What an awesome day it is today and there was a lot going on.
So that I'm going to need to jump right into the word.
Amen. All right, let me let me direct
our attention to Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18.
You know, traditionally when it comes to us, I am a person.
Funny I'm saying it this way. Traditionally, you know, that we
do not follow traditions, you know, so there are some
traditions out there that are good, but you know, I'm kind of
anti traditional. I'm like, you know, do we have
to do that? And if I honestly see everyone
doing something that technically isn't just scriptural, it's just
traditional, then I'm like, I don't know that I'm doing that.
I tend to push a little bit. And you know, one thing that I
see that comes through is that there's always somebody
declaring something at the beginning of the year.
And I realize God is not on our our calendar.
God is not technically completely concerned about our
calendar. Now, I'm not saying that he's
not aware of our calendar and that he's not aware of specific
times that he has put in the earth because there were
specific times to think that he's not calendar driven.
That's not true because he said, well, you're going to keep this
feast and you're going to keep this thing and you're and there
was were specific days when the day of Pentecost came.
That was a calendar day. That was a calendar day.
And God ordained this long before man and he knew I'm going
to drop the spirit. Passover was a calendar day and
Jesus is the Passover lamb, so to say He's not aware.
I know He's aware, but He doesn't have to give us a word
January 1 every year and He may not be technically doing
something different now. For us, a word came into our
spirit in 20/20/20. Prior to that, we lived up
underneath this idea in 2017 to 20, 2017, 1819 on being
equipped. And, and who would have known
that for those three years we kept emphasizing being equipped,
that COVID would have come and we would have seen a generation
of churches not equipped to not to be not equipped.
Aren't you glad we were being equipped?
I said we were being equipped. Hallelujah.
Well, then it moved into raining and all of a sudden I and I
sensed in my spirit we could talk about reigning till Jesus
comes. Because when Jesus comes back,
he is not coming back as a suffering servant.
He's coming back as the reigning king.
Hallelujah. And much of Christianity,
globally speaking, needs to rediscover his reign.
They need to rediscover his reign.
This is that I think the genius, when I say genius, the Holy
Ghost will make you look like a genius.
That Doctor Miles Monroe did when he started writing on the
Kingdom of God, that he knew that it was a lost context.
And when he ministered it, it would be such a foreign concept
to the church as a whole that it would give the appearance it was
a new revelation. When?
Let me just say this, there's nothing new under the sun,
Nothing new. It's just that things can get
lost through the years because #1 traditions #2 man can become
complacent or #3 man can enjoy the blessings of God and then
forget God. And in their forgetting, they
will redefine him so that they can live their blessed life.
Are you hearing me? And so he was very wise when he
said rediscovering the Kingdom. And you know what?
The King's coming back. I said the King's coming back.
Now he is a king, His father is a king, and his father is a
father, and his father holds position of fatherhood and
kingship together. They're not a separate thing.
He can be a loving father and a supreme ruling king at the same
time. Never will Heavenly Father pull
his crown off in order to be a loving father.
In fact, it's his kingship that establishes his fatherhood
because it's who he is. They're inseparable.
He is the ruler, creator of everything.
It's amazing. And out of his nature, which is
Love Is All. Oh, Mama, it's all, it's
everything. And so it's important for us to
continue to grow in this thing called the Kingdom of God, of
which our heavenly Father so desires for us to be his sons.
Amen. And so this year, you know, as
we again, just seeking the Lord. Is there something I just sensed
in my spirit, the Lord's life. I'm still dealing with the
church. Last year we started, we kept
raining as our thought process, but we went into the reigning
church and we're still going to be talking about the reigning
church this year because God is doing something in His church.
Now let's look at this. In Matthew chapter 16, verse 18,
it says it this way. It says, And I say unto thee,
King James Version, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. I'm going to say that again.
And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. It will not prevail.
So the church he's building will
never be sounding like, whoo, it's getting so bad.
I don't know what we're going to do 'cause his church is saying,
I don't care how bad it's getting, it's getting.
It's getting, it's getting. It doesn't matter how bad it's
getting. What is happening is that the
church is raining and it cannot prevail against us.
Can't do it. We can say, Yep, sounds bad.
Oh, that's not good news, but I have some good news for you.
I just want you to know there is good news and you can take
confidence. In fact, I just want you to get
a little happy because our king said in this life you'll have
trials and tribulation, but be of good because I've given you a
Kingdom. I've just given you a Kingdom,
my Mama. The gates of hell is the power
of destruction, and it is of a lower position domain.
So the gates of hell is the power of destruction of a lower
position or domain. We know that Colossians says
that God transferred us out of the domain of darkness.
