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Now enjoy this message. All right, if you have your
Bibles, turn to Matthew chapter 15.
I'm super excited about today because today is a day that the
Lord is allowing me to communicate the word of God
again. And I love these days because I
was just in an event. We went to summer camp and then
I flew to DC to attend where believers from all over the
nations came together to be able to, you know, hear from
different people that have are in office who aspire to be in
office. And we attended that event.
The number one reason why I attended that event is because I
am always, as a pastor, concerned about the believer.
I'm not concerned about the government.
You understand this. I have to do my part in the
government, but at the end of the day, the church thrives.
Period. There is no government on the
planet that can stop the church right now.
In the most oppressive governments.
The church is still growing. The church is growing in China
right now. You just don't hear about it
because the government will not talk to you about it.
But it's growing. It cannot be pushed out, cannot
be snubbed out. It cannot be destroyed.
Can it be persecuted? Yes.
But it doesn't stop it. In fact, if we look at our
history book called the Bible, we see that when persecution
does come to the church, it actually will grow.
It seems to have this ability that the tougher it gets, the
more wildfire it will spread. Like wildfire, it will spread
because there's something innately within the believer
that when pushback comes to the point of death, they are willing
to lay down their life like their king did, and it somehow
seems to spread his message at a greater level.
Now, that doesn't mean that the Lord doesn't want us to have
peace and that it can't because you understand, Jesus came to
the earth under a very tyrannical government called the
Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was not a nice
government, OK? And he could navigate.
You understand this. He actually had no issues with
the Roman government, not when he was ministering, didn't have
issues. He had issues with his own
nation and it was the religious people he had issues with
because it was the religious that they had partnered with the
local government and they like the government power that was
established within the Roman Empire instead of the government
power that was associated with the Kingdom of God.
They love the notoriety of men within government more than the
notoriety of the King himself, and as a result of that they
would adjust the word to be able to adopt what they considered
traditions. They would use God's words to
create these man made traditions that seem holy, but honestly
they were not. They were taking the word out of
context and they were actually causing the word not to not be
acted upon. And Jesus took great issue with
this. OK, but as far as with, you
know, the Roman government in general, he didn't have, he
didn't say much about it because to him it's, it's a mute point
'cause once the kingdom's in the earth, the kingdom's in the
earth, you can't take it out. It is the supreme government of
the planet. OK, Now why am I talking
government so much? Because the Bible's about a king
is Kingdom and Israel offspring. It actually is a governmental
document and so we've used it as a religious document for years.
When the reality is religion, if you use that term, if you break
it down, it means a belief system.
And you understand every government has a belief system.
So we've tried to separate something when the reality is
the state of any government is the state of the church.
Now with that being said, I'm in a room with all these believers
from different types of belief systems when I say that
denominations and all that. And so I'm listening because the
ones that are elected to office stand behind the lectern and
begin to quote scripture. If you're going to quote
Scripture, my ears are going to be listening to determine, to
determine. Are you rightly dividing that
scripture? Because both Republicans and
Democrats, as far as a party, quote scripture, but even the
devil quotes scripture. Are you hearing me?
I have seen a trend happening that gives me great concern and
that is where Christians in the United States are trading their
Christianity for being a conservative.
OK, that got quiet. I love that you understand being
a conservative is not holy, nor is being a liberal, but you
understand in the Kingdom of God there is.
He is very liberal about some things.
I'm not talking about policies that are the same.
I'm just saying in the term liberal, God has some very
liberal things that he does, but on the other side, he's
extremely conservative. So they take terms that come
from our government and they tend to use it in their
particular platforms and then use his words to try to make
their point. One of the ones most used within
the Democratic Party is Matthew chapter 25.
And in Matthew chapter 25, it says, if we do this to the least
of one of these of ours, now, that is one of the most
misquoted unscriptural statements that they make,
because the context of Matthew 25 is not to the world.
When I was naked, you gave me clothes.
When I was hungry, you gave me food.
That was not to the world. It says, if you've done this to
the least of one of mine, well, who's his?
Because the world is not Jesus's.
The church is Jesus's. But yet no Republican questions
the Scripture to them because they don't know it either.
Most of the time they don't know it.
And so they spout all things, communicate things.
And I've realized that there is this rallying happening and I
understand there is a moral issue that's happening in our
land. And if again, if you go just to
Scripture and many people dispute Thomas Jefferson in this
context, I wasn't there personally.
So I do not currently know his motivation.
There are those that lean on one side that said he, he
emphatically believed in Jesus Christ as Lord.
There are others on another side that said that he was a deist,
which means he believed in a God, but not necessarily that
Jesus was the Son of God. I don't know and never talked to
him personally, but I will say this based upon the Thomas
Jefferson Bible, which is he took extracted out and again
when I said this understand there's a reason why that is.
I don't know which one specifically.
If it is the one that he just didn't believe that Jesus was a
miracle worker and he took it out, well, that would be a
problem. According to Scripture, you're
not supposed to take things out. OK, if that was his intent,
that's a problem. But if his intent was, let's not
debate as a nation of whether or not Jesus is the Son of God.
