Expectation of Kings - with Pastor April Hicks

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Now enjoy this message. So tonight I just want to get

right into the word of God, because I believe that the Word

of God is alive. Amen.

And that it's living and that it has power contained within it

and that if we would receive it with a great expectation, it

will perform in do its work just as God intended for it to do.

Amen. So if you're titling something

and taking notes, write this down, you're going to write this

down. Expectation of kings,

expectation of kings, which is the church's confidence.

OK. So tonight we're going to be

talking about expectation of kings.

And I want to say this, that the king of kings, he actually has

an expectation himself, right. And so we're going to talk about

that even more, But I really want to hit five points tonight,

and I believe that we can get there.

All right. Pastor Earl has said multiple

times and has received a word from the Lord that this is the

year for a reigning spirit. Do you believe that you have a

reigning spirit? Is your expectation set that

you're walking in fulfilling A reigning spirit in your life?

If you don't have that expectation, I'm here to

encourage you tonight to get stirred up, to start expecting

that. Because that's what you have.

Every believer should have a set of expectations.

Every citizen in the Kingdom of God should have a set of

expectations. 1 Expectation that we should have is to reign in

life. Amen.

Is to reign in life, to reign. Now another expectation that we

should have is to conquer. We should have an expectation as

a king in the earth to conquer some things, and that is how a

reigning spirit moves in the earth.

They have a expectation of conquering.

Another expectation as a king that we should have is we should

have an expectation to find Kingdom treasure.

And I'm going to talk a little bit about that to you tonight.

It's been a great set of services we've had in the youth

ministry about finding treasure. And it just seems so fitting

that we need to have an expectation to find treasure.

Another expectation that we should have is to have

influence. An expectation of a king is to

have influence. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Another expectation as a king is to be able to have an

expectation to govern and to work with God.

Because we are the Church and it the Church has authority.

So if there's anything as a believer that you should be

expecting, you should be expecting some of these five

things to operate in your life. And all of these five things can

have been given to you, and have been given access to you through

the work of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost.

Let me give you the definition of expectation.

Expectation is a strong belief that something will happen.

It's a strong belief it is convinced, persuaded, and firm

that what it's expecting shall happen and come to pass.

It's an anticipation. Are you anticipating anything

from the King of Kings? Do you have an anticipation that

his word and all the promises that it contains is yours?

Are you anticipating every day that today is the day I'm going

to continue to walk in the promises of God?

I'm going to reign in my life. I'm going to overcome in my

life? Expectation is is assurance,

expectation is Kingdom confidence.

It's Kingdom confidence. Any expectation that you could

ever have must first come from God's Kingdom.

Then it's promised to come to pass when you believe it by

faith. Those are the expectations that

you and I are guaranteed to receive as a citizen in His

Kingdom. When we believe them by faith,

by faith. And it's a shift in our mind.

It's a shift in how we think. We've got to change some things

in our mind and we've got to get our mind and what we're thinking

in line like a king. Can I just say that we got to

think like a king. We got to speak like a king.

We got to walk like a king. We got to behave like a king.

We've got to expect like a king. So an expectation of a king is

to reign in life. Let's look at Romans chapter 5

Romans 5 · chapter mention

and we're going to go to verse 12.

Let's read this. It says therefore, just as

through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin,

and so death spread to all men because all sinned.

For until the law sin was in the world.

But sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over

those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam,

who was a type of him who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the transgression.

For if by the transgression of the one man many died, much more

did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one

man, Jesus Christ, abound. To many the gift is not like

that which came through the one who sinned.

For on the one hand the judgement arose from the one

transgression, resulting in condemnation, but on the other

hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in

justification. I want to go back to actually

verse 17. Let's keep going.

For if by the transgression of the one death reigned through

the One, much more those who receive the abundance of grace

and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the

one Jesus Christ. Much more.

Those who have received the abundance of grace, you have

received an abundance of grace. Can you lift your hand right now

and testify? That's on my life.

I've received that not only have you received an abundance of

grace that's on your life that empowers you to reign in your

life, but you've also received this gift of righteousness,

which is the right way of doing things.

It is right standing with God. It is being in right position.

It's being in the Kingdom position.

Amen. So we will reign in life through

the one Jesus Christ, verse 18. So then, as the one

transgression, there resulted condemnation to all men, Even

so, through one act of righteousness there resulted

justification of life to all men.

Aren't you thankful that Jesus fulfilled his assignment?

And through his act of righteousness you now can be

justified and you can stand before God as if sin never

existed? See, that's a position of a

king. We know a pastor has reminded us

many times that the Bible is about a king, his Kingdom, and

his royal offspring. As the king reigns, he has an

expectation that his heirs would reign as well.

The king has an expectation that you and heir of Christ Jesus

would be reigning in your life. That's good news.

