Manifesting Melchizedek

Incident of living and the topic today is manifesting Melchizedek. It's a continuing series of what we've been doing over the last many

weeks and

The thing is

All the stuff we've been talking about oh, sorry, you know, I'm on yeah

All the stuff we've been talking about the principles the insights the revelations

if if they don't move from

Kairos to Kronos, okay?

When I say Kairos to Kronos Kronos means time, okay, so

Whenever God does something there's a season for everything that God does and we can kind of though

This may not be the exact definition Kairos is

The things that are released from seasons from God seasons that that kind of that kind of encompasses the whole idea of Kairos

We've got to take what God is revealing in

Kairos or in God seasons and we've got to make them real in Kronos, which is

time

chronology time and

If we are not able to do that then everything we are talking about these insights these teachings these principles these revelations are

Untested and useless

So anything that we talk about has to be brought from God's

Presence season or whatever he wants to do and whatever he's releasing we take that and we build it in our present time

It has to be something tangible and it has to demonstrate the life and the power of God

Hey, Ranita, it has to demonstrate the life and power of God

So if we don't do that, then everything we are doing thus far is useless. Okay, so just remember that

Thanks Ryan

So

We've been talking about

What did we talk about last week unprecedented living what what we were discussing last week

Jacob's Ladder

We're talking about how to access things from the heavenlies and make them here on earth. See as priests

We access the heavenlies as kings. We execute whatever we see on the earth

As priests we access the heavenlies it says priests that we have an insight or an

or a

Ability to penetrate the heavens and see what's happening there and it says kings that we now

execute it here and

we talked about this about

Six or seven months ago how we are priests kings here on earth

We are priests kings here on earth

revelations chapter 5 verse 10 says he has made us priests and

Revelation 5:10

Kings here on earth not in the future here on earth Ryan is a priest king

crazy, he's only 16 or 17. He's a priest king and

If he is born again, then he has which he is then he has the ability to access

What God is doing in the heavens and he has the ability as a priest to do that because priests are allowed access into the

Very throne room of God in the Old Testament. Remember when priests would come they would not stay outside

The people would stay outside the priest would go right into the holy of holies. Hey Matt, could see you right up front

So he would go straight into the holy of holies the priest could do that

So Ryan has the ability to now go into the heavenlies and God can show him what is happening and then Ryan because he's priest

King has now the ability to hear on earth as a king

Establish what he's seen there

this is how it works and

Basically guys priests and King are the two tracks on which

Remember we talked about finished work

Every everything God did is already

Complete finished there is a finished work called Marcus

There is a finished work called acts 29

There is a finished work called

The New Jerusalem, which we already and which is yet to come

Everything God did is complete but we don't see it yet, but it is finished

but for a finished work to come to pass it runs on the tracks of

priest

and

King it's if a finished work

If let's put it this way if if the finished work called Jacob meaning the Jacob who God has

Crafted who he wants to see fulfill his destiny who he has shaped and written down every day of his life

The way it should work out. It's up to me whether I want to do that or not. Hi guys

Welcome

Good to see you again

So as

priests

For God to bring to pass everything that I Jacob should be

The first thing I need to do is understand that the two tracks that I have to run on is one

That of me as a priest and the second that of me as a king because only then can I access the things God is showing

In the heavenlies and finish it here on earth. Let me give you an example

Gosh now I can face the whole church

Or till about ten minutes ago. Everybody was sitting there now the whole place is kind of full so

I

Need eyes of faith in this shirt sometimes

Priest and King are the tracks on which the finished work accelerates towards completion

Let me say that again priest and King are the tracks on which the finished work

Accelerates towards completion here on earth. For example, if you turn to Genesis chapter 30 Genesis 30

Genesis 30 · chapter mention

Genesis 30

Genesis 30

Genesis 3 0 and if you turn to 31 and 32

And it says that

This is Jacob and Laban Laban was his uncle and he is Laban asking him what shall I give you and Jacob says

Don't give me anything Jacob replied, but if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks

Today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep every dark colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat

They will be my

Wages and then go to verse 43 in verse 43

It says that in this way the man meaning Jacob grew exceedingly

prosperous and came to own large flocks and maidservants and men servants camels and donkeys and if you go a little above it go to

verse

37 no not worth 37 was

Was

When the flocks were in heat and came to drink they mated in front of the branches and they bore young that was streaked or

speckled or spotted

Jacob set them apart set apart the young of the flock by themselves

But made the rest face the streaked and dark colored animals that belong to Laban thus

He made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals

Whenever the stronger females were in heat Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals

So they would mate near the branches, but if the animals were weak he would not place them there

So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob in this way the man grew exceedingly

Prosperous and came to own large flocks and maidservants and men servants and camels and donkeys folks the finished work here is

verse

43

Verse 43 is the finished work and what is it that Jacob?

Prosper that's the finished

Work okay now as a

King

Jacob did something look at verse 37 as a king Jacob did something look at verse 37

Jacob however took fresh cut branches from poplar

almond and

Plain trees and made white strips on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches

Then he plays the peel branches in all the watering troughs

So that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink so as a king he places these

Rods that were speckled and that were chipped so that they would be right in front of the water trough

when the animals came to

drink so

This is a finished work

And what is the finished work that Jacob would prosper that's the finished work

What does Jacob do as a king he takes

Those different branches and cuts them so that they're spot speckled and spotted and he puts it in front of the water trough

So what did he do as a priest? Here's the crazy thing go to Genesis 31

And it says there in Genesis 31

Genesis 31:6

Verse 6 you know that I worked for your father with all my strength

Yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. This is Jacob speaking to Rachel. However verse

7b however God has not allowed him to harm me if he said the speckled ones will be your wages

Then all the flocks gave birth to speckled ones and if he said the streaked ones will be your wages

Then all the flocks gave birth to speckled ones and if he said the streaked ones will be your wages

Then all the flocks were streaked ones. So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me and then

in verse

7 to 13, okay keep going in the breeding season

I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock was streaked speckled or

Spotted the angel of God said to me in a dream Jacob

I answered here I am and he said look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock a streaked speckled

Spotted for I have seen all that layman has been doing to you

I am the god of Bethel where you anointed a pillar where you made a vow to me

Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land folks

in

Genesis chapter 31 we find that Jacob

Genesis 31 · chapter mention

accessed

the heavenlies

Through a

Through a

Dream and God specifically says I am the god of

Bethel and Bethel was where he saw that dream with the angels ascending and descending on the

ladder

So you see what is happening here

This is a finished work

The finished work is Jacob prospered as a king he had to do something but before he does something he has to see something

he sees a dream in which God specifically tells him how to go about taking the speckled and spotted and

he shows him that picture and

So Jacob sees that and now as a king he decides aha now that God has shown it

Let me now do this as a representation of what God has shown him

God showed him speckled and spotted he takes these

branches and he begins to

Speckled and spotted and set them up now Jacob has

Brought to pass on the earth as a king what he saw as a priest so that the finished work will be complete

This is how it works folks

You see something and then you trust God to show you how to implement it here on earth

