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Kingdom Rise Conference - Night 4 - Pastor Earl Glisson

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  1. Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast

  2. from st. Augustine Florida.

  3. Now, enjoy this message. All right.

  4. Y'all ready to get into the ending of our Diplomat?

  5. All right, let's go back over to John chapter 12 again, I want to

    John 12 chapter mention

  6. highlight some of these verses. We've said to bring us into this

  7. point that we want to get to tonight.

  8. Just really, we've had great. I just want to thank you for

  9. coming to Kingdom rise. We've had a great turnout, you

  10. know, when we evaluate each time, we do one, you know, you

  11. want increase, you want to make sure that you know, more people

  12. are coming. Because the message is so

  13. powerful, right? I mean, has the kingdom, changed

  14. anybody's life, right? Can anyone admit?

  15. I was in religion and then I heard the kingdom.

  16. Yeah. And is the kingdom better than

  17. religion? Yeah.

  18. I mean it sets you free. It is such a free and so, you

  19. know, it's always good to see increase and we appreciate you

  20. coming taking time to get off work or arranging things with

  21. work so that you can be here. Cause, you know, these are our

  22. divine appointed times, you know, again, it's so easy to

  23. just get in the routine of something and then forget what's

  24. going on, you know, God has no problem with saying, hey, let's

  25. do something a little different. Because, you know, at the end of

  26. the day, if you've been with our sessions in the morning, you

  27. know, Pastor Mark gave me a great message today.

  28. When he started talking about, you know, free gifts and you

  29. know he says at the end of the day, it does cost us.

  30. Something, you know, because it is long as it's in our mind free

  31. with. There's no value and if you

  32. don't value something then you're really going to be in

  33. religion because all you want to do is wait till you go to heaven

  34. when you die. And that's not what God's intent

  35. was going to heaven. When you die is going to be

  36. great, you'll be caught up together and be with him, right.

  37. You'll be present with the Lord, that's awesome and wherever he

  38. is, I want to be. So when he comes back to planet

  39. Earth, I want to be with him. Amen.

  40. So things are good. All right.

  41. Well that being said, John chapter 12 verse 49 and 50, says

    John 12:49

  42. this for, I do not for I have not spoken on my own authority

  43. but the father who sent me, gave me a command as what to say and

  44. what to speak. And I know that his commandment

  45. has everlasting life. Therefore whatever, I speak,

  46. just as a father has told me so I speak Jack Hayford.

  47. Third did a commentary in the Bible and he, and his studies,

  48. he makes some mention concerning the Apostle, John.

  49. Because in the Gospel of John, John uses this word eternal

  50. life. And when he was riding this,

  51. there were such persecution in the church because the, the

  52. apostles and disciples were really spreading the kingdom.

  53. If you read the book, Of Acts, you see that Philip went to

  54. Samaria and he went about preaching the gospel of the

  55. kingdom, and things concerning. Jesus, Paul himself did this as

  56. well. So, this was their mode of

  57. communication. They understood what the gospel

  58. really was. It was the kingdom.

  59. They were not trying to sell a religion, all right?

  60. But the Roman Empire was cracking down on Christianity so

  61. hard because they saw it as a government threat.

  62. So, John picks up the word eternal life. instead of saying

  63. the kingdom, Now, John can't put eternal life in there.

  64. Unless the Holy Ghost had told him, are you hearing me?

  65. This is a very good point as we begin to move forward into our

  66. study of Diplomat because God's desire is so that his Nation can

  67. influence other The Other Nation.

  68. When he sends an ambassador, the goal is that he can have a

  69. peaceful dialogue and win that other Nation over to to our

  70. nation's thoughts because our King his words are life their

  71. life. All right, so it doesn't

  72. surprise me that the holy ghost at the because you understand

  73. John's been, they tried to kill him multiple times and cannot

  74. kill the man. I mean he has been the subject

  75. of being a martyr on more than one occasion they bowled a man

  76. and old and he's still alive, right?

  77. I mean he's our New Covenant dispensation or age of the fiery

  78. furnace instead of them putting him in a fiery furnace.

  79. They put him in boiling oil and he still came out.

  80. So they're like, we can't kill the guy.

  81. Let's put him on an island. Let's exiling, we'll just cut

  82. him off from society, right? So it's obvious that God begins

  83. to talk to him because he God wants the opportunity to engage

  84. in conversation diplomatically, right?

  85. He wants to do that. Just as we've talked about some

  86. parables in our morning sessions, God, hid throughs, so

  87. that those who are hungry, could find them.

  88. In fact, when you look at the gospels, there are times that

  89. again, Jesus said, I speak in Parables to hide things because

  90. those who are hungry, we'll find them, but those who don't want

  91. them. Won't get it.

  92. But he says they're in there at other times.

  93. He started to say, he spoke to the disciples plainly.

  94. This is no Parable, no store. I'm just telling you.

  95. And one of the things he said to them plainly was, I'm going to

  96. die, but in three days I'm going to be raised up.

  97. That was very plain, very emphatic.

  98. Okay. But when it comes to diplomacy

  99. with a hostile Nation, Okay, there are only two nations in

  100. the earth. There's the holy nation of God,

  101. and then there's the nation of the devil, okay?

  102. Both Nations can be kind, because evil can be kind, evil,

  103. can even look like light. Evil can laugh.

  104. Are you hearing me? Okay.

  105. So the Lord wants this discourse, that's why he had

  106. Paul pain. He said, live at peace live at

  107. peace with all men as far as you can.

  108. So, you know, even though Jesus said, do you think that I came

  109. to bring peace? He says this.

  110. He said, no, I came to bring a sword divisions coming.

  111. Now, what is he saying, did I come to to make everybody mad

  112. and stir up, anger among people know, No.

  113. Was he trying to run people down?

  114. No but he knew the minute. They people receive the kingdom

  115. and get into the kingdom. They are going to be a different

  116. nature than everyone else. And all of a sudden the way they

  117. think behave and act or is going to look different than someone

  118. else. And that division can happen in

  119. a household between a husband and wife between parents and

  120. children between siblings. Definitely in the workplace.

  121. I mean, we Two different people. I'm a new creature in Christ.

  122. You're still with your father, the devil and he's a liar,

  123. right? You are still of sin but I've

  124. been made righteous, okay? And so he says, I didn't come to

  125. bring peace where we're all just going to get along.

  126. What? I brought was my kingdom and

  127. it's going to cause a separation, but in my Approach

  128. I'm going to do a diplomatically to try to help.

  129. Up you come over into my kingdom.

  130. Are you hearing me? So Jesus, then by the Holy Ghost

  131. obviously, says John so much attention is happening with the

  132. church concerning the Kingdom. At this point.

  133. It is going to be-better that when you address them just say

  134. eternal life. So it kind of it, lightens the

  135. blow of Rome, but here's the problem.

  136. If you don't know that, that's the purpose behind eternal life

  137. and that eternal life is really saying the kingdom.

  138. Because again, let's just go to a scripture that we know,

  139. everyone knows right, for John, 3:16 for God.

  140. So loved the world that he gave his only begotten, son, that

  141. whoever believes in him would have okay?

  142. But what if we put the word Kingdom there, Now you're like,

  143. man, I wish you would have said that, right?

  144. That's a that one for God. So loved the world that he gave

  145. his only begotten, son. That whoever would believe in

  146. him would not perish, but would have the kingdom, and that's

  147. what we're getting. We're getting the kingdom.

  148. I said, we're getting the kingdom.

  149. My point is that God has no problem with in his language, to

  150. communicate his side to be able to communicate In a way that

  151. helps the aggressive hostile Nation not being to be a little

  152. more peace. Are you hearing me?

  153. He doesn't have a problem with that.

  154. Does it always function that way?

  155. No. Because sometimes the Lord wants

  156. to engage her relationship with a nation, a totally different

  157. way. But I'm saying, it's not because

  158. he hasn't tried to bring peace first, try to get them to change

  159. their thinking first, all right, but if they don't, then

  160. obviously things will get a little bit different.

  161. Alright? With that being said, John

  162. obviously says here in 50, I know that his commands is the

  163. kingdom them In essence, I know that when my when my father

  164. speaks, he speaks from the throne.

  165. So, this is Kingdom talk. This is the government's

  166. position in essence. Jesus is saying, I am the

  167. greatest Ambassador you've ever seen on the planet, right?

