Kingdom Rise Conference - Day 1 - Session 2 - Pastor Mark Brady Jr.

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The, in these morning sessions, I want to unveil the mystery of

the Kingdom. The Mystery of the Kingdom I

have learned to discover this over my years, now 2009 was when

I was originally first introduced to the kingdom

message and I have noticed this in Believers that to whatever

degree the kingdom becomes revealed is what determines the

level of the Kingdom that you live.

So the capacity of Kingdom life, that you live will never exceed

the In of the mystery. I've watched people try to

inform themselves of the kingdom and have failed.

But the ones that grasp, the kingdom of God, are those that

yield to the Revelation capacity of the kingdom and there is a

mystery to the kingdom of God. And in John chapter 3, Jesus is

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approached by a religious leader named Nicodemus.

And in verse 1, it says there was a man named Nicodemus, a

Jewish Religious leader, who was a Pharisee after dark one

evening. He came to speak with Jesus

Rabbi. He said we all know that God has

sent you to teach us your miraculous.

Signs are evidence that God is with you.

Your miraculous signs are evidence.

There proof that God is with you.

Notice that he's speaking number one that he's heard the teaching

and number two, he's seen the Natural and operation.

He's seen the signs and wonders. He's seen the Miracles.

He seen the demons, cast out, the body's healed, the bod dead

bodies raised. He's seen these wonderful size

that we know were exhibited through Jesus ministry on a

constant basis everywhere. He went, he was bringing Heaven

to Earth and he was revealing the supernatural into the

natural. He was making the Unseen seen.

And so he's able to see tangible evidence real time, real life

proof that God is with you. There's something different

about you. Don't, you know, our lives as

Kingdom citizens, ought to be distinguished.

There ought to be a contrast between our lives.

There ought to be a separation. There ought to be a Line in the

Sand. There ought to be something

differentiating you between the world, the way you respond to

Two challenges and issues on to be different than the way the

world responds. The way the world carries about

themselves, what they put their value and their interest, in

their opinions, and their agendas what they talk about.

Think about look at their attitudes and all these

different ways. We ought to be distinguished.

Amen. And so, he's recognizing this

about Jesus. There is something different

about you. And Jesus replies in verse 3.

This is where we're going to kind of camp and break this

down, and hopefully, over these next several weeks, really begin

to leave a deposit here. Jesus replied.

He said, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again.

Everyone say born again. You cannot see the kingdom of

God. Now, he's just identified of

heard your teachings. I've seen tangible proof, I've

seen the signs and wonders, I've seen the Miracles, I've

witnessed these things. I've been in the audience, I've

been a bystander. I've been able to stand back and

say, even in all, wow, there is something about this man.

Don't you know that happen multiple times in Jesus

ministry. Now people responded with all to

his teaching, who is this man that he ministers and teachers

with such Authority that they heave it?

Went to his own Hometown. In Mark chapter 6, the town of

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Nazareth. And it says that they heard the

powerful teaching and that they saw the miracles signs and

wonders and yet still became offended and said, but isn't he

the Carpenter's son? Not only live with his brothers

and sisters, isn't he from Nazareth?

And they couldn't reconcile what he was doing with who he was in.

The natural says that they became offended because of their

unbelief. If it says he was able to do no

Mighty work there except heal a few sick people, the only

occurrence that we have where Jesus wasn't able to produce the

the signs and the wonders in the totality that he did.

In many other places says he healed, all kinds of sickness.

All kinds of does. He never came into a situation

where he wasn't able to perform and able to operate in the

Supernatural and the miraculous he was limited in this capacity.

Not because he was off that day. Not because he didn't have his

Wheaties, not because he would didn't wake up on the right side

of the bed because of their lack of receptivity to his ministry.

But yet they saw the Miracles and they heard the teachings.

There's this matter of hearing and seeing that Jesus

continually addresses in his ministry and that will find even

in the Epistles, Paul is addressing this matter of

hearing and seeing and it will either your hearing and seeing

will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the

kingdom of God. You're hearing in your seeing

will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the

kingdom of God? To what degree you are able to

hear to what degree you are. Able to see determines the

measure of the Kingdom, that will be exhibited in your life.

