The Kingdom of God

You know, not only is it the assignment of the church to

bring people out of darkness into light, it's also the

assignment of the church to go plant other churches.

Because if you're only had a church and there were no other

churches, well then there only be one church on the whole

planet. So there are an expression that

churches would plant. Again, This is why we went

through the fivefold ministry teaching last month or the month

before. Because when you have the

apostle, the prophet, pastor, teacher, and evangelist, and

they're working together with a common vision, then the elements

associated with those fivefold ministry gifts will expand the

church into other locations. And so we have the privilege of

being able to plant churches. We obviously have three in

Nicaragua. We have one in India.

Obviously there's going to be 1 here in Dominican Republic.

And we're going to be working on additional ones within our own

state of Florida. And so God is doing something in

this season so that the Kingdom of God can continue to advance.

Because in the US, they are very much acquainted with, are

familiar with the Savior, but they're not familiar with the

King. And the King is coming.

I said the King is coming, Hallelujah.

And so we need to understand the King, Amen.

And so it's our assignment to go.

I believe it's what the Lord is doing in the last days anyway

because there was a forerunner to Jesus and he preached repent

for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Did he give access and understanding that he was the

Lamb that would be slain to take away the sins of the world?

Absolutely. But he herald his kingship.

I said he herald his kingship. And so if there is a John the

Baptist to bring Jesus in the first time he comes, what the

church's assignment is the same to priest, the Kingdom of God,

because the King is returning and he will not come as a

suffering servant, but he comes as a reigning king.

Amen. So with that being said, we need

to #1 understand that when you look around in the sanctuary at

Anchor Faith Church, there are people that are always coming

through the door. And some have been here more

than one time. Some have kind of settled in.

And you have to understand for us, for you that have been here

for some time, that not everyone has heard through the word what

you have heard. Sabrina, remember the first time

you heard the Kingdom? Thaddeus, where's that?

That remember the first time you and Mercedes heard the Kingdom?

Now remind me again, how many months had you been here before

I preached on just the Kingdom? Two months.

Two or three months. Which means he was here hearing

services of which I'm saying Kingdom, but yet it's not

resonating until I preached the Kingdom.

Amen. Now, why is it important for us

to come back periodically and just preach the Kingdom?

Well #1 is what Jesus preached. If you read the four Gospels, he

ministered on the Kingdom. It was his primary subject

matter. In fact, I have a minister

friend of mine who has really grabbed hold of the Kingdom.

We we threw some different relationship and different

things. All of a sudden his spirit man

is awakened to the Kingdom of God.

And during his study of Easter Sunday just a few weeks ago,

they text me and says Jesus Christ is on the planet for 40

days witnessing the 500 people after his death, burial,

resurrection, and all he is talking about is the Kingdom of

God. If the If the gospel message is

changing from repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand to

where are you going to go when you die?

This is where it would occur if the message Jesus preached was

repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is at

hand to tell people I died on the cross and rose from the

grave and ask them to come and ask me to come into their hearts

so they'll be saved. That's where it would occur.

But that is not what pre Jesus was testifying after his

resurrection. Now to accept Jesus as Savior

and to repent of your sins and be born again is required to be

in the Kingdom. That is a true statement.

But that is not the gospel. It's part of the gospel.

Are you hearing me? It is part of the gospel.

And the more I begin to just kind of look at things more and

more and if you, every one of us objectively studied, we would

find that the gospel that's being preached today is more man

centric then it is God centric. If we were being objective.

But why do we not become objective?

Matthew chapter 15, verse 3 In Matthew chapter 15, verse 3,

Matthew 15:3 Matthew 15:3

this is not a problem associated with only when Jesus walked the

earth. This is not a problem that is

only associated with the time period before anyone was born.

Again, this is a challenge today and Jesus talking to religious

people. And when I say religious people,

I'm talking about priest and scribes that had access to the

word of God. Not only did they have access to

the word of God through the scrolls, the prophets, the Law

of Moses, but they also had as their in their priestly hood

access to the Spirit. Although he wasn't in them, he

can come upon them. For we under we know in the old

covenant the Holy Spirit would come upon the prophet, the

priest and the King. And when he comes across the

priest, it was to communicate the word of God from the law of

Moses and the prophets, so that it was rightly divided and it

was thus saith the Lord. Are you hearing me?

So they had access to the Spirit who would tell them exactly what

those verses are those letters meant.

Yet here they are in Matthew 15 three asking Jesus some

questions and Jesus says, why do you?

He answered and said, then why do you yourselves transgress the

commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

In essence, why do you put your interpretation on my word

instead of my interpretation of my word?

And you know that's happening today.

I said that's happening today. And the number one reason why

that happens is because primarily when we preach Genesis

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chapter 3, which is the fall of man to Revelations 20, then

we're the most will do is have religion.

Now you can have relationship in that.

Have you ever heard that statement?

I don't want to. It's not a religion, it's a

relationship. It's more than just

relationship. It's sonship.

I mean, it's Kingdom, it's dominion.

It's bigger than just that because you understand you can

have a relationship with religion.

Hey man now some of y'all been here a little bit I need you to

help me preach a little bit better today so we can

transgress the commandment of God.

The number one way we transgress the commandment of God is found

in James where James says be a doer of the word and not a

hearer only because the biggest challenge that happens in

churches all over the US and the world is when a St. has

longevity in a place and they've been around a teaching.

