Hallelujah, Daniel chapter 2 verse 27 to 45.
So if you know where I'm going, you ought to have a great shout
with you. OK?
Daniel answered before the king and said As for the mystery
about which the king has acquired, neither wise men,
right conjurors, magicians or diviners are able to declare it
to the king. However, there is a God in
heaven who reveals mysteries and he has made known to King
Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days.
This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on
your bed. Before I read verse 29 to bring
you up to speed, I don't want to assume everyone knows these are
not Bible stories. These are historical accounts
that actually happened. These people actually lived on
the planet. There's nothing within the
context of scripture that are actual stories.
They are not fairy tales. These are real people who lived
on the planet. These are actual bibliographies
of individual lives that Natural History can prove they existed
in the planet. So we are taking a history
lesson concerning a king that was over an empire called the
Babylonian Empire. And this Babylonian Empire was
literally just outside of modern day Baghdad.
Yet the Babylonian Empire went through all of our modern day
Iraq and into Iran. And there's things going on in
Iran today. Are you hearing me?
And so as a result of that, there's things that are
happening here that are being prophesied about things
happening later. And so Daniel's letting them
know that the there's a God in heaven that has revealed some
things. Now Nebuchadnezzar has a dream.
And because he's a liar, he's a manipulator, and he's disturbed
by this dream. He goes to his wise men and he
says, I've had a dream, I need you to interpret it.
And he wants accuracy, but he does not want people to lie to
him. And because he won't know, he
makes it very difficult. Or in in essence, he said, I
have a foolproof plan to make sure I get an accurate
interpretation. So he says, I need you to tell
me the dream. And the interpretation of which
his wise men said no king has ever asked this of a wise man.
You need to tell us the dream, and after you tell us the dream,
then we will give you the interpretation, he says.
I know you're stolen, he says. You'll get together, you'll come
up with a story, you'll collaborate.
All of you are going to agree on it, and I'm not going to know if
it's right or not. So you are either going to tell
me the dream and the interpretation.
If you do not every wise man will die in my Kingdom.
Once the king decrees it, it's done.
So he decreed. Well Daniel gets a knock on the
door from the executioner and cause Daniel was one of his wise
men along with his friends and he said I've come to arrest you,
you're going to be executed. He said what for?
Well the king had a dream. None of the wise men can
interpret it and so they have to know the dream and interpret a
dream that way. He knows it's accurate.
No one's doing it. So we're taking you to jail to
have you killed. He said tell the king I got it.
Now that's faith. Now what was he building his
faith on? Not on the king, but on his God
because he knew that my God is going to deliver us.
I have a delivering God. I may be in Babylon, I may be in
captivity, but we are going to get out of this place and I'm
not going to stay here forever. And I believe God will keep a
remnant and I'm in covenant with that God.
So we going to pray and ask God to give us this dream.
He said you let him know I got it and that's before he got it.
So he's goes to, as God says, we have to pray.
So they're praying and the Lord reveals to Daniel the dream and
the interpretation. And this is where we pick up in
Daniel chapter 2. Because if Daniel does not
fulfill it this way, he, his friends and everyone else will
be executed. The only thing that saves the
wise men from death is if you can tell him the dream and
interpret it. So verse 29, it says, As for
you, O King, wow, on your bed your thoughts turn to what would
take place in the future, safe future, and he who reveals
mysteries has made known to you what will take place.
But As for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me by any
wisdom residing in me more than any other living man, but for
the purpose of making the interpretation known to the King
and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.
You, O King, were looking, and behold, there was a single great
statue. That statue was large, of
extraordinary splendor, and was standing in front of you, and
its appearance was awesome. The head of that statue was made
of gold, fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its
belly, its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of
iron and partly of clay. You continue looking on looking
until a stone was cut without hands, and it struck the statue
on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.