  168. And Jesus was the greatest one. Jeremiah was a great ambassador.

  169. Because he represented God. Okay.

  170. But the reality is he talked to God a few times like man I don't

  171. want to do that man. I got I'm trying he even has had

  172. a whole conversation about. I'm trying not to do it but your

  173. words like a fire. Shut up in my bones, man.

  174. I got a preacher but I was like, shut this down.

  175. I'm done with this. Jesus didn't have that

  176. conversation with his father at all.

  177. He only had a conversation with his father, about his will by.

  178. I really don't want to be separated from you outside of

  179. that. Whatever.

  180. My father says I do because I'm not here to represent me.

  181. I'm here to represent my father and his kingdom.

  182. Right? And Jesus Is Our Lord so we

  183. should follow that example. We'd get in less trouble if we

  184. do. Amen.

  185. Now, I don't mean will avoid trouble, but we'll get less

  186. trouble. John 5:30 says this, I can can

    John 5:30

  187. of my own self, do nothing. As I hear, I judge and my

  188. judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of

  189. the father who hath sent me, let me do it this way.

  190. Now, let me read these next couple and then I'll say it,

  191. John 6:38, these are review for, I have come down from heaven,

    John 6:38

  192. not to do my own will Will, but the will of him who sent me

  193. verse 5, John 5:19 John 5:19. Therefore Jesus answered and

    John 5:19 John 5:19

  194. said to them truly truly, I say to you.

  195. The son can do nothing of himself unless it's something.

  196. He sees the father doing for whether the, whatever the father

  197. does, these things. The son also does in lat like

  198. manner. Okay, the kingdom Ambassador

  199. principle called we can't even talk about being a diplomat or

  200. being diplomatic. Unless you understand, you are

  201. an ambassador and the Ambassador ER, speaks for the kingdom and

  202. does not represent himself only the kingdom.

  203. That's what Jesus did. What's his first message?

  204. He publicly preaches after he came up out of the, Jordan being

  205. baptized by the spirit, repent. For the Kingdom of Heaven is at

  206. hand. Repent is not a religious word.

  207. It means change, your thinking. And is that not what happens

  208. when our ambassadors engage other nations.

  209. There saying you should change your thinking on what you're

  210. wanting to do here. Right, it also means side would

  211. my party. Which means why don't you come

  212. over to it are thinking and the way we do government and our

  213. ambassadors do that, you need to change your thinking on hon your

  214. approach towards our nation right now you might want to side

  215. with our party. Right, he said, repent for the,

  216. what kingdom of God is at hand, and then we're learning a

  217. powerful lesson in the, in the morning sessions about this

  218. Kingdom, I will mention here because not all of y'all been in

  219. service, but the kingdom of God, we are in.

  220. Okay? Is in is one Kingdom into ages.

  221. Okay. Jesus inaugurated this Kingdom

  222. to be able to come back to the Earth through Humanity.

  223. Remember what he said. When you pray pray this way, our

  224. whose father has your daddy, my daddy, he's your daddy.

  225. If you're born of God, if Jesus is, Lord of your life, God's not

  226. your daddy. If Jesus Christ is not the Lord

  227. of your life, you got some other make believe God and you may

  228. call him God and you may associate I'm with Jesus but the

  229. reality is unless you have laid down your life.

  230. And live for him. Totally.

  231. Then there's a false reality in your religion.

  232. Amen. This is total lordship but the

  233. your father is Jesus's, father, Our Father, which art in heaven,

  234. Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be done

  235. on Earth as it is. And there's no rebellion in

  236. heaven anymore. It happened once and he got

  237. kicked out. And there's never been another

  238. Rebellion ever. Jesus said, I saw Satan fall.

  239. Like lightning, that was dumb. Right.

  240. Because the kingdom has never lost a battle.

  241. God's kingdom has never lost a battle.

  242. Hallelujah, his kingdoms. Love it is love.

  243. He will always do his word, his word, beats every condition

  244. necessary. So that God will fulfill his

  245. whatever he says, period. Amen.

  246. So here Jesus then is the greatest representative of an

  247. ambassador because he only does what the father says.

  248. That's all he's doing. That's all he ever done.

  249. Did, and every conversation then we can conclude now is he's

  250. having direct communication with the Home Country on how to

  251. navigate with These other nations and when we say Nations,

  252. we're not just talking territory landmass caused by All rights.

  253. A nation is not territory. Its people And if we didn't

  254. believe that, then nobody would in here, will be calling

  255. themselves. An Irish American and African

  256. American an indian-american. You wouldn't do that.

  257. Because you're not actually in India.

  258. I mean except for Pastor Jay right now other than that you're

  259. not but now he's a citizen of India.

  260. But we see people and that's how we identify right a people

  261. group. So, you know, people then

  262. identify on the outside. They identify also by how they

  263. behave their culture and even if they're not on in their home

  264. country, they will have a connection with the land that

  265. are not even of right now. I don't have a problem with that

  266. if you'll do that spiritually because I'm connected with the

  267. land and I'm not currently residing in Meaning Heavens,

  268. perfect government system. That I was originally a part of

  269. in God's mind when he created heaven and earth in the first

  270. place. Let us make man in our

  271. dimension, in our likeness, and let them have dominion.

  272. So, I'll be, I have a heaven realm that I rule, I gave them

  273. the Earth realm, that they rule. I own all this, but I'm going to

  274. let them because they're like me, let them rule.

  275. But when Adam ate the fruit sin, enter the world and the Lord had

  276. to step in. And so, Jesus comes and says,

  277. I've come to represent the kingdom because it's the kingdom

  278. that man, lost man, did not lose heaven.

  279. Man did not fall from Heaven man.

  280. Lost dominion and lost access to the kingdom of God.

  281. Amen. So God wants heaven to manifest

  282. in the earth and the way heaven will manifest in the earth is

  283. through his ambassadors, right? And so, then they are dealing

  284. then with a hostile Nation, those that are outside the

  285. kingdom of God, and they're having relations.

  286. Attic relations in trying to get them, to change their thinking

  287. in the position, they're in. Because if they actually sided

  288. with the kingdom, they would be a to enter into life.

  289. Okay, so an ambassador speaks for the kingdom, does not

  290. represent himself onto the kingdom, the and of the

  291. ambassador's the Kingdom's agent for conveying.

  292. Its will desires and purposes in the territory to which he, or

  293. she is, is assigned. We read in Ephesians that

  294. there's an ambassador there. Ephesians 6, I'm not going to

  295. read that scripture tonight but 2nd Corinthians 5:18 and 20.

  296. I'll read it says now. All these are from God who

  297. reconciled us to himself through Christ.

  298. That means the king and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

  299. Elevation. So a diplomat when he's doing

  300. when he is doing diplomatic. Things through diplomacy, he is

  301. trying to bring reconciliation with a nation that has become

  302. hostile. They have had a sever in

  303. relationship. God has had a sever Severn

  304. relationship with Humanity because of the fall of Adam and

  305. now he's trying to reconcile them back and he uses his

  306. ambassadors to do. So.

  307. So, and he's always used this role of ambassadors.

  308. Someone to represent him and his word, he did it in the old

  309. Covenant or Old Testament, or even before the law, he's done

  310. that. He also does it now in this one

  311. and he'll do it in the age to come so this Kingdom which

  312. stretches between two ages. We are in an evil age now,

  313. meaning that, even though Jesus has stripped the devil of his

  314. authority, he did not take him out of the planet that comes in

  315. the millennial. So that tells us then is that we

  316. will have challenges. Jesus said in this life you'll

  317. have trials and tribulation but be of good cheer for I have

  318. overcome the world at the end of the day, as pastors, going to

  319. really teach on this tomorrow. Because we are in his kingdom

  320. that stretches to ages. Even though we're in a present

  321. evil age, where we still see sin, we still see this hostile

  322. Nation. We still see these that are

  323. going against an attack. God's Nation.

  324. It's no. Different than what we see

  325. happen with China. Towards the u.s. right now and

  326. Russia towards a u.s. right now. It's no different.

  327. They're hostile. They why?

  328. Because they want to become the global power.

  329. They will all other nations to what bow down to them.

  330. Well, you understand, the world wants the church to bow down to

  331. it, because the devil has only wanted one thing for God to what

  332. bow down to him. But we are the superior Nation.

  333. Not. And I don't say that in the

  334. Arrogant or conceited way. I mean, God is superior and

  335. we're of his class where the god class where the god, Khan, who

  336. happened to be Kings. So, the cool thing about the

  337. kingdom, where in, because it stretches across two Ages, which

  338. really when we say to, we could almost say three because it goes

  339. into the perfect government with a new Heaven, new Earth, okay?

