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The King and His Kingdom Part 2

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. Last week we started taking time

  4. to break down the Kingdom again and it's very important that we

  5. have a hunger for the Kingdom again.

  6. I was just talking with George before service today.

  7. He was said he was reading in the Bible reading plan where it

  8. talked about the one left the 99, you know, and it said how

  9. all the angels rejoice because the one comes back.

  10. Do you understand that most people interpret that scripture

  11. as the one being a person lost? But that's not true because the

  12. one was with the 99 and the 99 was with the Lord.

  13. So that Scripture along with the prodigal son, the prodigal son

  14. is not a type and shadow of the world, neither is the one

  15. leaving the 99. They are both someone who's been

  16. in the house, who's had a relationship with the father and

  17. then hardened themselves out of their own pursuit of selfish

  18. ambition and want to do it their way.

  19. And they left the safety of and provision of home.

  20. Now why would all the angels rejoice mightily when the one

  21. who was lost would come back into the full?

  22. Because you know how hard you're going to have to harden your

  23. heart to discredit the words you've been acting on.

  24. The Bible tells us how dark it is.

  25. A person that once they're exposed to life, to get back in

  26. darkness. So you understand it's not funny

  27. business when you've had a relationship with Jesus, you've

  28. been actively involved in a church, you recognize those

  29. things and then you get offended or upset or something happens

  30. that you begin to not value the head of the church in his church

  31. and you begin to see it as well. It's maybe something I'll do or

  32. maybe I want won't. And you move out.

  33. Guess what? It is a hardening of your heart.

  34. And when someone starts to layer the light you have, then it can

  35. be extremely difficult for you to return.

  36. I've said this with married couples because I've had this

  37. happen in the past that people they were married and all of a

  38. sudden someone wants to leave and basically they would throw

  39. this out. They say, well you know I'm

  40. going to divorce them anyway and I'll just ask God to forgive me.

  41. I said you think you will. We do know God is a forgiver and

  42. we do know if we do sin that God will forgive us.

  43. But when you openly know I'm going to sin and harden my heart

  44. from doing what's right, I'm going to go ahead and do wrong,

  45. that we really think with all of our heart we're going to

  46. actually come back and repent. Most do not.

  47. In fact, I in my experience with those individuals that I've had

  48. that conversation with, the one that hardened their heart from

  49. the Word and went ahead and divorced anyway, they've never

  50. had an intimate relationship with the Lord.

  51. Again. I've not seen it now, I have

  52. seen a religious exercise, but man, you get around them and

  53. they're not walking in love. They're really not walking in

  54. forgiveness. They're always trying to justify

  55. their position. Why?

  56. Because they had to justify to leave.

  57. This is why it's difficult that when the one separates from the

  58. 99. But if they do come and you

  59. understand the Good Shepherd, the great Shepherd, the chief

  60. Shepherd, that's Jesus, He's going to do everything he can.

  61. To pull you in. He'll use people, he'll try to

  62. get them to you to make correction, He'll work on those

  63. particular things. But at the end of the day, if

  64. you've hardened your heart, sometimes it's very challenging.

  65. But This is why the angels rejoiced, because they knew how

  66. much at risk you are. This is why the Scripture says

  67. if someone comes in and then leaves, it would have been

  68. better for them not to have known the way.

  69. That's what the Bible says. So again, when you get born

  70. again, is it a security? Yes, as long as you continue to

  71. do what you did to get in and that is to crucify self, crucify

  72. your will, do it God's way, yield to him that I'm going to

  73. tell you right now it's the best existence ever.

  74. But if you ever along the way in your journey begin to say, not

  75. sure I'm going to do it like that anymore.

  76. I've done enough. You're at risk, and that's not

  77. what God wants. And you know what?

  78. How do you know that you're starting to maybe walk in a path

  79. that way is how are you hearing the word when it's something

  80. you've already heard? Because when it's something

  81. you've already heard, you're like, Oh yeah, I know that.

  82. I know where pastor's going. I know what he's doing instead

  83. of Lord. I remember the first time I

  84. heard. This Come on now.

  85. Listen, I, I frequent some restaurants, OK?

  86. And I have some relationship with the owners of some

  87. restaurants because of how frequent I go there.

  88. There's one particular one and you all know this because y'all

  89. usually give us a bunch of gift cards when you're, you know,

  90. being a blessing to us, to the Black Molly, OK?

  91. And so there is a standard at Black Molly in my taste.

  92. Buds and that is their spinach artichoke dip.

  93. It is so good that any other restaurant I ever go to.

  94. I measure it to theirs. Now this is my this is not

  95. biblical. This is opinion.

  96. So if you hate it, that's that's because you have undeveloped

  97. taste buds. I get that.

  98. And I, I, I I'm not here to help develop your taste buds to be

  99. honest with you. That's like you coffee.

  100. Drinkers that don't drink it black.

  101. You just untrained and unlearned.

  102. When you finally get over to black, you're going to arrive to

  103. where you need to be. All right.

  104. See here, all the religious people.

  105. Nay, and I get it, you know. I'm surrounded by religious

  106. people. With that being said, my point

  107. is is that that particular place and that menu item.

  108. I love it every I don't go and. Say, well, I guess we'll do the

  109. spinach artichoke dip. No, I have this confident

  110. expectation that when I order it, man, my little taste buds

  111. are going to start doing this. Dance around, be like, whoa,

  112. this is so good. And you're like, oh, this is so

  113. good. You know when you're eating

  114. food, you're like. This is so good.

  115. And it's always even better when you've gone and had horrible

  116. food for a little while and then you come back to a place that

  117. you know is good. Then it's like even better than

  118. better, although it may not be. It's just that you've had some

  119. really bad food experiences. We had that at camp.

  120. When we went to Virginia, we had some really bad food

  121. experiences. Y'all need to pray for Virginia.

  122. I don't think they know how to eat.

  123. I only think they don't know how to cook.

  124. Us all processed. I don't know.

  125. I don't know what's going on in that state.

  126. I mean it's like does anybody what is happening?

  127. I'm like y'all need to come to Florida and taste food for the

  128. first time. But in Matthew 15, three, you

  129. know what it says? And he answered and said to

  130. them, why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake

  131. of your tradition? He is not talking to lost

  132. people. And when I say that you

  133. understand everybody was lost when Jesus was there, but he's

  134. talking to people who knew God because in the dispensation they

  135. were in, they had access to God. Especially these which were the

  136. Pharisees, the religious, the priests ascribes because the

  137. anointing would come upon them. So they could have understanding

  138. of the word, because it was their responsibility to teach

  139. the nation of Israel. So they knew exactly what they

  140. were supposed to say, but they chose not to say it because they

  141. loved the accolades instead of giving it to God.

  142. And they loved the positions that put them in with the local

  143. government instead of with God. OK.

  144. This is why they let Jesus. They wanted Jesus crucified

  145. because they loved Caesar. More than they did Jesus.

  146. And they touted that we have only one king and his name,

  147. Caesar. That's what they told Pilate the

  148. day that they said crucify him. He said, what do you want me to

  149. do with your king? And they said, we have no king

  150. but Caesar. So they picked the world's king,

  151. which is really, we're going to go with the devil, right

  152. instead. So again, in the church we have

  153. to always guard ourselves from receiving the Word as the Word

  154. of men or as a common thing that we've heard.

  155. We need to receive it for what it really is, the Word of God

  156. and passionately want to receive.

  157. That. Because you understand, we have

  158. just begun to scratch the surface of His Kingdom.

  159. For anyone in this room to say, well, I know about the Kingdom

  160. of God, that is untruth. You know something about it, but

  161. not to the layer that we need to know.

  162. In fact, as much as we study and God reveals, the Bible tells

  163. that it still is, has a veil to it, and until we go and be with

  164. Him will it be completely stripped off.

  165. So even as much revelation as we can receive, we still only know

  166. in part. So what part?

  167. We know we need to rejoice and exercise that part because if we

  168. do not continually exercise the part and do what's necessary,

  169. then we will lose what we have gained.

