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Now enjoy this message. Last week we started taking time
to break down the Kingdom again and it's very important that we
have a hunger for the Kingdom again.
I was just talking with George before service today.
He was said he was reading in the Bible reading plan where it
talked about the one left the 99, you know, and it said how
all the angels rejoice because the one comes back.
Do you understand that most people interpret that scripture
as the one being a person lost? But that's not true because the
one was with the 99 and the 99 was with the Lord.
So that Scripture along with the prodigal son, the prodigal son
is not a type and shadow of the world, neither is the one
leaving the 99. They are both someone who's been
in the house, who's had a relationship with the father and
then hardened themselves out of their own pursuit of selfish
ambition and want to do it their way.
And they left the safety of and provision of home.
Now why would all the angels rejoice mightily when the one
who was lost would come back into the full?
Because you know how hard you're going to have to harden your
heart to discredit the words you've been acting on.
The Bible tells us how dark it is.
A person that once they're exposed to life, to get back in
darkness. So you understand it's not funny
business when you've had a relationship with Jesus, you've
been actively involved in a church, you recognize those
things and then you get offended or upset or something happens
that you begin to not value the head of the church in his church
and you begin to see it as well. It's maybe something I'll do or
maybe I want won't. And you move out.
Guess what? It is a hardening of your heart.
And when someone starts to layer the light you have, then it can
be extremely difficult for you to return.
I've said this with married couples because I've had this
happen in the past that people they were married and all of a
sudden someone wants to leave and basically they would throw
this out. They say, well you know I'm
going to divorce them anyway and I'll just ask God to forgive me.
I said you think you will. We do know God is a forgiver and
we do know if we do sin that God will forgive us.
But when you openly know I'm going to sin and harden my heart
from doing what's right, I'm going to go ahead and do wrong,
that we really think with all of our heart we're going to
actually come back and repent. Most do not.
In fact, I in my experience with those individuals that I've had
that conversation with, the one that hardened their heart from
the Word and went ahead and divorced anyway, they've never
had an intimate relationship with the Lord.
Again. I've not seen it now, I have
seen a religious exercise, but man, you get around them and
they're not walking in love. They're really not walking in
forgiveness. They're always trying to justify
their position. Why?
Because they had to justify to leave.
This is why it's difficult that when the one separates from the
99. But if they do come and you
understand the Good Shepherd, the great Shepherd, the chief
Shepherd, that's Jesus, He's going to do everything he can.
To pull you in. He'll use people, he'll try to
get them to you to make correction, He'll work on those
particular things. But at the end of the day, if
you've hardened your heart, sometimes it's very challenging.
But This is why the angels rejoiced, because they knew how
much at risk you are. This is why the Scripture says
if someone comes in and then leaves, it would have been
better for them not to have known the way.
That's what the Bible says. So again, when you get born
again, is it a security? Yes, as long as you continue to
do what you did to get in and that is to crucify self, crucify
your will, do it God's way, yield to him that I'm going to
tell you right now it's the best existence ever.
But if you ever along the way in your journey begin to say, not
sure I'm going to do it like that anymore.
I've done enough. You're at risk, and that's not
what God wants. And you know what?
How do you know that you're starting to maybe walk in a path
that way is how are you hearing the word when it's something
you've already heard? Because when it's something
you've already heard, you're like, Oh yeah, I know that.
I know where pastor's going. I know what he's doing instead
of Lord. I remember the first time I
heard. This Come on now.
Listen, I, I frequent some restaurants, OK?
And I have some relationship with the owners of some
restaurants because of how frequent I go there.
There's one particular one and you all know this because y'all
usually give us a bunch of gift cards when you're, you know,
being a blessing to us, to the Black Molly, OK?
And so there is a standard at Black Molly in my taste.
Buds and that is their spinach artichoke dip.
It is so good that any other restaurant I ever go to.
I measure it to theirs. Now this is my this is not
biblical. This is opinion.
So if you hate it, that's that's because you have undeveloped
taste buds. I get that.
And I, I, I I'm not here to help develop your taste buds to be
honest with you. That's like you coffee.
Drinkers that don't drink it black.
You just untrained and unlearned.
When you finally get over to black, you're going to arrive to
where you need to be. All right.
See here, all the religious people.
Nay, and I get it, you know. I'm surrounded by religious
people. With that being said, my point
is is that that particular place and that menu item.
I love it every I don't go and. Say, well, I guess we'll do the
spinach artichoke dip. No, I have this confident
expectation that when I order it, man, my little taste buds
are going to start doing this. Dance around, be like, whoa,
this is so good. And you're like, oh, this is so
good. You know when you're eating
food, you're like. This is so good.
And it's always even better when you've gone and had horrible
food for a little while and then you come back to a place that
you know is good. Then it's like even better than
better, although it may not be. It's just that you've had some
really bad food experiences. We had that at camp.
When we went to Virginia, we had some really bad food
experiences. Y'all need to pray for Virginia.
I don't think they know how to eat.
I only think they don't know how to cook.
Us all processed. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on in that state.
I mean it's like does anybody what is happening?
I'm like y'all need to come to Florida and taste food for the
first time. But in Matthew 15, three, you
know what it says? And he answered and said to
them, why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake
of your tradition? He is not talking to lost
people. And when I say that you
understand everybody was lost when Jesus was there, but he's
talking to people who knew God because in the dispensation they
were in, they had access to God. Especially these which were the
Pharisees, the religious, the priests ascribes because the
anointing would come upon them. So they could have understanding
of the word, because it was their responsibility to teach
the nation of Israel. So they knew exactly what they
were supposed to say, but they chose not to say it because they
loved the accolades instead of giving it to God.
And they loved the positions that put them in with the local
government instead of with God. OK.
This is why they let Jesus. They wanted Jesus crucified
because they loved Caesar. More than they did Jesus.
And they touted that we have only one king and his name,
Caesar. That's what they told Pilate the
day that they said crucify him. He said, what do you want me to
do with your king? And they said, we have no king
but Caesar. So they picked the world's king,
which is really, we're going to go with the devil, right
instead. So again, in the church we have
to always guard ourselves from receiving the Word as the Word
of men or as a common thing that we've heard.
We need to receive it for what it really is, the Word of God
and passionately want to receive.
That. Because you understand, we have
just begun to scratch the surface of His Kingdom.
For anyone in this room to say, well, I know about the Kingdom
of God, that is untruth. You know something about it, but
not to the layer that we need to know.
In fact, as much as we study and God reveals, the Bible tells
that it still is, has a veil to it, and until we go and be with
Him will it be completely stripped off.
So even as much revelation as we can receive, we still only know
in part. So what part?
We know we need to rejoice and exercise that part because if we
do not continually exercise the part and do what's necessary,
then we will lose what we have gained.
Are you hearing me? OK?
So we saw that the whole planet was set up so that God could
give it to man. When God created the heavens and
the earth He created with the intentions of giving it to man,
He didn't want it to be empty. We read this in Psalms 8911.
