Life Conference 2026 (Friday AM) - Dr. Greg Hood (February 6, 2025) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Let's give the Lord

a big praise. Can we do that? Hallelujah. He

is good. Do you believe it? Amen. It doesn't

matter if you believe it or not. He's still good.

Amen. I want to just say thank you to Brad and

Jen for allowing me back again. They're brave

people. I thought for sure they're not going

to let me come back no more. But you do let Tony

come back. So I'm encouraged. I'm very encouraged.

And Tony's amazing. I love Tony so much. He's

one of my dearest friends and one of my weirdest

friends that I relate to very, very well. Amen.

I believe God's got a word for us this afternoon.

But as Tony said, men should be obedient to their

wives. He might not have said that. I would have

heard, though. I want to just tell you about

a couple books back there. Joanne, she makes

me do this stuff. I'm not very good at it. But

the best book we have back there is her book.

And it's called Rendezvous. And it's a 21 -day

encounter with the king. You've just come off

of a 21 -day fast. Some of you look better than

you did when you went into it. Amen. Praise the

Lord. So I encourage you to go get this book

and spend the next 21 days. with the Father in

a way that is just amazing. This is a very, very,

very good book. I have our new book out. It's

called Ancient Evils, Present Day Manifestations,

Volume 1, The Rise of the Ecclesia. And this

is a three -volume set that we're producing.

We were going to make it one book, but when I

got done with it, it was like 800 pages. And

I'm like, nobody's going to read that. That'll

be a doorstop for sure. So we broke them up into

three books. And this is volume one, The Rise

of the Ecclesia. And I really go into, in this

book, I go into what the church is supposed to

look like. And Pastor Brad wrote me a very kind

endorsement in the book. So if you buy it for

nothing else, get it for his endorsement. He

said this is one of the best books he's ever

read. No, I'm kidding. But I do appreciate his

endorsement in this. I'm going to talk a little

bit about some of this. I've had people ask me,

why did you name it Ancient Evil Present Day

Manifestations? I said, because we've got some

ugly stuff that's been around a long time that's

manifesting. And volume one, again, like I said,

is The Rise of the Ecclesia, which... I'm going

to talk a little bit about it because we're talking

about the prevailing church. Amen? Volume 2 is

called Exposing the Nephilim. Testing. My mic

went out, I think. And it's a subject that's

not talked about a lot at all, maybe in most

churches. But we break it down. And I'll tell

you what God told me to do. He told me to look

at all of the giants that were in the Bible and

to begin to look at what their name meant. One

of their names, one of the giants, there's over

22 giants in the scripture by name. One of them

is called Og. He was the original OG, as a joke.

His name means to reach across the border and

pull across illegally. Isn't that amazing? There's

another one, Goliath. Y 'all ever heard of Goliath?

Goliath, his name means one who exposes himself.

That's why when David said, who is this uncircumcised

Philistine? And he began to, the scripture tells

us that he defiled the armies of Israel and their

God. Am I right? So he didn't just do that by

talking. And David addressed him as who he was,

a man who was trying to say that the covenant

with Israel was not as strong as his uncircumcision.

This mic might need a battery change. So the

Lord said to me, he said, if you look at these

giants, you'll see that manifesting in our culture

today. So I go through all of those and we see

a lot of that stuff happening in our culture

today. And the Lord said, I want you to look

at who killed them and where they died. And I'll

give you strategy, give the church strategy,

how to begin to overcome these giants that are

in the land. And then the third volume is called

Winning the Seed War. And it has a lot to do

with imprecatory prayers. It took me a long time

to even say that word right. Redneck tongue struggle

with fancy words. But this book will help you,

I do believe. Chaon, a dear friend of mine, wrote

the foreword in this one. This book has been

our best -selling book of all times. It's probably

outsold all of our books two to one. It's called

The Gospel of the Kingdom, Dutch Sheets. And

Chuck Pierce wrote the forewords in those, in

this book. I wanted to subtitle it. But, you

know, when you're writing a book, you want to

listen to people that have written more books

and made more money at writing books than you

have. And I did that. I was talking to Dutch

about it. And I wanted to say my subtitle of

this book, The Gospel of the Kingdom, would be

Debunking Religion. And he said, if you want

any religious people to read it, don't name it

that. So I said, okay. But we do talk a lot about

detoxing from religion in this book. And I'm

very, very thankful for this book and how it's

helped people in their walk with the Lord. And

we believe that the kingdom of God is the most

important thing that we could give our attention

to. Why is that? It's because it's the only message

that Jesus preached. Amen. Jesus never preached

anything but the kingdom of God. And Tony did

a wonderful job today. Y 'all give Tony a big

hand. Hallelujah. Tony set me up. And I'm grateful.

Because I was worried how this was going to go

over. And I promise you, I won't be as offensive

today as Tony was this morning. But we're going

to get into it. I spent a lot of time praying

into this conference, Brad. And the last time

I was here, the Lord just began to speak so many

things about how special this congregation is.

How special this church is. God's overall plan

for this region. We understand that we don't

come to church. Right? Jesus never told you to

come to church. Told you to be the church. Big,

big difference. We got people going to church

in America, all over America, every Sunday morning

doing their religious duty. and leaving as weak

and compromised as they were when they came in.