Then the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver and
the gold were crushed all at the same time, and became like
chaffed from the summer threshing floor, and the wind
carried them away, Glory to God, so that not a trace, not a
trace, not a trace of them was found, but the stone, say the
stone, but the stone that struck the statue became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth.
Wow, glory to God, filled the hole, filled the hole, filled
the hole, filled the whole earth, glory to God.
This was the dream, right? And now we will tell us
interpretation before the king. Well, can you see King
Nebuchadnezzar right now on his throne?
He just leaned to the front of his seat.
It's like he was there. He knows it.
And now he's hanging on every word he says.
You, O king, he said, are the king of kings.
Now notice that's little K of little K's.
It's not big K, not capital K, not the king, just a king.
He's the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the
Kingdom the power and strength and glory.
And whatever the sons of men, and wherever the sons of men
dwell, or of the beasts of the field or of the birds of the
sky, He has given them into your hands and calls you to rule over
them. You are the head of gold.
After you there will rise another.
What? Another what?
Come on. Another what?
Another Kingdom inferior to you. Then another.
Then, then another third Kingdom of bronze, which will rule over
all the earth. Then there will be a fourth
Kingdom as strong as iron in so much as iron crushes and
shatters all things. So like iron that breaks in
pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.
In that you saw the feet and toes partly of pottery, clay,
and partly of iron. It will be divided.
It will be a divided Kingdom, but it will have in it the
toughness of iron, in so much as you saw the iron mixed with
common clay. As the toes of the feet are
partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the Kingdom
will be strong and part of it will be brittle.
And in that you saw the iron mix with common clay.
They will combine with one another in the seed of men, but
they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not
combine with pottery. In the days of those kings, the
king of heaven or the God of heaven will set up a what?
What will he do? He'll set up a Kingdom which
will never be destroyed, which will never be destroyed, and
that Kingdom will not be left for another people.
It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will
itself endure. How long?
Come on how long come on how long in so much as you saw that
a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands and it
crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the
gold. The great God has made known to
the king what will take place in the what in the what in the
future. So the dream is true and its
interpretation is trustworthy. Jesus said this in Matthew
chapter 15 verse three. He says, why do you transgress
the commandments of God for the sake of your traditions?
Why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake
of your tradition? Do you know?
Transgress is not the same as sin.
Transgress means you know and you don't do.
Sin means you're ignorant and you do wrong.
But a transgressor is someone who knows and chooses to rebel.
So he says why do you yourself choose to rebel knowingly the
command of God and yet live life governed by traditions.
This is very important because in our modern day Christianity,
especially in the West, we have developed some traditions and so
we have to be passionate to determine what is truth or
command of God and what has become just a religious
tradition. Are you hearing me now?
When I was young, I had 2020 vision.
I've kept that for a very long time.
Then iPads came out, you know, electronics.
And then I found that I could read everything from my iPad.
I cannot prove this, but you know, I speculate that because I
went to the digital device to read everything, it started to
affect my eyes a little bit. It could be H, you know, you
might want to blame it on H and maybe that's partly part of the
challenge as well. But I do think the light, you
know, why would we have the blue light on the glasses now?
The something must have been seen that was affecting the
eyesight. It's kind of hard to go away
from it now because you can keep so much resource on one thing.
I have so many Bible translations on this one device.
I, I could go run so many sermons right now that are right
here. I mean, from 2005, I have
messages on this device. I can go back 20 years from
today and say, what did I preach at Anchor Faith Church on this
day 20 years ago? I can do that.
OK, that's pretty powerful. But what happens is, is that I
can see just as you can see and I can see my iPad.
It's just that my font has grown since I have.
You know, if I went back in 2005, my font size was 8.
So all my sermons were always on one page.
I do it landscape, 2 columns. I don't know why I do that.
I just do that. Two columns, one page, right?
And they're eight. If I go to those, cannot see
them. It's just a blurb.
So I progressed to A10, to a 12. Now I'm at 14 today and I blow
it up as big as it can. It's still a little blurry but I
don't wear glasses while I preach because of the glare.