They can become familiar with the teaching that they sit and

hear the teaching, but quit doing, quit doing the teaching.

And the minute you quit doing the teaching, then all of a

sudden the scripture is very clear and James is that your

life becomes deceived and you're in church.

So, well, how do you get out of deception?

Do the word. You have to do the word.

I said you have to do the word. You know, when you get around

people, a lot of times, you know, they're having all these

kind of challenge. And when you listen to them, you

can just pick up, well, just do the word.

If you just do the word, then we wouldn't have this problem.

Because part of the excuses that happen on in their lives of why

they act like they do, why they're behaving like they do,

why they're treating people like they are, is because it's just

not an application of doing the word.

And they can have knowledge. I mean, now as a pastor, I can

tell you right now, I experienced this all the time.

Because before people know I'm a pastor, you know, they'll talk a

certain way. But then the minute they find

out, I mean, it's, it's amazing to watch holiness and

sanctification turn in the room. At least that's what they want

me to think, because then they'll start giving me their

resume of all they know, what churches they've been to.

And all this where prior to their knowledge of me being a

pastor, I would not have known that.

Which lets me know they have deceived themselves.

They are walking with the Lord and they have deceived

themselves. They are in faith when the

reality is they're not. But they are full of knowledge.

They know God, they know Scripture, but the devil knows

scripture. Now I'm not calling you the

devil. I'm just saying the knowledge of

scripture alone doesn't make you holy.

Because the devil knows scripture.

He used it on Jesus. Well, it's also written since

we're throwing scripture out. I know some myself.

I was around those guys because I, I In fact, the devil wants to

know scripture. That way he can turn it to the

ones that are ignorant and unlearned.

Amen. Or turn it to those who have

selfish ambition. All right, so we see here that

there's this issue that Jesus is dealing with the religious

concerning tradition. And tradition can look holy, but

it's not. The tradition itself is actually

religious. And So what we have is this

paradigm within scripture that even in ours, in fact, the word

religion is only mentioned one time, if I'm not mistaken, maybe

twice. Definitely in James, because he

talks about pure and undefiled religion.

And the word religion is not negative in this sense.

It just means a belief system, OK, But you understand you can

have a government belief system, OK.

However, we have made a belief system of something that we

actually don't believe in. Meaning, when you truly believe,

you let it govern your life. OK, which means we go through

motions or we through mental ascent in agreement, but we're

not actually allowing it to govern our lives.

We still let our flesh, our feelings, our appetites, our own

desires still dictate what's going on in our lives and how we

respond to situations. So there's this challenge then

that happens in the earth. And it's a religion versus a

Kingdom mindset because religion re preoccupies man until he

finds the Kingdom. Religion prepares man to leave

earth, but the Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth.

And if all you're doing is sitting around waiting to go

somewhere, have you started becoming religious?

Religion focuses on heaven. The Kingdom focuses on the

earth, because, you know, the Lord is focused on the earth.

Again, we've turned this gospel into mancentric instead of God

centric. If we were to be called up to

the 3rd heaven with the Lord, I could just imagine he may be

saying this. This could be the song in heaven

when we all get to earth. What a day of rejoicing that

will be. Now if you read the back of the

book, you you'll find out that's a true statement.

But we made the gospel man centric to where we want to get

to heaven. Yet the Lord's like, I just want

to be here. In fact, all through the Bible,

it is always about God coming here.

It's what it's about. But we've made it about us going

there. That's what religion does

because that gives us what we religion gives us escapism.

We just want to escape all the trouble and the problems.

Well, the Lord wants you delivered.

He wants you delivered for sure. He doesn't want you subject,

that's true. But he knows there's coming a

new heaven and a new earth to where it all be back in its

original state. Amen.

But his hand is not short, even in this climate.

Are you hearing me? So again, really, religion is

reaching up to God. The Kingdom is God coming down

to man. Religion wants to escape earth,

but the Kingdom wants to impact, influence and change the earth.

We are the most powerful force on the planet.

It is Saints of God, ambassadors for Christ, who know full well

that we are serving a king and we are his royal offspring.

Hallelujah. So religion seeks to take earth

to heaven, but the Kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth.

Come on, you know it. Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it

is. You get around some believers

that have been preached the gospel of salvation and they

can't wait to split out of their skin suit and go to heaven.

Yet they'll quote that prayer but have no real belief that his

will can be accomplished in the earth.

Yet Jesus says pray this would happen, pray this would happen,

pray this would happen. So God desires for his heaven

realm that has never fallen in sin never to manifest back here

on the earth. And Jesus alludes that it can

happen while you're here, even in the state it's in now.

There's going to be ultimately a new earth.

I get it. And they're still sin going to

be there even if we're living holy, righteous and functioning

in the same power which we are that Jesus Christ functioned in.

You're not eradicating it in its entirety, but it would have

nothing on you and you literally would.

Your lifestyle, your actions, people would have to conclude

you're like heaven on earth. When they are confronted with

you, they are confronted with heaven in the earth.

Amen. Because that's the culture you

exude. We know in Genesis 11 God

created the heavens and the earth.

And why did He do it? Well, we get some insight in

Isaiah or Psalms 8911. It says the heavens are yours.

The earth also is yours, the world and all it contains.

You have founded them. We also know in Isaiah 4518, the

NIV version says it this way. For this is what the Lord says.

He who created the earth, heavens.

He is God who fashioned and made the earth.

He founded it. He did not create it to be

empty, but formed it to be inhabited.

