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Well, if you have the Bibles, 
turn over to Matthew chapter 16.

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Trying to get a little heading 
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I got a couple things rolling in
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when I want to release a couple 
of thought processes. 

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It's more than a door people. 
You know, we started this year 

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off and our theme, the Reigning 
Church, this is our last Sunday 

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before we move into 2026 to the 
Lord. 

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Terry and I want us to end on 
the same thought process. 

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You know, they say how you leave
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place. 
Well, you know, we came into 

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2026 because we've been in this 
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And I do not believe reigning in
love itself is going to be 

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diminished. 
Although we may not utilize the 

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term sometime, you know in the 
future it could be, but the Lord

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is preparing the earth for His 
reign. 

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And you know in the Western 
society we do not understand the

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concept of Kingdom as well as 
the East does. 

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And even the East is losing it 
because Western civilization is 

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trying to incorporate a new 
thought process called a 

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democracy within those regions 
so that kingdoms in love itself 

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continue to fall away. 
However, the Bible's about a 

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king, his Kingdom and his royal 
offspring. 

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It is an eternal truth. 
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something that is in our future.
Not only is it in our presence 

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and was in our past, it's also 
in our future. 

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So there will be, there will 
never be a time that a Kingdom 

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thought process ceases to exist.
Now the the governments of man 

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may be trying to eliminate this 
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And a democracy is not better 
than a Kingdom. 

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A Democratic Republic is not 
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Socialism is not better than a 
Kingdom. 

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Dictatorship is not better than 
a Kingdom, all right? 

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The Kingdom of God is eternal 
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Amen. 
And so we want to look at the 

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church that's raining because 
God has much to say about it. 

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Look at Matthew chapter 16, 
starting in verse 13 through 19.

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It says when Jesus came to the 
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Let me say this first, stay 
right here, but I'm just going 

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to quote a scripture that I 
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Jesus said, why do you forsake 
the commandments of God for the 

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sake of your traditions? 
And again, it's very important 

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for us to make sure that we do 
not have traditions. 

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There are certain things that 
God has spoken to me through the

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years that navigate my life all 
right? 

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And it makes me who I am because
the Word changes me, which means

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I am never in someone's mold. 
I've decided to not be in 

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someone's mold. 
I'm choosing to be in Christ. 

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Now, in Christ is not a 
denomination. 

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So I'm not in a Baptist mold. 
I'm not in a Presbyterian mode. 

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I'm not in a Methodist mode 
mold. 

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I'm not in a Charismatic mold. 
I'm not in a Pentecostal mode 

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mold. 
I'm not in a Word of Faith mold.

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OK, I'm not in any of those 
molds. 

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I'm in the Word, and then I have
to then allow my mind to be 

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renewed to thought processes 
that are only conducive with the

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Word, which means I have to 
become a critical thinker in 

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order to make sure what I am 
firmly persuaded in is in 

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Scripture, not in the tradition 
of man. 

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Now, critical thinking is not 
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Critical thinking is Lord. 
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what God knows, how God knows 
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Amen. 
And in our society there's a lot

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of words that are being thrown 
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But there is the source of 
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In the beginning was the and the
word was with God, and the word 

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was God. 
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Once he put on a skin suit. 
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The author of words before 
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God was and God is. 
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author of all words. 
Now man can try to redefine 

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words because he's made himself 
a God in it of himself, but he 

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does not hold the power God 
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So God has a right to define. 
And since we were lost, say I 

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was lost, come on, say I was 
lost. 

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If you were lost, that means you
do not did not know where you 

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were going, you did not know 
what you were thinking, and your

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thoughts were wrong even though 
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The Lord identifies you. 
There's a way that seems right 

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to a man, but in the end is, and
if we would maintain this 

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thought that I don't know 
everything I think I know and 

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what I do know could be wrong, 
should the Lord expose that it 

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is. 
And when he does, I have to 

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change because he's not going to
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He doesn't need to change. 
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Scripture, I no longer go into 
scripture thinking I know that 

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scripture. 
There are things I know about 

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it, but there could be more 
clarity as I continue. 

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Which means then in order for us
to help a Society of people who 

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are extremely complacent at not 
investigating the information 

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they hear. 
When you're in a society which 

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will flip through social media 
and something will come across 

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and they'll go, Oh my gosh, did 
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Did you hear this? 
And they did not even examine it

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to see if it's so, then that 
means it is a ripe environment 

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for deception. 
Ripe environment for deception. 

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So when you get around a 
minister that is going to 

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provoke your thinking, tell you 
say hold on a minute, do you 

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know what you know? 
Now one particular minister was 

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a master at producing thought 
provoking statements because 

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they would make statements that 
you'd go what? 

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Because it would challenge your 
thought. 

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Now, that did not mean that they
were saying what you were saying

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wrong. 
They're just saying think about 

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what you're thinking about and 
make sure what you're thinking 

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is what he's thinking. 
They're his thoughts. 

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Hallelujah. 
But because we're in a shock and

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awe society that the first word 
said all of a sudden people 

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like, oh, I can't believe we 
don't even want to hear anything

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further because we do not want 
to take the time to determine if

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it's so we do not do honest 
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It's easier to stay with a 
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truth. 
Tweet that. 

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OK, so Matthew 1613 says this. 
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district of Caesarea Philippi, 
he was asking his disciples, his

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what? 
Not converts, but disciples. 

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These are those that enlisted. 
These people gave up their lives

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and followed him. 
Their whole routine of everyday 

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changed. 
His disciples, their routine of 

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everyday changed. 
That's who He called a disciple.

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He didn't call a disciple of 
those who did their same thing 

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and showed up when they wanted 
to, to hear what he said, no, 

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they changed their actual 
existence, their routine of life

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and follow. 
Why do you? 

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He said, who do people say that 
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And they said some say John the 
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still others Jeremiah or one of 
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And he said to them, but who do 
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Simon Peters said you are the 
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say you are the Christ, you are 
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living God. 
Is your Christmas dinner sitting

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on you still? 
Because I hear it in your tone. 

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You sound a little sleepy, you 
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Christmas dinner. 
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Come on, You are the Christ. 
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the living God. 
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Simon Barjona, because flesh and
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you, but my Father who is in 
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naturally appraise this, cannot 
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Hallelujah. 
Oh man, I could preach there for

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a while, but we're going to 
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But also say to you, I also say 
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upon this rock. 
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It is the revelation that Jesus 
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Christ is not a last name. 
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It is title. 
OK, I don't have a title. 

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Apostle is not a title. 
Prophet is not a title. 