So that's why you don't see me in these cause oh that's clear I
can see that. Now what we need to do is we
need to get our lens set correctly with the Word of God,
because tradition will give you a blurred vision of God's Word.
However, knowing what the Word is actually about will give you
clarity. And when you get clarity, then
all the truths come alive off the pages and you'll realize
that there's a reason why God used people to pin an old
covenant. Tradition has us kind of
disdaining the old covenant as if it has no relevance.
Yet when you understand the Bible, you understand why it was
pinned. It is a natural progression
because it's God revealing himself to man.
You know, there are people out there that will say this.
The Bible's about Jesus, it's all about God.
And you know what? The Bible is about Jesus and
about God. But it's not all about that.
Actually, there is another one created that God is revealing in
Scripture besides Himself, and it is man.
It is man. The Bible's not about man or
it's not exclusively about man, but it includes man.
So God is allowing us to see Him and see what He meant for man.
Because you understand God has created other beings besides
man. He's created an angelic being.
He's created a heavenly host. And we know one anointed cherub
fell from heaven, but we don't have a whole lot of detail about
the existence of them. We have some things, you know,
that are out there, but not enough that we could accurately
understand that species of being that God has created.
But yet when it comes to man, he's given us a lot of detail, a
lot of detail, but he's also given us a lot of detail of
himself. So it's very important that we
understand why God has written scripture, what it's about,
Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar. This is a future event and his
idol is only about kingdoms and he's telling him that the God of
heaven is talking to you, Nebuchadnezzar, about kingdoms.
Notice God is not revealing to Nebuchadnezzar who did not
worship God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
He worshiped idols. Are you hearing me?
I mean, why would the Father not reveal to Nebuchadnezzar the
religion of Judaism if he wanted his heart changed?
Why does he reveal to him kingdoms?
And why does he say in the end that the God of heaven is
setting up a Kingdom? Notice what he did not say.
Nebuchadnezzar. There is a stone that is made
without hands. Anybody know who that is?
What's his name? He's called the chief
cornerstone. He is a stone made without
hands. Why?
Because man did not participate in causing Jesus to be born.
But it was the Holy Spirit who came upon on a virgin and
impregnated her with the Son of God.
Are you hearing me? So there was a stone made
without hands. He's the chief cornerstone.
And you know what it says about the chief cornerstone?
That he will fall on people and crush them to obliteration, or
you'll fall on him and he'll break you so that you can become
what God ordained you to be in the 1st place.
And notice there's this stone that is cut without hands, yet
once it crushes all the kingdoms.
You know what? That stone's really not even
concerned about religion. The stone doesn't even care
about Islam, doesn't care about Hinduism, didn't care about
Buddhists. But yet that stone will deal
with kingdoms same in any way, Hallelujah.
And so that stone crushes and it will cause every one of these
kingdoms to disappear, and they'll be no remembrance of
them. However, the stone, it says,
will grow into a large mountain and be all over the earth.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Now, this is in your Bible.
We're just probably in some places that most of the time
people aren't always covering right?
But this is a consistent theme, and what we want to see is that
if we're going to set the lens right to understand about the
death, burial, resurrection of Jesus and the reason why he's
doing something, then we need to understand what God's doing with
the Word of God. Because this Bible is not just
about redemption. If all you do is start at
Genesis 3 and go to Revelations 20, then the story of redemption
is really clear. But what was going on in planet
Earth prior to Adam falling is there?
And anyone, if you would talk to them as a believer, say, was
there a time on this planet that sin was not here?
And we would all have to say, well, sure, Adam and Eve in the
garden. Yet our conversation is only
about redemption and not about the time prior.
Nor do we take the time to read Revelation 21 and 22.
Because Daniel says this mountain's going to show up or
this rock's going to show up. It's going to crush all these
kingdoms and it's going to stay and then grow as a mountain and
feel the earth and through the story of redemption because we
haven't set the correct lens. We are all waiting to go to
heaven when we die. Yet the Lord says, but there's
something happening in the earth.