And when you do that suddenly you find that you're one step closer to the finished work of whoever or whatever you are

questions

Comments challenges disagreements

Yeah, it was just a God what Jacob was doing was not some kind of magic that would say look at these branches and start mating

No, it was it was it was a sense of

Putting here on earth some kind of a representation of what he saw in the

Heavens it was more it's more an action of faith here on earth

So that what was seen in heaven could now be shown symbolically here on earth

So that what God had said would come to pass and this is what priests do priests see

meaning that you should do you as a priest should see what God is showing in heaven and then you

Do whatever you need to do here on earth symbolically or in faith and you will see a finished work happen

In everything this works folks beat marriage business church

Individualized this works, but I've got to know what I am seeing first and as a priest King Ryan

And I have the ability to see what God is showing first

It works in anything it works in training up your children

It works in taking care of your home. It works in business. It works in everything

In everything

This is yeah where it becomes neoshtan yeah

I'd say Matt once you see something in the heavenlies know you will know how much do in faith here on earth

You will just know it

Like like for instance I I keep saying stuff like

One day I'll

Have whatever is required to distribute money travel do whatever and have a surplus I

Know that because I'm I know it's a finished work God has already shown it

So how do I go about now here on earth whenever I see what I know God wants me to have when he releases?

The wealth that is coming my way I say father

I know you're pointing towards a thank you for that and I'll keep an eye on for that or

Knowing that I'll stand before Kings because that's a finished work that has been spoken over my life. I make sure that

Whenever I'm traveling I'll take one set of clothes that is decent to stand before Kings

Yeah, but that's where priests Kings have to learn how to discern and we'll talk about how we can become the whole point of this

Teaching today is to avoid exactly that Matt

To avoid anything that would come in the way of you being a bona fide priest King who access the accesses of the heavens and dusting

Zero on earth everyone is a priest King

And you have to learn how to discern and how to be a priest King

You are a bona fide priest King who access the accesses of the heavens and dusting zero on earth

Everyone here can be that because like it or not you are a nascent priest King

nascent meaning something that you're born with the moment you become a believer you are a

priest King

But it is veiled in flesh and sometimes that has to be removed so that you can begin to walk in it and the moment

You walk in it you begin to walk on those two tracks that will bring you to your completion

To the finished work of who you are just imagine the the hundreds of people who are going to benefit from your life in my life

When we walk as priest Kings

Just imagine how the earth is going to benefit when you walk as a priest King

I'm talking about the earth folks. I'm not I'm not limiting it to Vancouver. I'm talking about the earth

Imagine how the earth is going to benefit when I I walk in the fullness of a priest King that I am

Christ walked in the fullness of who he was high priest and King because he is a high priest and King

So we are priests and Kings to here on earth

This is reality. This is the truth. This is not theory

And the sooner we begin to grasp and understand this note the more we can walk in it man

It's so real

You know, I remember

sometime ago I was

At be asking the Lord so father. What do you have to say about this?

What do you have to say about this thing? This person asked me this question

What should I say to this person at one point?

I remembered the Lord saying to me take it

You know sometimes you use me like a phone booth and you go into the phone booth with a 25 cent coin drop it in

Pick up the phone and say so what about this and you receive an answer you put the phone booth back

He's I don't want you to live like you're entering a phone booth

I want you to live like you are roaming around in a mansion and you're getting answers wherever

Why am I saying that you guys because priest Kings know they don't go into a phone booth and drop a 25 cent coin to

Ask the Lord. What do you think about this?

They walk in a mansion called I am what I am

It is but you begin to walk in walk in answers

James you

Yeah, otherwise what happens is God becomes a phone booth that you go into

But what if you're what what if the earth is a phone booth? I mean imagine a humongous

Not for but what if the earth is tell us?

Now you don't have to go to a phone booth

You've got all those connections right at the place you begin to walk in a mansion called. I am what I am

that's the name of God and then everything that pours through you that goes through you begins to come from the

Very nature and spirit of God because you don't live outside of it

So you don't have to take a step and say I've got to pause for a moment

Think five songs become holy ask God a question come out. We're not Superman going into a phone booth

For a change of dress

We live that way 24-7

You begin to live in a mansion called I am what I am

That's his name what I'm trying to say is we begin to live in God

So there's no need to go to God because we are living

In him or with him

Yeah

If

Folks try to shift that and you will find that now

Someone could call you in the middle of the night and you will speak the wisdom of God

Why because you're living in the fullness of who you are as a priest and a king

There's a difference folks

When it becomes your permanent

permanent

Lifestyle then you don't have to switch into it

Yeah

At once he never he when the disciples would come and ask him a tough question

He'd say just a minute. I got to go into my son of God costume go into a phone booth

Comes out with a cape and says now no Jesus never did that

He always lived both a son of man and son of God continuously

No, you have to begin to live as a priest king and as you begin to live as a priest king you will find

That the wisdom of God begins to become your natural place of dwelling instead of having to go to the wisdom of God

He who is the wisdom of God the Christ begins to become more and more evident in everything you begin to see

Yeah brings it forth because now you're living as a priest king you're not taking days off

I'll give you an instance

Yeah, Sue called me last night and she was yesterday evening and she asked me

We are Sue and I was supposed to meet a person and the person decided not to meet and so Sue was talking over the phone

And she said she and we were talking about the person. I've never met the person before but

We would

We were talking about the person and she said she was talking about the person and she said she was talking about the person

I'm not sure what she was talking about

We were

Basically thinking so what's the next step and I didn't have to wait for a moment to say father

So what's the next step Lord? What do you want us to do with this person?

No as I'm talking I'm so completely aware that the only thing God wants to say to the person because right there

And then the Lord said I do not snuff out a smoldering wick and I do not break a bruised reed

It's from Isaiah and as he's saying it

I know exactly what he means, but this person has not come but keep encouraging keep investing in her life only good things regardless of how

Terrible or bad or against God she may be keep saying how much I love her how much I love her how much I treasure her

How much I value her how much I enjoy her how much my pleasure is in her how much I see

What she will become and as you keep doing that this woman will change and so there was not even a second's hesitation in

Conversation I was I knew I was giving

God's I was speaking God's wisdom

Okay

When we discuss these next five points about how to walk as priests kings

You'll see how anyone even a new believer if he begins to catch on can grasp it and begin to grow in it

There are because yes, you can become a priest king immediately because that's who you are

But at the same time you have to grow in it too. Just like you exercise a muscle

so because Jesus grew in favor stature and

and

Wisdom with God and man so Jesus grew too in it. So that is there but like Paul says you can be a

spiritual babe as long as you want and in the

In in the kingdom of God being a babe is not cute

It's just ridiculous so you can have people who are 40 years as Christians who are just babies or

You can have one who's two years old two years a Christian and lose a champion

So that's how it works and by the way, if you don't know scripture God can speak in language that would seem very

Like he would probably say to a novice. Hey, I don't butt out cigarettes

Instead of saying I don't snuff out a small drink wick

He could actually say I don't butt out cigarettes and the guy would understand immediately. He may not know it's from Isaiah

But God would convey the same thing

So he's able to convey scriptures

Quite easily. I'm not encouraging

Smoking nor am I saying is that cigarettes should be left on unbutted, but that's another

Any questions comments challenges disagreements

Yes, Melchizedek means

Yes Melchizedek means

King of

Actually Melchizedek means righteousness son of righteousness king of righteousness, but he was the king of Salem and

the king of peace and righteousness in the sense of speaking

No

No

Melchizedek was a type of Christ folks when when I use the word or whenever anyone uses the word

Something is a type of something what it means is it's a shadow of what the actual is

So when when the Bible says Melchizedek is a type of Christ what it means is Melchizedek is a shadow representation of what?

