Matthew, chapter 16, verse 18. Everybody doing good.
Weren't you glad we had 72° of today?
Hallelujah. Welcome back, Florida, Right?
I like that. My wife and I went to breakfast
this morning and they were talking about how cold it was
last week and I'm like, I dodged that bullet and I was in the
Congo. And then Todd tells me tonight
that when we left the next day, they had a big issue in the
capital city we were in and they set fire to the French embassy.
Glory to God, thank you for praying for us.
Amen. I'm glad I'm not there extended.
You know, there's some countries maybe I wouldn't mind being
extended in, but then there's some that no, just come home.
Amen. If you didn't see our video, you
know, we encourage you. I don't know if we'll have that
back out again, but we had a great time and was able to
minister at the school. And so, you know, God's doing
some pretty amazing things all over the globe and we're just
glad to be a part of that. Amen.
Matthew chapter 16, verse 18. Again, you know, we're moving
towards a series that I'm going to start on February the 16th.
But obviously this year for us is the reigning church.
And so there's some concepts concerning the church we want to
constantly be focused on. You know, the dispensation we're
in right now. It's called the age of grace or
the age of the church. Again, Jesus is the head of the
church. We are the body of Christ, which
means we're part of the church. And the church is God's
legislative assembly, as we'll see in one translation here.
And so it's really important for us to continue to strengthen
ourselves concerning the church because the church is always
been under attack since it came into the earth, because the
enemy is afraid of the church, OK?
You know, he can be afraid of you individually when you know
your authority and your rights. However you'll be the most
effective when you are connected to the local body because it is
that organization or as it is that expression of Jesus that is
the most powerful in the planet, OK.
And so in Matthew 1618, it says, and also, and I also say to you
that you are Peter. And on this rock, that's the
revelation that Jesus is the Christ or the King, the Messiah.
I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. So the gates of hell cannot
prevail against the church. Again, the church is a
collection of people, OK, where they are locally assembled and
there are many local assemblies, OK.
And so, you know, there are many churches globally speaking.
Awesome. You know, we talk about a
universal church and when we talk about a universal church,
we're just talking about those that are the body of Christ that
Jesus Christ is building. We are all connected, although
we are in different locations. All right, And so, you know,
we're all here to advance the Kingdom of God.
Do the assignment be led by the Spirit.
We are to grow up, but more importantly in our growing up is
so that we will model the culture of the Kingdom of which
we'll talk a little bit more about tonight.
The passion translation gets this right.
It says and I'll and I give you the name Peter a stone.
And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on
which I will build my church, my legislative assembly.
And the power of death will not be able to overpower it.
And so, you know, the church is his legislative assembly because
we know that we are in a Kingdom.
And the Bible says in Isaiah Chapter 9, verse six, that a
child will be born, a son will be given, and the government
shall rest on his shoulders. OK, the shoulders are in the
body. So the church is in the body of
Christ. Hallelujah, Amen.
Now, you know, since we're talking about body, you know, it
also is talking about the household.
And you know, as parents, you know, do you really get tired
of, you know, your children exceeding well and doing great
exploits? You typically you do not OK, the
same thing. You have to understand that when
you brag on the church, you're bragging on Christ's siblings,
OK? And when when we're advancing,
we're really bragging on the Father because the father is
excited about the son. He said, this is my beloved son,
of whom I'm well pleased. Now, you understand, the son was
just the head of the whole organization, which is a family
that he has. And the family is not just a
family of people, you know, that have been, you know,
disconnected and, and, you know, broke down, beat down.
Yes, we were all in sin, but He is connecting us back to his
original purpose, which is really powerful.
And So what I want us to see when we talk about the church
tonight is that from Genesis, this was always in God's
mindset. OK.
And then we'll see it conclude in Revelation is here to get a
big picture because one aspect of the church that we're going
to talk about tonight is a big deal in our nation right now.
OK? And we want to kind of look at
this in Genesis chapter one, verse 26, it said, then God
said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness
and let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the sky, over the cattle and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
You understand everything after the fall moving forward into
Revelation is all about restoration.
You know, we talk about being redeemed.
We talked about Christ paid the price so we could be restored.
And we are not just to be restored in sonship because when
God said let us make man in our image, OK, this is by all right,
His son. In fact, if you look at the
Gospels and they do the genealogy, eventually it will
say Adam the Son of God. So is Adam God the Father?
Son, yes. Now he's not God in the flesh,
Jesus Christ his son, but he is God's son nonetheless.