Now, does heaven exist? You bet it does.
But if you read the last two chapters again, don't take my
word for it 'cause I'm saying it.
Read the Scripture yourself. After the catching away of the
church, after the tribulation period, after the return of
Jesus who comes back to planet earth and reigns on the earth
for 1000 years, we call it the millennial reign of Christ.
Then he will release the devil After that time period, for a
time there will be a battle that won't last long, and after that
battle he will take the devil. And they throw him into the lake
of fire, which is the second death.
Then the courtroom of heaven will open up, and the dead who
never confessed Christ as Lord will be resurrected.
He'll resurrect the dead, bring them to heaven.
They'll stand before the courtroom of God and he will
say, depart from me, for I never knew you.
I'm giving you what you wanted. This is not what I wanted, but
in this book called the Lamb's Book of life cannot find your
name. So I'm shutting this one and I'm
opening up the other books, every book that has everything
that you've done against my word.
Now, let me help you because I said, Lord, it's a tough sell
sometimes, Dad, to talk about. We need to follow you at your
word because we in the US, we are stubborn people.
Now, why do I say that? Because our nation has ingrained
in us the spirit of independence.
I can do what I want to do, live like I want to live, excel like
I want to excel. Well, you can do that in the
United States, but you cannot do that in the Kingdom of God.
And so I'm like, how do you, how do I say it, Lord?
Because your life, he said, OK, he said just do it like this,
son. So today take a deep breath in,
let it out. Deep breath in.
Hold it. Let it out.
Now, I do not know the chemical makeup of the oxygen we have,
but there's a lot of oxygen going on.
There's a few other things, but this mixture is perfect for us
to live. Correct.
Let's do it again. Ready.
Breathe out. Now.
What happens if we lose this oxygen?
You what? OK, so your body is telling you
if you want to live, you need oxygen.
Now it's not saying it, but it's saying it by the fact you're
breathing. Now could you say body don't
tell me I have to breathe oxygen.
I can breathe whatever I want to breathe, you know, So I'm going
to go get some, you know, nitrous oxide.
I'm going to get some whatever other gas.
You know, we get all kind of got helium.
I'm going to suck some helium. I'm just going to put a helium
tank and just, and then you'll talk real high for a little
while and you just keep breathing and never go back to
oxygen. What's going to happen?
Are you putting gas in your lungs?
But what's going to happen if all you do is breathe helium or
any other form of gas? Like how about natural gas,
propane, hook up a little propane tank, right?
You got your little propane tank you carry around.
I'm rebelling against oxygen. My body.
Don't tell me I'll breathe what I want to breathe.
And so I'm a hook up my little propane tank and put it on my
face and start breathing. How long you think you're going
to survive sucking down propane gas?
Right, 'cause you can. So the Lord's saying you can do
whatever you want to do, you can.
But anything that I'm not saying isn't life.
The greatest deception in planet Earth is breathing.
Because you're breathing, you think you're alive.
The reality is life comes in the spirit and life only comes in
the spirit obedient to what the Lord says because he is life.
So when he says he's not giving you restrictions, he's saying
suck on some oxygen. When he defines terms, he's
communicating here is oxygen to your spirit.
This is why you live. These things are why you live.
If you obey this is he said I set before you life and choose
he shouldn't have to tell us. So when you're arguing, well,
I'm not going to do what the Lord says then you choose to
hook up propane to your mouth and you can suck propane because
every one of us and he think about it.
Let's just break it down to its rudimentary thought.
Do you want me to believe you at your word concerning how to
live? Or am I going to believe God at
His word? Because at the end of the day,
it's really just about believing people at their word.
Well, I just think, OK, so you want me to bow down to that
word? Your whole life is about
following some word. You're submitting to something.
Anyway, when we get into sexual relationships, our body says all
this feels good. So then we submit to that.