It is a lower position. I said it's a lower position.
It's lower. It is not over, it's under, it
is not above, it's underneath, it's not on top, it's on the
bottom. And it's so far on the bottom
that it's hard to even see that it's there.
It's so beneath our King, so beneath.
And this reminds me of something, man.
I was thinking about this just before service about God.
And I'm like the Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit, just them before anything, before he spoke.
Let there be the heavens and the earth before creation.
He knew the minute I create something not me, they can rebel
and will. However, that position doesn't
move me to not create that he was not intimidated by that,
that he was like I'm still a higher position.
It did not move him out of position because he's the
supreme position. Are you hearing me?
Prevail means this to be superior in strength to overcome
so we can say this Scripture says it this way that that Peter
upon this rock a revelation that I am the Christ.
I will build my church and the power of destruction, which is a
lower position or domain can never be superior in strength
and overcome my church. I'm going to say that ain't can
never be in a superior position to overcome.
It doesn't matter if you're in a government that's a dictatorship
that hates God, they're still not superior.
It's not superior. So for all of our brothers and
sisters that are in nations that they are doing everything to
persecute, destroy the Bible, destroy Christianity or Christ
likeness to destroy the name of Jesus, they're still operating
from a lower position. In fact, the scripture tells us
the Psalm says the Lord is in the heavens and he looks at the
efforts of man and he what? He's laughing.
He's like, really? Do they think all of that
killing and martyring my people puts them in a higher position?
It's not, so you understand. Unfortunately, we tend to only
think finite man. Years ago the Lord finally
showed me said, Son, quit living in the now.
Go ahead and live eternal. Because when you live eternal,
you know that things are beyond my lifetime, meaning on the
earth when I let go of my spirit and it's gone.
Because the reality is anything that's ever gone on this planet
will be dealt with entire. There's not an injustice that
God will not bring to justice. It's never going to happen.
There's never a leader, never a person, never a moment, never an
act, right? And we see this in the book of
Genesis when the Lord comes down, he says, K, where's your
brother? He said, I'm on my brother's
keeper. I don't know.
He said, well, his blood's talking to me.
Now you may remove the vocal voice of a person, but you never
remove the blood of a person in the earth and anyone's blood
that's been spilled unjustly, any action, they will have to
reckon with the Lord of all, the Chief Judge, the one in supreme
power. And it doesn't matter if you do
not see it in your lifetime. There is a lifetime in eternity
that He is supreme and will rule and reign all these things.
He is the Judge of the living and the dead, glory to God.
So there is never a position that the gates of hell can be in
a superior place of strength and can overcome, can overcome.
You remember our new board member, John George, Reverend
John George, when he came and ministered after COVID, he gave
a startling statistic that prior to COVID there were so many
churches within the United States and then after it, a
large number shut down and never it was like 50% gone.
They never reopened. Now when you hear that, you
would think, man, the enemy has done something.
Well, either they didn't know who they were or #2 the lore
wasn't building that house anyway.
For the Bible tells us unless the Lord builds a house, they
that what labor. Labor in.
Which means you can build a church that God hasn't
authorized, but when the storms of life come, it will not stay
standing. And to the untrained eyes it
seems like it's a church, but to God it never was. 1 Amen.
But we know that God's church is alive and well in the planet,
and it may not seem to be everywhere in the context that
we it, it looks dominant or the most powerful or the supreme, so
to speak, because it's everywhere that we can see and
every nation is enjoying it. It is operating in an in in
places that may not be seen, but they're there nonetheless.
They're some of the most oppressed nations have the
largest growth of people coming into the Kingdom of God.
But the Prince of the power of the air does not want you to
know because he will not advertise for Jesus.
Are you hearing me? Colossians 118 says this and he
also and he or he is also the head, OK.
He is the life source and leader of the body, the church, and he
is the beginning, the first born from the dead so that he himself
will occupy the first place. He will stand supreme and be
preeminent in in how many things you understand that the biggest
passion Jesus has today is his church is building his church.
I said is building his church. He started this track by going
after he preached after he was tempted of the devil came out of
the wilderness and the power of the Holy Ghost began to preach
this message. He said repent for the Kingdom
of heaven as at hand. He announced a Kingdom is in
your midst. And when he went to to Peter and
John and and Matthew and all of his disciples, Andrew and all
those people, when he made this declaration, come follow me now
when we hear that, we hear it through religious lenses,
because when we hear disciple, we think of religion.
But when Jesus said disciple, if you read the amplified and some
other translations, you'll know that when he says repent, it
means change your thinking side with my party now party.
If we say this in the United States, if I came and said,
well, whose party are you with? You wouldn't think I'm talking
about a church. You would immediately be
thinking of voting, government and whose party?