Let's just look at his moral work and if you in which if you
extract the miracles out and just look at his moral work,
which is his social work. If a nation live by that social
order alone, it would be blessed and prosperous and would be good
for the all of mankind. And that's what's his point.
I believe potentially if you look at just the standards that
Jesus put within the moral fabric of humanity, if you base
laws upon that, then the society as a whole, whether you're
righteous or unrighteous, would be blessed as a result of it.
And, and there's a point there to be made, however, in our
nation because of this issue. And I'll be honest with you, I
was a little vocal in the crowd. My wife had to shush me, had a
particular speaker say that it was the church's responsibility
or it's it's problem for the problems of our nation.
They blame the church. Well, I take issue with that
statement. The number one reason why I take
issue with that statement is, is that we have a huge trend today
in our nation where people call themselves believers but do not
actively attend the church. So here's the thing, if you're a
Republican or Democrat or any other party, which you know, the
Green Party, the Libertarian Party, I don't know them all,
'cause there's quite a few parties out there that you're
unaware that are there because they give them no media time.
But in all those parties, they will tell you the only way we
can win an election is if we come together, we mobilize, we
turn, turn out and vote. That means we have to do it on a
very specific time frame. Oh, y'all don't want to hear
this? In essence, they'll say we need
you to go vote. You either need to do it the
minute early voting opens. That means it's a defined time,
or the day of election, which is November the 5th.
It is. Polls open at 7:00 AM.
They close I think at 7:00 PM, usually 12 hours.
That is a defined time and you need to get out and vote and
then you're going to say the church is the the the the
blaming party of the condition of our nation.
When pastors are giving just fine times for us to come
together in unity so that we can grow in the things of God and
the culture of the Kingdom. That way we can go out as a
group to influence the world. No one would even be talking
about Trump's re election run if he went to a community and no
one showed up, no one showed up. Everybody would laugh, say well
when he first ran, thousands, 10s of thousands, hundreds of
thousands showed up. Now he gets out there, nobody's
there. Why are we?
Why do people take notice? Because everyone seems to show
up at the time spoken to assemble and then we want to say
it's the church's problem. Well, I would say it's the
believer's problem because it's not the church's problem.
The church has been assembling, but has the believer?
I said has the believer because if we have been assembling and
if we have been growing in the things of the Kingdom, if we
have actually been rightly interpreting the word of God and
not seen it as a document that it causes us to escape the
earth. Where are we going to go when we
die book. But how do we change our culture
in the earth through our culture that's from another world.
While we're in the earth, then you know what?
Our nation would be different. And I'll say it this way.
If you truly believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the
Word of God is the infallible word of God, and you actually
rightly divide it through the interpretation with the Holy
Ghost, then every professing believer in the United States in
two election cycles would remove any type of politician that was
wicked and only put those in that had an ear towards the
Lord. I'm not saying that they had to
be born again, they would just be an ear towards the Lord.
It would only take two election cycles, but because we don't
assemble, so it's not the church, it's a disengaged
believer. Same thing if someone loses an
election, typically what they do, they'll say, well, the
voters didn't turn out. We had low voter.
There's plenty of, I mean, right now you understand, in our
nation, Anila, do you know off the top of your head how many
people typically vote in an election?
25, OK. I think they said for believers,
only about 25% of profession believers turn out to vote.
That means 75% don't assemble. Don't assemble.
In fact, every registered voter in our county has never voted on
an Election Day. We've always had absentees,
meaning they didn't vote. So once again, you would hear a
politician say this if you didn't vote, you shouldn't
complain about your government. Well, I would say if you don't
attend church, you shouldn't. You shouldn't talk about the
church. If you don't attend church
actively and submitted to a pastor and a local vision, then
you should quit complaining about the church.
You should quit because again, you have no actual investment in
some in the organization that Jesus invested his blood for.
Hallelujah. Say Amen.
Anyway, Matthew 15 three says this y'all doing all right, all
right. And he answered and said to
them, why do you transgress? Why you self transgress the
commandment of God for the sake of your tradition.
I love the Kingdom of God because the Kingdom of God
destroys every religious tradition, absolutely dismantles
it. And the Bible again is about a
king, his Kingdom and his rural offspring.
It's always been about that and we need to learn this more than
ever because the the suffering servant is not returning.
The suffering servant is not returning.
The Lamb that was slain is coming back in a in a different
role now. He all, he came in this role,
but he yielded himself. But the next time there is no
yielding. His first assignment is He must
take on the sins of the world. He takes on the sins of the
world so that he can gain power again in the earth.
What do I mean by that? Giving the power back to whom
the power was due. Are you hearing me?
How do we know this? In Genesis 11 we said in the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalms 8911 says this. The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours. The world and all it contains,
You have founded them. So God never lost planet earth.
He formed it, He made it. It's his by right of creation.
Isaiah 4518 says, For this is what the Lord says, He who
created the heavens, He is God who fashioned and made the
earth, He founded it. He did not create it to be
empty, but formed it to be inhabited.
