The Reigning Spirit - Kingdom Spirit

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things that will cause you to grow.

Now with that, turn over to Second Peter Chapter 3.

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This is not a shocking statement.

This is just repetition. In second Peter chapter 3,

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starting in verse one, it says this is now beloved.

The 2nd letter Peter says I'm writing to you in which I am

stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder or remembrance

depending on which translation you're reading.

Verse two says that you should remember.

Say, remember. Say remember.

Do you understand this is your biggest problem?

Come on husbands, how many times have you used this on your wife?

When she asked you, did you do something?

You said oh I forgot or I did not remember.

Come on now, just be honest. And multiple times this becomes

the excuse of most people. This is why I'm a little

skeptical when people come to to the church, whether it's through

Washington Treasure Harbor, Preschool, you know, the Cafe,

the church in general, whether it's some area ministry that

someone says, oh, I didn't know that.

No one told me that, that when I hear stuff like that, I'm

thinking Nah. They just chose not to remember

because I realize how much we actually communicate that when

someone acts like they're oblivious, I become a little

skeptical of that process. Just like husbands, our wives

are skeptical when we say, I don't remember you saying that.

Is that not what we've said? Yeah, I've said it on more than

one. I don't.

I don't remember you saying that.

And it usually follows with this.

But I did, Right. So again, our wives call that

selective hearing. We're only wanting to hear what

we want to hear, you know, And the rest of it, we tuned out,

you know, because all of a sudden, my wife turned into

Charlie Brown's teacher. Wah wah, wah, wah, wah

concerning that subject, but we do this with the Lord and Peter

was wise enough. I could go to a letter that Paul

wrote, writes to Timothy concerning this, but I'll stay

focused on this particular one that we are to remember.

He said that you should remember the word spoken beforehand by

the holy prophets and the commandments of our Lord and

Savior spoken by your apostles. So he's given reference here

that I'm trying to get you to remember something you've

already heard because what you've already heard has the

ability to keep you somewhere, strengthen you, grow you.

But if you're not remembering, in essence, Peter saying, I

don't need to tell you something new.

I need to remind you of something you already know.

Because what you already know you need to continue in.

And yet we've kind of have this psyche in our mindset if we

don't watch out as 'cause, you know, our public school system

has taught us this is that we, we study the night before a test

in order to pass the test with a passing grade.

That's all that matters. Just pass.

Then we do not remember that information because the test is

over. Let's go on to the next thing.

And as the teacher is talking, we're really not technically

listening, right? I mean, there's very few people

that are really studious. Let's just be honest.

And I was one of those people in high school.

I was not studious. I just happened to be able to

retain information. Well, OK, I could do that.

I mean, where I would have been if I had been really a studier

because some people can naturally do well.

Others they really study and still struggle because they, you

know, it's just not one of their expertise per SE in a particular

subject of what the case may be. But you know, many of us, we

were more concerned, and this is long before the social media

stuff that we have today. We were more concerned about

where our friends were and what was going in between class than

what was going on in class, which means then we're

conditioned when we get in church, the same thing.

You're more concerned about talking to that person in the

four year before service and after service.

Then you are about what's going on right now in service.

And then you only want to be able to talk about the the

issues or the subjects that we've ministered when the test

comes. Oh, now what?

Now what? It's test time.

Tomorrow it's a test. All of a sudden I'm being

attacked. There's a test.

OK, what do I need? I need a cram for the exam.

Then once it's over, what do we do?

We don't think about it anymore and we wait.

We don't think about sickness and disease.

We don't even talk over our bodies that were healthy and

healed. We have no cocktails.

It attacks. Then we cram.

We want to get past the test. We finally get past the test and

then we don't think about it anymore.

Same thing. We get financial straits.

We don't want to. We all of a sudden say what do

we do? We start being a giver.

We're doing what we need to do. Then all of a sudden we get past

that and we forget and we don't apply those principles.

Now when I say that we're talking about the majority of

people, but not at Anchor Fate Church.

At Anchor Fate Church, we are doers.

We'll talk about that a little bit more.

Verse three says no, this first of all, that in the last days

mockers will come and they're mocking, following after their

own lusts. So Peter is warning, listen, I

need to stir up your memory. I need you to remember things

you've already heard, because in the last days there are people

who will mock truth and they will try to turn truth to their

own lust. They'll try to convince you that

their truth will. It should be your truth because

they have a truth You can have, a truth they may not match, but

ultimately you should really come over to mine.

When anyone says this is my truth, it won't be long before

they're trying to convince you that their truth is truth

because nobody just accepts their personal truth.

They're trying to convince people that their personal truth

should be your truth because ultimately your truth and my

truth could be a conflict. However, Christ or the Holy

Spirit is the truth, He's the spirit of truth, period.

All right, so First Timothy 41, we use this at the beginning of

the year. I'm going to read out the good

God's Word translation. He says the Spirit says clearly

that in latter times some believers will desert the

Christian faith. They will follow spirits that

deceive, and they will believe the teachings of demons.