We said this in Isaiah 4518 and we jumped over into a Psalms 115
verse 15. This was last week and where it
says the highest heavens are the Lord, but the earth He has given
to the sons of man. So the territory of the earth
was created by the home country which is heaven and it was not
taken by force. He didn't come conquer this
thing He made. It so it's God's Bible, pride of
creation. He created everything, the
heavens and the earth. The earth is extremely important
to God in our modern day US Christianity, we don't think the
earth is important. Now I'm not getting into climate
change, although there's a climate change that is a that is
a reality now, not from the political party reality from the
biblical party reality. Is the earth going to get
warmer? Yes, much warmer, extremely
warm, in fact, so warm that it's going to burn.
It will burn, say burn, baby, burn it will.
But it's burning because God's going to make it new.
He's going to burn off anything that is in error because when he
deals with the devil once and for all throws him to the lake
of fire, which is the the second death and all those who denounce
Jesus as Lord and everyone else who rebelled against his Kingdom
and they are in the prison system of God's Kingdom.
The lake of fire is God's prison.
It's not the devil's home. The devil doesn't live in hell.
It's not his home. He had a right to death because
Adam fell from dominion, sinned and death came.
A hold came into play because everyone who who goes against
the word of God, death comes. However, Jesus conquered death,
hell in the grave, meaning he's the only righteous judge who can
now dictate who goes there. In essence, he became the warden
of the prison. Are you hearing me?
So those who go, go voluntarily because they rejected Jesus as
king. So when all that's said and
done, the Bible tells us that in in Peter that by fire he'll burn
the heavens and the earth. Now that's not the 3rd heaven
where God lives. Because in the 3rd heaven, the
minute a rebellion started, God got rid of it.
And how fast did he get rid of it?
Light, lightning. Jesus said, I saw Satan fall
like lightning from heaven. It was very quick.
You're not going to be up here doing this.
Boom, you're gone. OK, with that being said, there
is a 1st heaven, 2nd heaven and in those areas where there's
principalities and powers, there's things that are wrong.
God fire is always a representation of purging
unrighteousness. It is the burn off that which is
wrong. So there's been a lot of stuff
done on this planet that God never intended.
And so God has to purify it like you purify gold.
You get it to the fire, the dross comes up, you pull it off
so that you're left with the purity of the gold and God will
only have a pure planet Earth. I said he'll only have a pure
planet Earth. So the fires coming, say when is
it? Well, that's when we come back
and reign with him after the 1000 years and the devil comes
and attacks that Jesus and his nation again.
It will amount to nothing and he'll cast.
Him. And then they'll give up the
dead, and they'll be the Great White Throne Judgment.
They'll all be cast into the Lake of Fire, and then everyone
that's on the earth will be caught in that fire, which is no
big deal because Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego was caught
in a fiery furnace. Seven times hotter and hot and
they didn't burn, didn't smell like smoke.
They were right in the middle of it.
We can stand right here on the planet while it burns.
It'll be the best bonfire you've ever been to in your life.
Not only will you see it, you'll be in the middle.
Of it, OK? And it will burn off all the
impurities that then we'll have a new heavens and new earth, and
we'll be with the Lord forever in all eternity, where nothing
but righteousness is in all of his creation.
And there's one isolated place where unrighteousness exists.
It is the lake of fire. And they'll never get out.
And they'll be tormented forever by choice, by their choice.
Are you hearing me? So it's important for us to
understand that God, when he created this Earth, initially
those that he put in the planet were not of a different nature
than Him. So when he made Adam out of the
dust of the earth, breathe into his nostrils the breath of life
from his nature. He created humans, He created
man and woman. Infer Genesis chapter one verse
26 that said then God said, let us make man in our image
according to our likeness and let him have them have dominion.
Over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the
cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth. Verse 27 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God.
He created him male and female. So the spirit of man goes into a
male suit and into a female suit.
God never gets that wrong. They're always exactly where he
ordained them, OK. And as a result of that, they
were to have demean over the earth, not over each other, but
over the earth. They both possess dominion.
Now God needs them to function in this dominion status.
And dominion is not a religious position.
Dominion means to govern, it means to rule, it means to
manage, it means to have rulership.
So Adam, the first Adam had no concept of a religious exercise.
Adam's concept of God was he's the king of heaven.
He's made me king of the earth. He could also say it this way.
He is the God of heaven and God of all creation, and he's made
me God of the earth. I'm submitted to him.
The God. I'm a little God.
I'm a little God now He's not God himself, but he is a little
God. Now this shouldn't be hard for
us because at this point in the new covenant, you're called
children of. Well, if you're children of God,
then you must be of God or you're the Bible calls you sons
of. So in essence, you're little
gods because you function under the authority of the God.
How do we know this God capacity works or this ultimate
rulership? When Paul was recounting the
authority that the devil possessed concerning the systems
that were functioning on the planet, even after his defeat,
he says the God of this world, meaning the systems that are in
play, the way things function away from God's Kingdom, there
is a God or one that's in authority or supreme authority
of that system and that is the devil.
So again, 2nd Corinthians 4 four says the God of this world has
blinded the eyes of the unbelieving so that they cannot
see the light of the gospel or recognize their true place they
should be in, and that is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
OK, So again even the devil was contributed as a God of this
world and even Jesus himself in the temptation that he had with
the devil in Luke chapter 4, the devil showed him all the
kingdoms in a moment of time because he knows this is not
about religion. I do religion for man.
I keep religion in front of man because it keeps man confused
and deceived, because if he knew this was only about a Kingdom
and the government or King's dominion for man, then he would
not tolerate religion anyway. So I keep him confused on which
way to go. Which way is right?
Which one's right? Which way?
Who do we serve? Who do we?
I mean, how all these people in these other countries worship
this other God? Could they be wrong?
Maybe you're wrong. We keep them in confusion.
OK, but he doesn't do that to Jesus.
He doesn't tempt Jesus with the religions of the world.
He tempts Jesus with kingdoms. He said all this domain I'll
give to you, for they have been handed over to me.
Where? Where did he get it from?
He had received it from Adam. So when Adam ate the fruit that
the Lord told him not to, OK. And the reason why God has to
say don't eat this fruit, eat everything else but not this one
is because God needs to know that Adam loves him.
He's of his nature, he's of love.
We should know this, but our love to God is not demonstrated
with the words I love you. Jesus defines how we love God.
He says if you love me, you will what?
Keep my word so we must be doers of the word and here's the
thing, it's not our self effort. It is our effort in Christ that
accomplishes it. Now I will say this, there is a
time you do it yourself or you're participating, which I
when I say at times, really it's every time, but again, you're
being empowered because God has opened the door by his Spirit to
let you know if you do this choice life.
So think about it when you were dead in your trespasses of sin.
The Bible is very clear. No one goes after God.
No, not one. And you can't even come to the
Father unless He draws you, which means somewhere along the
line, God Himself, through His Holy Spirit, started speaking to
your heart. And He started speaking to your
heart while you were a Sinner dead.