  340. But the reality is this going in a I have no win now that Jesus

  341. when his resurrection it's available, we can function in

  342. it. We can pull Heaven to Earth.

  343. And how do we do this? Because we stretch over into

  344. this Millennial reign. Time period and pull those

  345. benefits into. Now, we can be healed now.

  346. Right? We can prosper now, have all

  347. their needs met now, because we pulled it over by faith because

  348. we're in a kingdom that is already exceeded Tom.

  349. I mean we're trying to catch up to where it is.

  350. Hallelujah. All right so we're reconciling.

  351. Then this Evil Nation or hostile Nation.

  352. Trying we won't know to get them back in.

  353. Good relationship with God. Not that we let our saying stay

  354. in your nation and just be at peace with God.

  355. We're saying you need to come over to this nation because your

  356. resistance is futile. Right verse 19 says, namely that

  357. God was in Christ. Reconciling the world to himself

  358. not counting their trespasses against them and he has

  359. committed to us the word of reconciliation verse 20.

  360. Therefore we are what we are ambassadors for Christ.

  361. Okay, as though God, we're making an appeal through a show

  362. doing, alright? So we are a diplomat them.

  363. We are one employed in skilled in diplomacy.

  364. This is I and I would say this, we are calling Called to be an

  365. ambassador, but many are not actually skilled in diplomacy.

  366. So if you're going to be a diplomat, In your office, which

  367. of Ambassador, which is the highest rank, a government can

  368. give that citizen. You're going to go and represent

  369. me. So again, we said yesterday,

  370. when you, when people see you, they don't meet you.

  371. They meet a nation. So you've got to quit living for

  372. self and you got to get rid of personal savior mentality.

  373. Did Jesus personally die for you?

  374. Yes, because you're included in everyone, he died for, I've

  375. heard it taught this way. You know what?

  376. If you were the only one Christ would have came?

  377. Nope, would not have if nobody would have gotten right with

  378. Jesus. He still would have came, even

  379. if the whole world would have Still rejected him, he still

  380. would he came because he would have been able to rightly judge

  381. us that I said, let us make man in our image, according to our

  382. likeness, let them have dominion.

  383. Jesus said I have made Dominion available for them again.

  384. All they have to do is receive it by faith, and if none of

  385. humanity wants to get back in that position, I'm not a liar.

  386. So if no one after Adam would have ever repented, and believed

  387. Jesus, still coming to the planet is going to die.

  388. Because God says, I'll do my word and what do you say?

  389. I'm gonna bring my seed through the woman, said he was bringing

  390. his seed whether you going to accept it or not.

  391. So don't think that Jesus just came for you.

  392. Jesus came because the father said, I'm sending my seed, good

  393. news, is you can get ill. Not, that's what's exciting.

  394. Is that you can get in on that. But we have really kept this

  395. kind of God mentality that we've had ourselves.

  396. Even when we come over to Jesus over, he just died for me.

  397. I'm so special for him. It's like man, I came cause

  398. daddy said I had to you just get the benefit of that deal.

  399. Because how do I know you're going to you're not many people

  400. are not accepting him, you know how many are going to be cast

  401. into the Lake of Fire which is the second death.

  402. How many? The Bible says, it keeps growing

  403. wide is the gate that leads and many and every one of them could

  404. have had Dominion could have been restored and Jesus died for

  405. them. So we're not more special.

  406. Everyone that would be cast into the Lake of Fire.

  407. He loved them. But he gave them what they

  408. wanted according to his word. If you don't accept me, this is

  409. the condition and love puts you in the Lake of Fire because you

  410. chose to be without him for eternity, just say, Amen.

  411. Anyway, all right, so we are to be employed.

  412. In diplomacy, diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting

  413. negotiations between nations skilled and handling Affairs,

  414. without arousing hostility. This I Know Why the Lord brought

  415. this to my spirit about the Diplomat because and I hear him

  416. say to me, says, son, the reason why is because my church, my

  417. ambassadors. My Saints are are in adequately

  418. trained to negotiate with the world.

  419. They're at their in adequately trained.

  420. Why? Because watch, they want to be

  421. hostile. Especially as the day gets

  422. darker, the more we're going to want to be more if you don't

  423. watch out hostile. But guys, not talk to asking you

  424. to be hostile. He's asking you to exhibit

  425. diplomacy and diplomacy is to try to make.

  426. Try to change thinking in peace. The first and foremost, all

  427. diplomats. The first thing is not, we going

  428. to blow you up. You'll do what I say that's not

  429. Step 1. Step One is like, can we come to

  430. take my have a conversation. So I'm not really sure why

  431. you're thinking like this. I mean, what's going on that?

  432. You're exhibiting so much hostility towards me, we need to

  433. re-establish some relationship here.

  434. So any Diplomat who can get hostility of a Nation back to

  435. very peaceful terms is always the best way to go.

  436. Unfortunately some Nations do not respond, and when that takes

  437. place even God does things different.

  438. We're going to see examples of this, but in these last days,

  439. when number one, it says, when Jesus comes back, will he find

  440. faith in the earth also? He said in the last days, there

  441. will be such lawlessness and that the hearts of many Well,

  442. the the love of many will grow cold, meaning the Agape

  443. Christians harshberger, which means when you're watching TV,

  444. you'll get so mad. Okay, I'm preaching so mad at

  445. these anti Antichrist. Legislations ungodly demonic

  446. things. I mean mad so mad.

  447. You like we got to do. Listen, the Bible's already.

  448. Let us show the world's going to hell in a handbasket in one

  449. sense, right? It's not our job, I mean, it's

  450. fantasy thinking as US ambassador, think you're going,

  451. A change everybody. In fact, the Bible actually lets

  452. us know more or are not going to get in.

  453. I mean it's that's just an unfortunate.

  454. Piece of information. We already have from the king.

  455. I mean, I feel like the church is in such a delusion right now,

  456. man, there's going to be this Great Harvest before the return

  457. of Jesus. I don't know how great it to be.

  458. I mean, I believe there's going to be a harvest.

  459. But I think there's gonna be a massive harvest in the catching

  460. away of the church and many I'm going to get right on the other

  461. side because they're going to be like Lord.

  462. He said, man, I was not intimately acquainted with you.

  463. Many people. During the tribulation because

  464. they have a knowledge of God going to realize, listen, can I

  465. just help you don't? You don't want to be left in the

  466. tribulation. Just voluntarily ill.

  467. Now, I remember telling a particular child of a parent

  468. that they were struggling with obeying their parents and so,

  469. you know, I met with them and I said, listen, I'm just going to

  470. be honest with you. You're you're going to have to

  471. submit period, this little issue that you got would submitting to

  472. us what you know the person over you.

  473. This is this is will happen forever in eternity.

  474. Okay and here's the thing, submissions going to happen in

  475. your life so you can either learn to voluntarily submit to

  476. your parents rules right now with peace, okay?

  477. Or there's going to come a day that you will be forced into

  478. submission. Because the police are going to

  479. put you somewhere. Unfortunately, they didn't

  480. listen to my advice and they received forced submission.

  481. So now they're told when to get out of the cell, what they're

  482. eating, what they're wearing. Now, on the inside and still be

  483. full of rebellious. I'm not submitting your

  484. submitting because you're not saying I'm not going to wear of

  485. this prison uniform. You're wearing the prison

  486. uniform. I'm not going to eat this will

  487. find in your Diane starve to death.

  488. No problem with us that it just be less taxpayer money, but you

  489. find them eating it, right? Now there may be a lot of

  490. conflict, might get into a lot of fights, might have a lot of

  491. prison guards, you know, tasing on whatever they do.

  492. They're in the prison system but it's for submission.

  493. You don't want to be left behind because then it's going to call

  494. it. Most likely is going to cost you

  495. your actual life. You'll have to just go ahead and

  496. prove it through being martyred. But if you're having a hard time

  497. on this side being volunteering, then you're going to take the

  498. mark of the beast, man. Let's just go ahead and be

  499. honest. That's just going to be a rough

  500. deal and you're going to know. I am foot my allegiance to the

  501. Antichrist because you couldn't do it with a God that was

  502. talking to you here. Just say men anyway so in these

  503. last days he said man there's going to be trouble trouble in

  504. Toms so we've got to get our diplomacy on.

  505. We got to be diplomatic we're already the the nation is

  506. hostile towards us, right? You don't take it covid shot,

  507. they're hostile. before that time, whether you took shots or

  508. not was not even a and whether you took a shot or not, I don't

  509. care. It's what's happening behind it?