Now in January we lost our year with the reigning spirit.

It's July, how are you raining? It's July, how are you raining?

Have you taken an assessment? Has the spirit in you been

raining and have you been raining because you have the

reigning spirit or has something already happened in February,

March, April, May, June that all of a sudden you're on the ropes,

you're entertaining other thoughts, you're thinking other

things. I would love to be able to just

teach a subject one time and it stick, but we understand that

just doesn't happen. However, unfortunately, when I

repeat subjects, if we don't hear right, then the reality,

the repetition of the subject isn't making anyone better

because again, we're conditioned.

I've already taken that test. I got to be.

I'm going on, give me something else, give me something else,

give me something else. Yet Peter's like, look, you need

to be reminded of what you already know because you're not

passionate about. Remember when you first heard

again, not picking on Sabrina, but she's already has this

little thought. And this is not negative, but

notice how she said when they said we've never heard it.

She goes, Oh, that's just now I understand she not downplaying

it, but for her I it's what I've heard and know now, as opposed

to Oh, you've never heard right, because it's not just the

Kingdom, it's the Kingdom. Oh, it's oh, you don't know the

Kingdom. Oh, you need to know the

Kingdom. You need to know the kingdom's

something. The kingdom's what it's all

about. It's what the whole Bible's

about. It's about a king, his Kingdom

and his royal offspring. It's an amazing thing.

His Kingdom. It's an amazing who God is as

the King of everything, how he saved our lives, brought us into

his Kingdom, made us his all seed us, is in heavenly places,

put his spirit in US. It's an amazing thing, this

Kingdom that we're in. But again, for you to take that

kind of attitude, you have to stir yourself up and remind

yourself of how amazing this Kingdom you're functioning in.

Because what can happen is is you can get so natural in a

supernatural sense that you don't even take in account how

awesome this really is. Amen.

So we need to ask ourselves again, coming back to the

reigning spirit, are we functioning with this reigning

spirit now? What does it mean to have the

reigning spirit again? Since we've started January,

we've had a lot of guests come in, new people.

There are more people coming in this summer.

Then, you know, it's a little deceiving because people are on

vacation. So, you know, we got some pretty

good amount of seats still. People are in and out.

But man, when this fall hits, all of a sudden everyone's going

to kind of come. And we traditionally speaking,

it just tends to happen in this way that when school hits right

after Labor Day, it's like everybody packs in and we're

going to have one of those spike services where it seemed like

everybody decided to, almost everybody decided to come to

church at the same time. That would be an amazing day.

But it still has not occurred. OK.

Now, with that being said, then you're going to be going, what?

Where did all these people? How did we get so crowded?

Well, people are cycling now. People are coming in, which

means there are people who are coming in that haven't heard

what you've heard. And if I do not say what you

know to them, because when I say Kingdom, for many you're like, I

got that. But for others, that's heaven

because for many of you, that's what it was.

You didn't realize the Bible's about a Kingdom.

You didn't realize it was about a literal government where the

king rules and reigns. But once we begin to break

things down properly, then we are reminded.

But I love to preach the Kingdom because the Kingdom will always

keep you in the position of lordship because it's easy when

you start to kind of let go of the Kingdom lens that you'll let

go of the lordship of Jesus and you'll fall back to, I love the

Savior because it exposes. We don't want to be told.

It exposes we don't want to be told what to do and even with

Jesus, Amen. Man, I'm telling you, it'd be

tough if Jesus was standing in a pulpit today, it'd be tough.

Notice what Jesus did not do. The rich on ruler came to him

and said, man, what do I got to do?

I mean, most past should be jumping.

Praise God, this is a wealthy guy.

He's coming to my church. He's got all this kind of

influence and he wants to know how to be born again.

Oh man, this is amazing. Jesus says sell everything you

have, give to the porn, Come follow me.

The guy hangs his head and leaves.

Most pastors would say, OK, what do you need to hear so I can

keep you? I'm sorry, maybe you know what?

I don't want it to be so hard that it's that you feel like you

can't accomplish this. So let's do baby steps.

Jesus never ran down the rich young ruler.

He never compromised his message.

He never went and said, and here's the crazy thing, the rich

young ruler could not be born again.

Yet he did not say, OK, let me give him a truth he can handle.

If you can't handle the simplicity of lordship, then

you're not handling anything in the church because as long as

your life is your own, then you're not going to access the

Kingdom. Say Amen anyway.

Hallelujah. And again, we are without

excuse. We have the reigning spirit.

This dispensation we're in is an amazing dispensation because

those that preceded us, other than Adam, the first Adam, we

are living in a fullness that no other generation other than Adam

and Eve have never lived in it. We are and there will be a

generation that will do more, will be in something more than

us and that is when Jesus returns to the earth and he

reigns on the earth where people will be born again, have the

Spirit of God within them and can physically see Jesus.

