1 00:00:20,460 --> 00:00:24,020 Matthew, chapter 16, verse 18. Everybody doing good. 2 00:00:24,580 --> 00:00:26,820 Weren't you glad we had 72° of today? 3 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:34,180 Hallelujah. Welcome back, Florida, Right? 4 00:00:34,580 --> 00:00:37,480 I like that. My wife and I went to breakfast 5 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,640 this morning and they were talking about how cold it was 6 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,440 last week and I'm like, I dodged that bullet and I was in the 7 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,040 Congo. And then Todd tells me tonight 8 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,160 that when we left the next day, they had a big issue in the 9 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:57,440 capital city we were in and they set fire to the French embassy. 10 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,320 Glory to God, thank you for praying for us. 11 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,200 Amen. I'm glad I'm not there extended. 12 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:08,920 You know, there's some countries maybe I wouldn't mind being 13 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,080 extended in, but then there's some that no, just come home. 14 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,480 Amen. If you didn't see our video, you 15 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,880 know, we encourage you. I don't know if we'll have that 16 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,720 back out again, but we had a great time and was able to 17 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,240 minister at the school. And so, you know, God's doing 18 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,680 some pretty amazing things all over the globe and we're just 19 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,120 glad to be a part of that. Amen. 20 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:35,160 Matthew chapter 16, verse 18. Again, you know, we're moving 21 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,680 towards a series that I'm going to start on February the 16th. 22 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,680 But obviously this year for us is the reigning church. 23 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,520 And so there's some concepts concerning the church we want to 24 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,120 constantly be focused on. You know, the dispensation we're 25 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:50,920 in right now. It's called the age of grace or 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,400 the age of the church. Again, Jesus is the head of the 27 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,120 church. We are the body of Christ, which 28 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,280 means we're part of the church. And the church is God's 29 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,160 legislative assembly, as we'll see in one translation here. 30 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,040 And so it's really important for us to continue to strengthen 31 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,320 ourselves concerning the church because the church is always 32 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:15,320 been under attack since it came into the earth, because the 33 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,280 enemy is afraid of the church, OK? 34 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,320 You know, he can be afraid of you individually when you know 35 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,960 your authority and your rights. However you'll be the most 36 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,960 effective when you are connected to the local body because it is 37 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,760 that organization or as it is that expression of Jesus that is 38 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,040 the most powerful in the planet, OK. 39 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,760 And so in Matthew 1618, it says, and also, and I also say to you 40 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,800 that you are Peter. And on this rock, that's the 41 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,080 revelation that Jesus is the Christ or the King, the Messiah. 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,720 I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,840 against it. So the gates of hell cannot 44 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,920 prevail against the church. Again, the church is a 45 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:05,320 collection of people, OK, where they are locally assembled and 46 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,960 there are many local assemblies, OK. 47 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,400 And so, you know, there are many churches globally speaking. 48 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,680 Awesome. You know, we talk about a 49 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,280 universal church and when we talk about a universal church, 50 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,440 we're just talking about those that are the body of Christ that 51 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,760 Jesus Christ is building. We are all connected, although 52 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,720 we are in different locations. All right, And so, you know, 53 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,800 we're all here to advance the Kingdom of God. 54 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,840 Do the assignment be led by the Spirit. 55 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,160 We are to grow up, but more importantly in our growing up is 56 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,240 so that we will model the culture of the Kingdom of which 57 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,200 we'll talk a little bit more about tonight. 58 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,560 The passion translation gets this right. 59 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,440 It says and I'll and I give you the name Peter a stone. 60 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,440 And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on 61 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,920 which I will build my church, my legislative assembly. 62 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,440 And the power of death will not be able to overpower it. 63 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,360 And so, you know, the church is his legislative assembly because 64 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,200 we know that we are in a Kingdom. 65 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,520 And the Bible says in Isaiah Chapter 9, verse six, that a 66 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,000 child will be born, a son will be given, and the government 67 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,800 shall rest on his shoulders. OK, the shoulders are in the 68 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,320 body. So the church is in the body of 69 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,800 Christ. Hallelujah, Amen. 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,079 Now, you know, since we're talking about body, you know, it 71 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:22,800 also is talking about the household. 72 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,120 And you know, as parents, you know, do you really get tired 73 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:33,560 of, you know, your children exceeding well and doing great 74 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,480 exploits? You typically you do not OK, the 75 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,160 same thing. You have to understand that when 76 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:47,440 you brag on the church, you're bragging on Christ's siblings, 77 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,400 OK? And when when we're advancing, 78 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,800 we're really bragging on the Father because the father is 79 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,240 excited about the son. He said, this is my beloved son, 80 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,840 of whom I'm well pleased. Now, you understand, the son was 81 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:05,040 just the head of the whole organization, which is a family 82 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,280 that he has. And the family is not just a 83 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,280 family of people, you know, that have been, you know, 84 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:14,880 disconnected and, and, you know, broke down, beat down. 85 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,400 Yes, we were all in sin, but He is connecting us back to his 86 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,280 original purpose, which is really powerful. 