Amen. Now, again, I just want to remind everybody,

I am an equal opportunity offender, and Brad

will fix all of this when I leave. All right?

Amen. Actually, I did watch. The last time I

was here, the Sunday following, I watched to

see if Brad had to correct anything, and I think

I was okay. I did okay. I get nervous. There's

a greater shift that we're going to have to take

in order to see our culture begin to be recaptured

by the heart of the Lord. I'm going to give you

some thoughts that I have in my mind. I do have

some inside thoughts. I'm going to try to keep

very quiet. But some of the thoughts that I have,

I want to just give to you today. One of them

is... that Jesus loves nations. Amen? And with

that thought in mind, I looked through the scripture

and I never found a place, never found a place

where we're supposed to get people into heaven.

This mic keeps going out. It's not in there.

There's nowhere in the scripture that we're told

to get people to heaven. We're told to get people

in the kingdom. Amen? Now, our Western theology

and eschatology has warped a lot of understanding

about the kingdom. And a lot of it says the kingdom

of God's coming when Jesus returns. Well, Mark

Mark 9 · chapter mention

chapter 9 in verse 1, Jesus, red letters in your

Bible, Jesus says, that some of you that are

standing here today will not taste death until

you have seen the kingdom of God come in power.

That was 2 ,000 years ago. Jesus was addressing

people, saying the kingdom of God is at hand.

It's here, right? And my thought this morning

as I was praying into this, Brad, the Lord says,

I'm going to strengthen. The structure that I'm

giving you here in this house. And then Tony

started talking about structure. I leaned over

to Joanne. I said, he's getting all in my message

today. I don't know what to do. I said, pray

against him. Pray against him. She wouldn't do

it, Tony. I tried to get her to, but she wouldn't

do it. But I begin to just hear the Lord saying

structure has to shift. And what I'm going to

bring you this weekend when I have the opportunity

to do so, I believe is prophetic insight and

some apostolic strategy of how to increase the

manifestation of your assignment as an assembly.

Is that all right? Because your assignment here

is to get the kingdom of God into the earth.

Jesus said when you pray, Matthew chapter 6,

Matthew 6 · chapter mention

when you pray, pray this way. Kingdom of God

come. Will of God be done on earth as it is in

heaven. Amen? The way the Greek frames that there

is not a request. We're not asking God. God sends

your kingdom. It's actually out of our partnership

and our alignment with the Father, we are releasing

a decree that we discovered in his heart to get

what's in the unseen realm into the seen realm.

And it is a declaration, kingdom of God come.

Will of God be done in the earth as it is in

heaven. Hallelujah. Only a people that understand

their destiny is not in heaven can do that. Amen.

Our destiny is kingdom. I looked up the word

prevailing and I begin to hear the Lord say that

anything that is not part of a structure that

he created, he's not obligated to manifest himself

in it. Let me say that again. God is not obligated

to manifest himself in any structure he did not

create. Why is that important to know? Because

we've got a lot of religious structures that

we're trying to get God to come into. And if

God manifests himself in structures that he did

not create, then he's validating those structures

that he did not create. And he's allowing people

to stay in bondage inside those structures that

he did not create. So I said, Lord, what is this?

He said, it's the curse of the ziggurat. And

I said, whoa, where do we find that? We go all

the way back to the Tower of Babel. The Tower

of Babel was a ziggurat. It was a temple. It

wasn't this windy thing going up trying to get

to where God lives. That's what we were taught

in Sunday school. Well, at least in the Baptist

church we were where I grew up. But it is a temple.

It's a box that they build to house their gods.

And Nimrod built a ziggurat. and tried to get

Jehovah to move into it. Am I right, Tony? I'm

on the right track. And God said, I'm not coming

to live in your box. Glory. So God said, they're

doing something stupid down there. Let's go look

at it. Now y 'all have to understand, I use my

redneck paraphrase addition sometimes. Amen.

Tony can help interpret that if you need interpretation.

And God said, let's go look at it. Let's go watch

what they're doing. And he did. And he said,

this isn't good. Let's confuse their language.

And he confused their language and the progress

stopped because God will not allow man to build

him a place that he has to dwell under their

supervision. And that's what we've done with

Western Church. We've come to church and we have

done our stuff. We know what's going to happen

before it even happens in most places. Not here.

Those watching online are going to be blessed

by this. Y 'all are the amen corner. And we know

what to do. We know what's going to happen, when

it's going to happen, and how it's going to happen.

And we feel good about it and we put ourselves

into it. And then all of a sudden we're done.

We go home and we go back to life. And we've

got to divide between our meeting with God and

our meeting with the giants in the land. With

life. And if we're going to be a prevailing church,

we've got to be a people that operates out of

the structure, that our Father created. Let me

make a couple statements about that. Church,

Christianity, oh Lord, I'm gonna get in trouble,

is not supposed to be a religion. As a matter

of fact, nowhere in the Bible, nowhere in the

Word of God are you referred to in a positive

light as a Christian. God never referred to you

as a Christian. Hallelujah. It was a derogatory

term. So if God, the Father, never referred to

me as a Christian, why would I want to be identified

as a Christian? I know I'm giving you some stuff

that's a little bit weird. Just hang on. It's

going to work out. Don't sweat too much. Brad,

again, will fix this. So if father or his son,

Yeshua, never referred to us as Christians, could

the thing that we are taking on as our label

hinder us from actually becoming who he created

us to be? I'm not a Christian. I'm a son. See,

y 'all were nervous. I did that pause on purpose.