But yet these were the terms Jesus used.
Jesus says come, follow me, side with my party, because a King's
dominion is in the earth and you're going to want to be a
part of this Kingdom. And they said, I'll leave
everything to be in your Kingdom because for these they've been
waiting for the king. The Jewish people, the nation of
Israel, did not realize that the king would first come as a
suffering servant because he wanted to extend his boundaries
beyond the nation he had a covenant with.
He wanted it to be what he always intended from the
beginning. And we know this in Genesis
chapter one verse 26 when it says God said let us make man in
our image. He didn't say let's just be over
1 nation called Israel. He said let us make man in our
image according to our likeness and let them what rule have
dominion. And so he says, I want the whole
planet to be a citizenry of kings under the king.
They're my offspring, they're of my nature.
They rule like I do in this realm, like I do in my realm.
Hallelujah. And Jesus has come to set that
back in play. That's why Jesus says message of
repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, is saying dominion
is for man, not for the devil. Dominion was for man, not for
the devil. Dominion was for man, not for
the devil. God never intended you to be in
the condition you're in, in the position you're in.
You are in a lower position because you are of a domain that
is dark, that is in a lower position, and you are not to be
in that position. I want to raise you up.
I want to sit you on a throne. I want to raise you up and seat
you in heavenly places. I'm going to put you back in the
position that My Father ordained for you to be all the while.
So when Jesus said I'll build my church, he's saying when he said
to disciples, come follow me, he said side with my party.
I have a government that's coming to the planet and you're
going to want to be a part of it.
That's why Isaiah prophesied very articulately.
He said a son, a child will be born, a son will be given
notice. The son is not born because the
son always existed. A child will be born, a son will
be given, and the government will rest on his shoulders,
Hallelujah. And there'll be no end to the
increase of his government or of peace.
The government on shoulders are in the body, and the body is the
church. And so God always intended to
bring his government expression or His Kingdom through the
church, which is much like an embassy.
Wow. And so we see here that Jesus
says when God gave Adam this dominion, Adam did the one thing
that would cause him to lose his rulership, and that is to rebel
from God. God said, Son, you can eat from
any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, you shall not eat, for the day you eat you
will surely. And the day he ate, through one
man's transgression, sin enter the world.
Death came. And this is not God's plan.
This was not God's purpose. This is not what God wanted for
man, but He had a plan. He had a way back so that His
word concerning man would be fulfilled.
Because there's no word, God says that He doesn't accomplish
that. He doesn't have a pathway for
accomplishment. Now, if you choose to accept Him
or not, it's up to you, but you'll stand before holy God one
day. And he said what I said about
you, you could have been. All you had to do was believe.
Because what I said. About man, I meant about man,
and I made it for man, so much so that I sent my own son as a
man. Because a man lost dominion.
It required a man to gain dominion.
This is why Jesus has to be born of a virgin, because the seed of
man's now corrupt. And so God by the Holy Ghost
impregnates a woman called Mary, and he grows as a man on the
earth. He's the Son of God, yet the Son
of man. And when the devil attacks him,
tempts him, in the Luke's account of the temptation of
Christ, he said, now look at all this domain, all this, all these
governments, all these powers, all these principalities, all
these things on the earth. I'll let you rule them.
But all you have to do is bow down to me.
I can give them to you because they've been handed over to me.
In the Luke account, where did the devil receive this the day
Adam ate the fruit? So the devil.
Never stole from Adam. Adam abdicated his authority by
willfully disobeying the word of God.
And now we have sin in the earth and sin.
We are all very much professionals, experts, we could
say in the field of sin, so much so that we rightly know we're
not worthy. We're not worthy and our whole
existence. Since the day we.
Were born, the enemy was telling us.
You're never good enough. With God.
And then we would do things that's not right with God and
guilt and shame and all these things.
But then you hear that Jesus has done something.
I said Jesus has done something, that Jesus took your place, paid
your price, went down the line of death.
And paid the. Price so that you would not have
to pay yours and that if you would just call on his name, you
could be saved, be born again, or correctly translated would be
born from above and you would take on the nature of God again.
The problem is, is that when we interpret the Bible only from a
sin consciousness, we'll live in the earth like unworthy people,
although we're different people. And that's where.
Religion kicks in because all of a sudden we're right with God,
but yet we still convince ourselves we're unworthy to be
around him. Yet all the while the Father
saying you're only back where I said you were supposed to be.
Why are you? Fighting against your position,
I said let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
And if you want to walk in true humility, then you must put on
what we call Christ consciousness.