Cut off from God, couldn't hear God, didn't want anything to do
with God, would never say yes to God, would never serve God of
your own free will. Yet that voice and the
revelation of that moment that Jesus Christ has made the way
for you to come into this Kingdom and you believed it by
faith. Even as a Sinner, you could say
I believe Jesus Christ came born of a virgin, died on the third
day, rose from the dead and I confess him as Lord.
A Sinner did that. But the minute you did that by
faith, then that spirit that was dead and could not hear, could
not commune with God, could not go any further with God, could
not have a relationship with God, is ripped out of your skin
suit and is immediately replaced with a new spirit that is in
Christ that now has a direct connect with heaven and given
dominion status. You can rule and reign now.
You can follow the Spirit of God, you can obey the voice of
God, and you can prove day after day that you love Him because
your spirit wants to do the Word.
So Jesus said, now if you love me, you go keep my word.
So he says, Adam, if you love me, don't eat the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil for the day you eat you'll surely.
And we said this 100,000 times, we're going to say it 100,000
times more, maybe even a billion if it takes that long before
Jesus returned. If Adam had never eaten the.
Fruit. Where would he be today?
He'd be right here. So Adam was not trying to go to
heaven, which tells us the new birth experience is not about
going to heaven. It's about becoming a child of
God and receiving the dominion God originally had for you.
That's what it's about now. I'm not telling you you won't go
to heaven because the Bible says to be absent from the body.
You'll be what? Present with the Lord?
Where is the Lord presently at? He's in heaven.
Is he staying there? If you read the scripture,
you'll know he's not that Jesus will come back.
And who will come back with? Him.
We will. All right, So wherever the Lord
is, I am. Now, if you want to stay in
heaven when the Lord's not there, that's on you.
And I don't even know if that's Kate, if you're capable of doing
that, because again, if he's Lord and he says, all right,
let's go back to the earth, what are you going to do?
No, I think I'm just. Going to stay up here, been down
there before, didn't really care for it.
Wasn't a great existence for me, you know, till I met you and you
were awesome. You changed my life and now that
I'm up here, don't want to have to hang out with sin again.
How many of you believe you'll see sin again after you go to
heaven? You bet you will.
I didn't say you'd participate in it, but you'll see it because
when you come back in the millennial reign with Christ,
there will be people on the planet still in sin.
The good news is, is that you won't be subject to it again.
You're not going to fail or fall.
You're sealed in righteousness. You have your glorified body.
You're no longer ever going to be connected to that because you
have been delivered from the second death.
And you'll be able to walk on this planet in a way that you
never walked on it before. Because right now we're born
again. We have His spirit, we have his
power. We can renew our minds.
We can walk in dominion, but our flesh is still here.
Our body's still dying. We still have some connectors to
it. We're having to crucify that
daily so dominion can continue to move, so we can function in
our rulership, but when we come back with the Lord, our flesh
won't be connected to it. We'll be free from all that.
Hallelujah. Now for some of you this may
sound like strange teaching, but it's actually biblical teaching
because when you actually read the Bible from Genesis. 11 to
Revelations 2221. You'll find this has been there
the whole time and again, American Christianity has put us
in this position where all we want to do is know where we go
when we die. And Jesus never asked that
question. He never looked at anyone and
says do you know where you're going to go when you die?
That was never a preaching point for Jesus.
He did answer the question. When I say the question, he
really just communicated. The first time he ever said born
again was never publicly he said it, you know, about 2:00 in the
morning to a religious guy by the name of Nicodemus.
And this is where we hear the term born again, which is better
translated born from above. And that conversation he was
having with that religious man was about the Kingdom or about
hit the father. It's obvious that you are of God
because the works you're doing, man, nobody can explain this.
We would have to deny our God to deny the works you're doing.
And then Jesus said unless a man's born again, he will not
enter the Kingdom. So he's letting him know how
you're going to get in. You've got to be born from
above. So Nicodemus a little confused
by that statement. And he says, how can I be a
grown man, Get back in my mom's womb?
He says you're missing it because this is not a natural
birth. This is a spiritual birth.
You can't do this. All your good works to try to be
right with me doesn't work. That's why Paul said in First
Corinthians 7, he said, man, I wanted to do right.
I mean everything I wanted to do that was right.
I found myself just being wrong. And the things I didn't even
want to do, I found myself doing them.
I'm just a wretched man who will save me from this life of sin.
But thanks be unto God that I am, I can triumph in Christ
delivered me from that kind of life.
So he says, listen, you're going to have to be born in my spirit.
In essence, if you're not born again, you can't enter or see
the Kingdom of God. Born again is entrance.
It's not the end. And we've made the Bible in the
US specifically, that the end of all end is just get born again.
And Jesus, like, that's just getting you through the door.
You're not experiencing it, you're just now in the house,
but I'll send my Spirit to teach you how to live in the house
function and do the same because Jesus said the works that I do,
most believers are just trying to get to heaven.
I'm going to heaven when I die. We'll do the works of.
Jesus, because he did them where?
Right here. Amen.
So a Kingdom then, which is what Jesus preached, is the Kingdom
is a government influence of a king over his territory,
impacting it with his personal will, purpose and intent,
producing citizens, expressing the culture, values, morals and
lifestyles reflecting the King's nature.
So God's original plan was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on
the earth through mankind. God created man to manage and
administrate His King's dominion on the earth.
Are you hearing what I'm saying So when Adam rebelled the The
most dangerous word in a Kingdom is independence.
The most dangerous word in the Kingdom is what what it what is
going to happen Thursday is what Independence Day.
This is why it's so easy for us to water down scripture in the
US is because we want to maintain our independence and
independence from what the King. Oh y'all don't want to hear
this? In our fact now again, we
rebelled from a monarch, from another nation based upon some
representation and some additional things.
I'm not going to get in that history lesson.
OK, But never were we supposed to rebel from the King Jesus.
So what we've done is we've brought in our U.S. government
into the church, and we want to be born of a nation that we get
to do whatever we want to do because we've been sold the lie
that in the free nation you can do whatever you want to do.
That's not freedom. Freedom is not free to do
whatever you want to do because you're not free to kill people.
You're not free to steal. Even though there's some places
it looks like it. I understand that, but we're not
free. There are things in place so
that we are. We have the boundaries to create
life. Any nation has to have laws, so
there is order. Do you understand God has some
laws as well. Now again, the minute I say that
the religious Christians go, we're not under the law.
Yes you are. It's called the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. That's in Romans now you're not
doing a work independent of God to be right with God cause the
law showed you couldn't do that. But once you're born again, he
didn't do away with the law, he fulfilled it.
So guess what's still in play? Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Y'all went there first. OK, I was going to say murder
myself. We might need to do a marriage
seminar right now, huh? I bond that religious or lustful
spirit right now in Jesus name away from all these people.
OK, so to say that the law's been destroyed and we don't have
to live a no in the New Covenant, you can't murder
someone under grace. I don't like you.