What does he refer to us at? He says we're sons

and daughters. That's what he calls us. He calls

us kings and lords. He calls us ambassadors.

Am I right? He calls us overcomers and more than

conquerors. That's what he calls us. That's the

identity we need to be wearing. But whenever

we wear the banner Christian and we meet other

people and they say, are you a Christian? We

say, yes. Their next question is, what kind of

Christian are you? Well, I'm a Pentecostal. Shun

die, run die, tie my bow tie. Hallelujah. You

know, or I'm charismatic, whatever it may be.

And we've got all these divisions of Christianity

that we've allowed ourselves to be identified

in that has made us complacent and weak. So who

are we? We're kingdom people. We are. indirect

relation to the King of Kings and the Lord of

Lords as sons and daughters. We've been set into

the earth as ambassadors representation from

the home country. Amen. To be here as diplomatic

representatives to cause the kingdoms of this

world to become the kingdoms of our God. Amen.

We've been placed here for a hostile takeover.

To do something that has happened throughout

every kingdom, every government in the world.

You saw a little bit of it a few weeks ago whenever

we went into Venezuela. It was a hostile takeover.

We had a regime change. Getting ready to happen

in Iran and probably a few other places on the

planet. Why is that? You as an ambassador. As

a king in the earth have been set here to unseat

unlawful authorities that have set their throne

up where the father's throne is supposed to be.

Amen. We're not here to coexist. We're not here

to get along. We're here to take over. We're

here to cause the kingdoms of this world to become

the kingdoms of our God. Amen. Prevailing, this

word is an amazing word. It means to gain. The

word prevailing or to prevail is not a defensive

word. It's an offensive word. Amen. Y 'all understand

that? Super Bowl's coming up here shortly. Amen.

I love guys that put conferences on Super Bowl

weekend. Hallelujah. It's amazing. Very brave.

It means to gain. It means ascendancy. In this

word, it means dominance. It means occupation

of a position of dominant power and influence.

We've heard lots of teaching, great teaching,

amazing teaching about the authority of the believer.

Our authority as individuals in our daily walk,

in our daily life. This is good. It's necessary.

It's important. But the Lord is doing something

very unique in our age, in the day that we live

in. He is shifting us from a place of only wanting

to walk out an individual assignment with individual

authority and moving us into a place of corporate

assignment and corporate authority. See, individual

anointings and individual assignments, we can

cast out devils, we can speak in new tongues.

If we drink any deadly thing, it shall not harm

us, right? We'll pick up serpents and all of

that type of stuff. That's good, but that's out

of Mark 16. That's about winning or getting the

family back. There's two commissions in the Bible.

Mark 16 and Matthew 28. We've identified Matthew

28 with Mark 16's definition and we quit doing

Matthew 28. Mark 16's about getting the family

back. Go win the loss. Get to harvest. That's

very important. And that's what most churches

focus on today. And they have this escape mentality

that, you know, well, let's just get everybody

saved. Let's get them to be a part of our church

because the Lord's coming any minute. Well, he's

been coming any minute for 2 ,000 years. And

people with futuristic eschatology, they set

dates and set dates and set dates and set dates

and set dates and set dates and set dates and

set dates and nothing ever happens. We need to

start paying attention to stuff that's not happening.

Maybe we need to reevaluate our eschatology.

I'm not going to get into eschatology today.

But we need to look, if they're always getting

it wrong, maybe the eschatology itself is wrong.

Hallelujah. This word prevail, prevailing. to

gain, to have dominance through strength or superiority.

That's what the church is supposed to look like.

Whenever Jesus birthed his church, Matthew chapter

Matthew 18 · chapter mention

18, I'm going to be reading out of the New American

Standard. Let's just look at that passage of

scripture, Matthew chapter 18. Verse 18. Let's

Matthew 18 · chapter mention

back up just a little bit. Excuse me, Matthew

16, 18. He said, I also say to you that you are

Peter and upon this rock I will build my church

and the gates of Hades will not overpower. Now,

many of you know Joanne and I lead Kingdom University.

And we tell people, we teach them in Kingdom

University, when you read the Bible, you need

to ask four important questions. Number one,

who's talking? How many know the one speaking

is very important? Number two, who they're talking

to, the audience is very important. Because he

wasn't always speaking to everybody, he was speaking

to somebody. Number three, I think, is probably

the most important question that we miss, and

it is what? did it mean in that culture? Then

number four, how do I take it and apply it to

my life? So many times, whenever we read the

scripture, we try to interpret through American

culture or Western culture or denominational

culture. And when we do that, just to be quite

frank, we get false doctrines. And these false

doctrines lead us down roads that cause us to

be weak and impotent. So we need to begin to

understand culture. So I tell people, when you're

reading the Old Testament, you need an ancient

Hebrew running around in your mind to kind of

help guide you and help you understand what it

means. That means you need to know Hebrew history.