  510. I mean Walmart and Home Depot can stay open.

  511. But all of a sudden, sure she got shut down that's hostile but

  512. now do they come again in diplomacy?

  513. What is the enemy? What's that?

  514. This is what we're going to do. We're going to negotiate with

  515. you, we need you. To close the doors.

  516. For a set period of time. But now because of the stress of

  517. this moment and the isolation, we're going to keep ABC liquor

  518. open. Oh, did not liquor store, stay

  519. open because alcoholics in their home without being able to get

  520. what they're addicted to that hostile government said, no, we

  521. got to keep feeding, what keeps them not being sober minded, we

  522. got to keep adding to how can San Francisco be had handing out

  523. heroin Two people all over the streets.

  524. Right. My point is, is that that can't

  525. make you mad. Now at the end of the day, it

  526. will grieve you. I get it.

  527. But you understand there are at all the time thinking.

  528. Let's just go with Jesus real quick.

  529. Okay, we're talking about diplomacy.

  530. How many times did Jesus get angry and it's recorded.

  531. One time you bet in the temple. So we know that the father says

  532. what they doing in my temple right now.

  533. I am not well with and my action towards this is you going to go

  534. up in there and you're going to knock them tables over you and

  535. find you a whip and you going to drive them all out and you're

  536. going to remind them, that there's only one we are going to

  537. view some Brute Force. In our diplomacy to get the

  538. house back. Now, did he do that?

  539. But how many times did he get mad at everything else?

  540. Okay, so that tells me then and all the stuff that God did and

  541. the Jesus did, in negotiating with a hostile Nation, anger was

  542. the least thing he did. Yet most Christians calls their

  543. carnal. Or angry and their uses

  544. scripture. But Jesus didn't do that.

  545. Now did Jesus have issues with the religious?

  546. Yeah but you know what? He didn't have issues with the

  547. world. So the only part of the Hostile

  548. Nations that he in his diplomatic approach was is those

  549. who actually had access to me and should know and be on that

  550. had an anointing because the priest the high priest could

  551. have the anointing come upon him.

  552. They were separated unto God, so they actually had access to be

  553. able to hear from heaven. And do different.

  554. But now those that are outside of the house, they did not and

  555. he was compassionate. The diplomacy was compassion,

  556. he's Healing The Sick, raising the dead casting out Devils he

  557. didn't go well you deserve that devil be in you.

  558. Don't think I don't know about you.

  559. Right. Don't think, I don't know about

  560. you. He knew about people, the woman

  561. comes and washes, his feet with her tears.

  562. Pours, all on him and the religious.

  563. Like, man, if he is a prophet God, you know, what kind of

  564. woman that is they angrily? Hear the anger in that, right?

  565. I can't believe it. I mean, I can't believe he's in

  566. my house right now. So Jesus gets diplomatic may I

  567. ask you a question. We got a couple people that's

  568. got some debts on they. Oh, right.

  569. He's being diplomatic. One has 10 bucks.

  570. He owes somebody. I'm, you know, I'm that's not

  571. what the scripture actually says.

  572. Okay. I'm paraphrasing 10 bucks.

  573. This was a million. Both are forgiven.

  574. Which one do you think? Love more?

  575. Because of him? He goes, I would suppose a 1

  576. forgiving more debt. Is you say correctly?

  577. He says, when I came into this house, you didn't kiss me.

  578. You didn't try to wash my feet. But this woman though her sins

  579. are many. Oh, I know about her.

  580. I know what kind of woman she is.

  581. But what she's doing right now, the World's Gonna know about it.

  582. Because my presence and what I've already done in the Earth

  583. with the kingdom has caused this one to come over to my side,

  584. you're still hostile. Right.

  585. But too many I'm telling you carnal, Christians and we I'm in

  586. the process of doing a book right now.

  587. Y'all heard me preach on equipped and you know what?

  588. We've said about equipped, if all you do is educate the body

  589. of Christ, the best you can produce as a Pharisee, It's the

  590. best you can do. God, never called us to equal to

  591. educate the body. He called us to equip the body

  592. and there's a difference, but most of the churches, because

  593. people don't read the Bible. So they have no idea about their

  594. Kingdom. Don't even know there any

  595. Kingdom. So how can they even be an

  596. ambassador? How can they negotiate with

  597. these hostile Nations? And these people that are in

  598. hostility towards us because the world hates us You just and the

  599. world hates the church. So every time the church is the

  600. standard of God, right? If you're going to stay in

  601. Ambassador, then you're gonna have to live the lifestyle

  602. associated with righteous. As John said, it this way, you

  603. have to live a life in keeping with repentance, okay?

  604. You're gonna have to live holy blameless, you're going to have

  605. to work that thing out now. Can you make a mistake?

  606. Sure will God forgive you. Yes, but your heart is not to

  607. live wrong, your heart is to actually live who you are in

  608. Christ. You want to renew your mind, you

  609. want? To please your father.

  610. You want to do whatever he says, whenever he says, because you

  611. are a good son and daughter and your example of Jesus because I

  612. only do what that says. I want to do because he loves

  613. me. I mean, he's the one who gave me

  614. this life. This is so easy for me to do

  615. this. So I'm not going to be glad by

  616. my flesh. I'm going to be led by the

  617. spirit and those who are led by the spirit.

  618. These So people live by the flesh where I can question

  619. whether you are one. Now that doesn't mean you can't

  620. be a Son of God and still be led by your flesh.

  621. Sure. Paul's like why are you so

  622. carnal to the Corinthian Church? I can't even speak to you about

  623. spiritual matters because you're so carnal.

  624. I mean, you're like Mere Men, your babes in Christ and the

  625. majority of Believers on the planet.

  626. Now, Or babes. And man, when things get tough,

  627. because we know some scripture we going to try to negotiate

  628. with the world like a Pharisee. So what do we do?

  629. We should have a standard but what's the church doing?

  630. Especially in the u.s. well the world is totally different than

  631. us. Well we want to be relevant.

  632. Because the more moral God-fearing Desiring to be

  633. wholly towards God because he made me whole day anyway and let

  634. that see. Then the world itself will rise

  635. to a level of morality. But the minute you try to come

  636. down and say, well, we're like the same.

  637. I'm just a sinner saved by grace.

  638. You know what the world hates the church?

  639. They're like, forget that I don't want to, like, you look

  640. too much like me. I got to do more things worse.

  641. This is why our world is Decay because the church is exhibiting

  642. such a low standard. And at like this is God, that

  643. the world's like we hate God, how can I be drinking in the

  644. club right now? And this guy's going to church

  645. tomorrow this will make any sense that you're You're gonna

  646. can look at ordering can I order you another one brother?

  647. Okay let's talk about the Lord. This is happening.

  648. This is literally happy and so weird and this guy's like

  649. confuse his life. I hate God.

  650. How in the world can I look like this guy right now?

  651. I mean even those people know, Something right.

  652. Have you ever noticed how the world wants to tell us how to be

  653. Believers? Well, you're a Christian.

  654. You're not supposed to? Well, how do you know that?

  655. Even the world knows the standards higher.

  656. Well now brother, I'm just you know, I'm just trying, that's

  657. not diplomacy, that's carnality. They're like forget that man.

  658. I gotta go worse, I look too much like God and I didn't even

  659. realize it and we call that Grace.

  660. That ain't Grace, that stupidity.

  661. That's what that is. Amen.

  662. Now here's the thing. There's growth, I get it.

  663. So you can't just get locked in. This is the deal with diplomacy

  664. diplomacy is not black and white.

  665. Diplomacy is following the voice of the Lord, because he knows

  666. what draws men. This is the issue.

  667. You can't just go in and, you know, just, I can't believe

  668. you're living like that. You're gonna have to change.

  669. You know what, you know, what do you know, how many servers are

  670. living an alternative lifestyle, right now?

  671. Can I say it that way? Some servers that we, I know

  672. they're not living. But I am I talk to them.

  673. I treat them like a human being. I mean I and I know I do.

  674. It's no I mean I mean I have one server a guy.

  675. He's like man I'm leaving going to New Jersey going to be up

  676. with my you know my you know my lover up there.