Know that you're born again. No longer do you maintain this
attitude of I'm a sorry Sinner saved by grace, but instead you
said I was a Sinner. I was rebellious to the throne
of God, but by the grace of God and faith in Christ Jesus, I
became born again. And now I'm a child of God.
I'm a believer and he renews my mind and he's made me worthy and
he's made me righteous. And I can be what he said I am,
and I am to walk in what he's declared me.
And I am supposed to be on the throne with Christ and.
When you see. That that church looks
different. So Jesus said I'll build my
church, which means I will personally be involved in doing
it. But yet as the church, he is the
head. Colossians tells us that he is
the head of the church. He has first place.
The word head means superior, chief, principal, one to whom
others are subordinate. Who is the head of the church?
What's his name? Come on, what's his name?
We are never to debate with the head.
What to do? We are only to say Yes Lord, yes
Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord 'cause he's
supreme. If we've called him Lord, how do
I call my own shots? If he is supreme, why am I not
speaking? Because the church he's building
has his children that are passionate about waking up every
day by the Spirit of God and saying, yes, Lord, I'm here
today, use me. Whatever you want to do, I'm
here to serve you. I bow down to you daily.
You are my life, You are my source, You are preeminent, You
are everything. And when those group of people
assemble together, this is an unstoppable force on the planet,
because Jesus is unstoppable on the planet.
First place. Means to hold the first rank or
highest dignity, to have preeminence, to be cheap.
Now Jesus said this, which means then I always have to examine
myself. We have to examine ourselves and
say, are you first? Are we seeking you first?
Are we putting you first in everything?
Are we asking you? Should we take that job?
Are we asking you? Should I date that person?
Are we asking you are? We asking you?
Everything. Are we asking Hallelujah, Lord,
do I go there? Do I take vacation?
Then do I stay home? Whatever the case.
May be he's first place preeminent means this surpassing
all others to have superiority. Now I know I'm saying these
terms that are very difficult for the US citizen.
I understand this. I understand This is why the
Kingdom is is very difficult in all nations, because any type of
government has some layer in God's Kingdom, but man corrupts
it. And even in the.
Great United States of America, where we are a constitutional
Republic that democratically votes for our leaders, OK, we
are not a democracy, constitutional Republic that
democratically votes for our leaders.
All right, it is still not better than God's Kingdom.
And. What we have defined as freedom
would not be freedom in the Kingdom of God.
Now you can say anything you want to say, but you will be
held accountable to whatever you say.
He said he. Will hold account every idle
word. See, in our nation, we're like
freedom of speech. I can say what I want to.
Which means we can complain about our government.
Anybody won't complain about Jesus real quick.
Anybody won't run him down. You say no, I'd never.
Do that well, people have. People have called him a devil
before. Said he.
Cast out devils in the name of a devil.
Amen. Yeah, there's many believers
that have even cried out to God, prayed to God and then blamed
him for stuff. Why could we carry this freedom
of speech over into the Kingdom of God?
See, there's this thing that we hold true to called
independence. And.
Independence is the most dangerous word in a Kingdom
because in God's Kingdom there is no independence, but there is
individuality. Because God made you.
He created you. You've been fearfully and
wonderly made. He did not want you to be a
cookie cutter like someone else. He wanted you to be unique, but
yet He created you to be with others.
And that you? Thrive in the assembly.
You do not thrive in in dependent.
You thrive dependent upon others.
When every joint brings its supply, the growth is better.
You cannot do it by yourself. And many in our United States
are carrying this thought of independence.
I asked Jesus into my heart. I asked Him to save me.
I have a personal Savior with Him.
I love Him on my own. I'm right with Him on my own.
And we don't think the church is a secondary idea.
It is the heart of God. Jesus.
Called disciples for one purpose so he could look at them and say
I am going to build my church and if the church was not
important then why does Paul planting so many?
If the message was only about Jesus Christ, death, burial and
resurrection, and you know where you're going to go when you die,
then why did Paul have the painstaking task of going along
with others through multiple generations where they have laid
down their own lives so that people and nations could
assemble around the Word of God and the head of the church?
In fact, last. Year when we took time to spend
on the reigning church, we had this whole timeline of the price
people have paid not only to build his church, but to put
together his engrafted word of God that's inspired by the Holy
Ghost so that in every nation of every tongue, people could hear
the word of God. Because you know, in the United
States we're not suffering like others are.
I mean we are much like Hebrews when he says you've not resisted
God to the point of shed and blood.
But there are. People in the in the world that
are today. And we are not to.
Turn a blind eye to that and we are definitely not should not
squander our opportunity, but we should be the taking the lead
because where our brothers and sisters and nations cannot do
what we do, we need to do what we can do and not sit back and
retire. Are you hearing me?