That's pretty amazing. We are in that one, ours is.

We live it by faith. We do not physically see Jesus,

but we know him by the Spirit. We know him by the Word.

We know we're alive unto God. We are new creature in Christ.

The Holy Spirit lives on earth. It's an amazing time to live.

In fact, man, those clouds of witnesses that are looking over

like if only I had had that, I was in the earth, if I had only

had that, if I had only been able to live in that capacity

that way. Oh, the advantages you have is

what they're saying, not. Oh, and the advantage is not you

can do anything sinful and it doesn't matter because Christ

paid the paid the price. That is not what they're saying.

They're saying you are alive to God.

We were not. You have the Holy Spirit in you

and upon you. We only had it upon the

prophets, the priests and the kings.

Us regular people never had it. And yet you have the spirit

within the spirit upon your spirit's changed.

You know your royalty, you know that you submitted to the King.

You have the third person of the Godhead on what is the problem?

How is sin even an issue? Because when you have a reigning

spirit like, hey, you're like, what issue?

Come on, what issue? What issue do we have?

We have no issues. Go ahead, look at you and say I

have no issues. We have no issues.

Jesus has destroyed your victim card, destroyed it, burned it,

crucified, nailed it to the cross, completely exposed it.

You are without excuse. And you know who else's victim

card he's? He's destroyed the ones that are

still outside his Kingdom. They don't have an excuse

either. He's like, I've wiped it all

out. So we need to carry our victor

card. Come on, we are victors.

What issue do we even have? We don't even have an issue

because when issues come, they have to go, man.

We have the reigning spirit. Hallelujah.

The Lord was intentional after the fall of Adam, because when

God made man in his image according to his likeness, He

gave him dominion or rule. But when Adam ate the fruit, he

should have never eaten. Because God said you want to

prove you love me, don't eat this one tree.

You can have the rest because I love you and I provided for you.

I do what I say, so I'm asking you to do what I say.

So don't eat this fruit, cause the day you eat you'll die.

And when Adam ate the fruit, death came into the earth.

He get he abdicated his rulership and throne.

He gave his dominion to the devil.

The devil received his dominion or his rule, but did not receive

his likeness. The devil did not transform into

the image of man, but he did receive his authority.

That's why the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 4 four that he's

was, is considered the God of this world.

He's the the one who's in authority.

He's the one who is controlling the systems of the world, the

things of darkness. He is the leader, he is the

king. He is the king of of darkness.

He is the king of, of disobedience.

He is the father of lies. But God, I said, but God being

rich in his mercy, said my seed is corrupted because of the

first Adam. I'll have to bring another seed.

And we see this in Genesis chapter 3, verse 15.

Genesis 3:15

The the amplified says it this way.

And I will put enmity, open hostility, say open hostility.

I mean, if you don't have open hostility towards the things of

the devil, this is a problem. He said.

I will put enmity, open hostility between you, that's

the serpent and the woman between your seed.

That's the offspring of the devil and her seed.

Notice it doesn't say seeds, it says seed.

He shall fatally bruise your head and you shall only bruise

his heel. Now I love this translation.

It says it this way really pretty awesome because it really

gives a great illustration of what Jesus is what is being done

in the the latter part of this first because again, when we

hear that he will crush your head, but you'll bruise his heel

and we always think a bruise in the heel is that you know, he

would he bore by his stripes. He bore sickness and disease.

You know the devil you know, put him on a cross.

That's the bruising. But really look at this context

is even more clear. This translation says that this

way I do not know what it is. It's the ABP plus and it means

this and hatred will be put between you and between the

woman between your seed and and be her seed.

He will heed, He will give heed to your head and you will give

heed to his heel. Now, this is really a great

illustration because in essence, he says when this is all said

and done, when you look up his, his heel will be on you.

In essence, you're going to give heed to his head.

He's the head, he's the Conqueror, he's the king of

kings. He's the one over you.

And guess where you'll be when he looks down, He'll see you up

underneath his feet. You'll be under his feet.

You'll be given heed to his head, his authority, his power,

his dominion. You'll be submitted, and you

know what you'll be to him. And when he looks at you and he

takes account of you, he'll see that you are far beneath my

feet. You have been whipped, stripped,

and I have received that, that which the first Adam lost.

Glory to God. So say the seed is coming, and

the seed has come. Galatians 316 says now the

promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.

He does not say to his seeds as referring to many, but rather to

one. And to your seed, that is, that

is, that is. Now Christ is not the last name

of Jesus Christ is the title of Jesus.

It is the Greek word that is equivalent to a Hebrew word,

which is Messiah. So when we say Messiah or we say

Christ, it means the same thing in its meaning.

It means the anointed one and his anointing.

But what does that mean? It means that God anoints his

kings. We see this description when man

rejected God in First Samuel chapter as their king, and they

wanted their own man king, a person they could see on the

earth. And the Lord says, give the

people what they want, Samuel, for they've not rejected you,

but they've rejected me as king. And when Samuel went and gave

them the person they were thinking of, they received a guy

by the name of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.