  677. All right. I'm like really, you know, and

  678. you could tell every time he served, you know, that he was

  679. just searching. But at the end of the day, I

  680. never once talked to him about Jesus, I'll be honest with you,

  681. I never did why? Because I'm not stupid, because

  682. I actually listen to the Holy Ghost and some people aren't

  683. ready to have that conversation. He needed just the exposure of

  684. my life. Of my godliness.

  685. I mean I won't open doors so diplomacy is I'm not talking to

  686. you about your sin. I'm I and he knows that I'm a

  687. preacher. And if he goes around and asks,

  688. The other servers will how much tip did you get?

  689. You know, when he won't be able to do?

  690. And he couldn't, they whenever say well, he didn't give me, I

  691. know they're doing, I'd given them nothing.

  692. Like we had like, we're supporting their habit,

  693. supporting their behavior. No, I'm going to show you God,

  694. because while you were yet, sinners Christ died for me.

  695. I mean, he he paid the ultimate price of blood while we are

  696. living the most horrific life towards his kingdom and I can't

  697. bless. Him with a 50 dollar bill.

  698. Be like why is the church giving me money like this, they give me

  699. more money than my own kind. Because ultimately, then when

  700. God starts talking to their heart, that was be like The end

  701. of the day you say, would you let people that are doing sin in

  702. the church? You're here?

  703. Write me. Sure.

  704. Did come in perfect, you still dealing with stuff now?

  705. But you know what diplomacy won't allow me to do.

  706. It won't allow me to let you start walking through the church

  707. and acting like how you're living is acceptable to God.

  708. Now my diplomacy will kick into another level.

  709. And my diplomacy. I have no opinion in the matter,

  710. but my king says so I and again, what does the world do they're

  711. pushing and saying, you know, that we hate this sexual sin.

  712. We hate any sin, sexual sin, sexual sin is not just same-sex.

  713. It is fornication, which is a heterosexual relationship

  714. without marriage. That's in.

  715. Now, I'm not kicking somebody out if they've done it, but what

  716. I'm doing is trying to demonstrate the love of God,

  717. preached Ruth, you're going to hear that here.

  718. But at the end of the day, you have to make that choice.

  719. And I'm not against you, I will help you, I will do everything I

  720. need to do because again some people in some we are really

  721. going out of the way. Why is showing kindness?

  722. Because it's the kindness of God that draws men to repentance.

  723. But now my diplomacy kicked into another level.

  724. If they are so-called brother, this is why Jesus talked to

  725. Pharisees. One way and there's the other

  726. way but carnal Christians only talk one way.

  727. Cause they can't discern. They can't discern.

  728. Jesus had a again, the guy comes up with Leprosy and he said,

  729. Lord, if you're willing, he obviously already heard from the

  730. father, he's not doing anything that the father hasn't

  731. authorized and the demo diplomatic approach for him and

  732. his Ambassador is to bring the Healthcare System of his kingdom

  733. to this hostile nation and show compassion.

  734. He could have said, son, you know why you left her?

  735. See You want to tell you why you got leprosy.

  736. Now, it may not be that Heath sinned in brought it on, it

  737. could be. Just because sin is in the earth

  738. symptoms in our body doesn't mean we've are we been in sin

  739. certain diseases that mean. You've been as him?

  740. Some can. Yes.

  741. But again discernment. Lets you know where that's at.

  742. My point is that Jesus wasn't blast it because everyone

  743. rightly we're having the problems they were having

  744. because they all were Fallen but man, Jesus had the capacity as

  745. an ambassador, a dad. What do you want me to say?

  746. How do you me to engage this National He says, well do this

  747. from our kingdom? Do this from our kingdom.

  748. That's why acts 10:38 said, look how God anointed Jesus of

    Acts 10:38

  749. Nazareth. Who went around doing good.

  750. And healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

  751. Oh, Wow. Moses and Egypt is probably one

  752. of the greatest diplomatic models.

  753. We have God, sends an ambassador.

  754. Moses you're my Ambassador, I'm here in heaven here on Earth.

  755. I need you to go help my people. The ones I'm in Covenant with

  756. Abraham Isaac and Jacob, right? Which turned into Israel.

  757. I need to go help them, but I need to go to the government.

  758. So we're going to get into a diplomatic relation.

  759. This is the kingdom. Sod.

  760. This is my position. Tell them to let my people go

  761. just be a peaceful transfer. I'm not here, I'm not here to

  762. roll this nation. All the all this Kings got to do

  763. is let my people go. Is that not what he did?

  764. But the Kings light. I don't know.

  765. You got right? I've never met your king.

  766. No, I'm not doing that. So the Lord said well we're

  767. going to have to bring some sanctions.

  768. You hear what I'm saying? We have to apply some pressure

  769. but we need him. Change your thinking.

  770. Right. Moses didn't cry like a baby.

  771. Oh yeah. How do you know you're living

  772. Ambassador life? Because you're not crying like a

  773. baby when the Hostile Nation opposes you.

  774. He didn't throw at enter temper tantrum.

  775. He didn't get all mad every time.

  776. Right. No, now he went to Laura says.

  777. Whoa man. Whoa man.

  778. I didn't know I was gonna get this bad for our own people.

  779. But again, why did Pharaoh retaliate?

  780. That's what happens in diplomacy.

  781. Someone's trying to Muscle Up on the other.

  782. I mean, right now in our own Nation it was just an outside of

  783. China said after a little military exercise, we're ready

  784. to go to war with the United States.

  785. My friends, that is a threat. That is a threat, just saying

  786. that is basically saying we're not intimidated with you.

  787. Now, that doesn't mean they're sending them, but they're just

  788. saying we're ready to go. You don't want to fire shot at

  789. us. Now somebody's lying.

  790. There's a bluff somewhere right? At the end of the day and

  791. Pharaoh was trying to show I mean but he lived by the

  792. natural. He saw his Armory or me.

  793. He saw his wealth. He saw all this alignment a

  794. slave. Don't talk to me.

  795. Your God is not going to get them out of this deal but boy

  796. did Laura start bringing came back reading it.

  797. Well we'll just do it this way. It's like and then even the king

  798. of Egypt, Pharaoh has Has to ask the ambassador to get rid of

  799. part of the stuff. Can you get rid of the frogs

  800. man, and you ask the Nats to go, why?

  801. Cause he knows it didn't come from them.

  802. Right then even his own advisor starts saying, man, this you

  803. might want to step away from this.

  804. Because this this nation's got the upper hand.

  805. When God delivers them. Right.

  806. When he delivers them, he sends in one special force guy.

  807. Okay, just one. He sends one in at night.

  808. He tells his Nation, you put blood on your door post because

  809. he's special forces, new guy. The only way he going to get the

  810. doors right. If you got blood on it you don't

  811. get blood on it. I mean he's a new I miss his

  812. first mission first mission. Okay, so we're going to help him

  813. but blood on your doors. All right. now, listen, if

  814. Pastor Ramon, if they had not obeyed, That angel would have

  815. killed it Israelite. Because the only reason that

  816. first born is protected in awe is because the blood and God

  817. didn't put his blood on it. They had to put the blood on it.

  818. All right. Hallow God's in control if he

  819. is. Why didn't he send a painter

  820. first? Put it on, paint your door, the

  821. Lord's in control. You just just go back to sleep.

  822. We don't want you to do anything.

  823. You're a pathetic sheep. You can't do nothing man.

  824. And we got to do it all you. I mean, you are the most

  825. high-maintenance creation we've ever been around.

  826. I mean, that's as modern day. Christianity is an odd, you

  827. know? Oh, can you bring me a tea?

  828. Why you're here? I mean, we're right making.

  829. God serve us guys. Like, I'm sending my guy first

  830. mission. Put some blood on the door, so

  831. you don't kill your kid. I need you paint the door.

  832. No, you better paint that door. But what did he do?

  833. He went through one God one night.

  834. He was stealthy. Took out the first born. man,

  835. that was But is that where God? Did God ultimate now God knows

  836. where he was going to have to go because he has Intelligence

  837. already. You understand when you starts,

  838. when you when they went ahead of a Nation since their ambassador

  839. to nigga? It's because they already have

  840. intelligence. God already knows how pharaohs

  841. going to respond before even sends his Ambassador, but he

  842. still, what's he do? It's not, I'd it's not because I

  843. didn't give the king And the nation a chance.