Jesus is so it's a type

No is a shadow a type he it was not Melchizedek was not

Jesus Christ. He was a type of Elijah is a type of

John the Baptist because the Bible says one shall come like unto Elijah and that's John the

Baptist so Elijah was a type of John the Baptist. So that's the way Moses was a type of Christ

because

Israel is told from amongst you shall rise a prophet like

Moses

So that's how it works

Any questions guys with regard to how it works in terms of seeing and executing like Jacob

Okay

The King priests nature

Is already in us but can stay veiled in our flesh

Sometimes till we go to our grave folks. I'm telling you there are hundreds and hundreds of Christians dying who have

died as believers will go to heaven but never

discovered the the

Awesomeness of walking here on earth as

Priest Kings

Have a terrible man to spend a life not realizing that or not living it out it's already within you guys

But it's veiled in flesh

It's veiled in flesh. Can you see her baby? No

But do you know?

that

It's almost like that

It's veiled in flesh, but you know, it's gonna happen just like Suhani, you know, she's gonna give birth

But can you see the baby yet?

No

So priests King is already there within us

But it has to show

It has to make an appearance and I want to take the life of Abraham to show you how

The King priest makes an appearance

Now if you go to Genesis 14

Genesis 14

Genesis 14

Genesis 14 reading from verse 1

I have half of mine to make someone else read this with all those names, but I will

At this time Genesis 14 verses 1 onwards at this time Amraphel king of Shinar

Genesis 14:1

Ariok king of Elyaser Kedor Laumer king of Elam and Tidal king of

Golem went to war against Bera king of Sodom

Bersha king of Gomorrah

Shinaab king of Adma

Shemebar king of Zebulim and the king of Bela that is Zohar

All these latter kings joined forces in the valley of Sidum the salt sea for 12 years

They had been subject to Kedor Laumer, but in the 13th year they rebelled in the 14th year

Kedor Laumer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Raphites in Ashtaroth, Karneim

The Zuzites in Ham the Emites in Shaveh, Kiriyathim and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as Elparan

Near the desert then they turned back and went to En Mishpat

That is Kadesh and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites as well as the Amorites who were living in

Hazazon, Tamar

Then the king of Sodom the king of Gomorrah the king of Adma and the king of Zebulim and the king of Bela

That is Zohar marched to the south of the desert

The king of Bela that is Zohar marched out and drew up their battle lines in the valley of Sidum against Kedor Laumer

King of Elam, Tidal king of Golem, Amraphel king of Shinar, Ariok king of Elassar, four kings against five

Now the valley of Sidum was full of tar pits and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled some of the men

Fell into them and the rest fled to the hills

The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and they went away

Then they also carried off Abraham's nephew Lot and his possessions since he was living in Sodom

One who had escaped came and reported this to Abraham the Hebrew

Now Abraham was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite a brother of Eshkol and Aner

All of who were allied with Abraham when Abraham heard that his relative had been taken captive

He called out 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as

Dan

The simplest name was the hardest to find

During the night, I almost expected something bigger

During the night Abraham divided his men to attack them and he routed them pursuing them as far as Hobah north of Damascus

He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions together with the women and the other people

After Abraham returned from defeating Kedor Laumer and the kings allied with him

The king of Sodom came out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh

That is the king's valley

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine

He was a priest of God most high and he blessed Abraham saying

Blessed be Abraham by God most high creator of heaven and earth

And blessed be God most high who delivered your enemies into your hands

Then Abraham gave him a tenth of everything

The king of Sodom said to Abraham

Give me the people and keep the goods for yourselves

But Abraham said to the king of Sodom

I have raised my hand to the Lord God most high creator of heaven and earth

And I have taken a note that I will accept nothing belonging to you

Not even a thread or the thong of a sandal

So that you will never be able to say I made Abraham rich

I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me

To Anir, Ishkol and Mamre

Let them have their share

Folks

I want us to look at the life of Abraham and see how the king priest makes an appearance in his life

The king priest is here represented by Melchizedek

Melchizedek or Melchizedek I'm not too sure how to pronounce it Gisela

Melchizedek is a king priest

He was a king of Salem

And he was a priest of the most high God and his name means righteousness

Priest of the most high God

So we find that a king priest makes an appearance in Abraham's life

And through this story we want to see what it takes for the king priest within us to manifest or to make an appearance

That's what we are heading, we are trying to find out

How does a king priest who is already within you because you are a king and priest because Christ is king and priest

How does a king priest manifest or make an appearance in your life?

We want to find that out

Because Melchizedek the king priest appeared to Abraham

So let's find out how

Look at the strange thing folks

When does he appear to Abraham?

He appears to Abraham not before the battle but after the battle

You would expect that a king priest who is from God would appear to you before you go into battle

To encourage you, to strengthen you

The king priest here appears to Abraham not before the battle but after the battle

After he has beaten the four kings then he appears

And he says I am the king of Salem and I am also the priest of the most high God

I would suggest to you that one way to find out how we can begin to live as priest kings

How we can tear off that veil that sometimes hides the priest king within us

How we can begin to live it out is to look at the names of the four kings that Abraham beat

Abraham conquered four kings

When we look at their names it will give us a clue as to what is required

What we need to conquer before the priest king in us can manifest or appear

Any questions?

Do you understand where we are heading?

Because by looking at the names of these four kings that Abraham conquered

We will find out that when we conquer these four

Suddenly the priest king within you will begin to become more and more evident

Suddenly he will be birthed, he will be manifested, Melchizedek in your life

The priest king in your life will make himself very obvious

And then when you start running on those two tracks

You will see how finished works that God has in store for you

Will begin to accelerate and come to pass

If you notice even with Abraham

As soon as Melchizedek blessed him after he defeated the kings

And Melchizedek blessed him after that Abraham's life began to accelerate

In chapter 15 God comes and speaks to him

In chapter 16 and 17 God comes and speaks to him

In chapter 18 or so he starts bargaining with God for Sodom

In chapter 19 to 21 you find him ultimately reaching the fullness of who he was

As the father of faith on Mount Moriah when he has to sacrifice his son Isaac

And God turns up

And today he has children sitting at Acts 29

Because we are the true children of Abraham

The seed of Abraham, we

And so this priest king in us can manifest two folks

So let's look at the four kings

The first king, his name was

The manifestation of the priest king nature in us has veiled

As long as these four kings rule over your life

As long as these four kings folks

Rule over my life

It's going to be very hard for the priest king within me

To begin to come into full display

That nature to come into full display

Is going to be very hard

The first king is Amraphel

A-M-R-A

It's on your page right?

Amraphel

Now Amraphel means

Sayer of darkness

Amraphel means

Sayer

S-A-Y-E-R

Darkness

He speaks darkness over things?