87 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,400 And So what I want us to see when we talk about the church 88 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,240 tonight is that from Genesis, this was always in God's 89 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:30,800 mindset. OK. 90 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,080 And then we'll see it conclude in Revelation is here to get a 91 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,040 big picture because one aspect of the church that we're going 92 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,600 to talk about tonight is a big deal in our nation right now. 93 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,720 OK? And we want to kind of look at 94 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,520 this in Genesis chapter one, verse 26, it said, then God 95 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,920 said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness 96 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,920 and let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of 97 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,080 the sky, over the cattle and over all the earth and over 98 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,000 every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 99 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,960 You understand everything after the fall moving forward into 100 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,360 Revelation is all about restoration. 101 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:06,680 You know, we talk about being redeemed. 102 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,160 We talked about Christ paid the price so we could be restored. 103 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:16,480 And we are not just to be restored in sonship because when 104 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:22,160 God said let us make man in our image, OK, this is by all right, 105 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,080 His son. In fact, if you look at the 106 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,600 Gospels and they do the genealogy, eventually it will 107 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:35,320 say Adam the Son of God. So is Adam God the Father? 108 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,040 Son, yes. Now he's not God in the flesh, 109 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,120 Jesus Christ his son, but he is God's son nonetheless. 110 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:49,400 OK, but notice when he speaks about his son, he doesn't speak 111 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,000 about his son outside of his position. 112 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,720 So they are they they come together, meaning I want to have 113 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,200 a son, ultimately sons and daughters, because out of Adam 114 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,120 became Eve, right, Because he said, let us make man in our 115 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:05,520 image. And then the next verse says 116 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,480 both male and female. And what are is he giving his 117 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:15,760 children? Dominion, rulership, Amen. 118 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,480 In essence, what he is saying here from the beginning is that 119 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,440 I am in heaven, right? Of which he's not limited to 120 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,120 heaven. God just rules the heaven realm, 121 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,040 OK? I'm not limited to that because 122 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,200 he came down all the time. So I rule this area. 123 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,440 I'm giving my children rulership of earth. 124 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,120 I'm giving them that these are my kids, and my children of 125 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,480 which I want to have a relationship with, is based upon 126 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:50,360 not only my nature but also the position they're in. 127 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,560 OK, because Adam has been given the position of dominion, he has 128 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,920 the ability to rule and to keep the garden. 129 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,320 Which means, again, as we've said before, if Adam had never 130 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,160 eaten the fruit, where would he be today? 131 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:08,920 Right. He would be here on the earth. 132 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,680 The point though is he would have produced after his own kind 133 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,480 and if Adam never sinned then he only would have produced son of 134 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:27,560 God kind, no sin. Which means then if we could say 135 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,000 Genesis chapter 2 and then the rest is being written still 136 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,440 today because there is no fall at all. 137 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,440 All right, then we would be all of us right now would be 138 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:44,480 children of God having rulership on the earth. 139 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,800 In essence, he would have a nation of kings that were all 140 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,840 his children because he's the king of and we would be 141 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,560 functioning with our Father ruling and reigning now, no sin 142 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:04,440 and that amazing. So God wanted to extend his 143 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,600 heaven realm into the earth where the environments are the 144 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,240 same. They are definitely different 145 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,400 locations, but it's the same environment. 146 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,720 And so the Kingdom of Heaven is also a Kingdom within the earth, 147 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,560 and it was a global Kingdom. It's a global Kingdom where 148 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:28,520 there is only a group of people that are from His royal 149 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:34,520 bloodline that are His children that rule and reign over His 150 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,680 creation. Hallelujah, that's really 151 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:40,520 awesome. However, Adam did eat the fruit 152 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,000 and he fell from dominion and then he handed his dominion over 153 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 to the devil, which we know is this is in Luke chapter 4 when 154 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,480 he receives that through deceiving Eve and Adam just 155 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,480 openly rebelled against God, he receives that demean, which 156 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,160 means he begins to function the systems of the world all right, 157 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,720 and they are corrupt, broke, and then man is separated from God. 158 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,320 So now that man is separated from God, he has sinned, He's 159 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,200 fallen short of the glory because the King has glory. 160 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,480 I mean, he's full of glory and his train fills the temple. 161 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,320 I'm telling you, that's pretty amazing stuff that we had a 162 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,040 glory that he had. So he's fall short of that 163 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,880 glory. And so now the enemy is 164 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,600 functioning a domain of darkness. 