So God created the earth with us in mind.
God is in heaven, that is his place, that's his residence, OK.
And heaven is a literal place, OK.
It's not this unseen realm in in one sense it is seen, we just
don't technically see it. And it is a defined place
because it is called heaven. Heaven is not all encompass of
everything else. OK so heaven is a defined place.
Although God Himself is is everywhere and is all knowing,
omnipresent, all that, there still is a containment by which
Heaven has yet. Then He creates this thing
called earth, and when he creates this earth, He had a
concept in his mind of what He would do.
In Psalms 115 verses 15 and 16, he says, May you be blessed of
the Lord Maker of heaven and earth.
The heavens are the heavens are the Lord, but the earth He has
given to the sons of man. The the NIV of verse 16 says it
this way. The highest heavens belong to
the Lord, but the earth He has given to man.
Are you hearing me? And I find it interesting
because of some of the things that are happening in our
nation. The enemy has done a really good
job because he knows what's going down.
Can I say that the enemy knows what's going down?
Let me Fast forward real quick. Just so you understand, the
devil is fully aware of the Kingdom of God because in the
Luke's temptation of Jesus, he takes Jesus to a high place.
He shows him all the kingdoms in a moment of time.
He did not show him the the the world's religions because
religions were nothing that Jesus was struggling with.
He was not struggling on whether Bail was the real God or not,
whether the gods of Rome were the real gods or not, or the
gods of the fallen Greek Empire. Where gods are are what ones
that preceded all that stuff before.
Or was Molech really a real guy? He was not struggling with God
issues. He knew who God was because he
came from God. He had been with God, he was
God. He had no identity crisis when
it came to God. So religion was something that
the devil never tempted him with.
But what he did tempt him with is what Jesus was coming after,
because the Bible says Jesus came to seek and to save that
which was lost, not who was lost.
See, we've changed the whole dialogue of the Bible to be
about you. It includes you.
But that which he came to seek and to save was the Kingdom to
be restored back to those who choose to want it.
Because even Jesus knew there's no guarantee they'll accept the
position I I originally made for them.
And if they don't, they don't have to.
Because I will not make them make me king, even though I am
king nonetheless. They can choose because love
lets you choose love lest you choose.
And so Jesus came to save that which was lost, which was the
Kingdom of God. He shows him all the kingdoms in
a moment of time, and he says all these domains I'll give to
you, for they have been handed over to me and I can give them
to whomever I wish. The devil clearly communicates
to Jesus. They were handed over to me.
And you hear ministers say all the time that the devil stole
it. The devil stole.
The devil did not steal it. Adam abdicated his throne.
He gave it away. He knew what he was doing.
He chose to operate in rebellion, the most dangerous
word in the Kingdom. Are you ready is independence?
And this is a problem for the USA church because we like our
U.S. government in our churches, we have this independent spirit.
Nobody going to tell me what to do.
Well, that doesn't work in His Kingdom.
I said that doesn't work in his Kingdom.
And this is very important because as many times as I've
ministered on the Kingdom and I know of a lot of people who know
this, I can watch them slip away in their day-to-day life of the
Lordship of Jesus, that doing his word is optional in their
lives. Whether to forgive someone,
whether to walk in joy and put down anger or you know, feelings
of low self esteem, picking up an offense yet you know, because
the king said. And yet if we don't watch out,
we'll pull independence back in. It's OK for us to come and
worship and have an issue with our brother.
It's OK for us to worship and have a challenge with someone.
It's OK for us to tell somebody about themselves.
Hallelujah, we fall away. But independence is the most
dangerous word in the Kingdom. The second most dangerous word
in the Kingdom is rebellion. And the minute you want to be
independent, you're going to rebel.
Now let me tell you what you do not lose in the Kingdom is your
individuality. So do not mistake individuality
with independence. Individuality.
God is way too creative to make us the same.
This is why when you look at the church, it's going to look
different. On the outside, it'd be easy for
it to look different, but on the inside it's going to function
the same. What do I mean by that?
Every spirit being within the vessel that carries it will be
yielded, compliant with all their heart, to the voice of the
King, knowing he has absolute authority.
They love that he has absolute authority because he's the only
one who can carry that absolute authority without ever failing.
And we're thankful that he carries it and he loves us.
And he made a way for us to come out of our rebellion, come out
of our independent spirit, and become fully dependent on Him,
where we are led by his Spirit as he was led by the same
Spirit. Jesus said, I don't do anything
on my own initiative, but only what I hear from the.
And if Jesus would never deviate from what the Father says, why
do we think we can? Because we want U.S. government
in our church. Now, the Declaration of
Independence was technically just a document to say we do not
want the oppressive, you know, rule that you have and it and it
really bowled out of taxation without representation, right?
You know, basically exploiting us and you're not even here and
we have no representation. So we're just going to do our
own nation. It wasn't because we want to be
independent of ourselves. This is why we coined the phrase
eventually the United States. But man, is there not a push to
not be united anymore? Well, the minute you can bring
division in a house, what will not?