When you're reading the New Testament, you need

to understand... the second temple period culture

in order to be able to know what they're saying.

You say, Greg, well, this sounds very difficult.

It's not really difficult if you have all the

things you need to put the pieces together. See,

our Bible colleges today have taught us to read

this through an individual mindset when the entirety

of Scripture is a corporate mindset. The whole

thing. So it diverts us, it divides us, it derails

us, it causes us not to be able to accomplish

what he's called us to do. So Jesus said here,

he said that he was gonna build his church. Am

I right? Everybody say my church. Come on, with

enthusiasm. My church. He was not talking about

stained glass and steepled buildings. Amen. Now,

let me just give you a little bit of, Trouble.

The word church is not a good word when we look

at what Jesus was saying here in this passage

of Scripture. You've got to understand, all these

translations that came over the years, whether

they translated, many of our English translations

came out of the Masoretic text, and there was

lots of problems with that. In the translations,

and they move things around and switch words.

Can I just tell you where the word church goes

back to? Here's some homework for you. You can

go study this out. The word church goes all the

way back to a word, Circes. It goes back from

the English word church into the word Kirk, and

then it follows itself on back through several

other different pronunciations to the word Circes.

You know who Circes was? It was a false god.

Now, Greg, why do you talk like this? Well, if

we don't know, we don't know. But when we do

know, we can do right. Amen? We can shift some

things. So if church, the word church is not

the right word there, what would be the right

word for this particular place? In the Greek,

it's the word ekklesia, E -K -K -L -E -S -I -A,

ekklesia. And the word ekklesia, it means assembly.

Right? So, and I'm not talking about the assemblies

of God. Hallelujah. Or the assemblies of the

firstborn. That's Joanne grew up in a denomination

called the assemblies of the firstborn. I thought

it was a cult. It sounds cultish, but they were

pretty good people when you got to know them.

They did good with her. The word assembly, it

means. legislators, those that come together

to legislate. Not to make law, but to enact law.

See, again, you've got to bring culture into

it. When we think about our legislature, our

Congress, the legislators, we think about all

those thieves, I mean, those people that we elected

and sent to Washington, D .C. That's not what

they meant. They make law. The Senate or the

legislation, legislators, the ecclesia in Jesus'

day were those that were sent into a conquered

territory to begin to bring the culture of the

one that won the war. They were sent there. There

were five different elements of government that

were sent into a place. And the idea was not

to build buildings and gather people in buildings,

but it was to infiltrate every facet of the culture

of that conquered city with the culture of the

one that won the war. For example, Rome conquered

Israel. They conquered that whole region, that

whole territory, and they sent in an ecclesia

from Rome to steward that conquered territory.

So much so that they affected everything. They

affected the roads that they had. They affected

the way that buildings were built. And you go

to Israel today, you will not go see any type

of excavation or artifacts of Israeli buildings.

You'll see a wall. People say that's part of

the temple. It's not part of the temple. It's

a western wall. but most of what you will see

is Roman architecture. When you go through, you'll

see lots of Roman, a lot of the Romans were there.

It even goes to the point that whenever Jesus

asked them, he said, when they would ask him,

should they pay their taxes, which most Americans

like that question, should we or should we not?

He said, give me a denarii, give me a coin. He

said, whose face is on the coin, right? They

said, well, Caesar's. And he said, well, give

Caesar what belongs to him, but also make sure

you give God what belongs to him. Amen? So they'd

come in as an ecclesia and literally change the

economic structure of a nation to the point that

they were no longer using their coins except

in their religious structure, which had no value

in society. See, what we spend in our religious

structure has no value where it counts. The ecclesia,

the church, the legislative arm of heaven, we

are called to be cultural changers. And boy,

does Oregon have a job ahead of them. Hallelujah.

But y 'all got the right people to do it. It

just takes doing it. Jesus said, I'm going to

build my ecclesia. That means there were other

ecclesias that were in that region at that time.

Not churches as we identify them today, but governments.

Jesus took his disciples to Caesarea Philippi.

To make the statement, this was not just a field

trip that he put them on. He said, oh, by the

way, boys, let me tell you something about this

place. No, he said, in this passage, he said,

I'm going to birth my government in the earth

and the gates of hell will not overpower. Now,

many people say, well, the word it is there.

I'm going to build my church and the gates of

hell will not overpower it, my church. The word

it is not in the original text. When we read

that through western lenses, we say Jesus is

building a church that the devil will not be

able to come in and conquer us. Defensive mindset.

Jesus actually was saying that I'm going to build

an ecclesia. And this ecclesia that I build,

the world will not be able to overpower. Isn't

that good? So our authority and power is not

just in here amongst ourselves or whenever we

might feel like we're on an assignment to go

cast a devil out somewhere or heal the sick somewhere,

but we literally carry the dominant government

in the earth, in us, and everywhere we go, we

are the dominant government. Hallelujah. That

means Oregon can change like that. That means

the false thrones that have been set up in your

capital can begin to crumble and come down when

an ecclesia begins to gather together and legislate

what's in the Father's heart for your city, for

your region, and for your nation. Hallelujah.