He speaks negativity

Darkness not necessarily

As darkness

And demonic

But I'd suggest to you that anything that is

At its core negative

Does not come from

The father of lights in whom

The actual medium of Amraphel?

Yeah, Sayer of darkness

Folks

The sense of darkness here

Some may say it has to do with

The demonic but I'd just

Say anything

That personifies negativity

That keeps coming out of my mouth

Is what I would associate with it

Amraphel is a Sayer of darkness

There's a negativity in words used

There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken

There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken

There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken

Because there are people who won't say things that are negative

Because there are people who won't say things that are negative

But in the manner it is said

It carries tremendous negativity

And I'll tell you why it is important to beat this king

And I'll tell you why it is important to beat this king

So the first one is Amraphel

Remind me to buy another board this week

Amraphel

Amraphel

Means Sayer of darkness

And

Personified by negativity

Personified by negativity

In words

In words

In words spoken

In words spoken

And the way it is spoken

I'd say it goes further than that Matt

I would agree that that's part of it

Where you are

It's self-inflicted

But I'm saying that when we begin to speak it

To others too

Because eventually if I'm a person

Who keeps talking negatively about me

I will see everything

Through a pall of negativity

And so it will go out to others too

And so it will go out to others too

And this is important that you check in your life

In my life whether this is happening

Negativity in words used and in the manner it is spoken

Criticism of fault finding

Criticism of fault finding

Anger

Rude-ness

Rude-ness

And the other thing

Which is so subtle

Is

Inducing fear in others

Through the words that you speak

It will come from a very nice place

But it's like putting a gun to someone's head and says

If you don't do exactly what I tell you

God is going to curse you

Now that came out very nice

It was a very nice council

But basically I'm putting a gun to her head

And saying if you don't do what I tell you

And that's how things will happen

It's still negative

Through words to control

Through words to control

And if this is a part of your character

Then I'm telling you

A priest should carry

Knowledge on his lips

Malachi chapter 2 verse 7 says

Malachi 2:7

God says I want to find on the lips of a priest

I want to find knowledge

The knowledge of God

That's what I want to find

But when on the lips of a priest

When I find negativity

When I find fault finding

When I find constant criticism

When I find words that are spoken

As if they're coming from me

But usually to control and put a gun to someone's head

Then King Amrath fell

Is ruling in your life Jacob

Even casual talk

Will then constantly be lamenting the state of the church

The state of BC

The state of Canada

It will always be negative

You run into people like that man

I know someone so well

Who

He came to Canada

Some time ago but

He's doing well but every time you go to him

He'll tell you how lousy the country is

How lousy the people are

How lousy his job is

I've never seen him happy

Yeah but

But he won't do that Gisela

He won't do that

He won't do that

He has a right sense

Who often prays for technical things

To him he shows his faith

For his own nature

What happens

He can't even do it himself

Shows his glory to the one who

See and I want to say that

It happens outside of the church

So it's very easy for us to be saying the right words here

But if I go and ask your wife

Or your husband

If I go and ask your neighbors

If you go and ask your wife or your daughter

If you go ask my mum or my sister

Then you will find out whether Amr Afel

Is ruling in my life or not

Because here it's easy folks

Here it would be easy

But ask my mum

Ask my sister when they

Ask me a question that I don't want to answer

When they press into

An issue that I don't think is their business

Then how do I react

Is it anger? Is it rudeness?

Is it lashing back?

Or is it still the same Jacob?

I should go ask your wife or your husband

How is it at home?

Critical, fault finding

Rude, angry

Then Amr Afel is ruling

In my life and your life

And just a word of caution to husbands

There are tons of

Negative Amr Afel husbands in the church folks

Tons of them

They are rude

They are fault finding

They are miserly with their wives

They are money, legalistic

And they operate on the basis that a woman should

Submit to a man and a man should rule over

Tons of husbands like this in the church

And if that is who

You are as a husband or you are as a wife

Then that is something that has to change

Has to change

Questions, comments?

So obviously negativity in the world

Is sort of prevalent

But there's stuff in life that's serious

Let's say a man's got a son

That's on the wrong path

And so you can't

In a situation like that

It can't be touchy feely, nicey nicey

Always pointing out the sunshine

So where's the line when you gotta sort of speak?

Very simple Matt

The principle of operation

Is there is no speaking the truth

Without love, there is no love without the truth

Simple

I have the truth in love or love in truth

The moment in my, let's assume you're my son

And you do something negative

The moment when I speak to you

I come across with all kinds of truth

But no love, then it's not really the truth

And if I come to you and you're doing wrong

And I show a lot of love

But there is no truth in it, then it's not love

And you missed out on the father that I am

If I do any of these two things

Right now the words I'm saying

It's not a negative warning

But in love?