Yet God says if you want a particular feeling physically
through sexuality, this is life and you can do it this way and
it's oxygen to you, but if you do it any other way, it's death.
And here's the thing, God is such a merciful God and
long-suffering because if sin paid out quickly, lest would do
it. But God's merciful.
And why is God merciful? Because he's already paid the
price for everything you're doing.
Contrary to His word, the blood's already been applied, so
it doesn't matter how much you're doing.
He's like, I've already paid for this, I've already paid for
that, and he can be long summer and say, are you going to do
something else wrong? You want to do something else
contrary to my word, You want to make another decision that's
against the Kingdom of God. You want to do another thing and
choose death. You can.
But all the while, every time you do, I've already paid that
price and I'll forgive you if you want it, and then I'll give
you life and I'll give it to you more abundantly.
So the Lord speaks to Nebuchadnezzar and says a
Kingdom, it's coming forever. He did not speak to Him about
religion at all. Let's turn over to Isaiah
Chapter 9 and verse 6. Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6, I'll
say this and then we'll kind of get to a speed round real quick.
Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and seven says it this way.
Because there's a stone made without hands.
We know His name's Jesus. He is the chief cornerstone.
Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 6 says this.
A child will be born, right? I said a child will be born to
us. A son will be given to us.
Notice a child's born, but a son is not born.
And the reason the son is not born is because the Son always
existed because God left His glory.
Man, you want to be here. Resurrection Sunday.
God left His glory and came and became a man and he has to be a
man. He has to come and be a man
because what God has spoken in Genesis chapter one, it says
then a child will be born to us, a son will be given and the what
and the what? Go ahead.
Look at your own Bible. Look at your own translation,
because it doesn't say and Christianity it doesn't say and
a new religion. No, it says the government.
Why? Because the Bible is actually
about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring, and the
government will rest on his shoulders and his name will be
called wonderful counselor, mighty God, eternal Father,
Prince of Peace. There'll be no end to the
increase of his government or peace on the throne of David are
over his what? To establish it, to uphold it
with justice and righteous from then on and forever more.
Do you understand God is a just God and he is a righteous God.
He's life and he upholds life period says the zeal of the Lord
of hosts will accomplish this. So the government will rest on
his shoulders. Jesus Christ is the head of the
church. The Bible tells us the shoulders
are located in the body. We are considered the body of
Christ. So God's Kingdom is being
demonstrated through his church in the earth today.
We are actually more in what would be considered an embassy
because what did we, what do we know?
The scripture says Jesus says you're not of this world as I'm
not of this world. In essence, he said this in
Colossians, that he transferred you out of the domain of
darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved Son.
He said He would make you a holy nation.
In essence, you are of a different Kingdom now and the
kingdoms of this world we are not a part of.
So when we come together in the church, we are ambassadors, oh
get this, we are ambassadors for Christ, hearing from the home
country called heaven, where our King sits on the throne at the
right hand of the Father, and He gives us instruction through His
Spirit how we are to navigate and represent His Kingdom right
here on the earth. Hallelujah.
So there'll be no end to the increase of his government.
Who is the child born? What's his name?
Come on, shout it out. His name's Jesus.
And when Jesus came, Jesus preached one thing.
Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Jesus never preached publicly. Be born again.
Do you have to be born again? Absolutely.
Jesus told a religious man by the name of Nicodemus at 2:00 or
3:00 in the morning because he was afraid of the religious,
although he was in awe of Jesus. And he says man, Teacher, John,
Chapter 3. Teacher, teacher, teacher, the
things you're doing, you have to be from God, He said.
Unless a man's born again, he shall not see the Kingdom of
God, He shall not enter the Kingdom of God.
Because This is why nobody can be a citizen of the Kingdom
illegally. They cannot buy their
citizenship of their own merit. They must be born of the Kingdom
of God and Jesus through his death, burial, resurrection
gives us the entitlement, the ability to call on His name and
be born. Literal translation from above,
which then gets our name logged in a book.