OK, but notice when he speaks about his son, he doesn't speak
about his son outside of his position.
So they are they they come together, meaning I want to have
a son, ultimately sons and daughters, because out of Adam
became Eve, right, Because he said, let us make man in our
image. And then the next verse says
both male and female. And what are is he giving his
children? Dominion, rulership, Amen.
In essence, what he is saying here from the beginning is that
I am in heaven, right? Of which he's not limited to
heaven. God just rules the heaven realm,
OK? I'm not limited to that because
he came down all the time. So I rule this area.
I'm giving my children rulership of earth.
I'm giving them that these are my kids, and my children of
which I want to have a relationship with, is based upon
not only my nature but also the position they're in.
OK, because Adam has been given the position of dominion, he has
the ability to rule and to keep the garden.
Which means, again, as we've said before, if Adam had never
eaten the fruit, where would he be today?
Right. He would be here on the earth.
The point though is he would have produced after his own kind
and if Adam never sinned then he only would have produced son of
God kind, no sin. Which means then if we could say
Genesis chapter 2 and then the rest is being written still
today because there is no fall at all.
All right, then we would be all of us right now would be
children of God having rulership on the earth.
In essence, he would have a nation of kings that were all
his children because he's the king of and we would be
functioning with our Father ruling and reigning now, no sin
and that amazing. So God wanted to extend his
heaven realm into the earth where the environments are the
same. They are definitely different
locations, but it's the same environment.
And so the Kingdom of Heaven is also a Kingdom within the earth,
and it was a global Kingdom. It's a global Kingdom where
there is only a group of people that are from His royal
bloodline that are His children that rule and reign over His
creation. Hallelujah, that's really
awesome. However, Adam did eat the fruit
and he fell from dominion and then he handed his dominion over
to the devil, which we know is this is in Luke chapter 4 when
he receives that through deceiving Eve and Adam just
openly rebelled against God, he receives that demean, which
means he begins to function the systems of the world all right,
and they are corrupt, broke, and then man is separated from God.
So now that man is separated from God, he has sinned, He's
fallen short of the glory because the King has glory.
I mean, he's full of glory and his train fills the temple.
I'm telling you, that's pretty amazing stuff that we had a
glory that he had. So he's fall short of that
glory. And so now the enemy is
functioning a domain of darkness.
The King James calls it a Kingdom of darkness, which means
there is a government that is functioning in rebellion against
God's government and it's all over the earth today and there's
nation upon nation that functions under the principal of
the air. OK, So in Genesis chapter 12,
God is in the business of re establishing the nation and so
he finds a guy by the name of Abram.
He says, Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your
country and from your relatives and from your father's house to
the land, which I will show you, and I will make you a great, a
great what? Not a religion, but a great
nation. And I will bless you and make
your name great, and you shall be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you
I will curse. And in you all the families of
the earth will be what blessed. Now there's an indication right
there already from the beginning.
In the beginning, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, it would
just be offsprings. That would be in a Kingdom that
is a global Kingdom of right, where righteousness dwells,
peace, holiness, the environment of God.
It's amazing, OK? However, man fell and so God is
going after that nation again in a world that is not in the state
that he originally created it. So when he finds Abram, he says,
I'm going to make you a great nation.
I'm looking for the nation. I wanted a nation from the
beginning. I want that nation now.
He tells him that all the families of the earth will be
blessed, so he's letting them know that I want a global
Kingdom. My intent for this earth is to
be an expression of my glow of my Kingdom on this planet.
Hallelujah. OK, well, we know that Abraham
has a name change to Abraham, which is the father of many
nations. He has a son by the name of
Isaac. Isaac has a son by the name of
Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord and
he gets a name change and his name is and that nation is in
the earth today, still here. Now the nation of Israel came
from a human, OK, Came from a human of which you know as well
as I do. Joseph sold into slavery, ends
up getting into Egypt, became the Prince of Egypt, and during
the time of famine brought in the nation of Israel, which was
66 people strong. That was the population of that
nation at the time. OK.
Now with Abraham, God communicates to him where the
boundaries of this nation's going to be because again, in
the beginning God only wanted a global nation.
But now sin has come into the earth.
Now God has not lost planet earth, but he's lost the
systems. And when sin gets so bad in
areas, God can evict, God can evict.
And so we know that God flooded the planet one time.
We know this because it got so bad.
He regret he made man. And it doesn't matter that the
devil has dominion over the earth.
When the sin got that bad, he destroyed the earth.