165 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,120 The King James calls it a Kingdom of darkness, which means 166 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,520 there is a government that is functioning in rebellion against 167 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:45,440 God's government and it's all over the earth today and there's 168 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,840 nation upon nation that functions under the principal of 169 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,360 the air. OK, So in Genesis chapter 12, 170 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:01,640 God is in the business of re establishing the nation and so 171 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,280 he finds a guy by the name of Abram. 172 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,480 He says, Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your 173 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,240 country and from your relatives and from your father's house to 174 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,560 the land, which I will show you, and I will make you a great, a 175 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,160 great what? Not a religion, but a great 176 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:16,760 nation. And I will bless you and make 177 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,480 your name great, and you shall be a blessing. 178 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:21,800 And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you 179 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,520 I will curse. And in you all the families of 180 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,160 the earth will be what blessed. Now there's an indication right 181 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,040 there already from the beginning. 182 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,080 In the beginning, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, it would 183 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,080 just be offsprings. That would be in a Kingdom that 184 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,720 is a global Kingdom of right, where righteousness dwells, 185 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,720 peace, holiness, the environment of God. 186 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:48,160 It's amazing, OK? However, man fell and so God is 187 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,200 going after that nation again in a world that is not in the state 188 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,240 that he originally created it. So when he finds Abram, he says, 189 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,840 I'm going to make you a great nation. 190 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,520 I'm looking for the nation. I wanted a nation from the 191 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,520 beginning. I want that nation now. 192 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,040 He tells him that all the families of the earth will be 193 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:13,960 blessed, so he's letting them know that I want a global 194 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,040 Kingdom. My intent for this earth is to 195 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,480 be an expression of my glow of my Kingdom on this planet. 196 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,600 Hallelujah. OK, well, we know that Abraham 197 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,960 has a name change to Abraham, which is the father of many 198 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,160 nations. He has a son by the name of 199 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,880 Isaac. Isaac has a son by the name of 200 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,960 Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord and 201 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,120 he gets a name change and his name is and that nation is in 202 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:55,640 the earth today, still here. Now the nation of Israel came 203 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:03,120 from a human, OK, Came from a human of which you know as well 204 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,560 as I do. Joseph sold into slavery, ends 205 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:09,200 up getting into Egypt, became the Prince of Egypt, and during 206 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,680 the time of famine brought in the nation of Israel, which was 207 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,360 66 people strong. That was the population of that 208 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,840 nation at the time. OK. 209 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:26,400 Now with Abraham, God communicates to him where the 210 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:34,560 boundaries of this nation's going to be because again, in 211 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,440 the beginning God only wanted a global nation. 212 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,200 But now sin has come into the earth. 213 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,360 Now God has not lost planet earth, but he's lost the 214 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,160 systems. And when sin gets so bad in 215 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,680 areas, God can evict, God can evict. 216 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,680 And so we know that God flooded the planet one time. 217 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,640 We know this because it got so bad. 218 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,120 He regret he made man. And it doesn't matter that the 219 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,720 devil has dominion over the earth. 220 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,960 When the sin got that bad, he destroyed the earth. 221 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,200 He owns the planet still. OK, He may not be controlling 222 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,640 the systems that the devil is functioning in that he 223 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:19,120 rightfully and legally received from Adam, but yet he sure 224 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:24,440 limited the population, right? But he had his own obligation 225 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,520 because of Genesis 1. Let us make man in our image 226 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,560 according to our likeness, and let them have dominion. 227 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:35,360 I have to, according to my word, give a pathway for this to 228 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,200 occur. So I must send my own son, 229 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,560 right? He's going to be born of the 230 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,960 virgin woman. He's going to come into the 231 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,080 earth and he's going to crush the head of the one who has 232 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,760 dominion, the devil. All right. 233 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,800 So obviously a lot going on there that we don't have time to 234 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,440 talk about. But he ends up keeping some 235 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:00,480 people, Noah and his family alive so that this bloodline can 236 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,040 show up, of which then we get into this Abraham that God is 237 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,280 starting to say now, listen, it's about a nation. 238 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,080 So we're going to start with a piece of property. 239 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,080 And he tells Abraham, now this property is going to be my 240 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,440 nation. However, the ones that are on it 241 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:22,960 right now have not caught the sin they are in has not come to 242 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,160 fullness. Meaning where I have a through 243 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,560 my whatever God did. We don't have this written, but 244 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,440 God is not different. This is why the Bible seen it 245 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,480 from cover to cover is so important because God doesn't do 246 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,200 things that he's not doing everywhere. 