  170. Are you hearing me? OK?

  171. So we saw that the whole planet was set up so that God could

  172. give it to man. When God created the heavens and

  173. the earth He created with the intentions of giving it to man,

  174. He didn't want it to be empty. We read this in Psalms 8911.

  175. We said this in Isaiah 4518 and we jumped over into a Psalms 115

    Psalms 115:15

  176. verse 15. This was last week and where it

  177. says the highest heavens are the Lord, but the earth He has given

  178. to the sons of man. So the territory of the earth

  179. was created by the home country which is heaven and it was not

  180. taken by force. He didn't come conquer this

  181. thing He made. It so it's God's Bible, pride of

  182. creation. He created everything, the

  183. heavens and the earth. The earth is extremely important

  184. to God in our modern day US Christianity, we don't think the

  185. earth is important. Now I'm not getting into climate

  186. change, although there's a climate change that is a that is

  187. a reality now, not from the political party reality from the

  188. biblical party reality. Is the earth going to get

  189. warmer? Yes, much warmer, extremely

  190. warm, in fact, so warm that it's going to burn.

  191. It will burn, say burn, baby, burn it will.

  192. But it's burning because God's going to make it new.

  193. He's going to burn off anything that is in error because when he

  194. deals with the devil once and for all throws him to the lake

  195. of fire, which is the the second death and all those who denounce

  196. Jesus as Lord and everyone else who rebelled against his Kingdom

  197. and they are in the prison system of God's Kingdom.

  198. The lake of fire is God's prison.

  199. It's not the devil's home. The devil doesn't live in hell.

  200. It's not his home. He had a right to death because

  201. Adam fell from dominion, sinned and death came.

  202. A hold came into play because everyone who who goes against

  203. the word of God, death comes. However, Jesus conquered death,

  204. hell in the grave, meaning he's the only righteous judge who can

  205. now dictate who goes there. In essence, he became the warden

  206. of the prison. Are you hearing me?

  207. So those who go, go voluntarily because they rejected Jesus as

  208. king. So when all that's said and

  209. done, the Bible tells us that in in Peter that by fire he'll burn

  210. the heavens and the earth. Now that's not the 3rd heaven

  211. where God lives. Because in the 3rd heaven, the

  212. minute a rebellion started, God got rid of it.

  213. And how fast did he get rid of it?

  214. Light, lightning. Jesus said, I saw Satan fall

  215. like lightning from heaven. It was very quick.

  216. You're not going to be up here doing this.

  217. Boom, you're gone. OK, with that being said, there

  218. is a 1st heaven, 2nd heaven and in those areas where there's

  219. principalities and powers, there's things that are wrong.

  220. God fire is always a representation of purging

  221. unrighteousness. It is the burn off that which is

  222. wrong. So there's been a lot of stuff

  223. done on this planet that God never intended.

  224. And so God has to purify it like you purify gold.

  225. You get it to the fire, the dross comes up, you pull it off

  226. so that you're left with the purity of the gold and God will

  227. only have a pure planet Earth. I said he'll only have a pure

  228. planet Earth. So the fires coming, say when is

  229. it? Well, that's when we come back

  230. and reign with him after the 1000 years and the devil comes

  231. and attacks that Jesus and his nation again.

  232. It will amount to nothing and he'll cast.

  233. Him. And then they'll give up the

  234. dead, and they'll be the Great White Throne Judgment.

  235. They'll all be cast into the Lake of Fire, and then everyone

  236. that's on the earth will be caught in that fire, which is no

  237. big deal because Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego was caught

  238. in a fiery furnace. Seven times hotter and hot and

  239. they didn't burn, didn't smell like smoke.

  240. They were right in the middle of it.

  241. We can stand right here on the planet while it burns.

  242. It'll be the best bonfire you've ever been to in your life.

  243. Not only will you see it, you'll be in the middle.

  244. Of it, OK? And it will burn off all the

  245. impurities that then we'll have a new heavens and new earth, and

  246. we'll be with the Lord forever in all eternity, where nothing

  247. but righteousness is in all of his creation.

  248. And there's one isolated place where unrighteousness exists.

  249. It is the lake of fire. And they'll never get out.

  250. And they'll be tormented forever by choice, by their choice.

  251. Are you hearing me? So it's important for us to

  252. understand that God, when he created this Earth, initially

  253. those that he put in the planet were not of a different nature

  254. than Him. So when he made Adam out of the

  255. dust of the earth, breathe into his nostrils the breath of life

  256. from his nature. He created humans, He created

  257. man and woman. Infer Genesis chapter one verse

  258. 26 that said then God said, let us make man in our image

  259. according to our likeness and let him have them have dominion.

  260. Over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the

  261. cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps

  262. on the earth. Verse 27 So God created man in

  263. his own image, in the image of God.

  264. He created him male and female. So the spirit of man goes into a

  265. male suit and into a female suit.

  266. God never gets that wrong. They're always exactly where he

  267. ordained them, OK. And as a result of that, they

  268. were to have demean over the earth, not over each other, but

  269. over the earth. They both possess dominion.

  270. Now God needs them to function in this dominion status.

  271. And dominion is not a religious position.

  272. Dominion means to govern, it means to rule, it means to

  273. manage, it means to have rulership.

  274. So Adam, the first Adam had no concept of a religious exercise.

  275. Adam's concept of God was he's the king of heaven.

  276. He's made me king of the earth. He could also say it this way.

  277. He is the God of heaven and God of all creation, and he's made

  278. me God of the earth. I'm submitted to him.

  279. The God. I'm a little God.

  280. I'm a little God now He's not God himself, but he is a little

  281. God. Now this shouldn't be hard for

  282. us because at this point in the new covenant, you're called

  283. children of. Well, if you're children of God,

  284. then you must be of God or you're the Bible calls you sons

  285. of. So in essence, you're little

  286. gods because you function under the authority of the God.

  287. How do we know this God capacity works or this ultimate

  288. rulership? When Paul was recounting the

  289. authority that the devil possessed concerning the systems

  290. that were functioning on the planet, even after his defeat,

  291. he says the God of this world, meaning the systems that are in

  292. play, the way things function away from God's Kingdom, there

  293. is a God or one that's in authority or supreme authority

  294. of that system and that is the devil.

  295. So again, 2nd Corinthians 4 four says the God of this world has

  296. blinded the eyes of the unbelieving so that they cannot

  297. see the light of the gospel or recognize their true place they

  298. should be in, and that is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  299. OK, So again even the devil was contributed as a God of this

  300. world and even Jesus himself in the temptation that he had with

  301. the devil in Luke chapter 4, the devil showed him all the

    Luke 4 chapter mention

  302. kingdoms in a moment of time because he knows this is not

  303. about religion. I do religion for man.

  304. I keep religion in front of man because it keeps man confused

  305. and deceived, because if he knew this was only about a Kingdom

  306. and the government or King's dominion for man, then he would

  307. not tolerate religion anyway. So I keep him confused on which

  308. way to go. Which way is right?

  309. Which one's right? Which way?

  310. Who do we serve? Who do we?

  311. I mean, how all these people in these other countries worship

  312. this other God? Could they be wrong?

  313. Maybe you're wrong. We keep them in confusion.

  314. OK, but he doesn't do that to Jesus.

  315. He doesn't tempt Jesus with the religions of the world.

  316. He tempts Jesus with kingdoms. He said all this domain I'll

  317. give to you, for they have been handed over to me.

  318. Where? Where did he get it from?

  319. He had received it from Adam. So when Adam ate the fruit that

  320. the Lord told him not to, OK. And the reason why God has to

  321. say don't eat this fruit, eat everything else but not this one

  322. is because God needs to know that Adam loves him.

  323. He's of his nature, he's of love.

  324. We should know this, but our love to God is not demonstrated

  325. with the words I love you. Jesus defines how we love God.

  326. He says if you love me, you will what?

  327. Keep my word so we must be doers of the word and here's the

  328. thing, it's not our self effort. It is our effort in Christ that

  329. accomplishes it. Now I will say this, there is a

  330. time you do it yourself or you're participating, which I

  331. when I say at times, really it's every time, but again, you're

  332. being empowered because God has opened the door by his Spirit to

  333. let you know if you do this choice life.

  334. So think about it when you were dead in your trespasses of sin.

  335. The Bible is very clear. No one goes after God.

  336. No, not one. And you can't even come to the

  337. Father unless He draws you, which means somewhere along the

  338. line, God Himself, through His Holy Spirit, started speaking to

  339. your heart. And He started speaking to your

  340. heart while you were a Sinner dead.