And so what ministered, this message.

Now, you know, going on 14, 15 years, I've heard it ministered

now for, for such time and it seems that, no matter how many

verses I use, no matter how much evidence, I bring no matter even

how much demonstration of the Kingdom, we can see in the

miraculous, if we don't understand these concepts of

hearing and seeing, We're going to completely miss the kingdom

of God. And we're going to be forced to

resort to a mere bystander. May be applauding a miracle, you

know, it's possible to see a miracle yet not be changed by

one. Get it leaves.

No mark on your life yet it leaves you as Pastor Ronnie just

said the same as you were before.

People go to church and hear Dynamic messages, people get to

see these signs and wonders many times we think.

Oh, if you would just give me a sign.

Oh, if I would just receive the healing in my bio.

If I would just have this Deliverance or few and heal my

marriage or restore this or deliver that, that I would, I

would believe you and I would follow you.

And I would see the king. Adam of God in totality of my

life, but that's just not a true statement.

You can't get much more tangible than Jesus.

Walking the Earth. The word becoming flesh dwelling

Among Us. You can't get more tangible,

then God putting himself in flesh and literally being

present on this planet and there are people Believers still

today. That think we would be better

off if Jesus came and walked the Earth and they don't have any

understanding that the spirit of God lives inside of you.

You haven't been Better than they had it.

We read the Bible and we wish we could see what Abraham saw.

We wish we can see what it moves its on.

We wish we could see what David song.

We Wish we can see with the disciples and the apostles saw

And you're going to get to heaven, you're going to ask

David what it was like to slay Goliath and you're going to ask

Moses what it was like to part the rivers and you're going to

ask you, you know, all these great prophets and and people

that God used throughout the word of God and they're going to

look at you say, I want to know what it was like to have the

Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you.

Jesus wasn't joking when he said, it's to your advantage

that I go, you're better off without me because now my spirit

can come and reside with you. The helper the comforter the

intercessor. The standby can come live and

dwell in abide with you and he will remain with you forever.

Jesus. Why do we look back on the past?

With greater fervor than we do. What is yet ahead in our future?

It's because we are hearing and we are seeing Jesus says that a

marker. A characteristic of a born again

person is this they see the kingdom of God.

I wonder if we use the term born again, the same way Jesus, used

it here in John chapter 3. This is what I've learned about

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Christianity and religion. And even just church-going, this

is Kingdom rise, right? Right.

This is Kingdom rides where rising to another level.

We are coming up in our thinking.

We're coming out of just status quo and just barely look, here's

the thing. If the enemy can't keep you out

of the Kingdom, he will get you to live its lowest form

possible. He wants you to live at the

lowest entry level State possible.

And so what happens is what we fail to understand?

We usually redefined what we fail to understand, we'd usually

redefined we lower the standard of the term and I think Born

Again is one of those terms. There's many of them that

without the kingdom lens, without the kingdom framework

without seeing it. Through the lens of the kingdom

of God, we will redefine it and lower it down to praying a

Prayer of Salvation. Making entrance into a kingdom

only waiting as Pastor Rowdy said the entirety of Our Lives

until we die and go to be with him in heaven, only to find out

that we wasted a born-again life, A Renewed life, I redeemed

life, a restored life on the earth, having the same measure

the same capacity, The Same Spirit that raised Christ from

the dead dwelling in, you wasting away.

No, I Think Jesus had a different standard for this term

born again. Then you and I this word, c

means this. It means to know become aware

behold, understand and experience.

It means to know become aware behold, understand.

And experience the kingdom of God although invisible is made

known in the visible. Jesus prayed in Matthew chapter

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6. Let's let your kingdom.

Come he never designed his kingdom to remain in the

invisible. It starts in The Invisible but

it ought to be transferred into the visible by Kingdom.

Citizens, that walk about daily bringing his will into this in

This realm into this world into this life.