But in order for him to be the king over God's nation, Israel,

Samuel had to anoint his head with oil, which is as a type and

shadow of the Holy Ghost, so that the anointing are the

presence of God. Because God is the one who has

the rightful place of dominion and authority over humans.

Man was never given that right. Man's dominion was always

limited to the things created on the earth, but not to humans

themselves. God is the ruler of man, so man

can never rule over another man unless God was involved.

God never intended it in the 1st place, but when Adam ate the

fruit, it became necessary in order to safeguard humanity.

Now he didn't need to do it for his nation, but they rejected

him and so he shows them the Spirit of God had to come upon

them in order for them to rule. Yet Solomon or Samuel or Saul,

excuse me, King Saul failed to stay in compliance with the

anointing he had. The anointing on him can be

disrupted if you do not obey the king.

That's why the prophet said God desires obedience more than.

Now let me just say this. The minute you obey, you've

already included a sacrifice. In fact, you cannot actually

have obedience outside of sacrifice.

But you can have sacrifice outside of obedience.

So well, how's that possible? The minute I obey God, I

sacrificed my will and my way of doing it.

But I can do sacrifices to try to get God's attention and not

be obeying Him at all. I can be doing principles, but

my heart is far from the process.

Are you hearing me? So the Lord's like I desire

obedience more than sacrifice. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

So the anointed one in his anointing, this is what happens

to kings. What did Jesus say in Luke?

He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed

me. And the Father, when he was

baptized in the Jordan and came up, the heavens opened up and

the Spirit of God came upon him. That was the anointing.

He didn't have natural oil being poured on him by John the

Baptist or any prophet of his time.

Although John was a prophet, He was the greatest prophet.

Actually Jesus said this no prophets as great as John, but

yet he's the least in the Kingdom of heaven.

Are you hearing me? So John did not pour oil on

Jesus head The the he didn't get a type and shadow.

He had the Holy Spirit come and he poured on him without

measure. And then the declaration from

the King of all creation, the Father him says, says, this is

my Son, in whom I am what? Well, please, this is the

announcement. Here's my son.

This is the King that is taking back dominion for humanity on

the earth. And did he do it?

Come on, did he do it? I said, did he do it?

Jesus understood He was the seed in John chapter 12 verse 23 and

John 12:23

25. The easy reader version says it

this way. Jesus said to them, The time has

come for the Son of man to receive his glory.

It is a fact that a grain. It is a fact that a grain of

wheat must fall to the ground and die before it can grow and

produce much more wheat. If it never dies.

It will never be more than a single seed if it never dies.

And here's the thing, if Jesus had not yielded himself to this,

he would have never died on the earth.

For the first Adam had a command from the Father.

You can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the

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

Say the day. For the day you eat, you will

surely. So if Adam had never eaten the

fruit, where would he be today? So Adam had eternal life at

creation. He didn't need eternal life, He

was living eternal life. He stepped out of eternal life

and moved over into death. So if the first Adam had eternal

life, then the last Adam, a man who knew no sin because the

wages of sin is Jesus said I only do what the Father says.

Why? Because the first Adam did not

and he died. If I follow suit, death would

come to me, also me, then death to God.

But God only does his word because that's his character.

I said that's his character. So Jesus keeping his word could

have never. And if the devil would have

known this, he never would have put him on a cross, because we

would be seeing Jesus today. But Jesus has to die.

Why? Because a payment must be made

so that you can live again. I can live again, and all those

who preceded us can live again. Who have, who believed the day

would come that a seed would show up.

So Jesus says, listen, unless I die, I'll remain alone.

And at the end, at the bottom, is this.

The conclusion of this thought would be this.

Should Jesus had not died for our sins, then the Father could

have rightly judged all of humanity.

We would have been thrown into the lake of fire.

The prison system of the Kingdom justly and on the planet would

have been Jesus reigning by himself.

But God was obligated to make a way for man because he said, let

us make man in our image according to our likeness.

And even though a man destroyed that path by rebelling, God open

another path through a different seed.

And you've heard Pastor Roddy minister here, the King Khan.

Are you the king Khan? I said, are you the king Khan?

Are you the king Khan? Well, if you're the King Khan,

then that means you must reign and you have to remind yourself

you're reigning. And in this world, there's a lot

of stuff out there, but that's not what we focus on.

He goes on and says in verse 25, whoever loses the life they have

now or whoever loves the life they have now will lose it.

But whoever is willing to give up their life in this world will

keep it. They will have eternal life.

You have to choose daily to say I am not running after the

passions of this world and its pursuits.

You must abandoned those thoughts.

And I'm telling you, the Kingdom life is way different than the

American life or the American Dream.

And the American Dream is not part of the gospel.

We have to learn a whole new set.

But we have been conditioned to the American dream.