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Pastor is not a title. 
Evangelist is not a title and 

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teacher is not a title. 
They are gifts in the body for 

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the church. 
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It is the anointing one in his 
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It is the King. 
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It is the one who's going to 
come and establish a Kingdom 

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that will have no end. 
He's the King and upon the 

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revelation, He's the King. 
Hallelujah, he said, I will 

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build my church and the gates of
hell or Hades will not overpower

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it. 
So the power of darkness does 

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not overpower the church. 
Jesus builds upon the thought 

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that he is king. 
Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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Then he goes on and says verse 
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will give you the keys of the 
Kingdom. 

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See, Christ is in verse 18. 
He's going to or verse 17 that 

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he's the Christ and upon the 
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going to build a Church of which
then now we get into the concept

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of Kingdom. 
All of these are in line because

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if you're going to say Jesus 
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Kingdom. 
You have to say it. 

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To not say it is to not talk 
about Jesus rightly divided, he 

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said. 
I'll give you the keys of the 

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Kingdom of heaven and whatever 
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Notice the Kingdom has a 
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All right shall have been bound 
in heaven, and whatever is you 

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loose on earth shall have been 
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I love this translation because 
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will becomes known in the earth.
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you can get heaven's will in the
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That's why Jesus said now when 
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Father who art in heaven 
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Kingdom, your will be on as it 
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That's why he says whatever you 
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binding on earth, it has already
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means you know the will of your 
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You have heard the voice of the 
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and Thrones are in kingdoms, not
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All right, and I'm going to be 
honest with you. 

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What I'm preaching is not a 
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individualized truth or 
teaching. 

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It is the concept of the Bible 
by which all other subjects are 

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subject to. 
Period. 

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Faith does not exist outside the
Kingdom in the way He wants you 

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to function it. 
Healing. 

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All those things are byproducts 
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Hallelujah. 
We cannot be ashamed of this. 

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So Jesus said I'm going to build
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All right, So what do we 
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We know that Jesus is the door. 
He says that he's the door and 

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that you enter through him. 
However, the Kingdom is not a 

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door. 
The Kingdom is bigger than a 

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door. 
All right? 

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And there's a few things that we
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This passes because Jesus is the
Christ. 

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His assignment is to build his 
church. 

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OK, now to be nice, I would say 
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To build his church he must have
citizens, and to have citizens 

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they must be delivered from one 
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To provoke critical thinking. 
I would say it this way. 

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Jesus is #1 priority was not to 
win the lost, but to build his 

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church. 
However, winning the lost builds

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the church. 
But here's the problem. 

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If the emphasis is only to win 
lost, then building the church 

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is not necessary. 
This is very important because 

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again, there are concepts and 
there are truths within the 

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Bible, but if you focus on 
certain truths without seeing 

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big picture, you lose purpose. 
Jesus, when he announced to his 

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disciples, who do people say 
that I am? 

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Then he says, who do you say, 
well, you're the Christ, you're 

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the expected one. 
You're the one that's going to 

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set up a Kingdom in Israel and 
it's never going to end. 

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They understood the purpose and 
Jesus said I am going to build 

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my church. 
Now in order to build a church, 

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you're going to have to be born 
again. 

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We know this because he says how
can I have citizens in my 

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Kingdom here when all of them 
have been in rebellion to the 

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Kingdom? 
They're cut off and they cannot 

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come by earning it. 
They can't purchase their own 

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way in. 
That's not the pathway of 

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immigration in God's Kingdom. 
It is sonship and sonship alone.

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Are you hearing me? 
The only way you can be a 

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citizen of God's Kingdom is you 
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The problem is man has fallen. 
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He is not of God's nature. 
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context that he spirit, soul and
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God said let us make man in our 
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literally in his image. 
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and died and his spirit, man was
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He's still spirit, he has a soul
and he lives in a body and that 

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is the makeup of man. 
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with man or with God, because 
now he is a God into him unto 

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him. 
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technically a God to himself 
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he has now submitted to Adam. 
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sustaining power, but when he 
released it to the enemy, he 

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became a submitted with no 
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When he was made in the image of
God, he was submitted to God 

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with power, but when he ate the 
fruit, he now became submitted 

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to a power with no power. 
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either way. 
Submission is never going to not

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be a part of our lives and 
submission is the first step to 

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authority anyway. 
With that being said, God knows 

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when God makes statements I'll 
build my church, He knows people

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need to be born again. 
But he did not say, and upon the

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revelation that I'm the Christ, 
I'll win the lost, 'cause if 

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that was the purpose, then 
building the church would not be

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necessary. 
And we could all then assimilate

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to the belief that all that 
matters is I ask Jesus into my 

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heart and that I'm saved. 
And when I die, I go to heaven. 

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And we could live that existence
freely, which means this is not 

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necessary. 
And and the greatest attack in 

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the last days is on this. 
And it's been on this, it's been

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on this since the inception, 
because the Lord gave 

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assignments for them to go plant
churches, to establish churches.

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And in order to establish a 
church, you must go into a 

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community and reveal to that 
community you're outside this 

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Kingdom. 
But you can be in it if you'll 

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be born of it. 
And you'll be born of it if 

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you'll receive the blood of 
Jesus. 

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He's the Lord of all. 
He's paid the price. 

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Come on. 
Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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And we're going to set up this 
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Now when we hear church, because
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think of it as a building, a 
place where we come and sing 

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songs to the Lord. 
But yet the the the believers or

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the disciples of this time knew 
it was a totally different 

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concept, nothing like the US or 
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See churches today. 
And until we change our 

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thinking, we'll get stuck in a 
tradition thinking we're 

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worshipping God when we're not. 
In fact, I, I know of a 

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particular denomination, I'll 
just leave it at that, where 

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someone was in it, did all the 
rituals, all the traditions was 

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told that they were right with 
God, only to find out they were 

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never right with God. 
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denomination did not require 
that you confess Christ as your 

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Lord and Savior, call on his 
name to be saved. 

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It was not a requirement. 
There was never an altar call. 

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And I'll never forget seeing 
this lady's face who now is a 

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minister for Jesus Christ. 
Say, you know, all this time I 

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was sitting in the church and I 
was going to hell. 

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Now this is interesting thought 
I saw this writing concerning 

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this that I thought that is 
extremely accurate, you know, 

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because right now there is an 
attack to break this up. 

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Now let me look read this in 
another translation, verse 18 

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because it literally gets it 
exactly right. 

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And when we read this, this is 
how the disciples heard Jesus 

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say it. 
It says it this way. 

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I give you the name Peter a 
stone, which is a Little Rock. 