You and I are confronted daily with opportunities, to bring the

Unseen into the seen you and I we are never at a shortage of

opportunities. To bring the kingdom to Earth.

Not in 2023. Not in the United States of

America, not in a day where every standard of the word is

challenge, question and degraded.

You and I have plenty of opportunities to make the

kingdom of God, known do our conversations through our

actions, through our attitude, through our responses.

Not just in the miraculous, but hey, even in the culture.

Culture, this is what culture is culture.

Is when action becomes reaction, I'll say that again, culture is

when action becomes reaction. Meaning it's the automatic

natural response and you and I have plenty of opportunities to

respond either by the culture of the world or by the culture of

the Kingdom. There's no shortage of

opportunities. It's not a matter of, if it's a

matter of will we, when we, how we demonstrate the kingdom of

God, in our lives, Nicodemus has seen the kingdom of God.

Demonstrated he's heard the kingdom of God ministered, and,

and taught dynamically. But yet Jesus makes this weird

statements in response unless you're born again.

You do not even have the capacity to see, to know, to

become aware, to behold, to understand or experience the

kingdom of God. Jesus is saying this, it should

be common for born-again believers.

To see, no demonstrate experience, behold the kingdom

of God in essence, it should be more natural for you to live

according to the kingdom than, according to the world.

Should be more natural to perceive things, according to

the kingdom of God. And the world's way of doing

things, the culture of the Kingdom should be your natural

response, that should not just be the action, it should be the

reaction. You know, one thing that was

telling three years ago was the church's reaction to a pandemic

to crisis to struggle to challenge to opposition.

Many Believers are only one crisis away from walking away

from everything. They say they stand on and

that's too much of a reality and that's why we have Kingdom rise

conferences. One crisis away.

You don't find about what someone's made of in Comfort.

You don't even know what you're made of until shot challenge

shows up. You don't even know what you got

until crisis, pulls. And makes a demand on what's

inside of you. We have a world today that will

give everything to live in Comfort.

Comfort and convenience are the name of the game.

Live as simple as quiet as, as, in the background in the shadows

is possible. When we are called to be taking

by violent Force, The kingdom suffers violence and the

violent. Take it by force.

We should be advancing and offensive church has become

defensive. We found ourselves shuttered up

indoors rather than bombarding. The gates of hell and tearing it

down, Matthew chapter, 16, Jesus mentions the church.

He says, you will attack the gates of hell and it cannot

Prevail against you. No weapon formed against you can

prosper. I am going to start preaching.

There might flip this thing around.

Amen. No, he's saying it should be

common tommen. Regular practice natural for the

believer. The born-again believer.

The truly, According To Jesus standard of Born Again.

To see, no experience, behold the kingdom of God, Jesus sets

the expectation that the Born Again, life should be marked by

a kingdom experienced. Jesus sets, the expectation that

the board again, life should be marked by a kingdom experience

and every time someone comes into contact with you, they come

in contact with the kingdom. Paul said I'm an ambassador for

chains ambassadors, don't have opinions.

Come on. If people are asking you, what

do you think about this and what do you think about that in your

still spewing your opinion? There might be more of the world

and you than the kingdom. This should be the natural

reaction. I'll tell you what my king says.

Got to be very careful with these things because we are

Kingdom ambassadors. Give him my opinion is worth as

much as yours. Nothing.

Nothing. But my king, my Kings got a

word, my Kings got a law, my King has got a constitution, my

King has got a confident, like he's got an agreement, a binding

contract. So we got to order these things.

No, we got to understand that being born again, is an

invitation to discovery of what's ahead, not just realizing

what we've left behind. Say that again, being born

again, is an invitation into discovery of what's ahead.

Not just the realization of what we left behind.

Sobering thought. If you ask a Believer today, a

Christian. What have you been saved from?

Oh, they can tell you all kinds of stuff.

But if you ask that same believer, now what have you been

saved for? All of a sudden is crickets, or

you might get the typical answer.

Heaven. Take us all the way to the end.