See, if I was the devil, I've been accused a

few times. I'm not. Young -ass Joanne. But I

would try to convince the people of God that

it's all about them. And if I could convince

them it's all about them, then maybe I could

get them to focus on just themselves, their relationship

with God, how God's moving with them, how God's

ministering to them, how they're soaking in the

presence of God, how they're gathering together

to worship God. If I can get them to focus on

that, then I can keep them out of culture. Your

assignment is not in this building. Your assignment

is where you do life. It's on your job. It's

in your business. It's in your government. It's

you being a voice in the theater of your community

to be able to say, I hear what you're saying,

but here's what the king says. And can you believe

that we still have people, not here, I know it's

not here, but we still have people that call

themselves believers that still vote for people

that their platform is about killing babies?

Yeah. Well, Greg, you know, we got to keep the

church and the government separated. That's the

devil's plan. Because if the ecclesia gets into

government, he loses his domain. He loses his

stronghold. He loses his kingdom in that region.

But if there was a people brave enough and bold

enough to say, we don't care what it costs. We

don't care what the assignment is. We don't care

if we lose our life. We don't care if we lose

our money. If we're put in jail, we're in this

thing because we know we overcome by the blood

of the Lamb. We overcome by the word of our testimony.

And we love not our life even unto death. to

be something that's consistent it can't be a

good idea it has to become a lifestyle and the

lifestyle that's created out of the structure

of the kingdom of god is a governmental lifestyle

not a religious christian lifestyle it is a lifestyle

of kings does that make sense today see the answer

to your problems in your state and in your city

is in this room. It's not from heaven. It's in

this room. Amen. It means you've got to speak

up. Well, I might lose some friends. You need

to lose them anyway. If you can't win them, lose

them in a grand fashion. Amen. Let it be miraculously.

A spectacle beyond spectacles. Amen. Well, I

might lose my family. Same principle applies.

Red letters in your Bible says this. It says

that if you give up cattle and land, houses,

mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, for

my namesake, for my kingdom, He said this. He

said, I will give it back to you a hundredfold

in this life. In this life. So what does that

mean? All of those people that leave your life

because of you standing for righteousness, they're

just seed for a harvest. God's gonna bring it

back. He's gonna bring people in your life. He's

gonna bring houses and land and cattle. Amen.

If he's bringing me cattle, I want red Angus.

They're good to eat. Hallelujah. I'm a meatitarian.

Thank you, Lord. We've become, we've been so

taught in the church to be so conscious. About

how other people think about us. And you know.

God forbid somebody think bad about me. It might

reflect bad on Christ. No. It'll probably reflect

good on Christ. He said don't. Jesus didn't make

himself a man of a reputation. But we're doing

it every day. We're trying to brand ourselves.

Especially preachers. Not none of us in the room.

Amen. But some online are going to really get

set free from this. I got a brand myself. The

only brand you need is the brand of the sun on

you. And if we're faithful to him, he'll open

doors for us. He'll cause the gift that he's

caused us to be, to be able to open doors in

the right places. The Lord says something to

Joanne and I this year. or last year rather,

for this year, he said, I don't want you accepting

invitations to preach. He said, I want you to

start accepting assignments. Oh, that wrecked

me, Brad. I'm like, that's a whole nother paradigm.

That's redneck for paradigm. Sorry about that.

I slipped back. Right? Young preachers, they're

looking for open doors. They're looking for places

to go preach. No, no, no, no. Let's don't do

that no more. That's the religious way to do

it. That's the way we were taught to do it. Let's

ask Father for where have you assigned me to

be today? Because if I can get in my assignment,

then I can get some fruit. Amen. And I can get

so much fruit that they'll look and say, this

must be God because look what he used to bring

fruit. If you look up in your Strong's Concordance,

The Foolish Things of Man to Confound the Wise,

my picture's there. I'm telling you, I want to

be in positions that there's no way people can

say, Greg did that out of his talent. Greg did

that out of his resources. Greg did that out

of this or that. They'll have to look and say,

that had to be God. That's what I want. That's

my heart's desire. But it's got to be in a structure

that he created. He did not create religion.

He created kingdom. Are you with me? He said,

I'm going to build my church and the gates of

Hades will not overpower. See, there in Caesarea

Philippi, where Jesus was standing, there were

two caves upon a hill. Those two caves were called

the gates of Hades, the gates of hell, or the

gates of the underworld. And Jews, along with

the pagans, would go in there and they would

sacrifice their babies to this god called Pan.

He was half man, half goat. And they would throw

their babies over this shelf that was in this

cave into a river that ran through the cave.

And if blood came out the other end, God wasn't

satisfied, so they had to do it over and over

again. This cave, these two caves, they were

on a very unique place. These caves were on the

mount called Mount Hermon. Say, Greg, what's

that got to do with anything? It's very important.

This is where... The 200 watchers fell. You say,

Greg, I don't know what that is. I got a book

back here called Seed Wars. It's not a plug really.

But we talk about those types of things. There

was a rebellion of the watchers, the sons of

God. They fell. They landed there on Mount Hermon.

They made a covenant with themselves that they

would lay with the daughters of men. And they

did. And the giant races were produced from that.