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And this truth of who I am will 
be the bedrock foundation on 

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which I build my church, my 
legislative assembly, and the 

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power of death will not be able 
to overpower it. 

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Now, when I say legislative 
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if I said, well, I went to a 
legislative assembly this 

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morning, right? 
If some, if you walked into town

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today and you know, you popped 
into Chipotle or you went to 

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some other restaurant and 
they're like, well, what'd you 

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do today? 
Well, I went to a legislative 

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assembly this morning. 
Will anyone, both Christian and 

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non Christian think you went to 
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They will not. 
They'll be like who, who, who is

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having a legislative assembly 
because we've been wired 

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separation of church and state, 
which is God in government. 

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Yet God is government. 
God is the government, the 

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government that will last 
forever. 

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Say Amen, Hallelujah. 
And you're going to be 

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considered a heretic 'cause you 
say stuff like this. 

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But it's absolutely the Bible. 
All right, so here, this is what

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they heard. 
So you know what, you can go 

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around town and say, you know, 
where did you go to church? 

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Well, I went to a legislative 
assembly this morning, Right. 

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What do you do on Sunday, man? 
I go to a legislative assembly 

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on Sunday. 
Some men, they're going on 

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Monday. 
On Wednesday night, I'm going 

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like, wow, you sure are involved
in your local government. 

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You bet I am. 
I'm extremely invested in it. 

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Are you hearing me? 
And I saw this writing that says

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man in his thinking thinks he is
doing away with church. 

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But if you look at the world, 
churches never being done away 

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with, it's just being modelled 
in different venues. 

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Because when you see a 
legislative assembly or another 

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translation from the Greek means
those who are called out and set

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apart, they, they collect upon 
the same place, right? 

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And they allow, they have common
interest, they allow the belief 

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system at that assembly to 
dictate how they govern and 

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there will be worship or praise 
associated with that particular 

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assembly. 
Well, you understand, yesterday 

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at certain cathedrals, 
sanctuaries, we call them 

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coliseums or stadiums, today 
there was an assembly. 

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People called out, They 
represented something and they 

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gave cheer and money. 
I mean, you're supposed to give 

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to the Lord these people that, 
oh, you just want my money. 

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Well, apparently the colleges 
just want your money. 

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Apparently the NFL just wants 
your money. 

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Apparently, the NBA just wants 
your money, and not only do you 

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pay for a seat because I didn't 
charge you for this one, not 

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only will you pay for your seat 
because you understand, Rufino, 

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your seat would be a lot more 
than Ernesto's back there, 

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right? 
For you to be sitting here and 

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people are paying it happily. 
I mean, they get season tickets 

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and then you pay for the 
concessions. 

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You're paying for parking. 
You do that. 

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I mean, I'm gonna need to get my
parking lot to say that's a $25 

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slot now. 
You know what? 

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No one argues. 
Oh, y'all don't want to hear 

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this? 
No one argues with the attendant

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Daytona beat Speedway. 
The the 24 Hours of Daytona is 

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about to hit in January. 
I would love to go see that one 

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this year. 
I'm going to have to wait till 

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next year. 
But then you got the Daytona 500

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and and racing stadiums are even
larger. 

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The largest one is the 
Indianapolis 500 and they packed

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that place pay to park, purchase
all kinds of items, spend 

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multiple day passes and they 
praise well, church has not been

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eliminated. 
It's just been reassigned. 

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See, man's just reassigning what
it they can't get rid of this 

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desire to praise, this desire to
conform to something that they 

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can put all of their energy, 
their resources and their time. 

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I mean, when the college season 
ends, people are going to be 

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depressed, but they will be on 
to their theology. 

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They will be studiers of their 
theology. 

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I mean, you think the church has
podcasts, These other assemblies

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have podcasts. 
I mean, they're going to tell 

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you who we're tracking in the 
NIL deals and who's in the 

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transfer portal and how are the 
people doing that are all been 

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heard or whatever. 
I mean, we track the players, we

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know their names, we get their 
heights. 

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Where are the schools? 
Where was the last place that's 

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studying to show yourself, oh, 
you don't want to hear this. 

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It's not gone, It's misplaced. 
So when people say, well, it's 

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just hard for me to get into 
church, No, it's not because 

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you're into it somewhere else 
already. 

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I mean, you're so far into it 
that you don't even realize how 

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far into it. 
And if you could buy season 

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tickets, I and this and I could 
go beyond this. 

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We could talk about ballets. 
We could talk about arts and 

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entertainment. 
I mean, people will go to 

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concerts, sing songs with people
who don't even know them, cry 

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when they walk into the stadium 
that that person touches their 

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hand, they fall out. 
Say it in. 

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So I mean, Elvis Presley had 
something going on that they 

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just would fall out. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So man is doing what God always 
put in man for him and him 

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alone. 
Hallelujah. 

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I wonder how many people are NFL
hurt, NBA hurt, huh? 

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I wonder how much I got ballet 
hurt, T-ball hurt. 

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I mean, you know, how many 
parents are running their 

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children around in these little 
leagues, you know, and I get no 

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problem as long as it's not 
taking center stage. 

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Hallelujah. 
The church has never hurt you. 

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Never. 
People hurt people, Hallelujah. 

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That's real. 
Hallelujah. 

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So Jesus came to establish the 
church and how the church 

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function is functioning in the 
world right now. 

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I mean, it should be an easy 
transition for us because we can

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recognize, wow, all of our 
worship, all of our praise, all 

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of our resource, all of our 
time, all of our talent. 

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You understand what I'm saying? 
I mean, think about it, There 

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are people out there that are 
raising money for all kinds of 

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organizations, OK? 
I mean, and they will pitch them

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and push them and, and go after 
them and take all kind of time. 

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But how much do we do it for the
church, for that which Jesus is 

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building? 
So the minute we take this 

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thought process that you know 
what, I don't have to go to 

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church, it's not important. 
Well, then you don't know what's

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important to Jesus. 
Jesus said I will build my 

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church. 
And what's awesome about that is

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that He is personally being 
responsible for it. 

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He did not delegate it to the 
apostle, the prophet, the 

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pastor, the teacher, or the 
evangelist. 

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He's doing it and those gifts 
are just a part of it. 

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Like the rest of the Saints. 
We're all just a part of it, of 

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which He is the one to be 
adorned. 

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He is the one to be glorified. 
He's the one. 

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Why do I come to church? 
Because he's the head of it. 

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Why do I show up? 
Because he's here. 

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Why am I here? 
Because he's worthy of honor. 

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It's what he's interested in. 
He's interested in it. 

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It's his most active process is 
to build his church. 