Now, I don't believe his Born Again citizens in the kingdom of

God. We should have a greater

realization of what we were set free from than what we've been

set free for Jesus came to point us forward, not just a mirror

Looking Backward. I'm thankful for the grace of

God, the mercy of God, the delivering power of God, the

Redemption of God, the restoration of God, I'm thankful

for the thing that he brought me out of Darkness into light, but

I want to know what's in the light.

He brought me out of death into life but I want to know what's

in life. I don't want to just be we are

more acquainted with what we got us out of.

No wonder it's so easy that we fall back into it.

We're more familiar with what he's delivered us from that.

What he's delivered us for and delivered us into.

We've gotta have a forward-thinking, born-again a

forward thinking. What am I pressing on to Ward?

I forget the things that I that lie behind, I'm pressing toward

the Mark, I'm pressing in. I'm enduring, I'm persevering

I'm pushing through, I'm overcoming No, we got to have

the standard that Jesus set for being born.

Again, there's a mystery of the kingdom of God.

He says, being born again, means that you can see the kingdom of

God Nicodemus responds in verse 4.

He says, what do you mean? How can an old man go back into

his mother's womb and be born again?

What a weird thing to say, like, even if you're thinking it just

thinking, he'll need to vocalize that far.

We don't you said the quiet part out loud, Nicodemus.

We don't need to say that the first five Jesus response.

I assure you he says this no one can enter everyone say, enter

the kingdom of God without being born of water and the spirit

humans can only reproduce human life but the holy spirit gives

birth to Spirit real life. He says this, don't be surprised

when I say you must be born again.

The wind blows wherever it wants just as you can hear the wind.

So we can hear something. But can't tell where it comes

from or where it is going. So you can't explain how people

are born of the spirit. And verse 9 Nicodemus is just

getting more confused through this conversation.

He says, how are these things possible?

I love Jesus response. You're a respected Jewish

teacher like your the elite. Your this is the top dogs, right

here. I shouldn't have to be

explaining this to you, but he's going deeper to show Nicodemus.

You haven't made any entrance at all that you've know and, you

know, and, you know, and you have filled your head with

knowledge. But you have failed to filled

your spirit with Revelation. And this is the thing about the

mystery of the kingdom of God. You cannot inform someone of the

Kingdom. You can only reveal the kingdom.

Matthew 16, Jesus proves this When he had the conversation

with the disciples who do men say that I am and the first few

answers gave him a lot of information.

Well you one of the prophets Elijah, maybe John the Baptist

but then Peter speaks up, right? But unction of the Holy Spirit,

he says what you are the Messiah, the Son of the Living

God. And Jesus quickly, lets them

know, flesh and blood has not told you this.

This is not something you were informed of this is something by

my Father in Heaven, through the spirit has revealed to you.

The mysteries of the kingdom are not informed.

They are revealed. The mysteries of the kingdom are

not discovered through information, they're discovered

through Revelation. And so if you lean on or if you

value the wrong things such as Nicodemus, you're going to find

yourself more and more perplexed.

You're going to find how is this possible?

How can these things be? And we know Believers that even

when we try to just cover the basics, just the surface stuff,

they get locked up because they're relying on information,

not Revelation by the Word of God.

There's a hearing and a seeing that we're going to find out.

Jesus says you have ears to hear but you don't hear you have eyes

to see but you don't see and we have to fix this problem in the

church. Otherwise we're going to keep.

Keep going through religious practice, go to our church

services, jerking Jiggle. Have our moments have are

emotional times but yet not be redeemed restored any different.

We're gonna not be changed in the brain and remain the same

churches full every weekend. They have people in

congregations that aren't gaining any advancement.

In the kingdom of God, they have resulted to Resort it to and

treat level Christianity. There is a kingdom that is the

threat to Darkness. There is a kingdom that is a

threat to the stronghold of the enemy.

There is a kingdom that will war against the gates of hell and

tear them down but it's not entry level.

It's not it's not waiting and standing by for Jesus to come

back to the clouds. It's not praying to Jesus.

Every time you have a problem, right?

Without recognizing I have the authority, I have the power.

My words, his word in my mouth is just as powerful as his words

in his mouth. I can speak to the thing.