And all kind of wickedness began to fill the

earth. This was going back to the Genesis chapter

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3 scenario to where whenever that crazy woman

Eve deceived her husband. No, wait a minute.

No, that's not the right place for that one.

When Adam didn't take responsibility. It's all

right, Tony. We're going to get out alive now.

Hallelujah. And he ate the fruit. Why did God

not say anything? Why did God not correct that

woman? Very, very important. This has to do with

the prevailing ekklesia. Why did he not correct

Eve? Say, Eve, don't do that. Look, woman, go

back and talk to Adam. Get this thing right.

Why did he not do that? Because in Genesis chapter

one, God said something so significant, so precise.

He said, let them have authority. Dominion, radah

is the word in Hebrew. Let them do kingdom. Let

them be responsible for the earth. Isn't that

amazing? You know what that means? That means

God's not in control. Man, that's a saying that

every church people use. God's in control. Actually,

he's not. He's in charge. He put man in control.

If God was in control, you'll have to blame him

for every abortion, every murder, every rape,

right? You'd have to blame him for every angry

mother -in -law, all of that stuff you'd have

to blame God for. But God is in charge. He can

take control. He will take control again one

day. But the word says that he created the earth

for the sons of man and he created the heavens

for himself. Now we have to understand if God,

gave man control, God removed himself from the

scenario of operations in the earth. That's why

he didn't say anything whenever the act of rebellion

and treason was taking place. See, the sin that

Jesus came to die for was not your morality.

We think that Jesus came to save me from drinking,

dipping, smoking, chewing, dating girls that

did those things. Right? But he didn't. It was

the sin. It's plural. Excuse me, it's singular,

not plural in the scripture. And it's one sin.

It's the sin of rebellion. The sin of treason.

You can't commit treason against a religion,

but you can against a country. You can against

a kingdom. Amen? And so what happened? What happened?

How do we get so, our morals get so messed up?

It's because we traded our passport that belonged

to the kingdom of light to the kingdom of darkness

back in the Garden of Eden. And when we did that,

we took on the culture of that kingdom. And all,

the fallen ones begin to train humanity in the

culture of the kingdom of darkness. But when

Yeshua came on the scene, hallelujah, when he

died and rose again and ascended into heaven,

he made a way for you to be repatriated into

your home country. Hallelujah. Isn't that good?

Now you can trade your passport from the kingdom

of darkness back into the kingdom of light and

you become sons and daughters. Jesus died for

the sins of the world. That word world is tricky.

It's the word cosmos. And it means structure.

Order, governmental structure, governmental order.

It doesn't mean humanity. Oops. Can I give you

one more? See, Brad needs sermon material for

the next month, so he's going to correct all

of this stuff. I'm just giving him points to

work out with y 'all. The most famous scripture

in the Bible, John 3, 16, for God so loved the

world. That he gave his only begotten son that

whosoever believed in him would not perish but

have everlasting life. For the son was not sent

into the world to condemn the world that through

him the world might be saved. That's the word,

that word world again is the word cosmos and

it means government or governmental structure

or governmental order. It has nothing to do with

humanity. But we preached it, God so loved you.

Oh, glory. That he gave his only begotten son.

Y 'all know how we preach it. We preach it hell

hot, right? Seven ways to Sunday. We'll even

hoop a little bit. They know what hooping is

up here, Tony. I don't know if they know what

that is. You should explain it. Well, I need

a Hammond B3 with a listening speaker to help

me with that. He loved order. He loved government.

So much that he sent his son into the disorder,

into a fallen government. And if anyone would

believe in him, his assignment, his purpose,

then they could switch countries and live eternally.

Hallelujah. And then he says in verse 17, we

never preach 17 because... Verse 16, if we preach

it a certain way that we've been taught from

Western ideology and philosophy, then we can

get people in the altar and take pictures and

it looks good. Verse 17 says, he did not send

the son, his son, into the... Chaos or the disorder,

so to destroy the disorder or to judge the governmental

structure, but that through him, that structure,

that order might be saved. Jesus did not come

to get you. He came to get a kingdom so that

he could then get you back into your rightful

place. As citizens in the kingdom. See, it was

never about heaven in the ether out there somewhere.

It was about heaven in the earth. He came back

to put in order what was out of order. He came

to bring the kingdoms back under subjection to

the most high God. Amen. He came to dethrone

these fallen rebellious watchers. and to reinstitute

his government in the earth so that his sons

and his daughters could get back to doing what

God's original intent was when he created man,

and that was radahing, if I can say it that way,

doing kingdom, having dominion in the earth.

See, we've been trained. We gotta get out of

here. He's coming one day. We're gonna get, it's

gonna be in the sweet by and by. Hallelujah,

one day. When the roll is called up yonder, I'll

be there. I fly away, oh glory. What we've done,

we've gotten a lot of our theology from our song

book instead of his book. And we have missed

it. Brad did not give you guys a theme for this

conference just out of thin air. This is purpose.

Thought through, prayed through. Hearing the

Lord saying, I'm ready to raise up a prevailing

church. A church that dominates in every sphere

of society. And release the people that only

need two or three in any sphere of influence.