When God was creating the earth in the beginning, He did not buy

it, nor did He conquer it. It's His by right of, it's His

by right of of ownership, by right of creation.

He owns it by right of creation. It didn't even exist till he

spoke it right till he spoke it. Yet when he spoke this place

into existence, he had something in mind.

Not it to just be the third rock from the sun, because the fourth

rock from the sun had no inhabitants much as they're

looking for stuff now. I'm not saying there weren't

things going on at a different time.

I'm not saying that because we have no account that took place

prior to where Satan was cast out of the heavens because the

Bible tells us, you know, as Paul, Paul said, I know a man,

whether in body or out of body do not know, caught up to the

3rd heaven. Well if there's a 3rd heaven,

then that means there's a first a second.

Most scholars believe that the 1st heaven is our earthly

atmosphere. The second heavens is the

universe. The 3rd heaven is where God

resides. Well, if the second heavens are

the universe, well could I saw Satan fall like lightning from

heaven? Could he have fallen out of the

2nd heaven because there was an angelic host that was managing

all of the galaxies? Now I'm just talking.

I'm not telling you that we're not building doctrine on this.

But you understand, all that stuff's not out there for no

reason. Now, if it's only out there to

let you know that it's so huge and big there has to be a God,

and that is evidence alone, then so be it.

However, it could be because we know according to Scripture that

Satan, he used to traffic, that means he used to conduct some

business between other places, back to the throne of God, which

is in heaven in the recesses of the north.

All right, we're not getting into that theology today.

My point is when the earth was made, God was thinking about

somebody and it says in Psalms 115 verse 15 to 16 it says may

Psalms 115:15–16

you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth.

The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has

given to the sons of man. The NIV says it this way in

verse 16. The highest heavens belong to

God, but the earth He has given to man, the earth He has given

to mankind. So we see here that the

territory of the earth was created from the home country,

meaning heaven wasn't taken by force.

God created it. It was no one's possession

beforehand, and there were no inhabitants on the earth at

first, but it was designed with them in mind.

Are you hearing me? In essence, the earth was

specifically prepared for somebody.

Well, who are those somebodies? We are those somebodies.

So the original inhabits inhabitants are not different of

a different culture from the culture of heaven, but we're

actually the offspring of the king himself.

This is why in Genesis chapter one, verse 26 and 27, very

powerful verse. In fact, I wish the church would

go back to this one more than they would go back to Genesis 3,

because if you do not know why man is created, This is why you

will believe man will live in heaven forever.

Although the Scripture, the Bible that people use to say

that doesn't even say that in the last two chapters.

However, it said then God said, let us make man in our image.

In whose image? In God's image.

So we're in God's image at this point.

Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

That means a carbon copy. Now you're not God, but you do

have the DNA of God, your spirit.

Man when originally designed was of the nature of God and then he

goes on and said let them, this is both male and female.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds

of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth and over

every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, he

created him, male and female. He created them.

Man. I just want to thank our media

team for using this particular slide because man, y'all can

really read this good, can't you?

Everybody's like wow, this is a clear font.

It looks amazing. I'm like wow I could read this

if I was in the lobby. This is amazing.

So both male and females that have dominion.

Notice what's not in the list of 26 men.

So men were never to have dominion over each other.

We were never to rule over one another.

That was not God's intent. God only.

In fact, God never intended man to be self governed but to be

governed by God. Hallelujah.

So This is why we struggle in elections because it goes

against our original nature to vote for someone over.

However, God had to institute a system after the fall because of

the sin of humanity. So we don't go against

authorities and even authorities in the earth with humans because

God had to put it in play, because God would keep a line of

righteous humans that if they were able to govern, would

always point us towards the Lord.

Are you hearing me? So even though it's in our

fallen state to want to rebel from authority in our original

state, that is not the case. That is a choice.

Still, Adam did rebel, but he had to choose to go there.

Are you hearing me? All right, so we go on.

Then Dominion means this. It means to govern, it means to

rule, it means to manage, it means to master something.

It means to control things. So God said, let man have

dominion, Let man control. Everybody says, well, God's in

control. God's in control of His Word,

that is true, but He's not in control of you because if He was

in control of you, He would make you get born again.

But He will not make you get born again.

He will allow you to go to hell. He will allow you to not choose

Him because He does not have people with Him forever that do

not want to be with Him. Not just through obedience, but

willingly want to be with Him by choice.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? So the kingdoms are built upon

concepts. And this is what we've we've

created these terms because we have been preaching a gospel

from Genesis 3 to Revelations 20, and we've made certain words

now so nasty and negative. However, in concept of Kingdom,

they're actually beautiful and lovely.

Kingdoms are built upon concepts of legalities, not legalism, but

legalities which extend to its citizens, offering them the

rights and the privilege that are guaranteed by the king.

Aren't you glad when you purchase something and it has a

warranty? It's not because they told you,

it's because it is written and it's a legal binding warranty

that then you can go and say it is written, that if this occurs

with the product that I can redeem for another one.

I have the legal right now. It's not by what you did, it's

by what was written. Hallelujah.

Now, there's not a child in here that if their parents told them

their whole life, I love you and I'm going to give you all this,

mine then died and did not get it written.

Because in our nation, if there's not a will associated

with the assets, it will go before the government or the

state, and then you'll have to go through a whole process to

potentially even receive that. Now all the while, well, I know

my parents love me, but man, they, they said, but they did

not go the route that allowed me to have the legal aspect of what

they said. God didn't just speak, He wrote

it. This is why we're in a covenant.