No, it's not a negative warning

Right now as I'm speaking

I know that I'm speaking the truth

But I'm not here with an axe to chop anyone down

Right now I'm speaking the truth

And I'm speaking it in love

It is a warning

I specifically am warning Amraphel husbands

On the tape so that when it goes out

People around the world will know it

And if you as a spouse here

Has this problem, change it

Because a king called Amraphel, a seer of darkness

Is ruling in your life

If you have a wife who has that same attitude

With her husband, change it

And the strange thing is

Amraphel husbands and wives

Will never be like this with the rest of the world

They'll be very generous with the rest of the world

But they'll be very miserly with their spouses

They'll be very kind to the rest of the world

But very rude and fault finding with their spouses

I've seen so much of this guys, it's not funny

No, no

Inducing fear is when suddenly

In my relationship with anybody

The person does it because they are afraid of me

The moment that happens

That relationship is on horrible ground

I'm saying that's wrong

Oh no, no

Saying consequences is not a problem

But when I do something to cause

When I do something to cause fear in Ryan

No, no, not fear, I'm not talking about God

In my relationship with Ryan

The moment fear enters James, that relationship is not true

If a wife does things

Because she's afraid of her husband

Yeah, yeah

And that's what God did with Adam

Hey Adam, tons and tons of trees

You can go and eat whatever you want

Because if you eat it

You'll lose out on this amazing life that you have with me

Okay, just so you know

And he left him alone

Don't eat, don't eat

Because Adam didn't live in fear

If Adam lived in fear, he would not have sinned

If Adam lived in fear

He would not have sinned

Folks, like I said

I hope I'm not wrong

And we'll talk about that at the end of the teaching

When someone asked me four months ago

What is the biggest strength of Acts 29

My response was

People are free to do what they want

Because that's how God is the best

Yeah, totally

That is surprisingly the biggest strength of Acts 29

People are free to do what they want

People are free to do what they want

But we are putting in principles

So that people will know how to

Live in the liberty of what they now have

Please

While I was doing this

I was thinking of my sister

And at times when she asked me questions

That I don't want to answer

Or when she challenges me on something

That I'm saying is of God

She says

But what if, what if

My sister, because she's close to me

I know I won't lose her

So I get irritated

And I was writing this, asking myself

There have been times when I've been rude to her

And Amr Fel speaks negatively and rudely

He's a seer of darkness

And I was doing this

And I was thinking to myself

I've got to take out rudeness from my way of living

I cannot afford to be rude

Jesus was not rude ever

Ever, man

He was blooming angry with the Pharisees

And I've been calling them vipers

I'm telling you he was not rude

So what business do I have

Being rude with anybody

I've got to live as a priest king

Here on earth folks

We've got to become this

We have to let the Melchizedek manifest

The king priest manifest

Appear in our lives

If we have any one of these

Then what's the next step

We'll come to that

28 minutes from now

When Amr Fel is active

The priest no longer has knowledge on his lips

And the king no longer

Speaks words of God's wisdom

If you go to Malachi 2.7

It says a priest should speak knowledge

And God should find knowledge on his lips

And the priest should speak words of God's wisdom

That's in Proverbs 16 verse 10

Proverbs 16:10

That the sentences that come from a king's mouth

Should be divine

Sentences as in decrease

And both those are

Undone

Folks, let me deal with what Sue asked immediately

How do we overcome this

I have the absolute ability

To stop being rude, folks

No longer

Before it could be

I would say 10 years ago I would tell you to go pray

Go fast

Go read the Bible more

But now the answer is very simple

It is in my absolute control and ability

To not be rude

Because the only person that lives within me is

Yeah

Christ living in me through

The union of my spirit and his spirit

That's all

It is absolutely possible for me to live this way

It is a deliberate decision, folks

And slowly

Maybe once or twice or three times

The decision will be a struggle

After that it will become a preference

Because I want to become like

Jesus

And if that is my desire

Then my rudeness will change regardless of the circumstances, folks

Jesus was not rude with his mother

Jesus was not rude with his brothers

Even when they came to say he was crazy

And they wanted to take him away

And put him in a house for a little while

It is absolutely possible

You might say but you don't know my wife

Or you don't know my husband

True I don't

But you know if you are married

You have more grace than me to handle that

You have it

Even when

If you

Come across a situation

Your mind is different

To answer

Like you know, I don't know the other day it happened to me

Like one of the passengers

He had an excellent idea

And we had to make it less

Whatever it was

And he went and made less

And he came and he banged his bag on the table

I noticed that

And my boss noticed that also

And I said

Excellent is perfect

But his attitude was

Bang the bag on the table

So I just changed it because

It was a different thing

Your personality changes, folks

As Christ is in you

Chris talks about

Other examples where it tells us

People will call us, she picks up the phone and they

Rant and rave and use sometimes foul words

And before

She never respond before she

Cry and stuff like that

Now even the crying is done

Because it's like Teflon

Not because she's grown harder

But the person inside her is softer

She can handle it

And these are all connected folks

Criticalness, fault finding

Rudeness, anger

They all connect

At the end of the day it's a preference

And it's only a preference if I

Want to become like the one who

I keep talking about

Show me the

I mean like

George

Bush the first said

Where's the beef

Ariok

I'll sum it all up in the end

Ariok

Ariok is lion like

The meaning of Ariok

Is lion like

Lion like

Lion like

Ariok was another king

Lion like

What this means

Is

It is possible

As believers to displace

The lion of Judah with the defeated

Lion like foe

Seeing his footprints in all things

Instead of the hand of God in all things

Let me say that again

It is possible especially for charismatic

Evangelical Christians

To displace the lion of Judah

With the lion like

Enemy that we have called Satan

Where we begin to see

In all things the footprints

Of the devil instead of seeing

In all things the hands of

God

I mean

I know this was my condition

Where I would see the work

Of the enemy more clearly

Than I would see the work of God

And it would be

Based on perhaps one

Experience with the demonic

Or perhaps a deliverance session

Or perhaps even a school I attended

And so everything I do now

Would be based simply

On experiential

Knowledge that I have

And so in everything I would see more the hand

Of the enemy than the hand of

God

The problem with that is

As soon as you begin to see

The hand of the enemy as

More evident than the hand of God

You will do what Jesus said

In Luke I think

He said

If you see a king who is stronger

Than you coming against you

If you have 10,000 troops

And a king coming against you has 20,000 troops

What will you do? You will send out

An emissary to meet him

So that you can establish a

Treaty with him

Hezekiah did it

In Isaiah 42 or

Somewhere. What he did was

He heard that a king was coming against him

So he sends the king a letter saying

What will it take for me to come into

A treaty with you? And he pulls out

Of his treasury the temple

Articles to send to the king

Why? Because now you are beginning

To see the footprints of the

Enemy more than the hand of God

Sorry?

Yeah

Saul wouldn't handle Goliath

Until David came along

A king who sees a stronger enemy

Will make peace long ways off

It's in Luke 14, 32

It's also 2 Kings 18, 14

Please understand that Satan

Is defeated and disarmed

But he is able to

Deceive. So what I have to be

Able to do is be sober and vigilant

Folks. Let me say it again

Satan is deceived

Satan is disarmed and defeated

But he can deceive

Me. So what

I and you have to do

Is to make sure that we are sober

And vigilant but not hyper aware

Sober and vigilant

Like I said 2 weeks ago

Ecclesiastes 10, 8 says

If you break the hedge

A serpent will bite you. Meaning

If you break the boundaries

If you break the walls that you should

Stay within and then go

A serpent will bite you

But if I don't transgress the

Boundaries that I know I can operate

Within then as long as

I'm sober and vigilant I'm saying to us

Folks that we do not need

To watch out for the footprints of the enemy

Because we'll see the hand of God

Evident

I was talking to

Some people from the search

And I was saying to them that purity

Is what

Intimidates Satan the most

Purity

Intimidates the devil most

Your sanctified life is your

Security

A sanctified life is your security

The more I decide that I will

Be pure the less the enemy

Has any hold upon my life

Purity intimidates the enemy

It's the easiest way

Always turn it up a notch

Who was the genius that was about trying to make peace with?

It's in

Isaiah

Sorry, it's in 2 Kings 18

2 Kings 18:14

Verse 14

Oh no, no, it's not

It's in

Ah shucks, I don't know where it is

I don't know

But he does it

I don't remember, it's in Isaiah

I don't know, it's in Isaiah

Questions, comments, disagreements

As long as we do not break the hedge

A serpent will not bite us

My purity intimidates the enemy

Satan is defeated and disarmed

But he can deceive

Therefore Jacob as it says in 1 Peter 5

8 be sober and vigilant

But do not be hyper aware

The more I see the footprints of Satan

In things around me

The more I will choose

To not step into

Not take

Not shoot three times

Not take, not shoot three arrows

Not put my hand

And take by both horns

That which is mine

Because

Once I begin to see Satan

In things around me

I suddenly realize that the enemy is stronger

One of the biggest changes in my life

Over the last three years

Is that I see the hand of God more than the enemy

Question, does that make sense?