I'll send them in there. There an ecclesia will

be. And they will begin to change the culture.

What if people in your business world, your business

realm, stop stealing from you? What if your employees

stop stealing from you? What if you stop, no,

for those online, what if you stop stealing from

your employer? What if the culture was not, you'd

have to tell people to watch their mouths or

don't bring these demonic things in here. What

if there was a ekklesia, a legislative group

of people that went into every sphere of society

in Harrisburg or in Oregon or in our nation and

said, now we're going to be the cultural changers.

We're going to set the atmosphere of what's allowed

to operate here and what's not. I believe we're

at that place. There's a maturing church. There's

a remnant church that God is raising up that's

saying we've had enough. We've had enough. We've

had enough of demonic ideas and demonic people

trying to change our nation into being something

God never created it to be. But what we're gonna

have to do is take responsibility. We're gonna

have to begin to say, all right, We see what

you're doing and here's what the king says about

this. I was interviewed one time by The Economist

magazine. They came all the way to Franklin,

Tennessee to see a redneck because he'd been

talking about government and the church. And

the lady, when she sat down to interview me,

one of her first questions was, Greg, what's

your opinion on... Same -sex marriage. I said,

you mean queers marrying one another? I did.

I wasn't there to get along. I said, I don't

have an opinion. She said, how can you not have

an opinion? You're a preacher. You're supposed

to have an opinion. I said, ma 'am. If I was

religious, I could have opinion, but I'm a kingdom

man, so I'm not afforded an opinion. I can only

tell you what the king says. See, when we lose

our opinions and we only say what he says, we

get the weight and the results of his words.

Amen. When we see these crooked politicians that

are trying to lie and cheat and steal and we

don't address them out of our anger, let me tell

you, that's hard to do, especially for a redneck

boy. Help me, hallelujah. If I had hair, it'd

all fall out. But we see this wickedness and

we want to address it with a righteous anger.

No, no, all you got to do is say what the king

said and these people begin to lose their authority.

They begin to lose their positioning. They begin

to lose their influence. Why? Because their kabod,

Tony talked about that, their doctor, their glory,

their weight and their influence begins to shift

out of their control and the weight and the glory,

the influence of God begins to come in. Why?

Because that's what it says in Psalms. Who is

this king of glory? The Lord God Almighty. Who?

Who is this one that is trained, fills the temple?

Who is this one that steps in and all of the

angels take notice of him? All creation bows

to him. That's when we begin to see the difference.

See, cultural change is up to the ecclesia. I'm

closing. Some of y 'all look hungry. So what's

the problem? The problem is, again, not y 'all,

those online. The problem is we've had a weak,

compromised church. That's the problem. The root

of the problem is a weak and compromised pulpit.

Y 'all hear me? A weak, compromised pulpit. The

most influential voice in any community is the

pulpit. Above everything, why we teach, we train,

we're a gift. The five -fold gifts are actually

not ministries. We've been calling what we do

ministry. We're not in ministry. We're in equipping.

And our equipping is to equip you to do the work

of the ministry. Amen? Ministry is not casting

out devils and raising the dead. That's not ministry.

That's not ministry at all. Ministry is a governmental

term. And you and I, family, we actually, we've

been at a disadvantage in America because we

don't use language, kingdom language a lot. We

don't use that a lot. But ministry has to do

with directly what we have as, you know, we have

departments, Department of Defense, or the war

now. I like that better. That's stronger. Department

of War. Department of education, department of

finance. We have secretaries that run those things,

but in a kingdom, it's the ministry of war. It's

the ministry of finance. It's the ministry of

education and they're run by ministers. So kingdom

language is saying to us here that we as the

gifts of Yeshua. To his ecclesia, our responsibility

is not to be a minister or a ministry, but our

responsibility is to teach you how to do governmental

business in the sphere of influence, the ministry

that he's given you as a minister of the king.

Woo, hallelujah. Does that make sense? But here's

what's happened. You know, we're fatty people,

not F -A -T -T -Y, but F, it sounds the same

redneck tongue. Fad, fatty, we like fads. There

you go. Same pronunciation, different spelling.

The fad in the church today is kingdom. Everything's

kingdom. Kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, kingdom,

kingdom, kingdom, kingdom. But what we have,

Tony, is we have kingdom language without kingdom

revelation. And when you have kingdom language

without kingdom revelation, you have religion

in another dialect. That's all you got. That

make sense? You've just got religion. We talk

it, but we have no idea what it means. We've

got to find out what did Jesus actually mean

when he said, I'm going to build my Ecclesia.

When I'm bringing the government of God, the

government of heaven back into the earth, I came

to die and save a governmental structure. The

word save there, it means to recover, to restore,

and to preserve. He came to recover the government.

He came to restore the government. And he came

to preserve the government. The prophet Daniel

said to his kingdom, there will be no end. Isaiah

said that the government will be upon his shoulder,

not the salvation, not the crusaders or the crusades

we will do. No, no, no. The government will be

upon his shoulders and his kingdom will have

no end. Not his religion, his kingdom, his government.