He owns the planet still. OK, He may not be controlling
the systems that the devil is functioning in that he
rightfully and legally received from Adam, but yet he sure
limited the population, right? But he had his own obligation
because of Genesis 1. Let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them have dominion.
I have to, according to my word, give a pathway for this to
occur. So I must send my own son,
right? He's going to be born of the
virgin woman. He's going to come into the
earth and he's going to crush the head of the one who has
dominion, the devil. All right.
So obviously a lot going on there that we don't have time to
talk about. But he ends up keeping some
people, Noah and his family alive so that this bloodline can
show up, of which then we get into this Abraham that God is
starting to say now, listen, it's about a nation.
So we're going to start with a piece of property.
And he tells Abraham, now this property is going to be my
nation. However, the ones that are on it
right now have not caught the sin they are in has not come to
fullness. Meaning where I have a through
my whatever God did. We don't have this written, but
God is not different. This is why the Bible seen it
from cover to cover is so important because God doesn't do
things that he's not doing everywhere.
His character is all the way through the scripture, so
something's going on in the planet for people to know in
each dispensation to follow God. Cain had enough knowledge of how
to sacrifice without anything being written that God held him
accountable to it. Are you hearing me?
So there was enough about God in the earth based upon what's been
revealed, of which God holds them accountable to that
revelation, that He can move and respond and act because again,
God is merciful. He wants man back in His
original state. However, if man continues to
rebel, they get the opposite of what is being spoken.
And God will see that word come to pass, not because he wants it
to come to pass, but the ones that are functioning in it.
It comes to pass on their life. So when we get over to Abraham,
he says, now I'm going to start with a nation that has a track
of land because again, we'll start showing a model.
It's a model. So the reason why we have the
old covenant is not so much that we just have a history book for
no reason because again, we are in a new and better covenant.
But what we're in today is something in light of what was
and what was gives us insight of what we're in now because things
are just progressing. So in the old covenant, it's not
about the law as much as it is about the nation because God
wants a holy nation. And he says to this nation that
Moses delivers out, you know, a million strong.
Some scholars believe about 3 million when he delivered them
from Egypt and he's taking them to the what promised land.
This is where he showed Abraham. This is the track of land that
I'm going to stab, that since I've made covenant with you, of
which Ultra becomes your son Israel.
And that's going to be my nation's name.
And I'm going to give you this track of land so that when this
track of land, you feel it subdue it and begin to multiply
on it. If you will do what I say, all
the other nations of the world will be in awe.
So again, Israel is not the story of man.
Not good enough. That's right.
Man isn't good enough.
Yes, but that's not the complete story.
The story of Israel and the Law of Moses is not just man's not
good enough to live up to it on his own.
This the whole context of the nation is God revealing to the
world that my whole intent was to have a holy nation, a group
of people. So again, the Lord's like I'll
be your God, you'll be my people.
Deuteronomy 28. Let's just if we read that whole
chapter together, he said, now listen, if you obey what I said,
man, you're going to be blessed coming in and blessed going out.
You're going to be the head and not to tell you're going to be
above and not be your enemy's going to come before you one
way. It will he will flee before you
seven ways. I mean you do what I say, you
don't follow the gods of the rest of the these nations.
You are to be the envy of all other nations because I will
show how good I am and this was my intent for man the whole
time. However, they have to keep what
is being said. But this is about a nation of
which God is trying to put on display to the world.
Unfortunately, Israel went by the way of the other nations.
So God does this for a time period of which there's a lot
going on in our history books concerning the Old Covenant.
But it's again all about God, who is the King who wants a
nation to himself on the earth that is separated, set apart,
following His Word, demonstrating his culture, and
in turn they're blessed. Wealthy, healthy, blessed.
Their enemies can't even do anything.
I mean, it's amazing when that nation follows the Lord, but
then we jump into this dispensation, the one we would
be in now and the one we're in now is not so different from the
old one in the context. It's still about a nation.
So look at this particular verse here in Acts chapter 26 and Acts
2622. It says this.
It says so having attained help from God, Paul writing or
speaking, he said, I stand to stand to this day testifying
both to small and great, stating nothing but what the prophets
and Moses said was going to take place.
So what in the world is Moses and the prophets talking about?
Well, the next verse that the Christ which is the king, it is
the Greek equivalent to Messiah. It's the anointed 1 and his
anointing. It's the the prophesied king
who's coming to deliver the nation.