God a king, Jesus as king, and we as heirs in Christ, we have

the reigning spirit church. That is who we are.

You have a reigning spirit. It's a conquering spirit.

It's an overcoming spirit. It's a spirit of faith.

It's a spirit of confidence. It's a spirit of boldness.

It's a spirit that is connected to the spirit of truth.

And it it actually works. Church Can I tell you that God

hears your prayers when they're in line with His word and he

fulfills it every time and the reigning spirit is confident of

that? And what does pastor say?

We're just not a church that prays, but we're a church that

what has answered prayers. Glory to God.

We know Pastor Earl. He's taught us this, that the

domain of a king is the territory over which he

exercises authority and control over his domain.

Revelation Chapter 17 verse 14 Revelation 1714 says this.

Revelation 17:14

Together they will go to war against the lamb, but the lamb

will defeat them because he is Lord of all Lords and king of

all kings and he his called and chosen and faithful ones will be

with him. Who is that talking about?

That's talking about the Church. That's talking about the Saints,

the ones that have the reigning spirit.

We will be with the King of kings and the Lord of Lords,

right? And so I say that to say this,

you are a king in the earth. That is the position that God

has destined for each and every one of our lives is to be a king

operating under his influence, operating when he says and to

represent him. So in essence, your life I no

longer live, but it's Christ who lives through me.

So through you the king shows up.

Through you, the king is represented.

Through you, the king is speaking through you, the king

is declaring, through you. The king is believing that his

word shall not return back to him empty, but it will

accomplish exactly what it was sent for.

To see, you are Kingdom representation of the King of

kings and the Lord of Lords. That is who we are, Romans

Romans 5:18

chapter 5, verse 18 in the Passion translation says.

In other words, just as condemnation came upon all

people through one transgression, so through one

righteous act of Jesus sacrifice, the perfect

righteousness that makes us right with God and leads us to a

victorious life is now available to all.

A King's life is a victorious life.

A King's life is one that walks in victory.

No matter what situation shows up, no matter what circumstance

starts to manifest and happen. A king walks in victory.

Christ walked in victory. It may not have seemed like it

from everyone on the outside as he was carrying his cross and

getting ready to be crucified, but he was walking in victory

because he knew, oh death, Where is your sting?

Where is your sting, Oh death. For he was about to conquer the

grave. So a king walks in victory, and

that is who we are. Church.

We walk in victory. If you're confessing anything

over your life, you should be confessing I walk in victory.

You know, a lot of times believers have this thought

process that Jesus is going to do everything for them, but they

don't realize that they have a responsibility to reign.

They don't realize that it's their responsibility to walk in,

the very thing that Christ gave them access to.

Walk in and see we as as a church, as a Church of the

reigning Spirit, have to have to recognize that we have to take

responsibility in all areas of our life.

Psalm 1/15/16 says this. The heavens are the heavens of

the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.

I'm I'm sharing these scriptures with you so you can get again

firmly persuaded that you can be reminded of that your reigning

spirit is now it's on the earth right now.

Psalm 1/15/16 in the Passion translation says the heavens

belong to our God. They are His alone.

But He has given us the earth and put us in charge.

Who has He put in charge? Who has He put in charge?

Say I'm in charge. Say I'm in charge of my life.

No one else is in charge of your life.

No one else is in charge of your thinking.

No one else is in charge of your decisions.

No one else is in charge of what you're speaking.

No one else is in charge of what you're reasoning within your

heart, whether it's faith or whether it's little faith or

whether it's doubt. No one's in charge of that.

But you, you and I are in charge of that.

And so God has given us this reigning spirit, and it's our

responsibility to walk in it. Let's talk about the expectation

of kings, which is to conquer. Let's go there, a reigning king

on the earth. One of the first things that

they're going to need to conquer is themselves.

If you're going to do anything for the Lord and you're going to

be able to operate where you start having influence, what I

mean is that your life starts to influence others by its

demonstrations, by its actions, by its words.

You're first going to have to conquer yourself.

You're going to have to conquer yourself.

That's the first thing that we got to do is we got to conquer

ourselves. Many times, I'll say this many

times, many times, people forfeit achieving great and

mighty things for God, for His Kingdom.

It's because they cannot conquer their feelings and their flesh.

When you forfeit, it is you saying I can't conquer myself

based upon how you feel, you know we have to conquer.

We conquer in life through the empowerment from Christ as

believers. We reign in our lives on the

earth when we allow His will to be done in our lives.

I said this to the young, young ones.

You know, a couple weeks ago I said the moment Jesus became

Lord of your life, you no longer call the shots.

He does. That's called conquering church.

You don't call the shots. He does.

That means every decision that you need to make, you need to

you need to make that decision on what does the king say?

What is his guidance? What is his counsel?