247 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,840 His character is all the way through the scripture, so 248 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,400 something's going on in the planet for people to know in 249 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:58,000 each dispensation to follow God. Cain had enough knowledge of how 250 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,760 to sacrifice without anything being written that God held him 251 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,160 accountable to it. Are you hearing me? 252 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,400 So there was enough about God in the earth based upon what's been 253 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,120 revealed, of which God holds them accountable to that 254 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,880 revelation, that He can move and respond and act because again, 255 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,600 God is merciful. He wants man back in His 256 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,640 original state. However, if man continues to 257 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,440 rebel, they get the opposite of what is being spoken. 258 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,840 And God will see that word come to pass, not because he wants it 259 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,600 to come to pass, but the ones that are functioning in it. 260 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,400 It comes to pass on their life. So when we get over to Abraham, 261 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,400 he says, now I'm going to start with a nation that has a track 262 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,280 of land because again, we'll start showing a model. 263 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,240 It's a model. So the reason why we have the 264 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,800 old covenant is not so much that we just have a history book for 265 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,280 no reason because again, we are in a new and better covenant. 266 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,359 But what we're in today is something in light of what was 267 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:13,280 and what was gives us insight of what we're in now because things 268 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,599 are just progressing. So in the old covenant, it's not 269 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:22,520 about the law as much as it is about the nation because God 270 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,720 wants a holy nation. And he says to this nation that 271 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,160 Moses delivers out, you know, a million strong. 272 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,520 Some scholars believe about 3 million when he delivered them 273 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:37,120 from Egypt and he's taking them to the what promised land. 274 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,600 This is where he showed Abraham. This is the track of land that 275 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,960 I'm going to stab, that since I've made covenant with you, of 276 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,760 which Ultra becomes your son Israel. 277 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,280 And that's going to be my nation's name. 278 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,200 And I'm going to give you this track of land so that when this 279 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,920 track of land, you feel it subdue it and begin to multiply 280 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:02,480 on it. If you will do what I say, all 281 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,400 the other nations of the world will be in awe. 282 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:13,720 So again, Israel is not the story of man. 283 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,240 Not good enough. That's right. 284 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,080 That's right. Man isn't good enough. 285 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,760 Yes, but that's not the complete story. 286 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,720 The story of Israel and the Law of Moses is not just man's not 287 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,000 good enough to live up to it on his own. 288 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:35,040 This the whole context of the nation is God revealing to the 289 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:43,520 world that my whole intent was to have a holy nation, a group 290 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,080 of people. So again, the Lord's like I'll 291 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:47,720 be your God, you'll be my people. 292 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,120 Deuteronomy 28. Let's just if we read that whole 293 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:52,680 chapter together, he said, now listen, if you obey what I said, 294 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,880 man, you're going to be blessed coming in and blessed going out. 295 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,720 You're going to be the head and not to tell you're going to be 296 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,560 above and not be your enemy's going to come before you one 297 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,360 way. It will he will flee before you 298 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:05,560 seven ways. I mean you do what I say, you 299 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,200 don't follow the gods of the rest of the these nations. 300 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:12,600 You are to be the envy of all other nations because I will 301 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,520 show how good I am and this was my intent for man the whole 302 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:21,360 time. However, they have to keep what 303 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,960 is being said. But this is about a nation of 304 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,680 which God is trying to put on display to the world. 305 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:35,960 Unfortunately, Israel went by the way of the other nations. 306 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,480 So God does this for a time period of which there's a lot 307 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,840 going on in our history books concerning the Old Covenant. 308 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,440 But it's again all about God, who is the King who wants a 309 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:54,360 nation to himself on the earth that is separated, set apart, 310 00:19:54,680 --> 00:20:01,360 following His Word, demonstrating his culture, and 311 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:08,320 in turn they're blessed. Wealthy, healthy, blessed. 312 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,240 Their enemies can't even do anything. 313 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,840 I mean, it's amazing when that nation follows the Lord, but 314 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,600 then we jump into this dispensation, the one we would 315 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:23,080 be in now and the one we're in now is not so different from the 316 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,080 old one in the context. It's still about a nation. 317 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:31,640 So look at this particular verse here in Acts chapter 26 and Acts 318 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,000 2622. It says this. 319 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,840 It says so having attained help from God, Paul writing or 320 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,440 speaking, he said, I stand to stand to this day testifying 321 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:48,880 both to small and great, stating nothing but what the prophets 322 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,400 and Moses said was going to take place. 323 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,840 So what in the world is Moses and the prophets talking about? 