I'm going to kill you because I'm tired of hearing your mouth
because I'm under grace. Oh, this preach is really good.
OK, now again, the whole context of law is in that dispensation
God reveals. Look how much of A Sinner you
are, because prior to the law they were doing whatever they.
Want to do and they did what seems right.
They had no boundaries or nothing that God was setting a
standard that was revealing their sin to them.
But when the law came it revealed it.
In fact, Paul said that he said now listen, until the law came,
I didn't know I was coveting though I was.
And the minute the law showed up, covetousness came alive in
me. All of a sudden I realized, man,
I covet. I'm doing that.
So the law revealed the heart. Jesus makes us a new creature in
Christ because when Jesus came, he didn't murder people, he
didn't steal, he didn't covet. He fulfilled the law, which
means now the spirit in you, you get to fulfill it too.
You don't have desires to want to covet your neighbor's stuff
because if you did, you'd be like, something ain't right with
me. That's a freaking nature.
You can't covet someone's stuff under grace and God be like I'm
fine with. It.
That's not the point. The point is now you can live in
a way submitted to God by his Spirit and your nature's alive
to God to do so. So independence is the most
dangerous word in the Kingdom and we have embraced it in the
US church that all I need to do is be born again and don't tell
me how I'm supposed to live. But in the Kingdom the king
tells you how you supposed to. In fact, all through the
Scriptures written by Paul to the churches, those are letters
that are saying this in this Kingdom, this is the correct
behavior and he never let grace cover bad behavior.
In fact, he says, I'm shocked you're having this behavior
cause the grace of God has actually now empowered you to
not. Have that behavior.
So it's more applicable to question if grace is in your
life. Then it would be to say that
grace is functioning because you can live like you were lost, but
still be fine with God. So independence in the US
churches like the United States. I can, I ask Lord, come in my
heart, don't tell me what to do. I can come to church when I want
to. I can do what I want to do.
I can be where I want to be. You can't tell me what I'm sure
not going to submit to a pastor. Forget that.
Ain't nobody going to tell me what to do.
Well, that's U.S. government stuff.
That's not Kingdom. And when you get into
independence, then it breathes the next one, and that is
rebellion. Because the minute Adam saw
himself independent of God, he rebelled.
Now I will say this so you'll understand the difference of
terms. When you're in God's Kingdom,
you lose your independence because you are fully dependent
not only on Jesus but his body. You're dependent on both.
So what you you lose your independence, but you do not
lose your individuality. What is this?
That's my finger.
OK. What is this?
Why'd you call an elbow? Why did?
Why is it not a finger? I mean it's.
My body's a free country. It can do what it wants to do.
OK, what's this right here? Come on, what is it?
I'm not at trying to impress you.
I mean, it's all I got. What is this?
I'm pointing at it. Whether you see it or not, it
doesn't matter. Don't make me get you stand up
here, OK? What is this?
A bicep? Why we caught.
So it's an individual part of my body and you know, my elbow, my
finger and my bicep work together and they do not fight
against each other. If they start to fight against
each other, then there's an abnormality with me.
That's then I'm seeing LGI got a problem, man.
There's something's wrong. I'm not functioning right.
He's like, let's figure out what individual part of you is
rebelling. Oh yeah, I'm glad we're getting
there. This is good stuff in it.
Wow. So what I'm saying is is that we
have, we're all individual. Please do not be me.
I don't want to be you. Don't be me.
Be who you are and embrace who you are because you're so
uniquely made and created by God.
But you sure are not independent of me.
You can't say you don't need me. You can't say you don't need the
church. You can't say you can be with
Jesus without church because that's impossible.
He's the head of the church. To be with Jesus without the
church means you cut his head off.
A head without a body is decapitated.
You cannot worship Jesus at your house and think God's OK with
it. Now if you are stuck at home,
that's one. Thing if you're bed bound,
that's one thing. But let me tell you, if you are
bed bound, you need to find you four friends that'd be willing
to pick you up and bring you to church.
Because some people that bed Bob don't won't even get enough
faith and they don't have enough for four friends of faith to say
we got to get you up out of this house.
God never intended you be stuck at the house.
God did not put you on the planet so that you can be stuck
at the house and watch TV ministry.
All right, so the fall of man was not a fall from Dominion.
It was a fall from. Or it was a fall.
From dominion, not a fall from heaven.
The purpose and goal of God's redemptive plan is to restore
mankind back to God's original plan.
So the restoration of God's King's dominion to earth is
God's ultimate goal. Adam lost a Kingdom, not a
religion, and therefore the redemptive work of the Creator
would be the reestablishment of His Kingdom on the earth.
Kenneth E Hagin in his book the The Believers Authority said
this. The trouble with us is that
we've preached a cross religion. We need to preach a throne one,
and we love the cross. We wear it, we have it
everywhere. The cross is to remind us of the
price He paid for us. But God never wanted you to
identify only with your sin. You get around some believers
and all they can do is identify with their sin.
I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by grace.
Well, then you're not. Saved if you're still a sorry
Sinner, how can you be saved if you're a sorry Sinner well
brother, I sin every day like everybody else but I got grace
that's not what grace did grace did not empower you to continue
to sin and be right with God I'm.
Going to say that again. Grace did not empower you to sin
and be right with God. OK, grace paid the price first
because of what you could not do to be right with God.
Then grace will come and grab you when you activate it by
faith. Because if you don't have faith,
grace ain't even working. Then grace will go and grab you
out of the grave, snatch you through the cross, and when it
gets you through the cross, your spirit man that's dead without
God gets shoved out the door. He does not accept you as you
are. It doesn't even get in the
Kingdom. Who you were doesn't get in in
the spirit. He snatches out your old spirit,
puts in you a brand new spirit. Now the grace of God will
empower you, because then you receive the same grace, Jesus.
Had. And the grace Jesus had because
he was full of grace, the Bible says.
And if grace only means unmerited favor, I don't deserve
it. What did Jesus do that he didn't
deserve? When was he wrong and grace
kicked in? No, he was a man who knew.
No, you know, the grace he carried, the grace that caused
him. That when he was tempted on all
accounts like us, temptation is not sin, it is the door to sin.
And every time the door of temptation opened up at the
devil's like come on over in here and enjoy a little bit of
rebellion. Jesus with his grace could shut
the door and said, I ain't going there.
Jesus with the grace, he said, said, I'll keep on walking past
that door. I'm not getting in.
So you understand anything you've ever been through, Jesus
had the power to shut the door and He made you in His image,
which means now you can go to the door of any temptation and
go. You don't owe me no more.
Not going back there, not talking like that, not drinking
like that, not smoking like that, not acting like that, not
screwing around like that, not laying around like that, not
thinking like that. Shut the door.
You shut it because he's graced you to do so.
So if you're walking through the door, then Mercy starts to call
you back. Mercy comes around and says you
need to get up out of this room. You in the wrong room.
You're freaking nature right now.
All right, So we need to preach a throne one.