Now Israel thinks it's only them, but Abraham knew it wasn't
only them. He knew it was every family
because Abraham wasn't even an Israeli.
He was from the land of earth. He would technically be a
Gentile as far as that's concerned.
With that being said, we go on. It says that Christ was to
suffer and that by reason of his resurrection from the dead that
he would be first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people
and to the Gentiles. So this dispensation is really
taking us to a place where we go beyond the natural borders of
Israel. We're going beyond the natural
borders of Israel. You could say it this way.
After man fell from dominion, God carved out a piece of land
to 1st show his nation. All the while with one thought,
I'll take more territory now in the earth.
Today we see right now Russia goes into you what for what
Ukraine? For what purpose take more
territory? What what is being talked about
with Taiwan? With China taking more
territory? What is it that President Trump
is saying concerning Greenland and Canada taking more, getting,
taking the Panama Canal, the Gulf of America, right, taking
territory. Now, there was a time in our, in
our, our globe today that nations did this.
They took territory, they conquered and they conquered
land. Now, the difference between the
Kingdom that Christ brings is, which is different than Rome,
although it's similar to Rome and I, I, I totally understand
why Doctor Miles Monroe ministered and communicated
about this. He said Jesus comes during the
Roman time because when Rome came, they took territory.
But what they did different is they didn't take the inhabitants
of the territory that they conquered back to their home
country. They left them in the territory
and turn them into Romans, which modeled more of what God wanted
to do when he takes territory. Because if God wanted us, like
all the nations before Rome, conquer and then take them back
to the home country, The minute you ask Jesus Christ to be Lord
of your life, you would die and go to heaven to be present with
him. You know what?
Think about that for a moment. If you're married and you really
love your spouse, but you know, you, you know, need to be right.
But you know, the minute I pray this, I'm out.
I mean, I'd be probably waiting too.
They will do it on our deathbed together.
You know, let's say it together, right?
That way we can go together. Hey, man, I mean you, you may
hold out for your children. You, I need Jesus, but I got a
three-year old. Don't know who's going to take
care of my 3 year old. Are you hearing me?
So obviously in this dispensation we're in, when
Jesus comes, it is to expand the borders to where now, yes,
Israel is still God's land. He will deal with that land as
well, but we understand this isn't about an expansion project
because God never intended for the globe not to be inhabited
with his children. All right, Acts chapter 13,
verse 47. And so the Lord said, so the
Lord has commanded us, I have placed you as a light for the
Gentiles that you may bring salvation to the what ends of
the earth. So God is not satisfied, He's
never been satisfied that the land he marked out and spoke
would be their land physically on planet earth is the only
landmass. And have you ever noticed how
much, how many nations attacked that landmass?
This one, this, this is the most expensive sought after real
estate on the planet is Israel. Because the devil knows.
Because the devil knows that even in the old covenant if they
would have and has experienced it that when they did unify,
when they did obey God, when they did stay with the
sacrifices that that nation conquered everybody conquered
every Remember when Nehemiah went to go rebuild it and they
were like hey man you got some guys rebuilding Jerusalem here
King, you need to stop this. This is after Cyrus first, you
know authorized a new king shows up.
You need to if you look in your records, you'll find that out of
this city when this nation was intact that it rebelled against
all kind of foreign kings and conquered them.
You do not want this city to be raised back up and re
established because they will just against you and your
Kingdom. And that king looked it up and
sure enough saw the history of that nation's power and that
capitals power. And he said stop work order.
We got one of those once stop work order, you're done.
You're not you're not going to build anymore.
But once that king left, another LED letter was written, and next
thing you know, Jerusalem is being rebuilt.
Amen. First Timothy 29 says this.
But you are a chosen race, a royal, a holy, Because in this
dispensation the Lord says, I'll go beyond the boundaries of
Israel. In essence, He is saying I'm
giving you the pathway to legal entry.
Today, 1 of the biggest topics that we're having in our nation
is immigration, and the Lord opened up the ability for every
nation to migrate to Him. But there's only one way in,
there's only one way in, and there's only one legal way in,
and that's through the blood of Jesus.
Hallelujah. Through the blood of Jesus.
Amen. And if you're not through the
blood of Jesus, you're not in. No man comes to the Father
except through me. He is the the truth and the
life. He is also the door.
He is the gate. It's a gate.
A door. It's the gate.
The door only one. There's no multiple entrances.
Can't dig your way in? Can't pay your way in.
You can't pay for citizenship. Can't do it.