What is his direction? You know, many times when we

don't seek the Lord and get his counsel decisions made outside

of the counsel, the Lord will cost us.

And see, God doesn't want you to be in a situation to where it

delayed or it hindered based upon you not heeding His

counsel. And so for us, we must conquer

ourselves. Amen.

We've got to conquer ourselves, our feelings and our emotions.

We're going to look at Moses here in a second and we're going

to see how he had to conquer. But we no longer call the shots

for our lives. We allow him to be supreme in

our lives. We allow his word and his spirit

to work within us. You know, John the Baptist, he

said, what did he say? I must decrease so that he can

increase. That is a conquering statement.

That is getting rid of yourself and your identity and allowing

the king of all kings to reign through your life and to

eliminate how you feel. I mean, when I think about John

the Baptist like he was a Wildman, I mean, I'm pretty sure

he had to cast down thoughts of what people thought about him.

So we got a decrease. Let's look at Moses.

Let's go over to Exodus chapter 3, Exodus chapter 3.

Exodus 3 · chapter mention Exodus 3 · chapter mention

We're going to start in verse 1. One day, while Moses was taking

care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law, Jethro, the

priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came

to Sinai, the holy mountain. There the Angel of the Lord

appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of the

Bush. Moses saw that the Bush was on

fire, but that it was not burning up.

This is strange, he thought. Why isn't the Bush burning up?

I will go closer and see. When the Lord saw that Moses was

coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the Bush and

said Moses, Moses. And he answered yes, here I am.

And God said, do not come any closer.

Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.

I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob. So Moses covered his face

because he was afraid to look at God.

Then the Lord said, I have seen how cruelly my people are being

treated in Egypt, and I have heard them cry out to be rescued

from their slave drivers. I know all about their

sufferings. And so I have come down to

rescue them from the Egyptians, and to bring them out of Egypt

to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile, and in which

the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Parasites and Hivites,

and the Jebusites now live. I have indeed heard the cry of

my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my

people out of his country. Verse 11.

But Moses said to God, I am a nobody.

How can I go to the king and bring the Israelites out of

Egypt? God answered, I will be with

you. And when you bring the people

out of Egypt, you will worship on me on this mountain.

That will be the proof that I have sent you.

But Moses replied, When I go to the Israelites and say to them

the God of your ancestors sent me to you, they will ask me what

is his name? So what can I tell them?

And God said, I am who I am. You must tell them.

The one who is called I am has sent me to you.

Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their

ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you

to them. This is my name forever.

This is what all future generations are to call me.

Go and gather the leaders of Israel together and tell them

that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to you.

Tell them that I have come to them and have seen what the

Egyptians are doing to them. I have decided that I will bring

them out of Egypt, where they are being treated cruelly, and

will take them to a rich and fertile land, the land of the

Canaanites, Hittites, the Amorites, Parasites, Hivites,

and Jebusites. My people will listen to what

you say to them. Then you must go with the

leaders of Israel to the king of Egypt and say to him the Lord.

The God of the Hebrews has revealed himself to us.

Now allow us to travel three days into the desert and offer

sacrifices to the Lord our God. I know that the king of Egypt

will not let you go unless he is forced to do so.

But I will use my power and will punish Egypt by doing terrifying

things there. And after that, he will let you

go. I will make the Egyptians

respect you so that when my people leave, they will not go

empty handed is every Israelite woman will go to her Egyptian

neighbor and to any Egyptian woman living in her house, and

will ask for clothing and for gold, silver, jewelry.

The Israelites will put these things on their sons and

daughters and carry away the wealth of the Egyptians.

Moses in this moment had to conquer.

He had to conquer here. God is before him in this

burning Bush. And he is saying Moses, Moses,

he's calling him, he's calling him by name.

Don't you know that God is still calling you by your name, and

God has a purpose for you and an assignment for you, just like he

had from Moses. And Moses responds back and he

tells God, he says, but I'm a nobody, I'm a nobody.

How can I do this? At one point he gave an excuse

about how he spoke. He was full of excuses.

I'm a nobody. I'm a nobody.

See, if you have the mentality that you're a nobody, you'll

conquer nothing. And God doesn't want you to have

that mentality. He wants you to have the

mentality that the King of king is on the inside of you, that

there's a treasure that's been deposited within you.

It's actually the power of God called the Holy Ghost that's

alive and living, that can lead and guide you and help you.

And just like Moses, God told him, I'm going to go with you,

I'll be with you. Do you know that anything God

calls you to do, He is with you to do it?

If he wasn't with you to do it, you could never do it in the 1st

place. Because anything that we do for

God is not in our own efforts, but it's by his power, in his

might, by his strength and his ability.