His word is legally legal, binding even to himself.

He is bound to His own Word. This is why His Word is the

highest, and it's so amazing because God, when He begins to

speak, He is speaking, and He is a heavenly Father that is bound

to His own kingship. He does not let His feelings

override His Word. What is a Kingdom?

Doctor Miles Monroe said it this way.

A Kingdom is the government influence of a king over his

territory, impacting it with his personal will, purpose and

intent, producing citizens, expressing the culture, values,

morals and lifestyles reflecting the King's culture.

Don't you want to have the nature of God?

The culture of God in heaven. No sickness, no disease, no

poverty, no lag, no depression, no issue, no stealing, no

robbing, no coveting, no adultery, no fornication, no

kind of lying. None of that exists.

And He wants His Kingdom to manifest here with the same

culture. Isn't that amazing?

Hallelujah. And so God wanted to extend His

heavenly Kingdom on earth through US.

God created man to manage or administrate His king dominion

on the earth. The Bible is about a king, His

Kingdom, and his roll offspring. It is not a religious book.

It is the history of God's nation, His Kingdom, His

culture. The whole reason why God even

put in the Law of Moses was to regulate a nation so that all

the other nations could conclude your king is the king.

Your nation is the one we would aspire to because you know

what's going on in the planet right now?

Everyone in the planet just wants a new and better world.

Even the ones that kill come in and peel for other nations.

They have an ideology that their way is the better world at the

core. That's their mindset in the

Middle East. They believe that is the better

world in most dictatorships. They believe they have the

ability to create the better world, the best government, the

best for people. But you know what?

God believes that the answer is a better world.

In Genesis 215 to 17 said Then God took man and put him in the

garden and said to cultivate and keep it.

And God commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden you

may eat free to, but of the knowledge of good and evil you

shall not eat, for the day you eat you will.

Surely if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be

today? Now that will mess up religion

because people who are conditioned to go to heaven when

they die, they do not ask the question, what if Adam had not

eaten the fruit? I can guarantee you Adam was not

singing when we all get to heaven.

I can guarantee you prior to eating the fruit, Adam had no

care to even go to heaven because God always came to the

earth. And it's amazing in modern day

Christianity, the religious aspect is that people in their

tradition will get very angry that you do not make heaven the

center. Heaven is not the center, God is

the center. Heaven is a place.

And if God is who God is, which he is, can cannot he create the

culture of that place in any place?

I remember one person one time, but years back just was out of

their mind upset that I wasn't, you know, putting heaven like

the ultimate goal of why we live to go there.

And they were like, do you understand that 98% of all

believers talk about will live in heaven forever?

Well, I don't care what has been traditionally accepted.

I didn't write the Bible, but if you read the last two chapters,

there'll be a new heaven and a new earth.

Why in the world is there a new planet if we're living in heaven

forever? Why is the new Jerusalem coming

down out of heaven to the earth? That's in the same canonization

that we read all the time. But we are so traditional in our

truths and in our talking points.

And honestly, This is why at Anchor Faith Church, as your

apostle pastor, I inspire you to study.

I am here to create a Kingdom culture and Kingdom culture.

People are thinkers. They are people who apply the

Word and study the Word. You are not here to catch my

Christianese and my little statements.

You're here to go into the Scripture and examine it.

God wants you to study. He wants you to seek.

He wants you to find. In most places, they're not even

seeking, they're just parroting what they're hearing.

And if you are a pet parrot, you are not living by faith.

You're not living by faith, but we understand that Adam did eat.

If you read Genesis chapter 3, that he did eat the fruit.

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Now, one of the traditions that is in Christianity is that the

devil stole, you know, from Adam.

He did not steal a thing from Adam, did not steal a thing.

Although he comes to steal, kill and destroy, he did not steal.

Adam abdicated his dominion. He willfully gave his dominion

to the serpent in the garden. Willfully because the day he

ate, he chose to bow to the word of the serpent instead of the

word of his father. His father, who was king, did

not tell him. Listen son, I just want you to

know I had a little issue up here in my realm.

I had this anointed cherub that went rogue, developed a

rebellion, and quite a few of the angelic beings that I

created, I created at a word. They, they came from my word.

They have rebelled against me. They thought they could Take Me

Out, but it didn't bode well. I just want you to know I cast

them down to your area. So be on the lookout.

He did not tell him that he had already given him a word of

empowerment. He said have dominion over the

earth. This is what you do if you keep

it, cultivate it and do not eat this fruit.

And if Adam just would have kept the word, it doesn't matter what

this serpent would have said done or anything.

In fact, the minute the serpent says you're not going to die for

the day that you eat the fruit, God knows you'll be like him,

knowing good and evil. When he was talking to his wife,

Adam should have walked up and said you need to get out of here

because that is not the word of my father.

That is not the word of the king.

We have been instructed I love him and I am going to do his

word. And he could have kicked it

because who had the authority? Adam had the authority.

So sin is a result of rebellion, not religion.

Sin is a result of someone rebelling against God's

government to accept a lesser rule.

Yeah, that's right. Are you here?

In fact, I would even submit to you here, Satan, at this point.

Does it even have a rule? Right.

Yeah, that's right. He's been cast out with a bunch

of rogues that are just willfully following him, not

because he actually has power over him, but the minute Adam

ate the fruit, he gave him power.