Second Kings 13, 17

The Kings name was Aram

A-R-A-M

That story about Hezekiah

Second Kings 13, 17

The next one

The next Kings name was Long

His name was Chador

Chador or Chador

Chador, Chador

Chador or Chador

Laomer

And it means

A

Handful

Of sheaves

A handful

Of sheaves

A handful of sheaves

A handful of sheaves

S-H-E-A-V-E-S

Chador, Laomer

A handful of sheaves

This King represents

A poverty mentality

A handful of sheaves

Just whatever he does

There's only a handful of sheaves

There's not much

It represents a poverty mentality

A poverty mentality

A poverty mentality

And there's a

Some of the

Guys who

Tried explaining this name

Say that

There's a generational sense to this name

So it might be a name

That came down generations

So it's a poverty mentality

And it carries a generational sense

Chador, Laomer means

A handful of sheaves

And it basically portrays a poverty mentality

And it may be something

That carries a generational sense

And the strange thing is

It was Chador, Laomer

Who actually led the other Kings

I found that fascinating

That this is the King who led the others

Which then shows

That there's power

In this character if it begins

To wield in my life

I would think that

These bunch of guys should be led by Arioc

Who's lion like

Who are one of those other guys

But his name is a handful of

Sheaves which carries a sense

Of either mediocrity or

A poverty mentality really

He's the one who led all these Kings into battle

So if this

Begins to show in my life

It begins to have tremendous

Power and let me explain

What it is

When this character comes up in my life

And it has force

This was a very strong nature that I had

Not when I became a Christian

Years after I became a Christian

This was one of the things that I

Had to battle against most

What it will be characterized with is

Low sight

As in you won't aim high

It will always be

Low

Low sight

I believe there's some kind of a deer

In Africa

It's a variation of a deer

And the way they capture it is fascinating

It can leap 30 feet

And I know I'm exaggerating

But 6 feet in the air kind of a thing

But somehow if you put a fence

At the eye level of this deer

This deer can't jump

Because as long as it sees the fence

It is incapable of jumping

But if you take away the fence it will go

It will go like crazy man

It can jump over a 2 feet 3 feet

Fence easily but because the fence

Is at eye level something happens

In its mind so how farmers

Catch this animal is when they see the animal

They somehow put a

Drive it into an enclosure

And once they drive it into the enclosure

They know it's caught even though it's fully capable

Of scaling it

Low sight

Mediocrity

Folks I want to say that this is not

A poverty mentality is not about

Money

It's not about being poor

It's not about how much money I have or how much money I don't have

It's a mentality, it's a mindset

It's a way of thinking

Low sight, mediocrity

Inability to receive

Hoarding

In lack

And in plenty

Hoarding in lack and in plenty

Hoarding in lack and in plenty

Money driven

And I would say

I would say this very respectfully

I suggest to you that

Most people who are

Adherents of prosperity preaching

Have this problem

Strange right?