324 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:04,240 Well, the next verse that the Christ which is the king, it is 325 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,240 the Greek equivalent to Messiah. It's the anointed 1 and his 326 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,680 anointing. It's the the prophesied king 327 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,440 who's coming to deliver the nation. 328 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:21,560 Now Israel thinks it's only them, but Abraham knew it wasn't 329 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,680 only them. He knew it was every family 330 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,760 because Abraham wasn't even an Israeli. 331 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,640 He was from the land of earth. He would technically be a 332 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,560 Gentile as far as that's concerned. 333 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,560 With that being said, we go on. It says that Christ was to 334 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,960 suffer and that by reason of his resurrection from the dead that 335 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,280 he would be first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people 336 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:48,080 and to the Gentiles. So this dispensation is really 337 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:54,120 taking us to a place where we go beyond the natural borders of 338 00:21:54,120 --> 00:22:00,920 Israel. We're going beyond the natural 339 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,040 borders of Israel. You could say it this way. 340 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,960 After man fell from dominion, God carved out a piece of land 341 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,440 to 1st show his nation. All the while with one thought, 342 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,960 I'll take more territory now in the earth. 343 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:24,040 Today we see right now Russia goes into you what for what 344 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,520 Ukraine? For what purpose take more 345 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,880 territory? What what is being talked about 346 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,880 with Taiwan? With China taking more 347 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,400 territory? What is it that President Trump 348 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:41,040 is saying concerning Greenland and Canada taking more, getting, 349 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:47,680 taking the Panama Canal, the Gulf of America, right, taking 350 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,320 territory. Now, there was a time in our, in 351 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,360 our, our globe today that nations did this. 352 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:00,400 They took territory, they conquered and they conquered 353 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,720 land. Now, the difference between the 354 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,280 Kingdom that Christ brings is, which is different than Rome, 355 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:12,120 although it's similar to Rome and I, I, I totally understand 356 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:15,880 why Doctor Miles Monroe ministered and communicated 357 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,200 about this. He said Jesus comes during the 358 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,360 Roman time because when Rome came, they took territory. 359 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,240 But what they did different is they didn't take the inhabitants 360 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,120 of the territory that they conquered back to their home 361 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:33,120 country. They left them in the territory 362 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:38,760 and turn them into Romans, which modeled more of what God wanted 363 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:44,600 to do when he takes territory. Because if God wanted us, like 364 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,400 all the nations before Rome, conquer and then take them back 365 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,480 to the home country, The minute you ask Jesus Christ to be Lord 366 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,120 of your life, you would die and go to heaven to be present with 367 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:56,680 him. You know what? 368 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,960 Think about that for a moment. If you're married and you really 369 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,680 love your spouse, but you know, you, you know, need to be right. 370 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,840 But you know, the minute I pray this, I'm out. 371 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,320 I mean, I'd be probably waiting too. 372 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,120 They will do it on our deathbed together. 373 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,720 You know, let's say it together, right? 374 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,760 That way we can go together. Hey, man, I mean you, you may 375 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:28,400 hold out for your children. You, I need Jesus, but I got a 376 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,840 three-year old. Don't know who's going to take 377 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,880 care of my 3 year old. Are you hearing me? 378 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,520 So obviously in this dispensation we're in, when 379 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:51,040 Jesus comes, it is to expand the borders to where now, yes, 380 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:57,000 Israel is still God's land. He will deal with that land as 381 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,160 well, but we understand this isn't about an expansion project 382 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,400 because God never intended for the globe not to be inhabited 383 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,160 with his children. All right, Acts chapter 13, 384 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,000 verse 47. And so the Lord said, so the 385 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,440 Lord has commanded us, I have placed you as a light for the 386 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:23,360 Gentiles that you may bring salvation to the what ends of 387 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,520 the earth. So God is not satisfied, He's 388 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:33,640 never been satisfied that the land he marked out and spoke 389 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,480 would be their land physically on planet earth is the only 390 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,560 landmass. And have you ever noticed how 391 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,840 much, how many nations attacked that landmass? 392 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,960 This one, this, this is the most expensive sought after real 393 00:25:51,960 --> 00:26:00,040 estate on the planet is Israel. Because the devil knows. 394 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:07,280 Because the devil knows that even in the old covenant if they 395 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,440 would have and has experienced it that when they did unify, 396 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,320 when they did obey God, when they did stay with the 397 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:23,800 sacrifices that that nation conquered everybody conquered 398 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,680 every Remember when Nehemiah went to go rebuild it and they 399 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,320 were like hey man you got some guys rebuilding Jerusalem here 400 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,720 King, you need to stop this. This is after Cyrus first, you 401 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,880 know authorized a new king shows up. 402 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,920 You need to if you look in your records, you'll find that out of 403 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,120 this city when this nation was intact that it rebelled against 404 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,320 all kind of foreign kings and conquered them. 405 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,840 You do not want this city to be raised back up and re 406 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,680 established because they will just against you and your 407 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,520 Kingdom. And that king looked it up and 408 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,440 sure enough saw the history of that nation's power and that 409 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,480 capitals power. And he said stop work order. 