Ephesians chapter one, verse 20 to 23 says this.
And when he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead
and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, where
did he set him? Far above how many?
Come on, how many all principalities and powers and
might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in
this world, but also the one to come?
And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be head
over all things to the not the individual, although it includes
individuals to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him
that filleth All in all. Fullness means complete as an
outfitting and entire ship. I like this because what this
tells us is that Christ, who now has been given the name above
every name, and God has put him up and seated him at his right
hand. He is the head of the church,
and as the head of the church, what he has done is now he has
the authority and right to distribute a supply to His body.
It reminds me of when I enlisted in the Army.
When I enlisted. In the Army, there was this
cadence that talked about getting rid of your civilian
clothes. You got rid of your jeans and
you put on Army greens. And we were seeing.
This I took off my, my, my jeans and I put on these army greens
and when I when I went into in processing, they stripped me.
They. Stripped me of my former life.
And they said we're making you a soldier.
And soldiers do not walk up in here and wear what they want to
wear. Oh, y'all don't want to hear
this? That's fine.
I'll preach over here. Maybe they're not going to wear
what they want to wear. I mean, my haircut.
Woo. As much as I liked it, it was
gone in a blink of an eye, kind of like the Rapture.
It was like, bam, it's off, it's out of here.
And they next thing you know, I'm looking in a room that I
look like everybody else. Although we're still different
because some were taller, some were a little wider.
I was really skinny and short. You know, we all looked a little
bit different, but our heads were the same haircut, our pants
were the same, our our boots were the same, our blouses were
the same. I don't know why Army calls them
blouses, but our jackets were the same.
I mean, it was. We look the same, although we
were different. And then we.
Assembled every day. Oh y'all don't want to hear
this? We assembled, we made formation,
and if you didn't make formation, whoa, there's a thing
called being a wall, and it is not good.
I'll never forget one time I was in AIT, There's one particular
guy that was kind of a problem and he tried to get me in
trouble one time. Yeah.
I mean, I'm such a good person. I was a good person.
I was extremely nice during those days.
I was a bit backslidden. But anyway, this guy tried to
set up my my friend and myself anyway but he would come in past
curfew because he was a drunkard.
And. We didn't tell on him because
you know, you, when you're in your own assembly, you tried to
help your platoon get in line, and there are ways to do that in
the Army. I'm not at liberty to tell those
anymore. All right.
But this particular person, we didn't use some of those
tactics. We just let their sins surely
find them out. And so.
We're in formation, the whole company, and all of a sudden the
squad leader gives his, his count of how many he has and how
many are present. And he was -1 that drill
Sergeant. Walk through there.
You know, probably where is your, where's your squad?
Where's your squad? I think they're in the bedroom.
Next thing you know. These guys are running and the
windows are open. They're running through the
going up the the stairs, screaming.
You can hear it. They get to that guy's bunk.
He is drunk. He has wet himself.
Sam will embarrass you people. I'm just letting you know.
They drug him out. Threw him in.
Front of the formation in his underwear.
No, you're not getting. Dressed, he had to do push ups
with a hangover. Then they cuffed him with the
military police in front of the whole company.
Because. That is not tolerated in our
assembly. This is behavior not fitting.
A soldier how much more the. Blood of Jesus, I said, how much
more the blood of Jesus? Now this is what's awesome about
this point. Jesus said I am giving to the
church my fullness. I'm the.
Head and whatever I had for the army that fit my head, it didn't
stop. I never went to war neck down
naked. They.
Did not just issue me a helmet, you know, goggles, whatever
would be on my head and then hear down nothing that would
stink just beyond. Can you get an image of that
real quick? Seeing a whole bunch of people
come across like that and they're like, they're not
wearing clothes. That would be dangerous in a
battle, right? That'd be very dangerous.
Yet if we don't watch out, we This is why he said put on the
full armor of God. And in order to put on the full
armor of God, you have to assemble.
You have to come to the place of training.
You have to come to where the equipment lies and the resources
of that equipment comes to pass. And we need to know this is the
case and everything that's been given to Jesus is ours.
Come on, can I get an Amen? Can I get an Amen?
Look at this. And he Matthew 2818 to 20 says
it this way. And Jesus came up and spoke to
them, saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and
on and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples
to of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all
that I commanded you. And lo, I'm with you always,
even to the end of this age. Notice that he said, go into all
the world and make disciples. Yet if you read the Acts
account, when you're making a disciple, you are inevitably
building a church. There's no.
Context. From Acts.
Forward, where discipleship is without church.
That. Concept does not exist.