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So we could say it this way. 
We could say, therefore, the new

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birth is the initial process of 
building his church, but not the

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only process. 
It's what gets it. 

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It's the doorway into the 
Kingdom of which now 

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discipleship plays the next role
of equipping the Saints. 

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All right, but let me take you 
through a journey. 

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Just so you know this particular
door. 

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I have no problem when Jesus 
says I will build my church. 

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He knew that step one is you 
must be born again, right? 

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Because Nicodemus says to him, 
man, you must be from God. 

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He said unless a man is born 
again, he will not enter the 

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Kingdom. 
So what's he show associate? 

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He said kingdom's what you're 
after. 

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I get it. 
The problem is you cannot even 

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enter it or see it until you're 
born again. 

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But once you're in born again, 
then you now have access and 

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that's not it. 
It's the beginning. 

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John first John chapter 3 verse 
5, Jesus says, you know that he 

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appeared in order to take away 
sin and in him there is no sin. 

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So again, Jesus said listen to 
his disciples. 

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Did you get the revelation? 
I'm the Christ Father sent told 

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you that. 
Guess what, I'm going to build 

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my church. 
Now in order to build it, I'm 

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going to have to take away the 
sins of the world. 

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Step one. 
This is step one people. 

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This is not the message of 
Jesus. 

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00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:41,360
This is the process that Jesus 
has to go through in order to 

452
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,840
build his church. 
These are foundational levels of

453
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,440
him building the church. 
Jump down to verse eight. 

454
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,680
First, John 38 says the one who 
practices sin is of the devil, 

455
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,400
for the devil has sinned from 
the beginning. 

456
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,920
The Son of God appeared for this
purpose to destroy the works of 

457
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,320
the devil. 
Well, we know that's not his 

458
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,960
only purpose because he said I'm
going to build my church and 

459
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,240
building his church is the first
process is you have to destroy 

460
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,400
the works of the devil. 
Those things that bind people 

461
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:17,800
from being able to enter in he 
John chapter 16 verse 11 says it

462
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,560
this way and concerning judgment
because the ruler of this world 

463
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,040
has been judged. 
Now this is what I love because 

464
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,840
again, if you just read first 
John 3, then you think, well, 

465
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,040
Jesus is here to deal with sin. 
But Jesus associates sin with 

466
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,000
the devil. 
He's come to destroy the works 

467
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,200
of the devil. 
He's going to take away sin. 

468
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,240
Sin is a byproduct of the devil.
But who is the devil? 

469
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,840
He's the ruler of this world of 
the system that functions. 

470
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,920
He's been given the dominion of 
Adam. 

471
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:57,520
So Jesus is saying there is a 
ruling power in the planet that 

472
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:05,240
has Adam's dominion that I've 
come to get back, and I'm going 

473
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,120
to build my church because in 
order to build the church, which

474
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,040
is a legislative assembly, which
is the Kingdom of God, so that 

475
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,960
the Kingdom can function in and 
on the earth always, whether 

476
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,720
it's present or not, it's 
irrelevant. 

477
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,800
So it will function for all of 
us to be able to participate in 

478
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,600
it. 
I'm going to have to deal with 

479
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,920
the ruler of this world. 
He has been judged. 

480
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,560
Are you hearing me? 
Then you get into Hebrews 

481
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,320
chapter 2, verses 14 to 15. 
It says therefore, since the 

482
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,920
children share in flesh and 
blood, He himself likewise also 

483
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,720
partook of the same, that 
through death He might render 

484
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,560
powerless him who had the power 
of death, that is the devil, and

485
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,480
might free those who through 
fear of death were subject to 

486
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,440
slavery, how often all their 
lives. 

487
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,000
So again, the Bible tells us 
here in Hebrews that Jesus has 

488
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,120
to come as a man. 
It's because man was given 

489
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,840
dominion in Genesis. 
One man gave that dominion to 

490
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,640
the devil, of which he 
acknowledged he received it in 

491
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,320
Luke chapter 4 of the temptation
of Christ. 

492
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,320
And so in order for God to 
legally give man back dominion 

493
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,640
that he spoke with this is he 
had to send his own son as a man

494
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,600
to claim it. 
Hallelujah. 

495
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,000
And Jesus says I'm coming to 
build my church. 

496
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,560
And in order to build it, I'm 
going to have to deal with this 

497
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,080
power of death. 
I'm going to deal with this 

498
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,080
issue called sin. 
I'm going to have to pay the 

499
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,160
price that no human can pay 
cause none are righteous. 

500
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,600
No not one but I will. 
The sinless one became our sin 

501
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:59,200
so that we would have a right to
be children of God and be a part

502
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:05,760
of His church, His legislative 
assembly, His Kingdom in the 

503
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,600
earth. 
Colossians chapter 2, verses 13 

504
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,520
to 15 says it this way. 
When you were dead in your 

505
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,239
transgression and the 
uncircumcision of of your flesh,

506
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,800
He made you alive together with 
Him, having forgiven us of all 

507
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,040
of our transgressions, having 
canceled out the certificate of 

508
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,920
death consisting of decrees 
against us, which was hostile to

509
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:32,320
us, and has taken it out of the 
way, having nailed it, come on 

510
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,800
to the cross. 
Verse 15. 

511
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,639
And when He disarmed the rulers 
and the authorities and made a 

512
00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:42,920
public display of them, having 
triumph over them through him, 

513
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,719
he tore down principalities and 
powers. 

514
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,560
He went over into the gates of 
Hades or death. 

515
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,360
They could not prevail against 
him. 

516
00:34:54,520 --> 00:35:01,720
He busted through his fortified 
system, crushed him, made an 

517
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:07,200
open spectacle of him, and then 
took Dominion back and says now 

518
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:13,280
I can give it to whomever calls 
on my name as being Lord of 

519
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,960
their lives. 
Lord is not a religious word. 

520
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,840
It means supreme and authority. 
You are recognizing his kingship

521
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,840
or he's the Christ of your life.
He is the one who rules and 

522
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,600
reigns and you are submitted to 
his rule. 

523
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,360
And let me just tell you this, 
you're submitted anyway, even if

524
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,560
you're not. 
Because if you leave this life 

525
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,360
without ever calling on the name
of the Lord willfully, he'll 

526
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:47,800
look you dead in the face, judge
you righteously, meaning all of 

527
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,000
your wrongdoing is going to be 
there and you'll know it. 

528
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,720
He'll know it, and all creations
going to know it. 

529
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:05,800
You'll have no case, you cannot 
win, and he's going to show you 

530
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:10,680
the blood that flows and that 
all of it had been forgiven if 

531
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:17,960
only you had asked and that you 
made the conscious choice to 

532
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,240
stay. 
Stubborn, stiff necked in your 

533
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,880
own self will going to do it 
your way. 