Good job, great benefits, nice house, great retirement, and so

many live this way. And in order for us to obtain

those four, we're going to have a great education.

And our world's not gotten better because of the education,

because of the university systems, has not gotten better,

has only grown worse. I mean, they have become highly

educated. Thieves, criminals, backbiters,

gossipers, slanderers, mockers. Yeah.

And yet we want to pursue their lifestyles.

When you actually have the reigning spirit, you actually

have the life they want. I don't want to live in such a

way that they're like, well, you look like the rest of the world,

but it's like, how are you like that?

That they're not confused with the possessions I could have

because God has caused me to prosper.

But there will be something more tangible about my life that they

would be like. You're different, Come on, are

you different? The Bible calls you peculiar,

actually, and you need to stay in the box of peculiar.

Now, I'm not talking some of you just being weird for weird's

sake. Quit being weird for weird's

sake. We're talking peculiar in a holy

sake. Some of y'all can identify with

my statement when we're talking about some things there, you

know, don't be weird for the sake of weird.

Be peculiar because you're not of this world because you have a

reigning spirit in you. Amen.

Come on, what's Romans 811 say? Can I remind you today, But if

the latter part, but if the I mean the beginning, but if the

spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells.

If conditional statement, which means you have to do what's

necessary, can I just say it this way?

Do not get offended because God requires you to do something.

Now let me just say it this way and do not get upset because God

requires you actually to do a lot.

I don't get to pick what God is requiring me to do or bring down

a truth because I'm not comfortable with that truth.

And I do it a different way because my heart's there to do

it that way. Now here's the thing, if your

heart's not in it, it doesn't matter what you do.

Heart is always the the the component that has to be there.

But you understand you're not in the Kingdom of God unless you

believe with your heart, confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord.

That's the requirement. It's the call.

But we know that people will say, but Lord, didn't we

prophecy in your didn't we cast a didn't we?

And he's going to say depart from me.

I never knew you workers of lawlessness, meaning you did

actions that were contrary to what I was saying.

Yet you're saying you're mine. But I know you're not mine.

So there's a requirement for salvation.

A requirement for you to believe with all your heart that Jesus

Christ came, died on the cross, His blood was spilled for your

wrong transgression, your wrongdoing.

It paid the price once and for all.

And you must believe in your heart and confess it with your

mouth. Jesus is supreme and authority.

He is my Lord. I follow him with everything.

And then he says, now you're going to love me, love me this

way. You love me with all your heart,

all your soul, all your mind, all your strength.

And if you love me, you'll keep my word now.

Well, my heart, I just think it's really what my heart is.

And you know, my heart is to love him with all my spirit, but

my soul is optional because I like to keep some of my

thinking. And as far as, you know, how

often I physically manifest in his presence called his church,

you know, that's really up to me.

It's whatever my what's in my heart.

It's not what was in your heart. It's what his word is.

And you need to get your heart right with His word.

Are you supposed to forgive others?

Then you got to get your heart right.

Well, you know what, in this situation, you know I'm just,

what do you mean? You're just get your heart right

with His word. And then I could go on a list of

things, a list of things that He says we are to do and yet we

don't feel like it's our heart to do.

So it must not mean that what he's saying we don't have to do,

because really all that matters is what's in our heart.

Well, you need to have His word hidden in your.

OK, Are we clear? Not yet.

But I'm for those who have ears, let them.

But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead

dwells in you, this is an amazing thing.

I said. This is amazing.

Death could not hold you down. So how in the world will we live

substandard life in the Spirit on the planet and say that the

Holy Spirit's only ability is to remind us we're children of God

so that when we die, we go to heaven?

But he really has no other power concerning any other issues of

the world. He definitely can save us from

our sin. The blood of Jesus can do that.

But as far as overcoming obstacles, offenses, failures,

you know, forgiveness, giving all kinds of things, he can't do

that. We're just glad we're going to

go to heaven when we die. He can't stop sickness and

disease on the planet the Spirit went think of.

We don't even think about this. Jesus was never separated from

the Father. Never.

I mean, I don't even know how to describe this.

There's really no tangible way to describe this.

None. I mean, we freak out over a

missed meal. Our stomach starts and we're

like, I got to get some food, but we had to get me some.

I mean, we'll change emotionally, right?

Like we got to get some food. This ain't, I am not handling

this right here. Well, then we just call them

food. Jesus is separated from the

Father for the first time ever. And we like, well, it was only

three days. Well, I could say that to you if

you don't eat for three days, but most of the time it's like

we got to get some food. I mean, you, that was three

hours ago, and you've experienced that feeling and fed

that feeling multiple times. But yeah, here's the Lord.

Never. I mean, how long does three days

seem? I don't know.

But in the process, he must believe that somebody's coming

to get me. My deliverance is coming.

And did he come? I said, did he come?

He broke him out. Now, when the Holy Spirit comes,

it's jailbreak, Tom, right? I mean, he'll bust out everyone

that is wrongfully accused at this point.