  341. Cut off from God, couldn't hear God, didn't want anything to do

  342. with God, would never say yes to God, would never serve God of

  343. your own free will. Yet that voice and the

  344. revelation of that moment that Jesus Christ has made the way

  345. for you to come into this Kingdom and you believed it by

  346. faith. Even as a Sinner, you could say

  347. I believe Jesus Christ came born of a virgin, died on the third

  348. day, rose from the dead and I confess him as Lord.

  349. A Sinner did that. But the minute you did that by

  350. faith, then that spirit that was dead and could not hear, could

  351. not commune with God, could not go any further with God, could

  352. not have a relationship with God, is ripped out of your skin

  353. suit and is immediately replaced with a new spirit that is in

  354. Christ that now has a direct connect with heaven and given

  355. dominion status. You can rule and reign now.

  356. You can follow the Spirit of God, you can obey the voice of

  357. God, and you can prove day after day that you love Him because

  358. your spirit wants to do the Word.

  359. So Jesus said, now if you love me, you go keep my word.

  360. So he says, Adam, if you love me, don't eat the tree of the

  361. knowledge of good and evil for the day you eat you'll surely.

  362. And we said this 100,000 times, we're going to say it 100,000

  363. times more, maybe even a billion if it takes that long before

  364. Jesus returned. If Adam had never eaten the.

  365. Fruit. Where would he be today?

  366. He'd be right here. So Adam was not trying to go to

  367. heaven, which tells us the new birth experience is not about

  368. going to heaven. It's about becoming a child of

  369. God and receiving the dominion God originally had for you.

  370. That's what it's about now. I'm not telling you you won't go

  371. to heaven because the Bible says to be absent from the body.

  372. You'll be what? Present with the Lord?

  373. Where is the Lord presently at? He's in heaven.

  374. Is he staying there? If you read the scripture,

  375. you'll know he's not that Jesus will come back.

  376. And who will come back with? Him.

  377. We will. All right, So wherever the Lord

  378. is, I am. Now, if you want to stay in

  379. heaven when the Lord's not there, that's on you.

  380. And I don't even know if that's Kate, if you're capable of doing

  381. that, because again, if he's Lord and he says, all right,

  382. let's go back to the earth, what are you going to do?

  383. No, I think I'm just. Going to stay up here, been down

  384. there before, didn't really care for it.

  385. Wasn't a great existence for me, you know, till I met you and you

  386. were awesome. You changed my life and now that

  387. I'm up here, don't want to have to hang out with sin again.

  388. How many of you believe you'll see sin again after you go to

  389. heaven? You bet you will.

  390. I didn't say you'd participate in it, but you'll see it because

  391. when you come back in the millennial reign with Christ,

  392. there will be people on the planet still in sin.

  393. The good news is, is that you won't be subject to it again.

  394. You're not going to fail or fall.

  395. You're sealed in righteousness. You have your glorified body.

  396. You're no longer ever going to be connected to that because you

  397. have been delivered from the second death.

  398. And you'll be able to walk on this planet in a way that you

  399. never walked on it before. Because right now we're born

  400. again. We have His spirit, we have his

  401. power. We can renew our minds.

  402. We can walk in dominion, but our flesh is still here.

  403. Our body's still dying. We still have some connectors to

  404. it. We're having to crucify that

  405. daily so dominion can continue to move, so we can function in

  406. our rulership, but when we come back with the Lord, our flesh

  407. won't be connected to it. We'll be free from all that.

  408. Hallelujah. Now for some of you this may

  409. sound like strange teaching, but it's actually biblical teaching

  410. because when you actually read the Bible from Genesis. 11 to

  411. Revelations 2221. You'll find this has been there

  412. the whole time and again, American Christianity has put us

  413. in this position where all we want to do is know where we go

  414. when we die. And Jesus never asked that

  415. question. He never looked at anyone and

  416. says do you know where you're going to go when you die?

  417. That was never a preaching point for Jesus.

  418. He did answer the question. When I say the question, he

  419. really just communicated. The first time he ever said born

  420. again was never publicly he said it, you know, about 2:00 in the

  421. morning to a religious guy by the name of Nicodemus.

  422. And this is where we hear the term born again, which is better

  423. translated born from above. And that conversation he was

  424. having with that religious man was about the Kingdom or about

  425. hit the father. It's obvious that you are of God

  426. because the works you're doing, man, nobody can explain this.

  427. We would have to deny our God to deny the works you're doing.

  428. And then Jesus said unless a man's born again, he will not

  429. enter the Kingdom. So he's letting him know how

  430. you're going to get in. You've got to be born from

  431. above. So Nicodemus a little confused

  432. by that statement. And he says, how can I be a

  433. grown man, Get back in my mom's womb?

  434. He says you're missing it because this is not a natural

  435. birth. This is a spiritual birth.

  436. You can't do this. All your good works to try to be

  437. right with me doesn't work. That's why Paul said in First

  438. Corinthians 7, he said, man, I wanted to do right.

  439. I mean everything I wanted to do that was right.

  440. I found myself just being wrong. And the things I didn't even

  441. want to do, I found myself doing them.

  442. I'm just a wretched man who will save me from this life of sin.

  443. But thanks be unto God that I am, I can triumph in Christ

  444. delivered me from that kind of life.

  445. So he says, listen, you're going to have to be born in my spirit.

  446. In essence, if you're not born again, you can't enter or see

  447. the Kingdom of God. Born again is entrance.

  448. It's not the end. And we've made the Bible in the

  449. US specifically, that the end of all end is just get born again.

  450. And Jesus, like, that's just getting you through the door.

  451. You're not experiencing it, you're just now in the house,

  452. but I'll send my Spirit to teach you how to live in the house

  453. function and do the same because Jesus said the works that I do,

  454. most believers are just trying to get to heaven.

  455. I'm going to heaven when I die. We'll do the works of.

  456. Jesus, because he did them where?

  457. Right here. Amen.

  458. So a Kingdom then, which is what Jesus preached, is the Kingdom

  459. is a government influence of a king over his territory,

  460. impacting it with his personal will, purpose and intent,

  461. producing citizens, expressing the culture, values, morals and

  462. lifestyles reflecting the King's nature.

  463. So God's original plan was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on

  464. the earth through mankind. God created man to manage and

  465. administrate His King's dominion on the earth.

  466. Are you hearing what I'm saying So when Adam rebelled the The

  467. most dangerous word in a Kingdom is independence.

  468. The most dangerous word in the Kingdom is what what it what is

  469. going to happen Thursday is what Independence Day.

  470. This is why it's so easy for us to water down scripture in the

  471. US is because we want to maintain our independence and

  472. independence from what the King. Oh y'all don't want to hear

  473. this? In our fact now again, we

  474. rebelled from a monarch, from another nation based upon some

  475. representation and some additional things.

  476. I'm not going to get in that history lesson.

  477. OK, But never were we supposed to rebel from the King Jesus.

  478. So what we've done is we've brought in our U.S. government

  479. into the church, and we want to be born of a nation that we get

  480. to do whatever we want to do because we've been sold the lie

  481. that in the free nation you can do whatever you want to do.

  482. That's not freedom. Freedom is not free to do

  483. whatever you want to do because you're not free to kill people.

  484. You're not free to steal. Even though there's some places

  485. it looks like it. I understand that, but we're not

  486. free. There are things in place so

  487. that we are. We have the boundaries to create

  488. life. Any nation has to have laws, so

  489. there is order. Do you understand God has some

  490. laws as well. Now again, the minute I say that

  491. the religious Christians go, we're not under the law.

  492. Yes you are. It's called the law of the

  493. Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. That's in Romans now you're not

  494. doing a work independent of God to be right with God cause the

  495. law showed you couldn't do that. But once you're born again, he

  496. didn't do away with the law, he fulfilled it.

  497. So guess what's still in play? Thou shalt not commit adultery.

  498. Y'all went there first. OK, I was going to say murder

  499. myself. We might need to do a marriage

  500. seminar right now, huh? I bond that religious or lustful

  501. spirit right now in Jesus name away from all these people.

  502. OK, so to say that the law's been destroyed and we don't have

  503. to live a no in the New Covenant, you can't murder

  504. someone under grace. I don't like you.

  505. I'm going to kill you because I'm tired of hearing your mouth

  506. because I'm under grace. Oh, this preach is really good.

  507. OK, now again, the whole context of law is in that dispensation

  508. God reveals. Look how much of A Sinner you

  509. are, because prior to the law they were doing whatever they.

  510. Want to do and they did what seems right.

  511. They had no boundaries or nothing that God was setting a

  512. standard that was revealing their sin to them.