Much like you have your name logged in a book from the nation
you were born from. If you were born in the United
States, your name was recorded on a birth certificate and later
on they'll and they give you what they call a Social Security
number. That's your identification that
allows us to know that you were born of this particular nation.
Well, the Lord's like I need you born in my nation and the only
way you can be born in my nation is to acknowledge my son as
Lord. Lord is not a religious word.
It means supreme in authority. And The thing is, is in the
United States, we have been so brainwashed with separation of
church and state that we cannot see the church as a government.
We only see it as a religion. And that's what the devil wants.
The devil never wants you empowered in his Kingdom.
He wants you always seeking after God.
In fact, let me read a few things that Doctor Miles Monroe
said concerning religion and Kingdom.
He said this religion preoccupies man until he finds
the Kingdom. Religion prepares man to leave
Earth, but the Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth.
Religion focuses on heaven. The Kingdom focuses on earth.
Religion is reaching up to God. The Kingdom is God coming down
to man. Religion wants to escape the
earth. The Kingdom impacts, influences,
and changes the earth. Religion seeks to take earth to
heaven, but the Kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth.
What did Jesus say? He said, now when you pray, pray
this way. Our Whose Father?
Our our Father, not his Father. Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it
is. Now listen.
I know what you're thinking because I can hear it in your
mind. You're telling us we don't need
to go to heaven. No one's saying that.
The Bible says this to be absent from the body.
You'll be present. Where is the Lord presently?
At the right hand. The Father question is he
staying there though? We have been so traditionally
taught about the blood of Jesus in our nation so much that our
only accepted truth is that we have accepted the tagline of
every other religion and every other religion.
Is this what happens after you die?
What would propel a man to suit himself up with a bomb, go into
a public place and blow himself up based upon a religion because
of what's being promised to him after he dies?
What would cause a person to separate from society and go up
on a hill and pray to a point that they ostracize themselves
from society in order to reach a state of enlightenment somewhere
other than when they? What would call someone to live
in such a way so that when they are when they die, they do not
get re carnated into something back into the planet, but they
get to go on into that place of enlightenment so they do not
have to repeat this process. It's all the same question.
Where are you going to go when you die?
And we have picked up that religious statement where you
going to go when you die? And Jesus is like, why are you
centering my gospel on death, my gospel's life?
Jesus never preached. Did he preach on the the Sermon
on the Mount? Where are you going to go when
you die? He did not do this.
He said the Kingdom of heaven and when he went around public,
he said the Kingdom of heaven was like this and the Kingdom of
God is like that and the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the
Kingdom of God is like that. He said the Kingdom of heaven is
like and unto you know what? The devil knows this about a
Kingdom. Turn over to Luke chapter 4.
In Luke chapter 4, this is the temptation of Christ.
We typically read Matthew because it's the first of the
four gospels, but the Luke account gives us way more detail
and it says in Luke chapter 4 verse one and two, it says Jesus
full of the Holy Spirit. What was he full of?
What was he full of man? He's full of the Holy Spirit,
full of the Holy Spirit return. He's full of the Holy Spirit
because he was just baptized in the Jordan River where God, when
he came up out of that because he said John do permit this, do
this so that all righteousness can be fulfilled.
I read about this in the old covenant, that this would happen
to me, and I do everything Dad says about me.
And so I'm going to obey my father.
I'm not going to be like my older brother when he say older.
That's older in the flesh, not older in eternity.
You understand, my older, the first Adam who did not obey
that. I'm going to obey that.
I'm going to do what he says. And when he came up by that
water, heaven opened up, and the voice from heaven, Father God
him said, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased.
Now he's full of the Holy Ghost, and he has the Holy Ghost
without measure. He returned from Jordan, was led
by that spirit into the wilderness for 40 days, being
tempted by the devil. You know what the devil says to
him first, if you are the Son of God, my daddy just told me I
was. Now how many times you come to
church and you hear you're healed, you're blessed, God will
deliver you out all your trouble.