534
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,200
Going to be a God unto yourself,
only still worshiping the other 

535
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,920
one, the Prince of the power of 
the air, the father of lies, the

536
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:38,920
devil himself, who's your daddy?
And he's going to say, depart 

537
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:43,320
from me. 
I never knew you, you worker of 

538
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,440
lawlessness, which means you 
work things contrary to my word.

539
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,360
And you'll be cast into the lake
of fire. 

540
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,360
You will not be able to resist 
that word. 

541
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,720
You won't be able to say I'm not
going. 

542
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,160
You'll you'll have no power and 
you'll be cast into the Lake of 

543
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,080
Fire, which is the eternal 
prison system of the Kingdom of 

544
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,720
God, of which everyone is there 
or there because they earned it 

545
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,400
and wanted it. 
There will be no one to say I've

546
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,360
been wrongly accused. 
It will. 

547
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,680
There is no appeal. 
There is no appeal process. 

548
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:31,240
It is over forever and he will 
show you every opportunity you 

549
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:37,440
had to receive the precious 
blood to get out to be free. 

550
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,680
Because again, it's not about 
forgiving you of wrongdoing. 

551
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,080
It's about telling you your 
purpose. 

552
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,760
And I'm learning this because 
I'm studying, taking a little 

553
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,520
time in some theological books. 
And I'm asking this question, is

554
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,320
the basis of these human written
books concerning Bible 

555
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,720
interpretation? 
Are they only in the context of 

556
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:10,760
Genesis 3 to Revelations 20? 
Because if they are, then their 

557
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:18,120
way of of rightly dividing the 
truth will not meet a biblical 

558
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:26,600
standard, won't meet it. 
There are those, and I agree 

559
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:33,680
that the church has become too 
man centric, very man centric, 

560
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:36,120
where man's the hero of the 
book. 

561
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,840
The man is not the hero of the 
book. 

562
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,640
And those individuals say it is 
Christ centric, but what they're

563
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,400
saying is it's only about 
Christ. 

564
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,960
And you know what, that's not 
true. 

565
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,160
It's not true that the Bible is 
only about God. 

566
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,200
It's not only about God. 
You know what God told us about 

567
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,400
us. 
So the reality is the Bible is 

568
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:07,160
about God and His creation, 
which includes how it was to 

569
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,800
function. 
And the center of it all is the 

570
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:11,920
Lord. 
Don't get me wrong. 

571
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,360
But because of Him, I know who I
am. 

572
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,320
I know who I am. 
So the Bible does teach me about

573
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:25,880
me because as I learned Him, 
then He reveals me. 

574
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,320
The Bible's not just about God 
and it's definitely not just 

575
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,040
about the redemption of man. 
It's about us both. 

576
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:42,640
Same in anyway. 
It's about both because there's 

577
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:48,680
a lot of ditching going on, lot 
of ditching going on. 

578
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:54,560
And when you get over in ditches
and you stay in specific veins, 

579
00:39:55,560 --> 00:40:00,520
then you miss things. 
If the Old Covenant was not 

580
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,480
necessary to understand the new 
Covenant, he would not have 

581
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,280
included in in its writings. 
It's necessary. 

582
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,000
And the Kingdom is the only 
thing that connects both. 

583
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:19,000
Hallelujah. 
So we see here that this 

584
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,000
redemption we have is destroying
A principality, a power, a 

585
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,120
dominion. 
Moving you out of one place into

586
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,600
the next. 
So the early church understood 

587
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,000
that the Kingdom did not have to
be here physically to experience

588
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,400
and access its culture. 
In our, you know, in our Western

589
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,280
society, the majority of the 
teaching is about a future 

590
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,760
event. 
And when you have a future 

591
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,160
event, you'll not believe for a 
now event. 

592
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,560
Now there are future things, but
there are things you can access 

593
00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:00,120
now. 
And if you do not understand how

594
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,200
the Kingdom functions today in 
its current state, not 

595
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:10,000
physically being present where 
the eyes can see, and you think 

596
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,680
it's just only future, well then
you'll miss out all the benefits

597
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,480
that come now even though you 
don't physically see it. 

598
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:23,920
Which tells us that the early 
church was not receiving Christ 

599
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,840
as their savior and then waiting
to exit. 

600
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:35,400
Their idea was way different. 
Their idea was we can transform 

601
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,080
our communities because we are 
accessing a culture and have 

602
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,880
access to it now in the name of 
Jesus. 

603
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,720
That can disrupt what's going on
in society today. 

604
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,440
How do we know this? 
Look at Ephesians chapter one, 

605
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,480
verse 19 to 23. 
It says, and this is the 

606
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,360
surpassing greatness of his 
power towards us who believe. 

607
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,560
Are you a believer? 
Come on, are you a believer? 

608
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,680
These are in accordance with the
working of the strength of his 

609
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,240
might which he brought about in 
Christ when he raised him from 

610
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,040
the dead and seated him at his 
right hand in heavenly places. 

611
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,640
Far above all rule and authority
and power and demean and every 

612
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,000
name that is named, not only in 
this age, but also on the one to

613
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,520
come. 
And he put all things in 

614
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,400
subjection. 
What under his feet and gave him

615
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,680
his head over all things. 
Where to the church? 

616
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,440
Not to the lost, but to the 
church. 

617
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,760
So it's the church that has this
power and dominion. 

618
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,920
But how are you going to be the 
church? 

619
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,640
You must be born again. 
Now, once you're born again, 

620
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,920
then you get to move into a 
thing called authority. 

621
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,760
But you can't function in 
authority if you've not been 

622
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:41,560
trained in it. 
So it says he gave all things, 

623
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,120
gave him his head over all 
things to the church which is 

624
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,320
his body, the fullness of him 
who feels All in all. 

625
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:55,000
Ed Salvoso said this. 
He said the 1st century 

626
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,160
ecclesia, which is the word 
church in Matthew 16, introduced

627
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:03,000
A radical and revolutionary 
social agenda that launched a 

628
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,600
process that literally changed 
the world. 

629
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:12,000
It changed the world. 
This this function of Jesus as 

630
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:19,400
Lord of my life was so radical 
that it upset communities in how

631
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:24,320
they live their daily lives. 
It was not Jesus come into my 

632
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,920
heart and save me and 
everything's going to be que 

633
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,120
Sarah, Sarah, whatever will be 
will be. 