  513. But when the law came it revealed it.

  514. In fact, Paul said that he said now listen, until the law came,

  515. I didn't know I was coveting though I was.

  516. And the minute the law showed up, covetousness came alive in

  517. me. All of a sudden I realized, man,

  518. I covet. I'm doing that.

  519. So the law revealed the heart. Jesus makes us a new creature in

  520. Christ because when Jesus came, he didn't murder people, he

  521. didn't steal, he didn't covet. He fulfilled the law, which

  522. means now the spirit in you, you get to fulfill it too.

  523. You don't have desires to want to covet your neighbor's stuff

  524. because if you did, you'd be like, something ain't right with

  525. me. That's a freaking nature.

  526. You can't covet someone's stuff under grace and God be like I'm

  527. fine with. It.

  528. That's not the point. The point is now you can live in

  529. a way submitted to God by his Spirit and your nature's alive

  530. to God to do so. So independence is the most

  531. dangerous word in the Kingdom and we have embraced it in the

  532. US church that all I need to do is be born again and don't tell

  533. me how I'm supposed to live. But in the Kingdom the king

  534. tells you how you supposed to. In fact, all through the

  535. Scriptures written by Paul to the churches, those are letters

  536. that are saying this in this Kingdom, this is the correct

  537. behavior and he never let grace cover bad behavior.

  538. In fact, he says, I'm shocked you're having this behavior

  539. cause the grace of God has actually now empowered you to

  540. not. Have that behavior.

  541. So it's more applicable to question if grace is in your

  542. life. Then it would be to say that

  543. grace is functioning because you can live like you were lost, but

  544. still be fine with God. So independence in the US

  545. churches like the United States. I can, I ask Lord, come in my

  546. heart, don't tell me what to do. I can come to church when I want

  547. to. I can do what I want to do.

  548. I can be where I want to be. You can't tell me what I'm sure

  549. not going to submit to a pastor. Forget that.

  550. Ain't nobody going to tell me what to do.

  551. Well, that's U.S. government stuff.

  552. That's not Kingdom. And when you get into

  553. independence, then it breathes the next one, and that is

  554. rebellion. Because the minute Adam saw

  555. himself independent of God, he rebelled.

  556. Now I will say this so you'll understand the difference of

  557. terms. When you're in God's Kingdom,

  558. you lose your independence because you are fully dependent

  559. not only on Jesus but his body. You're dependent on both.

  560. So what you you lose your independence, but you do not

  561. lose your individuality. What is this?

  562. What is this? That's my finger.

  563. OK. What is this?

  564. Why'd you call an elbow? Why did?

  565. Why is it not a finger? I mean it's.

  566. My body's a free country. It can do what it wants to do.

  567. OK, what's this right here? Come on, what is it?

  568. I'm not at trying to impress you.

  569. I mean, it's all I got. What is this?

  570. I'm pointing at it. Whether you see it or not, it

  571. doesn't matter. Don't make me get you stand up

  572. here, OK? What is this?

  573. A bicep? Why we caught.

  574. So it's an individual part of my body and you know, my elbow, my

  575. finger and my bicep work together and they do not fight

  576. against each other. If they start to fight against

  577. each other, then there's an abnormality with me.

  578. That's then I'm seeing LGI got a problem, man.

  579. There's something's wrong. I'm not functioning right.

  580. He's like, let's figure out what individual part of you is

  581. rebelling. Oh yeah, I'm glad we're getting

  582. there. This is good stuff in it.

  583. Wow. So what I'm saying is is that we

  584. have, we're all individual. Please do not be me.

  585. I don't want to be you. Don't be me.

  586. Be who you are and embrace who you are because you're so

  587. uniquely made and created by God.

  588. But you sure are not independent of me.

  589. You can't say you don't need me. You can't say you don't need the

  590. church. You can't say you can be with

  591. Jesus without church because that's impossible.

  592. He's the head of the church. To be with Jesus without the

  593. church means you cut his head off.

  594. A head without a body is decapitated.

  595. You cannot worship Jesus at your house and think God's OK with

  596. it. Now if you are stuck at home,

  597. that's one. Thing if you're bed bound,

  598. that's one thing. But let me tell you, if you are

  599. bed bound, you need to find you four friends that'd be willing

  600. to pick you up and bring you to church.

  601. Because some people that bed Bob don't won't even get enough

  602. faith and they don't have enough for four friends of faith to say

  603. we got to get you up out of this house.

  604. God never intended you be stuck at the house.

  605. God did not put you on the planet so that you can be stuck

  606. at the house and watch TV ministry.

  607. All right, so the fall of man was not a fall from Dominion.

  608. It was a fall from. Or it was a fall.

  609. From dominion, not a fall from heaven.

  610. The purpose and goal of God's redemptive plan is to restore

  611. mankind back to God's original plan.

  612. So the restoration of God's King's dominion to earth is

  613. God's ultimate goal. Adam lost a Kingdom, not a

  614. religion, and therefore the redemptive work of the Creator

  615. would be the reestablishment of His Kingdom on the earth.

  616. Kenneth E Hagin in his book the The Believers Authority said

  617. this. The trouble with us is that

  618. we've preached a cross religion. We need to preach a throne one,

  619. and we love the cross. We wear it, we have it

  620. everywhere. The cross is to remind us of the

  621. price He paid for us. But God never wanted you to

  622. identify only with your sin. You get around some believers

  623. and all they can do is identify with their sin.

  624. I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by grace.

  625. Well, then you're not. Saved if you're still a sorry

  626. Sinner, how can you be saved if you're a sorry Sinner well

  627. brother, I sin every day like everybody else but I got grace

  628. that's not what grace did grace did not empower you to continue

  629. to sin and be right with God I'm.

  630. Going to say that again. Grace did not empower you to sin

  631. and be right with God. OK, grace paid the price first

  632. because of what you could not do to be right with God.

  633. Then grace will come and grab you when you activate it by

  634. faith. Because if you don't have faith,

  635. grace ain't even working. Then grace will go and grab you

  636. out of the grave, snatch you through the cross, and when it

  637. gets you through the cross, your spirit man that's dead without

  638. God gets shoved out the door. He does not accept you as you

  639. are. It doesn't even get in the

  640. Kingdom. Who you were doesn't get in in

  641. the spirit. He snatches out your old spirit,

  642. puts in you a brand new spirit. Now the grace of God will

  643. empower you, because then you receive the same grace, Jesus.

  644. Had. And the grace Jesus had because

  645. he was full of grace, the Bible says.

  646. And if grace only means unmerited favor, I don't deserve

  647. it. What did Jesus do that he didn't

  648. deserve? When was he wrong and grace

  649. kicked in? No, he was a man who knew.

  650. No, you know, the grace he carried, the grace that caused

  651. him. That when he was tempted on all

  652. accounts like us, temptation is not sin, it is the door to sin.

  653. And every time the door of temptation opened up at the

  654. devil's like come on over in here and enjoy a little bit of

  655. rebellion. Jesus with his grace could shut

  656. the door and said, I ain't going there.

  657. Jesus with the grace, he said, said, I'll keep on walking past

  658. that door. I'm not getting in.

  659. So you understand anything you've ever been through, Jesus

  660. had the power to shut the door and He made you in His image,

  661. which means now you can go to the door of any temptation and

  662. go. You don't owe me no more.

  663. Not going back there, not talking like that, not drinking

  664. like that, not smoking like that, not acting like that, not

  665. screwing around like that, not laying around like that, not

  666. thinking like that. Shut the door.

  667. You shut it because he's graced you to do so.

  668. So if you're walking through the door, then Mercy starts to call

  669. you back. Mercy comes around and says you

  670. need to get up out of this room. You in the wrong room.

  671. You're freaking nature right now.

  672. All right, So we need to preach a throne one.

  673. So kingdom's not a religion, but a government.

  674. It was never God's plan to establish a religion.

  675. This is what happens with religion.

  676. Religion prepares man to leave earth.

  677. The Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth.

  678. You know how many Christians just want to go to heaven and

  679. listen? Heaven's awesome.

  680. It's awesome. But again, we're acting like we

  681. don't even have the God. Like it's going to be great when

  682. we it'd be great because again, I understand we'll be in his

  683. presence personally, but you understand he's in our presence

  684. now in us. If we read the Bible, he's

  685. always coming down to man anyway.