So an expectation of a king is to conquer, and we've got to

change our mindset. The more you change your

thinking like a king, the more you'll reign in the reigning

spirit. You know conquering yourself

means conquering your flesh. Can we talk about that for a

second? Conquering yourself means

conquering your flesh. You know we all have flesh.

Look at your neighbor and say you have flesh and look at your

another neighbor and say you have feelings and look at

someone behind you and say you have opinions.

Now turn around and look at me and say you have flesh and you

have opinions and you have feelings but my opinions but my

feelings mean nothing. My opinions and feelings do not

bring heaven to earth. My belief and expectation does.

His word does. My confidence in his ability

does. And so here Moses is, I'm a

nobody. Moses is thinking, how can I do

such a great thing? How can I go back to a nation

where people have been treated so harsh and so cruel and

deliver them out? Who am I that you would choose

me? You know, a lot of us sometimes

have this thought process that I'm just not good enough.

Well, I can tell you that if you've made Jesus the Lord of

your life, you can do all things through Christ who strengthens

you. Isn't that what the word says,

is that you can do all things through Christ?

You know, the flesh will always make excuses.

You know Moses, he had this excuse.

Well, I'm a nobody. You know the there's a parable

in Luke chapter 14 called the Parable of the of the banquet or

Luke 14 · chapter mention

the supper. And and in this parable Jesus

begins talking and he says there was a master and the master was

preparing A banquet, A feast. And he began to send out

invitations to those to be invited to come to the banquet

and to the feast. And one by one in Luke chapter

Luke 14 · chapter mention

14, if you can read that, you'll see that everyone had an excuse.

One says, you know, well, I just got married.

One says I just got married. Where's Dylan and Mary?

You're getting married Saturday. Whoa, give him a round of

applause. But I know their character and

they won't let the fact that they just got married come and

hinder their obedience to serve the church and to be in the and

to do Kingdom things and to be purposeful.

So an excuse, one of the excuses was is oh you know, I just got

married. One excuse was is you know, well

I just bought this or I need to take care of my parents.

And so all these excuses started happening.

Did you know every time you give an excuse to God you forfeit a a

reward, a heavenly reward. Every time you give an excuse

and you do not follow through, you have lost an eternal reward.

You know God leads and guides his children.

So the next time you're in public and you're at a place

where the Holy Ghost says you need to do this, or you need to

say this, or you need to demonstrate, you need to do that

and don't make an excuse. Because by your obedience and by

letting your light shine, people can be influenced.

So one by one in this parable in Luke chapter 14, they just

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started making excuses and then you know what the result was.

For every person that made an excuse, they were not able to

eat with the master and dine. Your excuses can hinder your

receiving from the Lord. You know, God's looking for the

willing and obedient. Amen.

An excuse passes over an opportunity to conquer.

Moses could have stayed with his feelings.

He could have totally said, I'm not doing this, I am not doing

this, I am not doing this. I mean he could have really

stayed with how he felt. You know, Pastor said this on

Sunday and and it was so true, and I want to repeat it, he said

the devil is not the church's problem.

We are when we don't submit our will to his will.

When you don't submit your will to his will, could it be that

you're making an excuse? You're resisting Galatians?

Chapter 5, verse one says it was for freedom that Christ set us

free. It was for freedom that Christ

set us free. See, we should be so free that

excuses aren't even an option in our thinking because Christ has

set you free. Therefore, keep standing firm

and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

You know the king wants his citizens to be free.

He wants them to be free from the control and the influence of

the flesh. Even Jesus.

Even Jesus, as he is praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, has

feelings about what he is about to go through.

In fact, his feelings were so intense that he was sweating.

Blood drops of blood. Jesus, what I love about him, He

didn't make an excuse. He asked if there was another

way, but there was no other way. He fulfilled what it was that

God had given him direction to do.

Could it be that you're the one church that must fulfill

specific direction from God that he purposes in his heart for you

to do? Say I'm the one.

See, a king knows they're the one to be used.

They're the one that will prepare themselves to be a

vessel useful for the master. See, the master wants to use

vessels. Can I say that he wants to do he

wants to use his church, He wants to use vessels?

He really does. And he wants to use those that

are useful, and useful ones are ones that don't give excuses.

They submit their will to His will.

They honor him. They they live their life

according to His word. They let the Word of God dwell

in them richly. They hunger and thirst after

righteousness. They're filled all the time.

You know, they deal with issues. They don't allow their feelings

to be here. You know, they put their

feelings down, you know, You know, I am saying a lot about

feelings. And I want you to know we do

have feelings. But if my feeling ever leads me

in a different direction than the word of God, it's got to go.

Got to go. So Galatians 516 through 24 says

this, but I say walk by the spirit.

How are we to walk? How are we to walk?

See the Spirit is how we are to walk by.

And you will not carry out the desires of the flesh when you

stay with the Spirit. You'll walk by the Spirit.