634
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:33,160
No, it was transformed so much 
so that townspeople, especially 

635
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:37,680
in the community of of Ephesus 
says this guy, which his name 

636
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,640
was Jason, has brought in some 
people that they have turned the

637
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,120
world upside down with this 
thing that Jesus is the king. 

638
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,120
And now he's in our community. 
And if we don't do something 

639
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,160
about it, then our great Diana, 
this God that we worship, that 

640
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,640
we've deemed is the one that's 
God. 

641
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,440
And all of our little idols that
we make all of our money of and 

642
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,560
all this trade that we do, these
people are going to burn them. 

643
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,120
Our trade's going to be gone. 
We won't submit to this one 

644
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,560
called Jesus. 
We want our money out of our man

645
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:14,360
made idols and we want our 
community bound in that 

646
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:19,640
idolatry. 
When they came in, it was 

647
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:24,320
disruptive. 
Now it wasn't by violence in the

648
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,480
context that they came in and 
made people submit. 

649
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:28,920
If you don't submit, we'll kill 
you. 

650
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,800
They didn't do that. 
It was peaceful, it was love, it

651
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,440
was kindness, it was 
demonstrating the fruits of the 

652
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,040
spirit. 
It would then through 

653
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,880
benevolence and benevolence not 
only through the giving of 

654
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,240
goods, but on the healing of the
sick, casting out devils, 

655
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,880
raising the dead, glory to God. 
It was amazing. 

656
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,960
It transformed communities 
because these people were 

657
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,720
passionate. 
They knew the Kingdom is here, 

658
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,480
the Kingdom has arrived, it's 
it's spiritual life and by 

659
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,800
vibrancy is here. 
The name of Jesus called all 

660
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,600
authority. 
And when I speak that name, the 

661
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,520
demons flee, sickness comes off,
the dead are raised. 

662
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:13,920
It was amazing, transformative, 
but it's also said we 

663
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:19,040
institutionalized the church, 
turned it into programs, and now

664
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,560
it does nothing to change our 
society. 

665
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,680
But Doctor Martin Luther King 
said this junior, he said there 

666
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,680
was a time when the church was 
very powerful. 

667
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,280
It was during that period that 
the early Christians rejoiced 

668
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,160
when they were deemed worthy to 
suffer for what they believed. 

669
00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:38,720
In those days, the church was 
not merely A thermometer that 

670
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:41,560
recorded the ideas and 
principles of popular opinion. 

671
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,120
It was a thermostat that 
transformed the Moors of 

672
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,600
society. 
The church, you know, modern day

673
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:55,080
church is especially in the 
Western church is, is so 

674
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,840
disconnected from the Moors of 
society. 

675
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,480
We'll stay in our camp and you 
know, we're not here to bother 

676
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,840
you. 
You do what you want to do at 

677
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,120
the expense that we won't even 
really try to change anything. 

678
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,600
And then when you come to us, 
we're going to change the way we

679
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,560
look so much that you won't be 
offended when you come in. 

680
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:21,040
Yet Jesus said the word will 
offend, not because it's 

681
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:26,040
offensive, but because it will 
require you to change. 

682
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,240
Not it. 
He's life. 

683
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,120
We were in death. 
He never sinned. 

684
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:41,960
We were professionals, experts 
in the field, all of us experts 

685
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,640
in the field. 
If we don't watch out, we'll try

686
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:49,720
to negotiate with God what part 
of that old life we can maintain

687
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:56,440
and that he should be OK with 
when he's like, no, I brought 

688
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,440
deliverance for you completely 
and entirely, spirit, soul and 

689
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:05,760
body. 
Yeah, you can have it all. 

690
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,360
And your life should shine so 
bright that your whole community

691
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:16,400
should take notice. 
You shouldn't blend in, and you 

692
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,360
should be so radically different
that if they choose to 

693
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,440
assimilate to who you are, 
persecution is inevitable. 

694
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,440
But don't be upset when it comes
because you're not of this 

695
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,080
world. 
Drive on anyway, Hallelujah. 

696
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,800
Receive the suffering in my name
and know my reward is great. 

697
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,520
Hallelujah. 
And we got to get back to those 

698
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,440
kinds of passions. 
Ephesians 26 said this. 

699
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:50,040
He raised us up with him and 
seated us with Him in heavenly 

700
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,280
places in Christ Jesus. 
Come on, have you been raised 

701
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,520
up? 
Have you been raised up? 

702
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,280
The church is raining in the 
earth today. 

703
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:04,520
It is what Jesus is building. 
The most important thing on the 

704
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,080
planet is church. 
Is church. 

705
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,320
If it was not important, then 
God would have never tasked the 

706
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:21,560
Apostle Paul with planting. 
What's the purpose? 

707
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,200
Go preach in a field. 
Get them born again. 

708
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,760
Go on to the next community. 
Go on to the next community. 

709
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,080
Go on to the next community. 
Don't do it. 

710
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,120
Don't make them show up. 
Don't talk to them about how 

711
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,080
they need to live different now.
I mean, why we have all these 

712
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,480
letters, Why is he saying you 
formally now you do, your 

713
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,520
behavior was, but now it is. 
And these are church talk. 

714
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,080
This is legislative assembly. 
This is how the Kingdom 

715
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,040
function. 
This is the lifestyle, the 

716
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,400
behavior, the cultures, the 
norms of of a citizen within 

717
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,800
God's Kingdom of which your 
nature now can produce because 

718
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,960
it's in Christ. 
And he says now I need you to 

719
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,960
change this community so you 
come together, you grow, 

720
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,040
function, walk in love, have 
brotherly kindness, have unity 

721
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:18,760
of the faith, endure conflict 
together. 

722
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:24,160
And you can change this. 
You are the light on a hill 

723
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,000
because without you, it's 
darkness. 

724
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,320
I need to equip you. 
I need to train you. 

725
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,160
I need to challenge you. 
I need you to get some things 

726
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:42,280
adjusted, things switched out a 
little bit because again, the 

727
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:48,440
church's assignment is not to 
win the lost alone, although the

728
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,560
lost can be won and will be won 
because of the church. 

729
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:59,360
In fact, First Peter 215 or 315 
tells us the actual role of the 

730
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,400
church. 
Jesus said I'll build my church.

731
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:06,360
And then through the the Holy 
Spirit in his writing to Paul, 

732
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:11,800
who is mentoring Timothy, who 
has taken the pastoral ship of 

733
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:16,640
Ephesus. 
Ephesus's pastor was assigned by

734
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,480
an apostle. 
The pastor didn't pick the 

735
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,520
church. 
The apostle picked the pastor. 