Now, one is Jesus. The rest were rightfully

accused. However, they were believing for

redemption and they were in a whole nother holding block of

the prison. And as a result of that, they

were given a pardon. And he took them all out that

day. I said he took them all out that

day. So the Holy Spirit not just only

resurrected Jesus, he resurrected a whole captive of

captivity, pulls them out, and then he is going to dwell in

you. Yeah.

Come on. Hallelujah.

I mean, you understand Abraham has been dead for a long time.

I mean, separated from the planet, he is away from God.

He is in paradise. He's in the grave.

He is there and the Holy Spirit's like, I got you, let's

go. I mean, what situation you in?

I mean, we're talking thousands of thousands of years that

Abraham's like I'm getting out today.

I mean, what you've got going on that the Holy Ghost in you can't

get you out. How are you not raining?

I mean, you're not waiting on the Holy Ghost.

He's in you the one who's able to raise any dead situation is

in you. I wish it was a Hallelujah man

first John 4/17. He says by this love is

perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of

judgment, because as he is so also our where where right here

on the planet. As He is, so are we.

Well, what is He now? He's raised up, seated in

heavenly places. He's sitted at the right hand of

the Father. We are raised up and seated with

Him as He reigned in this life when He walked on the earth.

We get to reign in this life as we walked in the earth because

we're children of the King. We are royalty.

We are royal bloodline. I mean, my gosh, whatever's

going on in the planet really don't matter to us now.

We're going to do our part, but we can always rejoice.

I have the reigning spirit. I'm alive unto God.

I have the Holy Spirit. I have the one who conquers

death, hell and the grave in me. He's in me.

Wow, what a revelation every day.

I mean, how does this not make you Jack excited now if all you

want to do is barely get along? The only reason this doesn't

make a believer excited is because #1A believer doesn't

know who they are. They believe the religion of

Jesus, and they just want to know where they're going to go

when they die, and they want the grace to cover them so they can

live sinful yet still go. That's called the Esau effect

and the Esau wants the blessing without the responsibility, does

not want the accountability of the position or the birthright.

He didn't care about his birthright.

There are many coming and saying Lord, come into my heart and

save me. They don't care about their

birthright. They want the blessing and that

is not going to hell because Esau, when he does not get the

blessing, although he still received an inheritance, had

this in his heart the whole time after he cried to his father.

Many are crying to the father while on the inside saying I

can't believe they did that to me.

Oh Lord, bless me, bless me, bless me.

Lord, heal me, help me get that promotion.

I tell you, that person over there, I just can't stand them.

I don't even know why they're coming to this church.

That's called Esau. And it says he sought for

repentance in tears but could not.

Because the minute dad says, son, I've given it to your

older, to your younger brother, he leaves the room saying when

dad dies, I'm going to kill my brother.

Now why does he want to kill him?

So he can take the blessing? 1st Corinthians 316 says this.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the

Spirit of God dwells in you? Do you not know that?

I mean, really, this should become a scripture We should

probably put on our refrigerators.

This is the scripture we need to put ourselves in remembrance

because you know, when you're in the house and you want to, you

know, do things fleshly, do you not remember that you're the

temple of the Holy Ghost? When you're at work, man, you

want to go off. Do you not know that you are the

temple of the Holy Ghost right now?

Because the seed doesn't function this way.

He has a reigning spirit. He has something else he can tap

into or she can tap into. But again, the problem is, do

you not know Paul writing to the church?

Do you not know that you are the temple of the Spirit of God,

temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells within you?

Well, it's because James becomes our problem.

James 122 to 25 God's Word translation says it this way,

says do what God's word, do what God's word says.

Don't merely listen to it or you will fool yourselves.

If someone listens to God's Word but doesn't do what it says, he

is like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, studies

his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he

looks like. However, the person who

continues to study God's perfect teachings that make people free

and who remains committed to them will be blessed.

People like that don't merely listen and forget.

They actually do what God's teachings say.

They actually do it. I said, well, how's this apply

to me? You're in this room, you're

hearing what I'm saying. You know how you should respond

in situations. Yet when you leave, do you do it

his way? Because the temple of you're the

temple of the Holy Ghost, and the Spirit of God dwells in you,

and he's talking to your spirit the only way the Kingdom would

do it. And do you yield to that, or do

you yield to your flesh? I've been around some people in

the 20 years I've planted Anchor Faith Church, and I've seen them

thinking they have forgotten who they are because what you're

saying now is not from Scripture.

You are justified. And it's amazing how believers

will do like the world does. They will put Pretty Little

words to talk about nasty things.

You know what a buzzword is to believers right now?

Passion, which really should be flesh because a person can be

passionate about something, but if it's fleshly, it's fleshly.

That's just fleshly, right? So we use these little terms,

you know, to try to, you know. Well, and then why do we say

this? We're really good at this one.