  844. And they just chose the Hard Road.

  845. Then when the Kings like, what have we done?

  846. We're go kill them all now. He's like, I got man, I and this

  847. is why I want my nation to see when you get over in the other

  848. side that this can never come after you again.

  849. You're going to watch them die, you're never going to be

  850. thinking in the back is Pharaoh coming.

  851. You know, that's what he did to the devil.

  852. He stripped the devil, his power so much that you don't have to

  853. look back and say is the devil coming.

  854. Is he coming? Which means then we have

  855. Intelligence on what we need to do to engage.

  856. This is diplomacy and we're not even activating it.

  857. Joshua and Jericho, that's diplomatic relation.

  858. Diplomatic relation. Now, you say, well, I don't

  859. member him. Meet with the leaders know, God

  860. had met with them and the last 400 years because before Abraham

  861. at a conversation with Abraham, he said to Abraham, he said

  862. Abraham, you can have so many descendants it's going to be

  863. like, the sand of the Sea and the stars in the sky.

  864. He said, but here's the deal. Your descendants are going to be

  865. stuck in a nation. For 400 years.

  866. And then I'll go get them. And I'm going to bring him right

  867. here to watch your sin. He says, I can't bring him here

  868. yet because the sins of the amorites have not come to a

  869. fullness, which means I've been I'm going to be talking to these

  870. guys for the next few centuries diplomatically to repent.

  871. But when they don't listen, I'm taking the land.

  872. Because it's my Earth anyway. Are you hearing me?

  873. It's my Earth in you and that was what we consider a hard

  874. case. That when the Lord shows up, now

  875. they already have knowledge. Remember what Rahab said?

  876. We heard about you guys, we have been interior.

  877. Well, what's that mean? The Lord's already.

  878. Gave them a message from Egypt. You might want to open your

  879. gate. Right.

  880. But what do they do? They stayed shut up tightly.

  881. Nope, didn't do it when they could have gotten out, they

  882. chose know. We going to fight, we ain't

  883. going. And we going to trust in our

  884. walls and what they put their trust in.

  885. God, brought down and that's the same thing he did with Pharaoh,

  886. what? Pharaoh, trusted his Gods.

  887. He brought though, all those guys can predict him.

  888. That's what all those plays were about the amen.

  889. Well, what's that do for us? Let's try to close this down a

  890. little bit. Matthew 16, Verse 18, It's

    Matthew 16:18

  891. that's just why it's so important for you to come to

  892. church. Okay.

  893. Go ahead. Put that up.

  894. I'm worried, I give you the name Peter Stone, right.

  895. Okay. He says this because again,

  896. they, he's asking them. Who do people say that I am,

  897. right? And they say, your these

  898. prophets dada, dada da? He said, who do you say that?

  899. I am. They said, we are the Christ,

  900. the son of the Living God and he says, Peter flesh and blood has

  901. not revealed that to you. But my but by the spirit, my

  902. father has and then he calls him blessed and he says, listen and

  903. this truth of who I am meaning, I'm the Christ.

  904. I'm the king who's bringing the kingdom that I have no end

  905. according to You, all right. Will be the Bedrock foundation

  906. on which I will build my church, and his church is not a brand

  907. new term, and it's not a religious term, it was already

  908. in the Earth. And that's why the passion gets

  909. it right says this my legislative assembly.

  910. On Tuesdays aniela. How many Tuesday's is this at

  911. the county Tuesdays when they have their board meeting?

  912. First and third on the first and third and st.

  913. Johns County. They have a board of County

  914. Commission meeting in essence. They have an assembly Writing

  915. you know up in our state I went and prayed they were having an

  916. assembly a legislative assembly where they were creating laws

  917. debating to determine how we better govern the citizens.

  918. Are you hear me? And if you want to know what

  919. they mean, you got to stay connected to that.

  920. If you want to know what kind of laws, they're trying to pass

  921. because there are laws that are trying to destroy the church and

  922. it's in the state level. It's in county and City levels,

  923. and it's in federal levels because there is a hostile

  924. government. But we are legislative assembly.

  925. So church is when we come together as ambassadors in this

  926. Embassy, and we're hearing from the home country, on how we need

  927. to handle things in our own personal lives, right?

  928. And really God talking to you about, you is really just

  929. training. So you'll be a better Ambassador

  930. because you can't be a good Ambassador if you don't

  931. represent him because your behavior looks like the world

  932. because you're going rogue. So, he trains you to be a great

  933. Ambassador so that you always embody the kingdom.

  934. And then he will, then tell you how to actually handle

  935. situations in your home at work. He'll give you the capacity.

  936. To negotiate and that comes because you come to church and

  937. grow in the word. So he says, my, I'll build my

  938. church. My legislative assembly and the

  939. power of death will not be able to overpower.

  940. I will give you the what keys of Heavens Kingdom Realm.

  941. Keys plural. To forbid on Earth, that which

  942. has been forbidden in heaven and to release on Earth, that which

  943. has been released in heaven. I know the King James says bound

  944. on Earth. You know, and buying in heaven,

  945. you don't bind in heaven on. You don't bond Earth on Earth

  946. before you bind in heaven Heavens telling you what we have

  947. this is our position. Our position is bond this you

  948. like okay as an ambassador here's my position, we're

  949. bonding that because it's already there in heaven, that

  950. way. If Heaven said we going to lose

  951. this, then you're in your Isshin, we going to lose this.

  952. It's not my opinion. I don't have my ID come to serve

  953. my own will only the will of my father, right?

  954. And so he will tell us, I remember when we first started

  955. and we went over to this 312 location, we were in Gamble.

  956. Rogers. Shot over to this 312 location

  957. across from Cobblestone and we were into storefronts in a

  958. warehouse. And so we were, you know, first

  959. going to be there, 10,000 square feet.

  960. You know, it's going to be our new home.

  961. We were advertised as a big sign in some citizen of st.

  962. Johns County went by who Was not a by hostile Nation.

  963. They were called the county and says, there's a church-going in

  964. here. We don't like it or they doing

  965. right. And man we are in there painting

  966. getting ready for service. and then all of a sudden inspector

  967. from the county shows up and tells us That we can't do any

  968. more work and that we are not even allowed in the building.

  969. We're not authorized, which was surprising.

  970. Because when we got into the lease anyway with the owner, I

  971. called zoning, and I asked them about Zoni.

  972. It was under a what they call a commercial, the general and

  973. churches can be in that area. So this is a shock to me.

  974. So I just got into diplomacy. I'm gonna give you a real-life

  975. testimony. So I came up because I was in

  976. the back, saw him there, and I shook his hand and he said,

  977. y'all can't work here. You know, he was pretty stomped,

  978. you know, he was kind of like he got his badge here, right?

  979. I'm the authority don't even talk to me.

  980. It's kind of that kind of approach, right?

  981. But I was soft in diplomacy. So, what's happening?

  982. You know? Okay, he said, I don't shoot the

  983. messenger because he was expecting a response of

  984. retaliation. I'm like, hey, you're just doing

  985. your job, no problem. He got shocked by that

  986. statement. I said, I am a little confused.

  987. I mean I had called the county about it.

  988. They said I was, he said well, you know, you're not zoned for

  989. this, I said that's very surprising, but that's fine.

  990. Can you give me a name? He goes.

  991. He literally said this. You're really taking this well I

  992. said, sir, you're just doing your job, it's no big deal.

  993. I just honestly, I just need of name.

  994. I mean I'm going to have to, obviously, go work it out.

  995. He goes, wow, he goes away. Anytime I go to church, they

  996. died. No one's ever responded like you

  997. That means they yelled at them. They got mad at him.

  998. They were Pharisee pastors. So because I responded

  999. diplomatically piece trying to restore peace.

  1000. There's obviously something going on here that I'm unaware

  1001. of. How can we restore peace.

  1002. I said now, listen, I got this one challenge.

  1003. You know, can you help me? You know, I said the church will

  1004. be here on Sunday. I have no way to be able to

  1005. communicate with everyone that we can't be in this location.

  1006. You know, would it be okay if we come Sunday so I can let them

  1007. know what's going on? Obviously, the next day was

  1008. Friday, I will get down to zoning.

  1009. I'll find out what's going on. Then I can inform them and we

  1010. can obviously make decisions. He says, that's fine because we

  1011. don't even work on the weekend anyway.

  1012. So that's no problem. Y'all can come, he gave me

  1013. permission to assemble in a building.

  1014. He's already told me. I'm not authorized in.

  1015. So then I went to the county met with the zoning manager had a

  1016. meeting and I said, you know, All them who I was.