736
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,160
OK, Paul was an apostle that 
planted the church at Ephesus, 

737
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,800
and now he's had elders. 
Some of those would have been 

738
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,800
pastors. 
And now he said, Timothy, you 

739
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,160
are the new pastor of that 
church. 

740
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,200
They did not have a board to 
hire him. 

741
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,840
The congregation didn't pick 
him. 

742
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,120
The elder board didn't pick him.
The apostle assigned him. 

743
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:55,760
You're the guy and then he said 
don't let anyone look down on 

744
00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:00,280
your youthfulness. 
And then he lets him know 

745
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,360
concerning the church. 
He said this, he says, but in 

746
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:08,000
case I'm delayed, all right, so 
that you will know how one ought

747
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:13,040
to conduct himself in the 
household of God, which is the 

748
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:19,480
Church of the living God, the 
pillar and support of the truth.

749
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,000
There's the role of the church. 
Well, you know the role of 

750
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,440
church and win the loss. 
No, it's not. 

751
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:29,240
It's part of what a church will 
do, because a truth of the 

752
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:30,960
church is you must be born 
again. 

753
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,840
But it's not the only church 
truth the church carries. 

754
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:42,360
In fact, when every other sector
of society, its pillars are 

755
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,160
collapsing, ours should remain 
firm. 

756
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,840
We are the pillar and supportive
truth because what we carry 

757
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,120
cannot be eliminated. 
Because our King, who is the 

758
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,640
head of the Church, is the 
truth. 

759
00:51:59,720 --> 00:52:02,400
He's not a truth, He's not my 
truth. 

760
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:09,440
He's the truth, He's the truth, 
and we are the pillar and 

761
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:14,920
support of the truth. 
It's not my opinion, it's what 

762
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,120
He says. 
So don't argue with me about how

763
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,400
you think you can live. 
He has clearly identified in His

764
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:28,000
Word how you ought to conduct 
yourself, which means there's an

765
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,840
expectation. 
And you know what? 

766
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,360
It's an easy one actually, 
because your nature in Christ 

767
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:37,960
already can produce it. 
You resisted through a unrenewed

768
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,520
mind, not through a new spirit. 
Are you hearing me? 

769
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,640
Hallelujah. 
So another minister by the name 

770
00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:49,520
of Sunday, he said this. 
He said people are supposed to 

771
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,920
come to church and be aware. 
Are you aware today and be aware

772
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,760
that you are being trained and 
recruited? 

773
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,920
The church is supposed to be a 
place like a classroom or a war 

774
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,160
room where you have been 
equipped to go out from Monday 

775
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,360
to Fridays and fight for the 
cause of the Kingdom. 

776
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,720
Not like fighting demons that 
have been defeated thousands of 

777
00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:17,840
years ago, but fighting to bring
the righteousness and rules of 

778
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,640
the Kingdom of God into your 
sphere of influence. 

779
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,040
You are here today to be trained
or recruited. 

780
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,920
You are not here to have a guest
experience. 

781
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,880
I'm not here to get to make you 
have a great experience 'cause 

782
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:42,480
this is not about you. 
So I don't care if the greeter 

783
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,920
didn't smile today because it 
really wasn't about you, or if 

784
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,000
you didn't find the closest 
parking spot because it really 

785
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:55,840
wasn't about you anyway. 
It's not about your experience. 

786
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,480
What did you have a good 
experience today? 

787
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,520
What did you experience God 
today? 

788
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,240
And you know what? 
God. 

789
00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:03,760
Sometimes when people are 
experiencing God, it's 

790
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,200
uncomfortable because when God 
came down on the mountain, it 

791
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,960
was uncomfortable to those that 
weren't living right. 

792
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,200
And if you're not living right, 
then you're not going to have a 

793
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,200
good experience. 
You're going to have an 

794
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,680
experience, but it may not feel 
as good as you thought it'd be. 

795
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:25,680
Like what? 
Why is my wrong showing up all 

796
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,400
of a sudden? 
I thought I had I thought I was 

797
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,440
that was good. 
I thought that was I go into 

798
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,840
other churches and and and it 
don't come to the surface like 

799
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:39,400
that. 
I mean, you go into some 

800
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,320
environments and they are acting
like the rest of the world and 

801
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,760
saying, but when we all go to 
heaven or when we die, we go to 

802
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,400
heaven because we've asked Jesus
in our heart. 

803
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,920
Now, I'm not judging those. 
I'm just saying those 

804
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:53,760
environments exist. 
I'm not their judge. 

805
00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:57,720
But in here, it shouldn't be a 
guest experience. 

806
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:02,240
It should be a God experience 
and how will you experience him?

807
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,160
Well, it's at the level of your 
devotion. 

808
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,440
I mean, if you're looking for 
the Lord, welcome to anchor 

809
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,720
faith. 
We we can show you people that 

810
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:14,280
love God and are passionate 
about God and since the love of 

811
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,360
God, but yet if you're fleshly, 
it's it's going to be 

812
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:22,480
problematic and it's going to be
a rough experience. 

813
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,000
And some of you could testify 
when you were living in the 

814
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:31,080
flesh that it did not feel good 
to come to church and it wasn't 

815
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:36,200
a God problem. 
God was actually trying to help 

816
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,120
you by warning you and saying 
you shouldn't feel comfortable 

817
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,400
living like that Monday through 
Friday and then coming in here 

818
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,520
and raising your hands and 
acting like it's acceptable. 

819
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,920
I pay too good of a price. 
Because you ought to conduct 

820
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:55,080
yourself different. 
You ought to Hallelujah. 

821
00:55:55,080 --> 00:56:00,360
And that's not condemnation. 
The Holy Spirit will convict you

822
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,880
of a quality of life that is 
better than the one you're 

823
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:10,560
allowing yourself to live. 
Hallelujah. 

824
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,240
Woo. 
The life of God is good, man. 

825
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:27,680
Wow, it's amazing. 
Woo, man, you know, God hates 

826
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:32,360
sin and we should not feel like 
sin is a good place to be in 

827
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,640
this environment when we 
assemble together. 

828
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:39,600
We should want it the holiness 
in the the glory of God in the 

829
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,080
presence of God, because with 
him there is no sin. 

830
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,280
And if there's sin somewhere, 
then man, it should challenge 

831
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,400
you should you should even wait 
for an altar call. 

832
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,320
You should just run to the 
platform and say, God, I got to 

833
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,040
get that out so I don't miss 
anything in the word today. 

834
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:59,160
Hallelujah, I'm coming out of 
2025 with a bang, so when I get 

835
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,560
into 2026 we'll go to another 
level. 