It exists in religious Christianity.
It does not exist in the Kingdom of God because if discipleship
was only telling people, asking them to pray a prayer and then
leaving and finding the next person that was lost, then Paul
wasted a lot of time assembling people, answering letters on how
they should live, conduct themselves now that they're in
this Kingdom, outfitting them with all the necessary tools to
overcome, to conquer, to equip. He would just say, now listen,
you know where you're going to go when you die and you know
have the best life that you can. That's all I can say.
But at least you've asked Jesus into your heart.
That was never the gospel. And that was.
Never how church was supposed to be.
The church always came and says I'm pulling you out of one
place, I'm putting you in another.
There's a whole new way of living, a whole new outfit, a
whole new protection, a whole new way of doing life.
And we're going to come together because when things come against
us together, we'll always conquer.
Why? Because there's still a lower
position domain that exists in the earth, but our key has
conquered it. And when we come together, then
we'll always conquer it as well. We can't but conquer because
Jesus said all authority has been given to me.
And he? Distributed it to his church.
So the church is the highest dominion on the earth.
I'm going to say that again, the church is the highest dominion
on the earth. Individual believer does not
have the same power as a unit. As a unit in our military, we
have different types of units. Now we all call them the Army or
the Navy. You know, the different
branches. OK.
And and if you served in one of those, thank you for serving in
our services. However, Amen.
However, you were assigned to a unit.
You are assigned you. You have no permission to leave
that unit unless you ask for it. And.
The commander could deny your transfer.
I'm gonna preach that later anyway.
But not every unit's the same. Not every unit's the same.
And you know, in in my branch called the Army, we had this
elite group called Rangers. Rangers.
Now, we had different ranks. You know, you had infantry, you
know, they have specialized. But then you had this group, you
know, called Green Berets. There was red ones and Green
Berets. And then you get to this thing
called a Ranger. Now, everybody.
Knew Rangers were different. Trained different.
And not everybody was at that level.
And it was pretty dishonouring. In fact, people who go through
Navy Seals today and do not make it still do not say, well,
they're just a bunch of sissies over there.
They expect too much. They require too much out of
you. Well, now, if you want to be in
a unit that doesn't require that, you're still in the Navy.
But don't be. Upset because when a Ranger
needs to take territory. So.
Maybe churches aren't the same either.
Now we're all. The body of Christ.
But maybe there's some that's being trained different.
I know Kenneth Hagan, the head of Rhema, says.
We are an elite group. Which means our.
Training puts us at a different level.
Now that doesn't diminish the whole body of Christ, but his
expectation is are you living? And even Paul said, look, I am
not going back. I what I've attained to, that's
where I stay at because I'm not moving back.
I have attained to something and I'm going to live at that level.
And you understand, Jesus wants us to attain to a level
Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah because there
are people that are hungry and thirsty for righteousness for
the body of Christ, for the church to rise up and to be all
that it was required and and want to be.
In fact, we want the church to dominate because God wants the
church to dominate because we are the highest dominion in the
earth. Now if that word bothers you,
that tells me you have sin consciousness.
Sin consciousness will hear the word dominate and go, Well
brother, where's humility out? I'm going to tell you where
humility is at. Humility is doing whatever my
God says and he said I'm the head and not the tail.
I'm above and not beneath. How?
Can I call myself unworthy when he has made me worthy?
I mean, I might as well spit his face like the Roman soldiers and
say your blood's not enough. Just not enough.
All it was good for is keep me out of hell.
Can't transform my mind, can't make me different, can't help me
overcome the enemies of this world.
No, that's a different. Training.
He's trained me in righteousness, I said.
He's trained me in righteousness.
He said that I would overcome. In essence, this word dominate
means this to exert the supreme determining or guiding
influence. The Church is supposed to have
the supreme guiding influence in the planet.
You. Natural government should not be
telling the church what to do, especially that we're not
essential. The government should not tell
us when we can and cannot assemble.
Arts and entertainment should not.
The sports should not tell us, well, we're going to do a sport.
You know we do church on that day.
Oh y'all. That's fine.
No, we should be. The most dominant, I mean, we
need coaches to ride back up and say, you know, we need to change
this league because there was a time that our sports didn't
interfere with our worship. And y'all need to get back to
the program because that y'all making this thing turn into
idolatry. And I'm trying to teach my son
and daughter how to work as a team, and you're trying to put
them in idolatry that the football's more important than
the cross. So we need to get our priorities
right and we need to cut Wednesday's practice different
and we're going to do in these tournaments on Sundays.
But you got to. Rise you got to be.
You got to know that you can exert a supreme guiding
influence. It means to overlook from a
superior elevation because of superior height or position.