  1017. Oh yeah, you know, because they know all's that church, you

  1018. know, already got the buzz about it, right?

  1019. And everybody's looking around at the guy that's coming in as

  1020. from that church, that's serious.

  1021. That's how that went down. And so they showed me and gave

  1022. me, you know, told me why, you know, it's a PUD actually.

  1023. Okay, in though, you know, it meets, you know, it's

  1024. underneath, you know, commercial General and Commercial

  1025. intensive. The reality is, it's a PUD and

  1026. these are the allowable uses and churches not on there.

  1027. So, wow. Okay.

  1028. I said, well, can I have a copy of that she said?

  1029. Yep, no problem. So I got a copy of that, send it

  1030. to my attorney because again, you're zoning manager, you're

  1031. doing what you've been told, but I'm fixing to go up a notch,

  1032. right? Because again, I'm being

  1033. diplomatic, I was nice wasn't upset, nothing as far as they

  1034. were concerned, they thought, okay, that worked out.

  1035. Well, you know, on to the next client, well, I call my

  1036. attorney, my attorney Lisa, and I Pastor Earle this first

  1037. paragraph right here. Says you meet.

  1038. Spirit of intent. And in this list of pu Dee's,

  1039. okay, down here, you know there is a Moose Lodge which is a 501,

  1040. c 3. And there is a federal law

  1041. called the rluipa that prohibits communities from discriminating

  1042. against churches that if they allow a non-profit to be in a

  1043. location. They cannot discriminate against

  1044. the church being in the like location.

  1045. So because you meet the spirit and intent even though they

  1046. don't have you in the list, aw. Obviously you meet the

  1047. qualification you can go. Now listen, that doesn't mean

  1048. they could throw you in jail. If all they want to do is

  1049. interpret it that way. But I'm telling you, you do have

  1050. a legal standing. I said I'll take that.

  1051. So my diplomacy changed. At that point.

  1052. I'm like I'm not leaving. I didn't leave so that point

  1053. went to the congregation. Told them went back to zoning on

  1054. Monday, handed them, their own zoning and I said, told them

  1055. this whole thing that I just said with and they said we've

  1056. never interpreted it that way. I said, well, I'm in the

  1057. business of changing people's thinking, right?

  1058. This was diplomacy. This is not me getting mad.

  1059. This is not me saying, well, I guess God didn't call me to st.

  1060. Augustine. Cause it didn't work.

  1061. Out are, you know, I'm going to go to another community.

  1062. Like most pastors do when they hit their first trial in a

  1063. community because it's been three great years.

  1064. And maybe I'll go plant a church somewhere else.

  1065. No, I just listen to the king. At that point, they realize well

  1066. that could be a challenge for us because I gave them a federal

  1067. law that then they went to their County attorney about.

  1068. So they came back to me and says you know what, we're suggesting

  1069. that you do a major modification and that is you get your name

  1070. added to the list. I said well I can do that.

  1071. That's no problem. I'm doing diplomacy.

  1072. I have no problem doing that if that's if that's what we need to

  1073. do. That's no big deal to me.

  1074. I mean legally. I know I don't have to Do this,

  1075. but we'll do this. That's okay.

  1076. It's an application fee. Be $1500.

  1077. I said, why am I paying $1500 that I'll legally don't have to

  1078. do the thing in the first place? I understand.

  1079. So, Pastor us is our suggestion that you fill out the

  1080. application and then you ask for a waiver Right.

  1081. Okay, I'll ask for a waiver fun. So I had to go before the board,

  1082. the five power seats, right? Of the county for doing major

  1083. modification to get my name added to a list.

  1084. I don't have to get attitude but this is diplomacy.

  1085. You understand. I didn't go like I don't have to

  1086. do it and I'm not and we going to do to church.

  1087. And then y'all bring it along. How stupid is this?

  1088. I could have been in the paper that way.

  1089. But God was doing more for anchor features.

  1090. The way I was doing it. Because I was doing it the Kings

  1091. Way. Well, I get up there and they

  1092. said, just tell him you're your new church.

  1093. You don't have a whole lot of money.

  1094. That's what they wanted me to say that.

  1095. Was their counsel to me. Okay.

  1096. So I got up there and I told them, you know, I said I'm, you

  1097. know, I'm doing major modification.

  1098. So we can be here to get Church, add it to the list, you know, we

  1099. are church and we're asking for an exemption, you know, from

  1100. having to pay it, I didn't tell them, we were broke because we

  1101. weren't I said, but, you know, if that's not enough, I have

  1102. more information that I could share now, step back and one of

  1103. the County attorneys say, we'll go ahead and tell your

  1104. information. I said there's a federal law by

  1105. the name boom. And I just went off like a

  1106. lawyer literally, I mean I had anointing for that.

  1107. Hit me and they're all like looking at each other like this

  1108. and they looking down the county attorney.

  1109. And the County Attorney is looking like this and going So

  1110. after that, they're like will waive your fee and then move

  1111. the. So I had to go to shoot up,

  1112. easy, a which is Planning and Zoning agency.

  1113. I gotta go before 10 people. Now just so that I can get

  1114. people and then they can put it in a paper.

  1115. Because if anybody has a problem becoming we want the public on

  1116. this stuff, that's fine. This is diplomacy, no problem.

  1117. Went to the ten, all ten of them say we approved.

  1118. We recommend that you be there and they add you to the less

  1119. unanimous. Went back to the cow the board.

  1120. Now all the while I am in the building but you know what the

  1121. Hostile nation is doing, they're still trying to create conflict

  1122. and one of the conflict is your an assembly, that's your, that's

  1123. your occupancy and you are in a Mercantile.

  1124. And the spaces were designed for Mercantile.

  1125. And the fire rating of a wall in between Mercantile is only one

  1126. hour, but you've got to have a to our firewall.

  1127. Now, the building them back which was 3,400 square feet.

  1128. It was separated from the building, which made it a four

  1129. hour fire rating. So, I could come out of 7,000.

  1130. Squeeze us into three and did that.

  1131. Why we put up, she trots, three layers, deep on the other side.

  1132. In the building. Where no one was in.

  1133. There was no other tenants. We were the only ones in the

  1134. building but this is diplomacy. What is this?

  1135. This is, I understand your rules and regulations.

  1136. I have no problem with it, even though this is a little bit

  1137. asinine, No problem. Because at the end of the day,

  1138. God wants us to have peace. I don't want to be considered a

  1139. jerk. Like most Christians.

  1140. Get so we're putting three layers of sheet, rock on one

  1141. wall. That was pretty awesome.

  1142. We negotiated with that because they have offices connected were

  1143. like, man, we have to tear that uh, I'm giving you all of it

  1144. right now. It's very difficult.

  1145. Unless you have never heard this, but they allowed us to do

  1146. three layers. Only on one side, to meet the

  1147. rating, I got it completed. Wanted them to inspect.

  1148. How to guess minister in. Okay, but they didn't make the

  1149. inspection, they didn't come. So my conscience wouldn't let me

  1150. do it in the church, so I held a service outside. because at the

  1151. end of the day, I'm not in this case, the diplomacy is Wait, for

  1152. the inspection. So they came the next week

  1153. inspected. We moved into the space.

  1154. I had to go back before the board.

  1155. And at that point, we had one person have public comment.

  1156. Have you seen their website? You know what, all they're going

  1157. to do. They're going to just out of

  1158. dada. Dada da, I'm says, I said sir,

  1159. we're Beginning church. I said, most of the stuff in our

  1160. vision could never be in this location.

  1161. This is definitely temporary. You know, we're going to be here

  1162. for season then, we're going somewhere else lo and behold.

  1163. They didn't know we were going to the mall and going to take

  1164. it. Hallelujah.

  1165. I was right when I said this one, big enough lo and behold

  1166. they didn't know if they had only no you know I didn't put

  1167. that the website we taking them all.

  1168. I didn't do that. I didn't know at that time

  1169. anyway. Four out of five said we should

  1170. be there. We should be there.

  1171. So we got our pass. Now here's a sad story but true

  1172. the one that said no State hostile towards the church.

  1173. And the King took it personal. Six months later, they were

  1174. caught embezzling money. They were thrown in jail and

  1175. within two years, they committed suicide in there.

  1176. Probably should have said, yes. You David said, Mana?

  1177. I mean, the Bible talks about you don't want to be around an

  1178. Angry. God, you don't want to be in his

  1179. Wrath. Right now guys, when it came to

  1180. covid diplomacy was different. Because I had our government

  1181. come to me and say we need you to keep the preschool open.