836
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:09,240
Hallelujah, glory to God. 
Last passage of scripture is 

837
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:14,320
this Hebrews chapter 3. 
His church reigns in His 

838
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,680
Kingdom. 
There is no sin and the good 

839
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:25,960
news is you can function in this
earth detached from sin, not 

840
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,720
only in your spirit, but your 
soul and your body. 

841
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:33,640
You can be blameless, live holy.
You have an advocate if you mess

842
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,560
up, but messing up is not 
practicing. 

843
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,760
Messing up should not be a daily
occurrence. 

844
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,200
Hebrews chapter 3 verse one 
through 6 says this. 

845
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,280
Therefore, holy brethren, 
partakers of a heavenly calling,

846
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:55,240
consider Jesus the What is He, 
Apostle and High Priest of our 

847
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,560
confession? 
Let me just stop here for one 

848
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:04,640
second. 
The gift apostle, of which Jesus

849
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:11,600
is the foremost in all gifts. 
He had no problem identifying 

850
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:17,840
others with that gift, not only 
in his which are the apostles of

851
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:22,960
the Lamb, but later when the 
dispensation of the church 

852
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,480
through the Apostle Paul, the 
Apostle James, the Apostle 

853
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,320
Priscilla and Aquila, the 
apostle Apollos. 

854
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,080
There are multiple apostles 
beyond the original 12. 

855
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,680
OK, which means they're still in
the earth today. 

856
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,480
And Jesus has no problem 
ordaining those gifts today, 

857
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:49,920
because He is chief. 
He goes on and says this. 

858
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:54,280
He was faithful to him who 
appointed him as Moses. 

859
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:59,480
He was faithful to him who 
appointed him as Moses also was 

860
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:03,040
in all his house. 
For he has been counted worthy 

861
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,440
of more glory than Moses, but 
just as much as the builder of 

862
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,120
the house has more honor than 
the house. 

863
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:17,800
For every house is built by 
someone, but the builder of all 

864
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:24,600
things is God. 
Jesus said I will build my 

865
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:28,760
church. 
First Timothy three said that 

866
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,120
it's the household of God which 
is his church. 

867
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:37,920
So the house Jesus is building 
is the Church of which the 

868
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:45,440
builder gets greater glory. 
Let's go on now. 

869
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,920
Moses was faithful in all his 
house as a servant, for which 

870
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,400
for a testimony of those things 
which were to be spoken later. 

871
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,960
But Christ was faithful as a son
over His house. 

872
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:02,560
Whose house is that? 
Whose house we are? 

873
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,040
Another name for his house is 
the Church. 

874
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,960
If we hold fast our confidence 
and the boast of our hope firm 

875
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:16,360
until the end, that tells me. 
That the head of the church is 

876
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:23,480
faithful to the church. 
The question is, is the house 

877
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:29,480
faithful to the builder? 
Because the minute you start 

878
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:36,720
posting that I quit 
institutionalized church. 

879
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,760
I just stayed at home with my 
family and, you know, I read the

880
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,320
word with them and it freed up 
my time and I didn't no longer 

881
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,960
have to submit to anything the 
pastor was saying. 

882
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,840
And my life with God has grown 
so much and I've grown. 

883
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:53,120
I'm just going to tell you right
now, biblically speaking, those 

884
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:57,760
comments are a lie. 
That's a lie sounds good on 

885
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,880
social media. 
And they present their greatest,

886
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,320
you know, face as if their lives
all together. 

887
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:08,520
But I'm telling you that is a 
lie, and that is a deception of 

888
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:13,360
the devil to get you 
disconnected from the one who is

889
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,360
faithful. 
Now, I understand there's a 

890
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,160
universal church. 
I get that. 

891
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:25,320
But again, if it was only about 
universalism, then God never 

892
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,280
would have told the apostle Paul
and we would have not have had 

893
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:32,400
these writings of the church at 
Corinth, the church at Kalasha, 

894
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,160
the church at Galatia, the 
church at Ephesus. 

895
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:36,720
Why are they there? 
Who cares? 

896
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,480
It's a global church. 
Why are we having these local 

897
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,840
people assembled in these local 
communities? 

898
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,000
Why 'cause they were designed to
be the light in that community. 

899
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:52,720
It is a nation within a nation. 
It is an embassy in a community 

900
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,840
of which the ambassadors 
assemble to hear from the home 

901
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:00,920
country and walk out in the 
Moors of society and say you 

902
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:08,160
could live this life now 
different because Jesus came to 

903
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,320
build his church. 
And when he see when people see 

904
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,920
the Kingdom on you, then those 
that are in the world will 

905
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,520
become like a Nicodemus to you, 
man. 

906
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:23,760
I see that your life is you. 
You've you've got to be tapping 

907
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:28,480
into God. 
And that's when you say, unless 

908
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,360
a person is born again, they'll 
not see the Kingdom that I 

909
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:37,880
function in daily. 
And then you lead them because 

910
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,840
the first initial step, she must
be born again. 

911
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:46,960
But that's a that's the first 
process is not the end because 

912
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:48,800
we're enlisting you to a 
discipleship. 

913
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:55,760
And I'm going to tell you right 
now, you want to stay with the 

914
01:02:55,760 --> 01:03:02,960
church. 
You want to stay with the 

915
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,560
church. 
You do not want to buy the lie 

916
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:11,840
of being separated unto yourself
and you're a part of the church.

917
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:19,480
Don't buy that. 
You need to show up, You need to

918
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,480
come and learn. 
You need to recognize that you 

919
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:27,920
are being trained and recruited,
that you are being conditioned 

920
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:32,120
with the Word to become all God 
ordained you to be. 

921
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,800
And there will be pain 
associated with it, There will 

922
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:41,280
be challenges associated with 
it, but it will be victorious on

923
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:48,800
every front because when trouble
comes, quit running from the 

924
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,080
very thing that he's faithful 
to. 

925
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,880
In fact, I have met with people 
through the years that when 

926
01:03:55,880 --> 01:04:01,040
they've gotten into issues, they
separated and the messages that 

927
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:04,720
were being preached week after 
week were exactly what they 

928
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:09,440
needed to hear the whole time. 
But because they cut themselves 

929
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:15,080
off, they got along with God. 
Well, let me tell you what God's

930
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:19,280
going to say. 
He's going to say go to church. 

931
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:26,960
And if you think he's not going 
to say that, then you do not 

932
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,840
believe the Bible. 
How can the head of the church 

933
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:38,640
tell you not to assemble? 
And I could have testimonies 

934
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,960
jump up all across this place 
this morning. 

935
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,440
They could say, pastor, I know 
what it's like to be here. 

936
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:49,520
And I know what it's like to not
and not is worse than being.