So kingdom's not a religion, but a government.
It was never God's plan to establish a religion.
This is what happens with religion.
Religion prepares man to leave earth.
The Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth.
You know how many Christians just want to go to heaven and
listen? Heaven's awesome.
It's awesome. But again, we're acting like we
don't even have the God. Like it's going to be great when
we it'd be great because again, I understand we'll be in his
presence personally, but you understand he's in our presence
now in us. If we read the Bible, he's
always coming down to man anyway.
I mean, Jesus name Emmanuel means God and we're acting like
we can't be connected to God unless we're in heaven.
He's like, really, I'm in you. I mean, I'm talking to you.
I'm here. You have a religious thought.
Quit trying to leave. Let me keep coming in.
What's it say to pray? When you pray?
Pray this way. Our that.
Whose father? Whose father is it?
Your daddy. OK.
Not just Jesus, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your
name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it is.
So we have the responsibility by faith, through the grace of God,
to pull his realm into this realm, and we don't have to wait
till we go to heaven to get there.
You know what? This is really such a better
gospel anyway, when you think about it, Jesus was not so weak
that all he could do was get you to a place when you die.
Jesus so powerful, He's like, I'll bring my place to you while
you're still in the midst of it all.
You understand what I'm saying? I mean, Jesus is not intimidated
with this world and sin. He's not intimidated with the
devil. He's not intimidated with the
rebellion of principalities and powers 'cause he's the king of
Glory Hill. I just get right down in the
middle of that stuff and show righteousness.
They'll be afraid of me. I'm sure not afraid of them.
Are you hearing me? So again, you have the most
powerful presence in the planet today living in you.
I understand we see all kind of horrible stuff, but we're not of
this world. We don't have to function and
participate like that. We have the third person of the
Godhead in US. God lives in US.
It's not destination gospel. It's destiny.
And destiny occurs the minute I call on the name of the Lord.
God made me this way. But if all I do is identify with
my sin nature, then I want to leave.
But God wants me to identify with my Christ nature.
Man, you're a king now. You have royalty, you have
dominion. Go ahead and rule and reign.
Go ahead and fulfill my plan. Go ahead and know that my word
will not return unto me. Boy, just believe, only believe.
So religion focuses on heaven, but the Kingdom focuses on
Earth. Religion is reaching up to God.
The Kingdom is God coming down to man.
Oh man. Religion wants to escape Earth.
The Kingdom impacts, influences and changes the earth.
Jesus came down and changed the planet.
Now sin's still here, but the kingdom's here.
And now that the kingdom's here, it can't get out.
And the devil, no matter how much he tries to suppress the
church, persecute the church, tries to burn Bibles, tries to
cut off the word, he can't stop it.
He cannot squelch it. He.
Cannot stamp it out. He can do not.
It's here and it will never not be here.
And ultimately it's all that will only remain.
Are you hearing me? So you need to understand then
that all the governments of the earth, because we look at
religions and then try to equate that with our God, but God's
like, I'm not even associated with religions.
If you really want to try to see who's trying to model me, you
have to look at the governments, because the governments of the
world are attempts to achieve the goal of a perfect.
Kingdom without the necessary raw material of the Holy Ghost.
And you know what, every human heart is searching for a new and
better world. I mean, what does everyone say
we just want peace on earth? I mean, really think about it,
you know, and of our political climate, you know, if people
would quit, you know, being so divisive, right?
And would really just understand that if we really listen to
people, you, you can really start to peer in to they're
really searching for the king. And instead of being so upset
about how they're trying to find the king through sin, we should
say, you know, you're really looking for the king there.
So again, you know, when you think about the whole climate
change and people wanted to, you know, us to to lower our carbon
emission and lower these so that we can have pure water and we
can, you know, that's just people wanting a better world.
You know what they're looking for.
They're looking for the new Earth.
That's what they're looking for. Now, they don't know that.
And even them, what are they doing?
They have something within them, and they know they're gonna die.
They know this. Yet there's something about
beyond their life that they think exists somewhere, that
they want the planet. Because why are they so
concerned about humans living after them?
Why are they concerned about that?
The planet could go so bad that it wipes out all humans 'cause
that's really a pull towards an eternal thought, an eternal
thought. And if we would be more apt to
hear, instead of being divisive, we could really begin to say,
wow, you're, that's, you're, you're almost touching the
Kingdom. What do you mean I'm almost
touching the Kingdom? You know, the Lord's really
concerned about the earth. He sees a lot of stuff going on
here, too. I mean, you think oil is bad for
our planet? You think carbon emissions are
bad for our planet? You want to know the number one
thing that is destroying our planet?
It's blood. It's the.
Spilling of innocent blood. The spilling of innocent blood
will cause God to want to show up in a nation because that
talks. We're trying to clean up oil
spills and carbon when nobody's trying to clean up the spilling
of innocent blood. Now that has more contamination
in the earth. Oh, y'all don't want to hear
this? See, because the church has
dumbed itself down so much to want to go to heaven that we
don't recognize that the real root of problems is sin.
You're not going to change the planet unless you deal with the
spilling of blood. You're not going to save a
planet. This is why Jesus Christ the
Lord said Israel, I am going to dispossess all of those people
on that territory because they know I exist.
They did not repent. Their sin now has come to
fullness. I am going to get them out of
that land and dispossessed people.
God moved. Them out of the land because
they were destroying his planet with the spilling of innocent
blood. We because the church is so
uneducated and equipped to handle modern day problems, we
think our issue is climate. The wages of is.
Notice the city. Just do your own natural study.
Notice the cities that that participate in actions that are
contrary to scripture. I'm talking behaviors.
They allow these things full on. Notice how dilapidated and
destructed. Why?
Because every time they do the things that are contrary to
God's work, they are saying death come to us.
So I don't care who wants to be the next governor of Florida.
I don't care who wants to be the next president of the United
States. I don't care who wants to be the
next senator. If all they do is continue to do
policies that are contrary to the word of God with this idea
that it is peace and that it's doing more for others, guess
what? The storms are coming.
Earthquakes are going to happen, natural disasters going to
happen. Things are going to.
Occur. Why 'cause you're calling death
to you, the wages of sin is death.
And we're not dealing with the the the spilling of blood.
See, we're in a Kingdom, not a religion.
So every human heart is searching for a new and better
world. All men believe.
Listen, all men believe except for religious Christians really,
that government is the answer. And here's the thing, so does
God. God believes that government is
the answer because God never came to bring a religion but a
Kingdom. Isaiah Chapter 9, verse six and
seven. You ready for some speed round
here in a minute. Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and
seven says for a child will be born to us.
Who is this child? Come on, what's his name?
What's his name? His name is what?
Come on. I need you better than this
Again. One more time.
As you understand, I have the mic.
You don't. So again, we put this on
YouTube. We want to be able to have
everybody hearing you. What's his name?
A child will be born. To us, a son will be what?
Notice the son is not born because the Son always existed
in the beginning was the word and the word was with God.