I love the instance where you know, Jesus shows up in the

synagogue and a demon-possessed person shows up and comes down

and throws himself down at Jesus.

When the people gathered at the synagogue all the time.

Why didn't that demon possessed me and get cast out any other

time. Any other service?

Because it's not information, that's going to overthrow the

kingdom of darkness, its Revelation when you get this in

your spirit. Not just fill our notebooks and

fill our heads. We live Pete, we have people, we

have Christians today, full notebooks and empty lives Come

on, guys. We let the Bible tells us we're

going to Heap up for ourselves teachers, guys.

In these last days, we're not going to have a shortage of

teaching that we got more than this planet has ever had.

We've got every podcast and for you to every channel, every

radio station, every TV station. We got Christian television

networks. Not just the show.

We own the entire stinking Network.

Its Global going around, the world printing as much as we

want. But we've got way more, but I'm

concerned that we're doing far less.

I don't know that we're doing better with the overindulgence

that we have. Heard of the missionary took

bottles over to China, opened up the box, and they just throw

themselves, just ripping at the. Some of them were only

successful to get a page of the Bible and they would hold that

page, all wrinkled and crumpled for years reading the one page

of the Bible. I think sometimes we lose the

value when we have over too much easily, acquired, No, we've got

to gain a value for the things of the Kingdom.

Once again, we've got to turn, our hearing are seeing into

something more than just religious practice.

We've got to turn our hearing and are seeing more than just

sitting in a few look, checking our clocks.

We've got to turn our Hearing in are seeing more than just

jotting down, a few notes, but not applying the word, hiding

the word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

This Kingdom Rises, right? Let's look at this mystery.

Romans chapter 11. Give you a few verses here.

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It's a mystery. How is it that we could be?

Have so much access. But yet, still miss what's right

in front of us. Romans 11:25, I do not desire

Romans 11:25

Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery.

Once a mystery lest you should be wise in your own opinion.

The blindness in part has happened to Israel until the

fullness of the Gentiles has come Paul writes.

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery Ephesians

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chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7.

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In him, we have Redemption through his blood, the

Forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his

grace that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and

understanding he made known to us.

Everyone say it, the mystery of his will according to his good

pleasure that he purposed in Christ as a plan, for the right

time to bring everything. Together in Christ, both things

in heaven and things on earth in him, Colossians chapter 1.

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Colossians chapter 1. And verse 24, I now rejoice in

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my sufferings for you, fill up in my flesh, what is lacking in

the afflictions of Christ? For the sake of his body, which

is the Church of which I became a minister according to the

stewardship from God, which was given to me for you to fulfill

the word of God, verse 26, the mystery, every once a mystery,

which has been hidden, That's interesting.

Why would he hide it? The mystery which has been

hidden from ages and from Generations.

But now has been revealed, not informed.

Revealed. Will say, well, if it's been

revealed, why don't we all see it?

Because you have to yield to Revelation yielding.

The Revelation is much different than yielding to information.

That's what we're going to dive into.

It says that it has now been revealed to his Saints, verse

27, to them. God, willed, to make known.

What's that? Tell me that I'm not missing the

Revelation because God's with holding something I'm not

missing the Revelation because God doesn't want me to see it

because he's playing this hide and go seek this cat and mouse

game of Catch Me. If You Can, you know, dangling,

it out and do not yet know, there's something on our end,

something on our part that either Clues Us in or keeps us

on the outside. Of this mystery.

God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of

this mystery, among the Gentiles, which is Christ in.

You the hope of glory reading, this in the passion, translation

versus beginning with verse 25, this is the very reason I've

been made a minister by the authority of God and a servant

to his body so that in his detailed plan, I would fully

equip you It's the word of God. I'm so thankful of my legacy of

my Heritage attending. Rhema Bible training College,

when I did, and the value, they have for the word of God

understanding that we are developing ministers.

Not just to fill a Pulpit, not just to answer a vocation, not

just to collect a paycheck, not just to gain an occupation or go

into Ministry. This was a calling Upon Our

Lives. This was an assignment that

Outrun it I'll never be satisfied, doing anything else?