And then you get out and the devil says you're not going to
get out of trouble, you're not blessed.
And you know what? You got a cold and you're going
to keep it. It's probably going to get
worse. Well, you got to decide who's
reporting you going to believe. Jesus chose to believe his
father's voice over the devil's voice.
And unlike his brother Adam who listened to the voice of the
devil and fell from dominion, Jesus said I'll stay with daddy.
So we jump down into verse 5, I believe it is, and it says the
devil LED Jesus up and showed him all the what not religions.
The devil never once tried to convince Jesus to worship the
gods of Rome, of the Roman Empire.
He never once tried to get him to worship the gods of the
former Greek Empire. He never once tried to bring up
some old statue or idol. He said he showed him all the
kingdoms in the world in the moment of time.
And he said, and the devil said to him, I will give you all this
domain and its glory. Who's going to give it?
Now the first question of the unlearned in Scripture will say,
well, he didn't own it. God's in control.
God was not in control there. God is in control of his word.
He's not controlling everything because if God controlled
everything, all of you would be saved because God's desires that
none would perish, yet people will be cast into the lake of
fire. So when we make these
traditional statement, well, God's in control, there are some
things God is not controlling so that therefore then he is not in
control of those things. That is a traditional statement,
not a biblical one. We had, let me smile when I say
that is a traditional statement, not a biblical one, Amen.
And we tear down tradition and live according to the word of
God, Amen. Because if God was in control,
Lucifer never would have been cast out.
I mean, I could just continue that list.
It's pretty simple, but he people will say, well, you know,
he couldn't really give it away. Yes, he could.
He had it and he didn't qualifies why he has it.
Look what it says next for it has been handed over to me.
So the devil is letting Jesus know all this domain, all the
authority and power over all these kingdoms.
They're mine, you know they're mine, and you know I control it
because they were handed to me. I didn't steal them.
They were given to me, and I can give it to whomever I will.
What's he saying? They were given to me and now
they're mine and I can give it to you.
Now here's the requirement. All you have to do is worship me
and I'll give them because Lucifer's only had one thought.
I won't God the Creator to bow down and worship the created.
And you remember what Jesus said about this?
He said I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
When that rebellion, because in a Kingdom the most dangerous
word is independence. The second most dangerous word
is rebellion. Now this is the problem in the
United States. Why?
Because what day do what do we celebrate?
January, July 4th, Independence Day?
I'm worship God anyway. I want to how I want to.
Well, that makes great sense in our nation, but it doesn't make
sense in the Bible because the Bible says, well, if you're
going to worship the creator of heaven and earth, this is how
you worship him. This is how that works.
This is how you do it because remember, I just want to give
you oxygen. Get off the propane, get off the
propane, cause the propane does not sustain life.
But his he's is the sustainer of life.
So he says, I can give you all this domain, these kingdoms,
this glory, for they've been handed over me.
Where did he get it from? Come on, you know where He got
it from? Genesis 126, before sin ever
came into the planet. God creates the heavens and the
earth. He owns the planet by right of
creation, not by right of conquest.
God didn't come out of the some future universe or some, you
know, distant universe, some Galaxy far, far, far away and
showed up into the Milky Way and says, ah, I'm going to conquer
this place. No, when there was none, he
spoke. Whoa.
I mean, he set the stars and the galaxies and the planets and a
word. He's a sustainer of life.
And he created this place called Earth with somebody in mind,
someone in his image. Look at this Genesis 126, You
know, then God said let us make man in our image according to
our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the
earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man, his own image in the image of God.
He created him male and He created him and he never gets
that wrong. Never, never gets that wrong.
OK, so God created both male and female would have dominion.
You understand, You don't have to be a female trying to act
like a man to have dominion because female have dominion.
And you don't have to be a man trying to act like a female to
have dominion because men have dominion.