Luke chapter 4 verse 5, it says the enemy led

Luke 4:5

him up to a high place, showed him all of the

religions of the world, right? No, all the kingdoms

of the world. He showed him all of the kingdoms

of the world and his glory, his weight, his influence,

and said, if you'll bow down and worship me,

I'll give you what you came for. I'll give you

all of these kingdoms. Now, the word world there

is not the word cosmos. The word world there

is the word oikos, which means family or the

house that holds the family, the family unit.

And the devil was telling him, look, I know you've

come after your family's kingdoms, but if you

want them, just kneel and worship before me and

I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus said

what? He said, it is written, you worship the

Lord your God and serve him only. Do you know

what that word worship means? It's not this.

It's not smoke machines and preachers in skinny

jeans. Hallelujah. That's not what it is. The

word worship literally means, look it up, it

means to kiss the ring. Kiss the ring. The root

of that, it means to kneel or to take a knee

and to kiss a ring. So worship is about an expression

of loyalty and submission to one who lords over

you. What was Satan's goal? I'm gonna exalt my

throne above his throne. I'm gonna be like the

most high. Wrong answer. That was his goal. If

I could get the son of God to worship me, then

I've achieved my goal. I'll give you the kings,

all the glory, all the dominion that comes with

it. Yeshua, if you'll just kneel and kiss my

ring, I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus

said, buddy, there's only one ring I'm kissing.

There's only one I'm kneeling before and that

is the most high. I am not kissing your old nasty

ring. No telling where your hands have been.

I added that in there. So if we're going to have

a prevailing, dominating, advancing church, we're

going to have to get it from the structure that

he created. which is kingdom. Amen? Luke chapter

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12. It's a mirror of Matthew chapter 6, verse

Matthew 6:32

32. It says, verse 33, it says, seek first the

kingdom of God and all these things be added

unto you. In Luke, Matthew adds the word and

his righteousness. But then the last verse of

Luke 12, it says, do not fear, little flock.

Isn't that good? Can I give you a hint? If Jesus

says do not fear, there's going to be opportunity

to fear. Right? Do not fear, little flock, for

it is the Father's good pleasure to give you

the... the nation, the country, the kingdom.

See, when Jesus died and he rose again, he restored

what Adam lost. Jesus was the last Adam. He restored

that and then he said to us, go get my family

back in Mark 16, in Matthew 28. he said to us,

he said, go disciple nations. Wow. Get the family,

disciple nations. We have a responsibility as

the ecclesia to disciple our nation. That means

we are the influencers. It is the one that is

influenced. Does this make sense today? The beautiful

part about it is you have, part of the government

in you. You have the governor of the government

in you. His name is Holy Spirit. Amen. He lives

in you. And the kingdom is in you. Wherever the

governor is, there's representation of the kingdom.

Isn't that good? See, whenever a nation turns

a territory over to the people and they establish

a sovereign nation, the governor that that dominating

nation had in there, he has to leave. He has

to lower his flag and he has to go. Why is that?

Because now a new government's coming in. Whenever

you get born again and Holy Spirit comes to live

in you, you've got the governor of the home country

living in you to now teach you the culture of

the home country, but also to activate you in

your assignment of causing the kingdoms of this

world to become the kingdoms of our God and his

Christ. You're the most dangerous thing on the

planet. Look at somebody and tell them, you're

the most dangerous thing on the planet. Isn't

that good? I want you to stand with me. Hallelujah.

I know it's a lot. But you're made for this.

This shift that Brad's been talking about, that

Tony talked about, is not just a deeper. Walk

with God. It's a more dangerous walk with God.

So Father, today I just pray that you give us

ears to hear what Holy Spirit is saying to us.

You'd give us what Tony talked about today out

of Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 17. Father,

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you would give us wisdom and revelation. Help

us Father to understand that what Yeshua did

for us was not all about us. It was about him

and his kingdom. We just get to be a part of

it. And I'm thankful for that Lord. Father I

pray that this. This ecclesia that you have in

Oregon here, Father, would begin to make this

shift in a way that we would begin to see the

state of Oregon literally change. That, Father,

those that hate you that are ruling in this state

would find themselves unseated. Lord, your word

says that whenever the kings of the earth plot

together to overthrow you, Psalms 2, you say

that you sit in the heaven and you laugh. Laugh

over Oregon, I pray. Let your joy begin to pour

over this state. Use this ecclesia. Give them

influence, Father. Give them weight in this state.

Father, begin to give them favor. Give them laborers

for all you've called them to do. Give them favor.

Open doors in every facet of culture that they

can begin to commission and send apostolically,

Lord, people into every sphere of society to

begin to shift and change it to look like heaven.

Father, I'm asking today for boldness. You'd

give them boldness. You'd give them strength.

You'd give them a fresh and filling of Holy Spirit.

Father, you'd cause them to be able to see, Lord,

in dimensions they've not yet seen into yet.

And they would begin to be known as those that

govern from their seat in heaven, manifesting

it in the earth. So, Father, we bless this ecclesia.

We bless Brad and Jen and all of their leadership.

We bless, Father, those that are connected here.

And we thank you they are shifting into a place

of dominance, into a place of kingdom that they've

never been in before. Deep calls to deep. So,

Father, we thank you for this. In the mighty

name of Yeshua, we pray. Amen. If you are in

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