He gave him the power to be the God of this world.

Meaning the systems that function and sin enter the

world. Death and destruction enter the

world. The earth itself began to cry

out. Why?

Because of all the things that are being done on this planet

that are contrary to the word of God, that are in disobedience to

God's way of doing things. That is the problem.

Why are there earthquakes? That's why Why are there

hurricanes? Not because of global warming,

although there will be a global warming event.

OK, that is a true statement. And it's not because of the

pollution of of coal and gas. It's the pollution of sin.

Sin. Every time fornication is

happening in a city, it's corrupting the earth.

Every time adultery is corrupting.

Every time a child disobeys their parents, it's corrupting

the planet and the planet is suffering because of that

pollution sin. All right, so independent is the

most dangerous word in the Kingdom.

And This is why the Kingdom is tough to receive in the United

States, because we love our independence.

In fact, we gained independence from A Kingdom, but man's

Kingdom is not God's Kingdom because man ruled, which is

monarchy is not the same as theocracy, which is God ruled.

Are you hearing me? Because God is not a man that he

should lie. So independence is the most

dangerous word in a Kingdom and rebellion is the second most

dangerous. The minute you want to become

independent of thought, you will rebel from God.

The minute you negotiate. Well, God said, but man, you

know why? See, now you're you're doing is

you are toying with the most dangerous word in a Kingdom.

You're trying to come up with an independent thought.

And the minute you take hold of this independent thought that's

contrary to what God says, it is written, then you will act on

it. And that's called rebellion.

And rebellion produces what we, what we call disobedience or

unrighteousness. So Adam lost a Kingdom, not a

religion. Therefore the redemptive work of

Christ could be, would be the re establishment of his Kingdom on

the earth. Adam did not lose Christianity.

In fact, Adam did not fall from heaven.

Again, Restoration, we've used this before.

Let me have that communion element.

Yeah, let me use that because we're doing communion here in a

minute. If the, if I originally designed

this communion element to be here, sliding to be here, This

is its original creation and it falls.

Where's Restoration? Restoration is not at a higher

place in heaven. Restoration is where it was

originally created. Adam did not fall from heaven

and Adam did not lose a religion.

He lost dominion. He lost his sonship and his

dominion ability. Him being the little king of the

king. That's what he lost.

He gave the devil, the adversary to God power in the planet.

Now people use this as a tradition.

If you were the only one that would accept Jesus, God would

ascend him. Like if everybody else that was

ever born wouldn't have and only one God would have sent.

That is a tradition of man and it's not a biblical truth.

The biblical truth is, if no human being after the fall of

Adam would ever have accepted Jesus, Jesus is still coming.

You say, well, why would he come?

If God's all knowing and he is, and he knows no one's going to

accept the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus, why would

he do it? Because God has to do his own

word. He's obligated and bound to it.

And what did God say before Adam fell?

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

Now God's obligated to have that pathway available and the minute

Adam fell and now everyone that comes through the line of Adam

is not sons of God. They will all sin and fall short

of the glory of God. They are of the fallen nature of

Adam who has been cut off from God.

This is why God has to bring His seed through a woman only.

But a man has to come because the earth was given to man.

So God from his God perspective alone cannot take it back.

Only a man can take it. This is why God must come as

Jesus the Word in the flesh. Hallelujah.

But you know what? Can I give you a spoiler alert?

Spoiler alert, only a man can give it back to God.

Adam could have when it was getting rough.

I just can't handle this. It's too tempting.

It's too tempting to want to pull.

Lord Father, I know you're here. Listen, I can't handle this.

I give this dominion back to you.

You're the only just one. The only one capable.

Because when you read the back of the book, not the back is

actually in Corinthian letter. It's in the Corinthian letter it

says that Jesus at the new heaven and earth will give the

dominion back to the Father. This is why we will never ever

sin again. It'll never be around, it'll

never happen ever. And the perfect society will be

with God forever, and those who rebelled will be in the lake of

fire forever. And God didn't put them there.

They chose to go there. Now when I say God didn't put

them there, he released it because he had the authority.

You didn't want me. I'll give you what you want.

And I have that authority and you can't change it.

Which means they can't say, well, if I put myself here, I

can get myself out. You can't.

The only way you get yourself out is to make Jesus Christ your

Lord now. Because if you die without him,

you without him forever, Come on, say Amen, Kenneth E Hagin

said in his book the Believers Authority on page 16.

Actually not the probably it's probably not the new legacy

edition. It was probably the original 1.

But he said the trouble with us is that we've preached a cross

religion. We need to preach a throne, one

He even realized the cross was what Jesus had to endure.

And what did he what he endured? He gave us not a cross, but a

throne. Now we take up our own cross.

And what does that just literally mean?

That doesn't mean any of us are going to die on a cross.

It means that we die to ourselves daily in order to take

what He's given us, which is the throne.

He's raised us up and seated us in heavenly places in Christ

Jesus. He's given us the throne.

Oh my goodness. So the kingdom's not a religion,

but a government, and it was never God's plan to establish

religion. See, repentance focuses on the

nature of man, but the Kingdom focuses on the purpose of man.

Do you need to repent? Yes, and repentance is not even

a religious word. It just means change your

thinking side with my party. Actually he's like, you're in

the wrong government, you're a citizen of the wrong government.

You are never designed to be in the domain of darkness, the

authority of darkness under the Prince of the power of the air.