Both were given dominion, power, authority, and it comes from
God, by God. God is so secure in his
rulership that he says I'll let you rule.
And so the Lord makes heaven and earth, earth.
He says, I'm giving to man. I'm going to let man who's in my
image, in my likeness, I'm going to let him rule.
That and I, he came down in the cool of the day.
He spent time with him. Why?
Because God and Adam and Eve are the same in nature, no sin.
But man was given the right to rule.
Notice he did not give Adam a religion.
He gave him governing power. Now you know why we struggle
with voting for people. Put that back up there.
OK, you already got it. Notice what we have dominion
over. Fish, birds, cattle, Earth,
which is the created earth, right?
Creeping things that creep on the earth.
Nowhere does it say we have dominion over man.
This is why we struggle in voting, because we were never
supposed to be submitted to another human.
We were only supposed to be submitted to God.
However, because man has sinned, God had to institute a form of
government through man still for the sake of man.
That's why there were laws put in place things because God had
a time on planet Earth when he just let man make his own
decision. Oh, it went crazy all right.
So crazy that he flooded the planet, right?
So crazy that he said, I regret I even made them because none of
them are doing right. No one's trying to come except
for one guy with a family. And so he went to that family to
help the process. And why does he have to do this?
Because we know that God in Genesis 2 tells Adam, Hey, Adam,
I'm going to shut down with a few thoughts here, and then
we'll come back to it next week. Adam, all the trees you can eat.
But if the tree, the knowledge of goodness, you shall not eat,
for the day you eat you will, surely you're going to die.
Does God want Adam to die? If Adam never eats the fruit,
where would he be today? He'd be right here now.
I've heard people say. So why did he put the tree
there? Free will is 1 #2 though he
needs to know Adam loves him. Love is always expressed and
demonstrated through obedience. Jesus said if you love me,
you'll keep my word. So Adam is in the nature of God,
Eve is in the nature of God. How would he not love him?
It requires him to obey. And every day he passed that
garden. God is not intimidated that it's
in the middle. He didn't hide it off into
obscurity somewhere where he had to go find it.
He let him pass it every day. He had no problem because all
you got to do is keep my word. It's really no threat to you.
Just keep the words. No threat to you.
But someone entered a garden, Anointed cherub that fell when
he came into the garden. He says who those people look a
lot like God. And so he began to speak to 1
and he convinced her and him that this God that walks with
you in the cool of the day, you really don't know him like I do.
And although there's no evidence to suggest the lies he is
saying, they listened to his word instead of the Father.
And the Bible says that she ate and gave to her husband, and he
ate, and when he ate, he transferred that dominion to the
devil, of which Second Corinthians full force says he
became the God of this world. And even the devil knows this.
The Bible's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal
offspring. If he can keep you in religion,
then you'll never challenge his dominion.
You'll never challenge him. Because when you know you're a
child of the king, and that your king has stripped him of his
power and has restored back to you the dominion Adam lost, then
the devil will never be a problem to you ever again.
Because when he brings his weapons, they won't prosper.
When he brings his tactics, you'll be aware of them and
you'll just stay with the Word and overcome because Christ has
defeated him. The Bible's about a king, his
Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
It's not a religion and this Kingdom will have no end.
I said I have no end. I said it, I have no end.
I said it, I have no end, It have no end.
I'm not offering you a religion, and neither was Jesus.
I'm offering you a nation, and I'll just be as bold to tell you
like it is. It's a global takeover.
Can I tell you the United States will not be here forever?
Canada will not be here forever. Russia will not be here forever.
China will not be here forever. They will all pass away.
But his Kingdom, there is a nation that will remain forever.
It's called Israel, and the new Jerusalem will come down out of
heaven to the earth, and we will reign with Him forever because
we are His children. We've called on His name, we
have submitted to His Lordship. We have hooked our spirit up to
life. We are off the propane and we're
like Lord, like Peter. Where are we going to go?
You have the words of life.