And you won't allow your your excuses or your feelings or your

emotions to then be the way that you walk.

Because the way that we're to walk is by the Spirit when we

won't carry out the desires of the flesh.

Verse 17. For the flesh sets its desire

against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh.

For these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not

do the things that you please, the things that who pleases we

please. Your flesh is always looking to

be pleased. That's why we're to crucify it.

That's why we're not to live by its passions and its desires and

its cravings. If we're to live by any type of

passion, desire and craving, it's to crave the things of God,

to believe that God is alive in the earth and he's moving in his

church. In fact, the Apostle Paul says

the one thing that you should crave and desire is for the

gifts of the living God, the Spirit of God, to move in the

church. So you're to be LED verse 18.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the

law. Now the deeds of the flesh are

so evident, say, evident, which are immorality, impurity,

sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy,

outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying,

drunkenness, carousing, and things like these of which I

forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you.

Those that practice such things will not say, not, will not

inherit the Kingdom of God, but the fruit of the Spirit.

Here we go, is love and joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Against such things there is no law, which means there is no

limit as to how much of the fruit of the Spirit that a

Kingdom citizen can produce. In fact, we should be producing

so much that it is out at reach at hand for those to grab a part

of. It should be influential.

All the fruits of the Spirit should be produced in such a

great quantity in our lives. That is, it is literally a

double take for someone who has no concept of the things of God.

There's no law, which means I can have as much joy as God.

There is no law. God.

I mean, I'm so full of joy. I mean it.

It's so I'm this is hilarious. I'm just so full of joy.

I mean, I am. And you know, the more you

conquer the flesh and you conquer yourself, the more joy

will manifest. Because I can tell you there was

a time in my life where there was not a lot of joy.

But I can stand up here now and tell you I got the joy of the

Lord. And I'm telling you, when the

joy of the Lord starts to bubble up out of my belly, I can't

contain it. I mean, it's a laughing forever.

And you know what? It is so refreshing.

It is so refreshing because the Holy Ghost is the refresher.

He is the strengthener. He brings everything good that

we need, so we should be having this love that the Spirit

produces and it should be producing so much.

So an expectation of the King is that they would expect these

fruits to operate. Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 17.

Ephesians 4:17

As a citizen in God's Kingdom, there is a way we ought to walk,

so I say. So this I say, and affirm

together with the Lord, that you walk no longer as the Gentiles

also walk in the futility of their mind being darkened in

their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of

the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their

heart. And they, having become callous,

have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of

every kind of impurity with greediness.

Verse 20. But you did not learn Christ in

this way. If indeed you have heard him and

have been taught in him, just as truth is in Jesus that in

reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old

self, say old self, You know that old old man sometimes tries

to pop up, You know, it's like the old man just can kind of pop

up out of nowhere if you're not careful.

And that's why it takes self-control that comes from the

Spirit when you walk by the spirit to have that control.

So that old man can't pop up anywhere at any time.

You know, the old man, the dead man, the former nature that the

Bible references, that nature should not be at work within

you. It's dead.

It is gone. In fact, the day you confess

Christ, it says you now are a new creature in Christ Jesus.

The old is gone and new has come.

Amen. And so the new on the inside of

you, the Newman, the new nature that's now born again.

OK, can hear. God has a capacity to operate

and to hear the Spirit of God now is what should be leading

us. Not the old man, not the dead

man. The next time the dead man

starts to rise, You need to say you're a you.

You're dead. Get under my feet.

I don't have that nature anymore.

It's it's gone. I have a new nature.

You know a lot of times in our lives we have to say that out

loud. I I, you know, for me.

I know I'll speak and I'll say no.

Shut up. Because Christ lives in me, and

if it's not Christ speaking, then it's subject to the old

man. So the old man is gone.

A person's inability to conquer their mind results in a defeated

life. Your mind needs to be conquered.

So not only is your flesh have to be conquered, but now your

thinking has to be conquered. How you think will determine the

outcome of what you're facing, how you think.

If what you're thinking on is not the plan and the and the and

the voice of God and the will of God, then the outcome of that

situation won't be just that, the plan and will of God.

So how you think matters? You know, when we were at

Kingdom Rise Conference, we hosted that the last time we

hosted that. One of the messages that was

ministered was called Rain in Your brain.

Does anybody remember that message that was ministered

reign in your brain? And so an expectation of a king

is that you would literally reign in your brain.

You've got to change the way that you think.

And this is every day, folks, every day, every day, every day.

Because the thoughts come, thoughts come, but it's the

thought that comes that stays and festers, that we focus on

and then yield to and operate in causes problems.

So we got to cast thoughts down whether or not in line with

scripture. You know, the Bible says that

you and I are more than a conqueror.