Well, the Lord knows my heart. You bet He does.

You bet He does. Now at the end of the day, you

can be here and you can say, well, I mean, if you want to

have a stance on anything in the natural, I'll always take you to

Scripture because I have no opinion in the matter.

But I can give you God's reproductive right standard.

I can do that. I can do that.

I can give it to you. We use terms like sexual

freedom. That's not in the Kingdom.

There's only one sexual freedom. It's between a husband and a

wife in the covenant, a marriage.

Everything else is considered sin.

They he doesn't even call it. There is words like fornication.

It's not called making love to the one you love outside.

It's called fornication, and if you're sleeping with someone

outside the covenant of your marriage, it's called adultery.

These are the terms that guide you, but we don't want to use

those terms because we want to use terms that seem less.

They're softer. Now, here's the problem.

I understand that the world is going to make decisions that

line with sin, and the Bible is very clear in the last days, the

last. These are doctrines of demons.

People in the last days, they're going to pretty words up to make

them seem like they're less. But the reality is we'll never

fix anything until we get to the root.

It's called sin, and there's only one answer to sin, Jesus.

There's only one answer to sin, Jesus.

Now the problem is, is that when you talk about Kingdom stuff,

they try to put you in a box so that you look like you're

against everyone. I'm not against anyone.

People can make mistakes. People are going to live away.

I'm not surprised when people are in sin, especially sinners.

And but I can say, you know what, Jesus paid the price and

you can receive forgiveness. And not only can you receive

forgiveness for anything that you've done contrary to the

Kingdom, but then he'll put a spirit in you, a new one that

looks like him and acts like him.

Then he'll put his own spirit in you.

And then you will be free from having to make the do those

choices ever again. But we come to church, we hear,

and then we walk out and forget what we look like In essence.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the

Spirit of God lives within you? John 1714 says this.

He said I've given them your word and the world has hated

them because they are not of the world.

Even as I'm not of the world, I do not ask you to take them out

of the world, but to keep them from the evil. 1 They are not of

the world. Even as I'm not of the world,

Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.

As You sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world.

For their sake I sanctify myself that they themselves may also be

sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these

alone, but for those who also who believe in Me through their

word, that they may all be what One, even as You, Father, are in

me and I in You, that they may also be in us, so that the world

may believe that you sent me the glory which you have given me.

I've given to them the glory I said, the glory that you've

given me. I've given to them that they may

be what One just as we are one. I am them and you and Me, that

they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that

you sent me and love them even as you have loved me.

So he's saying, listen, I know they're in this world, but they

get to function like I do because as I was, so are they.

Now that we've given them my spirit, now that they have the

glory that I have, what is the glory he has?

The Holy Spirit came upon him. He was made perfect.

I mean, he was God in the flesh. Then we are a new creature in

Christ. We become a child of God.

Once we make Jesus our Lord, we are new species of being in the

spirit. Our spirit man is without sin

like Jesus. Then the Holy Spirit comes upon

us and anoints us like it anointed Jesus and we get to

rule and reign in this life just like he did.

But Jesus functioned as a king on the earth and reigned and had

the reigning spirit about him because he only did what the

Father says. And he said that's why we're

one. And he's saying now that I've

given them the new spirit in their in their spirit, they're a

new spirit. Then I've given them the Holy

Ghost that lives in them and comes upon them.

Then they can be one like me and you and do exactly what I say so

that when they're in the earth, everyone would say you have a

reigning spirit about you. How is it that you're in a world

you're not even of? How do you function like this

instead of being captivated by our old thought life?

We don't think like that anymore.

What's it say in First Corinthians 212?

The amplifier says now we have not received the Spirit that

belongs to the world, but the Holy Spirit who's from God-given

to us, that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the

gifts of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly

bestowed on us by God. Y'all doing all right because

you know what I am not. Well that you would have

Democratic and Republican talking points more than the

word of God should not be your lifestyle.

You need to know the Kingdom. You need to know the Kingdom.

But we have not the Bible. Basic English says it this way,

but we have not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which

comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things

which are freely given to us. Do you have the spirit of the

world? Do you have the spirit of the

world? No.

Do you have the Spirit of God? Amen.

So the Spirit of God doesn't think like the spirit of the

world. In fact, the contemporary

English version says it this way.

But God has given us His spirit. That's why we don't think the

same way that the people of this world think, because God's word

is renewing our minds. I said He is renewing our minds.

He's renewing our minds, living in a different way.

He's redeemed us from the curse of the law.

He's given us the reigning spirit so that we do not

function, process. We're not emotional in the

flesh. Our emotions side with the

spirit. When our flesh says cry, we jump

in the spirit and and walk in joy.

When our flesh laughs at evil and things done wrong, our

spirit mourns and we allow our emotions to go to mourning.

Then we're grieved at the things that grieve the spirit.

We do not rejoice in unrighteousness, but we rejoice

with the truth because we have the reigning spirit.