So there is an undercurrent in our own nation to divide us.
And George Washington, when he was leaving his second term, as
the president said prophetically, that he was
concerned that our government would come to a two party
platform and it would become so divisive that it would get
nothing done. And the Republican and
Democratic Party weren't even around then.
They were different parties at that time, but there were two
specific that were at odds. And he said that if it came to
that, it would turn around and and run the risk of the
Republic. And ma'am, we are here today.
I said we're here today. But I have to admit there is a
group of people that are trying to become independents.
But independent itself is dangerous.
Being an independent itself is dangerous.
So God creates this earth with no one on it at first.
But it was designed for man. I said it was designed for man.
He wants to give man the rule of the earth as he rules in heaven.
And the devil says, I'll give you all this domain, for it's
been handed over to me and I can give it to whomever I want.
Even the devil knows this is about a Kingdom.
So he there are terms the devil are using today to try to squash
or hinder the revelation of the Kingdom of God to come to the
church, especially in the United States.
Because if you have the revelation of the Kingdom of
God, which is not a subject, it is the Bible, then he knows your
faith will go to another level, your lordship goes to another
level, all the blessings of the Kingdom go to another level, and
there's nothing he can do to stop you.
That you'll recognize the position the church really has
in your life and what it means for you to be an actual
ambassador. Are you hearing me?
So the original inhabitants on planet earth were not of a
different culture than heaven, but we're actually of the
offspring of the king himself. Genesis 126 says then God said,
let us make man in our image and corner our likeness, and let
them have what? 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.
He created man in his own image and the image of God.
He created him, male and female, He created them.
Dominion means to govern. It means to rule, it means to
control things, it means to manage, it means to master
something, It means to have rulers.
So notice he said, let them have dominion over who?
Fish, birds, cattle, earth. When we say earth, the things
that are growing are associated with the earth specifically, and
then every creepy thing that creeps on the earth.
Notice what man was not to have rule over other humans.
This is why every election cycle becomes a challenge for us
'cause we really don't want to vote for somebody, some human,
to be over us. Because God never intended for
humans to be over humans, but that God would be over us as a
people. Because again, the Kingdom that
God has is not a Kingdom of slaves or servants, but a
Kingdom where all of us that are citizens are kings themselves.
So when I look at you so well, hello king, right?
And when you're king, guess what?
You have all rule, all authority, all power over what?
Over yourself and then over the environment that is around you.
It should not rule you. This is why you've heard us say
before, after the fall of man, what man should have reigned
over, started reigning over him. Why are there so many humans
addicted to plants? Tobacco leaves were never
supposed to tell humans what to do.
Cocaine was never supposed to tell humans what to do.
Marijuana was never supposed to dictate the behavior and actions
of humans. And when you become a child of
the king, you'll say plant. You don't talk to me no more.
Are you hearing me? When you get this revelation,
you'll no longer allow plants to dominate you.
You won't even let grapes dominate you.
Grapes that get mixed with this thing called yeast and barley
and ferments. You won't make it, won't control
your life. I'll say Amen anyway.
Yeah. I mean again.
Well, you know, I have to have. You have to have.
No, you have to have the Lord. You have to have the spirit.
That's what you have to have. And that's what you need.
If you're having to have something else, then you're
bowing your knee too. But you understand this escapes
everyone's notice when all the Bible to them is about Jesus
dying on the cross for your sins so that when you die, you go to
heaven. In fact, if we read the Bible
and we'll see even see here in the beginning pages, I mean
before sin even hits the planet, God makes man in his image
according to his likeness, both male and female.
There we know their names are Adam and Eve.
And guess what, Adam and Eve were not singing this song in
heaven in in the earth. When we all get to heaven, what
a day of rejoicing that will be. They were not singing that song.
In fact, he's puts man in this garden.
He says, Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden.
I mean, I've provided everything for you.
In fact, I expect that you're going to take my image that's in
you, and you're going to rule there as I rule here, as I speak
to you of what to do. You do it in the earth.
And whatever you say is what I've said, and it has to listen.
It will obey your voice. Are you hearing me?
And he says you can have any fruit from any tree, but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat.
For the day you eat you will, surely.
So if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today?
So Adam was not trying to go to heaven.
And here's the kicker, God wasn't actually asking him to
come, because God didn't have to have Adam come to heaven to be
with him. He came right down here.
You know how many believers today that only know the think
the Bible's about where am I going to go when I die or just
waiting to go to heaven so bad. Yet if they read the Bible
actually cover to cover, they realize God was constantly
coming down. He's never been waiting on us,
nor is he like can't wait till you get here.
Oh my gosh, can't wait till you get here.
Oh, can't wait till you get here.
I just want you to be here with me.
Are you seriously? Even after the fall, he comes
down. He comes down to talks to Noah.
He comes down to burning Bush with Abram, right he or to
Moses. He comes down talks to Abram.
He comes down in the temple. He comes down on the mountain.
He comes down on the in the anointing upon prophets, priests
and kings. He comes down then we get Jesus.