We're more than a conqueror. Romans 837 says you are more

than a conqueror. There's a conqueror and then

there's more than that. And the more than that is what

God says we are. An expectation of a king is to

find Kingdom treasure is to find Kingdom treasure.

Proverbs 25, two. Proverbs 25 Two it says it is

the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings.

The glory of who? The glory of who are you?

A king? It's the glory of kings to

search a thing out. So there should be an

expectation that every time I'm in the word of God, there is

something that's going to be revealed to me.

And it doesn't matter if it's the Scripture that you've heard

100 times. It doesn't matter.

The Holy Ghost can reveal a new point, a new perspective, and he

can speak to you because the Word of God is living and

active. It's alive.

So the glory of kings is to search out a thing.

How is your searching going? Can I ask that question?

How's your search going? How's your search going?

It's a question we should ask. How's your search going?

You know, everyone in here should be confident and say my

search is going great. I mean, the Lord dropped this in

me. I mean, I was reading this and I

got this and it's changing this and it's producing that and this

is happening. And I received this and I mean

this person was ministered to by that, that was searched out.

I mean, how is your search going?

How's the search going? So the glory of God is to

conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search it out.

Proverbs 25 Two and the Passion says it this way.

God conceals the revelation of His Word in the hiding place of

His glory. But the honor of kings is

revealed by how they thoroughly search out the deeper meeting of

all that God says. So God has this revelation for

each and every one of his citizens and His Kingdom.

He has a revealing that takes place by the Holy Ghost.

When we read the Word, there's a revelation that comes forth and

it's in it's in the hiding place of His glory.

You know, when's the last time you have spent some time with

God in His glorious presence. Because the moments that you

spend with God in His presence and and and in His Word in your

one-on-one time with Him is when He has the ability to reveal.

A lot of times we got to get quiet.

We're going to get quiet. There's voices everywhere.

And so we've got to get quiet. We've got to search it out.

It's the honor of kings is revealed by how they thoroughly

search it out. You know, God has honored man

and God has honored us with His word.

God has honored us with His word, and how we thoroughly

search it out will demonstrate our honor back to Him.

So how are we searching it out? Are we still hungering and

thirsting? You know, I remember at 16 years

old when I gave my life to Jesus, coming out of religion

and being so passionate for the things of God and hungering for

the things of God and just hanging on to every scripture

that I could read. I had a spirit filled life Bible

that someone had gotten me as my first Bible and it was so full

of Kingdom lenses in perspective.

That's why when I came to Anchor Faith church, the Kingdom was

there but then it was there. Does that make sense?

And I remember writing a letter to my mom after I had.

Received Jesus as my Lord and I wrote scripture all over the

envelope. I mean, I wrote it on the front,

on the back and put a stamp on it and wrote a letter and put it

in the mail. And I'm sure the postman was

like, what is this? I mean, it was filled with

scripture. Couldn't get enough of

scripture. How is your hungering for the

word? How's your thirsting?

How's your craving for the word? The more you're in the word, the

more you're going to find treasure.

Matthew 619 through 21 Here Jesus tells us, don't keep

hoarding for yourselves earthly treasures that can be stolen by

thieves. Material wealth eventually rust

decays and loses its value. Instead, stockpile heavenly

treasures for yourselves. Stockpile what?

Stockpile. What?

If you're going to stockpile anything, it needs to be

heavenly treasures. If you're going to begin to

store anything, it needs to be heavenly things.

So stockpile heavenly treasures for yourselves that cannot be

stolen and will never rust, decay, or lose their value.

You know the word of God and the treasures revealed in the

scriptures are more valuable than any monetary money you

could ever receive. They're more valuable than any

Ruby or Pearl or diamond. I mean, they're more valuable

than anything because they're eternal.

It's eternal things. Verse 21 says, for your heart

will always pursue what you esteem as your treasure.

The Holy Spirit is a hidden treasure inside us.

The Holy Spirit is the treasure of truth deposited on the inside

of you. So you can always know the lies

of the devil and cast those thoughts that are lies.

You know the Spirit of Truth is a continual healer on the inside

of you. Everything you have need of is

right on the inside of you say it's right on the inside.

So the expectation of a king is that there's treasure to be

found and God has it for me and he's not withholding any good

thing. If I search it out, I'll find

it. The Holy Ghost, who is the

counselor? The comforter, the strengthener.

He's the supply. It is so imperative, church that

we lean on and walk by the Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a treasure. In fact, Jesus said that it's

better that I go so that when I go I can send you the Holy Ghost

who is all that we need to depend on to receive, to be led

by, to hear from because it's connected to his word.

Colossians chapter 3 verses one through 3.

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It says if then you have been raised with Christ, if you have

been raised with Christ, if you have been raised with Christ.

Not everybody's been raised with Christ.