The word was God, the 14th verse of John chapter one.
And the word became and his name is So Jesus is the Son of God.
He's always existed before the account of time.
So he can't be born into the world He is given, but the suit
he's placed in is born. So a child will be born to us, a
son will be given, and the that's your Bible.
You know how many people have never read Isaiah's account?
They don't look at it because, again, they stay away from the
Old Testament anyway because it scares them.
But it says, and the government will rest on his shoulder.
Whose shoulders? Who's he?
What's his name? What's his name?
So what's resting on his shoulders?
Not a religion. Jesus never intended to bring
Christianity. He only intended to bring the
Kingdom. He doesn't say repent for
Christianity is at hand. He never said that.
In fact, I think it's only three times that Christian is
mentioned in the. Bible and all of them are by
pagans, meaning people outside of the church.
Which is their label. And Christian is not a negative
term. OK, so I'm not here to say quit
calling yourself a Christian, but be it.
Christian means to be Christ like.
That means to be like a king, like the king.
So if you're like the king, be a Christian.
But if you're not. Like the king, then you're just
putting a label on yourself that you're not.
You can wear AT shirt and not be it.
You can get a tattoo and not be it.
I mean it can be a permanent on you, a cross, a scripture and
not live it. You can wear the necklace.
I didn't matter. You can have it all in your car
doesn't matter. But it says the government will
rest on his what shoulders and his name will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father.
Appearance of Pete there will be no end to the increase of his.
Or of peace on the throne of David.
Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions.
And over his Kingdom to establish it, and behold it with
justice and righteousness from then on.
And. Forever the zeal of the Lord of
hosts will accomplishes. Notice in these verses.
God believes that the answer to the world's problem is His
government. His government.
Now here's the thing about His government.
If you're going to be in His Kingdom, you must be a born
citizen of that Kingdom. You cannot immigrate there by
passing a test of your own free will.
You can't physically cross its borders.
The good news is Jesus made the way for you to become a born
citizen of His Kingdom. Are you hearing me?
Now notice the government will rest where on his shoulders?
Where are the shoulders located in the body is below the head.
You got the head and neck connects to the shoulder.
So the government rests on the shoulder.
So tells us this God's demonstration of his government
Kingdom rests with the church and most of the church is
religious, which tells me then it's really not the church.
Now why do I say that Because Jesus says this in Matthew
chapter 16 verse 18. He said upon the revelation that
I'm the Christ said that to Peter upon the revelation upon
this rock. That is the revelation.
I'm the Christ not upon Peter. So we're not building the church
on Peter or his bones because he said.
Peter, who do you say that I am? Or he said, who do you say that
I am? And Peter says you are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
And he said, Peter, you're blessed because my father has
revealed to you, and I'll no longer call you Simon, but
Peter, which is Little Rock. And why does he say Little Rock?
Because again, who is the big rock?
Who is the chief cornerstone? So This is why I said I'll call
you Peter or the Little Rock, because guess what?
You are a representation of me. I'm the rock, and you're a rock
like me. Because when you die to Christ,
it's no longer you who live, but Christ now lives in you, and you
get lost in him. So they should see.
When they see you, they should be seeing Jesus.
So set us upon this revelation that I am the Christ or the
King, that I will build my church.
Jesus never delegated the building of his church to a
pastor or an apostle or a missionary or an evangelist or a
prophet or a teacher. Jesus says I'll be on the throne
in heaven, but I'm active in my church.
And if he's building the church, guess what?
That church is going to be talking about the Kingdom,
because that's all Jesus preached.
I said that's all he preached. And it says there'll be no end
to the increase. Is his Kingdom in here today?
So the Kingdom mandate runs throughout the entire Bible.
The re establishment to humanity started with Abram, which was
not a religion but a nation. You're ready for speed realm.
OK 'cause we're going to baptize some people today.
I'm going to give you a quick little speed round Genesis
chapter 12. Let's go.
Let's take a trip through the Bible because we understand
this. In Genesis 3, when Adam fell
from demand, the Lord said, Adam, what'd you do?
And as he said, where are you? And we understand that he knew
where he is because he's omnipresent.
He's all knowing, omniscient. So it's not like he doesn't know
he's eating the fruit, but he says, where are you?
Which means, what position are you in now?
Because you're sure not in dominion, right?
And so Adam blames God and says, well, it's that woman you gave
me. She ate the fruit and gave it to
me. He could have said, well, you
were there listening to the conversation and let her eat it
and didn't try to say anything. But he didn't say that, did he?
He said, Eve, what'd you do now? Eve tells the truth.
She said I was deceived because she was by the serpent and I
ate. He said I'll come back to both
of y'all. Then he gets to the serpent.
He doesn't say. What have you done?
No, no, no. What have you done?
He's like, this is what's going to happen, he said.
This is what's going to happen, he said.
I have spoken my word, and my word does not return unto me
void. In essence, whatever my word
says, the ability for that word to come to pass will always come
to pass. So before you showed up, I said,
let's make man in our image according to our notness, and
let them rule. Adam now has eaten the fruit,
abdicated his throne, and given it to the devil, giving him
rulership on the planet. So God is not in control of
everything on planet earth. That is a religious thought.
God's in control of everything. No, he's not.
He's not in control of what the devil's doing.
You know what God's literally in control of?
His word. His word.
He's not in control of your word and he's not controlling your
word because if he could control your word, he would cause you to
call him Lord and then none would go to the lake of fire.
But he can't control you because love doesn't control you.
Oh, y'all don't want to hear this?
That's fine because we want to believe God's in control.
He's in control of His word, and if you do His word, he'll have
that word come to pass. So now he says, here's the
problem. Adam has fallen from dominion.
Now when he sleeps with his wife and they have children, they'll
produce after your kind, which means rebellion.
That's not my kind. So I'm going to have my con.
And since the woman was honest, I can't use the man to
participate. I'm going to show up again with
my seed in a virgin woman. And when he gets in the planet
he will crush your head. Because I gave dominion to man,
I must now send my son as a man 'cause that's the legal entrance
into the earth. And if it if a man lost the
dominion, then it requires a. A man to get the dominion, and I
must become a man in order to do that.
This is why Jesus has to come, because if Jesus, if God could
just forgive, then why didn't he just say, well, Adam, I forgive
you. You've never made a mistake,
son. You've never made a mistake.
This first one, because God said this Adam, if you eat the fruit,
he does what he says because he's a king.
His whole Kingdom is on his ability to do his word.
If you eat the fruit, you're going to die.
Did he eat the fruit? So is death there?
Well, there's a problem. Death has to be paid.
He can't sweep it under the rug. So he says there's only one
payment made. There's only one thing that can
be done to pay the penalty. That's why the Bible says when
you're born again, what are you? Come on, what are you?
No, you have been ransomed. You have been bought with a Now
most believers don't see it this way because we love free.
Imagine Jesus on the cross right now.
He's beaten so bad you cannot tell.