OK, but he's looking for people, for God's own possession, so
that he may proclaim the excellencies of him who has
called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Aren't you glad he's called you out?
Now look at Philippians chapter 3.
Because again, the dispensation we're in called the Church Age
or Ecclesia, the great Assembly or the Legislative Assembly.
This is where God's saying I'm extending the borders of my of
my representation or my citizenship in the earth, that
you don't have to become a citizen of Israel to be right
with God, that you just need to call on the name of the Lord,
Amen. Now I'm going to read the King
James because I find this very interesting.
And then I'm going to read you something out of the biblical
illustrator concerning this. It says for our conversation,
most of you are not reading King James right now, so you do not
see this word and you're going to you see the word we're going
to for our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look
for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, the biblical illustrator says this conversation has much
the same meaning as the political word constitution.
Yeah, so he says citizenship is a good rendering if to the
ordinary meaning of political standing and privilege be added
the mode of a nation's government, of which we know we
are a nation's government, and the government shall rest on his
shoulder. He said that repent for the
Kingdom of heaven is at at hand. OK, so the So let me go back to
that. Citizenship is a good rendering
if to the ordinary meaning of political standing and privilege
be added the mode of a nation's government, the character of its
laws, the tone and habits of its citizens.
So the new American standard says it this way.
For our citizenship, OK, is in heaven, which from which also we
eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now notice what it says here. It says our citizenship is in
heaven, not of heaven. Cause your citizenship is in
heaven. Cause currently in heaven is the
citizens registry. There's a registry literally in
heaven. It's at the King's court, it's
called the Book of Life, and when you're born again, your
name is what written in the book, so your citizenship isn't
it? Which means no natural thing on
the planet could ever rob or steal your citizenship.
Once you've made Jesus Lord of your life, it is kept in heaven.
So that at the great day when we stand before the Lord and he
pulls out the books, whoa, glory to God, Amen.
It wouldn't matter if the devil did show up that day because
Jesus would say, let me pull out my citizens registry.
Tony, you in there. Tony Beak, Hallelujah, you're in
there. Your citizenship is in heaven,
secured on lockdown. Glory to God, Amen.
Look at the Williams translation.
Williams translation says this, but we are citizens of the
Republic in heaven. Hello.
And to the Republic for which it stands.
Oh, there's another Republic. It's another government.
It's the Kingdom from which we eagerly awaiting our Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ. What they're saying is my
citizenship is in heaven. And the one over the the
government that I'm a part of, his name's Jesus.
He's my king. And my King's coming.
My King's coming. The King's coming.
Amen and I am a citizen of his Republic which is his scheme.
Look at the easy read version. It says this, but the government
that rules us is in heaven. We are waiting for our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ to come from there.
Aren't you glad that your citizenship is there because the
church age is God saying I will not allow my citizenship to be
to be limited to the 12 tribes. I'm extending the registry of my
citizenship. I'm going beyond just the Jewish
people and those that are in the bloodline of Abraham.
I am going out to the Gentiles. I'm going to adopt them.
They can become my sons. And when I say adoption, that
means position. I'm going to make them my
children. I'm going to make them
naturalized citizens, and they become naturalized once you're
born again. Hallelujah, Ephesians 219 says.
Therefore you are no longer outsiders.
Aren't you glad you're not an outsider?
Exiles, migrants and aliens excluded from the rights of
citizenship. You know why people want to come
to the United States? The majority want to come
because they understand there are different privileges and
benefits to be a citizen. All right, but you now share
citizenship with the Saints. God's own people consecrate and
set apart for himself, and you belong to God's own household.
Aren't you glad you're a citizen?
And so the Kingdom of God has expanded in this dispensation
called the Church. The Church was never a religious
organization. It was the boundaries of the
nation expanding globally so that it could pick up citizens
from every tribe. Tongan nation, it is God's
immigration policy so that those that are in the other nation,
which is the domain of darkness, where they have a tyrannical
ruler, the one who should have never had that dominion ever.
God did not want him to have it and authorize Adam to keep it
from him. However, Adam gave it to him and
so now God says, well, that's fine, I'll pay the price.
I'll pay the bounty on their heads and I will, if they call
on me to be their king, if they want to renounce the government
they're in and bring allegiance to the mind because I've paid
their price, their penalty, then they, they have a right to come
in. Hallelujah.
And so he went beyond the natural borders of not only
land, physical land, but human bloodline to come to the
nations. Yes, Hallelujah, so that we
could become citizens. Now what's so big deal about
citizens? Well, citizens, citizenship is
the most sacred privilege of a nation.