But the power of it is in this, I fill this Pulpit.

I operate in my role as a pastor to equip people with the word of

God, equipping, the Saints for the work of ministry.

Not collecting a check. I'm not appeasing people.

I'm not saying things to, please.

People are gaining crowd. Keep a crowd, get a crowd, those

things, don't matter to me. I preach for one reason and one

reason alone by the authority of God, a servant to the body, that

is detailed plan. I would fulfill, I would fully

equip you with the word of God and that's what Paul said was

his mission. That was his assignment.

He says there is a Divine mystery. a secret surprise that

has been concealed from the world for Generations but now

it's being revealed unfolded and manifested for every holy

believer to experience living within you is the Christ who

floods you with the expectation of Glory this mystery of Christ

embedded Within In US becomes a Heavenly Treasure Chest, every

once a treasure chest of Hope, filled with the riches of Glory

for his people and God wants everyone to know it.

God wants everyone to know it. He wants.

You say that with me. Stay God wants me to know the

mystery. Say it again, say God wants me

to know the mystery, he's not hiding it from you, he's hiding

it for you. He's not withholding, you know.

Member that was the, the nature of the stake in Genesis chapter

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3 questioning and challenging than Picture of God.

God is withholding something from did God.

Surely say. No, he knows that if you eat of

the fruit of that tree you'll become like him.

Knowing good. He's keeping something from you.

We've all either been in the state ourselves or know someone

that has been that has made this statement.

I know there's more come on. If that's you at any point in

your life, your walk with the Lord use you made the there's

got to be more, there's got to be more Pastor Daryl just said

that last night is own personal testimony, as a young college

student in Tennessee. That know, there's got to be

more than just good living by this life, trying to be as good

of a person as I can win as many people to Christ as I can.

There's gotta be more. And guess what God is saying?

There is more and I've hidden it for you and there is a way for

you to tap into the Revelation power.

So you won't just merely be informed of my kingdom.

You will be empowered in the Kingdom to literally walk it

out, demonstrate it live, it out.

But it's only going to come through revelation.

The word mystery literally means this the Greek word mystery

here, it means a secret thing. It means a hidden thing.

A secret thing, a hidden thing. We already made this statement

and mystery is not discovered through information, it is

discovered through revelation. And if I understand truly that

the degree of the Kingdom being exhibited in my life, the

capacity to which I live the kingdom life is directly,

directly correlates it is either enhanced or limited by my

ability to see this mystery than I want to go after this mystery

with everything that I have. I want to go after this mystery.

I don't ever want to come to church just going through the

motions. I don't ever want to sit in a

conference, listen to a podcast. Put the word of God on.

I never want to go into my daily devotion time with just casual

passive. Just trying to check a box and

get it done. I will never approach it.

That way, again, there's gonna have to be an urgency.

There's gonna have to be an intentionality.

There's gonna have to be a fervency about which we Honor

value in go after the word of God, it has to be a treasure.

It has to be a treasure Matthew chapter 13.

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I'm going to Pace myself, because I've got three sessions

to build on this. He says, you can't even see the

kingdom of God unless you're born again.

Noting that being born again, ought to be marked by seeing

hearing and entering into his kingdom.

Matthew Chapter 13. The parable of the sower.

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Jesus says that, if you don't understand this Parable, you

won't understand all the Parables.

Any other Parables, it's a very important concept and principle

and element that he's trying to help get across in how we

receive the word of God. And how we receive here, see

this mystery that we're talking about.

And up through verse 9, Jesus is talking to the multitudes, he's

talking to the multitudes and he makes a statement, you know,

regarding a soldier goes to, so the word of God, right?

We know that he sews the seed on four different types of ground.

This is Kingdom rise. I know that, you know, this, you

got the Stony ground, the thorny ground.

You got the one that starts to bring forth, but it gets, you

know, burned up by the sunlight and the elements and all those

things and then you got the good soil, the good ground now,

Becomes productive. It reaps the Harvest thirty

sixty, and a hundredfold, right? We know this.