  686. I mean, Jesus name Emmanuel means God and we're acting like

  687. we can't be connected to God unless we're in heaven.

  688. He's like, really, I'm in you. I mean, I'm talking to you.

  689. I'm here. You have a religious thought.

  690. Quit trying to leave. Let me keep coming in.

  691. What's it say to pray? When you pray?

  692. Pray this way. Our that.

  693. Whose father? Whose father is it?

  694. Your daddy. OK.

  695. Not just Jesus, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your

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

  697. So we have the responsibility by faith, through the grace of God,

  698. to pull his realm into this realm, and we don't have to wait

  699. till we go to heaven to get there.

  700. You know what? This is really such a better

  701. gospel anyway, when you think about it, Jesus was not so weak

  702. that all he could do was get you to a place when you die.

  703. Jesus so powerful, He's like, I'll bring my place to you while

  704. you're still in the midst of it all.

  705. You understand what I'm saying? I mean, Jesus is not intimidated

  706. with this world and sin. He's not intimidated with the

  707. devil. He's not intimidated with the

  708. rebellion of principalities and powers 'cause he's the king of

  709. Glory Hill. I just get right down in the

  710. middle of that stuff and show righteousness.

  711. They'll be afraid of me. I'm sure not afraid of them.

  712. Are you hearing me? So again, you have the most

  713. powerful presence in the planet today living in you.

  714. I understand we see all kind of horrible stuff, but we're not of

  715. this world. We don't have to function and

  716. participate like that. We have the third person of the

  717. Godhead in US. God lives in US.

  718. It's not destination gospel. It's destiny.

  719. And destiny occurs the minute I call on the name of the Lord.

  720. God made me this way. But if all I do is identify with

  721. my sin nature, then I want to leave.

  722. But God wants me to identify with my Christ nature.

  723. Man, you're a king now. You have royalty, you have

  724. dominion. Go ahead and rule and reign.

  725. Go ahead and fulfill my plan. Go ahead and know that my word

  726. will not return unto me. Boy, just believe, only believe.

  727. So religion focuses on heaven, but the Kingdom focuses on

  728. Earth. Religion is reaching up to God.

  729. The Kingdom is God coming down to man.

  730. Oh man. Religion wants to escape Earth.

  731. The Kingdom impacts, influences and changes the earth.

  732. Jesus came down and changed the planet.

  733. Now sin's still here, but the kingdom's here.

  734. And now that the kingdom's here, it can't get out.

  735. And the devil, no matter how much he tries to suppress the

  736. church, persecute the church, tries to burn Bibles, tries to

  737. cut off the word, he can't stop it.

  738. He cannot squelch it. He.

  739. Cannot stamp it out. He can do not.

  740. It's here and it will never not be here.

  741. And ultimately it's all that will only remain.

  742. Are you hearing me? So you need to understand then

  743. that all the governments of the earth, because we look at

  744. religions and then try to equate that with our God, but God's

  745. like, I'm not even associated with religions.

  746. If you really want to try to see who's trying to model me, you

  747. have to look at the governments, because the governments of the

  748. world are attempts to achieve the goal of a perfect.

  749. Kingdom without the necessary raw material of the Holy Ghost.

  750. And you know what, every human heart is searching for a new and

  751. better world. I mean, what does everyone say

  752. we just want peace on earth? I mean, really think about it,

  753. you know, and of our political climate, you know, if people

  754. would quit, you know, being so divisive, right?

  755. And would really just understand that if we really listen to

  756. people, you, you can really start to peer in to they're

  757. really searching for the king. And instead of being so upset

  758. about how they're trying to find the king through sin, we should

  759. say, you know, you're really looking for the king there.

  760. So again, you know, when you think about the whole climate

  761. change and people wanted to, you know, us to to lower our carbon

  762. emission and lower these so that we can have pure water and we

  763. can, you know, that's just people wanting a better world.

  764. You know what they're looking for.

  765. They're looking for the new Earth.

  766. That's what they're looking for. Now, they don't know that.

  767. And even them, what are they doing?

  768. They have something within them, and they know they're gonna die.

  769. They know this. Yet there's something about

  770. beyond their life that they think exists somewhere, that

  771. they want the planet. Because why are they so

  772. concerned about humans living after them?

  773. Why are they concerned about that?

  774. The planet could go so bad that it wipes out all humans 'cause

  775. that's really a pull towards an eternal thought, an eternal

  776. thought. And if we would be more apt to

  777. hear, instead of being divisive, we could really begin to say,

  778. wow, you're, that's, you're, you're almost touching the

  779. Kingdom. What do you mean I'm almost

  780. touching the Kingdom? You know, the Lord's really

  781. concerned about the earth. He sees a lot of stuff going on

  782. here, too. I mean, you think oil is bad for

  783. our planet? You think carbon emissions are

  784. bad for our planet? You want to know the number one

  785. thing that is destroying our planet?

  786. It's blood. It's the.

  787. Spilling of innocent blood. The spilling of innocent blood

  788. will cause God to want to show up in a nation because that

  789. talks. We're trying to clean up oil

  790. spills and carbon when nobody's trying to clean up the spilling

  791. of innocent blood. Now that has more contamination

  792. in the earth. Oh, y'all don't want to hear

  793. this? See, because the church has

  794. dumbed itself down so much to want to go to heaven that we

  795. don't recognize that the real root of problems is sin.

  796. You're not going to change the planet unless you deal with the

  797. spilling of blood. You're not going to save a

  798. planet. This is why Jesus Christ the

  799. Lord said Israel, I am going to dispossess all of those people

  800. on that territory because they know I exist.

  801. They did not repent. Their sin now has come to

  802. fullness. I am going to get them out of

  803. that land and dispossessed people.

  804. God moved. Them out of the land because

  805. they were destroying his planet with the spilling of innocent

  806. blood. We because the church is so

  807. uneducated and equipped to handle modern day problems, we

  808. think our issue is climate. The wages of is.

  809. Notice the city. Just do your own natural study.

  810. Notice the cities that that participate in actions that are

  811. contrary to scripture. I'm talking behaviors.

  812. They allow these things full on. Notice how dilapidated and

  813. destructed. Why?

  814. Because every time they do the things that are contrary to

  815. God's work, they are saying death come to us.

  816. So I don't care who wants to be the next governor of Florida.

  817. I don't care who wants to be the next president of the United

  818. States. I don't care who wants to be the

  819. next senator. If all they do is continue to do

  820. policies that are contrary to the word of God with this idea

  821. that it is peace and that it's doing more for others, guess

  822. what? The storms are coming.

  823. Earthquakes are going to happen, natural disasters going to

  824. happen. Things are going to.

  825. Occur. Why 'cause you're calling death

  826. to you, the wages of sin is death.

  827. And we're not dealing with the the the spilling of blood.

  828. See, we're in a Kingdom, not a religion.

  829. So every human heart is searching for a new and better

  830. world. All men believe.

  831. Listen, all men believe except for religious Christians really,

  832. that government is the answer. And here's the thing, so does

  833. God. God believes that government is

  834. the answer because God never came to bring a religion but a

  835. Kingdom. Isaiah Chapter 9, verse six and

    Isaiah 9 chapter mention

  836. seven. You ready for some speed round

  837. here in a minute. Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and

    Isaiah 9 chapter mention

  838. seven says for a child will be born to us.

  839. Who is this child? Come on, what's his name?

  840. What's his name? His name is what?

  841. Come on. I need you better than this

  842. Again. One more time.

  843. As you understand, I have the mic.

  844. You don't. So again, we put this on

  845. YouTube. We want to be able to have

  846. everybody hearing you. What's his name?

  847. A child will be born. To us, a son will be what?

  848. Notice the son is not born because the Son always existed

  849. in the beginning was the word and the word was with God.

  850. The word was God, the 14th verse of John chapter one.

  851. And the word became and his name is So Jesus is the Son of God.

  852. He's always existed before the account of time.

  853. So he can't be born into the world He is given, but the suit

  854. he's placed in is born. So a child will be born to us, a

  855. son will be given, and the that's your Bible.

  856. You know how many people have never read Isaiah's account?

  857. They don't look at it because, again, they stay away from the

  858. Old Testament anyway because it scares them.

  859. But it says, and the government will rest on his shoulder.

  860. Whose shoulders? Who's he?

  861. What's his name? What's his name?

  862. So what's resting on his shoulders?

  863. Not a religion. Jesus never intended to bring

  864. Christianity. He only intended to bring the

  865. Kingdom. He doesn't say repent for

  866. Christianity is at hand. He never said that.

  867. In fact, I think it's only three times that Christian is

  868. mentioned in the. Bible and all of them are by

  869. pagans, meaning people outside of the church.