Citizenship is the most sacred privilege of the nation.
Citizenship is the most precious gift that any nation can give is
to give you citizenship. Because what that means is the
government is saying is supposed to say, now I understand man's
government's corrupt, but not God.
It's supposed to be saying, now that you are our citizens, you
have the rights, benefits and privileges associated with being
a citizen of This is why it's kind of crazy to me, you know,
when when people are talking and saying, well, you know, those
that have come in illegally, you know, we want to give them due
process. Well, citizens get due process
because I'm going to tell you that's not going to fly in the
Kingdom. It's not going to fly in the
Kingdom. You're not going to get any
rights unless you're in it. So why is this important?
Because when God calls you when, when he speaks and says, would
you like to be a part of my Kingdom?
Would you like to repent of your sin and come into my man?
It's the greatest thing he could do is give you the privilege of
being a citizen of his Kingdom. And the thing that you don't
want to do is say, I'll think about it.
I mean, again, if you want to come into the United States and
you're standing at the gate and someone says I'm going to open
this gate and as long as it's open, anyone can come in.
Do you think they'd be like, you know, let me think about it.
Oh, they're running. They're running in.
I mean, you know, you're, you're, you're hoping they don't
kill somebody in the way because they trample somebody.
And what's the Bible say? The Kingdom of heaven suffers
violence and the violent taken by force, Meaning once you find
out about it, you want to get into that thing at all costs.
Hallelujah. Because what we're saying and
we've preached these things, we just don't always preach them
through the Kingdom paradigm. And again, you know, people
don't understand the authority of the belief.
The authority of the believer is a privilege associated with a
citizen. The only reason you have
authority is because you become a citizen of the Kingdom by
right of sonship, and sonship means you have rulership.
Hallelujah. So the new birth makes us
naturalized citizens of the Kingdom.
When we become citizens of God's Kingdom, it means that we
voluntarily align ourselves with a new government and a new
country, embracing its language, its ideals, and its values.
Our culture should reflect and reveal our citizenship as being.
Here but not from here as being in the world but not of the
world. When I made Jesus the Lord of my
life, I did not denounce my other citizenship, which is AUS
citizen. However, my quality of living is
not defined by the US citizenship.
It's now defined by the Kingdom. Because even though in the
natural I have this citizenship that allows me to travel, I've
actually renounced the systems of the world.
Because in a lot of countries, if you're going to become a
citizen, they will say you have to denounce your allegiance to
your birth nation and you're only going to be with this one.
Now, I know we do have dual citizenship that's available for
people. I get that.
And we have dual citizenship in the context that we have a
spiritual citizenship and a natural one in the earth.
But our spiritual citizenship is our citizenship, and it is a
higher, holier, separated unto God, greater privileges and
benefits than any natural 1 you could ever have.
Hallelujah. So the Lord is expecting that
when you call on the name of the Lord to be saved, you are
denouncing any of those systems of the darkness that were in
your natural citizenship. That's a part of your natural
nation. Every nation on the planet has
the domain of darkness in it. But now, because of what Christ
did, every nation in the world has the Kingdom of God in it,
and it can function even in those physical territories.
Glory to God, and that citizenship gives you the right
to pray the will of heaven into earth where you live.
Amen. When I was teaching about
Kingdom economics to the school there in Congo, I, you know,
communicated first. I dealt with the heart.
You got to deal with the heart before you can even talk about
money. So we did that and then, you
know, I said, now tomorrow I'm going to give you a lot of
money. And they got excited, but I did
and went the ones that got it, oh, man.
Because it became so freeing, because they they were able to
pull off their mind. We can't accomplish what other
ministers can in other countries because we're just poor Congo.
They're not poor Congo. They're citizens of the Kingdom
of God, whose father is the king, who answers faith in any
nation and is not hindered by natural governments.
You can prosper anywhere. You can prosper when famine is
broke out, Hallelujah. And then when they saw the
currency of the Kingdom, they got jacked excited.
Why? Because again, I'm not limited
anymore because I have the word. How big do you want your
account? Fill it up.
Faith comes by hearing and hear from the word of God.
Then act on that thing. It always come to pass glory to
God. So citizenship grants you access
to all the rights, privileges and benefits of the Kingdom.
Hebrews chapter 12 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22 to 24 says
this. But you have come to Mount Zion
and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and
a myriad of angels in festive gathering and in the General
Assembly, the assembly of the first born who are.