That was never my intent for you.

And I'm here to deliver you. I'm here to redeem you.

I'm here to deliver you like he delivered the Israelites out of

Egypt. That's just a type and shadow of

pulling you out of the domain of darkness in slavery and with a

tyrannical ruler and brought you into the Kingdom of his beloved

son. Hallelujah because the devil

himself knows it's all about a Kingdom.

Look at this and then we'll do a speed round in Luke chapter 4

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verse one through 2. It says Jesus full of the Holy

Spirit return from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit

into the wilderness 40 days being tempted by the devil and

he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in the

moment of time, showed him all the what not religions.

And the devil said, I will give you all this domain and its

glory for it has been what hand it over to me and I can give it

to whomever I wish, which means I'm authorized.

They are mine. They were given to me and he

received them in the garden. Therefore, here's the condition

that I set for you for me to give you this world dominion.

That is, you will worship before me, and it all be yours.

If Jesus had succumbed to this as being the Son of God, God in

the flesh, it would have put the devil in a position to be able

to go back to the throne in heaven because he just don't

want planet earth. He wants the original seed in

the Isaiah chapter 14. You can read it yourself.

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I will ascend my throne above the Most High in the recesses of

the north. In fact, I'm going after the

Father's throne, and He wanted to get the Father's throne

through the Son. He thought the first son, Adam,

took care of him. I'll get it from the last.

I'll get this from the last time.

But He knows you want this. This is what you had.

But what did he say? If you are the Son of God, This

is why Jesus was saying I am the Son of man.

He wanted to emphasize His man's side more than his God side,

because what He was getting, what He was coming to, to redeem

was mankind's dominion. So Jesus Christ, when you accept

him as Lord, which is not a religious word, it just means

supreme and authority. When you do that, he's not

saying great, you can go to heaven when you die.

What he's saying is great, now you can become a child of God.

I can give you the dominion, Adam loss.

You can rule and reign in this life.

You can have it now. You can pull heaven to earth.

You are my child now. You are Son of God now.

He gives you destiny, not destination.

Because people who truly study the Bible know we're not long

term in heaven anyway. And because of that handing over

Second Corinthians 4/4 tells us that Satan became the God of

this world. Are you hearing me?

He became the Prince of the power of the air and the

governments of the world function off of him.

That's why all of the innocents are are being attacked because

there is a devil. God is not doing those works.

The devil are. The devil is Jesus came to

destroy the works of the devil. So God believes that government

is the answer to mankind's problem and it's his government.

We found it in Isaiah Chapter 9. Come on if y'all been with us,

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you know in Isaiah 9/6 through seven I wish more churches would

read this scripture. This is not a future event it is

a now event for a child will be born to us.

What's his name? Come on what's his name?

A son will be given to us and we always like to point out right

here, notice a child is born, but a son is not born.

And the reason a son is not born because the son always existed.

So a son is given to us. That's the Son of God and the

government, not religion, but the government will rest on his

shoulders and his name will be called wonderful counselor,

mighty God, eternal Father, Prince of Peace, has a child

been born? He came and brought a government

when he came. Now it's not physically present,

but it is in the unseen present and it's rulership functions,

you know, into the increase of his government.

So the minute the child is born and the son is given, there'll

be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the

throne of David. Thrones are in kingdoms, not in

religions or over his Kingdom to establish it, withhold it with

justice and righteousness. From then on, forevermore in the

zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.

So the Kingdom mandate runs through the entire Bible.

It's the reestablishment to humanity, to humanity.

What started and it started with Adam.

I mean started with Abram. Abram, God got him moved in

covenant with changed him in Genesis 12 to Abraham, which is

a father of many nations, not a father of many religions or a

father of a religion, but of a nation.

And if we followed this fabric and if you want to write down

I'm not going to if they put them up there, they can put them

up quick. I'm not going to take forever.

This is our speed round. But it started because when man

fell, God said I'm going to bring my seed through the woman.

He's going to crush your head. You'll bruise this hill.

He's going to crush your head. He's taken back the dominion you

law that Adam lost. So he goes and says I'm going to

show my nation in the earth because this is about a Kingdom.

He can finds a guy named Abram, calls him Abraham which is a

father of many nation. He gives birth to Isaac, Isaac

gives birth to Jacob, Jacob wrestles with the Lord and gets

a new name called Israel and that nation is in the planet

today. You can actually go visit it.

Israel's not a religion. Now Israel has a religion, but

it's not a religion. It is a nation.

And that's what God wanted to show a nation.

And he tells this nation through Moses, if you will follow me,

obey my word, I'll be your king, I'll conquer nations.

All you have to do is do what I've written.

You obey my laws, my commands, my statues.

You'll be blessed coming in and blessed going out.

You'll be the head, not the tail.

You'll be above and not beneath. All your offsprings going to

show up. I mean, you're going to be so

fruitful. You will be the envy of every

nation. Nations will come to you to

borrow. But but you won't have to borrow

from anybody. You'll be the lender.

You'll never be the borrower. Wow, he says.

Your enemy had come. Before you one way, but flee

before you seven ways, because the Lord thy God is your banner.

Come on, here's your banner, here's your victory, he said.

But if you don't obey me, it's problematic because I'm not

building a. Nation that.

Doesn't reflect my culture, nor is he building a church.

That's not reflecting his culture.

But we get over to First Samuel Chapter 8.