Timothy 17 says this Young's literal translation for God did

not give you a spirit of, but of and of and of sound mind.

You have power, love and of sound mind.

And what's happening is, is because we aren't listening to

the Word, we're not allowing the Word to renew our minds, then

the deceptions of the enemy are trying to pull us away.

As we read that, those of Christian faith are going to

fall away and listen to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons

because the world will use terms that will seem positive, but

they're actually death. I'm not condemning people

because if I did all of you be condemned, the majority of you

were fornicators, you were adulterers, some were

homosexuals. All of us did things that were

displeasing to the Kingdom of God.

But God, I said, but God. And it would be a, it would be

malpractice if we did not communicate the standard of the

Kingdom. Now, at the end of the day, you

can do like you do your doctor when the doctor says you have

cancer. Now, for most people, they just

believe that doctor right out the gate, especially if it's a

family doctor, someone who has helped them through the law all

the while, help them with their health and stuff.

And they usually don't question that.

But man, when it comes to the church and you have a pastor

that's helped you walk through trials and all of a sudden say,

man, your thoughts are cancerous right now, I'm going to go get a

second opinion. Go get one.

Go find another church and get the other opinion because you

can probably find a pastor that doesn't want to talk to you

about your cancer and let you die in your cancer and then at

your funeral say, oh, you know, they really love the Lord.

All the while I knew that they had offended what they were

offended with someone and it had a root of bitterness and it's

ultimately what killed them. But I can't say that that's even

if they know it. It's amazing.

We don't argue with our dentist. We don't argue with our doctor.

We don't argue with our we may argue with our boss some, but

usually those other, you know, mechanics, those things, we tend

to take their word at face value, But then the one that

prays for you spends time giving the word to you.

Then when they're like, man, hey, this is this action is not

right. Then all of a sudden we get

super spiritual. You're on the same plane.

That's not a reigning spirit. First John 44 last Scripture is

this you are from God, little children, and have overcome

them. What have you done?

Come on, what have you done? Because greater is he who was in

you than he who was in. First of all, for most

believers, most, they'll live their whole Christian life never

dealing with the devil. Most will live their whole

Christian life never dealing with the devil, because they

never overcome their personal flesh.

And the devil doesn't have to come see you when you let your

flesh win. Never has to come see you

because you were his seed. I said you were his seed.

You were his seed in the spirit. You performed your that function

in your soul realm through the way you thought, behaved, acted,

spoke. You performed it in your

physical body by the things you put in it and the things you did

with it. But God, when the call to come

into the Kingdom came, you got to the cross with your body,

your soul, and your spirit. And you said, I want to come in.

And Jesus says you can, but the spirits in you, the spirit in

you cannot. So in order for you to go

through the threshold of the door, and Jesus is the door, he

said, I'm going to shove that spirit out of you.

And the minute you enter and I'm going to put a new one in it,

then I'm going to put my spirit in it.

But the problem is you're bringing in remnants that were

from that other seed. It's still in your mind, it's in

your emotions, it's in your decision making, and it's even

screaming in your body. But the spirit I've put in you

is way more powerful than the remnants of those seeds.

Way more powerful that if you yield to it, Oh my gosh, it will

clean up your mind quicker than you could even imagine.

It will get your body right and restore your body like never

before. But you've got to yield.

You have to yield to the spirit. You have to allow the spirit to

reign in you. You have to do it.

And he says, now listen, you overcome, because even when the

devil comes attacking you, clean yourself, spirit, our soul and

body. And the devil starts to show

back up. Won't matter.

It won't matter because I could do you like I did my own son.

I led him into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil because

in him was the ability to conquer him.

The whole it was never even a fight.

I said it was never even a fight because he had the reigning

spirit. He could always stop the enemy

at the temptation and never let him pass the temptation stage.

And that's what you possess. You possess the same spirit that

can cause you to never pass the temptation stage of the enemy's

attacks. Never.

The temptation comes. I got that.

I'll take that thought. It's gone.

I beat it up, throw it out. I can run it.

I can run its course. I get it out of here.

It doesn't own me. I do not have to do it.

Are you hearing me? Amen.

I don't have to follow that way. I don't have to live that way.

I have the reigning spirit. I've been delivered.

I take every thought of the when The deceptive thoughts, the

seducing thoughts, the doctrines of demons, the twisting of the

Word all. I can take them all captive.

I can cast them down. I clearly hear the Spirit of the

Lord. I hear the Word of God.

I have the clarity. I'm not subject to it.

I'm not one. Cities that are going to be

moved to the wayside fall away. I have the reigning spirit.

I've done the work. I do the work.

I cast down my thoughts. I crucify my flesh.

I submit to the Word. I have the reigning spirit.

And it was powerful enough to raise up God.

Anything dead in my life, He can resurrect it to life.

He can resurrect my thoughts. He can resurrect my body.

He can resurrect anything so that I live the fullness of

Christ and reign in this life right now.

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