  870. Which is their label. And Christian is not a negative

  871. term. OK, so I'm not here to say quit

  872. calling yourself a Christian, but be it.

  873. Christian means to be Christ like.

  874. That means to be like a king, like the king.

  875. So if you're like the king, be a Christian.

  876. But if you're not. Like the king, then you're just

  877. putting a label on yourself that you're not.

  878. You can wear AT shirt and not be it.

  879. You can get a tattoo and not be it.

  880. I mean it can be a permanent on you, a cross, a scripture and

  881. not live it. You can wear the necklace.

  882. I didn't matter. You can have it all in your car

  883. doesn't matter. But it says the government will

  884. rest on his what shoulders and his name will be called

  885. Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father.

  886. Appearance of Pete there will be no end to the increase of his.

  887. Or of peace on the throne of David.

  888. Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions.

  889. And over his Kingdom to establish it, and behold it with

  890. justice and righteousness from then on.

  891. And. Forever the zeal of the Lord of

  892. hosts will accomplishes. Notice in these verses.

  893. God believes that the answer to the world's problem is His

  894. government. His government.

  895. Now here's the thing about His government.

  896. If you're going to be in His Kingdom, you must be a born

  897. citizen of that Kingdom. You cannot immigrate there by

  898. passing a test of your own free will.

  899. You can't physically cross its borders.

  900. The good news is Jesus made the way for you to become a born

  901. citizen of His Kingdom. Are you hearing me?

  902. Now notice the government will rest where on his shoulders?

  903. Where are the shoulders located in the body is below the head.

  904. You got the head and neck connects to the shoulder.

  905. So the government rests on the shoulder.

  906. So tells us this God's demonstration of his government

  907. Kingdom rests with the church and most of the church is

  908. religious, which tells me then it's really not the church.

  909. Now why do I say that Because Jesus says this in Matthew

    Matthew 16:18

  910. chapter 16 verse 18. He said upon the revelation that

  911. I'm the Christ said that to Peter upon the revelation upon

  912. this rock. That is the revelation.

  913. I'm the Christ not upon Peter. So we're not building the church

  914. on Peter or his bones because he said.

  915. Peter, who do you say that I am? Or he said, who do you say that

  916. I am? And Peter says you are the

  917. Christ, the Son of the living God.

  918. And he said, Peter, you're blessed because my father has

  919. revealed to you, and I'll no longer call you Simon, but

  920. Peter, which is Little Rock. And why does he say Little Rock?

  921. Because again, who is the big rock?

  922. Who is the chief cornerstone? So This is why I said I'll call

  923. you Peter or the Little Rock, because guess what?

  924. You are a representation of me. I'm the rock, and you're a rock

  925. like me. Because when you die to Christ,

  926. it's no longer you who live, but Christ now lives in you, and you

  927. get lost in him. So they should see.

  928. When they see you, they should be seeing Jesus.

  929. So set us upon this revelation that I am the Christ or the

  930. King, that I will build my church.

  931. Jesus never delegated the building of his church to a

  932. pastor or an apostle or a missionary or an evangelist or a

  933. prophet or a teacher. Jesus says I'll be on the throne

  934. in heaven, but I'm active in my church.

  935. And if he's building the church, guess what?

  936. That church is going to be talking about the Kingdom,

  937. because that's all Jesus preached.

  938. I said that's all he preached. And it says there'll be no end

  939. to the increase. Is his Kingdom in here today?

  940. So the Kingdom mandate runs throughout the entire Bible.

  941. The re establishment to humanity started with Abram, which was

  942. not a religion but a nation. You're ready for speed realm.

  943. OK 'cause we're going to baptize some people today.

  944. I'm going to give you a quick little speed round Genesis

    Genesis 12 chapter mention

  945. chapter 12. Let's go.

  946. Let's take a trip through the Bible because we understand

  947. this. In Genesis 3, when Adam fell

  948. from demand, the Lord said, Adam, what'd you do?

  949. And as he said, where are you? And we understand that he knew

  950. where he is because he's omnipresent.

  951. He's all knowing, omniscient. So it's not like he doesn't know

  952. he's eating the fruit, but he says, where are you?

  953. Which means, what position are you in now?

  954. Because you're sure not in dominion, right?

  955. And so Adam blames God and says, well, it's that woman you gave

  956. me. She ate the fruit and gave it to

  957. me. He could have said, well, you

  958. were there listening to the conversation and let her eat it

  959. and didn't try to say anything. But he didn't say that, did he?

  960. He said, Eve, what'd you do now? Eve tells the truth.

  961. She said I was deceived because she was by the serpent and I

  962. ate. He said I'll come back to both

  963. of y'all. Then he gets to the serpent.

  964. He doesn't say. What have you done?

  965. No, no, no. What have you done?

  966. He's like, this is what's going to happen, he said.

  967. This is what's going to happen, he said.

  968. I have spoken my word, and my word does not return unto me

  969. void. In essence, whatever my word

  970. says, the ability for that word to come to pass will always come

  971. to pass. So before you showed up, I said,

  972. let's make man in our image according to our notness, and

  973. let them rule. Adam now has eaten the fruit,

  974. abdicated his throne, and given it to the devil, giving him

  975. rulership on the planet. So God is not in control of

  976. everything on planet earth. That is a religious thought.

  977. God's in control of everything. No, he's not.

  978. He's not in control of what the devil's doing.

  979. You know what God's literally in control of?

  980. His word. His word.

  981. He's not in control of your word and he's not controlling your

  982. word because if he could control your word, he would cause you to

  983. call him Lord and then none would go to the lake of fire.

  984. But he can't control you because love doesn't control you.

  985. Oh, y'all don't want to hear this?

  986. That's fine because we want to believe God's in control.

  987. He's in control of His word, and if you do His word, he'll have

  988. that word come to pass. So now he says, here's the

  989. problem. Adam has fallen from dominion.

  990. Now when he sleeps with his wife and they have children, they'll

  991. produce after your kind, which means rebellion.

  992. That's not my kind. So I'm going to have my con.

  993. And since the woman was honest, I can't use the man to

  994. participate. I'm going to show up again with

  995. my seed in a virgin woman. And when he gets in the planet

  996. he will crush your head. Because I gave dominion to man,

  997. I must now send my son as a man 'cause that's the legal entrance

  998. into the earth. And if it if a man lost the

  999. dominion, then it requires a. A man to get the dominion, and I

  1000. must become a man in order to do that.

  1001. This is why Jesus has to come, because if Jesus, if God could

  1002. just forgive, then why didn't he just say, well, Adam, I forgive

  1003. you. You've never made a mistake,

  1004. son. You've never made a mistake.

  1005. This first one, because God said this Adam, if you eat the fruit,

  1006. he does what he says because he's a king.

  1007. His whole Kingdom is on his ability to do his word.

  1008. If you eat the fruit, you're going to die.

  1009. Did he eat the fruit? So is death there?

  1010. Well, there's a problem. Death has to be paid.

  1011. He can't sweep it under the rug. So he says there's only one

  1012. payment made. There's only one thing that can

  1013. be done to pay the penalty. That's why the Bible says when

  1014. you're born again, what are you? Come on, what are you?

  1015. No, you have been ransomed. You have been bought with a Now

  1016. most believers don't see it this way because we love free.

  1017. Imagine Jesus on the cross right now.

  1018. He's beaten so bad you cannot tell.

  1019. He's a man. Still has a crown of thorns

  1020. shoved on his head. He's been stripped of his

  1021. clothes. Flesh is ripped off his back,

  1022. sides, face, arms, and he's hanging there and blood's just

  1023. pouring down. He stretched all out and blood's

  1024. flowing. He dies.

  1025. They Pierce his side, see it as so, and we don't hear about him

  1026. for three days, but on the third day he comes and he's carrying

  1027. something. He's got to take it to heaven.

  1028. It's called payment. See, when we look at the cross,

  1029. we don't see that that's a financial transaction.

  1030. That's a payment of a debt. So it may be free for you to

  1031. call on the name of the Lord, but it cost God his Son, and his

  1032. blood was a price. It says He redeemed you not with

  1033. an imperishable, with a perishable item called silver

  1034. and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus.