His name is Emmanuel, which means God, not God, can't can't
wait till you get to me. Emmanuel doesn't mean can't wait
till you get to me. He's constantly coming down.
Then the kicker, Jesus says, man, now that I've conquered
death, hell in the grave and my blood's been poured all in the
mercy seat in heaven, I'm leaving because he's coming and
the Holy Ghost is going to live in you.
I'm bringing God to you. And we say.
It greater is he that's in and we want to leave the earth.
Like we just can't wait to. Get up out of here.
It's 'cause you don't know you're in a Kingdom, 'cause
when. You know you're in a Kingdom.
You're like, what can you do to me?
I how's. God, I am the temple of the Holy
Spirit. I have a direct connection with
God. You may take out world's
communications, you may take out satellites, you may lock up my
iPad. You may shut down all my
accounts. You may do all those things, but
you cannot shut down my connection with the Creator of
heaven and earth. Can't do it.
You. Can't shut down.
The communication lines between me and the Kingdom I am of, and
that Kingdom is in the earth and you sure can't get rid of it.
Amen. Hallelujah so.
He's given us. Rulers, we are the most powerful
force on the planet. The thing I was.
Most discouraged about this weekend was it was #1 is that
when things were spoken from Scripture, the hearers from the
majority took it hook, line and sinker.
One person had the audacity to say this, that it's time for the
flock to rise up against the shepherds and lead them.
Yes, and I said something out loud.
I said that's. Nowhere in Scripture.
My wife's, Like I said, there's nothing.
There's nowhere in Scripture. Nowhere in Scripture.
In fact, in one of God's with one of God's prophets, he's
correcting his shepherds and he's telling them you getting
fat off the flock, you're not feeding the flock like I told
you, so I'm going to remove you. He never said I'm raising up a
flock. He said I will raise up another
shepherd. Anytime.
Somebody thinks the Saints are supposed to rise up against the
shepherds. That is the spirit of
Antichrist. Can Shepherds?
Fail, yes, and we're hearing about a lot of them.
But you understand, Saints fail all the time.
And all those Saints run. To those pastors, ask for
reconciliation, ask for forgiveness.
Now I understand they're at a higher accountability.
They need to be removed from their office.
They need to go somewhere else and get restored.
I have no problem with that. But to think a pastor cannot be
restored as well, that's ludicrous.
The attack on the church. And its institution today, which
is not a religious thing unless you're building it, crazy little
thing. We're on the little back roads
of Virginia when we were going to camp.
And this little church has there's nothing wrong with the
church. There's only something wrong
with the church. There's nothing wrong with the
church, God's building. There's only something wrong
with the church. Man's building.
And that's true because most pastors don't know Matthew 1618
where Jesus said, and I will build my church.
He never delegated the building of church to me, but I am an
overseer that he put me in charge of this vision that Jesus
Christ put me here because of his blood.
And the Holy Spirit made me overseer.
And because of that, I'm going to run this vision by the
leading of the Holy Ghost and let's all come together and do
it. And it'd be amazing thing.
Period only. One person can Take Me Out of
the pulpit. Me.
If I don't fail, I don't have to go.
Hallelujah. Neither do.
You have to go if you're not failing now we none of us have
to technically go. We can all be forgiven.
But you know, my position is more open and failure is a
problem, which that's why I have the fear of the Lord.
I'm more concerned about. God, than I am about you anyway.
Are you hearing me? But they're making these
statements and they take it hook, line and sinker.
And the one who made the statement actually just had an
issue with the denomination they were in because they didn't like
that he was actually standing for truth.
And so the system of his religion pulled his credentials.
And so now he's developed this kind of life.
Well. Just 'cause I mean you, maybe
you shouldn't have been that organization anyway.
Maybe you should have read enough scripture to realize, you
know, the organization in love itself wasn't the most
healthiest one and releasing the power of God.
I mean, I've gone through denominations myself and for
only one reason. Because the denomination I was
raised in only taught Where do I go when I die?
It was the only. Truth and it was the truth Jesus
Christ died for my sins. His death, burial, resurrection
is the only way that I'm to the can go to the Father.
I must be born again taught me that I I could avoid damnation
or the lake of fire. Those were truths but did not
teach me how to overcome my flesh.
Did not teach me the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Did not teach me
about the authority of believer. Didn't teach me any of those
things. Didn't even touch the subjects.
So when I got hungry for. God, God was obligated to meet
my hunger. Because he will.
Feed the hungry. He loves those who hunger and
thirst for his, which is his way of doing things.
And if the church that I was at wasn't teaching those things, as
Paul said, I've not withheld from you the full council of
God. If they were not doing that,
then God's obligated to move me to the next thing.
But He was really good the way He did it because He sure
immersed me into places that would allow me to continue to
grow properly. Are you hearing me?
And so I moved to the next one, which then I found out about the
indubent of power from on high, the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
this other experience with the Spirit of God that actually just
gave me the language of my Kingdom.