If you've been raised, have you been raised with Christ?

If you've been raised with Christ to a new life, thus

sharing his resurrection from the dead, aim at and seek the

rich, eternal treasures that are above.

What are we to be finding and seeking rich, eternal treasures

that are from above? It says then where Christ is

seated at the right hand of God. And set your minds and keep them

set on what is above the higher things, not on the things that

are on the earth. See, an expectation of the king

is to find treasure when their mind is set on things above.

If your mind is set on things above, then you can be confident

that you are going to receive Kingdom treasure.

Amen. So the question is, is how is

your mindset? How's your mindset?

Verse 3? For as far as this world is

concerned, you have died and your new real life is hidden

with Christ in God. See, when you hide your life in

Christ and you aren't in the way, you'll be able to find some

things in the Kingdom. It's when we get in the way that

we hinder. Well, I don't really want to

read the Bible or I don't really, you know, want to take

time to to to to spend with the Lord.

I don't really feel like it or I'm too tired or whatever the

excuse is. Remember, an excuse is a forfeit

to receive a heavenly reward. Matthew Chapter 7, verses 7

Matthew 7:7–11

through 11. Matthew Chapter 7, seven through

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11 says keep on asking and it will be given to you.

Keep on seeking and you will find.

Keep on knocking reverently and the door will be open to you.

Keep on asking, Keep on asking. Have you been asking for

anything lately? Come on, keep on seeking.

Have you been seeking, have you been knocking?

You know, I told the teenagers I said this, this right here, the

knock. You know the knock never gets

old to the king. Your knock never gets old to the

king. You're asking, You're knocking.

You're seeking. It never gets old.

It never gets old. He never gets tired of hearing

your knock. He never gets tired of hearing

your asking. He never gets tired of your

seeking because he wants to be able to answer your request.

He wants to be able to open the door when you knock.

He wants to be able to give you what you're seeking.

He never gets old of your knock. You know seeking is an attempt

to find something. An expectation of a king is to

find treasure. We should be in a position of

seeking at all times. When you have a seeking at all

times, it's then that God can drop in your spirit because your

position you're seeking, you're aware of Him.

You've got a God consciousness about you.

You haven't turned him off because it's Monday and you

hadn't had your cup of coffee yet and you haven't checked your

emails on the computer. See, when you say in a position

of seeking, it's then that God can drop things in your spirit

because you're always attentive and tuned to what He is

speaking. You're you're ready to receive.

It's like those spiritual antennas, right?

So seeking is an attempt to find.

It's an attempt to desire. It's an attempt to obtain, It's

an attempt to achieve and to ask for from someone.

Jesus said seek and you'll find and verse 8.

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives everyone who

keeps on asking. See, I think a lot of times we

stop asking. And whenever you stop asking,

you're not guaranteed to receive, because you're asking

should be in faith, right? And he who keeps on seeking

finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be open.

Or what man is there of you? If a son asks him for a loaf of

bread and will hand him a stone Or if he asks for a fish and

will hand him a serpent? If you, then, evil as you are,

know how to give good gifts and advantageous gifts to your

children, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven,

perfect as he is, give good and advantageous things to those who

keep on asking him? How's your asking?

How's your asking? What are you going to drop in my

spirit today? Lord, is something that I ask

all the time. What are you going to drop in

me? I'm expecting.

I'm asking. I'm sensitive.

I'm thinking about you. I haven't forgotten you.

I didn't leave you at home and drive to work and you're not

there. You're with me.

Everywhere I go you're in me. You're you're working through

me. I'm conscious of you.

I've trained my mind to be conscious of the king because I

am the kings representative. How can I represent someone I'm

not conscious of? How can I represent someone I'm

not even thinking about? How can I represent someone that

I have no idea how, how they function and how they operate?

How can I represent someone that I want to hide or I'm ashamed

of? So we should be asking.

We should be knocking. And the Holy Spirit we know is

always speaking. The Holy Spirit is always

speaking. The word of God is alive.

Another expectation of a king is to have influence.

Say I have influence, and since you have influence, you're to

guard your influence. You're to guard it because if

you give off wrong influence, it can damage.

So we've got to guard the influence that we have.

You know, David said this. He said search me and and and

and and search my heart and know me and find if there's any way

within me that would go against God.

So you got to guard your influence.

You know the enemy hates your influence.

He doesn't like it that you have the seed of the Kingdom in your

heart, that you're living by Kingdom principles, that you,

that you understand the word of God, that you can believe God

and receive from God. The enemy hates that.

So we should have this influence.

Our lives should demonstrate the Kingdom and its culture on the

earth, and our lives should have influence with it.

It's Kingdom representation. Matthew chapter 514 through 16.

Matthew, chapter 514 through 16. You are the light of the world.