  1035. And I am shocked at Christians who get born again and have no

  1036. value for the full price of the blood.

  1037. You know what we call those people whose parents have a lot

  1038. of money and they give them everything they want and they

  1039. don't value it spoiled. And the US church has created

  1040. spoiled believers. And us that aren't in that

  1041. natural family, we're like, man, we would be wait.

  1042. I mean, we would really appreciate it.

  1043. I mean, they don't even value. Well, how many of us don't even

  1044. value because again, we've made our Jesus a religion instead of

  1045. a Kingdom. And we'll tell the King, maybe

  1046. I'll come, maybe I won't. Maybe I'll do what you say,

  1047. maybe I don't just Remember Me when I die, that I asked you to

  1048. come into my heart and save me. Now you make sure you do that.

  1049. You better do your part in the Lord's light.

  1050. Well, do your part. You called me Lord to get into

  1051. this thing that means supreme authority.

  1052. That's not a religious term. Now you do your.

  1053. Part. Because I sure did my part and

  1054. I'll never not do my part. So the Lord says I'll have a

  1055. pathway for man to have dominion because what I said has the

  1056. ability to come to pass. And at this point He has

  1057. fulfilled that through the death, burial, resurrection of

  1058. Jesus. That word is in play right now.

  1059. All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

  1060. And guess what, you will be. You will have, you will have

  1061. been given dominion again so that you can rule and reign

  1062. while you're in the earth and God's word has come to pass.

  1063. But for those who do not call on the name, guess what?

  1064. You also get what the word said. If you don't do what I say,

  1065. you're going to die, and people will be cast into the lake of

  1066. fire, even though the blood has been paid to forgive them.

  1067. You ready for speed round? Here we go.

  1068. I'm going to do this in 10 minutes.

  1069. Genesis 12, one through 3, says this.

  1070. Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from

  1071. your relatives, and from your father's house to a land which I

  1072. will show you, and I will make you a great what nation, not a

  1073. religion. And I'll bless you and make you

  1074. a your name great, and you shall be a blessing.

  1075. And I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse

  1076. you. And then and you, all the

  1077. families of the earth will be blessed.

  1078. So Abram gets a name change to Abraham.

  1079. Abraham means the father of many nations, not the father of many

  1080. religions or the father of a religion that ultimately will

  1081. allow people to be born again and get into heaven.

  1082. His name is Abraham, a father of many nations.

  1083. Again, because it's always been about a king, his Kingdom and

  1084. his royal offspring. Abraham gives birth to a boy

  1085. named Isaac. Isaac is a covenant child that

  1086. the Lord says will be his covenant.

  1087. But ultimately he said, now go kill your son.

  1088. And he does that because he needs to know, does Abraham

  1089. actually love me? And so when he would not

  1090. withhold his own son, but was with full intent willing to kill

  1091. him, the Lord stopped the whole thing.

  1092. He said, I know I have your whole heart.

  1093. You're willing to do whatever I say, but it's not your son that

  1094. has to die. I'll send mine later.

  1095. That boy Isaac gives birth to another son by the name of

  1096. Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord and

  1097. gets a new name called Israel. Israel has twelve sons that

  1098. become tribes of a nation, and that nation is in our earth

  1099. still today. And God was the king of this

  1100. nation. He delivered them out of Egypt.

  1101. He was a nation deliverer. He pulled His nation out of an

  1102. oppressive nation which is a type and shadow of us, coming

  1103. out of the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved

  1104. Son. And so he took this nation,

  1105. brought them into a place where they were to conquer their

  1106. enemies. Live in a land that flow with

  1107. milk and honey. That is the new birth experience

  1108. while you're on the earth, because there are no giants in

  1109. heaven, there is no sickness and disease in heaven.

  1110. There is no thing to cast out. That is earth impact.

  1111. That is what it looks like. When the nation of God's Kingdom

  1112. goes into the world with its influence, it will overcome that

  1113. place and move things out and show He was showing the world.

  1114. If you will follow me like this nation does, you'll be blessed

  1115. going in, blessed going out. You'll be the head and not the

  1116. tail. It was always about a Kingdom,

  1117. but he told that nation you can't do what you want to do.

  1118. But eventually because they were not born of the Spirit, they

  1119. looked with their eyes instead of listening with their hearts.

  1120. They said we want to see our king.

  1121. And we get into first Samuel chapter 8, verse 7, where we

    1 Samuel 8:7

  1122. find that Samuel the prophet is talking to the Lord concerning

  1123. this problematic issue. That this whole nation who has

  1124. followed the Lord and his voice in the voice of the prophets to

  1125. conquer and land and take possession and be blessed, now

  1126. says we want to see our king. And he says, Samuel, give the

  1127. people what they want, for they have rejected me as king, not

  1128. you. So the Lord calls himself king

  1129. in this context, because the Bible's always been about a

  1130. king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.

  1131. We see in Psalms 24/7 through 10.

  1132. He says, lift up your head, O gates, and be lifted up, O

  1133. ancient doors, the that the king of glory may come in.

  1134. Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the

  1135. Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, and

  1136. lift them up, O ancient doors, that the king of glory may come

  1137. in. Who is the king of glory?

  1138. The Lord of post? He is the king of glory.

  1139. Psalms 47, seven For God is king of all the earth.

  1140. Sing praises with understanding. Daniel communicates to

  1141. Nebuchadnezzar of a statue that he had in a dream.

  1142. And he says the in there are these different layers of of,

  1143. of, of metals. And then finally we'll get to

  1144. some feet with some metal and clay, which is iron and clay

  1145. mixed together. But a rock is going to be made

  1146. without hands. Who is that rock?

  1147. His name's Jesus, and Jesus comes and crushes every

  1148. government. Every one of those layers

  1149. represented not religions, not other belief systems, but

  1150. governments, he said. My Kingdom is going to come and

  1151. crush every other government. And it says Then that rock

  1152. turned into a great mountain and took over the whole planet.

  1153. Here's the thing. The Kingdom of God is a global

  1154. takeover. Zechariah 99 says rejoice

  1155. greatly, old daughter of Zion, shout in triumph.

  1156. Old daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to

  1157. you. He is just an endowed with

  1158. salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a cult, the

  1159. foal of a donkey. The whole old covenant is as

  1160. this context of what a king would look like with a nation

  1161. who obeyed him. So when we look at the Old

  1162. Testament, it's not just useless information what it is, it's our

  1163. history book of a model of what God wanted to do as a king over

  1164. a group of people who would obey him, which would demonstrate I

  1165. love you. And it shows them that they

  1166. would be extremely blessed. But if they rebelled against

  1167. their king, then they would be overtaken by other governments

  1168. are the enemy. Now we Fast forward into the new

  1169. covenant and when we get to the new covenant, notice in Luke

  1170. chapter one verse 30 and 33, it's not ushering in

  1171. Christianity or religion. It says the Angel says to Mary,

  1172. do not be afraid, for you have found favor with God.

  1173. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and

  1174. you shall name him what? Come on, what's his name?

  1175. Only got 5 minutes. He will be great and you shall

  1176. call him son of the most High. The Lord God will give him the

  1177. what throne of his father David was David over a religion?

  1178. He was over a what Kingdom Thrones are in Kingdom and he

  1179. will what reign over the House of Jacob Forever and his and his

  1180. and his will have no end. Jesus did not come to bring

  1181. Christianity, He came to bring the Kingdom back to the earth

  1182. where man could get in this Kingdom.

  1183. In Matthew chapter 2, verse one and two says now after Jesus was

    Matthew 2 chapter mention

  1184. born in Bethlehem of Judea and the days of Herod the king Magi

  1185. from the east, that's wise men arrived in Jerusalem saying

  1186. where is he who has been born king of the Jews?

  1187. We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.

  1188. So who did the wise men come to see?

  1189. Not the new religious leader, not the new religion to follow.

  1190. They came seeking a government. Why did these people come and

  1191. where were they coming from? They came from the east and if

  1192. you study this, they came from where?

  1193. The original Babylon on was that Daniel was a captive from Israel

  1194. and put in Babylon where he said to Nebuchadnezzar, because he

  1195. was known as the seer who had a contact with God and his God was

  1196. better than any God and he had insight into dreams and he

  1197. prophesied about that statue. And that whole verbal prophecy

  1198. went down century after century after century that these wise

  1199. men are astrologers are waiting for that day.