Prosperity preaching which is

Supposed to make you rich

Most of the adherents have

This mentality and I

Know I'm making a very generic

Statement and that may

Not be completely fair but I'd like to suggest that

Money driven

Prosperity adherents

Despising the Joneses

I'll explain that

Despising the Joneses

I'm not talking about Joan, I'm talking about the Joneses

So let me explain this

Folks, when I have a poverty mentality

One of the things that may happen to me

Is my sight is set low

My sight may move now from

I have a two bedroom, tiny two bedroom apartment

Oh I wish I had a three bedroom apartment

That would be

The ultimate

My sights are very low

Oh I have this job, I have this job

I have this job, I have this job

I have this job, I have this job

I have this job, I have this job

My sights are very low, oh I have this job

I wish I could get eight dollars more

Your sights are super low

It does not expand like

God would have you expand

There's nothing wrong with a one bedroom

Apartment, there's nothing wrong with a

Five dollar job

But that's not the point, the point is my sights suddenly

Become set low

It's not about money folks

Secondly

Mediocrity, I will settle for things

That are good enough

I don't have to

Do well

With the gifts and the talents I've been given

I'll settle with doing

Mediocally well

That's good enough

I'll put in my eight hours, I'll do what is required

I have no desire to overdo it

Overdo is a word that's not in my dictionary

Thirdly

Inability to receive

I've met people who are super rich

Who do not know how to receive

Just don't know how to receive

They know how to give but they do not know how to receive

Surprisingly that's poverty mentality

Holding in lack and in plenty

Doesn't matter whether you've got tons of money or little money

You'll hold it

I knew a man who supplies

The cloth

To all the stores in India

In Vancouver

And lives in North Phan

And has tons and tons of buildings

But you know

Every three months he'll go and order one of these

Water coolers from different companies

Because they all give you a three month test run

That's how he got all his buildings

You see

At the end of three months

He will return

So that he can now go to another company

When people come to visit him

In his office he had one table and one chair

So he would pull out

The last

Seat from his van

And put it in his office for people to sit

I'm not mentioning any names

You see what I'm saying is

Pardon

Holding in lack and in plenty

This is a poverty mentality

He has tons of money

He's one of the wealthiest persons

I've met in this part of the world

Money driven

Suddenly everything you do is driven by

The need to

Money

Prosperity adherence

These are the people who I would suggest to you

Are prosperity adherence

I won't explain that much more

This is an odd thing about poverty mentality

What happens is you have some kind of

Dislike towards anyone

Who is doing well

You're not happy at someone else's prosperity

It's an odd thing

You go into a house of someone who's doing well

And you'll say

These people are not godly, look at the house

Or you see someone who's got a

Good car

And boy, that money could have been given to the poor

Judas thought like this too

It's a poverty mentality folks

Can't find it in scripture

It's one of those pet phrases

Do your best and god will do the rest

That's also not in scripture

God will shut one door

And open the other door

Not in scripture

Yeah, could be son of a bitch

I'm not saying that

I'm not saying that

I'm not saying that

Yeah, could be son of music

Yeah

Folks, the emphasis is on

Poverty mentality, not on the amount of money

What happens is

When I have a poverty mentality

I project my lack

Or my want

As the primary competing concern

Over god

Everything now is this thing

Of lack or want

That becomes the primary competing

Concern

That always comes ahead of god

And when the priest

Chases after an inheritance here on earth

Forgetting that his portion is due

From god, he misses out on the wine

Oil and grain reserved for him

Go to Numbers chapter 18

Numbers 18 · chapter mention

Numbers 18, verse 20

Numbers 18:20

And 12

Numbers 18, verse 20 and 12

Numbers 18:20

Numbers 18, verse 20

Numbers 18:20

Numbers 18, verse 20

Numbers 18:20

Numbers 18, verse 20

Numbers 18:20

Numbers 18, verse 20

Numbers 18:20

And here's what it says

The lord said to Aaron

You will have no inheritance in their land

Nor will you have any share among them

I am your share and your inheritance

Among the Israelites

Now go to Numbers 18, 12

I give you all the finest olive oil

And the finest new wine and grain

That they give the lord

As the first fruit of the earth

That they give the lord as the first fruit of their harvest

What god is saying is

Guys, you are priests who are serving me

Know this that you have no inheritance here on earth

I am your inheritance and your portion

And because I am your inheritance and portion

I will supply you new grain, oil and wine

It is vital that this be broken off our lives folks

Because as long as this is there

It's almost impossible to come out

And live a lifestyle that's different

Impossible

I remember

In one of the things spoken over my life

One of the things that was said from Isaiah 49

Was

Your reward is from me

And what is due you will come from me

And the moment I heard that

I realized that

Oh shucks

God owes me dues

And when he wants he will either give it to me as a lump sum

Or he will put it in my bank every month

And so I don't need to worry anymore

Because if god says

That your reward is from me

And your dues will come from me

I realize shucks

Don't need to worry anymore

Yeah

It's a completely different way of living

So

You can walk around with her if you want

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Did all this

Come just from the meaning of the name

Or did that king have traits that

No

No, chedro lamor means a handful of sheaves

And a handful of sheaves means

Very little

It's like god consciously says you've collected a lot

But there's nothing in your hands

You harvest but there's nothing

It's a mindset

Or a place of abject lack

Settling for a handful of sheaves

Settling for a handful of sheaves

Understood but

This is quite involved in

Stuff so is that coming just from his name

Or was that king did he like

Steal things or

Nope, nope, it's coming from his name

He must have been a rich man

So there's no sort of behaviors that he did

Historically

That I would know of

I wouldn't

So we're just going on with the meaning of the name

And remember in the Old Testament

The Old Testament

Is again a parable

That we are supposed to use in the New Testament

Everything in the Old Testament

Is a story or parable that we derive

Out in the New Testament

Therefore names in the Old Testament

Are super revealing

Super revealing

It just seems strange that whoever named that guy

It just seems strange that whoever named that guy

Like he was a king so he must have come from rich families

So why would they name him

Crazy, don't know

And the other thing is sometimes

A name that would be given by the

Hebrews to kings

Would perhaps portray the character more than the original name

Because at the end

This might not have been his actual name

Just what the Hebrews had called him

No, we don't know, I'm saying like

When we come to the word Sodom we'll see that too

There's a

Hebrew equivalent of

The name and there is a

Canaanite or

Indian equivalent of that name so

We'll come to that later

Guys, when priests chase after

An inheritance here on earth

Forgetting that their portion is due from God

You miss out on the wine, oil and grain

Reserved for you

When kings run after what pagan

Nations are pursuing, instead of pursuing

The kingdom they end up chasing things

That would be added to them, this is so sad

Just hear this, okay

If I run after the things of the

World

Instead of running after the kingdom

You know what I'm really running after

I'm running after the things that God said I will add to you

What a shame, eh

God said

Ryan, seek my

Rule and reign and all these

Things will be added

To you and here is

Ryan, here is

Jacob running after

The things

That are supposed to be added

To me, I'm running after them

That I would get anyways

If I just lived out my life

As a king, seeking the kingdom

So simple, man

This guy is like a subtle

Manipulator, you get guys

On to the prize that you

Would have gotten, man, anyways

True

So it's vital to

Wield contentment

With godliness, with the riches and glory

In Christ, knowing your place, folks

It will all come together, it's got nothing to do with money

It's got to do with a mentality or a mindset

Strange thing is

Abraham, after

Beating this king, he has a lot

Of spoils and he gives

10% to Melchizedek

And he gives the rest to the guys who came with him

And he doesn't take a cent

And yet, he becomes

The richest man in the land

Doesn't take a cent

Gives 10% to Melchizedek, gives the rest away

And he comes out the richest

It's an upside down

Kingdom we live in, folks

But the principles once they settle

I'm telling you, man

You will never have

I'm saying to you, as we begin to connect

With this house, as we begin to connect with

The set man in this house

Meaning Muaq, as we begin to connect

With principles

As we begin to connect with

Who we are as priests and kings

You will find an increase in assets and

Substance in this house

I'm not talking about this house having assets and substance

I'm saying we

As people having assets and substance

I guarantee you this on the

On the strength of the word of God

Because that is always a pattern

Always a pattern

And the strange thing is, as assets and

Substance come into this house, you will find

That we will become the best

Givers we have ever been

You should be the best

Giver you have ever known

I should be the best giver I have ever known

But it is vital that

You connect to this house

Why? Because that grace is going to come upon this house

I'm just saying it to you

If you want to receive it as a prophetic

Word, please do

Questions, comments

This king was the guy who led everybody else, strangely

Questions, comments

Agreements, disagreements

Challenges

Go ahead

Okay, when I say low sights

I mean not expecting

Not expecting anything in my life to change

In terms of God interventions

Where

This is who I am

This is what I am, this is what I will be

And immediately

I cut myself off from what else

God can do

If I were to go with

My qualifications

Then I would be very limited

I did a Masters in political science

I did not complete my Bible school

And

Yeah

And so

In that sense it would be very limited

But there is no

There is no limit

To what God can do

With my two

Fish and five loaves

But when I set my eyes low

I've met

I've met people who have come to this church

Who did not see themselves

As anything more than what they are at present

And what they are at present was not even a shadow

Of what they

Could be

And when I prophesied over them

They still

When I met the person about two months ago

The person was still refusing to see

It the way God was seeing it

God was saying

You will be this, this, this and this

And the person said no I don't think so

I don't see myself like that

So

That's what I mean by

Setting my eyes low

Yeah

I mean

The person is setting his sights high

And this manipulated guy is going to get

No I set my eyes high

On the star that God wants me

To hitch my wagon to

No no no

I set my eyes high on

Like Paul says I set my

I set

I grab that with God is grabbing

A hold of me for

So I set my eyes on the finished work

That God is showing me

Not trying to create my own finished work

But the finished work that he is

Showing me

Is that like degree in secular

Political science?

Master?

If you weren't

Doing a church thing like this

You'd be like looping with the elections

And that kind of thing

No most political science students

End up as

Being in civil services

Or

Doing some research for some guy who wants to

Know political stuff or they end up teaching

And if they're not good for any of these

They become pastors

Moving on to the fourth king

The fourth king is title

T-I-D-A-L

And it's not a detergent

Title means

King of a foreign race

Title means

King of a foreign race

King of a foreign race

Title means

King of

A foreign

Race

Race or nation

That's what it means.

Folks, the intent of this king is very simple.

We've talked about this at length for four weeks in the past.

The intent of this king is he's a ruler who wants us to make, wants to make us subjects

of Babylon.

He's a ruler who wants to make us subjects of Babylon and we talked about Babylon for

four weeks about four months ago, three months ago.

He's a ruler whose intent on making me a subject of Babylon.

A system that is God opposing in lifestyle, in conduct, in code, in morality, in principles,

in objectives.

Babylon is a God opposing system and the intent of Tidal is always to make me a subject of

the system called Babylon.

How does he do it?

Very simple folks and this is so pertinent to our lives and to Christianity as a whole.

He does it one through affecting my sexual standards.

He affects my sexual standards.

What I mean by that is he tries to affect my sexual standards and by that I mean trying

to lower my tolerance for what is moral and pure and what is not.

It is a well-known fact that if you go to different parts of the world and you ask them

what is moral and what is pure in terms of sexuality and what can be seen, what can be

practiced, what can be viewed, you will find that the standards are much lower than what

they should be.

It is the easiest way to turn me or conform me to the system of Babylon because Babylon

thrives on idolatry, false religion and sex.

These were three of the things that Babylon was known for.

Idolatry and sex.

It affects my sexual standards particularly in terms of what bombards my senses and so

I lower my standards and as I lower my standards I break the wall or the hedge and now the

serpent can bite me because my purity does not intimidate the enemy anymore.