410 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,920 We got one of those once stop work order, you're done. 411 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,360 You're not you're not going to build anymore. 412 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,000 But once that king left, another LED letter was written, and next 413 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,680 thing you know, Jerusalem is being rebuilt. 414 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,240 Amen. First Timothy 29 says this. 415 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:33,400 But you are a chosen race, a royal, a holy, Because in this 416 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,960 dispensation the Lord says, I'll go beyond the boundaries of 417 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,600 Israel. In essence, He is saying I'm 418 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,720 giving you the pathway to legal entry. 419 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,320 Today, 1 of the biggest topics that we're having in our nation 420 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:05,200 is immigration, and the Lord opened up the ability for every 421 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:11,760 nation to migrate to Him. But there's only one way in, 422 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,240 there's only one way in, and there's only one legal way in, 423 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,560 and that's through the blood of Jesus. 424 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,920 Hallelujah. Through the blood of Jesus. 425 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:23,920 Amen. And if you're not through the 426 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,920 blood of Jesus, you're not in. No man comes to the Father 427 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,440 except through me. He is the the truth and the 428 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,040 life. He is also the door. 429 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,640 He is the gate. It's a gate. 430 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,720 A door. It's the gate. 431 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:46,240 The door only one. There's no multiple entrances. 432 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,880 Can't dig your way in? Can't pay your way in. 433 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,240 You can't pay for citizenship. Can't do it. 434 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,680 OK, but he's looking for people, for God's own possession, so 435 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,000 that he may proclaim the excellencies of him who has 436 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,320 called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 437 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,520 Aren't you glad he's called you out? 438 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,680 Now look at Philippians chapter 3. 439 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,880 Because again, the dispensation we're in called the Church Age 440 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,520 or Ecclesia, the great Assembly or the Legislative Assembly. 441 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,920 This is where God's saying I'm extending the borders of my of 442 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:26,440 my representation or my citizenship in the earth, that 443 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,600 you don't have to become a citizen of Israel to be right 444 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,920 with God, that you just need to call on the name of the Lord, 445 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,000 Amen. Now I'm going to read the King 446 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,840 James because I find this very interesting. 447 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,120 And then I'm going to read you something out of the biblical 448 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,200 illustrator concerning this. It says for our conversation, 449 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,320 most of you are not reading King James right now, so you do not 450 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,840 see this word and you're going to you see the word we're going 451 00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:00,560 to for our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look 452 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,600 for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 453 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,160 Now, the biblical illustrator says this conversation has much 454 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,720 the same meaning as the political word constitution. 455 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:21,240 Yeah, so he says citizenship is a good rendering if to the 456 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,280 ordinary meaning of political standing and privilege be added 457 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,200 the mode of a nation's government, of which we know we 458 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,320 are a nation's government, and the government shall rest on his 459 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,680 shoulder. He said that repent for the 460 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:41,440 Kingdom of heaven is at at hand. OK, so the So let me go back to 461 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,360 that. Citizenship is a good rendering 462 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,360 if to the ordinary meaning of political standing and privilege 463 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,000 be added the mode of a nation's government, the character of its 464 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 laws, the tone and habits of its citizens. 465 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,840 So the new American standard says it this way. 466 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:06,040 For our citizenship, OK, is in heaven, which from which also we 467 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,640 eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 468 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:15,840 Now notice what it says here. It says our citizenship is in 469 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:23,920 heaven, not of heaven. Cause your citizenship is in 470 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,120 heaven. Cause currently in heaven is the 471 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:34,680 citizens registry. There's a registry literally in 472 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:42,920 heaven. It's at the King's court, it's 473 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:50,040 called the Book of Life, and when you're born again, your 474 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:58,400 name is what written in the book, so your citizenship isn't 475 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,880 it? Which means no natural thing on 476 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:06,720 the planet could ever rob or steal your citizenship. 477 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:15,200 Once you've made Jesus Lord of your life, it is kept in heaven. 478 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,760 So that at the great day when we stand before the Lord and he 479 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:26,120 pulls out the books, whoa, glory to God, Amen. 480 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:33,080 It wouldn't matter if the devil did show up that day because 481 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,760 Jesus would say, let me pull out my citizens registry. 482 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:47,440 Tony, you in there. Tony Beak, Hallelujah, you're in 483 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,880 there. Your citizenship is in heaven, 484 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,360 secured on lockdown. Glory to God, Amen. 485 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,120 Look at the Williams translation. 