He's a man. Still has a crown of thorns
shoved on his head. He's been stripped of his
clothes. Flesh is ripped off his back,
sides, face, arms, and he's hanging there and blood's just
pouring down. He stretched all out and blood's
flowing. He dies.
They Pierce his side, see it as so, and we don't hear about him
for three days, but on the third day he comes and he's carrying
something. He's got to take it to heaven.
It's called payment. See, when we look at the cross,
we don't see that that's a financial transaction.
That's a payment of a debt. So it may be free for you to
call on the name of the Lord, but it cost God his Son, and his
blood was a price. It says He redeemed you not with
an imperishable, with a perishable item called silver
and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus.
And I am shocked at Christians who get born again and have no
value for the full price of the blood.
You know what we call those people whose parents have a lot
of money and they give them everything they want and they
don't value it spoiled. And the US church has created
spoiled believers. And us that aren't in that
natural family, we're like, man, we would be wait.
I mean, we would really appreciate it.
I mean, they don't even value. Well, how many of us don't even
value because again, we've made our Jesus a religion instead of
a Kingdom. And we'll tell the King, maybe
I'll come, maybe I won't. Maybe I'll do what you say,
maybe I don't just Remember Me when I die, that I asked you to
come into my heart and save me. Now you make sure you do that.
You better do your part in the Lord's light.
Well, do your part. You called me Lord to get into
this thing that means supreme authority.
That's not a religious term. Now you do your.
Part. Because I sure did my part and
I'll never not do my part. So the Lord says I'll have a
pathway for man to have dominion because what I said has the
ability to come to pass. And at this point He has
fulfilled that through the death, burial, resurrection of
Jesus. That word is in play right now.
All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
And guess what, you will be. You will have, you will have
been given dominion again so that you can rule and reign
while you're in the earth and God's word has come to pass.
But for those who do not call on the name, guess what?
You also get what the word said. If you don't do what I say,
you're going to die, and people will be cast into the lake of
fire, even though the blood has been paid to forgive them.
You ready for speed round? Here we go.
I'm going to do this in 10 minutes.
Genesis 12, one through 3, says this.
Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from
your relatives, and from your father's house to a land which I
will show you, and I will make you a great what nation, not a
religion. And I'll bless you and make you
a your name great, and you shall be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse
you. And then and you, all the
families of the earth will be blessed.
So Abram gets a name change to Abraham.
Abraham means the father of many nations, not the father of many
religions or the father of a religion that ultimately will
allow people to be born again and get into heaven.
His name is Abraham, a father of many nations.
Again, because it's always been about a king, his Kingdom and
his royal offspring. Abraham gives birth to a boy
named Isaac. Isaac is a covenant child that
the Lord says will be his covenant.
But ultimately he said, now go kill your son.
And he does that because he needs to know, does Abraham
actually love me? And so when he would not
withhold his own son, but was with full intent willing to kill
him, the Lord stopped the whole thing.
He said, I know I have your whole heart.
You're willing to do whatever I say, but it's not your son that
has to die. I'll send mine later.
That boy Isaac gives birth to another son by the name of
Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord and
gets a new name called Israel. Israel has twelve sons that
become tribes of a nation, and that nation is in our earth
still today. And God was the king of this
nation. He delivered them out of Egypt.
He was a nation deliverer. He pulled His nation out of an
oppressive nation which is a type and shadow of us, coming
out of the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved
Son. And so he took this nation,
brought them into a place where they were to conquer their
enemies. Live in a land that flow with
milk and honey. That is the new birth experience
while you're on the earth, because there are no giants in
heaven, there is no sickness and disease in heaven.
There is no thing to cast out. That is earth impact.
That is what it looks like. When the nation of God's Kingdom
goes into the world with its influence, it will overcome that
place and move things out and show He was showing the world.
If you will follow me like this nation does, you'll be blessed
going in, blessed going out. You'll be the head and not the
tail. It was always about a Kingdom,
but he told that nation you can't do what you want to do.
But eventually because they were not born of the Spirit, they
looked with their eyes instead of listening with their hearts.
They said we want to see our king.
And we get into first Samuel chapter 8, verse 7, where we
find that Samuel the prophet is talking to the Lord concerning
this problematic issue. That this whole nation who has
followed the Lord and his voice in the voice of the prophets to
conquer and land and take possession and be blessed, now
says we want to see our king. And he says, Samuel, give the
people what they want, for they have rejected me as king, not
you. So the Lord calls himself king
in this context, because the Bible's always been about a
king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.
We see in Psalms 24/7 through 10.
He says, lift up your head, O gates, and be lifted up, O
ancient doors, the that the king of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the
Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, and
lift them up, O ancient doors, that the king of glory may come
in. Who is the king of glory?
The Lord of post? He is the king of glory.
Psalms 47, seven For God is king of all the earth.
Sing praises with understanding. Daniel communicates to
Nebuchadnezzar of a statue that he had in a dream.
And he says the in there are these different layers of of,
of, of metals. And then finally we'll get to
some feet with some metal and clay, which is iron and clay
mixed together. But a rock is going to be made
without hands. Who is that rock?
His name's Jesus, and Jesus comes and crushes every
government. Every one of those layers
represented not religions, not other belief systems, but
governments, he said. My Kingdom is going to come and
crush every other government. And it says Then that rock
turned into a great mountain and took over the whole planet.
Here's the thing. The Kingdom of God is a global
takeover. Zechariah 99 says rejoice
greatly, old daughter of Zion, shout in triumph.
Old daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to
you. He is just an endowed with
salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a cult, the
foal of a donkey. The whole old covenant is as
this context of what a king would look like with a nation
who obeyed him. So when we look at the Old
Testament, it's not just useless information what it is, it's our
history book of a model of what God wanted to do as a king over
a group of people who would obey him, which would demonstrate I
love you. And it shows them that they
would be extremely blessed. But if they rebelled against
their king, then they would be overtaken by other governments
are the enemy. Now we Fast forward into the new
covenant and when we get to the new covenant, notice in Luke
chapter one verse 30 and 33, it's not ushering in
Christianity or religion. It says the Angel says to Mary,
do not be afraid, for you have found favor with God.
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and
you shall name him what? Come on, what's his name?
Only got 5 minutes. He will be great and you shall
call him son of the most High. The Lord God will give him the
what throne of his father David was David over a religion?
He was over a what Kingdom Thrones are in Kingdom and he
will what reign over the House of Jacob Forever and his and his
and his will have no end. Jesus did not come to bring
Christianity, He came to bring the Kingdom back to the earth
where man could get in this Kingdom.
In Matthew chapter 2, verse one and two says now after Jesus was
born in Bethlehem of Judea and the days of Herod the king Magi
from the east, that's wise men arrived in Jerusalem saying
where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.
So who did the wise men come to see?
Not the new religious leader, not the new religion to follow.
They came seeking a government. Why did these people come and
where were they coming from? They came from the east and if
you study this, they came from where?