The church was never to do this. What we going to do?
That's not how. We are in the earth what we
going to do but yet is that not the church always look into
heaven in the context of ho ho, I wish you'd come.
It's so bad down here. The Lord's like, why did I not
say pray this way, our Father, that art heaven hallowed be your
name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it is.
So if you don't have a heaven expression down there, it's
because you're not asking. It's because you're not stepping
out and dominating. You're not allowing the superior
influence to a manifest in the Earth.
Because my. Name is preeminent.
My name is supreme. My name is above every name.
And I've given you my name. I've outfitted you with
everything heaven has to offer. All you got to do is walk in it
because see, when you dominate, it'll make you dominant.
You will be prevailing over others.
You will have the dominant culture.
You understand, believers are the dominant culture.
And this is not like, oh, I'm better from a malicious heart.
It's that God made me supreme because I'm of his nature, which
means sickness and disease, bowel to me, poverty and lack
Bowels to me, you know, mental health bowels to me because I
have my health. My mental health is healthy.
How's your mental? Health Healthy.
I'm healthy. I have great mental health
because He renews my mind. I wash it with the word daily.
I let it renew my mind. I'm submitted to my Lord.
He's supreme in authority. I just do what He says.
I say yes Lord, I shouldn't think that way.
Thank you, Lord, because the grace of God has empowered me to
push that thought right out of my head.
Yeah. We were just singing that.
I said to Apostle Mars, remember that song?
I'm going to wash that Gray right out of my head.
Now I'm talking to some really older people here.
If you know that song, you're like, if you do not know that
song, you're like, I'm not old. If you know the song, you're
aged, Let's put it that way. But I'm going to wash those
thoughts right out of my head that are in line with the
Kingdom of God. Amen.
Hallelujah. Matthew chapter 16, verse 19.
Jesus, after you said I'll build my church, He communicates in
the gates of hell. That lower domain will never be
superior. We'll never be able to bring
some type of strength that would overcome US, ever.
Are you hear me? COVID could never overcome the
Church. No other plague can ever
overcome the church. Government can overcome the
Church. Nothing can overcome the Church.
Ever. Oh my gosh, he said.
I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever
you bond on earth shall have been bound in heaven.
Whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Well, look, the church has the keys we're dictating.
We are. But you'll never dictate that as
long as your church doesn't reign.
Your church. Is just where you come
occasionally whenever you feel like it, because ultimately you
know you're going to die and man, you're holding on until it
happens. But man, when you're at a place
that says you rule, you reign because you're seated on the
seat with Christ. And if we do the words of Christ
and we do the words of God and we operate in faith, then we'll
overcome. We'll take territory.
We'll go into this place and that place and, and no place
that God that the enemy has set up a camp can, can withstand us.
We'll go tear it down. We can even walk into those
places and we can deliver all those who want it.
Plus being somewhere doesn't mean the whole place changes,
but it definitely give the environment for it to be changed
if they want it. So we have the.
Keys, John said this in 1412. Do a little speed round about
our reigning church that we are dominant.
We are, we are the supreme determining or guiding influence
when it comes to the planet. We are at the elevated position.
We are in a superior position because he has given us
preeminence, because he is preeminent.
John 14. 12 says Truly, truly. I say to you, he who believes in
me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than
these he will do, because I go to the Father.
How in the world could a St. a believer in Christ, one who has
called on the Lordship of Jesus, not be dominant in every sector
of society? When you go to work.
Tomorrow know this, you are in the elevated position for every
one of your Co workers. Every one of them.
And then I can start calling some of y'all, some of you out
because you have been exercising that and it's caused you to rise
to the top and management caused you to rise to the top in
different places because you all the while have become superior
because of who you are in Christ.
It's not of your own effort that did this.
It's you're submitting this to him who already is in that
position. Are you hearing what I'm?
Saying in Matthew, I hear people all the time, all they're
preaching that you know, little God doctrine, you're children of
God. I don't know what to tell you.
You're sons and daughters of God.
You are ruling and reigning with him.
So if you want to. Live substandard human
existence. I want.
To live the God kind of life. Because I'm a child.
Of God I have his nature, his DNA.
I'm not God, but I sure am His Son.
And my daddy says this in Hebrews 12/28.
Therefore, since He we have received a Kingdom which cannot
be shaken, let us show gratitude by which we may offer to God an
acceptable service with reverence, in awe.
I am serving my king. It is not.
It is not laborers, it is not toil, it is not too demanding.
In fact, he said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
It's only heavy. It's only burdensome when you
are doing it of your own accord. But when you do it with a heart
to serve God, you'll never burnout.