486 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,840 Williams translation says this, but we are citizens of the 487 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,600 Republic in heaven. Hello. 488 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,760 And to the Republic for which it stands. 489 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,360 Oh, there's another Republic. It's another government. 490 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,880 It's the Kingdom from which we eagerly awaiting our Savior, the 491 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,800 Lord Jesus Christ. What they're saying is my 492 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,200 citizenship is in heaven. And the one over the the 493 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,200 government that I'm a part of, his name's Jesus. 494 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,320 He's my king. And my King's coming. 495 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,800 My King's coming. The King's coming. 496 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:38,880 Amen and I am a citizen of his Republic which is his scheme. 497 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,880 Look at the easy read version. It says this, but the government 498 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:50,800 that rules us is in heaven. We are waiting for our Savior, 499 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,960 the Lord Jesus Christ to come from there. 500 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,040 Aren't you glad that your citizenship is there because the 501 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:03,880 church age is God saying I will not allow my citizenship to be 502 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:12,480 to be limited to the 12 tribes. I'm extending the registry of my 503 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,040 citizenship. I'm going beyond just the Jewish 504 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,560 people and those that are in the bloodline of Abraham. 505 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,320 I am going out to the Gentiles. I'm going to adopt them. 506 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,360 They can become my sons. And when I say adoption, that 507 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,639 means position. I'm going to make them my 508 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,000 children. I'm going to make them 509 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,960 naturalized citizens, and they become naturalized once you're 510 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:44,920 born again. Hallelujah, Ephesians 219 says. 511 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,520 Therefore you are no longer outsiders. 512 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,480 Aren't you glad you're not an outsider? 513 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:56,320 Exiles, migrants and aliens excluded from the rights of 514 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,080 citizenship. You know why people want to come 515 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,640 to the United States? The majority want to come 516 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,960 because they understand there are different privileges and 517 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:13,120 benefits to be a citizen. All right, but you now share 518 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,800 citizenship with the Saints. God's own people consecrate and 519 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,640 set apart for himself, and you belong to God's own household. 520 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,000 Aren't you glad you're a citizen? 521 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,760 And so the Kingdom of God has expanded in this dispensation 522 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,960 called the Church. The Church was never a religious 523 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,000 organization. It was the boundaries of the 524 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,640 nation expanding globally so that it could pick up citizens 525 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,560 from every tribe. Tongan nation, it is God's 526 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,480 immigration policy so that those that are in the other nation, 527 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,040 which is the domain of darkness, where they have a tyrannical 528 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,240 ruler, the one who should have never had that dominion ever. 529 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,360 God did not want him to have it and authorize Adam to keep it 530 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,400 from him. However, Adam gave it to him and 531 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,200 so now God says, well, that's fine, I'll pay the price. 532 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:15,160 I'll pay the bounty on their heads and I will, if they call 533 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:21,720 on me to be their king, if they want to renounce the government 534 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:29,080 they're in and bring allegiance to the mind because I've paid 535 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,840 their price, their penalty, then they, they have a right to come 536 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,400 in. Hallelujah. 537 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,920 And so he went beyond the natural borders of not only 538 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:47,240 land, physical land, but human bloodline to come to the 539 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:51,000 nations. Yes, Hallelujah, so that we 540 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,040 could become citizens. Now what's so big deal about 541 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,560 citizens? Well, citizens, citizenship is 542 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,480 the most sacred privilege of a nation. 543 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,680 Citizenship is the most sacred privilege of the nation. 544 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:12,240 Citizenship is the most precious gift that any nation can give is 545 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:16,480 to give you citizenship. Because what that means is the 546 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,520 government is saying is supposed to say, now I understand man's 547 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,200 government's corrupt, but not God. 548 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,560 It's supposed to be saying, now that you are our citizens, you 549 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,840 have the rights, benefits and privileges associated with being 550 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,720 a citizen of This is why it's kind of crazy to me, you know, 551 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,760 when when people are talking and saying, well, you know, those 552 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,400 that have come in illegally, you know, we want to give them due 553 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,960 process. Well, citizens get due process 554 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,040 because I'm going to tell you that's not going to fly in the 555 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,560 Kingdom. It's not going to fly in the 556 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,760 Kingdom. You're not going to get any 557 00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:01,920 rights unless you're in it. So why is this important? 558 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,400 Because when God calls you when, when he speaks and says, would 559 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,040 you like to be a part of my Kingdom? 