You are the light of the world. I don't know about you, but you

know the world is pretty dark, and it's getting darker and

darker. In fact, the Bible says that

lawlessness will continue to abound.

And so we can expect that it's it's just going to get darker.

But Jesus said you're the light of the world.

He said you're the light of the world.

On the inside of you is the light that he has deposited when

you've called upon his name. And you, you represent him,

right? You're the light of the world.

He said a city set on a hill cannot be hidden, can it?

I remember taking a cruise one time and getting off of a port

and looking over and seeing a whole city on a hill, houses

built into the mountain. We're a city set on a hill.

We're the light of the world. Nor does anyone light a lamp and

put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand.

And it gives light to all who are in the house.

Let your light shine. Let what shine.

What should be shining, what should be shining, what should

be shining before men, so that they'll see the good works and

glorify your Father who's in heaven.

You know if your light is connected to the Word and the

Spirit, it should never go out. See, you know the the Word and

the Spirit isn't like batteries that go dead.

You know, batteries have a little bit of power for a short

time, and then they're dead. And even rechargeable batteries

over a time go bad. They're not forever, but on the

inside of you, you've got the power of the Holy Ghost, and it

never goes dead. In fact, that power raised

Christ from the dead, and he's now seated at the right hand of

the Father. So you've got the power on the

inside of you. You're a light and it your light

should shine. Your light should shine.

Your light should shine. Galatians chapter 2, verse 20

Galatians 2:20

Galatians chapter 2, verse 20 says I have been crucified with

Galatians 2:20

Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and

the life which I now live in the flesh.

I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave

himself up for me, who loved me and gave himself up for me, who

loved me and gave himself up for me.

Christ gave himself up for you so that you could be His light

shining, and people can glorify those works you know influence

when we're talking about influence and how a king is to

have influence. Influence comes through your

obedience to do the Father's will.

Influence comes through your obedience to the Father's will.

It's the new nature on the inside of you through the

Spirit. You know to have influence means

you got to move when God says move, you got to go when God

says go, and you got to do when God says do or you hear what I'm

saying. And so our influence is

important. Our influence is what the King

can use to minister to somebody else.

Are you hearing me? Our influence is important. 2nd

Corinthians chapter 5 Second Corinthians chapter 5, verse 14

2 Corinthians 5:14–21

through 21 says, For the love of Christ controls us.

Having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all

died, and he died for all, so that they who live might no

longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again

on their behalf. Therefore from now on we

recognize no one according to the flesh, even though we have

known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him in

this way no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, he is a new creature. Old things passed away, and

behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from

God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave

us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God

was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting

their trespasses against them. And he has committed to us the

word of reconciliation. Therefore we are ambassadors for

Christ. Say I am an ambassador for

Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us.

Have you been making God's appeal?

Have you been speaking and decreeing and commanding some

things? See, an expectation of kings is

to have influence. Well, your influence is

connected to what you're saying. The church's authority is

connected to it is written. So are we making an appeal?

We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf so that we

might become the righteousness of God in him.

The last point I want to encourage you with is

expectations of kings is to govern and work with God.

It is the Church having its authority in Ecclesiastes 8

four. We know this scripture, but it's

bears repeating. It says where the word of a king

is there is power and who may say to him what are you doing.

Where the word of the King is, there is power.

What have you been speaking? What have you been saying

lately? Has it been the King's word?

Because if it is, there's power present, proud, power to

perform, power to do, Power that produces not only for our lives,

but over situations and circumstances, power for others.

What have you been speaking? Because if you've been speaking

the King's word, then there's power that's with that word,

there's power that's with that word.

Luke, Chapter 9, verses one through 5.

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Now, Jesus called together the 12 disciples and gave them the

right to exercise power and authority over the demons and to

heal diseases. And he sent them out on a brief

journey to preach the Kingdom of God and to perform healing.

And he said to them, take nothing for your journey that

might encumber you, neither a walking stick bag bread money,

and do not even have two tunics apiece.

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city

to go to another. And As for all those who do not

welcome you, when you leave that city, shake the dust off your

feet, breaking all ties with them, as a testimony against

them that they rejected my message.

Your authority is connected to the right to exercise power that

Christ gave you access to. You have the right, You have the

right to speak as a king, you have the right to decree.

As a king you have that right. And so, as a citizen and as a

king in the earth, we ought to be speaking and decreeing a

thing. What we don't speak and decree

will be delayed. So if you're believing for the

promises of God, Pastor Marcus, you can come.

Then you should be speaking the promises of God.

You should be decreeing the promises of God.

You know the enemy has no legal right to to hinder and affect

our lives. He is under our feet and the

authority that Jesus has delegated to us as the Church

can put him at Bay. What are we speaking?

An expectation of a king is to begin to operate and move in

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