The original Babylon on was that Daniel was a captive from Israel
and put in Babylon where he said to Nebuchadnezzar, because he
was known as the seer who had a contact with God and his God was
better than any God and he had insight into dreams and he
prophesied about that statue. And that whole verbal prophecy
went down century after century after century that these wise
men are astrologers are waiting for that day.
And when the Star of David showed up, they said the king is
here, whoa, the king is here, the King's here, let's pack the
bags man, let's go. The same star the shepherd saw
on the night he was born. These guys were about two years
away on foot and by the time they get there, Jesus is a child
in another house and they brought gifts, 'cause you don't
come to a king empty handed. And they laid down their
treasures and bowed down before the king.
They did not come to seek a religion.
And Luke 443 he says, but he said, I must preach the Kingdom
of God to the other cities, for I was sent for this purpose.
Jesus wasn't sent just to die for your sins, He sent to
proclaim His Kingdom. He goes on and says this in
Matthew 417. From that time Jesus began to
preach thee and repent, which means change your thinking.
It's not a religious word. The Kingdom of heaven is at
hand. We've already said in Matthew 69
and 10, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth.
Jesus everywhere he went. You can look it up for yourself
in the four Gospels about 133 times when Jesus was publicly
preaching, he said the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the
Kingdom of God is like that. And he did parables that were
only showing the Kingdom. The Bible's about a king, his
Kingdom and his role offspring. In John chapter 18, verse 33 to
37, Pilot who is a governor for Rome, so he understands
government. He goes to Jesus says, are you
the king of the Jews? Didn't ask him what's this
religion you spreading around among your people?
Jesus said, are you saying this on your own initiative?
Did others tell you about me? Which means he's not refuting
that statement. Pilate says I'm not a Jew.
Am I Your own nation and the chief priests delivered to me.
What have you done then? Jesus says this.
My Kingdom is not of this world. Now, that doesn't mean it's not
in the planet. The word world here is not
earth. It means systems that operate.
So what Jesus is saying to my Kingdom does not function like
your kingdoms. He said if my Kingdom were of
this world, This is why we know this, look what it says, then my
service would be fighting so that I would not be handed over
the Jews. Meaning if my Kingdom functioned
like the world's kingdoms, made no mistake, my army would win.
What did he tell Peter in the garden after he cut off the the
high priest servants ear? He said don't you know I could
call a legion of angels down right now?
Have you not read the Bible where one Angel showed up back
in the old covenant and killed 185,000 Midianites by himself?
That the prophet Elijah said Lord open up my servants eyes so
he can see there's more with me than this natural army that has
come to take me. And he showed him on the
mountainside all of these angels with flaming sores and in
Chariots. They were there to rout that
natural army at a word from the prophet.
Woo glory. You understand we have a big
army. I said we have a big army.
It's a myriad, a myriad of thousands upon thousands.
I mean, angels could be dispatched.
I'm telling you, the planet doesn't have a chance.
I don't care about nuclear power.
We have angels. Oh my gosh.
So he goes on and says this. He says, but my Kingdom is not
of this realm, meaning we don't function this way.
He goes on and says Pilate says, so you are king.
Jesus says, you say, see we love Savior Jesus because Savior is
what he did for us. He saved.
Us. But if Adam had never eaten the
fruit, he never would have come to save, because there had been
nothing to be saved. But you know what?
He's always been Lord, He's always been supreme in
authority, He's always been king.
He says, you say correctly that I'm a king.
For this I have been been born, and for this I've come into the
world to testify the truth. Everyone who hears the truth
hears my voice. Now Jesus has died on the cross
and risen from the dead. You think if the message of the
gospel is about where are you going to go when you die?
This is the time to preach that gospel.
Acts chapter one, verse 3. To these.
He presented himself alive after a suffering with many convincing
proof appearing to them over a period of 40 days and Speaking
of things concerning the Kingdom of God.
Then they asked him is it the time for the Kingdom?
He said it's not for you to know that but you going to receive
power. Jesus did not say just tell
everybody ask them when you go out and preach where they going
to go when they die. You will not find that in the
book of Acts. In fact, Acts chapter 20 verses
25 and 27. Paul who wrote over half of the
New Testament. What did he preach?
He says, now behold, I know that all of you among whom I went
about preaching, what? What do you preach?
The Kingdom will no longer see my face.
Therefore I testified you to this day that I'm innocent of
the blood of all men, for I did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole purpose of God. Hebrews chapter 12 verse 28.
Therefore, since we receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken,
let us show gratitude by which we offer to God an acceptable
service with reverence in our first Timothy chapter 6 verse
15. He who is blessed.
And only sovereign ruler, the king of kings and the Lord of
Lords, who are kings of the king, who are kings of the king,
who are Lords of the Lord, We are first Peter 29 But you are a
chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for
God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the
excellencies of him who called him out of darkness into Marvel
site. And the last passage of
Scripture I will give to you today.
Because we started in Genesis and we have hit Revelations
because the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal
offspring. It's not a religion.
And 21 verse one and two, it says this.
Then I saw this is after the tribulation, the rapture of the
Church, the great Tribulation. This is after Jesus Christ comes
back on a horse with his Saints and sets up a physical Kingdom
that everyone can see and rules there for 1000 years while the
devil has been thrown into a bottomless pit during that
duration of which after that duration of 1000 years.
You want to know what 1000 years looks like?
What year are we in 2020? What's 1000 years from now?
What will it be? 3034 or 24/30/24?
Which means the planet's not over when you leave.
Most believers don't even think like.
This. We know that planet Earth will
arrive to the year 3024 because it's 2034.
We know this now. It depends on when Jesus is
catching away the church and we come back.
The minute we come back with Jesus, the clock of 1000 years
start. So if that's 2033, then guess
what? We know the plan is going to go
on, but we'll see a calendar that says 3033 and you'll be
here. But after that, he'll release
the devil for a short time. He'll rally the people on the
earth that are like us now. They'll go against Jesus and us
at the holy city, Jerusalem, the capital of the world.
Jerusalem is the capital of the world.
Let me just say, Jerusalem will never fall.
It will be ambushed, it will be attacked, but it will never fall
'cause it is the capital of the world.
D CS got nothing on Jerusalem. It's the capital of the world
after that attack, and it doesn't amount to nothing.
He cast the devil in the lake of fire, and then he takes care of
everyone that has been dead without Christ and throws him to
the lake of fire. And then the false prophet and
the beast are all there and all the angels that he judged.
Everything's said and done judged.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new.
So if we're going to live in heaven forever, why is there
another planet for the 1st heaven and the first earth
passed away and there's no longer any sea.
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem.
What was it doing coming What down out of heaven made ready as
a bride adorn for her husband? It's coming down out of heaven.
Verse 23 And the city has no need of the sun or the moon to
shine in it, for the glory of the Lord has illuminated, and
its lamp is the Lamb and the nations.
Will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring
their glory into it. Hallelujah, because the Bible is
about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
Let's pray, Father, we love you and we honor you and thank you.
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