Well, look at this, in verse 10, Verses 1 through 9, he gives the

parable verse 10 and the disciples came and said to him.

Why do you speak to them in parables?

Why do you speak to them in Parables?

This is Jesus response. He answered and said to them

because it has been given to you to know.

Here it is. The Mysteries.

Everyone say, Mysteries, the mysteries of the kingdom of

heaven, but watch this, he says, but to them, It has not to you.

It's been given the capacity to know the Mysteries what the

secret things. Those hidden things.

Those things that are not easily received easily just laying

around for anyone to come. Pick it up.

It's amazing that Jesus would draw a line here, the the

inclusive Jesus, right? The everybody's allowed, the all

accepting the all loving. Jesus draws, a line of says

there's an us and then there's a them and you have found your way

on the side of the US conversation.

He just got done preaching to a multitude.

A multitude could be thousands, tens of thousands of people and

his disciples Those closest to him.

Come and say, why do you talk to them in these parables?

Now for the longest time I preached and I understood it

this way and there's an element of truth to it.

That Jesus used Parables as a way to illustrate unseen things

and that's a true statements that teaching element.

But Jesus actually reveals a deeper thinking, a deeper

understanding of why these Parables were such a useful tool

to his. And he says this, I was actually

using a parable to conceal a thing to hide a thing.

To keep something a mystery. Again, this is the all inclusive

Jesus. Jesus wanted to get his message

out, he sure did but he was also careful of how he portrayed in

how he delivered it. And in such a way that unless

you desire to know you wouldn't know and this is this is what

Jesus did with Parables. If you don't want to know, I'll

make sure you don't know. And this is what we're going to

spend some time, just discovering.

If you don't want to know, he'll make sure you don't know.

And it's actually guys it's actually the mercy of God

because the second you know, you become accountable for what, you

know. It's actually him withholding

and saying I'm going to hold this back because I know you're

not ready to say, yes, you're not ready to yield, you're not

ready to respond in like manner. You're not even told his

disciples one time. There's one there's More things.

I would love to share with you. But you can't, it's my mercy

upon your life that I don't burn burden you with this and put

this upon you. When you can't bear these things

multitude can't bear it. But to you, he says to you, it's

been given To know the Mysteries to know the mystery.

Say that say I can know. The Mysteries say I will know

the mistress. He says in verse 12, here it is

for whoever has to him, more will be given And he will have

an abundance, doesn't that doesn't sound fair, does it?

He goes on to say, whoever does not have gets worse.

Even what he has will be taken. This is a very weird system.

The one that has Will be given more and it's very clear not

just to meet a threshold. He will have an abundance a

large Supply never in life. Would you like to live your

life, never lacking Revelation, knowing the will of God and

abundance. This is what we've been

preaching. All year at Valdosta Interfaith

Church Valdosta. This is the year of abundant

clarity. It's not just enough to get me

over not just barely cutting it or abundance of clay.

Am I right? Have we been ministering?

This guy. So my Valdosta people and in the

house we've been ministering, we will know clearly.

No no guessing. No wondering, no, hoping no

wishing taking a chance. We will know abundantly with

Clarity. The revealed will of God.

But to him, who doesn't have. The all-loving god.

That even what he doesn't have. Will be taken away.

It's a perplexing verse. It doesn't make sense.

If he doesn't have how can he do to, how can something be taken

away? What's he taking away?

If he doesn't have whoever has to him, more will be given, and

he will have abundance. Whoever does not have.

Even what he has will be taken away from him.

Therefore, you know, when you see the word, therefore, you got

to find out what it's there for. Therefore, I speak to them in

Parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not

hear you saying, I can't make it plain.

I can't just leave it on the surface.

He put it this way in another location.

He said I don't cast Pearls Before Swine, I don't take

something valuable. Meaning this, if you won't honor

the value, I'm not giving you a discount.

You ever try to buy someone something from someone where

they knew the value understood the worth of something and

they're not budging, they're not coming off.