You know, so many people get so freaked out about speaking in
other tongues, but they get, they don't freak out over
someone speaking in Spanish, German, Poland, Polish language
or any other language when they encounter somebody in our In
fact, my wife and I, we were at the airport in Washington and no
one that we spoke to, whether it was at the ticket counter, at
TSA, at a restaurant had an English accent.
Everyone almost from another. Nation and some of them didn't
even know how to really talk well.
And I didn't freak out, nor did I freak out when I was hearing
people speak other languages. But when you get to do with
power from Ohio, you'll speak in a new tongue.
It's unknown to your mind, but God hears it.
You know it's from the Spirit. You release it and you're
praying out the perfect will of God.
Man, I went to a church that taught me on the power of God
and that and I received that truth and I've never been the
same. Then God continue to progress.
Me why? Cause of hunger and he's moved
us into the Kingdom of God as well.
A Kingdom is a government influence of a king over his
territory, impacting it with his personal will, purpose and
intent. There's only one will that.
Will remain his. Jesus's.
Statement forces two things. Jesus says that forces you to
change 'cause God is not changing.
God is not a man that he should lie number one.
Number two, and the Bible says God changes not.
Why 'cause he's life. He is life.
He is the source of life. His words are the source of
life. For him to go against his word
is death. This is why he.
Doesn't This is why he doesn't do it, Because his words are
life. Period.
And so he's the embodiment of life.
Jesus made two statements. He said I am next word I am.
I am way truth life. I am.
What's that word? What's that word?
The not a he doesn't say I am a way.
I am my truth. I'm a life.
He doesn't say that. The minute he says I am the way,
then he eradicates any other way.
This is the thing with me and you know, people like you know,
it's just so confusing. It's not confusing.
It's not confusing because again, you've seen it before
where you have the like the little points up here ABC and
then there's 123 and there's like all these little scribbly
things all and you got to figure out, you know, does 2 connect
with A or is it B or C? And you got to follow that whole
little yarn string, you know, and it's like all them, but with
God. He's over on this other side,
right? He's got AK for Kingdom and he
got, you know, one. He's the only way, right one and
and and there's no other string involved.
It's just a straight line. And it's like, well, that's
easy. This not.
Complicated. Jesus eradicated every other
thought when he says I am, the way, the truth, the life.
There's no other way to the Father but I'm it.
So again. Wide is the gate and that's why
there's so many is why 'cause all the strings you.
Don't know which. Way you going and you don't know
if you've crossed over or whatever, but he said narrow.
It's just real straight path, not complicated, just straight,
he said. But many want to get on all that
broad stuff instead of seeing the path that allows you to see
straight to the end. Are you hearing me then He.
Makes this statement repent for the Kingdom of heaven is a hand.
The word repent is not have a sorrowful emotional response of
all your wrongdoing and say Jesus, I need you as my Lord.
That is not repentance. We've made that word repentance
into that kind of action. You need to come and repent.
I've done wrong. Oh, God, I don't want a bird to
go to hell. Thank you.
Thank you for saving me. Right.
But then they don't change. They leave the altar and live
the same way. And then drinking, boozing,
fornicating, adultery, whatever they're doing, living like the
rest of the world, talking like the rest of the world.
But in all those moments, say, yeah, I ask Jesus, come on, I'm
a believer. I'm going to heaven when I die.
Because we've said. Repentance as this emotional,
sorrowful moment. In essence, I would say this.
We have defined repentance. With a with a.
A context of Esau. Esau gave up his.
Birthright sold it. He gave, he gave all that stuff
up. He just wanted the blessing.
So when Dad gave the blessing to his oldest brother, he's crying,
sobbing. Where's my blessing?
And I want to go too. Because I'm not I'm.
Sorry I missed out on the benefits, but as far as a change
of action, that ain't me. And he says Esau sought for
repentance even in tears, but could not find it.
Jesus said repent which means this change your thinking.
So Jesus is very. Clear your your mind's messed
up. Your thinking's off.
See, there's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end
lies. He says that thinking's wrong.
Now here's the problem. You'll never think better until
your spirit is new. You'll never think better till.
Your spirit is new, your spirit's been made alive.
So Jesus says I'm going to do the thing you can't do.
I'm going to die for your transgression because your
spirit man is dead and separated from me.
For all have what sin and fallen short of the glory of God.
I'll take that on if you'll call me Lord.
We love to call him. Savior but.
That's calling. Him Savior doesn't get you
saved. Lordship is what gets you saved.
Are you hearing me? Lordship is what it gets you
saved. Lordship it means, and it's not
even a religious word. It means supreme in authority.
It is supreme in authority. In our natural government, we
have the highest court. It's called the Supreme Court,
and when they lay down a ruling, it becomes the supreme.
There is no appeal beyond it. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
There is no appeal beyond it is the supreme authority of that
case. Well, good news.
There's a court above the Supreme Court in.
Our nation. 'Cause we're a holy nation, we
are peculiar people and it is the throne room of God.
It's the throne of grace. Are you hearing me?
So we can make an appeal to the highest of High Courts and get
his word on the matter and his word will always come to pass.