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We. Know there's some problems and

all of a sudden the people say I want a king that we can see and

he. Says to the prophet, Samuel

says. Samuel, give the people what

they want, for they've not rejected you, but they've

rejected me as king. Is, is God king?

Psalms 47, seven through 10 Who is the king of glory?

The Lord, strong and mighty. He is the king of glory.

Psalms 47, seven. For God is King of all the

earth. We talk about Savior, but he's

Lord. In fact, if Adam had never eaten

the fruit, we never would have experienced Savior Jesus.

We only would have known him as Lord.

Savior is what? He did.

Lord is who He. Is Zechariah Nah Nah says

rejoice greatly. O daughter of Zion, shouting

tribe, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to

you. He is just and endowed with

salvation. He came on a coat, and did he

come on a coat? Yes he did.

We see in in Luke chapter one once again the Angel comes to

Mary and says in your womb is the most high.

The Lord God, he has given him the throne of his father David

and his Kingdom will have no end.

He didn't say he's coming to. Bring a new religion to.

The Earth that nobody knows about.

And Matthew? 2 the the.

Magi are wise men. From the earth came seeking a

king, not a new religion. In Luke 4, Jesus himself says.

I must preach the Kingdom of God to every other city also I was

sent for this purpose Jesus his message was repent for the

Kingdom of heaven is at hand and when confronted.

With with. Pilate in John chapter 18

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concerning him being a king, Pilate says, man, are you the

King of the Jews? And Jesus said, did somebody

tell you about me or did you learn this on your own?

And he's like, look, your people and your chief priest handed you

over to me. What have you done?

He said, my Kingdom is not of this world.

Now, that doesn't mean it is not in this world.

It means what he's saying is it does not operate like worldly

kingdoms because he implies that he, he literally explains, he

said my kingdom's not of this world.

If it were meaning if I function like the kingdoms of this world,

he said my servants would not let me be handed over to the

Jews. And have you read the Scripture

that God has sent an Angel on more than one occasion to the

planet to actually destroy men? Nations 1.

Angel defeated 185 Mennonite men in an army 1.

When Jesus was in the garden, says don't you?

Know at his attack, his arrest, don't you know I could call a

legion of angels now. I mean do you really think this

is the problem? That if it was all about self

preservation? I have servants.

That come down and. Smoke the planet.

But I must fulfill the. Word of my father, he wants you

to have the dominion back, and you cannot have the dominion

back. If I don't die, if I don't go to

the grave, if I don't die a king so we can have kings.

If I don't lay down my life and pay the price of your

disobedience so that you could have my life, the life you were

always supposed to have, the work Jesus did on the planet was

not to show you what God can do, it was to show you what you can

do. Come on.

Because every miracle Jesus performed was in the dominion.

Adam lost. He called Fish.

To a net did Adam had a dominion over the fish of the sea.

He called fish to Peter's line. He made he called talk to dead

fish, and they multiplied. This is the dominion Adam had

he. Could speak to plants.

God never intended for plants to.

Have dominion over man. That's right, tobacco.

Marijuana. Hops.

We. The things that we make.

Our barley and alcohol with grapes.

He never intended for. Plants to make you buy them to

mess with your mind and get you intoxicated.

You have Dominion. And when you know.

That you would be free from. Addiction.

Be like you don't own me anymore.

I've been redeemed. I have dominion over you.

You're just a plant. Do you understand?

I talk to you plan, I curse you at your roots and you can't even

produce fruit. When Jesus spoke to the fig

tree, it was done. You can speak to a cigarette and

say you're done. In my life.

You have no more fruit in my life you want to be free, be

free. Indeed, you have demean.

If you're born again. But Jesus went on to say, he

said, You say correctly, that I am a king.

For this I have been born. Are you hearing me in Acts

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chapter 1 after his death, burial, resurrection, We're

winding down now. Jesus in for 40 days only spoke

concerning the Kingdom of God. If the gospel is changing to be

the message only that Jesus Christ came and died on the

cross and rose from the grave. And if you ask him to be Lord of

your life, when you die, you'll go to heaven forever.

That's where he would have changed it.

But he didn't change it. He does.

Know to be in the Kingdom you're you need to do that.

You must be born again. He knows that, but it's not.

Just so you can go to heaven. When you die, it's so that

heaven can come to you while you're on the earth in Acts.

Acts 20:27

Chapter 20, verse 27 to. 2025 to 27 Paul, who wrote over half of

the New Testament, said this. He said, And now behold, I know

all of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom, and

you will no longer see my face. Therefore I testified you to

this day. I'm innocent of the blood of all

men, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole

purpose of God. He preached on the Kingdom

everywhere he went. Philip preached on the Kingdom

in the book of Acts. Paul preached on the Kingdom in

the book of Acts. Peter talked on the Kingdom.

In fact, Paul's letters to the churches is really just

communicating. You used to live in a different

Kingdom and that was your behavior and culture.

But now you're in a new Kingdom. It's the Kingdom of God, and

this is your behavior. This is your culture.

You know, there used to be a time in the United States of

America that if you wanted to become a citizen, you had to go

to classes, you would watch videos and they would say this

is the culture of our nation. Some nations you go and you

throw. Trash out, you're fine because

they don't want trash in their nation.

But I've gone to some nation. I'm like that's.

Their culture, they. See trash everywhere if you.

Do not renew the minds of. People coming in, they'll bring

their culture with them. You'll go into some city of I.