560 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,400 Would you like to repent of your sin and come into my man? 561 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,320 It's the greatest thing he could do is give you the privilege of 562 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,720 being a citizen of his Kingdom. And the thing that you don't 563 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:21,880 want to do is say, I'll think about it. 564 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,240 I mean, again, if you want to come into the United States and 565 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,880 you're standing at the gate and someone says I'm going to open 566 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,440 this gate and as long as it's open, anyone can come in. 567 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,920 Do you think they'd be like, you know, let me think about it. 568 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,040 Oh, they're running. They're running in. 569 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,560 I mean, you know, you're, you're, you're hoping they don't 570 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,800 kill somebody in the way because they trample somebody. 571 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,640 And what's the Bible say? The Kingdom of heaven suffers 572 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,720 violence and the violent taken by force, Meaning once you find 573 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,800 out about it, you want to get into that thing at all costs. 574 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,120 Hallelujah. Because what we're saying and 575 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,280 we've preached these things, we just don't always preach them 576 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,760 through the Kingdom paradigm. And again, you know, people 577 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,920 don't understand the authority of the belief. 578 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,560 The authority of the believer is a privilege associated with a 579 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,080 citizen. The only reason you have 580 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:34,200 authority is because you become a citizen of the Kingdom by 581 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,280 right of sonship, and sonship means you have rulership. 582 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,120 Hallelujah. So the new birth makes us 583 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,160 naturalized citizens of the Kingdom. 584 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,320 When we become citizens of God's Kingdom, it means that we 585 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:57,200 voluntarily align ourselves with a new government and a new 586 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:02,640 country, embracing its language, its ideals, and its values. 587 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:08,240 Our culture should reflect and reveal our citizenship as being. 588 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:14,840 Here but not from here as being in the world but not of the 589 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,800 world. When I made Jesus the Lord of my 590 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,960 life, I did not denounce my other citizenship, which is AUS 591 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:28,000 citizen. However, my quality of living is 592 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,880 not defined by the US citizenship. 593 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,760 It's now defined by the Kingdom. Because even though in the 594 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,560 natural I have this citizenship that allows me to travel, I've 595 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,000 actually renounced the systems of the world. 596 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:51,320 Because in a lot of countries, if you're going to become a 597 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,880 citizen, they will say you have to denounce your allegiance to 598 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,520 your birth nation and you're only going to be with this one. 599 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,080 Now, I know we do have dual citizenship that's available for 600 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,120 people. I get that. 601 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,240 And we have dual citizenship in the context that we have a 602 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,760 spiritual citizenship and a natural one in the earth. 603 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:19,760 But our spiritual citizenship is our citizenship, and it is a 604 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:27,880 higher, holier, separated unto God, greater privileges and 605 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,280 benefits than any natural 1 you could ever have. 606 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,120 Hallelujah. So the Lord is expecting that 607 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,480 when you call on the name of the Lord to be saved, you are 608 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,600 denouncing any of those systems of the darkness that were in 609 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,120 your natural citizenship. That's a part of your natural 610 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,040 nation. Every nation on the planet has 611 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,360 the domain of darkness in it. But now, because of what Christ 612 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:04,440 did, every nation in the world has the Kingdom of God in it, 613 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,200 and it can function even in those physical territories. 614 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,880 Glory to God, and that citizenship gives you the right 615 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,120 to pray the will of heaven into earth where you live. 616 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,400 Amen. When I was teaching about 617 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:29,160 Kingdom economics to the school there in Congo, I, you know, 618 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,160 communicated first. I dealt with the heart. 619 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,040 You got to deal with the heart before you can even talk about 620 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,800 money. So we did that and then, you 621 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,360 know, I said, now tomorrow I'm going to give you a lot of 622 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:45,720 money. And they got excited, but I did 623 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,920 and went the ones that got it, oh, man. 624 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,440 Because it became so freeing, because they they were able to 625 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,920 pull off their mind. We can't accomplish what other 626 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,120 ministers can in other countries because we're just poor Congo. 627 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,400 They're not poor Congo. They're citizens of the Kingdom 628 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,920 of God, whose father is the king, who answers faith in any 629 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,600 nation and is not hindered by natural governments. 630 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,320 You can prosper anywhere. You can prosper when famine is 631 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,680 broke out, Hallelujah. And then when they saw the 632 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,840 currency of the Kingdom, they got jacked excited. 633 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,520 Why? Because again, I'm not limited 634 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:39,640 anymore because I have the word. How big do you want your 635 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,400 account? Fill it up. 636 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,320 Faith comes by hearing and hear from the word of God. 637 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,120 Then act on that thing. It always come to pass glory to 638 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,680 God. So citizenship grants you access 639 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,480 to all the rights, privileges and benefits of the Kingdom. 640 00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:00,800 Hebrews chapter 12 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22 to 24 says 641 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,680 this. But you have come to Mount Zion 642 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,680 and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and 643 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,000 a myriad of angels in festive gathering and in the General 644 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,120 Assembly, the assembly of the first born who are.