  1200. And when the Star of David showed up, they said the king is

  1201. here, whoa, the king is here, the King's here, let's pack the

  1202. bags man, let's go. The same star the shepherd saw

  1203. on the night he was born. These guys were about two years

  1204. away on foot and by the time they get there, Jesus is a child

  1205. in another house and they brought gifts, 'cause you don't

  1206. come to a king empty handed. And they laid down their

  1207. treasures and bowed down before the king.

  1208. They did not come to seek a religion.

  1209. And Luke 443 he says, but he said, I must preach the Kingdom

  1210. of God to the other cities, for I was sent for this purpose.

  1211. Jesus wasn't sent just to die for your sins, He sent to

  1212. proclaim His Kingdom. He goes on and says this in

  1213. Matthew 417. From that time Jesus began to

  1214. preach thee and repent, which means change your thinking.

  1215. It's not a religious word. The Kingdom of heaven is at

  1216. hand. We've already said in Matthew 69

  1217. and 10, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth.

  1218. Jesus everywhere he went. You can look it up for yourself

  1219. in the four Gospels about 133 times when Jesus was publicly

  1220. preaching, he said the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the

  1221. Kingdom of God is like that. And he did parables that were

  1222. only showing the Kingdom. The Bible's about a king, his

  1223. Kingdom and his role offspring. In John chapter 18, verse 33 to

    John 18:33–37

  1224. 37, Pilot who is a governor for Rome, so he understands

  1225. government. He goes to Jesus says, are you

  1226. the king of the Jews? Didn't ask him what's this

  1227. religion you spreading around among your people?

  1228. Jesus said, are you saying this on your own initiative?

  1229. Did others tell you about me? Which means he's not refuting

  1230. that statement. Pilate says I'm not a Jew.

  1231. Am I Your own nation and the chief priests delivered to me.

  1232. What have you done then? Jesus says this.

  1233. My Kingdom is not of this world. Now, that doesn't mean it's not

  1234. in the planet. The word world here is not

  1235. earth. It means systems that operate.

  1236. So what Jesus is saying to my Kingdom does not function like

  1237. your kingdoms. He said if my Kingdom were of

  1238. this world, This is why we know this, look what it says, then my

  1239. service would be fighting so that I would not be handed over

  1240. the Jews. Meaning if my Kingdom functioned

  1241. like the world's kingdoms, made no mistake, my army would win.

  1242. What did he tell Peter in the garden after he cut off the the

  1243. high priest servants ear? He said don't you know I could

  1244. call a legion of angels down right now?

  1245. Have you not read the Bible where one Angel showed up back

  1246. in the old covenant and killed 185,000 Midianites by himself?

  1247. That the prophet Elijah said Lord open up my servants eyes so

  1248. he can see there's more with me than this natural army that has

  1249. come to take me. And he showed him on the

  1250. mountainside all of these angels with flaming sores and in

  1251. Chariots. They were there to rout that

  1252. natural army at a word from the prophet.

  1253. Woo glory. You understand we have a big

  1254. army. I said we have a big army.

  1255. It's a myriad, a myriad of thousands upon thousands.

  1256. I mean, angels could be dispatched.

  1257. I'm telling you, the planet doesn't have a chance.

  1258. I don't care about nuclear power.

  1259. We have angels. Oh my gosh.

  1260. So he goes on and says this. He says, but my Kingdom is not

  1261. of this realm, meaning we don't function this way.

  1262. He goes on and says Pilate says, so you are king.

  1263. Jesus says, you say, see we love Savior Jesus because Savior is

  1264. what he did for us. He saved.

  1265. Us. But if Adam had never eaten the

  1266. fruit, he never would have come to save, because there had been

  1267. nothing to be saved. But you know what?

  1268. He's always been Lord, He's always been supreme in

  1269. authority, He's always been king.

  1270. He says, you say correctly that I'm a king.

  1271. For this I have been been born, and for this I've come into the

  1272. world to testify the truth. Everyone who hears the truth

  1273. hears my voice. Now Jesus has died on the cross

  1274. and risen from the dead. You think if the message of the

  1275. gospel is about where are you going to go when you die?

  1276. This is the time to preach that gospel.

  1277. Acts chapter one, verse 3. To these.

  1278. He presented himself alive after a suffering with many convincing

  1279. proof appearing to them over a period of 40 days and Speaking

  1280. of things concerning the Kingdom of God.

  1281. Then they asked him is it the time for the Kingdom?

  1282. He said it's not for you to know that but you going to receive

  1283. power. Jesus did not say just tell

  1284. everybody ask them when you go out and preach where they going

  1285. to go when they die. You will not find that in the

  1286. book of Acts. In fact, Acts chapter 20 verses

    Acts 20:25

  1287. 25 and 27. Paul who wrote over half of the

  1288. New Testament. What did he preach?

  1289. He says, now behold, I know that all of you among whom I went

  1290. about preaching, what? What do you preach?

  1291. The Kingdom will no longer see my face.

  1292. Therefore I testified you to this day that I'm innocent of

  1293. the blood of all men, for I did not shrink from declaring to you

  1294. the whole purpose of God. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 28.

    Hebrews 12:28

  1295. Therefore, since we receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken,

  1296. let us show gratitude by which we offer to God an acceptable

  1297. service with reverence in our first Timothy chapter 6 verse

    1 Timothy 6:15

  1298. 15. He who is blessed.

  1299. And only sovereign ruler, the king of kings and the Lord of

  1300. Lords, who are kings of the king, who are kings of the king,

  1301. who are Lords of the Lord, We are first Peter 29 But you are a

  1302. chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for

  1303. God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the

  1304. excellencies of him who called him out of darkness into Marvel

  1305. site. And the last passage of

  1306. Scripture I will give to you today.

  1307. Because we started in Genesis and we have hit Revelations

  1308. because the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal

  1309. offspring. It's not a religion.

  1310. And 21 verse one and two, it says this.

  1311. Then I saw this is after the tribulation, the rapture of the

  1312. Church, the great Tribulation. This is after Jesus Christ comes

  1313. back on a horse with his Saints and sets up a physical Kingdom

  1314. that everyone can see and rules there for 1000 years while the

  1315. devil has been thrown into a bottomless pit during that

  1316. duration of which after that duration of 1000 years.

  1317. You want to know what 1000 years looks like?

  1318. What year are we in 2020? What's 1000 years from now?

  1319. What will it be? 3034 or 24/30/24?

  1320. Which means the planet's not over when you leave.

  1321. Most believers don't even think like.

  1322. This. We know that planet Earth will

  1323. arrive to the year 3024 because it's 2034.

  1324. We know this now. It depends on when Jesus is

  1325. catching away the church and we come back.

  1326. The minute we come back with Jesus, the clock of 1000 years

  1327. start. So if that's 2033, then guess

  1328. what? We know the plan is going to go

  1329. on, but we'll see a calendar that says 3033 and you'll be

  1330. here. But after that, he'll release

  1331. the devil for a short time. He'll rally the people on the

  1332. earth that are like us now. They'll go against Jesus and us

  1333. at the holy city, Jerusalem, the capital of the world.

  1334. Jerusalem is the capital of the world.

  1335. Let me just say, Jerusalem will never fall.

  1336. It will be ambushed, it will be attacked, but it will never fall

  1337. 'cause it is the capital of the world.

  1338. D CS got nothing on Jerusalem. It's the capital of the world

  1339. after that attack, and it doesn't amount to nothing.

  1340. He cast the devil in the lake of fire, and then he takes care of

  1341. everyone that has been dead without Christ and throws him to

  1342. the lake of fire. And then the false prophet and

  1343. the beast are all there and all the angels that he judged.

  1344. Everything's said and done judged.

  1345. Then I saw a new heaven and a new.

  1346. So if we're going to live in heaven forever, why is there

  1347. another planet for the 1st heaven and the first earth

  1348. passed away and there's no longer any sea.

  1349. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem.

  1350. What was it doing coming What down out of heaven made ready as

  1351. a bride adorn for her husband? It's coming down out of heaven.

  1352. Verse 23 And the city has no need of the sun or the moon to

  1353. shine in it, for the glory of the Lord has illuminated, and

  1354. its lamp is the Lamb and the nations.

  1355. Will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring

  1356. their glory into it. Hallelujah, because the Bible is

  1357. about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring.

  1358. Let's pray, Father, we love you and we honor you and thank you.

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