The enemy can now intimidate my purity because I am letting it go.

Please remember that you are a priest first and then a king.

If your priesthood is taken away, your kingship is undone.

We talked about this many weeks ago that your kingship is built on your priesthood and a

priest is called to be holy.

If you take away my priesthood then it is pointless trying to live here as a king.

We never hear Christians shouting, oh hallelujah we are priests.

No, we always hear people shouting hallelujah we are kings.

But the first thing that we have to shout hallelujah about is that we are priests first

and it is on our priesthood that kingship is built.

And just like in the UK if you are a priest you are a king.

If you are a priest you are a king.

If you are a priest you are a king.

And just like in the UK if royalty marries commoners, a commoner, then the royalty is

no longer royal.

He does not have right to the throne.

That happened to some prince.

I don't remember which one.

It is the same way.

The second way that title tries to affect me is it tries to affect me through power

and pride using recognition.

That too affects me through power using recognition among people.

Because once that happens pride kicks in.

That is the second way I am affected by it.

One of the philosophies of Babylon is make a name for yourself.

That is the philosophy of Babylon.

Make a name for yourself at any cost.

And so one of the ways title affects Christians and completely destroys their ability to live

as priest kings is that they give a person a sense of power or a sense of upstanding

based on how you are recognized by the world or by your peers.

Once it becomes insidious what happens is you are undone.

Acts 29 has to be careful about it because we are doing well.

Jacob has to be careful about it because recognition will come.

And when that happens it will test you.

The message puts it this way.

15 minutes of fame will test who you really are.

One of the things we have to learn to do and I was thinking of it just yesterday is

whenever we do a job well and it is really good and people are telling you it is good

and you know you have done a good job immediately let go of it.

Don't favor it.

Someone told me this years ago but I still haven't.

It is not my reflex now.

It is still something I have to practice.

I was at a place yesterday where I had to MC and do worship and I did a brilliant job.

And I know absolutely no modesty.

And people came up and said great Jacob, great Jacob.

And I realized that when I went home every now and then I would recall how well it went.

I would think of some of the really smart puns that I came up with right at the moment.

And I found myself savoring it again and again and again.

And suddenly out of the blue I remember this pastor telling me Jacob,

once you do something and it is good, let go of it.

Do not go back and taste it.

Yeah, don't do it.

Don't do it.

It is the same as when you sin, you walk away right?

Yeah.

It should be the same.

Same with, because at the end of the day amazing grace,

how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

I am not saying look at yourself as a wretch,

but understand that everything in my life is sheer grace.

Sheer grace.

Don't regurgitate your success.

Don't regurgitate your success, especially when you want to savor it.

Because anything that comes back into your mouth from your stomach,

as tasty as you think it is, it is not.

Hey, that was a revelation Lord.

The third way I am affected by Psydolin is intense godliness,

denying any power, which is another way of defining legalism.

Like I said, Babylon loves religion.

Babylon loves religion.

And if Babylon can influence the church where the church gets religious,

where it gets intensely godly, but denies power,

then Babylon has entered.

Which is why all these teachings,

if they do not become tangible reality in our lives in terms of living as priests and kings,

then I am saying do not come next week.

Do not come.

Because this is not the right place to come if this is all just theory.

We see that in 2 Timothy 3.5.

Paul is writing to Timothy and he says,

You will meet tons of people Timothy who will be very godly,

but their godliness will deny the actual power of God.

They will just be godly, but there will be no power showing.

That is another way that tidal affects us.

Legalism, where I will say, Matt, this is not the holy way to sit.

Please put your feet down.

And that becomes intense godliness.

But what did I achieve through it?

It was a show of godliness, but there was nothing in it.

So he sits like that, it doesn't make him any more reverent.

Nothing happens.

You find it in so many...

I mean I have been in churches where that is the way it is.

I was at a meeting a while ago with the other people in Kosovo,

and in the middle of worship and stuff,

there was really like Christian and holy and reverent and godly,

but I have to say that there is no sort of power there.

So is that sort of the same thing that they keep them...

they are actually doing the right thing,

but there was no manifesting, their lives weren't changing.

Yeah, yeah. It has to come back to life.

When I say power, I don't mean supernatural stuff,

as in people falling and all that stuff.

I am talking about my life should begin to display Christ.

You should begin to see more and more of the nature and the person

and the stature of Christ in me.

Not necessarily that if I touch someone, someone falls.

Not necessarily that lightning comes inside the room,

but that when you walk, people know,

here goes someone and here is a church

that is growing into the fullness of Christ.

That whole song.

We come not in our name, we come not in our fame,

we come not to chase after riches, but to live lives

that will accurately represent the full stature of who Christ is,

what he looked like when he walked the earth.

So how would you get this group of believers,

their hearts are in the right place, they are doing everything Christian,

but there is no life changing walk on water?

I would say any supernatural manifestation that does not change you

is just manifestation and I don't know whether it even comes from the Spirit of God always.

Folks, the last thing that I want to touch on before we leave is

there was another king that did not have to be overcome,

but that met Abraham.

He was the king of Sodom.

Abraham did not have to conquer him,

but after he conquers as he is coming,

there is this king called the king of Sodom

and the king of Sodom comes up to him

and he comes as a friend.

He comes as a friend.

It is almost like Joshua 9, verse 7,

Joshua 9:7

where there was a nation called the Gibeonites.

They put on old clothes and they brought moldy bread

and they came to Joshua saying,

we are coming from a far off nation,

we want to make a treaty with you.

And they made a treaty with Joshua

so Joshua could never touch them after that.

It was called the Gibeonite deception.

And Sodom, king of Sodom comes like that.

And the word Sodom would normally mean burning or scorching,

but I would suggest to you that the actual meaning

based on how the Hebrew phonetics is written,

how the Hebrew phonetics spells it,

is Sodom is secret or hidden?

Or hidden?

Secret or hidden?

Secret or hidden?

Pardon?

Yeah, it literally is secret and hidden

and inflamed from within.

You don't see it.

Secret or hidden.

That's what it means.

So many dictionaries will just say scorching or burn,

but I'd suggest that it's, not I'd suggest,

based on what I've been finding out,

it's secret or hidden.

That's what it means.

So along comes the king of Sodom

and he is not conquered by Abraham.

He's the fifth king who's exposed by Abraham

and he's set aside.

He comes not as a foe,

but as a friend who's grateful.

And the sense of his name is he,

if you allow him into your life,

he establishes a foundation in you

which is hidden under the ground

and will inflame in time.

It's a foundation that enters your life

which is hidden, but will inflame when the time is right.

That's what it means.

The king of Sodom,

if I allow the king of Sodom into my life,

what will happen is he will enter my life

and then get into my life

and at the right time he'll begin to be hidden

and then he'll come out like this.

Now that I've explained that properly,

just had to do that.

I felt like doing that.

Sorry, Sue.

So notice that he comes not as a foe,

but as one who is grateful.

And then once the foundation is penetrated,

it's like a frozen horse,

it inflames in time.

One of the ways this happens in your lives and mine,

this is just one of the ways we've talked about

and then I'll talk about the final way,

is that defective alliances with people,

with set men, with...