You feel like you're in a third world country in your nation.

Let me tell you, there'll be no third world country in heaven or

in the new earth. You're not.

Bringing an old. Set.

Come on. Amen.

So Paul's writing. To the church is saying we're

going to have to talk about this new culture we're in because

this is the culture that will exist forever and you can start

living it now. You can have the benefits of it

now you can walk in it now you can see it now you can

experience it now you can have the blessings associating at the

health care system. The reason why you're healed is

because it's the health care system of the Kingdom.

The reason why you can get. Baptized in the Holy.

Ghost whatever is speaking in tongues because it's the

language of the Kingdom. It's not spooky or demonic.

It's the voice of God. He created tongues anyway, it's

so. Simple when?

You understand it's the Kingdom. Hebrews 12/28 says therefore,

since we received a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, Timothy says

this he who is blessed, verses 6 chapter 6, verse 15 blessed, an

only sovereign ruler, the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.

Who are those kings? Who are those kings?

You are those when, when are you those kings?

Right now you can. Rule and right now, which means

you can rule and reign over. Your thoughts you can rule and

reign over. Your emotions, you can rule and

reign over your flesh, You can rule and reign over gossip.

You can rule and reign over bitterness.

You can rule and reign over unforgiveness.

You can rule and reign over everything, and when you realize

you're in a Kingdom and the Kingdom citizens are loyal and

love to obey their king who sits on the throne and is righteous

and holy, then you will no longer allow tradition or our

traditional thought of His word to creep in so that you can keep

your flesh. First Peter 29 says but you.

Are chosen, raised a royal priesthood, a holy nation for

God's own possession. All right, let's read Revelation

21 as our ushers come and get ready to serve you Communion.

Revelations 21 one and two says this.

Then I saw a new heaven. This is after the catching away

of the church. This is after the tribulation

and the Antichrist reign on the planet.

This is after Jesus comes, puts his foot down and throws Satan

chained up by 1 Angel thrown into the bottomless pit and he

reigns on the planet for 1000 years.

This is after. This is after he releases the

devil for a time to deceive the nation's after he's been

physically present on the earth, reigning for 1000 years with us

in our glorified bodies. And they form a war against.

Him that mouse to nothing. Then he judges, he throws the

devil into the lake of fire, which is the second death, along

with a false prophet. Then the grave gives up, the

dead goes to heaven, and he judges all that never called on

his name, and whose name is not written in the Lamb's book

alive. And he sends them to their

eternal prison, the Lake of. Fire is not devil.

'S home. It's God's prison.

For eternity. And then after all.

That's done. It says this.

Then I saw a new heaven and the new earth, for the 1st heaven

and the first earth had passed away, and there's no longer any

sea. And I saw the holy city, the new

Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a

bride adorn for her husband. It came down out of heaven.

Are you hearing me verse 23 and it said the city has no need of

the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has

illuminated and it's lamp is the lamp is the Lamb, and the

nation's will walk by its light. And the kings of the earth, the

kings of the what? Not the kings in heaven who are

living with him. The kings of the will bring

their glory into it. God will come and set up his,

His now creation's capital on planet Earth.

The Bible's about a king. His Kingdom and his royal

offspring. And I'm telling you, Saints

people, you know. Who are born again?

They need to. Know about their king because

they're not ready for the king. Many in our nation are saved

through democracy. They're saved through democracy.

Because they. Define when we say.

Whom the Son has set is through American freedom, and our

definition of freedom is we have freedom of speech.

We can say what we want to do, what we want to become, what we

want to be. That's not in the Kingdom of

God. In the Kingdom of God, you are

to become what He created you to be.

You are to discover yourself in Him.

You don't get to say what you want to say.

You are to say what He says. Because His word is life, and

yours is not alone. Because.

Freedom is life in Him. Thank you Lord, and many are

preaching. Freedom through American

democracy, not biblical Kingdom. Because when you are in the.

Kingdom, Ricky, you have to. Forgive your brother.

You have to love them, you have to walk towards them the way God

says you are to treat them, the way he tells you to treat them.

And sometimes Ricky, he tells you to treat them if they are

so-called brother or living in sin that he tells you to say

don't even get around them for the purpose of hopefully they'll

repent because they are living this like so-called free life

and grace. That is not what he intended.

And he's like, that is not my holiness.

That is not why I died. Don't even associate with such.

And that means you love. Them because you do.

That. I don't have the choice to

respond to. You the way I want to.

I say, Lord, what do we do? How do we respond?

How do we act? How do we do?

Even today I don't have the choice to tell you what I want

to preach this morning, I said. Dad.

What do you want to say to? Your people.

So I'm not even preaching next Sunday, it's Mother's Day.

Can't start a series? I perceive and I heard him.

Say on the inside because. I thought I was just going to

preach on communion initially. I'm going to preach on

communion. I've not done that.

And I went there and I started reading it, you know, and I was

listening, but it was quiet. And then I heard the Lord say,

you need to remind them that this is about a king, his

Kingdom and his royal offspring. He said, Son, there are many in

your service right now that have not even heard you say this

before. Said yes Sir.

And here we are preaching the Kingdom so.

For those who know. Stay obedient to.

Your Heavenly Father. Because He will uphold his word

concerning you. And for those who just heard,

it's not a religion, it's a Kingdom that you're.

A citizen. This is why healing is easy,

because he's already. Paid the price.

Deliverance is easy because he's already laid down his life.