Never. It's impossible because as I
serve Him, he empowers me. He anoints me.
He pours His grace out on me, and His grace is sufficient for
me. He's sufficient for all of us.
There's still so much more we can do.
And I live for the next life, not for this one man.
I want to be like Paul. Don't you want to be like
Paul's? A congregation where you like.
I poured out my life like a drink, Humphrey.
There's nothing. Left in me.
Because I didn't live for. Now.
I live for you Psalms. 118 Six says the Lord is for me.
I will not. Fear.
What can man do to me? See what kind of position we're
in as a church. And yet all.
Kind I'm I'm worried what if what if they come here?
What if this happened? If God's for you.
Why would? That's not that sin
consciousness, not Christ consciousness, because I'm in
the elevated position. I did not say, Jesus, you better
put me on that seat where you're at.
Jesus said. Son, you won't come.
Get in the seat, I said. Yes, Lord, he said.
Well, come on up, I'm putting you right here in heavenly
places. I'm putting you in my.
Seat, I'm giving you my authority.
I'm giving you my name. Now Conquer, subdue, multiply.
Have dominion. Do it, son.
Do it, daughter. Show them you're my nature.
Isaiah 5417 he said No weapon that is formed against you will
prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will
condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from me, declares
the Lord. Say what you want to say about
me doesn't matter, but you better watch what you say.
Because if it's not in. Line with the word.
God's coming to. Talk to you Romans 831.
Watch how we say to these things if God is for us.
Who? Who people worried about Trump.
What you worried about? He's a man.
What you worried about? What can man do to you?
I mean, people are in a frenzy about other people in the earth.
What can man do to you? You're a child of the king.
You're in the superior position. Doesn't matter.
Because. God's not giving me a spirit of
fear, but of power, love, and of sound mind.
My gosh, we got to get some sound mindness.
Hallelujah. How about this one?
Romans 837 But in all these things we what, come on, preach
with me right now overwhelmingly conquer through him.
I'm not the Conqueror, He's the Conqueror and I conquer through
him. He said it.
He said believe, He said do this.
He said step out. He said go.
And I just went at his word. If he says get out of the boat,
I'm out of the boat, people. You stay in the.
Boat and say you go sink, I'm going to walk.
And I've learned from my other brother, when the wave and the
winds come, don't look at them. Just keep your eyes on Jesus.
Oh my gosh. And I'll conquer winds and waves
and obstacles as the church. We'll just move right along.
What can the county Commission do to us?
What can the state of Florida do to what can anybody do to us?
We are here to do the works of Jesus and they are love and they
are life. And when the enemy comes against
us, it still won't prosper. That's who we.
Are second Corinthians 214 says but thanks be to God, who always
leads us. In.
Triumph through Christ, man. It is the sweet smell of victory
that's all over us. The world should.
Be envy at us. Like many people.
Win all the time. You understand when you are
undefeated, everyone wants to knock you off.
But there's. Nothing like being undefeated.
And Jesus has never lost. Never, I said.
Never. He's never lost to cancer.
He's. Never lost.
He's never lost in restoring relationships.
He's never lost. I've had a guy come to me one
time and he said he, him and his wife weren't doing great.
He said, pastor, what's your success rate, you know, and
restore marriages. I said 100% for everyone who
does the word of God that I tell them.
The only reason they. Don't work is because somebody
don't want to do the word because God is the restorer.
He's the Redeemer, he's a deliverer, He is love and he'll
put love in you and you'll love someone you hate.
He's awesome. Are you ready for this?
Mark 16, last section of the Bible that we're going to touch
today? It says this.
And he said, go in all the world, preach the gospel in all
creation. He who has been believed and has
been baptized shall be saved, and he who disbelieved shall be
condemned. Verse 17.
These signs will accompany those who believe.
Are you a believer? Are you a believer?
I'm not convinced. Are you a believer in my name?
In whose name? What's his name?
Come on, what's his name? In the name of Jesus?
They will cast out demons there. I don't care how much the guy
homeless is talking to himself and have demons all over him.
At a word, if God tells you go get them out of that person,
there's nothing that person can do.
But those demons are going to have to go.
Go, have to go, They'll cast out.
Demons. They'll speak with new tongues,
they'll pick up pick up servants, and if they drink any
deadly poison, it will not hurt them.
They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
What can we not do in Christ? I said, What can we not do?
And God, his church is so important to him that He wants
His church planted all over the place.
And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not the head.
And I'm not. Judging, but I am concerned that
there are a lot of places labeled that he's not building.
So for me, I just want to go where he tells me to go, do what
he tells me to do, touch where he tells me to touch.
Go where he. Says to go.