. I just do what He says.

  716. I say yes Lord, I shouldn't think that way.

  717. Thank you, Lord, because the grace of God has empowered me to

  718. push that thought right out of my head.

  719. Yeah. We were just singing that.

  720. I said to Apostle Mars, remember that song?

  721. I'm going to wash that Gray right out of my head.

  722. Now I'm talking to some really older people here.

  723. If you know that song, you're like, if you do not know that

  724. song, you're like, I'm not old. If you know the song, you're

  725. aged, Let's put it that way. But I'm going to wash those

  726. thoughts right out of my head that are in line with the

  727. Kingdom of God. Amen.

  728. Hallelujah. Matthew chapter 16, verse 19.

    Matthew 16:19

  729. Jesus, after you said I'll build my church, He communicates in

  730. the gates of hell. That lower domain will never be

  731. superior. We'll never be able to bring

  732. some type of strength that would overcome US, ever.

  733. Are you hear me? COVID could never overcome the

  734. Church. No other plague can ever

  735. overcome the church. Government can overcome the

  736. Church. Nothing can overcome the Church.

  737. Ever. Oh my gosh, he said.

  738. I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever

  739. you bond on earth shall have been bound in heaven.

  740. Whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

  741. Well, look, the church has the keys we're dictating.

  742. We are. But you'll never dictate that as

  743. long as your church doesn't reign.

  744. Your church. Is just where you come

  745. occasionally whenever you feel like it, because ultimately you

  746. know you're going to die and man, you're holding on until it

  747. happens. But man, when you're at a place

  748. that says you rule, you reign because you're seated on the

  749. seat with Christ. And if we do the words of Christ

  750. and we do the words of God and we operate in faith, then we'll

  751. overcome. We'll take territory.

  752. We'll go into this place and that place and, and no place

  753. that God that the enemy has set up a camp can, can withstand us.

  754. We'll go tear it down. We can even walk into those

  755. places and we can deliver all those who want it.

  756. Plus being somewhere doesn't mean the whole place changes,

  757. but it definitely give the environment for it to be changed

  758. if they want it. So we have the.

  759. Keys, John said this in 1412. Do a little speed round about

  760. our reigning church that we are dominant.

  761. We are, we are the supreme determining or guiding influence

  762. when it comes to the planet. We are at the elevated position.

  763. We are in a superior position because he has given us

  764. preeminence, because he is preeminent.

  765. John 14. 12 says Truly, truly. I say to you, he who believes in

  766. me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than

  767. these he will do, because I go to the Father.

  768. How in the world could a St. a believer in Christ, one who has

  769. called on the Lordship of Jesus, not be dominant in every sector

  770. of society? When you go to work.

  771. Tomorrow know this, you are in the elevated position for every

  772. one of your Co workers. Every one of them.

  773. And then I can start calling some of y'all, some of you out

  774. because you have been exercising that and it's caused you to rise

  775. to the top and management caused you to rise to the top in

  776. different places because you all the while have become superior

  777. because of who you are in Christ.

  778. It's not of your own effort that did this.

  779. It's you're submitting this to him who already is in that

  780. position. Are you hearing what I'm?

  781. Saying in Matthew, I hear people all the time, all they're

  782. preaching that you know, little God doctrine, you're children of

  783. God. I don't know what to tell you.

  784. You're sons and daughters of God.

  785. You are ruling and reigning with him.

  786. So if you want to. Live substandard human

  787. existence. I want.

  788. To live the God kind of life. Because I'm a child.

  789. Of God I have his nature, his DNA.

  790. I'm not God, but I sure am His Son.

  791. And my daddy says this in Hebrews 12/28.

  792. Therefore, since He we have received a Kingdom which cannot

  793. be shaken, let us show gratitude by which we may offer to God an

  794. acceptable service with reverence, in awe.

  795. I am serving my king. It is not.

  796. It is not laborers, it is not toil, it is not too demanding.

  797. In fact, he said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

  798. It's only heavy. It's only burdensome when you

  799. are doing it of your own accord. But when you do it with a heart

  800. to serve God, you'll never burnout.

  801. Never. It's impossible because as I

  802. serve Him, he empowers me. He anoints me.

  803. He pours His grace out on me, and His grace is sufficient for

  804. me. He's sufficient for all of us.

  805. There's still so much more we can do.

  806. And I live for the next life, not for this one man.

  807. I want to be like Paul. Don't you want to be like

  808. Paul's? A congregation where you like.

  809. I poured out my life like a drink, Humphrey.

  810. There's nothing. Left in me.

  811. Because I didn't live for. Now.

  812. I live for you Psalms. 118 Six says the Lord is for me.

  813. I will not. Fear.

  814. What can man do to me? See what kind of position we're

  815. in as a church. And yet all.