Always. It never fails.
Are you hearing me? So Jesus, when he says you're
going to call on me to be Lord, you have to have him as supreme
in authority. This is not a religious
exercise. To make Him Lord means I laid
down my life and the life I live now.
I live completely at the submission to your will for my
life. And why do we do it?
Because number one, He loved us and He made he met every
condition necessary so that we could voluntarily accept Him as
our Lord and yield to His Lordship.
And then he makes us in His image.
He crowns us as King. He gives us back dominion.
He puts authority back on our life.
He allows us to rule and reign in this life and the one to
come. Wow, what an awesome deal.
Not just man you just man. You got to hold on bro.
Jesus like, hold on. Stuff down there, man.
Stuff did. Jesus say it was tough.
Down here, sure he did. He said it this way, though.
In this life you're going to have trials and tribulation, and
most believers stop there. Oh, it's been hard, It's been
hard. Devil's after me.
It's hard, man. It's hard down here.
It's tough, it's tough. I can't wait to go to heaven.
I keep reading the verse. I say keep reading the verse.
Quit stopping at the verse in the verse where it meets your
emotional feeling. Keep reading.
And get in faith, he said. In this life you going to have
trials and tribulation. But come on, say.
But. But be of good tears doesn't say
that doesn't say for you to be crying the whole time.
It's hard I. Mean how can you even?
Identify as being a victim. Because we've all been a.
Victim of something, but he tells us to identify with
victory, with cheer. He said be of good cheer.
Then he tells you why you can laugh, have joy, be excited.
Joy's not temporary. You can have it anytime.
You can pull it in, as it was said by the Spirit of the Lord
this morning. I can pull it in now.
I mean, sometimes I wish the
Lord would allow me to come by and slap you in the face.
I do. And slap that dead look off your
face. I mean when you're in this.
Kind of environment, knowing what the king does and the best
you can do is. I'm like, where's?
Joy. Can we not slap some joy on?
I mean, how hard is? This to get excited about what
Jesus did for you. I mean, it's kind of crazy now,
at the end of the day, there have been like the healing
revivals where, you know, people had tumors and they're like,
punch them and they punched in the tumor.
I wish the Lord would say just slap happy on them.
Damn. And then they just fall out
laughing and get all excited, right?
Like, get happy, get excited, man.
God loves you. He died for you.
He's giving you the ability to reign.
He's giving you his Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
He said man have. Your what can man do to you
people stressing over an election.
I mean, all they're doing is talking about it.
If we don't elect this one, we're going to lose our whole
country. Well, listen, all the countries
are being lost because the kingdom's the only one that's
going to stay. Now, I'm not saying don't do
your responsibility. And it's better when we're in
peace because the gospel can go further in peace.
However, I don't care how it turns out.
At the end of the day. They can never dethrone my king.
He was not voted in power. He can't be voted out of power.
You can't kill his other kings. You can't suppress his book.
You can do none of those things to stop him.
We are in an unstoppable force. I wish they'd let me.
Preach at one of these little things one day, 'cause at the
end of the day man, let's get out of mamby pamby Christianity.
Let's become citizens that are locked and united together,
changing communities together because we look like God.
We don't see as man sees on the outward appearance, we look at
the heart. Hallelujah.
Amen. The Lord's good.
I'm it's going to be like a series now.
My creative guy's like, really? Yeah, why not?
Let's just preach this thing for a little while.
Let me. Close with this thought and then
we'll come back to it next week and Genesis 3, as you know.
The fall of Man. Most people preach the Bible
from Genesis chapter 3 to Revelations chapter 20, and
it's. Called the Fall of Man.
They do not deal with how man existed in Genesis one and two,
which was a totally different existence, nor did they deal
with man's existence from Revelations 21 and 22.
Most Christians today would be shocked if you went to them and
said said to them you. Know we're not.
Going to be in heaven forever. They would be.
Shocked at that statement, however, the Bible clearly
communicates that there's a new heaven and new Why are.
We making a new. Planet.
Why? Is the new Jerusalem coming down
out of heaven to the. Our modern day US.
Christianity has abandoned the earth.
Yet God is going to live. Here.
Going to set up his. Full blown throne and
administration here. Now again.
Am I saying that you're not going to heaven?
Absolutely. The Bible is very clear to be
absent from the body. You'll be what present.
With the Lord, where is. The Lord presently at He's in
heaven, but is he staying there? He is not.
You know what? Most believers would be shocked
at this statement because they think when they die, they'll
never see sin again. Now it's true they won't
participate in it. But they'll see it again.
Because after the catching away of the church, Jesus Christ will
come back, put his foot down in the earth, and reign for 1000
years on a planet without the devil's influence.
For 1000. Years where there will be humans
that are still in the lost state and we will reign with him on
the planet as his judges in different territories.
This is. Why it's so important for us to
understand the Kingdom? Because most believers are only
thinking about going to heaven, receiving a reward that they
have no context of what that actually even means.
They think, apparently, that they're going to retire.