  1182. In this building, okay? Because nurses in Flagler are

  1183. dropping their kids off at your preschool.

  1184. Nurses that are dealing with covid patients are dropping

  1185. their kids off in our preschool? Yes.

  1186. Okay, we need you to stay open. Okay, we're going to clean but

  1187. we don't want the church. I said nah.

  1188. It's not going to happen. I can clean this facility Monday

  1189. through Friday kids, who are going home with moms that have

  1190. been around covid in a hospital. And you're going to act.

  1191. Like I can't take care of my congregation on a Sunday and

  1192. Wednesday but I diplomatically we did do compromise.

  1193. I shut down the Mighty Men. Monday meetings, we didn't do

  1194. any extra stuff like what kingdom Institute?

  1195. We didn't do that. We might have kept Kingdom

  1196. Minister because it was small number.

  1197. We did do that. But we only did our Sunday

  1198. Wednesday night service Kingdom Institute nithin else we did.

  1199. So that was a diplomatic move. But you know what?

  1200. The Hostile Nation drove by custis, Al threatened us on

  1201. social media, they would kill us.

  1202. I had a higher security, literally Right?

  1203. Y'all remember that? But what happened at the end of

  1204. the day? It all negotiated out, God moved

  1205. on. Our governor ended up putting a

  1206. big push for the church in general.

  1207. We passed then the county attorney's that were involved

  1208. with me, his full circle, the County attorneys who were

  1209. involved with me during the very first occasion.

  1210. And I've gone in and done many permits since then, and I've had

  1211. them, say, I remember when you came in the first time, Will you

  1212. quit created quite a Ruckus? I was going to come to your

  1213. church but I was like, man, I don't know if people know I'm

  1214. going there because you shot you set waves.

  1215. So I did send waves my my kingdom sent waves.

  1216. Right. My kingdom.

  1217. So we're planning. Wow, what are we?

  1218. What are you gonna do? Our Sur.

  1219. We said, okay, we could take this outside.

  1220. No big deal. We are not forsaking the

  1221. assembly itself together. We going to do this.

  1222. So we had this plan of going outside.

  1223. We going to be here, this is going to happen.

  1224. This is going to happen the same day.

  1225. Our governor comes out and says, churches are essential right?

  1226. Which again, I don't need his approval, but I'm just saying,

  1227. God, did that at the end of the day?

  1228. Next thing, you know, we're calling the County Attorney

  1229. because we have a relationship, And we're like, what are you

  1230. doing with? What he said.

  1231. He said, man, we just got a hot off the press herself.

  1232. We're looking at it, right? So the County Administrator and

  1233. the County Attorney at the time, took it upon themselves, didn't

  1234. even ask wrote a letter and said, anchor Faith Church can

  1235. Assemble Lawfully based upon this order that he came out with

  1236. dada dada and we put it on the front door.

  1237. Yeah, put on the front door because our kingdom got into

  1238. diplomatic relations. Are you hearing me?

  1239. Are you hear me? This is how we have to fight.

  1240. If you can't even take care of yourself, God's not using you to

  1241. represent bigger things. But when you take care of

  1242. yourself, God will start allowing you to represent

  1243. different things. There are things we can do as

  1244. diplomats that will stop Nations.

  1245. I know our US government is not asking the church to pray about

  1246. what to do with China, but I don't need their authorization.

  1247. Because Rhema long before the wall fell down in Germany.

  1248. God it in the spirit, by Brother Hagin in.

  1249. Is that right? Pastor Daryl and they were

  1250. praying. Every meeting they went, they

  1251. were praying that the wall would come down.

  1252. What were they doing? They were using diplomacy.

  1253. They were fighting the battle where the battle was

  1254. principalities and powers and it moved things around.

  1255. So that a leader would actually get elected in our nation that

  1256. then took they natural diplomacy and says tear that Wall down and

  1257. the Wall came down, I'm telling you the church has to do the

  1258. same thing, we're against principalities and Powers the.

  1259. The bamboo curtain is what we call it when it's China has not

  1260. come down but we could make force by it again.

  1261. Sure we could nuke our whole place out, right?

  1262. We can have all kinds of bombers.

  1263. I don't have a problem with your natural show of force, but the

  1264. church could pray and crippled Nations, because, we know Elijah

  1265. prayed. So that, Rain would show up in

  1266. his own nation, and it crippled it.

  1267. So again but we're not even ask because we're not even being

  1268. diplomatic. Always trying to do is live our

  1269. best life now. Hallelujah, God's called, anchor

  1270. Faith Church. He said to my wife and I I'm

  1271. closing with this. he said, you'll be A forerunner Ministry

  1272. told me that now 4Runner Ministry is John the Baptist

  1273. I've always been drawn to the ministry of John the Baptist

  1274. because and that's why I love John 3:30.

    John 3:30

  1275. I must decrease and he must increase.

  1276. C z. But he announced the coming

  1277. King. And I can't prove it.

  1278. But it seems that we're living in the last of the last days so

  1279. much. We know we are the closest to

  1280. the catching away of the church ever.

  1281. And could it be that anchor of a church literally is the

  1282. Forerunner who right now? And st.

  1283. Augustine Valdosta. India soon, Managua another one

  1284. in Lyon and Porta-Potty platter Dominican Republic.

  1285. Chicago, Connecticut, maybe at some other time as well and who

  1286. knows at other locations. Those Ministries those that

  1287. church anchor of a church is going to Herald the kingdom.

  1288. John the Baptist message was repent for the Kingdom of Heaven

  1289. is at hand. Do you believe the Kingdom of

  1290. Heaven is at hand again? And I believe the Kingdom of

  1291. Heaven is at hand again and that we could be living In the age

  1292. that timeframe right at the end. I mean we're in the age.

  1293. I'm talking about in that last of Le were the, we hear the

  1294. trumpet sound. So I'm telling you I don't know

  1295. how old you are but you should really try to hold out for 120

  1296. because think about it. If the Lord did come back in

  1297. 2030 2035 2040 and you can make it to that.

  1298. Wouldn't you want to just be changed?

  1299. In the moment in the twinkling of an eye will not be amazing

  1300. because somebody's going to have that experience that's going to

  1301. happen, right? And I believe that this is the

  1302. Mandate that we have is to take our foundation of faith that we

  1303. receive from Rhema. And on top building on that the

  1304. kingdom of God, when I say Bill I'm talking rightly dividing the

  1305. word of Truth is what we learned at Rhema.

  1306. And And now we're preaching the kingdom of God.

  1307. That's what we're going to do, which means that he's assembling

  1308. ambassadors, and I'm going to tell you what, the last end time

  1309. Harvest looks like, are you ready for this?

  1310. It's not singing. It's not, it is churches having

  1311. people. But it's the reason they're

  1312. there is because you as ambassadors are going out laying

  1313. hands on the sick. Casting out Devils.

  1314. It's this ain't the pastor show, this ain't an apostle show, this

  1315. ain't an evangelist show, this is a saint show, it's the church

  1316. maturing, we're all of us realize we got a part to play in

  1317. his kingdom where ambassadors? And I can lay hands on this

  1318. front. I could be a diplomat in this

  1319. location right now and bring Heaven to Earth in this

  1320. environment. And when we're all doing that,

  1321. man that hostile territory is going to lose a lot of people.

  1322. We won't get them all but we know this your king will not.

  1323. Protect you. As long as you stay within your

  1324. assignment. I can't guarantee that you

  1325. wouldn't die. Paul knew he was going to die

  1326. but he couldn't die. Before it was Tom, same thing

  1327. with you, they try to kill him multiple times.

  1328. Wouldn't do it till it was Tom. Now most of us are not going to

  1329. go out being martyred, but I don't want to give fantasy and

  1330. think if you're an ambassador, you can never die.

  1331. I'm not saying that I am saying that they can't take you.

  1332. You would know that. That's how it's going to go and

  1333. you would say I have fought the good fight.

  1334. I've run the race. I've finished my course you

  1335. would know that but that's a minority.

  1336. Most of us are just going to live on and could be that we

  1337. never experience the grave. Hallelujah.

  1338. So you come to church, why to get the art and practice of

  1339. diplomacy? So that you're always led by the

  1340. spirit on how you're going to navigate around people and show

  1341. them the king. Thank you so much for listening

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