There's no bargaining. There's no, if it's not that

valuable to you than pass you on by other, somebody will see the

Worthen. See when you discover your words

will stop giving people discounts, okay, Jesus knew the

worth He said I this is too valuable to just leave on the

surface. There's this, this is there's

too much worse than this. Just leave it laying around.

Casually for a casual, passerby to come by.

No, you're going to have to show some intentionality.

And if you have the urgency, you'll be given more and you'll

be, you'll have an abundance. but here's the thing, if you

don't have the want to Then even what you have will be taken

away. What does that mean?

That you'll even lose the capacity to hear If you want

here, then you'll eventually not even be able to hear.

And he describes this and he actually says this is actually

prophetically spoken by Isaiah. Verse 14.

Hearing you will hear and shall not understand.

Seeing you will see and not perceive for the hearts of this.

People have grown dull. That means not only, not only

that, you won't hear, you've lost the ability to hear.

The writer of Hebrews addresses. This is well.

He says, there's many more things that would love to bring

to you. Speak to you.

But you can't bear them because you have grown dull in your

hearing. Paul addressed.

This with the first current, the church in 1st Corinthians

chapter 3, many more things. I'd love to share with you.

I cannot speak to you as to spiritual.

But as to Babe's, Because you do not have the capacity to receive

what I want to deliver. It's not on me and I'm not

withholding it. But you do not, you do not have

the capacity to receive. So not only have you not, not

only do you not want to hear now?

You are losing the capacity to hear.

Even what you have will be taken away to him.

Who does not have Revelation, even what he has the capacity to

receive Revelation. He'll lose that too.

Well, and here, and try to connect it next week.

Romans chapter 10. We've read this verse time and

Romans 10 · chapter mention

time again. But as usual, what we fail to

understand, we redefined it says, faith comes by hearing.

And hearing by the word of God. you know, I think that we have,

you know, not intentionally, But we tend to read it this way.

So, faith comes by hearing. I mean, I've preached it, that

way, if you hear the word, you'll stir up Faith.

Build up, faith in you That's not what it says.

It says, faith comes by hearing. But hearing or put it to you,

this way, the ability the capacity to hear.

That comes by the word of God. If I don't have a value for the

word, if I don't honor the word, if I don't have a urgency for

the word, I'll lose the ability to hear losing the ability to

hear. Look, I lose the capacity to

build my faith. You got to see the connection.

Faith comes by hearing, you can put a period there you build

faith, in, whatever you here. I can put Faith In God's word or

I can put Faith in CNN. I can put Faith In God's word.

I could put Faith in the doctor's report, I can put Faith

In God's word, or I could put Faith in the bank account,

whatever, you're entertaining your empowering.

So becomes a matter of what am I entertaining?

What am I keeping in front of me?

What do I treat? As valuable, as honorable as

worth my time and energy. I got a note, I'm not in my

church so I can say this. I got a few of our people but

two weeks ago, not yesterday but last Sunday got a note Monday

morning in the tithe and offering.

Got a little note. Pastor Mark, I love your

messages but once again you have gone over an hour and now I end

up leaving service bitter and offended rather than encouraged.

I will not be attending any longer.

Isn't that hilarious? First thing I thought was

apparently I didn't go long enough, you still didn't get it.

Needed to go another hour. No, it's when we learn to Value,

if you don't treat this as honorable don't waste your time,

don't waste mine. It's that simple.

I'd hate to waste your time. but just, as Paul said, in his

assignment, I'm commissioned to fully equip you with the word of

God, if it takes 32 minutes, if it takes 50 minutes, if it takes

an hour and 10 minutes, I ministered for over 2 hours in

Nicaragua and they hated it when I was done and I was only done

because I had to because we had to move on to the next day.

I go to a third world country, they'll sit on a lawn chair.

We got too comfortable in two convenient and we wonder why we

don't know the revealed will of God.

We wonder why we don't understand his purpose and his

plan. We underwent, I don't understand

why we don't see the demonstrations that Jesus all.

When you value the things, the way Jesus values it, you'll get

the results Jesus God, we'll finish tomorrow.

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