  816. Kind I'm I'm worried what if what if they come here?

  817. What if this happened? If God's for you.

  818. Why would? That's not that sin

  819. consciousness, not Christ consciousness, because I'm in

  820. the elevated position. I did not say, Jesus, you better

  821. put me on that seat where you're at.

  822. Jesus said. Son, you won't come.

  823. Get in the seat, I said. Yes, Lord, he said.

  824. Well, come on up, I'm putting you right here in heavenly

  825. places. I'm putting you in my.

  826. Seat, I'm giving you my authority.

  827. I'm giving you my name. Now Conquer, subdue, multiply.

  828. Have dominion. Do it, son.

  829. Do it, daughter. Show them you're my nature.

  830. Isaiah 5417 he said No weapon that is formed against you will

  831. prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will

  832. condemn. This is the heritage of the

  833. servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from me, declares

  834. the Lord. Say what you want to say about

  835. me doesn't matter, but you better watch what you say.

  836. Because if it's not in. Line with the word.

  837. God's coming to. Talk to you Romans 831.

  838. Watch how we say to these things if God is for us.

  839. Who? Who people worried about Trump.

  840. What you worried about? He's a man.

  841. What you worried about? What can man do to you?

  842. I mean, people are in a frenzy about other people in the earth.

  843. What can man do to you? You're a child of the king.

  844. You're in the superior position. Doesn't matter.

  845. Because. God's not giving me a spirit of

  846. fear, but of power, love, and of sound mind.

  847. My gosh, we got to get some sound mindness.

  848. Hallelujah. How about this one?

  849. Romans 837 But in all these things we what, come on, preach

  850. with me right now overwhelmingly conquer through him.

  851. I'm not the Conqueror, He's the Conqueror and I conquer through

  852. him. He said it.

  853. He said believe, He said do this.

  854. He said step out. He said go.

  855. And I just went at his word. If he says get out of the boat,

  856. I'm out of the boat, people. You stay in the.

  857. Boat and say you go sink, I'm going to walk.

  858. And I've learned from my other brother, when the wave and the

  859. winds come, don't look at them. Just keep your eyes on Jesus.

  860. Oh my gosh. And I'll conquer winds and waves

  861. and obstacles as the church. We'll just move right along.

  862. What can the county Commission do to us?

  863. What can the state of Florida do to what can anybody do to us?

  864. We are here to do the works of Jesus and they are love and they

  865. are life. And when the enemy comes against

  866. us, it still won't prosper. That's who we.

  867. Are second Corinthians 214 says but thanks be to God, who always

  868. leads us. In.

  869. Triumph through Christ, man. It is the sweet smell of victory

  870. that's all over us. The world should.

  871. Be envy at us. Like many people.

  872. Win all the time. You understand when you are

  873. undefeated, everyone wants to knock you off.

  874. But there's. Nothing like being undefeated.

  875. And Jesus has never lost. Never, I said.

  876. Never. He's never lost to cancer.

  877. He's. Never lost.

  878. He's never lost in restoring relationships.

  879. He's never lost. I've had a guy come to me one

  880. time and he said he, him and his wife weren't doing great.

  881. He said, pastor, what's your success rate, you know, and

  882. restore marriages. I said 100% for everyone who

  883. does the word of God that I tell them.

  884. The only reason they. Don't work is because somebody

  885. don't want to do the word because God is the restorer.

  886. He's the Redeemer, he's a deliverer, He is love and he'll

  887. put love in you and you'll love someone you hate.

  888. He's awesome. Are you ready for this?

  889. Mark 16, last section of the Bible that we're going to touch

  890. today? It says this.

  891. And he said, go in all the world, preach the gospel in all

  892. creation. He who has been believed and has

  893. been baptized shall be saved, and he who disbelieved shall be

  894. condemned. Verse 17.

  895. These signs will accompany those who believe.

  896. Are you a believer? Are you a believer?

  897. I'm not convinced. Are you a believer in my name?

  898. In whose name? What's his name?

  899. Come on, what's his name? In the name of Jesus?

  900. They will cast out demons there. I don't care how much the guy

  901. homeless is talking to himself and have demons all over him.

  902. At a word, if God tells you go get them out of that person,

  903. there's nothing that person can do.

  904. But those demons are going to have to go.

  905. Go, have to go, They'll cast out.

  906. Demons. They'll speak with new tongues,

  907. they'll pick up pick up servants, and if they drink any

  908. deadly poison, it will not hurt them.

  909. They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.

  910. What can we not do in Christ? I said, What can we not do?

  911. And God, his church is so important to him that He wants

  912. His church planted all over the place.

  913. And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not the head.

  914. And I'm not. Judging, but I am concerned that

  915. there are a lot of places labeled that he's not building.

  916. So for me, I just want to go where he tells me to go, do what

  917. he tells me to do, touch where he tells me to touch.

  918. Go where he. Says to go.