And that angels are going. To swing through and drop grapes
in their mouth because they're fat and naked anyway, like
little babies, right? Yet the Lord's life, when he
rewards you, he's going to say, this is what you're going to do
for me in the millennial reign. What we're doing now is the
resume for the next Earth. Are you hearing me?
But he says to man. You can eat from any tree of
the. Garden, but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for the day you
eat you will surely and. Many people ask.
Me. Why did God do that if he knew
he was going to eat the fruit? Why?
Well, I'll tell. You why?
Because there's no way for God to know you love him.
Unless you are given a. Choice.
Jesus. Defines our love for God and it
is not the US Christianity definition the US Christianity
definition of love is we accept you just as you are that's.
Good. We love you, don't matter what.
You've done. We love you.
That is not biblical definition of love.
It's not because God does not love us in our current state, in
this context, that He's accepting us.
Because if he accepted us in our.
Current state. Then there would be no reason
for us to be born again. Nor would there be in a.
Requirement for blood. I don't have time to teach.
On the subject of love though, I will again this year on a Sunday
and I will release it because for those that you know, we've
gone through this detail and most do not know what we know
concerning it. We did not release that series
at that time, but the next time we will, OK.
And so Jesus met every condition you have fallen into so that you
can. Come out of.
By making him Lord. But you have to choose so when
God says you can eat from any tree of the garden, because here
I've made Adam in my image from my breath.
He is a living being. He's of my nature.
Well God is love. The Bible tells us this in first
John that God is love, not that he knows love, but that he is
love. So if he came from the nature of
God, then Adam himself must be of the nature of love.
However, how does God know that Adam loves him?
He must do his word. Jesus said this in John 15.
He says if conditional statement, if you love me, he
did not say you'll tell me, he said you'll keep my word.
This is why. I know that there's problems
within our Christian community in the earth because we are
bringing our independent thinking, Democrat, democratic
democracy I. Get to do what I want to do.
I have the freedom to. Do what I want to do mentality
into the church. Well, that may be good for you.
You can do what you want to do with God, but I'm going to God
does not have a different standard for his children.
And if you're born of his nature, then it's.
Easy for you to say, I love doing God because His word is
life. And I'm going to demonstrate
that I love you because I keep your word.
I keep your word. So the fall of man was not a
fall from heaven, it was a fall from dominion.
So the purpose? And goal.
Of God's redemptive plan is to restore mankind back to God's
original plan, 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 re establishment of
his Kingdom on the earth. This is why Jesus only said one
time after. Midnight to a.
Religious man named nicodemus in John chapter 3 in context to the
Kingdom when nicodemus. A religious leader.
That had access to the scrolls, the Torah, the first five books
of Moses, the prophets, the minor prophets, Psalms, all
those books. And then he looks at you and
says you've got to be from God because of the works that you're
doing. And Jesus said unless to a man
privately, only time he did it. To a man privately.
Unless you are born again, you will not see the Kingdom, he
said. Unless you're born.
Again, you cannot. Enter the Kingdom of God.
We emphasize born again. But Jesus's ministry emphasized
the Kingdom. And if we would emphasize the
Kingdom, then people would say, well, how do I get your Kingdom?
And we would be able to say, well man, you just got to be
born again. You got to be born from our
country, unlike nations that will allow you into their
country through paying, taking tests and giving you citizenship
of your own merit. This Kingdom of God you must.
Become a citizen of it by birthright, which is why
Nicodemus. Says this is.
Confusing. How can I get back in my mom's
womb as a grown man and be born again?
He says. You're thinking natural.
This is spiritual. You must be a.
Natural born or we would say supernatural born citizen of his
Kingdom because a better translation actually is you must
be born from above. Everywhere else, Jesus said the
Kingdom of heaven is like. This and the Kingdom of God is
like that, and the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the
Kingdom of God. Let me tell you what the Kingdom
of God would be compared to. Why is he saying this?
Because you need to repent for the Kingdom is at hand.
Jesus came to re establish his Kingdom realm to us so that we
don't have to wait to rule and reign.
We get to participate in it now. And when we do, guess what?
It's easy for us to transform our communities because we get
to receive from the home country as ambassadors all resources
necessary to influence the world with His Kingdom.
Heaven is not what we're here to gain.
Dominion. And once you get Dominion, then
heaven. And earth is easy, I said Heaven
and earth is easy. Once you gain dominion, Heaven
and earth is easy because then you'll be able to pray to your
Father like Jesus said Our Father whose father who art in
heaven. Hallowed be your.
Name your what Kingdom come your will be done on as it is.
You're not missing out on anything.
In fact, you are the greatest liberators to the planet today.
And this planet needs you. To rise up as a king, a citizen
and an ambassador for the king and show them heaven.
On Earth through your. Life your behavior and through
your demonstrations by his power.
That's why it's so. Important for us to know the
Kingdom. And the king who's returning.
And when the king comes, it's not optional to do what he says.
He's life and our King. Says unless a man.
'S born again. He shall not see the Kingdom.
You need to be born again. Let's pray.
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